Distressed

Collins rubbed his neck, which was sore from leaning down for too long, his face showing no trace of shame.

“I was looking at underwear.”

Victoria felt a loud bang in her head as her worldview shattered into pieces.

Collins then pinched his chin.

“But after looking for so long and seeing almost every detail, I still can’t find anything strange. This is really hard to figure out. I still haven’t figured out how senpai managed to pull this off. How about it, senpai, why don’t you just tell me the answer?”

Collins patted Sphinx on the shoulder. Sphinx looked at Collins like he was a lunatic.

Plop. Victoria collapsed to the ground.

Collins turned his head, his eyes rolling before a grin spread across his face.

“I couldn’t figure it out by looking alone. How about you come and take a look with me, senpai?”

What?! He even wants me to look together with him!!!

The guy in front of her was absolutely a pervert—a super pervert—a hopeless pervert!

Victoria realized she had been wrong. She had thought Collins was pure and innocent, a little virgin who had never even held a girl’s hand. But looking at him now, cheerfully doing something this perverted and even inviting her to join in—where was the innocence? This was the behavior of a complete veteran!

And she—she had just been agonizing over his so-called pure feelings!

Sphinx glanced at Victoria’s expression as her worldview collapsed. Unlike Collins, he understood exactly what Victoria was thinking.

And because he understood what she was thinking, he felt that Collins was beyond saving.

“Idiot! Idiot! You’re a huge idiot! Is your head filled with dirt?!”

The little loli shouted, her voice sweet. She also seemed to realize that spreading her legs in front of others wasn’t very ladylike, so she quickly closed them and sat obediently in her chair. But her big pretty eyes were now filled with tears, making her look pitiful and heartbreaking.

But Collins, oblivious to the situation, pondered for a moment before answering very seriously.

“This can’t really be called idiotic. I admit senpai gave me a lot of hints and plenty of time to observe, but maybe I’m just lacking in knowledge in that area. So I still can’t figure out what technique senpai used.”

Sphinx was about to lose it. This junior of his was answering such an obviously wrong question with a completely straight face! Didn’t this so-called magical genius know how to read the mood?

Even if you can’t read the mood, at least open your eyes and look at the girl next to you who’s already taken out her phone and is dialing 110!

Sphinx let out a long sigh, stood up from his chair, and slapped Collins hard across the face.

“Idiot! Idiot! Huge idiot! If you keep being this stupid, you’re going to get yourself killed!”

After shouting that, Sphinx ran past Victoria and stormed out of Collins’s lab.

Collins rubbed his cheek and slowly turned his head toward Victoria. Under his direct gaze, Victoria was so frightened she hung up the emergency call.

Silence. Awkward, suffocating silence. Victoria couldn’t decide whether to run immediately or wait for the explanation that Collins clearly couldn’t give.

Collins let out a breath and gave a bitter smile.

“Maybe I took too long to figure it out, and senpai got mad.”

Victoria forced down her goosebumps and asked:

“Figure out… what?”

“Figure out what’s going on down there with him.”

This pervert!!!

Victoria almost let out a moan from sheer shock.

Maybe sensing something off in Victoria’s expression, Collins finally realized something was wrong. He opened his mouth and hurriedly raised a hand to explain:

“Um, senpai, I think you misunderstood. That just now—it’s not what you think.”

“You already said it. You already said that.” Victoria’s face twisted with emotional devastation, the kind that comes when a pure heart suffers irreparable damage.

“No, no, no! Please listen to me, senpai! I—I had a reason for looking at senpai’s underwear!”

“Every criminal has a reason for their crime. But having a reason doesn’t mean you deserve forgiveness.”

“No, no, no, that’s not it! It’s—it’s because senpai told me to look, that’s why I looked!”

“Seems like you’re not even a qualified criminal. You can’t even make up a decent excuse.”

Collins swallowed hard. He knew that no matter how much he explained, the fact that he was crouched under a cross-dresser staring at his crotch would never sound innocent. So Collins could only use his ultimate move.

Collins believed that as long as he used this ultimate move, Victoria would understand completely.

Taking a deep breath, Collins said to Victoria with conviction:

“But senpai is a guy! So what if I looked at a guy’s crotch?”

Clatter. That was the sound of Victoria’s phone hitting the floor.