"Hey Yu—how was your mixer yesterday?"
"Ah, well~ It was very funny. The girls were all quite striking, but I hope there won't be a next time."
Early the next morning at Grand Blue, Miyazawa Yu, wearing an apron, stood behind the counter.
Hearing Shinji Tokita ask about the mixer, a cold bead of sweat formed on his forehead. He struggled for a moment before finally coming up with a passable evaluation.
After all, those five "Cakeys" were no different from a scam. Not only did they waste his time, but they also took his money. It was just too embarrassing to talk about!
In contrast, Iori, with his mouth full of pancakes, was still seething.
As soon as he heard Yu whitewashing the "Cakeys," he immediately swallowed all the food in his throat, his face red, and pulled out a photo from yesterday.
"Ha! You say that so easily, Yu! Look at this picture! They had the audacity to dress up like this to mess with us!"
"That's right! 'Cakey,' what's your explanation?!"
"I tried my best!"
Aina Yoshiwara, feeling guilty, huddled in a corner and quickly tried to distance herself. "Yu also invited someone, didn't he?! It can't be just my fault!"
"That's right! Speaking of which, which one was your friend, Yu?"
Suddenly discovering a blind spot, Kohei Imamura immediately turned his gun on Miyazawa Yu.
Iori, also feeling that he had been cheated, glared at Yu and chimed in loudly, ready to hold him accountable.
"None of them are acceptable! After all, they're all 'Cakeys,' but they do match Kohei quite well."
"What did you say, you good-for-nothing! Do you have a death wish?!"
"Is there a problem? A pervert who invites people to their room on the first meeting!"
Putting the last plate on the table, Miyazawa Yu watched Iori and Kohei already fighting with each other after just a few words. He helplessly explained, "Don't think so badly of me. You guys were the ones harassing her sister."
"Harassing?"
"Sister?"
Grabbing each other's faces, they froze in place. It took a while for Kohei to finally realize. "Oh! Was it that really tall girl! The one who never talked to us!"
"I think her name was Kaya Mizuki. What a coincidence, she has the same last name as the voice actress Kohei likes."
"..."
Blind spot discovery number two!
Their bickering instantly stopped. Kohei Imamura's pupils constricted as he punched Iori into the air. His face contorted as he knelt on the ground.
At this moment, he finally recalled that when he first joined the Pab club, Yu had said he knew the voice actress of Rarako, Kaya Mizu... wait, was it Mizuki?
He raised his head, trembling, only to be met with Miyazawa Yu's disgusted look of disappointment.
"No! That can't be. Mizuki-san is so busy, how could she have the time..."
"Unfortunately, her schedule is usually pretty open during the semester, and her last project with Rarako just ended."
Miyazawa Yu shook his head regretfully, amazed at how dense Kohei was.
"And you, not only did you completely ignore her, but you also harassed her sister, Kanako. That's what happened!"
Crack!
A thunderbolt descended from the sky, leaving Kohei Imamura charred on the outside and crisp on the inside.
In an instant, he became a living statue. Even when Iori walked back and angrily kicked him twice, he didn't react at all.
"Ah, Kohei seems to have died."
"He must be too shocked. After all, he really loves Rarako..."
Miyazawa Yu lowered his head and mourned for Kohei for two seconds before turning to Aina with no pity at all. "By the way, Aina, you're joining the club, right?"
"Do you know what kind of club we are?"
"Huh? Is that a question?"
With her hands on her hips, Aina Yoshiwara didn't think she was as unreliable as Iori and the others!
"Isn't it a diving club?"
"Oh! There are people who are this naive!"
"She looks like she hasn't been beaten up by her seniors yet. It's so nostalgic!"
His expression was a mix of pity and helplessness. Seeing that Aina seemed to be looking forward to something, Miyazawa Yu reluctantly asked, "In that case, what are your expectations for our club?"
"Expectations? I'm actually pretty excited—something that fits an adult's hobbies..."
"Is that so~"
Drinking alcohol and playing strip poker—those definitely qualified as adult hobbies, right?
"And I can swim in the sea and see all kinds of beautiful fish!"
"Ho-ho!"
To be honest, since he had joined the Pab club, he had only gone into the water once, and it was in the shallow part!
"And finally, I'll be able to run on the beach of a small southern island with my college friends! Ah—it's just like in the movies!"
Her face twisted into a knot, and Aina Yoshiwara couldn't control herself as she imagined running on a beach with Iori in a swimsuit, laughing and having fun.
"I see!"
Miyazawa Yu and Iori exchanged glances. He sighed lightly, walked forward, and put a hand on Aina's shoulder. "In that case, you should not join!"
"...Aren't you a diving club?"
"Well... I can't say we've never dived, but it's definitely different from what you imagine!"
The truth was too cruel. The Pab club was actually a nude drinking club, and Miyazawa Yu simply couldn't say it out loud!
And even if she was a "Cakey," the Pab club really needed a second female member besides Chisa...
With this thought, he looked at the subtly threatening auras coming from Senpai Tokita and Senpai Kotobuki. He finally shed a tear and went against his conscience, shaking his head.
"Nothing. Just be happy."
"Hmph! You're so mysterious!"
With no idea what she was about to face, Aina Yoshiwara hated people who spoke in riddles and left her hanging.
Seeing Miyazawa Yu walk over to the counter to eat, she immediately snorted and turned away, no longer asking questions.
Just then, Shinji Tokita, who had re-hung the new member sign, yelled at her, "Hey! Newbie, come introduce yourself!"
"Ah, okay!"
She rushed to stand in front of the seniors, who had an average height of six feet. Aina Yoshiwara bowed neatly and said, "Nice to meet you all. I'm Aina Yoshiwara, a first-year at Oumi Women's Academy!"
"Oh!!!"
"Welcome to the club!!"
It was rare for a female member to join, and the seniors immediately let out a roaring cheer like a tsunami, followed by a flurry of applause.
Seeing this, Aina Yoshiwara, who had never received such a warm welcome, instantly flushed a deep red.
"Um... I'm very interested in diving, but I've never tried it."
She lowered her head shyly. Aina Yoshiwara didn't notice that her seniors were now only wearing their underwear.
When she looked up with a smile, wanting to say thank you for the welcome, the sight of a bunch of nude men made her pupils shake.
"Wait a minute! Is there something wrong with this club?!"
"Huh? What do you mean?"
Miyazawa Yu, who was only wearing a pair of underwear and pouring beer, turned to look at Aina in confusion. The latter took two steps back in fear and shrieked, "Why are you also naked?!"
"Are you taking a step back? You don't have to be so scared, after all, you already saw it at the Spring Festival last time, right?"
"So that wasn't just because everyone was too excited from the event..."
She felt her brain being flooded with a ton of forbidden knowledge. Why was it that in her eyes, what Miyazawa Yu was doing was a shameless act, but he could run around in his underwear with such a calm expression?
Aina Yoshiwara looked at the calm expression on his face and, for a second, felt like she was the one with the problem!
"Huh? What's wrong, Aina?"
"Azusa-senpai! We have a big problem!... Pfft!"
Just as she was in a state of confusion, Azusa Hamaoka's voice suddenly came from behind her.
Thinking she had found her savior, Aina Yoshiwara quickly turned to complain. However, two big purple spheres bounced into her vision.
"Hmm?"
"..."
Looking at Azusa Hamaoka's innocent eyes, she covered her face and shook her head in despair. "Uh... nothing."
"Sigh, just relax. This is just normal. You'll get used to it."
Miyazawa Yu couldn't stand seeing a good kid getting messed up like this. He sighed lightly and tried to comfort her.
"You're not grossed out at all. Has your Pavlovian response gone away, Yu?"
"Yeah! It's been fine ever since that mixer."
He chugged a glass of beer, then opened his system panel to check his skills.
Ever since Azusa Hamaoka and the seniors started taking off their clothes, his passive skill, Super Body Control, had been flashing like crazy.
The system probably chose this skill for him when he was too drunk to think. The effect was that he could freely control every inch of his muscles, including his stomach.
Not only that...
He looked down and touched his toned abs. The small beer belly he had from last month was completely gone!
Pain-free weight loss and muscle gain! What a nice skill!
"..."
On the other side, after being depressed for a while, Aina Yoshiwara suddenly remembered that there was also Chisa in the Pab club!
As a fellow girl, and a cold beauty at that, she definitely wouldn't be like Azusa-senpai!
"Chisa! Please! You have to be the one to arrange a mixer!"
"Huh? What are you talking about, you maggot!"
"No, Chisa, I'm not asking you to sit on me!"
"..."
Looking at Chisa Kotegawa, who was sitting on Iori and stepping on him, Aina Yoshiwara's eyes went blank. Her hands dropped powerlessly—
"No! She's a sadist!!!"