Chapter 280: Allocating Rooms!
After seeing off Persephone, it was still early.
Once Jashin-chan and the others finished cleaning up the dining room and kitchen, Ryohei Tanaka suggested that everyone go to the old castle to pick out their rooms.
The plan was to allocate the rooms first, so they could move in directly after buying furniture tomorrow.
Everyone readily agreed to this.
Tohru and Kanna were also included in this room allocation—Ryohei Tanaka felt that since they were all his employees, he shouldn't show too much favoritism.
It was one thing for them to live at Kobayashi's house in Tokyo, but he had to arrange a place for them to stay here as well.
Whether Tohru and Kanna actually stayed or not was a different matter; he had to make the arrangements, otherwise, it would seem like he was neglecting them, which wouldn't be good.
So last night, Ryohei Tanaka had discussed it with Kyon-Kyon, Ran-Ran, Yusa, and Koji, and managed to squeeze out a room to assign to Tohru and Kanna.
"..."
"Let's get this straight first: those sharing a room with two people get to pick first, and those with single rooms choose afterwards. Does anyone have any objections?"
On the way to the old castle, Ryohei Tanaka glanced at the bevy of beauties surrounding him and clarified the rules in advance.
"No objections! (´∀ ˋ)!"
Poporon smiled sweetly. She was getting a room all to herself; under these circumstances, what objections could she possibly have?
"That's how it should be, that's how it should be," Pekola nodded repeatedly.
"I want to share a room with Yurine-san!" Pino suddenly raised her hand and said.
(;´Д`)
Hearing this, Yurine involuntarily leaned closer to Ryohei Tanaka.
Seeing this, Lucoa followed suit and raised her hand: "I want to share a room with Ryohei-kun!"
"I want to share a room with my Elder Sister!"
Petra glanced at Lucoa and also raised her hand.
"...I want to share a room with Jashin-chan," Ryohei Tanaka mused for a moment and said.
Hearing this, everyone was greatly shocked.
The spectator Kobayashi pushed up her glasses with a finger, the lenses reflecting a sharp white light. She secretly roasted them in her heart:
This circle is truly messy!
Then, she unconsciously pricked up her ears.
"Eh? Eh eh eh..."
Jashin-chan turned her head in bewilderment, pointed her finger at Ryohei Tanaka, and exclaimed in shock: "I treat you as a vassal, and you actually lust after me!"
"As expected, I am quite charming!"
Jashin-chan put her hands on her hips, raised her chin, and began to show off shamelessly.
Ryohei Tanaka looked at her in astonishment: "I was joking; why did you take it seriously? That's not good."
"Pfft—!"
Yurine covered her mouth with her hand, her shoulders trembling with laughter.
Persephone II gently stroked her chest, smiling brightly: "I knew it! Onii-chan scared me!"
The others also smiled.
Kobayashi was surprised. So it was a joke? She thought Ryohei Tanaka had some special fetish.
Alright, she was overthinking it!
"..." Kobayashi felt a little embarrassed.
"Tsk—! You guys...!"
Jashin-chan performed her signature face-changing act. She clenched her fists and glared at Ryohei Tanaka, Yurine, and Persephone II with gritted teeth, looking like she wanted to beat someone up.
"Actually, Jashin-chan is quite charming sometimes!"
Medusa raised a slender white finger, defending her snake friend with all her might.
"Oh, like when?"
Ryohei Tanaka turned to look at her.
"Umm..."
Medusa thought for a moment, then pointed to the golden tiara with a chibi snake image she was wearing on her head:
"Our family's heirloom tiara was once stolen by the Gargoyle Gang when I was little. Thanks to Jashin-chan and Minos, we were able to get it back..."
"Although the process was a bit hard to describe, Jashin-chan put in a lot of effort..."
Medusa smiled brightly: "She is really reliable!"
"Right? ｡(^▽^)ゞ"
Hearing the praise, Jashin-chan put one hand on her hip and scratched the back of her head with the other, grinning and trembling with smugness again.
"Ah... that incident!"
Minos obviously recalled something, narrowing her eyes and glancing at Jashin-chan.
She remembered they had found the Gargoyle Gang's hideout back then, only to encounter the gang's boss.
Jashin-chan had chickened out immediately, begging the other party with a pitiful face to return the tiara to them.
After being rejected, she launched a sneak attack when he was unprepared, dealing 0.1 damage, then grabbed the tiara from the stone table and ran.
Minos remembered that Medusa accidentally tripped while escaping and was caught by the Gargoyle Boss. When she cried out for help, Jashin-chan decisively sold her out, not looking back as she shouted for Minos to run fast.
Of course, the two didn't actually sell Medusa out in the end—
Jashin-chan performed a dogeza (groveling on the ground) before the Gargoyle Boss, said some sentimental words, and then, while he was moved, pulled a poison arrow out of her snake-skin pocket and took him down...
"..."
Recollection over!
Minos couldn't help but twitch the corner of her mouth. She felt that Jashin-chan had been despicable since childhood, but she did have her shining moments.
When a friend was in trouble, she really stepped up—!
"..."
While chatting, the group arrived at the old castle.
"Yurine, how about we stay in this room?"
Ryohei Tanaka had already set his sights on a favorite room. He didn't stand on ceremony, pulling Yurine to Room 305.
This room could be said to be the best room in the castle!
First of all, the third floor had the best view!
Through the window of Room 305, one could see the sparkling surface of the lake.
Rooms 1, 3, and 5 on both the second and third floors could all be considered lake-view rooms. Among them, Room 1 and Room 5 had an extra side window.
The side window of Room 5 faced the grazing area—one could see a lush green meadow and the herd of cows grazing leisurely.
Yurine wasn't foolish either. Hearing this, she smiled and said, "I like this place too."
So the two of them claimed Room 305!
After they finished choosing, the others also began to select their rooms.
Yusa and Koji took Room 303, while Jashin-chan and Minos both eyed Room 301.
According to Jashin-chan's logic, Medusa usually came over to sleep on her side, so that counted as two people, giving her the right to pick first.
However, this was vetoed by Ryohei Tanaka.
Medusa wasn't his employee, so she couldn't be counted. Thus, Minos and Persephone II happily secured the residency rights to Room 301!
Kyon-Kyon and Ran-Ran took Room 205, and Tohru and Kanna took Room 203.
At this point, everyone with priority selection rights had finished choosing.
Lucoa unhesitatingly claimed Room 306, which was directly opposite Ryohei Tanaka and Yurine.
Petra took Room 304, next to Lucoa.
Jashin-chan took Room 302—the people she was most familiar with were all on this floor.
Pino originally wanted to live next door to or opposite Yurine, but the adjacent room was pre-booked by Yusa and Koji.
She couldn't compete with Lucoa, nor even with Petra diagonally across.
Therefore, she could only go to the second floor and divide the remaining four rooms with the other two angels and Binchotan-kun.
Soon, the room allocation was complete!
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