As Makoto and Megumi entered the apartment building,
Not only the boys, but even some of the girls felt a pang of something… for example—
"Kato-san and Kasumigaoka-senpai... are going to do that with Nishikawa-kun?"
Yotsuba imagined the explicit scenes, her fair face instantly turning bright red.
Kotonoha pressed her lips tightly together, staring blankly at Megumi, who had said goodbye to her parents and walked to Makoto's side.
Unconsciously, Kotonoha clenched her fists, her nails digging deep into her palms.
But she was still far from the darkness she displayed in the original work… after all, she wasn't in that kind of relationship with Makoto. She didn't even have the right to go dark.
Compared to these people, the most devastated, the most anguished person... everyone knew exactly who it was.
"How could this happen... how could this happen..."
Lying on the cold stone slab, his lower body tightly wrapped in thick bandages, Tomoya muttered the same words over and over in a daze.
Every word was choked with sobs, his eyes vacant, as if his soul had been extracted.
The heroine he had once cherished, Kato Megumi, the one whose name he had given his own circle, was now before his eyes, walking to another man, ready to give him her most precious gift.
Tomoya felt he would never be happy again. Happiness had nothing to do with him anymore.
"Shut up!"
Eriri finally couldn't hold back and yelled.
The more Tomoya acted like this, the more he exposed his feelings for Megumi, and the more it irritated Eriri.
What are you looking at? She's already the boss's woman.
Everyone stayed in the apartment building's first-floor lobby, quietly waiting for Makoto and Megumi to come down.
Compared to Kotonoha, Yotsuba, Yui, and the other girls who hadn't yet had a physical relationship with Makoto, the thoughts of the Aizono sisters, Chizuru, Mrs. Yukinoshita, and others were surprisingly uniform.
That was—
They wanted it too!
According to Makoto, they might only have their own hands for the next ten years.
How could they not make the most of these last few days?
Apart from Mrs. Yukinoshita, who had completely let go from the start, the other girls had usually been more reserved.
But at this moment, they could no longer afford to be.
Scenes they had once seen in various videos kept flashing through their minds. They were determined to try them all before parting from Makoto.
"Airi, want to go together?"
Marina lowered her voice and said to her sister.
Airi, who had been imagining things, jolted in surprise.
Although they had competed for him back in the Naruto World, the three of them had never actually been together before.
Airi hadn't expected her usually quiet and reserved older sister to suggest something like that.
"C-Can I join too?"
Chizuru spoke up timidly.
When she used to eavesdrop on them in the Naruto World, she had felt this urge. She hoped to fulfill her wish before leaving.
Hearing these conversations nearby, Yui, Yumiko, and the others were dumbfounded.
'What kind of wild talk was this?'
"Ara ara, Yui, are you going too?"
Mrs. Yuigahama leaned closer to her daughter and asked softly.
"Mom! What are you saying!?"
The dumpling instantly turned bright red, becoming a boiled dumpling.
What kind of mother was this, practically pushing her daughter out the door?
Mrs. Yuigahama rested her chin on her hand, looking realistic and helpless:
"Now that the real world has become like this, it'll be hard for us mother and daughter to survive without Makoto's protection, right?"
Mrs. Yuigahama was being pragmatic, but it was also out of necessity.
Compared to families like the Kudos, Sawamuras, and Mouris, who had both parents, the Yuigahama Family was just her, a single mother, barely managing.
She had finally raised her daughter, and her daughter had become a superhuman… that was a good thing.
But then monsters appeared in the real world too.
The silver lining was that they had connected with Makoto.
She thought Makoto wasn't a bad choice. Even though he had many girls around him, in these increasingly dangerous times, he was the best support.
But watching the number of girls around Makoto grow, Mrs. Yuigahama couldn't help but worry.
She didn't expect her daughter to be first, but she couldn't be a nobody either!
Nearby, Yumiko and Hina, the other two members of the popular trio, were similarly conflicted.
They were the real nobodies. If they didn't do something, they felt like they'd completely lose their relevance.
Crash—
Just as everyone was preoccupied with their own thoughts, a few pieces of gravel suddenly fell from the ceiling.
Then, the entire apartment building began to shake violently.
"An earthquake!?"
Soe shouted, immediately pulling Leonora and Alice and running outside.
Seeing this, the others followed suit, fleeing for their lives.
Once they were all out, they immediately realized it wasn't an earthquake at all.
Because apart from this apartment building, everything else was completely still.
Everyone's expressions turned incredibly strange.
Recalling that Makoto and Megumi had just gone upstairs, everyone froze.
'W-Was it that intense?'
Marui Zenji, who bore a striking resemblance to Shimura Shinpachi, was too shocked to speak.
'It didn't surprise him that Nishikawa Makoto had that kind of stamina, but that girl, K-Kato or whatever, she had that kind of endurance too?'
Crash! Crash! Crash!
Then, under everyone's stunned gazes, the building shook more and more violently.
The walls, already riddled with damage from the Gun Devil, began peeling off and collapsing in large sections, forcing the crowd to retreat repeatedly.
"No—! Nooo—! My heroine—!"
Tomoya burst into tears, wailing as if possessed by a heartbroken cartoon character.
"Don't be so rough—! Nooo—!"
With each tremor, it felt like a hammer struck his heart.
He had fantasized countless times about a future with Megumi, imagined her as the sole heroine in his game, imagined them achieving their dreams together.
But now, it had all become a joke.
"Tomoya, I told you, don't get so excited. You're bleeding again!"
Mr. Spencer was completely at his wit's end.
He really didn't want to change that guy's bandages again.
Rumble—!
Finally, when the crowd had retreated about half a mile, the apartment building looked like it was about to collapse completely.
At the critical moment, a giant grey-black spectral figure rose from the ground, steadily propping up the whole building.
Susanoo!
Then, from a distance, everyone watched—
Even the Susanoo began to tremble slightly...
After another half-hour or so, the distant Susanoo finally stopped moving.
Utaha stood up and said calmly:
"It's my turn."
Because everyone knew Utaha, like Megumi, was also a first-timer, they all gave her that courtesy.
As for those after her...
Line up, everyone line up outside!
However, the second contender, Utaha, didn't get her wish immediately.
After all, keeping the Susanoo holding up the building wasn't a viable solution.
The group had to find another relatively intact, dilapidated building in the ruined Sapporo.
Then, after nearly two hours of impact, another crumbling structure collapsed with a roar.
Then, the Aizono sisters and Chizuru stepped forward in turn...
The male companions, who had initially been filled with envy, were now completely numb.
It was terrifying.
If it were them, they'd be dried out by now, right?