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[Ability: Desireless Sage Time]
[Category: Active]
[Description: When you activate this ability, you will enter a desireless Sage Time state, immune to any mental influence]
Kitahara Makoto had curiously used this ability once, and then lost interest in it.
[Desireless] sounds like it's very good, but the experience is actually very bad. After turning it on, it's like turning into a robot, without any emotional fluctuations or joys, sorrows, and joys.
Intuition told Kitahara Makoto that as long as he activated Sage Time, he should be able to resist mental suggestion and walk out of the Flower Sea.
But it's not safe enough.
Living again, Kitahara Makoto will be cautious and careful about anything that is life-threatening, so he decided to complete today's daily tasks to increase the probability of escaping—getting lottery chances may not necessarily lead to abilities, but trying it can't hurt. The wood axe ending is a matter for the future, and overcoming the immediate difficulties is the top priority.
"…Does Kitahara-kun need us to help with the ritual?"
Sakurajima Mai suddenly asked.
"This…"
"Stop talking, everyone, hurry up," Kita Ikuyo said in a clear voice, anxiously, "The Flower Sea is getting closer and closer… I'll go first, everyone line up behind me."
Hey, hey, next, you just need to feed Mai-senpai, you don't need your help!
But just as the words came to his lips, Kitahara Makoto suddenly hesitated.
He has worked so hard to seek a way out for everyone, and he has lost several strands of hair. Can't he enjoy it?
Let the music play, let the dance continue…
However, as soon as he thought of his future of being chopped with a wood axe twice, Kitahara Makoto quickly calmed down.
It's not worth it!
For that three-minute hug, he might be chopped with a wood axe in the future, it's not worth it no matter how you think about it!
"No need for so much trouble," Kitahara Makoto took a deep breath and said, "Next, only Mai-senpai needs to help complete the ritual."
"Eh?"
Several girls looked at Sakurajima Mai one after another.
Kitahara Makoto explained:
"Different situations require different rituals. Next, I just need to feed Mai-senpai three times."
Kita Ikuyo couldn't help but complain:
"The content of the ritual is actually feeding a girl, it's too strange no matter how you think about it!"
Yamada Ryo tilted her head and looked over, and said with a blank expression:
"Is it a mouth-to-mouth feeding method?"
"Eh eh eh?!"
Yamada Ryo, who was speaking, had no change in expression, but the other girls next to her all blushed.
Kita Ikuyo: "T-that's kissing, isn't it?"
Ijichi Nijika: "No way! That kind of thing is too much!"
Even Bocchi-chan, who had been hiding behind Kita and listening carefully, raised her eyes in shock at this moment, her small face flushed, wanting to say something but stopping.
"You're thinking too much, it's just ordinary feeding with hands," Kitahara Makoto hurriedly explained, "There's nothing excessive about it."
While speaking, Kitahara Makoto looked at Ryo.
You're doing it on purpose, aren't you?
Although there is no evidence, it looks like it was done on purpose, just wait and see, if I ever enter your dream, I will definitely let you know how to write the word regret!
In comparison, Sakurajima Mai was calm, folded her arms in front of her chest and said:
"If it's just feeding, then there's no problem."
Kitahara Makoto breathed a sigh of relief: "…Then I'll leave it to Mai-senpai."
No sooner said than done.
Kitahara Makoto went to a tree not far away in front of several girls, picked a few fruits, peeled off the skin, and then handed them to Sakurajima Mai's mouth.
Under the subtle gaze of the other girls, the Bunny Girl opened her pink lips slightly, opened her pearly teeth, and ate the pulp, her expression unchanged throughout the whole process, and she didn't even blush.
As expected of Mai-senpai, who grew up as a child star, she is generous and skilled, completely different from ordinary girls who are shy at every turn… It's just that for some reason, I inexplicably feel that there is a lot less fun.
After a while.
Kitahara Makoto opened the System, and the last daily task quietly turned green and was completed, and he received a reward of a permanent increase in charm.
Of course, charm is not important, what is important is the lottery chance.
[You have completed all of today's daily tasks, you have obtained a lottery chance, do you want to draw the reward now?]
Kitahara Makoto did not hesitate and silently recited in his heart:
"Draw now."
Although the probability of drawing an ability with a single draw is not high, what if?
Take a gamble, and a bicycle might turn into a motorcycle.
Before long, the ability turntable slowly stopped spinning, and then an ability icon fell out.
"Did I actually get something?"
Kitahara Makoto was slightly surprised, and then looked forward to it.
[Ability: Undead Knight]
[Category: Active]
[Description: This ability can only be used on undead beings. As long as the other party meets the riding attributes, you can forcibly transform the other party into your own mount]
Weakness: ???
"Undead Knight?"
After reading the ability description, the first image that popped into Kitahara Makoto's mind was the Western movie "ghost Rider," where the flaming warhorse perfectly matched a man's dream.
And the second existence that came to mind was ghost Senpai.
A flaming warhorse would probably be hard to find, but there was a ghost Senpai who was still charming… Speaking of which, ghost Senpai should fit the 'mount' attribute, right?
After all, in a certain sense, she could indeed be 'mounted'…
"Kitahara-kun, how is it now?" Kita Ikuyo asked expectantly.
Kitahara Makoto composed his thoughts: "We can try crossing the Flower Sea now."
The new ability, Undead Knight, wasn't very useful; ultimately, he still had to rely on [Sage Time of No Desires], but before that, he needed to verify if it could truly immune him to the Flower Sea's mental interference.
A moment later.
Kitahara Makoto led the girls to the edge of the Flower Sea.
Compared to when they first woke up, the Flower Sea had clearly encroached upon a portion of the safe zone, indicating that they didn't have much time left.
"Let's do an experiment first." Kitahara Makoto turned to Kita, "Kita-san, you are chosen."
"Eh?" Kita Ikuyo blinked, looking bewildered, "What experiment?"
"It's simple, you walk into the Flower Sea." Kitahara Makoto said seriously, "I'll see if I can pull you out."
Kita Ikuyo tilted her head in confusion: "W-why would we do something like that?"
Yamada Ryo said expressionlessly beside her:
"Probably because Kitahara-kun wants to see Kita's naked body, right?"
You jerk!
You just like to cause trouble, don't you?
When I enter your dream someday, I'll make you cry and swallow it!
"Eh eh eh?!" Kita Ikuyo nervously covered her chest, her small face quickly reddening, "No! That's too much!"
Don't cover it! With your flat chest, no one's interested, okay!
Kitahara Makoto covered his forehead and patiently explained: "Yesterday, Nijika-senpai and Ryo-senpai walked out on their own. Now I want to try if I can pull Kita-san out… I want to test if I can stay conscious in the Flower Sea, so I want to verify it. If I feel like I can't hold on, you guys quickly pull me out of the Flower Sea."
"That's good then…"
Kita Ikuyo breathed a sigh of relief and agreed, extending her small hand nervously:
"Kitahara-kun, you must hold me tight."
Kitahara Makoto took Kita's small hand and nodded:
"I promise."
Kita Ikuyo was still not at ease: "You must, must not let go."
"…"
Looking at their intertwined hands, Ijichi Nijika felt inexplicably heavy-hearted.
Your hand-holding is too practiced, isn't it?
How many times have you held hands behind my back?!
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