Well... even Goto Ichiri, who doesn't know how to talk to strangers, got to know them thanks to Ogiwara Sayu and Irisviel's initiative in greeting them.

They had just been discussing Ilya when she suddenly appeared.

Kato Megumi had already guessed that these identities were nonsense, but she didn't expose Qin Chuan. She just looked at Qin Chuan with a somewhat resentful gaze.

Kato Megumi could guess what Qin Chuan was thinking, given how evasive he was about to end the band's performance.

However, considering that she was one of those who had long accepted this fact, Kato Megumi could only sigh and think about finding an opportunity to "punish" Qin Chuan again later.

"um, yes."

Ilya nodded and then obediently walked over.

Chapter 364 Kato Megumi is a little jealous

After lunch, Qin Chuan stayed in the living room with the band members who had just finished playing party games on the console.

Japan's gaming industry is indeed highly developed, with a plethora of party games available on consoles. When inviting friends over, there's no need to worry about awkward silences due to a lack of conversational skills.

Of course, one of the main reasons for choosing to play the game was that I found out that Goto Ichiri really couldn't utter a single word for a long time.

Considering Goto Ichiri's social anxiety, Qin Chuan decided to use games to ease the atmosphere—communicating through games might be more suitable for Goto Ichiri than chatting with people.

Indeed, this was the case. After receiving the game controller, Goto Ichiri behaved much more naturally and occasionally even started chatting with others because of certain situations in the party game.

After all, at home, Goto Ichiri spends all her time either playing guitar or staring at the computer.

Although I don't play console games much, as a video streamer, I do come into contact with them to some extent.

……

Just as Qin Chuan was having a great time playing games with everyone, his phone suddenly vibrated.

He held the controller in one hand, continuing to operate the Ma Mouao racing character on the screen, while using the other hand to pick up his phone and glance at it.

Eriri's name was prominently displayed on the screen—which surprised Qin Chuan somewhat, as he hadn't expected Eriri to contact him again on the weekend.

Is she planning to take me to some weird place again?

After thinking for a moment, Qin Chuan put down the controller, gestured to the others in the living room to answer the call, and then left the living room.

After leaving the living room and finding a secluded corner, Qin Chuan answered his phone and heard Eriri's complaining voice coming through the receiver:

"Too slow, what are you doing?"

It sounds like Eriri is angry, but that's not actually the case. She just habitually speaks in this tone when she's talking to people she's close to.

If it were someone she didn't know well, Eriri would be even more polite, which is why she is often mistaken for having the air of a rich girl.

Of course, Qin Chuan also accepted this tone, mainly because he had heard it before when he did strange things with Eriri.

Therefore, this tone was not a negative emotion for Qin Chuan; on the contrary, it had a flirtatious feel to it.

"I'm entertaining my guests. Little Pochi and Kita came to visit me with their band."

Qin Chuan smiled and said to Eriri, "Of course there's no need to hide this from Eriri, because Eriri probably already knows."

"...Indeed, it seems we talked about this during lunch earlier."

Eriri seemed to have her memories stirred up, recalling the conversation the lunch team had had earlier, which did mention visiting Qin Chuan's house over the weekend after the band finished their performance.

At the time, Kato Megumi also asked Eriri if she wanted to come too, but Eriri declined, saying that she had "important things to do on the weekend."

Although Qin Chuan didn't ask at the time, he could guess that the important thing Eriri mentioned was probably related to the doujinshi.

After all, she spends most of her time studying, so the only time she has to draw in her notebook is on the rare free time of the weekend.

"So what did you want to call me about today? You don't mean you want to study in more depth again, do you?"

Qin Chuan asked Eriri with a joking tone.

However, even if he said that, he would probably still refuse if Eriri really invited him to leave home now.

After all, the band members were still at home after the performance. What kind of host would abandon them and go out to meet other girls? That would be extremely rude.

Although it's already quite impolite for Qin Chuan to maintain such delicate relationships with so many girls... we still need to maintain proper etiquette in this regard.

"No, not at all... I'm actually quite glad that Goto and the others came to your house today."

Eriri didn't ask Qin Chuan to come out now, but instead spoke as if she had breathed a sigh of relief.

"You don't have any plans for tomorrow, right?"

"Tomorrow? I don't have any plans."

Qin Chuan thought about it and realized that he didn't have anything planned for tomorrow—it seemed that Eriri was planning to schedule his actions for tomorrow.

As expected, after hearing Qin Chuan's answer, Eriri continued:

There's a comic convention tomorrow, can you come with me?

"Comic Con?"

Qin Chuan then realized that tomorrow was probably the day Eriri's doujinshi would be released.

Previously, Eriri even risked bringing her sketchbook illustrations to school to draw because the deadline was so close.

In retrospect, there were only two weeks left before it was time to put it out for sale—which was indeed quite urgent, and it's no wonder she took the risk.

She never expected that this risky move would lead to such an extraordinary relationship between her and Qin Chuan.

···Requesting flowers··· ····

"Okay, are you planning to sell the notebooks yourself tomorrow?"

"How could that be? Of course, we'd have someone else sell it for us!"

Eriri said somewhat irritably, "How could she possibly go and sell the doujinshi herself?"

Even if she disguises herself, there's still a chance some people will recognize her, okay? Then her reputation at school will be completely ruined.

Her mother, Sayuri Sawamura, will help with the sales, while she will simply disguise herself and visit comic conventions to check on the sales of her doujinshi.

As long as she's not at a stall, the chances of being recognized are extremely slim—few people will pay attention to an ordinary, homebody girl wearing a mask walking by on the street.

Of course, she used to go to the anime convention alone, but now that she knows Qin Chuan is a fellow enthusiast, she naturally wants to drag him along to the convention as well.

.... ..... .......

Although the setting might be different from what most people imagine a date to be, Eriri sees it as basically an invitation to a date.

"Okay, see you tomorrow then."

Qin Chuan sensed a hint of nervousness in Eriri's invitation and accepted.

For such a proud and aloof person to take the initiative to invite me out, even though it wasn't explicitly a date, is already quite an achievement.

It must have taken a lot of determination and courage.

"Okay! You absolutely can't stand me up!"

Sure enough, after hearing Qin Chuan agree, Eriri's voice became much brighter, and you could hear her jumping up even through the phone.

After arranging a time with Eriri, Qin Chuan hung up the phone and turned to go back to the living room.

Then he saw Kato Megumi standing quietly behind him.

To be fair, in the everyday world, since there's nothing that can threaten Qin Chuan, he doesn't pay attention to the "qi" around him all the time.

Therefore, Kato Megumi's appearance was indeed somewhat unexpected for Qin Chuan.

"What's wrong, Hui?"

Putting away his phone, Qin Chuan smiled and looked at Kato Megumi.

"Were you talking on the phone with Eriri just now?"

Kato Megumi certainly heard the voice from the phone receiver—though it was faint, she was someone she had eaten lunch with many times.

Under Qin Chuan's somewhat surprised gaze, Kato Megumi snuggled into Qin Chuan's arms, hugged his waist, buried her head in his chest, and made muffled sounds:

"I'm a little jealous, can you comfort me?" (The question is incomplete in the original text.)

Chapter 365 Gabriel Has Changed

It took Qin Chuan some time to comfort Kato Megumi.

The main reason was that he had been holding back some anger from yesterday, and now that Kato Megumi had taken the initiative, Qin Chuan just went along with it.

We really have to thank Hayasaka Ai's maid outfit stand-in for helping Qin Chuan restore Kato Megumi's strength and energy; otherwise, Kato Megumi probably wouldn't have been able to return to the living room in a normal state.

"Why did it take you so long?"

After Kato Megumi returned to the living room, Ijichi Nijika looked at her with some curiosity and asked with some confusion.

Almost an hour has passed since Kato Megumi left the living room and returned.

She initially said she was going to help Qin Chuan with something, but what exactly that meant, Ichiji Nijika wasn't quite sure.

"The situation is rather unusual... This time it's already been done relatively quickly."

Of course, Kato Megumi couldn't reveal what she and Qin Chuan had just done; she simply gave a faint smile and a very calm response to Ijichi Nijika.

Thanks to Hayasaka Ai's maid outfit stand-in, Kato Megumi is currently only a little unsteady on her feet and doesn't have any unusual reactions.

Therefore, neither Ichiji Nijika, nor Yamada Ryo, nor Goto Ichiri noticed what kind of help Kato Megumi had given to Qin Chuan earlier.

Similarly, Irisviel, Illya, and Sayu Ogiwara did not notice anything.

Of course, while the other three members of the band were not quite sure what Kato Megumi had just done, Kita Ikuyo was well aware of it.

She couldn't help but complain inwardly that Qin Chuan didn't know how to restrain himself in broad daylight—but she also felt a little envious.

Kato Megumi and Qin Chuan were classmates and had known each other for much longer than she had, which is why Kato Megumi was able to do those intimate things with Qin Chuan, but Kita Ikuyo felt that she couldn't reach that level yet.

"Hmm?"

Kita Ikuyo wasn't the only one to notice this; Kanna, sitting next to her, also seemed to have sensed something and suddenly gave Kato Megumi a sharp look.

As a dragon, she can sense the presence of magic—and right now, there is clearly magic from Qin Chuan within Kato Megumi's body.

She had seen this situation before; the girls in Qin Chuan's bed the night before last were all in this state.

However, because Qin Chuan had warned her that it was too early for her to think about such things, Kanna didn't say anything, but simply kept it in mind.

Thor had instructed her that if she noticed anything unusual about other girls' interactions with Qin Chuan, she should secretly tell her.

Given Kato Megumi's situation, shouldn't we tell Tohru about it?

……

In the afternoon, another girl came to Qin Chuan's house—of course, this was not a first-time visitor, but a regular visitor who had been coming every day for the past few days.

Perhaps she couldn't even be called a guest—because the visitor was Gabriel, who worked as a maid at Qin Chuan's house.

She didn't come this morning, but she asked Thor for leave, so it doesn't count as absenteeism.

After finishing her own business in the morning, she arrived at Qin Chuan's house in the afternoon. She quickly changed into a maid outfit and then pushed open the living room door.

"Qin Chuan! I'm here! Hurry up and give me what you promised me yesterday..."

Given how familiar Gabriel was with Qin Chuan, she naturally acted very casually, feeling as relaxed at Qin Chuan's house as if she were at her own.

After all, working as a maid for the past few days had allowed her to get to know her family better, and she was able to show her true nature without any hesitation in front of Irisviel, Sayu Ogiwara, and others.

However, her voice quickly faded away.

It was only when she shouted Qin Chuan's name that she noticed several unfamiliar people sitting in the living room.

She recognized Kato Megumi, but this was clearly the first time she had met the rest of the band members.

Clearly, they were all Qin Chuan's guests.

While Gabrielle does act very casually around acquaintances, it's somewhat inappropriate for her to be so rude in front of guests.

Gabriel wouldn't normally care about this, but if Tohru found out that she was being so rude as a maid, she'd probably get her wages docked.

Withholding wages is no small matter!

However, Qin Chuan, who was playing the game, didn't mind this. When he saw Gabriel rush in, he remembered that he still hadn't given Gabriel the magic polymer he had made last night.

After all, Gabriel is an angel, and there are some tasks she needs to complete in Heaven. In order to avoid being noticed by Heaven, Qin Chuan doesn't mind helping her in this regard.

Besides, Gabriel already paid him yesterday, so he naturally couldn't break his promise.

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