The process of applying for the security guard position went even more smoothly than Gao Hai had anticipated.
The school's interview was essentially just some simple physical tests and tactical ability assessments, ensuring that the recruited security guards had sufficient ability to protect the students' safety and were reliable enough not to harm the students. regarding the former, Gao Hai merely demonstrated his physical constitution, which surpassed human limits, to easily meet the standard. As for the latter, with recommendation letters from both the Fujiwara and Shijo families, Gao Hai passed the assessment with ease.
"Our school's security personnel operate on a four-shift rotation system. You need to work six consecutive hours a day, four days a week with three days off. The patrol area is relatively fixed, but you must ensure you are on call whenever an emergency situation arises. As for the salary, let's start with this amount. Is that acceptable?"
After confirming Gao Hai's abilities, the interviewer spoke to him with great solemnity, seemingly having already treated him as some special forces soldier cultivated by the higher-ups.
"Absolutely no problem. I can come to work at any time."
Gao Hai nodded and answered very seriously, then bade farewell to the interviewer.
Maki Shijo had already gone to class by this time, so she simply left a message telling Gao Hai to adapt to the job first. She added that if he couldn't adapt, leaving directly would be fine too. After all, she and Chika had only found a suitable identity for Gao Hai to appear at the school; Gao Hai himself didn't need to fulfill the duties of this position at all. Moreover, under the premise of not fulfilling his duties, he could still collect his salary. It could be said to be extremely easy.
Not good. Why do I increasingly feel like I've become a gigolo?
Gao Hai, having realized this point, felt things were somewhat amiss. He was a dignified Player with a double S-rank clearance, an existence walking on the path of the strong relying on multiple Blessings and physical enhancements. Yet, in the real world, he was being kept by two 17-year-old girls. Is such a thing proper? Is it reasonable? Should it be?
I have to do something. I can't just sink into depravity like this, Gao Hai!
Thinking this, Gao Hai took out his mobile phone and discovered that the new episode of Kimetsu no Yaiba: Swordsmith Village Arc had updated. So, he sat down in the security room, where the air conditioning was blowing cool air, connected to the school's Wi-Fi, and comfortably started watching anime. It wasn't until he finished watching that he realized the students had already reached their lunch break, and Maki was standing outside the security room window, looking at him with annoyance.
"Even if we said you don't need to fulfill work obligations, don't just slack off in the security room. Doing this will easily cause dissatisfaction among other security guards. Since you are receiving special treatment, it's better to keep a lower profile, you guy."
After Gao Hai walked out of the security room, a somewhat dissatisfied Maki reached out to knock on his chest, speaking to him in a casual tone.
"Yes, yes, yes, Miss Maki is right to lecture me. By the way, is it okay for you to talk to me like this? A student and a security guard getting so close... won't it cause people to gossip?"
Gao Hai spoke up just as casually. Then, faintly recalling that the Shuchiin in the original work seemed to be a school where gossip spread extremely fast, he couldn't help but remind Maki. The demeanor and actions she was displaying toward him right now were exactly like how they usually were during dates. If some student discovered this, secretly took a photo, and uploaded it to the campus network, Gao Hai felt it would be somewhat bad more or less.
"That kind of thing doesn't matter. And you still dare to say that? It's precisely because of that incident last month where you ran into the school and hugged me in public. Now, the whole school thinks my feelings were swindled by some working adult. I had to explain to my parents for a long time before I barely managed to fabricate a passable excuse to appease them."
Regarding the things Gao Hai was worried about, Maki had an attitude of complete disdain. However, the young girl soon recalled a certain matter; her cheeks flushed slightly red, and the gaze she directed at Gao Hai carried a hint of resentment.
Although that hug at the time was indeed very satisfying and made her feel comfortable.
However, she really couldn't quite endure that kind of passionate expression that completely disregarded the occasion.
Can't he just take it slow? This guy always looks so impatient, getting handsy with me at the drop of a hat. He's simply like a pervert.
Though, well, he is the type of pervert who is very reliable.
"Have you eaten lunch?"
Maki thought for a moment and opened her mouth to ask.
"Not yet."
Gao Hai answered honestly.
"Then come with me. Mm, let's find a quieter place. I specifically asked the chef to prepare an extra bento today."
Maki, who had made preparations in advance intending to eat lunch with Gao Hai, blinked as she spoke. She reached out to grab Gao Hai's sleeve and, without allowing any explanation, led him forward.
This attitude of not avoiding suspicion at all naturally attracted the attention of quite a few passing students. However, since Maki herself didn't care, Gao Hai didn't say anything either.
I get the feeling that today's Maki seems much more proactive than usual. Is it because she was stimulated by Chika?
Speaking of which, after being stimulated by that girl Chika several times last night, I ultimately couldn't resist pushing her down. Recallling it after the fact now, I feel a bit apologetic toward Maki. Sure enough, I still can't say that out loud for the time being.
I wonder if Chika is currently still sleeping at home. Listening to her, her family's discipline is quite strict. I wonder if there will be any problems with her skipping class all morning like this.
Many thoughts and matters flashed through Gao Hai's mind.
And at the same time he was following Maki all the way forward, on a classroom building not far away, a young girl was standing silently behind the curtains, observing the actions of these two.
This was a young girl with long blonde hair, who deliberately tied her school uniform jacket around her waist and dressed very casually—Ai Hayasaka, the maid of the Shinomiya family.
And the target locked onto by her gaze was Gao Hai himself, currently wearing a security guard uniform.
"The eldest young miss of the Shijo family... It seems her affection for him has reached a level she isn't willing to conceal anymore."
Hayasaka frowned slightly.
There were two reasons why she was observing Gao Hai here.
The first lay with the Miss Kaguya she served—specifically, the strategic plan proposed by Kaguya: [Make the man fall for herself].
That is, with the goal of [The man named Gao Hai developing a sense of infatuation with Kaguya Shinomiya and being conquered by her charm]. Although there was absolutely no effective plan even now, it was a bizarre strategy that made Hayasaka feel the urge to resign just hearing about it. She already didn't know how to describe it.
Miss wasn't this kind of idiot before...
Why has such a huge change occurred in these two months?
It seemed that ever since this person named Gao Hai became active, Miss started to change.
In the very beginning, after Miss's clothes inexplicably became tattered that day, she began to change her original course of action of cold solitude and started having frequent contact with the eldest young miss of the Shijo family. Then, Miss began to often fall into deep thought, unknown what she was pondering, and started making Hayasaka collect all sorts of strange information. For some reason, Hayasaka actually couldn't recall a portion of that information.
Her level of attention toward this man named Gao Hai was also constantly increasing. It seemed that no matter what she did, no matter when, she would think about issues regarding this man.
This was truly too strange. clearly, these two people had no intersecting social circles to speak of before. It was as if Miss Kaguya suddenly knew the other party, and furthermore possessed extraordinary trust in this man. Additionally, the attitude of the main family toward this man was also very ambiguous, leaving Hayasaka completely unable to figure out the situation.
But no matter what was said, a servant was ultimately a servant. Although her head was full of questions, although the bottom of her heart was filled with doubts, as long as there were no orders from above, she wouldn't care too much about this matter. At most, she would just worry whether Miss Kaguya had been deceived by a bad man or something similar. But now, Miss Kaguya had explicitly put forward a request, wanting her to track Gao Hai, analyze and research all of the other party's personality traits, behavioral preferences, etc., and formulate a plan that could make Gao Hai thoroughly fall for Kaguya.
Miss, although I am your servant, I really am not meant to be used by you like this. I am just a 17-year-old girl with zero love experience; where would I get the skill level to formulate this kind of plan...
Hayasaka really wanted to complain to her master like this.
But at the time, Kaguya had just grasped Hayasaka's hands with abnormal firmness, shouting words like [Hayasaka, help me] to her. Clearly, she didn't intend to consider Hayasaka's feelings at all.
"Looking at the intelligence collected so far, more than a month ago, this man was still a transparent person who almost never left his house and showed no hobbies other than games. But in the one month following that, Gao Hai walked out of his house a total of 14 times."
"Among them, 5 were gatherings with Miss Kaguya and Miss Shijo. The other 9 were dates with Miss Shijo. Under the statistics of all dates, Gao Hai accumulated a total of 78 kisses on Miss Shijo's lips. Among these, the number of times initiated by Gao Hai was 78, accounting for 100%. There were 71 kisses that ended with Miss Shijo struggling and escaping, and 7 kisses resulted in Miss Shijo nearly fainting. Taking advantage to grope Miss Shijo's body occurred 47 times; among those, 19 times he did not restrain himself after being warned but instead increased the intensity. And finally, pressing Miss Shijo onto the bed to forcefully kiss her in an attempt to push her down, ending with being kicked away by the resisting party and fleeing: 1 time."
Hayasaka carefully read through this intelligence information she had collected once more, and very quickly reached a conclusion.
To realize the idea of making this man fascinated, one simply needs to go to bed with him once.
In every sense, this guy was too much of a carnivore. To be honest, if it weren't because the one dating him was Miss Shijo, but some other girl from Shuchiin, Hayasaka felt that either the two would have completed the ascension ceremony long ago, or Gao Hai himself would have already been escorted into a prison cell.
This guy is really terrifying enough. If possible, I really don't want to make frontal contact with him, but not contacting him won't do either...
Because the second reason she was here had to do with the Shinomiya main family, with Kaguya's brother, Huangguang Shinomiya. After observing Gao Hai through Hayasaka for a month, this man finally decided to try contacting Gao Hai. Thus, he had Hayasaka go find Gao Hai to convey his meaning—to set a time for Gao Hai to meet with his people. He probably wanted Gao Hai to work for him.
As for why Huangguang Shinomiya refused to use his own people and insisted on using Hayasaka, this spy, to appear, it was probably because Gao Hai was now connected to both the Shijo family and the Fujiwara family, and people from both sides also had contact with Kaguya, so he didn't wish to expose anything. However, this only made Hayasaka feel even more disgusted, because this measure implied that in a certain sense, she was already something that could be discarded. Even if something was exposed on her end, it wouldn't matter.
Forget it. In short, I'll find an opportunity next to make slight contact with this man. But looking at this person's attitude, I estimate he'll be too lazy to even pay attention to Huangguang Shinomiya's invitation. That's fine too. That idiot with high eyes but low hands clearly hasn't truly inherited the Shinomiya family yet, but puts on an air everyday like he's amazing. Does he really think everyone will bow and scrape to him?
Thinking this, seeing that Gao Hai and Shijo had already left that walkway, Hayasaka quickly shifted positions, quietly following them.
As for Gao Hai and Maki, the two of them had walked with leisurely steps to a bench in the woods at this time, sitting down there.
"This portion is for you."
Maki handed a bento box to Gao Hai. Unchanging in expression, she opened her own portion, but the corner of her eye remained firmly locked onto the movements on Gao Hai's side.
What she didn't tell Gao Hai was that his portion of the bento was actually made by Maki herself.
Originally, she had actually planned to make something like a generic 'Love Bento', but Maki simply couldn't achieve the act of drawing a heart on the bento, nor did she have the courage to say words like "I made this for you" to Gao Hai. In the end, she could only lie, stating she asked the kitchen to make an extra portion.
"Oh, thank you for the bento, Miss. Then, I'm digging in."
Gao Hai himself didn't pay too much mind; opening the bento box, he began to eat directly.
Is his reaction that flat?
Seeing Gao Hai eating the bento with a completely unchanging facial expression, Maki became slightly disappointed and dissatisfied. However, she didn't express it, simply opening her own bento box sullenly, picking up her chopsticks to prepare to eat as well.
"Mmm—?!"
Then, just as she opened her mouth, a portion of food casually picked out by Gao Hai was fed into her mouth.
"Mmh, mmh, mmh... W-W-What are you doing?"
The wide-eyed girl was forced to swallow the sweet-tasting side dish, while Gao Hai himself had already lowered his head to eat the food held by the chopsticks in Maki's hand in one bite, swallowing it after chewing twice.
"Don't you think this has more atmosphere? Incidentally, the taste is sweet; it's very nice. Come on, say 'ahh'—"
Gao Hai gave Maki a thumbs up in praise, then picked up a slice of fresh fish, speaking to Maki with a smile.
"You guy, you really have enough tricks for bullying me..."
Maki muttered in a small voice, but ultimately opened her mouth, allowing Gao Hai to feed the fish meat into her mouth. Following that, she picked up food from her own bento box.
"Come, be good, say 'ahh'—"
Maki, deliberately adopting an attitude used for puppies and kittens, spoke up. The result was that Gao Hai ate the food picked up by her chopsticks without hesitation, which instead caused Maki's face to turn even redder.
You take a bite, I take a bite.
One party was composed and generous; the other's gaze dodged, expression shy.
The two people played a feeding game just like that.
And Hayasaka, who had to hide in the woods to conduct surveillance in order to complete the plan, could only go hungry. At this moment, she had unknowingly clenched her fists, her teeth gritted together.
I want to resign...
Really, truly, I want to resign and quit...
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