The Group Leader, You Read Them Too?

Faced with the absurdly outrageous antics of this internet-addicted princess,

Lin Xiao sat on the café sofa, trying his hardest to hold back his laughter, but eventually he simply could not contain it.

[He Is Simply God]: "666."

[He Is Simply God]: "@The Shut-In Princess of Eientei, Your Highness, broaden your horizons and send me a copy privately, please. I want to see Batman doujins too."

[The Boy Who Wants to Be a Hero]: "..."

[Smile Under the Wisteria Flowers]: "This..."

[Dark Knight of Gotham]: "??????"

Inside the Batcave, Bruce Wayne stared at the screen and shut his eyes in utter despair. He could defend against aliens.

But there was no way he could defend against this kind of double assault on both mind and body from a pervert!!!

However, Kaguya, who loved nothing more than stirring up trouble, suddenly noticed Yukino's ID in the group.

[The Shut-In Princess of Eientei]: "Oh my? @Snow Queen of the Service Club, so you were in the group too, Yukino! Speaking of doujins, your fanbooks were incredibly popular at Comiket 84 in the outside world! I have several gigabytes of them saved on my hard drive!"

[Snow Queen of the Service Club]: "??????"

[The Shut-In Princess of Eientei]: "Things like The Fall of the Aloof Snow Queen's Cat-Eared Maid, things like The Service Club's Secret... They were drawn wonderfully! Especially those where you were forced to wear cat ears and call someone Master with a blushing face—the artists captured that tsundere yet humiliated expression of yours perfectly! (≖ᴗ≖)✧"

"Crack."

From the café's upscale private room came the crisp sound of a glass developing a crack.

The Ice Queen, who had been maintaining an air of lofty superiority as though she were judging all the filth in the world, now sat frozen on the sofa as if struck by lightning.

Her cool eyes trembled violently, while a horrifying crimson spread across her fair neck at a visible speed.

Cat... cat-eared maid?! A fall from grace?! At that convention in the outside world, I was actually the protagonist of that kind of utterly indecent work?!! And that shameless princess had several gigabytes of it saved?!!!

Meanwhile, in the real world, Eriri—who had no idea the chat group even existed—was crouching miserably beneath the table. She suddenly felt the "icy aura" that had been suppressing her all this time turn into an eerie dead silence.

Eriri cautiously poked half her head out and froze.

Yukino, who had just been coldly lecturing everyone, was now flushed bright red, while Lin Xiao's shoulders shook wildly. He was clearly holding back laughter so hard he was about to suffer internal injuries!

"Ha... haha! Yukinoshita! W-why do you look like that?!"

"Sawamura... please shut up..." Yukino gritted her teeth, her mind completely blank from the impact of the words "cat-eared maid."

Seeing Yukino on the verge of collapse, Lin Xiao could not bear it any longer and decided to clear things up for this aloof club member in the group.

[He Is Simply God]: "Ahem, @The Shut-In Princess of Eientei, Your Highness, don't lead everyone astray. Although the heroine in that doujin was called Yukino Yukinoshita, the artist merely borrowed her name and character design. If you looked carefully, there were still some differences in the art style and appearance. It couldn't be considered her herself."

Lin Xiao was extremely satisfied. Those words were not only objective and fair, but had also perfectly pulled Yukino back from the brink of social death! However...

[The Shut-In Princess of Eientei]: "Oh? Just some differences in appearance?"

[The Shut-In Princess of Eientei]: "You even noticed such tiny differences... It seems that you, Mr. Group Leader, really did personally look at those doujins very carefully, didn't you? (≖ᴗ≖)✧"

The moment that message appeared, the entire Myriad Worlds Chat Group fell into a terrifying silence.

[Dark Knight of Gotham]: "..."

[The Boy Who Wants to Be a Hero]: "..."

[Smile Under the Wisteria Flowers]: "You may be a God... but this is..."

In the café, the smile on Lin Xiao's face—the smile of someone who had quietly done a good deed—instantly froze.

"Fuck!!! I got baited!!!"

[Snow Queen of the Service Club]: "??????"

Yukino sent six question marks brimming with murderous intent in the group, but in the real world, her gaze locked firmly onto Lin Xiao.

So... the man sitting across from me... had actually read them carefully enough to study even the differences in the art style?!!!

"Lin... Xiao... classmate..."

Yukino rose to her feet with agonizing slowness, an infinitely murderous smile on her beautiful face. Elegantly, she picked up the stainless-steel dessert knife on the table.

"It was a joke! It was academic research as a seasoned otaku! I absolutely did not look at you with that kind of indecent gaze!" Lin Xiao immediately raised both hands and desperately shrank into the corner of the sofa.

"It's all right, Mr. God."

Yukino advanced toward Lin Xiao step by step, the dessert knife in her hand gleaming coldly. "Since you have studied the 'differences in my appearance' so thoroughly, I shall now show you what a true The Service Club's Secret is—such as how to perform an extremely elegant physical castration on a perverted God."

"Yukinoshita, calm down! This is a public place! Murder is illegal, damn it!!!"

Eriri, who had absolutely no idea what was going on, stared dumbfoundedly at Yukino, who had suddenly drawn a knife.

"Hey! Flat-chest, are you insane?! Even if Lin Xiao sent you some weird pictures, you don't need to castrate him, do you?! Lin Xiao, what the hell did you show her?!"

"Miko! Hurry and see if an evil spirit has possessed her! This woman has completely gone dark!" Terrified, Eriri hid behind the sofa and frantically fanned the flames.

"I can't see anything, sob sob sob..." Miko, curled up in the corner, skillfully crouched down with her head covered.

Meanwhile, in the Myriad Worlds Chat Group, Batman let out a long breath.

[Dark Knight of Gotham]: "@He Is Simply God, Lin Xiao, may Gaia bless you. If that lady requires chemical agents to remove evidence of the crime, Wayne Enterprises can provide them free of charge."

Along with Batman's "blessing," the upscale café in Akihabara rang with the Light Giant's exceedingly desperate pleas for mercy, as well as the shrieks of a blonde twin-tailed girl eagerly enjoying the spectacle.

It was another peaceful day.