The aftermath of the raid on Bnche’s HQ was handled by Jumoonji Kaito as the representative of the Juumonji d the officials, and the students who participated in the raid were only asked to expin the ology of events a go.

  After the event, Mibu Sayaka was told to stay in a hospital to monitor her behavior and memories, given some of her memories had been altered. They had to make sure that there were no memories other than her misuanding about Mari’s words to her.

  The Kendo club’s captain and step brother of Tsukasa Hajime, Tsukasa Kinoe, was also hospitalized for the same reason. And given the probability of this case, he was not given any criminal charges.

  None of the students who joihe egalites will also be reprimanded iven punishment for this i. After all, if they were, the school’s atability would e under scrutiny, and they wao keep it under s.

  Thus, time passed, and the day of Mibu Sayaka’s discharge from the hospital came on May 10, 2095.

  Yuuji, Aika, Tatsuya, and Miyuki came with bouquets to celebrate her discharge as promised.

  Entering the lobby of the hospital, they immediately saw Sayaka talking chummily with Kirihara.

  “Oh my oh my~!!! Fufufufu~ They’ve gotten chummy, huh~?”

  Aika’s lips curled into a wide, catty grin as she watched the two talk with each other. Even from a distahe atmosphere around them was clear. They’re both clearly ied in each other, but they’re still too shy to show it as affe, so they just act friendly with each other. A typical romaween an i couple.

  Yuuji smiled at her helplessly and thought of the time when they were also still too shy to fess their feelings to each other. Yuuji acted as gentlemanly as he could and tried to help her and be friendly then, while Aika would always make dirty jokes when she’s embarrassed. Although they’re now unafraid to show their love for each other, they were just like Sayaka and Kirihara in the past.

  “Apparently, Kirihara-senpai’s been ing to visit her everyday~!”

  Erika came from behind and appeared beside Yuuji with a teasing grin.

  “Oh my~ Kekeke~ Then since he’s not even hiding it, it’s a must for us to tease them, then~?”

  “Hehehe~ I’ll help you out with that.”

  “Hah… Stop that, you two. Don’t tease an i couple.”

  Yuuji bopped Aika and Erika’s head softly and called out to Sayaka.

  “Mibu-senpai.”

  “Ah, Tsubakihara-kun, Shiba-kun, everyone!”

  They approached her and they could immediately see Kirihara’s shod nervousness immediately from seeing aremely handsome guy approag them.

  “gratutions on being discharged, Mibu-senpai.”

  Yuuji and Miyuki then both gave them the bouquet they’ve been holding, and Sayaka received them gratefully.

  “Thank you so much!”

  As the girls chatted away, Yuuji met gazes with Kirihara and nodded his head befiving him a thumbs up. His face immediately blushed at the realization of Yuuji’s as, but before he could say anything, Sayaka’s father approached Yuuji and Tatsuya.

  “Are you Tsubakihara and Shiba?”

  Yuuji and Tatsuya turo the entleman, and they immediately reized him not only as Sayaka’s father.

  “Yes sir.”

  “I see. My name is Mibu Yuzo. Sayaka’s father. May I have a word with the two of you for a moment?”“Of course.”

  Yuzu led the two slightly away from the group and began to thank Yuuji and Tatsuya for helping her daughter.

  “I did not do anything to be thanked for, Mibu-san. It was thanks to Aika, Miyuki, and Erika who talked Mibu-senpai through it.”

  “Indeed. All I did was callously pushed her instead, so I must be despised instead. I’m not worthy of any gratitude.”

  Mibu smiled softly at the two young men before him and turo his daughter.

  “I could never even be able t myself to push her away. I’m aware that her magic skills weren’t ing along, but I ruly grasped how much that fact was t my daughter.”

  He turned his gaze towards Tatsuya.

  “My daughter told me that listening to you made her remember what it was to be torn. And that’s what triggered her to wake up from her nightmare.”

  He then turowards Yuuji.

  “And she was also saved by you and Kiryuu-kun because you told her that she hadn’t wasted her time. So please allow me to say it. Thank you very much for helping my daughter.”

  Yuuji smiled helplessly and finally relented before a father’s sincere gratitude.

  “You are wele, Mibu-san.”

  “Mm. You two are just the kind of man Kazama said you were.”

  “You know Major Kazama, sir?”

  “Yes. I’m already retired, but he’s an old rade in arms who once shared a barrack with me.”

  He looked at Tatsuya for a few moments and then turowards Yuuji, and stared at him for a while longer, before smiling once again.

  “Don’t worry. I won’t say a word to anyone about what I’ve heard from Kazama, so rest assured. I just wao tell you that I know that you two are the ones who saved my daughter. I really appreciate that.”

  Yuzu patted the both of them ohe shoulders and walked away, leaving the two guys gng at each other awkwardly before returning back to their group.

  “Ah Tsubakihara-kun, Shiba-kun! What were you talking about with my dad?”

  “It was nothing. We just greeted each other after he reized us. A person who once looked after us arently a close friend of his.”

  Tatsuya expined.

  “Oh really?”

  “Yes. It’s a small world, huh? I didn’t expect it either.”

  “Heeeh~ So you two have such a strong e, then~! Hey Saya, why did you jump ship from Tatsuya to Kirihara-senpai? You were in love with Tatsuya, right~?”

  Erika grieasingly.

  “H-Hey, Eri!”

  “If it’s just a matter of looks, I think Tatsuya wins, you know~? Oh, but if you only sider looks, then there’s no way you would look at a Yuuji, right~? After all, his looks are worlds apart from Kirihara-senpai~”

  “Y-You’re just beyond rude, aren’t you?!”

  Kirihara gritted his teeth as his cheeks blushed redly in embarrassment before Erika patted him on his shoulder.

  “It’s fine, Kirihara-senpai. When it es to men, looks aren’t everything… Well~! If it’s too far apart like you and Yuuji, then it’ll be a super steep mountain to climb~”

  “Seriously, I’m gonna make you bawl, damn you!!!”

  “Now now~ Anyway, was Kirihara-senpai’s diligehe cher for you~? Are you the kind of girl who gets all knees-weak over the gentleness of an awkward guy~?”

  “Y-Yes… Just like you said, Eri… I-I think I fell in love at first sight with Yuuji-kun… And then, I-I also find Shiba-kun attractive…”

  “...Eh?!”

  Not only Kirihara, but Erika was also caught by surprise at her hoy.

  “Because… Both of them have something I truly admire… an unwavering strength, and the power to back their ideals. But… even as I felt admiration for both of them, I also felt afraid…”

  Sayaka slowly looked up from the bouquet to the two of them.

  “No matter how hard I try… I know I could never, ever stand by their sides…”

  Erika fell silent and looked down to her hand and ched it.

  She admired Yuuji’s power and the light he shined… He’s like a sun that lit up the entire world. Sht… so beautiful… yet so far.

  She wao be close to him, but she was afraid… She could never shine as brightly as him. She’s not as beautiful or as sexy as Aika, nor is she powerful enough to stand by his side.

  She’s just a girl with a normal high school girl’s figure and slightly good with the sword. She’s not even girly or cute, and there’s so many irls cuter, more beautiful, and more powerful than her who would fit him better.

  But… ained her more than that realization was the fact that she still couldn’t give up on him. Being with him made her feel very happy and warm. Even though they hadn’t ied much, the little time she spent with him was always fun. Every message they sent to each other always made her heart flutter. And everytime he showed his for her, she couldn’t help but fall in love with him again…

  Erika unsciously g Yuuji and saw him simirly staring at her. She immediately averted her face away as she felt her heart skip a beat.

  “But Kirihara-kun… Even if we fought sometimes, he’s someone who would walk at the same pace as me. I guess that’s why…”

  Sayaka looked at Kirihara lovingly, causing him to avert his gaze in embarrassment and rub the back of his head.

  “Mmmm~!!! Thank you so much for the meal, Sayaka-senpai~ I’m so full~”

  Aika grinned and turned her attention towards Kirihara.

  “Then~? What about you Kirihara-senpai~? How long have you been in love with Sayaka-senpai?”

  “Kuh! N-Not you too! Give it a rest, will you?! Who cares about that stuff!”

  “That’s right, Aika. It doesn’t matter how long it’s been.”

  Kirihara, Sayaka, Erika, and Miyuki all turned and looked at Tatsuya in shock. He was the st person they’d expect to join in this kind of thing.

  “The important thing is that Kirihara-senpai is seriously smitten and head over heels for Mibu-senpai.”

  “W-What the… Hey you!!!”

  Kirihara’s face turned crimson red as he looked at Tatsuya in disbelief. But before he could do anything, Yuuji also decided to join and pour a tub of salt to his wound.

  “Mm, he’s right. I ’t say much but, after seeing Kirihara-senpai’s galnt figure of cutting down Bnche’s leader and dispying his anger over Mibu-senpai’s abuse, I ’t help but admit defeat when it es to Mibu-senpai…”

  “Oh my~”

  Erika, who had recovered from her own embarrassment thanks to Kirihara’s embarrassment, decided to join in again and tease him.

  “Hey Yuuji, tell me ter i, okay?”

  Even though she was still blushing slightly, she did her best to e close to Yuuji and pretend to whisper to him to tease him.

  “C-Chiba, you little! That goes for you too, Tsubakihara! If you talk, I’ll make you pay!!!”

  “It’s okay, Kirihara-senpai. My mouth won’t say a word. But I ’t do anything about my hand, so I’ll apologize first if my hand suddenly itches and write everything that happens to Erika.”

  “Y-You little!!!!!”

  “Hehe~! I’ll look forward to that message!”

  “Chiba, you little shit! I’ll get you for it!”

  --------------------------------X--------------------------------

  The massive underground b of Yuuji and Aika’s mansion was filled with cutting edge teology that surpasses eveop military research facilities in Japan, making it one of the most teologically advanced research ters in the world.

  It’s where Yuuji would usually spend his time whenever he wasn’t spending it with Aika. Although he could return to this world and to this mansion whenever he wanted after the mission is over, he still wao make use of his time here to learn as much as possible about CAD development and the magic system of this world, and this was the best pce he could do it in. Moreover, wheatsuya es to visit, he’ll also be helping him with his “little project”.

  The flying magic.

  With his Iive Magic being gravity, Yuuji’s help, suggestions, and input had greatly helped Tatsuya in pleting his flying spell even faster. And because of it, he’s also adding more refis to it and thus, adding more time they had to spend on it.

  However, aside from doing all of the above, Yuuji would also do his daily trading routine, che the iments he had made, as well as doing some personal projects.

  Sitting at one of the desks in his b, Yuuji stretched his body, letting out a long sigh, before unplugging both of his and Aika’s bracelet-type CAD.

  A few weeks after the bnche i, and a few things had happened sihen.

  Yuuji and Aika had beeed as one of the freshmen who will be representing their First Highschool in the Nine Schools petition, so he had been brainst some new spells they could use during the events. They knew what kind of events there would be in the petition sihey’ve watched the anime, but they weren’t informed yet as to which events they would be participating in.

  So, while he already formed some ideas for spells to be used in each of the events, he didn’t bother developing them yet. Instead, he decided to tinue his personal project of creating the world’s most accurate stock market analysis tool for himself and his mother, Mira.

  Although he only had one or two hours to work on it once every few days, iween attending school, studying magid CAD, spending time with his friends, and spending time with Aika, he was still able to make strides over his time here thanks to his 100 Profi programming and iment.

  However, as he tio develop aer the main fun of his analytical tool, he realized that he had run into a slight problem. The superputer he has here was able to run it well, and the finished product might also still be runnable. But, this erputer with cutting edge teology even with Tatsuya’s teologically advanced world.

  A regur puter from his less advanced world wouldn’t be able to run it, given it would o calcute rge amounts of data to give aremely accurate predi of the movements iock market with a miniscule error margin he wanted.

  Yes, he could simply let his mother’s puter receive the result while a superputer made the calcution. But the problem was that the superputer he has here wouldn’t be able to transfer data to his world, which is in a different universe.

  The only piece of teology that could transfer data from and to different universes he had in his possession now was his phone.

  He could perhaps use his phoo ch the data and simply send the data to his mother’s puter and his ptop, but he had never messed with his phone before because there was no way for him to access the bad portion of this phone. Even with his mastery over programming, he simply couldn’t find something that seemingly does.

  Perhaps it does exist, but without a way to access it now, it wasn’t a viable option. Meaning, he’d need another solution to this problem…

  There were a few things he thought of, including somehow getting one of these high tech superputers to his home in his world, or make something more portable but with simir performao this superputer. Both of these solutions weren’t… viable to say the least. The superputers in his b had plex cabling that would require him to, essentially, turn his underground b upside down to take one of these puters into his Iory in his phone. While making something more portable but with a simir performance was simply not possible, at least for the time being.

  So the st solutiohought of was… to search the shop in the group chat.

  The Group Chat Shop had proven time and time again that it has anything and everything they could think of and more, and he found two things that would solve his current and possible future problems.

  The first one was MCGX Superputer, which ortable, advanced quantum superputer with the processing speed of 10 million TFLOPS, which is more than 10 times faster than the superputers in his home, and perhaps even faster thahe best superputer in Tatusya’s world. Moreover, it could also transfer and receive data from across universes, just like his phone.

  The sed one was MCGX Data ter, which ortable advanced data ter with the transmission bandwidth of over 500 Terabits/sed across universes with a ste capacity of 2 Zettabyte, which could be increased by buying additional ste capacity from the shop.

  Not to mention, these two were also equipped with imperable defenses against cyber attacks, given it is more magic than teology at this point, and could never be attacked physically si could be stored in Yuuji’s iory eveill in use.

  With these two, he wouldn’t o worry about where to put and run his applications. But of course, there rice he had to pay to have such teology, namely 3500 GCPs for the MCGX Superputer and 3000 GCPs for the MCGX Data ter…

  Unlike most teological devices and luxurious products that were ranked on in the gacha and the shop, these two items were both ranked Super Rare, which was obvious given it being closer to a thing of magic than teology.

  Unfortunately, Yuuji didn’t have enough GCPs to buy it now. He only had 1000 GCP left after buying Aika’s Fertility trol that costs 2000 GCP. Though even if he didn’t, he wouldn’t have enough to buy both with just 3000.

  For now, he wasn’t quite desperate enough to want to buy it. Although he would eventually buy both of them iure for his future endeavors, he’ll perhaps try to find another solution to his problem or just build the Lite version of his stock market analytical software first that could run in her mother’s puter.

  After immersing himself in programming for a while, Yuuji decided to stop for the night and looked at the clo his phone.

  Eh, it’s 6 already…? Why hasn’t she called me yet? Is she still talking with Erika?

  One of the reasons why he’s in his b right now was because Aika shooed him away and forced him to go there while she talked with Erika…

  She had been talking a lot with Erika retly, and today, she finally took her back to their home and revealed her retionship with Yuuji.

  Yuuji was quite shocked that she decided to reveal it, and needless to say, Erika was also dumbfounded by it. And, before she could even process it, Aika dragged her into her room and told Yuuji to go stay in his b until she calls him and not bother them.

  It has been two hours sihen, and there hadn’t even been a single call or message from her.

  He let out a sigh, leaning ba his chair, and looked up to the ceiling dazedly.

  “I wonder what they’re talking about…”

  It wasn’t strange for them to be talking a lot a along well, given they’ve both grown much closer with Erika after the Bnche i.

  Yuuji had realized that his feelings for Erika had gone beyond just friends when he realized how worried he was for her during the Bnche i. She’s always a delight to be with, extremely cute aiful, and is perfectly capable of kig multiple men’s rears. But despite knowing that, he couldn’t help but feel worried for her safety, just like he would towards Aika.

  And upon realizing that, he couldn’t help but notice how cute she actually was. Every little thing she does seemed adorable to him, no matter if she was being mischievous or when she’s being serious. And as he spent more and more time with her, those feelings only seemed to grow deeper and deeper.

  So, with Aika’s encement, he had been slowly closing his distah her and gauging her rea to it. To his delight, she seemed to not mind the closing distaween them and even seemed to find it pleasant, so he tio do so.

  Then, when they were just getting fortable with their current distance, Aika made a decision that led them to this situatiht now…

  He wondered what they’re talking about for so long, but a realization came to him in this moment of daze.

  Wait, knowing Aika, could she be ving Erika to be my girlfriend along with her?!

  Aika had expressed her willio share him with irls. In fact, she seemed even more enthusiastisidering she also wao “sleep” with them as well. And it seemed like the moment Yuuji showed a clear i in Erika, she didn’t waste any time…

  The more he thinks of it, the more likely it’s being in his head. And as he was thinking of what this might mean for him and Erika, a notification for a message rang from his phone.

  Kiryuu Aika: Alright~ We’re doalking~

  Kiryuu Aika: Now get your sexy ass back up here to the living room~!

  Tsubakihara Yuuji: …Alright.

  Yuuji let out a heavy sigh and prepared himself for what’s to e. He pocketed his phone and the two bracelet-type CADs and began making his way back up.

  As soon as he arrived ba the ground floor, he turowards the living room and saw both Aika and Erika standing up by the couch.

  “There you are~!”

  Aika smiled ever shtly as he approached them while Erika’s cheeks were burning red. She couldn’t eve his gaze, only stealing g him before averting it away.

  Just from her adorable dispy of shyness and nervousness, Yuuji felt his heart skip a beat.

  His assumption was right all along…

  “H-Hey… Are you guys doalking?”

  “Yes~! We had such a nice, long talk didn’t we, Erika-~?”

  “U-Uhn…”

  This was the first time he had seen Erika this shy and meek. Even in the anime, she never showed su adorable side of her.

  “Fufufu~ “Now then~! Si's the first time Erika has ever came over, let’s bring her around the house! You want to go and explore, right Erika?”

  “E-Eh?! A-Ah, sure!”

  “Alright~!!! Let’s go~!!! e on~Off you go~!”

  “Eh- Uwaaah-!”

  Without a warning, Aika grabbed Erika by her shoulders from behind and pushed her towards Yuuji. And by instinct, Yuuji caught the red-head in his arms and looked down towards her.

  “!!!!”

  Falling into his embrace, Erika instinctively looked up to him in shock before averting her super red fabsp;

  Her heart was beating wildly, untrolbly, and it wasn’t because of the shock of being pushed.

  At this moment, Yuuji felt his heart skip a beat once again when he saw her super cute expression.

  He looked up and noticed Aika winking at him, causing his lips to slowly curl up into a helpless smile and her.

  “I-I’m sorry! I-I’ll let go now-?!”

  Just as Erika was about to push herself away from him, tw hands held her shoulders firmly, preventing her from going away.

  Then, right on her left ear, she heard a smooth, mase, and soothing voice whisper to her, robbing her legs of its strength.

  “It’s fine. Let’s go like this. Or… Do you feel unfortable?”

  “E-Eh…?”

  She slowly looked up and saw Yuuji softly smiling at her as well, his cheeks slightly blushing red.

  With everything Aika had said about Yuuji’s feelings towards her and her sharpness when it es to interpersonal retionships, there was no way Erika would miss his iion.

  Her eyes widened in shock at the realization, and she immediately felt even more embarrassed. But, she was no longer pushing herself away from him.

  “N-No… I-It’s not unfortable…”

  “I’m gd… Then, how about we hold hands while we look around? We wouldn’t want you to get lost, after all.”

  Erika nodded instinctively at the first part. But when he said the other half, she noticed he was teasing her and hit him softly on his chest.

  “Y-You idiot…”

  She said shyly as she grabbed the hand that held hers back, iwining their fingers.

  She averted her face away from him, not wanting him to see her goofily smiling face right now from the sheer happiness of finally knowing that her crush feels the same way as her.

  Erika tried stealing a few g him, but immediately averted her gaze away again after seeing his smile.

  She had no experience when it es to romahis was her first love, so she was extremely unprepared for things like this!

  They’ve been growing closer retly, yes, but just holding hands with him already surpasses everything they’ve doogether all this time bined!

  But as soon as she heard a giggling from him, she pouted and gred at him, whily made him giggle even more.

  “W-What are you giggling about…?!”

  “I’m sorry. You’re just so cute, even more than usual.”

  “!!!! Y-you idiot! H-How could you say something like that with a straight face!”

  “Ahahaha, I’m sorry! My heart is also beating really fast, you know? But I’m just… so happy right now.”

  Erika felt her heart tightened when he said that a his hand holdiighter. She looked down to the ground and also held his hand tighter.

  “...I-I’m happy too.”

  Seeing the two adorable love birds being all embarrassed and shy, Aika’s lips couldn’t help but curl into a wide grin.

  Fufufu~ Erika being shy is super adorable as expected~ I ’t wait for when we could have “fun” together a lot in bed~

  With light, excited steps, Aika approached the two and hugged Yuuji’s left arm with a huge smile and cheered.

  “Alright~! The’s go and explore the house together~!!!”

  She then proceeded to lead (drag) her darling and new sister around their house. After all, she khat Erika would definitely be spending most of her time here from now on~

  Aika led them on a journey, going into every room, nook, and y there are in the house and had Erika bee familiar with the house, including the underground b and gym and the sed floor, which surprised her to no end. Even though her family was a well respected family and well off, even her main house’s estate was nothing pared to this!

  After they went to the swimming pool, Erika finally couldn’t help but ask them if they’re super rich, and Aika just showed her Yuuji’s jaw dropping stock trading portfolio and his bank at that made even a young dy of a well respected household such as herself couldn’t help but stare at it dumbfoundedly…

  She couldn’t believe he’s her age with the amount of wealth he has… He might even have more than all of her family’s assets bined, and he’s one person!!!

  But after Yuuji bonked Aika for showing it without his permission, Yuuji took over the tour and led Erika to the rest of the house before they all had diogether aled down on the cou the living room.

  Yuuji casted the “Overlord” ao his home theater system so they could watch it together. Erika had never seen this anime before, but she wasn’t quite knowledgeable about anime, so she didn’t know that this anime wasn’t of this world.

  Regardless, she still found it pretty iing. But right now, most of her attention wasn’t on the show, but on the fact that she was resting her head on Yuuji’s shoulder while he ed his arm around her waist!

  Aika was also in the same position oher side, but she didn’t look nervous at all. SHe looked very fortable and was enjoying the show to the fullest, often ughing out loud or enting on how funny the main character was.

  But she was super nervous!!! This was the first time being this close to a man in her entire life!!!

  She wao approach it slowly at first, but after seeing Aika nuzzling into his embrad him opening his other arm to invite her, there’s no way she could not accept it!

  She was swept up by the atmosphere and his invitation before, but now, she’s super nervous!

  The thought of being a couple with Yuuji was only a dream a few days ago, but now, she’s in his embrace!!! How could she not be nervous!!!

  Well… This doesn’t feel bad…

  Aside from her rapidly beati that she could hear in her ears despite the sound from the ahe warmth and fort she felt from being in Yuuji’s embrace was… blissful.

  It was the first time she had ever felt this way…

  Erika stole a gowards Yuuji and tried her best to get closer to him and nuzzle her face to his shoulder without letting him nor Aika notice.

  But after she found a nice pce, she noticed Aika grinning at her and immediately averted her face away.

  “Hehe~ You’re so cute, Erika~”

  “I-I wasn’t doing anything!”

  “Eeeeh~? Who said you’re doing something~? Did you do something?”

  “!!!! Y-You…”

  Aika tio grin and giggle while Erika pouted and gred at her with a red face.

  “Alright alright. I know she’s super cute when you tease her, but don’t do it too much, Aika.”

  “Hehehe~ Okay~”

  “Y-Yuuji! What are you saying!!!”

  “The truth. Ahahaha!”

  “Y-You…!! Hmph!”

  Erika pouted and averted her gaze away in annoyance. But then, she felt a hand on her head.

  “I’m sorry. But it’s true. You’re just too cute.”

  “...”

  Erika wao pin. After all, she had never been called cute this many times before, and she felt super embarrassed. But the feeling of Yuuji stroking her head quickly melted away all her embarrassment and annoyahat she just pouted at him and fell bato his embrabsp;

  A few episodes ter, Erika had finally bee aced to being in Yuuji’s embrad began to bee fully immersed in the show.

  Just then, Aika’s ph with an ining call.

  “Ah, it’s Miyuki~ I’ll go take this okay~? You two feel free to flirt all you want~”

  “Wha- J-Just go already!!!”

  “Ehehehe~”

  With light, joyful steps, Aika walked away with a giggle before answering Miyuki’s call, leaving Erika aloh Yuuji.

  And now that she’s gone, Erika started being nervous again. This time because it’d be the first time she’s aloh Yuuji.

  But just then, Yuuji’s voice brought her out of her own nervous mind.

  “Hey, Erika… Are you really okay with this?”

  Erika flinched and looked at him fusedly for a moment. And only after looking at his serious expression for a while did she realize what he meant and began pouting.

  "You've hugged and done all this... What's the use of asking now..."

  She let out a sigh and slumped dowing her head fall to his p.

  "I... I don't knoould feel about this iure... After all, it's a harem, right? I hought about being in one. But... I get along well with Aika, and I... I-I've fallen for you... So I guess... I'm okay with it... For now..."

  Although she still seemed on the fence about their retionship, simply the fact that she felt okay with it for now lifted so much weight out of his chest.

  In truth, even though he was happy that he could be in a retionship with Erika as well, he couldn’t help but fear if she’d accept this kind of retionship. After all, while having a harem was a standard in some cultures, it certainly wasn’t in theirs. But it seems like she had e to accept it after Aika talked to her.

  He raised his hand and pced it gently on her head. He could feel her body fling from his touch, but after not receiving any sign of disfort, he began stroking her beautiful red hair.

  "Thank you.... Erika. I love you."

  "U-Uhoo… Ahh geez! You didn't have to say that! It only makes it even more embarrassing!!"

  "You should get used to it, because I'll be saying it a lot from now on."

  "G-Geez... Do what you want!"

  Erika grabbed a pillow and hugged it tightly, burying her redly blushing fato it.

  Then, a few moments ter, Yuuji heard her speaking with a muffled voice.

  "Hey... There's going to be more iure right...?"

  In that moment, the faces of his mom, sisters, aunt, and Mayumi fshed in his mind, and he knew he’d have to face more situations like this iure as well. But, no matter what, he had vowed to himself not to tell any lies to his lovers, so he answered truthfully.

  "Yes..."

  Erika sighed into the pillow before fag up and pushed the pillow into Yuuji’s fabsp;

  "Hah… Well, I know there would be more from what Aika had told me. But just don't go around and seduce girls just because, alright?"

  Removing the pillow from his face, he smiled helplessly and nodded.

  "Of course. I promise you."

  "Mm. Good. And also... Aika told me u guys have some big secrets that you 't say yet... So I'm expeg you to tell me about it the moment you , alright?"

  His eyes widened in shock for a moment. There’s only one big secret he hadn’t told her yet.

  "Alright… Thank you for uanding."

  Erika snorted and smiled smugly before pointing at him.

  "Hehe, you should be gd for having su uanding girlfriend!"

  "Yes yes. I am I am."

  "You just say it once!”

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