Zongman: Evolution Paradise

"Nakano Miku" crossed her arms and angrily ordered Jolyne.

Jolyne glanced at her; she wore pantyhose, had headphones on her shoulder, and her hair was styled to cover her right eye, though the color was more of a cherry blossom pink.

"Nino Nakano?" Jolyne asked curiously after confirming her identity.

Nino Nakano, disguised as Miku Nakano, panicked, and her courage, which she had just mustered, began to crumble.

“I’m not Nino Nakano, I’m your classmate Miku Nakano.”

Jolyne scoffed, "Who would explain their identity like that?"

"Are you standing up for your sister?" Joren asked, glancing at her.

Nino Nakano stubbornly said, "I've already said I am Miku Nakano. Look at my clothes and hairstyle, no matter what, I look like Miku."

As she said this, she twirled in front of Jolyne, showing herself to be exactly like Nakano Miku.

Because of the bullying of Nakano Miku, Nakano Nino has forgotten her original purpose and now only wants to find out how Jolyne can distinguish between herself and others.

"There's a noticeable color difference in your hair, isn't there? Nakano Miku's hair is more brownish, while yours is more pinkish-red..."

Jolyne calmly stated the difference, and then saw Kato Megumi and Nakano Nino looking puzzled.

"But the Nakano sisters I see all have the same hair color, there's no color difference like you mentioned."

Kato Megumi spoke up.

Nino Nakano also looked puzzled, "Is there a color difference? We're quintuplets, how could our hair colors be different?"

"Huh?" Jolyne was a little confused and began to communicate with Jorogumo. After a moment, Jorogumo gave her an answer. From her perspective, the Nakano sisters' hair color was the same, with no color difference. They were completely ordinary quintuplets.

"Am I the only one who sees the five parts differently?" Jolyne began to ponder why this was happening.

According to the official setting of the original anime "The Quintessential Quintuplets", the quintuplets originally had the same hair color. The difference in hair color was only for the convenience of the audience to distinguish them. In the anime, the NPCs all saw the quintuplets as exactly the same.

When Jolyne first saw them, she thought they had dyed their hair or something, but now it seems only she can see the differences, while others see them as normal quintuplets...

Jolyne was deep in thought, while Nino Nakano was in shock.

"They can actually tell the difference between us!"

Thinking this, Nino Nakano rushed out of the classroom in a panic, preparing to discuss important matters with her other sisters.

"How did Jolyne manage to tell the difference between them?" Kato Megumi asked Jolyne curiously. If she remembered correctly, Nakano Miku had only transferred to the school a few days ago, and Nakano Nino was from another class.

"I guess it's impossible for Nakano Miku to be so brave as to let me apologize to her."

Xu Lun didn't mention the color difference issue again, but he still felt there was something wrong with it.

"Why do you know so much about Nakano Miku?" Kato Megumi asked, puzzled.

……

Nino Nakano went to the restroom at the end of the corridor and found the other four sisters inside.

"Well, with Nino's help, Jolyne must have obediently apologized."

The eldest sister, Nakano Ichika, with her asymmetrical short hair and an earring in her right ear, asked Nino.

Having already swapped clothes and hair accessories with Nino Nakano, Miku Nakano said sullenly, "Actually, he's right. If it really doesn't work, then let it go. We shouldn't have switched people to mess with him like this."

Nino Nakano took a deep breath and told them seriously, "He didn't apologize at all! But that's not important anymore... The problem now is that he actually recognized me!"

Chapter 137 The Quintessential Quintuplets: Extraordinarily Divided

"What do you mean?" Nakano Yotsuba, wearing a leaf hair accessory and only short socks, looked full of energy and asked curiously, not quite understanding what Nakano Nino meant by "seeing out her identity".

"It means that the person named Jolyne actually saw through the difference between me and Miku, and my disguise didn't fool him!"

As Nino Nakano recounted the whole story, all four sisters turned their attention to her.

"I don't believe it at all."

"That's a lie, how could that be?"

“Hey…Hey!”

"……Well"

The atmosphere remained silent for a while before Ichika Nakano, the eldest sister, suggested, fiddling with her fingers, "Let's try this again."

"How do we conduct the experiment?" Nakano Satsuki asked, only to find that everyone's eyes were focused on her.

"There's no way around it, I've already cut my hair short, and Yotsuba also has shoulder-length hair. If we don't hide our hairstyles, we can't conceal our identities at all."

Ichika Nakano placed her hand on Satsuki Nakano's shoulder and handed the task over to her.

……

Clinging to the hope of having quintuplets, May pinched the pantyhose she had just put on, feeling that they were a bit too tight on her legs.

"No, that would prove I've gained weight, that's absolutely impossible."

"Hmm...it's not tight at all."

Clinging to the last hope of the Quintessential Quintuplets, Nakano Satsuki returned to Nakano Miku's seat before class. Before she could even compare the photo of Jolyne on her phone, Jolyne had already taken a piece of bread out of her desk and handed it to her: "Want some, Satsuki-kun?"

Subconsciously reaching out to take it, Nakano Satsuki pouted and retorted foolishly, "I'm not Satsuki, I'm Nakano Miku. Nino, who was impersonating me, has already gone back to her class."

"Want to eat again?"

"……want."

Nakano Satsuki is a foodie with a huge appetite.

Jolyne would occasionally pull out packets of snacks from the drawer of the table, and soon she could extract information from them about what the Nakano Five Sisters were planning to do.

Because no one has ever recognized them since they were young, they found it hard to believe what Nakano Nino said and wanted to investigate whether it was really true.

"They actually sent the one who knows the most."

Jolyne propped her chin on her hand, watching Nakano Satsuki eat like a hamster while mentally complaining.

……

When the bell rang, the other four sisters gathered in the restroom again, but Nakano Satsuki never returned.

"Could May have already been discovered?" Nakano Yotsuba guessed.

"If they had been discovered, they should have rushed back. The fact that they haven't returned is probably a sign that they've hidden their identities well."

Ichika Nakano shared her opinion, then glanced at Nino Nakano, who was still unconvinced, and jokingly speculated, "As for why May wasn't discovered while Nino was, could it be that Jolyne likes Nino?"

“How could that be!” Nakano Nino retorted loudly, crossing her arms and turning her head away, her ears burning.

She has a somewhat rebellious personality and prefers handsome guys with a gangster vibe. Although Jolyne bullied Miku, she did have a bit of a crush on him when she saw him.

"Yeah, it's really illogical that he could recognize Nino. We only transferred here a few days ago, and Nino is in another class. She's never even met Jolyne... How could that Jolyne classmate recognize the difference between Miku and Nino? Maybe he really is secretly keeping an eye on Nino..."

Yotsuba Nakano quickly came up with a perfect explanation for Ichika Nakano's bold guess.

After hearing this, Nino Nakano felt conflicted, wondering if Jolyne truly loved her.

Only the most introverted Nakano Miku listened to the whole thing, hiding all her emotions under her hair, and quietly suggested, "Let's go check on May first. Maybe she was called to the office because she couldn't answer a question the teacher asked..."

Upon hearing this possibility, Ichika, Yotsuba, and Nino exchanged glances. If it were Nakano Itsuki, then it really might be true.

Not entirely at ease, they followed along. The four of them formed a striking sight in the corridor. Upon arriving at Class E, they tilted their heads and scanned the room, finding Nakano Satsuki sitting motionless in her seat.

"This candy is delicious, and it's a style I've never tried before. Where did you buy it, Jolyne?" Nakano Satsuki asked Jolyne, holding up the candy wrapper. As for why the wrapper, it was because the candy had already been eaten.

"It's a newly opened store called Candy House. Should I send you the store's location?"

"Please send it to me, wait a moment, I'll add you on Line..."

Upon seeing this, Ichika Nakano covered her face and said in an exaggerated Shakespearean tone, "It's over, May has been taken down."

Nino Nakano rushed forward like a warrior, blocking Satsuki Nakano's path: "What do you want to do to Satsuki!"

"Eh... Eh, Nino!"

Nakano Satsuki saw her speak and then remembered what she was supposed to do, and lowered her head guiltily.

The others followed, and the quintuplets' collective appearance quickly drew the attention of the entire class.

After all, the last time such a gathering was when the five Ultra Brothers wanted to kill Leo's younger brother, Astra.

Jolyne looked at the fiercely protective Nakano Nino and felt as if dog ears and a tail had grown out of her body, making her look exactly like an adorable sheepdog.

"Nino, Nino, I'm fine. Jolyne is a really nice person. I just... ate snacks for the whole class period here..."

Nakano Satsuki pulled Nakano Nino aside, apologetically explaining why she had forgotten to go back to report on her mission, thus preventing the situation from escalating further.

Taking advantage of the fact that no one was paying attention to her, Kato Megumi nudged Jolyne and said in a subtle tone, "Jolyne, having five people together is a blessing, but you should also take care of your health..."

"Just five." Xu Lun didn't care at all. His current physique was something that ordinary people couldn't withstand. Even if he wasn't ordinary, it wouldn't work.

Not wanting to be watched any longer, Jolyne followed the five members of Nakano to the rooftop.

A certain senior student in black stockings was there as usual. When she saw Jolyne coming over, she made way for the seat next to her and jokingly said to the Quintessential Quintuplets behind her, "Hey, Jolyne, is this your new girlfriend?"

Jolyne glanced at the Quintessential Quintuplets. Very well, after Kasumigaoka Utaha's words, apart from Nakano Yotsuba who was still a bit dazed, the other four were staring at him warily.

"So what do you want with me?"

Jolyne asked them.

“We want to see if you can really tell us apart,” Yotsuba Nakano said earnestly.

"So what's the point of recognizing it?"

“If you want to recognize each other,” Ichika Nakano said, covering her mouth in a suggestive tone, “we made a pact when we were five years old that our future husbands must be able to tell us who is who.”

Chapter 138 Hachiman has found his organization

Can you tell them apart?

Jolyne sat down next to Kasumigaoka Utaha without any hesitation and asked her a question.

The five quintet had already come down from the rooftop and were discussing how to test Jolyne's ability to recognize them.

"You can tell them apart. Just use a see-through magic spell. The styles and colors of their underwear are all slightly different today—black lace, blue sportswear..."

Kasumigaoka Utaha introduced herself, winked at Jolyne, and asked, "You wouldn't be using this method to fool these innocent junior girls, would you?"

"Do you think it's possible?"

"You never know. I can understand why some junior students in their adolescence might do something unusual because of their desires."

"Since Shiyu understands me, I will definitely come to you first if something like this happens again."

"Please, please let me go."

Kasumigaoka Utaha put her legs together, clasped her hands together, and begged Jolyne for mercy.

"I didn't activate any skills; I could just tell with my naked eye that their hair colors were slightly different."

Jolyne explained what she had seen. Regarding the quintet, Jolyne could only think of Kato Megumi in a similar situation. Jolyne had noticed her before becoming a player, but Yukino Yukinoshita, who had become a player, could not remember Kato Megumi.

Although Kasumigaoka Utaha did not explicitly state her exact strength, based on Jorogumo's probing, she is at least considerably stronger than Aki Tomoya.

As Jolyne explained, Kasumigaoka Utaha's thighs began to tremble rapidly. After thinking for a while, she made a rather unreliable guess: "I have no idea... Maybe, like in those melodramatic movies, they were your lovers in a past life, which is why you can tell them apart at a glance in this life."

As she spoke, Kasumigaoka Utaha became excited, unable to suppress the writer's spirit within her.

"Look, didn't they say that their future husbands must be able to distinguish their identities? It's almost like a pact they made in a past life..."

"This has already fallen into the category of tear-jerking urban fantasy novels for female readers."

Jolyne quipped, stopping Kasumigaoka Utaha from continuing to fabricate more melodramatic plot twists.

Kasumigaoka Utaha somewhat regretfully pulled herself out of her thoughts. At this moment, the Quintessential Quintuplets also returned, but they did not exchange clothes as Jolyne had guessed.

"We discussed it and found that the school's conditions were poor, so only in this way could we truly verify the results."

As Ichika Nakano spoke, Nino Nakano raised her head and walked up to Jolyne, opening her phone and showing a photo of the five equal parts of a group.

The key point is that they are all wearing white pajamas in this photo, without any other distinguishing features such as headphones or hair clips.

"Can you really tell the difference between photos?"