He tried to save the fallen girls, but they came after him instead.

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This is a classic case of shooting oneself in the foot.

There was no other way but to keep acting.

170. An unexpected situation occurred during rehearsal.

After threatening the pitiful Jackie, the hero Shirakawa and the knight Nikaido arrived at a small inn to rest.

"Boss, I'd like to book a room." Shirakawa placed the money on the counter.

"Ah, Hero, I... are we going to share a room? Or should I get a separate room and pay for it myself..." Nikaido said, blushing.

"No need, there's no need for that. If the enemy attacks tonight, the two of us can help each other out," the hero said with a smile.

"Alright then, hero."

Knight Nikaido still harbors various righteous and courageous ideals about heroes, and is unwilling to cruelly refuse his request.

Arrived at the room.

As soon as the hero Shirakawa entered the room, he crossed his legs and lay down on the bed, smiling and looking quite relaxed.

Nikaido placed his luggage in the corner of the room, then sat nervously on the edge of the bed, his back to the hero Shirakawa.

It's a bit awkward, I need to find something to talk about.

“Hero, although that Jackie may be a fraud, I still don’t think it’s right to threaten an unarmed girl in this way.”

“What’s wrong with that? It’s not like we’re not giving her money,” said the hero Shirakawa, lying on the bed nonchalantly. “It’s just that we’re having her come with us. Having another person on the road will provide more support.”

"But the journey is fraught with difficulties and dangers. For a frail, ordinary person like her to accompany us would only be a hindrance."

"I have a use for her, you don't need to worry about that, just follow my orders." The hero Shirakawa licked his lips, looked at Nikaido's back, and revealed a wicked smile.

“Since that’s what you say, Hero, then I have no objection.” Misaki Nikaido smoothed her short yellow hair.

This hero is the complete opposite of the righteous hero she admires. Who would have thought that a real hero would be like this?

However, perhaps the hero has his own plans and arrangements, so I must not speculate and be disrespectful to the hero.

"It's getting late, get some rest. We have to set off to slay the evil dragon tomorrow morning." Shirakawa patted the empty space on the bed next to him.

“Alright.” Nikaido slowly removed his armor.

After being stuffy for a while, the black undershirt inside was covered in sweat and was still emitting a little bit of steam.

After taking off the riding boots, the little black feet were starting to smell a bit stuffy.

Nikaido lay on his back on the bed, with Shirakawa beside him.

"Nikaido, how's life as a knight?" Shirakawa turned to him and began to inquire about his well-being.

"Thank you for your concern, hero. Life as a knight is quite monotonous. I have to get up early every day to practice swordsmanship, rehearse formations, and exercise to get used to this heavy armor."

"Is that so?" Shirakawa reached out and squeezed Nikaido's arm. "Indeed, as expected of a Knight Commander, you're quite sturdy!"

"Yes, that's right." Nikaido replied awkwardly, but when the hero Shirakawa suddenly pinched her, her body resisted and she leaned to the other side of the bed.

She disliked such frivolous heroes.

Shirakawa's smile grew increasingly sinister. He loved the feeling of a fallen, innocent girl, so he launched a new "offensive."

"Knight Nikaido, do you have a boyfriend?"

"Huh? Hero, why are you asking these questions?"

"I was just asking out of curiosity, to check on my companions on the journey." The hero Shirakawa looked at Nikaido's body with a lewd expression.

After removing her armor, she was left with only a wet, muddy black bodysuit underneath, which made her curvaceous and muscular figure look exceptionally alluring.

In the play, Shirakawa's performance was very lewd and vulgar, but in real life, Shirakawa's heart was actually also stirred by lust.

“Hero, actually I have a childhood sweetheart who farms in the countryside. Our families have arranged a marriage for us, and we will get married when I return in triumph,” Nikaido said.

"Is that so?" The hero Shirakawa's hands started to wander again, touching her firm waist. "You, a renowned knight commander, marrying a peasant from the countryside, are not a good match."

“Hero,” Nikaido moved closer to the bedside again, trying to avoid the hero’s harassment, “we’ve played together since we were little, we’re very close… I like him a lot too.”

"Being with a peasant like that is no better than marrying a hero like me. I'll give you money, power, and status." Shirakawa grinned lewdly, his black undershirt revealing a hint of his inner skin as he gently kneaded Nikaido's lower abdomen. (Due to the nature of this being a stage play, the explicit content has been toned down.)

"I'm sorry, Hero, I cannot accept this... Please leave." Nikaido turned his face away, lowered his eyes, and moved his hand away, refusing Shirakawa.

"It's alright, let's have some fun here secretly, the farmer won't know." The hero Shirakawa grinned mischievously, then got up and straddled Nikaido. "Relaxing the pressure is good for defeating the evil dragon!"

The following plot involves Nikaido, with tears in his eyes, refusing to submit even at the cost of his life, slapping the hero Shirakawa across the face, and then leaving the party completely, wearing his armor.

Nikaido isn't a professional actor, after all; he can't just cry whenever he wants.

Her eyes were slightly red as she looked at Shirakawa.

Shirakawa leaned forward, his hands braced on the bed, only an arm's length away from Nikaido's cheeks.

The two exchanged breaths, and Shirakawa could feel the intense heat emanating from Nikaido's body, her burning heat, and smell the stench of her sweat.

It's described as body odor, but it's actually mixed with the unique body odor of a young girl. It's hard to describe the smell, but the more you smell it, the more captivating it becomes, making your heart race.

Next, I'm going to get slapped.

Nikaido, his eyes sparkling, raised his open palm and held it to one side, tensing his strength. The hero Shirakawa's cheeks were also tense, ready to be slapped at any moment.

Nikaido slowly bent his outstretched hand into a half-fist and gently placed it on the back of Shirakawa's neck.

How could the boss slap her most beloved little brother?

"Hero Shirakawa, Shirakawa." Nikaido muttered, slowly increasing the force of his fist, pressing Shirakawa's body down.

The distance between the two began to gradually close.

"Click! Click! Click!"

Sakura yelled to stop him, and the "little evil dragon" seemed to be breathing fire in frustration.

Back in reality, Shirakawa was pinning Nikaido to the dance studio floor, their noses almost touching, about to kiss.

Sakura rushed up to the two of them and used her little dragon claws to hook Shirakawa's armpits and move him away.

"Hey," Maki said, her face flushed, as she hurried forward, clutching her skirt. "Violent girl, why aren't you following the script?"

Nikaido didn't answer, he just stood there, stunned, tapping his lips with the tip of his index finger, savoring the feeling from just now.

I was raped by Shirakawa.

I have a childhood sweetheart, someone I like, but I still have an illicit affair and an ambiguous relationship with Shirakawa...

She abandoned the one she loved and fell into Shirakawa's arms.

Maybe it's pretty good?

Nikaido got a little too caught up in the role, mixing reality with the script, and the emotions he portrayed with his real-life emotions.

A strange sense of transgression, which she had never felt before, overwhelmed Nikaido's heart. She sat up, absentmindedly recalling the scene that had just occurred.

Even if it's fake, why is my heart beating so fast?

Nikaido, whose mind wasn't working properly, completely lost his composure and couldn't calm down at all.

"Hey, you violent woman! Hey! Did you hear me?" Maki continued to berate him sharply from the side, but Nikaido was distracted and ignored her.

Jackie was secretly eating melon seeds in the corner.

Xing Gongxi merely snorted coldly, pretending to be indifferent, and looked out the window, but her eyes kept glancing in that direction.

“Maki, this isn’t Nikaido’s fault, there’s something wrong with your script.” Shirakawa broke free from Sakura’s dragon claws and picked up the script to explain.

Actually, it was also to ease the tension between Maki and Nikaido.

"This scene shows the hero Shirakawa trying to take advantage of Nikaido, but Nikaido refused, right?" Shirakawa asked.

"Yes."

"So the knight is leaving now, and the rest of the story, all the way to the dragon's lair, will only involve Shirakawa and Jackie."

"Ah."

"That's the key point. Two people are used to act in the three scenes of the misty forest, the river of suffering, and the climb to the peak. The relationship between the characters is too simple and too boring."

"what do you mean?"

“What I mean is, let’s not make the hero in this scene look too disgusting. Let’s not let the Knight Nikaido leave. Let me, Jackie, and Nikaido form an adventurer team to go through these three places and then to the dragon’s lair. This way, we can also play around with the relationship between these three people. What do you think?” Shirakawa asked.

"Hmm..." Maki was thinking. Actually, she hadn't thought that much about it. She just wanted to make the script more interesting. When writing the script, she also consulted some of Mido Sakura's opinions, most of which were summaries of Sakura's observations of idol dramas.

"Then, Shirakawa-kun, if Knight Nikaido doesn't leave at this point in the story, and a new character is added, the rest of the script will have to be changed, and we'll have to rehearse again. The performance is in two days, will we have enough time?" Sakura expressed her concerns.

"Don't worry, we'll definitely make it in time."

"No!" Maki suddenly started to protest. "Shirakawa, we can't just change the script because this violent woman can't act this scene well, can we? Aren't you being too biased towards her?"

Given Shirakawa's close interaction with Nikaido just now, coupled with Shirakawa's sweeping revisions to the script, it's hard not to think that he's favoring Nikaido.

"It's okay, I can do it." Nikaido also recovered and slowly stood up. "It was all my fault this time. I didn't act well. Let's do it again. I'll try my best this time."

"It's alright, boss, we can just revise the script a little."