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"Hiss, don't bite."
The feeling of the soft tongue licking the palm of her hand was very comfortable at first, but this state did not last long, and Shiina Mahiru used her teeth with malicious intent.
Natsume Rin withdrew her hand, feeling that this attempt to scare her had completely failed.
"Hehe, who told you to scare me?" Shiina Mahiru patted her chest, still looking frightened.
But when she got to him, the girl's fear dissipated a lot. She grabbed his arm and looked at the surrounding scenery carefully.
She was so timid when she suggested coming in. She is really a novice and a playful person.
"I feel like the scenery here is pretty nice." Natsume Rin was not in a hurry to get out, just walked around leisurely.
"Not bad at all, can you see anything?" Shiina Mahiru pouted.
Her cell phone was forcibly taken away by Natsume Rin, and it seemed that there was no trace of anyone in sight.
"Of course, look, they are still waving to us." Natsume Rin pointed to the darkness ahead.
Although she knew that he was trying to scare her, the very curious Shiina Mahiru still looked over. When she saw only endless darkness and shaking branches, she made a cute sound of fear.
"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuu"
"Hahaha." The heartless Natsume Rin laughed.
"dare you laugh!"
"Come on, it was you who pulled me in, and we didn't know the way, so we could only move forward in the dark." Natsume Rin shrugged innocently.
"Take out your cell phone, idiot. Use the flashlight to shine the light on the way and you'll be able to get out." Shiina Mahiru patted his arm.
"No, no, no."
Even in the dark, when the other party couldn't see his expression, Natsume Rin still waved his finger seriously.
"Since it is a challenge, we must do every step carefully and there must be no light."
"challenge?"
"It's just to eliminate all external conditions and face the thing you fear the most. Isn't it cool?"
"…I don't feel anything, and when did I agree to this?" Shiina Mahiru glared at him.
"No need to agree, this is the true meaning of fear."
Just like that, Natsume Rin held her hand and searched for a way out in the dark forest.
Fortunately, this is a small jungle in a tourist resort. Even the dumbest person can find the pedestrian path in the forest, and the excessive darkness is only because the lights on both sides broke down and were not repaired in time.
Most of Shiina Mahiru's fear came from her heart. After Natsume Rin calmed down and stopped scaring her, she finally felt that the surrounding environment was not so scary anymore.
When they had finished walking the entire distance and could see a bonfire lit outside the woods, Natsume Rin stretched and prepared to take out her cell phone to check the time.
"Natsume." Mahiru Shiina, who was curled up beside him, suddenly spoke.
"Hmm? Don't be afraid. We'll be leaving soon. It's getting late. We should go back..."
His mouth was blocked by Shiina Mahiru who was standing on tiptoe, and their lips were pressed tightly together.
Natsume Rin looked at her in surprise, while Shiina had closed her eyes shyly, not daring to look him in the eye.
Even when they separated, her face was still red and she didn't know where to put her hands.
"This is... your reward for tonight."
Muttering these words softly, she covered her face and ran out of the woods, not even bothering to take her cell phone.
remuneration?
Natsume Rin wiped her mouth, looking confused.
It seems like he didn't do anything.
Chapter 220 I Actually Have Four Girlfriends
On the last day of the holiday, Natsume Rin was always absent-minded. He remained indifferent to Yukino's ridicule. Occasionally, when his eyes accidentally met Shiina Mahiru, both of them felt strange in their hearts.
It was an indescribable feeling, like a friendship that has lasted for a long time, or like a love that has come naturally. The two young emotions mixed together, gently rippling in the hearts of young men and women.
Yukino, who was caught in the middle, could not feel the sweetness of their young love. She could only smell the strong sour odor in the air around her. She covered her nose and looked at the two of them suspiciously.
"Your adultery?"
"Adultery?" Natsume Rin repeated the word in disbelief, thinking that Yukino was insulting them.
No matter how you look at it, it should have nothing to do with this word.
Shiina Mahiru also blushed and firmly denied her statement: "Xiaoxue, what are you thinking about?"
"Then what's wrong with you two? Why are you like this after you came back last night?" Yukino pinched her chin and circled around them like a smart detective.
If she hadn't been sure that they didn't sleep together last night, the second young lady would have suspected that they had had sex under her nose.
"I'm curious about how you became like this." Natsume Rin retorted, rolling her eyes.
Before he could ask about Yukino, this guy took the initiative.
"I just thought some things through, and you didn't seem surprised that I was like this before." She lightly said this to fool Natsume Rin's question, but the second lady didn't seem to care that much about their so-called affair.
She already had her own ideas in mind, so she lost interest in asking for the answers.
Anyway, their relationship has probably gotten a step closer, but it's probably not yet to the point where they can openly announce their relationship.
The second young lady was very interested in this situation and determined to study it carefully.
She lost interest, and the last day in the Maldives became boring. Although the scenery did not change, neither of them had the interest to enjoy the scenery, and both of them missed each other.
So on the last day, after buying some essential Maldives souvenirs, they sat at the airport waiting for the flight back to Tokyo to take off.
The girls were exchanging the souvenirs they had purchased. Natsume Rin had nothing to do, so she could only take out a book from her suitcase and flip through it.
This book is no ordinary book, at least not now.
As the last volume of Sword Art Online, the author got a copy as a reference before it was released. Although he did not have much right to propose revisions, being able to see the ending of the work in advance was also a benefit.
But wasn't the ending all coded by him? There needs to be a physical book to spoil the story there.
This idea exists only briefly and disappears as soon as you touch the book cover. No wonder so many people want to publish a book. The feeling is just different.
There was still an hour before the plane took off, so Natsume Rin could open the book without worry. Yukino, who was sitting next to them, also lowered her head and discussed what they hadn't bought yet.
"Reading again." Shiina Mahiru approached Yukino and said.
"That's a novel." The Second Miss did not intend to treat the novel as a book.
"Even if that's the case, it's still a book. No wonder Natsume-san's grades are so good." Shiina Mahiru defended the boy.
If Natsume Rin heard such nonsense, even with his thick skin, he would probably blush with shame.
The second young lady felt desperate about her best friend who was completely bewitched by the boy. How could she say such words just to protect the other person?
"Would you like to visit my home hospital when you return to Tokyo?"
"Little Snow!"
The second lady raised her hands in surrender, and the two checked the souvenirs in the bag and found that there were still some missing. While there was still plenty of time, they got up and went to the souvenir shop next to the airport.
Although the price is relatively high, it is a small problem for them.
Natsume Rin greeted them and was not very worried. She continued to sit in her seat and read attentively.
Most of the people waiting for the flight here are returning to the island country, so naturally the islanders make up the majority. After the girl next to Natsume Rin disappeared, someone actually came over and started a conversation with her.
How can you say that? He should have been used to this kind of thing a long time ago.
It was just that Natsume Rin felt dazed because she had been with them for the past few days and no tactless girl had come up to her.
When he was about to reject the girl's approach like a piece of work, she unexpectedly did not follow the routine and pointed at the book in his hand and said, "So you also like to read Sword Art Online. I'm a die-hard fan who bought all the works!"
Wait, it's fans!
Natsume Rin's eyes became sharp. Facing her fans, she naturally couldn't simply and rudely reject them.
So he chose to politely refuse.
"I really like this book. The author's imagination is amazing." Natsume Rin smiled warmly, and just when the girl thought that his trick of catering to her tastes had worked, he closed the book.
"But you have to sit in my girlfriend's seat. She will come back and kill me later."
Pointing at Yukino's position, Natsume Rin tactfully told her that the handsome guy in front of her was already taken, so it would be better not to have any bad thoughts.
"You have a girlfriend." She nodded disappointedly, and her friend not far away also sighed after seeing his frustrated gesture.
"There's more than one." Natsume Rin said seriously, "The seat next to you belongs to my other girlfriend, so if they find out that I'm chatting with a strange girl, I'll be in trouble."
This explosive news caused a great shock to the girl's brain. By the time she reacted, her face was red and she looked at a loss.
"Handsome boy, how old are you?" she asked cautiously.
"I'm a high school student. I brought my girlfriends here for the winter break."
Her cute face showed an expression of wanting to cry but not being able to. She was a college student but had never had a sweet love, but the handsome high school boy had already found two girlfriends.
I'm so tired. I wish the world would end.
"Actually... there are two!" She counted on her fingers in disbelief, suspecting that she had heard it wrong.
"This is normal in high school. In fact, I have two secret lovers."
Which high school did you go to? It's so wild.
After the rare failure of her proactive attack, the college girl said goodbye to him dejectedly and prepared to go back to face the ridicule of her friends. When she glanced at the cover of the book, she exclaimed.
“Oh, is the latest version out yet?”
"...Well." Natsume Rin didn't know how to explain it. She couldn't tell her that the high school student sitting in front of her was the author.
"Um, can you let me take a look? I just want to see the ending." The girl raised her hand shyly.
...Normally speaking, this is absolutely not possible. If the ending is leaked before the volume is released, it would definitely be considered an accident.
But facing the girl's sincere eyes, Natsume Rin touched his nose and looked at her seriously.
"If you agree not to reveal the ending before the release, I can show you."
"Before the release?" The girl muttered these words, seeming a little confused.