Madam, believe me, how can I be a minotaur?

"What, I thought I was being deceived by Mr. Asano, but it turns out he just wants us to help clean... I'm so awful, I actually suspected Mr. Asano had ulterior motives."

Speaking of which, it must be tough for Mr. Asano to live alone, without even a companion. I'm lucky to have Eriko with me.

Thinking this, Yamada Yuta said in a tone that seemed very empathetic, but actually sounded like pity, "Living alone must be hard, Mr. Asano."

Then he turned to look at his girlfriend, ready to say something.

However, Miyajima Eriko spoke first this time: "But... why don't you hire a housekeeper, Mr. Asano?"

Clearly, she still suspected Asano Makoto.

In Tokyo, a housekeeper's hourly wage is generally 2,000-3,000 yen. If calculated at two days a week, two hours a day, hiring a housekeeper for a month would cost at most 48,000 yen.

But the discounted rent Asano Makoto gives them each month is almost two or three times that price, which made Miyajima Eriko suspicious.

Asano Makoto had long guessed that he might be questioned like this, and he had prepared his explanation in advance.

"Of course, I used to hire them, but one of the housekeepers stole the money I left at home. Although she was quickly arrested and the stolen money was successfully recovered, I've been unwilling to trust them ever since."

"Rather than strangers I've never met, I'd rather trust tenants who will be living next door to me in the future, even if it means losing some profit. At least I don't have to worry about them stealing my things and running away one day."

Asano Makoto's rhetoric wasn't perfect, but at least it didn't have any obvious flaws.

First give benefits, then make a request, and finally explain the reason. Although it seems very purposeful, after his explanation, everything becomes reasonable.

People will instinctively reject windfalls, because everyone knows that there must be hidden traps beneath them.

But as long as there is an exchange of benefits, when the so-called "trap" is exposed, people will weigh the pros and cons according to their own interests and finally believe in the authenticity of the windfall.

A luxury apartment with a monthly rent of only 100,000 yen is the windfall, and the need to find a trustworthy housekeeper is the trap hidden underneath.

And all of this was actually planned by Asano Makoto in advance.

Although he is indeed a bit lazy, his living habits are not that bad. The dirty and messy environment in the house was deliberately created by him yesterday, spending an entire day.

As for the housekeeper stealing money, this kind of thing does occasionally happen in Japan, but he has never encountered it. This experience was fabricated by him.

Planning these things was naturally to complete the task issued by the system.

Honestly, if he could, he wouldn't want this damn blond-haired NTR system.

But now the system holds his weakness in its hands, and he has no choice but to obey.

Since he can't resist, he can only endure for now and move forward according to the system's wishes.

Now, under the "urging" of the system, Asano Makoto has reluctantly decided to seduce Miyajima Eriko, so he naturally has to plan carefully.

The first thing to do is to find a way to increase the opportunities and time to spend with her—you can't seduce someone you can't even meet.

To this end, Asano Makoto must change his relationship with Miyajima Eriko.

If they are just landlord and tenant, then even if he wants to meet Miyajima Eriko, he would have to rack his brains to find all kinds of reasons, and he might even be suspected of having too much purpose.

It would be better to expose his purpose from the beginning, let the other party suspect him, and then eliminate the suspicion, so that he can have the opportunity to contact her at will in the future.

The identity of a housekeeper is naturally Asano Makoto's best choice to contact her, and the inspiration came from a game he criticized in his previous life called "NTR Legend."

What? The task of seducing Miyajima Eriko wasn't issued after the novice task was completed? Why did he make plans in this regard before?

To this, Asano Makoto said: Don't you know what it means to be prepared for a rainy day?

Making plans so early means that he has already seen through the system's routine, which can only show that he is a person with a long-term vision.

Chapter 6: It Doesn't Matter, Yamada Yuta Will Take Action

In short, after Asano Makoto's series of combo moves, Miyajima Eriko had fallen into deep thought.

As for Yamada Yuta, he had completely believed Asano Makoto's words.

"Of course, I won't ask for too much."

Feeling that he had given the two enough time to think, Asano Makoto continued, "As long as you can spare one person to come and help me tidy up the house twice a week, I can rent the house to you for a rent of 100,000 yen."

Although he said that anyone could come to clean up, Yamada Yuta still had to go to work, so in the end it would definitely be Miyajima Eriko who stayed at home.

He said this only to avoid being too purposeful and arousing Miyajima Eriko's suspicion.

Looking at the increasingly tempted expressions on their faces, Asano Makoto began to strike while the iron was hot.

He sighed deeply, pretending to be regretful, "Although I really hope you can come and help, it doesn't matter if you really don't want to. I can still let you live here at the price we agreed on before, as compensation for making you come all this way for nothing."

"But I can only let you live here for three months at most, after all, I don't want to lose too much profit. During this time, I will find a housekeeper to deal with it first, and after you leave, I will find a new tenant and write my request clearly on the rental website."

Plans are not foolproof, even if the plan is perfect, there will be unexpected events.

In any case, Asano Makoto had to keep these two people here, and he had to keep them for at least three months.

If he could complete the task within three months, then everyone would be happy.

If he couldn't complete it, he would have to consider flying back to his previous life's motherland and looking for those old Chinese medicine practitioners hidden in the alleys through the small advertisements on the walls.

But Asano Makoto wasn't afraid that these two wouldn't rent his house. He dared to say that he couldn't find a second place in all of Tokyo with the price he set.

Moreover, it was a two-bedroom, one-living-room, fully furnished luxury apartment. As long as they saw his house and considered the price, no one would be unmoved.

The most important thing was that these two should be short on money now.

When the other party contacted him yesterday, he just used a simple trick to get the key information that they had less than 300,000 yen left.

In Shinjuku, this amount of money couldn't even rent an ordinary apartment.

Although the monthly rent for those apartments was probably around 100,000 yen, they usually required a deposit of three months' rent and one month's rent in advance.

And by the time Yamada Yuta got his salary and had enough money to rent a more expensive house, Asano Makoto's apartment with its full cost-effectiveness would probably have been rented out long ago.

In other words, apart from renting Asano Makoto's luxury apartment now, which only required a deposit of one month's rent and one month's rent in advance, they had no other choice.

Unless they were willing to live in an internet cafe cubicle or a studio apartment, but the possibility of this was very slim.

It's easy to go from frugality to luxury, but difficult to go from luxury to frugality. After knowing that there was such a good house here at such a low price, no one would be willing to live in those small, broken studio apartments with no cost-effectiveness.

More importantly, Asano Makoto believed that Yamada Yuta would take action.

Although he had been looking at Miyajima Eriko while speaking just now, his peripheral vision had not missed the changes in Yamada Yuta's expression.

Sure enough, as he thought, after seeing the regretful expression he put on his face, Yamada Yuta began to exert his strength.

"Mr. Asano, please don't say that! Eriko and I both sympathize with your situation! We are also very willing to help you!"

After Yamada Yuta finished speaking, he immediately turned to look at his girlfriend standing next to him and continued, "Eriko, I believe Mr. Asano is a good person, he won't deceive us! You also saw how hard he is living alone, can you please help too?"

Well done! Yuta-kun!

This was Asano Makoto's heartfelt thanks.

Seeing the pleading look in her boyfriend's eyes and the regretful expression on Asano Makoto's face that didn't seem to be fake, Miyajima Eriko finally sighed and agreed.

"...Okay, Mr. Asano, I will go help you clean."

In fact, she had already believed Asano Makoto's words.

After learning that Asano Makoto just wanted to find a trustworthy housekeeper, she was completely relieved, and even felt sorry for the things Asano Makoto had encountered.

It can only be said that she has some social experience, but not much.

However, the most important reason that prompted her to agree was actually that she wanted to share the pressure on her boyfriend's shoulders and contribute to her boyfriend's efforts.

After all, the funds they had on hand really couldn't support them to find a new good house.

And she couldn't accept a studio apartment anymore. After seeing Asano Makoto's house, her heart was left here.

Anyway, she usually didn't have a job, she was just responsible for housework at home, and after the housework was done, she just stayed at home and watched TV, so it would be better to clean the room for the landlord next door to get a more favorable rent.

Just treat it as a job, and it's so close to home, and the salary is so high... Miyajima Eriko began to convince herself in her heart.

Plan complete!

Seeing Miyajima Eriko finally nod in agreement, Asano Makoto couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and then gave Yamada Yuta a grateful look.

Perhaps feeling that this was not enough, he bowed ninety degrees to the two people standing in front of him and said sincerely, "Thank you very much!"

Asano Makoto's sudden solemn thanks surprised Miyajima Eriko and Yamada Yuta. After a moment of stunned silence, they quickly reached out and helped Asano Makoto up.

"Mr. Asano, please don't do this! We should be thanking you."

"Yes, Eriko is right, we should be thanking you for being willing to rent such a good house to us."

Asano Makoto straightened up, still with gratitude on his face.

It's just that neither of them noticed the smile on the corner of his mouth that he couldn't suppress.

...

Yamada Yuta and Miyajima Eriko spent the first afternoon in their new home packing their luggage and praising Asano Makoto.

"Mr. Asano is such a good person, not only polite but also so understanding. He could have raised the price or not rented to us, but he didn't."

Thinking of the kindness Asano Makoto showed him in the morning, Yamada Yuta, who was carrying luggage, couldn't help but sigh.

Miyajima Eriko, who was in a good mood because she had successfully rented her dream house, also nodded in agreement.

"Yes, he was willing to rent such a good house to us for only 100,000 yen, and only asked for one month's deposit... If it weren't for Mr. Asano, we would probably have to live in those small and messy studio apartments now."

The two-bedroom, one-living-room apartment that Asano Makoto rented to them was a full 80 square meters, with a separate kitchen and bathroom, and a large balcony that was not included in the area.

Moreover, the 80 square meters did not include any shared area. The actual usable area of the apartment was almost 100 square meters, which was considered a very large residence even for a family of three.

As evening approached, Yamada Yuta, who was exhausted and covered in sweat after carrying the last cardboard box, lay down on the sofa.

Looking at Miyajima Eriko, who was still packing things aside, he suddenly had a flash of inspiration and said, "Eriko, why don't we invite Mr. Asano over for dinner tonight! I saw that his kitchen doesn't seem to have been cleaned up yet, so he probably can't cook for himself, right?"

Miyajima Eriko hesitated a little: "...Is that okay? We only met Mr. Asano today, and we're not familiar enough, are we? Wouldn't that be too presumptuous?"

"Oh, it's okay, we're going to live here for a long time anyway, and we'll get to know Mr. Asano sooner or later. It's more convenient to have a good relationship with him sooner, right?"

Yamada Yuta added one last sentence: "And I also feel very guilty about suspecting Mr. Asano in my heart this morning."

Since Yamada Yuta had said so, Miyajima Eriko didn't say anything more. After all, she also wanted to apologize to the other party for her suspicion.

Moreover, in Japan, no matter which class, interpersonal relationships are a very important thing.

People like Asano Makoto, who are too lazy to deal with interpersonal relationships and were envied by almost all the male classmates throughout his high school career, are ultimately in the minority.