Tentacle Monster Conquest Manual

"Yes, her name is..."

Before Nishiki Chizuki could introduce herself, Mu Xiaoxiao suddenly raised her hand to stop him. His gaze swept over the beautiful face of the white-haired girl and then lingered on her alluring body.

Si Chengxingli felt extremely uncomfortable under his gaze. Perhaps it was because the gaze was too sharp, or perhaps it was because Mu Xiaoxiao's allure was too much for her to bear. It was as if she was being stared at by some dangerous and terrifying being, making her feel uneasy. Si Chengxingli couldn't help but turn her head away to avoid his gaze.

However, Mu Xiaoxiao's gaze became even more aggressive than before. She suddenly moved closer to the beautiful silver-haired girl, smiling playfully, like a playboy, "Chizuka's friend, you're very pretty~"

"You are now my woman—" Mu Xiaoxiao's crimson pupils suddenly opened, exuding a powerful aura with an invisible sense of oppression. She was domineering and forceful, yet affectionate, as if gazing at her beloved. This complex gaze, without any supernatural elements, pierced through layers of obstacles and entered the silver-haired girl's eyes, stabbing deep into her heart.

But, but! This isn't even our first meeting, is it? What kind of weird confession is this? No, this isn't even a confession, it's harassment! What is he calling a woman? Is he out of his mind?

This guy, the rumors about that absurd nobleman were indeed true!

He's a complete scumbag!

"You, are you a pervert? I don't even know you!!" Suddenly saying something completely nonsensical—this guy is awful!

Sicheng Xingli's pretty face turned ashen, then flushed, and then she gritted her teeth. She kept saying he was a pervert, but her eyes couldn't help but avoid his domineering gaze, and she dared not meet his eyes.

Chizuka Nishiki, standing to the side, was dumbfounded.

Not to mention her, even the usually composed Rurikawa Tsubaki almost slipped. She forced an awkward yet polite smile, wiping her forehead, completely taken aback by Mu Xiaoxiao's antics. "Young...Master, you..."

"I was rejected again," Mu Xiaoxiao said, but she wasn't angry or embarrassed at all. She stroked her chin and muttered to herself, "I thought I could easily hook up with girls with my charm. Shouldn't I have agreed with a coy refusal? In the end, my right to choose a partner is still the same as before."

Sicheng Xingli: "..."

Rurikawa Tsubaki: "..."

Jinmu Qianshu: "..."

The three girls all gave Mu Xiaoxiao strange and subtle looks. What was with this coy refusal? This was not normal at all. Even if this guy was different from the average boy, it didn't mean he could easily hook up with girls.

Sakae Anri was so angry that her chest hurt.

“Young Master, the right to choose a partner… it’s not magic. How could any girl easily accept your confession?” Nishiki Chizuka was sweating profusely.

“Chizuka, you don’t understand. Although this isn’t magic, it’s almost the same.” This kind of evolution at the genetic and life level is indeed similar to magic. Mu Xiaoxiao noticed the disappointed looks in the eyes of the three girls in front of her, scratched her head, and laughed. “Sorry, I was just doing an experiment to see my physical condition. I hope you don’t mind, classmate.”

Looking at it now, while my level of existence is attractive to women, it hasn't reached the level of a succubus, let alone the exaggerated level of mind control.

That is, to be slightly more attractive to the opposite sex.

Hearing that this guy said it was an experiment, Shiki Shiki Anri's chest hurt even more. What does that mean? It's as if I have no charm. Even if Rurikawa Tsubaki's status and charm are higher than mine, my looks aren't bad either.

Who does this guy think he is?!

"Tch, who knows if he's joking or not? Maybe he's doing it on purpose. This guy might be a dark-hearted person."

Sicheng Xingli has become sarcastic.

"Xingli, don't talk about the young master like that..."

“I didn’t spread those rumors about the Boyman family. Everyone’s saying the same thing. And have you forgotten? There’s a living example right here,” Sicheng Xingli snorted, glancing at the impassive Liulichuan Chun. “This young master of the Boyman family was never a good person to begin with.”

Mu Xiaoxiao realized that this hot girl was a very capable woman, and quite sharp-tongued. Usually, girls like this in dramas are either villains or arrogant.

Probably the latter.

Mu Xiaoxiao could tell that she cared a lot about Qian Shu.

However, most boys couldn't stand such a sharp tongue. Mu Xiaoxiao was different from most boys. He wasn't angry at all. Instead, he smiled and pressed down on Qian Shu's shoulder, who wanted to argue. "She's right."

"what?"

Chizuka Nishiki was stunned.

“What this classmate said is all correct, it’s all true, there’s no problem,” Mu Xiaoxiao spread her hands. “Qian Shu, you can tell she cares about you. Although she has a sharp tongue on the outside, she’s actually a very gentle girl on the inside.”

Sicheng Xingli was truly stunned, completely dumbfounded.

What does he mean by saying something like that all of a sudden? It's our first meeting, how can he see right through me... Even Ryūya doesn't know this, and he thinks my personality has changed over the years.

No, that's not the point. This guy, I was just badmouthing him and being sarcastic, and he didn't even get angry.

Sicheng Xingli was confused, her heart was in turmoil, and her mind was blank.

Nishiki Chizuka, however, was caught in a different kind of confusion than Tsukasa Anri. "Young Master, what...what do you mean? Anri is telling the truth, but what is she referring to? She was talking about you..."

“Those are all facts. The misdeeds of the Boyman family, and those rumors, including the destruction of the Liulichuan family, were all done by Boyman.”

Hmm, what does it have to do with me, Mu Xiaoxiao, if it was done by Boyman?

Chapter 130: No More Pretense, I'm Showing My Cards

"What--"

Chizuki Nishiki had always felt there was a misunderstanding, or that someone was spreading rumors. She turned her head blankly to Tsubaki, and Tsubaki nodded, "What the young master said is true."

His own home was indeed destroyed by Boyman.

This deep-seated hatred ended with the death of that blond-haired guy... But Chizuka didn't know that the young master was not that scumbag, that guy wasn't even worthy of a little help.

"Then why..."

Looking at Chizuka's confused expression, Rurikawa Tsubaki didn't know how to explain. She glanced helplessly at Mu Xiaoxiao. Xiaoxiao really had a wicked sense of humor. Was she planning to keep it a secret forever?

"Let the young master explain this to you himself, shall we?"

Even the confused Shiki Anri snapped out of her daze and looked over. She was probably curious too: why would Boiman, with his terrible reputation and numerous misdeeds, make Rurikawa Tsubaki so devoted to him? He was her enemy, her foe.

Shouldn't it be a fight to the death?

"Chizuka, compared to this, lunch break is almost over," Mu Xiaoxiao glanced at the sparse crowd flowing towards the teaching building and pointed to the lunchbox in her arms, "You don't seem to have even eaten your lunch yet, why don't you hurry up and eat lunch..."

"This is very important. I'm not hungry at all for bento boxes or anything like that!"

"Chizuka, actually I'm hungry..."

Jinmu Qianshu pounced on Mu Xiaoxiao in a frenzy, her arms tightly wrapped around Mu Xiaoxiao's neck, shaking her from side to side. "You stupid young master! If you're hungry, eat my lunchbox! Tell me what's going on right now! If you keep giving me this evasive answer, I'm going to get angry—!"

"Okay, okay, I'll talk, I'll talk," Mu Xiaoxiao said. Although her neck was being held, she could feel the softness of the girl's breasts and a pleasant fragrance kept wafting into her nostrils. She couldn't tell if it was the smell of the bento box or the girl's body scent.

"Well, since you're so eager to know, I'll lay my cards on the table and stop pretending," Mu Xiaoxiao said, meeting the girl's gaze. She noticed the tension in her eyes and realized that the girl seemed to care a lot about this matter, or rather, she cared a lot about whether her young master was a good person or a bad person.

Despite what she had been through, she still firmly believed that her young master was a good person, but even he himself had admitted it... This made Chizuka very upset.

"Chizuka, actually I..."

"Rurikawa-san—!"

Interrupted, Chizuka Nishiki turned around angrily. A figure ran towards her from a distance, and it was none other than Takaya Kofukuji, with whom she had spoken before. Chizuka, who was already annoyed with him, became even angrier.

Why did this guy have to do it at this time—

He went to Tsubaki's class to look for her, but couldn't find her. Kofukuji Takaya searched for a long time before finally finding her there, and Anri was also there. The boy's heart skipped a beat when he was glared at by Nishiki Chizuki's tiger-like eyes. "You... are all here."

"Rurikawa-kun, I've been looking for you, um..."

"Is there something you need?" the down-on-her-luck maid asked calmly.

"Um, can we talk privately?"

"I'm sorry, I won't leave your side, young master. You can say what you need to say here."

Mu Xiaoxiao scrutinized the unfamiliar face with great interest. He could tell at a glance that the boy seemed to be interested in Chun, but that wasn't surprising. Chun had been with him and, like Lingna and Haruno Kasumi, had begun to evolve to a higher level. It was normal for their charm to attract attention.

"Master?"

Kofukuji Ryūya also looked at Mu Xiaoxiao, stunned by her unique temperament and charm. He felt a strange jealousy and was a little confused. "What do you mean, young master? Who is he? Aren't you a maid from the Boiman family?"

Good grief, now everyone realized something was wrong.

Sicheng Xingli covered her mouth with both hands, "You mean—he's not Boyman?"

“Xingli, what are you talking about? Of course he’s not Boyman. I’ve seen that person before, how could I mistake him for someone else?” Boyman was blond and had an arrogant and conceited demeanor; he couldn’t possibly have forgotten him.

"Young Master, you...you..."

Chizuka Nishiki felt like the world was playing a joke on him. After all that talk and fuss, it turned out he wasn't Boyman after all.

Mu Xiaoxiao grinned, trying hard to suppress her laughter, and innocently spread her hands, "So, what do those things Boyman did have to do with me, Mu Xiaoxiao?"

How despicable!

Damn it, I really want to punch him!!!

Wait, Mu Xiaoxiao?! This name—

Nishiki Chizuki's pupils dilated in shock, her body trembled, as if she had heard something unbelievable. She stared blankly at Mu Xiaoxiao's face, a face she had seen many times and was already familiar with and used to.

This moment suddenly felt incredibly unfamiliar.

"Mu Xiaoxiao? You—"

Her voice was hoarse, and her delicate face was slightly pale.

Shiki Anri didn't know the name, nor did she understand why Chizuka reacted so strongly. Her childhood friend, Kofukuji Takaya, was also causing her emotional turmoil. As for the young master of the Kofukuji family, he was also confused about Mu Xiaoxiao's identity.

So, after all this time, he wasn't Boyman after all? That makes sense now, and Miss Liulichuan's choice of him is quite reasonable. It all makes perfect sense, so why do I still feel uncomfortable?

Hmm, the atmosphere is strange.

Mu Xiaoxiao glanced at Kofukuji Takaya, whose expression was constantly changing, and said, "That guy seems to have something to say to you. Tsubaki, you go ahead."

He winked at the dazed Nishiki Chizuka and sighed, "I also need to talk to Chizuka alone."

"Yes, Little One~"

Rurikawa Tsubaki smiled, but the smile disappeared when she turned to Kofukuji Takaya. "Kofukuji-kun, let's go."

"Chizuka, come with me."

Jinmu Qianshu gritted her teeth and followed Mu Xiaoxiao's figure.

Only the silver-haired Sicheng Xingli remained standing there in a daze. She looked at the back of her childhood sweetheart, then looked up and stared intently at the backs of Mu Xiaoxiao and her friend Qian Shu. After hesitating for a while, she finally walked towards the direction of her childhood sweetheart.

The two didn't go far, stopping only by the horizontal bar on the playground. Si Chengxingli didn't go over, but she was close enough to hear their conversation.

"What is it? Speak up."

Kofukuji Takaya was speechless. He had a lot to say to her at first, but Nishiki Chitsuka said that he liked Boiman and that she was willing... After all that, it turned out that the young master was not Boiman. He overturned all his previous ideas and naturally couldn't say what he originally wanted to say.

"that person……"

“He is my master and the person I love most,” Tsubaki Rurikawa stated frankly, “and at the same time, he is the one who personally destroyed Boyman, protected me, and helped me take revenge.”

"..."