"Oujo-sama, this is the report of our business this year"

A red-haired woman put a pile of documents on the table and quickly gave a short explanation to a black-haired girl.

*Sigh*

Only a sigh responded to the sweet voice of the red-haired girl in the heavy atmosphere as the black-haired girl closed her eyes gently and didn't even bother to look at those documents on the table. She used her hand to rub her nose to ease the stressfulness that she had suffered through for almost 3 years. She had always lived on her self-discipline and righteous rules. Her motto consisted of 'hark-working' and 'the will of moving forward' so she could maintain the title of 'Business Queen' in the circle.

However, the title was the double-edged sword of her life because the business recently negatively turned in another direction.

"Mizuno-san, am I wrong?"

The black-haired girl leaned on the chair and spoke hesitantly as if her motto was shaken for the first time.

"I don't know, Minamoto-sama..."

Mizuno Akiho replied and shook her head.

She had been serving her master Minamoto Mio until now and this was also the first time she'd witnessed the doubtful Mio. She was no longer the confident Alpha back then.

*Knock knock*

"Come in"

Mio spoke in an exhausted tone.

*Click*

"Mommies..."

A pair of middle-aged women stepped inside the room and shook their heads at their foolish daughter.

"Mio-chan, we have something to tell you..."

An adult version of Mio raised her voice.

"What's wrong, Shina-Okaa-sama?"

Mio showed a puzzled expression and asked.

"Hmm...It will be good news for you...It's just that we won't force you to fall in love with the second lady of the Hoshiyuki family..."

"..."

Mio understood immediately. However, her mood was a little bit complicated...Wasn't it the thing she wanted the most in the past? She should have been happy when her parents didn't force her again and let her choose her partner by her eyes and hands. What was with this feeling? Why was it so empty? 

She finally had the freedom she wanted...After hearing the news that Shinonawa and even the unfathomable Otonashi family wanted to have a marriage with the Hoshiyuki family, she thought they would help her get rid of this forceful marriage at first. Yeah, it was so successful and smooth that she felt nothing but...jealous?

No, no, no, it shouldn't be...Suiri had turned a blind eye toward her half-hearted chasing and she didn't want the relationship to develop...And it turned out to be so, everything went according to her expectations, and this Omega didn't even care about her. It was good because she didn't need to hear her parents' complaints about doing nothing toward the second lady of the Hoshiyuki family. Yet, who could explain this disappointment inside her chest?

As a proud Alpha with the title 'Business Queen', her pride was shattered by the Omega named 'Hoshiyuki Suiri'. Unknowingly, this half-Japanese had taken root and waited for sprouting inside her. The instincts of an Alpha wanted to conquer...The harder you get something, the more desirable you will feel...

"What's with your expression? Don't you always want it to happen?"

Unlike the gentle Omega Shina, Nagisa was an alpha, the head of the Minamoto family. Her voice was a little harsh although she was quite angry with the willfulness of the genius 'Business Queen'. It was like a sarcasm instead. A beautiful Omega with high specs and an extraordinary background would definitely be on the top list of marriage candidates. She didn't know if her daughter's eyes were blinded or not. If her daughter was willing, the other party falling in love with Mio was just a matter of time.

If the marriage is successfully established, it will solve the predicament of their family problem.

They had been at the bottleneck of technology without any developments or innovations.

They just needed one thing. It was a breakthrough to surpass their stuck products in the past few years. It was a cruel truth in the technology field. If they did nothing, they would be eliminated from the technology market. Unfortunately, their business was indeed in the technology field and their company had been in a crisis to leave the play in the market.

Even with the existence of the 'Business Queen', her daughter couldn't stop this coming bankruptcy. Without the core of technology, how could they produce the best and most modern product to sell? If they were in another field, this marriage wouldn't be to the point of forcing their daughter to marry the other party. It was sad like that.

Without having a partner to cooperate in producing a new product, their profit had been procrastinated in these years. They had to cling to their old product as the profit chart had gone to the red line. Not only stopping at this point, they had to cooperate with those third-rate technological companies to stay on the stage.

It was like a fish struggling on the board.

"..."

Mio kept silent as she also understood that truth. Her talents and motto of 'Hard-working' couldn't even help her family in the slightest advantage. As a child stepping earlier into society, she also knew it. She knew but was powerless...

"Answer me, Mio...Hoshiyuki Suiri has something that you don't like, huh?"

"Tell me honestly"

Nagisha demanded as she needed to hear her daughter's opinion. Meanwhile, Mio just lowered her head and avoided her parents' gazes.

"Honey..."

Shina was worried about their family. As the omega of this family, she also needed to maintain a peaceful relationship when she realized Nagisha was already pissed off.

"Shina, I know what I am doing"

Nagisha also knew her wife's thoughts and reassured her.

"...Yes"

Shina bowed slightly and then signaled for Mizuno Akiho to leave their family matter in this room. Akiho also understood the situation and quietly left the room.

"..."

"She..."

In the past, she could create a dense list of points not to marry this Omega like an expressionless face, short answer, and...What's more? Mio's thoughts stopped abruptly as she couldn't list the third option. Or because she was a woman? Or because she was a celebrity that countless unknown people called her 'Wife'?

Thinking back, Mio didn't know much about Suiri because she didn't even want to get along with this Omega in the past due to this forceful marriage. 

"I want my partner to be a hard-working person with an ambitious will"

"And she didn't seem to be my type..."

Mio finished her explanation, making the facial expressions of the old couple Minamoto change several times. Was their youngest daughter an idiot? 'Business Queen', what a joke!

"Seem? How can you be sure that she isn't your type?"

Nagisha couldn't help but frown hard.

She had a headache when talking about love with her youngest daughter. 

"I..."

Mio wanted to reply but she couldn't find any words to fill in. After all, she hated her life being arranged by others, so she found countless excuses to beautify her actions and degrade the Omega named 'Suiri'. Recalling the past, her conversation with Suiri couldn't even fill a note with their dialogues.

"You aren't a child anymore. Yet, you're still being willful...Hah~"

Nagisha let out a long breath. According to the expressions and answers of her daughter, Nagisha knew the core of the problem was her daughter's willfulness. If she didn't force her in the first place, would Mio actively chase the other party? It didn't matter anymore. A smart child like her daughter had a strong personality so she couldn't help it. If it had to be blamed, she would blame the technology improving so fast in the past few years.

However, there was no 'if' in the world.

"Then, what's your definition of 'Hard-working'?"

"How can you tell that Suiri doesn't work hard to achieve what she is today?"

Nagisha threw consecutive questions to her daughter, giving Mio time to think again. Their new year in this year wasn't much happy when too many problems had occurred.

"..."

"I don't know..."

Mio replied hesitantly because it was the fact that she couldn't refute. To escape from this arranged marriage, she did everything to stay away from it. She believed in herself and her motto. As long as she was smart and diligent, everything would be fine. Nevertheless, time passed by as her immature thinking also grew up. She realized that there was something that the 'hard-working' in her mind couldn't fill the gap of this paradoxical reality.

No matter how smart you are, you can't shine to the fullest without the support of others. Humans are social animals so the connection plays a major role in an individual life. That is why business marriage exists to the current day.

"See~, you just run away from it and let your pride blind your eyes"

Nagisha shook her head and continued to speak.

"After those years, you never let Suiri enter your sight"

"I regret that we can't get her into our family"

"That's it"

Nagisha rubbed her sore nose and took Shina's hand to the door. What she needed to say was done. Luckily, the relationship between her family and the Hoshiyuki family was still in a natural state as they didn't owe each other anything. Looking at Mio's stubborn face, she knew the love between their younger generations was impossible.

She had to sigh a relief because her daughter didn't make a move on the second lady of the Hoshiyuki family. With that personality, she would only make the other party suffer due to her daughter's high self-esteem.

"..."

Mio kept silent as she knew what she had done in the past. If she seriously got along with Suiri, her family problem would be solved, and she would have a beautiful omega as her wife. Wasn't she a real winner of life? Yet, everything was too late to think of it. Stress had been accumulated inside her head for a long time.

Then, her parents stopped and turned around to look at their youngest daughter.

"Everything has gone as you wish...We no longer force your love life anymore"

"As for our family's business, you just need to attend school and enjoy your youth in the last year of your high school to find your 'hard-working' and 'ambitious' person to marry"

"I will start a new business"

*Hah~*

"E.C.D group is over"

Nagisha said that with a sigh and took Shina out of Mio's room with her, leaving Mio alone in this enormous but quiet room.

"..."

*Click*

The door closed neatly as the pair of black-eyes watched the figures of the old couple disappearing from her sight.

"So...That's it?"

Mio murmured while leaning on the chair. 

It was so quiet that it didn't fit the atmosphere of the New Year. What was she doing in those years? Mio didn't know as she just felt it was so meaningless. She finally had the freedom and the will to choose her partner. Yet, it had become so tasteless. Her struggles in the past paid off but she felt nothing.

If Mio were her past self, she would've jumped up and down to celebrate this event...

Yet...

The current her didn't have such a joy...When her mother told her to choose a partner again according to her will, the image of the half-Japanese immediately appeared in her mind. Her face was paler as Mio tried to shake that image out of her head.

She felt it incomprehensible.

She began to be doubtful about her sexual orientation because she thought she liked guys.

Mio recalled the past to the current time to find someone fitting her type but she realized that there was only one person...Hoshiyuki Suiri would be the only option. She stood at the top of her year without giving others a chance to steal her position...Wasn't it enough to prove that Suiri was a hard-working person?

Mio was also surprised by this discovery as she couldn't believe her past self was so stupid. If she could blame, then she could only blame her sexual orientation for liking guys. However, this Omega girl had made her standard rise several times because she couldn't find an Omega man better than Suiri. She wanted to prove that the partner of her future wouldn't be inferior to Suiri but exceeded the name Hoshiyuki Suiri.

Suiri...

Suiri...

She had heard this name countless times...Her head was full of Suiri...Whether she walked outside or studied in school, this Omega girl had haunted her everywhere.

"Fine, we are strangers now, Suiri"

Mio comforted herself.

She turned on her computer to surf the internet for entertainment.

"Damn..."

As Mio surfed, this girl definitely haunted her as Suiri's ads were everywhere on the screen. She couldn't help but curse.

Unknowingly, Suiri's image was gradually ingrained inside Mio's brain, making her unable to forget Suiri.

Mio turned off the computer and leaned on the chair once again. Her eyes looked at the white ceiling of her room.

"Am I bent?"

Mio asked herself as she doubted that her sexual orientation had changed. Therefore, Mio decided to do a simple experiment.

She turned on the computer again and looked for Ecchi's stuff of girls with those hot pictures. However, she felt nothing. She felt lighter as she felt that her straight pipe of steel was still as straight as a ruler.

And then...

"Sorry, Suiri, I didn't mean to..."

Mio talked to herself and typed...

[Hoshiyuki Suiri's swimsuit model]

Suiri was not only an artist but also a model of a branch of fashionable magazine of the Hoshiyuki Entertainment company 'Dreamscape Delight'. Therefore, finding her was just a matter of typing keyboard.

"Hah~"

Mio quickly took a deep breath as her pheromone just went out of control. Her heart accelerated like a car ran on the highway...No, it shouldn't be...She had no reaction toward the other girls but Suiri...Mio widened her eyes and got her eye stuck on those beautiful model pictures in the fashionable swimsuit magazine. Unlike other models, Suiri wore a swimsuit but it didn't expose much of her skin as she always wore some big towel or transparent coat to cover her body. Yet, she had this reaction of some animals in heat.

When she compared to the other model, her mind could only speak out loud 'Disgusting'. However, this Omega girl was different.

Her little brother also expressed his opinion by rising...

"No!!!"

"I'm bent...I'm bent"

"...I'm bent..."

"No..."

"I can't be bent..."

Mio tried to suppress her matcha pheromone while muttering something Incredible. Obviously...She had gotten rid of this Omega...She finally freed herself by paying the price of not being able to stay in the technology field. She just needed to start over a new business with her talents and hard-working...

*Click*

A clicking sound of the door made Mio's heart jump.

"Oh my sister, what're you doing in broad daylight, huh?"

Another black-haired woman suddenly appeared in this room as Mio's hands tried to clean up the scene as if she had done something wrong. Mio hurriedly turned off the computer with her finger running on the key combination of 'Alt' +'F4' to shut down the browser. 

"Eh!"

Mio tried to stabilize her pheromone.

"What's with this matcha smell? Are you on period, Mio?"

The black-haired girl frowned after a while and nodded in understanding.

"I knew it. Did you watch p*rn just now?"

She said that, making Mio's face pale. Her heart was hit at the right point. However, what Mio just watched on the computer was just a simple swimsuit magazine online. Nothing less, nothing more...

"Nami-Onee-sama...It's not what you think..."

Mio tried to defend herself in front of her older sister.

"Hoh~, Business Queen also has her need. Then, I won't disturb you m*asturbating"

Nami spoke in a sarcastic tone.

"No! I'm not! It's just a misunderstanding!"

Mio knew that her sister hated her from childhood but she had to act as if she overlooked the hatred in her sister's eyes to maintain the relationship. Over time, she had gotten used to her sister's attitude and kept a safe distance so her family wouldn't be messed up.

This time, she had guessed that Nami would come there to ridicule her willfulness, but Mio still believed she was right. If there were no Suiri, she would still live well. As for what just happened, there must be something wrong with her biological reaction.

"Hoh~, Is that so?"

Nami closed her eyes and just talked unexcitedly.

"Yeah"

Mio nodded.

"Mio, If I were an Alpha like you, I wouldn't let Hoshiyuki Suiri go anywhere"

"Thank you for dragging our E.C.D group to the mud, haha~"

Nami said so and smiled sarcastically. She had waited for this day too long. The fall of the business Queen...She couldn't suppress her emotions and laughed out loud. Moreover, Mio understood her but who cared? It was satisfying when you saw the person you hated and hid behind their shadow falling like this.

Nami's ugly complex was exposed. 

Nami closed Mio's door and ran back to her room, leaving Mio dumbfounded again.

Just like Mio, Nami clenched her fist as she also felt empty...

Wasn't it what she wanted to see the fall of Business Queen?

The two sisters of the Minamoto family could only fill with the word 'Empty'.