However, with him stuck in the middle, Hiiragi Utena's preferences ought to change a bit too.
Put the empathic bracelets on Hiiragi Utena and the magical girls, then give them a shot of instinct release. No idea which side's strength would increase more.
"Mm-hmm! I'm in too, I'm in too!"
Seeing Hachiman look over, Hiiragi Utena hurriedly nodded, not daring to hesitate at all.
For some reason, she always felt Komachi's brother's gaze was a bit scary. The moment he looked at her, her heart would tremble. She was afraid that if she responded even a little too slowly, Hachiman would get angry.
"At the moment, there aren't many entertainment facilities in the club, but after some time it should be fine."
Seeing that a single round of conversation successfully freeloaded Yukinoshita Haruno, the three magical girls Hanabishi Haruka and the others, and even Hiiragi Utena didn't dare to refuse, Hachiman nodded in satisfaction and casually painted them a nice picture.
"Hikigaya-kun, do you need me to contact some restaurants and hotels to cooperate with us and provide services specifically for us?", Hearing Hachiman's words, Yukinoshita Haruno's composure broke, and she spoke up to ask.
Recently the Rurikawa family had been eating so lavishly that, with the Rurikawa family around, she felt embarrassed to mention the Yukinoshita family sponsoring the club.
But in terms of connections and resources, the Yukinoshita family, which had been operating for many years, still had more advantages than the Rurikawa family, which had been declining for many years.
"This club is private in nature. We have to ensure enough privacy. Otherwise, there's no point in using teleportation magic to come and go," Hachiman shook his head.
"I understand. We can first look for little-known, sparsely visited secret hot springs. That way, the cost of reserving the place won't be expensive, and the effect can still be guaranteed."
Yukinoshita Haruno smiled and nodded, thought for a moment, then suggested again.
"When the club grows bigger in the future, there will be plenty of gyms, beauty salons, high-end restaurants, and private hospitals that hope to provide services exclusively for us. If Hikigaya-kun is willing, they might even proactively pay membership fees and hope the club will use their venues."
Using the club as a transit point, teleporting to private beaches, seaside villas, deep mountain secret hot springs, private hospitals, and so on.
As long as services are done well, and with the elf princess as backing, all kinds of newcomers will be sent over one after another. It would be hard for the Service Club not to grow.
"There's no need for membership fees. The Service Club is just a platform, a private club for members to help each other. If members encounter difficulties, we might even provide assistance for free."
Seeing how dedicated Yukinoshita Haruno was to his Service Club, Hachiman felt quite gratified.
"Shion and the others are almost done cooking. Let's eat first and continue talking later."
Looking at Yukino, then at Haruno, 'The orthodox Service Club really is the Service Club.'
After finishing the discussion about the Service Club, Hachiman took Yukinoshita Haruno, Tohsaka Touka, Hanabishi Haruka, and the others to the neighboring apartment that had now officially been renamed the Service Club, to get ready to eat.
If it were only Komachi's classmates and the three Tohsaka sisters, the house could barely seat everyone. But the problem was that the Hikigaya household had far more people eating together than just that.
Kaede and Suzu, Rurikawa Tsubaki, Usui Makoto, and Maid Shion, who had finished handling school affairs, activated the club's teleportation privileges they had only recently obtained and entered the club one after another.
Iris, Lumilia, Aegis, Sylpha and other elves, as well as the merfolk like Elio, Elusi, Ayla, and Meroune, also returned at dinnertime.
Karuizawa Kei, Asai Saki, Shirosaki Yuna, Kitagawa Marin, Uenohara Ayano, Hayase Saki, Narahashi Miki, Sakurase Shino, Ichinose Ayano, Ichinose Honami, grls from various small groups like the student council, demi-human alliance, discipline committee, gyaru collective, joint sports clubs, the Ichinose extended family, and so on, all tried teleporting over one after another because they had been granted permission to enter the club.
Even the perverted young lady Kamijo Maki, who usually studied alone at Excellent Girls' Academy and could only comfort herself most of the time with the empathy set, ran over.
Only Hanamori Kotomi, who cluelessly chose to enter the Service Club, discovered that the living room was full of girls all looking at her in unison. As the only young female teacher on the scene with a docile, cute face and a sexy, voluptuous figure, her fair face instantly turned burning red. In a fluster, she hurriedly teleported away.
"So, so many people?"
"They're basically all top students from Sobu High?"
"Are the girls at Sobu High all this pretty, with such good figures..."
Hanabishi Haruka, Mizukami Sayo, Tenkawa Kaoruko, and Hiiragi Utena, who had thought today was just a visit with more guests than usual, all opened their small mouths wide, staring blankly at the bustling, lively central living room of the club filled with beautiful girls.
No wonder the Service Club is called the off-campus version of the Service Club.
No wonder the living room here has to be so big, with such an open view, so that the moment you step out of the rooms you can see the living room.
All the doubts that Hanabishi Haruka and Hiiragi Utena had in their hearts were instantly resolved the moment they saw one girl after another who was prettier and more outstanding than the last inside the Service Club.
In fact, it wasn't just Hiiragi Utena, Mizukami Sayo, and the other Komachi classmates who had just met Hachiman who felt shocked. Even Yukinoshita Haruno, who knew a bit about Hachiman, couldn't suppress the shock in her heart.
Knowing about it is one thing. Seeing it with your own eyes is another.
What's more, after she left Sobu High, these Sobu High juniors seemed to have exceptionally high looks.
Looking around, you could pick any girl at random and she would be a very pretty type. In her year, even if she wasn't the prettiest in the whole school, she would at least be among the top few beauties in the entire grade.
After personally witnessing Hachiman's interpersonal relationships at Sobu High, Yukinoshita Haruno finally understood why her younger sister Yukino, despite serving as vice president in the Service Club, had made no progress at all with Hikigaya-kun.
Although she admitted that her younger sister was a very cute beauty, and aside from special demi-humans like Iris and Elio such as elf princesses and mermaid divas, privately saying she was number one in Chiba wouldn't be disputed by anyone.
But the other girls' looks were not much worse than Yukino's, and if you also considered body figures, little Yukino always kept a cold face and refused to lower herself. Naturally, she couldn't make any progress with Hikigaya.
After all, with so many girls, just choosing was enough to make one dizzy. Hikigaya was already too busy to handle it all. Where would he have the time to deal with Yukino's cold face?
Thinking that her sister Yukino was facing so many strong competitors at school, Yukinoshita Haruno's good mood from just becoming vice president of the Service Club instantly dropped by more than half.
These competitors were originally ones that Yukino had to face alone in the Service Club. Now that the Service Club had been established off-campus, it was her turn to have headaches together.
Although these girls weren't the kind of rich daughters of conglomerates or politicians who entered the club for exchanges and mutual benefit, they were indeed members of the club and could enter at any time.
If she wanted to produce results, then the new club members she brought in couldn't have worse looks than these students, right? And they also had to be rich, influential, have clean backgrounds, and not cause trouble.
Otherwise, even a slight comparison would make it seem like she lacked ability.
Of course, not everyone who joined the Service Club had to be rich or influential. But unless they had a relationship with Hikigaya or special circumstances, if they only had looks, they could only be recruited as service staff.
No wonder it was said that the Rurikawa family had recently set especially high standards for recruiting maids, with particularly generous figure, and the Ichinose family had even pulled over all the younger generation of girls.
What a headache. Although the Yukinoshita family had always been thinking about taking another step forward and had gotten to know quite a few family conglomerates like Ichijou, Nanakusa, Kujou, Houjouin, Chitanda, and so on, all of whom had daughters with good looks and temperament.
But there weren't many that were especially close to the Yukinoshita family like the Tohsaka family. With so many competitors already, she couldn't rashly introduce more competitors.
If it really came down to it, she could go back and ask her mother, see if she could discuss it with Mrs. Tohsaka. Touka seemed to have quite a bit of goodwill toward Hikigaya.
Yukinoshita Haruno subconsciously glanced at her good sister Tohsaka Touka beside her. Unexpectedly, Tohsaka Touka also looked over at her at the same time, and their gazes collided head-on.
Noticing that they both seemed to have some subtle thoughts, the two of them moved their gazes away in tacit agreement.
"Hello everyone, welcome to our newly built club."
"Little sisters, no need to be polite. Just treat this place like your own home."
"Dinner will still take some time to prepare. Everyone can first come with us to soak in the big bath~"
No one noticed the thoughts that had instantly burst forth in Yukinoshita Haruno's mind. Iris, Elio, Rurikawa Tsubaki, Kaede, and Ichinose Ayano, the leaders of several small groups, had already come over to greet everyone.
They didn't rush to pull people into their own factions. Instead, they sat with their respective groups on different sofas in the living room, either chatting while eating desserts, or inviting Hanabishi Haruka and the others to go wash up and soak in the big bath together.
Although the struggles between the major factions were intensifying in secret, and even within the major factions there were various smaller groups, all wanting to recruit newcomers to strengthen their power.
Pulling in newcomers also required timing.
This was the newcomers' first visit. Don't scare them.
First greet them, let the newcomers get familiar with everyone's faces and their relationship with Hachiman. How to invite them to join later could be considered afterward.
"Is it really okay to go soak in the bath?"
Among the three magical girls, the smallest, Tenkawa Kaoruko, could tell that Kaede and the others were unusually friendly, but she didn't pay it much mind. She was simply very tempted when she heard them inviting her and the others to go soak.
Although they had more or less soaked in hot springs before, they had never seen a super huge bath big enough to swim in.
Swimming and playing in that huge bath filled with rising steam, where you could barely see the boundaries at a glance, was exciting just to imagine.
"Didn't you say dinner would be ready soon? Going to bathe now doesn't seem very appropriate."
Mizukami Sayo, whose family ran a shrine, had also never seen such a luxurious big bath, but she was more restrained. She knew that since this was their first visit, they couldn't be too unrestrained.
Komachi's brother was willing to let them come to the club to play anytime. If they wanted to soak in the big bath, they could do it often in the future. There was no need to rush to experience it now.
"It's just that Shion and the others have finished cooking. If you're hungry, you can eat with us now. If you're not hungry yet, you can first go soak, feel more comfortable, and then come out to eat."
Looking at Hiiragi Utena, who was also a bit tempted but too embarrassed to speak up, Hachiman smiled at Mizukami Sayo, Tenkawa Kaoruko, and the others.
"Aren't you all calling me Hachiman Nii-san already? Eating at your own home, you don't need to worry so much about these things. You see, we have a lot of people. Normally, we don't deliberately squeeze together to eat."
"Of course, you also don't need to worry about soaking too long and getting home too late. If it gets too late, I'll arrange for someone to send you home."
Even Iris probably hadn't noticed that these few classmates of Komachi were magical girls who fought evil, and even included female executives of evil organizations.
But whether they were magical girls or female executives of evil organizations, they were only formidable when fighting. In daily life, they were still as simple and honest as ordinary girls, very easy to handle when not transformed.
"Ladies, if you didn't bring a change of clothes, please come with me. We have prepared plenty of disposable outfits. In half an hour, the dinner prepared by the maids will also be ready. You can come out and enjoy it then."
Maid Shion appeared at Hachiman's side at just the right time, and together with Akira and Sayo in maid outfits, bowed slightly to Mizukami Sayo and the others.
"Then let's go. It's too lively on big brother's side. Let's go soak for a bit and calm down."
Seeing this, Komachi no longer asked for their opinions. She directly led the somewhat tempted yet still embarrassed Hanabishi Haruka, Mizukami Sayo, Tenkawa Kaoruko, and Hiiragi Utena to go choose clothes.
With so many people tonight, the dinner prepared by Shion, Gabiel-nee, and Vignette-nee was naturally not enough to feed everyone. They had to wait for the maids of the Rurikawa family to step in and prepare dinner.
Luckily, there was also a kitchen in this club. Otherwise, relying only on her home kitchen wouldn't be enough.
Of course, whether there was enough food or not, she wasn't very eager to stay here.
With so many people in the Service Club now, she could already imagine that after she got into Sobu High, at a glance, all the senpai at Sobu High would be familiar faces from the Service Club.
Mm, not just senpai, maybe even many girls in her own year would already be members of the Service Club by then.
Komachi glanced at Hiiragi Utena, Hanabishi Haruka, and the others beside her, who had already been completely led around by the nose by Hachiman and had very favorable impressions of him, and felt nothing but helplessness in her heart.
"Sakura, aren't you going over to soak too?"
After Hanabishi Haruka and the other magical girls and evil female executive group were taken away by Komachi, Hachiman looked at Tohsaka Rin, who hadn't followed them.
Hanabishi Haruka and the others were still young, so going to play with Komachi was fine. Yukinoshita Haruno and Tohsaka Touka, these two older sisters, going to soak would seem a bit childish.
But Tohsaka Rin wasn't like Tohsaka Sakura, who stuck to him. Why wasn't she going to play with Komachi either?
"We can soak after eating too~ Hachiman Nii-san, after dinner do you want to soak together with me and big sister?"
With glossy black twin tails, a cute and pretty appearance, Tohsaka Rin blinked her bright, watery big eyes and said with a grin.
Although they all called him Hachiman Nii-san, it was obvious that Hanabishi Haruka and the others weren't as close to him as Komachi was.
"Rin?"
When Tohsaka Touka heard her younger sister actually inviting Hachiman to soak together, her fair, jade-like delicate face instantly flushed red. She hurriedly covered Tohsaka Rin's small mouth.
Hachiman had let the Rurikawa family take the lead in sniping the Takamine family. Now the Takamine family was busy from top to bottom and had no mind to look for her to fulfill the engagement, and it had also let her most worried-about sister Sakura regain her smile.
He had helped her so much, and she hadn't repaid him at all yet. It would've been fine if Rin hadn't said anything. But to proactively bring up soaking together, what if Hachiman took it seriously?
She didn't even know how to refuse.
"Father is mine!"
Tohsaka Sakura reacted even more strongly. She directly hugged Hachiman tightly, pressed her cheek against his chest, and looked at Tohsaka Rin with extreme vigilance, who was trying to get closer to Hachiman.
"We're sisters. Sakura, why are you so on guard against me? I didn't say I was going to steal Dad from you!"
Tohsaka Rin was speechless at Sakura's words. Seeing that Tohsaka Touka was also a bit distracted in surprise, she hurriedly pried away the hand covering her mouth and couldn't help complaining.
She hadn't even mentioned Sakura randomly calling him Dad and making her one generation lower than Komachi for no reason.
And now Sakura was turning around and saying she wanted to steal Dad. It really made her furious.
"Then swear. If you steal Father from me, then in the future you'll have to work every day, have no money to eat, and starve."
Tohsaka Sakura stared at Tohsaka Rin with puffed cheeks and refused to let it go.
"You're way too vicious, aren't you? Who would be willing to make that kind of oath!"
Hearing Sakura's words, Tohsaka Rin instantly went berserk. Her fair little fists waved menacingly at Sakura.
If Touka-nee hadn't been holding her tightly, she really would have taught Sakura, this disobedient little sister, a good lesson.
Sure enough, the little devil Sakura from childhood had come back. When she was little, Sakura was this bad, so bad that she even had the urge to let Sakura go back to being withdrawn.
Although after Sakura returned to a withdrawn state she would need to be taken care of all the time and she'd worry all day about Sakura being bullied, that was still better than being endlessly tormented by her, right?
Little devil Sakura didn't even treat her like an older sister. She randomly acknowledged a dad and was still afraid she'd follow along and call him that too?
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