Chapter 559: Learning to Say NO Loudly!

Chapter 559: Learning to Say NO Loudly!

"What kind of play... is this?" Kawaki muttered to himself. "Hey, this gathering is not just about preferences for women; even XP will be exposed. I wonder how people around me perceive me... Am I seen as a man with weird tastes?"

At that moment, Hasegawa suddenly noticed something and turned back, unable to find Tsukuyo anywhere. He glanced at one of the Hinowamarus behind Kawaki and spoke lightly, "Hey, if you don't want to go over there, just say it. Why stay silent from beginning to end? Shouldn't they have their thoughts even if they are virtual characters?"

"Hey! Can you even tell them apart?!" Kawaki exclaimed in surprise. "You couldn't possibly distinguish between them before! You couldn't even remember the faces of hostesses you've met once!"

"Don't compare me to you," Hasegawa retorted disdainfully. Then, he glanced at the Hinowamaru beside Kawaki again and said, "Did you hear what I said earlier? If you don't want to go, just say it. Why bother going? Your personality is extraordinary. Remember, if you can't express your feelings, others will never know, and you'll always feel aggrieved."

After hearing this, the Hinowamaru stopped cursing at Kawaki incessantly, quietly responded, and then lowered her head, slowly returning to Hasegawa's side. However, no one noticed the slight blush on her face as she lowered her head...

"You should learn something from that Hinowamaru!" Kawaki pointed to the Hinowamaru beside him, still angrily cursing at him, and complained with frustration, "At least reach that level! Just stay quiet and behave yourself!"

Even after saying that, the Hinowamaru showed no signs of stopping her verbal assault. Seeing this, Kawaki turned back to Kondo and said, "Hey, why don't you exchange girlfriends with me?"

"No~" Kondo's Kyuubei-chan pouted cutely in his arms. "I only want Otae~"

"That's right~" Kondo's face lit up with a perverted smile again.

"Stop it, you damn woman! What's with that 'no~'?! It's not cute at all!" Kawaki angrily shouted, then hugged himself and repeated, "Say 'I want to be with Kawaki' again!"

Just then, the Hinowamaru belonging to Kawaki stepped forward and said, "I will avenge Okita Sougo~."

"Not you!!"

"Even if you say that there's nothing I can do~" The Otae behind Hasegawa retorted.

"Not you either!" Kawaki complained, veins popping on his forehead and eyes bulging. "Stop it! If you don't, I'll beat you all up!"

After that, Kawaki returned to Hasegawa, still searching for something, and said, "Hey! Get your two seemingly normal girlfriends..."

Before he could finish, Kawaki stopped speaking because he noticed that the Hinowamaru and Otae beside Hasegawa had... started to become abnormal... or, instead, broken. Although they had smiling faces in front of Hasegawa, they looked like devils when they were behind him, revealing their ugly faces with extremely resentful expressions as they tightly grabbed each other's necks. By now, the red handprints on the necks of Hinowamaru and Otae were visible to the naked eye.

"Huh? What did you say?" Hasegawa turned back, puzzled.

"Nothing," Kawaki said silently as he watched the Hinowamaru and Otae return to their normal state before Hasegawa.

"But seriously, where is she?" Hasegawa looked around again and muttered softly, "I thought Tsukuyo said she was going to participate in some 'World's Number One' competition."

By the way, as soon as Hasegawa turned his head, Hinowamaru and Otae once again started grimacing at each other, seemingly determined not to stop until one of them was dead.

"Please stop fighting," Hasegawa's light words made both Hinowamaru and Otae stop simultaneously.

"Could it be...!" Hinowamaru suddenly realized something. "Could it be that our beloved has already noticed?!"

Kawaki turned to Kondo again and said, "What are you doing, hey? All your Hinowamarus are perverts! You should exchange girlfriends with me!"

"Who's the pervert? I'll kill you! You damn natural perm!" Hasegawa clenched his fists and roared angrily.

"Shut up!" Kawaki complained with bulging veins in his eyes. "You're in the wrong place too! No, you've got the game wrong! This isn't a harem game competition!"

"No, I only want Otae~" At this moment, Kondo's Hinowamaru pouted cutely and snuggled in Kondo's arms.

"That's right~" Kondo's face was full of joy again, then he looked at Kawaki seriously and said, "Since we've come this far, let's just go all out and aim for victory with our Hinowamarus. Miss Shajou is devoted to me; she will never change even if she dies."

"Yeah, let's do that," said Kondo with a remarkably awake face. Then, he looked at Kawaki seriously and said, "After all, we've come this far. Let's make up our minds and aim for victory with our Hinowamarus. Miss Shajou is devoted to me and will never change even if she dies."

"Ah, I found it, I found it. Let me see."

Suddenly, Totoki's voice came from the side. Upon hearing this, Kawaki and the others turned their heads to see Totoki standing not far behind them in casual clothes.

"Totoki! What are you doing here?" Kondo asked in confusion.

"Huh?" Totoki looked at Kondo and then at Hasegawa and Kawaki beside him. "Kondo-san and the two bosses are here too."

"Could you be here to participate in the competition too?" Kondo asked.

"Huh? Is Kondo-san here too?"

"Of course, didn't you see it?" Kondo replied matter-of-factly, then looked at his side, "With Shajou-chan here..."

Before he could finish, Kondo suddenly became expressionless, and so did Kawaki.

At this moment, the Hinowamaru, originally belonging to Kondo, was kneeling before Totoki, bowing her head and softly saying, "Welcome back, master."

"How does it feel?" Totoki glanced down at Shajou, his contemptuous gaze seeming to see her as nothing more than an object, "Serving a man you don't like..."

"It makes me very uncomfortable," Shajou, who had already been equipped with a collar around her neck at some point, crawled on the ground like an animal, her face starting to turn a terrible shade of red, "But when I think that this is also a proof of loyalty to my master, inexplicable joy wells up from the depths of my lower abdomen... Ha... Ha... Ha..."

"Hmph! You pig!"

"Please don't let me go, master..."

Seeing Shajou being led by Totoki and crawling before him, Kawaki and Kondo remained silent from start to finish.

As for Hasegawa, he looked disdainful, still busy with his affairs—looking around for Tsukuyo's figure...