"..." The young store manager rolled his eyes helplessly, "Stop pretending, okay? This kind of touch that increases favorability is subtle, and it's not intense enough to arouse desire, unless the person I touch has his body controlled by me first, or actively wants to...wait..."
As he spoke, the manager's expression gradually became more terrified.
"Could it be that... you..."
Mei Raiden, who was wearing a sailor suit, didn't say a word, but her cheeks became redder and more beautiful. Her whole body was twisting restlessly in the store manager's chest and abdomen, and the five fingers that were grabbing his back became more and more powerful.
"..."
Just as the store manager said, although he can increase the favorability of a specific object through touch, this increase in favorability has always been done imperceptibly.
However, when the other party's body is controlled by the store manager before the contact, or when the other party actively chooses to absorb this ability of the store manager, then the effect of this ability will be greatly amplified.
For Mei Raiden, who took the initiative to throw herself into the arms of the young store manager and greedily felt his temperature, smelled his scent, and touched his touch, this contact time of only a few minutes was enough to bring this ability of "increasing favorability" to its limit.
What does top-level favorability mean?
It means that everything on the other person becomes your own XP.
What would happen if you hugged someone whose whole body was made of your XP?
Mei Raiden's performance perfectly explains the answer to this question.
"..."
To be fair, Mei Raiden is very beautiful.
Although this Raiden Mei is about three years older than the other two in the hall, and her figure and appearance are slightly younger than the other two, but precisely because of this, she, wearing a sailor suit, also possesses a unique charm that the other Raiden Mei have lost.
The close-fitting summer sailor suit, the neat pleated skirt, the knee-length black stockings with lace edges, the soft waist-length hair, the fair and slender arms, the figure that is beginning to show its shape…all of these seem to be inviting the young store manager who is only a short distance away, silently saying “please make me yours”.
...There's nothing I can do.
Don't blame me for following your wishes after this.
"Everyone, I have to excuse myself for a moment."
The young store manager suddenly stood up, picked up the blushing Mei Raiden, and walked towards the stairs without looking back.
The figures of a man and a woman disappeared at the stairs on the second floor. No one, including the staff surrounding the store manager, stopped the store manager.
"Wait! You—"
Theresa, who was completely at a loss as to the situation, finally found a chance to speak before the two figures disappeared at the stairs.
"——Be careful! Don't go too far!"
You might as well not say anything, everyone said secretly in their hearts.
Chapter 4: Lightning Meiyi: Great Destruction (k)
In this beautiful world, there are always some things that can touch people's hearts, making them yearn for it and full of expectations.
Of course, what's exciting to look forward to varies greatly from person to person.
In the eyes of gamers, those things are games that have not yet been released; in the eyes of the two-dimensional world, those things are animations that are about to be broadcast; in the eyes of fishermen, those things are big fish that may not be caught even if you sit by the river all night - and for the store manager who has never concealed his LSP nature, the things he looks forward to most are the beautiful girls with their own unique styles.
Beautiful girls are the most precious treasures in this world.
Before the store manager reorganized the rules, the Quantum Sea had always been a chaotic and disordered extra-dimensional plane. This chaotic space was both chaotic and empty. Even for an eternally recurring super-space ship like Hyperion, when sailing in the Quantum Sea, there was a high probability that it would not encounter anything that could be called a "thing" for a very long time.
This kind of journey where you can't see what's ahead, can't see the scenery, don't know where the end is, and can't even tell the direction is actually quite empty and torturous.
Human beings are social animals. Someone once conducted an experiment that showed that if a person is locked in a pure white space, he will experience all kinds of hellish experiences including hallucinations, anxiety, loss of sense of reality, and loss of self-awareness in less than 24 hours. Therefore, in the lonely journey that just started, which even the current store manager has no idea how long it will last, in order to prevent himself from committing suicide due to a mental breakdown one day, he must create a reason to keep himself alive and keep moving forward.
That reason must be something he likes and something he is willing to work hard for free.
Finally, he fixed his sights on those beautiful girls whom he had liked very much before traveling through time.
During his time as Captain Hyperion, he was a young man who was passionate about saving and pursuing all beautiful girls, whom he regarded as the most important treasures he had ever encountered in his life.
In order to save those girls in trouble and win their hearts, he spent countless time and energy, and even risked his life in the end.
From this perspective, in fact, at the beginning, his purpose of getting in touch with stargazing, the moon, Rita, and other beautiful girls cannot be called pure, but rather there is a relatively self-purpose.
He was willing to risk his life to save them, not because he did not value his own life, but because only by doing so could he avoid suddenly slitting his own neck one day.
- Of course, for the store manager who now has several beautiful girls willing to accompany him all the time and has already met countless friends in the Quantum Sea, that lonely journey that was so depressing that it almost destroyed his spirit has long become a past that he will never touch again. After building this cafe, he also restrained the idea of regarding beautiful girls as the goal of life, and instead focused all his attention on these lovable wives who are willing to give him the rest of their lives.
He constantly travels in various worlds and comes into contact with beautiful girls, always appearing in front of them with full confidence.
He displayed his excellence wantonly, invaded their lives wantonly, extended his helping hand wantonly, and imprinted his gorgeously blooming tail feathers deeply into the hearts of every beautiful girl.
But now he has put away the tail feathers that have been spread out all the time, like a loyal peacock that only spreads its tail feathers for his lovers.
When faced with the approach of other beautiful girls, he would tell them without leaving any room for them that he is a married man, his family is happy and there is no room for any outsiders to interfere.
However, the so-called nature cannot be changed by force even if it is restrained.
He would tell the girls who approached him without leaving any room for them that he was a married man. It was not because he was not interested in beautiful girls, but because he needed to be responsible for the wives who had entrusted the rest of their lives to him.
Even though Guanxing and the others always act jealous of outsiders and even treat him harshly when he interacts with other beautiful girls, the store manager knows very well in his heart that these girls who have entrusted the rest of their lives to him have almost unlimited tolerance for him.
No matter what I do, Guanxing and the others will never hurt me or leave me.
Most of the time, the Shura field surrounding him actually has more warning significance than practical significance - for example, now, if he is really determined to win the beauty, his wives will not really stop him.
In the bedroom on the second floor of Hyperion Café, the young manager who was holding Raiden Mei horizontally closed the door with his heels, his expression somewhat complicated.
Alas, I am really a person with weak will, he sighed softly in his heart, thinking with some self-mockery.
Even though he acted cold and distant in front of Kiana, Mei Raiden and the others, in fact, only he himself knew that facing these crazy materials from before he traveled through time, he didn't feel anything at all and was just trying to be strong.
Therefore, the moment he realized that Mei Raiden had completely fallen into his arms, the store manager already understood that no matter how righteously he stated that he had a family, and no matter how much he asked those beautiful girls to respect themselves... as an LSP, he still couldn't refuse a beautiful girl who sincerely threw herself into his arms.
Between my arms, through a thin layer of black silk fabric, I felt a warm and soft touch.
I don't know why, but when she entered the store yesterday, she was wearing winter casual clothes, but when Mei Raiden suddenly broke into the store today, she inexplicably changed into this sailor suit that looked like it could only be worn in summer.
Isn't it cold when she walks on the road? Changkong City in that world should still be in winter in November, right?
"Did I make you feel embarrassed..."
Just as the young store manager was lost in his wild thoughts, the girl in the sailor uniform, who had buried her head in his arms, suddenly uttered a faint whisper.
"Ah, yes, of course it's difficult. You've made me extremely difficult." The young store manager put away his complicated expression and announced in a voice that sounded emotionless, "You destroyed the purity that I had maintained for thirteen days, and made me betray the rules I set for myself thirteen days ago. You made me derail both my mind and body. Tell me, how are you going to compensate me?"
"..."
The girl in a sailor suit tapped the young store manager's chest lightly, as if venting her grievances and resentment.
Now that things have come to this, can't you say something nice to me and comfort me a little?
She even managed to stay pure and innocent for thirteen days... First of all, a guy who has so many girlfriends can't be pure and innocent! Secondly, is it a big deal to stay pure and innocent for only thirteen days?
However, after knocking the store manager's chest lightly, her clenched fist suddenly loosened, and her slender five fingers tightly grasped the store manager's collar.
Although this young store manager was philandering, mean, and had no understanding of romance at all, it was this boy who brought her hope when she was most desperate.
As an excellent student who received gifted education, Mei Raiden is not the kind of person who does not know how to analyze the pros and cons. She is good at calculation and actually knows very well that her position and that of the store manager have been unfair from the beginning.
Perhaps, in the eyes of this young store manager, he just casually stopped something he didn't like, and that helping hand was nothing at all, and it didn't take much effort, but even so, he was the only ray of light that tore through the darkness when his entire life was plunged into darkness.
Chasing light is human nature.
Human beings themselves are not the kind of creatures that are completely dominated by reason.
For Mei Raiden, she will probably never forget what happened that night.
In the moonlit night, I lay in the ruins, looking up at the boy with his back to the moonlight.
The guy who didn't care about other girls' feelings at all repeated the fact that he was defeated in one move several times with a tone full of ridicule, sarcasm and disdain.
To be honest, that scene was neither beautiful nor romantic... Even when she thinks back on it now, Mei Raiden still feels her blood pressure rising. If possible, she really wants to forget that embarrassing and irritating experience.
But she never thought that when those memories really faded away, she would feel so panic-stricken.
No matter how irritating it is, no matter how unreasonable it is, no matter how much it does not understand the hearts of girls, no matter how unreasonable it is, it is ultimately your own light, which gives you hope and dispels the endless darkness.
"Will you suddenly leave my world again?"
With a little uneasiness, Mei Raiden asked this.
The young store manager glanced at Mei Raiden in his arms and said, "You mean this cafe, and the sudden disappearance of those memories in your mind? Unfortunately, that is not something I can control. As long as the 'Cocoon' still exists in your world, then, if my interference in your world exceeds a certain level, my cafe and I will be judged by that thing as 'things that shouldn't exist' and expelled."
"Cocoon?" Raiden Mei lowered her head, a sharp arc of electricity flashed between her hair, "So, this is the thing that took away my light..."
"Calm down." The store manager said calmly, "Even I am only on the same level as that thing. Now that you remember what happened yesterday evening, you should understand the gap between us. You can't be a match for that thing right now."
"Are you worried about my safety?" Raiden Mei raised her face again, with an unnatural blush flashing across her face.
"If I wasn't worried about your safety, I wouldn't have helped you escape from Cocolia's control in the first place," the store manager said calmly.
"You clearly know that my world will be forgotten by me after you take action, so why did you still lend me a helping hand? You should know that if I couldn't remember what happened yesterday evening, there would be no way I would be able to repay your help." Raiden Mei's gaze suddenly wandered, and she asked softly with a slightly expectant tone, "Are you... just acting on impulse? Or..."
"I desire your body. Are you satisfied with this answer?" The young store manager was calm and there seemed to be a hint of joy in his eyes as he looked at Raiden Mei.
Mei Raiden's face flushed instantly, and her delicate face became a little flustered. She subconsciously raised her calves, as if she wanted to break free from the store manager's embrace, but she abruptly stopped the idea of trying to break free, and said in a weak voice: "Are you just...just greedy for my body? But, my looks and figure can't compare to those of your wives...You don't want to admit it, but do you still have a little...a little affection for me in your heart?"
"First of all, I have never denied it. If I didn't have any feelings for you, I wouldn't have carried you into the bedroom." The manager shook his head. "I like you, Raiden Mei, and I also like Kiana, Bronya, stargazing, moonlit night, Celine, Theresa, Rita, Yulandel, and every cute girl. Is there anything strange about that?"
"..."
Mei Raiden, who was wearing a sailor uniform, couldn't help but knock on the store manager's chest again, with more force than before.
You're calling out the names of other girls from a distance!? What boy would say other girls' names when they are alone with a girl, or even when they are about to go to bed! The resentment in Mei Raiden's heart was almost realized.
To be honest, after hearing the words "I like you, Raiden Mei", Raiden Mei was more or less happy in her heart. Although in order to keep this light... and prevent the young store manager from leaving her world, her life, and her memory again, she was actually mentally prepared to become the store manager's property when she threw herself into the store manager's arms. But no matter what, she was still a girl after all. If the store manager was unwilling to admit that he liked her at this point, then she would be too much of a failure as a woman.
Chapter 4: Discussion of Touch System (k)
But after just being happy for half a second, this guy actually called out a series of other girls' names... He is indeed honest, but does this guy really not know how to take care of other people's girlish hearts?
"What? Do you regret it?" The store manager chuckled, and suddenly lowered his head, bringing his face so close that the tip of Raiden Mei's nose could touch each other, and his warm breath was extremely aggressive. "You clearly know that I have many wives and that I'm not the kind of loyal person, but you still took the initiative to come to me. You should have been mentally prepared to face all of this. Isn't it a little too late to regret it now?"
The sudden movement made Mei Raiden hold her breath.
She was a little frightened and wanted to avoid the manager's sight, but when she was held horizontally, her neck was firmly held by the other party's arms, and the angle of movement of her head was very limited. Even if she looked away, she couldn't avoid the warmth coming from the manager's face.
...It would be better to say that from the moment she was picked up, she had lost all possibility of escaping from the other person.
Mei Raiden's eyelashes trembled slightly, she pursed her lips, and her breathing unconsciously became a little faster. Her porcelain-like skin became even more rosy and delicate after she realized that she could be picked at any time.
"Please...please be at least gentle..." she said.
Hyperion Café, first floor lobby.
After the boy and girl disappeared at the stairs to the second floor, Theresa shouted, "- Be careful! Don't go too far!" This warning, which sounded neither majestic nor harsh, suddenly made Theresa feel a rather strange and unnatural feeling.
Theresa Apokalis.
The president of St. Freya's College, and the former S-class Valkyrie of destiny.
Aged 41.
--single.
In the previous 41 years of my life, I had never had a boyfriend, nor had I ever had any feelings towards any member of the opposite sex that could be called love.
Perhaps she herself didn't even realize that the closest she had ever been to love was when she was with Cecilia.
However, that innocent affection was completely aborted after Cecilia and Siegfried got married.
Unlike Mei Raiden who went straight to the store manager from the very beginning, Theresa's main purpose of coming to this cafe was actually to find out the truth about this cafe.
However, after approaching the door of the cafe, the sights she saw and the words she heard made her blood boil to the point of losing her mind.
——My name is Theresa, you can call me Yuexia.
——By the way, I’m the store manager’s wife~
Strictly speaking, "Theresa" is not a very common name, and there are definitely more than one person named Theresa in the world.
However, the person who was speaking had long silver hair, and behind that person stood a person who looked exactly like him.
She immediately realized that the person who looked like her was the "store manager's girlfriend" mentioned by Mei Raiden.
Good man, are you the one who is destroying the reputation of "Teresa"? !
In a situation of extreme anger, Theresa was - extremely angry for a moment.
Because following the atmosphere at the time, when Theresa and several other girls, including several "herself" and "Rita"... and even a "Cierene" surrounded the store manager, Theresa suddenly came to her senses. She... didn't seem to have the position to stop other people's love relationship.
This is so fucking embarrassing.
