LRAB Page 202
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【Click.】
A soft clicking sound of a part snapping into place was particularly clear in the quiet room.
Zhou Ye carefully completed the final step of the assembly, then removed the magnifying glass with satisfaction and breathed a long sigh of relief.
Then, he belatedly realized what was going on.
He looked up and saw the almost excessively beautiful sight at the entrance.
Nami was wearing her orange bridal lingerie set.
Rias wore a luxurious burgundy silk nightgown.
Himejima Akeno wore a semi-transparent black lace kimono.
Saeko Busujima wore a simple white yukata.
Rika Minami and Shizuka Marikawa also wore cool, camisole nightgowns.
Six stunningly beautiful women, each with a distinct style but equally alluring, blocked his doorway, their expressions a kaleidoscope of emotions, like a group of people who had just reconnected to a server after a collective internet outage.
Zhou Ye's brain went blank for three seconds.
Immediately, a massive amount of information and complaints flooded his mind.
【Holy crap? What's going on?】
Is tonight some kind of auspicious day? Limited-time gacha banner is rerun, and there's even a rate-up for all characters?!
[This setup... Are they forming a group to raid a new dungeon? The boss or me?]
The first to break the silence was Nami, who was at the forefront.
Her flushed face turned from red to white, then from white to green, finally settling on a strange expression that mixed shame, indignation, and bewilderment.
She pointed at Zhou Ye, then at the model on his desk, her voice trembling.
"Boss...you...you...you..."
"You're here... playing this?"
“Playing?” Zhou Ye raised an eyebrow. He adjusted the wings of the Gundam on the table and, in a tone as serious as if introducing his own child, corrected him, “This is not playing.”
"This is called creation, it's art, it's a man's romance, you wouldn't understand."
"I..." Nami almost choked on her breath.
We've practically fought tooth and nail for you outside! And you're doing art in there? And you say we don't understand?
"Ah la la..."
Himejima Akeno was the first to recover from her shock. She covered her mouth, and a playful smile returned to her purple eyes.
She walked gracefully to the table, extended her slender fingers, and gently traced the massive hull of the [Radiance of Macragge].
"Ye, I never expected you to like something so big and hard."
Her words were ambiguous, causing Rias, who was standing next to her, to blush.
Zhou Ye completely missed her lewd joke and instead slapped her hand away with a wary look.
"Don't touch it! This was just applied with primer, what if you leave fingerprints!"
Himejima Akeno: "..."
For the first time, the smile on her face became genuinely stiff.
"That's right! Don't touch the boss's treasures!"
Nami immediately found a new direction to attack. She rushed forward in a few steps, spreading her arms like a little female dragon guarding her food, protecting Zhou Ye and his model table behind her, and glaring at Himejima Akeno and Rias.
"This belongs to the boss! Don't even think about taking it!"
Rias was a little confused by this sudden accusation.
"We didn't mean to steal your... Gundam?"
She wasn't even sure what the thing was called.
"Hmph! Who knows what you're up to!" Nami said angrily, hugging her arms tightly.
Nan Lixiang whistled, looking at the huge warship model with great interest, and then glanced at Zhou Ye.
"Boss, your hobby... is pretty expensive."
"It's alright, they were all gifts from our own people," Zhou Ye replied casually.
He was referring to Draig.
But the women present clearly interpreted it as something else.
[One of our own?]
[Who? Which little imp sent this?!]
In an instant, the atmosphere in the room became subtle again.
Zhou Ye observed their ever-changing expressions, combined with their excessively revealing outfits and the lingering tension outside the door.
If he still doesn't understand what happened, then he's wasted his two lifetimes as a shut-in.
Alright, the case is solved.
[So that's why Draig was grinning so slyly; he was calling in reinforcements for me.]
[That's great, the chaotic battleground has moved right into the finals.]
Saeko Busujima remained silent, simply watching Zhou Ye quietly, her gaze then falling on the pen knife beside him.
It was a finely crafted tool with a sharp blade.
“Boss,” she suddenly said, “your hand is very steady.”
“Of course,” Zhou Ye replied instinctively. “How can you make a model if your hands aren’t steady?”
Saeko nodded and didn't say anything more, but there was something else in her eyes.
That is an appreciation of similar skills.
"Cough cough!"
Rias cleared her throat, attempting to regain control.
She straightened her chest and tried to project the aura of the next head of the Gremory family.
"Ye! You're avoiding the question!"
"We...we came here..."
She'd been there for a while, but still couldn't articulate her ultimate purpose.
You can't exactly announce loudly in front of so many people, "I'm here to sleep with you," can you?
That would be so unbecoming of a noble demon!
"I know what you're here for."
Zhou Ye sighed, finally put down his tools, and stood up from his chair.
He looked around.
From the sulking Nami, to the seemingly calm Rias, to the spectator Akeno Himejima, to the eager Rika Nan and the fiery Saeko Busujima, and finally to the back, with her face flushed red.
Six people, not one can be missing.
None of them will escape.
He walked to the center of the room, shrugged, and gave a smile that was both helpless and somewhat self-deprecating.
"Alright, stop acting, I'm coming clean too."
"The corridor outside is too narrow, it doesn't allow for much movement."
He pointed to his spacious bed.
"Since you've come all this way, we can't let you make a wasted trip."
Zhou Ye's gaze swept over every girl present, and he asked slowly in a tone like a game master announcing the rules of the game.
"Tell me, are you planning to solo this dungeon one by one tonight and compete for the speedrun rankings?"
"Or... should we abandon all martial ethics and just swarm in, forming a group to fight the BOSS?"
"Let's come together"
A poem testifies to this.
Red cherries on the tip of the tongue, the second brother suppressing white lychees
With hands and feet working together, their spirits soared, climbing rocks and treading waves with unwavering determination.
Climbing the cliff face, even monkeys are terrified; swimming in the sea, the waves surge, and dragons are filled with awe.
With graceful movements, she weaves through bamboo paths; with swift steps, she breaks through frost-covered brambles on perilous trails.
Working together as one, we dare to forge a brilliant future towards the peak.
Chapter 171 The Protagonist Is No Longer Innocent
Three poles in the sun.
Sunlight streamed through the gaps in the curtains, casting several glaring spots of light into the messy room.
The air was filled with a complex scent, a scent of youth and sweat.
Zhou Ye's eyelids twitched, and he opened them with difficulty, just a crack.
[System restarting... Brain overload... CPU usage 90-90%...]
He felt like an old computer that had been forced to run for seven days and seven nights, with every part creaking and groaning, on the verge of smoking and breaking down at any moment.
The field of vision gradually became clear.
The first thing that catches the eye is Nami's pretty face, flushed from sleeping.