Returning home, Haruko received a message from Yuri.
"Ichiko is back in the dorm, looking a bit haggard and absent-minded."
As an inside mole on the same front, although she was somewhat annoyed with Haruko, having her handle caught, she was also happy to betray Ichiko, her surface-level girlfriend.
Soon after parting ways, she sent a message to Haruko to probe, wanting to find out what her true intentions were.
Seeing this, Haruko quickly typed back: "I need you to take meticulous care of her. For the next few days, try to find reasons to stay by her side. Tell me about any actions or ideas she has."
Yuri: "Take meticulous care of her? Are you serious?"
Haruko: "Just listen to me."
Ichiko is very simple. Yuri, who hasn't been exposed yet, is definitely her good friend. Being in the same dorm, they talk about many things.
After experiencing such ups and downs in her own life, if Ichiko doesn't dare to confide in Sento and the others, she needs a temporary reliance.
Yuri is a very good candidate.
On one hand, she can act as her inside mole to get information, and on the other hand, she can increase Ichiko's favorability. Once Ichiko thinks Yuri is a true good sister...
At a certain crucial point...
Snap—!
Deliver a desperate backstab.
At that time, Haruko can step in and occupy that fragile corner of the heroine's heart.
Naturally, these are all part of her plan. Next, she needs to deal with the next plot point in the original work.
The campus basketball game!
Inari leads the Red Team.
Sento leads the Blue Team.
The two will face off in the final of the campus basketball game!
In female-oriented novels, such games are nothing more than a way to depict how handsome the two male leads are, while also serving as an introduction to involve the heroine's relationship, creating the satisfying point where the two male leads seem to be competing in the game, but are actually competing for the heroine.
Even if her arrival has caused a butterfly effect, Ichiko will most likely still go to the game to cheer for the two male leads.
Haruko is considering how to, as a third party, intervene in the plot of this game.
At the same time, how to further her relationship with Ichiko.
At the very least, she can't let Ichiko continue to avoid her. When Haruko sends messages to Ichiko now, the heroine doesn't reply at all.
"Just in case, let's draw another skill."
Haruko looked at the System panel. This was another function of the System besides the mall.
Drawing!
100 emotion points for one draw.
1000 emotion points for a ten-draw, guaranteed to get a low-level skill in a ten-draw.
Skills are different from the strange items in the mall. Haruko has experienced the power of System skills.
Acting (Intermediate), Pain Reduction (Intermediate), Doping Liquid (Beginner).
The three existing skills, just the intermediate Acting alone, have brought Haruko tremendous help.
"Let's take a gamble, turn a bicycle into a motorcycle!"
"Draw!"
After spending another 100 emotion points, the System's drawing panel instantly burst with golden light.
"Got a skill?!"
Haruko's face showed surprise, "It's even an intermediate skill!"
But the moment she saw the skill name, Haruko couldn't help but freeze again, her expression becoming strange.
"Will a skill like this be really useful for my current situation?"
...
Time quickly came to November 5th, Tuesday.
The day of the campus basketball team game.
To avoid the other male leads who might still be angry, and that group of two-faced sisters, Haruko skipped class for a day.
But today is when the minor climax plot unfolds.
At 5 PM, the game is scheduled to start.
Haruko left early and headed to the outdoor basketball court at school.
Even arriving half an hour early, the area was still packed with students surrounding the court.
This shows how popular the two male leads are at school.
After feigning confusion and moving towards where Ichiko was, it wasn't long before a girl in the front row who had secured a good spot shouted out, waving high at Haruko, "Haruko, over here!"
Curious passersby looked in the direction of the voice, and then opened their mouths in surprise.
Today's Haruko still went out without makeup.
Her slender and petite figure was wrapped in a beige little bear hoodie. The soft fabric hugged her delicate curves, and the cuffs were slightly rolled outwards, revealing a small section of her fair wrists, looking particularly exquisite.
She still had the same double pigtails as when she met Inari, tied with delicate ribbons, the ends of her hair naturally curled, and the double pigtails gently swayed behind her back, adding a touch of playfulness and liveliness.
Today, she was the cute Little Sister next door.
What shocked everyone was naturally Haruko's appearance. Such a cute little loli could only be compared to Ichiko, the commoner school beauty, at the scene.
Perhaps the girl's shout was too loud, because even the three key people on the court cast their gaze over.
Sento frowned heavily, his eyes filled with disgust.
Inari glanced at her with interest.
Ichiko's eyes were a little surprised, and a little complicated. When Haruko cast a smile at her, she hurriedly averted her gaze.
In the process, she noticed that at the moment she avoided eye contact, a hint of disappointment also appeared in the little loli's expression.
Haruko squeezed to the front row and came to the side of the girl who had just called her.
One of her sisters, Misao.
Her nose bridge was high, and her makeup was exquisite, but her facial muscles were stiff when she spoke, clearly having undergone plastic surgery.
"I guessed you'd come to watch the game, Haruko, so I specially saved you a spot."
She pulled Haruko to sit beside her, about 5 meters away from Ichiko's excellent spot.
First, she glanced at Haruko's bare face that seemed full of collagen, jealousy and dissatisfaction deeply hidden in her eyes. She asked with concern:
"Haruko, why didn't you put on makeup when you went out? Girls shouldn't go out without makeup, you don't look good at all like this."
Haruko showed a fake smile, "I ran out of makeup and don't have money to buy any. I washed my face carefully with clean water before going out, it's fine."
"How can that be? As a girl, you must dress yourself up!" Misao said with a tone of dissatisfaction, "Really, if you didn't have makeup, you should have just told me. Wasn't the last set also given to you by me? I still have a set, I'll send it to your dorm later."
Looking at that caring expression.
Haruko almost threw up her overnight meal.
That kind of cheap makeup, like face wash around 30 yuan, had many side effects, didn't look good, and hurt the skin.
The original owner was also stupid, she actually believed her words after being coaxed a few times like this.
Although she was complaining inwardly, Haruko still wore a forced fake smile on her face.
This made Ichiko, who was secretly watching from the side, feel very uncomfortable.
The surprise in her heart about Haruko's appearance was far less impactful than the words spoken in the basement a few days ago.
Even now, she still remembered what happened in the basement.
Including the words Haruko said.
That afternoon, Haruko bit her, and the pain on her lips is still unforgettable for Ichiko even now.
Why?
Because after being bitten by Haruko, she... got a canker sore.