My wife believes me; how could I be a cuckold?

If it's true...

Thinking of this, Makoto Asano couldn't help but laugh.

After all, the legend doesn't say that each person can only make a vow with one person and spend the rest of their life together, right?

When the time comes, we'll take everyone there, and maybe then all the strategy tasks can be completed directly.

Despite knowing it was wishful thinking, Asano Seiya couldn't help but think that way.

Who wouldn't prefer something more relaxed?

However, to his surprise, just as he was thinking about whether to take Xiaoyuna on a trial trip in the next few days, the long-lost system notification sound reappeared.

[Beep! Host has been detected engaging in opportunistic behavior. Punishment will be imposed!]

[Original mission objective: Prevent Eriko Miyajima from confessing to Yuta Yamada, and perform the Great Harmony of Life with Eriko Miyajima in front of Yuta Yamada, raising Eriko Miyajima's immorality value to 100.]

[Punishment 1: The mission can only be completed at the Izuyama Onsen Ryokan.]

[Punishment 2: The task completion time limit is reduced to one month.]

Upon hearing the system notification, Makoto Asano was stunned for a moment, then felt utterly speechless.

What do you mean by him being opportunistic?

He was just doing his job dutifully.

Wouldn't it be better to have an easy way to complete the task quickly?

Despite muttering a few complaints, Makoto Asano was actually quite helpless, since the system's punishment could not be reversed once it was given.

To be honest, he was really scared when he heard that he would be punished. He thought that this time the punishment would be aimed at his genitals again.

Fortunately, the system didn't make things too difficult for him this time; it only added two task requirements, and the impact wasn't significant.

Because his original plan was to be able to be completed at any time, regardless of location.

However, if the mission timeframe is reduced from two months to one month, there might not be enough time to give Yamada Yuta much compensation.

This is actually why he has been putting off completing this task, since Yamada Yuta is indeed a good person.

As his friend, if he were to take Eriko away without giving her enough compensation, Makoto Asano would feel somewhat guilty.

Thinking of this, he subconsciously frowned.

After thinking it over, he couldn't help but turn to Lilith, who was sitting obediently on the sofa next to him, and ask, "Lilith, I remember you gave me a task last time, do you have the authority to do that?"

Lilith was taken aback, not understanding for a moment what he meant.

However, as a system assistant, Lilith could naturally see the tasks issued by the system. So, after realizing what Asano Makoto wanted to do, she immediately shook her head and said, "No, I'm just a system assistant. I can only help select new targets and then let the system issue tasks. Master, have you forgotten? The last task was also issued by the system."

Upon hearing this, Makoto Asano thought about it carefully and realized that it seemed to be true.

The last mission only stated that Lilith strongly requested it, so Risa Kanno was chosen as the target, but it didn't mention that she was the one who issued the mission.

Realizing that he might not be able to change the mission requirements, Makoto Asano couldn't help but sigh.

But that's all.

If you feel guilty, then so be it. There's nothing you can do about it. He wasn't a good person to begin with, so it's normal for him to feel some pressure after doing something wrong.

Besides, his compensation was only slightly less, not completely non-existent.

Not to mention that even the reduced compensation is something many people would dream of.

Moreover, for someone like Yuta Yamada, this compensation might be even more important than that for Eriko Miyajima.

However, despite saying that, Makoto Asano secretly decided in his heart to put some things on the agenda ahead of time.

After finalizing the tasks ahead, Makoto Asano booked two rooms at the hot spring inn, making a reservation for the entire month from next Monday until the end of October, thus covering the entire month of the mission.

Although this expense might be a bit big for Yamada Yuta, he doesn't need the money right now. He's only starting to book from next week because all the rooms for this week are already booked.

The reason he booked two rooms was for the same reason.

The hotel's popularity was indeed beyond his expectations; when he made his reservation, the hotel was already almost fully booked.

By the time Yuta Yamada gets paid and tries to book a room, it might already be fully booked.

If they haven't managed to book by the time the mission deadline has passed, then he'll be the one in trouble.

After booking two rooms in advance, all he needed to do was cancel his own booking when Yamada Yuta made his room reservation and give it to him.

Or he could just come up with an excuse, saying that he had made plans to go there with some friends, but they had something come up and couldn't go, so he could just transfer the room to Yamada Yuta. He believed that Yamada Yuta, who was eager to rebuild his relationship with Eriko, would not refuse such a good offer.

With everything planned out, Makoto Asano couldn't help but let out a long sigh of relief, feeling a little more at ease.

However, humans are a very strange species; they tend to overthink whenever they have free time.

For Makoto Asano, what frustrates him most right now is the bullet he didn't fire into Eriko Miyajima's body when Yuta Yamada returned that afternoon.

Although he has a pretty good mental fortitude, he wasn't scared out of his wits when he found Yamada Yuta had come home and was heading straight for his house.

However, because the battle was forcibly interrupted halfway through, his spear almost exploded.

He was, after all, a strong and healthy young man, and being treated like that was truly unbearable for him.

But there's no way around it; he can't just call Eriko Miyajima out now and start all over again, can he?

It's not feasible with Yuna Kanno either. Today is Monday, and she has to go to class tomorrow. Makoto Asano had just made a promise with her that he wouldn't interfere with her studies.

Therefore, she also said that she would prepare a big surprise for Makoto Asano on Friday night, as she couldn't break her promise.

As for going downstairs to Okubo Park nearby to help the homeless girl, Makoto Asano ruled out this option without even thinking about it.

Like I said before, he's afraid of getting dirty.

Not to mention that he now has Eriko Miyajima and Yuna Kanno, and he has to take responsibility for them, so it's even less likely that he would do that.

What else can be done?

Could it be... by hand?

Forget it. As a blond guy, I have two girlfriends, and yet I still have to use my hands. I'm afraid people will laugh at me if I tell anyone.

After much deliberation, Makoto Asano could only sigh helplessly and decide to endure it for the night and deal with it tomorrow.

Actually, he's not the type of person who's easily swayed by emotions or whose little head takes over the big head; it's just that the feeling of being stuck is really unpleasant.

To give you an example, imagine you're secretly practicing a traditional craft in your room. You've finally gotten halfway through and are really into it when your parents suddenly come home and call you out. You can't even begin to describe how uncomfortable that feels.

At this moment, Makoto Asano felt a thousand times worse than that feeling.

But just as he was about to resign himself to his fate, wash up, and go to sleep, Lilith, who had been sitting obediently beside him, suddenly spoke up hesitantly: "Um, Master, do you remember what we agreed on yesterday?"

For some reason, Lilith seemed rather reserved today.

Previously, it was understandable that I was being obedient because I was afraid of upsetting Makoto Asano, who had important matters to attend to.

But now that the matter is over, it's strange that Lilith is still like this.

However, Makoto Asano didn't notice this. At the moment, he was looking down, thinking about what Lilith had just said about the "promise".

After thinking about it for a while, he finally remembered that he had agreed yesterday to give Lilith an extra 100 points of Pure Love so that she could level up directly.

After remembering the promise, he suddenly recalled some other things.

He vaguely remembered that when Lilith first appeared, she seemed to have said that she could randomly lock a new skill every time she leveled up.

Besides that, after the upgrade, her figure seems to recover somewhat.

After consuming 10,000 points of pure love and reaching level 5, her abilities will be fully restored, as will her body.

At that point, Makoto Asano won't need to feed her any more Love Points; she can just eat... well, that's fine.

Although she is still in the first grade and is only twenty centimeters tall.

But if she were to reach the maximum level, I wouldn't say how tall she originally was, but she should be about the same height as a normal adult woman, right?

However, that would require feeding 10,000 points, or more precisely, 9,100 points of pure love value. While I could afford it, it didn't seem necessary.

I wonder how much Lilith will grow after this first upgrade...

Thinking of this, Makoto Asano couldn't help but raise his head.

Looking at Lilith, who had already flown in front of him, for some reason, a meaningful smile unconsciously appeared on his face.

Chapter 229 What happened to your breasts?

When Makoto Asano unconsciously laughed, Lilith, who saw his smile, became even more frightened.

Clearly, she knew what Makoto Asano was thinking, and was even somewhat afraid of it.

Although succubi are creatures that need to rely on sex to survive, Lilith is slightly different.

On her very first day as an adult, preparing to go out hunting, she was inexplicably transported into the system space. Every day, she was forced to learn things she had never encountered before, until she became a system assistant, and finally, she was summoned out by Asano Makoto after the system was upgraded.

During this long period of time, she never tasted meat.

If it were just that simple, then so be it. It's not a big problem anyway, and you can find someone else after you get out. Not to mention you have a perpetually unsatisfied blond scumbag as your master.

However, to her surprise, and for some unknown reason, after being summoned by Makoto Asano, her powers were sealed by the system, turning her into a character like a figurine or a mascot, and she had to rely on system currency to provide energy in order to survive.

What frustrated her most was that before she fully regained her strength, she couldn't absorb energy through dedication and could only eat the bland and tasteless system energy every day.

Even after she fully recovered, she could only absorb Makoto Asano's dedication to provide her with vitality.

But judging from the current situation, Makoto Asano will definitely have no shortage of women in the future, and there simply won't be enough for her to have.

So to be honest, because pure love points can provide energy, and because she hasn't been influenced by other succubi, and because Asano Makoto shows affection to other women, she is now quite different from those succubi.

What she wanted was not simply food, but a deep and natural physical connection.

However, during this time together, she developed a slight interest in Makoto Asano—or perhaps only a tiny bit.

However, she also knew very well that Makoto Asano was not very interested in her.

Moreover, because her power was sealed and her body had shrunk, she was actually somewhat afraid of these things now.

Although Makoto Asano never showed it to her, she did manage to see it when he was asleep.

One time, when she was sleeping on Asano Makoto's stomach, she was woken up early in the morning by Asano Makoto's daily morning physiological reaction.

When she groggily opened her eyes and found herself suspended in mid-air, she was startled, never expecting to be lifted so high.