What kind of outrageous statement was that?!
Could anyone imagine just how much shock a pure and innocent girl like Tomori saying something like that would cause Donut Lady?
Although Tomori's earlier remarks had already been bold, they at least hadn't involved her personally.
But look at what Tomori was doing now!
She was actually inviting her…
If even the purest Tomori was like this, Donut Lady didn't even dare imagine how wildly Kamijou Mutsuki behaved inside the MyGO!!!!! band.
Could it be that all her previous guesses had been correct?
It had to be this Great Demon King—bringing everyone into the band just so he could train them into his personal star slaves!
At that thought, the girl couldn't help trembling.
"Mana doesn't want to?"
Seeing Donut Lady fail to react, Tomori instead became somewhat confused.
"Even though Mana also likes Mutsuki…"
After all, the two of them had kissed so happily in the planetarium earlier.
"Who likes that guy?!"
While Donut Lady was still thinking about just how many innocent girls within the company had already fallen into the Great Demon King's clutches, Tomori's words instinctively made her refute it aloud.
"Tomori, how can you slander someone out of thin air?!"
Although today's date with Kamijou Mutsuki really had been very enjoyable, and quite a few ambiguous things had happened between them…
How could Donut Lady possibly fall for someone that easily?
Why not just say Uika also liked Kamijou Mutsuki and would join his harem together with her?
Even if the Great Demon King could obtain her body, he would absolutely never obtain her heart!
"Besides, Tomori should also like this guy, right?"
"You should be stopping me from getting close to him, so why are you instead…"
After all, she and Uika were merely good friends and there was already possessiveness between them, let alone actual lovers!
If Tomori misunderstood that she liked Kamijou Mutsuki, then the two of them should have been love rivals instead.
Even if Tomori didn't dislike her, she shouldn't be actively encouraging this.
Not to mention…
"Why should I stop it?"
However, faced with Donut Lady's question, Tomori merely tilted her head slightly and once again said something that made the girl's pupils quake.
"Mana likes Mutsuki, and I also like Mutsuki. Aren't we together?"
Under Donut Lady's stunned gaze, Tomori calmly explained her logic.
"Since we're together, shouldn't we be best friends?"
"Wouldn't it be nice if everyone could happily stay together?"
What bad intentions could Tomori possibly have?
She only wanted everyone to obtain happiness!
Honestly, the logic sounded perfectly reasonable and well-supported…
My ass it did!
At this point, Donut Lady's brain was genuinely overloaded. She was even beginning to doubt whether the world she lived in was real.
Was Tomori even speaking a language she recognized?
Why could she not understand a single thing?!
Still, there was one thing she could understand—this was completely harem-protagonist dialogue, wasn't it?
If Kamijou Mutsuki had said this, she would've thought it was perfectly normal, but coming from Tomori…
Just what kind of weird nonsense had you taught her?!
Faced with Donut Lady's furious glare, Kamijou Mutsuki revealed an innocent expression.
Tomori's words genuinely weren't taught by him!
Then who could it have been?
Perhaps… Anon?
Meanwhile, seeing that Donut Lady still didn't seem to intend to get intimate with Kamijou Mutsuki, Tomori leaned down and kissed him once again, directly interrupting the eye contact battle between the two.
Donut Lady: ?
Wait, again?!
This time, Donut Lady truly couldn't hold it together anymore.
Breaking free from the shock she had been trapped in earlier, the girl gritted her teeth while feeling the intimate and ambiguous atmosphere between the two.
For the first time, she genuinely felt like a complete third wheel.
Should I just let you two eat me so you can replenish your energy too?
But looking at Tomori's absorbed expression, she couldn't help recalling the feeling of kissing Kamijou Mutsuki herself earlier.
If she hadn't rejected Tomori just now…
Wait, Mana, what kind of random nonsense are you even thinking about?!
After finishing her intimate moment with Kamijou Mutsuki, the fully satisfied Tomori had originally been preparing to leave, but Donut Lady stopped her.
Her thoughts were similar to Anon's—she felt she absolutely had to correct Tomori's "distorted" way of thinking.
What did she mean by "everyone happily being together"? Wasn't that way too strange?
Putting everything else aside, just the law alone wouldn't allow it, right?
No matter how rich Kamijou Mutsuki was, could he possibly change the law?
Though if he really were that powerful, then so what if she joined this scumbag's harem?
However, in this regard, she wasn't even as good as Anon.
Although Anon ultimately failed to persuade Tomori, she at least taught her quite a bit of knowledge in certain areas.
As for Donut Lady, by the end she was instead the one who was almost brainwashed by Tomori.
Although she and Uika were very good friends, there would ultimately come a day when they separated.
The same applied to all the band girls she had met in Kirara anime.
But if everyone stayed together with Kamijou Mutsuki, then wouldn't they never have to separate?
Wouldn't she be able to stay together forever with Uika and everyone else too?
A future where nobody ever parted and everyone lived happily together somehow sounded… pretty nice?
By the end, Donut Lady was practically about to be persuaded by Tomori.
Only after Tomori left due to it getting late, parting ways with the two of them, did the girl suddenly come to her senses and feel lingering fear.
She had actually thought Tomori's words made sense?
That was way too terrifying!
Silently in her heart, the girl attached the label of "dangerous individual" onto Tomori, who had originally seemed as harmless as a small animal.
"Donut Lady,"
After escorting the girl home and ending today's date, Kamijou Mutsuki finally brought up the issue he cared about most—the original reason for all this from the very beginning.
"About the new band…"
"The new band? Is the only thing you care about really just the band?"
Snapping back to reality, Donut Lady suddenly felt inexplicably irritated seeing that after spending the entire day dating her, the only thing in Kamijou Mutsuki's mind was still the new band.
This guy really had nothing but bands in his head!
"..."
Looking at Donut Lady, whose expression had suddenly turned displeased, Kamijou Mutsuki slightly raised his brows, feeling somewhat surprised.
"You don't want to talk about the new band?"
"I…"
Holding her penguin plushie, the girl found herself at a loss for words.
Sakiko's new band was the core of the issue. Their date itself had even begun because of it.
Yet now, at the end of the date, she inexplicably didn't want to bring up the topic.
"In that case,"
Seeing this, Kamijou Mutsuki understood the girl's thoughts.
Under her somewhat confused gaze, he reached out, lifted her chin, and lightly kissed her.
"Then let this be the ending to our date. Is Mana-chan satisfied?"
Unlike the earlier kiss in the planetarium, this one was merely a fleeting peck.
"Y-you…"
But even so, Donut Lady's cheeks were instantly dyed red, and the resentment in her heart completely vanished.
"Why are you suddenly kissing me again without my permission…"
And suddenly calling her something so intimate too. Did he really think Donut Lady was the kind of girl who could be conquered so casually?
"And then asking whether I'm satisfied…"
As she spoke, the girl subconsciously licked her lips. Seeing this, Kamijou Mutsuki slightly raised an eyebrow.
"Stop licking. It's clean—there's no Tomori flavor left, you know~"
"Who even cares about that?!"
The expression on the girl's face instantly became incomparably embarrassed and indignant.
She wasn't Taki, okay?!
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