Aoi Mai of the Aoi family was one of the four council leaders of the demi-human alliance. It was just that Aoi Mai had only sent her daughter Aoi Kuon to show up and hadn't made contact with her personally. Now that she'd discovered Hachiman possessed awakened magic essence, she was probably already regretting not letting her daughter take the initiative to climb into Hachiman's bed.
Forget it, forget it. No point thinking about it.
Ursula shook her head, put her legs down, stood up, and walked toward Iris and the others not far away.
At worst, she'd just fight it out. If it really didn't work, she'd go back to their world and snatch a few princesses.
She was a dragon, after all. Snatching princesses from human kingdoms wasn't strange at all. That was something the elves absolutely couldn't do.
Although, once those human princesses learned how powerful Hachiman was, they'd probably not only willingly serve him, but even act as guides and guarantors, introducing other noble ladies from their kingdoms.
If crossing worlds to fight evil dragons wasn't such a hassle, she'd even want to grab more princesses and have teams of heroes deliver beautiful girls to her.
Ursula, who didn't want to use her brain at all and only wanted to act, stopped thinking about the whole dragon-snatching-princesses thing. Ignoring the knight-nurse Aegis who was staring closely at her, she plopped down beside Iris and spoke directly.
"I heard you talking about some roleplay game. Is there a role that suits me? I want to play too."
Even if she didn't want to think through all those schemes and tricks, she knew Iris and the others were good at it.
Whatever Iris and the others planned to do, she would do too. Combined with her overwhelming strength, there was no way she'd lose.
The elves, who pursued peace and were pure and beautiful, were indeed liked by many. But their way of doing things was also restricted by themselves, unlike her, who could act however she wanted.
"Of course there is."
Hearing that Ursula wanted to join their roleplay game, Lumilia's eyes lit up. Seeing that Iris didn't object, she immediately answered.
"Really? What role?"
Seeing Lumilia respond without hesitation, it was Ursula's turn to be surprised.
She wasn't being tricked, right? Or were they going to make her play some ugly role?
"Mm! Really! Look at this, slightly dark wheat-colored skin and amber eyes like rubies. With your current figure, Lady Ursula, just switch to twin tails and cover your dragon horns, and you'll be perfect."
Lumilia quickly took out her phone and showed Ursula a picture of the character.
"Of course, if you want a more mature role, there are options too. It's just that the personality might not match as well, and your skin would need to be a bit darker. So I still recommend the role that fits you better."
The dragon race technically wasn't considered demi-human. Dragonkin were, because dragons' true forms were giant dragons, not humanoid forms with racial features. Usually, dragons were just grouped with demi-humans for convenience, or rather, any non-human race with a humanoid form was categorized that way.
As the dragon clan leader, Ursula's true form was naturally a giant dragon. This current body was a human form she transformed into, capable of changing size.
But that actually made things better. A body that could change size made it easier to handle different cosplay roles.
"Hmm… it actually does seem to fit. Just changing the outfit would be enough. Tell me more about it. When's this convention? I'll have Miime come help you."
Looking at the image of the small silver-haired, red-eyed twin-tailed girl Lumilia had found, Ursula thought for a moment and realized it really did suit her.
"It's actually this weekend. After tonight's game, tomorrow the Savior will deal with the teachers' home visit, and the day after is a holiday, so he might be free."
Seeing Ursula genuinely interested, Lumilia immediately explained everything she and Marin had planned.
"If the Savior doesn't have other arrangements, the day after tomorrow we'll invite him to visit a convention together, see how other doujin artists and cosplayers participate."
"After that, we'll come back and hold our own private convention. After all, the roleplay we do isn't suitable for public conventions."
"However, aside from ourselves, Marin said we could invite other suitable cosplayers to join our private convention, like the Juju-sama she really likes."
"There also seem to be others at school who do cosplay. They're not very professional, but we can invite them too."
"Alright! I'll have Miime help you organize it! Check if there's a role suitable for her too, and let her join the roleplay."
After thinking for a moment, Ursula decisively nodded and supported this cosplay-themed Service activity.
Vignette and Gabriel stood nearby, stunned. She was joining just like that?
Iris found it a little amusing but didn't show it on her face.
In reality, facing a club president who had grown so strong that there was no hope of winning, Ursula had probably wanted to admit defeat for a long time. She was just too stubborn to say it out loud, so she kept searching for help outside.
Now that she had found an opportunity, she might lower her head during the roleplay and reluctantly acknowledge the club president's authority.
This method might also work for girls who were shy or stubborn.
Iris smiled as she looked toward Vignette and Gabriel.
Vignette and Gabriel immediately grew alert. They exchanged a glance, their expressions turning serious, both making up their minds to capture Raphiel.
They couldn't wait any longer. This time, they had to catch Raphiel. Since Raphiel had ignored their suffering, they couldn't be blamed for making her share it.
This roleplay would definitely include Raphiel
———
Somewhere else—
The silver-haired mischievous angel, who had been constantly watching Gabriel and Vignette's "falling progress," saw their wordless exchange and immediately felt something was wrong.
It's over, it's over. She was definitely doomed. So many people were going to catch her, and she couldn't actually fight back. She'd definitely get caught and punished hard.
Still, she felt she didn't really have any conflict with Hachiman. Recently, she'd just been teasing Satanichia and hadn't done anything bad. At most, she secretly took pictures of Vignette and Gabriel when they were completely embarrassed.
Hmm… was it still possible to sacrifice Satanichia now? If she offered up one Satanichia to Hachiman, she should be able to get away, right?
Satanichia, who also came from the demon world like Vignette, was actually quite suitable for roleplay. Even though she lacked any demonic dignity and looked kind of silly, wasn't that also cute?
"What kind of roleplay are they even planning… so many characters… there should be one suitable for Satanichia…"
Thinking about all the fun she'd had recently, Raphiel, who had peeked into the confidential plans for the Service Club's private convention, quickly made up her mind.
Because of various reasons, Satanichia had barely interacted with Hachiman. She had only once gone to his house with them for a meal.
But that wasn't really a problem. Satanichia didn't have much scheming in her. She was a bit silly but very cute, and she could easily become friends with Hachiman.
Actually, ever since meeting Gabriel, Satanichia, who aspired to become a great demon, often went to find her after class and usually stayed with Vignette.
It was just that Gabriel and Vignette didn't want this silly demon who dreamed of becoming a great demon to interact too much with Hachiman, so they never took the initiative to bring her to his house.
On top of that, Hachiman was often not in the classroom and rarely ate lunch there, so Satanichia had hardly met him.
But since there were two demons and two angels at Sobu High, and Vignette and Gabriel already had such a good relationship with Hachiman, it wouldn't be right to keep excluding Satanichia.
Taking advantage of this roleplay event, it was the perfect chance to bring Satanichia in, and then let Vignette and Gabriel take care of her.
Mm… Satanichia was too easy to fool. Once she entered the Service Club, she would definitely be taught step by step by Iris and the others on how to go bad. Vignette and Gabriel would probably have to try their hardest to stop her.
Of course, they could choose not to stop her. But if they just watched as Satanichia fell before them without doing anything, wouldn't that itself be a kind of falling?
"Got it. Satanichia… she'll definitely love this 'do one evil act a day' villain setting!"
The more Raphiel thought about it, the more excited she became. As she tapped on her keyboard, she found a character in a certain game with many roles that perfectly suited Satanichia, and the smile on her face widened.
She wouldn't even need to persuade her. Once Satanichia saw this villain setting, she would definitely throw herself into the role wholeheartedly.
However, she had already completely offended Gabriel and Vignette. Just sacrificing Satanichia probably wouldn't be enough to earn forgiveness.
To avoid being jointly punished later, she needed to find a suitable role for herself and proactively surrender.
Soon, Raphiel picked a character, a beautiful girl with silver-white shoulder-length hair, a full chest, and the same kind of pleased smile on her face.
There was actually another role suited for teasing idiots, but the body type didn't match her very well, and she also had to consider Vignette and Gabriel.
Mm… so she chose a role that would reasonably let her mess with Vignette, Gabriel, and Satanichia.
Everything was for the sake of roleplay.
———
"That Raphiel…"
Back in the Service Club living room, Gabriel once again sensed that mischievous angel's gaze and clenched her teeth.
As an angel herself, and the top graduate of her class, there was no way she wouldn't notice Raphiel using divine power to spy on her.
On one hand, Raphiel was second only to her. Even though her grades were slightly worse, she was still very strong, so it wasn't hard for her to observe their situation.
On the other hand, Gabriel had to maintain the divine projection at the scene, so she didn't have the capacity to stop Raphiel.
Forget it. It wasn't her embarrassing moments being seen right now anyway. Raphiel would go through this sooner or later, and when that time came, she'd let Raphiel experience being "educated" by Hachiman while being watched by her.
After seeing so many outrageous scenes recently and learning some related game knowledge from Marin, she felt she could make good use of what she'd learned to punish Raphiel.
Characters like Raphiel, scheming and manipulative, usually had the worst outcomes when captured in games.
Gabriel suddenly thought of the special doujinshi Marin had recently recommended to her, 2.5 Dimensional Seduction, and her mood instantly brightened.
Although Raphiel didn't quite match Liliel's personality, Liliel felt more suitable for Marin to play.
Still, punishment didn't need to match perfectly. It was better to deliberately make things difficult for Raphiel.
Once they caught Raphiel, she could force her to play the heroine Liliel and make her follow the story, letting Hachiman thoroughly "discipline" her.
Raphiel knew her spying couldn't be hidden from Gabriel, so she didn't bother concealing it much. Vignette could also sense it and really wanted to discuss with Gabriel how to make Raphiel share their suffering.
But right now, she was surrounded by Ursula and Lumilia, who were discussing suitable roles for her, so she couldn't talk to Gabriel at all.
"Um… maybe I just won't participate in the roleplay. The role you picked for me doesn't seem very suitable…"
Vignette's tone had already softened under their persistence, but when she saw the full chest of the character they recommended, she instinctively refused.
How could she possibly play a role like that.
If it were just simple roleplay, she might have been a bit interested in joining everyone and maybe trying some padding. But it was obvious that the private convention Lumilia and the others were planning involved serving Hachiman.
Even if she believed things wouldn't go too far between her and Hachiman, fake was fake. Hachiman knew exactly what she was like. The moment he touched, everything would be exposed.
Forcing herself to pad up and roleplay like that would be unbearably embarrassing.
"That's easy. Didn't we just say? Lala can solve it."
Iris smiled and turned to the genius scientist among them, Lala.
"No problem, leave it to me!"
Lala immediately agreed, patting her chest confidently.
"Physical development can be changed by adjusting hormone balance. Long-term changes require more careful adjustment, but short-term temporary changes are easy."
"I'll research it tomorrow. By the weekend, I can give you your ideal figure."
While she hadn't made much progress with bloodline awakening, simple physical changes were extremely easy for Lala.
"Since Vignette's role is decided, now let's pick a suitable role for Gabriel."
With the body issue solved, Lumilia moved on to choosing a role for the small, cute blonde Gabriel.
"I never agreed! This kind of body change isn't okay, right?"
Seeing everyone assume she had agreed, Vignette couldn't hold back anymore.
She did wonder a little why her body hadn't developed much, but using external interference like this still wasn't acceptable.
It wasn't like she needed to use such methods to improve her figure just to serve Hachiman, right? If anyone was going to serve him, it should be Gab. Gab was his type, after all, a cute blonde girl like the elf princess Iris.
Gabriel glanced at Vignette, who seemed to be radiating some kind of ill intent toward her, then fell into thought without speaking, quietly considering what role would place her later in the lineup and make it easier for her to slip away.
Since Raphiel could spy on them, she would definitely know their plan.
But Raphiel wouldn't be able to escape. She couldn't use her full strength freely and could only use a little power for convenience.
Unless Raphiel stopped coming to school altogether, she would definitely be caught once she showed up, with so many magical girls around.
Given Raphiel's personality, once she knew she couldn't escape, she would likely surrender voluntarily to gain trust and forgiveness, then look for a chance to drag them down with her.
Mm… when Raphiel made her last struggle, she might randomly pull one or two people down, very likely Vignette, Satanichia, and herself.
What she needed to do was make Raphiel stay obediently in the water while avoiding being dragged down herself.
———
"What are those guys doing over there instead of watching the Barrier of Desire game…"
On the other side, Hachiman's childhood friend Kaede sat with her arms crossed and legs crossed, scanning the expressions of everyone in the living room. Noticing the strange atmosphere between Gabriel, Vignette, Ursula, and the others near Iris, she wrinkled her nose in confusion.
Normally, she would sit with Iris and the others. After all, they didn't have any deep grudges. Their only disagreement was over Hachiman, and that kind of conflict was easily resolved once it reached the bed.
But tonight there were many newcomers. She didn't want to appear too close to Iris, lest others misunderstand that the conflict between the human and elf factions was just trivial.
Even though she didn't actually intend to do anything to Iris, maintaining initiative was important. To restrain this increasingly arrogant blonde princess, she had even contacted Hachiman's childhood friends from the countryside.
She just hadn't found the right opportunity yet, nor had she convinced their teacher mother, so she hadn't brought them over.
After all, once they came, she would have to consider letting them stay long-term. She couldn't just have them come over every night for intimacy and then send them back to the countryside when they weren't needed. That would be too much.
"President, it should be about the cosplay theme."
The maid Shion, standing nearby, explained softly.
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