Chapter 116: Secret Jealousy "...You and he seemed to be having a great time chatting...
The black-faced guy next door was secretly planning to go and complain, but Chaomu naturally knew nothing about it.
At this moment, she was happily stuffing the large stack of bills into her backpack, then carrying the plastic bag of pork chop rice to the restaurant. She opened the bag with a click and said, "Mimi, come here and see what mom has caught today—"
Extortion and coercion...how are they not considered hunting?
The big black cat walked to her side, tilted its head slightly, and stared at her helplessly. It retracted its sharp claws that had just popped out, and its arched back straightened.
Although he guessed that she would most likely not suffer any harm at the hands of Bourbon, but seeing her being held down by Bourbon just now, he still had to use a lot of effort to resist the urge to go forward and bite her, so as not to disrupt her pace.
But this time, Bourbon obviously didn't want to reveal his identity in front of her, or he was hiding some other conspiracy, so he let her steal the wallet... so much so that Chaomu was completely unaware of the other party's danger.
Theoretically, Moroboshi Dai himself is the pet character who is being "raised", but when he looks at his "master", he still feels unable to help but worry.
The short-haired girl's mind was clearly focused on her pork chop rice. While he was thinking, she had already rubbed her hands together and untied her chopsticks. By the time she opened the bento lid, the aroma of hot fried food had already filled the room.
"It's that fried pork chop place after all... Black Face has really good taste."
As soon as Chaomu saw the plastic bag, she felt that it looked familiar and thought of the store she had visited before. She rushed over to take a look at the appearance of the store and found that it was indeed the tonkatsu restaurant she had visited with Hagiwara Matsuda before.
Before she even started eating her midnight snack, she could already feel her saliva starting to flow faster just by looking at the golden and crispy batter and the jiggly onsen egg in front of her.
But as a qualified owner, the player naturally would not eat alone - plus Mimi had already jumped onto her knees and arched his head over as if to beg for food, Chaomu could not ignore his presence.
"Alright, alright, I'll give you half." She rubbed the black cat's head. Before she had rubbed it twice, the black cat flowed through her fingertips like liquid, used her knees as a springboard, kicked off with its hind legs, and jumped lightly onto the table.
Wow, the kitten is on the table.
In order to prevent his spoils of war from being swept to the ground or eaten by the cat, Chaomu quickly stopped it with his hands: "What are you doing up here, Mimi? We don't have the tradition of kittens sitting at the table...eh?"
The black cat, who was not as childish as her, sat precisely ten centimeters away from the lunch box, looked at her expressionlessly for two seconds, and swung its tail behind it.
He had only been sitting there for a few seconds when his "master" had already forgotten about the lunchbox. He looked at the black cat sitting upright with an auntie smile and reached out to hug him: "Mimi baby - Mommy kiss!"
Taking the initiative with such a young girl was slightly against Moroboshi's moral code, but if she took the initiative, it was another matter.
The girl's face magnified in his vision, her soft lips touching the tip of her wet nose. The black cat tilted its head back, its tail slightly raised, and rubbed against her quickly before leaping back to the ground. The next second, its body rapidly expanded, returning to the size of a tall, adult man.
"Ah... why did you change back again?" The kitten that she could just hold and flatten in her arms turned back into a tough-looking man with long hair. Chaomu held her chin with her hand and looked up at him with a look of disappointment, "I was just about to feed you some fried pork chops."
The feeling of feeding a kitten and feeding a man is very different. The kitten is so cute, eats little, and even licks her fingers... Feeding a man is different. I feel like he will eat two-thirds of this box of pork chop rice.
Her expression was always quite easy to understand. Zhu Xing only needed a quick glance to know that she was worried that he would steal her food.
"I had a midnight snack before I came back." He sat down beside her and calmly pushed the lunch box back to her hand. "You can eat it yourself."
After all, the point he wanted to talk to her about was not this at all. If he let her dwell on such a trivial matter, he probably wouldn't be able to say his warning to her to stay away from Bourbon tonight - most of the time, Chaomu was always immersed in his own world and didn't care much about other people's opinions or the progress of the topic.
He had thought Chaomu would happily pull the lunch box back in front of him, but he paused, his expression growing serious. "You went out for a midnight snack before you came back... What delicious food did you eat? You didn't even bring me some? Mimi, you really disappoint your mother."
Zhu Xingda: “…………”
"I'll definitely bring you some midnight snacks next time." He pressed his forehead, adding a note to his daily schedule. He then quickly got straight to the point, steering the conversation in the direction he wanted. "That 'neighbor' you were with just now...even though he's a neighbor, I have a feeling he's not as simple as he appears."
Unable to directly disclose his undercover role in Bourbon's organization, nor to drag Chaomu into its shadow, the green-eyed man could only be as tactful as possible, attempting to approach the issue from another angle. "Although he just cooperated with you by handing over his wallet, given his past as a gigolo, it's hard not to suspect he's playing the long game, aiming to recoup even more money from you...or even to deceive you emotionally."
This wasn't entirely untrue—Moroboshi Dai did suspect that Amuro Toru had some ulterior motives towards her. There were plenty of shameless intelligence team members, and honey traps and physical seduction were a given. He was a little worried that Asami would suffer.
"You mean, even though it seems like I'm the one setting up a trap, actually Black Face is also planning to set up a trap on me?"
After hearing his promise to bring more midnight snacks next time, Chaomu had already picked up a pork chop and put it into her mouth with satisfaction. As for the original promise to give him half? Not happening. To punish Mimi for eating alone, she would finish this midnight snack by herself tonight.
Hearing her pet's gentle admonition, she swallowed the juicy fried food and thought to herself, "That's right, there's no such thing as a free lunch..."
But for the player, it seems like there's no loss no matter what - if the black-faced guy comes to cheat her out of money later, she can just reload the game if she really falls for it; if the black-faced guy comes to cheat her out of sex...
"Then I'm even more at a loss, isn't it?" Thinking of the well-defined muscles she had seen with her own eyes when he slept naked, tears of regret flowed from the corners of Chaomu's mouth. "Actually, the plot development just now was quite interesting. Even if he was pretending, the way he was forced to pretend and was caught by me was also..."
Zhu Xingda: “…………”
That wonderful feeling spread from his chest again, tingling and numb. He turned his head to look at her face, which showed no sense of crisis, and sighed almost imperceptibly.
If you think about it carefully, you can actually see from the way she and he get along that Chaomu has always been a woman with a strong sense of subjectivity.
She is almost defenseless against the opposite sex, but it is not because she knows nothing about relationships between men and women... It is simply because she is too proactive and never puts herself in the passive position of traditional Japanese women, as if no matter how "dangerous" the opposite sex is, they are just part of her admiring gaze.
His intention to start by persuading her to be on guard against the opposite sex was completely wrong... He always felt that if he persuaded her from the perspective of money, economic life safety, she might care more.
"...In short, it's better for you to be cautious." Thinking of this, he lightly touched her cheek, asked her to turn around, and stared into her eyes with his emerald green eyes. "After all, news of some unscrupulous gigolos colluding with the underground black market to sell the organs of girls who love them is not uncommon in Beika Town."
Chaomu had barely swallowed a mouthful of meat when she was grabbed by the cheek and pulled to the side. The black-haired man's eyelashes drooped slightly, and his fingertips gently but firmly wiped away a smear of mayonnaise from the corner of her lips. He lowered his head and said, "I don't mean to interfere with your social life. I'm just worried about you..."
As he said this, his cold green eyes fixed on her, like a black cat staring at its own can of food. While waiting for her answer, the knuckles gripping her chin tightened a little.
As I said, when Chaomu wants to pay attention to the emotions of NPCs, she is always quite sensitive.
"So, Mimi, you're... jealous?" She blinked and asked him directly, "You usually only get so roundabout when you want something else."
The man's pupils dilated slightly, and he instinctively retorted in his heart: What he wanted was not...
...isn't it?
Under the gaze of those golden eyes, Zhu Xingda felt his newly gathered thoughts disrupted once more. Those subtle tricks he'd always used to indirectly "restrict" and "guide" her weren't entirely without their influence on him either... He'd long since noticed this, and he didn't mind exploiting it.
Being unwilling to admit it is more like a guilty conscience... There is nothing he cannot admit.
"...You seemed to be having a very happy chat with him." He quickly gathered his thoughts and did not avoid her gaze. Instead, he moved a little closer, looking down at her half-seriously, half-pretendingly. "That man is very dangerous... Whenever I think about him living next door, I always feel that I can't leave you home alone."
Despite reporting home every night recently, Moroboshi Dai hadn't actually met any of his neighbors. Today was his first direct encounter with Bourbon. He'd previously researched Asami's neighbors but hadn't found anything. Their superiors had only said this place was highly secure, which presumably was why it had become Bourbon's chosen safe house.
"What's there to worry about? I just snatched his wallet from him last night." His expression was quite serious. Chaomu couldn't help but reach out and rub his cheek. "Mimi, you look like you're worried that your mother will be seduced by the little Siamese cat next door... So the little black-faced cat next door is really good at seducing people. It should be very cute when it turns into a cat... Oh."
The black-haired man took hold of her restless fingertips and gave them a gentle squeeze. "Just think of it as me worrying about that. Amuro Toru is a professional gigolo, after all. I'm worried you've been cheated by him."
Although he should actually be more worried about Bourbon... Did Bourbon know that he was almost turned into a cat and was sent to rummage through trash cans?
"Okay, okay, don't worry. Mommy won't be seduced away by Little Black Face in the short term. Mimi is Mommy's favorite kitten."
Feeling that he was genuinely worried, Chaomu seriously held his fingers and comforted him, "Besides, I probably won't be living at home for the next week, so he won't be able to seduce me—Oh, by the way, Mimi, you have to change your address and come to see me for daily routines for the next week. I will probably be staying at Hagiwara-kun's house most of the time... Mimi?"
...most of the time...staying at Hagiwara's house?
The man who had been looking at her quietly just now suddenly began to breathe heavily, lowering the corners of his lips. He almost instinctively pinched the back of her neck and pressed her into his arms.
Why does she always say such unpleasant things so cheerfully...after the perfunctory sweet words, there is no foreshadowing of the turn?
She had clearly gone against his will and dragged him into a strange situation and relationship without authorization, but she herself felt no burden at all and was just happily watching his struggle like a trapped beast?
The suppressed emotions instantly broke through the dam of rationality. Before he could react, Zhu Xingda had already tightly held her in his arms, lowered his head and blocked her chattering lips...
...punitively biting her soft lips with his sharp canine teeth.
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The author has something to say: I know everyone is anxious, but don't be anxious (?). The main reason for the black face is that it doesn't feel like it will happen naturally and it's hard to get to that point! I planned to save Mimi's first experience until the end, suppressing my jealousy. Compared to the others, his progress was actually very fast (he kissed her).
It’s hard to say about home base, but there will be a breakthrough in the next part of the story where he lives next door to Matsuda and lives with Hagiwara. It won’t always be a fake car!
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