Chapter 174: A Person of the Opposite Sex You Want to Secretly Have an Affair With
[Name one Servant you'd most want a one-night stand with.]
What kind of "couple question" was this supposed to be? This outrageous prompt was clearly designed to wreck relationships!
"Once you've drawn Truth or Dare, you must carry it out. Refusing will result in immediate disqualification, but you can use skills to evade."
Finn laughed heartily as he explained:
"Hahaha, by the way, when you draw Truth, don't even think about lying. The Holy Grail might check whether you're violating the rules."
"...I really give up, but these Truth questions are completely just pranks, aren't they?" Eikou muttered.
"How could that be? Only through bloody interrogation like this can we verify your true feelings—whether you can face yourself without shame, whether you can face the truth. Only by undergoing trials like these can true love be forged!"
"Forge your damn asshole, this is nothing but a filthy game getting worse and worse. Do you think this is some kind of friendship party?"
Eikou complained fiercely.
Forget it, this isn't so bad either.
Unlike other couples, he and Yu Ji together with Kriemhild could only be considered a temporary pairing.
Even if they drew this kind of unpleasant question, there was no worry of ruining any relationship, since there wasn't any relationship to begin with.
As long as the baseline was already low enough, there was no need to worry about falling to the bottom!
"Let me think..." Eikou said with some annoyance, "this really is a hard question to answer."
"Haha, that's true," Sakamoto Ryoma, with his kind personality, helped ease the mood, "I really don't understand what the organizers were thinking when they came up with this kind of question. It's troublesome, isn't it, Eikou-san?"
Eikou's gaze sharpened: "It really is troublesome. The problem is that there are too many I want a one-night stand with. I honestly don't know who I want the most!"
"So that's where your trouble lies..." Sakamoto Ryoma was dumbfounded.
"This is difficult. To make sure my answer isn't wrong, I'll just say Minamoto no Raikou, Lion King, and Ibuki-Douji. At least one of them has to be correct."
How did a question that required choosing one turn into three answers? For a question this private, you could still blurt it out without hesitation. There wasn't the slightest sign of embarrassment at all!
On top of that, the characteristics of those three Servants were far too obvious. Was a woman's chest really that irresistible to you, kouhai?
Yu Ji screamed inwardly.
But then she thought again—forget it, this was actually better.
If Eikou had said her name in response to this question, she couldn't imagine how unbearably awkward it would have been.
Thinking of that, this game really did seem quite dangerous...
Then, she suddenly shook her head hard.
No, there's nothing dangerous about this. She had never done anything shameful. Even if she drew some embarrassing love question, she could calmly handle it—after all, she could always just answer referencing Xiang Yu-sama.
The person she liked? Xiang Yu-sama! Did she think her beloved had any flaws? None at all!
Even if she drew a troublesome question like Eikou, she still had confidence in answering it.
"All right, it's the next round now."
Eikou set aside the block he had just pulled and said.
[Your teammate Yu Ji performs a luck check.]
[The result is EX, great failure!]
Umu, as expected.
He pretended to heavily pat Yu Ji on the shoulder, saying: "Please, senpai."
"I told you not to touch me so casually."
She said with displeasure, then extended her delicate jade-like hand and effortlessly pulled out a block from the Jenga tower.
"Oh, it's Truth?"
Eikou glanced at the block in her hand and said.
"Truth is fine. I've never done anything I can't speak of anyway..."
Yu Ji said while looking at the question on the block.
「Have you ever been married? If you are married, name one person of the opposite sex you most want to have an affair with.」
"Eh...?"
The person of the opposite sex I most want to have an affair with?
Meaning, among the men I know or am acquainted with, I have to choose one I'd most want to cheat with?
What the hell kind of question is this!!!
Why would a couple game have this kind of absurd question? This was completely just a trap to make things difficult!
And to make matters worse, she didn't even have an evade-type skill, so there was no way to escape from this terrible question.
"..."
Yu Ji's heart instantly fell into panic.
A bead of cold sweat slid down her soft, snow-white cheek.
Moreover, no matter how you looked at it, this question was a trap. Not only did it rule out Xiang Yu-sama—the universal answer—but it also deliberately set up an extremely dangerous situation, one that could easily cause misunderstandings.
This is bad, this question is really bad!
First of all, she felt she could absolutely never commit adultery.
If she really had to answer, the logic would be: choose the man who currently has the closest relationship with her.
In other words, that guy...
No, impossible!
She would rather die than say something like that!
"I have never done such a thing, and never even thought about it," she replied coldly.
Beep!
On the other side, Finn immediately issued a warning.
"One warning. The Holy Grail rejects your answer—— Yu Ji has missed the key point. This question is not 'have you ever cheated,' nor is it 'do you want to cheat,' but 'if you had to choose one person to cheat with, who would it be.'"
Off to the side, Eikou, lacking even popcorn, found it pretty amusing: "Senpai, your reading comprehension isn't very good, huh."
You think I don't understand? I just don't want to answer!
Yu Ji screamed inwardly. You actually have the mood to tease me—do you not realize how serious this question is?
Her cheeks burned fiercely, her delicate white face feeling as though it might ignite.
"I… I refuse to answer!"
"In other words," Finn asked, "you plan to forfeit your turn?"
"Hey, what's going on," Eikou suddenly couldn't keep laughing, "just what kind of question did you draw? Senpai, I won't allow us to quit halfway like this. If we do, both of us will die here."
Answering a question this humiliating—I would rather die! she thought.
"Ahhh, so annoying! I'll answer, all right? What's so hard about answering!"
Yu Ji's face was scarlet as she turned her head to the side, speaking in a reckless tone:
"Mo… Mochizuki Eikou..."
The air suddenly grew silent.
Her beautiful flushed face, the slight parting of her cherry lips, and in a voice barely audible:
"If I have to choose… I mean if I absolutely must choose, then I choose Mochizuki Eikou."
The entire studio fell completely silent.
Eikou struggled to comprehend the situation.
"Senpai, what the hell are you even saying? Is your 'truth' that you plan to sneak a bite of my offerings later or something? I haven't done anything to deserve this, have I?"
Only now did he sense something was wrong and quietly checked the question on her block.
Then his eyes widened in shock.
"Eh...?"
Eikou, face full of disbelief, looked at her, then lowered his head to double-check the question, and looked up again.
"EHHHHHH?"
He suddenly covered his face with his hands, his cheeks so red they were practically steaming.
"S-sorry... I need to make a quick trip to the restroom..."
Blushing, he started to run, but Yu Ji grabbed him firmly.
"I haven't run away yet, what are you running for?" she said, face and ears crimson. "Why are you suddenly acting so shy? It's not like I'm actually having an affair with you! Can't you see this is just a simple hypothetical?"
"S-sorry, Yu Ji-sama, I just got a little scared..." he stammered.
"Why are you suddenly using '-sama,' and why are you dragging your chair so far away from me! Eikou, why are you such a coward!"