Chapter 91
"Just stop obsessing over it," Aragaki Shun said dismissively. "When it comes to doing evil, we always judge by the actions, not the intentions. And when it comes to intentions, no one in the world is perfect."
"An ordinary person suddenly has the idea that doing good deeds can accumulate good fortune, so he starts doing good deeds and helping others every day... To some extent, this is certainly also a manifestation of self-satisfaction."
"But as long as he actually takes action, so what if he has some ulterior motives? Does the fact that he has helped countless people just because his intentions aren't pure enough deny the fact that he has done so?"
Aragaki Shun walked to Ichinose's side, gently stroking the girl's long, pink, waist-length hair with one hand, and wrapping his other arm around her waist, pulling her into his embrace.
With his forehead pressed against the girl's forehead, Aragaki Shun gently exhaled and patted Ichinose's face.
"Compared to these trivial matters, I'd like Ichinose to help me resolve some more private issues right now."
"Haha, Chihiro is still waiting for me in her dorm..."
Lost in the warmth of the embrace for a moment, Ichinose's face flushed red as she instinctively pushed the boy away.
Taking two steps back, the pink-haired girl dared not stay any longer and quickly turned and ran out of the dormitory.
Only after entering the elevator, pressing the corresponding floor button, and waiting for the doors to close automatically, confirming that Aragaki Shun wouldn't chase after her anymore, did Ichinose breathe a sigh of relief and lean against the wall.
Eek~ How could Aragaki-kun suddenly do something so frivolous...?
Gently patting her chest to calm the startled feeling, the girl finally managed to calm down.
Just then, the elevator arrived at the floor corresponding to the girls in Class 1-A.
Ichinose Honami instinctively stepped out of the elevator, but when she tried to take another step, looking at the dormitory rooms on both sides of the corridor, she suddenly lost the motivation to move forward.
One second, two seconds, three seconds... half a minute, one minute, two minutes... After four or five minutes, the pink-haired girl patted her cheeks with both hands, forcing herself to regain her usual bright smile.
Chihiro had told her that when she went back, she should definitely say hello to the other person's dormitory.
Such a promise cannot be ignored.
Ichinose, wake up!
Chihiro made her feelings for Aragaki-kun clear to everyone right at the start of the school year.
Now Aragaki-kun has responded to her advances.
The two are now officially in a romantic relationship.
You must never be a bad woman who betrays your best friend.
Taking a deep breath, Ichinose clenched her little fist to cheer herself up.
Chihiro is a very good person, and everyone in Class A is a very good classmate. Even though the competition in Advanced Nurturing is a bit fierce, Aragaki-kun will definitely be able to lead everyone to a bright future.
We can have a happy and fulfilling time at this school, and we can have a satisfying ending three years from now.
That's good enough; things are already quite good as they are.
I only admire and trust Aragaki-kun; I would never have any further thoughts, much less do anything immoral.
Absolutely not!
"They didn't push me away with much force, but they ran away pretty fast."
After scaring Ichinose, Aragaki Shun sighed with a hint of reminiscence.
Judging from the force with which the girl instinctively pushed him away, if he had been a little more forceful, he might have actually been able to keep her and spend the night with her.
Unfortunately...
Thinking of the two extra items in the room, Aragaki Shun immediately closed the door and his smile vanished.
Sitting in his office chair, the young man took a sip of water before speaking indifferently:
"Everyone's gone now, you two should come out, right? Or are you planning to keep hiding under my bed and in my closet forever?"
As soon as she finished speaking, a few seconds later, first, Kushida Kikyo's charming figure crawled out from under the bed, and then Karuizawa Kei awkwardly pushed open the wardrobe door and greeted Aragaki Shun.
"Huh?" Looking at the spot where the two were hiding, Aragaki Shun had several question marks in his mind. "So you two even switched places on purpose?"
"So it seems that when Ichinose and I went outside the dormitory to talk, you also came out to communicate once."
"If that's the case, why don't you just leave? Is there something else you want to tell me?"
It's impossible that the two female leaders of Class D are so mentally challenged that they can't even open a door.
Walking out of the dormitory, you don't need to use a room card or anything like that.
Under Aragaki Shun's amused gaze, Kushida Kikyo and Karuizawa Kei exchanged somewhat awkward glances before the brown-haired girl with a high ponytail took the initiative to step forward.
"I... I heard from Kikyo that Aragaki once asked her to be his girlfriend, is that right?"
Karuizawa Kei was very nervous when she asked the question, her eyes fixed on Aragaki Shun without blinking.
If I want to date someone, I can do it myself, so why did I choose Kushida, who's in the Class D as her?
Kushida Kikyo nearby, gave a dry laugh, and when Aragaki Shun looked over, she kept winking and hinting, hoping that he would cooperate with her.
"I see," seeing this, Aragaki Shun fully understood what had happened between the two of them after he left, so he simply nodded and told the truth, "I did propose to Kushida, but she rejected me."
Kushida Kikyo secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
God knows how utterly hopeless Karuizawa Kei felt when she opened the closet and found herself hiding inside.
After everyone else left the dormitory, she and Aragaki Shun emerged from the closet and under the bed, respectively. Faced with the complicated gaze of the girl with the high ponytail, she could only brace herself and tell them that Aragaki Shun had Karuizawa invited her to be his girlfriend.
Using this tactic, she successfully shifted the other person's focus to romance, preventing Karuizawa from suspecting that she came because of her past embarrassing history.
As long as I can keep my middle school past a secret, it won't be a big deal if people suspect that I'm having an affair with Aragaki Shun.
Kushida breathed a sigh of relief, but Karuizawa, who verified the news, was devastated, as if struck by lightning.
Her position in Class D was obtained through her connection with Aragaki Shun. If the host finds someone else in the class whom she prefers, wouldn't she become useless?
Needless to say, Kushida was already more popular than her in class, and the other was fully qualified to take her place.
Thinking of this, Karuizawa's eyes suddenly turned bloodshot as he looked at Kushida, his voice low and demanding:
"It's really strange that Kushida would reject Aragaki-kun's advances. But if you rejected him before, why did you sneak into Aragaki-kun's dorm at night?"
Kushida Kikyo: "..."
Just a moment ago she was Kikyo, and now she's suddenly become Kushida. Karuizawa, your change of heart is just too fast!
Looking at the high-ponytailed girl in front of him, whose hostility was completely undisguised, Kushida secretly groaned inwardly.
Karuizawa arrived after her tonight, so he didn't hear her conversation with Aragaki Shun and didn't know her true purpose.
She originally thought that as long as her excuse was reasonable, she could easily get away with it.
But now it seems that while he did hide his true intentions, he has also gotten himself into another kind of trouble.
Karuizawa Kei in front of him clearly had feelings for Aragaki Shun, so it seemed he was being treated as a love rival.
Kushida Kikyo wanted to curse, but she could only continue to fabricate lies, going along with the reasons she had given herself.
"Actually, I have a okay impression of Aragaki-kun, but my good friend Xiao Mei also has feelings for him, so after hesitating for a long time, I didn't accept Aragaki-kun's invitation to date."
Kushida Kikyo put on a pitiful look, somewhat embarrassed to use her best friend as a shield.
"Wang Meiyu?"
Karuizawa Kei nodded, not doubting this statement.
In her memory, Wang Meiyu did indeed like Aragaki Shun, and Kushida was also someone who valued friends very much.
She declined a dating invitation because the other person was the guy her best friend liked... This is quite normal in a girl group.
However, it is clear that even though Kushida did not agree immediately due to friendship, he must have been thinking about Aragaki Shun all along.
Otherwise, she wouldn't have sneaked into the other person's dorm at night.
"If you don't want to ruin your friendship with a man, shouldn't you be more resolute? If you continue like this, and Wang Meiyu finds out later, won't your friendship still break down anyway?"
Anyway, Wang Meiyu and I aren't in the same clique, so get out of my way and don't take my spot!
Kushida Kikyo: "..."
"I know, I'll leave now, and I won't do it again!"
As if he had been bullied by a vicious woman, Kushida wiped away tears with a sorrowful expression, then turned and ran out of the room.
Having watched the whole scene unfold, Aragaki Shun smiled, clapped his hands twice, and gave the somewhat embarrassed Karuizawa an approving look.
"Your aggressiveness is quite good. Keep it up and try to be assertive in any situation."
Of course, Aragaki Shun knew that Kushida was faking it, but he didn't expose the other's intentions.
Doing this kind of thing wouldn't do him any good.
Karuizawa was unaware of Kushida's true intentions, Kushida was equally unaware of Karuizawa's real purpose in coming here, since the latter had only said a few words before hiding away because of Chihiro.
Thus, both of them assumed the other was jealous of them, and to him, who was in the know, this development was truly hilarious.
Humor aside, Aragaki Shun had no intention of continuing their antics, so he simply threw Karuizawa Kei out as well.
"You should go back and get some rest too, don't disturb my nighttime!"
Karuizawa Kei: "..."
Why were you able to ask Kushida out, while I was left alone in your room and still got kicked out?
The girl with the high ponytail was completely baffled by this.
Biting her lip, the girl stared at the room for a long time before reluctantly turning around.
Then, the next moment, a tense face suddenly appeared in front of him, startling Karuizawa who cried out "Ah!" and stumbled back two steps, bumping into the door.
"Karuizawa Kei from Class D, what are you trying to do standing at my boyfriend's door?"
Behind Karuizawa, Shiranami Chihiro, who had been watching the other party for some time, wore a smile.
After chatting with Ichinose for a few minutes, she immediately ran down from the girls' dormitory, only to find herself unexpectedly encountering another woman who had been cheating on her boyfriend.
While it's normal for Aragaki-kun to be so charming, this puts a lot of pressure on her as his girlfriend.
"Your boyfriend?"
After realizing that what had frightened her wasn't a ghost, but a classmate from Class A, Karuizawa was just starting to recover when she became confused again by the words the other person used.
"Yes, we just officially became a couple today. I am Aragaki-kun's official girlfriend."
A pleased smile played on his lips as he watched the girl with the high ponytail murmur the word "today" absentmindedly. Shiro-nami snorted softly and directly pulled her away from the door.
"Fine, you didn't know beforehand, so I won't hold it against you."
"But remember this after tonight: the man in this room is already taken. Whatever your thoughts may be, it's all meaningless now."
After issuing this righteous and stern warning, Shiro-nami turned away, ignoring the loser in her eyes.
As soon as Aragaki Shun opened the door, the girl, her face bright, threw herself into his arms, giggling as she pushed him into the dormitory.
Then--
"Thud~!"
Karuizawa Kei watched helplessly as the door closed.
Everything in the room—the bed, the tables and chairs, the lights, the man, the woman, and everything else—vanished from her sight.
Separated by a wall, they became two different worlds.
160. A Dream of Spring Night; Born by the World; Panel Evolution
The third day of June.
For Aragaki Shun, this was a special morning.
Opening his eyes in the darkness, feeling the extra warmth and weight on his body, the boy recalled the growth he had experienced the previous night. He ultimately decided against getting up immediately and instead went for his usual morning run.
Slightly propping himself up, Aragaki Shun moved Shiranami Chihiro, who had been pressed against him, away a little. He silently observed the girl who was still sleeping in, while gently stroking her delicate cheek.
Things between men and women seem like that, but upon closer examination, they do have a unique flavor.
Unfortunately, Chihiro's physique was still a bit weak. Last night was the first time for both of them, and they didn't dare to be too indulgent, which left him with some excess energy.
But Aragaki Shun isn't the kind of person who only cares about his own pleasure. He can't possibly wake the girl up now and have her do some early morning exercise.
Not to mention, there's something else that can now capture his attention—
[Achievement Completed: Transformation of Growth, something seems to have changed, Source Power +4.]
[Achievement Completed: Community of Destiny. Your connection to this world has increased, Source Power +1.]