After deciding to leave the island, everyone began buying supplies in the town.
Most players were very excited, especially the female companions who had been intimate with Makoto.
After all, with Makoto around, they didn't need to worry about their safety.
Even those with little combat ability, like Sonoko and Kokoro, were exceptionally cheerful, as they absolutely counted as Makoto's own people.
And those like Miyuki and Hiratsuka, who had limited relationships with Makoto, were also perceptive enough to immediately take on the odd jobs on the ship… because when boarding, Yu had said, "This ship is a bit small, it can't fit that many people", scaring them into grabbing brooms and mops to start cleaning, terrified of being optimized out.
But it was indeed true.
Although the Oro Jackson was larger than the future Thousand Sunny of the Straw Hat crew, the Roger Pirates were also a smaller, elite crew.
Now, having to accommodate the many players, the Kuja Pirates, and the Roger Pirates all at once, even stuffing the Roger Pirates into the cargo hold, it was still a bit cramped.
In the end, apart from Makoto, no one had a private room.
The male players, as before, shared a single room.
The women could freely choose their rooms, but basically two or three to a bedroom.
And Makoto's female companions, although they shared the same man, had their own little cliques internally.
For example, Utaha naturally got along best with Megumi… oh, add Eriri, who hadn't yet done that kind of thing with Makoto, forming the Saekano safety group.
The three 'real-life' friends, Yui, Yumiko, and Hina, were a given, plus the fellow maid-group member Chizuru.
Reze was closer to Ran and Sonoko.
On one hand, when she first returned to the real world with Makoto, he had placed her under Ran's care.
Secondly, Reze had known Yukiko in the Chainsaw Man world, and Yukiko now considered Ran her daughter.
Under this double-layered relationship, Reze naturally grew closer to the 'Conan group'.
As for Kotonoha, although she had become one of Makoto's wives, her social anxiety hadn't improved much. She was the type who could talk to anyone but hadn't integrated into the core circle of any clique.
Kokoro felt she needed to grow up quickly, so her sister wouldn't be left isolated.
So, Kotonoha roomed with Kokoro, Nayuta, and Alice.
Yes, Alice didn't want to room with her cousin.
The Nakano Quintuplets naturally crammed into one room.
"Excuse the intrusion for a while." In another room, Saeko said with a smile, nodding to the Yukinoshita sisters.
Yes, the three of them were assigned to a room together.
The Yukinoshita sisters' relationships with the other female players were average, but for just the two of them to have a room seemed a bit luxurious, and they hadn't earned that privilege.
Saeko, as a new player, didn't know them well and had no conflicts, so she didn't mind sharing.
The sisters nodded in response.
Yukino couldn't help but glance over Saeko's body a couple of times.
'Tsk, what did these women eat growing up?'
…
As the Oro Jackson set sail, swaying with the motion of the ship, everyone busied themselves.
Yukino took out a newspaper to read.
When stocking up on supplies in Malad Island, she had bought more newspapers than anything else.
Not just the latest ones, but older ones too. Yukino wanted to use them to better understand this world.
Haruno, meanwhile, started a conversation with Saeko.
"Saeko-san seems to greatly admire the Commander."
The friendship between women was truly wonderful.
They had just formally met, and already they were calling each other by name.
At the mention of Makoto's name, Saeko's charming cheeks instinctively flushed.
"That man has accepted everything about me. I want to give him everything I have, too."
When boarding the ship earlier, Makoto had passed by Saeko and told her that if the Marines agreed to trade the sword, it would be hers.
At that moment, Saeko had felt like tackling Makoto to the ground and forcing him to be her sex slave!
The main reason was that none of Makoto's other women specialized in swordsmanship.
Kotonoha already had the Katana Devil's ability, so giving a new sword to Saeko was natural.
But that didn't stop Makoto from maxing out Saeko's favorability in one move.
Having experienced so many events in the real world, Makoto had long been Saeko's fantasy object.
After transferring to a school in America, she didn't know how many times she had used his poster for her 'activities'.
Their situation now was like a fangirl finally meeting her idol in person. Need it be said what would happen?
No wonder so many celebrities have affairs with fans.
Is it wrong for them to simply fulfill a little fan's wish?
Of course, the ones involving minors are just perverted.
Someone as awesome as Makoto can't even touch little girls.
As she spoke, Saeko swallowed several times in a row, involuntarily pressed her legs together and began to rub them, making faint, almost inaudible sounds.
The Yukinoshita sisters were dumbfounded.
'Girls, we're right here.'
Yukino didn't even know what to say.
The evidence was right in front of her. Even if she pretended to be blind, she had to admit that Makoto really wasn't short of women… even if he didn't want them, he couldn't stop women from throwing themselves at him one after another.
Forcing herself to snap out of her fantasy, Saeko realized her indiscretion. She cleared her throat and changed the subject: "Ahem, um, Haruno-san, you even bought powdered milk."
She pointed to the powdered milk canister by Haruno's bedside.
"Oh, this? This is Hayato-kun's ashes container." Haruno explained. "It was too rushed in town... I couldn't find a place selling urns, so I used this instead."
After all, the Hayama Family had always been supporters of the Yukinoshita Family. In older terms, one could call them retainers.
Now that he was dead, Haruno felt she should at least bring his ashes back to his mother.
"Nee-san, when a player dies in another world, their body in the real world doesn't disappear." Yukino reminded her. The previous deaths of Kudo Yusaku and Tobe Kakeru had already proven this… if one died in the Reincarnation Game, their real-world body dies of cardiac arrest, meaning the corpse remains.
It can be cremated in the real world then.
"Oh, sorry, I forgot." Haruno realized. "Then let's throw it away."
With that, Haruno opened the window, as if she really intended to toss it into the sea.
"Do you have to be like that?" Yukino said in exasperation.
Haruno blinked in confusion: "Didn't you say his body would be preserved in the real world? Then keeping this is meaningless."
Yukino rolled her eyes hard and put the canister under the bed: "He was your simp for over ten years. Do you have to be so heartless?"
Yukino decided that when they reached the next island, she would go bury the thing.
It just went to show that although Yukino had low emotional intelligence, she wasn't a bad person.
These two sisters were really something else.
"Time to eat! Time to eat!"
Just then, Alice's voice came over the speaker installed in each room. Everyone got up and headed to the dining hall.
…
As night grew deeper, on the way back to their rooms, Saeko suddenly said to the Yukinoshita sisters: "Excuse me, I need to step away. If you get sleepy, go ahead and sleep, don't wait for me."
During dinner, Saeko had noticed something.
Most of Makoto's women were exhausted today and had been injured in the earlier battle... they weren't in the mood for that kind of thing.
Wasn't this god giving her an opportunity?
Recalling the expression on Saeko's face when she mentioned Makoto during their chat, the Yukinoshita sisters would have to be blind not to guess what she was about to do.
Yukino rolled her eyes hard.
Although the Tritoma and Yotsuba incidents had hurt her pride, she also understood that Makoto really wasn't short of women to sleep with.
But the speed at which they're coming, one after another, is a bit too fast, isn't it?
"Can you take me with you?" Haruno asked after thinking for a moment.
Yukino looked at her sister incredulously: "Are you serious?"
Saeko was also stunned for a moment.
To be honest, of course she didn't want to take Haruno along.
Although Saeko didn't mind how many women Makoto had… in fact, she felt that for such a powerful man, she should be helping him find more women —
But the problem was, this was her first time. Saeko naturally wanted to enjoy a private moment with her lover.
After thinking for a while, Saeko said: "Can you wait until I'm done?"
Saeko had a realistic assessment of her own stamina.
She felt that as a partner, she had to find a way to satisfy him.
When she couldn't hold out any longer, she would let Haruno take over.
But during the moment when Makoto took her virginity, Saeko still wanted it to be just the two of them.
"Thank you, Saeko-san." Haruno said excitedly.
Haruno then said to her sister: "Yukino, come too."
"I don't want to!" Yukino ran back to the room, her face bright red.
Although her pride had taken a hit last time, it only meant she wouldn't refuse if Makoto wanted her.
Take the initiative to offer herself?
She, Yukinoshita 'Justice Sister' 'Comprehensive Anime Workhorse' 'Service Club's Sharpest Tongue' Yukino, would never do such a thing.
"Fine." Haruno shrugged and followed Saeko.