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Thinking that Rinko Akiyama had been injured in the battle, Luo Jiajun immediately got up, walked barefoot to Rinko Akiyama, and asked her about it.
"I...I'm fine. It's just that the ninjutsu I used just now took a lot of strain on my body. I'll be fine after a short rest." The girl explained as she turned her head away, avoiding eye contact with Luo Jiajun, who was only wearing underwear at the time.
Beneath those underwear, even though the menacing dragon had softened due to the sudden incident, it was still so conspicuous, as if a sock was stuffed inside the underwear. Just one glance made Akiyama Rinko's heart race, and she instinctively flinched away.
At this moment, Archina, who has night vision, went to the balcony to observe the situation downstairs, and then returned to the house. She whispered to Luo Jiajun and Qiushan Linzi, "It seems that there is nothing unusual outside for the time being. We made quite a commotion just now. Fortunately, because of the presence of those giant millipedes, there are basically no mutated plants in this area, otherwise we would be in big trouble."
Upon hearing what Achina said, Akiyama Rinko immediately bowed to Luo Jiajun and apologized:
"I'm sorry, Master... Xiao Luo, it's all my fault for not being quick enough just now, which caused such a commotion."
The girl, bowing in apology, was facing Luo Jiajun at close range, and this action only brought her closer to the parts of Luo Jiajun's body that made her blush.
Only after belatedly realizing the ambiguity of her posture did she freeze in place, caught between a rock and a hard place. Her long eyelashes trembled and drooped, and her pink lips were slightly pursed.
"Rinko, what are you saying! Get up."
At this moment, Luo Jiajun exclaimed softly, displeased with the girl's overly insistent attitude of hierarchy.
He reached out and gently cradled the girl's fair, smooth armpit, the touch as delicate and warm as fine mutton-fat jade. Although his movements and posture were reminiscent of Emperor Zhaolie of Han, the atmosphere at this moment subtly shifted towards a more suggestive and alluring direction.
"You've done a great job!"
After helping Akiyama Rinko up, Luo Jiajun's hands were still resting lightly under her armpits, his warm palms brushing against her snow-white skin. "If it had been me or Archina, the situation would probably have been even worse."
"……Um."
Facing Luo Jiajun's burning gaze, Akiyama Rinko turned her burning face away. Her body, beneath the thin nightgown, stiffened slightly, as Luo Jiajun's palm inadvertently pressed against her side breast.
The nightgown she wore was already somewhat disproportionate to her slender figure, and was stretched taut by her bust line. As a result, her snow-white breasts, along with her sideboobs, were faintly visible, gleaming like pearls in the dim room.
Luo Jiajun only realized his hand was pressed against a sensitive and soft part of the girl's body when he saw her profile turn crimson. However, Luo Jiajun did not distance himself from Akiyama Rinko because he realized that Rinko seemed to be just shy, not embarrassed or annoyed.
Luo Jiajun was only stunned for a moment before he decisively took the initiative.
"Alright, promise me you won't apologize and beg for forgiveness so easily anymore, okay? Rinko, you're not my slave. Rather than a master-servant relationship, I'd prefer something more... closer between us."
As he spoke, Luo Jiajun raised a hand and tidied the girl's hair that had been blown messy by the wind.
Hearing Luo Jiajun's gentle words and smelling the hormonal scent emanating from him, aroused by Achina's teasing, the girl couldn't help but let out a soft moan. Her legs moved instinctively, and she felt her body becoming strange...
She hadn't been able to sleep before, because the noises Achina and Luo Jiajun were making in bed had made her overthink, and she was having some embarrassing thoughts.
Now that Luo Jiajun has taken the initiative, the inexplicable heat within her is about to ignite into a raging inferno.
But then she suddenly remembered that Archina was watching nearby, so the girl quickly stepped back to distance herself from Luo Jiajun. She glanced at Archina and saw that Archina was standing with her arms crossed, looking quite interested, her eyes shifting back and forth between her and Luo Jiajun.
This made her extremely shy, and she could only tilt her head and say to Luo Jiajun, "I, I understand. Um, to prevent a recurrence of the situation, I'll go keep watch on the balcony from now on. Xiao Luo, you... continue to rest."
After saying that, she turned and tried to escape to the balcony.
"Wait!" Luo Jiajun quickly grabbed her wrist.
Now is the perfect opportunity to strike while the iron is hot and further win over the girl. How could Luo Jiajun let her slip away?
At this moment, Luo Jiajun grabbed Akiyama Rinko's wrist while turning his head to look at Achina, who had been quiet for a while.
The moment Achina met Luo Jiajun's gaze, she smiled and said softly:
“It was my fault for not keeping watch properly, which led to what happened just now. I still have plenty of energy, so you can continue to take over the watch for the rest of the night. I won’t let anything climb onto the balcony again. As for you two, well… you should rest when you need to.”
As she spoke, the woman winked at Luo Jiajun, as if to tell him that she had created all the opportunities for him!
At this moment, Akiyama Rinko's lips moved slightly, as if she was about to say something more, but Luo Jiajun nodded first and said:
"Okay, let's arrange it like this! Rinko, didn't you say that the move you just used put a lot of strain on your body? Then rest quickly and don't push yourself too hard."
Sensing the concern woven into Luo Jiajun's unwavering tone, the young female swordsman was overwhelmed with mixed emotions, her heart still pounding.
"By the way, I'm very curious."
Archina, who was about to go to the balcony to keep watch, suddenly asked Akiyama Rinko, "How exactly did you manage to dismember that mutated millipede downstairs while you were on the balcony?"
The topic finally became serious, and Akiyama Rinko's tone became much more natural. She explained to Luo Jiajun and Achina that in the world she lived in, there had been a distinction between the "human world" and the "demon world" since ancient times. All kinds of creatures living in the demon world were collectively called demons, and their strength was generally far superior to that of humans.
And she herself:
A Demon Ninja, to put it simply, is the offspring of a human and a demon. They possess a special energy form called Demon Particles.
This energy can enhance the various abilities of the Taimanin and make it possible for them to awaken supernatural powers.
For example, Rinko Akiyama's ability is a space-based ability, which, combined with ninjutsu, is known as "Void Escape Technique." This allows her to manipulate space to perform various forms of "jumping," such as teleporting herself, others, or objects, or directly cutting through space regardless of enemy defenses. She can also distort air to create vacuum slashes.
That sounds incredibly powerful.
The problem is that Rinko Akiyama's "Void Escape Technique" not only puts a huge burden on her body each time she uses it, but also has a limited range of use. If the distance of the spatial jump is too long, it may even endanger her own life.
This is the fundamental reason why Rinko Akiyama is only a strong contender for the strongest Taimanin among the younger generation in the Taimanin series IP, and is difficult to compare with Asagi or Shiranui Mizuki - you should know that the latter two have developed their awakened superpowers to the extreme.
As for Rinko Akiyama, who is only a third-year high school student at the Demon Ninja Academy (Gosha Academy), she still needs to undergo more training. Given time, she may one day be able to develop the art of air escape to its fullest potential, using it in various effortless and flashy ways, but that is obviously a matter for later.
After understanding Akiyama Rinko's abilities, Luo Jiajun and Achina exchanged a glance, both showing surprise. This was because Akiyama Rinko's ability to escape through space had an incredibly high ceiling.
Like Luo Jiajun, although he had watched every hentai anime about the Demon Ninja and played some games based on the IP, he really didn't know about Akiyama Rinko's aerial escape technique before. He only knew that Akiyama Rinko was a very powerful female swordswoman who learned the "Ittō-ryū" style of her family.
To put it bluntly, he watches hentai and plays games for the sake of lewdness, so he doesn't have the time to carefully study the specific abilities of each of the ninjas.
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It's quiet at night.
After the previous incident, Archina obediently returned to the balcony to keep watch, and in order not to disturb Luo Jiajun and Qiushan Rinko in the bedroom, she even "thoughtfully" drew the curtains completely for the two of them.
In the bedroom, where the lights had been turned off again, Luo Jiajun and Akiyama Rinko had changed their sleeping positions—because he wanted Rinko to get a good rest, Luo Jiajun forced her to sleep on the bed while he slept on a makeshift bed on the floor.
Smelling the lingering warmth and fragrance of the girl on the floor mat, Luo Jiajun couldn't fall asleep no matter what. It was probably Achina's teasing earlier, and the mutated millipede that suddenly climbed onto the balcony in the middle of the night, that completely dispelled his already dwindling sleepiness.
After tossing and turning, Luo Jiajun quietly opened the game panel and looked at the detailed information of Akiyama Rinko and Archina in the [Team] interface.
【Akiyama Rinko】
Current affection level: 58 (heart fluttering)
Current state: conflicted, insomnia
[Achena Timmitrescu]
Current favorability: 82 (Very fond of)
Current status: On high alert
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'Huh? Rinko's having trouble sleeping too?'
Luo Jiajun was somewhat surprised to learn that Akiyama Rinko was also awake. He was mainly curious about what caused the "conflict" displayed in the girl's current state.
Another piece of good news is that striking while the iron is hot has indeed greatly helped accelerate the progress of the romance. Look—Rinko's affection level has now risen to 58, the point where her heart is fluttering!
Then Luo Jiajun opened the game map again, and was surprised once more—because the map was now displayed right in front of him, showing a quest he could accept! Mei wasn't thinking about it... Mei wasn't thinking about it...
Recalling a similar situation when he accepted the "Returning to Roots" mission, Luo Jiajun immediately realized that this mission that suddenly appeared on his face must be related to the mutated millipede downstairs that Rinko had dismembered with her vacuum slash!
The quest location must be right next to that millipede's corpse!
'I'll go downstairs first thing tomorrow morning to receive the mission and see what's going on,' Luo Jiajun thought to himself.
Just then, Rinko Akiyama's voice suddenly rang out from the bed next to her.
"Um, Xiao Luo, are you asleep?"
"Huh? No, Rinko, you weren't asleep either."
Silently turning off the game panel, Luo Jiajun spoke quietly with Akiyama Rinko in the pitch-black bedroom.
"Is it because you're not used to sleeping on the floor?"
The girl's soft voice rang out again, saying to Luo Jiajun, "Why don't you come to bed and sleep?"
"No need." Luo Jiajun refused without thinking, half-jokingly saying, "Linzi, just listen to me and go to bed. You know you're the strongest fighter in our team right now, so you must get some rest. I'm counting on you to carry me!"
In the darkness, the girl was taken aback by Luo Jiajun's words, and then smiled silently.
Some things that were initially difficult to say but which you decided to say now seem less difficult to say.
"Um, Xiao Luo, what I mean is, you, you can go to bed and sleep, it won't affect my rest."
The girl's soft voice reached his ears, and Luo Jiajun, who was lying on the floor, blinked. After a moment of thought, he realized that Rinko seemed to be saying that the two of them could sleep in the bed together!
However, Luo Jiajun was also a little worried that he might be overthinking things, so he whispered, "Linzi, you mean..."
Rinko Akiyama didn't know how to tell Luo Jiajun, so after thinking for a moment, she could only say indirectly, "That's right, Luo, you see, this is supposed to be a double bed, but it seems a bit wasteful for me to sleep alone..."
“Oh, then… shall I come up?” Luo Jiajun said slowly.
The girl said nothing more, only giving a soft "hmm".
So Luo Jiajun got up, climbed into bed, and snuggled into the warm, fragrant quilt that the girl had already slept in.
As Luo Jiajun entered, the girl's body tensed up instantly.
Luo Jiajun lay on his side in bed, his back to Akiyama Rinko, and whispered, "Then, Rinko, shall we sleep back to back like this?"
"Mmm," the girl murmured again, her voice barely audible.
Then the room fell completely silent, with only the sound of their even breathing remaining.
But in this situation of sharing a bed with his beloved, Luo Jiajun, who already suffered from insomnia, found it even harder to fall asleep, and his mind inevitably wandered.
He kept his eyes closed for who knows how long, but Luo Jiajun couldn't fall asleep, so he silently opened the game panel again to check Rin's information.
【Akiyama Rinko】
Current affection level: 59 (heart fluttering)
Current state: tense, insomnia, ambiguous fantasies
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'Huh? The favorability rating has actually increased a little from 58 before? And what's with this so-called "ambiguous fantasy" in the status bar?!'
Surprised, Luo Jiajun quickly realized that it must be because they had shared a bed that Akiyama Rinko, who already had feelings for him, started having all sorts of wild thoughts.
Why is she nervous? Is it because she's worried about making a big mistake?
No wonder I have insomnia...
Considering they'd be entering the park tomorrow to face a swarm of mutated millipedes and the source of the spiky, withered leaves, Luo Jiajun didn't want things to remain tense with Akiyama Rinko, resulting in neither of them getting a good night's sleep. Besides… while some things were definitely inappropriate to do now given their 59-point affection level, the girl had already invited him to bed—regardless of her reasons, was he, a grown man, supposed to act like a beast?
In a flash, Luo Jiajun made up his mind and suddenly turned over on the bed, facing Akiyama Rinko, who had her back to him.
Noticing Luo Jiajun's actions, Akiyama Rinko, who had been unable to fall asleep, slowed her breathing for a moment.
Luo Jiajun's voice, barely audible, reached her ears immediately:
"Rinko? Is she asleep?"
At this moment, the girl subconsciously wanted to pretend to be asleep and not answer, but after a brief hesitation, she still softly said "Mmm".
Luo Jiajun then asked her, "Is it because you're sleeping with me that you're so nervous that you can't sleep?"
"I...I don't know..." Akiyama Rinko answered Luo Jiajun softly. Her face was flushed in the darkness, and her heart was pounding. Her intuition told her that Luo Jiajun wouldn't just ask her if she was asleep.
"If it's because I'm disturbing Rin's sleep, then I'll just sleep on the floor." Luo Jiajun said, making a move to get out of bed.
three two……
"do not want!"
Before Luo Jiajun could finish counting down to three in his mind, the girl turned over and faced him.
She took Luo Jiajun's hand in bed, but then quickly let go, whispering:
"I'd rather sleep on the floor."
Ok……
It wasn't because she was reluctant to part with Luo Jiajun, but because she felt that as his subordinate, she should leave the bed to Luo Jiajun.
It might seem like a trivial matter of who sleeps on the bed and who sleeps on the floor, but it's actually an emotional tug-of-war. However, in this tug-of-war, the inexperienced Akiyama Rinko is completely unaware and passive.
Since things had come to this, Luo Jiajun naturally wouldn't let Qiushan Linzi get out of bed. So, just as Qiushan Linzi was about to get up, he grabbed her slender waist and forcibly pressed her down.
"All right!"
"If that's the case, then let's continue sleeping together."