Aki Hayakawa was following his standard morning routine: waking up in his flat, grinding a cup of morning coffee, and starting on household chores.
Then he started preparing the midday lunch.
Denji asked from the side, "What's on the menu today?"
"Curry," Aki replied with a flat tone.
Right when readers assumed this was going to be another peaceful, ordinary day...
Suddenly!
A heavy pounding erupted outside the door. No, this wasn't standard knocking,someone was trying to break the door down!
The door lock snapped open in a single second!
The shock caught Aki and Denji completely off guard.
Both immediately assumed devils had arrived for a siege, quickly locking down into full alert.
"Hey, hey, hey!"
The door kicked open. It was... Power and her cat.
She held a mountain of luggage, with the cat resting on her shoulder. She glared around Aki's apartment with a look of extreme dissatisfaction: "This room is tiny!"
Aki and Denji stood staring in dumb silence.
Almost immediately, Makima's call buzzed on Aki's smartphone: "Aki-kun, I want you to make room for Power-chan to stay with you."
"I have faith that you can act as a reliable supervisor for Denji and Power."
Aki's expression practically glitched with exhaustion. "Why do you keep sending trouble to my flat?!"
But over the line, Makima delivered a calm, weighted statement: "Because Aki-kun is the person I trust the most inside the force."
Hearing that phrase, the usually composed Aki broke into a flushing red glow on his cheeks. "U-Understood. Yes, ma'am."
Miss Makima... called him her most trusted person!
Aki liked Makima deeply, holding a secret crush. Of course, his heart detonated with joy, even though he forced himself to maintain a calm face.
But Power's arrival dragged a tsunami of headaches into Aki's flat.
For example...
Watching Aki's carefully crafted curry inside the bowl, Power declared: "I hate vegetables!"
She directly used her hands to scoop all the vegetables out and tossed them onto the floor, making a total mess of Aki's home.
"No throwing vegetables!"
"You creature! Do you hold no respect for the farmers who grew this food?! You devil!"
One was a master chef, and the other was raised without eating standard food.
Both Aki and Denji erupted with fury!
And it didn't stop there...
"Flushing?"
Power stared at the toilet where piles of toilet paper overflowed the rim, declaring with full disregard: "If it's fine, who cares about flushing!"
"Flush it clean!"
"It smells like death!"
Aki and Denji joined together, creating a united front.
And then...
"Showering?"
Power maintained the exact same reckless attitude: "If it's fine, why bother washing!"
"Get inside right now!"
"You smell repulsive!"
"What is wrong with these two? Why are they complaining?"
Facing Aki and Denji's matching faces of extreme disgust, Power merely hugged her cat and asked: "Right, meow-chan~?"
"Meow~"
Aki and Denji's faces contorted into demonic rage.
This was the first time Aki and Denji had ever synchronized together into complete harmony.
All because of Power,a heavier troublemaker than Denji himself.
If Aki mapped into Lawful Good on daily living, and Denji mapped into Chaotic Good...
Then Power locked into complete Chaotic Evil,the type that left both guys completely unable to process her.
At least Denji possessed human reasoning. Power was a Blood Fiend, whose preceding life was lived purely like a wild beast.
Faced with the disaster that was Power, Aki found Denji to look pleasant by comparison.
At least... Denji was somewhat normal, eating everything given to his bowl and clearing his plate with compliance!
With Power firmly installed, the exhausting day finally bled into evening.
And during the night...
Power suddenly approached Denji on her own accord...
Denji was currently clearing up the aftermath of Power's "masterpiece" inside the restroom.
"Hey, you!"
Power's voice echoed from behind him.
Clearing the toilet, Denji turned to find Power standing right in front of him. He snapped with residual anger: "Hey! You devil! Your mess won't wash off the porcelain!"
But inside this moment, Power directly made a cup-and-squeeze gesture with her hands over her "voluptuous" chest.
"Huh?"
Denji stared back, blank and dense.
"Didn't we make an agreement? Giving you squeeze access."
"Go ahead!"
Denji's mind crashed on the spot. He couldn't tear his eyes away from Power's chest, his jaw dropping wide open.
Power entered the restroom, locking the door behind her.
This triggered standard fan wild imaginations...
{Thi... Is this something I am allowed to watch inside the narrative?}
The high-schooler Han Fumito blushed red, lightly touching his nose to verify if any blood was leaking yet.
While the fans looked forward in heavy anticipation...
Denji was ecstatic, with Power sitting on the toilet behind him, stating:
"How is it? Ecstatic, right?"
"Squeeze away, squeeze away~"
While speaking, Power even factored in highly tempting visuals, squeezing her own assets.
Denji lost all self-control. His mind filled solely with Power's voluptuous visualization. His legs gave out, dropping onto his knees in front of Power.
Leave alone Denji, fans couldn't hold their guard either...
"But I do hold a single condition."
Power held up three fingers toward Denji's view: "You can only squeeze three times."
But for the current Denji, forget counting to three, a single press was more than enough!
After Power finished explaining why it capped at three...
She closed her eyes, adapting a submissive, tempting posture waiting for Denji.
Following extreme expectation, akin to a holy pilgrimage, Denji slowly extended both hands toward her...
He panted, nervous to the limit.
After all... this was the highest ultimate dream of his entire life!
And now he stood right at the edge of success!
And especially with such "voluptuous" proportions!
He pressed both hands directly onto the target! But right when Power synchronized with his mechanics...
A strange, foreign object was felt breaking underneath Denji's foot.
"This is..."
Denji picked up the semi-circular object from the floor. "What is this?"
Power puffed with pride, pulling another exact padding fragment out of her top, stating proudly: "A chest pad! This is a divine item capable of making a swell look larger!"
Denji heard that statement, and his mind crashed into full static.
Not only Denji, the reading audience looking at this sat frozen blank...
This was... a fake chest?!
Denji looked down at flat-as-a-board Power once the paddings separated, his soul leaving his head.
But following guidance by Power, he dragged his body like a walking corpse, mechanically completing the remaining two squeezes.
Power sat proudly claiming: "How was it, how was it? Felt gorgeous, right?"
"Touching such glorious items secures payout. Now our scales equate to item, all lingering balances cleared!"
"Meow-chan has been rescued, making holding onto a Devil Hunter useless now."
"But I cannot escape Makima's grip, so I will support you for future rounds."
"Hahaha!"
Power roared with insane laughter, leaving the restroom safely with her cat.
Only Denji sat blankly sitting there.
'There's so much I want to say... This is weird.'
'That's all there was to it?'
He felt like he had been absolutely played. Power was using fake tactics; what was that about?
Kenji looked at the scene, laughing in front of the screen: "Looks like Power is a 'Padding' Man too!"
[Translated and Rewritten by Shika_Kagura]
T/N: "Padding Man" (Dianju-ren) is a pun on "Chainsaw Man" (Dianju-ren). They sound almost identical in Chinese except for the tone, which Kenji found hilarious.