Xia Xi had never imagined that this hardcore action RPG...
Would actually include dating-sim segments.
The game offered so much freedom.
If any bold players wanted to do something spicy in here... could this game even pass the censors?
He hadn't seen an R18 rating on it before...
Thoughts raced through his mind.
For a moment, Xia Xi had ten thousand things he wanted to gripe about.
But the faint, distinctly girlish fragrance on Kanae, along with the warmth of her body coming clearly through her thin clothing...
Kept forcibly blanking out the circuits in Xia Xi's brain.
Naturally, the girl had no idea he had already entered a half-crashed state.
But she keenly heard how Xia Xi's usually steady, strong heartbeat...
Was speeding up.
At that moment, Kanae suddenly recalled what Tamayo had told her not long ago.
[Please believe in yourself, Miss Kanae.]
[When it comes to people's feelings, often, as long as you make the effort to convey them...]
[That seemingly thick Wall of the Heart will eventually melt away, little by little.]
Was this quickening heartbeat a sign that Xia Xi's Wall of the Heart...
Had already begun to waver?
At that thought...
Kanae, whose face was already bright red, buried her burning cheeks deeper against Xia Xi's chest.
Her voice was airy, as though it came from somewhere far away.
It sent faint vibrations tapping against the Dawn Hashira's chest.
"Today... I made three wishes at the shrine."
"The first was about all our comrades in the Demon Slayer Corps..."
"The second was about Shinobu and Little Ye Ying."
At this point, the girl's voice suddenly grew even softer.
"Th-the third... was about you, Xia Xi..."
Meanwhile, Xia Xi was already torn between asking, [What exactly was that wish?] and *[Whose wish mattered more, mine