Fumiya Jin froze slightly.
He seemed to have been too immersed in the noble idea of self-sacrifice for the safety of his teammates.
And, watching Shiina Mashiro try to concentrate on reading, yet unable to completely ignore his harassment, her cheeks slightly flushed, her eyes occasionally unfocused, and her body sometimes trembling... This situation was so interesting that it was hard to stop.
That's why he didn't even notice that Shirogane Kei had arrived in the living room.
"Um..."
Fumiya Jin was always good at explaining. But even so, in this caught-in-the-act situation, trying to explain it away was quite a challenge.
"If I said I was measuring Miss Shiina's body data to make it easier to buy her new clothes tomorrow... would you believe me, Kei-chan?" he said with an awkward yet polite smile.
Shirogane Kei felt her intelligence was being insulted. "You shouldn't be using your hands to measure!!! This looks like you're bullying Miss Shiina, Fumiya-san!"
Hearing this, Shiina Mashiro shook her head. "No, he's not bullying me. I told him to do it."
"Huh?" Shirogane Kei looked at Shiina Mashiro in astonishment.
"I want to live here and I've asked him to be my owner," Shiina Mashiro said calmly. "In exchange, he can do anything."
"What??? Owner... o-o-o-owner?" Shirogane Kei was greatly shocked.
Fumiya Jin rubbed his forehead. "That's not how you use that word..."
But Shiina Mashiro was very calm. "When people adopt cats, they give them food and toys, and the cats get close to them. Isn't that normal?"
"No, can a person and a pet be the same?!" Shirogane Kei couldn't help but retort. "And I just saw that you looked unwilling, Miss Shiina. Your eyebrows were all furrowed!"
"That's because Fumiya-san's method was... too lewd," Shiina Mashiro said. "And... he insisted on doing it while I was reading... I kind of hate that."
Shirogane Kei was dumbfounded.
Her worldview was seriously shaken.
For a moment, she didn't know where to begin her complaints.
She was silent for several seconds.
Then...
She turned and ran towards the living room exit.
"I'm sorry, I might have come at a bad time. I... I'm going back..."
At this point, Fumiya Jin, who was a little exasperated, suddenly noticed that the number above Shirogane Kei's head was not right.
It was too short. Why was it suddenly so short? Only a little over three hundred seconds left? Just five minutes?
Did that mean she would be in danger after leaving the house?
A life was at stake, and Fumiya Jin immediately stopped joking around.
"Wait, Kei-chan!" Fumiya Jin shouted, as he placed Shiina Mashiro, who was in his arms, on the sofa and stood up to chase her.
It's worth mentioning that as soon as Shiina Mashiro was put down, she was quite happy—she could finally read properly. She immediately lay on the table and continued reading the documents in the notebook.
And Fumiya Jin caught up with Shirogane Kei at the entrance.
After her shower, Shirogane Kei had changed into a T-shirt and sweatpants that Fumiya Jin had given her. However, because the size was too big, the T-shirt looked like a dress, and the sweatpants, rolled up several times, looked like bloomers.
She came to the entrance and was about to put on her wet shoes to leave, but Fumiya Jin grabbed her fair arm and pulled her back.
"You don't have your key, you can't get into your house, are you going to run out into the rain?" Fumiya Jin said.
Shirogane Kei was a little defiant and tried to shake off Fumiya Jin's hand, but she couldn't.
She had to turn around and look at Fumiya Jin with a wronged expression.
"Then... what do you want me to do? Stay here and watch you and Miss Shiina being all lovey-dovey?"
"Don't let your imagination run wild, little one," Fumiya Jin raised his hand and gently stroked her still-damp hair. "I'll clean up a room for you later, just get some good sleep."
"Still treating me like a child... That's what's so annoying about you, Fumiya-san!!!" Shirogane Kei said angrily. "Miss Shiina isn't much older than me, is she! Why don't you treat her the same way..."
Fumiya Jin found this a little amusing. "You're unhappy that I'm not bullying you? Do you want me to pounce on you like a lecherous fiend and have my wicked way with you, and that would make you happy?"
As he spoke, he raised his hands and pretended to be a monster with claws.
"That's not what I mean! If Fumiya-san were that kind of person, I wouldn't... I wouldn't have come to you for help..."
Shirogane Kei lowered her head, bit her lip, and said, "I just don't understand... why Fumiya-san suddenly became like this..."
Fumiya Jin: "..."
He didn't know how to explain this question either.
It was all because of that reincarnation game, which suddenly connected him to so many girls.
Plus, it gave him the ability of "knowledge and action in one," forcing him to madly sell his body to collect "slash points."
Thinking about it, this reincarnation game was truly evil, forcing a pure and innocent person like him to become a lecherous ghost!
But just as he was thinking this... he suddenly noticed that the number above Shirogane Kei's head started to change again—it was decreasing faster!
250 seconds... 200 seconds... 150 seconds!
Fumiya Jin suddenly realized what was happening.
The main reason he was getting involved with so many girls in a short period was the reincarnation game. This was also the core reason Fumiya Jin couldn't explain it clearly to her.
And Shirogane Kei, who couldn't get an answer right now, was desperately exploring the answer to this question in her heart... In a sense, she was actively pursuing the answer of the reincarnation game.
As the saying goes—when you gaze into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
Could it be that Kei-chan's countdown was ending not because she would encounter danger outside, but because she was about to be pulled into the game for exploring an answer she shouldn't be exploring?
"Stop, stop, stop! Kei-chan, don't dwell on this question anymore," Fumiya Jin hurriedly shouted.
But as soon as he said this, Shirogane Kei froze...
The number above her head paused slightly.
Then...
It suddenly accelerated several times!
100... 50... 20...
Well, not letting her think makes her think even more, right? That's just human nature.
Fumiya Jin had a headache.
Before he could say the next sentence, the number had already reached zero...
Then he felt as if time had slowed down, and a gloomy shadow emerged from the ground, covering the girl's fair little feet... then her calves... and then her thighs...
Oh no!
She's about to be pulled in!
A kind and innocent student like Kei-chan going into the game alone would likely face a grim fate.
Fumiya Jin didn't have time to think.
Fortunately, he was still holding the girl's arm. He pulled her hard, bringing her over and holding her tightly in his arms.
The next second, his consciousness became blurred...
[Welcome to the Reincarnation Game.]
[A player far above the average level has been detected forcefully joining the instance. The trial instance has been changed to a formal instance and a penalty has been applied—the mental intrusion effects you receive in this instance are greatly increased.]
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