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“Mm…” Kou let out a groan as she woke up, feeling the morning summer sun shining on her through the curtains. The headache she felt the night before was completely gone, though her eyelids still felt heavy as she slowly opened them.

“…?!” For a second, her heart felt like it had stopped.

Hijiri’s sleeping face was right in front of her, so close that their foreheads were almost touching. Her long eyelashes were right there. And her plump and glossy lips.

Even without Kou’s bias, Hijiri was clearly a beauty. Kou had heard how at school, their classmates or even seniors would often ask her out, and every time Kou felt her heart burn with jealousy.

Now, she was sleeping right next to her. Feeling a nervous sweat begin to take over and her mind still somewhat drowsy, she tried her best to piece together what had happened the night before.

Oh yeah, we ended up deciding to share a bed last night.

Remembering that it was a rather unimportant reason, she heaved a sigh of relief. Looking around at the other two beds in the room, she saw Subaru in one, and Kasumi in the other, who had evacuated to Kou’s room to avoid being with the adults who were drinking.

That meant the four were in a room with three beds, so they decided that Hijiri and Kou would share a bed, since Kou was the smallest of them.

Kou had also been so exhausted that she was the first to fall asleep, but that also made her the first one to wake up.

With nothing else to do, Kou spent some time just watching Hijiri’s sleeping face, but eventually realized what she was doing, so she carefully placed the sheets around Hijiri and got up, quickly changing into sportswear and leaving the room.

That was all she could do to dispel the desires running wild in her mind.

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Once everyone was awake, they had breakfast at the buffet table, then the group went to a room where they lay down comfortably and opened Destiny Unchain Online in their NLDs.

“Well, is everything ready, Ryunosuke?”
“Yes, ready whenever you are.”

Ryunosuke replied while giving a thumbs up. Crim nodded in return and then went to stand with the rest of the guild.

Sadly, Sara and Jade would be absent at first, as they had drunk the most and were dealing with murderous hangovers, so it would take a while before they were in shape to log into the game.

“Alright, let’s get things started then!”
“““Yeah!”””

Following Crim’s lead, everyone in the guild Lua Cheia cheered while raising their fists.

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“…Adyyja! Welcome, humans. I’m Crim Lua Cheia, leader of the guild Lua Cheia!!”

“Hah hah hah, don’t fret, be patient and it’ll pay off!”

The viewers seemed to understand what Crim was hinting at. Seeing that, Crim nodded in satisfaction, and then raised her hand.

“Well, do the thing, cameraman.”

Then, she snapped her fingers. Instantly, Ryunosuke began to maneuver the Magius Orb, pulling it back and panning down to capture all the members of Lua Cheia in the frame.

The comments began pouring in. The speed at which they scrolled by shocked everyone, though Frey alone was terrified for a different reason.

Crim nodded pleased as she saw all the comments praising her appearance. Once she had enough, she smirked while looking straight into the camera.

“So, insignificant humans… What is thy opinion of being graced by the presence of me, the Demon Lord Crim Lua Cheia? Or is this too much for thy humble eyes to behold? Hmm?”

Crim continued to stare at the camera with the most irritating grin she could muster, and gave a sign to Ryunosuke who was hiding behind the camera. The result was quickly visible in the comments.

“Wha…”
“I’m not small!! Silence, dimwits!!”

The sudden comment made Lycoris turn aside and cover her chest in embarrassment. Meanwhile, Crim’s grin was replaced by an angry frown with teary eyes as she argued with the viewers, covering her chest too.

In her mind, she raised a thumb to Ryunosuke, trying to ignore the bruise on her ego. In short, Ryunosuke was a paid actor, pretending to be a viewer to manipulate the current topic.

That spiced things up, as it led to a funny argument between Crim and the viewers about the size of her chest.

“Oh, we have a discerning eye here, haven’t we?”
“Heheh, I agreed to do this with Crim so we’d look better together… What do you think of it~?”

Seeing that she had been mentioned, Freya stepped forward and hugged Crim from behind and waved at the viewers, talking with them for a while, making them type even more.