"Will be undone for you, but not now," Hachiman shook his head.
"Then when? A hundred years later?", Hearing Hachiman not undoing her collar but instead trying to string her along, Ursula pouted again.
"When you completely admit defeat and confess you like me."
Walking out of the apartment onto the street, Hachiman placed Ursula, who was in his arms, down to sit on the ground, lightly pressed her dark golden dragon horns with both hands, looked down at her, and smiled.
"Hmph! Admit defeat? I will never admit defeat!"
Ursula looked up at Hachiman. The streetlamp's shadow cast over her eyes. She subconsciously swallowed. Even though she knew she might be seriously dealt with again, she absolutely would not admit defeat.
———
On the street corner, under the lights, the cicadas chirped the voice of summer.
"Shino should be done packing her things. Let's go pick her up."
Punishment over, Hachiman, under Ursula's full of grievance childish gaze, smiled and gently rubbed the dragon horn on her head. Their figures disappeared from the spot and teleported to Sakurase Shino's room.
Ursula had recently been living with Sakurase Shino. When he went to get Ursula, he had already told Sakurase Shino to pack up her things, and he would bring her to move.
Sakurase Shino's parents had long passed away. She had left her adoptive uncle's family and now rented a place alone.
The apartment next to his house was available. Since Sakurase Shino had already been educated and was very obedient and well-behaved, it was naturally better for her to live next door.
He had considered letting Sakurase Shino move over before and had specifically sent Ursula to protect (accompany) her.
But he had indeed been busy the past two days and didn't have time to visit the little landlord. Just as he called Ursula out tonight, he might as well let Sakurase Shino move into Shion's room first.
Anyway, Shion was now living in his house. That room didn't have much use.
As for whether Sakurase Shino in the future would want to completely move into his house like Shion, eating and sleeping together. Well, that depended on her own will.
After all, there were still quite a few people in his house now. Sakurase Shino might not like living with too many people. Living in the apartment next door didn't make much difference. Normally, she could come over anytime to eat or bathe.
———
In a certain remote and cheap apartment.
With bright silver long hair and a voluptuous figure, the taciturn girl Sakurase Shino quietly packed her luggage in the room.
Although Sakurase Shino didn't have many personal items, it wasn't so few that it could all be packed at once.
Since it happened suddenly, club president Hachiman suddenly appeared and asked her to pack up, and also took away Ursula, saying he'd come back soon to help her move, she hurriedly packed.
But actually, many things didn't need to be moved. A lot of items belonged to the landlord. And the president said all the necessities and furniture were already available over there. She only needed to bring her personal items.
Soon she would move to the apartment next to the president's...
Actually, ever since the president mentioned moving her over, she had been waiting for this day.
Because moving next to the president meant she could see him every day, didn't have to wait at the Service Club to be educated by the president.
Just thinking of that, a faint female voice came from the balcony, interrupting Sakurase Shino's thoughts, and her actions of packing luggage slowly stopped.
After her parents passed away, there was compensation and insurance payout. When she left her uncle and aunt's family, they also gave her that money. Though it wasn't much, she tried to use it sparingly and chose a relatively remote and cheap apartment to rent.
This apartment was far from Sobu High. She had to get up very early every day to arrive early.
But that suited Sakurase Shino just fine, because ever since discovering she could faintly influence people around her and bring misfortune, she proactively kept her distance from others. Whether the apartment was far or not, she would choose to leave early to avoid unnecessary contact with strangers.
However, cheap apartments have their reasons for being cheap. Besides the location being remote and facilities old, this apartment's soundproofing was also not great.
It was fine before; there weren't many people living here, mostly office workers busy with overtime. No one lived next door, and occasional small noises didn't matter.
But since she started attending Sobu High, a new neighbor who seemed to also be a high school girl moved in next door, and now and then she could hear faint sounds from the balcony at night.
The JK next door seemed to have discovered that this cheap apartment had few people. These past two nights, she had gotten bolder, with increasingly loud noises from the balcony at night. Maybe it was due to poor soundproofing, or maybe the two rooms were too close together, even with the balcony doors closed, it couldn't block out the neighbor's sounds.
She didn't want contact and didn't go over to confront her. Ursula, who had been living here recently, also didn't care, just added a soundproofing spell for herself and then silently watched her be disturbed by the neighbor's noises.
As the girl next door's voice grew louder, Sakurase Shino couldn't help but recall the scene earlier today when she was pulled into the president's arms for the body check in the gym.
The president was so bold with her and the other girls because of magic... so no one else could see what they were doing.
But why was the girl next door so bold?
Wasn't she afraid of someone knocking on the door?
Once she moved out, if someone else moved in, they definitely wouldn't just endure and say nothing like her.
However, for now, she still had to be disturbed by the neighbor's voice.
'President...'
"Shino, sorry, I just finished things over there, now I'll help you... uh...", Hachiman, bringing Ursula, teleported to Sakurase Shino's side. Seeing Sakurase Shino sitting on the ground, he just wanted to comfort her, but found she didn't say a word and just spread her arms and hugged him.
So eager? Didn't even stand up, directly kneeled and pounced?
And still wearing the gym uniform from today's body check?
Looking down at the unusually enthusiastic and proactive Sakurase Shino, hearing the undulating sounds from the balcony direction, just as he was about to enter love-life mode, he immediately sensed something was off.
"Does a couple live next door?"
Hachiman pondered and looked at the only one present who could speak, Ursula.
He knew Sakurase Shino's living conditions weren't very good, but compared to the apartment next to his house, it wasn't too different. He didn't expect the soundproofing here to be this bad.
Sakurase Shino was quiet by nature. It was normal for her not to say anything, but Ursula not mentioning anything was a problem.
If Ursula could live somewhere better, she definitely wouldn't delay. Saying nothing meant she was up to something.
"There's only one girl next door, but that girl seems pretty talented, full of energy every night," Ursula looked cheerfully at Sakurase Shino, who was burying her blushing face against Hachiman, and casually replied.
As expected, the neighbor tonight acted up again. It was worth it for her to sacrifice and delay Hachiman from arriving.
Sakurase Shino had been disturbed nightly by that voice. A brief daytime physical check from Hachiman wasn't enough to relieve her built-up pressure.
If Hachiman weren't here, Sakurase Shino could've forced herself to endure. But now that he was here, she couldn't and didn't need to anymore.
Too bad this was all sudden. She hadn't made any arrangements.
If she had known Hachiman would come here tonight, she would've gathered the Amaki sisters from school, Tsukishiro Sayo, and other yokai and demi-humans to ambush him, and even pulled in that energetic girl from next door to properly entertain him, making sure he wouldn't get up tomorrow.
Maybe she could even see the angry faces of Iris and the others when they waited all night in Hachiman's house and came looking for him.
Too bad... for now, even she and Sakurase Shino, plus the girl next door, weren't Hachiman's match.
To maintain her dignity in front of Sakurase Shino, she still had to flatter Hachiman alongside Shino, unable to arrogantly step on him.
"Ursula, you did this on purpose, didn't you? You lived here and didn't even put a soundproof barrier for Shino?", Hachiman stroked Sakurase Shino's smooth silver hair, leaned back slowly, sat on the bed with the silent weak succubus in his arms, and raised his eyebrow at Ursula, who didn't realize her mistake.
Soundproofing and invisibility magic were easy for a dragon lord like Ursula.
"Who said I didn't put a soundproof barrier? Check yourself if you don't believe me."
Ursula, seeing Hachiman was about to punish her, immediately knelt beside Shino, preparing to accept his lesson of love with her. But before casting the appeasement spell, she still had to defend herself.
"You did place one?", Hearing that, Hachiman was surprised, thinking he might've wronged her.
But after sensing a little, he realized something.
Ursula had indeed placed a soundproof barrier, even an invisibility spell outside the balcony, no need to worry about making noise at night.
But that barrier covered not only Shino's room, it also included the next room and its balcony.
Everyone was inside the soundproofing... what soundproofing was that?
Maybe the girl next door, realizing no one ever knocked no matter how loud she got, would only grow bolder.
This girl Ursula definitely did it on purpose.
"I put up the barrier, so you can't do anything to me!", seeing Hachiman understood her intention, Ursula giggled, then lowered her head to admit fault without delay.
Though she made some trouble, with her such sincere attitude, he couldn't possibly punish her, right?
"..."
Seeing Ursula was both useless and mischievous and still unwilling to accept punishment, Hachiman silently reached out and pulled her smooth cheeks hard to both sides.
Whether or not she got punished was up to him.
He hadn't even decided what punishment yet, and she wanted to self-punish to dodge his real penalty?
"Ow ow ow! I already admitted I was wrong! Why are you still so mean!"
Ursula was about to cast dragon-tongue magic but had to stop when Hachiman acted. She opened her mouth and cried out in pain to beg for mercy.
She miscalculated, she had worked so hard down on the street earlier and still didn't calm Hachiman's anger.
If she'd known, she wouldn't have built up Shino's pressure. After all, Shino was just a weak succubus. Whether or not she helped in dealing with Hachiman didn't matter.
The real forces to deal with Hachiman had to be vampires, succubi, snow women, those races with insatiable desires.
"Lately you've been jumping around. Are you scheming something bad again?"
Hachiman pinched Ursula's cheeks, finally letting go after seeing her soft brown skin turning slightly red. He leaned on the bed and looked at the little demon.
Ursula wasn't a fool who didn't know how to endure. She was just proud and didn't want to lose face as dragon lord so easily.
Since he collared her, she'd only been quiet a few days. Now she was up to trouble again.
There's no way she had no plan.
"Where would I get bad ideas? Whatever you want me to do, I'll do, okay? What do you think, Hachiman?"
Ursula's heart tightened hearing that. Seeing she couldn't talk her way out of it, she changed to her mature form and clung to Hachiman's side with Shino, showing a flattering smile.
"Fine, if you want to cause trouble, go ahead. But let me say this, you lose, you take punishment obediently."
Seeing her ditch pride and switch forms to butter him up, Hachiman knew she was scheming. But he didn't press further.
Ursula's personality was twisted, but she kept her mischief within limits. He wasn't worried she'd do anything unforgivable.
Like before, when she pulled Rurikawa Tsubaki and Iris into a showdown, this was probably the same.
Still, he didn't want her causing trouble; it made things complicated between them.
"Now that Lala has made a lot of sensation-sharing wristbands like the empathy ones, how about assigning you one to wear all day?"
Looking at the voluptuous Ursula and Shino, Hachiman gently patted their heads and smiled kindly at Ursula.
"Of course, empathy bands only share the wearer's feelings. For a dragon lord like you, that might not be enough."
"To make sure you feel everything fully, I think Iris could help by casting some enhancement magic on you."
"Gulp..."
Hearing Hachiman already had a punishment plan, Ursula stopped moving, looked at Shino who was still dazed in her own world, and nervously swallowed.
Next time, she had to win.
If she lost, the consequences would be very bad.
Even a dragon couldn't endure Hachiman's punishment torture.
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