Zongman: Evolution Paradise

"Absolutely don't agree to that!"

"Absolutely don't agree to that!"

"Absolutely don't agree to that!"

The roar kept echoing in his mind, and Jolyne wanted to open her mouth to refuse but couldn't make a sound.

Another voice echoed in his heart.

"You don't dislike Shiina Mahiru, right? Go and say yes to her, then find a place, how about the classroom?"

"Look at Shiina Mahiru's youthful face, it must taste quite wonderful."

“It’s reasonable to agree to her request.”

The roar of his brain and the echo of his heart intertwined, cold sweat poured down his body, and his fingers suddenly crushed the stair railing.

Jolyne had stopped thinking about refusing Shiina Mahiru and was trying her best to keep her mouth shut.

Consciousness remained clear under the workshop's protection, but the body felt as if it were being controlled.

Given the current situation, any refusal would likely be immediately distorted into agreement.

Shiina Mahiru's eyes were filled with shyness as she awaited Jolyne's response. She didn't even notice the armrest that Jolyne had crushed because of the distraction, or rather, she had completely ignored everything except Jolyne.

A few drops of cold sweat slid down Jolyne's face. Listening to the symphony of her brain and heart, Jolyne's expression became even calmer.

"We can't go back to the workshop, and we don't know where the enemy is. If we expose this ability, it might attract even more interest from the enemy. If we can't solve the problem next time we come out, it will only make our situation more difficult."

With her mind racing, Jolyne came up with another way to solve the predicament.

"Give me your power, wrath."

The pent-up anger within him suddenly burst forth, his eyes flashing with fury as flames that instantly merged with Jolyne.

The air blast rolled through the stairwell, blowing up Shiina Mahiru's skirt.

A completely new form of the Ghost King Joren appeared before her, with a ghost horn growing from his forehead, his black hair turning into an even darker ink color, and his body growing to nearly two and a half meters tall.

The blood of the Ghost King boiled within his body, and his resonant heart, enveloped in flesh and blood, ceased to beat.

Jolyne controlled her flesh and blood to crush it, and her heart burst out of her body in a cloud of blood mist. She felt much better because of the pain.

With control of her body regained, Jolyne took the step to respond to Shiina Mahiru.

"I reject."

Jolyne's rejection brought tears to Shiina Mahiru's eyes.

Yukino Yukinoshita and Jolyne have a close relationship, and Eriri Sawamura openly takes Jolyne away. Mahiru Shiina sneaks over to check and finds that Utaha Kasumigaoka has also followed them to the rooftop.

"Jolyne has so many girls around him."

Shiina Mahiru sighed, but felt a little uneasy.

Shiina Mahiru knew very well that everyone else was a latecomer, and that she was the first to fall in love with Jolyne.

But now, not to mention the three in the apartment, even the school's most beautiful girl dares to overtake them.

"Let's go straight to the point. Jolyne will agree. Right around this corner, I'll tell her how I feel."

But now, I've been rejected...

Shiina Mahiru felt dizzy and disoriented. Even though she was indoors, her face was soaked by rain, and she could not see clearly what was happening in front of her.

After rejecting Shiina Mahiru, the physical effects began to disappear.

After repairing her heart, Jolyne exited this special fusion state and returned to her normal appearance.

Yui Yuigahama and Yukino Yukinoshita happened to come looking for them from the Service Club.

Seeing Shiina Mahiru and Jolyne in tears, Yuigahama Yui was very worried, while Yukino Yukinoshita was thinking about what had happened.

Eriri Sawamura and Utaha Kasumigaoka also came down from the rooftop and quietly waited on the stairs behind Jolyne.

Eriri Sawamura still looked like an affected android, while Utaha Kasumigaoka stared thoughtfully at the shattered stair railing.

I'll explain it to you later.

Jolyne pulled Shiina Mahiru behind her and whispered, glancing around at the others. Apart from Yuigahama Yui, everyone else had been affected by that being.

So what's different about Yui? Jolyne had already figured it out and let out a sneer.

"How picky."

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"Kasumigaoka Utaha is sharp-tongued, cunning, and loves to flirt. After encountering something unpleasant, she suddenly has the idea to do something interesting to Sawamura Eriri, who is trying to threaten her... This makes perfect sense..."

"Eri Sawamura is a doujinshi artist. Her thought process is completely different from normal people. After being taken threatening photos by Utaha Kasumigaoka, and remembering the evidence Jolyne found against her, an incredible plan formed in her mind..."

“Eri Sawamura is not good at hiding her feelings, so Kasumigaoka Utaha noticed her little tricks.”

"But Kasumigaoka Utaha needed to find a place to change her torn stockings first, so she gave Sawamura Eriri and Jolyne some time alone."

"Yes, that's right. I want to try the blonde loser route first. I definitely prefer a happy ending to a single route."

"Damn it, the blonde loser storyline isn't progressing at all. Why is that? Doesn't he have any interest in Sawamura Eriri at all?"

"It's okay, Kasumigaoka Utaha has appeared after changing her clothes. The blonde loser route failed, I have to try the senpai route."

"When Kasumigaoka Utaha heard that Sawamura Eriri had come up with such a method of revenge, she decided to retaliate in the same way... Looking at Jolyne, who hadn't agreed to Sawamura Eriri's request, her feelings for him improved, and she decided to give him a reward... That makes perfect sense..."

"He's not interested in Kasumigaoka Utaha either?"

"The senior student route also failed."

"It seems like the guild route is impossible too. How did this loser in life manage to survive until now? He probably only ever played the worst possible ending in visual novels."

"There's only one chance left, the Angel route."

"Fortunately, Shiina Mahiru's favorability towards him is at its maximum, and Jolyne's favorability towards Shiina Mahiru is also quite high, so there's no need for me, the author, to embellish it."

"The more reasonable the situation, the greater the effect of this prop."

"Having met Yukino Yukinoshita, Utaha Kasumigaoka, and Eriri Sawamura before, Mahiru Shiina decides to take the initiative and express her feelings."

"Shiina Mahiru, the school's famous angel... If such an angel confessed to Jolyne, Jolyne, who already had feelings for her, would not refuse."

"That's right, he can't refuse."

"The completion of the angel storyline is not just reasonable, it's inevitable!"

Wearing glasses, Aki Tomoya put down his pen, waiting for the book to provide its conclusion.

This book was a random bonus he received in his last game, and it gave him hope to survive.

"As long as I can complete this creative work."

Aki Tomoya was very confident, after all, this was his dream before becoming a player.

Having unexpectedly drawn this item, Aki Tomoya even felt that the amusement park didn't want him to die.

Aki Tomoya leaned to one side, waiting for the final result. This prop did not have a real-time display function. Originally, Aki Tomoya wanted to see the galgame he had created step by step with his own eyes, but after looking at the green, ferocious arm, he gave up on that idea.

"Anyway, once the creation is finished, everything will be mine."

At this moment, the book, which was emitting a watery sheen, suddenly began to flicker as if it had crashed.

Aki Tomoya's eyes widened, and he let out a shrill, beast-like scream of pain as the green skin on his left arm began to spread.

Clutching his pen, Aki Tomoya continued to stab his left arm, the blooming green blood corroding large holes in the bed.

Only when half of his body was covered in green did Aki Tomoya collapse to the ground, trembling as he picked up the book. "Why did the angel route fail too?"

Chapter 120 Aki Tomoya Doesn't Want to Be Green

A shadowy spider moved and broke down the door of Aki Tomoya's house.

Everything inside was quiet, and there was no one in sight. Jolyne walked to Aki Tomoya's desk and saw several A4 sheets of paper. The first one she picked up was titled "Galgame Project Proposal".

galgame, short for girl and love game, refers to a type of video game where players can interact with anime/manga characters who are beautiful girls.

Turning to the second page, I found some basic settings briefly written in black ink.

Angel Route, Shiina Mahiru: Absolutely the heroine, she's so beautiful, truly a perfect anime character.

Club route, Yukino Yukinoshita: Questionable, she almost got him arrested by calling the police.

Senior sister route, Kasumigaoka Utaha: Simply because of her long black hair and pantyhose, normal galgames need to have a mature and sexy older sister character.

The "Golden Retriever Loser" Route, Eriri Sawamura: A "loser" character can always bring more fun and wider appeal to a game.

Gal route, Miura Yumiko (scratches): She actually watched me get beaten up. My game doesn't need this kind of woman.

The following pages contain plot ideas from Aki Tomoya, all based on old tropes and seemingly copied from somewhere.

After reviewing the proposal, Jolyne sighed, "It's really disappointing that there's no Yui Yuigahama storyline. I feel so bad for her. But shouldn't a good visual novel include a girl-next-door route like Yui Yuigahama?"

However, it was also thanks to Yui Yuigahama not being chosen that Jolyne suddenly realized something when she looked at Yui Yuigahama while they were gathered together.

"The only one who wasn't affected is Yui Yuigahama, but she's not the school beauty!"

Yui Yuigahama is somewhat famous in her own class, considered an above-average student, but her fame is slightly less than that of the rest of the school.

What kind of person would deliberately try to influence the campus belle of Zongwu University?

He's a weirdo who only cares about the school beauty and doesn't care about any other girls.

It's easy to imagine that the only possible candidates are the adorable, naive students of Zongwu University.

However, Jorin had already reviewed the student list of Soubu University, and Jorogumo had completed the review of each family, but found nothing wrong.

Upon seeing Yui Yuigahama, Jolyne suddenly recalled the conversation that Megumi Kato had with him last time.

"Apart from Yui Yuigahama, the others are all top-ranked campus beauties at Soubu University."

"I really feel sorry for Yui Yuigahama. But what's with this 'school beauty' thing? Does Soubu University even have a ranking like this?"

"It was a strange student named Aki Tomoya who arranged this, followed by the angel Shiina Mahiru, the ice queen Yukinoshita Yukinoshita, the flame queen Miura Yumiko, the blonde fairy Sawamura Eriri, and the perfect upperclassman Kasumigaoka Utaha..."

An Yilun too?

The name mentioned by Kato Megumi was not seen by Jolyne in Yukino Yukinoshita's list.

Yui Yuigahama answered this question.

Aki Tomoya's ranking caused dissatisfaction from Miura Yumiko, or rather, all the girls and some boys. Later, he inexplicably came to her door and asked the school beauties he had selected to become the heroines of his game.

Naturally, no one would agree to such a thing. Miura Yumiko was especially angry, and Aki Tomoya was also taught a lesson by the boys.

Later, Aki Tomo suddenly dropped out of school, which happened last year.

Aki Tomoya, who had already dropped out of school, was naturally not mentioned in Yukino Yukinoshita's Sobu University student list.

And that's how Jorogumo missed his home visit, and Jolyne's actions were also delayed by Shiina Mahiru and the others' actions...

"That's great, Tomoya-kun. So, where are you now?"

Jolyne held his proposal in one hand and gripped Nakime's single eye with the other.

The pent-up anger once again merged into Jolyne's body, and the Demon King form manifested in the world.

[Strength, Constitution +5, Agility +2, Charisma +3, Intelligence +1]

The Yinluo Banner also appeared beside him, and all the evil spirits he had absorbed during this time shouted "Holy!" and rushed towards Jolyne, bringing an even more terrifying boost.

[The Yinluo Banner grants you a temporary +5 Intelligence, expected to last one hour.]

Jolyne glanced at the panel: Intelligence: 35!

The view extends out of the room, covering the entire Chiba district.

-

Jolyne rejected Shiina Mahiru's confession.

"Why...why did we fail?"

"Not a single line was successful... I achieved a bad ending?"

Looking at the words on the proposal, Aki Tomoya angrily pounded the ground, but his strength waned until he finally collapsed and began to convulse.

……