"You've got the wrong idea! Hachiman-kun and I aren't that kind of relationship. I wasn't alone with Hachiman-kun in the library. Yukina, Fumino, and the others were there too!"
Seeing that Hayase Saki and Narahashi Miki had misunderstood her relationship with Hachiman, Tsukimi Chifuyu quickly waved her hands and explained.
Originally, she had approached Hachiman separately from Yukina, Fumino, and the others, each using their own way to persuade him to help them teach Raphiel a lesson.
But things hadn't gone according to plan. The ones who wanted to target Raphiel had instead been tied up by Raphiel and handed over to Hachiman.
Fortunately, Hachiman hadn't actually done anything to them. Otherwise, all they could have done was watch helplessly.
After learning about the relationship between Raphiel and Hachiman, she had already lost the desire to come here. But she was too embarrassed to tell Hayase Saki and the others that she had joined with ulterior motives and no longer wanted to continue.
That was why she had been half-forced over here by Hayase Saki and Narahashi Miki. Coming here was one thing, but being misunderstood was another. How could she admit to something she never did?
"Really?"
Since Hayase Saki didn't know Tsukimi Chifuyu had been "kidnapped" to the library by Raphiel, she was highly suspicious of Chifuyu's purpose in meeting Hachiman there.
So what if other people were present? It wasn't like she hadn't seen big scenes before. Maybe Setsuna Ogiso, Furuhashi Fumino, and the others had been enjoying themselves together with Chifuyu.
"If I really did something to Chifuyu, would I need to hide it from you?"
Hachiman looked speechlessly at Hayase Saki and Narahashi Miki, whose minds were full of dirty thoughts.
"Oh right..."
The two looked at each other and immediately understood.
Indeed, it didn't matter whether Chifuyu was lying or not. Whatever the club president said, they would believe.
Because if he really wanted to favor Chifuyu and the others, they couldn't stop him anyway. At most, they could only watch. Since he said nothing happened, then nothing happened.
Thank goodness. Their judgment hadn't been wrong. Chifuyu still needed their help before she could climb onto the president's bed.
At the moment, Hayase Saki and Narahashi Miki felt somewhat conflicted. They wanted newcomers to help attract Hachiman's attention, but they were also afraid the newcomers would be too outstanding and take all of his affection.
There were already so many groups, and young ladies kept appearing one after another. If their mutual aid group couldn't grow successfully either, they really didn't know how to continue attracting the president's attention.
Though affection wasn't necessarily required. Sometimes, if the president happened to be in the mood, or thought they were useless and disappointing, and angrily gave them a harsh lesson, they wouldn't have any complaints either.
The only thing they feared was being forgotten. Once the president stopped paying attention to them, that would truly be bad.
"Oh right, President. Kotone actually has something she wants to ask your help with."
Remembering something, Hayase Saki quickly changed the subject and pulled Sasaki Kotone over.
"Kotone, have you run into some kind of problem? Just tell me. As long as I can solve it, I'll help."
Hachiman looked at Sasaki Kotone, the naturally gifted magical girl, and smiled.
Sasaki Kotone... if he remembered correctly, she was a magical girl from the hidden world who fought alien monsters. Compared to Hiiragi Utena and the others from Gushing Over Magical Girls, she was even more extreme. He hadn't expected that setting to exist here too.
"Hello, President. Saki told me that most of the magical girls at Sobu High were personally awakened by you..."
Now that it was finally her turn, Kotone's cheeks turned red. She hesitated for a moment before shyly stepping forward, tightly gripping the corners of her clothes as she spoke softly.
"Though this may be presumptuous, I'm not a magical girl who was personally awakened by you. But if possible, I would like to ask you... ask you to... provide me with some support as well..."
["Character Mission Triggered, Absolute Pure White Magical Girl."]
["Miracles and magic both exist, but neither comes free."]
["Magical girls who protect love and peace must pay a certain price."]
Listening to the system notification and looking at Sasaki Kotone, who had lowered her head, twisting nervously with a flushed face, Hachiman thought for a moment before asking:
"Kotone, I don't really understand what kind of support you mean... Could you explain it in more detail?"
If he remembered correctly, Sasaki Kotone was indeed one of the four heroines of Absolute Pure White Magical Girl.
From what he remembered, Absolute Pure White Magical Girl had some settings similar to Puella Magi Madoka Magica, though its content was clearly very different. It was even more direct than Gushing Over Magical Girls.
Unfortunately, the original work was only a doujinshi. The animation adaptation was just a few minutes long, basically a promotional CG.
Although the production quality was excellent and the visual effects were great, it lacked any hidden-world content, and the setting itself was barely explained.
So even now, he had no idea what price Kotone and the others had to pay to use magic. He also didn't know the actual plot. He only remembered several magical girls, including some hostile magical girls. Their transformed outfits were quite unique, and in deserted areas late at night, they diligently eliminated alien creatures that resembled silver beasts.
Hmm... radio waves that could sense other people's thoughts, lustful energy that made people unable to stop themselves, and magical girls carrying brushes and buckets to clean battlefields and erase magic circles.
"Well... we're different from other magical girls. We fight monsters that suddenly appear on Earth. They're attracted by people's overflowing desires and gather together..."
Seeing that Hachiman truly didn't understand, and that Hayase Saki and the others were also looking at her in confusion, Sasaki Kotone continued explaining. However, her fair face became increasingly red, and her voice grew quieter.
"Under normal circumstances, we can deal with those monsters ourselves. We don't need President's help."
"It's just..."
"Kotone, do you run into powerful enemies? Do you want the president to send magical girls to help you fight them?"
Seeing that Kotone kept circling around the point, Hayase Saki couldn't help interrupting.
She had already told Kotone quite a lot about the president. She had even revealed the existence of the Service Club and explained the relationship between herself, Miki, Teacher Kotomi, and the president.
Now not only had Kotone not left the mutual aid group, she even wanted Saki to introduce her to him and ask for his help.
Logically speaking, if she needed to devote herself to the president, she should have already prepared herself mentally. So why was she still this shy?
"Getting President's help would certainly be good, but that's not the main issue. What I mean is... during battle, those creatures sometimes release a special lustful energy attack. If we accidentally inhale it, we lose control of our bodies."
Realizing that continuing like this would only create more misunderstandings, Kotone's face turned bright red. She shut her eyes tightly and blurted everything out in one breath.
"Even though our minds stay clear, our bodies become very difficult to control."
"I want to ask you to help us regain control of our bodies as quickly as possible whenever we lose control and get transported back to the Magical Girl Club!"
Originally, she hadn't planned on looking for Hachiman at all.
Even if she really fell victim to the monsters' lustful energy, she could simply escape home and handle it herself. Once she regained control and recovered her fighting ability, she could go back and eliminate the monsters next time.
But as a magical girl, if she didn't deal with them promptly, those gathered creatures could easily attack ordinary people.
After seeing last night that the Service Club that Hayase Saki mentioned really was quite impressive and had caused such huge disturbances everywhere, she finally made up her mind to seek out Saki's president, Hachiman, the man who had awakened so many magical girls at the school.
Even now, standing in front of him, she could barely bring herself to say her request.
Meeting someone for the first time and immediately asking them to do this kind of thing, even for the sake of protecting peace, felt a little strange.
If Hayase Saki hadn't told her that many girls had sought Hachiman's support for all kinds of reasons, she would never have imagined herself asking a boy to do something like this.
"I see... Then I accept your request. I'll give you permission to teleport into the Service Club. If there are any other magical girls who need my help, you can tell me about them as well."
Looking at Sasaki Kotone, who had finally said the important part and was still standing there with her eyes shut waiting for an answer, Hachiman thought briefly before nodding. He directly added her name to the Service Club member list.
"Really?"
Hearing his answer, Kotone immediately opened her eyes and looked at him in disbelief.
"You aren't going to ask anything else? Like how many magical girls there are."
"Or how long you'll need to guide us after we inhale the lustful energy before we can regain control of our bodies..."
Even though it sounded hypocritical coming from the person who had just made the request, she still wanted him to understand everything before helping them, rather than getting involved without knowing what he was stepping into.
"Aren't you the ones making the real sacrifice? Since you don't have any objections, I naturally don't either."
Looking at Kotone, who would have to devote herself to him yet was still worried about troubling him, Hachiman smiled. He gently raised his hand and touched her cheek, looking directly into her eyes through the lenses of her rimless glasses as he softly reassured her.
"You have to fight monsters, deal with the side effects of those battles, and now you've even had to ask a stranger like me for help."
"If I kept questioning you, then I would be the one in the wrong."
He wasn't sure whether the original Absolute Pure White Magical Girl doujinshi actually had this setting, but a setup like this wasn't unusual.
In fact, there were many hidden-world magical girls with even more direct and extreme settings.
For example, the Super Angels who had to generate power themselves and recharge their Heart Diamonds before they could transform and fight.
Or the goddess angels who battled demons capable of using desire energy to harm the human world.
Even Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya had a mana transfer setting.
Though he wasn't sure whether Prisma Illya existed in this world.
"President..."
Feeling the warmth on her cheek, Kotone stared blankly at Hachiman. Her throat moved slightly, and her heart pounded rapidly.
No wonder Hayase Saki and Narahashi Miki admired the president so much. Both of them were just as shy and quiet around strangers as she was, yet whenever they talked about him, their eyes seemed to shine, and every word was filled with admiration and longing.
She had thought it was simply because they liked him and were viewing him through the lens of affection.
But now...
She truly understood his charm.
They had just met, yet he trusted her so completely. He agreed to support her without hesitation. He even cared about the difficulties she faced as a magical girl and refrained from asking further questions because he realized she was too embarrassed.
Only someone like the president could become the leader of so many magical girls at Sobu High.
"..."
Looking at Kotone, who had fallen for him instantly, Hayase Saki and Narahashi Miki exchanged a glance and nodded in unison.
Although they were somewhat surprised that the monsters Kotone fought had such side effects, this was actually pretty good. It perfectly matched the president's method of helping magical girls grow stronger.
They wouldn't even need to find ways to bring Kotone and the president together. As long as Kotone kept fighting, she might need to seek the president's help every time she returned.
Hmm...
If they helped Kotone fight monsters in the future, then accidentally inhaled the lustful energy after battle and hurried back to the club to ask the president for help, wouldn't they be able to spend time with him often?
The president definitely wouldn't bear to let them suffer like that. He would surely help them as quickly as possible.
Of course, they couldn't do it too often. Anyone would notice. Maybe it would be better if different people were affected each time.
Still, as teammates fighting together, it should be perfectly reasonable for them to stay beside an affected teammate out of concern and provide a little assistance to the president.
With impure thoughts in mind, Hayase Saki and Narahashi Miki became even more pleased with this newcomer.
"You said before that you can sense the radio waves that appear when monsters show up, right? If you encounter one in the future, tell us. We'll go eliminate it with you!"
"Kotone, don't worry. With us around, no matter what happens, we'll protect you and make sure you can safely teleport back to the club for treatment from the president!"
"O-Okay... Thank you, Saki-senpai. Thank you, Miki-senpai."
Kotone had no idea these two teammates were planning to stab her in the back. Seeing them enthusiastically offering help despite knowing how dangerous the battles were made her even more touched.
The Service Club truly was the headquarters of magical girls. With so many magical girls gathered here, the atmosphere was really wonderful.
She needed to let the other magical girls know this good news and have them join the Service Club together with her.
"Magical girls? Magical girls really exist in this world?"
At that moment, Yuigahama Yui, who had been staring blankly at them the entire time, suddenly cried out.
At first she thought she had misheard.
How had the conversation suddenly turned to magical girls?
Role-playing?
Cosplay?
A convention?
It wasn't until Kotone and Hachiman repeatedly talked about magical girls that she finally realized everyone was seriously discussing actual magical girls.
"They do exist. But let's go inside and sit down before we continue. President, I'd like to ask you to let Yuigahama join the club as well."
Yukinoshita Yukino glanced at the shock still visible on Yuigahama Yui's face and helplessly rubbed her forehead.
Since they couldn't drive Yuigahama away, they really needed to let her join the Service Club and learn about some of the special circumstances at Sobu High.
Otherwise, she would be the only member of the Service Club who knew nothing.
It would almost feel like they were bullying her.
"Has Yui agreed to join on her own? No problem. As long as nobody is forcing her."
Hachiman looked at Yuigahama Yui, smiled, and walked straight into the Service Club room.
Since Yukinoshita Yukino had already become involved, it wasn't right to keep Yuigahama Yui in the dark by herself anymore.
It was time for Yuigahama Yui to learn the truth about the Service Club.
To truly make every member of the Service Club his own.
"Yuigahama..."
"This Yuigahama doesn't seem to have any sisters. Just a mother..."
Only now did Hayase Saki, Narahashi Miki, Hayasaka Ai, and the others realize Yuigahama Yui's unique position within the Service Club. As they followed Hachiman into the club room, their gazes landed on Yui, looking her up and down while thinking to themselves.
Up until now, Yuigahama Yui was the only member of the Service Club who had never participated in its real service activities and knew nothing about magical girls.
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