No wonder. Originally, it was agreed that Mother would just come take a look at her, then go back to report the situation to the Elf Queen. So why did she suddenly decide to stay and receive the Savior's assistance?
And it was even during tonight's servant game, without even meeting the Savior face to face.
They weren't like the other forces that coveted the Savior's power. Lady Iris was already living in the Savior's home, so for new elves like them, meeting him was something very easy.
If they really wanted the Savior to assist Mother and improve her strength, Lady Iris could have simply waited until the servant game ended and then arranged for Mother to serve the Savior privately.
Now that she thought about it, Mother had simply taken Princess Nina's place, serving the Savior on behalf of the princess, who wasn't in a good mood.
Seeing that Leticia understood why she was here, Lumaria didn't explain further. She turned and leaned forward onto the barrier of desire.
She didn't plan on trying any special positions. She just wanted to quietly enjoy the Savior's assistance.
Actually, her personality was very similar to Leticia's. The only difference was that Leticia stayed deep in the forest researching potions alone, while she stayed in the elven capital, reading books, taking baths, and occasionally having afternoon tea with other elves.
Back then, Leticia had been so small. It felt like the blink of an eye, and now she had become a serious, meticulous adult elf. She even felt that she, as a mother, wasn't worthy of receiving the Savior's assistance. But today just happened to be a good opportunity, and she was quite happy to join Lady Iris and the others in this little escapade.
'The Savior…'
Before, when she heard reports from Lady Iris and the others, the feeling hadn't been that strong. But now that she was experiencing it up close, she immediately understood. If this wasn't the Savior, then who could be?
Lumaria felt the presence of the Savior in the servant club. Not far away, it was like a sun, freely radiating the brilliance of life and warming them. A warmth rose in her chest. She slowly turned her head and looked at the silver-haired woman beside her, who seemed shy and introverted, and smiled as she took the initiative to greet her.
"Hello, I'm Lumaria, from the elf race. Can you tell me your name? You're a snow woman, right? I heard your kind has strong desires."
"Mm… y-yes. My name is Yukino Mifuyu…"
Her shoulder-length silver-white hair covered part of her delicate, pale face. Yukino Mifuyu, the snow woman, looked very poor at social interaction. As soon as she heard Lumaria's words, a faint blush of embarrassment instantly spread across her cheeks.
"Don't be nervous. There's nothing to be ashamed of. Having strong desire just means your body is healthy. If your body wasn't in good shape, you wouldn't even have that kind of desire."
Seeing how simple and easily embarrassed Yukino was, Lumaria immediately understood that she had also been sent here. She smiled and reassured her.
"Although snow women do have strong desires, compared to succubi, it's nothing worth mentioning. Just look at the succubus beside you. Just feeling the Savior's life energy aura is already too much for her to handle."
"Huh? Succubus?"
Yukino froze. She had been keeping her head down the whole time. Hesitantly, she looked to her other side and suddenly noticed that the succubus beside them, Amaki Lami, was trembling all over.
Just moments ago, when she arrived at this upgraded barrier of desire, Lami had looked indifferent and kept her distance from others. But now, the second of the three succubus sisters, Amaki Lami, was kneeling on the floor with her legs bent, completely overwhelmed, drool pooling on the ground.
How long had it even been? Hadn't she just knelt down a few minutes ago?
Although Lami hadn't been in the servant club for long, to be precise, she had stayed at home the entire evening and only teleported over after receiving news that the barrier of desire game was about to begin.
It wasn't that she didn't want to sit together with everyone in the main hall of the servant club, turn on shared sensation, and enjoy together. It was just that her race was succubi, a race that liked to absorb essence. Playing these kinds of fake tricks would only torture themselves. Unlike humans, their desires couldn't be eased at all through shared sensation.
Lumaria held a fairly high status among the elves, and now she had come to this world with Princess Nina and the others to provide assistance. Naturally, through the elven princess Iris, she knew about Lami.
These demi-humans who coveted the Savior of their elven race were all beings that required vigilance, especially creatures like succubi. But conversely, the more they coveted the Savior, the easier it was for them to be controlled by him.
Succubi also existed in their world. There, succubi and nightmares could practically be considered the same kind of being. They liked to absorb others' essence and could pull people into dreams.
There were even virgin succubi who suppressed their urges and didn't consume directly, instead using magic to create dreams for others and absorb essence that way. But a succubus who had restrained herself for hundreds of years like this, and seemingly didn't even have dream-based methods. Lumaria felt she had never even heard of such a thing.
Maybe it was because ordinary humans in this world had zero magic power and weren't very attractive to succubi. It seemed Lami wasn't the only one like this. All three Amaki sisters were like this. Even many succubi in this world who hadn't awakened their bloodline, like Sakurase Shino, were the same.
That explained why Lami had lost control of her body and collapsed to her knees just from sensing the Savior's life aura in the servant club.
If succubi could suppress their instincts toward ordinary humans, then what about the Savior's essence? It was like someone with anorexia who had starved for hundreds of years suddenly seeing an unprecedented feast. Even if it killed them, they would still devour it bite by bite.
Even though Lumaria didn't know that Hachiman had a physique that specifically attracted succubi, just the awakened magical essence and the overwhelming life energy she could feel was already enough to make Lami, who had starved for centuries, lose her rationality.
The fact that Lami hadn't completely lost her mind yet, and was only trembling uncontrollably, already showed considerable restraint.
Though with her succubus nature, even after being "treated" by the Savior, she would probably still drool frequently.
Tap! Tap! Tap!
The faint dripping sound of liquid became especially clear once the surroundings fell quiet.
While listening to Lumaria's quiet explanation, Yukino secretly glanced at Lami, who now looked completely different from before. The shock in her eyes was impossible to hide.
Lami still hadn't said a word. Her head hung low as if she had lost consciousness. Her silver-white hair covered her beautiful pale face, but her rapid breathing was now too loud to ignore.
"Miss Yukino, you don't need to envy her. Although succubi are very talented in this area, as a snow woman, your strength isn't bad either. And didn't many of your people come? Succubi rarely appear in groups. When everyone serves the Savior together, they won't be able to beat you."
Seeing this, Lumaria smiled and comforted her.
Although the snow woman race was extremely rare, practically on the brink of extinction, and far fewer in number than the elves, a group of them acting together could still be troublesome.
If they sent any more people, it would practically be their entire race. They couldn't exactly copy that strategy and rely on numbers.
After all, while they wanted the Savior to assist their elven race, serving him still required considering quality, not just blindly increasing numbers.
Increasing numbers just to diversify "flavors" was something others could handle.
"Mm… Miss Lumaria, just call me Mifuyu. It seems there are other people in the club named Yukino."
Seeing Lumaria assume she was envying Lami's talent, Yukino's face burned red. She pressed her lips together. Being bad at social interaction, she felt even more embarrassed to explain anything and could only softly change the subject.
She really wanted to say that her desire wasn't strong, but it seemed that snow women truly did have strong desires. When they were young, it was fine, but the older they got, the stronger it became. In the past, some husbands couldn't endure it and fled, only to be turned into ice sculptures by the enraged snow women.
It sounded terrifying, which was why their race had a bad reputation. Only after they retreated deep into the snowy mountains and appeared less often did their reputation slowly improve.
But she couldn't refute Lumaria anyway. If snow women didn't have strong desires, their village chief wouldn't have sent young women like them out to find men after learning about the elf Savior's powerful assistance.
Because their desires were indeed strong. Either they didn't find a man at all, or they had to find the most suitable one, someone who could endure. After all, to avoid being abandoned like those snow women in the past, finding a man who could easily satisfy them was the best choice.
Though after leaving the village, experiencing such an overwhelmingly embarrassing game on her first time was beyond her expectations. None of the other snow women had joined this barrier of desire game, only her. She wondered if the Savior would like someone like her, socially awkward and timid.
As Yukino was lost in thought about whether Hachiman would accept her, she suddenly heard footsteps approaching from behind. Two voices followed.
"Master, the basic rules of this round are the same as the previous one, but there's no time limit, and your actions aren't restricted. You can leave halfway through guessing and switch to someone else. As long as you guess everyone's names, it's fine."
"What about the display screen on the wall? Can it show me what's happening on the other side?"
"That's right. Every time you spread your radiance to the sinners, the screen can display their side for ten seconds. But the image shown isn't necessarily the person in front of you, it could be someone else. So you'll need to keep switching and judging who exactly is in front of you and who's who."
"Ten seconds… just looking through ten people once would already take a few seconds…"
Yeah, only ten seconds. Wasn't this basically forcing the Savior, Hikigaya, to keep "punishing" them?
Yukino had just silently agreed with his complaint about the rules when she suddenly felt him stop behind her. Her body instantly tensed, and she didn't dare think about anything else.
She understood very well that this was all designed to make him "play" more, not genuinely to guess names.
After all, not only could he help others develop and awaken magical girl talents, he also possessed awakened magical essence.
Whether for humans or demi-humans, the longer and deeper he "played," the more benefits they would gain.
In such a special situation, it wasn't really that he was "playing" them. It was more like he was accompanying them in this "play."
"Master, who would you like to punish first? If you want, we can even move the barrier of desire so they can all pray to you for redemption at the same time."
"I'll take a look first. Everyone seems well prepared. Out of ten people, there are actually five new faces I don't recognize."
As Yukino listened to their conversation, she suddenly felt her butt lightly slapped. Her body tensed again, but after waiting, no further action came.
Only after calming down did she realize he had already moved behind someone else. She instinctively relaxed, only to notice that after making a round, he had returned not far behind her again.
She seemed to understand Lami's earlier reaction.
Because now, her own body was starting to become hard to control.
Even just his finger brushing her lips made her instinctively press them together, almost biting down and not letting go.
Even if he simply stood behind her and did nothing, she could feel that overwhelming life energy, like waves of heat crashing against her, almost affecting reality itself.
"Mmnh!"
A sudden sound rang by her ear. Yukino, whose nerves were stretched tight, froze. Realizing it wasn't her being favored, she instinctively looked at Lami beside her.
Lami, who had been hanging her head low, suddenly threw her head back.
Her twin silver ponytails swayed, revealing her already flushed, alluring face, burning red.
"Guh… Master…"
Feeling herself completely undone by Hikigaya's "discipline," Lami's previously indifferent face flushed deeply. Her eyes turned misty, unfocused as she stared ahead.
As the second of the three succubus sisters, she had long learned about Hikigaya's strength from her younger sister Lily. She knew they didn't need to worry that their instinct to absorb essence would harm him.
Only their eldest sister, Remi, was more cautious and had kept them from approaching him recklessly, telling them to wait and observe.
And she was right. His identity and status were special. If something happened to him because of them, they wouldn't be able to bear the consequences.
But how was she supposed to wait? Lily had already eaten her fill. She was still starving. And Lily even kept secretly bragging about how many milliliters she had consumed.
With such dense, immense life energy, something they had never seen before, even if something went wrong, it wouldn't be because they absorbed too much. On the contrary, if they missed this chance, they would regret it for the rest of their lives. They might never find another human who could satisfy them and survive their touch.
'Mm… ah… hundreds of years… from losing our parents, to the sisters relying on each other… from birth until now… this emptiness spanning centuries… finally, it is being filled…'
Having always only been able to watch his growing life energy from afar, not daring to approach, now that she had finally tasted it, Lami didn't want to think about anything else. She just wanted to quietly enjoy this rare sweetness.
She would think about everything else after she had her fill. Tomorrow, she and Lily would talk to their eldest sister and persuade her. Then the three of them could enjoy this fullness together… she and Lily had held back for a long time, but their eldest sister had endured the longest.
Clack!
Yukino didn't hear Lami's thoughts. She only felt something cold clasp around her ankle. Her legs went weak, and her entire body began trembling uncontrollably.
Not just her mind, even that was trembling, as if her entire being was about to become Hikigaya's possession.
Realizing she had been fitted with a shared sensation device and was now feeling everything Lami felt, Yukino struggled to lift her head and looked at Lami in disbelief.
Her eyes rolled back, drool pooling, completely different from her previous cold demeanor.
'Wait… are all succubi like this? Aren't you supposed to be a virgin succubus? How did you become like this right after getting close to him?'
Even though she had no real experience herself, she had at least done a bit of private practice and knew what things normally felt like.
But now, sharing Lami's sensations, she could feel both the scorching, sun-like life energy radiating from him.
And Lami's overwhelming, surging force, like a high-pressure pump, trying to engulf him and cling to him tightly.
She began questioning reality.
Was this what a real succubus was like?
Or was Lami just too hungry?
Compared to her… her desire as a snow woman… didn't even seem to be on the same level.
For the first time, Yukino realized how fragile the desire buried within her body was.
This sensation, spreading from deep within her to her entire body, left her with no time to think about why Lami was so "hungry." Within seconds, she sank into it together with her.
However, while Yukino and Lami were immersed in overwhelming fullness and pleasure, the woman beside them, Lumaria, was not in such a good mood.
Lumaria stared at Yukino, whose trembling frequency was now matching Lami's, her expression also on the verge of breaking apart. She felt a quiet sense of envy.
She was in the middle too, wasn't she? Why didn't the Savior come to her first?
At the very least, he should have chosen Yukino.
Yet he chose Lami instead. He was right behind them, and such a wonderful moment was excluding her. That neither-near-nor-far distance made it even more torturous.
Among the three of them, elf, snow woman, and succubus, the socially awkward Yukino stood in the center, with Lumaria and Lami on either side.
Now that the Savior was "punishing" the succubus Lami, he could only simultaneously affect Yukino and the new vampire on Lami's other side.
Although starting with Lami and letting her share her sensations with others through the shared devices was indeed an excellent approach.
Not to mention that many girls in the club had never experienced this before, even those who had been favored by the Savior would find it hard to resist Lami's explosive desire after starving for hundreds of years.
Unlike the mutual sharing of the full device, the one-way sharing bracelet wasn't much different. This kind of shared sensation was so intense that it could leave irreversible effects on the body.
After all, those using the full device could enjoy everything directly on-site and feel satisfied afterward. But those using the bracelet were only tasting an illusion.
Once or twice was fine. But if they never actually received the Savior's assistance, relying solely on the bracelet would only make them increasingly "hungry."
Eventually, when they got close to him, they might end up like Lami, collapsing to their knees and losing all reason, desperately craving his favor.
Of course, this side effect wasn't necessarily a bad thing. Although the Savior's life energy was immense and showed no signs of diminishing despite assisting so many, it wasn't something to waste freely.
The shared devices allowed everyone to feel each other's experiences, but they still had to work hard, to serve him well and satisfy him.
Sneaking around using the bracelet to enjoy others' efforts without submitting to him wasn't acceptable. Everyone should take turns working hard and enjoying it.
"Mmnh…"
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