Living with Magical Girls, but a Monster Executive

"Thank goodness!"

Yaochuan Guang was moved to tears as she praised him from the bottom of her heart. "It's so nice having a man in the house!"

Lantian Zhu wholeheartedly agreed.

At that moment, she could no longer keep a calm expression, instead looking thoroughly shaken.

"Since you're scared too, there's no need to force yourself to be brave."

Cong Yu bluntly critiqued Lantian Zhu as he looked at several small brown cylinders behind the cabinet... They were cockroach egg cases.

If left alone, they would hatch into a whole bunch of baby cockroaches.

Cong Yu quickly destroyed them all, then tied a tight knot in the garbage bag containing the cockroach corpses and egg cases.

Then, seeing that Yaochuan Guang had calmed down, he kindly reminded her, "Looks like there probably aren't few cockroaches in this house."

As he said this, Cong Yu added, "There might be cockroaches in everyone's rooms, and this is just the worst-hit area..."

The two magical girls stiffened.

"I have poison bait for cockroaches. We can put some in everyone's rooms and the living room... If that doesn't work, we'll have to call exterminators."

As Cong Yu spoke, he returned to his room and retrieved a can of something, then squeezed its contents into every corner. "If you're willing to use magic to search the house and grind all the cockroaches into dust, there won't be so much trouble..."

Yaochuan Guang imagined it... Her magic coming into contact with those disgusting cockroaches, then crushing them until...

Eugh... Ugh!

Unable to accept that, Yaochuan Guang felt cockroach poison was not so bad after all. But as she watched Cong Yu squeeze gel bait into the corners of the walls...

She suddenly thought of something...

What if she got up to use the bathroom in the middle of the night and saw several cockroaches having a feast? Then, upon seeing her, they would scatter all over the floor.

That probably... wouldn't happen, right...

While Yaochuan Guang's mind was in turmoil, Cong Yu and Lantian Zhu went to their respective rooms to apply cockroach poison.

Only then did today's sudden cockroach crisis finally come to a temporary end.

Yeah...

It had come to an end... right?

"Knock, knock, knock—"

"What is it?"

"Um... Cong Yu, I want to sleep with you."

Cong Yu: "?"

Yaochuan Guang: "Ehehe—"

The Tsundere Persona Is Gradually Taking Hold

"If you're really afraid of cockroaches, my room is the same. I put down cockroach gel bait too."

Cong Yu said this to Yaochuan Guang, who stood at his bedroom door holding a beanbag chair.

"And if you're planning to throw that thing on my floor and sleep on it... I think there's an even greater chance of being attacked by cockroaches in the middle of the night."

It had to be admitted that Cong Yu's words made perfect sense. Yet Yaochuan Guang just felt that Cong Yu's room was safer...

Perhaps it was not the room itself that made her feel safe, but the relatively reliable person inside it.

Yaochuan Guang: (ω)

In the end, Cong Yu stepped aside for Yaochuan Guang, whose eyes were sparkling as she blinked at him, and let her toss the beanbag chair beside his bed... along with a little blanket patterned with rainbows.

"..." Cong Yu silently watched Yaochuan Guang move things from her room into his... things like throw pillows and plush toys.

They did not take up much space, and that spot had been empty anyway.

But for some reason, Cong Yu felt that Yaochuan Guang seemed to be building something like a "cat tree" in his room.

Probably a little pet nest.

Speechless, he could not help but lament...

What the hell had magical girls become these days?!

Yaochuan Guang used to be a shy magical girl who would say things like, "Isn't it inappropriate to let someone of the opposite sex live in the house?" Now she had learned to shamelessly worm her way into a guy's room.

What a declining age.

Unaware of Cong Yu's inward sigh, Yaochuan Guang lazily sank into the beanbag chair. Hugging a pillow, she blinked up at Cong Yu.

Preparing to sleep in a boy's room for the first time, she seemed to be blushing slightly from embarrassment.

Then if you're embarrassed, don't come here on your own... What was this supposed to be?

Trust in me?

As Cong Yu thought this, he glanced at Yaochuan Guang, and then...

Their eyes met.

Unlike Cong Yu, who had merely glanced at Yaochuan Guang, she seemed to have been looking at him the whole time... This was already in the realm of staring.

If it were some ordinary young man, meeting Yaochuan Guang's gaze might have made him shyly look away, his eyes darting around.

But Cong Yu was different.

What was he?

He was not even human, seriously!

Cong Yu and Yaochuan Guang continued staring at each other until the latter brought up a topic to ease the awkwardness.

It lasted about four seconds.

In other words, Yaochuan Guang lost their staring contest within seconds.

"Um, well... Cong Yu, do you snore when you sleep?"

Yaochuan Guang asked.

In response to her awkward attempt at conversation, Cong Yu, who did not know whether he snored either, warned her in advance. "Maybe. If you're a light sleeper, you should just go back to your own room... Or you could sleep in Lantian Zhu's room."

Honestly, Cong Yu did not understand why Yaochuan Guang had not chosen Lantian Zhu's room first.

Yaochuan Guang immediately gave him the answer. "Ah... Little Lan?"

The disdain on Yaochuan Guang's face was obvious as she said in a disdainful tone, "I feel like Little Lan isn't reliable."

(Lantian Zhu: ...)

Although "not reliable" was an odd way to put it, Lantian Zhu had indeed performed worse than Yaochuan Guang when faced with cockroaches.

So it was not strange for her to seek Cong Yu's protection.

"Then I'm going to snore."

Cong Yu casually answered while fiddling with his phone.

He knew Yaochuan Guang was merely making conversation and did not really care whether he snored. So he responded in the same half-hearted manner.

Yaochuan Guang immediately started fake crying.

"Nooo, Cong Yu definitely won't snore, right? I believe in you! Otherwise, I'll be too exhausted to rest properly, I won't be able to get up for school through all my suffering and fatigue, then no one will cook and you and Little Lan will starve to death, and I'll spend the rest of my life drowning in regret, sob sob sob—"

That rhetoric was so familiar!!

"You're using my own curse against me."

Cong Yu questioned her, then laughed openly. "But have you considered that tomorrow is Saturday? We don't have school."

Yaochuan Guang: "Oh, right—"

"So no matter how miserable or exhausted you are, Lantian Zhu and I will wake you up and make you cook."

Yaochuan Guang: "Gah?! Demon!"

"..." After that interruption, the atmosphere in the room improved considerably, and they did not continue dwelling on whether Cong Yu snored.

Really, that topic had only been Yaochuan Guang's awkward attempt at conversation.

"Cong Yu, are you free tomorrow?"

At Yaochuan Guang's question, Cong Yu recalled his schedule. "I have plans from noon onward... I'm free in the morning."

The plan was to go to that café from before and meet Nagashima Riko to ask about the recent situation, so he was free in the morning.

Though Cong Yu would probably sleep until after ten in the morning.

"Eh? Is that so... Then are you free on Sunday?"

In response to Yaochuan Guang's second question, Cong Yu leaned quietly against the pillow propped against his headboard and looked at Yaochuan Guang, who lay on the floor beside the bed. "Yes."

Yaochuan Guang immediately perked up at Cong Yu's brief response. "Great! Then can you lend me your Sunday?"

In other words, she wanted to drag him along for something...

But she had phrased it rather elegantly.

"..."

"In just six lines of conversation, you asked me three questions... Aren't you being a little too humble? Do you really think you're my dog?"

After evaluating her like that, Cong Yu asked through Yaochuan Guang's puffed-up expression, "What exactly is it?"

At Cong Yu's question, Yaochuan Guang's eyes began to sparkle as she pouted. "It's a date—"

Cong Yu: "..."

Clearly, Cong Yu fell silent for a moment. With his perfectly normal intelligence, he could tell that the "date" Yaochuan Guang spoke of did not mean that kind of date.

But she had deliberately said it that way because she hoped Cong Yu would misunderstand.

Cong Yu did not play along by saying something like, "Eh? Am I your boyfriend?" Instead, he was far more direct. "Be more specific... You're being so vague that I won't agree."

Yaochuan Guang: "..."

This time, it was Yaochuan Guang who fell silent. She did not know what she was thinking, but she looked thoroughly hesitant.

Then she seemed to have no intention of continuing the subject.

"Anyway, it's a date... Don't you think it's a great deal to go on a date with a beautiful girl like me, Cong Yu?"

As she spoke, Yaochuan Guang gradually buried her head beneath the blanket. Unfortunately, after a long while, she still did not hear Cong Yu respond.

"..."

"Wind City Cemetery."

Yaochuan Guang said it in a muffled voice...

But maybe she should forget it after all.

For Cong Yu, being invited to a place like that by a girl he had only known for a short time... It really was strange, right?

Thinking that, she covered herself with the blanket and hoped she could fall asleep quickly...

Then forget tonight's embarrassment tomorrow.

"..."

"Sigh, although I'm not someone who casually accepts date invitations."

Hearing Cong Yu's voice, Yaochuan Guang realized something. She lifted her head in delight and immediately cheered—

"Yay!"

She was clearly celebrating too soon, but Cong Yu had no intention of changing his mind just to tease her, though that might have been amusing.

"But... since you've put it that way, it's not like I can't accept this invitation."

Still lying on the bed and scrolling through his phone, Cong Yu spoke casually. "But I'm only agreeing because I'm curious why you invited me to a place like that, not because of you, so don't misunderstand."

And in response to Cong Yu's words...

Yaochuan Guang: "Cong Yu! Tsundere! Cute! I like you so much!"