Falling: How to Survive as a Cannon Fodder

HTSCF CH 016 I don't believe in fate. (NSFW)

Beta: Stephanie

A/N: NSFW content in this chapter—the kind you've been waiting for! Ahem, just a teaser start to all the smut to come though.

In a milk tea shop, two men and one "girl" were sitting at a table huddled together. The man with platinum blond hair held out a fry to the "girl" and she opened her mouth to eat it, her lips lightly touching the man's fingertips. The man licked his fingers before holding out another fry for the "girl."

As for the other man, the black-haired one, he was too busy looking at his phone to catch this moment. When the "girl" asked him a question, he leaned in with a confused face, their cheeks almost touching.

"What'd you say, baby?"

Jun frowned and grabbed the phone out of Theodore's hands and saw to his horror, a bunch of skimpy schoolgirl uniforms. At this rate, this pervert would be looking into sexy nurse's outfits.

"Interested?" Theodore asked. "Don't worry, I looked up the school boy's uniform too." With a flick of his fingers, the browser screen changed to a selection of black blazers and pants.

"..."

"Baby?"

Sighing, Jun massaged his temples. "I asked, who do you think is the murderer?"

"What murderer?"

"The one on the show 'Sing to Survive!'"

"Isn't it the evil spirit?"

|Dearest Host!!!|

|What? He got it right?|

|Um...|

|Half right, then?|

|This system has no comment!|

Jun rolled his eyes at System 00, then thought about it. If it was half the evil spirit, then it could only be the protagonist shou who was the other half—

Which meant that the murderer had gotten away with all the murders in the original plot.

|Ding ding ding! Congratulations to Host on completing the Hidden Mission. As a reward, the lifetime protection period will begin once you complete the Main Mission.|

|So I still have to survive until I'm 19.|

|It's just a couple of weeks, Host. You can do it! This system believes in you!|

|Yeah, but by the end of tomorrow, the variety show will end, and the protagonist shou will probably come after me. That's fine and all, but how do I handle an evil spirit?|

|Maybe just throw Theodore at the spirit?|

|... You know, that's not a bad idea.|

"That evil spirit, do you know who it was?"

Theodore thought about it, then slapped his hand on the table, startling everyone in the tea shop. "The singer who was strangled last year..."

"... Oh."

Ezekiel avoided Theodore's nasty scowl by awkwardly rubbing the back of his neck. "I... As I said, I wasn't thinking properly..."

Theodore humphed and crossed his arms. "You better be thinking properly now."

"Don't worry, I am."

Later that night, Jun was asked the same question he'd been asked not too long ago.

"It's almost your 19th birthday. What would you like?" Ezekiel placed a plate of sliced fruit in front of Jun and sat down on the chair on his right side.