Gensokyo Population Revitalization Plan

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Nana exclaimed in surprise, then quickly covered her mouth and shook her head under the two men's puzzled gazes, signaling Mu Huai to continue massaging her instep.

(Is it really that embarrassing to have your feet touched!?)

It was a very simple action, but it felt like she was being roasted on a barbecue grill, with waves of heat hitting her head. In just a few breaths, her cheeks flushed red, and wisps of steam rose from her head.

Lala realized she couldn't be of much help, and then she remembered something written in "The Bride's Guide to Life": when your lover makes the right choice and takes the right action, you should immediately give them encouragement and feedback.

A bright light bulb lit up above her head, and she smiled and bent down to hug Mu Huai.

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Mu Huai admitted that it felt good to have two pomelos pressing on his head, but he didn't understand Lala's purpose in doing so.

(It couldn't be that she rewarded me like this because she thought I touched Nana's little feet really well, could it?)

He never imagined that his inner rant would actually be the answer.

The scene in the kitchen was quite strange. Mu Huai was rubbing his sister-in-law's delicate feet, and his sister-in-law was blushing and staring blankly as her sister rewarded her brother-in-law.

The three of them remained in the strange position for several minutes until Anna, who had been complaining of being hungry since she entered the house, walked into the kitchen. She stared at them dumbfounded, then asked with a sullen face, "W-what are you doing!?"

Nana pulled her foot back as if she'd been electrocuted, and rubbed her instep, which had already lost its redness and swelling, guiltily. "My foot got hit by a can of juice, and my brother-in-law was massaging it for me."

There was indeed some spilled juice on the ground. Seeing that Anzu was reluctantly accepting this explanation, Banai turned to look at Muhuai and Lala: "Then what's with your pose?"

"Because Mu Huai was massaging Nana's feet, I felt bad watching him do nothing, so I hugged him!"

Lala's answer was so in line with her impulsive and haphazard personality that Bana couldn't say anything when she saw Anja. She could only glare at Muhuai and say, "Muhuai-kun, I'm hungry. Make me something to eat!"

"Xingcai, the food machine is ready to use now! How about I use it to make you something to eat?" Lala has recently become quite addicted to using the food machine to make snacks for her younger sisters, and immediately volunteered.

"Okay, I want to eat that... Wait, let me check which snacks have the lowest calories."

"Ok!"

Lala easily resolved the crisis. After washing his hands, Mu Huai gently rubbed her head, an encouraging gesture that strengthened her resolve to implement the third rule of the "Bride's Cultivation Manual".

Getting into bed at night is a skill that every girl needs to learn.

Go inside, close your eyes, and everything will be alright!

Volume 3, "The Loser, the Alien Sisters, and Gensokyo High School": Chapter 56 The Taste of the Sea, I Know

After searching online, Hanami Anzu finally discovered that food made with chicken breast is low in calories and healthy, so she told Lala that she wanted to eat food made with chicken breast.

The food produced by the food machine turned out to be two large plates full of crispy fried chicken cutlets and fried chicken nuggets.

"Lala...didn't I say it had to be low-calorie...?" She shook Lala's shoulders violently, on the verge of tears. "This looks like it's overflowing with calories!"

Mu Huai chuckled and pinched her wonderfully soft cheek from behind: "Xingcai, have you forgotten that her invention is called a food machine? If you want something delicious, you absolutely can't escape high calories."

"To put it another way, delicious and tasty food can never coexist with low calories."

"Aaaaaah!!!" Yana screamed as she covered her ears: "Don't tell me such a cruel reality, I can't hear you, I have no idea what you're saying!"

"I said... are you going to eat these things or not? If not, I'll eat them."

"Eat! Lala made these snacks especially for me, why don't you eat them?"

Banai saw Anja eating chicken cutlet and fried chicken nuggets with tears in her eyes, and then became completely immersed in the Maillard reaction and the aroma of oil.

After eating and drinking her fill, she completely forgot the purpose of coming to discuss things with Mu Huai V-卄? 印〒琦5异尔、]四? 覇. She happily took the sugar-free cola made from the food machine and went home to sleep.

The moment the back of her head touched the soft pillow, Banai saw Anna suddenly open her eyes and exclaim, "Something's wrong!!!"

......

into the night.

Lala groped her way out of the attic in the darkness. Using the faint moonlight at the end of the corridor, she tiptoed carefully toward Mu Huai's room. When she passed a guest room, the pungent smell of alcohol wafting from it made her sneeze.

"Ah!"

The sound, which wasn't usually loud, was unusually loud at this time, startling Lala so much that she held her breath and pressed herself against the wall. She would immediately run back to the attic if any sound came from the room.

Actually, given her personality, she would have walked into Mu Huai's room openly and confidently.

However, after learning of her plan, Mengmeng emphasized that she must go quietly and not disturb or be noticed by others.

Lala had no choice but to awkwardly sneak in.

Fortunately, the sneeze didn't wake anyone, so she was able to continue on her way to her destination with peace of mind.

She tiptoed to Mu Huai's room and peeked through the crack in the door. There was no light coming out, which meant he had already turned off the lights and gone to sleep.

Grasp the doorknob and turn it gently, creating a gap large enough for her to squeeze through. Lala slips inside and quickly turns back to close the door.

"Okay, that's it!"

She raised her hand to wipe away the fine beads of sweat on her forehead, not because she was nervous, but because it felt awkward to do something that wasn't her usual style, like making a sprint champion compete in high heels—it felt very stifling.

Lala rubbed her little hands together expectantly, then walked to the bedside with her hands behind her back, gently lifted a corner of the quilt, and slipped into the quilt like an eel.

The unique aura of Mu Huai instantly enveloped her, and the inexplicable sense of security and comfort caused her consciousness to momentarily go blank.

(It's been so long since I slept with him; I miss that feeling so much.)

Suddenly, a soft, fragrant pillow, like a marshmallow, appeared in his arms. Even though Mu Huai was still asleep, his body instinctively turned to his side and reached out to hug Lala.

She was startled: "Huh? You're not asleep?"

"..."

His long breaths tickled Lala's face, and when she saw his slightly moving lips, she was suddenly filled with playfulness. She stretched out her slender fingers and flicked her lips up and down, making a soft sound.

"hey-hey."

Lala chuckled to herself, finding it particularly amusing, and then continued with what she hadn't finished during the day—counting how many hairs were in his eyebrows.

Perhaps annoyed by her mischievous fingers, Mu Huai suddenly opened his mouth and gently fixed his index finger between his teeth to stop it from causing trouble.

"Well..."

Lala felt as if she had been electrocuted, a tingling sensation traveling from her fingertips all the way to her heart.

(Here we go again... this strange feeling. Mengmeng said that liking someone is completely different from liking food. So, is what I'm feeling now what it feels like to like Mu Huai?)

She hadn't found the answer to the question in her heart. After pulling her index finger back from between her teeth, she slowly pressed the pad of her finger to her pink lips.

However, this time, the tingling electric sensation did not travel from my fingertips to my lips; it was just a very simple touch.

Not getting the result she expected, Lala turned her gaze back to Mu Huai's lips. For some reason, she suddenly felt a dry mouth and her body temperature was slowly rising.

She slowly moved her face closer, finally stopping just before the kiss. Her body's instinctive impulse made her continue forward, but reason held her back.

“You can’t do this while he’s asleep.”

After Lala finished speaking softly, she slowly buried her head in his warm chest, her limbs intertwining with his like vines wrapped around a tree.

The tail, which had nowhere else to go, finally found the armrest, circled around it a few times, and then placed the heart-shaped end of its tail between the two people's bellies.

After doing all that, she closed her eyes and fell into a deep sleep.

......

Mu Huai dreamt that he was playing on the beach with Shinjo Akane and the others who were wearing swimsuits. During this time, Nan Mengya secretly called him behind a boulder to help her apply sunscreen. As a result, the two of them were swept into the sea by a wave that appeared out of nowhere.

With their hands and feet entangled in tough seaweed, and on the verge of becoming a pair of water ghosts, Nan Mengya suddenly said, "Since we're going to die anyway, let's have some fun before we die."

Then he woke up, opened his eyes, and saw the perfect cross-section of a peach reflected in the bottom of his pupils.

The sticky feeling between his lips and collar proved that he had indeed been overwhelmed by seawater and was at a loss last night.

Fortunately, although Lala had terrible sleeping postures, she wasn't so bad that she could easily take him down on the spot.

Mu Huai removed her arms from his legs, then picked up her pajamas from the floor and helped her put them on. During this time, she woke up once in a daze, gave a silly smile, and then closed her eyes again to continue sleeping.

[What a tempting little devil, Master! Can you still resist?]

If you can't control yourself, then cultivate to enlightenment. What's there to hesitate about?

[That's so straightforward. I hope you'll be this enthusiastic next time you make me donuts.]

"No way! I have so many clothes I want you to wear. If I don't use donuts as a condition, who's going to make up for my lack of cosplay?"

[Tch~ You pervert.]

Mu Huai had no idea that before he woke up, a pair of sea-blue eyes peered through the crack in the door and saw everything that was happening in the bedroom.

After he woke up, the owner of the blue eyes hurriedly left through the door.

Volume 3, "The Loser, the Alien Sisters, and Gensokyo High School": Chapter 57 The Humble Eighth Brother's Indirect Kiss

Hachina never expected that when she secretly came over in the morning to wake up Muhuai, she would see a scene that made her blush and feel heartbroken.

"So, without my knowledge, Wood and Lala had already done 'that' with each other."

The thought of what she had witnessed made her heart ache as if it were being pierced by countless needles. This pain made her realize clearly that in this war without gunpowder called "love," she had become the loser.

But seeing that Anja was unwilling to accept such an outcome, Banai secretly went home and spent two hours composing herself before inviting Muhuai to her home alone.

"What is this very important thing?"

After Mu Huai entered her boudoir, he sat cross-legged at the small wooden table with hot tea on it without any politeness, and then picked up a cream cookie and put it in his mouth.

"Wood, I like you." She said this calmly, without the nervousness she used to feel. It was as if a hole had been dug out in her heart, and all the feelings that should have existed there had flowed away with the hole.

"Hmm...is this some kind of anti-cheating training to prevent being suddenly confessed to by a beautiful girl?"

The uncertainty struck like a thunderbolt in Anna's mind.

Her pupils dilated slightly, reflecting Mu Huai's confused face at the bottom. She finally realized that she had made the stupidest decision of her life more than ten years ago—to desensitize him by confessing her feelings.

This method seems to ensure that Mu Huai won't be easily deceived by a scheming woman, but at the same time, it pushes her to the position that is both closest to and furthest from him, so that her true feelings will no longer be taken as a confession by him.

Furthermore, it's impossible for Hanami Anna to have another decade or so to untangle the thorny chains she herself has bound herself to for love.

The cruel truth struck her like a hammer blow to the head, making her dizzy and almost causing her to faint from the shock.

When Mu Huai saw that her face had suddenly turned completely pale and looked frighteningly white, he thought she had suffered from hypoglycemia due to dieting. He quickly jumped up, took out a bottle of cola from his storage space, and rushed to her side.

"Drink the Coke now!" Without saying a word, he forced her lips and teeth open with the bottle neck and poured the Coke into her mouth.

After seeing Anja drink half a bottle of cola and burp, Bana regained consciousness and saw Mu Huai standing close by. Her nose tingled and she almost burst into tears.

"Wood, do you think we should continue the anti-cheating training?"

"Is this what's important?" Mu Huai glanced at her reddened eyes and felt that the issue was not as simple as it seemed on the surface.

"Okay, I'll give you the choice."

He immediately replied, "Of course, we'll continue."

"I knew you would make this choice!"

Seeing Anja's relieved smile, Bana pushed the remaining half-bottle of cola to Mu Huai: "My stomach is so bloated, you can drink the rest."

He nodded, and had just finished drinking a third of the remaining cola when his phone suddenly started ringing incessantly.

"Hello? Director Lanzi?"

"Huh? Emergency filming added??"

"...Okay, I'm coming right now."

"Xingcai, I have to go to the film set. Could you please go to my house and tell Lala and the others that I won't be home for lunch?"

"I understand, you can go without worry."

"OK Bye Bye."

Mu Huai left in a hurry, leaving behind his leftover cola on the small wooden table.

Originally, Anna Hanami wanted to use this bottle of cola to say goodbye to her feelings, but an unexpected incident prevented her from finishing the cola.

"Could this also be the will of Heaven?"

She reached out and covered the spot where Mu Huai had been holding the bottle, feeling the lingering warmth on the plastic bottle as she gently licked the rim with the tip of her tongue, trying to soothe her heart. Tears involuntarily streamed down her face.

After entertaining herself in her room for more than two hours with the Coke bottle left by Mu Huai, Banai finally remembered what he had told her, and hurriedly changed into clean and refreshing clothes and ran to his house.

After telling the three sisters, who were gathered around the food machine studying their lunch, about Mu Huai's temporary trip to the film set, she originally planned to go straight home and continue her previous emotional outpouring with her culinary skills.

Unexpectedly, Nana suddenly left her older and younger sisters and ran over to her, whispering, "Xingcai, do you have time after lunch?"

"what happened?"

"I'll come to your house this afternoon; I have some questions for you."