Chapter 119: Sorry, I think I misheard. Say it one more time…..

Right after closing the door, called by his given name, Kazui turned toward Monica and put on a dumbfounded expression.

Then raising his voice he asked Monica.

"Wh-why... are you here?"

"Why? That’s my line!"

Rounding her eyes in surprise, Monica continued.

"Why is Kazu coming out of Lumia-san’s place?"

Just as Monica said, Kazui had opened the entrance door of Lumia’s dwelling and come out into the passage.

"That’s, well..."

After finishing sex with Lumia, cleaning himself in the shower, putting on clothes and coming out, Kazui had run into Monica.

But there was no way he could say that fact, so he hesitated.

"Is something wrong?"

Noticing the abnormality outside the entrance, Lumia opened the door, appeared, and asked Kazui.

Lumia in a refreshing and sexy appearance of denim short pants and a white T-shirt noticed Monica’s form and guessed the general circumstances.

"Ah, so that’s it."

Without being that surprised, in a tone as if convinced, Lumia continued.

"I had thought this kind of thing might happen eventually, but it was surprisingly early."

"Um, this... what’s going on?"

At the same time as Kazui, Monica also asked Lumia.

"Why is Kazu coming out of Lumia-san’s room?"

"Calm down both of you. I’ll explain properly."

While soothing Kazui and Monica, Lumia proposed to the two of them.

"For now come into my place. Talking here would bother the neighbors, right?"

Just as Lumia said, both Kazui and Monica thought talking in a passage with other residents would bother the neighbors.

That was why the two of them nodded at Monica’s words.

"Please, don’t hold back."

Going back inside the entrance herself, Lumia beckoned Kazui and Monica.

"...Excuse me."

Saying that, Kazui stepped into the entrance he had just come out of again.

"Excuse me."

Following Kazui, Monica also entered the entrance, closed the door, and locked it.

The place of the three of them’s conversation moving inside Lumia’s dwelling, the passage that had been noisy until just a little while ago regained quiet.

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"Sit and wait. I’ll bring something to drink."

Saying that, leaving Kazui and Monica in the living room, Lumia headed to the dining kitchen.

"Ah, don’t go to any trouble!"

Before Kazui, Monica answered Lumia.

"I said don’t hold back."

Lumia started making sounds in the dining kitchen.

Sounds of opening and closing the refrigerator and cabinet doors.

Kazui and Monica reluctantly did as Lumia said.

They sat side by side on the black leather reception-set sofa.

(Is it all right to sit with Monica on the sofa I just had sex with Lumia-san on?)

Complex emotions welled up in Kazui.

Before doing it on the bed, Kazui and Lumia had enjoyed sex on the sofa.

"Why are you coming in and out of Lumia-san’s house?"

Unable to wait for Lumia, Monica asked Kazui sitting on her right.

"You too. Why were you in front of Lumia-san’s house?"

Feeling guilty and awkward, Kazui answered with a question without answering.

"I live next door!"

Having no guilt, Monica answered immediately.

"Lumia-san is unit 102 and I’m unit 103, so I just came back to my own house!"

Something he had vaguely thought might be the case was confirmed by Monica’s own words.

"...So why are you coming in and out of Lumia-san’s house?"

"That’s, well..."

Hard to answer, Kazui hesitated.

"I think it’s fine even if you tell the truth."

Saying that, holding a tray with three glasses on it, Lumia walked from the dining kitchen into the living room.

While lining the glasses on the table, Lumia continued.

"Monica is a good kid, so she probably won’t tell anyone someone else’s secret."

"A good kid? This one?"

With a surprised face, Kazui asked Lumia.

(Even though she peeks?)

That kind of words rose in his head, but Kazui did not say them.

"Besides, both of you... unlike before you seem to have become a close relationship, so isn’t it fine even if you share a secret?"

After asking meaningfully, Lumia sat on the sofa facing Kazui and Monica.

It was the one-seater sofa used when guests came.

Kazui and Monica had something that came to mind, so they looked at each other awkwardly.

"No, um... a close relationship, what do you mean?"

While hiding her agitation, Monica answered Lumia with a question.

"Sorry. Prying is a manners violation, but I noticed."

After apologizing, Lumia answered the question.

"That the two of you... reached a relationship between a man and a woman."

"Eh? Ah? That... um... nothing like that..."

Too easy to understand, Monica showed a flustered state.

That attitude itself clearly showed Lumia it was a bull’s-eye.

"Actually I’m the same as Monica."

Hearing Lumia’s words as she confessed a secret looking embarrassed, Kazui and Monica both rounded their eyes.

Kazui was surprised that Lumia confessed the secret, Monica that Lumia had reached a relationship between a man and a woman with Kazui the same as herself.

From the point Kazui came out of Lumia’s room at night, Monica had also arrived at the possibility the two of them might be in a relationship between a man and a woman.

But she had arrived at it, yet it was hard to believe, so being clearly told by Lumia herself, Monica was surprised.

"Lumia-san, isn’t that talk... bad to say?"

While impatient, Kazui asked Lumia.

"Monica has already noticed too."

With a calm face, Lumia continued.

"You saw a man come out of a woman living alone’s room this late at night. Normally you’d notice, right?"

"That’s, well... true."

Kazui was convinced by Lumia’s answer.

He also thought there was no way to hide it at this point.

"Lumia-san and Kazu... were dating?"

With a face that took a shock, Monica looked alternately at Kazui and Lumia’s faces.

"I’m not dating Kazu-kun. There’s a special circumstance... and we’ve reached a relationship between a man and a woman."

"A special circumstance? What kind of circumstance?"

Asked by Monica, Lumia confirmed Kazui’s will.

"It’s all right to talk, right?"

After thinking with his head in his hands, Kazui let out a deep sigh, then with a determined expression answered Lumia.

"It’s about me, so I’ll talk myself."

"Yes. Then... I’ll leave it to Kazu-kun."

Nodding at Lumia’s words, Kazui turned toward Monica.

"Can you keep what I’m about to talk about a secret? Otherwise I can’t talk."

"I’ll keep it a secret, so talk already."

Having obtained Monica’s agreement, Kazui started confessing the secret.

"You know my native skill is Replication, right?"

"I know."

Monica answered immediately and added further. ℯ

"That unless you know the activation condition it’s useless, and on top of that it even has the demerit of making skills hard to acquire by ordinary methods. Garbage skill Replication."

"I figured out the activation condition of my Replication."

"Eh? Is that so!"

Monica raised a surprised voice.

"That’s why your level went up a little, and you got a little... stronger!"

As if it clicked, Monica added.

"And that activation condition is... having sex."

Hearing Kazui’s talk, Monica thought she misheard and put on a vacant expression.

After a few seconds she checked.

"Sorry, I think I misheard. Say it one more time."

"The activation condition is having sex."

Hearing twice that the activation condition was sex, even Monica could not think it was a mishearing.

"You... are you teasing me?"

Monica glared at Kazui and interrogated him in a threatening tone.

It was not a mishearing. Monica thought she was being teased by Kazui.