Tentacle Monster Conquest Manual

"..."

“So you knew all along,” Mu Xiaoxiao understood from the girl’s evasive gaze and silence. She cupped the girl’s face in her hands and said, “And it’s related to me. Tell me, what exactly happened?”

"Waaah, maybe Senior Ruomu was just shy. I only shared my experiences and feelings with Xiaoxiaose with her..."

Mu Xiaoxiao is numb. How can this be shared so casually?

Xia Hai, when did you become so shameless? Don't you feel ashamed?

"Girls often talk about erotic topics, Xiaoxiao, you don't need to make a fuss about it. Compared to this," she hugged Mu Xiaoxiao's arm intimately, nestling her delicate body against him, her soft breasts pressing against him, "Senior Ruomu has always wanted to become stronger, maybe it's because of the trauma left by the last incident, Xiaoxiao, you know that, right?"

"I know, I ran into her at the gym. Why are you bringing this up?"

“Ruo Mu is having a tough time too. Although she seems the same on the surface, she must feel very helpless inside. So I was thinking, Xiao Xiao, could you help her?” Xia Hai’s voice trailed off as he spoke. “Xiao Xiao, you’re the one who can make us stronger, right…”

Mu Xiaoxiao: "..."

He suddenly grabbed the girl's shoulders. "Xia Hai, you...you haven't already told her about this, have you?"

"Yeah, I said it."

"..."

I can't tell if you, Xia Hai, are helping her or sabotaging her. I can make her stronger, but it requires doing some lewd things.

No wonder Ruomu's expression was so strange just now...

Mu Xiaoxiao sighed, "I don't want to be immersed in a world of gentle pleasures, but these girls are all so proactive, I'm helpless!"

Chapter 209 The Shy Senior Sister Ruomu

"strength……"

A long-haired beauty, Ruomu, walked alone among the male and female students. She murmured the word softly, like a madman wishing for power from a demon. Yet, there was no madness on her face. Instead, she showed a shy smile, like a pure girl in love.

As always, she opened the shoe cabinet and found several love letters inside. Ruomu didn't even look at the signature on the cover before simply throwing them into the trash can. She then turned around and peeked outside, accurately spotting Mu Xiaoxiao and Xia Hai together in the crowd. Her cheeks burned even hotter.

It looked as if there were flames roasting it, making it glow red.

Ruo Mu quickly turned around and ran upstairs, her long hair flowing and smooth strands swaying in the air. She breathed a sigh of relief when she returned to Class C classroom... At this moment, she was in a state of extreme shame, not daring to face Mu Xiaoxiao, and not knowing what expression to use to face him.

"Good morning."

"Good morning."

The girl greeted the students around her, pulled out her chair, and sighed, "Power...doing...doing that kind of thing with Xiaoxiao, you can gain power or something."

That's so unfair!

Ruo Mu was very moved, but she couldn't tell whether it was because of the power or because of Xiao Xiao, or perhaps both? That's why she was embarrassed to face him. "Xia Hai is really something, actually willing to share her boyfriend with me. She, what she said, seemed like she was serious."

Ruomu lay on the desk, burying her face in her arms to hide her flushed cheeks and the strange expression on her face. "Xia Hai, she has really changed a lot."

It's not just her appearance, but also her mindset and ideas.

Thinking of this, Ruomu suddenly noticed a beautiful girl with long, straight black hair, just like her, walking into the classroom. Yotsuya Miko didn't have her usual stern face; instead, she walked into the classroom chatting and laughing with her friend Yurikawa Hana.

Anyone with eyes could see that Miko Yotsuya was in a good mood; she rarely showed such a smile.

Ruomu watched them sit down silently, her ears twitching. She overheard Yotsuya mention the name "Xiaoxiao". Ruomu suddenly remembered that Yotsuya Miko and Xiaoxiao seemed to know each other, or even have a good relationship.

Although Yotsuya doesn't possess the extraordinary charm of Natsumi, which suggests she and Xiaoxiao haven't done *that* kind of thing, her female intuition still tells her that Mu Xiaoxiao and Yotsuya's relationship is unusual.

Really... just like Matsubara Hōichi, they both know how to attract attention. Ruomu thought of her former partner, the member of the archery club, the guy she had broken ties with.

“But unlike Matsubara Hōichi, that bastard doesn’t seem to be making any choices at all. He’s a real womanizer. Could it be related to his inhuman identity?” Ruomu automatically filled in the blanks and made excuses for him. She didn’t even realize that Mu Xiaoxiao was a womanizer and had a harem. She wasn’t angry at all.

They no longer cared about his inhuman identity.

Ruomu withdrew her gaze, and upon hearing the bell, she sat up and saw the beautiful and elegant teacher, Lingna, walk in. The girl blinked and carefully savored Lingna's charm. Such a special temperament and beauty—sure enough, Lingna and Xiaoxiao were having an affair.

I've even...done it.

Thinking back to when Xiaoxiao and I spied on that perverted teacher trying to threaten Shiina Chizuru in the warehouse, Xiaoxiao got Reina-sensei to help. They must have known each other for a long time, right? Seriously, to be honest, Natsumi and I were the first people to know Xiaoxiao.

bang bang bang-

Her heart suddenly fluttered. So, having missed an opportunity before, should she seize it this time? Ruomu bit her beautiful cherry lips, and even she, who was always serious about her studies, couldn't help but drift off into her own thoughts.

After class, Ruomu continued to sit in her seat in a daze. The classroom was filled with lively chatter. High school students all had their own small groups, which was especially serious in Japanese schools. Ruomu, all alone, stood out.

Ruomu is very beautiful, with delicate features and excellent academic performance. She also has a gentle personality. However, she has no friends at school. It's not that no one wants to be her friend, but that she rejects them. After that incident, Ruomu has no extra energy to socialize.

This has resulted in her having no friends at school.

During lunch break, when Mu Xiaoxiao arrived at Class C, she saw Ruomu sitting alone in the back. Although it was the main character's seat, she still looked... pitiful. She didn't have a single friend, and she would probably have to eat her lunch alone.

"Mu Jun?"

The lonely, beautiful girl saw the boy outside the window, and her loneliness vanished instantly, as if she had seen a hero who had saved her. Her eyes lit up, "Did you come to find me?"

Ah, this—

Mu Xiaoxiao had just reached the classroom door and hadn't even gone in when Ruomu ran out and startled her. "I'm here to find Jianzi, and to fulfill my duties as her boyfriend. Well, not for anything lewd, but to help her drive away those evil spirits, so I'm here to have dinner with her."

However, he didn't voice these complaints. Mu Xiaoxiao was no longer the clueless straight man he used to be, and he couldn't say anything discouraging at a time like this. Instead, he nodded readily and readily admitted it, while shamelessly extending an invitation, "Um, I came to find you... Ruomu, do you want to have lunch together?"

"It's quite a surprise that you invited me to lunch. Is this the first time?" Ruomu seemed very happy, her smile brightening, her gentle gaze fixed on him. "Did Xia Hai send you to invite me?"

“No, Xia Hai doesn’t have time at noon, so it’ll just be the two of us alone,” Mu Xiaoxiao suddenly grinned mischievously, her crimson eyes darting around. “Ruo Mu, if Xia Hai comes to call you, and we eat lunch together, you don’t seem to be planning to refuse?”

"What's wrong? It's just eating lunch together. Xia Hai and I are friends," Ruomu said, puzzled. "It's normal to agree, isn't it?"

"It's normal, but... adding this makes it abnormal. Xia Hai said you want to become stronger? And... she seems to have told you about my abilities?"

"What?" Ruomu's heart suddenly skipped a beat.

"About my ability to make girls more beautiful and stronger, and to help them evolve... Ruomu, you know about that now, right?"

"..."

The girl with long, straight black hair trembled violently. The usually gentle and calm beauty suddenly squeezed out an expression of shame and panic, began to stutter, her gaze wandered, and she wished she could turn around and run into the classroom and crawl under the table.

Why did Xia Hai tell him this? Why did Mu Xiaoxiao come over and ask him this in person? Couldn't he have just pretended not to know? Didn't he feel ashamed?

Ruomu was about to faint.

"Mu Jun, are you... are you here to mock me?"

"No, I just came to confirm. It seems Xia Hai was telling the truth. You don't seem to mind at all. Could it be that..."

"I, you..." Ruomu was almost out of breath. She gritted her teeth and lowered her head. "I just want to become stronger. I don't want to go through those things again."

Mu Xiaoxiao blinked, her playful smile fading as she adopted a serious expression. "I understand, Ruomu. You are Xia Hai's friend, and also my friend. I will help you."

The beautiful girl's face was burning hot, and she was too shy to look at him.

When you say "help me," are you referring to the ordinary kind of help, or is it like what Xia Hai said... help me? Your ambiguous words are making one's imagination run wild!

Chapter 210 The Track and Field Club's Invitation

"Xiaoxiao? You guys..."

Yotsuya Miko also saw the two people at the door and was slightly taken aback.

"Jianzi," Mu Xiaoxiao waved and greeted her naturally, without any shame or guilt about flirting with other girls in front of her. "Jianzi, do you want to go out for lunch together?"

“Okay, Ruomu, are you coming too?” Yotsuya Miko nodded. Although she and Ruomu were classmates, they weren’t familiar with each other and hadn’t talked much, since Ruomu’s personality was rather indifferent.

But things are different when it comes to Xiaoxiao—

“Yes, Ruomu is also my friend, so let’s all eat together,” Mu Xiaoxiao winked at Jianzi. The latter didn’t quite understand what Xiaoxiao meant, but she also wanted to eat lunch with him, so she nodded in agreement.

The location was the rooftop, a place where students are not allowed to enter or leave at will, and the rooftop door is always locked. However, the two well-behaved female students looked at him strangely when they saw him take out a key and unlock the rooftop door.

"Mu Jun, do you still have the rooftop key?"

"Oh, it was given to me by Rena-sensei."

A bland answer.

Ruomu also remembered this matter, "Mu-kun, your relationship with Teacher Lingnai is really..."

Who would have thought that the most popular and beautiful teacher in the school would have such an ambiguous relationship with this student? No, judging from Xia Hai's words, Teacher Ling Nai's exaggerated charm also comes from Xiao Xiao.

This means they've already done it... The long-haired girl blushed slightly; Mu Xiaoxiao really is a womanizer.

“Xiaoxiao is such a womanizer,” Yotsuya Miko said, voicing Ruomu’s thoughts. Her beautiful golden eyes were fixed on Ruomu with disdain, but Yotsuya Miko secretly glanced at Ruomu and said calmly, “However, although she’s a womanizer, she’s also very reliable…”

After all, he's her boyfriend, and she should make him look good in front of others.

Gentle-hearted Miko thought to herself.

“Reliable…that’s right, Mu-kun is indeed very reliable,” Ruo Mu sat down to Mu Xiaoxiao’s left, with the two girls flanking him on either side. She took out her own bento box. “Yotsuya-kun has also encountered some terrifying beings, right?”

"Huh? Ruomu, how did you know?" She could see those evil spirits and monsters, and she had only told Xiaoxiao about it. Why did this classmate, whom she wasn't very familiar with, also know about it?

"I could tell, couldn't I? You're always so easily startled at school, and you know Mu-kun... so I guessed it," Ruo-mu said, gently stroking her hair with a smile.

"Yotsugu-kun seems to have breathed a sigh of relief these past few days, is that also related to Mu-kun?"

"Such keen observation skills!" Yotsuya Miko tried her best to maintain a calm expression. "Does Ruomu also know about those evil spirits and monsters?"

Now that things have come to this, with Xiaoxiao here, there's no need to hide it anymore.

“Her experience is far more terrifying than yours,” Mu Xiaoxiao answered first, carefully observing Ruomu’s expression as if trying to see through her heart. “And—it’s been so long, Ruomu, you still haven’t gotten over those shadows.”

He saw through Ruomu's heart.

“Those things, those experiences… it’s not something you can get over so easily. In the end, I’m just an ordinary girl,” the girl tried to force a smile, but even Miko could see how strained her smile was.

Ruo Mu frankly admitted her current state. She knew very well that Xia Hai had moved on from that incident, but she... still had psychological trauma. And the only one who could dispel this trauma and save her from the gloom was Mu Xiaoxiao.

Xia Hai probably understood this as well, which is why he made that suggestion.

Thinking of this, Ruomu looked at Mu Xiaoxiao, who happened to be looking over as well. Their eyes met, and Ruomu saw the same thought in the other's eyes. Ruomu panicked and quickly looked down to look away.

Mu Xiaoxiao raised the corners of her mouth. If Jianzi hadn't been there, he might have teased him.

Lunch break was short. After finishing her lunch, Mu Xiaoxiao left. Ruomu and Yotsuya Miko also planned to return to Class C's classroom. Although they were classmates, they had never been close. Now, because of Xiaoxiao, they had become a little closer.

"Does Ruomu not have many friends at school?" Jianzi recalled the girl's usual behavior in class. "She rarely spends time with others in class and is always alone... It seems like she doesn't have any friends."

Despite being so beautiful and having such a kind and gentle personality, she has no friends.

“Making more friends can really improve your mood,” she suggested.

“Friends,” Ruomu used to have many friends, but after the school invasion incident, she focused more on becoming stronger, and interpersonal relationships were long forgotten. However, she did not refute Miko, but instead said with a smile, “Yotsuya-kun is right, so can we be considered friends now?”