Returning to Japan wasn't difficult; he just needed to find a flight back. He boarded a first-class seat, flew for a couple of hours, and before he knew it, he had arrived in the wonderful country of Japan.
It always felt great to be back home. The air was refreshing, and everything felt right. He wondered if this place was as peaceful as he remembered.
He was then brutally awakened from his daydream by the sight of all of the little curses flying around at the airport.
Of course, they were here.
This was the world of curses after all.
Anyway, he had a home to be back to, two daughters to check on, and a wife to see how she was doing.
Jeez, now that he looked at it, he did look like a deadbeat...., going abroad while he had a family in Japan, his little trips overseas would have to come to a stop eventually.
Upon leaving the airport, he walked quite a distance away, making sure he was somewhere with no camera at all.
With a hand in his pocket, Keitaro vanished from sight.
Pov change.
Outside a very large house, Keitaro appeared, making sure to let his curse energy leak in order to make sure that Shoko or whoever was home knew that he was there.
And also in order to make sure that the seal around the house knew that he was the one who teleported in there and not just some intruders.
Yes, he had a seal like that around his house; yes, it probably was him overthinking stuff. However, Keitaro prefers to be overprepared than underprepared.
Like how the second he found out that a sorcerer could incarnate by taking over other people's bodies.
Yeah, he had about 20 seals on every single one of his students, the seal would repress the soul of the incarnate person while letting his students keep all the ups, like the increase in curse energy and a new curse technique.
This was one of the few downs of being a reincarnated sorcerer, your soul may get trashed and you may be used for a free powerup, however, the chances for that to happen were quite slim, so slim in fact that out of 100 reality, it may only happen in one.
The incarnated sorcerers however were quite unlucky, as they happened to be in the same reality as the madman who created Ce Ibuprofin.
The same madman who abused binding vow so much that his domain expansion although non-lethal, was only non-lethal in name alone if you get trapped in there and Keitaro genuinely wants to kill you.
You will come out of the domain dead, Keitaro may not possess the remarkable skill which was a barrierless domain, his domain however had reached the pinnacle of a close barrier domain, being thought by Tengen herself.
Keitaro's knowledge of barriers was quite vast, and thus, all he needed, was to see, one barrierless domain, he only had to see once, and he would be able to do it.
However, that chance seems to have not found him yet.
Getting close to his home, with a hand in his pocket, he walked close to the door, he reached out his hand.
He opened the door.
Entering the house, he had made sure to close the door behind him.
"You are back home, earlier than usual" Shoko's voice came out saying.
Looking up, he saw her. She was apparently finishing her last lollipop, she had basically quit smoking a while back.
She seemed to be sweating a bit, and her Ce level was quite low, considering the season, which was roughly around Christmas time, it made sense.
It was the holidays..... Christmas to be exact, which meant people were stressing about presents to buy for relatives.
Which meant, a lot of curse spirits, which also meant,a lot of work for her.
Getting close to his wife, he wrapped his hand around her waist.
"You seem like you were having a rough time"
She leaned into his touch.
"You have no idea" She mutters, relaxing where she was.
This was exactly what she needed, this soothing presence, who needed smoking when she had this?
"How, Maki and Mai?" He asked.
"Maki is doing fine, she excelling well at school, Mai seems to be glad to just follow behind her sister" That was always good to know.
"You are unusually early, what the occasion" She mutters looking at him.
"A student"
"Yuta Okkotsu correct" She added stopping him before he was done.
"Oh wow, you got it before me" he was a bit surprised, well guess his wife knew him well.
"There a handful of things that can get you to stop your trip to come back, Me having an emergency, An interesting student popping up, or a favor from Satoru"
Well, she was right, but still, dam she could read him well.
She leaned more into his touch.
"I think I am going to rest now"
Keitaro had no problem with her using his body to catch some Z, not like he could escape if he wanted to.
She had quite a death grip on him, plus he didn't want to deal with sleep-deprived Shoko, it was drunk Shoko but just so much worse