Madam, believe me, how can I be a minotaur?

This state persisted until he finished eating.

As soon as he finished the last bite in his bowl, he put down his chopsticks and suddenly said, without warning, "Yuuka, stay with me tonight."

"Huh?"

Konno Yuuka was stunned.

Clearly, Asano Makoto's words, borrowed from a certain unnamed Kirito who loves to use Starburst Stream, brought her no small amount of shock.

After understanding what Asano Makoto had said, her face turned red, and she even temporarily forgot the pain that her mother's phone call had brought her.

She looked at Asano Makoto's serious expression and said, stammering with a red face, "Eh?! Y-you… you you you! What strange things are you saying!? You pervert!"

To this, Asano Makoto simply replied with a confused, seemingly innocent expression, "I know. I hope you can stay at my house tonight and keep me company. Is there a problem with that?"

Hearing this, Konno Yuuka suddenly realized that she seemed to have misunderstood something, and she was instantly speechless.

In the end, after stammering for a long time, she could only weakly say, "Don't use such strange wording… Also, tomorrow is not possible… I have to go to work…"

Asano Makoto immediately retorted, "So, if you didn't have to work, you could be with me tonight?"

"I told you not to use such strange wording!"

Konno Yuuka first reprimanded Asano Makoto, then nodded hesitantly, "Well, if I don't have to work, it's not entirely impossible…"

She didn't say, and couldn't possibly say, and even she herself didn't realize it: if she didn't have to work, she wished she could stay here forever, with Asano Makoto.

On the other side, Asano Makoto nodded knowingly and said very calmly, "Then take a day off tomorrow, how about it?"

Konno Yuuka thought for a moment, but ultimately refused, "How is that possible, you idiot? Besides, I already took a day off last time, so it's really not good to ask for another one."

Although she really wanted to stay, as she said, it was not good for someone like her, who had no background in the agency and relied solely on her own strength to stand in this position, to always take time off.

What she didn't say was that this week's project was really important; it was the "National Producer" variety show that she mentioned before, which was launched to save the agency.

Although the project doesn't start tomorrow, but in a few days, it is best to prepare for the early stage in order to get a good ranking in the end.

So, after weighing the pros and cons, she could only reject Asano Makoto's proposal.

However, after being rejected by her, Asano Makoto was not discouraged. After thinking for a while, he proposed again, "Then… I'll post a commission to your agency, specifically requesting you to come to my house to help me photograph a product?"

As he spoke, as if to confirm the feasibility of this method, Asano Makoto thought in silence for a while.

Then he nodded and said, "Well, although your agency will most likely review my qualifications, if I spend more money, or simply spend money to find a real clothing company to help me post the commission, this matter should still be easy to solve."

Konno Yuuka was stunned. She didn't expect Asano Makoto to have such a big imagination, to be able to think of such a method.

What she didn't expect was that Asano Makoto could go this far to get her to stay.

Soon, she realized what Asano Makoto was doing this for.

It seems that Asano-kun had already noticed that I had a problem.

No, maybe he even guessed why I became like this, and what I said on the phone just now.

As expected, nothing can be hidden from him…

Thinking of this, Konno Yuuka couldn't help but smile bitterly, and then she suddenly thought of her mother.

Her mother chose to trust that scumbag instead of her own daughter, and even scolded her for that scumbag.

Asano Makoto, on the other hand, gave her infinite care, and has been patiently supporting and encouraging her behind her back, and is even willing to pay such a high price for her.

In comparison, she didn't even know who she should be closest to.

In an instant, Konno Yuuka's eyes turned red.

With gratitude, and a little grievance and entanglement, she shook her head and said to Asano Makoto, "Asano-kun, you don't have to go to this extent for me, I'm fine…"

However, before she could finish her words, she was interrupted by Asano Makoto: "What are you thinking? When did I say I was doing it for you? I just simply want you to be with me tonight… But if you really can't spare the time, then forget it."

While listening to the 【Konno Yuuka Favorability +1】 and 【Stability +1】 notifications that kept ringing in his mind, he looked at Konno Yuuka with a confused expression and said in a serious tone.

Perhaps his serious nonsense was too funny, Konno Yuuka couldn't help but laugh.

She wiped away the few tears that overflowed from the corners of her eyes, smiled again at Asano Makoto with that bright and dazzling smile, and asked, "Do you really want me to stay?"

Unlike before, this time, there was no hidden chill in her smile.

Contained within it was only beauty and love.

Looking at her smile, Asano Makoto couldn't help but be stunned.

After a long while, he nodded stiffly and said, "Of course, if possible, I want you to stay with me tonight… What? Are you unwilling?"

While saying these words, he also silently said a few apologies to Eriko in his heart.

However, he believed that Eriko would understand, after all, he couldn't let Konno Yuuka, whose stability value had only recovered to 50 points, leave here and cause any problems.

Konno Yuuka looked at his serious expression for several seconds, not knowing what she was thinking.

After several seconds, she finally reacted and chuckled a few times, then pretended to be helpless, shook her head and said, "Oh my~ Makoto is really like a child, oh my, well, in order not to make Makoto feel lonely, I, as your older sister, will reluctantly take a day off."

Asano Makoto was amused by her words, and pretended to be disgusted, "What, why don't you go to work then."

"Don't be shy, Makoto, your older sister will take good care of you tonight."

As she spoke, Konno Yuuka took a big bite of fried chicken, and then said with a smile, "Oh, right, go help your older sister reheat the dishes, they won't taste good if they get cold. Since you want your older sister to stay so much, you should be able to do this little thing, right?"

Looking at the expression on her face that resembled a female… no, a female ogre, veins instantly popped out on Asano Makoto's forehead, and he suddenly regretted it a little.

He looked at Konno Yuuka and said seriously, "…No, seriously, why don't you go to work."

"That won't do, your older sister has already decided to stay, and you were the one who asked your older sister to stay… Are you regretting it?"

Asano Makoto nodded seriously, "Yes, I regret it, you shouldn't stay."

Konno Yuuka had only a bright smile on her face, and said slowly and firmly, "I won't."

Asano Makoto sighed deeply and couldn't say another word.

Chapter 281 See you next time (3k)

In the end, Konno Yuuka stayed.

As soon as she finished eating, she called her manager and told her that she had something to do tomorrow and needed to take a day off.

Although the manager on the other end of the phone strongly opposed, she was very determined and made the decision, informing her that she would definitely not go to the studio tomorrow.

Helpless, the manager had no choice but to agree to her request, and then gave her a good warning.

While she was on the phone taking a day off, Asano Makoto also sent a few messages to Miyajima Eriko, telling her that Konno Yuuka would continue to stay for another night.

Soon after, he received Miyajima Eriko's understanding as always.

And in addition to that, he even received her comfort in return—when he was still thinking about how to comfort Eriko, Eriko took the initiative to tell him not to be sad, and comforted him by saying that when all these things were over, she would have time to be with him.

The moment he saw these words, Asano Makoto didn't know what to say.

He just felt once again that Miyajima Eriko was indeed a girl worth giving everything for.

However, because the plans for the next few days had already been set, in the end, he could only promise Miyajima Eriko that he would definitely take more time to be with her next week.

Miyajima Eriko said that she would look forward to that day.

When Asano Makoto finished notifying Miyajima Eriko, Konno Yuuka had already finished asking her manager for a day off, so he began to accompany her to watch movies and play games.

All night, he was very honest, just playing and relaxing with Konno Yuuka, without doing anything out of line.

After all, what he had done before was a bit too much, and had already aroused Konno Yuuka's vigilance.

Moreover, Konno Yuuka's emotions were now very unstable because of that phone call from her mother.

Although her stability value had slightly recovered by the time she finished dinner, it was still only hovering around 65 points.

So Asano Makoto knew very well that he should not do similar stupid things in a short period of time, and it was best not to even make similar jokes.

They played until almost twelve o'clock in the evening before returning to their respective rooms to sleep.

This time, there were no more accidents. Konno Yuuka, who was gradually familiar with the layout of the apartment, did not run into the wrong room when she went to the bathroom in the middle of the night, which made Asano Makoto, who had deliberately stayed up a little later to wait, lament that it was a pity.

After a peaceful night, time came to the next day, which was Friday morning.

After getting up, the two of them still didn't go out, but continued what they had done last night, watching TV and playing games while laughing and playing, spending the whole morning idly.

During this time, Asano Makoto still didn't do anything out of line. On the contrary, before lunch, Konno Yuuka took the initiative to ask him to give her a massage.

It was impossible for him to refuse such a good thing.

However, he just put on massage gloves like last time and gave Konno Yuuka a serious massage.

Apart from enjoying the heavenly figure and taking a good look, and taking the opportunity to carefully touch those perfect long legs in the name of massage, he didn't do anything further.

The reason why he had such an opportunity was actually because Konno Yuuka didn't know Asano Makoto's XP, so touching her legs wasn't considered a sensitive contact in her eyes.

This massage lasted from 12:30 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.

After kneading Konno Yuuka's legs, Asano Makoto began to prepare this late lunch.

This time, he specially made many things that Konno Yuuka liked to eat, and then packed them in a thermal box so that she could take them to the studio to eat later.

Yes, Konno Yuuka was about to leave here.

Although she intended to stay here for a while longer, she really couldn't ask for any more leave.

Being able to stay here for another night was the limit of what she could do now.

When she agreed to take a day off last night, her manager had already warned her very sternly, and analyzed the pros and cons of the matter for her.

"Yuuka, you also know what this project means to our agency, so there can't be any mistakes."

"Taking a day off on the first day of the project will definitely have a big impact on your impression in the agency, and may even affect the agency's allocation of resources to you."

"But fortunately, it's only the preparation stage now, and you are, after all, a newcomer that the agency is preparing to promote, and your conditions are so excellent, so it's okay to be a little willful once or twice."

"But there's only this one time. If there's another time, although it won't directly lead to losing your job, the agency may reduce the resources you can get, or even simply promote someone else."

Konno Yuuka was actually very clear about this, so she had no choice but to promise her manager that she would definitely arrive early tomorrow.

There was nothing she could do. She hadn't earned enough money yet, and she didn't plan to lie down and rot so early.

For her future, she could only listen to her manager and go back to work obediently.

However, she was very clear in her heart that as long as she could get in the top few in this audition variety show, she would be able to gain traffic and resources to successfully transform, and also improve her position in the agency.

In other words, at that time, she would have the qualifications to "act like a big shot."