Born to Be a Plaything

She was breathing heavily, her pretty face flushed red down to her neck, and...

The taste of my first time trying it.

Sweet.

"Don't be too nervous," he smiled.

But the girl seemed to take that laughter as mockery, and without hesitation, she retorted as if she were hunching over:

"I'm not nervous at all!"

"I was just... I was just thinking..."

"Is this really reasonable? Is it a shape that can be fitted together?"

Hesitantly, she randomly searched her mind for a question that could change the subject.

"Why don't you try and see?" Asakusa Toru said, "Anyway, you wanted to try it anyway."

Ibuki Mio quickly began to understand why this kind of thing was human instinct, and she quickly felt that she understood why those girls liked this guy so much.

Oh no, I'm starting to like it too.

Fortunately, just thinking about the number of women surrounding this guy calmed me down instantly.

It's true that friendship is better; this kind of relationship is just fine.

She didn't have any special connection with Asakusa Toru; she only said those things out of pure curiosity.

Asakusa Toru, who agreed so readily, seems like a pretty scumbag.

What's most unbearable is that he actually played the recording of himself in the elevator on his bed.

... I need to breathe on it.

My mouth was gagged.

"... I can't stand you." After wiping the water from the corner of her mouth and finishing her cleaning, Ibuki Mio Asakusa Toru.

Subtly, she now appears quite charming.

She lost some of her domineering nature and gained more femininity.

"Deleted... that's definitely not possible."

"But don't put this in a place like this again next time, my... well, my desire will decrease."

She made up a seemingly plausible excuse.

But the reaction doesn't lie.

The moment the recording was played, the girl seemed more evasive, and the shame that made her want to disappear into the ground only made her appear more charming.

Rather than feeling less desire, she might find it more exciting.

Ibuki Mio is the type of person who loves playing more the worse she is at the game.

Although her performance today was actually quite weak, whether in the dojo or on another battlefield, she was rather frail, which did not match her abundant stamina and physical fitness.

But she insisted on appearing very calm now that things have calmed down.

The reason is why it's not hard to think of.

Asakusa Toru found this rather interesting.

Well, the other girls are fine, but with Ibuki Mio, he really can't say he has feelings for her anymore.

That's what he wanted to do.

There was some redemption to be found in Karuizawa Kei's story, but with Ibuki Mio, there's absolutely no redemption to be found.

Thinking is thinking.

There is no room for explanation.

If you simply ask him whether he wants to or not...

So, aside from the fruits he has already picked, there are two more he wants to hold onto at this school.

One of them is naturally his favorite Little Alice; I wonder if she can regain her former glory during the winter break.

The other one... well, the other one is a bit more complicated.

She's a stupid younger sister.

Cute and silly as they may be, stubborn as they may be, what they despise is intelligence, not physical ability.

From the perspective of a fan of physical beauty alone, Horikita Suzune is clearly an excellent partner.

The problem is that she's quite wary, and it seems a bit too late to casually approach her now.

... If only I had taken advantage of her confusion and moral depravity to deceive her and get my hands on her.

Oh well, there's no point in knowing this sooner.

Even if I knew beforehand that I probably couldn't completely disregard morality, I still wouldn't be able to completely escape it.

Let's make some preparations.

Welcome to winter break!

The day after the Sports Festival, he gave Sakura Airi the gift of transferring to another class as a birthday present; her birthday is October 15th.

And just before the winter break in December, there was also a girl's birthday.

Shiranami Chihiro.

Her birthday is November 28th.

Asakusa Toru had asked the little mascot what kind of gift it wanted beforehand. Compared to preparing a surprise or something, directly asking the other party's wishes was obviously a safer and more convenient approach.

In terms of results

What she wanted was very simple.

He has already won her love, she has the title of his wife, and his sexual orientation has long been corrected.

So she said.

I want to give Honami a push.

... Damn Ichinose Honami, what have you done to my little mascot?

Chapter 280 Born to be a plaything

Shiranami Chihiro's birthday passed quickly.

What followed was the Advanced Nurturing winter break.

Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

The temperature seems to have finally started to turn autumnal and cool down. Even though it's already so cold that you can breathe out white mist, it gives you the illusion that it was still scorching hot yesterday.

The weather is unpredictable.

After the winter break, the third semester will begin.

They appear to be about to enter the second year.

Ever since returning to school from the ship, or rather, since the start of the VIP Exam, Sakayanagi Arisu has remained relatively quiet and has hardly participated in class decisions.

She doesn't seem very interested in participating in class decisions, or even Special Exam.

He withdrew from the Sports Festival entirely under the pretext of feeling unwell, and [Paper Shuffle] only attended for the two days of quizzes and midterms.

The students in First-Year Class B were very worried that her attendance rate might lead to the school asking her to drop out.

This suspicion is accurate.

Dormitory.

"Maybe you should drop out of school, Arisu."

With a soft sigh, Sakayanagi Narimori said this.

"Your absence rate is too high right now."

Even with such a high absence rate, as long as he remains the school's chairman, Sakayanagi Arisu will not drop out. However, from another perspective, the high absence rate indicates that she has serious psychological problems.

Sakayanagi Narimori never imagined that a single failure would cause his once-proud daughter to change so drastically...

Autistic?

Her radiance has faded, and her confidence has been dimmed.

If he had known it would end this way, even if the Uninhabited Island had been subject to criticism and gossip, he would have used his authority as chairman to definitively conclude the matter.

If not now, when should we exercise the power we hold?

Kanzaki Heavy Industries' influence doesn't reach the Advanced Nurturing Center. If it were the head of the Kanzaki family himself, it would be fine, but for Kanzaki Ryuji, he couldn't even go back to complain to his father before graduation.

Sakayanagi Narimori deeply regretted it.

He felt he had given his daughter enough love, but he never imagined that just one moment of negligence would lead to this outcome.

"I know." The girl, sitting quietly on the balcony, only slightly parted the curtains to peek outside, and spoke softly.

These were long-awaited words, and a proactive response.

Arisu responding very little lately. It's not that she's not talking at all, but she's just not saying as many confident things as she usually does.

"Don't worry, Dad." Sakayanagi Arisu turned around and gave her father a gentle smile. "I'm fine."

"But, how should I put it..."

"I'm searching for myself," she said.

She tilted her head, seemingly considering the accuracy of the word, then nodded:

"Yes, that's right, it's about finding yourself."

From the moment she began taking the VIP Exam, the girl was already pondering—pondering life, reflecting on the past, and contemplating herself.

The power of time is truly immense. No matter how deep the psychological trauma, as long as you allow time to wash away the wounds, they will fade and heal.

Pain is the thing people remember least, especially when it's not even real pain.

Ultimately, that dream wasn't even a shadow; it didn't even qualify as a nightmare, let alone cause her PTSD.

It was nothing but an absurd and ridiculous fantasy.

A powerful fantasy filled with personal morbid whims.

Therefore, Sakayanagi Arisu was never actually autistic from beginning to end.

The reason why it seems like they're playing an idle game, casually abandoning their class and not participating in, intervening in, or interfering with any Special Exam.

The reason is quite simple.

It's pointless.

Although Advanced Nurturing is described as a small-scale social experiment, it is essentially a school.

The Special Exam and rules mentioned are usually within the students' ability range.

Without him, Sakayanagi Arisu was absolutely confident that she could gain a dominant position.

But he was there.

That would make things quite different.

Continuing to play this childish social experiment with him will only result in being bullied repeatedly.

Instead of being repeatedly bullied and oppressed in various exams, she felt it was better to use that time to do something more meaningful.

That dream is a clear dividing line.

An ordinary body is powerless; the erosion by the extraordinary will be an inevitable trend since his arrival.

Although the world is currently safe and stable, he will definitely wreak havoc on the world after he leaves this school.

Based on Sakayanagi Arisu's understanding of him, this was not a very likely thing, but an inevitable one.

Therefore, she had to start thinking about the future.

Even if she might not have a future.