Of course, Edo didn't know that Tsukuyo was standing at the venue's entrance, trying countless times but failing to step inside.
Beside Tsukuyo stood a figure dressed similarly to Edo, with a short ponytail tied at the back of the head and an umbrella hanging from the waist, constantly squinting with a smile on the face... Heisuke.
"Um... maybe... let's forget about it," Tsukuyo said softly, her face slightly flushed.
Heisuke... no, wait, "Edo"... no, that's not right, "Heisei" just smiled without saying a word.
"Do you think so, too?" Tsukuyo spoke again, "Then... let's... let's go back."
Heisei... still had a smile on his face. His character was set like this.
"So... you mean... it's okay to go in and take a look?" Tsukuyo glanced at Heisei shyly, "Then... let's just go and take a look."
Heisei... continued to smile.
"I can't deal with you..." After saying this, Tsukuyo trembled as she reached out to hold Heisei's hand, but... no matter how many times she tried, Tsukuyo couldn't grasp his hand, always pulling back at the last moment before contact.
...
Indoors, it wasn't until Sougo walked away that Kondo quietly whispered, "Sakata-kun..."
"I won't exchange girlfriends," Kawaki replied expressionlessly in a low voice.
"Please! At least give me O-chan!" Kondo pleaded loudly.
At this moment, the Otae on Kawaki's Heisuke's back retracted her head and refused, "I don't want to."
"This time, it's not 'Well, there's nothing I can do'!" Kondo complained indignantly, then turned to Indo with a pleading expression, "Indo-kun! Please! Give me a girlfriend! Give me your Shajou-chan!"
"No~ my dear~" Shajou exclaimed in shock, then grabbed Indo's arm tightly, "I don't want to go to that disgusting gorilla over there~ so disgusting~."
Because of Shajou's words, Kondo was instantly petrified, showing a face full of doubt about life, muttering, "No... no, that's not right, Shajou-chan's attitude towards me isn't like this..."
"Calm down, gorilla," Kawaki comforted, "That's not your Shajou. By the way, you don't even have a Shajou-chan!"
"Pfft!" Kondo directly covered his chest and coughed up blood, his voice trembling, "Is this your strategy? A strategy to take out a strong opponent at the beginning of the competition..."
"No, we never prepared for such things, and we never considered the gorilla as a strong opponent," Kawaki replied without hesitation, raising his hand.
"Then... then give me Kagura-chan!" Kondo pointed to Indo again and shouted.
"Ah~! Disgusting gorilla!" Kagura screamed, then tightly grabbed Indo's other arm, "No~! I don't want to go to that gorilla over there~!"
Seeing this, Kondo had to pin his last hope on the Heisuke behind Indo, who was always silent with O-chan on his back. But before Kondo could say anything, both Indo's Heisuke and the O-chan on his back turned their heads away with disgust.
"Hey! That's not right! Weren't you obediently following me when we went to Yorozuya just now?! Why are you treating me like this now?!" Kondo complained, only to be loudly stopped by Indo with a severe face.
"It's you who should stop!" Indo shouted seriously, "It's okay to exchange these things casually?! Even if it's a game, they are my girlfriends now... girlfriends! What kind of scumbag would think of giving their girlfriend to a gorilla with pus-filled thighs?! What kind of inhuman beast would do that?!"
"I..." Kondo was speechless, then showed a face of reluctance, "But... my girlfriend, Shajou-chan... Shajou-chan..."
"Huh? Did you accept that line about the gorilla with pus-filled thighs? Did you accept that in that context?" Kawaki was somewhat surprised to comment.
"If she's taken away, just take her back, right?" Indo said lightly.
"Huh?" Kondo was stunned momentarily, then looked up at Indo in a daze.
At this moment, Indo leaned close to Kondo's ear and continued softly, "So, didn't I say it? If she's taken away, just take her back. Use your own hands to take her back and put heavier shackles on her forcefully. Make sure she can't escape. Aren't you a policeman? Would a police officer let a fugitive escape? Isn't that right?"
"Right, if she's taken away, just take her back, right?" Kondo's expression began to collapse, murmuring, "I'm a policeman; how can I let her escape? I..."
"Yes, that's right, use stronger means to take her back. Of course, it's not enough to just take her back; you have to punish her severely~"
"Punishment... isn't that a bit too much?" Kondo wondered.
"No, didn't you see it just now? When Sougo-kun punished her, how excited she was... she... liked it like that. She's your girlfriend~ You should make her... happy, right? Why are you still so indifferent even if your girlfriend is taken away? Although it's just virtual now if your real girlfriend is taken away in the future..."
In that instant of hearing this, Kondo's eyes turned red.
Seeing this scene, Indo smirked inwardly, "That's right, that's the expression you should have. Remember this feeling of anger: take out your handcuffs, snatch that sow back, and punish her severely. Of course, don't let her man go either... Ah! Ouch!"
Before he could finish, Indo was struck heavily on the head by Kawaki, who had appeared behind him.
"What are you doing?!" Indo, rubbing his head, looked up angrily.
"Shouldn't I be asking you that?" Kawaki retorted indignantly, "Do you want today's competition venue to turn into a crime scene?!"
"A crime scene?" Indo looked around, "Isn't it different from standing next to that thing? It's already a scene of social death... "
"Gorilla! Calm down!" Kawaki shook the lifeless-eyed, muttering, "Kill them." Kondo vigorously, "That idiot's words just now were all just deceiving you! Don't believe it! Gorilla!"
Finally, with Kawaki's unremitting efforts (punches), Kondo regained his sanity.
"Huh? What's wrong? Did I do something just now?" Kondo, already bruised and swollen, asked incoherently as he looked at Kawaki before him, "Why does my face hurt a bit?"
"It's okay; you just fell into a deeper illusion now." Kawaki explained solemnly, "So I used a more advanced awakening spell!"
"I see..."
"You idiot..." Indo muttered silently, then began to look for Tsukuyo's figure in the venue again.
This time... Indo found Tsukuyo in a corner...
Looking at Tsukuyo leaning against the wall in a corner, with a shy expression like a first love on her face, and the figure of "Heisei" beside her, who always squinted with a smile, Indo's face became expressionless.
"Who is that?" Kawaki pointed to Tsukuyo, who was continuously trying to hold hands but always stopped at the last moment, and the figure of Heisei, who always squinted with a smile beside her, commented expressionlessly, "Is that middle schooler someone you know? Is that a person you know who's too afraid to hold hands? And is that guy beside her who just smiles like an idiot, someone you know?"
"No, I don't know them," Indo replied silently.
After just saying this, Indo's head was hit by two shurikens for some reason, and he rolled his eyes and fell to the ground.
"My dear~!" Both Sacchan and Sa-chan exclaimed at the same time.
"What a coincidence; how have you been lately?" Tsukuyo, with a cold expression, walked over slowly, pinching her cigarette holder, glanced at Indo lying on the ground from the corner of her eye, and said lightly.
"Just fine a moment ago, but now he's probably dead." Kondo stood with his arms crossed, glanced at Indo's body twitching on the ground occasionally, and replied.
"Aren't you living together? Why can you ask such a long-unseen greeting?" Kawaki mocked.
"Shinpachi..." After removing the shurikens from his head, Indo struggled to get up, "It must be because of that reason, afraid of boyfriends..."
"Who... who... who are you talking about... who's afraid of boyfriends being jealous?!" Tsukuyo's face flushed red, and she shouted incoherently, kicking Indo forcefully and sending him flying.
Boom!!!
"It's you who said..." Indo, embedded in the wall and cracking it, murmured as he rolled his eyes.
"What's wrong? Darling?" Turning her head to look at Heisei beside her, Tsukuyo asked.
"No, no one said anything just now, including the idiot replica beside you." Kawaki stared at the lifeless fish-eyed Heisei, reminding him without enthusiasm.
"Who do you call an idiotic replica of a useless nincompoop?!" Tsukuyo shouted again, throwing several shurikens.
With the shurikens pinning him to the wall, Kawaki, with a face full of sweat, pulled at the corners of his mouth, muttering quietly, "Is... is that what you said."
...
Two minutes later, Indo, who had pulled himself out of the wall and dusted off his clothes, glanced lightly at Tsukuyo, who had returned to a particular corner.
"The culprit is you, right?" Kawaki glanced at Indo beside him, and sneered, full of disdain, "You turned her into that, right? Still constantly talking to that thing that only squints and smiles, delusional, undoubtedly a deeper level of delusion than us..."
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