Crystal Palace from Infinite Anime

Therefore, everyone outside the door focused their attention on Astaroth.

Aixiu didn't recognize Astaroth, the Hellfire Queen of the "Mythical Demon Clan." She could sense that Astaroth was not simple, but she didn't hide her eyes, showing a bit of coldness towards Astaroth.

It was because what Astaroth said just now was too harsh, and he acted like a hostess.

But the fact is just as Astaroth said, there are too many of them now, and the hotel room can't accommodate them at all!

So Lin Zhiyu turned to Astaroth and asked, "The place you are talking about is...?"

Astaroth replied, "It's a barbecue restaurant. It's quite spacious inside. There probably aren't many customers there in the middle of the day. Even if there are, we can just chase them away."

For Astaroth, investing in a shop was purely a matter of interest. At her level, money and paper were no different, and chasing customers away was naturally stress-free.

"Okay, then why don't we go to Ya... Oh, by the way, I forgot to introduce you, this is Miss Astaroth. We will go to her barbecue restaurant next. Let's sit down there first and talk about anything." Lin Zhiyu made the decision while introducing Astaroth to Aixiu and the others.

Of the group of women outside, only Ingrid and Astaroth knew each other. Their eyes had exchanged moments earlier, but that was all. Although Ingrid was curious about why Lin Zhiyu was involved with Astaroth again, she remained silent, unwilling to speak or get involved in the frenzy of swordplay.

The others didn't know Astaroth, but after Lin Zhiyu introduced her and heard the name "Astaroth", the expressions of Lina, Li Meifeng, Aixiu, Aniloz and others, who were originally demons or leaned towards the demons, changed slightly. Obviously, they also knew the name of the Hellfire Queen Astaroth.

When Lina was looking for Ingrid, she had a brief conversation with Astaroth on the street. She wanted to say something, but Ingrid pulled her arm and signaled her with her eyes to be silent.

Now that she knew Astaroth's identity, Lina was shocked. She immediately turned her head and looked at Ingrid with a questioning look, because she heard that this Queen of Hellfire had caused a lot of trouble for their Nomad leader Black in the past.

However, Ingrid still did not say anything, but only signaled to Lina with her eyes not to speak and not to meddle in other people's business.

On the other side, there are three witches from Amidahara: Aixiu, Aniloz, and Li Meifeng.

The three women's reactions were not as big as Lina's, but their eyes when they looked at Astaroth had changed, with obvious fear in them.

Ai Xiu had no idea that Lin Zhiyu was no longer the same person he once was. She had always thought of Lin Zhiyu as being very powerful, but not invincible. Even Aniloz might not be able to defeat him, as Aniloz had a trump card called "Vajra Yaksha."

So in Aixiu's eyes, Astaroth was undoubtedly a completely uncontrollable and dangerous person. However, for the time being, she had no idea how to help Lin Zhiyu get rid of Astaroth.

Lani and Bayonetta weren't worried at all. Especially Lani, she had fought Astaroth before, and while Astaroth was certainly strong, hadn't he escaped in disgrace in the end?

"You are a defeated general. You chose to surrender when you couldn't win. Now you want to take the initiative?" Lani, who had been silent all the time, was extremely aggressive when she spoke.

Astaroth's eyes suddenly narrowed, and he was about to argue with Lani.

She had always been annoyed with Lani. In the previous battle, Lani hadn't gotten even a single bit of advantage from her. Her ultimate defeat was all thanks to Lin Zhiyu, so what did Lani have to do with it? And now Lani had the nerve to call her a defeated opponent. Someone who didn't understand the situation might actually think she, the dignified Queen of Hellfire, had been defeated by this blue-skinned monster!

However, just as Astaroth was about to speak, Lin Zhiyu, seeing the dire situation, immediately shouted:

"All right!"

"Didn't I tell you, if you have anything to say, let's go somewhere else and sit down and talk slowly."

After saying that, Lin Zhiyu's gaze swept across the faces of Astaroth, Aixiu and Lani. Although there was no pressure in his eyes, the meaning was very clear - give me some face and stop making trouble~!

After that, Lin Zhiyu turned around and looked at the Taimanin behind him and asked:

"Will you all come too?"

While asking, Lin Zhiyu discovered that among the four Taimanin, except for Uehara Rin, who had seen similar scenes before, the other three women all looked like they were trying to hold back their laughter while watching the show, especially Igawa Sakura, who was almost laughing out loud.

"What are you laughing at?" Lin Zhiyu asked her.

Jinghe Ying immediately straightened her back and said seriously, "No, I just happened to think of something happy."

"What happy thing?" Lin Zhiyu asked again.

Jinghe Ying blinked her eyes and answered without blushing or beating her heart: "My sister gave birth today... No, it's my sister's birthday today!"

"Puchi~!" Standing next to Igawa Sakura, Nana Omine, who knew that Ashaji was not the one whose birthday was today, couldn't help laughing out loud.

Lin Zhiyu then stared at Omine Nana.

Omine Nana quickly straightened her back and said seriously, "Excuse me, my sister's birthday is also today."

Lin Zhiyu: “…”

Immediately, Lin Zhiyu looked at Mizuki Shiranui and asked her to help contact Ashaji remotely.

Unexpectedly, Lin Zhiyu was so serious. Jinghe Ying's face suddenly changed, and she felt like she was shooting herself in the foot.

At this time, Mizuki Shiranui looked at the nervous Igawa Sakura, then said to Lin Zhiyu with a smile, "Let's go to Miss Astaro's barbecue restaurant first. Didn't you just say that if there's anything, we can sit down and talk slowly when we get there?"

Unexpectedly, Mizuki Shiranui would answer Lin Zhiyu so cleverly. Igawa Sakura immediately gave Mizuki Shiranui a look of gratitude.

Lin Zhiyu didn't really want to make a fuss, he just wanted to teach Jinghe Ying a lesson. He hadn't noticed in bed before, but this girl was quite naughty, completely different from her sister.

…………

About fifteen minutes later.

The group came to the barbecue restaurant funded and opened by Astaroth.

This barbecue restaurant does the best business at night, but today there are still two or three tables of customers during the day.

The customer is God - this statement is a joke to Astaroth. Not only did she want to kick the customer out, but she also did it in a very fierce way. A single look made the customer's hair burn with fire.

The customers who had suffered the unexpected disaster hurriedly slapped away the flames on their heads, and then ran out of the barbecue restaurant one after another with panic on their faces.

Astaroth then snapped his fingers in satisfaction, said "Good", and asked the waiter to close the shop door and change the business status to closed.

Since there were so many of them, Astaroth simply asked a few waiters to bring in a few square tables, putting them together to form a large enough table, and then everyone sat down in the hall. Anyway, now that they had the whole place to themselves, there was no one else, so sitting in a private room was no different from sitting in the hall.

After the waiter had put the tables together and brought in enough chairs, Astaro told everyone to order from the waiter according to their tastes. However, none of the women present ordered anything. Astaro was embarrassed, and Lin Zhiyu quickly told the waiter to just order the most expensive dish.

Lin Zhiyu's seat was between Astaroth and Lani. The two women, one ice and one fire, were sandwiched between them, and Lin Zhiyu could almost feel the repulsion between the two forces. Including the others, Lin Zhiyu counted them, and there were thirteen of them, including himself. This was a new experience for Lin Zhiyu, but he knew similar situations would surely occur again, and the number of people would only grow, and the scale of the event would only increase!

The Crystal Palace is not that easy to build!

But Lin Zhiyu still tried hard to control the situation.

He can't stop things like Shura Field, but he doesn't want to be like some Japanese comics he's seen before, where the male protagonist becomes cowardly and can't do anything when encountering Shura Field, and can only stand there like an idiot!

"Ahem, well, there are many of us, and we need to serve a lot of dishes. Besides, good food can't be prepared in just three or five minutes, so why don't we play some games while we're waiting?" Lin Zhiyu suggested.

Although he was determined to take control of the situation, with so many people around, he couldn't think of any better suggestions except for a small game that everyone could participate in.

"With so many people here, what are we going to play? It can't be Truth or Dare, right?" Bayonetta said slowly.

Lin Zhiyu's eyes lit up, and he immediately pointed at Bayonetta and said:

"That's a great suggestion! Let's play truth or dare!"

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Later, at Lin Zhiyu's request, a waiter brought a deck of playing cards.

Next, Lin Zhiyu and the others will play Truth or Dare. The rules of the game are very simple: everyone draws a card, and the person with the smallest card will accept the punishment from the person with the largest card, and choose between Truth or Dare.

In addition, if the person receiving the punishment cannot do so, he or she must choose to take off a layer of clothing - this point was emphasized by Lin Zhiyu, causing the group of women present to roll their eyes at her and boo.

Then the game began. In the first round, the person with the highest card was Bayonetta, and she drew the King of Hearts.

The person with the smallest card is Rin Uehara, the 4 of clubs.

Bayonetta and Uehara Rin also have a bond. Before in the world of "Elden Ring", when Bayonetta was still "Little Theresa", it was Uehara Rin who took care of her most of the time.

Now that Bayonetta has grown up, she no longer calls Uehara Rin "Sister Rin" like she did when she was a child, and Uehara Rin doesn't even know that Bayonetta is the former little Theresa.

When faced with the upcoming truth or dare game, Rin Uehara chose truth. Bayonetta then asked Rin Uehara:

"Well, Mr. Uehara, can you tell me whether you like Lin Zhiyu? If liking someone is 100 points, how much do you like Lin Zhiyu?"

After hearing Bayonetta's question, Uehara Rin pondered for a moment, then raised the corners of his lips and said with a smile:

"First, you asked two questions, which doesn't follow the rules of the game. Second, your main question to me was, 'Can you tell me if you like Lin Zhiyu?' Right? Well, I'm going to answer you from the bottom of my heart right now—no."

Bayonetta hadn't expected Uehara Rin to exploit her question and play a trick on her. She was stunned for a moment, then narrowed her eyes and smiled. She was sure she'd give Uehara Rin another chance. Who had dared her dear sister Rin to play such a game? How shameless!

At the same time, Uehara Rin's clever answer also made people familiar with her, such as Li Meifeng and Igawa Sakura, laugh.

"Teacher Uehara, you are very cunning. It's okay to answer this kind of question." As the person involved in the question just now, Lin Zhiyu immediately teased Uehara Rin.

Uehara Rin smiled and said to Lin Zhiyu, "You don't want to know the answer to the question, it might break your heart~"

"Hahahaha, okay, okay, let's continue playing." Lin Zhiyu laughed and continued to host the game.

Then in the second round of drawing cards, Mizuki Shiranui drew the Ace of Spades, the highest card.

Aixiu drew the 6 of clubs, the smallest card.

Between the truth that was just lip service and the big risk of actual action, Aixiu chose the truth without hesitation.

So Mizuki Shiranui began to ask questions: "Ms. Aixiu, do you think Lin Zhiyu is a good person?"

Compared with the question Bayonetta asked Uehara Rin just now, Mizuki Shiranui's question seemed very bland.

Ai Xiu said without hesitation: "How can he be a good person? He is undoubtedly a bad guy! Ms. Shuicheng should be very clear about this in her heart, right?"

Being a little bit aroused by Ai Xiu, Shui Cheng Shiranui finally remembered the time when she was brutally beaten by Lin Zhiyu in Hong Tian Lou. You have to know that at that time, she and her daughter Shui Cheng Xuefeng were separated by a glass wall. She was forced to do this by a big bad guy!

"...Okay." Mizuki Shiranui sat down with a blushing face.

Ai Xiu smiled, looking like she had the situation under control.

Lin Zhiyu reminded her: "If you say bad things about bad guys, be careful of their revenge."

"Oh~ Then I would like to say a little more so that the revenge will be more intense~!" Ai Xiu gave Lin Zhiyu a charming smile.

Lin Zhiyu narrowed his eyes and remembered Ai Xiu's arrogant look at this time.

Later, he would definitely let this woman experience the art of transformation!

The kind of transformation that turns you into a sow or a bitch!

The author says:

Author's Note: This is a two-part chapter. I'm trying to write about the group portrait. After all, my harem has expanded a lot. If I don't write about it now, I'll have to write about it later. It's better to accumulate experience in advance~

Chapter 37: Stir-fried Black Skin (9,000 words long, guaranteed to be awesome!)

The third round of drawing cards.

Lin Zhiyu drew the biggest ghost from the 54 playing cards, and his mood instantly became extremely happy.

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But just when everyone was about to reveal the cards.

"Excuse me, I have to leave for a moment to go to the bathroom."

Anne Lorz, who had been sitting upright, suddenly stood up from her seat, waved to the waiter, and asked how to get to the bathroom.

After Aniloz left, the game continued and everyone revealed their cards. Aixiu had a 4 of hearts in his hand, which happened to be the smallest card.

"Tsk tsk! Who was so arrogant just now?" Lin Zhiyu showed a big ghost in his hand and looked at Aixiu with a smile.

Aixiu put down the four of hearts in her hand, pouted, tilted her head, and pointed with her chin to the only empty seat in the room, which was the seat where Aniloz had just sat.

"Isn't there still one person whose card hasn't been revealed?"

Li Meifeng happened to be sitting next to Aniloz, so Lin Zhiyu gave Li Meifeng a look, and the latter understood what he meant. She immediately turned over the poker card that Aniloz had placed on the table, and the card faced was - 3 of Diamonds!

The smallest card in a deck of 54 playing cards!

"Haha, it seems some people can't afford to play~" Aixiu covered his mouth and laughed happily.

She and Aniloz grew up together, but they were complete bad friends.

The people closest to you have the least psychological burden when it comes to cheating you. That's probably the truth.

Lin Zhiyu didn't want to let Aixiu go, so he said:

"Isn't Aniloz going to the bathroom? If she relieves herself, are we just going to wait here forever? No, no, Aixiu, you better just choose truth or dare!"

Ai Xiu snorted at Lin Zhiyu and retorted:

"The one with the smallest card this round isn't me, it's Aniloz! If you don't want to wait for Aniloz to come back, then the game is over! Why do you want to bully me so much? Sure enough, what I said just now was right, someone is a pure villain~"

“…” Lin Zhiyu was speechless.

Seeing that Lin Zhiyu was speechless, Ai Xiu immediately tried to save face for her man and said gently, "Okay, I'm going to the bathroom too. I'll bring Aniloz back right away. Is that okay?"

After saying that, Aixiu stood up and left the table and went to the bathroom.

Ingrid was really not interested in this game of truth or dare, so she stood up and said, "I need to go to the bathroom too."

"Me, me too!" Lina, who was sitting with Ingrid, immediately stood up from her seat.

With four people leaving in succession, the gaming atmosphere that was originally created by Bayonetta and Uehara Rin suddenly disappeared.

Lin Zhiyu remembered that he had not yet told Aixiu and Aniloz about the plan to deal with Nomad, so he stood up and left the table on the pretext of going to the bathroom, allowing the others to continue playing.