The Azure Sea is not a warrior with ripped clothes.

"Go Iori! Your ball control is excellent!"

"Only you can do something like this! Ganbatte!"

"Hahaha—Leave it to me! Huh? Wait a minute, what do you mean 'only me'..."

Kitahara Iori's expression completely transformed into a grotesque facial expression, and he received a hero's welcome. Just as he was about to continue, he suddenly discovered his blind spot—

What do you mean by "only I can do it"? Didn't we agree that we would all do it together?

A bad feeling arose within him. At this moment, he recalled the previous times he had been tricked by Miyazawa Yu, and he suddenly turned his head to look at the others.

Everyone, including Kohei, stood far away from him, watching from the sidelines, clearly having already made their own righteous decision.

"Oh dear~ it seems we've been discovered."

"It doesn't matter anymore, the goal has been achieved anyway, you see."

Pointing to Chisa, who was trembling on the stage with a flushed face and tears in her eyes, Miyazawa Yu shook his head and condemned, "Iori really went too far. How could she play such a prank!"

"It is! It is!"

"Poor Chisa! Iori, remember to apologize properly!"

"Wait a minute! You're also partly responsible for this!"

The arrogant expression vanished instantly. Kitahara Iori, as if she had been completely ruined, staggered two steps toward the crowd in disbelief, trying to gain a shred of sympathy with a trembling voice.

However, as he reached out, all members of the Pab Department simultaneously teleported more than ten meters away, completely clearing the space around him.

The situation at the scene was obvious: Iori was, and the only, suspect. Kotegawa Chisa's murderous gaze instantly fell upon him.

"Ugh...you guys! You actually tricked me!"

"Rest in peace, Iori. Amen."

"Amitabha."

Seeing Yuu making the sign of the cross on his chest and Kohei burning incense in mourning, Kitahara Iori burst into tears and wailed to the heavens.

"Don't give up! Save you two bastards!"

……

"Crack~ Crack~ Crack!"

The sound of a metal baseball bat scraping against the ground echoed across the campus as a beautiful girl in a long dress, like a ferocious beast, searched for her prey.

Once the culprit is found, should they dent his skull, or break his third leg and throw him into a ditch? It's a truly perplexing question…

"Woo..."

Hiding in the bushes not far from the source of the sound, and hearing the ominous warning of death, Kitahara Iori could only shrank her head even further down.

Once the dragging sound of the metal bat had completely disappeared, he cautiously asked, "Has Chisa left?"

"Okay, let's go. By the way, why did we have to hide with you?"

Peeking out halfway to watch Chisa Kotegawa's retreating figure, Yu Miyazawa sighed listlessly and sat back down with his arms crossed.

"Speaking of which, Iori, this place feels so secluded. How did you find it?"

"Thanks to you, I hid here to avoid the campus police on the first day of school!"

After muttering a few complaints under his breath, Kitahara Iori personally peeked out to confirm that Chisa had left, and immediately relaxed.

When Chisa passed by just now, her aura was so strong that he was too scared to breathe. Fortunately, he has now escaped a disaster.

"If you ask me, Iori, why don't you just go out and accept your execution? We still need to reunite with our seniors!"

Yawning, Kohei Imamura was bored because he forgot to take his phone when he ran away, so he simply urged Iori to give up.

Anyway, if Chisa catches him, he's going to die. I'll burn paper money for him next year on this day, and I'll make sure Iori lives a carefree and happy life in another world!

"Kouhei! Don't just stand by and do nothing if it doesn't concern you, or I'll kill you!"

If it weren't for Kohei's suggestion, Kitahara Iori doesn't think she would have ended up in such a predicament.

However, just as he was about to explain the pros and cons to Kohei, the bushes beside the three of them suddenly began to rustle.

Seeing this, Miyazawa Yu, who had been happily watching the commotion, instantly turned pale, and an ominous premonition welled up in his heart as the noise intensified.

"Found it!

Before he could turn around to defend himself, a flashy ghostly figure suddenly sprang out of the bushes behind Kohei, howling as it reached out and pressed its hand on the latter's shoulder.

"Eek—a monster!"

Tears welled up instantly. Kohei Imamura was so frightened by the sudden touch that he couldn't speak, and could only repeatedly stammer at the white-faced monster, "You, you...you you!"

"Ah! I'm sorry, Chisa... um, no, you were on stage just now—"

Thinking she had been found by her pursuers, Kitahara Iori instinctively knelt down and begged for forgiveness.

However, when he looked up, he found that what was in front of him was not Chisa, but rather someone who looked about 90% like the monster that Kohei had described.

"A corpse-making beast?! I think its name is something like Aina..."

The ominous premonition came true. Miyazawa Yu disgustedly shifted his buttocks back a couple of times. The other person's makeup was too mentally damaging to him, so it was best to avoid looking at it!

"How rude! Her name is Yoshihara Aina, not a corpse beast!"

Dissatisfied, Yoshihara Aina extended her middle finger at the reasonably good-looking, muscular man, rolled her eyes, and then looked gently at Imamura Kohei, saying in a conciliatory tone, "Hey, young man..."

"You, what are you doing?"

Still shaken, they realized that the creature in front of them was indeed human.

Kohei Imamura, panting heavily, asked in bewilderment why the other party had suddenly attacked him.

"..."

As the alcohol took effect, Aina Yoshihara's cheeks flushed red beneath her thick foundation.

After staring at Kohei Imamura for a while and confirming that he was handsome even up close, she looked away slightly and whispered, "Please, let's go out together..."

"……what?"

He was actually confessed to by a Corpse-Maken Beast! Kohei Imamura was deeply shocked, and the light in his eyes gradually faded.

Chapter 54 The cup was clearly the color of oolong tea.

Absolute silence reigned; even the rustling of leaves in the breeze sounded deafening.

Time seemed to stand still at that moment, fixing Miyazawa Yu's shocked expression firmly on his face, impossible to remove no matter what.

After a while, Kohei Imamura, as the person involved, was the first to recover from his daze and pointed to himself with an awkward expression as he asked for confirmation.

"Wait...wait a minute, you said 'dating,' is it you and me?"

"Yes! Is there no problem?"

"But I don't even know your name. We didn't know each other at all before!"

How could there be no problems! There are so many problems, I don't even know where to begin!

He slumped to the ground and kept backing away, though he was indeed quite happy that someone had confessed their feelings to him.

But he doesn't need his crush to be a beautiful girl; he can accept anyone who is even slightly normal!

What the heck is a "corpse beast"?! There's no such plot or character design in visual novels!

"Didn't I already say? Yoshihara Aina is a freshman at Aomyo University, is that alright now?"

Grabbing Imamura Kohei by the collar, Yoshihara Aina was clearly dissatisfied with his attitude, so she frowned and pressed closer to him to continue adding to the story.

"No, no, no! Not at all! This isn't about introducing yourself!"

Suppressing the overwhelming stench of alcohol, Kohei Imamura's pupils instantly shrank to pinpoints as he looked at the corpse beast pressed against his face.

He quickly turned his head away and loudly refused, while shouting at the other two bastards, "Hey, Yu, Iori! Don't just stand by and watch, help them out!"

"Pfft-"

Seeing that Kohei was firmly pinned to the ground by the corpse beast, with half of his clothes torn off, Miyazawa Yu couldn't help but let out a sad little noise.

Trembling, he turned and walked away. He turned back to comfort him with a strong sense of loyalty, saying, "Don't worry about Gengping. I'll go get people right now and make sure to rescue you from the grave of marriage as soon as possible."

"Me too~ Congratulations to you, Kohei! May you grow old together in happiness!"

"A bunch of bastards! You're laughing, aren't you, Yu! Iori! Where are you going again?!"

With veins bulging on his forehead, Kohei Imamura, betrayed, gritted his teeth and struggled to break free from the corpse beast's restraints, reaching out to grab Iori and Yu's shoulders.

"Well, I just wanted to give you two some time."

"Exactly! How can a honeymoon for two be disturbed by a third person!"

"Bullshit! You just want to abandon me and run away!"

His face transformed into a Banruo mask. Imamura Kohei grabbed the coats of the two disloyal bastards and pulled them backward with all his might.

Miyazawa Yu naturally refused to accept this. The Corpse Beast wasn't looking for him, so why should he have to endure an indiscriminate AOE mental attack?

If Kohei had simply sacrificed himself to exchange for the Corpse Beast, thus sparing the world from such suffering, it could be considered that he had done a good deed and made a contribution to world peace!

"..."

Seeing the three people fighting, Yoshihara Aina wasn't stupid; she could certainly see Imamura Kohei's resistant attitude.

That makes sense. Anyone would be bothered if a strange woman with weird makeup suddenly showed up at their door!

Her fist clenched tighter and tighter, and tears streamed down her face, leaving a mark on her foundation where her purple eyeshadow had fallen.

She bluntly said, "If it doesn't work out, then forget it," and turned and ran away.

"Huh? The three of you are here."

Just as he was passing by to buy a drink, Shinji Tokita heard a noise on the side of the road. Peeking over, he saw his three newlyweds tumbling to the side of the road, pulling at each other.

To be honest, it's really tough on them. They're always caught fighting. Is this a unique way for young people to make friends?

"So what's going on this time?"

"Hmm... even if you ask that."

After blocking Kohei's uppercut, Miyazawa Yu rolled twice to barely escape the battlefield, only to find that Yoshihara Mana had already left sometime earlier.

Brushing the grass off his clothes, he explained to Juryujiro with feigned profundity, "It must be the troubles of youth, right?"

"What the hell?"

"In short, it was a very serious accident. It seems Kohei has broken up with his girlfriend, that's all!"

I really don't understand you guys!

In the short ten minutes that Iori had pulled him away, Kohei had actually experienced both falling in love and heartbreak? Tokita Shinji frowned, completely unable to imagine how this could have happened.

It doesn't matter, there's a cocktail party later anyway, I can just forget about everything!

"Hey, Iori! You two stop fighting, it's time to gather!"

"Got it! Hmm? Has the Corpse-Mask Beast given up hunting Kohei?"

"seems like it."

Reflecting on her attitude just now, Miyazawa Yu felt that even a naturally funny girl couldn't accept such complete resistance, so she must have already given up.

"Huh? A corpse-making beast?"

Looking at Miyazawa Yu with a puzzled expression, Tokita Shinji felt like he had heard the name before.

"It's the comedic contestant from Tinker Bell in the beauty pageant, the one with such heavy makeup, her foundation made her look as white as a dead person."

"Oh……"

"What happened? Did she confess to Kohei?"

"Yes, Iori and I have unilaterally agreed to this marriage."

With great enthusiasm, he recounted the grand occasion of a few minutes earlier to his two seniors as he walked toward the classroom where the party was to be held. Just a second before stepping into the party, Miyazawa Yu recounted the whole story.

"Hey! We're here!"

"What's going on? You guys are so slow."

Opening the classroom door, Shinji Tokita spread his hands and explained to the complaining others, "There's nothing we can do; we're experiencing the unique troubles of youth!"

"Huh? What's bothering you?"