Seeing this, Hachiman spoke up to stop Nina from continuing to target Falma and Alice.
"Besides, aren't you here? You once defeated even the Demon King. They haven't even managed to defeat the Demon King yet."
"Yes, Savior."
Nina lowered her head and nodded. Although she was unwilling, she still didn't ignore Hachiman's order and attack Falma and Alice. She simply continued watching the two of them warily.
She didn't know how to please the Savior. Like Iris, she wasn't good at that sort of thing.
Anyway, Iris would be back soon. Until then, all she had to do was protect the Savior.
"Shafi, you said you're part of the Hero's Party, right? Then where's the Hero?"
After calming the rather irrational Nina down, Hachiman looked at the blonde elf girl Shafi and asked thoughtfully.
Originally, he hadn't been very interested in the Hero's Party. Falma and Alice weren't weak, but the magical girls and demi-humans of the Service Club, after receiving his support, were all much stronger than this Hero's Party. Besides, Shafi was on his side.
However, after meeting Shafi and the others, the system had just triggered a new character mission that caught his attention.
[Character Mission, Magic Eyes]
[Every generation's Hero's Party aims to defeat the Demon King, while the Demon King seeks to destroy the Hero's Party to fulfill the grand ambition of conquering the world.]
[Help the Hero's Party defeat the Demon King? Or help the Demon King eliminate the Hero's Party?]
Although he didn't know what the reward would be, and he already had all kinds of special attack abilities, so he probably didn't need abilities like hypnosis, the original story seemed to include a time-stop item. If he could obtain some kind of time-related ability through this mission, that wouldn't be bad.
After all, Excellent Academy, where Kamijo Maki attended, had remained peaceful all this time, and the person who could use time-stop in the original story still hadn't appeared.
Still... Falma was a warrior, Alice was a priestess, and Shafi was a mage. So where was the Hero the Hero's Party was named after?
"Well... the Hero is staying alone in a village, defeating monsters nearby to level up."
Shafi naturally had no idea what Hachiman was thinking. Seeing him looking at her, she nervously swallowed, steadied her rapid breathing, and awkwardly explained in a low voice.
"There's a rumor that the previous Demon King was chased into this world by the previous Hero and disappeared. So we don't know whether the current Demon King is the previous one or a new one."
"So Alice, as a church priestess, came with us to investigate whether the Demon King is in this world."
Although there wasn't another racial war in their world like before, conflicts of all kinds had never stopped.
In the west, the Dark Elf Queen was becoming restless. At the Demon King's Castle, the Demon King was also building a Demon King's Army. Adventurers all over the world formed parties to eliminate monsters.
Originally, she had been continuing toward the Demon King's Castle with the Hero's Party.
Who would have thought the Savior would suddenly appear, and she would be chosen to receive his support?
On top of that, for some reason, the Human Kingdom had also learned about the Savior. The two sides immediately reached an agreement and sent every member of the Hero's Party except the Hero to this world.
There was no helping it. Compared to defeating one Demon King only for another to appear, with the Demon King's Army never settling down and always requiring Heroes to defeat them, the elves were clearly more important.
Especially after the humans heard that the elves' Savior could greatly increase a person's strength in a very short time.
If the Dark Elf Queen hadn't started preparing for war again, even Alicia, the Princess Knight of the Iris Flower and commander of Eos's Holy Iris Knights, would probably have come as well.
Of course, once Falma confirmed the Savior's strength, the Human Kingdom would probably also beg the Savior to grant them his favor, just as Princess Iris had.
"I see."
Hachiman didn't know what expression to make, so he simply nodded.
A Hero's Party without its Hero really left him with nothing to say.
"The Hero... Speaking of which, don't humans have the tradition of marrying the princess to the Hero after he defeats the Demon King? Is the Hero your fiance?"
Nina suddenly looked at Falma, who had been standing there shyly and awkwardly, and asked.
"When did the Hero become my fiance? My father hasn't arranged an engagement for us, and I'm still considering whether to reject the Hero."
"Rather than marrying as a princess, I'd rather use the sword in my hand to protect my people."
Falma immediately denied that the Hero was her fiance.
But halfway through speaking, she realized that the elf princess in front of her seemed to be trying to ruin her image in front of Lord Hikigaya.
"You're Princess Nina, one of the Seven Heroes who defeated Demon King Zero, aren't you? I remember my father saying you made an agreement with another of the Seven Heroes, Syll, to unite your royal families through marriage."
"You're the one with a fiance!"
"That was in the past. I will no longer represent the elves in a political marriage with the Human Kingdom. Now, I'm simply one of the Savior's support recipients."
Hearing Falma mention her former companion Syll, Nina clenched her gloved hands tightly, took a deep breath, and continued with a cold expression.
"..."
Priestess Alice really wanted to turn her head away and ignore the argument between the two princesses, but sensing the tense atmosphere, she couldn't help tightening her grip on her staff.
As both an elf and a member of the Hero's Party, Shafi couldn't hold back any longer as she watched the two of them argue over something that didn't even exist.
In truth, neither of them had a fiance.
The king of the Human Kingdom intended to marry Princess Falma to the Hero if he successfully defeated the Demon King. Naturally, that would only happen after the Demon King had been defeated, and only if Falma herself agreed.
As for Princess Nina, she had originally been on her way to another Human Kingdom for a political marriage, but before she arrived, she had been recalled to the Elf Forest and selected, like Shafi, to become one of the Savior's support recipients.
Although it was said that Nina's intended fiance had already been killed by Dark Elves, and his younger brother now occupied the throne.
If she hadn't been recalled in time, she might have been forced into an alliance through marriage with a Human Kingdom suspected of colluding with the Dark Elves.
Well... though that couldn't exactly be called good news for Princess Nina.
"Since neither of you has a fiance, and both of you want Hachiman's support, then how about this?"
As Falma and Nina remained deadlocked, Raphiel, who had been watching all along, suddenly stepped in with a smiling suggestion.
"For today only, why don't both of you treat Hachiman as your fiance?"
"Starting here at this convention, compete to see whose feminine charm is greater. Whoever is more suited to being Hachiman's fiancee will naturally receive his support."
"Treat him as our fiance?"
"Huh? A one-day engagement?"
Raphiel ignored the simultaneous cries of surprise from Nina and Falma, instead looking toward Lala, who was already Hachiman's fiancee.
"Lala, you don't mind, do you?"
"Not at all! I hope all of you can make Hachiman happy!"
Lala nodded without hesitation and even raised her fair little fists to cheer Nina and Falma on.
'What was this called again... right, taking concubines!'
If she and Hachiman didn't have children soon, then Hachiman would definitely inherit the throne first in the future.
Such a huge empire couldn't be without a ruler.
But Hachiman clearly disliked handling government affairs just as much as she did.
If Hachiman accepted princesses from every race into his harem, Hachiman could rule over all the queens and princesses, while those queens and princesses ruled their own races. That should greatly reduce the government's workload.
Compared to all the strange-looking ugly races throughout the universe, the beautiful girls of Earth's races were all very pleasing to the eye. She had absolutely no reason to refuse letting them join Hachiman's harem.
Though... she wasn't sure whether her mother would agree.
But the throne would belong to Hachiman in the future, so naturally it should depend on what Hachiman wanted.
If her mother disagreed, then her mother could just keep handling government affairs. After all these years, she was probably used to it anyway.
"If Falma and Nina aren't willing, then how about Charlotte and La Folia instead? Even if it's only for one day, a fiancee still has to fulfill a fiancee's duties."
After asking for Lala's opinion, Raphiel looked back at Nina and Falma. Seeing that they were still hesitating instead of agreeing immediately, she turned toward Charlotte and La Folia.
"We have no objections!"
"We'd be delighted!"
Charlotte and La Folia's eyes immediately lit up as they quickly agreed.
It wasn't appropriate for them to comment on Falma and Nina's argument, since their own motives weren't exactly pure either.
Now that they were allowed to join as well, there was naturally no reason to refuse.
If they could exercise a fiancee's privileges and fulfill a fiancee's duties, even for just one day, it would be enough to deepen their relationship with Hachiman and make it easier to become even more intimate with him later.
Watching more and more people join this farce, Lala's younger sister Momo couldn't help getting a headache.
'A one-day engagement...'
'Isn't that just being lovers for a day under a different name?'
'And Nee-san wholeheartedly supports it?'
She really wondered what Her Majesty the Queen would think if she saw this...
"A one-day engagement... Th-this... O-okay..."
"I don't object either."
Falma and Nina were still hesitating, but after seeing both La Folia and Charlotte readily agree, they had no choice but to stop hesitating and accept Raphiel's one-day fiance game.
In truth, Falma really had no romantic intentions.
She only wanted to protect the kingdom's people with the sword in her hand. Even while traveling with the Hero to defeat the Demon King, she had always been looking for a tactful way to reject his passionate pursuit.
But the elves' Savior before her was different from the Hero.
She was, after all, the representative of the Kingdom of Eos in this world.
If she firmly rejected Lord Hikigaya and angered him, the noble daughters of her kingdom might never have another chance to come here and receive his support.
Besides... perhaps one of her sisters might even like Lord Hikigaya. She really couldn't openly say she had no feelings of that kind toward him.
Growing stronger by serving someone sounded strange, even unbelievable.
But the increase in strength gained through serving him was real.
Princess Iris and her knight protector Aegis had only been in this world for a short time, yet their strength had already risen by several levels.
According to what they had learned here, even ordinary girls with no magical talent, who had only served Lord Hikigaya a few times, had awakened a powerful new class known as Magical Girls.
That made Falma even more cautious when facing Hachiman, not daring to leave him with a bad impression.
Lord Hikigaya wasn't merely the Savior of the elves.
He was clearly the Savior of humanity.
Although humans didn't produce beautiful girls at the same rate as elves, their population was vastly larger.
If they truly made up their minds to serve Lord Hikigaya, they too could hold nationwide selections for pure, beautiful girls just as the elves had, or even search for beauties in other kingdoms.
The only awkward part was that, although their world was enormous, with vast continents and countless kingdoms, many human nations consisted of nothing more than a single city-state or the territory of a local lord.
They were far less united than the elves, whose main homeland remained the Elf Forest, with only a few elves living outside.
Humans could cooperate somewhat when facing a powerful common enemy.
But setting aside all their conflicts and uniting wholeheartedly to serve Lord Hikigaya and grow stronger was nearly impossible.
The beautiful women of the Kingdom of Eos alone really couldn't compete with the elves, who appeared to have dwindling numbers and few remaining High Elves, yet possessed long lifespans and extraordinary beauty.
"So, who wants to go first?"
Raphiel glanced at Falma, who looked as though she wanted to speak but was weighed down by her thoughts, then smiled brightly as she addressed La Folia, Charlotte, and the others.
"Although your one-day engagement with Hachiman officially began the moment you agreed to join this game, to avoid unnecessary disputes, we should still establish some rules."
"Since everyone's level of familiarity with Hachiman is different, how about switching every thirty minutes? One person accompanies Hachiman for half an hour before the next person takes over."
"Mm... Of course, if it's someone's turn and they aren't ready yet, we'll simply move on to the next person. If no one is ready, then the previous person can continue accompanying Hachiman."
"As for the reward, the winner will receive one free instance of Hachiman's support, provided they don't make any excessive requests."
"As for the victory condition... whoever performs the best and earns the highest score wins. The scoring will be done by Hachiman's official fiancee, Lala!"
Raphiel had no intention of forcing Falma and Nina too hard.
She gave them plenty of time to observe and think.
But at the same time, she wasn't going to give them too much freedom.
Since she had personally stepped in, how could she let Falma and Nina get through this unscathed?
"No problem! I'll be the judge!"
Hearing she could serve as the referee, Lala, still hugging Hachiman, happily raised her hand, eagerly looking forward to seeing how Nina, Charlotte, and the others acted as Hachiman's fiancees.
Her two younger sisters, Momo and Nana, could only cover their faces.
'Big Sister...'
'That's your own fiance...'
'And you're actually looking forward to judging whether other girls are qualified to be his fiancee.'
"Princess Lala, may I go first... If two people can go together, I'd like to be with Charlotte."
The silver-haired imperial princess La Folia pursed her lips. Seeing that neither Nina nor Falma, the two princesses from another world, had tried to stop her or volunteer first, she stepped forward and even looked toward Charlotte.
"Charlotte, would you like to accompany President Hachiman with me?"
"Together? Mm! I'd love to! I'd be delighted!"
Charlotte was just about to let go of Hachiman's arm, but after realizing what La Folia meant, she immediately pressed his arm even tighter against her full, soft chest and nodded with a bright smile.
She had served President Hachiman together with La Folia before.
Now that they were participating in the one-day fiance game, she was naturally more than happy to continue together.
After all, they were both from overseas.
Here, they had few allies.
Whether it was for mutual support or forming their own small alliance, they should work together.
"Two together..."
Raphiel hadn't expected La Folia to have this idea. After a moment's hesitation, she looked toward Lala.
She personally didn't mind such a small detail.
If anything, two people together would be even better.
But with Iris absent, Lala was Hachiman's only fiancee.
And unlike Iris, Lala had a very different personality, so Raphiel didn't want to make decisions on her own.
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