Just as Tenya and Michiru left the park hand in hand, Tomoya arrived late with his umbrella.

"Michiru..."

"It seems she's really angry with me."

Tomoya didn't give up and searched the surrounding area, but still couldn't find Michiru.

He thought to himself that he had miscalculated.

He guessed that the homeless Michiru would most likely have to admit defeat and eventually go home dejectedly.

Otherwise, what?

Surely she wasn't picked up by someone?

Tomoya shook his head with a bitter smile.

...

Tenya led Michiru back to the apartment.

Passing by the cat-paw-decorated door of his neighbor, Yukino, Tenya sensed briefly and did not find the presence of its owner.

He thought that Yukino must have gone back home, and it seemed like something had happened in her family.

However, since the other party was unwilling to mention it, Tenya didn't take it to heart either.

"Yoshida-kun, do you live alone?" Michiru asked curiously.

"Yes, I'm a transfer student from America." Tenya explained simply.

"Oh."

Michiru remained calm on the surface, but her heart tightened.

This...

Doesn't this mean that the two of them are now alone together in a room, one man and one woman?

Hearing the thoughts in her heart, Tenya spoke to reassure her, "By the way, a teacher from Sobu High School lives downstairs from me."

Upon hearing this, Michiru immediately breathed a sigh of relief, thinking to herself, 'If there's a teacher living in the same building, surely he won't do anything reckless, right?'

However, what she couldn't possibly have imagined was that the teacher had already been 'taken down' long ago.

"Excuse the intrusion..."

After entering, Michiru looked around the room curiously.

A look of surprise appeared on her face. "I didn't expect your place to be quite clean, it doesn't look like someone living alone at all."

"Hyodo-san, you flatter me. I'm not that diligent. I just hire cleaners twice a week to come and tidy up." Tenya spoke the truth.

Why do it yourself when you can pay to get it done?

Speaking of which, not long ago, when he ordered online, the person who came was an acquaintance, Nanami.

The ultimate part-time worker!

After the cleaning was finished, he treated her to dinner.

The ingredients were taken from Yukino's refrigerator next door...

Anyway, the other party wasn't staying at the apartment these past few days, so the ingredients would just go to waste if left there.

Then, he gained some favorability from Nanami and also earned 300 system points.

"Eek! The evil capitalist!" Michiru stuck out her tongue.

Then, she thought about her allowance being cut off and being homeless. She was simply too pitiful.

"You got wet in the rain, Hyodo-san, go take a hot shower first."bTenya gestured to her.

"Okay."

"Yoshida-kun, you won't peek, right?" Michiru joked.

"Don't look down on me. If I wanted to look, I'd do it openly and honestly. Why would I need to sneak a peek?" Tenya retorted with a righteous expression.

"Openly and honestly, indeed..." Michiru complained weakly.

Although she was a little worried in her heart, now that things had developed to this point, she could only choose to trust Tenya's character.

Taking out clean clothes from her suitcase, she entered the bathroom and pulled the glass door shut.

Although it had a lock, this thing would fall over with a kick, only useful against gentlemen, not scoundrels.

Michiru hardened her heart and simply didn't lock the door.

Splash!

Submerging herself in the bathtub, her tense nerves relaxed.

Seeing that the other party had absolutely no intention of peeking, Michiru praised him in her heart as a true gentleman and lowered her guard.

...

"Ah~ After a hot shower, I feel so much more energetic."

Michiru was dressed lightly, wearing a purple sleeveless vest on her upper body, her full cleavage very eye-catching, and her navel was exposed, her lower abdomen flat with no excess fat.

On her lower body, she wore black super short hot pants that looked similar to men's boxer briefs.

"Nice figure." Tenya appreciated it openly and gave a positive evaluation.

"Thank you."

"You weren't shaken at all, Yoshida-kun is practically a stone."

Michiru smiled brightly, and her favorability towards the other party increased by a few points in her heart.

[Ding!]

[Detected that Michiru favorability towards the Host has reached 52%]

[Points +100]

[Ding!]

[Detected that Michiru favorability towards the Host has reached 71%]

[Points +200]

"No."

"Rather than obtaining Hyodo-san's body, I want to obtain her heart." (Referring to favorability)

Tenya looked at her with burning eyes.

"Eh?"

"Is this a confession?"

"Although my heart skipped a beat for a moment, the progress is too fast. Please slow down the pace of the strategy."

Michiru clearly misunderstood something, her cheeks slightly flushed, and she subtly refused in a half-joking manner.

"Then we'll take it slow." Tenya didn't explain, just smiled indifferently.

Points, I'll just slowly farm them.

Tenya, he really is interested in me.

Michiru's eyes flickered, and instead of feeling resistant, she felt a bit more anticipation.

Is this what love is?

A young girl in her prime.

Who doesn't like handsome guys?

The next day.

The club activity gathering point after school became Tenya's place.

"Musician Michiru, officially returning to the team!" Michiru waved to everyone with full energy.

"Your outfit..."

Eriri's gaze fixed on the other party's lightly dressed loungewear, and she instantly imagined something.

"Tenya-kun..."

"I told you to go console the runaway girl, I didn't tell you to pick her up and bring her home."

Utaha glared at Tenya with cold eyes.

"Tenya-senpai, how frivolous!" Ruri's eyes held a hint of resentment.

...

Under the leadership skill buff, the team's work efficiency doubled.

It took a total of fifteen days to finally successfully complete the entire game production.

For students, this can be considered a considerably good achievement.

In contrast, Tomoya's game team had a difficult time and became a complete negative example.

"Tomoya, you've truly disappointed me too much!"

Jaiko's artistic skill was no less than Eriri's, and she originally had high expectations for game production.

Because of that experience with the cherry blossoms, the slope, and the hat being blown away, she believed that Tomoya was the male protagonist of her fated encounter.

That's why she chose to join his game team, but after a full half a month, the other party couldn't even gather the members, which left her disappointed.

"That's not it, Gouda-san!"

"Please believe me one more time, I can definitely..."

Seeing that the only artist in the team was also about to leave, Tomoya panicked. He stepped forward and forcefully grabbed her arm, begging shamelessly.

"Let go! You're hurting me!" Jaiko frowned and struggled.

She didn't know what was going on. Even though the other party was clearly a scrawny otaku, his strength suddenly became incredibly great.

"Gouda!"

Tomoya's eyes widened, with a strange black aura lingering in them.

However, just then, a tall and muscular figure appeared behind him.

"You damn four-eyes, what are you doing to my sister?!!"

Takeshi came up and threw a punch, knocking Tomoya and his glasses flying.

"Brother!"

"Let it go..."

Jaiko pulled back the angry Takeshi and shook her head.

"It's one thing to fool my sister into making a game with you for free, but in the end, you even messed it up."

"You piece of trash! Don't let me see you again!!!"

Takeshi cursed Tomoya fiercely.