Shake hands, shake hands🥷

“Takanashi Hoshino? Who’s that?”

After Xingyue chose C, Nami-chan tilted her head, a question mark hovering above it.

“Um… pretend I didn’t say anything…” Xingyue waved her hands frantically.

‘It seems a certain mobile game wasn’t greenlit in this world…’

An awkward silence filled the air.

It seemed C was an easter egg option, and choosing it simply eliminated it from the list.

[Time of Decision!]

[A. “Please take care of me, Takanashi-san~” (Unlocks Friendship Route)]

[B. “Please take care of me, Nami-chan~” (Unlocks Corrupted Friendship Route)]

[Note: This option will only affect Nami’s attitude towards you from now on and will not affect the main storyline.]

Xingyue: ‘Hiss…’

Reason told Xingyue to choose A, but the words “Corrupted Friendship Route” kept flashing in her mind.

Xingyue: ‘I’ll just give it a try… At worst, I can just change it back before things get too corrupted~’

“Please take care of me, Nami-chan~”

Nami’s head snapped up, the tips of her ears twitching uncontrollably.

“Hey… we just met and you’re already calling me by my first name? Don’t you think you’re being a little too forward?”

Nami’s tone was fierce.

[Nami’s Favorability +5]

Xingyue: ‘If you don’t like it, why did your favorability go up? (◦˙▽˙◦)’

Xingyue suppressed her laughter, watching the other girl’s awkward demeanor. She suddenly felt that this cat girl loli was ten times cuter than she had imagined.

But before she could tease her, Nami’s expression suddenly turned serious:

“Hey… you have a strange smell on you.”

“Eh?”
Before Xingyue could react, Nami had leaned in close.

The cat girl’s warm fingertips pressed against her side through the thin fabric. Xingyue’s body tensed instantly, her heart beating so fast it felt like it would burst out of her chest.

Xingyue: ‘Ahhh… what’s she going to do now QAQ’

“I see, it’s here.”

Nami lifted up Xingyue’s clothes. On the side of her waist, there was a transparent spell shaped like a curled up slime, and the strange fluorescent light flickered with her breathing.

“Is it a Slime Trap Magic Circle?”

Before she could finish her sentence, something was triggered, and the familiar Slime magic circle suddenly appeared on the ground.

Slime tentacles shot out, wrapping around Xingyue’s limbs.

“Ahhh, help me ˃̣̣̥᷄⌓˂̣̣̥᷅”

Xingyue cried for help.

Then, the next second…

“Incinerate.”

Red flame magic erupted from Nami’s palm, her cat ears tinged crimson in the firelight.

In the intense heat of the flames, Xingyue could only hear the sizzling sound of the slime vaporizing.

But Xingyue was not burned.

The Slime Trap Magic Circle, along with the tentacles, was easily incinerated by Nami.

“It’s alright now.”

Nami said with a relaxed expression.

Xingyue: ‘Eh (°ー°〃)’

‘It’s over just like that?’

‘This Slime magic circle that had been troubling Xingyue for so long was solved so easily by Nami?’

Xingyue: ‘So she’s this strong (*ﾟﾛﾟ)!!’

“Um… thank you…?”
Xingyue thanked her shyly.

“It was nothing. No need to thank me. It’s getting late, let’s go.”

After saying that, Nami prepared to leave.

“No, no, no, no, no… I really have to thank you QAQ”

Xingyue remembered the two tragic experiences of being turned into a Slime, and tears instantly welled up in her eyes.

If Nami hadn’t intervened, she would probably have been turned into a little Slime again by that Slime Queen’s sticky magic, and then had to rewind in agony…

Nami was about to turn around when she saw Xingyue’s cute face and paused.

“Then… how do you plan to thank me?”

Nami asked in a soft voice.

“Eh?”

Xingyue was stunned.

Indeed, now that it had come to this, a verbal thank you was far from enough. But this sudden question… how should Xingyue thank her…

Just then.

[Time of Decision!]

[A. Shake hands with Nami, shake both hands, to express gratitude.]

[B. Generously give her a box of dried fish, a favorite among kitties (=￣ω￣=)]

[C. Lend yourself to Nami for one night, letting Nami be your master for one night~ (Enters Nami Route)]

Xingyue: ‘...Lend for one night? Lend?’

‘Lend in what way Σ( ° △ °|||)︴’