Anyway, he already had a rough idea about how to awaken bloodlines. Later he would try instinct release with Meroune and see if he could trigger Meroune's bloodline instinct and successfully awaken it.
"Does the club president already have a way?"
Hearing Hachiman's words, Iris froze slightly. Bloodline awakening was also a very hard problem to solve in their world, and Lala also felt it was tricky. If it were not that in their world people with unawakened bloodlines were actually the minority, they would probably be pulling their hair out too.
Still, even though Hachiman had politely refused, Iris continued to speak in a low voice.
"Club president, right now it is not just Meroune's side that wants to bring in idols. Maid Shion's side is also buying up idol agencies to get ready to compete with Meroune's idol agency."
"Tsubaki and the others are also planning to run an idol agency?"
Hachiman gently took a breath, brushed aside the blond side ponytail that was covering Ijichi Nijika's flushed cheeks in front of him, poked her soft and warm cheek, then looked at Iris who was pressed up against him.
He knew about the Rurikawa family maid group, but he was not too clear on Maid Shion setting up an idol agency.
Maid Shion as a personal head maid had a lot of authority, but operations like buying an agency that involved moving large amounts of funds should still need Tsubaki's permission.
"Yeah. Right now the idols at home are only Elio and a few others. Hanabishi Haruka and the others who just joined the Service Club are also in Meroune's idol agency. It is normal for Maid Shion and the others to want to set up an idol agency too and compete for your favor, club president."
Iris smiled and nodded, gently holding Hachiman's hand. After interlacing her fingers with his, she continued to explain.
"Club president does not need to worry that we will lure ignorant girls. We will not force the idols in the agency. We will only let them have more contact with you, club president. Unless there is a special situation, we will not tell them anything."
"I know what you are worried about, club president. But as far as I know, among the maids Maid Shion is recruiting now there is one rather special case, somewhat similar to what happened to Teacher Ebihara Urara."
"A girl whose parents incurred massive debt due to business failure, then were seized by people who planned to sell their internal organs to pay it off."
"In a situation like that, do you think helping such a girl who has no way out is a bad thing?"
"Or do you think it would be better to let that girl sell her body to countless people?"
"I believe that you were willing to help Teacher Ebihara Urara because you did not want to see her dragged down by her fiance who joined a cult."
"I think the same. Rather than letting girls like that be ruined and fall into depravity at the hands of others, it is better for you, club president, to raise them properly. To guide their magical girl talent, awaken their magical girl power, and let them go from weak ones who need to be saved to magical girls who can save others."
Even though she also had another layer of considerations in helping Meroune and the others.
According to Naruse Maria, the power of magical girls in the human world seemed to be somewhat idealistic, like magical girls in anime.
They looked like they did not have much supernatural power, yet in reality they always managed to eliminate the evil forces that came to the human world to wreak havoc. In many places in the human world there were active magical girls, or forces similar to magical girls.
If girls who longed to become idols became magical girls, then those girls should be able to unleash power beyond what many people imagined.
In that case, how could she possibly force those idols to become magical girls. She would only try to satisfy their needs as much as possible, letting those girl idols happily become the club president's exclusive magical girls.
It was just that such high potential magical girls could not be monopolized by Kaede and Tsubaki alone. Their demi human side also had to have them, and even more of them.
"As for the idol agencies, you can decide among yourselves first. I will take a look when I have time later."
Hachiman had to admit that he seemed to have been persuaded by Iris.
He clearly felt that what he was doing was no different from those rich people in society who used money and prospects to lure girls into falling.
Yet under Iris's explanation, this kind of behavior that was no different from pillow business suddenly became him saving them.
"...", Gabriel, who had been keeping her head down and ignoring everything across the desk, quietly raised her head and looked gloomily at Iris who was once again tempting Hachiman to fall.
'Is Iris really an elf princess that represented purity and nobility?'
'Is she some great demon reincarnated from the demon world instead? Her twisted logic for tempting people is so smooth.'
But... when Gabriel thought about the evil forces that she had observed Goddess Angel Suzune Rione, Majima Yuuri, and many magical girls in this world facing, she did not say anything to Iris or Hachiman.
There were many fallen people in the human world, many with complicated minds and strong desires, negative energy constantly overflowing, to the point that so many magical girls were exhausted from running around.
Even though she did not really want to admit Iris's twisted logic, looking at the results, what Iris said seemed to actually be right.
The more Hachiman fell, the more people he saved. Many girls at Sobu High who should have fallen under the erosion of desire were becoming better and better under Hachiman's guidance.
After finishing talking about the idol agency, Iris did not continue teasing Ijichi Nijika. She personally took over from Ijichi Nijika, and together with Amaki Lily and Elio accompanied Hachiman to finish this quiz.
She had not been helped by the club president at all last night, so she naturally could not let this chance go.
It was just that she felt that in some ways she, Nijika, and Gabriel were quite similar. If everyone played together, the club president would definitely be especially happy.
It was a pity that Nijika had not yet become a magical girl. Her physical fitness was not only weak, but her stamina recovered very slowly. And Gabriel always pretended to be deaf and dumb and refused to play with them.
"Ijichi, what is wrong? Are you not feeling well?"
On the podium, Kirisu Mafuyu was sitting on a chair and silently watching the students buried in their exams. Suddenly her eyes flashed and she stood up and quickly walked to the back of the classroom beside Ijichi Nijika, looking down at Ijichi Nijika who at some point had slumped on her desk holding her stomach, asking with concern.
"N-no... thank you for your concern, Kirisu sensei. I just finished writing, so I was resting on the desk for a bit."
Hearing the sound of Kirisu Mafuyu's high heels getting closer, and then hearing her concerned voice, Ijichi Nijika hurriedly lowered the hand that was holding her lower belly and explained in a low voice with her head down.
"Finished writing?"
Hearing Ijichi Nijika's answer, Kirisu Mafuyu could not help freezing. She glanced at the clock above the blackboard, then at Ijichi Nijika whose fair side face had an abnormal flush, and took her folded test paper in disbelief.
Was Ijichi's world history really that good?
This test had only just passed the halfway point.
In order to avoid having too many top students at Sobu High get full marks and making it hard to rank them, she had deliberately set very difficult questions for this test.
Ijichi usually performed pretty well, but she should not be able to finish this quickly.
But now... all correct?
Kirisu Mafuyu stared at Ijichi Nijika's test paper in shock. With a rough look, she could not find any points to deduct.
The handwriting on the whole paper was a bit strange, like she could not hold the pen steady and wrote tremblingly, but the answers were indeed all correct.
"Looks like you have been working very hard lately, Ijichi. Since you do not want to go to the infirmary, then lie here and rest well."
Seeing that Ijichi Nijika did not really want to go to the infirmary, Kirisu Mafuyu folded the paper back up and put it on the desk, gave a satisfied reminder, and returned to the podium.
But before leaving, Kirisu Mafuyu also glanced at Hachiman behind Ijichi Nijika.
She saw that Hachiman seemed to have run into difficulties, holding his pen and writing very slowly, seeming not to have even finished the first page, and she immediately felt relieved.
Earlier in the teachers' office, when Hachiman confidently said that if he got first place she and Kagami would have to wear maid outfits and teach housekeeping skills, she was actually a little worried.
Whether it was wearing maid outfits in front of students, a shameful black history that would be remembered for a lifetime, or being found out by Hachiman that her domestic management was a total mess, she did not want either to happen.
Thankfully, her worries were a bit unnecessary. Compared to Ijichi Nijika who could get full marks at a glance and even with small mistakes would still be near the top of the grade, Hachiman who skipped classes all the time posed no threat at all.
No, she should not think like that. How could she be happy because a student did badly.
After this exam, she would often call Hachiman to the teachers' office for extra lessons.
Every time class ended she would call Hachiman to the teachers' office for tutoring, then when it was almost time for the next class she would have the next teacher bring Hachiman back to class.
That way, she would not have to worry about Hachiman harassing female classmates during lessons and affecting other students' studies.
With so many teachers supervising Hachiman together, the discipline committee should soon remove his name from the blacklist as his behavior was corrected.
Kirisu Mafuyu sat back down on the chair behind the podium, expressionless as she scanned the classroom, but her mood was very lively, and she could not help giving full marks to her own good idea.
But these two days were exam days. It would not be until the day after tomorrow, Friday, when the results came out and Hachiman would start receiving their teachers' rotating supervision.
That afternoon after school, the young female teachers' welcome party in the apartment would begin.
Thinking of her somewhat messy apartment room, Kirisu Mafuyu could not help feeling a little helpless.
She would ask the housekeeping company to come clean again tomorrow night. After this cleaning she absolutely would not touch anything until the welcome party was completely over.
Actually, after she found out about the welcome party, the housekeeping company had already sent a diligent and efficient girl to clean her place.
But after Kirisu Mafuyu did her own tidying up, it quickly returned to how it was before.
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At her seat, Ijichi Nijika blushed and continued to lie on her desk, gently stroking her lower belly without moving.
This exam, she had cheated using power that was not her own. Hearing Kirisu sensei's praise, she felt really ashamed and even more weak all over.
But in her current state, she did not even dare to take a step when walking, let alone go to the infirmary and be asked by the nurse what was wrong. If the nurse noticed it, that would be truly embarrassing.
She wanted to use the cleaning magic she had learned from Hachiman to deal with it herself, but cleaning magic could only sweep together things like dust on the surface of objects. It was not a magic that made dust disappear out of thin air.
When she thought about it gathering into a clump and floating in front of everyone, Ijichi Nijika felt she could still endure it.
"Damn it!"
Seeing Ijichi Nijika with her legs tightly together lying on the desk, while Hachiman behind her was calmly writing his test as if nothing had happened, Miura Yumiko clenched her pen until her fingers turned white, grinding her teeth as she prepared to get revenge for her good friend.
She could not say anything now because it was still an exam, but tonight when she went to the Service Club with Nijika and Marin, she would definitely make Hikigaya pay.
Unlike Miura Yumiko, Yuina, Minami, and Rin all stopped their pretend writing and silently gave Hachiman a thumbs up, deeply impressed by little Hikigaya's boldness, actually daring to play like that right in front of Yumiko.
In fact, with Hachiman's teaching aura now boosted by Suzune Rione, it had greatly improved compared to when he only had half of Hanamori Kotomi.
Yuina, Miura Yumiko, Kitagawa Marin and the others who were not far from Hachiman, or even just a few seats away, were also affected by the teaching aura.
Even though it was an exam, the enhanced temporary learning talent could make their minds more active. For questions they did not know, they could recall knowledge points they usually forgot and figure out solution ideas on their own.
It was just that they did not get as much of a boost as Ijichi Nijika who was being held in Hachiman's arms. Even with physical discomfort she could lie on the desk and still work hard to answer questions.
Miura Yumiko had not really had any real combat experience, and she did not pay attention to or understand these things normally, so she did not think in that direction. She just thought Hachiman had probably demanded another "bullying" reward from Ijichi Nijika, making the inside of Ijichi Nijika's shoes sticky and uncomfortable.
Only Ichinose Honami, Yuina, and Kitagawa Marin knew very well that Nijika's reaction was far more than just "bullying".
Noticing that Miura Yumiko and Kitagawa Marin were about to become like Minami and Yuina, Ichinose Honami slowly put down her pen and rubbed her face, sighing with complicated feelings.
She hoped that tonight she would not be caught in the middle again, not knowing what to do.
Even though she had already gotten Hachiman's forgiveness, and in fact Hachiman had never blamed her, her sister was already attending school with Komachi.
But aside from the bottom line of being Hachiman's good friend, she was actually a bit lost.
Because there were so many small groups in the Service Club, she did not know which side she was supposed to be on.
In Class 1F, she was caught between the two small groups of Miura Yumiko, Kitagawa Marin, Ijichi Nijika and Yuina, Minami, Rin.
In the Ichinose family, she was often caught between Ichinose Ayano, Ichinose Marika, and Horikago China.
At the same time, she was a transfer student from Advanced Nurturing High School. Many people in the class of transfer students from Advanced Nurturing High knew her.
Sakayanagi Arisu and Kamuro Masumi came to ask her about Hachiman's preferences.
Kei Karuizawa, who called herself Hachiman's pet, even wanted to pull her to persuade Shiraba from their former Class B to serve Hachiman together.
Compared to her, Kei Karuizawa who single mindedly tried to please Hachiman did not have to think about so many complicated things.
Maybe... she should come clean with Uncle Ichinose and no longer hide her special relationship with Hachiman?
With so many people in the Ichinose family, maybe they would not need her anymore.
According to Uncle Ichinose, today the Ichinose household would also have a pair of model sisters moving in. Ayano even took some money from Uncle Ichinose and then proactively contacted beautiful girls in the Ichinose clan who wanted to be actresses, idols, or play in bands.
Even though Ichinose Honami understood that Ayano was not bringing so many sisters over to fight, but to eliminate the estrangement caused by everyday distance, open their hearts and share hardships together to fight against the other small groups in the Service Club.
She still felt that what Ayano was doing now was even crazier than Uncle Ichinose who just wanted to get the support of Elf Princess Iris and Hachiman.
If this went on, even her sister might get pulled in by Ayano.
The worries in Ichinose Honami's heart did not last long.
When this exam ended and Ijichi Nijika rushed to the bathroom and back, then Mizuho Kagami with her wine red smooth hair draped over her shoulders, her delicate and cute face full of bright optimism, and her voluptuous mature figure walked into the classroom to announce the start of the next exam.
However, this time there was no Amaki Lily's cognitive barrier, only an invisibility and soundproof illusion barrier on the back of the classroom.
When the figures on Hachiman's side removed their invisibility magic and sat on his thighs, Ichinose Honami noticed them.
The naturally lively alien succubus princess Lala and the pink themed naturally cute mermaid songstress idol Elusi.
"Hachiman~"
"Club president~"
Lala and Elusi hugged Hachiman at the same time and each kissed his cheek, smiling happily at him.
Last exam it was Iris and Elio. Now it was their turn.
"What are you planning to play today? Why are you coming two by two?"
Hachiman reached out and pinched the round, bouncy, soft cheeks of Lala and Elusi, looking helplessly at the two who had already skillfully put on the silver empathy bracelets on the desk.
He originally thought they would be hungry after a whole night, so they should come together today. Anyway, there was a magic barrier, so even if he could not handle it, he could cover it up with illusion magic.
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