Chapter 750: Another wishy-washy protagonist
On the roof of one of the school buildings.
Sitting on a mat, Eiji took out his lunch box from inside his inventory.
Instantly, the lunch box prepared by Grayfia appeared from the air.
"Eiji, now I just realized it. Your lunch box is always bigger than ours." Mio said while staring at Eiji's lunch box which was almost the size of a suitcase filled with money.
Kurumi: "With a lunch box that big, it would be hard to carry it with a school bag unless you have space magic like Eiji."
Yuki: "Kurumi, did you forget that Lala's bracelet also has a similar ability?"
Kurumi: "Ah, Nee, you're right! I forgot!"
Celis joked by saying, "Eiji, did you accidentally take the lunch box for one family?"
Maria giggled. "I remember it looked like a container for New Year's Eve dinner dishes."
Hearing what the five heroines of The Testament of Sister New Devil who had now become his women said...
Eiji suddenly regretted a little not inviting the protagonist Basara to have lunch with them.
It would have been more fun to see his reaction, or rather his face which was green at the moment.
"If you guys want the same lunch box, you can ask Grayfia or another maid."
""No thanks.""
The girls refused, they didn't have as big an appetite as Eiji. However, they were not worried about getting fat as they only needed to exercise with him to burn calories.
Hearing their conversation, the last girl in the group did not understand what she was hearing.
She wasn't one of Eiji's women, so she didn't know anything about space magic or Lala's advanced bracelet.
Even when Eiji's lunch box suddenly appeared out of thin air, she wondered if she was hallucinating?
A while ago, Mio invited Itsuki to have lunch together and she didn't refuse, instead she happily accepted the invitation.
However, there was also a boy who joined them for lunch and he seemed to have a good relationship with Mio and the other girls.
To be honest, Itsuki had been looking at Eiji for quite a while because she felt that his face looked familiar.
He was so handsome...
But where had she seen him before?
"Who is this by the way? Mio, is she your new friend?"
Eiji pretended not to know Itsuki, he understood that Mio seemed to be doing a wingman operation.
She was doing a good thing.
As expected of his fiancée.
"I-I..." Itsuki stuttered, she was a little embarrassed when her gaze met Eiji's and wondered if she was caught looking at his face?
Mio interrupted her by saying, "This is Itsuki Nakano, she is a transfer student who moved to this school yesterday and my classmate, Eiji. You don't mind her coming to lunch with us, right?"
Just kidding.
She knew the boy didn't mind.
However, she and the other girls would pretend to be with him.
Itsuki didn't realize she was having lunch with a group of wolves.
"Of course not, I don't mind. Itsuki, may I call you like that? I'm Eiji Seiya."
Holding chopsticks in his hand, Eiji introduced himself.
As one of the heroines of The Quintessential Quintuplets, Itsuki was undoubtedly beautiful. She had fair skin, blue eyes, long tomato-red hair with star hairpins on both sides and a wavy figure.
The most interesting thing was that there were still her four sisters who had figures as good as her, their faces were similar but their hair colors and personalities were different.
Eiji was spirited but on the surface? He was like a hunter who was calm so as not to frighten his prey.
"Yes, you can call me that." Itsuki said because her four sisters had the same last name as her.
To distinguish each other when they were together, others had to call them by their first names.
"You can also call me Eiji."
"In that case, Eiji-kun. Thank you for accepting me to have lunch with you all."
Itsuki smiled and said polite words.
She was now curious what was Eiji's relationship with Mio and the others?
However, they were just getting to know each other, she refrained from asking about that.
"No need to be so polite, you will always be welcome to have lunch with us from now on." Eiji said with a smile.
Itsuki couldn't help but be dazed for a moment, her face was a little hot and she thought Eiji was a good boy.
"Mm, thank you."
She thanked again.
"....." Mio, Yuki and the others.
They knew they were doing a wingman operation, but they were still amazed by how skillful Eiji was in seducing a girl!
Look at Itsuki, she seemed to have a good impression of him just by exchanging a few words.
"Looks like it's not just Eiji whose lunch box is big."
To prevent the situation from becoming awkward, Mio immediately diverted everyone's attention with her words.
Their gazes were now fixed on Itsuki's lunch box.
"Ah, this..."
Itsuki blushed because unlike the other girls in the group, her lunch box had an above average size. Although it was still smaller than Eiji's, it was still big for a pretty girl like her.
Most people didn't expect her to like eating a lot, especially when looking at her slim figure.
"It's not too much, right? It's big, but unlike what you see, the rice and dishes are only enough for one plate."
After lying, Itsuki looked away, she didn't dare to look into everyone's eyes.
Mio smiled slightly and said, "Don't worry, no one will mock your appetite, Itsuki. At least me, Eiji and the others, don't."
Maria and Kurumi nodded.
Just like Yuki and Celis, Eiji was speechless so as not to embarrass Itsuki. He opened the lunch box that Grayfia had made for him. It contained rice, stir-fried mutton, fried eggs and some vegetables.
Grayfia was really a good wife, she knew his favorite food and always made him dishes made from mutton.
With Erina's help, she had even improved her cooking skills until his god's tongue accepted it.
[Hmm~ Grayfia, your cooking skills are improving again. This mutton is really delicious!]
Eiji began to taste his lunch box with gusto.
Grayfia who heard his inner voice was naturally happy.
Mio and the other heroines who were pretending couldn't help but glance at the mutton in Eiji's lunch box. Their lunch menu was different even though it was made by Grayfia or the other maids in Eiji's house.
That was why they were curious.
"Is that so? That's good." Itsuki was relieved that she was not considered strange.
Still, she also couldn't help glancing at the stir-fried mutton that Eiji was eating.
Whether it was just a hallucination or not, she saw that the meat seemed to glow slightly and smelled very delicious.
After all, Grayfia's cooking skills had reached the level of the elite chefs in the Food Wars franchise. That was why at this moment, Itsuki was almost drooling.
Eiji realized this and said, "Itsuki, do you want to try it?"
[In the original work, compared to her other sisters, Itsuki has a big appetite.]
[Why don't I capture her stomach first before her heart? As the saying goes to conquer a woman's heart, you have to conquer her stomach first.]
[I'm confident in the taste of the dish Grayfia made.]
The heroines who were familiar with the saying fell silent.
Aren't your words backwards, Eiji?
It should be said by women to men!
Kurumi and Maria giggled.
Mio, Celis and Yuki looked at Itsuki who seemed to hesitate with amusement.
"Is it okay?"
"It's fine, Itsuki-san. Eiji-san, I want it too!" It was not Eiji who said that, but Maria.
The silver-haired loli shamelessly took the stir-fried mutton in her boyfriend's lunch box.
Mio and the other girls also did the same.
It made Itsuki not hesitate and taste the mutton stir fry made by Grayfia.
"Ahh~!"
For the first time in her life, Itsuki reached a state called foodgasm and moaned obscenely.
Realizing what she did, her face became very red.
"S-Sorry! It was so delicious that I couldn't help it."
Itsuki lowered her head and looked at her lunch box made by one of her sisters, Nino. Nino's cooking skills were also good, but compared to Grayfia's cooking skills...
Itsuki suddenly felt that her lunch box was not good.
If Nino knew what she was thinking, she would definitely scold her.
"Instead of apologizing, do you want to try it again? Let's swap some of our dishes." Eiji walked over while transferring some of his mutton slices to Itsuki's lunch box.
"Yes~! Eiji-kun, you can take my shrimp stir fry, my fried egg and..."
Itsuki's eyes lit up, her favorability to Eiji instantly increased by several points. She didn't hesitate to exchange almost the dish Nino made with the stir-fried mutton in Eiji's lunch box.
At this point, she already considered Eiji as her friend.
She ate voraciously without caring about her image.
[If you give that girl your own homemade dish, my King... You might be able to take her straight to your bed.]
Leme whispered like a devil.
Eiji was tempted to do as she said but said, 'There's no need to rush, Leme. There are still her four sisters that I should at least woo first.'
[Worthy of being my King, you want them all!]
Eiji did not argue. In his dictionary, only children made choices, adults wanted everything.
He wouldn't be like the protagonist in the original work who was named Futa or something, he forgot.
[It's Futaro, host.]
Miss System corrected her host's words even though she knew he intentionally forgot the boy's name.
Eiji pretended not to hear what she said and continued his routine to the next stage.
[I suddenly remembered about the protagonist of The Quintessential Quintuplets, has Itsuki met him and fallen in love with him?]
[That boy was originally told to tutor the Nakano quintuplets by their father to improve their poor academic grades. At that certain point, Itsuki and her four sisters would fall in love with him. ]
[But just like other romcom protagonists, he was very wishy-washy and hesitant in responding to the girls' feelings of liking him.]
[In the end after receiving many advantages including perverted things with them, he didn't choose any of them and kept saying falling in love is useless and troublesome!]
Eiji lied a little like he did when telling the protagonist Raku's foolishness.
However, all the heroines believed him except Itsuki and her four sisters who were still confused.
"Eiji-kun, you... What are you saying?" Itsuki asked.
It was because she suddenly heard Eiji's voice but she didn't see him open his mouth at that moment.
Eiji looked at her in confusion. "What did I say?"
"No, I probably heard wrong, haha..."
Itsuki laughed awkwardly and continued eating. But just then, Eiji's inner voice sounded again in her mind.
[Strange, does Itsuki have the ability to read minds? That's impossible.]
"Cough! Cough!" Itsuki choked.
Mio, Yuki and the other girls knew she was also starting to hear Eiji's inner voice.
They held back their laughter but also felt a little sorry for her.
"Itsuki, drink." Mio gave the girl a drink while patting her back.
Itsuki looked at her with gratitude in her eyes.
Still, when she was about to tell them what really happened, she found herself unable to speak.
Itsuki was dumbfounded and wondered if everything Eiji said in his heart was true?
If it was really real, the protagonist or tutor that she and her sisters would fall in love with was scum!
After receiving many advantages from them, he didn't even choose any of them and seemed to have an arrogant personality.
What else if not scum?
How could I and my sisters fall in love with such a boy?
Just thinking about it made Itsuki shudder and hope Eiji was just making up stories in his heart.
...
As if feeling a change in destiny or a red thread connected to it.
The location was still at Kuoh Academy.
A boy with black hair like a bowl who was eating lunch in the library while reading a textbook felt a pain in his heart.
He dropped his chopsticks and clutched his chest.
"Ugh... What's wrong? Is it because I always study until midnight?"
"No way, there's no way I have heart disease or anything like that."
"I have to prevent it."
His name was Futaro Uesugi, he was a second year student with above average academic grades.
In addition to the pain in his heart that was not much, he also felt a chill in his body that made him wonder if he was sick?
He didn't want to die young so he was thinking of reducing his study time a little from now on.
His health was important because he still had to graduate high school with good grades and get a scholarship for college in the future.
Just by being a smart person and getting good grades, he would be able to have a good job and make a lot of money to support his family.
Because of this, he didn't even have time to fall in love or date like people his age.
To be honest, Futaro looked down on people who were busy with romance in high school. According to him, they would definitely regret it after their lives reached their peak.
They were different from him who was willing to sacrifice his youth just to study hard.
Futaro's family conditions are almost the same as Shirogane's, but in other ways... For example, personality-wise, he is more arrogant and self-centered.
If he wasn't the protagonist and Eiji didn't try to ruin his red thread— I doubt pretty girls like Itsuki and her four sisters would fall for him.
"Excuse me." An indifferent feminine voice sounded.
Futaro turned his head to the side and saw an extremely beautiful girl with black hair and blue eyes standing at the entrance of the library.
Besides him, there were also several other students who were reading books or spending time in the library. And although he had no interest in falling in love, he even knew who the girl who had just arrived was from the rumors and ramblings of the boys in his class.
It was Pansy, one of the most beautiful and popular girls in school. From what he heard, she was also dating a boy named Eiji who was rumored to have a harem at school.
How ridiculous.
Futaro looked down on people like them, especially Eiji! They would definitely regret it in the future.
Still, he was a little curious how a girl as beautiful as Pansy would willingly join someone's harem.
Was it because of love?
Futaro sneered in his heart and didn't notice the hint of envy in his eyes.
"For the information of the students here, the teacher asked me to tell you to lock up the library when you leave."
"I put the key on this table. So whoever is the last to leave here, don't forget to send the key back to the teacher's office."
After saying that to all the students in the library, Pansy narrowed her eyes at an unfamiliar boy— Futaro and slightly released her oppression on him.
It was because she felt the other party was looking at her unfriendly. What was her fault? She didn't care about the other boy other than Eiji but taught him a lesson.
"...!" Futaro again felt a chill in his body, but this time he felt fear and hurriedly averted his gaze from Pansy.
What was that?
That's scary!
For a moment, he thought Pansy's gaze could kill him!
It was just his hallucination, right?
If Eiji was here, he would be laughing because as long as Pansy wanted it, she really could kill someone with the oppression of her magic.
Of course, an ordinary person like Futaro who couldn't see the power of magic would only think he was dead because of that girl's gaze.
After school hours ended.
'Should I kill Futaro?' Eiji asked in his mind.
[You can do it but you won't get any rewards from his franchise after that.]
[Did you forget?]
'In that case, I'll squeeze out all the values first like the other protagonists.'
[Hey, I said did you forget?]
Eiji ignored Miss System's question, he wouldn't admit that he had just forgotten about it.
For now, he and Mai were on their way to the next plot. A moment ago, he took the initiative to accompany her on a grocery trip to the supermarket.
Mai was happy but curious and asked, "This is unusual. Eiji, do you really just want to accompany me to the supermarket to buy groceries?"
Eiji looked at the beautiful girl walking beside him, she was very beautiful and made him never get tired of looking at her, especially her long legs wrapped in black stockings.
[Come to think of it, Mai is somewhat similar to Utaha, she can be called a long-legged senior with black stockings. I also miss her a bit when she wears her bunny girl outfit.]
Mai: How perverted, did you not hear my question?
Even so, Mai still felt sweet in her heart that her boyfriend praised her. Maybe she should consider wearing the bunny girl outfit again to entertain him?
Knowing what Mai was thinking, Eiji almost smirked.
In the original work, the protagonist Sakuta was even a virgin after dating Mai and going to college together.
Unlike him, that boy had no idea how delicious Mai's body was!
"Ehem! Knowing that my beautiful girlfriend would go shopping alone, I was worried and wanted to accompany her so that nothing bad would happen to her."
[That's not a lie but there's also another reason that you'll find out later, Mai.]