Underwear Thief?

Seeing Ragna's blackout state, Liu Bai was certain that the people who had given their captain a bottle of 96% rectified vodka.

"Oh... right, I also need to help Himeko tidy up her room. These guys must have made a mess of Himeko room... wait, has Himeko finished tidying up?"

As Ragna's headache gradually subsided, he was somewhat surprised to find himself lying in bed—with more than a dozen barely clothed "corpses" lying haphazardly on the bed and floor throughout the room.

... A drawing of hell in some sense.

However, Ragna has clearly adapted to this.

"These guys are really crazy... Speaking of which, Himeko... wait, how come even Himeko is lying here?"

Chapter 189 Underwear Thief?

"Ugh... my head hurts..."

After Ragna woke up, the others woke up one by one—including Himeko.

"It feels like my head is going to split open..."

This is what happens when someone drinks half a cup of Flammable Oolong Tea.

"I'll let it go, but who got Himeko drunk yesterday?" Ragna glared angrily at his teammates who were slowly waking up and slumping over. "Himeko, tell me, who got you drunk?"

"Ah... me, me? Wait a minute, let me think..."

Himeko is still a bit confused about what happened last night... By the way, where is Liu Bai?

"Last night... the person who gave me the wine... uh, um... I think it was you, Captain?"

"... Huh?"

"Captain, you handed me two cans of wheat drink with such a friendly look on your face..." Himeko tried hard to recall.

"Huh??"

Is there... is there such a thing?

Ragna immediately felt guilty.

"After that... it seems like someone let me try Oolong Tea? I have no memory of anything after that."

"I asked you to try lighting the Oolong Tea with a lighter, not to taste it." Liu Bai appeared at the door with a twitching eye. "Are all drunk people this good at altering their memories? And that wasn't Oolong Tea, it was rectified vodka mixed with whiskey—which idiot came up with this in real life? Cocolia wouldn't dare to drink it like that."

Although Cocolia isn't an alcoholic.

While Liu Bai was making sarcastic remarks, the other members of the assault team looked at Ragna with mischievous grins.

"Eh... I didn't expect the captain to be this kind of person, secretly getting his juniors drunk... Captain, you didn't want the fact that you got your juniors drunk to be known..."

"Cough cough cough! Let's skip this topic! Skip it! -- Besides, in the end, wasn't it you bastards who got me drunk? I haven't even asked what you used to get me drunk yet!"

Ragna looked embarrassed and dissatisfied.

"But speaking of which... who brought us to bed?"

Although it was a messy, haphazard mess that looked like a garbage dump, at least it was all moved together cleanly—and Ragna felt that his team members, who were completely drunk last night, only deserved to be thrown away like garbage.

Himeko glanced silently at Liu Bai, whom only she could see.

"If I had been a corpse collector on the street last night, I would have made a fortune."

Liu Bai sneered, "You guys are really something. Some of you drank so heartily that I thought you could really hold your liquor, but you ended up throwing up all over people in the middle of the night, and even splashed other people with your vomit. I had to clean up after her and the others."

Some people... some of these people probably don't include themselves, right?

I have absolutely no memory of this.

Himeko thought to herself with a slight guilty conscience.

"Heh, a drunken idiot can still remember things? Of course, you're not the only idiot like that."

... So I did throw up.

Himeko face slightly flushed.

"But you can rest assured, although quite a few people got up and vomited in the middle of the night, I knocked them out after they finished. You don't need to worry about being exposed."

Right now, Liu Bai is quite angry—after all, he served more than a dozen drunkards by himself last night. Although there were some like Ragna who had good drinking manners, there were also quite a few like Himeko who had terrible drinking manners. They were all making a ruckus in the middle of the night, and Liu Bai didn't have a moment's rest all night.

Anyone would be furious in this situation.

"Don't worry, I have some experience in taking care of drunks—especially underage drunks."

Liu Bai thought of Mobius.

Mobius's drinking manners aren't great either, but compared to Himeko, a drunk Mobius is particularly charming—at least in front of Himeko, although he'll still throw a tantrum and vomit afterwards.

However, Mobius is the kind of person who doesn't require Liu Bai to worry about anything except the details of his life.

This is really bad news, Himeko thought to herself—but then again, Himeko was a little curious about who the other "underage drunkard" Liu Bai was talking about was.

I've decided, I'll ask this question next time I have the chance.

Meanwhile, Ragna was still having a heated discussion about "who moved them here."

"I mean... could it be Amber or His Holiness the Bishop?"

"It's impossible. If it were Amber or His Excellency the Bishop, we would be waking up on the playground right now—and facing thousands of words of self-criticism. Besides, I don't think His Excellency the Bishop is such a 'approachable' guy."

"Hmm... that makes sense. Who else could it be? Could it be that the captain received the blessing of the Maid God, and his maid powers exploded? Did he sleepwalk around while drunk and clean up Himeko's house?"

"... While I appreciate your compliments on my maid skills, can't you guys be serious for once? Do you think I'm the kind of person who sleepwalks?"

"What else could it be?"

Hearing her seniors' discussion, Himeko turned to look at Liu Bai.

(How should this problem be explained?)

"You can't even hold a casual conversation with them?"

Liu Bai glanced at Himeko.

"You're not really planning to make me, the 'Maid God,' appear, are you? Although, if it were your captain, I wouldn't mind showing my power or something."

After Liu Bai finished speaking, Himeko immediately rolled her eyes at him.

You're getting all worked up over me after I just said a couple of words to you?

You're just a captain who's after maid outfits, I saw right through you!

"Maybe it really is the Maid God appearing in spirit," Himeko thought for a moment and then agreed.

To be honest, that reason is quite interesting.

"Himeko, is it really okay for a Caltech graduate like you to join in their nonsense..." Ragna rolled his eyes. "Fine, everyone check if you've lost anything. If not, let's just let this go."

Although it's unlikely, Ragna is also quite afraid that the investigation might eventually lead to Otto, which would be awkward for everyone.

So Ragna decided to let everyone see what he had done. If no one had suffered any loss, the matter would be over—after all, everyone slept like logs last night, and the possibility of someone "hitting and running" could not be ruled out.

If something really goes wrong, then we'll have to investigate it thoroughly.

"Something's happened! Captain! This is terrible, this is terrible, this is terrible!"

However, at this moment, a panicked voice drew everyone's attention— Himeko glanced at Liu Bai with an incredulous look.

"What's wrong!?"

"I... I..." The girl, only slightly older than Himeko, was filled with panic and disbelief. "My bra isn't that big!"

...ha?

"Underwear?"

"Yeah, yeah, this bra is obviously not mine."

The girl pointed nervously to her underwear—because of last night's party, everyone except Ragna was now only wearing their top and bottom.

"... Oh yeah, it's so loose. Did the padding you used fall out last night?" The crowd looked at the other person's loose underwear without taking it seriously, and instead teased them.

"What 'padded thing'? That's a breast protector... No! It's not about padding or not, this bra really isn't mine."

"... Are you drunk? Who has the time to change your underwear? I'll make you a cup of Oolong Tea to sober you up," her teammate said sympathetically, patting the girl's shoulder. "I know you really want a boyfriend, but don't fool yourself, especially not this way. You can lie to your girlfriends, and they might believe you, but you can't lie to yourself—"

"Go to hell, this really isn't mine. My bra is a size smaller than this one even after I've used up all the padding, okay? You fucking tell me, was it this big yesterday?"

The girl was getting anxious, and she cursed as she self-destructed.

"Eh... it seems that's really true."

"Wait a minute, now that you mention it, my bra seems a bit loose too... I thought it was just the straps that were loose..."

"Me too."

"Me too..."

"It's a little tight here..."

After one person started it, many others also noticed the problem.

Himeko glared fiercely at Liu Bai.

What the hell did you do? What's wrong with the seniors? Give me an explanation! Didn't you say you didn't do anything wrong?

"... So, nearly half of us had our underwear changed?" Ragna concluded after roughly counting the people who spoke, but then a deep doubt arose in his Ragna. "But... why would they change your underwear?"

Even if they were lingerie thieves, they wouldn't be so kind as to take off the clothes the women were wearing and put on a new set, would they?

What kind of thief is this?

They changed everyone's clothes and moved them all to the bedroom. Are thieves this noble these days?

No, rather than being called an underwear thief, this behavior is more like... taking care of someone who has vomited on themselves or has been vomited on by someone else?

Ragna inexplicably felt a sense of déjà vu from this behavior.

If you look at it this way, it seems to make sense – Ragna wouldn't think his teammates are all guys who can accurately estimate their alcohol tolerance.

Okay, to put it bluntly, a lot of people here have no idea what their alcohol tolerance is.

Ragna felt that if they drank together, he might be able to outdrink most of the group.

So, based on past experience, the only thing they would do is vomit profusely after drinking it.

And now... at least everything in Ragna's sight is clean.

(We might have actually caused them trouble...)

On the other side, Liu Bai was also somewhat annoyed by Himeko's stare.

"Himeko, do you want to take a look at what they're wearing and see if you recognize them?"

(Who knows what kind of underwear you put on them...)

Etc.

Himeko seemed to realize something.

Wait... no way...

Himeko looked at her seniors' underwear in disbelief, then at her own, and sure enough, hers had been changed too.

"Yeah, who knows? Ghosts know everything—like where you keep your underwear Himeko." Liu Bai smiled happily. "Don't worry, I didn't touch the winning outfit your seniors gave you."

You might as well just do it! Who cares about a decisive set... well, not entirely uninteresting...

This feeling is quite subtle.

But seriously, you need to pay me back for my underwear!

... Okay, the underwear is just something the seniors wore, it's not like they've lost it.

But the thought of Liu Bai using his own underwear to change his senior's clothes... still left him with mixed feelings.

This guy must have had a great time last night, right? Is that annoyance on his face just an act?

"I suggest you personally meet your ancestors who were covered in vomit."

Liu Bai sneered, "Putting aside the fact that I'm a ghost... even if we take a step back, it's not like I can't find a girlfriend. I can only say it's not worth it."

Although most of the Valkyrie are quite beautiful, there are still different levels of beauty, right?

These words would surely enrage the seniors... Himeko thought silently. But speaking of which, girlfriend?

This guy even has something like this?