The morning sun streamed into the room. Two minutes before the alarm was set to ring, a well-tuned biological clock awakened the sleeping boy.
Reaching out, he turned off the alarm and rubbed his drowsy eyes, then noticed a slight weight on his body.
He looked down slightly and lifted the covers.
A small, white-haired head was pillowed on his arm.
Slender, graceful arms and a pair of vibrant, fair thighs were draped directly across his abdomen.
Like a little sloth, the beautiful girl who had changed her name to Sirin Schariac was curled up at his side, using her lover as a giant body pillow. Perhaps it was because the person beside her was someone who would always acknowledge her, providing a complete sense of security, that she was sleeping so soundly. Not even the ringing alarm had managed to wake her.
After using a Geis to get Mei to forgive him, the boy, whose body wasn't actually in as bad a shape as it looked, had been discharged from the medical bay. Afterwards, he had thrown a party in the dorms.
At the party, both Bronya, a native of Siberia, and the old drunkard Murata Himeko had brought plenty of liquor. Li Zihan took a cursory look at the types of alcohol and noticed something very interesting.
Bronya had brought three kinds of rum—dark rum, white rum, and 151-proof rum.
Murata Himeko had brought Cointreau and Pernod.
Combined, these five liquors were the components of a notoriously potent cocktail: the Zombie.
Made with multiple rums as its base, flavored with Cointreau and Pernod, and then mixed with the juice of various fresh fruits and a large amount of syrup for taste. Its appearance was a rather bright pink, giving it a very girlish look. If garnished with mint leaves and a pineapple slice, it would look stunningly beautiful, making it easy to mistake for a low-alcohol beverage.
However—this thing was an out-and-out alcohol bomb.
Like the Sea Breeze he had mixed for Bronya before, the Zombie was an "uninhibiting drink," and one of the most infamous of its kind at that.
Last night at the party, he had mixed this very cocktail and asked who wanted to taste it.
And then—Bronya drank most of it by herself.
With the small amount that was left, there was only enough for everyone else to have a tiny cup. On top of that, everyone present was a Valkyrie with a robust constitution...
Aside from Miss Mei, whose alcohol tolerance was truly pathetic, not a single person went down.
After that, it was just eating, drinking, and getting ready for bed.
When everything was over, Miss Sirin escorted Mei back to her dorm, and Li Zihan returned to his own. It wasn't long before the girl who was, by nature, the Herrscher of the Void, appeared in his room, sitting on his bed and beckoning to him.
And then—
"I'm sorry, Mei."
The boy, who had spent half the night making love with Miss Sirin, felt the soft body pressed tightly against his and apologized to Miss Mei in his heart.
However—speaking of which, could Honkai energy be circulated through bodily fluids, just like mana? The boy, feeling his physical condition had improved slightly after his night with Miss Sirin, fell into deep thought.
I should test it again tonight.
The boy's eyes lit up, feeling that if this were the case, he would have a suitable reason to engage in amorous activities with the girls.
Although he felt sorry for Mei... Sirin was truly intoxicating.
With this thought, the boy couldn't help but let his hand slide under the covers, where it found a soft mound. Then, relying on muscle memory, his fingers began to gently caress the vibrant, budding peak...
"What are you doing, Ah Li?"
Clearly, this action had instantly woken the girl who had been sleeping so soundly. The girl, who evidently wanted to keep sleeping, rubbed her drowsy eyes and glared with her azure orbs at the one whose hand was being so restless.
"Doing you, of course."
Feeling the friction of the girl's awakened form shifting beside him, Li Zihan stated his desire with complete honesty.
"Ah Li, thinking about that first thing in the morning... you're a pervert."
Hearing the boy's excessively honest declaration, Miss Paramecium's face flushed red, and she put on an expression of disgust. Despite her words, however, her hand did indeed move toward her lover's lower abdomen, where it began to gently stroke.
"If you know a spell to heighten sensitivity, you should cast it on yourself."
The girl, feeling that based on a certain someone's normal performance, this was going to take a lot of time, muttered, "I still want to go back to sleep for a bit."
"Is wishing for your boyfriend to have a premature ejaculation something a human should do?"
The boy, having been asked to cast a sensitivity-boosting buff on himself, felt the corner of his eye twitch.
"For a boyfriend, being firm at night is enough," Miss Sirin, who had clearly been well-fed the previous night and was quite satisfied, retorted with perfect justification. "Getting horny first thing in the morning really messes with my sleep!"
...
Li Zihan fell silent.
The reason Sirin gave was simply impeccable.
"But, speaking of which, I feel like my Honkai energy reserves have increased a little," the girl, who was no longer a purely physical fighter after Miss Pufferfish had shared a portion of her power with her, suddenly remarked.
"It's probably the fluid exchange, or maybe you absorbed my excess Honkai energy," said the boy, whose Honkai energy intensity was three times that of an artificial Herrscher.
"Ah Li, are you trying to imply something?"
The girl, who had once again not used any protection the previous night, heard his words, which sounded an awful lot like a lewd suggestion. Her face first turned red, then a little dark.
"Want to test it out?" the boy, feeling that another round in the daytime wouldn't be a bad idea, said with great seriousness to the girl lying beside him.
"Ah Li... you just want to do that, don't you?"
The girl, feeling that what a certain someone was saying was truly bizarre, blinked her eyes and then said with annoyance.
"..."
The boy, who indeed had less than pure intentions, found his gaze drifting away.
"Ah Li, you really are a pervert."
Seemingly noticing the shift in his eyes, the disdain in the white-haired dango's gaze intensified.
However, despite her words, her small head did indeed shift downwards, and then her entire body slid under the covers.
And then—
Li Zihan sucked in a sharp breath.
Afterwards, a rather muffled and indistinct voice drifted up from beneath the blanket.
"Pervert Ah Li, get this over with quickly."
Meanwhile, in another place—the Rice Herrscher's dorm.
The girl named Raiden Mei still had not woken from her hangover and was sleeping soundly.
Author's note:
ps: This humble one has let himself go, writing this book fueled entirely by the desires of my brothers.