Since the murder was by poison, the room looked almost exactly the same after the corpse was removed.
But the thought that someone had died here, and especially that the body had been in the bathroom for so long, was too much for Hitomi Kuujo.
The feelings of fear, terror, and disgust stubbornly lingered.
"I'm going to move soon. Anyway, I moved frequently before because of Kishida's harassment."
Hitomi Kuujo proactively laid out her plan. Using the excuse of moving, she could discard many items in the house, making the disposal of relevant clues harder to detect.
It even provided a good excuse for the deep cleaning.
When renting an apartment, unless you didn't care about getting your security deposit back, one usually cleaned before leaving.
Hitomi Kuujo was just being unusually thorough.
As a gentle, decent, and well-mannered university student, this was perfectly reasonable.
Hoshimiya Yuu sighed in admiration, "As expected of you. You've thought of almost everything. Moving is indeed an excellent solution."
"But don't rush. You need to follow your usual process and carefully select the next place to live first."
"I understand. I wouldn't feel comfortable just moving anywhere randomly," Hitomi Kuujo nodded, confirming she understood.
Although living here still felt somewhat unsettling, the corpse had been disposed of, and enduring it for a while would be fine.
The matter of the corpse was now completely resolved. Hoshimiya Yuu opened the System to check the contract conditions.
[Condition 1: Met]
[Condition 2: Trust (Not Met)]
[Condition 3: Met]
Two of the three conditions were now met. By helping Hitomi Kuujo dispose of the corpse, the second condition had also improved from "Favorability" to "Trust."
Hoshimiya Yuu and Hitomi Kuujo hadn't known each other for long. Although they had just shared intimacy, they didn't actually have much to talk about.
After the conversation about yellow-haired Kishida's death, silence descended between them.
"Um…"
After a moment of hesitation, Hitomi Kuujo proactively broke the awkward silence. "Mr. Hoshimiya, you must be hungry. You've been busy for so long and didn't eat much last night. Let me get you something to eat."
Saying this, she started walking toward the kitchen.
Hoshimiya Yuu quickly stopped her, saying, "It's fine. It will be light soon. I'll make something myself when I get back."
Before the contract was finalized, he dared not eat anything given to him by Hitomi Kuujo again.
What if Hitomi Kuujo decided to eliminate him, the sole person who knew the truth?
No matter how small the possibility, Hoshimiya Yuu wouldn't gamble with his life.
He had only one life, and caution was key.
Hitomi Kuujo froze, then looked at Hoshimiya Yuu's reaction and suddenly looked a little sad.
She lowered her head disappointedly and whispered, "I truly just wanted to prepare something for you to eat…"
Hoshimiya Yuu rubbed the tip of his nose, feeling a bit awkward.
Hitomi Kuujo didn't have any intuition-based talents, so how did she always guess what he was thinking?
The beauty before him looked so vulnerable, and Hoshimiya Yuu wondered if he was being overly cautious, but ultimately, he didn't relent.
"No, you're overthinking it."
Stroking Hitomi Kuujo's soft, long hair, Hoshimiya Yuu smiled. "It's just that I moved a corpse, so I don't have much appetite. More than eating, I feel like taking a shower right now."
"Really?" Hitomi Kuujo wiped away the tears at the corner of her eyes and looked at Hoshimiya Yuu seriously.
"Really."
Hoshimiya Yuu was utterly sincere. "I didn't shower all day yesterday, and then we… ahem, and I just walked so far. I've worked up a sweat."
"Then I'll draw the bath for you, Hoshimiya-senpai."
Perhaps out of a desire to repay him, Hitomi Kuujo proactively started attending to Hoshimiya Yuu.
After Hoshimiya Yuu entered the bathroom, she followed him in, wrapped in a towel, and started scrubbing his back.
It was Hoshimiya Yuu's first time having someone scrub his back, and Hitomi Kuujo's first time scrubbing someone else's. Both were a little nervous at first.
Fortunately, they had already shared intimacy, and the nervousness quickly transformed into flirtatious intimacy.
Enjoying Hitomi Kuujo's small, slightly calloused hands moving across his back, Hoshimiya Yuu's breathing slowly grew heavy.
He had been looking for an opportunity to meet the conditions and complete the contract.
He hadn't expected Hitomi Kuujo to offer herself so readily, saving him quite a bit of effort.
"Hitomi, please stop using honorifics."
Hoshimiya Yuu turned around, wrapped his arms around the girl's soft, slender waist, and said, "We're friends now, wouldn't you say? Just call me by my name."
"Then… Yuu-kun?"
Hitomi Kuujo asked tentatively. "But if your girlfriend finds out, wouldn't she be angry?"
Hoshimiya Yuu knew she was referring to Ran. They had met at Tropical Land that day.
And anyone who saw Hoshimiya Yuu and Ran's interaction that day would assume they were boyfriend and girlfriend.
He thought that if he explained, Ran probably wouldn't mind.
But a woman's heart is unfathomable, and it was best to avoid complications.
Hitomi Kuujo's friends called her Hitomi-chan, so his calling her Hitomi was normal.
As for himself, no one seemed to call him by his first name alone yet.
"I'm two or three years older than you. If you don't mind, just call me Hoshimiya-senpai."
Senpai was still a form of respect, but it was much more intimate than Mr.
Since Hoshimiya Yuu had just graduated from university and Hitomi Kuujo was still attending, this form of address was reasonable.
"Alright."
Hitomi Kuujo blinked, twisting her slippery, delicate body and settling into a more comfortable position in Hoshimiya Yuu's embrace.
With that twist, the towels, already loosely draped, slipped from both of them.
Exposed to each other again, skin to skin, neither Hoshimiya Yuu nor Hitomi Kuujo had an extreme reaction; instead, there was a sense of inevitability.
Just as Hoshimiya Yuu was about to proceed to the next step and work hard to make her affection "deeply harbored," Hitomi Kuujo said with some difficulty, "Hoshimiya-senpai, although I really want to, it still hurts a little down there…"
Having consistently practiced gymnastics since childhood, Hitomi Kuujo had excellent physical fitness, making her the perfect frame for lovemaking.
But she was still a first-timer, and she had encountered someone of little Yuu's above-average size.
Combined with Hoshimiya Yuu's relentless demands, both in terms of time and number of times, her private parts hadn't fully recovered after several hours.
The arrow was nocked, and Hoshimiya Yuu said nothing, only reaching out to touch the space between Hitomi Kuujo's long, beautiful legs.
It was wet, warm, delicate, and juicy.
"Aren't you all ready then?"
Hoshimiya Yuu showed the glistening fluid on his hand to Hitomi Kuujo. While the girl shyly turned her head away, he grasped her firm, small buttocks and lifted her up.
"Iiya~"
The sudden feeling of weightlessness and satisfaction made the gymnastics beauty let out a tempting gasp. Before she could make another sound, Hoshimiya Yuu had already claimed her tender lips.
In the steam-filled bathroom, the two began to unleash the desires in their hearts.
They exchanged deep, lingering kisses, and saliva constantly flowed from the corner of Hitomi Kuujo's mouth.
The upper mouth was aggressively taken by Hoshimiya Yuu, and the lower was no different.
Because he was constantly monitoring whether Condition 2 was met, little Yuu endured longer than all their previous encounters combined.
Hitomi Kuujo's legs were so weak from pleasure that she couldn't even stand, let alone clasp Hoshimiya Yuu's waist.
"Hoshimiya-senpai… I can't take anymore…"
Hitomi Kuujo's eyes were hazy, and her pale cheeks were flushed crimson, whether from overexcitement or the steam.
As little Hitomi convulsed, Hoshimiya Yuu gradually reached his limit.
At that moment, the System notification finally sounded.