In the corridor lined with wooden floors, Shun and Maki looked at each other and fell silent at the same time.
"Well… actually I can explain… I didn't know you were here, and I thought it was Nagisa playing around with me…"
"You… you… why are you here!" Maki was startled and stepped back repeatedly. The initially steamy, slippery wooden floor reacted subtly under the girl's panicked steps. She suddenly lost her balance and fell backwards.
Seeing this situation, Shun instinctively reached out his hand, while Maki unconsciously grabbed the lifeline at this moment.
At this moment, two options appeared in Shun's mind.
1: Pull her into his arms.
2: Fall according to the opponent's strength.
Choose one or two?
This thought flashed through his mind, and his body reacted. With a sharp thud, the two fell onto the wooden floor together, but their postures were a bit ambiguous.
At this moment, Shun's right hand was on the ground, and because his left hand was pulled by Maki.
This scene looked like he was forcibly pushing Maki down and was about to kiss her.
Maki's brain went blank. She saw his face up close. It was clear this time, but an idea appeared in her head unconsciously.
'No wonder he's so popular with girls… This guy seems quite handsome?!'
'However, with the two of us like this… How can we experience a shoujo manga scene?'
'It seems like this is how the protagonist and heroine in shoujo manga… wait! Protagonist and heroine?!'
Maki's brain was in chaos.
Shun was a little surprised. Shijo Maki seemed flat-chested, but in fact, she was similar to Shinomiya Kaguya.
Thinking about this, Shun recalled the figures of Kirisu Mafuyu and Kitagawa Marin.
Although he was in a relationship with her, Mafuyu wasn't a carnivore, but rather a hard-working housewife and more shy than a little girl, their relationship was still limited to kisses.
'By the way, Marin's cosplay costume is almost finished, why not take this opportunity…'
These two people, one with a mind full of love for the shoujo manga plot and the other with lewd thoughts, managed to maintain the current situation quite subtly.
Until...
"Maki, haven't you showered yet?"
Nagisa's voice sounded, causing the man and woman to wake up at that moment.
Shun quickly stood up, and Maki didn't care about being seen by him. She quickly bent down to pick up the bath towel and wrapped it around her petite body.
At the same time, the hostess came in with some snacks and low-alcohol drinks.
"Eh? Shun, you're here too?"
Nagisa blinked, and her eyes flickered between the man and her best friend.
"What are you…?"
"Nagisa! You, you… listen to my explanation!"
Before Shun and Nagisa could say anything, this potentially loser girl had already started to panic.
Seeing Maki's appearance, Shun finally understood that Nagisa had been with him since kindergarten.
Such a beautiful girl must have looked pitiful when bullied!
Shun saw Nagisa still pursing her lips to hold back a smile, and looked at him, signaling that everything was almost over.
"Okay, okay, no need to explain."
Nagisa smiled and walked forward, happily standing between the two of them, and said:
"If the relationship between Shun and Maki gets better, I'll be very happy."
"Eh?!"
Maki was stunned for a moment. At this moment, she couldn't understand the meaning of her words.
What did she mean by this relationship getting better…?
Without waiting for Maki to think, after Shun took the snacks, Nagisa pulled him towards the lobby of her room.
"Maki, come over soon after you change clothes. It's been agreed upon that we'll have a girls' night chat between the two of you!"
Maki saw the figures of Nagisa and Shun leaving in the distance, and stayed there for a long time.
"But, it was clearly stated before that there were two people… How embarrassing that I brought this guy with me!"
She muttered softly, but still chose to change clothes and walked towards Nagisa's room.
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It was midnight.
In the living room of Nagisa's room, the three of them were sitting on the sofa chatting.
Various bags of snacks were scattered everywhere.
On the table were various low-alcohol cocktails. Although the alcohol content wasn't high, there were so many cocktails that the two girls had a slight blush on their faces.
As the intoxication started to rise, the atmosphere of the three people's night chat became more harmonious.
"So there really are onmyoji and youkai in this world. Really… it feels like I suddenly entered another world."
Nagisa let go of Maki and spoke as if she was talking to her friends on weekdays, and couldn't help but complain as she spoke.
"I almost died before. This is the first time since I was a child that I felt so weak."
Maki was undoubtedly a genius, perfect in academic achievements, skilled in all aspects, and even her family background.
Suddenly letting her know about such a thing, the gap in her heart was indeed difficult to heal.
"Don't worry, the Onmyoji system still can't change Japan's government issues. The number of people with such qualifications is actually relatively small. Maybe the status of Onmyoji will rise in the future, but the chaebols are still the important masters."
"You don't need to worry about this, the eldest of the Shijo family."
Therefore, Shun gave her a kunai engraved with the Flying Thunder God.
"Remember to carry this with you. If there is a crisis, I can arrive immediately."
"Okay!" Maki happily took the kunai, "Is this why Takema-kun suddenly appeared today? It's amazing."
She happily examined it, then thought of something and picked up her phone:
"By the way, Takema-kun, I haven't added your contact, let's exchange it now!"
Maki got Shun's contact. After clicking on his homepage, she accidentally saw his fitness selfie, and then her face turned red as if it was on fire.
"Hehe… Maki-chan, have you seen Shun's photo?"
Seeing her best friend like this, Nagisa immediately bent over with a mischievous intention. She hugged Maki, stretched out her head to look at her phone, and said with a proud smile:
"How is it? Isn't he very handsome?"
"Let me tell you, Shun's abs feel very comfortable to touch, and when you exercise, those muscles feel especially…"
After saying this, Nagisa whispered in Maki's ear with a playful voice.
It was like a succubus's temptation in the abyss. Although Maki's ears were red, she still listened to Nagisa's story even more… Hugging so sweetly, making people want to…
Shun turned his head diligently and pretended not to know anything as he watched the boring TV show.
Although this is often the background music for the three of them to chat, now it can be considered a good place to convey their thoughts.
Perhaps because of the alcohol, the three of them used their intoxication to assume that the other party couldn't hear their words.
Even though she knew clearly that Shun wasn't far from the sofa, Nagisa still raised her voice to 'whisper', and Maki also agreed that Shun was addicted to boring TV shows and couldn't hear the whispers between them.
Following her best friend's shady words, Maki, who was good at imagining, had already seen Shun's body and some manga plots in some pink apps in her mind.
"Ugh… but, it's okay!"
Feeling that she would become weird if she continued, Maki hurriedly pushed her best friend away, clamped her legs, held her dress with both hands, and ran away.
As Maki ran away, the two serious people in the room burst into laughter at the same time.
"Nagisa, you really like to tease her."
"Eh… but Shun pushed the other one to the ground before."
Nagisa jokingly lay on her lap, like a cat begging for mercy.
"I'm obviously helping my Master~~"
"I know you enjoy it."
Shun stroked her hair.
"Maki and I have been best friends since kindergarten, and we don't want to be separated from now on, so…"
"Shijo Maki is actually truly blessed to have a best friend like you."
"The world has changed. Living happily together with us in the future is better than marrying someone as a bargaining chip for the Shijo family, isn't it?"
Talking about this, Nagisa revealed her little thoughts.
"Next, when I think that Mako will also be imprinted with the contract, I will be with… Somehow, I'm so excited…"
As she spoke, Nagisa winked at Shun suggestively.
The shady couple continued their activities as a couple.
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On the other side.
Maki, who had run away, found that she hadn't taken the Flying Thunder God kunai yet.
She had just run back to get the Flying Thunder God kunai and ran away quickly.
But when she walked to the door, she heard a voice inside, and found that she could see through the gap in the door.
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That night, after witnessing all kinds of 'knowledge', Maki realized that what her best friend said was true!