Let Aegis get used to it first. Tomorrow she has to start arranging for Sylpha and the others, who came with Lumilia, to enter the school.
The number of demi-humans at Sobu High is gradually increasing. Succubi, vampires, demons have all appeared. Even if these demi-humans didn't come to offer aid, it doesn't mean they don't have ideas about the energetically brimming and profound President.
Letting Sylpha and the others enter the school lets them serve at the President's side anytime, while also blocking any other demi-humans who come after hearing rumors.
The student council is entirely their people; the disciplinary committee members are also gradually coming under their control. In plain sight, there is Sylpha and the others guarding the President, and secretly, there is Gabriel and Vignette's support. Not to mention mere succubi and vampires, even if Ursula comes causing trouble with all her might, she'll be easily suppressed.
Iris watched as Aegis already tightly hugged Hachiman's neck and sat in his lap, gradually getting into the mood with Lumilia and Shion on either side. She nodded silently and slowly walked upstairs into the room to call Lala.
"Lala, President is back. Let's talk about making the Sympathy Wristband tomorrow. Come down first and play games with the President."
"Hachiman is back? I'm coming!", Lala, who was making the Sympathy Wristband, immediately threw down her work when she heard Iris's call and instantly dashed to the door, arriving at Iris's side.
She had been waiting for a long time. She wanted to experience once more the feeling of being loved by Hachiman.
If it weren't for being comforted well by Hachiman during the school's physical test earlier today, she probably couldn't have held back by now.
If it were yesterday, she might have thought everyone was clinging to Hachiman due to love at first sight.
But today she carefully felt the life energy Hachiman injected into them, it was very special. It felt like the unseen flaws within their bodies were repaired and nourished, even gradually raising their life qualitatively.
No wonder Iris and the others, who didn't fall at first sight, also liked Hachiman like her. This attraction from body to soul becomes harder to escape the deeper you engage.
In the past, her mother always said creating offspring was a great matter for continuing life and creating the future. For the reproduction of humankind, her mother even brought several genius scientists from the universe to study asexual reproduction. Unfortunately, there never seemed to be a good result, and in the end, the records of the experiments were sealed away.
Asexual reproduction for unicellular, lower organisms is easy, but the stronger the species, the harder it becomes. Forcing it only results in genetic defects and early death.
Like for Iris and the other elves. After understanding a bit, she also felt that the elven spring of the elf race had dried up and couldn't support correcting genetic defects in newborns, so they needed powerful males for assistance.
But the specific situation still requires more study. Though she's not very good at biotech.
"Iris, can we play the magical girl game today? I want to use magic like Kyoko too," Lala suddenly stopped her scatterbrained thoughts and shook her head vigorously to calm her overactive invention-state brain, refocusing on the all-nighter game ahead.
Yesterday, everyone played bunny girl cosplay and many 'guess-guess-guess' types of mini-games. Today, she wanted to transform into a magical girl like Kyoko from TV.
"Magical girl game? Kyoko's magic isn't particularly special. If we design the game flow, it's fine to play."
"But we don't have magical girl costumes made yet, so we probably can't play today. Can we play swimming suit game today instead? Use your space tool to expand the living room, set up a beach and sea water, and play a bit."
Iris was stunned. She didn't expect Lala's thought process to jump so far. She only thought of letting Aegis do some swimsuit service, yet Lala actually thought of magical girl service.
She thought Lala's idea was quite good too. On TV, it's always monsters being defeated by magical girls. Now a group of magical girls taking turns challenging the President as a final boss also seemed fun.
However, they hadn't prepared any magical girl costumes today, and last-minute production wouldn't make it in time.
After all, magical girl clothes have to be tailored according to each person's figure and style. Also, the same clothes need multiple sets in case they get torn during the game.
Moreover, the process of magical girls challenging the boss must be designed. They have to research different postures and methods, otherwise, if everyone looks the same getting defeated by the President, it would be boring.
"Alright then, we'll play the magical girl game tomorrow," Lala thought for a moment and nodded. For the game's experience, you definitely can't change games last-minute. And they'd prepared nothing for magical girls.
But she immediately thought of a good idea, a super great idea.
"Oh right! Isn't Hachiman's classmate Marin looking for Lumilia to research elf cosplay? How about having Marin and Nijika come help too? Once we're done we can all play together."
At school they had walked around and even visited Hachiman's class, greeting his classmates.
Marin, who always wanted to cosplay as an elf, clicked instantly with Lumilia who wanted to understand otaku culture. The two hit it off and, by then, Lumilia could call up people to join and study cosplay together.
"Well… that might be a little troublesome. If you really want to play with them, you can ask tomorrow. But they might not like playing with us," Iris was a bit speechless at Lala's astonishing suggestion. Lala was even bolder than her, thinking of bringing classmates from President's class over to play at home.
However, thinking seriously, Iris didn't outright reject Lala's idea.
Marin and the others only had slight interest in President, not to that degree yet. But Yuigahama and Miura Yumiko could be brought over to play more often.
Once Yumiko joins, Marin and Nijika probably won't be far off.
"Yeah yeah! Then let's go down and play first! We'll work on the magical girl game tomorrow," Lala nodded vigorously, cheerfully pulling Iris and rushing downstairs, joining the game already in progress.
———
Lumilia and the others, being actual elves, would fit the role perfectly. Others can be magical girls or elves as they like. Everyone can join hands to face the super boss, Hachiman.
'…Looks like I'll need to find more suitable themes and come up with more games,' Iris looked helplessly at Lala, whose tail was wagging with excitement, and before heading downstairs, glanced behind at a closed room on the second floor.
'Forget it, lets play first.'
With life energy dissipating and ordinary spring water from the Elven Spring, there's no need to worry about them playing until morning and becoming too tired to attend school. They just need to focus on having fun and making everyone happy.
If Lala really gets Marin and Nijika over, then Sylpha and the others can also be invited to play. As long as the elf tribe still has a large ratio, there's no worry about the President's overflowing life energy going to waste.
Even if there are more girls around the President, it doesn't matter. It only serves to improve the efficiency of their aid.
———
In the living room, the swimsuit game is in full swing.
Shion and Lumilia had already changed respectively into a light purple two-piece swim dress and a dark blue school-style swimsuit. Alongside Aegis in a white bikini, they were playing together.
Under the meticulous care day and night, Shion developed rapidly. But compared to the petite but busty Lumilia and the mature, voluptuous Aegis, the potential-filled Shion still lagged behind and needed Hachiman's thorough nurturing.
Even though they were only playing a dry-run swimsuit game indoors and not swimming, all three quickly became utterly convinced by Hachiman, surrendering to him completely.
No helping it. Though they felt their physical condition had improved greatly, and it really had. Faced with Hachiman, they were still helpless. Just smelling his familiar scent while being held by him made their hearts pound uncontrollably, let alone going any further.
Perhaps… their newly stronger bodies only had one functional improvement when dealing with Hachiman: brief stamina.
Their total endurance time decreased, but the peak experience length doubled. A rather peculiar kind of enhancement.
Especially with only three people in the room and no one to tag in, Hachiman didn't even need to put Sympathy Wristbands on them to easily guide them on how to properly wear a swimsuit.
"Phew~"
Hachiman exhaled slightly, looking down at the cute gestures of Shion and Lumilia casting cleaning magic on each other. He couldn't help but pat their adorable heads and took another bite of the watermelon slice brought to his lips by Aegis. His face was filled with comfort.
Honestly, he didn't need to go on vacation. Staying home was more comfortable than flying abroad like his parents.
Every day he returned home like a king, meals served, clothes handed, no need to lift a finger.
But this life was indeed decadent. It eroded his will to be a househusband. He still needed to go to school every day to maintain healthy habits and diligently ditched class to get cared for. Otherwise, he'd get hopelessly reclusive.
Iris changed into a pure white two-piece swim dress in the living room, but Lala still hadn't decided what swimsuit to wear, hands on her hips staring at a row of options, conflicted.
The space in front of Hachiman was already crowded by Shion and Lumilia. Aegis also knelt next to the sofa blushing, feeding fruit to Hachiman, placing neatly cut slices of watermelon on a fine white fruit plate to offer him when thirsty.
Iris glanced quickly, then came behind Hachiman and tightly hugged his neck from behind. Pulling out a piece of soft white cloth, she whispered by his ear with a smile:
"Ready for the game? Today we're playing watermelon-smashing~"
She had studied local customs, summer, beaches, swimsuits, and watermelon definitely came with blindfolded watermelon-smashing games.
But right now, they weren't at a beach. Playing in a narrow home was naturally different.
The watermelon would run. President had to use a stick to hit the watermelon. They could give the President directions to smash the watermelon. But who he chose to listen to would reveal who he trusted the most.
Once the President caught the watermelon and tasted it, if he couldn't guess the variety and name, he'd have to face punishment.
"Still playing guessing games? With so few people today, how could I possibly guess wrong?", Looking at the soft, opaque white cloth in front of him, Hachiman couldn't help but feel helpless.
He didn't need Iris to say it, he already knew the blindfolded guessing game wouldn't be that simple. But no matter what, it wouldn't stump him.
Before, there were too many players, and he was new to these games, so it made sense to have poor results.
Now he had experience, and today there weren't many, just the three elf princesses Iris, Aegis, Lumilia, then Lala, and Shion. He already knew their heights, sizes, even voices by heart. This game had no suspense.
"Hehe, President, you can only use the stick to hit and guess from the sound feedback about the watermelon's variety and name. You can't touch it or use any other part of your body~", Iris kissed Hachiman's cheek, looking at him full of confidence, and smiled.
"And not just today's group, you didn't invite Kaede and Suzu last time, but this time they and Tsubaki have to come too."
"Saki, Ayano, Bocchi-chan, every member of the Service Club, even Shino, Ursula, Gabriel, and Vignette resting next door can all be invited~"
"We have so many game participants available, President, no need to worry, not having enough fun~"
Though not everyone would be invited each time, with so many school girls to choose from, the randomness makes it more exciting~ Even she can't predict whom she wants to invite each time, let alone the President.
"Didn't you say the same last time about Sylpha, but in the end it was still the same few people?"
Hachiman gave Iris a tired look. Last time she tricked him the same way, making him guess a ton of people who never even showed up.
"The President wants Sylpha to join? Then I'll call her now, I'm sure she'd be thrilled to serve the President," Iris blinked and waved to summon her phone from inside her clothes to call Sylpha.
"Forget it. It's already late today, let's just play casually. No need to trouble Sylpha and the others," Seeing Iris's dramatics going overboard, Hachiman helplessly pressed her hand down, picked up the white strip, and tied it over his eyes.
He hadn't even met Sylpha a few times, barely knew her. How could he guess right? If called, she'd just stand on the side misleading him. He'd already figured out Iris's scheme.
"Then we'll do as President says. Let's just call familiar faces~", Iris helped tie the cloth to block Hachiman's sight, making sure it wouldn't fall off, then silently winked at Shion.
Shion caught Iris's meaningful look. Already weakened, her lips pressed tightly in nervousness and her already flushed face became ever more charming.
'Tonight will probably be another sleepless night.'
———
[Morning, Hikigaya Household, Living Room]
"Iris... are you sure you're an elf and not a succubus?"
Lying on the floor covered with bedsheets, Kaede slowly opened her eyes, looked at the slightly unfamiliar ceiling, turned her head and glanced around at the people who were either still sleeping or resting, and after recalling the craziness of last night for a while, she slowly looked toward Iris, who was still lying on Hachiman's chest savoring the aftertaste, and said in a deep tone.
She was stunned when Iris woke her up in the middle of the night and brought her here.
It was the first time she had heard of playing watermelon-splitting games at home in swimsuits in the middle of the night. This kind of game is usually played in broad daylight at a beach or in some open space like a yard, right?
Although Iris and the others said it was a rehearsal for a future beach vacation, she still wanted to complain: why would anyone rehearse for a vacation? Are all rich and powerful people this fancy?
However, although she didn't know whether other noble princesses besides elves were also as extravagant as Iris, she had to admit that Iris really knew how to play. She was so good at playing that Kaede felt Iris resembled more a seductive succubus princess who led people to ruin than a graceful and noble elven princess.
"Of course I'm an elf. Succubi absorb people's essence and life force. That shortens people's lifespans," Iris tightly hugged Hachiman's neck, her small head resting on his chest as she felt his warm body temperature, smiling sweetly at Kaede, who had finally returned to sage mode.
She hadn't brought Kaede and Suzu along the first time. The second time, if she still didn't bring Kaede and Suzu, that would've been too much. After all, they lived right next door.
However, she hadn't explained anything to Kaede and the others. Last night, she just went over to bring them here, directly helped them change into swimsuits, and had them join the game, giving them no time to think.
Now that Kaede and Suzu had come to their senses and started thinking about the things they hadn't noticed before, it was perfectly normal.
"..."
Hearing Iris's answer and then seeing how she was still clinging to Hachiman, Kaede couldn't help but fall silent.
'Succubi do shorten people's lives, but Iris, you're not that much better, right? If Hachiman wasn't so strong, if he only had an average human body, he probably would've died last night.'
But Hachiman's physical condition was ridiculously good. With that many people, she had thought Hachiman would definitely be stuck in bed the next day, unable to get up, but it didn't trouble him at all.
If Iris hadn't reminded her to replenish her life energy, maybe she'd be the one unable to get up right now.
Thinking this, Kaede couldn't help but reach out and push Iris, who was still clinging to Hachiman.
Iris glanced at Kaede, whose eyes were full of complaint but who said nothing. She didn't ask what Kaede wanted to do; she simply changed her position of snuggling Hachiman, from lying entirely on his chest to hugging his waist and resting her head on his arm, continuing to comfortably enjoy the peaceful, quiet morning.
Although most elves could go three days and nights without sleep, and she was even more capable, having received so much assistance from the president, she felt she still needed a good rest to digest it all.
"Kaede? Didn't you just say you were really tired?"
Hachiman felt a lightness in his chest. Opening his eyes, he saw that Iris had made room for Kaede, and couldn't help but look speechlessly at Kaede, whose words didn't match her actions.
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