Bizarrely, Irisu Makina and Suou Amane's answer was actually approved by more than half the girls, so Jhin had no choice but to announce that the two of them had taken the lead with one point.
"Kato-san, please do not use your lack of presence to attempt a sneaky escape. The Girls' Party has officially begun; you have already missed your chance to leave."
Kato Megumi's movement to stand up froze. Having failed her escape, she had to sit back down on the stool under Jhin's gloating gaze and complain in a whisper:
"Jhin-san is really mean."
"I did warn you all out of the kindness of my heart. Who asked you all not to take it seriously?" Jhin naturally knew that if he, a boy, weren't present, the atmosphere definitely wouldn't be this awkward. But who told their curiosity to be so intense?
Just let me properly torture you all with this question set. Hahaha!
Jhin's spirit of trolling ignited. He couldn't wait to flip to the next page of the question set and continued asking under the girls' varied gazes: "How do you judge whether it is morning or not in a closed environment?"
Michiru Matsushima felt this was a giveaway question and answered immediately:
"Just look at your phone, right?"
"Michiru, the question said a closed environment. In the unlikely event that you've been kidnapped, how could there possibly be a phone for you to look at?" Sakaki Yumiko tried to analyze the question itself to seek an answer. "How about judging by sleepiness? If you're sleepy, it means it's close to night. If you wake up naturally, it's morning."
"I feel your answer is even less reliable. If you were kidnapped, how could you possibly still feel sleepy?"
"That's true too."
"Why not assume one is simply locked in a closed room? As long as you can determine if it's morning, you can get out." Kasumigaoka Utaha couldn't understand for a moment why a closed space was directly linked to kidnapping. She suddenly remembered Sakaki Yumiko's personal history—after all, she really had almost been kidnapped before—so it wasn't strange for her to think in that direction, and she felt relieved.
Kasumigaoka Utaha's words triggered Eriri's professional instincts, reminding her of the recently popular doujinshi genre: 'The Room You Can't Leave Without Having Sex'.
Eriri thought of an answer, but she still had to maintain her appearance as a well-bred lady in front of the girls, so she chose not to answer. Although the attraction of the [Jhin Meal Ticket] was not small, Eriri still kept persuading herself in her heart to prioritize maintaining her image.
The meal ticket is no big deal, the meal ticket is no big deal...
Suou Amane, perhaps due to being too sexually frustrated, actually thought of the same answer as Eriri. Abandoning her sense of shame and only wanting to get the meal ticket, she asked Jhin:
"Can the person locked inside be a boy?"
"Mn... It doesn't matter if it's a man or a woman, as long as you can state the solution."
"Then there's no problem assuming the one locked in the closed room is a boy, right?"
"Yeah, that works."
"He can judge whether it is morning based on the physiological phenomenon that occurs every morning!"
"As expected of Amane, thinking of that kind of method with ease." Komine Sachi wore a natural smile on her face, and it was unclear whether she was praising Suou Amane for her quick wits or roasting her for having a mind full of lewd thoughts right now.
The girls discussed it for a bit, and Suou Amane's answer was approved by half the people, earning another point.
"You really are a little genius," Jhin couldn't help but retort.
Suou Amane took the retort as a compliment, cheerfully urging Jhin to hurry up with the next question. She was now far ahead of the others, and the meal ticket seemed to be already in the bag.
Jhin glanced at the question, the corners of his mouth twitching. He chose to let the girls read it themselves rather than saying it out loud.
"'What color are your panties today?' Wh-who wrote this question?!" Eriri yelled loudly, her small face flushing red. She felt Jhin was the most suspicious; this question looked exactly like something a boy would ask.
Irisu Makina excitedly waved her small hand as if her work had been selected by the teacher for praise:
"It's me, it's me!"
"Irisu-san..." Eriri felt sorry for suspecting Jhin and silently apologized to him in her heart. She stuttered as she asked Irisu Makina, "Wh-why would you write this kind of question?"
"Eh? Because it said on the box that you could ask anything." Irisu Makina looked at Eriri with an innocent gaze, her eyes full of confusion, as if asking why she couldn't write such things.
"Th... That's true, I suppose... Ahaha..." Eriri couldn't refute the logic and gave an awkward laugh.
"I'm wearing... Mmph mmph mmph!!" Before Suou Amane could say the color of her panties, her small mouth was tightly covered by the quick-acting Jhin, preventing her from blurting out the answer.
"As the host, I think this question counts as one point for everyone. How about it?"
The girls, who hadn't completely abandoned their sense of shame like Suou Amane had, naturally agreed with Jhin's decision. A trace of regret appeared in Kazami Kazuki's eyes; she had actually wanted to know the color of her brother's underwear today.
Jhin didn't know that even as a host he was being coveted by Kazami Kazuki. He only felt a sudden gust of cold wind behind his back and a chill around his crotch, so he hurriedly asked the next question: "If poison expires, is it no longer poisonous, or is the toxicity stronger?"
"Is there such a thing as an expiration date for poison?" In the movies and TV shows Kato Megumi had watched, settings related to poison always involved toxins passed down for generations or deadly poisons that had existed for hundreds of years. She had thought poison didn't have a shelf life.
Among the girls present, only Kazami Kazuki, the genius who read all sorts of obscure books and remembered them clearly, could answer this question. Under Suou Amane's horrified gaze, she gave the answer: "For organic toxic proteins and the like, the toxicity will mostly decrease after degradation upon expiration. For inorganic salts, such as the arsenic used in ancient China, there is probably no such thing as an expiration date."
The rather professional answer received a unanimous vote of approval. Kazami Kazuki scored.
Kazuki, are you going to fight me for this meal ticket too?
Suou Amane was as anxious as an ant on a hot pan. She hadn't expected Kazami Kazuki to burst in halfway to compete with her.
"If you are in the middle of a quarrel and realize your boyfriend is right, what do you do?"
"Get naked!" Suou Amane once again silenced everyone with a hardcore answer, but she also received approval from half the group, taking another point.
After a dozen rounds of contention, she got her wish and won the meal ticket with a narrow lead of one point.
"Suou-san... is really terrifying after abandoning her shame, isn't she?"
"Yeah."
"But why did she want the meal ticket so badly?"
Kato Megumi, who had stumbled upon passionate scenes between Jhin and the girls quite a few times recently, glanced at Jhin with deep meaning, then answered Eriri:
"Perhaps Suou-san hasn't eaten Jhin-san's food in a long time."
Eriri didn't understand the double meaning in her words. She rested her chin in her hands, looking enviously at Suou Amane's retreating back.
"That's so nice. I want to eat desserts made by Jhin again too."
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