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Chinatsu Kume swallowed.
"We...we've come at the wrong time?"
Dou Tang looked at the two of them, opened his mouth slightly as if he wanted to say something, but he couldn't even utter a single syllable. He looked a bit dazed. The flush caused by his broken rationality and shame was misunderstood by Huai Yin and the other as excitement after being deeply in love.
"Do not."
It was Lu Zizhen who spoke. She coughed and let go of the clothes in her hands. The elastic band of her underwear and pajama pants suddenly tightened and hit Dou Tang's lower abdomen with a "smack." This intimate and ambiguous sound made all three people present shudder.
Damn...why is his body even stronger?
Lu Zizhen blushed and cursed inwardly, then smiled and said, "You've come at just the right time."
Dou Tang's expression immediately turned strange.
What kind of time is this to still be using memes?! What do you mean by "just in time"? Translate this for me!
Lu Zizhen coughed and said, "Dou Tang... Kiryu-kun was caught in the rain all night yesterday and seems to have caught a cold. I was just about to pull him to change his clothes. Please don't misunderstand."
"But this person is very disobedient! I'm going to use some tough measures, that's right!"
"Quickly, help me push him onto the bed!"
Huaiyin's displeasure and anger were clearly visible. She glared with her beautiful, clear eyes, her delicate nose slightly wrinkled and trembling.
Dou Tang gets a cold? Bullshit!
At the same time, Huaiyin decided that she would never give this woman another chance to be alone with Doutang.
Kume Chinatsu stammered an "oh," clearly wanting to quickly recover from the awkwardness, and replied hesitantly, "Is that so? Um... that's true, Kiryu-kun's condition last night... he definitely needs to take good care of himself!"
Lu Zizhen suddenly patted Dou Tang beside her, and Dou Tang suddenly shuddered, his hot blood suddenly turning cold.
The coolness also calmed him down.
Dou Tang leaned against the TV cabinet, quickly tucked his clothes in, and said, "Uh, yes... I think I have a bit of a fever, and I'm a little dizzy."
After saying that, he walked unsteadily to the bedside and collapsed onto it.
He feigned illness and said weakly, "Can't I do it myself without you having to do it?"
Huaiyin's lips twitched.
Lu Zizhen understood that Huaiyin didn't believe her. This story wasn't made up for Huaiyin from the beginning. Such a flawed story was actually meant to show Kume Chinatsu her intimacy with Doutang, so that this underground idol whom she felt she couldn't get along with would quickly back down.
But it seems...
She looked at Huaiyin.
It also angered another little princess.
Kume Chinatsu took a deep breath, looked at Huaiyin beside her, and then at Lu Zizhen who had a refusing-guest expression, and said, "So, Miss Lu came up here without eating, right? In that case... Huaiyin and I will take care of Kiryu-kun. Please go and eat!"
Lu Zizhen was a little surprised, but quickly came to her senses and refused with a smile: "No need, no need, I'll help him. After all, besides Huaiyin, I'm the person who knows him best here."
In other words, if anyone's going to take care of him, it's me. Who do you think you are?
An invisible tension was palpable in the air. Although Kume Chinatsu and Tou Tang had no romantic relationship before, Lu Zizhen's words had stirred up her deep-seated pride. Tou Tang, Lu Zizhen's words might not have seemed like much, but to Kume Chinatsu, they sounded completely wrong.
Dou Tang sighed as he listened to their conversation.
Didn't I say I'd do it myself? Don't you guys care about my opinion at all?
But Huaiyin then said, "That's true... But Sister Lu, it's better if I take care of Brother. It might be a bit inconvenient for you to take care of him, right?"
inconvenient?
What's inconvenient about it? If he weren't always so clueless, I would have...
Lu Zizhen quickly realized what was going on. She suddenly sensed a strange atmosphere. Without a doubt, Huaiyin was jealous.
But she's Dou Tang's sister, even his biological sister, so why would she be jealous? That's the biggest illogical point.
Thinking back to the information she had overheard earlier, Lu Zizhen narrowed her eyes.
Huaiyin looked at Lu Zizhen, Lu Zizhen looked at him, and Kume Chinatsu's gaze darted back and forth between the two of them. None of the three spoke much, and they fell into a somewhat strange stalemate.
Lu Zizhen remained silent for a moment, then looked back at Dou Tang, who was lying on the bed.
"...Don't you have anything to say?"
Dou Tang suddenly coughed loudly twice and buried his head in the blanket.
"I'm hungry... Shall we go eat?"
Lu Zizhen glanced at Huaiyin sideways, and the smugness in her eyes was seen as another kind of provocation by the other two.
"Perfect timing, I haven't eaten either, shall we eat together?"
"I'll take care of you," she said, emphasizing each word.
Dou Tang did push-ups to lift himself off the bed and then stood up.
"Could you please step outside for a moment? I need to change my clothes."
Lu Zizhen gave him a look that said, "If you don't choose, I'll figure it out myself," and walked to the door, looking at the two people standing there.
"Let's go, give him some time to change his clothes, we need to give him that, right?"
After the three of them had left, Dou Tang began to change his clothes with a helpless expression.
This whole thing has caused quite a stir...
Although he had very little romantic life, he wasn't a clueless person with low emotional intelligence. He could clearly sense the tense atmosphere between the three people, but it was precisely this atmosphere that gave him a headache.
After quickly changing his clothes, he opened the door.
The three people outside the door were glaring at each other without saying a word.
"Ahem... I'm going to eat, Huaiyin, you guys..."
Huaiyin blinked at Lu Zizhen: "I'm not full! I want to go eat again!"
"Kume-kun..."
"I want to discuss the strategy for Eden Zero with Sister Huaiyin!"
Finally, Dou Tang looked at Lu Zizhen.
"Um, shall we grab something to eat together?"
"of course."
Dou Tang wiped his face and found that he was sweating profusely.
Why are you panicking...?
Chapter 7: The Shura Field Was Shattered by One Punch!
This was the most awkward meal Dou Tang had ever eaten.
In the evening, the hotel offered a buffet that all guests could access with their room cards, but it was already very late and there were only a few guests left.
Dou Tang and the three girls sat in the innermost seats, hidden behind the pillars and dim lights, as if they had melted into the shadows of the building, exuding an aura that kept strangers away.
But this aura wasn't due to their location, but rather to the somewhat confrontational atmosphere between the three people.
Dou Tang ate the food that the three people had served him in big mouthfuls, occasionally wiping the sweat off his face with the towel on the table used to wipe his hands, and sniffing.
Lu Zizhen smiled and pushed a bowl of soup in front of him: "Eat more, Dou Tang, sweating more is good for your health."
No, no, no, this sweat should all be cold sweat...
An eerie atmosphere permeated the three of them, but the eerie aspect stemmed from the fact that they had absolutely no reason to be jealous of each other over Dou Tang, at least in his view.
Kume Chinatsu and he were just ordinary classmates. Apart from the time they spent together, their relationship could not even be called good friends. They were just brought together because they had some things in common.
As for Huaiyin, she was a member of the family that Dou Tang decided to cherish wholeheartedly, someone he was determined not to treat as a substitute anymore.
younger sister.
Lu Zizhen... This girl had a lot of ambiguous relationships with Dou Tang before, but Dou Tang never imagined that one day he would look forward to the future with her and work together, because it always felt strange.
So why are you all so awkward? Dou Tang really wanted to ask, but that would be too much of a straight man, so he could only continue dealing with the food on his plate.
Chinatsu Kume forked a shrimp ball from in front of her and very slowly placed it on Tou-tang's plate, a provocative smile on her face.
"Kiryu-kun, I can't finish this, here you go... use your knife to help me."
Dou Tang swallowed hard, then held down the shrimp ball with his knife, not daring to touch Kume Chinatsu's fork at all.
Wait a minute, according to the typical Japanese girl's style, shouldn't she be shy in a situation like this? Why are you suddenly taking the initiative? Where did that shy, glamorous idol from the bakery go?
Lu Zizhen squinted and sneered, "Heh, you've already eaten but you still come here for a second meal, and you can't finish it all, so you dump it on friends you don't even know. Is this what a 'hot girl' who's overly friendly but has no self-awareness is like?"
Chinatsu Kume picked up her fork, left the shrimp balls on Tou-tang's plate, and gave Tou-tang a wink. Her idol-like desire to perform seemed to help her suppress her shame.
"What? Kiryu-kun and I have lunch together every day at noon, and we often meet up after class... to study together in the library. Of course we're very close friends."
Huaiyin kicked Doutang under the table.
Dou Tang awkwardly turned his head and found the little girl playing a game on her handheld console, but something seemed off about the sound. Death sounds kept coming in, clearly indicating that her attention wasn't on the game at all.
Taking a deep breath, Dou Tang didn't reply, but continued eating his meal.
Lu Zizhen picked up her coffee and took a sip, her eyes filled with a seductive charm and an air of arrogance that seemed to completely overshadow Kume Chinatsu: "Oh, really? No wonder he prefers my cooking. After all, he doesn't eat well enough at school, so he has to make up for it when he gets back!"
Although Lu Zizhen would come over to eat together from time to time, saying that makes it sound like the two of them were living together!
Kume Chinatsu was hit hard, letting out a soft groan, but then continued to pick up food from her plate without changing her expression.
"Kiryu-kun, ah—"
Dou Tang paused for a moment, then decisively raised his hand.
"stop."
Chinatsu Kume was stunned for a moment, then felt a little disappointed, thinking that such intimate behavior was indeed a bit too much.
But Dou Tang also reached out to stop Lu Zizhen, who was about to laugh, saying, "You stop too."
Lu Zizhen wiped her mouth, suppressed her smile, and looked at him obediently, as if she would obey his orders.
Dou Tang cut to the chase, shattering the tense atmosphere with a straight punch: "Actually, I just wanted to have a proper meal. I stayed up all night and slept all day, I'm really hungry."
"I feel Kume's concern for me, and I know how good Zizhen is to me, but right now I just want to have a proper meal."
"Can we stop this? Don't let this little bit of stubbornness lead to this pointless confrontation. I'm not stupid or stupid; I can sense that something's wrong here."
"But that has nothing to do with my desire to eat!"
A tremendous wave of emotion surged within Kume Chika and Ryū Tsune.
This person, this person is... is the ultimate straight man!
Kume Chinatsu felt somewhat frustrated. When Dou Tang rejected her, she thought she had gone too far and upset him. But now it seemed that her vague conflict with that Lu Zizhen was completely unimportant to him.
Lu Zizhen chuckled and said softly, "You really are something else."
"The way to deal with a chaotic situation is to just smash it to pieces? While that's very much in line with your straightforward style, it's actually quite frustrating."
Dou Tang put a piece of meat in his mouth and chewed it, while looking down and saying, "I'm just speaking from my perspective. After all, all your actions are from your own perspective, right? So it's normal for me to express my thoughts from my perspective, isn't it?"
"Feelings are mutual. I'm not the male protagonist in some harem anime or a love triangle anime. Being indecisive and wavering like a machine that passively receives feelings... that's not something I would do."
He picked up a piece of buttered bread, dipped it in the cream soup, and put it in his mouth.
"So to me, we're all friends, so what can't be discussed openly? Why the need for a secret rivalry? Besides, the incident started because of me, and they're dragging me into it too. Am I not allowed to express my opinion?"
Upon hearing this, both Lu Zizhen and Kume Chinatsu fell silent.
Huaiyin was there, her head resting on her chest, her shoulders shrugging as if she was trying to suppress a laugh.
Don't forget, Dou Tang is the kind of guy who can hug such a cute little sister every day for a year and still keep insisting that he's not her brother.
His bluntness is rare, and Huaiyin, who has had the longest and closest relationship with him, has felt more of his bluntness.
Seeing her two older sisters suffer the same setbacks as her, although it was immoral, Huaiyin really felt... good.
As for Chinatsu Kume and Sadako Michiko, they were once again struck by this man's eccentricity—he truly didn't care about any girl's feelings in this regard, he...
He really doesn't care!
Lu Zizhen coughed and blinked.
He blinked, as if only then coming to his senses.
Chinatsu Kume also stood there, staring intently at Tou-Tang, her mind a complete mess.
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