Tohsaka Touka kept her head slightly lowered, not wanting to speak.
She felt she had lost all dignity. Not only had Haruno and Yukino seen her in such a humiliating state, but she had even dragged her two younger sisters into it.
Yukinoshita Haruno didn't dwell on this excessively. After today, their bonds would be deeper, and there was no need to worry about them slowly drifting apart in the future.
However, she also understood everyone's feelings and wondered whether she should show off her newly developed Magical Girl powers to change the subject.
But remembering the battle-worn Magical Girl outfit Touka had shown her, which was anything but childish, she fell silent.
If she showed off her Magical Girl transformation outfit, only to be immediately dragged onto the table and put on display while wearing it, that would be awkward.
Tohsaka Rin, meanwhile, was using a hair ribbon to re-tie her twin-tails that Hachiman had pulled loose, while secretly glancing at Yukinoshita Yukino, who had taken her place.
Yukino-nee had stepped in to receive Hachiman-san's affection on her behalf. Logically, she should have taken over when Yukino-nee couldn't handle it any longer.
But she really couldn't handle it... If she forced herself when she couldn't, she felt like she would genuinely lose control.
Yukinoshita Yukino didn't notice Rin's gaze. She looked down at her own chest, her mood somewhat heavy.
The situation tonight had been pretty good. Everyone had either become a Magical Girl or was on the path to becoming one. Everyone had a bright future, and they could take turns when others ran out of energy.
However, after calming down, she realized something was terribly wrong.
Earlier, she'd thought she was giving herself to help her sister. Even if she had to put on a brave face, she would take some of the pressure off Haruno.
But now, after hearing her sister's explanation, she realized that idea had been wrong.
Not only could she not stop her sister, but she actually had to actively set her sister up with Hachiman, maximizing the time they spent intimately together.
To win Hachiman's favor so he would favor her own sister more.
Setting aside whether she would actually do it, if she were to do so, what would she use to win Hachiman's favor?
She didn't know how to flatter people, she had no figure to speak of, only her face was relatively cute.
Yukinoshita Yukino subtly scanned the chests of Yukinoshita Haruno beside her, and Tohsaka Touka, Tohsaka Rin, and Tohsaka Sakura across from her. Her unsettled gaze finally drifted to the side, landing on Ichinose Ayano, Ichinose Honami, and the others gathered around Hachiman. She couldn't help but fall silent.
So, was that the reason Hachiman hadn't been at all eager to get to her earlier?
The reason he'd just let her sit on his face?
The Yukinoshita sisters and the Tohsaka sisters were all lost in their own thoughts, a little subdued.
Only Tohsaka Sakura, stared at the others, constantly pondering how to get even closer.
The two families had now become completely open and honest with each other, but that wasn't enough. She wanted to firmly unite the Tohsaka and Yukinoshita families before other allied families joined. Then, any other family's beautiful girls brought in later would all be thanks to her.
Then, Father would surely adore her.
Just as Sakura was about to stir up more trouble, a familiar voice came from Hachiman's side, instantly grabbing her attention.
"Onii-chan~"
A black-haired girl in a pale blue, snowflake-patterned kimono, with waist-length hair, lively eyes, and a cool, clear demeanor, walked up behind Hachiman, smiled brightly, wrapped her arms around his neck, and gave a loud kiss on his cheek.
Yukinoshita Yukino, also drawn to look, was slightly startled when she saw this.
She had met Hachiman's younger sister, Hikigaya Komachi, a few times. While they hadn't met often, she was definitely not this girl.
"Touka, let's go back and rest for now? It's already very late. We can figure out the club matters tomorrow."
Yukinoshita Haruno also blinked in surprise upon seeing the long, straight, black-haired Snow Woman, Yuki-onna, and immediately looked at Tohsaka Touka, Tohsaka Rin, and the others, thinking of the final stage of tonight's blindfolded hide-and-seek service game.
Everything that needed to be done was mostly done. Staying longer would be futile. It was better to go back and rest well.
Whatever ideas they had, they could find another opportunity in the future.
"Tomorrow? Alright. Rin, Sakura. Come back with me tonight. We'll find time tomorrow to discuss our families' alliance."
Touka, exhausted from tonight, naturally welcomed this suggestion. She immediately agreed to Haruno's proposal and, grabbing Rin and Sakura, teleported out of the club.
Sakura had been willing, and Rin had gone along with it half-heartedly, getting confusedly involved. Touka couldn't let Sakura and Rin continue like this. She needed to take them back and warn them about some necessary knowledge.
Even though the books Sakura and Rin read in private were probably even more risque than she imagined.
"Touka, Yukino, good night."
"Goodbye, Yukino-nee."
"Touka-nee, Little Rin, Little Sakura, good night."
The sisters from the Yukinoshita and Tohsaka families exchanged goodnights and teleported away one after another.
Before teleporting out of the club, Yukinoshita Yukino suddenly noticed another black-haired beauty in a pale blue, snowflake-patterned kimono crouching in front of Hachiman.
'But... this girl?'
Seeing the girl's shoulder-length hair and the ahoge on her head, Yukino's eyes widened in astonishment, secretly shocked.
———
Yukinoshita Yukino, who had barged into the late-night service game at the Service Club, experienced the awakening ceremony of Yukinoshita Haruno several times firsthand before hurriedly leaving the club with Haruno.
After resting for a couple of hours at home, they'd get up and tell their mother, Yukinoshita Kiyuki, that after a night of effort, the two sisters had shared hardships and successfully secured their positions as Vice-Presidents.
However, Yukino probably wouldn't know.
It wasn't just her who had suddenly intruded on the late-night service game. Her mother, Kiyuki, had also come to the Service Club tonight.
Only, Kiyuki had watched from the large bath as her daughters Yukino and Haruno shed droplets of hard-earned sweat. Considering the embarrassment of meeting at such a time, she had quietly left and gone back to sleep.
———
Back in the still-lively family dining room...
While the Yukinoshita and Tohsaka sisters had gone to rest, Hachiman stood up and returned to his seat. Then, by feel, he reached out to Momo and Nana, who were still lying on the dining table, gently pinching their smooth, soft cheeks.
"Momo, Nana, are you shy or scared?"
"Don't worry. Lala just wants to bring us together. You don't need to be afraid I'll force you."
"When your mother comes, I'll be counting on you two to put in a good word for me."
Momo and Nana had been brought in by Raphiel at the same time as Little Rin, all three lying on the dining table.
But when Rin, Sakura, and the others had been serving him later, Momo and Nana hadn't joined in. They'd just watched from the side. It must have been hard for them to endure for so long.
"Jingle~ Jingle~"
"Hmm? Is Raphiel that strong? You still can't talk?"
Not hearing Momo and Nana's reply, only their increasingly heavy breathing and the jingling of bells, Hachiman was somewhat surprised.
He'd thought they were just too shy to speak. Momo was a proactive girl, a helpful wife good at building harems. But this was their first meeting; being shy seeing him act so absurdly was normal.
He hadn't expected the truth to be that Raphiel had silenced Nana and Momo for so long.
"Ugh!"
Realizing that the overworked Hachiman had finally understood their predicament, Momo and Nana, who had been silently struggling on the dining table, felt a wave of relief. Beyond the shame, the crystalline tears welling in their eyes nearly burst forth again.
As Lala's sisters, they were undoubtedly very powerful, on a completely different level from the still-ordinary Tohsaka Rin.
However, precisely because of that, after Raphiel had unexpectedly subdued them, she had placed even stronger restrictions on them. Not only could they not speak, but they couldn't move freely either, completely immobilized on the table.
Actually, Raphiel was currently being chased all over by Gabriel and the others, terrified of being caught and forced to 'eat grass.' She didn't have the spare energy to maintain the divine spells on them. Under normal circumstances, they could have easily broken free with a bit of effort.
But the problem was, these weren't normal circumstances.
They were lying right next to Hachiman, feeling his overwhelming, sun-like waves of life energy up close.
They could neither choose to escape, moving away from him, nor choose to give in, getting closer to him.
The more they struggled to leave, the weaker and more limp their bodies became, the more they craved a taste of Hachiman.
Growing up in the palace with every need met, Momo and Nana were experiencing this agony of seeing something delicious but not being able to eat it for the first time in their lives.
Just smelling him from close up made their mouths water. They couldn't imagine what taking a bite would be like.
Their tails would probably stand straight up.
"Hmm? Momo? Nana?"
As Hachiman was rubbing, he suddenly realized his fingers seemed to have slipped into their mouths by accident.
He was about to apologize and pull his fingers out, but found himself being firmly bitten.
Not just one hand, but the fingers of both hands were held tight.
Hmm... So he hadn't rubbed the wrong place after all.
Feeling the obsessive force on his fingers, Hachiman stopped trying to pull them back, pondering why they were acting this way.
He really liked these sisters-in-law, especially Momo, who could rival Iris. She was his ideal sister-in-law.
It seemed that it wasn't him who had feelings for his sisters-in-law, but rather his sisters-in-law who had feelings for him.
Even though this was his first time meeting Momo and Nana, his first meeting with Lala had also progressed very quickly.
Could it be that their Charmian bloodline made them susceptible to love at first sight? Otherwise, why would all three sisters be so proactive? He remembered Nana having a bit of a tsundere streak.
But weren't they half-breeds?
The only pure-blooded Charmian should be their mother, Sephie.
Or was it that Momo and Nana, as demi-humans, were also affected by his awakened Mana, acting this way?
Charmians were space succubi, and he was a demi-human incubus, one who attracted succubi.
If he really dug into it, he had several abilities that could make Momo and Nana lose control around him.
For a moment, Hachiman couldn't tell exactly why Momo and Nana were biting him so eagerly and not letting go.
"Master! Ayano wants some too!"
Seeing Hachiman about to dote on the newly arrived girls, and realizing that dawn would break before long, Ichinose Ayano couldn't hold back any longer. She immediately pulled Ichinose Honami along, and together with Ichinose Marika, Ichinose Riko, and the others, swarmed to Hachiman's side, crouching on the floor, looking up at him with pleading eyes.
Although the empathetic intensity Yukinoshita Yukino and the others had shared wasn't high, a complete breeze for Ayano, she could even enjoy it in class without changing expression.
She hadn't gotten a turn all night. She couldn't taste her Master's essence firsthand, only experiencing it through the empathy from others. It made her insanely jealous; she felt like shoving those Yukinoshita and Tohsaka girls aside.
Now, seeing her Master still not reaching for her, Ayano finally lost it.
If things went on like this, and she couldn't get any even by Sobu time the next day, she'd definitely end up joining the little group at the back of the room, lying on Master's desk to 'study' alongside that traitorous Honami.
"Hmm... Ayano, sit next to me. Does the Ichinose family have a new member again?"
Even blindfolded, Hachiman could feel the burning desire in Ayano's gaze. He didn't rush to satisfy her but pulled his hands back, turned, bent down, kissed her forehead, and asked with a smile.
Although Ayano had started as a love-struck, foolish rich girl, she was no slouch regarding recruiting. Aside from Iris and the elves, she was probably the person who had pulled the most others into his circle. Even the vampires and Snow Women hadn't caught up to her recruitment speed yet.
She'd not only brought in her good sisters from the large Ichinose family but also her good friend, Horigome Chiina, who was being pressured by her stepfather.
The only downside was her lack of composure and rationality; she was prone to extremes. She was only suited to be a pet, not yet ready to manage others independently.
"Mm! Master already noticed? As expected of my beloved Master~"
Seeing that Hachiman wasn't inviting her onto his lap, Ayano had to suppress the urge to simply lunge and bite him, swallowing her disappointment as she slowly rose from the floor and sat beside him.
She wrapped her arms around his, affectionately rubbing her soft, pale cheek against his while glaring at the two people at the very back of the Ichinose family cluster. Her sweet, sticky voice instantly turned cold.
"Honami, Chiina. What are you two doing hiding back there? Get over here right now!"
"Yes, yes, we're coming, we're coming."
Honami, as the head pet spoke, could only take the hand of the tall, pure-looking girl with long, raven-black hair beside her and shuffle forward through the path made by the other Ichinose sisters.
It wasn't shyness that made her stay in the back. She'd already been subjected to all sorts of things in front of various little groups, and so had everyone else. There was no need to be shy. The more embarrassed and awkward you acted, the more others would fixate on you. If you were calm about it, others wouldn't pay you any mind.
She was very satisfied with her current life. Her mother had been placed in a good company with easy work and generous pay. Her younger sister was sent to school with Komachi and the others. She herself had made many friends at Sobu High, and had even become a Magical Girl.
Although, at night, her daytime classmates and friends all gathered at the Service Club to become good friends with her again, in a different way.
Except, the new girl, Ichinose Chizuru, was like her in having a difficult home situation.
Divorced parents, her mother and grandfather passed away, living alone with her grandmother.
Currently, Chizuru was in university and seemed to need money for acting lessons and to hone her skills, so she'd decided to work at a rental agency. But right after signing but before starting work, she'd been found by her uncle, a Diet member, who offered her a significant sum to join the Ichinose family and work together with everyone else for the future of the house.
Within the Ichinose family, Honami and Chizuru weren't even the worst off. There were others their age, living alone in the countryside, who had lost both parents. But Honami, having been through the rain herself, wanted to help hold an umbrella for someone else.
She wanted to look after Chizuru, who had also had a rough family situation and had also been dragged into this by Ayano's family.
She didn't mean to persuade Chizuru to leave, nor did she want to pull her into a clique. She just wanted to, as a senior, offer some guidance during service activities to help Chizuru adapt to life in the Service Club faster.
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