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Their eyes met.
The air suddenly became quiet.
Looking at the boy's close face and eyes, Komi's long, slightly curled eyelashes trembled in panic. She unconsciously held her breath, only her heartbeat was like thunder, exceptionally clear.
(I, I remember now!)
(That day, when I went to play with Juju, I saw a strange manga in Natsuki-kun's room. The plot in it was exactly the same as now. Later… later, no way!)
But the words were on the tip of her tongue, and she couldn't say them no matter what.
Seeing Amamiya Natsuki getting closer and closer, Komi became more and more flustered. She instinctively acted like an ostrich and nervously closed her eyes.
However, the feared thing did not happen.
Komi only felt a lightness on her body. She couldn't help but secretly open one eye and saw Amamiya Natsuki suddenly stand up and sit upright.
"Why… did he leave?"
Komi's eyes were a little blank.
Amamiya Natsuki lowered his voice and said:
"Juju is back."
"Oh—!"
Komi's eyes suddenly widened. She was soft and weak just now, but now she seemed to have received electrotherapy, instantly fully charged.
She must not be discovered by Juju!
Click.
The door opened.
A Juju walked in from outside the door, her small face still flushed.
Looking at the two people sitting upright on the sofa, Juju instinctively felt a little strange and suspected:
"Are you secretly bullying Komi while I'm not here?"
Amamiya Natsuki flatly denied: "I'm not, I didn't, don't talk nonsense."
Komi had already lost the ability to speak. Hearing this, she just shook her head quickly.
Juju walked over and saw Komi's extremely red face, and immediately became furious. She gritted her teeth and said:
"You still say you didn't! Why is Komi's face so red?"
Damn it, damn it, damn it!
He just bullied her in the bathroom, and now he's back to bully Komi. It's too much!
Dog execution!
It must be dog execution!
"Shoko, don't be afraid." Juju put her hands on her hips and said angrily, "Did he bully you?"
"Tell me, and I'll get justice for you."
Komi parted her pink lips and said weakly:
"He, he didn't bully me."
Juju became even angrier: "You clearly did by the way you look!"
"I really didn't this time." Amamiya Natsuki raised his right hand and said seriously, "I swear, if I bullied Komi today, then let me be impotent forever."
Helping her put on stockings was Komi's request, and recording a video was just to keep evidence for rights protection. It's very normal and reasonable, right?
No matter how you look at it, he didn't bully Komi.
"Pfft!"
Juju lightly spat, and couldn't help but believe most of it. To swear on such a thing, maybe she really misunderstood.
Even if there was a misunderstanding, something must have happened between the two that she didn't know about.
Juju put her right hand on her hip, picked up her school bag from the sofa, glared at Amamiya Natsuki, and turned to say:
"Komi, let's go."
Komi quickly nodded, stood up with her school bag in both hands, and followed Juju out.
When she reached the door, she couldn't help but turn her head and look at Amamiya Natsuki. Her pink lips slightly opened and closed, but she still couldn't say anything. She followed behind Juju and left with a wronged expression.
Amamiya Natsuki checked the doors and windows, confirmed that they were all closed, and then turned to leave the Student Council.
Looking at the time, it was already five o'clock in the afternoon. Due to the rain, the twilight was quietly deepening.
Amamiya Natsuki first went to the bathroom to simply wash up, then took out his phone and sent a message to Miss Sheltered Ojou-sama:
"We can set off."
Shinomiya Kaguya quickly replied: "I'll be done soon. I'll go directly to the teaching building entrance later."
"…"
Finished tidying up.
Amamiya Natsuki went downstairs to the shoe cabinet, changed his shoes, and walked towards the door. He immediately saw Miss Sheltered Ojou-sama standing quietly at the door with her school bag in both hands, looking at the sky. Her perfect profile was flawless.
Hearing footsteps, Shinomiya Kaguya turned her head and looked over, her eyes slightly brightening.
"Are Juju and Komi both back?"
Shinomiya Kaguya asked.
"They're all back." Amamiya Natsuki coughed twice, feeling a little guilty. "The longer a mushroom is grown, the longer the negative status lasts. The upper limit is unclear… Shall we take the train to the Commercial Street?"
"Okay."
Amamiya Natsuki took out an umbrella from his school bag and casually said, "Did you bring an umbrella?"
Of course she did!
It rains almost every day during the plum rain season. Who goes out without an umbrella!
However…
Shinomiya Kaguya's ear tips were slightly red. She looked straight ahead and said in a casual tone:
"It wasn't raining when I left this morning, so I forgot to bring it."
Amamiya Natsuki looked over: "Then shall we share an umbrella?"
"…I'll trouble Natsuki-kun."
Shinomiya Kaguya moved slightly and came under the umbrella.
The two of them walked into the cold rain mist, sharing the same umbrella.
Before challenging the dungeon, they had said they would eat from beginning to end on the Commercial Street, so they naturally kept their word.
They walked in silence.
The two took the train to the Commercial Street and began to eat the food they hadn't tasted last time.
It was a pity that Miss Sheltered Ojou-sama had a small appetite and was full after eating only a little.
"What a shame, there's still so much left to eat." Amamiya Natsuki complained, "I think I can plant a mushroom for you."
"Absolutely not!"
Shinomiya Kaguya's eyes were vigilant, and she refused decisively.
Amamiya Natsuki said:
"I'm talking about an appetite mushroom."
You can't make the decision, who knows what kind of mushroom will grow out in the end? What if it's a lust mushroom?
She absolutely didn't want to experience that kind of mushroom a second time!
"Then that's it for today." Amamiya Natsuki held an ice cream and handed it to Kaguya. "Next time you want to eat, we'll come back and continue."
"Mm."
"Do you want to try the latest coriander ice cream?"
"No way, I'd die if I ate that!"
"…"
After talking for a while, Amamiya Natsuki watched Miss Sheltered Ojou-sama get into the car and leave, then turned to go home.
At 8:30 PM.
The doorbell suddenly rang.
Amamiya Natsuki got up and opened the door. A blonde girl with a black collar around her neck stood gracefully outside the door.
"Natsuki, good evening." Kitagawa Marin made a peace sign, her smile exceptionally bright, as if it lit up the night. She said in a clear voice, "I'm here!"
"Come in."
Amamiya Natsuki moved aside to let her in.
"Here, take this."
Kitagawa Marin handed over the umbrella and school bag she was holding, then bent down and hooked her thumb under her black over-the-knee socks, pulling the slippery stockings all the way off.
"It's raining outside again, how annoying, my stockings got all wet."
Amamiya Natsuki neatly folded the umbrella and placed it in the umbrella stand by the door, then placed a pair of slippers in front of Succubus Girl.
"There are so many evil spirits on rainy days.
I encountered seven or eight evil spirits on my way here, and two of them were really scary," Kitagawa Marin said while taking off her stockings, recounting her journey.
"After shopping with friends, I went home again to get a change of clothes.
Oh, and there's a new game, highly recommended, it's super fun."
Amamiya Natsuki said speechlessly:
"Is the new game you're talking about legitimate?"
Kitagawa Marin put her right hand on her hip and said, "Of course it's legitimate."
Amamiya Natsuki shrugged: "Last time with the Young Miss Academy, you also said it was very legitimate."
"Oh, come on, just tell me if it's fun or not?"
"...Fun."
"Then that's all that matters."
"..."
Slap!
Two stockings sprang into Kitagawa Marin's palm, reduced to a small wad.
Succubus Girl was barefoot, her toes adorned with sparkling pink nail polish, which looked quite lovely.
"Whew, it doesn't look hot, but I started sweating after walking for a while."
Kitagawa Marin walked towards the bathroom, making thumping sounds.
"I'll rest for a bit first, and then wash the stockings when I take a bath later."
After coming out of the bathroom, Kitagawa Marin plopped down on the sofa, reached out to rub the silly dog's head, took out a small sausage from her school bag to feed the dog, then turned her head to look at Amamiya Natsuki and said:
"Natsuki, do you want some?"
Amamiya Natsuki retorted:
"It's too much.
It's one thing if you eat half a sausage, but the dog eats half, and you still want me to eat it?"
"It's not this sausage."
Kitagawa Marin's pretty face flushed slightly as she took out another snack sausage from her school bag.
"I still have some in my school bag... Here, this one's for you."
"I don't feel like eating anymore."
"Still sulking, open your mouth, I'll feed you."
Kitagawa Marin approached without hesitation, hugged Amamiya Natsuki's arm, and then playfully fed him a small sausage.
"I'll also eat a small sausage.
This is a local specialty snack my dad bought for me when we went to Kagoshima," Kitagawa Marin said, tearing open the package, eating a sausage herself, then trying to twist open a chilled fruit juice drink.
She exclaimed exaggeratedly, her large eyes glancing at Amamiya Natsuki, "Oh dear, I can't open it."
Hey, hey, your acting is terrible!
You can easily carry a ten-pound bag of rice, how could you not be able to open a juice bottle!
Amamiya Natsuki extended his hand speechlessly: "Give me the juice."
"Hahahaha."
Kitagawa Marin sat up straight, her bright smile handing over the juice.
"Oh, right, when I had some free time this afternoon, I used my phone to compare the raw materials for the potions in my memory, and I found several identical ingredients," Kitagawa Marin said in a clear voice.
"There are only three corresponding items left that I haven't found."
Amamiya Natsuki handed over the opened juice and said:
"I'll bring the tablet over, and we can look together."
"No, it's break time now," Kitagawa Marin tilted her head back, took a sip of juice, then exhaled contentedly, got up, and turned on the TV.
"Let's play games first.
Today's game is super awesome, I guarantee it'll make you cry!"
Amamiya Natsuki said:
"What if I can't cry?"
"Hmm..." Kitagawa Marin blinked, then leaned closer and pouted playfully, "Then I'll cry for you."
And it's true, this Succubus Girl is highly emotional, a typical creature of feeling, and she can truly cry when she says she will.
A moment later.
Looking at the 18+ rating on the TV, Amamiya Natsuki couldn't help but complain:
"I don't understand, why do 18+ games need to include tear-jerking storylines?"
"Perhaps to make a lasting impression?"
Kitagawa Marin tilted her head in thought, then mused, "There are more and more games now, and the homogenization is getting more and more serious.
After many games are completed, people don't even remember what the story was about.
Having a moving storyline is what makes people remember it for a long time."
Amamiya Natsuki hit the nail on the head:
"But the truth is, those who try to please everyone often end up pleasing no one."
Taking light novels as an example, some people want an easy read, just something interesting, while others demand a protagonist with a strong personality, intricate logic with depth, and a captivating story.
Amamiya Natsuki believed it was unnecessary.
Real life is already hard enough.
After a tiring day, coming home, one just wants to relax and rest.
Stomach medicine, literary pretentiousness, dark and depressing, and sudden NTR, all of it can get lost.
Focusing on sesshou is enough.
"No single game can ever please everyone," Amamiya Natsuki finally said.
"Since it's an 18+ game, focusing on sesshou is enough."
"Sorry, I'm a story person."
Kitagawa Marin waved her hand, then patted the cushion next to her.
"Come on, let's play the game."
"..."
Before long, it was nine o'clock in the evening.
Kitagawa Marin yawned and went to the bathroom to shower, while Amamiya Natsuki continued to play the game in the living room.
So far, there had been no tear-jerking plots, but there were many sesshou scenes, which was a definite plus.
While he was playing the game, a soft exclamation suddenly came from behind him:
"Pervert Senpai, what are you playing?!"
Amamiya Natsuki turned his head and saw Hayasaka Ai in a sailor uniform, and asked in confusion:
"How did you get in?"
"Marin opened the door for me."
Hayasaka Ai's gaze fell on the TV, and she crossed her arms in disgust.
"Even with Marin-chan here, Senpai is actually playing this kind of game.
Dirty, perverted, lecherous, I misjudged Senpai!"
"Is there a possibility..." Amamiya Natsuki put down the game controller, "that Marin actively wanted me to play?"
Hayasaka Ai: "..."
That was indeed possible.
Even though Pervert Natsuki's head was full of sesshou thoughts and he wanted to have a harem, he would never force a girl.
Amamiya Natsuki looked up at Hayasaka and said:
"Do you remember what happened last night?"
"Ah, sorry."
Hayasaka Ai clasped her hands together and nonchalantly denied it, "I don't remember at all."
"Sit down and talk."
Amamiya Natsuki patted the cushion next to him.
"Paid videos or paid games, you choose one."
Hayasaka Ai glared at him irritably: "What do you mean 'paid', Senpai actually wants to watch sesshou videos and sesshou games, right?"
"Where did I say anything wrong?"
Amamiya Natsuki said righteously, "Are those things you can watch without paying?"
"No, no, I don't want to watch sesshou things with Senpai."
Hayasaka Ai held out her right hand and said, "Senpai, quickly apply an Evil Spirit Banishing for me, I still need to go back."
"I refuse."
"Senpai is so mean, I won't like Senpai anymore."
"Keep talking, and you won't get one tomorrow either."
"Sorry, Senpai, please forgive me."
"Oh dear~"
Hayasaka Ai spread her arms and fell backward.
Amamiya Natsuki naturally extended his arms and caught Hayasaka, the sweet citrus scent of the girl filling his nostrils.
"Senpai, Senpai~" Hayasaka Ai wrapped her arms around Amamiya Natsuki's neck, calling softly while leaning closer, gently biting Amamiya Natsuki's ear, her soft pink lips exhaling lightly, her voice as soft and cute as a cat's, "Quickly apply the skill for me, or I'll bite Senpai's ear off."
"..."
Amamiya Natsuki fell into contemplation.
Was this a threat or a reward?
Speaking of which, this Hayasaka ignores others at school, is serious and strict in her maid form, and after disguising herself as a junior, she becomes super clingy and acts spoiled.
With such strong abilities, she should quickly switch careers to become an actress and embark on the path to becoming a movie queen!
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