"Eh, you really have them?! Kin-chan?!"
Shioyaki Lemon looked up and urged, "Show me quickly! Any kind will do!"
For a moment, Shioyaki Lemon looked just like a child pestering an adult to see a magic trick.
Seeing Lemon's simple-mindedness, the lingering tension in Imaizumi Keita's heart from coming clean to the two of them completely vanished.
Lemon really is easier to deal with than Anna...
Just as he finished his internal monologue and was about to say something, Yanami Anna's figure suddenly stood in front of him.
"Eh?!!"
"I'm talking to you..."
Yanami Anna leaned down and grabbed Shioyaki Lemon's arm, pulling her out of Imaizumi Keita's arms with a slight tug.
"Eh?! Anna! What are you doing?! Have you finally lost your patience and decided to hit me?!!"
Shioyaki Lemon was dazed by the pull and subconsciously blurted out what she was thinking.
"What do you mean 'fight'... Lemon... what on earth are you thinking?!!"
After pulling Lemon to her side, Yanami Anna assumed the posture of a disappointed "senior" and lightly poked Lemon's forehead with her finger.
"Setting that aside, use your brain a little, will you? Do you have no concept at all of what a'Succubus' ability entails?"
"Uh... it's, like, the very powerful kind?"
Shioyaki Lemon answered somewhat uncertainly.
Her understanding of the term was mostly limited to the idea of being very popular; she didn't know much about other fictional derivatives.
Besides, things about female succubi shouldn't necessarily apply to a male succubus...
But someone with superpowers is bound to be very impressive, able to do things others can't...
"That's the result... not the process...!"
Yanami Anna rolled her eyes at her with a dark expression, silently complaining in her heart.
She had only told Lemon that Keita was very capable, so why was Lemon so fixated on it too...
"Asking him to demonstrate his ability here—are you planning to turn this sofa into your first battlefield? Don't forget, I'm still sitting here."
"Battlefield... what battlefield?! He actually has combat skills?!!"
Shioyaki Lemon looked at Yanami Anna with some confusion.
Yanami Anna looked at Shioyaki Lemon with an awkward smile.
After half a minute, Lemon finally connected "Succubus," "ability demonstration," and certain indescribable scenes.
Steam practically erupted from the top of her head, and her whole body felt like it was turning beet red.
"I, I... I didn't mean it like that!"
She waved her hands incoherently. "I was... I was just purely curious!"
"Curiosity killed the cat, Lemon-chan."
Yanami Anna crossed her arms, her tone exceptionally composed.
Nonsense, she wasn't afraid.
The longer she kept Lemon-chan scared, the longer she could enjoy Keita for herself!
Ah hahahahahaha...
Behind her haughty expression, the little devil in Yanami Anna's heart was laughing wildly...
Watching their interaction, Imaizumi Keita's cheek twitched slightly, his face darkening a bit.
"Anna, I'm telling you..."
He helplessly interrupted Yanami Anna's lecture. "Don't speculate about me so maliciously, okay? I'm not that desperate yet."
"Hmph, who knows."
Yanami Anna gave a light snort and turned her face away to hide her smile.
"While the kind of effect Anna mentioned does exist," Imaizumi Keita decided to pull the conversation back on track, "there are also types that can be demonstrated to you right now."
As he spoke, he fixed his gaze on Shioyaki Lemon, whose face was still bright red.
"Lemon, look at me."
Shioyaki Lemon met his eyes.
Suddenly, although the Imaizumi Keita before her hadn't changed in appearance, his entire being radiated a charm that made her heart skip a beat.
Even though she already liked Kin-chan enough before, she never thought he could be attractive to such a degree.
Her heart began to thud uncontrollably, and a surge of heat flowed from her heart to her limbs.
Shioyaki Lemon felt her breathing become ragged, her mind went blank, and all her thoughts were centered on Kin-chan.
She only wanted to get closer to him, touch him, and then offer him her everything.
This feeling lasted for only three seconds before suddenly vanishing.
The light in Imaizumi Keita's eyes returned to its usual gentleness, and the suffocating charm dissipated with it.
"...Phew... Ha..."
Shioyaki Lemon gasped for air, instinctively pressing her hand against her wildly beating chest, her face filled with lingering shock.
"Just, just now... that was... the superpower?"
"Yeah, you could call it a form of charm enhancement. I basically never use it."
Imaizumi Keita nodded, not offering too much explanation for this potentially troublesome ability.
"It's... it's a good thing you don't use it often..."
Shioyaki Lemon patted her chest and said with a worried look, "Otherwise, I'd definitely turn into a lightheaded dummy who only knows how to follow you around."
Clearly, Lemon had a fairly clear understanding of herself...
Seeing Shioyaki Lemon so readily accept the premise that she would become a "dummy."
Imaizumi Keita and Yanami Anna couldn't help but glance at each other, both reading the same thought in the other's eyes: 'Lemon is already a dummy right now'...
Amusement simultaneously filled both their gazes.
But the smiles only lasted for half a second.
Yanami Anna immediately realized—she had actually shared a smile with this jerk because of another girl?
She instantly wiped the smile off her face and glared at Imaizumi Keita, her eyes full of warning.
Imaizumi Keita tactfully looked away, shrugged, and picked up the remote to browse TV channels.
The three of them sat side-by-side on the sofa while a funny variety show played on the TV. For a while, no one spoke.
This was probably the first time the three of them had occupied the same room so peacefully under a tacit understanding (though perhaps not quite).
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