Chapter 164: The Newbie Protection Period Was Over!
Chapter 164: The Newbie Protection Period Was Over!
Huh?
A twenty-four-hour newbie protection period for cohabitation?!
What the heck was that?!
So the reason no choices triggered before was simply because Himekoji was still in the cohabitation newbie protection period?
Wait, twenty-four hours was way too short!
Such short newbie benefits weren’t popular anymore! The newbie gift pack in the online game Himekoji was playing recently lasted him all the way to level one hundred!
Don’t you feel bad comparing it to that?
Also, the cost of ten thousand 2D Points to extend it filled Himekoji with a hopeless feeling of it being way too expensive…
【Ding!】
【Make your choice!】
【A: While Mashiro is taking a bath tonight, steal her bra, bury your face in it and sniff wildly, put on a thrilled expression, and loudly recite the sponsor’s ad script provided by this System with feeling.】
【B: While Mashiro is taking a bath tonight, steal her Underwear, bury your face in it and sniff wildly, put on a thrilled expression, and loudly recite the sponsor’s ad script provided by this System with feeling.】
Himekoji: “…”
So as soon as the protection period ended, the choices triggered right on time.
Facing the System’s dedication to its job, Himekoji had nothing to say.
But seriously, this stupid thing actually had sponsors? Were they joking with him?!
【Make your choice!】
The System urged.
“A! A! A! A! A!”
Himekoji answered casually.
As he made the choice, he couldn’t help but sneak a glance at Shiina Mashiro walking quietly beside him.
Honestly, if it was Mashiro, with her naturally blank expression, she probably wouldn’t care about Himekoji’s “forced circumstances,” right…
Yeah, Mashiro, consider this the rent for staying at my place. Please “be helpful” in the future.
Just like that, Himekoji smoothly threw his tiny bit of guilt out of his mind.
…
Back home.
Dinner was again made by Himekoji.
The “house chores taking turns daily” treaty decided yesterday was officially canceled.
Yeah, Himekoji didn’t want to die young; or to put it another way, he didn’t want this female tenant, Mashiro, to cause some irreparable disaster while doing chores in his house…
After all, human life was important!
After finishing dinner, Mashiro retreated into her own bedroom, probably to draw manga again.
Himekoji waited for two hours, then exactly called her out of her room to take a bath.
…
“Mashiro, you need to take your clothes off before you take a bath! You needed someone to teach you that?”
Seeing the girl about to get into the bathtub still fully dressed gave Himekoji a shock.
Just what country’s bathing habit was this?!
“Akito didn’t help me take them off.”
“Is it my fault? Are you blaming me? Besides, it would be a huge problem if I helped you take them off!”
“Akito is lazy.”
“Hey, this isn’t a question of being lazy at all! And you are the least qualified person to call someone lazy, Mashiro!”
“Rita helps me.”
“Well then why don’t you hurry up and call Rita over?!”
Himekoji absolutely didn’t want to know who Rita was. Anyway, she was probably some kind of “keeper” sort of person.
So, that Rita person should bear a big part of the responsibility for Mashiro turning out like this!
“She’s in England.”
Mashiro said, pulling out her phone.
Hold on, why was this person carrying her phone into the bath?!
Was she showing off her phone’s waterproof ability?
While Himekoji was still shocked, the girl had already dialed a number by herself.
“Who are you calling?”
As he asked, an answer that was totally Mashiro-ish and utterly senseless popped into Himekoji’s mind.
“Rita.”
He was spot on!
“If she’s in England, don’t actually go bothering her!”
“Then… trouble Akito?”
“Why can’t you even think about doing it yourself?!”
Ever since meeting Mashiro, Himekoji found himself doing much more complaining in one day than he usually did in a whole week.
“I don’t know how.”
“What do you know how to do?”
“Draw.”
“Don’t say that so confidently!”
“Did Akito agree to help me?”
“No way! I absolutely won’t help with something like…”
【Ding!】
【Make your choice!】
“Fine… get out of the tub. I’ll close my eyes and help you…”
Himekoji surrendered.
Why was this stupid System always on Mashiro’s side?
Himekoji thought about such things, which no one had answers to anyway, to distract himself.
Even though he closed his eyes, he was still helping a girl take her clothes off. An accidental touch here and there meant touching her skin…
Plus, remembering the fact that the girl in front of him was a complete idiot… Even if he pushed her down, when it was over, she probably wouldn’t even realize what had happened, right?
No, that train of thought was way too dangerous! If any reader misunderstood just that line and thought he meant something else—like implying he was quick or small—there’d be no way to clear things up…
So, stop right there!
“Akito is even more practiced than Rita.”
“You’re wasting… What are you babbling about? Just take a bath properly!”
After all, being a pervert for a whole year wasn’t for nothing. Skills like being skilled at undressing could always get better with practice.
With gentle and expert movements, Himekoji stripped the girl completely naked. He turned his back to her, finally able to open his eyes. He scooped up Mashiro’s clothes and dashed out, closing the bathroom door behind him for the airhead.
Okay, bra acquired!
Himekoji held it tenderly, just as the quest option required, and then recited loudly—
“The fragrance comes from within!”
“Where curves enchant, a secret scent can’t hide!”
“The perfect bra, see it to believe! The charming woman, lovely ‘peaks’ deceive!”
“A good bra lifts you, no discussion needed.”
Huh? Wait, Himekoji had only spoken three slogans…
The voice for the last line wasn’t his!
It was light, completely flat and without feeling, yet strangely familiar… something he’d heard off and on recently.
Himekoji instinctively looked up towards the sound.
“What… what are you doing?!”
And then he saw it—
A dripping wet and totally naked Mashiro, mimicking Himekoji’s stance. She was holding her own underwear that he had taken off earlier. She brought her small nose close to them and recited the fourth slogan tenderly… no, actually, she said it completely expressionlessly.
“Imitating Akito?”
Mashiro answered Himekoji with a question.
“Imitating me? Get your head on straight! Stop learning bad stuff!” Himekoji retorted, glaring at her irritably.
For a moment, he forgot the girl had just stepped out of the bath and was stark naked.
So—
The drippy, wet, warm pink skin dripping with water, the snow-white shoulders, the slender arms, the small chest that wasn’t full but had its appeal, the gourd-like waistline, the lovely curve of her hips… all of it was suddenly visible to Himekoji.
“At least put on a bathrobe! And dry off!” Himekoji turned away quickly, his eyes awkwardly darting around, unsure where to look.
“Wait… Where did you learn that slogan?”
In an attempt to break the awkwardness, Himekoji changed the subject.
“That was playing.”
The girl pointed to the television sitting in the living room not far away.
“Sexy on your chest, comfortable in your heart.”
Sure enough, a bra commercial was playing on TV.
Just what kind of sponsor placement was this!?
“You’re smelling the underwear,” Himekoji couldn’t help reminding Mashiro. “It has nothing to do with that slogan you said.”
Mashiro immediately showed her signature faintly puzzled expression.
“And also, your bath was way too fast.”
“Because no one helped me.”
“Where do you think you come from, some kind of princess? You need someone to help you bathe and dress? Get back in there right now! Dry off and get dressed!”
[Quest Completed!]
Honestly, doing these kinds of perverted, naughty things to Mashiro… really had zero challenge…
Himekoji looked up at the sky.