"That depends on what you have in mind, Yunchuan. Whether you want to rule over part of the world after the apocalypse or keep us tucked away somewhere safe, food is indispensable.
"With these resources, it'll be easy for you to recruit people—or use them to win over whoever catches your eye."
"Mm. You're right!"
Ye Yunchuan couldn't help playing with the girl's alluring curves.
She could not only help him manage his harem, but also come up with plans. He had to admit, he'd struck gold.
"But am I really that despicable in your eyes?"
Ye Yunchuan couldn't help increasing the pressure a little.
"Ah~ I was wrong, Yunchuan. Please let me go, okay?"
Shiina Hiyori hurriedly begged for mercy.
She was already exhausted from trying to bring him good luck.
She didn't want to go through another round of that fierce action.
"Yunchuan, what are you doing?"
When she came out of the bathroom, Shiina Hiyori saw Ye Yunchuan cutting up the bedsheet with a pair of scissors and couldn't help feeling puzzled.
"Well, didn't you say the Storage Space was convenient for keeping things? I thought I'd try to preserve your first-time keepsake. It's pretty meaningful, after all, don't you think?"
Ye Yunchuan's lips curled into a mischievous smile.
"Huh? You... Yunchuan, that's a bit too..." Shiina Hiyori blushed.
She'd never expected Ye Yunchuan to pull something like this.
But...
A memento of her first time?
To be honest, she kind of wanted to keep it, too.
"Kei, where did your bedsheet go?"
After getting a keepsake from Shiina Hiyori, Ye Yunchuan headed straight to Karuizawa Kei's room.
"Um... I took it to wash," Karuizawa Kei said awkwardly.
"What a shame. I was hoping to cut it up and keep it forever. I've awakened another superpower, something like a spatial ring. It can only store inanimate objects, and your first-time keepsake could stay in there forever."
Ye Yunchuan sighed.
Karuizawa Kei was one of his own, so Ye Yunchuan wouldn't hide much from her.
Besides, he didn't think it was a secret worth keeping.
"Really?"
Karuizawa Kei froze for a moment, and there seemed to be a flicker of interest in her eyes.
"Do you think I'd lie to you about something like this? Look."
As he spoke, Ye Yunchuan stored all the food in the room in his Storage Space right in front of Karuizawa Kei.
Then he made a loaf of bread appear out of thin air.
"It really disappeared! That's amazing. I can't believe you have such a miraculous power."
After seeing him do that, Karuizawa Kei was completely convinced.
Her cheeks turning red, she crept over to him and quietly slipped a bloodstained piece of white cloth into his hand.
"Promise you'll keep it safe, okay?"
"Huh? But didn't you say you'd washed it?"
Ye Yunchuan couldn't help teasing her.
He hadn't expected Karuizawa Kei to treasure her first time so much that she'd kept the keepsake.
"Honestly, you're so mean. You know how much this matters to me, and you still tease me about it."
Karuizawa Kei gave Ye Yunchuan a coquettish glare, then instinctively leaned against him and playfully thumped his chest with her little fists.
"Huh?"
As if she'd suddenly realized she was acting a little too intimate, Karuizawa Kei froze. Her cheeks gradually flushed red.
Looking at Karuizawa Kei snuggling against him and acting coquettish,
Ye Yunchuan was surprised, and his heart began beating a little faster.
In both his lives, this was the first time a girl had acted so sweetly toward him.
How should he put it?
It actually felt pretty nice.
Their gazes lingered on each other, and it seemed as if invisible threads were stretching between them. Just as their faces were about to draw together—
"Ahem, we're still here, you know. Could you stop acting like we don't exist?"
Sato Maya puffed out her cheeks.
Watching the two of them being so lovey-dovey, she couldn't help feeling jealous. She had a bit of a crush on Ye Yunchuan, after all.
"Jeez, you really have no sense at all. Can't you just sit quietly and watch like they are?"
Ye Yunchuan rolled his eyes.
Compared with the girls quietly watching from the side, this girl called Sato Maya really did seem a little less bright.
"Um, actually, we're having a bit of trouble watching, too," Hasebe Haruka said, raising a hand and muttering softly.
"Forget it. You girls should get some rest. I need to go stock up on supplies."
After reminding the girls to take care of themselves and leaving Xiao Hei behind as a bodyguard, Ye Yunchuan left Karuizawa Kei's room.
The apocalypse had only just begun.
While everyone was still caught off guard, he needed to stuff all the school's supplies into his Storage Space.
After all, food was the foundation of survival in the apocalypse.
Whoever controlled the food controlled everyone's lifeline.
The school ran on a points system, and people could buy almost anything with points.
So hardly anyone had bothered to stockpile food.
Most of it was in the cafeteria and the convenience store.
If he took all the supplies from those two places,
it wouldn't be long before most people were desperate with hunger. Once that happened, he'd be able to control whoever he wanted, since he'd have all the supplies.
Taking Control
"I'm exhausted. I feel like I'm about to die."
First he'd worked hard in the fields with Shiina, then he'd gone back and forth between the cafeteria and the mall's convenience store, sweeping up supplies.
When he returned to Karuizawa Kei's room, he didn't bother with anything else and collapsed onto the bed.
It wasn't until noon the next day that Karuizawa Kei woke him.
"Hey, wake up. Ah Chuan."
"Ah Chuan?" Ye Yunchuan paused.
He had to admit, Karuizawa Kei was incredibly familiar with him. No girl had ever called him that before.
"What's wrong? Why'd you wake me up all of a sudden?"
"Um, I'm hungry. I wanted to get something to eat from you."
"Something to eat? No problem."
Without giving it much thought, Ye Yunchuan took out a few pieces of bread and a carton of milk from his Storage Space.
"Is this enough?"
Watching Karuizawa Kei wolf down the food, Ye Yunchuan couldn't help asking with concern.
She was carrying his child, after all. He couldn't let her go hungry.
"By the way, Ah Chuan, Senior Nazuna and the others haven't eaten in a long time either."
Halfway through her meal, Karuizawa Kei seemed to remember something.
She glanced behind her.
Asahina Nazuna, Sato Maya, Hasebe Haruka, and Shinohara Satsuki were standing behind her, all gazing at him pleadingly.
"Are you hungry?"
At the sight of them, Ye Yunchuan revealed a sly smile.
"Starving!" Sato Maya was the most honest.
"A little..." Hasebe Haruka said, though she clearly wasn't being honest.
"Yunchuan..." Asahina Nazuna gazed at him reproachfully, her gentle eyes seemingly brimming with emotion.
"Do you want something to eat?"
"Yes!"
All four nodded at nearly the same time.
"Whoever sleeps with me first gets food first."
Ye Yunchuan stared straight at the four of them, making no effort to hide the lust in his eyes.
"Huh?"
"Pervert."
"You scumbag! That's so despicable!"
The girls were all dumbfounded. None of them had expected Ye Yunchuan to pull something like this.
Ye Yunchuan paid no attention to their scolding.
Only a moronic simp would use food to win a woman's affection.
He wasn't going to play the fool.
Women were tricky creatures. Getting their first time was what mattered most.
As for winning them over, he'd have plenty of time for that later.
"If you don't want to, that's fine. I'll go find Shiina."
After working in the fields with Ye Yunchuan, Shiina Hiyori had been resting in another room.
She was probably hungry by now, too.
It was time to bring her something to eat.
"Wait, Yunchuan. If you don't mind, let me do it this time."
Seeing that Ye Yunchuan was about to leave, Asahina Nazuna couldn't sit still.
Unlike Sato Maya and Hasebe Haruka, who were a little clueless, she'd spent a long time around Miyabi Nagumo and understood the dark side of human nature better.
Honestly, Ye Yunchuan was already being very gentle. If it had been Miyabi Nagumo, he probably would've gone even further.
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