Chapter 678: Chapter 55: Sardine Cans
Click!
Under the influence of spirit possession, the lock automatically unlocked.
Nora entered the room lightly, casually closing the door behind her, and then turned her gaze to Aske, who was lying on the bed.
Beneath the bulging quilt, Medea silently activated a mind blind zone, concealing herself, Peggy, and Eleanor to avoid detection by Nora’s mind vision.
“Did you just have a conversation with someone?” she asked, looking around the room quizzically.
“Did I?” Aske said, “I didn’t say anything just now.”
“Then I must have heard wrong,” Nora said, dropping the topic, and then asked Aske,
“By the way, Sigrdrifa came to me earlier, mentioning that Medea has been out for a while and hasn’t returned… Did she come looking for you?”
“Why do you come looking for me as soon as Medea goes missing?” Aske asked with a wry smile. Medea within the bedding silently placed a mind shield on him to prevent Nora from reading his thoughts.
“Because it’s so late, where else could she run off to but to launch a nightly raid on you?” Nora said strangely, while attempting a mind read on Aske, “Eleanor went out to find her and she hasn’t come back either.”
Seeing that the squad leader had no reaction to her mind reading, Nora assumed he had usurped her spiritual energy and did not dwell on the matter, instead walking over to the balcony and swiftly pulling open the door.
There was no one outside; Nora stepped to the edge of the balcony railing and peered out.
There was no one clinging to the railing like Batman either.
“So she really didn’t come to your room?” Nora said, puzzled, as she closed the balcony door again.
“Hehehe…” Of course, Aske wouldn’t plainly say “no,” since it would be hard to explain if he got caught out in a lie later, so he just chuckled awkwardly.
“Strange,” Nora remarked, approaching his bedside and taking a seat on the chair that Peggy and Eleanor had once occupied, and with a “hmm,” she stretched in an attractively languid manner.
“You’re still awake at this hour?” Aske hinted at her.
“Aren’t you also not asleep?” Nora said with a smile, leaning on the bed with one arm to prop up her cheek, “What’s the matter, can’t sleep alone in such a big bed?”
“This bed is indeed a bit large,” Aske admitted, “but that’s not why I’m still awake.”
“Then what is the reason?” Nora asked, her innocent face slightly flushed, “Could it be… that you’re still thinking about applying sunscreen on me this afternoon?”
Such subtly teasing hints were already the limit of her daring. Aske was just about to respond when a commotion suddenly erupted from under the quilt.
Someone bit his leg fiercely; Aske immediately stiffened his expression and said,
“Ah, no, I was just wondering who might come to my room…”
Before he could finish his words, he saw Nora staring shocked at the quilt on top of him—the lump in the quilt had ballooned and was writhing incessantly.
“What is this…” Nora started to say, but before she could finish, a long leg suddenly extended from the edge of the quilt.
It was Eleanor’s leg.
“Cough,” Eleanor awkwardly emerged from the quilt (or rather, was forcefully squeezed out by the other two), wearing an expression that wanted to cry but couldn’t, and said to Nora, who was rooted to the spot beside the bed:
“Well, I…”
Before she could finish, the quilt stirred violently again, and the edge seemed to reveal a strand of…
…red hair?
“Medea, come out,” Nora said coldly, “I saw you.”
After a moment, Medea’s head poked out from the blanket, then her body followed, and finally, she climbed out completely to sit beside Eleanor on the bed, nonchalantly combing her burgundy hair with an indifferent expression.
“Why are you on the Squad Leader’s bed?” Nora asked with a displeased face.
“I came to find Medea,” Eleanor pointed to her side.
“I came to find Peggy,” Medea pointed behind her.
Nora stood up abruptly and flung off the blanket, only to see a little white mouse perched on Aske’s lower leg.
“Change back!” Nora barked at her.
Left with no choice, Peggy reverted to her girl form and said helplessly,
“I crawled under Aske’s blanket because Eleanor suddenly visited, and I did it to avoid any misunderstandings!”
Nora: ………
So, out of you three, who came first and who came after?
Wrong. No matter who came first or last, you’re all here with the intention of seducing my Aske, aren’t you?
Damn it! You sneaky, cheating wildcats!
Just as she was about to say something angrily, someone knocked on the door from the outside.
“Aske!” Miel and Mia’s voices rose at the same time.
The four girls’ expressions changed instantly. Peggy quickly flipped the blanket, covering herself and Aske once again, and Medea, with an agile somersault, burrowed under the cover.
Eleanor hurriedly grabbed Nora, who hadn’t reacted yet, and the two dove under the blanket… After all, a 2-meter by 2-meter double bed was just too small to fit five people comfortably. They could only keep squeezing toward the center, pressing the sandwiched Aske like rush-hour subway passengers, leaving him hardly able to breathe.
“Mph!” Before Aske could speak, someone pulled him forcefully into the blanket, leaving only his head sticking out.
“Just say you’re asleep! Get them to leave quickly!” Nora, with her head against his shoulder, popped out to hastily and irritably give the instructions before diving back in.
Aske: ………
At this point, to his left were Peggy and Medea, and to his right, Nora and Eleanor, but the actual arrangement was indistinguishable. He just felt someone hugging his waist from the left, another holding his chest from the right, and yet another’s arm or leg draped over him, so they didn’t have to unfold—it was as cramped as a can of sardines.
Everyone involuntarily held their breath, daring not to make a sound that could be heard from outside.
After all, no matter how much they quarreled and got jealous during the day, it could be explained away as “pursuing love”; but being caught in the Squad Leader’s room in the middle of the night by two children was rather harder to justify.
Especially for someone as innocent as little Mia, who could come in with a pure face saying, “Eh, are you sleeping with the Squad Leader?”
For someone like Nora or Eleanor, who were shy, they would probably run away in embarrassment on the spot.
As for Peggy and Medea, although unconcerned about their own virtue, they also didn’t want the situation to spread and cause Aske to keep his distance to avoid suspicion—considering the Squad Leader’s stubborn straight-man temperament, it was indeed something he might do.
Thus, they all had to squeeze together silently, hoping that the two girls outside would leave soon, so they could have a good fight with each other.
“But the door is locked,” Mia observed.
“What should we do?” Miel suggested, “Maybe we should just leave it for tonight.”
“No problem,” Mia said carelessly, “I’ll use Black Hole Transmission to take you inside.”
And then the two girls teleported through the firmly locked door, only to find the lights in the room still on, with Aske lying in the center of the large bed, his head sticking out from the thick blanket, staring at the ceiling with a speechless expression.