Mash-Up: Anything for Money

"Is it true? Am I really the boss?"

"Yes, really."

"Really, really, really, really, really true?"

"Yes, really!"

"Alright! Then I agreed to be Shiratori-sensei's girlfriend!"

In the next moment, Yotsuba stood up on the table, crossed her arms, and laughed proudly.

"I'm the boss now!"

However, just as Yotsuba was feeling pleased with herself, Nino immediately slapped her on the head with a hand chop!

"We're still eating! Why are you on the table?"

"I'm the boss! What's wrong with me being on the table?"

"The boss?" Nino raised an eyebrow, as she had not heard the conversation between Ichika and Yotsuba.

"Get down!"

"I'm the boss!"

"Get down! We're still eating!"

"I'm...!"

Before Yotsuba could finish her sentence, Nino couldn't hold back anymore and forcefully pulled her down.

"Huh? (゜ロ゜)? Am I not the boss?"

Hakuto shook his head. As a very traditional person in his past life, Yotsuba's behavior was purely reckless.

"Don't blame me, Yotsuba. Don't even talk about being the boss. Even if you were my father, you can't just get on the dining table."

"Nino! Let go of me! Shiratori-sensei said that once I agree to be Shiratori-sensei's girlfriend, Shiratori-sensei will listen to me on everything from now on!"

"Shut up! I'm not that Hakuto guy! I don't have to listen to you!"

"Huh (゜ロ゜)?" Yotsuba blinked. "But Nino, aren't you supposed to listen to Shiratori-sensei?"

"Are you Shiratori?"

Yotsuba shook her head. "No."

"Then it's settled!"

"Wait... wait..." Yotsuba felt like she had been tricked. "Shiratori-sensei, help!"

Itsuki looked at Yotsuba being pulled away by Nino and said.

"Don't we seem to have learned something about this from history, Miku?"

"Mm..." Miku nodded. "The vassal of a vassal, but not my vassal..."

...

"Ugh～ Shiratori-sensei, Nino is bullying me..." After dinner, Yotsuba leaned on Hakuto, looking pitiful.

Hakuto sighed and shrugged. Yotsuba telling him about this was completely pointless!

He couldn't help Yotsuba get back at Nino... at least not right now.

However, in the next moment, Hakuto suddenly realized that since everything had been resolved and all five of them were present, it was time to lay a few things out in the open.

With that in mind, Hakuto looked at Yotsuba in front of him and responded.

"Although I can't help you get back at Nino, how about I show you a magic trick?"

"Huh? What magic trick?"

"Well... let me show you!" Hakuto spread out his hands and placed one hand on a table leg.

"Yotsuba, do you believe I can lift the coffee table with one hand?"

"(゜ロ゜)?" Yotsuba frowned. "Shiratori-sensei... Do I look like an idiot?"

The coffee table at the five sisters' house was ceramic, and its weight was already over a hundred kilograms! 

Not to mention lifting a table leg with one hand!

When calculated, Hakuto would have to lift nearly a thousand kilograms with one hand!

Is this something a human can do? 

Even with a chair with a backrest, there aren't many people in the world who can lift one leg of it with one hand.

Meanwhile, Nino, who had been listening to Hakuto and Yotsuba's conversation, coughed lightly.

"If you break anything on the coffee table, you're in trouble!"

"Don't worry, I won't."

"Huh?" Yotsuba blinked, because Nino's words seemed to imply that Hakuto really could lift the coffee table.

"Yotsuba, just say whether you believe me or not!"

Hearing this, Yotsuba looked at the others nearby. Apart from Nino, the others were distracted with other things.

Yotsuba frowned. Although Hakuto's confident attitude made her hesitate, she still wanted to trust her worldview.

"I don't believe it." Yotsuba shook her head. "If you lift the coffee table with one hand, I'll directly..."

Before Yotsuba could finish her sentence, the once calm coffee table suddenly began shaking, and before she could react, Hakuto gritted his teeth and grabbed one of the table's legs, lifting it up, straightening his arm. 

The height even surpassed Yotsuba's height!

Seeing the coffee table flying up, the four girls' expressions were as follows:

Yotsuba: (゜ロ゜)?

Itsuki: Σ(ﾟдﾟlll)?

Miku: (;一_一)?

Ichika: (๑•_เ•๑)?

Even Itsuki, who had been sitting on the floor playing with her phone, was now hanging in midair, clinging to the coffee table!

"Huh? Huh, huh!?" Realizing what was happening, Itsuki quickly fidgeted with her legs in white stockings, climbed onto the coffee table, and lay on top of it.

"What... What's happening? Did aliens invade?"

Itsuki peered from the coffee table to check the situation below, only to make direct eye contact with Hakuto, who was holding the coffee table up with one hand.

"Itsuki, how does it feel?"

"How did the coffee table fly up? No, no! Shiratori-sensei, you need to put me down!"

"It's okay. I'll put you down later."

"Put me down?" Itsuki frowned. It was only now that she realized Hakuto was actually lifting the coffee table with one hand!

Σ(ﾟдﾟlll)?!

"Shiratori... Shiratori-sensei... Is this magic?"

"Hold on! My phone is still on the coffee table."

"I have to take a picture!" Ichika muttered to herself. "If this gets out, won't the physics majors explode? They could make a force diagram and it would be enough to drive them crazy!"

"Miku, am I dreaming?"

Yotsuba was now questioning her life!

A few hundred pounds of ceramic coffee table, lifted up with just one leg?!

How is this even balanced? Is this even human?

Yotsuba felt her worldview had been shaken, a massive shock!

Yotsuba couldn't calculate how much force Hakuto was bearing at that moment, but she estimated it must be no less than a thousand pounds!

Of everyone there, only Nino remained slightly calmer.

"Hey, Nino, didn't you say Shiratori's body was enhanced?"

"Mm~ What about it?"

"This..." Ichika hesitated. 

"Nino, don't you really consider sleeping together? I feel like if it were just one person, they would really die..."

Nino's face turned slightly red, and she waved her hand. "Ichika, why are you so obsessed with this kind of thing?"

"I was joking before, but now I'm not. I really think someone could die from this!"

"How would they die?"

"Stabbed to death! What else? Die from pleasure?"

"This kind of thing... we'll talk about it later..." Nino didn't directly respond, but instead turned to look at Hakuto. 

"Alright, you can put it down now. Are you using this as a dumbbell?"

"Okay, okay~"

Hakuto's voice just dropped, and he slowly squatted down, gently placing the coffee table back in its place.

"Thud!"

With a thud, the coffee table was placed back, and Itsuki jumped off the coffee table.

If it wasn't for that earlier scene being deeply etched in everyone's minds, the situation would seem like nothing had happened at all!

Hakuto rubbed his shoulder and said.

"By the way, Yotsuba, what did you say you'd do if I lifted it up?"

"Σ(ﾟдﾟlll)? I... I didn't say anything..."

Itsuki breathed a sigh of relief. "Although I knew Shiratori-sensei's superpowers were strong, I still panicked when it was lifted..."

"Seeing is believing."

"No wonder Shiratori has to do all those dangerous things..."

Hakuto didn't rely purely on physical strength. He had activated a certain level of computational power.

After all, while his physical condition was strong, it wasn't quite to this extent.

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