Shota is surrounded by monsters!

Huang Quan looked at Xiang Tai and said, "The snake has almost crawled up to her neck. Fortunately, she didn't cut the snake again today, otherwise she definitely wouldn't have made it through today. Now, she can still hold on until the day after tomorrow."

"Clap."

As soon as Huang Quan finished speaking, Sengoku Nadeko opened the door and came out of the room. She looked a little tired after just getting dressed. She lowered her head, not daring to look Shota in the eye, and simply asked, "Did you see it?"

"You could say you saw it, or you could say you didn't."

Shota, unusually gentlemanly, said, "I saw the snake, but I didn't see you."

"I...hate this body."

"please……"

"Please help me solve this..."

Seeing Sengoku bowing his head in pleading, Shota nodded.

"That's why I hate making money off female high school students the most!"

Back home, Shota complained to Yomi, "My monthly allowance is only 1200 yen! I'm not even fourteen yet, and nobody wants to hire me for part-time jobs. How am I supposed to ask? Tell her not to contact me unless she needs 500,000 yen? That girl would definitely cry!"

"Well, don't worry about such details. Six hundred yuan is enough. At least you bought a few donuts, right?"

Huang Quan covered her face with a fan, but her laughter reached Shota's ears directly.

"Hey."

Shota sighed. It was a bit of a tragedy that his first business deal could only generate this much revenue.

"Mom, Mom, Shota is calling you, Mom. I've got the donuts."

"Well done, my son."

Shinobu emerged from Shota's shadow, snatched the bag of donuts from his hand, took out her favorite golden chocolate donut, and took a big bite.

"Mmm~~Delicious~"

Shinobu, her eyes already half-closed in enjoyment, sat directly on Shota's lap.

"Shota, what are you going to do?"

Although the money was received, the matter was not resolved.

Should we ask Kagura for help tomorrow morning?

Shota thought for a moment and then said, "Let's go check out that club tonight. I have a feeling there's something strange about it."

"Is snake a midnight snack?"

After finishing her donut, Shinobu said, "I feel like a fight is going to break out, with the Snake God."

"Well, he's just a sealed-off guy."

Shota shrugged and said, "I don't think I have much strength left, right? Besides, right now, apart from legendary figures, there's no one I'm afraid of, is there?"

"but……"

Shota turned Shinobu's face toward him and said, "Mom's form is too dangerous. Come on, come on, drink my blood to increase your power."

"Okay, okay. For the sake of the donuts."

When the clock struck twelve, Shota walked alone towards the outskirts. Kitashiroji Shrine was located in the north of the city, and it would take two hours to get there by train—after all, Tokyo is now very well developed, and even in the suburbs, there are fewer and fewer mountains with snakes.

Surprisingly, the Kita-Shiroji Shrine was preserved. Nestled in the mountains, the shrine was surrounded by wild snakes that seemed impossible to eradicate, despite various efforts by locals. Fortunately, there were few residents nearby. Eventually, the government abandoned its snake-catching efforts.

It took them twenty minutes to reach the foot of the mountain at an inhuman speed. Shota looked up at the mountain, which was neither too high nor too low, and a hint of joy appeared in his eyes.

"A barrier? You can't sense the darkness inside this mountain until you get to the foot of it."

A demonic aura, and not just any ordinary demonic aura, slowly emanated from the mountains.

"It must be a barrier."

Yomi stepped out from behind Shota, looked up at the mountain peak, and said, "It seems that this shrine did not recover its aura because of an accident, but because someone did it deliberately."

Why think so much?

Shinobu—to be precise, at eighteen years old—emerged from the other side behind Shota. Now, she had her long golden hair tied in a ponytail and was wearing ordinary sportswear. At first glance, her first impression was definitely that of a tall, athletic, and beautiful young woman.

"Why not just kill them all in one go?"

Shinobu affectionately hooked her arm around Shota's shoulder and said, "Hurry up, son, you still have some change in your pocket, right? Let's go back and buy another one..."

"The bakery doesn't open at night."

Shota felt the pressure of his mother's chest against his arm. It was a pity Shinobu was only a D-cup in this state. Why didn't she suckle a little more? For some reason, his mother always seemed a little resistant to reverting to her Kiss-Shot form.

"Hmph. Hey."

Shinobu tossed the demon sword Shinto to Yomi, saying, "Ordinary ghosts are useless. Here, take this sword as a token gesture."

Thank you.

Just as Huang Quan was about to ask another question, he noticed that Xiao Ren had pulled out another demon sword, Xin Du...

"Wasn't there only one originally?"

"Ah, this? I can make as many as you want," Shinobu explained. "But don't stray too far from me, or the sword in your hand will break."

"Let's go."

So, Shota, along with two ghosts and a vampire wielding terrifying weapons, began to head up the mountain.

"But there are so many snakes here. How many are there? Hundreds? Or thousands?"

Along the way, Shota noticed that many things were watching him. However, if there were really that many snakes, how could that little girl have stayed on this mountain for so long? Although snakes are not necessarily aggressive, the fact that she had entered a snake pit was enough to frighten any normal girl.

"Let's catch them all and make soup when we go down the mountain. At least we've earned back some food."

"Why not sell them and buy donuts instead?"

"Mom, eating sweets all the time is bad for your teeth. What if one of your two most precious vampire teeth gets cavities one day?"

"Just pull one out of that little vampire's mouth."

"...Don't treat Rea like a spare tooth."

"and many more."

Huang Quan suddenly interrupted the mother and son's usual bickering and said, "We've arrived."

The three of them had already arrived at the shrine.

"Do you smell a familiar scent?"

Shota suddenly sniffed and said, "It's the smell of yogurt mixed with the scent of a woman when she's in heat."

"What kind of taste is that?"

"It smells just like that useless H-cup snake queen."

Shota took a few steps forward and then exclaimed "Ah!"

This isn't my neighbor, but that stupid snake that hasn't appeared in my sight since my mom showed up?

"It really was her."

Shota looked at the Snake Princess sitting not far away with her tail coiled up and shouted, "Hey, Snake Princess, what are you doing here?"

"Hey--"

With the same sigh as always, upon hearing Shota's voice, the Snake Princess, still wearing the T-shirt Shota had given her years ago, slowly turned around, revealing her face behind huge sunglasses, and said to Shota, "Brother, you've finally come. I've been trapped here for a long time..."

"Why are you here..."

Before Shota could finish speaking, a strange wind suddenly swept through the shrine...

"not good!"

Just as Shota noticed something was wrong, Snake Princess suddenly changed and let out a strange laugh.

"Hiss...tsk tsk tsk tsk..."

"I originally intended to use that girl as a sacrifice to obtain a physical body, but she didn't come today. Oh well, I'll just use this demon body for now. I, Kuchigawa, have finally been resurrected!"

The Snake Princess's voice suddenly became shrill.

"Ah, this guy's been possessed again."

Huang Quan didn't know why he said "again"...

Do you recognize him?

“Didn’t we meet that night?” Shota explained to his mother, “My neighbor.”

"Oh, really? I don't remember."

Xiao Ren shrugged.

Seeing that the three ignored her, the guy who called himself Qiaosheng seemed very angry and said, "I'm going to use you all as sacrifices, and then... hahaha."

As she spoke, she took off the sunglasses that the Snake Princess always wore and crushed them.

Shota and the other two were stunned.

Because... the Snake Princess's appearance, which had remained unknown to anyone... wasn't hidden because of any ugly flaws; on the contrary, she was extremely cute...

Tears welling up in her eyes...

A typical loli face.

"I didn't expect her to have such a youthful face and huge breasts," Shota said, barely suppressing a laugh. "But it's rare to see a loli with H-cup breasts..."

"Don't think about such obscene things," Huang Quan quickly stopped Shota's wild thoughts, saying, "She's obviously a pure and virtuous lady, isn't she?"

"No, I see absolutely nothing ladylike about her."

Shinobu delivered the finishing blow.

"H-Loli... no, Snake Princess, no, that Clever Rope?"

Shota advised the other person, "If you don't want to do something embarrassing, just get out of her body quickly."

"You've uttered such nonsense... I'll kill you all!"

That being said, Shota didn't have any yogurt with him, even though he believed that if he took off his pants and the H-cup loli—no, the snake princess—she would definitely kneel down and lick him out of her monster girl instincts…

But how could the innocent and adorable Shota do such a thing in front of his mother and Yomi? No, even if no one was around, he wouldn't do it.