Chapter 294: Underwear All Gone
Chapter 294: Underwear All Gone
At first, I didn’t look closely and thought Hikari had sneakily worn Himekoji’s underwear. But now, upon closer inspection, the truth wasn’t like that at all.
All the underwear were women’s styles. Though the designs were a bit plain, each had a different color.
And clearly, three pairs were all exactly the same style!
“Who…who knows?”
Himekoji suddenly felt a bit nervous inside.
“Huh? This…this pair! Wait, and this one too!”
Nanami was helping Hikari take them off when she suddenly realized the underwear she was holding looked more and more familiar.
To confirm, she even lifted her skirt right in front of Himekoji — since he couldn’t see, she didn’t need to hide anything.
As expected!
“Th-these three are mine?!”
These three pairs belonged to the same set as the one she was wearing. Nanami had bought them last week: five pairs in five colors. Except for the green one, the others were all here — the green one was missing because it had been…ruined…by Himekoji during their school trip and then tragically lost.
“If these three are mine…” she gasped, suddenly struck, “…then where’d the other three come from?”
Grabbing the other three, she spotted strange words on them —
“TO AOYAMA NANAMI?”
Written on all three pairs!
That pervert must have done this!
“Hi…me…ko…ji!”
Nanami whipped her glare toward him.
“Explain this.”
Her teeth gritted sharply.
Explain?
What needed explaining?!
He was afraid the System wouldn’t accept them unless they were hers, that is!
Plus, why did she have so few pairs?!
After digging everywhere, he only found three of different colors! He’d been forced to go buy three more — a huge hassle!
On top of that, to transfer ownership of the newly bought underwear, he’d racked his brains for the “gifting” method.
Wasn’t this a lot of trouble?
Though this was what he grumbled inside, he clearly couldn’t say it out loud.
“W-what explanation?” Wait. That is…let me think…”
Himekoji sweated bullets, scrambling for an answer.
“Right! Hikari!” he suddenly pointed at the cat, shifting blame. “You! Explain how it happened!”
“Meow!”
Hikari stood her ground against the accusation, arching her back and hissing back at Himekoji arrogantly.
Himekoji instantly put on a heartbroken expression: “Shameless cat! Stealing girls’ underwear, yet acting righteous?! Get out! Go! Get out of here — you’ll corrupt me with your perverted habits!”
Using sound to judge her position, he kicked Hikari straight out of the room.
“Alright, Aoyama.” He clapped his hands together theatrically. “Mystery solved. The criminal has been expelled and punished. Case closed. I’ll take care of these ruined underwear. As compensation, I’ll cover the cost — consider it my apology for poor pet discipline.”
His words sounded noble, but his hands moved faster — he snatched all six damp pairs dropped by Nanami, crumpled them up, and crammed them into his pocket.
[Ding!]
[Congratulations! You obtained the quest item — Nanami’s underwear!]
[Quest Progress: 7/7!]
[Reward obtained: Ownership of all of Nanami’s underwear!]
“Nice!” He clenched his fist in silent victory inside. “It worked!”
The people had defeated evil with wisdom! Victory for justice!
“What kind of solved?! Hikari’s not like that!” Nanami snapped back. “Stop making up excuses! Give my underwear back now!”
Fearing nothing good would happen once they were in the pervert’s hands, her face flushed as she angrily stretched her hand toward Himekoji.
“Okay, okay.” He yawned loudly, waving dismissively. “It’s late. Time for bed, Aoyama.”
Give underwear back once he’d gotten them?
No way!
Ignoring her protests without a second thought, he simply pushed her toward the door.
“Hey! Wait! What are you doing?!”
Shunned now that her usefulness was over — like a discarded bow or a cooked rabbit — Nanami was shoved out unceremoniously.
“Good night, Aoyama,” he called cheerfully before slamming the door.
“Wa—”
“PONG!”
The door slammed shut, cutting her off.
“What…what’s with him?!”
Nanami could only stomp furiously outside.
“Meow! Meow!”
Hikari, kicked out earlier herself, shared her resentment beside her. They stood united against Himekoji…
But it was useless.
…
“Huu—”
Completing the quest lifted a huge weight off Himekoji’s chest.
He flopped onto his bed grinning, pulled the six trophied pairs from his pocket, and played with them. Speaking of…how did the System’s reward — “Ownership of all Nanami’s Underwear” — actually work?
He was surprisingly curious.
Even though he prided himself as upright and shouldn’t be interested in such blatantly shady powers…he decided to try it. Just once.
“Underwear?”
He tentatively called out.
Instantly, a lace-trimmed, cotton pair materialized right above him — silently landing square on his face.
“Huh?”
Himekoji blinked, startled.
“Even that works?”
Shaking off his shock, he gave a thumbs-up to the perverted System.
“Try again?” he muttered.
“Try again! Underwear.”
“Underwear~ Underwear? Underwear! Underwear…”
To his cheerful, off-key hum, pair after pair now showered down from thin air.
He called and called…until they stopped.
…
Downstairs —
A sudden chill underneath her skirt jolted Nanami.
With less than grace, she reached under hurriedly…
“Huh?”
“AHHHHH—!!!” came her horrified scream moments later.
“M-My underwear?!”
“Hikari?”
“Meow! Meow! Meow!” Hikari urgently shook her head no.
“What kind of ghost story…”
Too busy for anger, Nanami dashed back toward her room. She had to fix this “vacuum problem” first — find a spare pair!
But the moment she yanked her wardrobe open…
“Huh?”
Her face froze as disbelief hit her harder than ever.
“G…Gone? All gone?!”
There wasn’t. A single. Pair. Left.
…
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