Why are there only loser heroines around me?

Ukyo frowned slightly and fished a soaked cigar out of the cigar box in his pocket... He was about to light it, but his frown only deepened.

"I'm giving you the head because the police have more tools and can find out its bone structure, DNA composition, and the nature of the black mud on its hair faster than I can. I'm not giving it to you to cash in on the police system."

"Yes, yes, yes." Detective Maori took a long drag on his cigarette, then stamped out the butt. He left him with his back, waving at him as he said, "I know you're a kind and noble person, but this is normal procedure. When the money arrives, just accept it. You've helped us so much, you can't just give me a superficial thank you. Acting like this would be disheartening for a righteous person like you."

3000 million yen.....

Considering his family background, it is not much, but compared with his personal assets, it is quite impressive.

......

Yana did not participate in the "after-night talk" between herself and Maori, but went back to the room to wash off the blood on her body and fell asleep with the other girls.

Ukyo glanced at the time.

After tossing and turning for half the night, it was already 4:30 in the morning.

He didn't feel sleepy at all. After lying on the bed, he suddenly remembered that he still had to write a novel about the camp.

Thanks to "suffocation", some of his memories became clearer.

Why not take this opportunity to finish writing the manuscript.

Volume 48: Chapter What the Losers Can't Do

Camping area outdoor cooking area...

"Hello Yanai, I have already cut the meat into slices."

"Thank you. I'll put it here for now."

“The washed vegetables are also placed here~”

"Okay, okay. Eh~? Wait a minute, senpai, the cut vegetables need to be arranged on the tray!"

Yanami volunteered to be the head chef. Cooking was one of the few things she was good at, and coincidentally, the others here weren't particularly good at it.

She wanted Ukyo to help, but he seemed to be catching up on some sleep in his room. She'd heard he'd stayed up all night revising a manuscript. Yanami couldn't help but admire Ukyo's mentality; after going through something like that, he'd still managed to finish the manuscript. Yanami didn't know that Ukyo also admired her the night before, having managed to sleep after coming out of what felt like a horror movie set. She was completely indifferent to everything else, but she couldn't resist love, which really reminded her of an old friend of his.

Lemon is responsible for starting the fire.

But she had reached the point where she didn't care about her image at all. She didn't even care about her face covered in charcoal ash. She just squatted aside, hugged her knees and peeled broad beans.

Yanami now considers herself a master of emotions. After experiencing what happened last night, she knows that there are many areas in the world that ordinary people cannot reach. High school life is not necessarily just about studying and falling in love. In addition to sweat, youth can also have justice and destiny. Compared with these things, 12 years of feelings is just a trivial matter.

Well, at least she felt that she no longer cared so much about being dumped.

It was precisely because she had been dumped that she could empathize with Lemon a little and perhaps even comfort her a little.

Just as I was trying to figure out how to start, Tamaki, who had just finished cutting the barbecue, suddenly said, "There's something very important I forgot to tell you all. When it comes to writing, writers sometimes need to keep up with current trends. For example, there have been a lot of new books related to the game 'Asphyxiation' on Bungo Station lately. Even though only the first two or three chapters have been released, the number of hits and reads are quite impressive."

"Although the videos have been banned, there's a lot of room for manipulation when it comes to text. As long as we don't mention the name 'Suffocation' and write something that everyone understands, that's all that's needed."

"Oh, by the way, you guys rarely scan the leaderboards, so you probably don't know what suffocation is, right?"

Hearing this, Yanami immediately pricked up his ears.

Sorry, Lemon, you should adjust yourself. There are more important things than comforting the loser.

She dug out her phone and checked Ukyo's account, realizing he'd already posted the video. It currently had over 500,000 views on YouTube. Reposting was allowed, but for some reason, it wouldn't work. Searching for "Suffocation" directly in the index would bring up irrelevant content. Only those who had already followed Ukyo could see the video. Yanami wondered if Ukyo's family had strong connections, or if some relevant organization had given him the green light.

Recently, Yanami feels that he has become smarter and thinks several steps ahead about everything. It may be that the "detective certificate examination materials" given by Ukyo have played a role.

Tamaki was chatting with the girls nearby.

He knew about the suffocation incident, but it seemed that he had never followed Youjing's account. Otherwise, he would not have behaved like this.

"The game Suffocation has been very popular recently among supernatural authors. Even people outside the circle have heard a little bit about it." Yumu pulled out a video from his phone and said to everyone, "This is a video I asked a friend in the industry to find a few days ago. It's now banned. If you send the link, it will be taken down. Fortunately, I requested it early."

With that, the video started playing.

The campsite was in the wild, and it was night time. Before the video had played for a few seconds, Yuezhimu's hand knife chopped off the back of Yumu's head.

"Don't scare the school girl, Shintaro, is your meat grilled?"

Yumu then remembered that there were still slices of meat on the grill. He quickly picked up all the meat with tongs and put it on Yuezhimu's plate first. He smiled and said, "Come on, Gudu, you try it first~"

"Xiaoju~, this one is for you."

“Thank you…”

Yanami's green peppers and sausages were also cooked. She shared some with the lemons beside her, smoothed the folds of her skirt, sat down beside her and said, "We, the loser group, won't get involved with their little harem."

"Huh?" Lemon was a little surprised. Yanaijian actually took the initiative to call herself a loser. She seemed to be very averse to this title before.

"Could it be that you've gotten over your breakup? I remember... you and Kusaki have known each other for even longer than I have with Mitsuki..."

Yanai stopped talking.

Lemon felt choked by her silence, this way of suddenly stopping mid-sentence...

"You've really become a bad person, Yana~"

Lemon said, "Don't just copy Xiaoju's bad habits. I'm telling you, Xiaoju is a very good person. Anyone who can become his wife will be very blessed."

Wait? Why are you suddenly talking about your wife? Did the scene bring back memories? Lemon, you don't seem quite right. Yanai saw tears silently flowing from Lemon's eyes, dripping onto the roasted green peppers in her hands, and then mixed with the sour tears and swallowed them together with her stomach.

Yanai thought to herself that this was probably how she had been a few days ago. She couldn't help but hold Lemon in her arms, letting her rest her head on her soft chest. How pitiful was a beautiful girl crying? It was hard to imagine how Ukyo had the heart to laugh at her.

But looking back, he never seemed to laugh at Lemon who was heartbroken.

Could it be that the Ukyo Demon only has a problem with her?

........

...

Ukyo woke up in his room.

After he finished the manuscript, he clicked upload and didn't know how many clicks it had received.

The video on YouTube has no clear number of views, and there is no way to know if any relevant organizations have contacted him.

After a whole day of fighting, his mobile phone and laptop were out of battery.

I groped in the dark to find the data cable and plugged it in, but the dim screen showed no response.

It takes a few seconds to warm up.

I tilted my head and glanced at the sky. It was already night.

He remembered that a barbecue party was arranged on the last day of the training camp.

He was very hungry. He had only eaten a small amount for dinner yesterday. Youjing couldn't remember the last time he had a reversed day and night schedule and messed up the order of his three meals. This made his body, which had always run like a precision machine, feel a little uncomfortable with the local climate. The most obvious manifestation was the continuous sleepiness and the contradictory hunger.

He was eager to attend the bonfire party.

........

Slowly arrived at the campsite.

He saw Lemon hugging Yanami and crying, while Yanami was comforting him and stuffing the grilled food into his mouth according to the pattern of "meat, green pepper, meat, broccoli, and sausage".

Lemon, who was crying, told her that Youjing had not come yet and she should remember to leave some for him.

"Okay~, okay~" Yana agreed but did not stop her hands. Ukyo saw that the number of wooden sticks in front of her was almost equal to the total number of the other girls combined. Of course, this was probably related to the fact that Komari didn't eat much.

Yes, Xiaoju——

Tsukinoki and Tamaki were lighting handheld fireworks fountains not far away, playing in the night. It was at this moment that a girl named Komari Chika suddenly stood up from the ground.

"President Tamaki!"

Her courageous cry resounded through the night sky, and even Ukyoto, who was the farthest away and had not yet arrived, heard it.

"Wait..." Ukyo had no time to prevent this inevitable defeat.

"I, I like, you!"

Chika Omari, this somewhat gloomy girl with social anxiety, has achieved something that Yanami and Shaoyan, two real-life beauties, have failed to do.

Volume 49: Chapter Why Don't You Reject

Ukyo thought that Xiaoju Zhihua was indeed a "quality girl" that he personally recognized. He admired her courage to confess her feelings.

But she couldn't win.

If Ukyo were to use an inappropriate metaphor to describe this scene, it would probably be equivalent to asking him to fight Odin before his bloodline awakens.

.....

Xiaoju's sudden confession seemed to stop time.

Yana saw the slice of barbecue she had stuffed into her mouth hover in mid-air. Lemon's tiny sobs stopped abruptly at that moment, and the sound of oil sizzling from the grill in front of them reminded Ukyo of the scene of "refining corpse oil." His mind flashed back to the black oil on the black dog's head, and he felt a little overly stressed.

Perhaps because he hadn't rested enough, he desperately wanted to eat barbecue, but the atmosphere wasn't suitable for barging in, so he could only wait outside and see how this confession would end. He definitely didn't enjoy reading the gossip of the members, he was just drawn in by the atmosphere.

The two people in front of the barbecue grill in the distance whispered, "Lemon, I think I heard something. Is it an illusion?"

"No, Yana~, I heard it too."

"Is confession such a simple thing?"

"I don't know, but Xiaoju must have used a lot of courage..."

As the two of them were whispering, Tamaki was stunned with shock.

"Xiaoju.....what are you doing?"

Xiaoju took a deep breath again and spoke quickly.

"I like you! I like the president!" This was the only sentence she said without stuttering. After she finished speaking, she looked around and saw four pairs of eyes with different expressions. However, she began to feel afraid of the gazes around her. However, the trace of courage that surged in her heart did not disappear so easily.

"I, I've always liked, the president!"

Ever since Ukyo met Xiaoju, he had never heard her say so many words at once—

"President... you've always cared about me, and I'm so happy! So, I've been in love with you ever since then. Can you date me?!"

She was practically hoarse by the end. While Ukyo and Yana hadn't noticed the little interactions between Tsukinoki and Tamaki, Komari was. The atmosphere between them had always been off, and in recent days, their intimacy had skyrocketed. She'd witnessed Lemon crying in the sunset that afternoon at the clubhouse. Even a popular girl like her could fail in love, so how much more so could she...

I already have a natural disadvantage. If I don’t work harder, won’t I have no chance at all?

After saying this, Xiaoju seemed to have exhausted all her energy at once, tears welled up in her eyes, and tears as big as beans squeezed out of her eyes uncontrollably.

Yanai saw that for some reason, his appetite became even more intense.

She saw Ukyo standing in the woods, and as if suddenly remembering something, she immediately took the barbecue on the plate and went around through the trees nearby. Lemon, who was left behind, was very confused and didn't know what to do for a moment.

Yue Zhimu, who witnessed his beloved's confession before him, stood there in a daze, not even noticing that the fireworks fountain in his hand fell.

"Sorry, it was a bit too sudden, Xiaoju, I was a little slow to react." Tamaki, who was standing next to Tsukinoki, said.

His speech drew everyone's attention to him.

A hot slice of beef was stuffed into Ukyo's mouth, and Yanami appeared beside him. She had worn long pants to prevent mosquito bites around the campsite. Yanami asked him about Komari's win rate, and Ukyo made a zero gesture with his hand.

"Can you let me think about it?" Yu Mu's sudden words made both of them stunned.

what happened?

Could there be a chance for things to turn around?

Tamaki actually said something like "I'll think about it" with an uncertain tone instead of directly rejecting the other party.

No way? A guy who dropped in from nowhere with essentially zero emotional connection could actually beat a childhood sweetheart? Yes, the former director and vice director of the Arts Club had grown up together. While Ukyo and Lemon didn't know, Yanami was incredibly skilled at gathering information online, so even though she'd only just joined the club, she knew this information.

But it was because she knew that she found it hard to believe. In her opinion, for such a couple who were so in love, Xiaoju should not have any chance. Could it be that childhood sweethearts who had been together since childhood really had some kind of "100% failure in love" buff?

It should be...impossible, right?

Getting a "think about it" response was already a victory for Komari. After all, she had originally asked with the mindset of being rejected, but she ended up getting a compromise answer. This meant that Shintaro had feelings for her! As expected... if he had absolutely no feelings for her, Tamaki wouldn't always touch her hair at the end of the club activities.

But then, when Xiaoju raised her head and tried to make eye contact with Yuuki, she saw Yuuki's confused and surprised eyes.

She was not taken seriously in the class and had no friends because of her stuttering. It was senior classmate Tsukinoki who did not care about her shortcomings, treated her as a friend, and never laughed at her stuttering. The two of them had a common hobby of "GL literature" and they talked about everything on weekdays. As a friend, she knew the relationship between senior classmate and Tamaki, but even so, she still spoke up, wanting to snatch the lover of her "only friend" and become the emotional destroyer.

Chika Komari...is a "bad kid".

When her eyes met the moon tree, Xiaoju was scared. She had no choice but to turn around and run away.

Her route bumped into Ukyo and Yanami in the woods behind her, and her running figure actually ignored the two of them and passed between them.

"Xiaoju..." Yanai opened her mouth and wanted to call her, but it was obvious that Xiaoju in this state could not be called back by just calling her name.