Diona sat on the sofa looking utterly dazed, her vacant eyes fixed on the TV.

Since the TV had been paused while the movie was being projected, and Lin Mo had gone to the bathroom to take a shower, the horror movie that had been playing was frozen in place.

A ghostly boy with a sinister look on his face bared his teeth and clawed at the air, trying to pounce on the supporting-character boy who’d just had sex with his girlfriend. In short, that was where the movie had gotten to.

Anyone who didn’t know Diona would’ve assumed she was spacing out over something naughty.

After all, everyone knew horror movies gave their supporting characters a chance to show some skin.

And Diona’s blank stare was fixed on the moment just before the monster pounced on the shirtless boy.

“……”

Just then, Lin Mo happened to step out of the changing room.

He glanced at Diona.

(Oh, she’s fantasizing about something dirty.)

He, too, took Diona’s current state to mean something along those lines.

(Could this be my chance?)

With that thought in mind, Lin Mo quietly clasped his hands behind his back, rose onto his tiptoes, and crept up behind Diona.

He suddenly reached over the back of the sofa and covered her eyes with one hand.

The girl’s skin felt a little hot to the touch.

“Hehe, guess who?”

He deliberately leaned in close and breathed against Diona’s face.

“……” Yet the girl still didn’t say a word.

After a long while, she finally managed to stifle a sound of satisfaction and let out a brief hum. “It’s Little Lin Mo, right?”

“I’ve been waiting for you forever. Ah! You haven’t run the bath yet, have you?”

“No…” Her reaction wasn’t as warm as he’d imagined, and Lin Mo felt a little disappointed.

“Then I’ll go take a bath too.” (Diona)

“Mm.” Lin Mo wrinkled his nose and tentatively sniffed near Diona’s ear.

“Huh? That’s strange. Why does it smell like…”

Ah!

He abruptly realized he should keep his mouth shut.

Making fun of a beautiful girl’s body odor without her permission was obviously a pretty awful thing to do. As a man with decent social skills, Lin Mo clearly wasn’t about to point out Diona’s shortcomings.

Still… why did that smell seem so weird? It didn’t seem like body odor.

It was more like…

“All right! I’m going to take a bath! Wait for me, Xiao Mo!”

As soon as she finished speaking, Diona darted into the changing room as if she were running away.

The door slammed shut. Whatever Lin Mo might’ve been thinking, it was too late now.

“That’s weird…”

Frowning, Lin Mo turned and went back to the sofa, then sat down gently.

“Is something a little off about her?”

He guessed Diona must’ve secretly done something somewhere he hadn’t seen.

“Could she have been taking care of herself?” Lin Mo covered his mouth and chuckled at the thought.

If Diona had been so embarrassed by how dirty her mind was that she’d used herself as a substitute and taken care of things alone, then Lin Mo might just be able to forgive her for not pouncing on him while he was in the shower.

With that thought, he glanced at the TV.

“Not as good-looking as me.” After delivering his verdict, he stopped watching the screen.

(Since she’s taking a bath now, should I go in and give the kindhearted girl a little fanservice?)

Maybe help scrub her back…

Before he’d crossed over, Lin Mo had often watched harem anime with scenes like that.

Of course, in those shows it was usually a beautiful girl giving the male lead some fanservice. But since this was a Matriarchal Apocalypse, swapping their roles shouldn’t be a problem, right?

He was pretty confident in his looks and charm!

“Even if I want to do it, would she be okay with it?”

“If she’s already taken care of herself, she’s definitely in that post-orgasm haze right now, isn’t she? Even if I went in and offered to scrub her back, I wouldn’t be able to make her blush or get her heart racing.”

If Lin Mo went that far and Diona still didn’t get flustered, he simply wouldn’t be able to accept it!

“Ah! My shoes.”

Come to think of it, he’d left his shoes in the changing room and hadn’t brought them out.

The moment he remembered, Lin Mo got to his feet, hurried over to the changing room, and yanked open the wooden sliding door.

Rrrip—

The first thing that met his eyes was a girl’s pale, smooth back, like a slab of creamy white jade.

“Huh?”

Diona, who was still taking off her clothes, glanced over her shoulder. Her cheeks instantly flushed red.

She didn’t even have a pair of shorts left on. She was completely naked.

“Uwah! Uwaaah—!”

Lin Mo’s face turned bright red too.

He spun around and fled the changing room, then slammed the door shut behind him!

“S-sorry…”

Lin Mo lowered his head. His throat was dry, and his heart wouldn’t stop pounding.

He’d seen a girl naked before, but none of those occasions had been the sort of thing that made him feel embarrassed.

But Diona’s body… Especially with her about to take a bath, the shock of seeing her like that made Lin Mo blush and sent his heart racing so hard he could barely control himself.

“Uwah—! Uwaaaah?!”

After a long pause, a scream from Diona suddenly rang out from the changing room, sounding almost delighted.

“Mo… L-L-Little Xiao Mo! W-what on earth happened? Ah, I’m so sorry, I really am! I’m so, so sorry… It must’ve been awful for you to suddenly see a naked woman like that, right?” (Diona)

Even her startled apology carried a great deal of pride.

It was plain to see that, despite apologizing, she was pretty pleased to have shown off her perfect figure in front of the man she liked.

“I’m the one who should be apologizing…”

Lin Mo lowered his voice. All thoughts of trying to seduce Diona had vanished:

“It’s just… I remembered I’d left my shoes in there, so I wanted to grab them first.”

“I really didn’t know you’d taken your clothes off! If I’d known, I wouldn’t have…”

“Ah, ah, it’s fine! It’s totally fine!” Diona hurriedly forgave Lin Mo.

Then came the sound of bare feet running. A few heavy, nervous breaths followed, and the sliding door opened just a crack.

Diona carefully held out the shoes between two fingers.

“There. Is everything okay now?”

“Yeah.” Lin Mo’s heart raced as he quickly snatched his shoes back.

He bowed his head again. “I’m sorry. I really am.”

“Hahaha, it’s okay. It’s not like you only saw me completely naked, Xiao Mo! I’m a woman, after all!”

From inside the changing room came another reminder that this was a Matriarchal Apocalypse.

Even so, Lin Mo knew that this new world was still full of human beings, and he couldn’t help feeling awkward:

“Don’t say that. I was the one in the wrong. I just wish there were something I could do to make it up to you…”

“Make it up to me?” Diona sounded confused.

After thinking for a moment, she suddenly put on a hearty laugh.

“H-hahaha! If you really want to make it up to me, I won’t say no. Since you’ve already seen me naked, could you let me take a look at you too?”