"Hey, don't you think there's sothing off between Sakuramiya Hitomi and An Le?"
Turning the clock back a little, to the ti when Yan Huan was talking with the Sakuramiya couple.
Bai Yi and Ye Shiyu were walking together down a corridor inside the shrine, heading in the sa direction.
Uncoincidentally, their rooms were quite close to each other.
Hearing this, Ye Shiyu finally stopped in her tracks and cast a faint glance at her.
"You just realized?"
"...Huh? Did Sakuramiya Hitomi actually betray us?! Is she crazy? An Le wants to expel all the superpowers from our bodies!"
"..."
Listening to her, Ye Shiyu remained silent, rely glancing at her mobile phone as her eyes grew slightly darker.
"So, if Sakuramiya Hitomi really defects, and Spencer is acting all chummy with that An Le, what are the two of us supposed to do?"
Ye Shiyu took a deep breath and closed her eyes.
Even soone as aloof as Ye Shiyu found it hard to maintain her composure after hearing Bai Yi's words.
The main issue was that from beginning to end, this Bai Yi had acted like a bystander, unable to offer any help whatsoever.
She had made all sorts of empty promises when they were forming their alliance early on, talking about working together with one heart.
Yet in the end, during the group battle against An Le, she had contributed absolutely zero. It was entirely up to her and Sakuramiya Hitomi to bear the pressure on the front lines...
Oh wait, it wasn't exactly zero contribution—she was the one who blew up Sakuramiya Hitomi's Barrier, nearly causing the two of them to fall into an unknown place and fall to their deaths.
She was practically inhuman!
Now that Sakuramiya Hitomi was showing signs of betrayal, and the situation was clearly leaning towards a three-versus-two, this Bai Yi was still asking her what they should do...
What should they do? Wait to surrender!
She was already annoyed by the tacit understanding between Sakuramiya Hitomi and Xiao Huan, and now she was even more irritated.
"I don't know, don't ask ."
At this thought, Ye Shiyu's perpetually icy face looked as if she had been pushed to her limit by Bai Yi. She dropped this cold remark and quickened her pace forward.
"Hey, Ye Shiyu!"
But despite Bai Yi calling out to stop her, Ye Shiyu didn't even turn her head. She quickly vanished from the spot, heading who-knows-where.
Left alone, Bai Yi scoffed and murmured under her breath,
"What ti is it to still be throwing a tantrum, honestly... I don't even know where she went..."
There was no helping it. Now she could only rely on herself to figure out a solution.
Others always said Bai Yi was a fool, but in reality, only Bai Yi herself knew that she wasn't foolish in the slightest...
This was called hiding one's brilliance.
"Click, clack..."
The next second, Bai Yi took out her pocket watch and glanced at the other side of the corridor.
That was the direction where Spencer, An Le, and Sakuramiya Hitomi were staying.
What on earth were An Le and Sakuramiya Hitomi up to? She was going to find out!
"Indifference, activate!"
After so long, Bai Yi had finally rembered to use her superpower.
It wasn't actually that she didn't want to use it. It was just that during the charity concert, the thought of a side effect had taken root and sprouted in the depths of her heart like a seed.
However, hearing Sakuramiya Hitomi and Ye Shiyu both say there were no side effects finally allowed her to put her mind at ease. Now she could use it freely.
"Tick... Tock..."
As the illusory clock sound, resembling dripping water, rang out, Bai Yi instantly felt as if she had been peeled away from this worldline, rendering her entirely unnoticeable to others.
Glancing at her semi-transparent hand, she took a deep breath.
'As long as I avoid that cheating Spencer, neither An Le nor Sakuramiya Hitomi will be able to detect ... Phew.'
Thinking this, she began to jog, seizing the ti to hurry toward the other side.
"..."
In the courtyard, Spencer was squatting by the pond, using the fish food given to her by the piglet priest to feed the goldfish.
Hearing footsteps from the wooden floorboards behind her, she subconsciously turned her head.
However, she saw absolutely nothing.
"Awoo?"
Spencer blinked, assuming it was just her imagination, and turned back to continue playing with the little goldfish.
Back in the corridor, Bai Yi leaned against the back of the sliding door, concealing her figure.
Peeking her head out slightly to confirm that Spencer hadn't noticed her, she finally jogged leisurely down the corridor.
'Good, Spencer is here, so there shouldn't be any problems!'
"Vice President Sakuramiya, have you considered what we talked about earlier?"
"..."
'Ah, it's An Le's voice!'
From a distance, Bai Yi slowed her steps and looked toward the source of the voice.
She saw An Le and Sakuramiya Hitomi standing in the corridor, deep in conversation.
Hearing An Le's repeated invitation, Sakuramiya Hitomi hesitated slightly.
Seeing Sakuramiya Hitomi's hesitation, An Le didn't push it. She rely watched her silently, waiting for an answer.
But Sakuramiya Hitomi knew that An Le had previously promised not to make a move against them while at the Main Residence.
Now, she wouldn't be leaving Linn, and she had also stepped out of the Main Residence...
"It's about ti~"
For so reason, Sakuramiya Hitomi thought she was hallucinating when she heard An Le speak these words.
"...There's just one last question, An Le."
Thinking of this, Sakuramiya Hitomi sighed and raised her eyes to look at An Le.
"?"
An Le simply tilted her head slightly, waiting for her question.
"What did you an earlier when you said, 'Only the last day of the school trip'?"
"..."
"If you tell
what that ans, I can promise right now to help you deal with Bai Yi and Ye Shiyu first."
Hearing this, Bai Yi, who was in her Indifference state in the corridor, shrank her pupils. As she stared at Sakuramiya Hitomi's back, her expression beca quite colorful.
'Well aren't you sothing, Sakuramiya Hitomi!'
'I can't believe a seemingly straightforward person like you actually beca a traitor!!'
"...I'm sorry, but I can't tell you, Vice President Sakuramiya."
Yet after pondering for a long ti, An Le still didn't reveal the matter.
'Taking Xiao Huan's first ti...'
'This is my final wish, the one I absolutely cannot give up no matter what.'
'For everyone's sake, I'll just treat this as a secret known to no one but myself.'
'After everything is over, I'll make Xiao Huan forget about it too.'
"..."
Sakuramiya Hitomi opened her mouth, studying An Le, who was avoiding eye contact while subconsciously pinching her own arm.
She was a bit perplexed, yet she could sense An Le's absolute determination.
Just as she was about to speak, An Le shook her head and turned around, intending to head back to her room.
"Vice President Sakuramiya, please think it over carefully. The promise I made to you earlier will be extended until tomorrow morning. Before then, you can tell
your answer at any ti."
"...Alright."
Sakuramiya Hitomi nodded, turning to leave and walking toward her own room.
An Le opened her door but didn't enter for a long ti, standing at the threshold, lost in thought.
Only after a long while did she finally step inside.
She had no idea that behind her, a girl who had detached from the worldline quietly followed her into the room.
'The last day of the school trip... Is she planning to do sothing? It seems really important...'
Bai Yi rubbed her chin, her gaze trailing after An Le as she returned to her room.
"On the last day, Xiao Huan and I should already be in Tokyo. So, I should check out Tokyo hotels first..."
'Hotels?'
Bai Yi narrowed her eyes. Standing behind An Le, she watched as she opened the search bar of a certain red-thed app and typed in a search:
"Recomndations for hotels in Tokyo suitable for couples living together"
'Couples living together?'
Bai Yi looked suspicious but still couldn't be entirely sure, so she had to keep watching.
Thus, she watched helplessly as An Le bookmarked several well-reviewed hotels.
Afterward, she continued searching:
"Recomndations for sexy lingerie suitable for girls with large breasts"
'??'
'Wait, what the hell are you searching for?'
Bai Yi watched as An Le clicked on a display of pulse-pounding garnts with the title "Tokyo Lingerie Shop Recomndations"...
'Hmm, and she's even chatting with netizens now?'
"Hello, I wanted to ask if the style in the picture is currently available at the Tokyo flagship store?"
"What size are you, sister? So sizes might be out of stock~"
"Understood! My size is 80E."
Watching this, Bai Yi gaped, blinked, and cast a flat gaze toward An Le's...
The next second, she retracted her gaze as if she'd been burned and continued looking at the mobile phone.
"Umm... With that size, I'm not entirely sure if it's in stock. You'll have to check in person at the physical store."
"Okay, got it. Thank you."
"..."
'Hotels, battle outfits, and then...'
'Little balloons?'
"Speaking of which, these seem to co in different sizes. I wonder just how... big... Xiao Huan is..."
An Le pondered with a slightly blushing face. As she thought about it, she gently patted her cheeks.
"Then again, on the last day, I probably won't even need that..."
"..."
Seeing and hearing all this from behind, the semi-transparent Bai Yi's face flushed bright red.
'This...'
'This is too freaking explicit!'
'Requesting a transfer to the children's channel!'
However, having heard and seen all this, no matter how foolish she was, she could realize exactly what An Le ant by "the last day"...
'An Le, she wants to do that kind of thing with Yan Huan!!'
'No way, I need to tell the others imdiately!'
Bai Yi's small face was flushed red. Panicked and disoriented, she turned around and bolted, only to run in the wrong direction.
It wasn't until she saw the window that she slapped her forehead and redirected her sprint toward the door.
"Click~"
She grabbed the doorknob and pulled the door open.
Bizarrely, the mont Bai Yi touched it, it was as if the worldline of the door had been torn apart.
In Bai Yi's hands, the door forced open, yet from An Le's perspective, the door remained tightly shut.
"Slam!"
Even when Bai Yi slamd the door in a panic as she ran out, An Le didn't react in the slightest.
"Pant... Pant..."
Bai Yi's small face was slightly flushed. Leaning against the doorway, her mind was a jumbled ss.
Previously, she had secretly hoarded holy relics—naly, the doujinshi of Spencer she got from the Doujinshi Society.
But the thought of such things actually happening to soone she knew intimately left her utterly shocked.
Think about it: even in her Indifference state, she would only touch soone's abdominal muscles or sneakily steal a kiss. How explicitly minded could Bai Yi really be?
"...If I'd known, I wouldn't have skipped the school's sex education classes."
Covering her mouth, Bai Yi murmured to herself.
Once she found out that Yan Huan wouldn't be teaching the class and that they'd invited an outsider, she lost interest and naturally didn't attend.
Only now did she realize the gravity of her mistake.
"...Sakuramiya Hitomi... Ah, no, she's a fence-sitter now... That's right, go find Ye Shiyu! I have to tell her about this!"
At this mont, Bai Yi was like a secret agent who had obtained crucial intelligence, desperate to deliver it.
With Sakuramiya Hitomi being a fence-sitter and Spencer being completely clueless, the only person left to tell was Ye Shiyu.
"Tick... Tock..."
"Pant... Pant..."
Bai Yi jogged for a bit, running all the way back to the corridor where they had first started.
"Ye Shiyu! Where are you?!"
She deactivated her Indifference and arrived at Ye Shiyu's door, smacking it a few tis and shouting her na.
However, there was absolutely no response from inside.
"She's not here? At such a critical mont... Where on earth did she go?"
Bai Yi ruffled her hair, just about to take out her mobile phone to text Ye Shiyu.
But from the corner of her eye, she suddenly noticed the staircase leading up to the second floor right across from Ye Shiyu's room.
"..."
Yan Huan was staying on the second floor.
Bai Yi recalled this fact, subconsciously putting the pieces together. She swallowed a mouthful of saliva and sized up the stairwell.
She saw that the lights in the stairwell were flickering on and off, as if dealing with a poor connection...
Was the wiring aging?
'No... That's not right.'
Just as Bai Yi thought this, for so reason, her mind drifted back to their ti at the hotel in Osaka and the Golden Lion Mansion.
Back then, whether it was the Spencer solo mission or the three heroes battle An Le, whenever Ye Shiyu used her superpower, this exact phenonon would occur...
"..."
Realizing sothing, Bai Yi hurriedly pulled out her pocket watch again. As she dashed upstairs, she adjusted the minute hand on the pocket watch.
"Indifference, activate!"
"Tick... Tock..."
Ti reverted to the very instant Yan Huan pushed open his door—the mont he was hit with a zero-fra activation Hypnosis.
With the perfect circumstances, every elent was maxed out, inevitably leading to the outco of Ye Shiyu breaking her vows.
"I'm sorry... Xiao Huan... I really can't hold back anymore..."
'Wait, Ye Shiyu, I thought you had turned over a new leaf!'
'What did you even change?!'
'Why is it a zero-fra activation again?!'
"Sister Shiyu, you..."
However, just as Yan Huan was struck with profound shock internally, fully expecting to fall under the control of Hypnosis, his astonishnt spilled out of his throat without any hindrance.
'That's not right?'
'Aren't I being hypnotized?'
'How can I still talk?'
"..."
Yan Huan blinked, wondering to himself if perhaps he wasn't actually hypnotized.
He tried to move his body, only to find a numbness and tingling sensation spread throughout his limbs. He couldn't control them at all.
Only his facial expressions and his mouth were still capable of moving...
No, it wasn't just his facial expressions and mouth.
It was his consciousness!
His consciousness hadn't been hypnotized; only his body had been...
'Did Ye Shiyu's Modifier evolve again?!'
"I'm sorry, Xiao Huan... You must be very confused right now, right? Wondering what happened... Don't worry. Even though I haven't tried this thod of playing before..."
"..."
'Oh crap!'
Previously, being hypnotized was actually quite easy to fake—he just needed to act like a wooden puppet.
But now, if his consciousness was normal and he didn't want to reveal a flaw, he absolutely had to put on his Expression Managent mask.
"Sister Shiyu, what exactly is going on... Wh-why can't I move right now..."
The mont the words left his mouth, Yan Huan wanted to slap himself.
'Is this a normal question to ask?'
'Yes, it is.'
Because Yan Huan currently needed to act as if he didn't know about the Modifiers. Any normal person encountering this situation would definitely react this way.
Especially when the person in front of you is your sworn older sister.
But after saying that, why does it feel like...
'I've just added fuel to the fire?'
Sure enough, as soon as those words were spoken, Ye Shiyu—whose face was already faintly flushed—shrank her pupils, and her breathing instantly grew rapid.
Originally, a hypnotized Xiao Huan was like a wooden puppet, motionless and entirely unresponsive.
That was wonderful, of course; Ye Shiyu naturally favored things that were completely her own possession.
There was nothing quite like dolls to represent that exact sentint.
Now, it was equivalent to having sothing with its own consciousness that had to obey her—
Her possession.
"Xiao Huan..."
When she spoke again, Ye Shiyu's voice was already turning sowhat hoarse.
It sounded like a volcano about to erupt, or a tsunami about to crash ashore.
"Take your shirt... off first..."
"!!"
Yan Huan blinked. Before he could even speak, his hands reacted a step ahead, gripping his own collar.
"Sister Shiyu?"
"Rustle..."
As his shirt was slowly lifted, obstructing Yan Huan's own vision, Ye Shiyu seed utterly unable to hold back anymore. She thrust her hands underneath the fabric and tightly embraced him.
"This is all your fault, Xiao Huan... If it weren't for you doing that kind of thing with Sakuramiya Hitomi right in front of ... I wouldn't be like this."
"..."
'Bullshit!'
Hearing this, Yan Huan's face darkened.
'If I hadn't retained my consciousness during your previous Hypnosis sessions, I might have actually believed this was your first ti doing this.'
'How many tis have you done this before? And you're still making excuses about this and that?'
"Sister Shiyu, stop it for now. Think this through carefully... What about Auntie? If Auntie finds out about this, you..."
Hearing this, Ye Shiyu froze slightly. Then, she aggressively ripped Yan Huan's shirt all the way off and buried her head completely into his arms, with no fabric separating them.
"Hiss!!"
'She's...'
'Sucking?!'
"Mama won't know..."
In his arms, Ye Shiyu had restrained herself to the point where it could no longer be contained, rendering her utterly deaf to reason.
Yan Huan, stimulated to the point of gasping in shock, saw that bringing up Auntie had completely failed. He had to find another way.
His eyes flickered slightly, staring at the wooden structural walls. He figured that shouting out loud right now would surely attract an outsider's attention.
The only people around were the few Modifier hosts. An Le had already forced them into an alliance, so they all knew each other's secrets anyway. It wouldn't really count as exposing the Modifiers in front of outsiders.
"Hel—"
"Mwah~"
However, just as Yan Huan opened his mouth, Ye Shiyu's lips abruptly pulled away from the red mark on his chest. She whispered,
"Xiao Huan, shh..."
"!!"
With that command, Yan Huan instantly lost administrative control over his own throat.
Seeing Yan Huan widen his eyes and plunge into silence, Ye Shiyu's breathing hastened even further.
She looked up at him, cupping his cheeks with both hands, and murmured,
"Even though... I've held it in for so long, and it's been so hard... Why hasn't Xiao Huan even spared
a single glance lately?"
'I...'
"In your eyes, Xiao Huan, there's only Sakuramiya Hitomi and Spencer... Even with that red-haired old woman, you..."
"!!"
Yan Huan didn't have ti to defend himself. It wasn't just because his voice was out of his control, but because in the very next second, Ye Shiyu, still cupping his face, leaned forward and firmly claid his lips.
"Smooch~"
It was...
A deep, consuming kiss.
A bone-chilling coldness seed to seep from her pink lips, seeking to plunder all his light and warmth.
His entire body instantly felt a numbness and tingling sensation, as if he had been electrocuted. The feeling spread all the way up, even making his scalp tingle slightly.
'No...'
'I can't...'
Being kissed like this, Yan Huan's mind went slightly blank. He could feel that as this sensation deepened, his rationality was on the verge of collapsing.
If this went on, he was genuinely going to trigger a defeat CG.
Wasn't this forcefully reenacting the classic trope of "Your expression says you're disgusted, but your body is so honest"?
And usually, in those kinds of works, by the end, even the mind would fall!
"Tick... Tock..."
What was worse, at this exact mont, the illusory clock sound echoed in Yan Huan's ears.
His eyes trembled slightly as he cast his peripheral vision to the side.
He saw the door seemingly split into two realities—one remained tightly shut, while the other was swung wide open.
From the open door erged a sneaky and suspicious Bai Yi. Yet the mont she turned her head to look in this direction, she froze as if struck by lightning.
"Ye—Ye Shiyu?!! You... Y-y-you-you-you..."
She was so shell-shocked by the scene before her that she slumped directly onto the floor. Pointing at Ye Shiyu, she mumbled incoherently, entirely forgetting that she was still in her Indifference state and Ye Shiyu had no idea she had entered.
Yan Huan could clearly see her, but he couldn't show it.
"Tick... Tock..."
However, alongside Bai Yi's spreading shock, the ticking of the pocket watch in his ears instantly magnified several tis over.
'This won't do...'
'I have to use my ultimate move!'
Yan Huan hadn't had the chance to use it before, but now... his hand was forced.
"Smack..."
Just as Ye Shiyu was passionately extracting her long-overdue "Yan Huan Energy," she slightly opened her eyes, only to suddenly catch sight of Yan Huan's expression.
At this mont, even though Yan Huan couldn't speak, his eyes and facial expression spoke volus.
His brows were tightly knitted together, his gaze locked dead onto her.
That unwavering stare radiated a thick sense of disgust, repulsion, and profound disappointnt...
"!!"
The instant she t his gaze, Ye Shiyu's pupils shrank. As if pierced by a steel spike, she stumbled backward several steps in a daze.
"Xiao Huan... No... Don't look at
like that... I..."
"..."
As expected, this killing blow was exceptionally effective. It imdiately left Ye Shiyu with a slightly pale face, clutching her head as she began to tremble.
"But... I really don't know what to do... I wanted to hold it in, to do like Mama said..."
"That's why I tried to make friends with your friends, tried to co with you to the Sakura Country for the school trip, to travel together..."
But as she murmured to herself, she suddenly thought of sothing.
As if grasping at her last desperate hope, she raised her eyes to look at Yan Huan.
"If... like in the movies... I can make Xiao Huan feel good... Will Xiao Huan's thoughts... change?"
'??'
Hearing this, Yan Huan was thoroughly dumbfounded.
'Wait...'
'Huh?'
In his previous life, he had always felt that "Japanese action movies influence people's views on sex" was a false premise.
But looking at Ye Shiyu right now, he genuinely felt there was truth to that statent.
'Sister Shiyu, do you have any idea that your train of thought has gone completely off the rails?!'
"Like hell it would change! Ye Shiyu! You beast, what are you trying to do?!"
Fortunately, while Yan Huan couldn't speak, Bai Yi, who was sitting on the floor completely blasted away by the ntal impact, finally rembered that she was still sitting in the spectator seats.
She imdiately stood up, transforming into Yan Huan's mouthpiece, and started blasting her.
Though...
Only Yan Huan could hear her.
"..."
Ye Shiyu was frantically grasping at straws in her desperation. Panting, she strode quickly toward Yan Huan, her eyes locked tightly on his belt.
Yan Huan's eyes shrank. He and the nearby Bai Yi simultaneously realized what she was about to do.
"Ye Shiyu! You-you-you-you..."
Bai Yi was burning with anxiety, desperately trying to think of what she could do right now.
Cancel Indifference?
She definitely wasn't a match for Ye Shiyu.
But if she didn't cancel Indifference, whatever she did would only take effect with a delay once the ability ended.
By that ti, Ye Shiyu would have already gone full "Happy Superman" on him.
"No, no, no, there has to be a way... Ah! That's it!"
At this exact mont, Bai Yi suddenly rembered a way to exploit her Indifference.
As long as she held onto sothing, the worldline of that object would subconsciously align with hers.
Which ant that as long as she gripped Yan Huan's belt tight, Ye Shiyu wouldn't be able to take it off no matter how hard she tried!
She went straight to action!
To protect Yan Huan's chastity so she could enjoy it herself on a special day later, Bai Yi threw caution to the wind.
Gritting her teeth, she sprang up, dashed toward Yan Huan in a single stride, wrapped her arms around him from behind, and firmly seized his belt.
"!!"
In front of him, Ye Shiyu also took a step forward. As if trying to erase Yan Huan's anger and disappointnt, she gently hugged him from the front and kissed his cheek.
"Forgive , Xiao Huan... I'll make you feel wonderful..."
Then, her hands slowly drifted downward.
Yet at this mont, only Yan Huan and Bai Yi knew just how terrible their current posture truly was.
The two girls were executing a double-flanking maneuver, sandwiching him tightly in the middle like cheese between two slices of bread.
And as luck would have it, Yan Huan could feel a fire rising in his lower abdon.
'I...'
'Didn't I skip upgrading my Fertility?!'
'How could this be happening?!'
"Click."
The very next second, Ye Shiyu's hands gently brushed against his belt.
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