On the other side, Hachiman had already left the student guidance room.
But just as he was about to head to the student council office, he suddenly noticed that Naruse Mio and Naruse Maria had arrived at school.
They had agreed at home that at noon today, this master-servant sister pair would enroll at Sobu High. Now they had come straight to campus and even followed his scent to find him.
"Master Onii-chan~ Did you already eat? I was thinking of having Mio-sama feed you your lunch."
With her silver hair tied into two small round-tied bunches falling over her shoulders and the rest cascading down her back, wearing Sobu High's uniform in a way that made her look delicate and petite, Naruse Maria threw herself at Hachiman the moment she saw him.
She hugged his arm tightly with her small, cute body and rubbed her head hard against his chest. Her tiny, refined nose kept twitching as she greedily inhaled the special aura that made her legs go weak.
'This is bad! This is bad! She am the nightmare, the succubus-type!'
'Yet in front of Master Onii-chan, she lost her composure so easily! She have none of the basic qualities of a proper nightmare!'
Being shocked by his overwhelming life aura the first time they met was one thing. But now she was acting even more embarrassing than before. The only improvement was that she did not drop to her knees anymore. At least now she could rush over and breathe in his scent.
"Maria… It seems you still haven't properly reflected on your mistakes…"
Seeing that Naruse Maria was clearly the one drooling over Master Onii-chan yet still teasing to get his attention, Naruse Mio clenched her fist, wanting to discipline Maria on the spot.
But they were at school. If she scolded her here, it would attract too much attention.
"I'll take you around campus for a quick tour first, then we'll head to the student council office to have lunch with Kaede and the others. If there's time this afternoon, we'll consider other arrangements."
Looking at the Naruse sisters, whose master-servant dynamic was reversed as usual, Hachiman smiled. With his free right hand, he patted Mio's head and gently brushed aside her thick, smooth red hair.
They were both wearing the same Sobu High uniform: white shirt, pleated skirt, black thigh-high socks, small leather shoes. Maria looked delicate and adorable, while Mio looked imposing. If she lowered her head, she could not even see her toes.
"Mm…"
Extremely sensitive to his gaze and clearly feeling it linger on her chest for a moment, Naruse Mio blushed and nodded meekly, lowering her eyes. She did not even ask what the other afternoon arrangements would be.
After that unbelievably embarrassing breakfast, she did not dare to casually reject his decisions or commands. She did not even dare to hesitate, afraid that the master-servant contract would judge her as disobedient and immediately punish her with a curse that could only be lifted by receiving his affection.
That kind of "suffering," where every cell in her body trembled, where she craved his touch so badly she could not even straighten her waist, was something she did not want to experience again.
Since Mio had no objections, Maria, who had just been disciplined in the morning, naturally did not dare to object either.
Right now she only dared to run her mouth a bit. If she truly angered Mio, Mio might pin her down on the spot and make her become Hachiman's servant too.
Letting this troublemaking Maria properly experience the same overwhelming embarrassment Mio had felt that morning.
Still, as a nightmare, even if Maria did not actively cause trouble, she could find interesting things just by walking around campus.
"Master Onii-chan… I think I can smell your scent on a lot of girls here."
Maria clung to his arm while scanning the girls around campus. Her purple eyes gleamed with excitement.
She was already sensitive to certain auras, and his life aura was especially unique. Even from a distance, she could tell which girls had intimate relationships with him.
"Huh? Aren't there lots of Sobu High students in the Service Club?"
Walking on his other side, almost shoulder to shoulder with him, Mio tilted her head in confusion.
They already knew how amazing Master Onii-chan was. Most Service Club members were Sobu High students. It was normal for many girls at school to carry his scent.
"But some of those beauties, I haven't seen at the club. Are you planning some kind of play, Master Onii-chan?"
Maria grinned and gestured with her chin toward a certain direction.
Following her gaze, Mio saw three girls sitting on a bench under the shade of a tree, eating lunch.
One plain-looking beauty with a white headband and long blue hair reaching her waist. One brown twin-tailed beauty with a crescent-shaped gentle smile. And one black-haired beauty with the most voluptuous figure, her Sobu High uniform stretched tightly over her curves.
The three sat together with a clear sense of hierarchy.
"Furuhashi and Ogiso? Maria, you're mistaken. It's not that I'm deliberately keeping them out of the club. We're just not that close."
Seeing commoner-tier beauty Furuhashi Fumino, Hachiman immediately understood what Maria meant.
Furuhashi Fumino, Setsuna Ogiso, and Tsukimi Chifuyu had been dragged into things last time when he went to catch Raphiel. Raphiel had used divine arts to stick them to him so they could not move away.
When they moved to the library to wait for the effect to end, they accidentally ran into the vampire Tsukishiro Sayo. After a series of chaotic events, they had unintentionally gotten stained with his life aura.
In truth, he did not have a deep relationship with them.
At first, he had considered asking Setsuna Ogiso to be the band's lead singer. But after such an awkward incident, how could he face her about it? And since Nijika had already brought Kita Ikuyo back as vocalist, he did not approach Setsuna again.
"Not that close? They carry your life aura. Would someone who isn't close receive something so precious from you, Master Onii-chan?"
Maria did not believe him at all. Even if his aura seemed endless, it was not something he casually gave away.
"You don't have to hide it from us. Tell us~ I can even give you ideas and help you get them into bed~"
"The first time you saw me, didn't you drop to your knees? How are you in any position to talk about others?"
Hachiman squeezed her soft white cheek, exasperated.
"Th-that's different! I'm a nightmare. The first time I entered the human world and witnessed your greatness, kneeling before you was only natural."
Maria's face flushed as she stubbornly argued.
So far, every time she had eaten with him, she had basically been kneeling. It was embarrassing.
But considering how powerful her master was, she felt she had actually gained more than she lost.
Though his strength was also a problem. Even if her mother was the strongest nightmare in the demon realm and her sister was powerful too, she still felt that if they came here, they might kneel as well and acknowledge him as master.
"Then tonight, Maria, you'll sign a master-servant contract with Master Onii-chan and become his servant like me. That should satisfy your admiration. You're not saying you don't want to sign a contract like I did, are you?"
Seeing Maria only back down in front of him, Mio suddenly cut in coldly.
"Uh… Of course I'd be happy to become Master Onii-chan's servant. But master-servant contracts must be signed on a full moon. This month's full moon has passed. Let's talk next month."
Maria had not expected Mio to be so ruthless, actually planning to hand her over. She felt her scalp tingle.
"This morning you created a master-servant contract between me and Master Onii-chan. And now you're talking about full moons?"
Mio grabbed Maria's other cheek and glared fiercely.
"That was a special case! I used up all my magic to barely pull that off. It's hard to replenish magic in the human world. At least wait until next month—"
"Then tonight, let Master Onii-chan properly replenish your magic. Don't you absorb desire energy and convert it into magic? This time, try absorbing your own desire and see how efficient the conversion is."
Mio stared expressionlessly at Maria, then turned to Hachiman. Her full, upright figure slowly wrapped around his arm as she lowered her head shyly.
"Master Onii-chan also wants Maria to serve you with me, right? Right?"
"Mm, Mio's right. Maria, as Mio's good sister, how can you not sign a master-servant contract together with her?"
Feeling Mio's rare initiative while fully conscious, Hachiman nodded thoughtfully. It would be interesting to see how long Maria could endure under the contract's curse.
In his memory, Maria's mother had been captured in the demon realm, forcing Maria to act as a mole beside Mio. But he was not sure whether that still applied here. This world had many demon factions.
Once she signed the contract, if she betrayed him, even by hiding the truth or disobeying, the curse would trigger. It would only lift when she abandoned those thoughts and begged for forgiveness through his affection.
"Yes. Maria will obey Master Onii-chan and Mio-sama's arrangements."
Watching Mio determined to send her to his bed, Maria suddenly felt the midday sun was too hot. Sweat formed on her back.
Maybe she played too far… Mio-sama really planned to offer her up.
Where would Master Onii-chan go tonight?
She had to think of a way to keep him from coming home for a few days.
If she could stall long enough for him to forget and for Mio's anger to fade, she might escape.
Under the shade, on the bench.
"Was that Hikigaya-kun just now? And two girls walking very close to him. I don't think I've seen them before. Transfer students?"
Tsukimi Chifuyu, the most curvaceous and least composed among the three, finally spoke after his figure disappeared.
Since student council members and teachers had welcomed transfer students that morning, most students knew new transfers were coming.
Seeing beauties like Mio and Maria, Chifuyu could immediately tell they were new.
"It has nothing to do with us. Even the disciplinary committee didn't interfere with Hikigaya-kun."
Furuhashi Fumino stole a glance at his back, flanked by the Naruse sisters. She did not want to interact with him right now.
After last time, she, Chifuyu, and Setsuna Ogiso had been awkward around each other.
Though studying together for exams had eased the tension, mentioning Hachiman still brought back memories of their skin-to-skin contact in the library.
They had not done anything extreme. But they were pure girls. Their first real experience had been the three of them together with one boy. It was unforgettable.
"It's getting hotter lately. Fumino, you're sweating. Here, wipe it."
Setsuna Ogiso, eating gracefully, handed Fumino a handkerchief.
"How did your exam go? If your science grades are too low, Kirisu-sensei won't let you choose the science track."
"Thanks, Setsuna. Probably still not good enough. But I'm trying to improve. No matter how much Kirisu-sensei opposes me, I won't—"
Fumino took the handkerchief and wiped her forehead. Suddenly she froze. Looking closely at the handkerchief, which felt strangely familiar, she slowly turned toward Setsuna.
"Setsuna, this handkerchief… It's not the same one from last time, is it?"
"If I say it's not, will you believe me?"
Setsuna's gentle smile remained as she blinked.
"Chifuyu, you keep this from now on. Don't let Setsuna take it out again."
Fumino handed the handkerchief to Chifuyu.
Setsuna did not stop her. Her crescent smile only grew warmer.
"Gulp! O-okay…"
Chifuyu, staring at the two girls watching her, swallowed hard and took the handkerchief that had clearly been washed many times, feeling like she might cry.
'Why give it to me?'
'Last time I did not do anything. It was Fumino and Setsuna who wiped Hikigaya-kun!'
Just as Chifuyu was on the verge of tears, a silver-haired figure peeked out from behind the large tree near their bench, looking toward where Hachiman had disappeared and quietly sighing in relief.
She had thought he was coming to trouble her. Turns out he was just passing by.
She could not let her guard down.
She had assumed he would stay in the guidance room at noon. Who knew he would appear nearby so quickly?
Fortunately, he had been focused on talking with those two demons and had not noticed his surroundings.
"Raphiel, shouldn't you explain how you offended Hikigaya-kun? The victims from last time are all here. If you explain properly, maybe we'll forgive you."
Setsuna Ogiso turned toward Raphiel, who had hidden the moment she spotted Hachiman.
"Hikigaya-kun said you're an angel. If you really are, why are you the one afraid of him? Why are you hiding? What did you do to him?"
When they confronted her afterward, Raphiel had not denied being an angel. But she refused to explain why Hachiman had chased her down, or why she had used them as shields to slow him.
"Uh! Haha! Lunch break's almost over. Let's head back to class and review. There are lots of top students now. Everyone's working hard."
Unable to explain, Raphiel laughed awkwardly and ran off.
What could she say?
That she had offended both angel allies and demon enemies?
That if Hachiman caught her, he would pour some kind of drug that made angels and demons fall?
She had only wanted to watch Gabriel and Vignette embarrass themselves. Who knew that angel-demon pair would get entangled with him? If not for holy light snapping them back to their senses in those overly suggestive situations with the elf princesses, they would have fallen already.
Now it was too late to apologize. Gabriel and Vignette had joined forces to drag her down too.
If they had been more determined, she might have already been caught.
After all, she could not skip class. She still needed to meet attendance requirements and pass Heaven's inspections.
She heard more angels were descending for training… If things got worse...
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