Chapter 142: Desperate Situation
"...Okay, I'm done for."
Eikou sighed heavily.
At this point there was no way he could possibly take care of everyone.
Even if he wanted to, his kidneys couldn't take it!
Right now, it was a special situation,
As long as he agreed to the invitation of any one of them, he wouldn't be able to take care of the others.
Morgan seemed like the hardest one to refuse, since she was the one who had personally dragged him here, and besides, she was already in the bath.
But if he stayed here any longer, Baobhan Sith would come to check the rooms!
Barghest was also a good girl, he couldn't bear to leave her alone.
And as for Melusine... that was no longer something he could even decide or consider, because her initiative was simply too strong.
"Coming at just this kind of timing is exactly when it's impossible to find an excuse to escape, otherwise it would cause an enormous blow to their self-esteem..."
Eikou fell into complete contradiction.
No matter how he thought about it, he couldn't come up with a better or more respectable way, it was already destined that one of the girls would end up feeling sad and lonely.
And the worst possible situation was the fact of him dating multiple people being exposed, making him the common enemy of the girls!
His expression suddenly brightened, as if he had come up with a truly brilliant idea.
"I've got it!"
Eikou said with a refreshing smile:
"As long as I just die right away, then wouldn't all the problems be solved?"
Immediately after, his shoulders slumped down.
Forget it, better not find joy in his own misery anymore.
A perfect solution likely didn't exist at all, someone was bound to be disappointed!
After working so hard the entire day, would it all end up wasted right before the finale?
No, he still didn't want to give up just like that.
"Even so, I can't think of any way anymore… my brain cells are completely exhausted…"
He stood up, putting back on his dark everyday clothes that were still soaking wet,
"Morgan, I want to step outside for a smoke."
Of course, Eikou didn't actually smoke, he just wanted to stand outside for a while, to seriously think over what countermeasure he should take next.
He went straight to the hotel lobby, sat down heavily on the sofa, and let out a long sigh, truly troubled.
"Mr. Mochizuki Eikou,"
Amid the noisy sound of the rain outside the hotel suddenly came a voice calling out.
Eikou looked up, only to see an English gentleman with a smoking pipe stride into the lobby. His overcoat was covered in rain, but his hairstyle was completely untouched, black hair slicked neatly back, exuding the refined demeanor of a rational gentleman.
It was none other than the world's most famous detective, Sherlock Holmes.
"Hello, are you looking for me for something?" Eikou asked in slight confusion.
"Of course," Holmes said with a smile, "the very first time we met I was able to call out your full name, that alone proves I came here to find you."
"In that case… did you come to me to open a room? Sorry, my schedule is fully booked right now, maybe next time."
He said dejectedly.
"Haha, Mr. Mochizuki, you truly have a sense of humor, but I'm not that kind of person."
"Really? But I've seen some TV shows where Holmes often with Watson…"
"Ahem,"
Holmes coughed lightly, cutting off that topic, then sat down beside him,
"Mr. Mochizuki, I already understand your situation clearly. Right now you are caught in a swirl of dating multiple girls, it seems there's no way to recover, everything is about to be exposed, isn't it?"
Eikou was startled when he heard that: "How do you know?"
"This is just normal, my friend—uh, joking, of course this isn't normal at all. It's just that we've been closely observing you recently, from your daily habits to your relationships, so discovering that you're currently facing a disaster with women isn't difficult at all. Quite rare, that you actually managed to last from morning until now."
"So what you're saying is, this whole day I've been under your surveillance already. Truly you have nothing better to do, even a side character like me is worth you wasting your effort studying all day?"
Holmes smiled faintly: "Because of special circumstances, we've been investigating the whereabouts of Sesshouin Kiara, so we installed quite a lot of cameras all over the streets."
"I see…"
"You must not be unfamiliar with the name Sesshouin Kiara, right?"
"Even this you guys managed to dig up, impressive," Eikou leaned back on the sofa, "I, as a victim very likely to be targeted by Sesshouin's revenge, completely support you setting up cameras to monitor her. But what does that have to do with me, why do you have to monitor me?"
He asked in puzzlement:
"Could it be you think I'm Sesshouin's accomplice?"
"No no no, Mr. Mochizuki, your line of thought is mistaken… it's also because I often only say half a sentence, which makes people unable to help but think all kinds of things."
Holmes gripped his pipe tightly, saying:
"At first, the reason we paid attention to you was because you were the first victim to accuse her and send her in there. But back then, you didn't really make us care too much, at most we just considered you a subject needing protection."
"At that time, we needed to conduct a special test, and required an unusual student to assist with that test."
Test? What kind of test?
Eikou didn't really understand what he was saying, but he didn't interrupt, only silently listened further.
"The supporting subject for this test had to have endurance, strong willpower, quick wits, a captivating personality, and ideally also possess integrity and kindness. To find someone who embodied all four of these was not easy at all…"
"Just when we were racking our brains over who to choose for the test, we discovered you."
"Yesterday you shone brilliantly in the speed race, making all of us notice your potential. So, Principal Da Vinci and I conducted a detailed investigation on you. Haha, sure enough, when you look, you learn something new—Mr. Mochizuki, your luck with women was even stronger than we had imagined."
Hearing that, Eikou could only shrug awkwardly.
"It kind of sounds like mockery when you put it that way…"
"No, I am absolutely praising you. You are the best candidate, indispensable for this test. This time I came specifically to sincerely invite you to participate in our test."
"What kind of test is it exactly? Do you want me to become 'The last Master of Humanity' and defeat Goetia?" Eikou asked suspiciously.
"Haha, no no, it's a technical test for a dating game!"
A technical test for a dating game?
What the hell, was there really a need to personally select him for something like that, making such a big deal of it instead only made it more suspicious.
He truly didn't want to agree.
"If you want me to consider it, then you absolutely have to explain clearly what the situation is. Ah, and I should add, I probably won't survive tonight anyway…"
Holmes merely raised one brow faintly, saying: "The specific details I cannot disclose just yet, only if you agree can I tell you everything. In addition, in exchange——"
He paused for a moment, then gave an offer that couldn't be refused:
"As long as you agree to participate in the test, we will find a way to resolve the desperate situation you're in right now, and furthermore… there's a reward!"