Chapter 766 - 766: The Deadpan Gyaru in Total Rout

Pushing those jumbled thoughts out of her head, Nonohara Yuri started cooking in earnest.

Maybe it was the lingering effect of her wandering thoughts a moment ago, or maybe it was the thought that if her daughter Nonohara Yuzuka had a reliable boy like Hikari to lean on, life would get a lot better from here on.

Yuri quietly committed Hikari's contact information to memory, and she was planning to invite him over again in a couple of days, to visit or something.

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Meanwhile, Hikari had no idea that Yuri had already made him her top pick for son-in-law.

He had just gotten back to the foot of the Asou apartment building.

Just as he was about to head upstairs...

Suddenly, the phone in his pocket vibrated.

He pulled it out and glanced at the screen.

Seeing that the caller was 'Yoshino Ayaka,' he promptly tapped the answer button.

"Hello, Ayaka-san?", Hikari put the phone to his ear.

["Hikari-kun~",] A sweet voice, as if soaked in honey, drifted slowly out of the receiver, enough to make his bones go a little weak.

Since the Queen's Society gathering last time, Hikari hadn't had much contact with this beautiful, alluring married woman.

But the scenes from the Queen's Society ritual the two of them had gone through, that feeling of nearly ascending to heaven, were something Yoshino Ayaka still couldn't forget.

So the moment she heard Hikari's voice, she couldn't help letting out a soft hum.

Her coquettish tone carried a clear note of playfulness and a faint, barely-there trace of resentment.

But she was, after all, a married woman, and last time she had said she wanted to treat that Queen's Society ritual as a beautiful, absurd dream.

So even though Hikari could hear a little of the resentment and craving in Yoshino Ayaka's tone, he couldn't say much about it, and could only get straight to the point, "Mrs. Ayaka, you're calling out of the blue. Did you need something from me?"

["Mm..."], Yoshino Ayaka was silent for a few seconds, seemingly ashamed of herself for losing her composure the instant she heard Hikari's voice.

Only after a few gulps sounded through the receiver did Hikari hear her explain, ["Um... today I got another message from Secretary-General Itsuki Shima, saying there's a gathering tonight."]

["We agreed before, didn't we? That if there was a gathering, you'd go with me, Hikari-kun."]

["So, this time, will you be going to the club gathering with Auntie, Hikari-kun?"]

The beautiful, alluring married woman seemed to be trying to keep her voice steady, but on that last line she still couldn't help a slight tremble.

And the intense anticipation hidden in it couldn't be covered up at all.

"Oh? The club's having another gathering?", Hearing Yoshino Ayaka's words, Hikari raised his eyebrows slightly.

"Mm, yes."

"Then I'll just go with you again, Ayaka-san. Sorry to trouble you to come pick me up," Hikari said.

["Okay! Then, same as last time, I'll drive over to the foot of your apartment building a little later,"] Yoshino Ayaka answered quickly.

She seemed to be doing her best to keep her tone calm, but after getting Hikari's yes, the delight in it just couldn't be hidden.

"Mm, thanks for your trouble, Ayaka-san."

["It's no trouble! No trouble at all!"]

After making a bit more small talk with Yoshino Ayaka, still smiling, Hikari finally hung up.

And the moment he lowered the phone, the smile on Hikari's face vanished.

"The Queen's Society is holding another gathering? Something's probably going to happen at this one too..."

Hikari had already gotten a rough picture of this Lewd Cult's background.

Under the control of Itsuki Shima, that evil god, something was most likely to happen at every gathering.

Without hesitating, Hikari opened the Pure Love Radar directly and typed in a command.

"Help me scout ahead and see if anything unexpected will happen at today's Queen's Society gathering."

[Okay!]

[Scanning...]

[Ding! Scan complete. A major event will occur at tonight's Queen's Society gathering!]

[An innocent lamb strays into a demon's den and is singled out by the evil cult founder...]

[Evil NTR incident detected! Host, please be careful!]

"Just as I thought..."

The Pure Love Radar's message didn't surprise Hikari.

After looking over what might happen at tonight's Queen's Society gathering, Hikari worked out a rough plan.

Then, in the same motion, he started up the stairs, planning to go home first, take a shower and change clothes, and wait for Yoshino Ayaka to come pick him up.

But just as Hikari rounded the corner and reached the third-floor corridor, he saw at a glance a figure crouching in wait in front of his door.

The girl wore a custom-tailored sailor uniform, and her legs were long to begin with, so the hem barely covered half her thighs, leaving a good stretch of snow-white leg exposed to the air, which formed an alluring absolute territory with the thigh-high socks wrapped around her calves.

Above the hem was a slender waist he could circle with one hand, and a full, well-developed chest.

Her face was delicate and pretty too, but it wore a dead-fish expression with no feeling at all, which took away some of the cuteness but added some cold beauty.

The deadpan girl standing at Hikari's door with no expression on her pretty face was none other than the manga-loving gyaru, Kuroda Hikaru.

"You're almost half an hour late, Hikari," After seeing Hikari show up, Hikaru stood and rubbed her numb legs, speaking in a tone that carried a slight reproach.

Hikari wasn't buying her presumptuous familiarity at all, "Did I ever make a plan with you, that you can say I'm late? Kid, what were you expecting?"

"I was expecting to keep reading what happens next in Counterattack of the Giant Beast," Hikaru didn't mind his tone and answered very earnestly.

"Look, don't you have anything to do after school? Why come straight to my door and camp out waiting for me?"

"Don't you gyarus usually have pretty full lives after school?"

Hikari asked, rather puzzled.

Hikaru shook her head, "I feel like none of that is much fun. Compared with hanging out with them, I'd rather come to your place and read manga. That's the most fun."

Hearing this, Hikari shook his head helplessly, "Fine. Since you're simping for me this hard, come in."

Hikari pushed past her, took out his key, opened the door, and walked in first.

Hearing that, Hikaru pursed her lips, "I'm not simping. I'm just telling the truth. I never lie."

Even as she said so, Hikaru quickly followed Hikari into the apartment.

She not only politely took off her little leather shoes, but also lined up the canvas sneakers Hikari had just changed out of.

Then she fit her stocking-clad feet fully into the slippers, shut the door, and only then walked into Hikari's place.

"Hikari-kun, should I go straight to the manga, or pay you some 'compensation' first?", Hikaru hung her schoolbag on the living room wall and stood there prettily, looking meek and obedient.

"Just remember where the manga is. If you want to read, get it yourself, and cut the chatter," Seeing her put on an act that was more show than substance, Hikari couldn't be bothered to say more.

"Okay, thank you very much," Hikaru pressed her palms together and gave a slight bow, and when she saw Hikari was unmoved by her politeness, she obediently shut her little mouth.

She took down the Counterattack of the Giant Beast she'd been longing for from the dazzling array on the bookshelf, and the deadpan gyaru lay on the bed and began reading with relish.

It was worth noting that, before getting on the bed, Hikaru also lowered her head, raised the tips of her toes, and sniffed them lightly, and only after confirming that her stocking-clad legs had no odor at all did she put them on the bed.

This deadpan gyaru was actually rather polite, if you didn't count the fact that showing up uninvited was itself the height of rudeness.

While Hikaru read her manga with total focus, Hikari was busy with his own things and paid her no attention.

But this very well-endowed deadpan gyaru seemed rather careless.

The way she lay on the bed accidentally pulled her skirt hem up a little, exposing most of a round, plump, shapely peach, and whenever the manga's plot reached a climax, she'd lightly sway those long black-stockinged legs.

A gyaru with a figure this hot, lying on his bed, and giving off enticing fan service every now and then, most of the boys at Suzukino Academy probably couldn't have held themselves back.

But Hikari still showed no reaction and kept busy with his own business.

After all, unlike the sexually repressed Nonohara Yuzuka, he really wasn't repressed at all.

Not only had he seen plenty, but just before coming home he had unlocked Nonohara Yuzuka's special CG.

And that repressed, big-breasted twin-tailed girl's figure was in no way inferior to Hikaru's.

Maybe Hikaru's black-stockinged legs were longer, but Yuzuka's chest development was probably a cut above.

At most, the two were evenly matched.

So Hikari, who had seen plenty and had only just had his fill, really had no desire to pounce on Hikaru.

For Hikari, this wasn't strange.

But for Hikaru, it was somewhat baffling.

It wasn't that she wanted to be pounced on.

It was that, according to the logic she knew, she should be getting pounced on.

So after she'd read the manga with total concentration for a while and found that there still wasn't a hand under her skirt, Hikaru put the manga down anyway, forcing herself to tear away from that thrilling plot.

She turned her head with difficulty and asked Hikari, a little puzzled, "Hikari-kun, you remember what I told you before, right?"

"If I come to your place to read manga, you can do whatever you want to me."

"I remember," Hikari, propped on one finger against the floor, was using the spare time to work out, and tossed her a casual reply.

"Then why aren't you doing whatever you want to me yet?", A trace of puzzlement surfaced on Hikaru's deadpan face.

"Are you blind? Can't you see I'm working out?", Hikari was a bit speechless.

"Uh... Working out is more important than playing around with my body however you like?", Hikaru, who had always been the one others couldn't follow, for the first time felt what it was like not to follow someone else's logic.

"Right now, yes," Hikari answered casually.

"Then could you change the order, come mess with me first, and then go on working out?", Hikaru suddenly said.

"Hm?"

Looking at Hikari with his eyebrows raised in puzzlement, Hikaru felt strangely stifled inside, but still explained earnestly, "Well, I did come to your place to read manga again, so it counts as you putting something in."

"If I put in nothing, I'll feel like I owe you, and that goes against my principle of equivalent exchange."

"That way I'd feel uneasy, and I couldn't read my manga properly."

"So I'd like to ask you to do something to me, anything, whatever you like, so that I can read my manga in peace."

Hearing Hikaru's explanation, Hikari, who had just finished his workout, put a little more force into his fingers and pushed his body, parallel to the floor, back up straight.

Then he turned to look at Hikaru, who was insisting he do something to her, "If I did what you say, wouldn't it disturb your manga reading?"

Hearing Hikari's words, Hikaru nodded and said confidently, "It won't."

"I was born with a certain talent others don't have, just like the protagonist of Counterattack of the Giant Beast."

"My tolerance is far higher than normal people's, so I never feel much of anything when I play with myself."

"So just do whatever you like. It won't affect my reading."

As Hikaru said this, her face was expressionless, but her tone carried a faint, hidden note of pride.