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Chapter 208 - Episode 143: An Unexpected Request

"Can you really call a needle that’s thicker than a blood vessel a syringe needle...?"

Back at the Arisugawa residence, I held my left arm and stared off into space.

The wound should have healed, but I felt like there was still a phantom pain.

"Hahaha! You should be happy, getting an injection from a beautiful nurse introduced by Grandma!"

"Yes, well. She was a seventy-one-year-old veteran, so it was lucky she managed it in one go, even though it was probably the thickest she’d ever handled...!"

"The thickest she’d ever handled... my, aren’t you full of confidence and sexual harassment!"

"I’m gonna crack your skull open, you disappointing university student...!"

I shot a glare at Aira-san, who was grinning annoyingly from across the table.

Beautiful... well, she was a woman who had aged gracefully. A nurse who I’m sure was very popular in her youth. Apparently, she’s known the professor for nearly forty years.

"Man, seeing that battle-hardened nurse look back and forth between the syringe and you with a face that screamed ‘are you serious?’ I had to try my hardest not to laugh!"

"And what about when she looked at you afterward and seemed to accept it with an ‘Oh, she’s an Arisugawa’ expression?"

"That old lady knew Grandpa, too. That was a reaction that showed it..."

"Just what kind of person was your grandfather...?"

"He was my and Mia’s grandfather. Do you need any more explanation than that?"

"Ah, no. I’m good."

I understood one thing: Professor Arisugawa had it rough.

Well, whenever she opens her mouth about her husband, nothing but doting praise comes out, so they must have been a good couple.

"But it's great that they managed to get your blood safely!"

"Ah, welcome back."

"Welcome back, Erina-kun."

"I’m home!"

Erina-san opened the living room door and returned with a V-sign.

"I delivered the blood to Shī-chan! She said to bring Kyō-chan over later, too!"

"Right... but I’m feeling a bit too lazy to move right now..."

"On the contrary, the fact that you're just ‘a bit lazy’ after having three times the lethal amount of blood drawn just proves you're not human anymore, you know."

"Leave me the hell alone, disappointing university student."

Even that nurse was taken aback, but biologically speaking, I've already recovered to the point where it's not a problem.

But, that aside, watching that amount of blood being drawn from me was enough to make me feel anemic. It was pretty taxing mentally.

"Come on, come on! If you’ve lost blood, you need to get some nutrition! Here, Kyō-chan, open wide!"

"Ah, ahh...!?"

I froze as Erina-san offered me a chocolate cookie with a beaming smile.

An aaahn, she says!?

Aaahn.

An ancient assassination technique handed down since time immemorial.

From an observer's perspective, no killing intent can be detected, so the risk of the assassination being discovered is extremely low.

As a trade-off, ninety percent of the time it just ends with the receiving party experiencing a sense of happiness, with the probability of the target's heart exploding from tension and excitement being less than ten percent.

All the happy couples in the world perform this on each other to build up a resistance to assassination, while simultaneously confirming their bond of trust.

In ancient times, it is all too famous that Yamato Takeru no Mikoto disguised himself as a woman and first assassinated the elder brother of the Kumaso chieftains, Etakeru, by means of aaahn. Next, by revealing he was actually a man, he destroyed the brain of the younger brother, Ototakeru, and assassinated him.

It says so in the Kojiki.

"Well, well, what's the matter, Kyō-chan-kun, the introverted, socially awkward virgin! Are you telling me you can't eat Erina-kun’s cookie?"

"Shut up, disappointing university student...!"

"Is that right, Kyō-chan! Well I’ll be damned! You sayin’ you can’t eat my cookie!?"

"Apologize. To Edo and to every being that loves Edo."

"Is that really necessary?"

"I’m sincerely sorry from the bottom of my heart!"

"So honest."

The ultimate disappointing student who clearly knows what she's doing, and the self-proclaimed ninja who might be genuine or might be teasing.

I hesitated before the proffered cookie, but Erina-san showed no signs of backing down. Her eyes sparkled like a child excited at the zoo, waiting for me to eat it.

I cautiously brought my face closer to her hand and took the cookie between my lips, making absolutely sure my lips didn't touch her fingers. Then, using my tongue and mouth, I drew it into my mouth.

I felt a faint warmth from her lingering on it, and my chest leaped with a thump.

"Is it good?"

"...Yeah."

"Yay, it’s delicious!"

What was so fun about this? Erina-san thrust her fist into the air energetically. I quickly averted my gaze from her chest, which jiggled right next to me through her kimono.

However, in the direction I looked.

"Is this the petting zoo corner for strange creatures?"

"I’m gonna knock you out, disappointing university student."

Somehow, she had moved over, and now Aira-san was offering me a thumb-sized piece of chocolate from the other side.

This is bad. What’s bad is that, unlike the cookie just now, if I try to eat this, my lips will definitely touch her fingers. My throat went dry as I instinctively gulped at the sight of her fingertips, as white as milk and as beautiful as a work of art.

Uh, what am I supposed to do here? I don't know. I could feel my brain not working properly.

Confused, I brought my face closer, trying to find a distance where I could bite it without making contact with her fingers...

"By the way, Kyō-chan-kun."

Aira-san flashed a mischievous grin.

"I never said ‘aaahn,’ you know. You could just take this chocolate with your hand."

"............!?"

Th-This disappointing university student...!

Feeling my ears turn beet red, I held out my palm. A single piece of chocolate was gently placed upon it.

"...Thank you."

"Very good. You may eat."

"Thanks for the food..."

I chewed on the slightly melted surface of the chocolate, my heart pounding despite myself.

I was so nervous I couldn't taste a thing. Aira-san, likely sensing my state, was looking down on me with a smug grin.

"Is it delicious, Kyō-chan-kun?"

"Yeah..."

Thinking about it calmly, I didn't have to obediently accept the aaahn with the cookie either. I could have just taken it with my hand. In fact, I could have even refused.

...Am I really anemic?

"Alright, Kyō-chan! Next is this one!"

"The petting zoo is now closed...!"

"No way!?"

"Wait! This time, it's these Russian Roulette cookies!"

"Where'd you get those, you idiot. Eat them yourself."

"You dare call this genius an idiot!? And I don’t want to do this alone!"

"I got it, Paisen! Here, open wide!"

"Nooo!? That stuff is potent enough to damage even an Awakened Person!?"

"That reaction. You villain, you marked which one was the dud so only you would know, didn't you?"

"D-Darn it!"

"Hah!"

"Aghaaaaaa!?"

As Aira-san opened her mouth wide in reaction, Erina-san threw the cookie. The dud scored a hole-in-one, landing right in her mouth.

After the world champion of disappointment stumbled out of the room, Mia-san entered in her place, looking flustered.

"Excuse me, did some kind of lewd event just happen in here!?"

"Nothing happened, disappointing university student number two."

"I’m not disappointing!?"

Yes, you are. You're the world's number two disappointing person.

"You want some too, Senpai? I think Paisen made these cookies herself."

"I’ll have some!!"

She jumped on that really fast.

"Okay, aaahn!"

"Eh!? S-Such a thing as an aaahn... p-please be gentle with me...!"

"Does this pervert have no shame...?"

Mia-san blushed, waiting for the aaahn. I had to admonish myself for finding her expression unexpectedly erotic. These disappointing sisters really are lookers...

A blonde beauty feeding a blonde beauty. It should be a sight to behold. But why... why is there this unshakable air of a comedy scene?

"How is it? Delicious?"

"Yes... this is... Eden...!"

"She looks happy."

"Alright, then let's all eat!"

"Huh? Did she just use Mia-san as a poison taster...?"

Erina-san returned with a smile, and Mia-san was still in a trance. Ugh, I'm getting tired of all this. This is not what you do after losing a massive amount of blood.

As I stared off into the distance, Aira-san returned.

"Phew... If it weren't for milk and yogurt, I would have died instantly..."

"Does that really work after eating something super spicy...?"

The disappointing university student wiped the sweat from her brow, a look on her face as if to say she had accomplished something great.

By the way, she was wearing a white T-shirt today, so... well, it was a little see-through.

I felt like I could faintly see a black bra, so I looked down. Of course, Mia-san was doing a perfect impression of the phrase "eyes on stalks."

"By the way, you three who haven't been able to go to a dungeon lately."

"Yeah..."

Unaware of her state, Aira-san puffed out her chest confidently.

I reflexively looked up when I answered, and in that moment, I clearly saw a plain black bra outlined through her shirt, and the large breasts encased within it jiggled slightly.

Next to me, disappointment number two was muttering something like, "God is real...!"

"I have an interesting job for you... are you interested in camping?"

"...Huh?"

At words I never expected to hear from her, the three of us tilted our heads in unison.

It was five seconds after this that Aira-san, who had been puffing out her chest with a satisfied look at our reactions, noticed her shirt was clinging to her due to her sweat.

Before explaining her previous statement, the disappointing university student retreated with an unnecessarily cute scream.

For now, my eyes had been blessed, so I silently put my hands together in gratitude. Thank you...!

By the way, I feel like the blood has once again drained from my head. Am I okay? Am I seriously not going to faint?