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"Okay." Seeing that Anja didn't want to continue thinking about where her feelings should go, Bana took this opportunity to distract herself and nodded in agreement.

"Great! I'll bring snacks made by the food machine!"

Upon hearing the word "snacks," she instinctively wanted to stop Nana's actions, but then she remembered that she had already been kicked to the sidelines in the battle of love, so it seemed that there was no need to maintain her weight and figure.

"If possible, please bring more over."

"Oh, you don't need to control your diet anymore?"

"Need not."

"Okay!" Completely oblivious to her slightly off mood, Nana rolled up her sleeves and confidently patted her chest, saying, "I was just planning to use the food machine to make some food anyway. Since you're asking for it, I'll have to make a lot!"

"I'll be waiting for you at home."

See you then!

......

In the afternoon, Nana's snacks filled the small wooden table. She asked Anja, who was stuffing herself with food, "Anja, do you know... what your brother-in-law likes?"

Banami Anzu's right hand, which was holding snacks, paused slightly before resuming its normal movement. She grabbed a handful of potato chips and stuffed them into her mouth, chewing with her cheeks puffed out as she asked, "Why are you suddenly asking about this?"

"This..." Nana didn't dare to meet her gaze, turned her head away, scratched her cheek, and said, "Can I not say?"

"Don't expect to find out those things from me unless you tell me."

"Okay, fine..." Nana finally gave in and explained her reasons: "I was rescued from drowning by my brother-in-law before, and I said I would give him a thank-you gift after I woke up, but I still haven't decided what to give him."

"Isn't this just a normal thing? Why are you making such a fuss?"

"Because I don't want Mengmeng to know that I can agonize over choosing a gift for so long, she would definitely laugh at me!"

"Indeed, I would find it unbelievable if you two sisters never argued."

"So!!" Nana pleaded, clasping her hands together, "Please tell me something Mu Huai likes, so I can use it as a gift suggestion!"

"He likes drinking cola, playing video games, and occasionally reading comics..."

When Nana heard what Anzu had to say about his hobbies—which anyone could guess just by taking a quick look around his room—she shook her head repeatedly.

"No, these gifts are too ordinary. Do you have anything that can truly touch someone's heart?"

"To move people?"

This remark caught the attention of Anna Hanami, and she immediately perked up.

Volume 3, "The Loser, the Alien Sisters, and Gensokyo High School": Chapter 58 The Loser Old Eight's Resolve

Hanami Anzu wiped the potato chip crumbs from the corner of her mouth with a tissue, then threw the crumpled tissue into the trash can. She then picked up a bottle of beverage that looked like strawberry milk, unwrapped the straw, inserted it into the milk carton, and slowly sucked on the straw with her pink lips.

After Lala's improvements, the food machine can even produce snack packaging. The lettering on the packaging is like an AI-generated image, resembling text.

She felt herself instantly regain the vigilance she had before her heart was broken, and at that moment, Nana exuded the unique scent of a cat that had stolen fish.

Although it was somewhat unbelievable, after reviewing the other person's experiences in her mind, Anzu Hachimi thought that there was a pretty high probability that Nana would fall in love with Muhuai.

A combination of factors, such as being rescued by a hero, sharing similar interests, and providing a special sense of security, is enough to make any girl fall for him, as long as she doesn't have same-sex attraction.

However, the current answers are all based on her personal speculation. Whether Nana really likes Mu Huai still needs further investigation to determine.

"A touching gift, but as far as I know, the gift that can touch a boy's heart the most is not necessarily the one you can give him."

"what?"

Nana raised her eyebrows unhappily. She was the second princess of Deviluke. She could get most rare things by just pouting to her father and mother. How could she not satisfy Mu Huai, a mere cricket?

"Tell me what the gift is, and I'll have Sasdin buy it for me right away!"

"This... I'm afraid you won't be able to buy it."

Seeing her speaking evasively like a riddle teller, Nana got a little annoyed and slammed her hands on the table to prop herself up: "Stop dawdling and tell me what the gift is!"

"You yourself."

"Huh?"

She was bewildered by the answer and stared blankly at Anna Hachimi, as if trying to find a trace of a joke on the other's face, but her expression did not change at all, and she even went around Anna's hand that was supporting her on the table to eat the cookies behind her.

"You're kidding, right? The best gift would be myself or something..."

Nana forced a smile, and when she recalled her confident demeanor, as if she had just been slapped hard across the face, her face stinging with pain.

"See for yourself..."

Anna took out her phone and tapped a few times on it, then showed her a picture of a girl whose entire body was only bound with a red ribbon.

"If you put some chocolate on yourself and then invite him to eat it, I think the effect would be even better."

Nana was so startled that she plopped down on the ground, wriggled back a few times, covered her bright red face, and exclaimed in embarrassment, "This...this is too impure!!!"

"You were the one who said you wanted a gift that could touch people's hearts, so you can't accept something like this?"

"How was I supposed to know you'd produce such shameless photos!"

"Is it my fault?"

"Of course not!" Nana wasn't stupid enough to blame the other person. She peeked through her fingers and saw that Anna had put her phone away and continued to eat heartily. She breathed a sigh of relief and asked her embarrassedly, "After ruling out this method, are there any others?"

"You're really persistent! Just do what I said before, send him some games or comic books, right?"

"Xingcai, I am the princess of Deviluke, after all. If my parents find out that I am giving such a cheap thing to my savior, they will scold me to death."

"Princess is such a hassle, there are so many restrictions on sending gifts."

"So, considering how many snacks I brought, please help me think of another way."

"Ok."

With a chocolate bar dangling from her mouth, Banami Anzu pretended to think for a few minutes before offering a seemingly plausible suggestion: "Why don't you buy the most expensive chocolate on the market and make it into lipstick for Moku Huai?"

"Money isn't the issue, but... why make it into lipstick for him? Isn't that something only girls use? Does my brother-in-law have women's clothes...?"

"Stop, stop, stop! What are you thinking! I mean, let him put chocolate lipstick on you and then taste your handmade chocolate yourself."

"I see..."

Nana nodded, seemingly understanding but not quite.

"It does sound like a nice gift, more than just a luxury item, it has the added meaning of being handmade... Bullshit, wouldn't that just make me look like I'm actively seducing my brother-in-law!?"

Faced with her angry questioning, Banami saw Anzu blink innocently: "But you said you wanted to win people's hearts, and I really thought you were planning to steal your sister's boyfriend?"

"Uh..." Nana was speechless for a moment. Sometimes she spoke without thinking, which could easily cause misunderstandings. She quickly apologized, "I'm sorry, it was my fault. Let's keep this as a backup plan for now. Are there any other more suitable gifts?"

"Alternative options?"

"No, no, no, that's not what you mean. I meant we could make chocolate lipsticks for my brother-in-law so he can kiss my sister, not me!"

Despite Nana's efforts to explain, her suspicious attitude, which seemed to imply something was amiss, made Anna Hanami think that she had those kinds of thoughts.

(Continuing to use these vague questions to probe Nana might arouse her suspicion, so let's go straight for the kill.)

After taking a sip of her drink to moisten her throat, Banami Anzu raised her index finger and said, "I have a great idea!"

"what?"

"You might not know this, but Mu Huai actually really likes girls' small feet. I once saw him use a picture of anime girl's beautiful feet as his screensaver, but after I deleted it, he never used that kind of picture again, and instead changed it to ordinary landscape photos."

"So, why don't you find some time, or take advantage of playing games together, to put your feet in his lap and let him touch them for a few hours?"

"Feet...?"

When she mentioned it, Nana remembered the feeling of Mu Huai massaging her feet in the kitchen, and her face, which had finally turned white, turned red again at a visible speed.

"No, no, it's too embarrassing to let him touch my feet, I can't do it!!"

“Oh…” Yanako Ana narrowed her eyes slightly, like a hunter who had seen his prey willingly step into a trap: “Then I’ll think of another way.”

(The way she addressed him changed from "brother-in-law" to "he," because she felt shy and didn't want to do it because she was being proactive, not because she didn't want him to touch her... You really do have feelings for Wood.)

After learning about Nana's feelings, Anna decided to do everything she could to stop her sister-in-law, who was already capable of cheating. She had lost to Lala in love, but that didn't mean she was happy to see a third party interfere in their relationship.

(As long as Wood is happy, I'd be happy to be a goalkeeper for life, keeping all the philanderers out!)

Volume 3, "The Loser, the Alien Sisters, and Gensokyo High School": Chapter 59 Marisa's Mobile Game Addiction

"Ugh... Damn it! Why can't I connect to the other world's network here? I haven't even finished my daily tasks for the mobile game yet!"

Inside the alchemy hut overgrown with strange mushrooms, Marisa lay on the floor, rolling around in frustration with her phone in hand. After sneaking off to another world to steal some Mu Huai milk to satisfy her craving, she thought she could finally focus on her magical research.

But this time when she came back, she developed a symptom even more terrifying than milk addiction: mobile game addiction.

Marisa gets extremely anxious whenever she thinks about not doing her daily quests, wasting her full stamina by not using it in time, and losing resources that could have been used for gacha pulls.

She suddenly had the idea that she would be missing out big time if she didn't log in to complete her daily tasks, not to mention that she would fall behind other players and lose a lot of resources if she didn't get enough points in guild wars later.

The anxiety made her completely unable to concentrate on the experiment; her mind was filled with things from the game. Unfortunately, Kaguya didn't allow frequent travel between Gensokyo and the other world, so the next time she wanted to go, she would have to wait at least a day.

Marisa tossed her phone aside, which had become practically a glowing brick since returning to Gensokyo, and slapped her cheeks hard: "No, I can't keep wasting time like this. I'll take a shower first, then go to the Human Village to buy some beef and make soup with mushrooms!"

As she left, she didn't notice that the phone she had dropped into the mushroom pile was picked up by a girl surrounded by pipes and closed eyeballs. The girl curiously reached out and swiped the screen a few times.

Discovering that the glowing brick in front of her could even change the image, she stood there and played with it with great interest.

After taking a shower, Marisa remembered that her phone couldn't even be charged, so she planned to put it away for the time being and take it with her when she went to the other world the next day. But strangely, no matter how she searched the house, she couldn't find her phone.

"Strange... Could it be that I threw it too hard and it went into some blind spot?"

She muttered to herself in confusion, then, without pressing herself to look for her phone any further, she turned and rode her magic broom to the human world to buy groceries.

The green-haired girl with the phone stood still the whole time, but Marisa completely ignored her and the phone in her hand.

"What an interesting stone! Could this be a product of another world?" The girl's soft, light voice came from her cherry-like lips. Before she could continue fiddling with it, the phone's screen went dark because the battery had run out. "Huh, is it broken? Hmm... I'll put it back. I'll just pretend that Marisa broke the stone herself."

After leaving Marisa's house in a very open and easy manner, the girl had not gone far when she was stopped by a girl who looked almost exactly like her, but with pink hair.

"Lianlian! Why did you run off again without a word?"

"Sorry, sister, it's because I wanted to see what Marisa was doing."

"Really..." Komeiji Satoru first stepped forward with a helpless expression and took his sister's hand, then smiled gently and said, "Don't do it again."

"Ah."

"Let's go see if Yukari Yakumo has approved our application for travel to another world. If not, I'll have to ask you to use your abilities to sneak me away!"

"Is another world... really that fun?"

"That's what they say in novels, and I happen to be writing an isekai (another world) novel, so just think of it as accompanying your sister on a field trip!"

Komeiji Ren lowered her eyelids slightly, revealing a smile that was both natural and lazy: "Okay, it's been a long time since I played with my sister."

......

"Brother-in-law! We haven't finished that game from yesterday yet, shall we continue today?"

"it is good..."

Just a second before Mu Huai was about to agree to Nana's request, Banai saw Anja suddenly approach him with her hands behind her back and a smile on her face: "Mu Tou-kun, have you forgotten that we're having a long-awaited club activity today with Lala?"

He paused for a moment, then smiled apologetically: "Sorry, Nana, Anja has plans with your sister. Why don't you go play with Mengmeng instead?"

"Why would I want to see her... She doesn't like touching feet..." Nana muttered under her breath, put the controller back in its place, and walked back upstairs with heavy, thumping steps.

After discussing it for a while yesterday, she still chose the method of "letting Mu Huai touch her feet", but she would not take the initiative to put her feet up and say "you can touch them now".

How is that any different from a vixen seducing men? She was just giving her brother-in-law a thank-you gift; she wasn't trying to do anything strange.

So Nana came up with a good idea: as long as she was like she was in the kitchen, not actively but passively being touched on the feet by Mu Huai, wouldn't that be fine?

Anyway, the two of them were quite close when playing games. In the middle of the game, she said she was tired and lay down with her legs on his, her feet "just right" resting where he could touch them when he put his hands down, which made it seem very natural.

That was the plan, but she didn't expect it to fail so badly at the very beginning. She could only tiptoe downstairs and press herself against the wall in the entryway to listen to Mu Huai and Banami Anja chatting inside.

What kind of food do you want to make today?

"I want to eat brownies, but I don't know what Lala wants to eat!"

"I didn't know you could be so self-righteous. Where is she?"

“I went upstairs to call her just now, and it seems she’s working on a new invention again.”

Upon hearing the words "new invention," Mu Huai's lips twitched slightly. He was worried that Lala might accidentally let the invention go berserk and blow up the house.

Although she doesn't create art with the slogan "explosion is art," every prop she invents has the potential to go berserk, even the food machine that the two of them have inspected a hundred times now has the same problem.

If a food machine cooks more than one hundred dishes in a single day, it will immediately produce food with various side effects. These dishes appear to have no problems on the surface and even emit a stronger aroma than normal.