In Academy City, the Paradise Project begins.

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Haru Shiori was very interested in explaining Higashino Yu's abilities to Haruue Kouyi, and began to chatter on and on as they walked.

Chapter 214 Junko and Yu's little secret has been discovered by the Queen!

After leaving their dormitory in early spring, Higashino Yuu's figure appeared near the gate of Tokiwadai the next moment.

He closed his eyes and quickly located Mikoto and Kuroko using the anchor points on their bodies.

"Huh? They're all in the room...wait, what?!"

The information fed back from his senses surprised Higashino Yu slightly. Besides finding Mikoto and Kuroko, he also discovered two unexpected people.

Misaki Shokuhou and Junko Hokaze were both in Junko's room at the moment, doing something unknown.

"strangeness……"

Higashino Yu remembered clearly that Shokuhou Misaki and Hokaze Junko were not roommates. It was probably the time when their dorm supervisor was checking rooms, so the two of them shouldn't be together.

He also remembered that Misaki Shokuhou seemed to live in a dormitory room by herself.

Moreover, when he was chatting with Shokuhou on his phone a couple of days ago, she complained that she had something urgent to deal with and couldn't attend the summer festival, and that she hadn't been in Tokiwadai for the past two days.

"They should be back today, perfect timing."

Higashino Yu smiled slightly. The more people there are, the more lively it is. Fireworks festivals are more interesting when there are more people.

He took out his phone and quickly sent a message to Misaki Shokuhou:

There's a fireworks display later. Mikoto and Ruiko are going. Do you want to come? If you do, I'll pick you up.

The reply came almost instantly:

[Shokuhou Misaki]: Oh my~ How rare! Higashino-kun actually invited me out to play? (^▽^)

[Shokuhou Misaki]: Of course I'm going! I'll be waiting for you at the dorm. Oh, and Junko's there too.

Seeing the playful emoticon at the end of the reply, Higashino Yu smiled. He checked the coordinates again, and the next second, he had silently appeared in the center of Shokuhou Misaki's dormitory.

The indoor lighting is a soft, warm yellow.

Misaki Shokuhou was sitting on the sofa, holding her phone in one hand. She had clearly just replied to Higashino's message and hadn't had time to put the phone down yet.

Junko Hokaze sat in the chair next to her.

Good evening, ladies.

Higashino greeted him with a smile.

"Higashino!"

When Misaki Shokuhou saw him, her smile instantly blossomed like a summer flower. She put down her phone, stood up gracefully, and walked a few steps to Higashino Yu's side. She naturally stretched out her arms and affectionately took one of his arms, pressing her whole body against him.

"It's really rare that our busy Dr. Higashino would actually take the initiative to invite me to the fireworks festival? Did he have a change of heart and feel like he'd neglected me for too long?"

She tilted her delicate face up, her expression a mixture of undisguised joy and a hint of teasing.

Higashino is truly heartless; he basically never proactively contacts her to go out, which makes her, who has been looking forward to it, very dissatisfied.

Actually, she wanted to participate in the summer festival a couple of days ago, but she had to give up her plan to participate in the summer festival with Higashino because she had some things to take care of.

"It's more lively when there are more people."

Higashino Yu let her hug his arm, feeling the soft touch on his arm, and responded gently.

"And as for being indifferent, I'm actually quite warm-hearted."

Although there wasn't much work to do, since it was still summer vacation, Higashino felt that he was really busy and fulfilled every day, and didn't even have a chance to stay at home.

Good evening, Higashino-kun.

Junko Hokaze quickly stood up to greet him. She was wearing Tokiwadai's school uniform, but her gaze towards Yu Higashino showed obvious awkwardness and embarrassment.

Her cheeks flushed slightly, and her gaze lingered on Higashino Yu's face for less than a second before quickly shifting away. Then she secretly glanced at Shokuhou Misaki, who was intimately linked with Higashino Yu, and at her distorted curves.

She wanted to get close to the Queen as naturally as she did, but... she couldn't.

Even though Her Majesty the Queen had given her permission, when the moment actually came, in front of Her Majesty the Queen…

The scene that happened the night before last, when she returned to her dormitory after leaving Higashino Yu's house, was still clearly imprinted in her mind.

The day before yesterday morning.

Junko carefully pushed open the door to her dormitory, tiptoed inside, gently closed it behind her, leaned against the door, and let out a long sigh of relief.

"Great... I didn't run into anyone I knew, and Her Majesty probably didn't notice that I wasn't in my dorm last night."

Like Misaki Shokuhou, she also lives alone in a dormitory.

She dared not take a bath at Dongye's house. That guy was like a bull with a perpetual motion machine, tirelessly working the land. If she hadn't begged for mercy, she might not have been able to walk today.

She felt that if she took a shower in the bathroom at the Higashino family's house, that guy might use the excuse of washing her back to come in and help her, so she could only endure the sticky feeling left on her body and hurry back.

The first thing she did was rush into the bathroom. The warm water washed over her body, washing away certain memories and...traces that made her blush.

After taking a shower, she wrapped herself tightly in a large bath towel and walked out of the bathroom while drying her wet hair.

"Runzi, good morning."

A smiling voice sounded.

Junko Hokaze froze, as if she had been frozen in place.

Misaki Shokuhou was already sitting on the edge of her small bed, legs crossed, watching her with a relaxed expression and a smile that Junko found both familiar and slightly unsettling.

"Your Majesty! Good morning!"

Junko Hokaze's voice sounded tense, and she almost dared not look directly into Misaki Shokuhou's eyes.

"uh-huh."

Misaki Shokuhou tilted her head, her gaze sweeping over Misaki's body wrapped in a bath towel, her tone tinged with amusement.

"Runzi is really a clean person, taking a shower so early in the morning?"

"Yes, yes,"

Runzi lowered her head, feeling her cheeks burning, and stammered out an excuse.

"Last night, I was a little hot while sleeping and I sweated a lot..."

It was indeed very hot, and she was sweating a lot; she wasn't lying about that.

"Oh?"

Misaki Shokuhou drawled out the last syllable as she stood up from the bed and slowly approached Junko, her starry eyes seemingly able to see into people's hearts.

"But... when I came to find you last night, you didn't seem to be... in your dorm?"

Runzi's heart jumped into her throat.

"me……"

Her mind went blank; she had absolutely no idea how to explain it.

The fact that Misaki Shokuhou would come to her dormitory last night was completely unexpected for her; she had deliberately chosen a very late time to sneak out of Tokiwadai.

And since she came here so early to find me, could it be that Her Majesty has discovered something?

"That...I..."

Seeing Junko's flustered appearance, Misaki Shokuhou's smile deepened.

She slowly took out her phone from her designer handbag, tapped the screen a few times with her slender fingers, and then a very clear recording, filled with suppressed gasps and ambiguous moans, played in the quiet dormitory.

"Mmm... good brother... slow down..."

"Runzi...come here, turn your back to me..."

"Wow, it's flying! It's flying!"

"That won't work...oh..."

boom!

Junko felt as if something had exploded in her head! That voice… it was hers! And Higashino's too! It was right there in Higashino's room last night… She was so ashamed she almost fainted!

"Your Majesty! I..."

Runzi looked flustered, her voice barely audible, overwhelmed by intense shame and the fear of being discovered.

Why does Her Majesty have these recordings?

Misaki Shokuhou stopped the recording, turned the phone screen to Junko, whose face was deathly pale, and still smiled, her eyes playful: "You're really something, Junko. I'm just a little curious about what you've been doing all this time, so I put a little... um, a bugging device in the shoes you wore the other day?"

She leaned close to Runzi, almost whispering in her ear.

"And so? You actually made a move on the guy I was interested in...? 'Big brother,' 'dad,' and all that... Hmph, you're quite the player!"

"I'm so sorry, Your Majesty! I'm so sorry!"

Runzi was almost in tears, bowing repeatedly in apology, her bath towel nearly slipping off her clothes.

Suddenly, Misaki Shokuhou reached out and abruptly ripped open the towel that Junko was wrapped in!

"ah!"

Runzi gasped and instinctively clutched her chest.

Misaki Shokuhou's gaze roamed over her smooth skin, landing on the pink petal-like marks scattered across her neck, collarbone, and even her chest. She raised an eyebrow.

"Tsk tsk...you guys are really...intense, no wonder it's so loud."

Her fingers lightly brushed over a noticeable red mark, her tone ambiguous, whether it was mockery or something else.

Runzi kept her eyes tightly shut, her body stiff, awaiting the possible wrath and punishment from her ever-proud queen.

She was even prepared to be "taught a lesson" by the Queen using her abilities.

However, the expected reprimand did not come. She only felt the Queen's warm breath approaching, and then a voice filled with complex emotions, even somewhat...shy, rang in her ear:

“That… Runzi…”

"Ok?"

"What does it feel like when you're doing 'that' with Higashino-kun?"

"Huh????!!!"

Junko Hokaze suddenly opened her eyes, staring incredulously at the Queen before her.

A faint blush rose on Misaki Shokuhou's face, and her usually commanding starry eyes were now filled with pure curiosity and... a thirst for knowledge.

The two girls then spent a long and private "experience exchange" in Runzi's dorm room...

As Misaki Shokuhou left, she patted the still somewhat dazed Junko, her face slightly flushed, and said in a tone that conveyed a sense of "I'll let you off the hook":

"Hmph, I know everything. Since... since it's come to this, there's nothing I can do about it. I don't care what's going on between you and Higashino, that's just the kind of person he is anyway. But!"

she emphasized.

"You're not allowed to hide anything from me anymore! Understand, Runzi?"

"Yes, yes, Your Majesty!"

Her thoughts drifted away from that unexpected morning two days ago. As Junko looked at the Queen, who was intimately holding Higashino Yu's arm, and thought back to her final "permission" that day, her heart still felt like a little deer's.

Although she received tacit approval, she still couldn't be as natural as Misaki.

"What are you daydreaming about, Runzi?"

Misaki Shokuhou's voice rang out with a smile. She looked at Junko's conflicted expression, wanting to look but not daring to look at Higashino Yu, and felt somewhat helpless.

Although she was a little annoyed that Junko had gotten there first, she wasn't too bothered by it. After all, Higashino already had a lot of girls around him, and she wasn't even the first one; they hadn't even confirmed their relationship yet.

On the contrary, with Junko's addition, the strength of Higashino's own people was also strengthened, and she was no longer alone and weak.

"Just hug me if you want, I'm not going to eat you."

She even gestured with her eyes to Higashino Yuu's other arm that was out of reach.

"Your Majesty..."

Junko's face turned even redder, but she still mustered her courage and, with a shy "go-for-it" attitude, walked quickly to the other side of Yu Higashino with her head down, reached out her hands, took his other arm, and gently leaned against him.

What's going on? Is Runzi no longer planning to hide it?