When Utaha Kasumigaoka woke up, a long time had already passed.
"Mmm... what happened just now..."
Lying on the bed, Utaha Kasumigaoka gradually regained consciousness. She opened her eyes drowsily and held her head, seeming unable to remember what had happened before.
But soon, after seeing the mess on her bed, she remembered that she had teased Shin earlier and ended up completely losing herself to him.
After she had aroused Shin's desire, he showed no mercy at all, attacking both her sensitive feet together. In the end, Utaha Kasumigaoka couldn't withstand it and lost consciousness entirely.
"...What an exaggerated experience. Making someone faint from exhaustion—I've only seen this kind of plot in manga."
Utaha Kasumigaoka covered her face with an expression of not wanting to recall—she really hadn't expected to encounter such an exaggerated plot from manga in real life.
But thinking about it carefully, ordinary people really couldn't do such things, but Shin wasn't an ordinary person—he was that... Stand user. So his performance far exceeding normal people was quite natural, right?
"It's already gotten dark... But Shin-kun actually left me here and just went away. How ungentlemanly."
Utaha Kasumigaoka struggled to get up from the bed and came to the bedside to open the window, letting the stale air inside exchange with the fresh air outside, and through this, she saw the sky outside.
The originally bright sky was now filled with the orange-red of dusk, proving that it was getting late.
Although the battle between Shin and Utaha Kasumigaoka had only lasted about an hour, she had slept away the entire afternoon after losing consciousness.
However, just as she finished complaining about Shin, she heard Shin's somewhat helpless voice from behind her:
"Who's being ungentlemanly?"
Utaha Kasumigaoka was startled and quickly turned around, only to see Shin coming out of the kitchen carrying dishes.
Shin hadn't actually left Utaha Kasumigaoka and run away—he had gone to cook for her.
There was no choice. Utaha Kasumigaoka lived alone, unlike Kaguya Shinomiya and Chika Fujiwara who had dedicated maids to take care of them.
If Shin had knocked Utaha Kasumigaoka unconscious and then just ran away leaving her alone, that would really seem inhuman—so he could only stay and take care of her.
Originally, Shin had been thinking about whether to go home for dinner this afternoon, but now it was good—with Utaha Kasumigaoka unconscious, he could only stay to take care of her.
Since he had lived alone before, Shin could still make some home-cooked dishes, and with the assistance of his high-precision Stand, the dishes he made tasted excellent.
"Go take a bath first. You wouldn't want to eat with strange smells all over you, would you?"
Shin placed the food on the table and glanced at Utaha Kasumigaoka with a half-smile.
Utaha Kasumigaoka had just gotten up from bed, wasn't wearing any clothes, and still had some strange residue on her body, so naturally she couldn't eat like this.
"Besides, opportunities to eat food I've cooked aren't common."
Now Shin's house had quite a few maids, and those who could cook included Ogiwara Sayu and Kato Megumi, so Shin probably wouldn't have many chances to cook in the future.
This might very well be the last time he cooked, so Utaha Kasumigaoka was quite lucky.
"You were so fierce on the bed just now, but I didn't expect you to become so caring after waking up..."
Utaha Kasumigaoka looked at Shin with flickering eyes—although she had long known that Shin was a playboy with countless boats, Utaha Kasumigaoka still couldn't help but feel somewhat moved at this moment.
"Acting like this could make me want to marry you."
"Wanting to marry me isn't that easy. You know my situation."
Shin shrugged. Utaha Kasumigaoka was very clear about how many girls were around Shin. Given Shin's current situation, it was impossible for him to actually go through marriage procedures with all the girls.
Even if he eventually had to choose one person to give official status to, it would probably be someone like Kaguya Shinomiya... Utaha Kasumigaoka had no competitive advantage in this regard.
Utaha Kasumigaoka herself should be very clear about this, so there was probably a joking tone in what she just said—though there might also be some serious meaning?
"You really show no mercy. I thought Shin-kun would at least verbally comfort me a few words."
Hearing Shin mercilessly shatter her fantasy, Utaha Kasumigaoka looked at him somewhat resentfully.
However, she had no intention of giving up just like this. Even if she ultimately couldn't outcompete the other girls, at least she now had a legitimate reason to stay by Shin's side.
After all, they had done such things, and given Shin's somewhat domineering personality, he probably wouldn't let her go.
Thinking of this, Utaha Kasumigaoka's mood improved considerably, and she walked toward the bathroom.
Shin was right—she really needed to take a bath before eating, otherwise the smell on her body was indeed too strange.
Although many doujinshi would have plots where girls liked this kind of smell... but such plots could only happen in doujinshi after all.
Utaha Kasumigaoka's sense of smell and taste were still quite normal, so she really couldn't appreciate this fishy smell.
"Shin-kun's cooking is actually this delicious."
After washing and changing clothes, Utaha Kasumigaoka finally got to taste Shin's cooking.
Although Shin might not have many opportunities to cook for others in the future, this didn't prevent Utaha Kasumigaoka from praising Shin's culinary skills.
"Has Shin-kun really not considered learning to cook?"
"I don't really have a need to learn cooking."
Shin said somewhat helplessly while eating—why would he learn to cook? Was cooking more interesting than gaining abilities and power in various worlds?
Besides, with Shin's current level of body control and the assistance of his Stand's powerful precision, he could make the most excellent dishes just by following recipes.
Unless special task worlds featuring cooking-themed works like "Cooking Master Boy" or "Food Wars" appeared in the future, he really didn't need to learn such things.
And even if they really did appear... Shin felt he would find a way to find some faction in those task worlds to recruit into his "King's Army" and then have Tohru learn the cooking skills.
Cooking was something for maids to learn—why would he need to learn it personally?
Shin wasn't often in situations like Utaha Kasumigaoka's special case—after all, most people their age still lived with their parents and didn't worry about having no one to take care of them.
To be continued…