Ah, my bad! You want the single quotes ' ' preserved for inner monologue, not italics. Here it is with the original formatting:
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'This is simply a proposition.'
Mu Xiaoxiao didn't understand why they were asking this kind of question. 'Since when did this become a love battlefield?'
Surrounded by a group of girls adjusting their uniforms, faces still flushed — each of them had just been thoroughly enjoyed by Mu Xiaoxiao. It looked like a winner-in-life scene.
"Cough, if you're just talking about taste, they're all the same." He cleared his throat and smacked his lips, showing no nervousness about the potential conflict. Instead, he grinned broadly. "It's just that the flavor's different."
"So, whose is better?" Xiaoqian asked curiously.
"...I told you, the flavor's different, but the essence is the same." Seeing the girls staring at him expectantly, unwilling to let it go, he could only spread his hands.
"Fine. Chi-chan's a little sweeter, Anna-chan's more delicate, Yui-senpai's lighter, and as for Makoto..." He glanced sideways at Himemiya Makoto's breasts — which stood out even among this group — and smiled. "Overall, hers are the most perfect."
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'Oh, really?' Everyone fell silent. 'Sure, Makoto's are the biggest, but ours aren't exactly small — just a bit smaller.' They shot sour looks at the blushing Himemiya Makoto, all sporting dead-fish eyes.
"Xiaoxiao really likes the big ones."
"Chi-chan, yours aren't small either..." Himemiya Makoto shyly twisted her body, glancing down at her own tall, plump curves. 'I can't even see my toes at a glance.' Then she peeked at Mu Xiaoxiao's face, her expression mixing shyness, affection, and the happiness of being praised.
'If he likes them that much, he can touch them more next time... or lick them... hehe.'
"Tsk, I never said I didn't like big ones." Mu Xiaoxiao leaned back in his chair without a hint of shame. "Don't worry about such trivial matters... Oh, someone's coming."
And the newcomer was an interesting one.
Hearing footsteps, Makoto and the others turned around. An innocent-looking girl with long orange hair and stunning features was walking toward them. Kisaragi Anna and the others noticed her strange expression — though she looked at them, her eyes kept drifting toward Mu Xiaoxiao.
'Again...'
'Another strange girl. Where did he pick this one up from?' That's what the girls were all thinking.
"Tsubakihara Yuna?"
Actually, even Mu Xiaoxiao was a little surprised. 'Sure, the Tsubakihara women are connected to him now, but the only one he'd truly claimed was the enchanting Mrs. Mira.'
'As for the twin sisters?'
Even during yesterday's incident with the janitor, he hadn't interacted much with Tsubakihara Yuna. He hadn't made a move on her at all — instead, he'd fooled around with Serizawa Yukiha.
'This girl had just been a bystander.'
'Why did she come to see me?'
"You came to find me?"
"I..."
Tsubakihara Yuna opened her mouth, looking at Mu Xiaoxiao sitting in the middle of a crowd of women holding onto him left and right. Her eyes were complicated. She wished what she'd witnessed yesterday wasn't real.
But today, watching these beautiful, outstanding girls surround him so intimately, Tsubakihara Yuna felt a little...
Since encountering that terrible crisis yesterday, her emotions had been in turmoil. When she came to school early this morning, she'd felt calm enough.
But when she saw Mu Xiaoxiao's back on the way here, she'd been overwhelmed in an instant. The complicated, tangled emotions made her irritable, distracted — she kept spacing out in class.
This worried her twin sister Nina greatly.
She didn't know what was wrong with Yuna, but she also didn't ask. The two sisters had always been close, never hiding anything from each other. But now, for the first time, Yuna was keeping secrets.
Tsubakihara Nina came out of the teacher's office with a book in her arms, frowning deeply. She'd just asked the teacher — nothing had happened at school yesterday.
It seemed no one knew about that janitor who'd had his life and time drained away without even realizing it.
Tsubakihara Nina pushed up her glasses. 'Yuna... she shouldn't be doing this for Yuuji... huh?'
Out of the corner of her eye, she caught a certain figure. She froze instinctively. Focusing, she saw who it was — her mouth fell open, shock spreading across her face.
'That's... why is Yuna...'
In her sight, Tsubakihara Yuna was walking side by side with a young man. She thought she was mistaken and rubbed her eyes, but no matter how many times she looked, it wasn't an illusion. Her twin sister was indeed with Mu Xiaoxiao — the one who'd made that deal with her family to save Yuuji.
'Wait, could it be that Yuna was...'
Tsubakihara Nina panicked and started forward to rescue her sister from that devil — but halfway there, she slowed down. Because she clearly saw the blush on her sister's face.
And that little-girl expression that slipped out unintentionally as she chatted with Mu Xiaoxiao.
She froze.
She stared blankly at the two figures, unable to move for a long time. 'Yuna... why are you...'
'What happened between those two? Did they meet again at school? That's Mu Xiaoxiao — a terrifying guy. Why does Yuna seem... close to him?'
'What... what's going on here?'
Tsubakihara Nina fell into doubt, questioning everything. She gritted her teeth and quietly followed.
Yuna didn't know her sister had spotted her, nor that she was being followed. The girl walked beside Mu Xiaoxiao, stealing glances at him.
Surprisingly, she wasn't as afraid of him as before.
'Is it because he saved me yesterday?'
Not only was she not afraid — she could even chat with him naturally. Thoughts flickered through her mind. She pursed her lips. "After I came to school, I talked with Yukiha."
Serizawa Yukiha and she were both in Class A. After yesterday's crisis, their relationship had improved — they could actually chat in the classroom now.
"Mm?"
"You... are you dating Yukiha? Do you like her?"
"..."
Mu Xiaoxiao raised an eyebrow at her question. "You came to me just to talk about this?"
"Who — who said I was looking for you? I was looking for Yukiha, and I just happened to see you there... that's all!"
Tsubakihara Yuna hurried to explain. "There are so many women around you, all of them beautiful... but Serizawa Yukiha is an innocent girl. You tricked her just like yesterday."
Mu Xiaoxiao slumped, saying nothing, just staring straight at her face.
Tsubakihara Yuna blushed under his gaze. "I hope you won't hurt her."
"...You're in trouble yourself, and you still care about others? Have you forgotten about your mother?"
Mu Xiaoxiao's lips curled upward.
"You... what do you want?" Tsubakihara Yuna felt her nerves tighten, her face flushing. "Do you want to do to me what you did to my mom?"
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'Why does her expression look almost... expectant?'