At the weekend, Hasumi Kanoko brought a piece of news.
"Kato-kun, I have something to tell you. Shinjou-san just called and said that Ms. Ogiwara donated 27 million to the association's account."
At that time, Kato Yusuke was drawing a picture. When he heard the news, he was only slightly startled, but he immediately returned to normal and said, "I understand."
When they heard the name "Miss Ogiwara", the other three girls immediately focused their attention.
Because today is the weekend, Yoshida and Mayu Sagara are not at work. They are the only management in the studio.
Hasumi Kanoko picked out the right wording and continued:
"Then, Shinjou-san asked me what to do with the money. She didn't know whether to transfer the money to the studio's account or your account, so she asked me to ask for your opinion."
"..."
Kato Yusuke pondered for a moment: "There is no need to transfer it. The money will stay in the association's account and be used as operating funds."
"Well...I understand, then I'll reply to her."
"good."
Hasumi Kanoko looked around and turned around to leave.
When one party finishes singing, the other party will appear on stage.
The eyes of the three girls were fixed on Kato Yusuke's face.
After a brief silence, Shiyu took the lead to break the deadlock and asked what Eirili and Hui shared.
"Yu-chan, aren't you going to explain the situation to us?"
"No, there's nothing like that." The young man shook his head, "What do you want to know?"
"As for what Kano-chan just said, what does it mean that the girl donated money to the association?"
Objectively speaking, there is nothing to explain this kind of thing. It is just that someone kindly donated money to a charity organization, but that is obviously not what Shiyu and the others care about.
"To put it simply, the other party said she wanted to pay me back the money, but I refused, so she decided to donate it to the association."
"...If that's the case, then it means that the money was indeed sent to that girl by you, right?"
"..."
Kato Yusuke glanced at the three of them respectively.
After Sayu's revelation that day, the truth of the matter could no longer be concealed, and he had no choice but to nod and admit it.
"--yes."
The expressions of the three girls changed slightly due to this, but they did not question it, as if they had already understood it.
After a while, Yinglili couldn't bear her temper and spoke.
"Then - what about that girl, Yusuke, you once said you would date her?"
"I should have refused in front of everyone."
"No! I'm not asking that, but when did you say to her-"
"——Yinglili."
Kato Yusuke interrupted her calmly and smiled.
"I think what's important is the result, not the process. No matter what she said, and whether you were present or not, I rejected her very clearly. Isn't that right?"
"...Yu...suke...?"
Ying Lili was choked by her words, speechless due to the unquestionable tone in his tone, and then she felt aggrieved again.
"What... Yusuke, you—big idiot!"
The girl shouted angrily, rushed out of the office resolutely, and ran upstairs.
Kato Yusuke was silent for a moment, and then said:
"...I'm sorry, Xiaoshi, Hui, you go ahead and go ahead, I'll go check on Yinglili's condition."
He said and was about to leave, but was stopped by Hui.
"Ah, Yusuke, please wait a moment. Actually, I have something to ask."
"What's up?"
"It's about Miss Ogiwara's donation to the association. After all, it is a large amount of money. Doesn't she have any requirements?"
Kato Yusuke shook his head, "...She only said she wanted to work in the association, nothing else, that's it."
After he finished speaking, he nodded to the two of them and then came to the second floor.
In the lounge, Yinglili was sitting on the sofa holding a PSP, seemingly planning to use the game to improve her mood.
When she saw him walking in, the girl immediately straightened her face and turned to the other side.
Judging from the music playing from the speakers, the person involved seemed to be playing "Monster Hunter."
Kato Yusuke thought for a while, sat next to the other party, took out Sagara Mayu's PSP from under the coffee table, and turned on the power.
Yinglili had just received a hunting mission and was about to set off when she saw a prompt for a new player to join the game pop up on the screen.
Then, a female character wearing samurai armor and carrying a bone flute ran to her side and waved.
——That is the character of Mayu Sagara.
The two of them are often online together, so she knows it very well.
However, the current operator cannot be Mayu Sagara.
"Why did you just take Miss Sagara's game console!" Eiri asked angrily.
"Mayu is my disciple, she won't mind." Kato Yusuke replied disapprovingly.
"Even so...I didn't say I wanted to play with you! Why would you just join other people's games?"
"You want to relax, right? Then this game is not suitable for playing alone, otherwise it may be counterproductive. Let me help you."
"..."
Ying Lili glanced at him coldly, turned her back and said, "It's up to you."
Although the tone was not very good, I reluctantly agreed.
So the two of them ate cat food together to get in good shape and set off.
The mission they received was [Hunting the Female Fire Dragon].
Kato Yusuke controls the character and follows Eiri.
The opponent's character is wearing a beautiful blue armor, carrying a sword, and has golden twin ponytails floating behind his head.
During the process of running the map, he talked to me as if nothing had happened.
"I said, Yinglili."
"What?"
"I may have spoken a bit harshly when I was downstairs just now. If I made you feel uncomfortable, I apologize to you. I'm sorry."
"..."
"Eiri Riri?"
"Don't say this, hurry up and find the blame."
"oh."
After running through several areas, they found their target in the central jungle area.
——A huge female fire dragon is strolling there.
The two of them did not alert the enemy, but first cleaned up the mobs around them.
It was only then that Yinglili suddenly realized something, "Can you play the flute?"
Kato Yusuke nodded, "It's okay, I remember some basic combos. What buff do you want?"
"Ear plugs, wind pressure invalidation, attack power up and HP recovery, are these all available?"
"meeting."
"Then you can buff me next to me later. Remember to help me heal when I'm out of health."
"good."
"Then, I brought two paralysis traps with me. After I bury them, you can lure the monster over and let it step on the trap."
"OK."
Kato Yusuke played the flute as he spoke and added various buffs to them. At the same time, Eiri also set up traps.
"Ok?"
"Come on, Pikachu!"
"..."
Where does this neurosis come from?
Kato Yusuke glanced at her speechlessly, then controlled the character to rush towards the female fire dragon, threw a dyed jade at it, and then ran back quickly.
"Roar---!!!"
The female fire dragon who was attracted to hatred let out a roar, chased him with her mouth wide open, and finally fell into the trap with a "plop".
"Yinglili."
"I know!"
Yinglili was already ready to attack. She excitedly pulled out her sword and slashed at the struggling monster with an imposing manner, performing a set of gorgeous combos.
Kato Yusuke was amazed when he saw it.
ten minutes later.
"Meow~~~~~"
The two of them took the cat carriage back to their place of birth.
A gust of sand blew past them, raising a cloud of tumbleweeds.
"Eiriri...?"
"What, what are you doing...!?"
"Hmm...it's nothing. I just think you are good at using swordsmanship."
Kato Yusuke praised it against his will, and at the same time added in his mind that he should not play with it next time.
"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!"
As if hearing his thoughts, Yinglili felt shaken for a while, and then became angry again.
"Well, it wasn't all because you didn't add blood to me in time that I died, wasn't it!? How do you have the qualifications to say such a thing?"
Kato Yusuke, think back.
Basically, except for the initial set of attacks that Yinglili has, her subsequent moves can only be described as ugly.
As soon as the effect of the trap disappeared, the opponent was instantly defeated by the female fire dragon with a set of silky small combos. The speed was so fast that Kato Yusuke didn't even have a chance to increase his blood.
The reason why the battle lasted for ten minutes was because he had been working hard to support him. As a result, when the resurrected Yinglili finally arrived, the opponent was instantly killed by the female fire dragon.
In the end, only Kato Yusuke, who was in poor condition, was left unable to recover, and the two of them returned home.
He smacked his lips and asked, "Do you usually play like this with Mayu?"
"Forget it, guess it..."
"Really?"
"I...we have never fought a female fire dragon before, this is the first time." Yinglili replied hesitantly.
"oh……"
"Hey, what's going on with that look in your eyes? Does it seem to have some deep meaning? Or do you have any objections to me?"
"No, nothing."
Kato Yusuke responded casually, and then Erili kicked her hard in the side.
"You do! I know, you must think that I am a good person and fun-loving, right? You are so angry with me!"
The girl said unreasonably while kicking him back and forth with her stockinged feet.
"..."
Kato Yusuke looked sideways and accidentally saw the fair skin and thighs under the skirt of the other party, so he turned back to his face.
"Why are not you talking!?"
"...You're overthinking it, it's not that big of a deal."
"You just think I'm holding you back, and you think I'm annoying, right?"
"No, I'm thinking that it's better to let me take the main attack later. You can just attack from the side."
"..."
Yinglili stared at him for a while without objecting.
The two found the monster again according to the dyed jade's tips.
Still the same.
Kato Yusuke buried a trap on the ground and applied a buff, then lured the monsters to step on the trap. At the same time, he picked up the flute and hit the female fire dragon, causing it to scream.
Yinglili stood on the side, holding a tachi and continuing to scrape.
When the time for the trap was almost up, Kato Yusuke reminded Eiri to stay away while he pulled the monster and ran in another direction.
After pulling the output back and forth like this for a while, the female fire dragon felt impatient and flapped its wings, preparing to take advantage of it and attack from the sky.
Naturally, the young man couldn't let it go as he wished, so he adjusted the angle and threw a shining jade at the face of the female fire dragon, successfully making it fall to the ground.
In line with the principle of taking advantage of his illness to kill him, I went up and dealt another burst of damage, and then distanced myself.
The monster that regained its sight entered a violent stage and began to launch a dragon-carriage collision.
Kato Yusuke rolled to avoid the first section and immediately started taking medicine. At the same time, he was also moving while observing the direction of the monster, preparing to avoid the second section.
At this moment, the twin-tailed tachi warrior wandering nearby suddenly kicked him, which not only interrupted his action of drinking medicine, but also caused his character to freeze.
The next second——
"Roar---!!!"
The angry dragon chariot roared past, draining all of his dissatisfied blood, and laid his body on the spot.
As the scene changed, the others had been sent back to the camp on a cat cart.
"???"
Kato Yusuke opened his eyes slightly and looked to the side.
Yingli was half-leaning on the other end of the sofa, her little face blocked by the PSP making it difficult to see her expression, and she remained silent as if nothing had happened.
Then, the twin-tailed sword warrior also returned to the camp in a cat cart.
The scene was quiet for about five seconds.
"Eiriri...?"
"What?"
"No...what did you just kick me for?"
"Mistake."
"Mistake?"
"Yeah."
Ying Lili put down her PSP slightly, looked at him with a pair of crystal-pure blue eyes, and read:
"I originally wanted to roll, but you blocked me there and I accidentally pressed the wrong button."
"..."
Kato Yusuke stared at her intently and was silent for a moment: "Do you still want to fight?"
"Of course we have to fight! The monster is almost at the end of its life, how can we give up here?" Yingli said sternly.
"Then can you please stop pressing the wrong key next time?"
"Hmph, there's no need to be reminded specifically about that kind of thing. Instead of this, hurry up and get up your health and go find the monster, otherwise the monster will regain its HP."
"..."
So Kato Yusuke said no more and embarked on a monster hunting journey again.
But this time he was more cautious and was always on guard against the beautiful female warrior with twin ponytails, just in case something unexpected happened.
But until the monster was knocked down, the opponent didn't do anything suspicious, but followed him up to deal damage.
'Am I overthinking...?'
Just as Kato Yusuke was thinking this, the twin-tailed female warrior suddenly took out an explosive barrel from her armor and placed it on the ground.
Kato Yusuke was horrified when he saw this scene. Before he could react, he was sent back to his hometown by a gorgeous explosion.
"Eiri-ri——!?"
"It was an accident."
Yinglili covered her face with the game console and said stiffly: "I just succeeded in blowing up the monster. It must be dying soon. Let's continue."
"..."
Kato Yusuke looked at her cherry-pink lips that were tightly pressed into a line, but the corners of her mouth were slightly raised, without saying a word.
Seeing that he didn't respond, the other party lightly kicked him to express his urging.
"Come on, you're the one who offered to play with me, right? Don't be so dawdling."
Compared to the previous sentence, the master's voice was a little more joyful at this moment, which shows that what happened before was no accident.
Kato Yusuke shook his head, silently recited his purpose of going upstairs several times, and still went with her.
——Then they took a nice ride in the cat car.
There was no accident, Yinglili was just hindering him.
For example, deliberately throwing sonic bombs to cause him to breathe while he was flying,
For example, you can eat life dust with forced actions while he is doing combos.
For example, when he was playing the flute to apply the buff, slash him with a tachi...
The person involved didn't cover up anymore when he got to the back, and basically blatantly made things difficult for him.
Obviously the game they were playing was "Monster Hunter", but Yusuke Kato had the illusion that he was playing "Mario Kart". That was torture.
certainly--
Even if Yinglili hurt him like this, he wouldn't be able to survive, but the other person didn't seem to want to live at all, and just wanted to ride the cat carriage with him endlessly.
After a difficult battle royale, the female fire dragon, who was reduced to a supporting role, was also injured and died.
At the moment when the female fire dragon fell, Kato Yusuke even read a trace of regret in Eiriri's eyes, which made him secretly resolve never to accompany this young lady online again.
Finally, the two collected the materials from the monster, and the connection officially came to an end.
Kato Yusuke put the PSP back with a livid face, leaned back on the sofa, covered his face with his hands, and let out a long sigh of exhaustion.
Yingli stretched out feeling refreshed, came to his side like a prank, and sat on the sofa in a duck-sitting position.
"Oh, don't sigh like this, otherwise happiness will sneak away~?"
"...If the happiness you are talking about means playing games with you, then I would rather not."
"What are you doing! Are you playing with the most beautiful girl in school, the girl who has rejected more than three figures of men's confessions? Give me more honor!"
"So, you are playing with the most beautiful boy in school, the boy who has rejected more than three figures of women's confessions? Don't you think you should be more gentle?"
"How disgusting! Yusuke, why are you speaking in such a frivolous tone? It's so annoying!"
"Well, it's whatever you say."
Kato Yusuke looked sideways at the delicate and beautiful little face on the right, smiling bitterly and bringing up old things again.
"...Anyway, now that the game is over, can we get down to business? My attitude downstairs may not have been very good before, and I apologize to you. Can you forgive me?"
"Huh……?"
Ying Lili was slightly startled by the question, and then looked away with a blushing face, "Well...if I really want to say it, it's not all your problem. In fact, I also..."
She paused at this point, and there was no sound for a long time. Kato Yusuke, who was waiting for the second half of the sentence, couldn't help but tilt his head in confusion.
"Eiriri...?"
"Hey, Yusuke, actually I have something to tell you."
"Um?"
"..."
Yinglili looked at him, showed a slightly apologetic smile, and prepared her words.
"Anyway, don't worry, everything I plan to do next is all planned."
"……What's the meaning?"
"So starting from next week, I won't be able to come to the studio for a while, but I will report to you once a day, and I will remember to turn on the power of my mobile phone. Ah, by the way, can you get the signal over there?"
Listening to the unclear words from the girl's mouth, Kato Yusuke couldn't help but sit up and wait for the next sentence.
Then, the girl took a deep breath and revealed her decision to him——