Miku had been secretly practicing cooking for a long time to be able to cook for Lott. Today, she would let her lover witness her culinary skills.
While Lott was lying idly on Miku's bed, a girl pushed the door open and entered.
Lott glanced at her. "Not cooking?"
To be honest, telling these five sisters apart was a bit difficult for Lott.
However, the girl's tracksuit had 'Nakano Miku' written on it.
So Lott assumed it was Miku.
Lott still wasn't very familiar with the five sisters' habits.
When Nino cooked, to prevent oil stains and soup from splashing on her clothes, she would change into spare clothes like tracksuits.
And ever since Lott successfully transformed into a Super Saiyan, Nino had increasingly preferred wearing Miku's clothes while cooking.
Every time Miku found out, the two couldn't help but have a big argument.
The other three sisters always stepped in to mediate, and even the good-natured Yotsuba said Nino could wear her clothes.
But she insisted on wearing Miku's.
Today was no exception.
"Um... They're doing it."
Nino, who was alone in a room with a member of the opposite sex for the first time at 18, blushed slightly.
As she said this, she secretly glanced towards the kitchen, making sure her sisters hadn't noticed she'd slipped out.
However, Nino didn't notice that Lott had mistaken her for Miku.
"Um... I have something I want to tell you..."
Nino sat down on Miku's gaming chair, looking down at her feet.
She had mustered a lot of courage to decide to confess.
After all, Nino's approach to romance was to just go for it.
But she completely failed to notice that her usual bratty princess demeanor made her resemble Miku even more when she made this lovesick maiden expression.
Moreover, Nino's hair wasn't cut short like later on.
Now that she's wearing a loungewear and without her signature butterfly hair clip, it was a bit difficult to distinguish her from Miku.
"After that... There's still some time before the food is ready..."
Lott pulled 'Miku' over and into his arms.
Feeling the warmth from his solid chest, Nino panicked internally, biting her lip tightly, her mind blank.
'Why is he suddenly hugging me?'
'Does... does he like me too?'
Immediately after, Nino felt a place no one had ever touched before being molded into various shapes by Lott.
Nino was completely stunned.
'Although I came to confess, doing this kind of thing before you've even agreed... isn't very good, right?'
'No, wait!'
'Even if I agreed, you shouldn't do this to me right away!'
'At the very least, you should take me alone to another planet for a honeymoon trip, like you did with that Nakiri Erina.'
'And then on a beautiful night, do that with me... How, how can you...'
If it were any other girl, even if they weren't strong enough to push Lott away-
They would have at least started yelling by now.
But coincidentally, Nino liked exactly that kind of rough, bad-boy personality.
So it took her a long time to react.
By the time she regained her senses, she found her mouth was already blocked.
After her body trembled violently a couple of times, Nino, like a tamed lamb, slowly closed her eyes.
Only when she felt a chilly sensation did Nino muster all her strength to utter one sentence:
"C-Can you transform?"
Lott was taken aback.
Although he didn't know why Miku wanted that, he took a shallow breath, and a golden aura surged over his body.
When Nino saw Lott's hair, dazzling like sunlight-
At that moment, the spirits of Nanao Akane, Shinomiya Natsuha, and Azuma Hisato possessed her. (T/N: For those who don't know, it's from 'educational Anime', the NTR one.)
Her eyes instantly turned into heart shapes, and with strength she didn't know she had, she pushed against Lott's shoulders.
And then... sat down.
At this moment, she was not fighting alone! She was not alone!!!
At this moment, Lott also realized something was wrong.
Miku wouldn't have this much courage.
And he had overlooked the most important point... Where were those two stupid clouds, Zeus and Prometheus!?
…
An hour later, when Lott came out of the second-floor room and saw Miku carrying dishes out of the kitchen-
His gaze fixed on the two stupid clouds floating on either side of Miku's shoulders, and he fell into a mysterious silence for a moment.
"Lott-kun, I... I tasted it this time... it's edible..."
Thinking Lott's silence was due to worry about her cooking, Miku said with slight embarrassment, her cheeks flushed.
"It's fine, it's fine..."
Lott pulled Miku into his embrace and glanced a few more times into the kitchen.
Ichika, the easiest to recognize with her short hair.
Yotsuba, also with short hair, with Pryce's Swinub on her head, which had become her signature feature.
And Itsuki, whose face was chubbier compared to her four sisters, wearing a star hair clip.
Alright, Lott now knew who had passed out in Miku's room.
"Why isn't Nino back yet? How long does it take to go to the bathroom?"
Itsuki, who was working on a black, unidentifiable dish, complained.
Without Nino, the dishes the four sisters made were a pitiful sight.
"Um... I ran into her earlier. She said she was feeling a bit dizzy and has already fallen asleep. Let's eat out tonight."
Lott, rarely showing an awkward expression, changed the subject.
Damn, he'd seen plenty of mistaken identity plots in action movies in his previous life.
But he never expected such a ridiculous plot would happen to him.
Oh, by the way, the mistaken identity plots Lott saw in his previous life were about mother-daughter relationships, not sisters.
Well, there's a bit of a difference.
…
Originally, Lott planned to watch the Ash vs. Tobias match while having dinner with the five sisters.
But after what happened, he simply used Instant Transmission to send the four of them to the Lily of the Valley Island on the Planet Pokémon.
He had Cynthia arrange a premium viewing room at the Lily of the Valley Stadium, prepared food, and planned to enjoy dinner while watching the match live.
After using a bathroom break excuse like Nino did, Lott used Instant Transmission to return to Planet Terra.
"Oww~"
Seeing Lott return, Nino, who had just woken up, said with teary eyes.
Lott held her somewhat helplessly, thinking, 'Who told you to be so crazy?'
Seeing Nino couldn't walk, he simply stayed in the room with her and opened the group live stream to watch the match.
Just as the match was about to start, the camera panned over the audience. Lott looked down and asked:
"When the other four come back, we should tell them."
Lott himself had no interest in keeping secrets.
"L-Let's not, for now..."
Nino, who had been lying happily in Lott's arms, suddenly paled.
She thought it was better to keep it a secret for now.
Although among the five sisters, she usually argued with Miku the most.
In the past, whenever the introverted Miku was bullied, she was always the first to stand up for her.
Stealing her sister's man... Nino couldn't bring herself to say it just yet.
Seeing Nino so insistent, Lott had to agree to her request.
Anyway, it wasn't a big deal… they could just find a suitable time to tell them later, right?
After all, he wasn't the kind of light novel protagonist who would play dumb and string the female characters along.