Maybe it was because magicians like Saegusa Mayumi studied at school more like researchers focused on magic research.
Still, maybe because he had gotten used to seeing it at Sobu High, he actually quite liked uniforms like Saegusa Mayumi's.
"Mmh... this..."
Feeling the warmth from Hachiman's palm pass through the thin breathable fabric onto the soft skin of her calf, Saegusa Mayumi bit her lip with a flushed face and did not immediately answer his meaningful question.
She had never thought about rejecting Hachiman. Through the empathy wristbands, every one of them had already deeply experienced how amazing he was. Reaching this stage was only a matter of time.
Taking this chance while being punished to become the first magical girl among these newly joined factions was actually not bad.
But if she really agreed to do it here, then the others had to experience the same thing too.
Only then could she continue getting along with the girls present without embarrassment.
"Since you're not refusing, then let me see how far you can endure, Mayumi."
Seeing Saegusa Mayumi only blush without speaking, Hachiman stopped hesitating. He hooked his arm behind her knees, preparing to lift her up.
"Do you want to accept your punishment here, or sit on the sofa while accepting it?"
"N-No, not the sofa! Here is fine!"
Saegusa Mayumi was still hesitating over what attitude she should use for her first time. Hearing Hachiman say he would carry her to the sofa and punish her there while chatting, her body stiffened. She hurriedly lay on the desk and covered her face, stopping Hachiman from lifting her legs and carrying her up.
Even though she knew that in the future she and the others would become very skilled and very wild together with elf princesses like Iris.
She still didn't want her first time to happen sitting in front of everyone like this.
"Hehe! Then we'll stay here."
Seeing that, Hachiman smiled and brushed aside Saegusa Mayumi's smooth black hair before lowering his head and kissing her long pale neck.
With the office desk blocking things, and Saegusa Mayumi able to lie on the desk and hide her face, accepting punishment here really was much better than sitting on the sofa.
Well, that was only if Saegusa Mayumi could hold back.
"Nice! Miss Saegusa, do your best!"
Seeing Saegusa Mayumi letting Hachiman enjoy her, Nishikigi Chisato directly gave her a thumbs up.
Even though nobody had forced her and Takina to lie on the desk and let Mr. Hachiman have them, she simply didn't want to watch Takina suffer alone, so she chose to go together with her.
The facts proved Takina's choice had been right. Mr. Hachiman had not lied to them. In fact, becoming magical girls had worked even better than they imagined. They had gone from troublemakers in Lycoris to popular figures among supernatural organizations, and the daughters of major factions were all very enthusiastic toward them.
More accurately, princesses and young ladies like Shinomiya Kaguya, La Folia, and Saegusa Mayumi had all been drawn here by her and Takina. Otherwise, very few factions would have believed that the Service Club could mass-produce magical girl talent.
But now, seeing Saegusa Mayumi trying to challenge Mr. Hachiman alone, the warm-hearted and helpful Nishikigi Chisato could only admire her courage. She absolutely did not dare go up and help.
"Mayumi-senpai..."
Shiba Miyuki looked at Saegusa Mayumi lying on the desk, too embarrassed to raise her head, and sighed inwardly.
She really couldn't tell whether this was Senpai Mayumi's scheme or simply overconfidence.
Accepting punishment after doing something this reckless was normal enough, but the price...
The others, including Shinomiya Kaguya, Charlotte, and La Folia, were all thinking about something.
According to the information they had, Hachiman had a rather passive and conservative personality. But perhaps due to the influence of the elf princesses during this period, he was unexpectedly forceful when facing beautiful girls who willingly approached him.
Even if it was a pure girl he had just met, as long as she was offering herself willingly rather than being forced, he would directly accept her without hesitation.
Mm... after thinking about it carefully, they could understand it too.
Considering Saegusa Mayumi's earlier offense toward Yukinoshita Yukino, using another type of punishment would easily make things seem biased toward one side.
Now that she was similarly exposing her embarrassing side in front of everyone, it really was not a bad punishment.
But didn't watching them count as punishment too?
As for the two involved parties, Saegusa Mayumi wanted to drag everyone else down with her after being stared at by the crowd, while Yukinoshita Yukino, who had not moved from her spot and was occasionally glanced at by everyone, felt even stranger.
Logically speaking, considering the strength of the Yukinoshita and Saegusa families, the fact that Hachiman was willing to let Saegusa Mayumi repeat an embarrassing experience already counted as favoring her. Not to mention that the embarrassment Saegusa Mayumi was suffering now was far more serious than hers.
After all, absolute fairness had never existed in this world.
Under normal circumstances, Yukinoshita Yukino absolutely would have thought that way. She might even have stopped Hachiman from bullying Saegusa Mayumi.
But for Saegusa Mayumi, was this really punishment?
Yukinoshita Yukino tightly bit her lip as her gaze moved across everyone's faces.
She had to admit that Hachiman's special ability had completely overturned her understanding of things.
Punishment-like rewards, reward-like punishments. It was impossible to tell whether they were good or bad.
She could only barely judge things from the attitudes of the people involved and the other observers.
Even though Saegusa Mayumi was lying on the desk hiding her face and looked extremely embarrassed, who knew how happy she actually was inside?
Even though Saegusa Mayumi was a daughter of the Saegusa family and, aside from a few princess-level figures, could easily be considered among the people with the best status here, with Shinomiya Kaguya and La Folia unable to compare, inside the Service Club, that advantage was not some impossible gap. Give a newcomer with no background a little time and they could still grow. Right now, Saegusa Mayumi offending Yukinoshita Yukino and then accepting this punishment was really hard to see as anything but intentional.
'Wait, something is wrong. Very wrong!'
On the surface, Hachiman was helping her seek justice and punishing Saegusa Mayumi for offending her, but now it somehow looked like he was using her name as an excuse to play with women?
"Kanon... mm, forget it. Charlotte, come with me instead."
Even Yukinoshita Yukino, who had only recently begun understanding how upper-class society worked, could tell what was happening, let alone everyone else.
La Folia immediately wanted to bring Kanase Kanon, who liked Hachiman, over with her. But seeing Kanase Kanon's face completely red as she waved her hands in panic, La Folia instead brought fellow kingdom princess Charlotte over to Hachiman's side. The two girls pressed their soft full bodies against him from both sides.
"President Hachiman, we saw Yukino-san being bullied earlier and didn't stop it in time. We should also accept punishment."
"Mmhm! President Hachiman, please punish us too!"
Under normal circumstances, being pressed against a desk like this really was a humiliating loser's punishment.
But in a situation where everyone here was already preparing to offer themselves, the person who received the most embarrassing experience instead had an easier time becoming the leader of the small group and the strongest among them.
"Hachiman-sama, I was clearly here first. You should punish me first~"
Seeing how quickly the two foreign princesses Charlotte and La Folia had adapted to Hachiman's personality and returned to their naturally bold and passionate selves, Saegusa Mayumi felt helpless inside. She could only endure her embarrassment, support herself against the desk, slowly straighten her waist, turn her head, kiss Hachiman's cheek, and softly act spoiled.
They weren't even giving her any time to act shy like a girl. As expected, having too many people was troublesome. There was no discipline at all. They had already started competing.
But no matter how helpless Saegusa Mayumi felt, she could only continue competing with La Folia and the others now.
If she wanted to slowly experience the process of romance, then who knew how many people would cut ahead of her in line.
"Ahem! Everyone stop staring and come sit down and chat."
Seeing there was only floor space left around Hachiman and that the others were not bold enough to actively go serve him, Iris spoke up to remind everyone.
She was not surprised by how Saegusa Mayumi, La Folia, Charlotte, and the others were willingly offering themselves. For important members and future heirs of major factions like them, political marriages were usually loveless or only became loving after marriage.
From the moment these girls entered the Service Club, they had already been marked by the president. Their influence within their families would also become tied to how favored they were by him.
Under those circumstances, every newcomer who joined would become extremely obedient, just like them, placing the president at the center and thinking about how to make him happy while receiving his aid.
Of course, nobody could resist the president's aid either.
If someone really were that incredible and could receive his aid every day without being affected at all, she would honestly admire that person.
"O-Okay..."
Shinomiya Kaguya, Shiba Miyuki, and Yukinoshita Yukino watched Iris walk straight past them wearing only a white shirt. They looked at one another before hesitantly returning to sit on the reception sofa.
The hem of the unbuttoned white shirt reached her thighs, while the over-knee white stockings wrapped around her pale slender legs had become slightly wrinkled.
The perfect soft curves of the elf race were completely exposed before them.
Just looking at Iris's natural innocent aura and sweet pure smile, even after personally watching her crawl out from under the desk earlier and hearing those gulping sounds, it was still difficult for them to imagine how Iris served Hachiman.
Kaede and the others, meanwhile, were already used to the blonde princess acting even more seductive than a succubus. They directly greeted everyone and had them sit down, beginning the joint development meeting for Sobu High's demi-human and human students.
Since there still weren't enough seats, Rurikawa Tsubaki went back to the clubroom and brought several benches over.
Even so, things remained crowded. The problem was no longer just seating, but space itself.
Still, girls like Aoe Akane and Kijou Suzuka, who had no seats, only hesitated briefly before being pulled onto the sofas and benches.
Aoe Akane, with her pointed ears, was pulled beside Iris. Kijou Suzuka, also from the oni race, was brought beside Origamine Ouka. The dragon-human Senga Seira was naturally dragged down by Ursula.
Although their identities were different, they were all sisters who would take each other's place in the future, so squeezing together was nothing.
Of course, not everyone treated newcomers kindly because they were sisters sharing hardships together.
"Seira, you know your fiance's younger sister Miime came here too, right? Next time, serve Hachiman together with Miime and see how long it takes for the two of you to awaken your bloodlines."
Ignoring the discussion about Sobu High's future development happening on Hoshizuki Kaede's side, Ursula looked at the charming and satisfied-looking Senga Seira and directly gave the order.
"Eh? Miime? Together with me?"
Senga Seira gulped down her tea and licked her lips. Hearing Ursula give such an order without caring about anyone else's reactions, she froze and pointed at herself.
Even though she had no feelings at all toward the fiancé she had been engaged to since birth and had only met a few times growing up, she was actually very satisfied with offering herself to Lord Hikigaya and did not feel guilty at all.
Because according to the dragon-human clan's rules, every dragon-human had their marriage decided from birth and married once they reached the appropriate age.
Now Ursula, as dragon clan leader, had changed her engagement and ordered her to marry Lord Hikigaya in the future. That could also be considered following the clan leader's highest rule.
But breaking off an engagement with someone she had no feelings for was one thing. Dragging her fiancé's younger sister into this too was going a bit too far.
Shinomiya Kaguya, Shiba Miyuki, and the others could no longer continue chatting after hearing Ursula's words. They all turned to stare at Senga Seira and Ursula.
As expected of the domineering dragon race. Even their leader treated her own people this forcefully.
"If Seira doesn't want to, then let Sally replace Miime instead."
Seeing Senga Seira hesitate, Ursula clicked her tongue and immediately changed the candidate without hesitation.
If the dragon race had more influence in this world, why would she even need Seira and Sally?
Maybe she should also do what Iris and the others did and bring more clan members over.
"Uh... Lady Ursula, I'm willing. But please let me think about how to explain it to Miime first."
Hearing Ursula's words, Senga Seira instantly felt numb all over and could only agree helplessly.
Though she had countless things she wanted to say to Ursula, the dragon race was simply a species with strong personalities that acted however they pleased. Authority depended entirely on strength. The clan leader was both the strongest dragon and the one with the most power.
Simply put, if Ursula said she wanted to do something, then she really would do it.
If she couldn't get Miime to serve Lord Hikigaya together with her...
Seira serving the president together with Miime?
Or Seira serving together with Lady Sally?
Iris glanced at Ursula, who wanted to stir things up again beside her, and paid no attention to this dragon clan leader who had peaked upon arrival and later could no longer defeat her.
Setting aside angels and demons like Gabriel and Vignette from Heaven and the Underworld, Ursula really could once be called the strongest among them due to her powerful body and dragon language magic. Back then, only by joining forces under the support of Earth's high-density mana could she and Aegis match Ursula.
If Ursula ignored the consequences and transformed back into her dragon form to rampage through human society, they would not be able to stop her either.
That was also why Ursula had always acted so arrogant and overbearing.
Ursula truly had the right to act arrogantly. As long as she followed the rules and did not constantly cause trouble, nobody wanted to provoke her, including evil organizations. Who knew whether Ursula might suddenly decide she disliked them and immediately start causing chaos.
But that was only the situation at the start, when everyone had entered Sobu High to compete for the president's aid.
Not to mention the alien empire princess Lala, who appeared later and fell in love with the president at first sight while also being extremely powerful. Even she and Aegis had already surpassed Ursula after receiving the president's aid day and night and improving rapidly.
If they had not been considering Ursula's pride and the possibility that publicly defeating her might make her angrily create more trouble, they would already have taught Ursula a proper lesson long ago.
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