And the younger sister Yukinoshita Yukino, who was vice president of the Service Club, was not even a magical girl yet.
The Yukinoshita family's level of awareness, should it be said that they really were one of the earliest families to come into contact with Mr. Hikigaya? Even with both daughters becoming vice presidents, the Yukinoshita family had still gained almost no benefits.
Could it be that the vice president positions of the Yukinoshita sisters had really just been casually arranged by Mr. Hikigaya? Simply because he found them pleasing to the eye? Without any other interests involved?
From the moment Yotsuba Maya entered to visit until she left after talking with her peers, Kaede, Rurikawa Tsubaki, and the others had not shown Yukinoshita Yukino any special treatment.
From the current situation, it also seemed unlikely that Kaede and Yukinoshita Yukino were acting in front of them. There was no need for that at all.
"..."
As the hosts here, Kaede and Suzu had taken in everything between Yukinoshita Yukino, Saegusa Mayumi, and the others. But they did not step in to stop anything. They only watched curiously as the girls messed around with each other.
They were not curious about Yukinoshita Yukino's relationship with Hachiman. Although Hachiman did seem to favor Yukinoshita Yukino a little, it was only a little.
The ones truly monopolizing Hachiman and constantly forming little groups around him were still that blonde princess Iris and her gang.
In truth, Yukinoshita Yukino really was very cute, and she matched Hachiman's tastes well. As Sobu High's former unreachable flower, Hachiman's dream of finding a rich wife and becoming a househusband was probably modeled after Yukinoshita Yukino.
But there were too many cute and beautiful girls in the Service Club. There were all kinds of dreamlike beauties. Right now, Yukinoshita Yukino did not have anything especially unique.
Not even mentioning girls with completely different traits, there were already many black-haired long-straight variations similar to Yukinoshita Yukino.
The older leftover woman type, Shizuka Hiratsuka. Ebihara Urara, whose fiance ran away. The older sister type, Tohsaka Touka. The twin-tail tsundere Tohsaka Rin. Tohsaka Sakura, who liked calling him Father and playing roleplay games.
At home, there was Shion, cold outside but warm inside and developing rapidly, and Yukari with her fang and ahoge type.
Now there were also the super rich young ladies Shiba Miyuki and Saegusa Mayumi in the office, along with the beautiful agent Inoue Takina. They all had black long straight hair.
Even Shinomiya Kaguya became black long straight-haired when she let her hair down, and her chest was even flatter than Yukinoshita Yukino's.
A lone Yukinoshita Yukino fighting by herself was already completely unremarkable now, because Yukinoshita Yukinos were everywhere.
"Thank you, Miyuki. I'm alright now."
Feeling the different looks everyone was giving her, Yukinoshita Yukino gradually stopped trembling and slowly straightened up. While catching her breath and thanking Shiba Miyuki, she reached for the special black tea that had just been brought over onto the table.
The more she interacted with these young ladies whose status and position were far above hers, the more deeply she realized how lacking her own strength was.
If she had some strength, then not only would Saegusa Mayumi and the others not dare act against her casually, but even when Mayumi lifted her wrist and pressed the shared sensation button, she would not have failed to react.
And to gain strength... clearly she had to become a magical girl.
But becoming a magical girl alone was not enough. She also needed more training than the others. Feeling the milk tea slowly slide down her throat, Yukinoshita Yukino's confused gaze gradually steadied.
"How about we stop here for today? Everyone should head back and rest first. Kaede, Suzu, and I will first discuss the enrollment quotas and teacher candidates, then we can talk more about Sobu High's future expansion plans afterward."
Seeing that the atmosphere was starting to feel a little off, Rurikawa Tsubaki hesitated before taking the initiative to persuade everyone.
Only letting one person experience shared sensation was bullying.
Not bringing one person into shared sensation was also bullying.
Only when everyone activated shared sensation together was it not bullying.
However, after hearing Rurikawa Tsubaki's words, Shinomiya Kaguya and the others merely looked at one another.
Including Yukinoshita Yukino, not a single person stood up to leave.
"Vice President Rurikawa, President Hikigaya is inside this office right now, correct? If possible, could you ask him to come out and chat with us?"
Seeing that they were about to leave if nobody spoke, La Folia, as the First Princess of Aldegia, looked around before smiling and directly pointing out the possibility that Hachiman was still inside the student council office.
"We are all members of the Service Club. We already prepared ourselves for certain things long ago. We can all accept it. There's no need to deliberately hide it from us."
Earlier, it had not been suitable to say such things in front of elders like Yotsuba Maya and Yukinoshita Kiyuki. But now that only people their age remained, they could speak more freely.
Although they had never personally experienced it and did not know about Hachiman's Service Space ability, they did know he was surrounded by many powerful demi-humans. He himself could awaken magical girl talent in human girls and awaken the bloodlines of female demi-humans. It was not impossible for him to use invisibility magic around them without being noticed.
Compared to believing the demi-humans had hidden themselves after learning they came here, they would rather believe the demi-humans and Hachiman were playing wildly like they did last night in the club.
"Yeah, yeah, Folia's right. We all want to meet President Hikigaya."
Charlotte Hazerlink, with silver hair, blue eyes, and an ample chest, immediately spoke up in agreement after La Folia made the request. She even offered to use her reward count.
"Although we couldn't last until the end of the service game last night, we still earned reward counts based on our rankings. Can we use those reward counts to request some help from President Hikigaya?"
Like La Folia, she was also a visiting foreign princess. She was likewise the First Princess of her country.
Only, compared to the Aldegia Kingdom, whose national power was still decent, the Hazerlink Kingdom she belonged to was a weak small country.
Originally, she had not come to Japan to attend Sobu High, but another private noble academy instead. However, because she was close friends with La Folia and learned about the Service Club and Mr. Hikigaya, she boarded the Service Club's train together with her.
Most of the young ladies present were at the conglomerate level. To her, they were gigantic forces capable of shaking her country's economy. So even though she was naturally lively and energetic, she had quietly watched and maintained her manners without speaking.
Now that she saw La Folia actively asking to meet Mr. Hikigaya of the Service Club, and the others clearly also wanted to meet him, she finally could not hold back anymore.
She had failed to meet Mr. Hikigaya after not lasting until the end of last night's game. Now even after coming to the student council office herself, she still could not see him. Then when would she ever properly meet Mr. Hikigaya?
Even though she had tossed and turned late into the night because of Mr. Hikigaya, now she could not even see him. That was not very romantic at all.
"President Kaede? Vice President Rurikawa? Is Mr. Hikigaya really not here?"
Saegusa Mayumi smilingly looked toward the Kaede and Suzu sisters and Rurikawa Tsubaki.
Shiba Miyuki and Yukinoshita Yukino also looked at them silently.
Yukinoshita Yukino could also guess that Hachiman was definitely in the office.
After all, Sobu High had long become Hachiman's territory. His people were everywhere. The fact that nobody acted recklessly in front of teachers was already being polite. There was no need to avoid them.
Only, if this had been before, regardless of whether Hachiman was in the office or not, she would have taken the chance to leave.
But now...
"Hachiman!"
"You really are here!"
Just as Saegusa Mayumi and the others were watching the Kaede and Suzu sisters, Inoue Takina and Nishikagi Chisato, who had finished making tea and were secretly eating seasoning together at the tea counter, suddenly cried out.
Shinomiya Kaguya, Saegusa Mayumi, Shiba Miyuki, and the others immediately looked toward where Inoue Takina and Nishikagi Chisato were staring.
By the window, behind the office desk.
A tall figure sat in the chair while bright sunlight from outside shone across his back.
"Good morning, everyone."
Hachiman raised one hand and controlled the windows and curtains to close shut before smiling and greeting Saegusa Mayumi, La Folia, and the others.
Originally, he had only wanted to make it up to Iris and Ursula for not getting to play games with them last night, while also helping demi-humans like Aoe Akane.
He had not expected La Folia and the others to already know Aoe Akane and the others had come here to the office. They did not believe the demi-humans had already left and directly said they wanted to meet him.
Since they were so eager, and considering that La Folia and the others had only watched him play games last night and never truly met him before they were eliminated, he decided it was better to simply come out directly. Otherwise, if they kept calling for him and he never appeared, the situation would become unbearably awkward.
What they said was also true. Everyone was a member of the Service Club. Sooner or later, they would become sisters close enough to be honest with one another. There was no need to keep hiding things.
"Mr. Hikigaya, we're very happy to see you. Please forgive us for insisting on meeting you so suddenly."
Seeing Hachiman finally appear, Saegusa Mayumi immediately stood up and walked to the office desk. Smiling, she bent down and greeted him with a bow. But the moment her peripheral vision caught sight of Hachiman, her smooth and delicate face instantly became flushed and charming.
From her angle, she could directly see several strands of hair in different colors swaying faintly.
If there were only one person, they probably would not have been squeezed out enough to become visible before her eyes. But it was impossible for so many people to fit beneath the office desk.
Then who exactly was under the desk right now?
"Mayumi, there's no need to be so polite. You should know I don't care much about formalities. You can just call me by my name. But since you asked me to come out and chat..."
Sometimes Hachiman played with a pale pointed ear like an elf's. Sometimes he gripped a long black tail tightly. Seeing Saegusa Mayumi's delicate earlobes already dyed red, he smiled.
"I'm also curious about how you casually pressed Yukino's shared sensation button earlier to tease her. Weren't you worried Yukino or I would get angry?"
"If Mr. Hikigaya disliked me doing that, then why didn't you stop me earlier? My strength is decent, but it's still nowhere near comparable to the strong people around you."
Saegusa Mayumi straightened up. Looking at Hachiman, who clearly had no intention of stopping the girls under the desk, the blush on her face deepened further. However, after keenly noticing he was in a good mood, she relaxed and blinked playfully at him with a smile.
"But even though Yukino is also a club member, I still acted offensively toward her without her permission."
"No matter how Mr. Hikigaya wishes to punish me, I'll gladly accept it."
As she spoke, Saegusa Mayumi walked beside Hachiman. Trying her best not to glance downward, she only reached out with both hands to hold his slender right hand. Then she opened her mouth slightly and gently bit down.
"Mayumi, do you really want punishment?"
Seeing Saegusa Mayumi take his hand herself and wait shyly for punishment, Hachiman could not help laughing as he pinched her soft tongue.
He had figured that although Saegusa Mayumi had a slightly scheming little devil personality and liked teasing people, she should only act like that toward people she knew well. She was not as extreme as Sakura and was not the type to casually make moves on strangers. So there had been other considerations behind it after all.
Mm... honestly, he really could not properly punish Saegusa Mayumi. Whether he went too far or too light, neither felt right.
With her tongue caught, Saegusa Mayumi did not speak. She only slowly bent down, rubbing her soft cheek gently against Hachiman's while secretly observing the movement beneath the desk from the corner of her eye.
Mm... after sweeping one glance across the messy floor, the soaked thigh-high white stockings and black pantyhose, she quickly pulled back her gaze with pain in her heart.
'Such a waste, really such a waste!'
Judging by the effect of increasing magical power she had just tasted in the black tea, this much awakening essence could directly create several fairly strong magicians.
She wondered how things were progressing between Kasumi, Izumi, and Hikigaya Komachi. If things were not going smoothly enough, she almost wanted her younger sisters to skip grades and come straight to Sobu High.
"..."
Watching the flirting punishment between Saegusa Mayumi and Hachiman together with Shiba Miyuki, Yukinoshita Yukino's expression darkened slightly as she quietly gritted her teeth.
Without question, Saegusa Mayumi's offensive action had been an open scheme.
If Yukinoshita Yukino truly had a deep relationship with Hachiman, then it would be impossible for everyone else to have become magical girls while she still remained an ordinary person.
As long as she were a magical girl, she naturally would not have helplessly let Saegusa Mayumi publicly press her shared sensation button.
And since she had clearly joined the club yet still was not a magical girl, it was obvious her relationship with Hachiman had not reached that stage.
With her own strength and the Yukinoshita family's power, she could do nothing against Saegusa Mayumi. If she wanted strength to retaliate against Saegusa Mayumi and voluntarily delivered herself to Hachiman, that would instead match Hachiman's wishes.
In that case, it became even more impossible for Hachiman to truly get angry at Saegusa Mayumi. Based on these people's understanding of his personality, at most there would only be some "punishment" that was really a reward.
Even... her sister Yukinoshita Haruno and her mother would probably thank Saegusa Mayumi for giving things a push.
After all, the Yukinoshita family was now also participating in the Service Club's expansion. Naturally, they hoped she would take more initiative in getting closer to Hachiman and gain greater influence.
Today, Yotsuba Maya normally would not even have cared about the Yukinoshita family. But because of their relationship with Hachiman, her attitude toward Mother had been very friendly, and she had even actively brought the Yukinoshita family into the Sobu High expansion project.
For Mother's sake, perhaps she also had to actively maintain her relationship with Hachiman.
'But this... seems wrong somewhere, doesn't it? Could it be... that I should actually thank Saegusa Mayumi?
The more Yukinoshita Yukino thought about it, the more she realized just how deep the schemes and calculations of this proper, sweet-smiling, perfect rich young lady Saegusa Mayumi really were.
Saegusa Mayumi truly deserved to be called a super rich young lady from a top conglomerate family. What looked like one careless action actually hid so many layers of meaning behind it.
Was she herself simply too naive and immature, or was she overthinking things? Was this the normal state of upper-class society her sister had always tried to keep her away from?
"Lord Hikigaya, First Princess of the Aldegia Kingdom, La Folia Rihavein, greets you."
"First Princess Charlotte Hazerlink of the Hazerlink Principality offers Lord Hikigaya her most sincere greetings."
While Yukinoshita Yukino was still secretly analyzing the purpose and consequences behind Saegusa Mayumi's reckless behavior, La Folia and Charlotte decisively stepped forward to greet Hachiman at the office desk.
Kirasaka Sayaka, who had androphobia, along with Shinomiya Kaguya, Shiba Miyuki, Kanase Kanon, and the others, who were meeting Hachiman in real life for the first time, did the same.
However... although they were all greeting him formally, the effect was completely different.
Shinomiya Kaguya glanced at the two foreign princesses beside her, La Folia and Charlotte, who were performing curtseys.
As they leaned forward, their smooth silver waist-length hair spilled down from their slender shoulders.
Their rounded white shoulders, delicate collarbones displayed perfectly before Hachiman due to their deeply sincere bows.
'Shameless! Not ladylike at all! Since when did curtseys involve bending that far over? And why are they lifting their skirts so high?'
Also, when had those shawls disappeared from their dresses? Weren't they still wearing them while drinking tea just now?
No wonder these two princesses had specially brought brand-new beautiful low-cut off-shoulder dresses into the dorms even though everyone normally only needed to wear school uniforms there.
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