Yamada Ryou still wanted to keep analyzing why Shinomiya Kaguya and the others had suddenly run off after enduring it for so long, and maybe even study whether those rich girls could be offered to Hachiman. But suddenly she sucked in a sharp breath of cold air, her whole body trembling uncontrollably. She couldn't help lifting her head to look at the projection on the ceiling, only to realize that something new had happened on Hachiman's side.
Even though Hachiman was just playing a game, his life energy was far too strong, and the concentration of awakened magicules was extremely high. Yoshimura Eto and Kiriya Fujino, the two vampires, had both awakened their bloodlines one after another.
Kiriya Fujino's vampire bloodline had originally been incomplete, and Yoshimura Eto's ghoul bloodline had all kinds of flaws. But now, Hachiman had filled in all those gaps one by one. Not only had he triggered their bloodlines, he had also boosted their strength.
However, awakened magicules didn't just help them awaken their bloodlines. The magicules themselves were already highly alluring to them. And after awakening, Hachiman became even more attractive to Yoshimura Eto and Kiriya Fujino.
Their sensitivity to Hachiman's aura grew sharper, and the shared sensations transmitted to the others became even stronger.
Seeing Yoshimura Eto and Kiriya Fujino both have their tails out, wrapping around Hachiman, Yamada Ryou bit her lip hard and tried to climb out of the bath to rest for a while. But she realized she couldn't control her body anymore. Her limbs stiffened, and she sank straight down into the water.
Instinctively, she transformed into a magical girl. Only then did she stop sinking and regain control of her body, floating back up to the surface.
'So that's how it is… no wonder those rich girls all ran off one after another. If they couldn't control their bodies in the water and still refused to teleport away, they probably really would have sunk.'
Getting hit with something this intense all of a sudden in the water, it was hard for anyone to endure it, let alone Shinomiya Kaguya and the others.
"Ryou, don't treat the bath like a swimming pool… Bocchi?"
Ijichi Nijika saw Yamada Ryou turn into a magical girl just to take a bath and was about to say something, but then she noticed that it wasn't just Ryou. Gotou Hitori had transformed too.
But compared to Yamada Ryou, whose mouth had just been submerged earlier, Gotou Hitori's head had completely disappeared underwater, with only a small tuft of pink hair sticking out.
"Glub… glub…"
"Why are you all going under?"
Panicking, Ijichi Nijika hurriedly pulled both Gotou Hitori and Yamada Ryou, who were blowing bubbles in the water, out of the bath. Kitagawa Marin, Miura Yumiko, and Kita Ikuyo also climbed out one after another, collapsing onto the cold, wet floor with difficulty.
It wasn't just them. Even Ichinose Ayano and the others in the distance crawled out, all leaving the steam-filled large bath.
For a moment, the sound of bells rang nonstop around the edge of the bath.
"N-Nijika…"
Gotou Hitori's delicate, pretty face was burning hot and red. Her chest rose and fell unevenly as she gasped for air. Resting her head on Ijichi Nijika's thigh and seeing Nijika's concerned expression, she fumbled for words but couldn't speak.
Ijichi Nijika, Kita Ikuyo, Yamada Ryou, and the others had, more or less, been half-pushed and half-dragged into all this.
But Gotou Hitori was different. She genuinely treated Hachiman as her best friend.
Before Hachiman introduced Ijichi Nijika to her, he had been her only friend.
Originally, Gotou Hitori had been the first in Kessoku Band to be held by Hachiman. He even promised to take care of her in the future so she wouldn't need to work, and he often gave her pocket money. Unlike Yamada Ryou, who still had to figure out ways to "sell out" her teammates.
Logically speaking, Gotou Hitori should have been the one who "took the most" in Kessoku Band. After all, she had the best looks and the best figure among them. But because she was so socially anxious and introverted, she often stayed off to the side, watching.
Only when things were about to end would Hachiman pull her over, making her the last to collapse.
Still, it wasn't that Gotou Hitori couldn't handle much, just that her stamina was poor. If you ignored stamina, her short-term tolerance was actually higher.
Among Kessoku Band and girls like Kitagawa Marin and Miura Yumiko, the one who "took the most" was Ijichi Nijika.
Although her figure wasn't much different from Yukinoshita Yukino or Tenma Gabriel, her considerate personality, always thinking about her friends, often earned her extra attention from Hachiman.
Now, the small and cute Ijichi Nijika actually had the best physique among them, while Gotou Hitori still had the worst stamina.
To Nijika, whether it was the socially anxious Gotou Hitori or the tsundere Miura Yumiko, there wasn't much difference. After all, neither of them took initiative. Every time, she had to take the lead.
In the Service Club, others in similar situations included the well-connected Ichinose Honami and Rurikawa… who often got pushed forward by those around them to draw fire.
Ijichi Nijika looked down at Gotou Hitori, who seemed dazed and unable to speak, then glanced at Miura Yumiko, Kitagawa Marin, Yamada Ryou, Kita Ikuyo, and the others, all panting in different states. She quickly understood why they were like this, and why she herself was handling it the best.
But even so, she didn't know what to say.
What could she even say? It wasn't like she actively wanted to take so much.
Every time, it was because no one else stepped up, so she got pushed out. She even wanted to ask why she always had to be the one to take the first hit.
Hmm… looking at it this way, Ryou's idea of forming a rock girl band wasn't bad. If there were more rock girl bands, Hachiman probably wouldn't have to trouble her every time.
It couldn't be that every band was as troublesome as Bocchi and Ryou. There had to be some "good people" who could share the burden with her.
"Eeeeek!"
Along with Nijika's suppressed cry, Gotou Hitori clearly felt the soft thigh under her head suddenly tense up.
Actually, she herself also tightened up at that moment of shock. But she was already used to letting Hachiman do whatever he wanted when her body was exhausted, so she just closed her eyes and slowly drifted off to sleep.
She could practice guitar for a long time, but when it came to physical endurance, her willpower was still weak. The moment she started sweating, she felt completely worn out.
Fortunately, with Nijika, Ryou, and the others around, she didn't have to worry about not being able to satisfy Hachiman.
———
In the large living room—
On the stage, idol singers took turns performing.
Below the stage, the sound of bell collars rang continuously.
"Master, what kind of cats do you like? Is a sisters-type okay?"
While Gotou Hitori was experiencing being "played with," Hachiman had already dealt with Yotsuya Miko, Yurikawa Hana, Leona, Melaise, and the others. Kiriya Fujino, who had awakened her bloodline, was now leading him to find the others who were hiding.
Earlier, Nishikigi Chisato had brought Hachiman to capture vampires and elves from the demi-human faction. Now, as part of that faction herself, she naturally had to lead him to capture members of the human faction.
Although Yotsuya Miko and Yurikawa Hana were also from the human side, they had come willingly.
Now she had already spotted Tohsaka Touka and Tohsaka Sakura lying on the ground in the distance, trembling slightly. She immediately wanted to bring Hachiman over to pin down the Tohsaka sisters.
She remembered that in the club, the Tohsaka family had three sisters. They could capture Touka and Sakura first, then make Rin submit.
The fallen Tohsaka family was a very suitable ally. But the prerequisite for alliance was loyalty to their master.
At the moment, only Tohsaka Touka truly served the master. Tohsaka Rin and Tohsaka Sakura, the sisters studying at Komachi's school, would inevitably have to offer themselves as well.
"No rush. Take it slow. Fujino, how do you feel now? After awakening your bloodline, your strength has increased, and even your weakness to sunlight should be gone. You shouldn't have the urge to drink blood anymore, right?"
Hachiman held Kiriya Fujino's slender tail, gently playing with it as he spoke with a relaxed smile.
"Though I don't mind letting you have a little blood. Saya sometimes wants to try a different spot too."
Kiriya Fujino was the fourth daughter among the six sisters of the Kiriya Count family. In the original work, she was a highly regarded figure in both the art and literary worlds.
Even though she barely appeared in the story and was already dead at the start, she was described as a genius with very high intelligence, appearing across multiple routes of the other sisters.
However, whether he remembered incorrectly or this chaotic world left her no room to shine, Fujino now didn't seem particularly special. She was simply a frail and cute literary girl, and didn't even seem as scheming as the pale, sickly girl Sakayanagi Arisu.
"Master, Fujino feels wonderful right now. I don't need to drink blood anymore. But my body still has many shortcomings. I need your frequent affection to ease the uncontrollable longing inside me."
Kiriya Fujino lay on the ground like a kitten, stretching her slender body.
Her originally well-fitted kimono had its sash undone, hanging loosely from her arms, revealing her slender, pale arms and delicate, alluring collarbone.
Her smooth, rounded knees pressed against the dragging hem of the kimono. Her vampire tail extended from beneath the fabric, held in Hachiman's hand.
As a vampire, she had already been deeply drawn to her master's awakened magicules. Now that her bloodline had awakened and her strength had greatly increased, she longed for even more of those magicules, even wanting to call her sisters to come and absorb them together.
But the more it was like this, the more she had to hold herself back.
Awakening a bloodline required a large amount of magicules. If she was marked more than three times, she would be eliminated immediately. If she called others to awaken too, they would also be eliminated right away.
Besides, they were playing a game right now. Taking advantage of everyone's playtime to awaken her sisters' bloodlines would be inappropriate.
She had to let her master see her ability first, and the loyalty of the six Kiriya sisters. Only then could they enjoy his favor every day.
"Master, the Tohsaka sisters are over here~"
Acting like a kitten, Kiriya Fujino wagged her tail while turning her head to lightly bite Hachiman, signaling him to follow her to catch the Tohsaka sisters.
"What'cha do what'cha do? I do 'Private Wars'"
"Grasp both justice and cunning in your hands!"
"What'cha do what'cha do? I do 'Private Wars'"
"Look, what life needs is just a bit of courage and passion, right~"
While Gotou Hitori and the others, wearing bell collars, were playing hide-and-seek and nearly losing strength in the bath, the idols on the central stage of the large living room were also performing with all their might under the stage lights, dressed in gorgeous outfits.
Although there were no fans for this performance, and almost no audience below the stage.
After most Service Club members had fled the hall, the only people left were Hachiman, a few others, and some maids in maid outfits.
Still, as long as they ignored the commotion of the hide-and-seek game, they could treat this special performance as a rehearsal with no audience.
Aside from the brightly lit stage, the rest of the hall was dim. The idols taking turns performing could only see maids behind the stage.
Even though the hide-and-seek game wasn't hidden from them, figuring out exactly where the jingling bells were coming from below the stage was still difficult. At most, they could vaguely spot Hachiman, Nishikigi Chisato, Yoshimura Eto, Yotsuya Miko, and the others.
Top idols like Himemiya Sakurako and Kujou Sakura felt uneasy while performing, unconsciously thinking about Hachiman and the other girls.
After all, just the agency of the mermaid princess Meroune already controlled their careers. On top of that, even an otherworldly elf princess and a world-class mermaid idol were present. Any resistance from them, mere idols, would be futile.
Compared to them, however, idol groups like B-Komachi, A-RISE, Sweet Bullet, and Iridescent Stardust were much less worried, focusing more on their singing and dancing to seize unknown opportunities.
The gap between idols was huge. Their only common trait was being good-looking.
Logically, if this special club had gathered so many idol singers here, and if there were any "unspoken rules," the targets would definitely be the already famous, highly capable professional idols, not these lesser-known small groups.
A-RISE was just a school idol group, not even officially debuted yet, only signed at a high price for being a top contender in the Love Live school competition.
As for B-Komachi, which started as underground idols, they would definitely be at the very bottom of the list.
The reformed B-Komachi had three members: the rookie idol Hoshino Ai, whose singing and dancing were average and whose acting was also mediocre; the washed-up child star Arima Kana; and the most famous among them, the popular YouTuber "active high school girl" MEMcho.
In that situation, a boy surrounded by so many girls probably wouldn't even look at them.
At the side of the stage, in the shadows, several slender figures waited to go on.
With her wine-red bob haircut, a small black top hat on her head, and her petite body wrapped in a gorgeous costume, the former genius child star Arima Kana watched the energetic A-RISE performing on stage. She then glanced vaguely at somewhere below the stage and sighed inwardly.
It wasn't that she wanted to be "used." Otherwise, she wouldn't have ended up so down and out after debuting as a genius child star, barely getting any work now.
But she never expected that one day she would feel like she wasn't even qualified to satisfy.
Looking around at Hoshino Ai, who was focused on learning from others' performances, and MEMcho, who looked slightly nervous, Kana found herself unable to say anything.
Admittedly, she thought their group had quite a few problems.
MEMcho, who had the most fans, was clearly hiding her age and seemed like an overage high school idol. Hoshino Ai couldn't really sing or dance well, though she had a strange charisma on stage. And Kana herself wasn't any better.
As a washed-up child star, she had little value. Being signed at a high price and given a chance to showcase herself alongside Ai and the others was already something she should be grateful for.
What she didn't expect was that their first performance after reforming B-Komachi would be sharing the stage with so many powerful idols.
Even more unexpected was that with so many idols performing together, there wasn't a single audience member.
"Um… hello, are you Miss Arima Kana? Could you give me an autograph?"
Suddenly, a voice came from beside her.
A petite girl with short black hair, a little ahoge sticking up, small tiger teeth showing, and a black collar around her neck appeared behind Kana, holding out a notebook.
"O-Of course…"
Kana turned around, subconsciously took the notebook, and signed it in a daze.
'I actually have a fan here?'
No one else was being asked for autographs, right? How could a washed-up child star like her have someone asking for one?
"Kana has a fan?"
"So you're actually the most amazing among us?"
Hoshino Ai and MEMcho, standing beside her, were so surprised they stopped watching A-RISE and stared wide-eyed at the girl who had suddenly appeared backstage to ask for an autograph.
They were genuinely shocked that Kana had a fan.
It wasn't discrimination. It was just that with so many top idols here, it would be normal to ask A-RISE or even everyone for autographs.
But asking only Kana was strange.
And even more so because the one asking was a girl about the same age as Kana.
"My brother and I both grew up watching Miss Arima, so… um… I have something to do, I'll be going now."
"Miss Arima, do your best! You don't need to worry about anything happening to you. Just perform freely. If you need anything, you can ask the maids. As long as you're unwilling, my brother won't force you!"
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