Hachiman met Amaki Lily's hopeful gaze and reached out to touch her delicate, smooth silver hair.
Even though Amaki Lily had already called him brother so many times, it was only now that she came to ask for his opinion.
Was this considered getting on the bus first and buying the ticket later.
"Got it, Onii-chan! Onii-chan! Onii-chan!"
Amaki Lily did not put that condition in her heart at all lllall. As soon as she heard Hachiman agree, she hugged him tightly without any hesitation, called him brother over and over, and only after absorbing enough brother energy did she reluctantly leave Hachiman, turning back every few steps as she went to find her sisters to report the results of this contact.
Watching Amaki Lily's expression that was unbelievably attached to him, Hachiman felt a little helpless.
Just looking at Amaki Lily's cute clingy appearance, if he had not personally experienced it, he would never imagine how terrifying she was.
When her instinct was released, that instant of ultra speed vacuum strangling really let him enjoy an absolutely incredible experience.
He wondered if using instinct release on Iris and the others would have the same effect.
This instinct release really was activating the body's instinct.
But it wasn't only instinct in that sense, it should include all kinds of instincts.
Maybe he should try it more, to better grasp this very powerful ability of instinct release.
Then in the future if he ran into magical girls or women leaders of evil, he wouldn't need to be afraid at all. One instinct release could expose their true nature, or one instinct release could make their combat power skyrocket.
If he really had to fight a magical girl, he absolutely did not want that. Who knew how a magical girl who relied on willpower would explode. In a world where even evil woman leaders could power up through lewdness, the existence of angels seemed almost normal.
["Ding~"]
["Landlady's bottom line mission complete."]
["Mission reward unlocks special scene Secret Club."]
Hachiman was about to remove his invisibility magic and go finish the tennis club's request with Yukinoshita Yukino, when he suddenly saw the system prompt appear.
Beep! Beep! Beep!
[The apartment ownership transfer procedures are done, wait for me a bit and I'll get ready to go drink afternoon tea.]
[Mr. Hachiman, whose request do you want to handle first?]
[This is Hiyoko, who has insufficient student enrollment at her academy.]
[This is Sakura, who has a daughter who needs guidance.]
[This is Otoha, who has two daughters who need guidance.]
Meanwhile the phone vibrated. Just after discovering that the little landlady role mission was complete, Hachiman saw the little landlady Asou Miyuri suddenly send him a whole string of messages, and then even pull him into a group chat called Afternoon Tea Talk.
He glanced over the group members. Hachiman looked at the names and basically had no impression of most of them, only Minami Hiyoko's surname was unique enough to leave an impression.
Hachiman did not hurry to reply to Asou Miyuri's clearly mischievous messages. He first looked at the mission reward's special scene.
[Current special scene: Secret Club]
[Secret Club: A special club that cannot be found by outsiders]
[Club members can freely teleport into the Secret Club, and can travel from the Secret Club to other special scenes.]
[Current Secret Club member: Asou Miyuri]
'Special scene? Secret Club?'
Looking at the introduction of the Secret Club, Hachiman couldn't help falling deep into thought.
This Secret Club... seemed like just a prerequisite for the special scene features. The other special scenes were still locked.
Other special scenes... would they be things like beaches, snowy mountains, hot springs, inns, restaurants?
A Secret Club you could freely teleport in and out of, sounded pretty nice.
In the future, Hayase Saki, Rurikawa Tsubaki, Ichinose Ayano, Karuizawa Kei and other girls who did not live at the Hikigaya home would be able to come over whenever they wanted.
The commute time going to and from school would be greatly reduced, and if something happened, they could immediately teleport away from danger.
Although they had all started learning magic now and were improving quickly every day under the effect of the Service Halo and Teaching Halo, learning magic was not for fighting. They were not people who were good at combat. In this world, more protection was always better.
Seeing that the Secret Club's member count seemed unlimited, Hachiman added Saki, Shion, Komachi, Kaede, Tsubaki, Kei, Yuna, Nijika, Honami and the others all into the Secret Club.
This thing really was convenient. Once you teleported into the Secret Club you could go to the large bath to take a shower, then enjoy a themed elf tavern experience or something like that.
Although this Secret Club was private and for close friends so it did not need to run as a business, he could still give everyone some perks.
Iris and the others could provide some elven specialty goods, like fruit, elf spring water and such, and Lala could make a few little black tech inventions. Plus he had the Teaching Halo that could temporarily enhance the learning talent of club members.
He guessed the little landlady would no longer want to drink afternoon tea anywhere else. She would just drag her best friends to come play in the Secret Club.
Unfortunately the Secret Club seemed to be bound to the remodeled large apartment next door. Right now there was only this one special scene, and the Secret Club only had a teleport function. All other functions had to be built by themselves.
Secret hot spring inn, training restaurant, special operations hospital, offering shrine, maybe even a true otherworld tavern...
But those would probably require him to complete missions in other worlds. It wasn't something to expect in the short term.
Hachiman suddenly thought of many special scenes from the underworld-like realms. It felt like he needed to complete the related role missions to unlock the matching special scene functions.
If he unlocked those special scenes, then as attached facilities that Secret Club members could teleport to at any time, they should also have their own special functions or effects.
Beep! Beep! Beep!
[This is Hiyoko's daughter Minami Kotori]
[This is Sakura's daughter Iori]
[This is Otoha's daughters Fuka and Nagisa]
[Who do you think is cuter? Do you want to meet Hiyoko first or Sakura or Otoha?]
It seemed Asou Miyuri knew Hachiman was done with school. Seeing that he had read her messages but not replied, she kept sending more, not only sending photos of her best friends' black stocking office outfits, but also photos of their daughters.
Asou Miyuri's best friends were all beautiful, well-shaped career women. Their office outfits could not hide their mature and voluptuous figures. The high quality smooth black stockings showed off their elegant, sexy legs.
Even though they were dressed properly with no revealing clothes, it was enough to show their charm.
As for Minami Kotori, Takanashi Iori and the others wearing JK uniforms, they were overflowing with youthful energy, not any worse than the top tier beauties around him.
But even though he had collected loads of mommy-type character cards and played Koikatsu in his previous life, with cards from anime, games, doujin characters and so on.
Illya and Irisviel, Ryougi Azaka and Ryougi Shiki, Elaina and Victorique, Uzaki Hana and Uzaki Tsuki, Kiana and Cecilia, Kamishiro Kotone and Kamishiro Sayo and so on, that was in his previous life, playing games. Right now he really had not thought of becoming a scoundrel.
Besides, Asou Miyuri clearly did not want him to just be a scoundrel. It was not that simple.
[Why aren't you replying?]
[Do you want all of them or do you think it's not enough?]
[Although I understand these few people can't satisfy you, even if they all went together they wouldn't last you one night, but the others don't need help right now. For now only Hiyoko and the others have cute daughters.]
Seeing Asou Miyuri still pestering him nonstop, Hachiman helplessly replied.
[Miyuri-nee, don't be so impatient. I'll talk while bathing when I get home tonight.]
This little landlady... did she have a grudge against her best friends?
Why did she insist on making him go ruin her best friends' daughters.
Although last night when he was holding the little landlady, he heard her muttering about how to deal with her best friends who claimed they had better figures than her and looked younger than their daughters... but this was too ruthless. She aimed straight for the daughters.
The little landlady looked gentle and kind, but in reality she held grudges deeply.
[Then Hachiman come home early]
[I heard from Komachi that you have a Touka big sister coming over, and she's the eldest daughter of the Tohsaka family. Actually I know Mrs. Tohsaka too. If you can't get her, I'll help persuade her for you.]
Seeing Asou Miyuri's reply, Hachiman was silent for quite a while.
How did the little landlady know so many madams? She even knew Mrs. Tohsaka. He would not even be surprised if she next said she knew Mrs. Yukinoshita.
Was the little landlady really doing nothing except collecting rent, drinking afternoon tea with madams and doing beauty treatments all day?
Hachiman steadied himself and did not reply anymore. He asked Komachi and Shion, who had already finished school, if they had invited Hanabishi Haruka, Mizukami Sayo, Amakawa Kaoruko, Hiiragi Martina and the others to come over tonight.
After confirming that these classmates, who were middle sch*olers on the surface but magical girls and evil woman leaders in reality, would be coming with the Tohsaka sisters, Hachiman sent a message to Vignette and Gabriel asking them to come help with dinner and keep watch at the house.
Even though he felt nothing would happen, these magical girls and evil woman leaders were ordinary girls in daily life, they did not know each other's identities, and wouldn't start fighting in his home.
But being careful was always right. Having Gabriel and Vignette over for dinner was fine. He had not seen the two of them busy in the kitchen for a long time.
But without question, Gabriel and Vignette, who fully understood what happened daily in the Hikigaya home, did not want to come.
[Vignette: Sorry Hachiman, I have an exam tomorrow. I have to study tonight and don't have time.]
[Gabriel: I already made plans with Yumiko. I'm going to her place to play games tonight.]
Vignette just said she needed to study. Gabriel was even more alert and said she would be at Umi's place tonight and not at the apartment, avoiding the danger of Hachiman knocking on the door.
[Hachiman: Study? Play games? If you two don't come cook tonight, I'll start sleeping in your rooms from now on.]
[Vignette: ...]
[Gabriel: ...]
They both lived in the apartment. They knew that Asou Miyuri had handed the apartment to Hachiman.
Hachiman would basically be their landlord now.
He did not ask their opinion about remodeling the apartment, probably because he knew they were peeking and also knew they weren't against the renovation.
Although renovation was renovation, their rooms would remain, and even though there would be a large bath added and the place would be more luxurious, Hachiman would not raise their rent. But the biggest problem was that after the renovation, the apartment no longer defended against Hachiman.
If they didn't listen to Hachiman and go cook, Hachiman could bring Kaede, Shion, Nijika or even the landlady herself to sleep in their rooms overnight... That absolutely must not happen.
[Hachiman: Vigne, Komachi's classmates coming tonight are a bit many. I'll send money for you and Gabriel to buy ingredients. Get better ones. Komachi and the others will probably still be subconsciously frugal.]
Komachi and Shion had living expenses. As usual they would bring their classmates to buy food at the supermarket before going home.
But since they were both frugal and did not have the habit of spending a lot, even if they had enough money now, they'd still pick good and cheap ingredients.
But since classmates were coming, Hachiman felt they should be properly entertained.
[Vignette: No need to send money... recently my living expenses went up a lot.]
[Hachiman: Hm? And you, Gabrel?]
[Gabriel: My living expenses also went up.]
Actually, Gabriel felt very complicated.
It wasn't strange that Vignette's living expenses skyrocketed.
The girls around Hachiman all liked him deeply. They skipped class or even in class secretly did little acts with him. The Underworld might have sensed the changes around Vignette and counted Hachiman's achievements on Vignette's account.
But why had her living expenses increased too?
Heaven wouldn't count the people Hachiman saved on her, right?
Hachiman alone caused both her and Vignette's living expenses to increase? Then was Hachiman considered fallen or not?
———
[Tennis Court]
Under the sunlight, the boys and girls were sweating as they trained hard.
"Why hasn't Hikigaya shown up yet? Did he give up? Or is he busy with something else?"
Wearing a tennis outfit and ponytail, Yukinoshita Yukino looked at Saeki Ai and Sugiyama Mio whom she was in charge of. She occasionally lowered her head to take notes and arrange their training plan, and sometimes glanced at Kitamura Chika and Sairenji Haruna next to them.
She and Hachiman were in a week-long bet to see who could train the tennis club better. But since Hachiman never appeared at the tennis court, Yukinoshita Yukino was full of doubt.
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