CH 20.1

Punishment

Recruitment of club members is going well.

At present, the member has increased to seven in number: me, Seiichi, Shizuka, Mai, Saki, Miharu, Natsumi, (+Yuki-chan).

If we need only three more members to go, can’t we just pull in some passing rando, I wonder?

「Talk about the case where Touma-kun is smoothly increasing his harem members.」

「Given the fact that those who have been gathered all have pretty looks, you must be selecting by the look, right? You’ve got good taste, there.」

「I think you’re misrepresenting the facts.」

For some reason I’m being made to sit in seiza on the chair, so I’m getting a little numb.

「Are Shizuka and Himeccchi not satisfying enough?」

Scooping up roasted pudding and putting it into her mouth with a spoon, Mai is giving me a somewhat astonished gaze.

「… I was naive. I misjudged Touma-san’s vigor.」

「How weak-willed of me.」

No, leaving the hau-ing Saki aside, if Shizuka works harder than she already does, I’ll end up losing my sleeping time, though.

To begin with, I have no recollection of ever laying a hand on the twin sisters, so I’d honestly appreciate it if the people in question could explain the matter to them.

Miharu and Natsumi, sitting with their chairs side by side as if sticking to each other, are stealing glances at each other while hanging their heads with their faces turning alternately between pale and red.

They have been like this since they had a talk with Shizuka, but I wonder what kind of indoctrination they have received.

For now, the oyakodon will get cold, so I think we should eat it at once.

「Umm, we will be, in your care.」

「Well. I don’t mind accepting you two as normal party members.」

I’ve told Seiichi the specs of the twin sisters displayed by the Interface.

Both of them have 『None』 class, and are level 3.

I guess they have leveled up after returning alive from the dungeon several times.

However, there is no SP on the ▼ indicator above their heads.

I think we and Saki are a really rare pattern.

「It just so happens that right now we are in the middle of preparations to create a club, after all. I welcome you.」

Seiichi’s saying those words in an amiable tone and smile, but his eyes are not smiling.

I respect Seiichi’s stance of drawing a clear line between his cliques and the rest of the world and showing no half-hearted compromise.

He is fundamentally a person who doesn’t believe in others, but once you get him to accept you, he believes in you to no end, the outsiders beyond the line are divided either to get used or crushed.

That’s my personal assessment of Seiichi.

If I had to choose between good and bad, he’s probably a bad guy.

But that’s okay, I don’t hate it.

Perhaps smelling rotten smell, Shizuka is staring fixedly at me, but I wonder if I can undo my seiza.

「For now, feel free to treat it like a trial temporary seat. I think we will be able to give you a hand in raising your level, you know? As for the matter of the club, it’s fine as long as you’re willing to at least lend us your names. It’s the so-called give-and-take thing. Just right to keep the bugs away, right?」

「Y, yes.」

Miharu seems to obediently take Seiichi’s words at face value, but perhaps perceiving the indirect rejection, Natsumi’s expression is stiff.

I think that’s just how it goes at first.

As for whether he’d come to believe in them or not, it’s something that ought to be probed as they interact with each other.

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――『Yomotsu Hirasaka』, a branch realm connected to the labyrinth of Perforation Realm, 『YGGDRASILL』――

――The『third』 stratum, 『uncharted』 domain――

「Are we going to level up those girls until level 10?」

「I suppose. I bet it’ll be done in no time at all.」

Waving his hands up and down and left and right, Seiichi back stepped to Mai, who casually threw the light balls floating around the tip of the rod.

The goblins that attempted to escape from the chamber turned to black charcoal, and the goblins that lost their heads collapsed forward with a thud.

「Then, if there’s an 『Officer』 among them, make them fall with dicks, otherwise play with them adequately, something like that?」

「If Touma takes a liking to them, I don’t see any problem in keeping them around. If we play and give them love in moderation, I think it’ll turn into the antithesis of the current state where they are abnormally scared of us.」

Pulling down the shumag that wrapped around his head and mouth, he let out a breath.

「How brute of you.」

「My hands aren’t long enough to randomly hold anything and everything.」

「No~!」

Turning behind Mai, Seiichi pulled up her skirt from behind with one hand.

Pulling down the zipper and pulling out his penis, he dexterously stuck it into the exposed bare buttocks.

For this party, the flow from battle to sex had already turned into a natural ritual.

「Ahn, Seiichi, always doing it with me… are you not getting tired of it?」

「I’m suitably playing around outside, so don’t worry about it.」

「Sheesh, you, cheater~.」

Pouting her lips and arching backward, Mai said to Seiichi, who was banging his hips against her while grinning.

「That’s a win-win solution. At the very least, they won’t be one-sidedly played around.」

「But, Nee-sama….」

「We will help them out until they do class change, I doubt there’s anyone who will refuse such a condition…. Are you worried about Natsumi-chan?」

Putting her fingers into the mouth of Saki’s, whose bull’s-eye was getting pounded, Shizuka pinned her body from behind.

「Not, good. You have chosen Touma-san, Saki…. I won’t allow the act of putting anyone else before him.」

「… Nyaa, hyaa, wai… hinyaa…」

The fingers, which were placed in her mouth as if not to allow falsehood, teased her tongue, smeared with drool.

And then, crawling her hand into her rolled up skirt, she pinched the bud at the top of her chasm that was incessantly being filled and hollowed out.

「Well then, you are no longer needed, aren’t you, Saki? In that case, I’ll take care of Touma-san on my own, forever.」

「Hnn, nyaow, nyaow…」

Shaking her head, Saki became teary eyed as she denied it.

「… In that case, Saki, as you are, you have to think only about Touma-san, devout your heart and commit to it.」

Nodding her head, Saki hugged Touma even tighter upfront and clung to his shoulders.

「I think making Saki think about difficult things is pitiful, though.」

「That’s why I’m letting her know the answer from the beginning. What she ultimately chooses after pondering about it, what it is that Saki really wants.」

This time, the hand slipped into her skirt in the direction of her buttocks, gently loosening the twitching rear pleats.

「Letting her waver is way more pitiful…. Saki already, belongs to you after all, Touma-san,」

Saki, jerking several times, showed an intoxicated expression as she got supported by Shizuka.

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「Err, I think Hime-chan is the strongest in our party, it’s just there is nothing left if she goes, so perhaps it’d be better for her to hold back a bit.」

She’s the kind of girl who faces everything with everything she has, so she ends up going limp with everything she has.

Being carried in princess carry, Saki is showing a hybrid of apologetic, embarrassed, and delighted expression.

Having raised her level, as expected Saki is at a level where she can slaughter all the goblins even if she charges into the chamber solo.

There’s also the need to level up Shizuka, so having a break from time to time is just right.

「To be frank, fighting against the goblins of this stratum has come to be an easy victory, so I don’t see why not?」

「Carelessness is the greatest enemy!」

Although Mai seems to have quite a loose personality, she unexpectedly has a rather solid point of view.

I think she makes a really good pair with Seiichi, who goes and perpetrates things one after another.

But there is no doubt that it’s come to be an easy victory.

Funasaka Touma (Thunder God Apprentice, Level 6)

Onodera Seiichi (Ninja, level 9)

Ashiya Shizuka (Shrine maiden, level 10)

Susukino Mai (Mage, level 10)

Nangou Saki (Swordswoman, level 15)