Chapter 2: Chapter 2
"I hope the silver chest can give me a surprise."
After adjusting his mood, Lin Yi opened the silver chest.
A lottery sound rings out, bulingbuling.
[You have opened a silver chest and obtained Combat Mastery.]
After obtaining Combat Mastery, Lin Yi's strength value increased from D to B.
Ordinary people were no longer his opponents.
"Combat Mastery? I'm neither a detective nor a criminal; what good is that to me?"
Lin Yi felt a bit sad, thinking it would have been better if they had given him another 100 million.
As he complained, a memory appeared in his mind.
He was in the military field, training day and night with other soldiers in combat techniques. The scene then shifted to a street, where he was engaging in hand-to-hand combat with a criminal. The opponent couldn't even touch him before being cleanly knocked down by him.
Before he could let out a sigh of relief, a crowd of armed people with knives, guns, and clubs rushed at him...
After a while, everyone lay on the ground, and only Lin Yi remained standing, gasping, covered in scars, but with an imposing presence.
As the memory progressed, Lin Yi's body began to change gradually. Something called instinct merged with his bones.
While Lin Yi remained immersed in the memories of intense battles, a sweet and soft sound was heard.
Ran woke up.
She had a very absurd dream.
She dreamed that she, along with Sonoko and a stranger she had never met, were participating in an intense battle in bed.
What made her feel very embarrassed was that she particularly remembered the part involving her; it felt as if she had experienced it personally, a sensation that lingered in her mind, like a tickle—uncomfortable and peculiar.
Suddenly, Ran noticed that the ceiling looked strange to her, felt a chill run down her body, and sensed someone hugging her around the waist. It seemed she was lying on someone. Instinctively, she looked up and saw it was the man from the dream.
Ran was stunned, realizing that things were not that simple.
"Ahhhhhh..."
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Half an hour later, Ran and Sonoko were sitting on the living room sofa, dressed and with complex expressions: anxiety, panic, shyness, confusion, and… anger.
Losing their virginity so unexpectedly—who wouldn't be angry?
But the comforting part was that the other person was a handsome boy.
Ran felt it wasn't entirely pleasant not having given her first time to someone she truly loved; she thought it was a loss.
But Sonoko felt she had gained something.
However, there were accounts to settle.
"Are you not going to say anything?"
Sonoko looked at him with wide eyes, trying to adopt an angry attitude, but Lin Yi's overly attractive presence made it hard for her to get angry.
What do you say about this?
Lin Yi seemed very offended: "Shouldn't you be the ones saying something?"
"Eh?" Sonoko was stunned for a moment, pointing at herself and asking in confusion, "Us?"
"Yes... Don't you remember?"
Lin Yi played the victim: "You came running and said in a panic, 'help us'..."
"I... out of goodwill, took you to my house... Who would have known that as soon as I closed the door, you would pounce on me?"
Upon hearing this, Ran and Sonoko looked at each other, seeing confusion in each other's eyes. They weren't sure if what the other was saying was true, but what they could confirm was that they had indeed requested mutual help.
Lin Yi, seeing that the two seemed a bit bewildered, felt happy inside, knowing they had forgotten the part where he had taken the initiative.
He then added, "Don't you remember? Then you should remember what happened before you asked me for help, right?"
Sonoko tried to recall: "I remember… we were shopping with Ran, and we got thirsty… So we went to the nearest vending machine, bought two bottles of drink, and after drinking them, we started to feel a bit dizzy and dazed."
Ran said, "And just at that moment, someone was secretly following us… We realized something was wrong, and then..."
"Then you encountered me and asked for help."
Lin Yi shrugged helplessly: "And what happened afterward was… lately, there have been many sexual predators in Miwa city, and I thought the predator might have done something at the vending machine, and you were the ones who fell into the trap by drinking the drugged beverage."
"Look... from any point of view, I am the victim, right?"
"This… this…"
Once the sequence of events was clarified, Ran and Sonoko suddenly hesitated, immediately losing the interrogating air they had before.
Reasoning is the truth, but if everything can be resolved with logic, what would be the purpose of emotions?
Sonoko was unwilling to accept that the matter would end like this, regardless of whether he was the victim or not. With her hands on her hips and visibly upset, she said, "But in the end, we are the ones who lost! You took our first time... you took advantage of us!"
"Well, that's alright..."
They didn't want to let the matter pass so easily, and Lin Yi certainly didn't want to either. After the first time, he wanted to do it a second and a third time.
He took a pen and paper, wrote down his name and phone number, and handed it to Sonoko, saying seriously, "If something serious happens, call me. I will take responsibility until the end... And besides, if I need you to do something, as long as I can do it, I will definitely do it!"
Sonoko received the paper a bit bewildered, feeling that something was off, but she didn't know what to say.
Lin Yi's attitude was already quite sincere; he not only took responsibility but also offered them compensation.
Sonoko looked at Ran, and she felt the same.
Initially, they just wanted a satisfactory answer.
But now that the answer was given, they felt something didn't fit.