Chapter 306: Congratulations, You Found the 'Treasure'!
"Pecola, do you want to be in a group with Lucoa?"
Yurine's heart moved, a bright smile appearing on her face as she looked expectantly at Quetzalcoatl.
"No!"
Before Quetzalcoatl could respond, Lucoa interjected first: "Yurine, that's too treacherous of you! We can't swap lots! What's the fun if we can swap?"
"That's right!"
Ryohei Tanaka nodded repeatedly from the side.
Yurine narrowed her eyes at him.
( ﹁ ﹁ )
"Cough."
Ryohei Tanaka clenched his fist guiltily, coughed lightly against his mouth, and said: "Let's respect the rules of the game, okay?"
"Is it just about respecting the rules?"
Yurine raised her hand, pinched Ryohei Tanaka's cheek with her fair fingers, and pulled it towards herself.
"What else then?"
Ryohei Tanaka said brazenly: "Could I have any other motives? Non-existent!"
"..." Yurine let go of his cheek and rolled her eyes at this guy whose skin was getting thicker.
"Let's forget about swapping lots."
Witnessing the intimate interaction between the two, Quetzalcoatl, one of the parties involved, also stated her position:
"If the game loses its fairness, it will be much less fun to play."
"Besides, we're not just playing one round... Since we can't team up in the same form again, swapping or not doesn't really make a difference."
She didn't want to swap either!
Whether it was Lucoa or Ryohei Tanaka, she was quite excited to team up with either of them.
Quetzalcoatl felt like she was dual-wielding right now!
In her spare time, she also liked shipping Ryohei Tanaka and Yurine—
She felt like she was on top of the world right now!
"Whoa—! You said a lot in one breath!"
Ryohei Tanaka looked at Quetzalcoatl with some surprise. She usually spoke very little, so speaking so much at once was rare.
Quetzalcoatl gazed back calmly.
"Hai hai—! I get it!"
Yurine put on an 'I understand' expression and responded helplessly.
"Then... Ryohei-kun and I will close our eyes, or simply blindfold ourselves with black cloth."
Lucoa changed the subject, two pieces of black cloth appearing in her hands, and handed one to Ryohei Tanaka.
"Uh... that works too."
Closing eyes and using a blindfold wasn't much different, so Ryohei Tanaka had no objections.
He hadn't planned on peeking anyway.
"Yurine and Quetzalcoatl, sit by the edge of the hot spring pool and draw hearts on yourselves with chocolate sauce..."
Speaking of this, Lucoa paused, turned to look at Ryohei Tanaka who was about to put on the blindfold, and asked:
"Ryohei-kun, do you have chocolate sauce?"
"I don't... but I have jam."
Ryohei Tanaka thought for a moment and took out a jar of homemade blueberry jam and a small spoon from his storage space.
"Then let's use jam!"
After speaking, Lucoa blindfolded herself with the black cloth.
"In that case, the game name should be changed to Blueberry Jam Treasure Hunt."
Ryohei Tanaka said with a smile, handed the blueberry jam and small spoon to Yurine, and also blindfolded himself with the black cloth.
Losing his vision, the surrounding sounds were amplified.
Soon, he heard Yurine exclaim in surprise:
"Chotto matte! Pecola, where are you putting the jam?"
"Is this not okay?"
Quetzalcoatl's voice sounded, slightly puzzled.
Ryohei Tanaka's ears twitched, curious about where Quetzalcoatl was applying it.
"Isn't it a bit inappropriate to put it there?"
Yurine narrowed her eyes halfway, looking at Quetzalcoatl's 'northern hemisphere' with a slightly dark expression.
Normally, shouldn't it be applied to the face, arms, or shoulders? Putting it on your chest, what's that about!
Those who don't know would think Ryohei-kun is your boyfriend!
Yurine felt very unsettled.
Quetzalcoatl looked down, then raised her head and asked back in confusion:
"Is there a problem with me putting it here? I didn't put it on my swimsuit."
"Don't you think the location is a bit sensitive?"
Yurine couldn't help leaning back, then narrowed her eyes and sized up Quetzalcoatl suspiciously.
On purpose?
To provoke Lucoa?
But Yurine felt she was being provoked first and couldn't help puffing out her pink cheeks.
"..."
Ryohei Tanaka seemed to guess where Quetzalcoatl had put the jam.
She really was bold...!
Lucoa tilted her head and asked with a smile: "Are you guys ready? If so, let's start!"
"Ready."
Yurine turned her gaze to Lucoa.
After lingering for a second, it fell on Ryohei Tanaka beside her.
She saw the two stepping forward almost simultaneously, walking towards herself and Quetzalcoatl.
"Stop! Don't come any further!"
Seeing Lucoa about to bump into her, Yurine hurriedly spoke up to remind her.
At this moment, Quetzalcoatl also said:
"You can start 'treasure hunting'."
"..." The corners of Yurine's mouth twitched, and she cast a sideways glance.
Then, looking at Lucoa who lowered her head and pressed her face close, Yurine couldn't help turning her face away and blocking with her hand—
Yurine... had put the jam on the back of her hand!
"..." Ryohei Tanaka heard Quetzalcoatl's reminder, roughly estimated the position of her chest while she sat by the pool, and tentatively leaned his face closer.
"Wah—!"
Just as Lucoa leaned down and tentatively moved forward, her lips touched a sweet and sour sticky gel. She paused for a moment, then revealed a wry smile.
With a light lick of her tongue tip, she swept away the dab of jam.
Lucoa straightened up, raised her hand to pull off the black cloth blindfolding her, and complained to Yurine: "Yurine, you're so boring! And here I was wanting to explore properly!"
"That's truly regrettable."
Yurine showed a look of disdain and apologized insincerely.
"..."
They're finished? So fast! Sounds like Yurine went easy on her...
Ryohei Tanaka had just touched Quetzalcoatl's body—
Judging from the touch, it should be the right shoulder, so he explored towards the lower left.
Thinking that his official girlfriend and lover were watching nearby, a subtle thrill swept through his heart.
Then, accidentally, he got a taste of Quetzalcoatl's swimsuit.
"Hentai!"
"Going straight for someone's chest like that!"
Yurine's faint voice came from beside his ear.
Ryohei Tanaka turned his face to 'look' at her and cried injustice: "Didn't I deduce this from hearing your conversation earlier?"
"..." Yurine was choked by his words and was speechless for a moment.
"Indeed, I deduced it too. Can't play like that; it's no fun that way."
Lucoa smiled and backed him up from the side.
"Agreed."
Quetzalcoatl, whose ear tips were slightly red, chimed in, looked down at Ryohei Tanaka who had tasted the jam, and said cheerfully: "Congratulations, you found the 'treasure'!"
With this, the first round ended!
"Yoshi—! Let's draw lots and start the second round!"
Lucoa clapped her hands happily and urged.
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