“Anyway, that’s pretty much the whole story.”
“Confess! How are you going to make it up to Sister Xiaoxue?”
“Exactly, exactly! It’s way too much, hiding all these things and doing so much behind her back. You definitely need to compensate her.”
They say three women make a show, and Xia Xi felt that was an understatement.
He finally got it. These three girls didn’t actually care about what bad things he might have done. They were just finding creative ways to ask for compensation!
And the chances were, he wouldn’t be the one deciding what that compensation was. They’d propose it themselves.
“Alright, alright, compensation it is. Tell me, what kind of compensation do you want?”
An Xiaoyu helped untie the ropes. Luo Xinyu handed him a glass of warm milk with a smile. Lin Xueling, on the other hand, produced a slip of paper from who-knows-where and handed it to Xia Xi.
“A blind box game? This is what you guys want to play?”
Xia Xi silently finished reading the contents of the note, then sighed.
“Seriously, if you wanted to play a game, you could have just told me. Why go through all this tying me up and interrogating? You had me thinking I’d committed some terrible crime!”
He was telling the truth. When had he ever refused when Luo Xinyu wanted to play a game in his game space? He’d even participated in games where she made him lose his memory and swapped their identities and bodies for role-play.
“Hehe, this was more fun~”
This normally refined, well-educated young lady was now flashing a grin identical to Xia Yue’s.
Sometimes Xia Xi really wondered if Xia Yue was actually the protagonist. Her influence was even greater than his, the guy with the system!
“Let’s eat first. After dinner, we’ll lie down in bed and go to sleep.”
Xia Xi stuffed the note into his pocket, rubbed his growling stomach, stretched a bit, and headed for the dining table. He’d smelled the food earlier; the three girls must have cooked dinner first before tying him up for their little game.
“Okay!”
The three girls were already full from the desserts and snacks they’d made, but that didn’t stop them from having a midnight snack.
They were beautiful girls, after all. Having a stomach meant for anime food was perfectly normal, right~
….
Inside the game space.
Four skeletons of different sizes stood in a room laid out exactly like Xia Xi’s home.
“You guys proposed the rules. You all understand them, right?”
The tallest skeleton spoke with Xia Xi’s voice.
“Of course we do! We roll the dice, and in order from smallest to largest number, we pick a body part ‘skin’ from the blind box and put it on~”
(The game space is purely virtual. No real people are turned into skins. Dear censors, please don’t come after me! I’m begging you.)
Seeing that everyone knew the rules, Xia Xi directly conjured a huge dice.
“I’ll go first then.”
With that, Xia Xi tossed the dice high. When it landed and stopped rolling, the number showing was clearly a big, red dot, like a clown nose: a one!
“No way! Starting off like this?!”
Xia Xi was dumbfounded. He’d wanted to go first, roll a high number, and put some pressure on the others. He never expected to end up as the biggest clown himself.
“Xia Xi ge, your luck is so bad~”
An Xiaoyu picked the dice up from the floor, covering her mouth to stifle a giggle. She had rolled a four.
Luo Xinyu rolled a two. Lin Xueling rolled a six.
So the young lady’s luck wasn’t great either, but unfortunately for her, there was someone even unluckier right before her.
The rolling phase over, Xia Xi resignedly walked over to a cardboard box nearby. He reached in and rummaged around, finally pulling out a small ball labeled “Lin Xueling’s Head.”
With a bang, the ball burst. As the smoke cleared, Xia Xi was holding a flesh-colored object that looked like a mask.
“I’m putting it on now.”
Lin Xueling watched the thing in Xia Xi’s hands, feeling a strange mix of emotions, but mostly a novel sense of excitement.
Xia Xi grabbed the “mask” and carefully placed his skeleton head into it from top to bottom.
As the “mask” contracted, a tingling, tight sensation spread across Xia Xi’s face.
“Quick, check if I put it on right!” His voice was no longer his own male voice, but Lin Xueling’s youthful, vibrant, sweet female voice.
Hearing her own voice coming from someone else, that strange feeling intensified for Lin Xueling.
“Perfect! You look exactly like Xiaoxue now!”
Luo Xinyu still had her skeleton body, so her expression was unreadable, but Xia Xi guessed she was probably smiling with her eyes all crinkled.
“I don’t get why you guys insist on using this ‘skin’ thing. Wouldn’t it be easier to just swap body parts directly?”
As he spoke, Xia Xi tugged at the skin on his face. The “mask” seemed a bit loose, and pulling it revealed some of his skeleton head underneath.
“Oh, you just don’t get it. Isn’t this way more fun than a direct swap?”
Next was Luo Xinyu, who had rolled a two. From the box, she pulled a ball labeled “Xia Xi’s Buttocks.” This part wasn’t just the buttocks, but the entire area from the waist down to above the thighs.
As the smoke from the bursting ball cleared, that section’s “skin” appeared in Luo Xinyu’s hands.
“Ahem, Xia Xi, sorry about this, but your most important thing just got taken by me~”
As if showing off, Luo Xinyu held up the “skin” and waved it, then put it on like she was wearing underwear. In the game space, the system thoughtfully provided a pair of square boxers to prevent any accidental exposure.
“Darn it…”
His buttocks taken by Luo Xinyu. That meant he, the manly man Xia, would have to be a girl again this time…
No way. At least he had to get his upper body back! He’d had enough of being groped and squeezed as a figurine at Bai Xiaocha’s place.
“My turn, my turn!”
An Xiaoyu was also pretty excited. It was her first time experiencing such a novel game. She could turn into other people! Even though she’d turned into Bai Xiaocha and Xia Xi before, that was different. That was a complete whole-person swap. This gradual transformation was a totally different experience.
What An Xiaoyu picked was relatively normal: her own legs. She put them on like she was wearing pants. Strange. Even though they were her own legs, the sensation of something like a skin-tight leather suit clinging to her, yet feeling like real skin, was truly novel.
Finally, it was Lin Xueling’s turn.
Unlike the other three who were completely at ease, she was a bit nervous experiencing all this for the first time. Especially now, as just a skeleton, she felt constantly exposed.
When she pulled out her ball and the smoke cleared, seeing what she was holding, she froze again….
