“I’ve received word from the meeting…”

  Meeting inside a feren of the military-owned hotel he venue of the Nine Schools petition, Mayumi stood with her back fag Juumonji Katsuto, who had just finished his m workout and was still dressed in his sleeveless, bck, workout clothing.

  He couldn’t see her expression. But simply from the tone of her voice, it was clear to him that she was… upset.

  “Oh?”

  “You know how Ichijou-kun was defeated, and utterly at that, by Yuuji-kun the day before yesterday, right?”

  “And?”

  “As magis, the Ten Master s reign at the top in this try. Even if it’s just high school students pying games, they ’t allow a that undermihe power of the Ten Master s… That’s what they’re saying.”

  Mayumi turowards him, her face deeply frowning at the message she had received.

  “In other words, they’re seeking a test that would funt the Ten Master ’s power, is that right?”

  She nodded as a heavy sigh escaped her pink lips.

  “Seriously, how ridiculous… Even if it's just a branch, if only Yuuji-kun had the blood of the Ten Master s in his veins, he wouldn’t be subjected to this third-rate farce…”

  “...Leave it to me.”

  Juumonji rose from his seat and walked to the door. But before exiting, he turo look at Mayumi with a meaningful smile.

  “You know, there is oher way that he could be associated with the Ten Master s.”

  “Hm? What do you…”

  Mayumi tilted her head fusedly, unsure of what he meant. But soon after, her face turned red in an instant, realizing the meaning behind his words.

  “Eh?! J-Juumonji-kun!”

  “I’m just saying. Your as were quite obvious. And you will make a nice couple with him.”

  “W-What are you saying!!!”

  “Well, think about it. From my perspective, he seemed to be rather ied in you as well.”

  He turned away aed the room, leaving Mayumi alone and embarrassed.

  She looked down and held her burning cheeks with her hands. Her heart was beating wildly just from thinking about what Juumonji implied.

  “Geez… Am I that obvious…?”

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  Last day of the Nine Schools petition.

  Uhe clear blue sky, the finals for the Mai Monolith atch was held. Yuuji, Aika, Erika, and their friends all gathered to watch the event with great anticipation.

  With First High’s team sisting of Hattori Hanzou, Kirihara Takeaki, and Juumonji Katsuto, their victory was assured. But it was still exg to see the moment their school achieved first p this prestigious petition first hand.

  But as soon as it started, Yuuji noticed something unusual…

  “Hm? Is Juumonji-senpai going by himself?”

  Instead of handling the defense like he would in previous matches, Juumonji Katsuto marched forward with his Phanx.

  Spells flew towards him, but nothing mao gh the multi-yered barrier that tinuously refreshes itself. Like an unstoppable fortress, Juumonji Katsuto tio march forward, and reached the eeam’s monolith.

  All three of his oppos stood defensively in front of their monolith, ready to intercept him by fog their fire power.

  But Juumonji suddenly shifted the shape of his barrier, making it smaller. He moved his foot backward and lowered himself, like a sprinter getting ready for a race. And in the moment, he burst forward and rammed ead every one of his oppos with his Phanx, smming them with incredulous speed and power and turning them intdolls.

  In an instant, all three of his oppos were defeated, and First High gaiheir victory, filling the entire veh deafening cheers and appuse.

  That’s… anticlimactic…

  “He certainly was incredible, right, onii-sama!”

  “Yes. But that st attack… I don’t think that’s how he’d normally use Phanx.”

  Tatsuya g Yuuji, who was still staring at Juumonji’s figure on the s with scrutiny.

  “It must be because you defeated Iasaki, Yuuji.”

  Yuuji’s eyes widened in shod realization, before he let out a sigh.

  “It seems so… Hah, they’re such a hassle, huh?”

  “I agree.”

  “Hm?”

  Miyuki, who was listening to their versation, tilted her head fusedly.

  “Onii-sama…?”

  “I’ll tell you ter.”

  “I uand…”

  Miyuki nodded slowly.

  And with Juumonji team’s victory, the end of this year’s Nine Schools petition was announced.

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  The award ceremo quickly and the bao celebrate the “successful” end of the Nine Schools petition was held.

  Beautiful orchestral music filled the grand ballroom as students from all nine schools gathered and mingled amongst each other uhe brilliant, glimmering light from the massive deliers made of multicems hanging down from the ceiling.

  And as usual, Yuuji and Aika were immediately surrounded by a massive crowd.

  Most of them were girls who were fangirling over Yuuji as well as, surprisingly, Aika. She had made quite a bit of girl fans as well after her brilliant performan both Ice Pilr Break and Mirage Bat.

  Many of the male students from all nine schools were als their best to get close to Aika. But with most of the girls vigorously fighting over them and each other to try and reach Yuuji, as if he was aremely limited item on a massive sale, they had no choice but to stand bad wait for the girls to disperse.

  Though after waiting for a few minutes, it was starting to get unlikely… No girls ever walk away from him, which further infuriates them while making them extremely jealous at the same time.

  Why is he getting all the girls?! He already has the Goddess by his side, and he’s still stealing irls too!!! Is it because he’s handsome?! Is it because he’s strong?! Or is it because he’s got a huge package!!!

  Kuh… How could this world be so unfair!!! How could one man have the looks, powerful magic, a huge package, and girls?!?!?!

  Even from a distance, with this many people, Yuuji could feel the anger and envy-filled gres of the guys who were standing behind the crowd of girls stabbing him like a thousand bdes.

  I didn’t ask for this, okay?! I just wao hangout with Aika, Erika, and my friends!!!

  He yelled inwardly in frustration. He was also tired of having to hahis many girls. He just wao rex and hangout with his friends.

  Notig his iurmoil, Aika g her darling and grinned pyfully.

  She then suddenly ed her arms around his arm and hugged it, burying it iween her breasts, and wi the girls.

  “I’m sirls~ It’s time for us to dand meet with our senpais~ See you~ It’s nice meeting you~”

  “Eh? Ah- Please excuse us! Aika, stop pulling!”

  Yuuji quickly excused himself with a nod to the surprised girls a Aika drag him away. Although it was sudden, he was thankful for her.

  “Fufufu~ Escape successful~ Where’s my thanks, hubby~?”

  Aika whispered and wi him, making him smile helplessly at her.

  “Thank you for that, Aika. I owe you one. I was just getting tired of it.”

  “Hehe~ You repay me with your body ter. For now, let’s just dand enjoy the party, okay~?”

  “Mm.”

  Still arm in arm, Yuuji and Aika headed to the dance floor as many eyes followed their figure.

  But the two ighem and began to dah the musibsp;

  Holding her slim waist with his right and her hand with his left, Yuuji began to lead the dance slowly.

  Before this, Yuuji never knew how to do ball dang. But he had watched many around him do it. With his enhanced memory and accelerated learning capabilities, he was able to recall the dand do it himself.

  Meanwhile, Aika simply let her mahe dance. She doesn’t know how to ball dance as well. The only dance she could do was ballet, which she has profi thanks to the group chat. But because of that profid her ability to trol her body perfectly thanks to her SSR, she could perfectly follow his lead.

  After a few mihe two no longer had to pay attention to the dand simply looked at each other with a smile in silenbsp;

  It was said that the eyes were windows to the soul.

  Right now, even without words, they could feel the e and boween them grow. Simply by staring at each other’s eyes, they could vey their love for each other in a much more intimate mahan by words.

  Soulmates… This must be how it feels to be with your soulmate…

  Without realizing it, their dance became the ter of attention of the entire ball. And ohe pieded, they separated and gave each other a bow and a curtsy.

  “Fufu~ You were so good, Yuuji~ I didn’t know you could dance~”

  “I’ve been watg others do it. Thankfully, I didn’t mess up.”

  “You did well~! Ah, Erika’s there! Hold on, I’ll brio you so you dah her!”

  Before Yuuji could answer, Aika had gone off and dragged Erika, who was in her maid outfit, to the dance floor and in front of Yuuji.

  “W-Wait, Aika!”

  “Hehe~ There you go~! I’ll be dang with the girls now since I’ve learned how to lead from you~ Have fun~”

  Aika waved her hands and immediately left them as the piece from the orchestra started.

  “Hah… That girl…”

  “Well, that’s Aika for you.”

  Yuuji smiled before he bowed towards Erika and offered her his hand.

  “May I have this dance, my dy?”

  Her face blushed red, but she nodded and shyly took his hand.

  And as the two began to dance, Erika suddenly pouted.

  “What’s wrong?”

  “...Nothing?”

  “Hm? It ’t be nothing if you’re pouting like that.”

  “...I just ’t believe my first dance is in a maid uniform.”

  Yuuji blinked for a moment, before he began giggling at her.

  “H-Hey! You ’t giggle at me like that! Are you making fun of me?!”

  “Ahahaha! I’m sorry. But you’re just too cute!”

  “Y-You… Hmph!”

  Erika turned her face auffed her cheeks.

  She ’t believe he’s ughing at her! She’s embarrassed enough as it is! How could he ugh at his own girlfriend!

  “You don’t o be shy. It looks cute on you.”

  Yuuji leaned his head forward and whispered.

  “So cute… that I might want to take your first time while you’re in that outfit.”

  “!!!”

  *Stomp*

  Erika actally stepped on Yuuji’s foot. But she didn’t even realize it yet. Her eyes were as wide as saucers and her face was blushing incredibly red.

  And in the moment, she gred at him with teary eyes, increased the strength of her stomp on his foot, and gred at him with puffed cheeks.

  “How could you say that kind of thing, you pervert?! What if someone heard it!!! Are you Aika?!”

  She whisper-shouted. “I’m sorry. You’re just too cute. I couldn’t help but tease you a bit.”

  He giggled. Her stomping didn’t hurt him a bit. But even if it did, it would’ve been worth it since he got to see her super embarrassed face. It reminded him of the time he made her asm with his tongue. She was super embarrassed to even look at him at the time, and he had to spend several minutes coaxing her along with Aika.

  “You… Hmph!”

  Aika puffed her cheeks and averted her head away from him with her eyes closed.

  “I’m sorry, okay? What I do to apologize?”

  She peeked at him from the er of her eyes. And a few moments ter, she looked down, uo meet his fabsp;

  “...I’ll tell you ter.”

  Yuuji smiled softly and her.

  “Alright. Tell me ter in my room, okay?”

  She nodded babsp;

  After his dah Erika, Yuuji also danced with Mayumi, Mari, Miyuki, Honoka, Shizuku, and Mizuki.

  And when he finally got a ce to take a rest, a familiar, tall, and muscur figure of Juumonji Katsuto approached him.

  “Juumonji-senpai?”

  “Tsubakihara. e with me for a minute.”

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  Juumonji Katsuto led Yuuji outside the hotel and into the courtyard. The bright light from the hotel illumiheir surroundings, and the sound of the orchestral musi the grand ballroom was still audible, although faint.

  Yuuji stopped in his tracks when Juumonji stopped walking, leaving a couple of meters of distaween them.

  “Tsubakihara, you’re a member of the Ten Master s, right?”

  Yuuji widened his eyes in surprise. But his sholy sted for a moment. He recalled this event happening to Tatsuya in the anime. But since he was the one who defeated the Ichijou s, he was the one in this pstead.

  “No, I am from the Ten Master s.”

  “...Is that so? Then, as per the meeting, I’m going to advise you as the magi who’s serving as assistant head of the Juumonji Family. Tsubakihara, you should joien Master s.”

  “...”

  “Let’s see… For example, how about Saegusa?”

  “Mayumi-senpai?”

  “Ah. She’s beautiful, intelligent, and kind. And from my observation, you also seemed to be close with her.”

  “...By any ce, are you suggesting that she be my marriage partner?”

  “That’s right.”

  As expected, it’s about this huh…?

  Yuuji sighed inwardly.

  He never really wao be involved in the politics of the Ten Masters . He just wao e here for the mission and make this world a vacation spot that he could visit on a while to meet his friends. Perhaps, he could als his family too and introduce them to this world.

  “I know that you are also close with Kiryuu and the daughter of Chiba. But having a mistress or two would be fine, as long as you take proper care of your retionships with them. It’s not unon for a powerful magi to have two or more partners. As long as you make Saegusa your official wife.”

  “...”

  Relief filled his heart for a moment from knowing that polygamous retionship were also not unon for people in high society in this world. But he digressed.

  Although he wished to be in a retionship with Mayumi, he didn’t wish to be roped into the headache-indug politics of the Ten Master s. At least, not at the moment.

  Although he’s powerful, his influend wealth were still insuffit to be able to protect himself and those he cared about from the Ten Master s, if they wish to harm or exploit him for their own bes.

  “...Unlike you and Mayumi-senpai, I am a mere high school student. Although I ot deny my i in her and my retionship with Aika and Erika, talk of marriage and e are still far from my mind...”

  “Is that so? However, the fact that you utterly defeated Iasaki, the leader of the Ten Master s, carries far more weight than you think.”

  Juumonji approached him and pced a hand on his shoulders.

  “You ’t nguish for too long, you know?”

  “Juumonji-senpai…”

  “Just think about it. I’m not fond of meddling with others' retionships. But I am telling you this because I believe you will make the right decision.”

  “...I uand.”

  AN: This marks the end of the NSC arc~! Yokohama Disturbance Arc starti chapter~!!! Hope you e~!!!

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