She had only asked whether Sugisaki Kasumi was willing to serve her master together with everyone else in the class. Sugisaki Kasumi hesitated for a moment, confirmed that among the pretty girls in the class she was the only one left who hadn't joined yet, and then agreed. She didn't even need to be threatened or tempted.
"Closet pervert?"
Hachiman was taken aback. He hadn't expected that Sugisaki Kasumi had already secretly fallen for him long ago. There was no need at all to think about how to win her over.
He remembered that there was still a quest on Sugisaki Kasumi, but he had never taken the initiative to do it.
["Character Quest – Slave of Desire."]
["The expectations of those around her, the worries brought by immense pressure, and inner conflicts. The desires hidden deep within the body of a pubescent girl are prone to awakening into twisted tastes."]
["The more desire is suppressed, the easier it is for it to break through the restraints of reason and spiral out of control."]
["Please eliminate the ever-growing instinctual desires of Sugisaki Kasumi, Shino Shizuku, and Ichinose Marika."]
The one who triggered the quest at the very beginning was Sugisaki Kasumi, but now that Ichinose Marika and Shino Shizuku had already been completely taken care of by him, it was finally Sugisaki Kasumi's turn.
'Ever-growing instinctual desire...'
'Instinctual desire...'
Instinct unleashed!
Hachiman scooped up Sugisaki Kasumi, who was lying on the floor looking up at him with drool at the corner of her mouth, and fed her a bottle of Spirit Spring Water to restore her stamina and mental energy.
Then he immediately began to use the skill that could break shackles and release instincts: Instinct Unleashed.
"H-Hikigaya-kun—"
In an instant, Sugisaki Kasumi's whole body stiffened. Her arms, which had been subconsciously clinging tightly around Hachiman, slowly loosened.
["Ding~"]
["Character Quest completed – Slave of Desire."]
["Quest Reward – Desire Accumulation."]
[Desire Accumulation: Accumulates excess desire, maintaining calm and rationality. However, once too much desire is accumulated, when it erupts it can easily overwhelm the limits of the body, so it must be released in a timely manner.]
'Desire Accumulation and Instinct Unleashed, huh… looks like a perfect pairing…'
Drip! Drip!
Hachiman held Sugisaki Kasumi, who was limp in his arms like a water pump, eyes unfocused, making gurgling sounds all the way, and slowly walked to the Kessoku Band table, looking at Miura Yumiko lying between Ijichi Nijika and Kitagawa Marin.
If he used a combination of releasing and restraining to guide a tsundere, would a tsundere never be able to act tsundere again?
Can a tsundere who can't even straighten her waist still keep being tsundere?
"Hikigaya? What are you doing coming over here again?"
Miura Yumiko felt her vision darken. When she realized Hachiman had actually come over holding Sugisaki Kasumi from their class, she immediately became dissatisfied.
This guy was really relentless. Not long after messing with her and Marin, he went and messed with the last beautiful girl in the class.
Hachiman didn't say anything, only smiled and gestured with his eyes toward Ijichi Nijika and Kitagawa Marin beside Miura Yumiko.
"Sorry, Yumiko."
Ijichi Nijika and Kitagawa Marin, who were already full and didn't want any more, hurriedly stood up. Without even bothering to wipe off the sweat that hadn't dried yet, the two of them pressed down Miura Yumiko's limbs from left and right.
They did feel a bit sorry toward Yumiko, who was also very tired.
But they were doing this for Yumiko's own good. She had fallen so far behind before, and now it was time for Yumiko to work hard and catch up.
"Nijika? Marin?"
Seeing how perfectly in sync Ijichi Nijika and Kitagawa Marin were, pushing her out as the target without the slightest hesitation, Miura Yumiko was so angry she nearly passed out.
Who had she been putting up with Hachiman for all night for?
Whether success or failure, it was all sorry to Yumiko.
Kitagawa Marin and Ijichi Nijika could be said to be super best friends. Good personalities, good tempers, and when something happened, they would go in together.
But from Miura Yumiko's personal experience, she would rather Marin and Nijika compete with her a bit.
"Marin, did you record it?"
"I did. Um! I'll go back to my room to put the camera away first. Hikigaya-kun, you keep playing. Bye, Yumiko!"
Hearing Hachiman's words, Kitagawa Marin, who was holding a small video camera and had recorded the entire process of Miura Yumiko begging for mercy, nodded frantically.
But after glancing at Hachiman, who seemed to have no intention of continuing to mess with Miura Yumiko for the moment, Kitagawa Marin felt a jolt of unease. She immediately teleported back to the room assigned to her to put the camera away, then left the club and returned to her own home.
———
Her vision shifted from bright to pitch black. Escaping the Service Club, Kitagawa Marin threw herself heavily onto the soft bed, lying on the blanket and rolling left and right while wrapped up in it.
She lived alone in a rented place, so even coming back late at night, she didn't have to worry about disturbing anyone.
Of course, that was on the condition that she didn't make too much noise. There was no way she could shout as freely here as she could in the club.
"Huh?"
Kitagawa Marin's body stiffened. Suddenly sensing something, she quickly stopped rolling around, pulled her smooth, pale arm out from the blanket, reached up to the black shared-sensation collar on her neck, skillfully pressed the hidden button to turn off shared sensation, and relaxed, letting out a long sigh.
Tonight's service activities were truly over now.
Yumiko had finally made a breakthrough with Hikigaya, so there was no need to worry about her being stubborn anymore.
Although the process had been a bit hard on her and Nijika, not only did they have to talk endlessly, they also had to endure Yumiko's glares.
But thinking back carefully now, the whole process had been pretty great.
Not only did they successfully add bricks to Yumiko's love life, she had also made many friends.
Now in the class, the only one who hadn't really blended in with them was the disciplinary committee member Kotegawa Yui, right? But she felt it wouldn't be long. After all, she had already seen several disciplinary committee members at Hikigaya-kun's dining table: Usui Makoto, Kitamura Chika, Asai Saki, and Sakurai Hana.
She guessed that once Hikigaya-kun finished conquering Class 1-F, he would start conquering the disciplinary committee beginning with Kotegawa Yui. By then, from top to bottom, Sobu High would all be Hikigaya-kun's people, and even the teachers wouldn't be able to control him anymore.
Besides making ordinary friends she could hang out and play with, Kitagawa Marin had also made like-minded friends.
The elf princess Lumilia, who was interested in otaku culture and wanted to go to conventions with her, Gabriel, who would come to her house to play GAL games with her, and so on.
Even though she could now transform into a magical girl who fought evil like in anime, she still loved cosplay.
There were just way, way too many characters she wanted to cosplay. A single magical girl couldn't satisfy her at all. What's more, this magical girl didn't really count as a two-dimensional magical girl. It was purely her own magical girl outfit, and it wasn't even suitable to wear outside.
Still, she and Lumilia were planning a private cosplay event. If cosplay-loving friends she knew, like Ririsa and the others, were willing to come and cosplay together, she could let them see her magical girl outfit.
But Ririsa and the others might not be willing. After all, she had only cosplayed once, and the private cosplay convention she and Lumilia were preparing was super realistic and super bold.
Snow women, vampires, elves, succubi, dragons, mermaids, and so on. There were also goddesses, angels, demons, magical girls, female executives of evil organizations.
Well, not everyone necessarily liked cosplay, but demi-humans could be mixed in.
Anyway, all these settings felt perfect for cosplay. If real demi-humans played the cosplay roles, it would feel like breaking the boundary between dimensions.
With Hikigaya-kun around, even cosplaying slave-girl type characters wouldn't be a problem. She could even consider adding a bit of realistic-looking wounds. Anyway, Hikigaya-kun could help heal her afterward, and her skin would return to being fair and flawless.
This kind of perfectly immersive cosplay was just amazing!
The more Kitagawa Marin thought about it, the more excited she became, rolling around on the bed, her pale, tender feet kicking the blanket wildly, completely unconcerned that she still hadn't cleaned herself up.
She didn't want to go back to the Service Club's bath to wash. What if Hikigaya-kun changed locations and caught her right there?
Although she and Nijika had tried their best to let Yumiko get a bit more in Hikigaya-kun's arms, she and Nijika still had to stay by Yumiko's side to help her.
When Yumiko was lying on the table, gritting her teeth and enduring it, feeling betrayed by her good friends, she and Nijika had been very busy too.
Forget it, let it be like this. Tomorrow—
Tonight, she'd just learn one more cleaning spell from Hikigaya-kun. From now on, she could just clean herself directly.
Kitagawa Marin suddenly noticed that the room wasn't completely dark. Turning her head toward the curtains that faintly let in a trace of morning light, she realized that dawn was approaching. She immediately lost any desire to sleep and pulled her phone out from under the covers.
Kitagawa Marin already had a great body and overflowing energy. Now, after being strengthened by Hachiman's service aura and awakening her magical girl talent to become a magical girl, her body had undergone a fundamental change.
As long as she didn't face Hachiman with his negative affinity and didn't get messed with by him, Kitagawa Marin could stay energetic even if she didn't sleep for several days.
"There are so many demi-humans in the club. Should I also create a demi-human character with a supernatural setting? An animal-eared girl? Or an angel? A succubus?"
Kitagawa Marin browsed the comments section of her last cosplay photos, thinking about what cosplay to do next.
Although the cosplay-themed party at Rurikan's house last time couldn't be made public, and many of the photos she had immersed herself in would make her blush when she looked at them after calming down.
Still, after shooting for so long, there were a few proper photos that could be posted.
With Hikigaya-kun's peak photography skills and the excellent quality, exquisitely made costumes, she basically didn't even need post-processing to look amazing in the photos.
And since it was her first cosplay, afterward she also photographed the clothes that Shion had given her and uploaded them together.
"Huh? Lord Juju?"
Kitagawa Marin's slender fingers froze on the screen. In the comments section under the clothing photos, she saw a name that made her extremely excited.
A hugely popular cosplayer with extremely high-quality costumes and photos, and someone she had always admired.
'Super, super, super cute Lord Juju!'
———
[Service Club, Family Restaurant]
As Kitagawa Marin fled, Ijichi Nijika, Ikuyo Kita, Miura Yumiko, and the others ran off one after another, each returning to their own homes.
If no one had run away, they could have continued sharing the sweet and the bitter, persevering together.
Once someone started escaping, they couldn't take it anymore.
They'd better let the others continue enjoying it. If it went on any longer, they really might not be able to go take the exam during the day.
"Hachiman, don't forget to reimburse me. I really did run into a few dropout rock girls. Hard to say how good they are, but they're all pretty cute. While they're still poor and need to work part-time, you can have them sign a lifetime band contract, basically selling themselves."
Seeing that Ijichi Nijika had also run off, Yamada Ryou immediately climbed down from the table and jumped to the floor, running barefoot across the ground to another table. She picked up a plate of untouched sushi and a piece of cake that hadn't been smeared on anyone, and before teleporting away, turned back to remind Hachiman to remember to reimburse her.
Her lending money to other bands was helping Hachiman play with women. Hachiman couldn't let her put in both effort and money and still break her heart.
"..."
Hachiman looked speechlessly at Yamada Ryou, who finished speaking and teleported away.
'Is Ryou really helping me drag rock girls into the water?'
'Or is she using the excuse of finding women for me to spend his money and handle her own business?'
He remembered that Kikuri Hiroi, who had borrowed money from Ryou, also played bass like that trashy Ryou, and Ryou often went to watch her performances.
It wasn't that Ryou was necessarily scamming him. Ryou herself had no money, and if Kikuri Hiroi also had no money, then she really would have to sell herself.
Given the state of Kikuri Hiroi's band, after drinking, she might really come voluntarily to sell herself to pay off debts. But was he really that heartless a man?
He wouldn't let meat that reached his mouth go, but afterward he would also take responsibility for supporting Kikuri Hiroi. From then on, Kikuri Hiroi wouldn't have to worry about living expenses and could focus on the band. When she had free time, it would be fine to go eat and drink with Seika Ijichi and the others.
Hmm… worthy of trashy Ryou. Maybe Kikuri Hiroi would even be grateful to her, thinking Ryou was a great person, and end up being sold by Ryou while still helping her count the money.
"Meroune, come here for a moment."
Hachiman pondered for a bit. Seeing that the girls lying on the tables resting were teleporting away one by one to go rest, he waved to the mermaid princess Meroune, who was lying inside the aquarium, and called her over.
He didn't know if it was some hidden function of the family restaurant, but earlier the heroines of the inner world had all been extremely hungry, as if they could never be satisfied. Even when exhausted, as long as they could still crawl, they wanted to continue.
But tonight, before dawn even arrived, the girls lying on the dining tables all left the family restaurant one after another, incomparably satisfied.
Hmm… although they hadn't eaten much food all night. Basically, he was the one eating, while eating and.
"Master? I'm coming right away!"
The mermaid princess Meroune, floating in the aquarium in a light pink gradient gauze dress, was stunned for a moment, then excitedly controlled the freely expandable aquarium to extend in front of Hachiman. She quickly swam over, leapt up, and pounced straight into Hachiman's arms.
At present, the members of the Service Club were divided into two major categories: human students and demi-human students.
Because they were limited by their student status and surrounding relationships, most human students had to attend classes during the day. Only a few could ignore everything and mess around with Hachiman.
The demi-humans came to Sobu High purely because of the elf princess or Hachiman. They hadn't considered future employment to begin with, so they didn't need to care about attending classes.
The six sisters of the Count Kiriya family and the snow women of the Yuki-onna clan had just arrived. Letting them see the service war between demi-humans and humans wouldn't be good, so no demi-humans came to join in. With nothing to eat, no demi-humans specifically came to watch either.
The mermaid princess Meroune was an exception.
She liked watching. She even liked watching from afar, alone.
Although she had already experienced the feeling of being filled with happiness, she still really enjoyed this feeling of longing but being unable to reach it, of being neglected alone.
At night, watching her master surrounded by so many girls while she was all alone and unable to get close, and then during the day being filled with happiness together with Elio and the others, that was double the happiness.
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