After finishing the fooling task of Yotsuba, Nino no longer had the mood to go look for Miku.
After all, you have to eat one bite at a time—eating too fast could kill you…
Yeah… That's right, exactly like that!
There's no way Nino would admit that she wanted to use the rest of her time to night raid Hakuto...
In the middle of the night, Nino lay in bed, listening to Yotsuba's gentle breathing beside her. Her purple-blue eyes glinted slightly.
"Yotsuba? Yotsuba..." Nino softly called out. Seeing that Yotsuba showed no reaction, she let out a quiet sigh and then slowly sat up from the bed.
Bathed in the moonlight, Nino glanced at the spare key on Yotsuba's desk and smiled instinctively:
"Sorry, Yotsuba, I'll just borrow your key for a bit. You just sleep on your own…"
Click~
Before Nino could finish her sentence, the door to her room—previously tightly shut—was gently pushed open, and a beam of moonlight slowly streamed through the crack.
Σ(ﾟдﾟlll)?!
Nino quickly lay back down! Afraid someone might notice anything suspicious...
Who is it? Hakuto? Nino, lying in bed instinctively thought so, because besides Hakuto, she couldn't think of anyone else who would come to her room this late at night.
But why would Hakuto come? Nino frowned. After all, Yotsuba was still here...
No way he'd want to do something that exciting with another person in the room...
Just imagining that scene made Nino's face flush red. If she hadn't seen the scale of the chest of the silhouette at the doorway, she might've actually believed it!
Σ(ﾟдﾟlll)?!
A thief? Here to steal the key?! No—here to steal the guy!?
"Nino? Yotsuba?"
Nino didn't respond and instead furrowed her brows slightly.
"That voice… Itsuki…?"
Nino couldn't make sense of it. She didn't understand why it would be Itsuki.
She could accept it if it were Ichika or Miku. The former had received a hint, and the latter clearly liked Hakuto.
But Itsuki...
Sure, she also had feelings for Hakuto, but to the extent of a night raid?
Nino couldn't figure it out and decided not to think too hard. However, she absolutely couldn't let Itsuki take that key.
After all, this once-in-a-lifetime chance was hers—Nino's!
Just as Nino was thinking about how to respond, Itsuki at the door, getting no reply, gently closed the door.
?!
She wasn't here to steal the key?
Nino was even more confused. Did Itsuki just randomly come by to check if she and Yotsuba were asleep?
Nino slowly sat up again. Tonight's night raid—she was going, no matter what!
After waiting a while and hearing the door close, Nino took the key from the desk, barefoot, and stepped out of the room.
First, Nino peeked her head out to check the surroundings. Once she confirmed no one was around, she fully stepped out.
"Whew~ Action! Action!" Nino tiptoed her way to Yotsuba's bedroom door.
Maybe it was the nerves, but she looked around once more just to be safe.
But that glance got her into trouble—because she suddenly heard the toilet flush downstairs.
Nino: ?!
No way! What kind of normal person goes to the toilet without turning on the lights?!
Still, Nino couldn't worry about that now!
Right now, all she wanted was to find a place to hide and wait until the person using the bathroom returned to their room before proceeding with her night raid.
"Where do I hide, where?!"
Nino looked around frantically. In a panic, she decided to go back the way she came—returning to her own room.
Click~
Nino carefully opened the door, afraid of waking up Yotsuba inside.
"Wait a minute…" As soon as she stepped inside, Nino frowned, because she smelled a scent that didn't belong in her room.
Due to her personality, Nino regularly used perfume—but right now, there wasn't even a trace of it in this room.
"I think I… went into the wrong room…"
That's right—in her panic, Nino had entered the wrong room.
The five sisters' rooms were arranged from 5 to 1, starting from the first section!
Just now, she had been in front of Yotsuba's room, and Ichika's room faced a different direction than the others.
So, if she wasn't in her own room now, she could only be in Miku's room...
Nino shakily turned her head and, under the moonlight, looked toward the bed.
Thankfully, Miku was a deep sleeper and hadn't woken up from the door opening...
Nino now had no choice but to stand by the door and wait until the person from the bathroom returned to their room before she could sneak out again.
After a while, to her right, she heard a door open.
"Itsuki…?" Nino was currently in Miku's room, and the rooms to her right were only Yotsuba and Itsuki's.
Based on Itsuki's earlier actions, Nino instinctively thought the person coming out of the bathroom was Itsuki.
But just as Nino was about to open the door, another door opened to her right!
?!
Now Nino was completely baffled. She had no idea whether someone was out there or not!
There was no peephole either, and it was too dark outside to see anything...
Damn it! I just want to do a night raid—why is it this difficult?!
Just as Nino was complaining to herself, a door to her left opened again.
Σ(ﾟдﾟlll)? What is this, a team-building event?
"Yotsuba? Or Ichika?"
Nino was totally confused now.
Why was everyone going for a night raid?
You guys don't even have keys—do you even know how a night raid works?
Let me handle this!
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