This is not the date I wanted.

Raising her head from Shiori's chest, Mengyue closed her eyes, took out a tissue to stop her nosebleed, and answered calmly.

"This Shiori... understands people's hearts."

08 Beginning, the elves' counterattack strategy

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Alan looked irritable and walked aggressively in the corridor of DEM's temporary office building.

She pursed her lips, wrinkled her brows, and even her footsteps seemed to become rough. For Allen, who often reminded himself that the strongest person must be graceful in every move, this was a very rare situation.

However, this is only natural. Even without wearing a wiring suit, he was manipulated by a mere human, Gokawa Shido. For the self-respecting Allen, it was an incomparable humiliation.

"……hateful!"

The more he reminded himself not to think about it, the more the hateful face of the boy appeared in his mind. Allen gritted his teeth and punched the wall of the corridor with his fists.

"Ah wu..."

It hurts more than I thought. Alan squatted on the ground with tears in his eyes.

But now is not the time to do such a thing. That's right, because as soon as he returned to the company, Allen received a notice from Westcott summoning him. After adjusting his mentality, Allen took the elevator to the destination room and knocked on the door.

"—Ike, it's me."

"Oh, come in."

"excuse me."

He opened the door and walked into the office. As usual, Westcott sat leisurely in the chair waiting for Alan.

"Sorry to call you here so suddenly."

"No. Is there something wrong with 'Material A'?"

"Ah, that's also included. It seems that the transport plane was attacked by a 'Nightmare' before it took off."

Listening to his boss talking about something incredible in a tone like drinking tea, Alan couldn't help but frown.

"Attacked by Nightmare... Is the transporter okay?"

"Thanks to the guarding magician, we managed to escape."

"...Well. Given Adeputs2's ability, this is a natural result."

Allen was not surprised by this result. In fact, when Tokisaki Kurumi showed up at the Japanese branch of DEM, Allen and his friends were alert. They had expected that the other party would hijack "Material A" this time, and Artemisia was sent there to prevent this from happening.

Although I am a little concerned about how the other party accurately found the location of "Material A" from the repeatedly changed transportation routes, but when I think about the fact that the other party is related to that troublesome Hacker, it is not a strange thing.

"Then? Ike, since you just said 'also', you mean you asked me to come here, is there anything else?"

"As expected of you, Alan. You are so perceptive. Yes, I called you here for another matter."

Westcott praised Alan and continued.

"While you were out, a strange spiritual wave was detected in the city. At first I thought it was a new spirit. But after a closer look, I felt that something was wrong. It was as if many spiritual waves were forcibly compressed into a ball."

"While I was out—ah?"

Thinking about Westcott's words, Allen suddenly remembered the boy who had used a strange power to suppress him and humiliate him not long ago.

"So, I hope—"

“——Please leave it to me!”

Before Westcott could finish his words, Allen rushed to the desk and took on the task with a terrifying momentum that left no room for negotiation.

"You look very motivated. What happened?"

Westcott looked at Alan in surprise.

"Nothing, just like usual. - I will definitely bring the target's head to you."

"No, if possible, I hope to make a specimen and bring it back."

——————————I am the dividing line for shifting perspective————————————————————

One Shiori! Two Shiori! Three Shiori... In every corner of the streets and alleys, Gokawa Shiori could be seen everywhere. The entire Tengu City suddenly became a Shiori paradise.

In this world full of Shiori, there is no war, no sadness, no pain. There is laughter everywhere, just like an unattainable ideal hometown, a beautiful and peaceful utopia. Liangyi Mengyue came to this isolated paradise and lived a happy life with the Gokawa Shiori here...

"Sister Mengyue! Sister Mengyue!"

"--ah?"

The shouting in her ear brought Mengyue back to her senses suddenly.

He looked around in confusion, now sitting in a conference room in an underground facility with everyone else, Kotori and the others were looking at him with confusion on their faces.

"What's wrong, Sister Mengyue? Have you thought of any proposal?"

"Um... Shiori Paradise?"

Mengyue was a little confused about the content of Qinli's question, and subconsciously said what was in her mind.

"What is that? Honey, I'm very curious!"

Meijiu's eyes sparkled instantly. Mengyue then realized that she had just said her fantasy by mistake, and quickly waved her hand to deny it.

"No, no, no—nothing. Don't mind what I just said."

"Meng Yue-chan, you looked like you had thought of something interesting just now. Your mouth was watering."

"—!"

When Shiona pointed out her misconduct, Mengyue quickly reached out to wipe the corner of her mouth.

"Maybe, he's still in the afterglow of Shiori's hug."

Origami calmly stated her guess. Although it was a little different, it was almost right. For a moment, Mengyue felt a subtle pain from Qinli's gaze.

"Sister Mengyue, can you please be more serious?"

"…Yes. I was distracted. I'm so sorry."

Meng Yue knew she was wrong and bowed her head to apologize.

(…Ah, this is messed up.)

Mengyue thought with some distress.

Not long ago, during a discussion on the issue of "How to solve the congestion in Shidou's spiritual energy channel?", Shidou and his sister Kotori had a disagreement. Although Shidou himself did not object to Kotori's approach, he asked that the means of solving the problem - kissing - be handled as romantic and beautiful as possible. However, Kotori's attitude was that if the problem can be solved, it should be solved quickly and there is no need to go around in so many detours.

Whose point of view is correct? Mengyue will undoubtedly support Kotori. However, Shidou cleverly took advantage of Mengyue's weakness and used the power of the Seven Sins to transform himself into Shiori, prompting Mengyue to change sides instantly. And when Kotori was about to use force, Mengyue took the initiative to help Shiori escape from the scene.

Although everyone knew Mengyue's personality, no one blamed her. However, Mengyue could feel that her credibility in everyone's heart had plummeted.

(But why did I suddenly have such a daydream... Come to think of it, if Shidou hadn't taken the initiative to evacuate the crowd beforehand, and if I hadn't suddenly changed my mind, Shidou would have turned into Shiori to stop Kotori from kissing him. If I hadn't covered him, would Shidou have turned everyone into Shiori and escaped in the chaos...)

For some reason, Mengyue suddenly felt a little regretful.

(Forget it, now is not the time to think about such things.)

Putting aside the unnecessary thoughts in her mind, Mengyue began to face the current situation.

Just now, Mengyue had heard about Shidou's current condition from Kotori. Although she had some guesses in her mind from the beginning, the actual situation was much more serious than expected.

In order to make Shidao willing to kiss the elves, everyone on his side had to go on a date with Shidao and make him feel moved. In order to achieve this goal, everyone gathered together to discuss the specific plan.

Dating while eating at the food court; going to the amusement park; a heart-pounding cosplay battle; a mature-themed date from a cafe to a bar... everyone was talking about it.

Among them, Miku was selectively ignored by everyone because she kept asking if she could turn Shidou into Shiori forever and couldn't keep up with the topic. Nanashi was muttering when she suddenly turned pale and exploded. Origami was very creative and proposed to play on the beach, but was rejected as a matter of course.

By the way, Mengyue also tried to seriously put forward some proposals afterwards, but they were criticized as being "too ordinary" and "not impactful", and she was eliminated as expected.

(Ah——I’m really not good at this kind of thing.)

Meng Yue thought with a distressed look on her face.

When it comes to mental age, Mengyue is confident that she is the most mature among everyone, but when it comes to dating experience and femininity, she should be at the bottom.

(It’s an exciting date… It’s not good. I feel really uneasy.)

Thinking back to the few dates she and Shidao had had in the past, Meng Yue found that although she was very happy, she rarely had that so-called heart-pounding feeling.

If she puts herself in the shoes of a man, Meng Yue can come up with some heart-pounding scenes. But are her interests applicable to Shidao? If she makes a mistake, it might backfire. Such worries make Meng Yue even less confident than Nanashi.

At the end of the discussion, after summarizing everyone's opinions, several satisfactory plans were selected. The elves' counter-strategy Date A Live to save Shidou officially began.

09 Winter, the elves' swimsuit date (Part )

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"Sister Mengyue, hurry up, Shidao is coming."

"Okay, here I come."

At Kotori's urging, Mengyue poked her head out of the locker room and walked in front of everyone shyly.

"Ohhh, Honey's swimsuit is so pretty!"

"Wow!"

Seeing Meijiu running towards her with dangerous excitement in her eyes, Mengyue hurriedly dodged.

"Why are you running away, Honey? Let's have some intimate skin contact."

With a hint of regret in her voice, Meijiu opened her arms towards Mengyue, as if to show that she wanted to welcome Mengyue at any time.

"From your words, I only feel a sense of crisis."

Mengyue looked at Meijiu with shame on her face.

"What does it matter? They are all girls. They won't do anything weird."

"I have a lot of connections here!"

Let's not talk about how much of what Meijiu said was true. Even if Meijiu really didn't have any evil thoughts about her, Mengyue was sure that she would lose consciousness on the spot if she was accidentally buried by the heavyweight ** with only a thin bikini between them.

"Wow~ What a bold swimsuit! It shows off your body curves perfectly. Mengyue-chan, you are really capable~ If Yoshina were Shidao-kun, she would definitely be attracted by Mengyue-chan's sexy body."

"Meng Yue-san... is very beautiful... "

The rabbit doll Shiona praised Mengyue in a somewhat uncle-like tone, and Shiona nodded slightly in agreement.

"Ha...thanks for the compliment."

With a somewhat subtle mood, Meng Yue replied with a wry smile.

"Yoshino, this swimsuit is really cute... No, I should say it's amazing."

"Yes...thank you very much..."

Shion lowered her head shyly.

At this time, Yoshino and Yoshina were both wearing black and white spot one-piece swimsuits. The swimsuits that looked like dresses wrapped around Yoshino's petite and cute body, making her look innocent and cute, like a green flower, which made people feel pity for her.

Not only Yoshino, Tohka, Origami, Miku, Nanashi, Yakuya, Yui, and Kotori were all wearing beautiful swimsuits at this time. If they were on the beach in summer, they would definitely attract countless men's attention.

Of course, this includes myself.

——Heartbeat! A swimsuit contest full of elves!

Just like the name, the plan was inspired by Origami's nude beach. Although the plan itself was rejected by the majority because it was too explicit, the reverse thinking of having a summer date in winter is indeed a good idea, so Kotori compromised and chose to wear a swimsuit in the indoor swimming pool to attract Shidao.

(But... is this really possible...)

Meng Yue fiddled with the straps of her swimsuit and adjusted them. She looked at her swimsuit and thought a little uneasily.

She was wearing a dark blue bikini and apron. Since she was not confident in choosing a swimsuit, she changed into this bolder swimsuit after getting advice from Kotori and Yui.

Although it's not like she has never worn women's swimsuits, Mengyue's current ones are mostly simple ones. This is the first time she wears a swimsuit with less fabric, and it is with the clear purpose of seducing men. Although Mengyue is not insecure about her appearance and figure, she still feels inexplicably unsure.

"Sister Mengyue, this is for you. Wear it on your ears."

Kotori handed a pair of wireless headphones to Mengyue.

"This... is the kind of headphones Shidou usually wears, right?"

Meng Yue looked at the headphones in her hand and asked. Qin Li nodded and explained.

"Yes, that's right. When you go on a date with Shidao later, the staff of Fraxinus will give you instructions through this headset and report Shidao's heart rate and mental state, so as to help you conquer Shidao according to the situation."

"Hmph... In other words, our positions have been reversed with Shidou's."