To Be Slayed is to Be Slayed

Yes, looking at it this way, Yukino was the most pitiful one. She didn’t know anything; she was just an innocent victim dragged into this Snow White mess.

As the best comforter in the entire dorm, I immediately spoke to her in a gentle voice.

“Yukino, you don’t have to be so down… So what if it’s hard to play the Queen when you don’t have boobs? Technology is so advanced these days. Just go on Amaz*n, buy seventeen or eighteen breast pads, and stuff them in there. Problem solved!”

“Who told you I was worried about that?! I wouldn’t want to play the Queen even if I had boobs! And what’s with seventeen or eighteen breast pads? Are you trying to mount a pair of cannons on my chest???” Yukino yelled at me, her hair a mess.

Being the magnanimous person I am, I didn’t get angry at being yelled at while trying to comfort someone. I simply marveled at how my comforting skills had deepened yet another level. With a single sentence, I had turned a completely dejected person so vibrant and full of life, and she could even shout so loudly.

After telling us about the play, Yanagi-sensei left, closing our dorm room door behind her.

Only then did I finally breathe a sigh of relief. I gently patted Exusiai’s arm and whispered in her ear, “Alright, stop sticking to me under the covers. If this keeps up, I’ll…”

The handsome girl’s eyebrow shot up, and a seductive curve appeared on her lips. She breathed hot, moist air into my ear and asked softly, “You’ll what?”

The hot air tickling my ear made my heart itch, and an uncontrollable shiver ran through my body. My face instantly flushed, red as a cooked shrimp. I wrapped my smooth arm around Exusiai’s soft, toned waist, puffed out my cheeks in a mock-angry expression, and pouted, “You’re gonna keep teasing me? Huh? You’re gonna keep teasing me? You want me to get you pregnant on the spot?!”

Before Exusiai could even react, Saber, who was sitting on Yukino’s bunk across the room, had her eyes light up. She must have thought my trash talk was incredibly cool, because she immediately copied me, turning to Yukino and saying, “Ehehe, you want me to get you pregnant on the spot?”

Normally, Yukino would have probably just shot the blonde girl a glare. But now, she was already in a bad mood. She immediately roared back at Saber, “Pregnant with what?! You’d need the criminal tool for that!”

At those words, Saber froze as if hit by Medusa’s petrifying gaze. Crack. She solidified on the spot without a struggle. The excited smile on her face gradually faded, replaced by a self-loathing that rivaled the time her original self destroyed the Holy Grail.

#Yamero!!!#

In stark contrast to those two drama queens, Exusiai showed no signs of panic at my threat. Her slender, delicate body leaned back into my arms as she giggled. “Bring it on, bring it on~”

I was suddenly at a loss for words.

I knew Exusiai wasn’t bluffing; she was telling the truth. Because she had once explained her secret technique, the “Nine-Step Slay,” to me. The first principle of the “Nine-Step Slay” was “To Be Slayed is to Be Slayed.” The meaning was that being slayed by someone else was equivalent to slaying them yourself. It’s actually easy to understand. The so-called “slaying” and “being slayed” were just a matter of active versus passive; there was no essential difference. Therefore, “To Be Slayed is to Be Slayed.” For the handsome girl Exusiai, who was a master of this art, me slaying her was the same as her slaying me. So naturally, she wasn’t afraid of my threat.

Faced with this situation, I was completely powerless. I couldn’t exactly execute her on the spot, so I could only bump her perky little nose with my puffed-up cheeks, which she then promptly deflated with her nose.

Pfft—

As I was holding Exusiai’s delicate waist, the inside of my forearm pressed against her flat stomach, I felt her stomach let out an adorable little growl. Right, it was almost noon. Time to be hungry.

I rested my chin on Exusiai’s shoulder, where the beautiful outline of her bones was visible, and suggested to Yukino and Saber, “Let’s all go get something to eat.”

Saber’s eyes, as bright as a sunlit lake, instantly lit up. She was a person of strong desires. The strongest, naturally, was that kind of desire. The second strongest was her appetite, and she was very skilled at combining the two. I heard her say in a heroic voice, like a knight about to go into battle, “Let’s go eat some JKs!”

“I’ll help you call the cops!!”

Speaking of eating, I was feeling a bit… hungry… myself. I let go of Exusiai’s warm body and climbed down the ladder from the bunk. Before I even touched the ground, Exusiai was already eagerly on the ladder behind me. I had a feeling she wasn’t in a hurry to eat, but rather wanted me to ram my head into her butt.

Exusiai, Yukino, and I got dressed. Saber, after wiping herself with some paper, also got dressed. Then, without delay, we all left the dorm.

The moment we opened the door, the sound of cheerful laughter filled the air. Two girls ran past, laughing and playing, brimming with youthful energy. The sound of girls chatting came from the adjacent and opposite rooms.

A look of pure bliss spread across Saber’s exquisite face. “This,” she sighed as if drunk, “is absolute paradise!”

I thought to myself, if a single girls’ dorm is paradise, then our school has built several of them.

#Campus Builder Simulator: New Building Unlocked [Paradise]# 

#Paradise: A new building that reduces stress for male students. Placing an overworked male student inside reduces Stress by 10 and Energy by 10 each night. After one week of continuous placement, the male student dies.#

If Saber played this game, she would definitely curse, “Trash! Can’t even last a week!”

We took the normal stairs down. On the way, many girls in the dorm were giving Exusiai flirtatious looks. It seemed that for them, seeing such a super “handsome guy” in a girls’ dorm was quite the thrill. In their minds, Exusiai was of course a female, but that didn’t matter. As long as she was handsome, that was enough.

Stepping out of the dorm, the intense sunlight made me instinctively shield my eyes with my hand, like the Monkey King. Then I started to wonder, it’s already the second half of the year, where are the promised blossoms?

We hadn’t taken more than a few steps from the building when a familiar-looking girl walked towards us at a brisk pace. She had short, neat hair and a face that wasn’t stunning but was certainly pretty. She was wearing a casual khaki blazer and a pleated skirt. Her eyes looked as if she hadn’t woken up properly; even though they were open, they lacked any real sparkle.

I was still trying to remember who this girl was when I heard Yukino ask in her soft, snow-like voice, “The president of the news club?”

My heart skipped a beat. Were we about to be in the news?!