Shaina's Story So Far

"Fu-fu-fu. Then allow me to recount. The life and times that brought this Shaina Fervey to the present day…!"

Shaina was born to ordinary parents.

Her father was a former C-Class Master. Currently a C-Class NPC, working as a knight.

Her mother was also an ordinary Garumon. Initial value 4400, an SSR-Class on the higher end and her father's ace, but beyond that not a particularly outstanding Garumon.

For parents like those to produce a Garumon as radiantly beautiful as Shaina, initial value 5000…

Wasn't especially rare.

Of course, the number born was hardly large.

But just as, when 100,000 lottery tickets are sold to 100,000 people, one of them inevitably wins first prize, this was the natural truth of it.

To the lucky winner it was a miraculous matter, but from the mass-statistic view it was a matter of course.

Garumon as superior as Shaina were born from time to time.

Some called them the reincarnations of superior Garumon who had died in the past; others believed it really was nothing more than the play of probability.

Naturally, hereditary factors mattered too. Shaina had the same yellow hair as her mother.

What was fortunate for Shaina was that she'd been born into a comparatively well-off household, the knight class of C-Class NPCs, semi-nobility, and was raised with room to breathe. That was likely where she cultivated her bright, free-spirited personality.

And since they weren't nobles, she enrolled in school at age 6, on the Master track.

… And then, this time was surely a miracle.

Carla and Shita were at this same school.

Boys, of course, enrolled as Masters; girls, of course, as Garumon.

Futanari enrolled as Masters as a rule.

However, if a futanari Master simply didn't show talent as a Master, transferring to the Garumon track was possible.

Garumon entering school were distributed across schools with a degree of fairness.

If a given district had 1 UR, 4 SSR, and 10 SR, with 10 schools, then 1 UR and 1 SSR per school, 2 SR per school, were distributed, and from HR downward the numbers were similarly balanced. Such considerations were taken.

For Masters, however, no such consideration was given. They were assigned first-come, first-served, essentially at random.

So one school might end up packed with brilliant Masters, where one who would surely have ranked 1st at any other school finished dead last and didn't even secure an R-Class Garumon, while another school might end up packed with dim-witted Masters, where one who was only somewhat less terrible finished 1st and walked away with a UR-Class Garumon. Such imbalances rarely but did occur.

The same applied to futanari Masters.

Futanari Masters were a very rare existence, roughly one in 10,000 Masters, but since no consideration was given, it apparently did happen, rarely, that two or more were enrolled at a single school.

Said to resemble the gods, futanari Masters tended to have a higher rarity than ordinary Garumon.

The ratios of UR-Class, SSR-Class, and SR-Class were each roughly 30%. Dropping to HR-Class or below was the rare case, under 10%.

The ratio of UR-Class value 4800 - 4900 - 5000 was also roughly 1:1:1.

Even so, that came out to about 900 value-5000 futanari Masters. Spread across generations, roughly 5 to 10 per year.

For two of those to gather at a single school, the odds had to be considerably low.

"And so, me and Carla and Shita — we met at school by fate, you see!"

"… I see. The three of you UR-Class meeting unintentionally at a single school — that really is a rare case."

"Fate!"

"… Fated, isn't it."

I was made to rephrase.

She really did love this kind of thing — spirituality, fate. Was her mind really male…?

"At first, me and Carla were at each other's throats. Carla with her dark skin, exotic and cool, and me, the bright, pretty girl — we were rivals fighting over Shita.

"Sometimes competing, sometimes cooperating, of course with Shita in the middle, the three of us always together, through our school days…

"And before we knew it… we'd fallen in love…!"

Sparkle…

Shaina's eyes glittered.

Shita too was gazing skyward in the same sparkling way.

… Carla gave a wry smile.

Somehow, I could sense the relationship dynamic among these three.

"By the way, Carla's Shaina's girlfriend, right?

"Then didn't the idea come up — Carla as the Master, Shaina as the Garumon?"

"…"

Gaze. Carla fixed me with those obsidian-black eyes.

That dark skin… her exotic feel was so overwhelming that, as a Japanese guy, she might normally have felt a bit distant.

But Carla's quality was somehow like a black diamond…

Well, I didn't quite know how to put it, but in short, she was cute. Like a tanned-gyaru character in 2D art.

No, that was a bad comparison. She was born with dark skin, not artificially tanned.

Her face was so lovable, her lips pink. Imagining her nipples and private parts might be that same color was erotic.

Large eyes, slightly upturned like a cat's, similar in facial type to Shaina.

I see. So at first they might've had a slight same-kind-aversion clash.

But two who shared something similar, once they came to understand each other, would sometimes be drawn together intensely.

"It was that we were competing over it, at odds.

"… In the end, as a Master I couldn't beat Shaina. But I'm content with it now.

"Making the light that is Shaina shine — that's my only wish."

So Carla answered.

She looked at Shaina with gentle, almost cherishing eyes. She really did love Shaina, I thought, and warmth filled my chest.

"At first me and Carla were at each other's throats.

"I mean, that exotic dark skin, those black eyes… so completely different from me, so cool, but cute too.

"On top of that, strong, with talent. I was envious of her, and out of stubbornness, sheer competitive spirit, I kept pushing back…

"Those days I was real high-strung."

"… Same for me. With your fair, beautiful skin and your bright Shaina-shine like light, I thought you had so many things I didn't, and I envied you. I'm absolutely not going to lose, I'd think, sparring all the time."

The two of them laughed together.

"We both thought Shita was so cute, each of us insisting we were the one worthy of Shita, fighting over her.

"Arguing over who'd give Shita the better present. Arguing over whose return gift from Shita was better…

"We were always fighting."

"Fufu, we were."

They laughed.

… Hmm. I could feel the deep bond between them.

"You know, the exact timing of when I started liking Carla — I don't really remember. It was sort of like, before I knew it.

"What about you, Carla?"

"Same here. Before I knew it… But thinking back, I think I liked her from the start."

"Ahn, geez, I liked her from the start too～"

Dark skin, the Carla-type Dark-element vibe, and Shaina with fair skin and yellow hair, every bit the Light-element type.

The two of them flirting and clinging to each other was somehow so cute — and erotic.

… I want in too…

If I said that out loud, the yuri fans would kill me.

But from a yuri fan's perspective, what about futanari? I didn't have any yuri-fan otaku friends, so I didn't know.

Well, with futanari there were probably both the yuri-faction and the not-yuri-faction.

I wasn't a yuri fan myself, but I'd vouch that futanari-on-futanari sex was incredibly erotic.

I'd definitely want to watch Shaina and Carla's raw sex. In that sense, I could sort of understand a yuri fan's feelings…

So I thought idly, off-topic, while watching the two of them flirt.

"When was your first time together?"

"Oh, you wanna hear? Eh-heh-heh. Around 14, when our graduation was settled.

"Carla called me out behind the school building…"

"I want to be Shaina's Garumon."

She said it like that.

"W-why? With only a little left till graduation…"

"Because I love Shaina. Rather than setting out separately as different Masters… I'd rather have it this way."

"… Carla, I'm so happy!"

"— And mugyuu, I squeezed her tight and pushed her down right there…! First sex, just like that! Aaa～h, I was fired up…

"After that, all the way to graduation, we did it every day～. Well, and every day after graduation too!"

"And in the middle of all that, Shaina sweetly told me she wanted to be embraced by me too…"

"N-no, don't say it, that's embarrassing～…"

"First-time Shaina was so cute.

"So I got hooked on the woman's side of sex too, and ever since I've been begging her every day. Even now."

"Mooo, Carla, geez!"

"Huh, then having sex with Shita…"

"Until graduation, when my assignment to me was confirmed, it was off-limits to touch Shita.

"So we waited until graduation."

"Fufu, I knew the two of you were having sex, so it was fine but…

"On the surface, the two who were supposed to be fighting over me ended up loving each other before I knew it."

Shita said that with a laugh.

So now the three of them were close, then.

"Carla was a Master, so there was no such restriction for her. We did it freely!

"The day right before graduation she transferred to the Garumon track, so just that one day I refrained, I guess.

"… So far, the only days I haven't been able to have sex with Carla are 3 days, total."

"3 days, you say…"

Apart from that day…

"The days I got done in by other guys, naturally those were a bit… I just sulked and went to bed early…"

… I see. The S-Class ranking match. Two losses. That was the time.

"… Gidsen is a hideousness fetishist, right?

"Can he have sex with a cute girl like Shaina?"

"Ah, you don't know.

"Gidsen's Garumon, one of the Ultimate Ones, Mara, is a futanari.

"Her appearance is, well…

"It's a nightmare.

"Hate even remembering it… her whole body has like 100 tentacles, and every single one of them is a male thing."

… So Lady Mara, huh.

A futanari Ultimate One. What kind of appearance was that…

"With that she'd go ujuri ujuri all over you… ueeh…

"And weirdly, it felt good, which made it even more of a trauma… ueeh…"

Shaina held her shoulders and shivered.

"S-sorry, sorry, making you remember something unpleasant. You don't have to remember it. I'm really sorry…"

I apologized deeply.

"Nah, it's fine. It's a funny story now.

"I managed to endure it, but there are apparently quite a few Garumon who get pleasure-broken by that…

"Anyway, Gidsen the bastard is a serious threat.

"That guy's actually pretty strong with it…"

… Uuh, I really didn't want to fight him…

I got a little spooked.

"… So basically… the three of you are happily in love with each other, so you don't want to add unnecessary members, and that's why there are only three?"

"Mn, well, that's basically it.

"Honestly, even with just three, we never really struggled. Up to B-Class it was practically an escalator.

"A-Class was a bit tough, sure…"

"Did you not run into Lagas or the other C-Class hunters? Or, if you did face them, could you win?"

"We didn't run into them, but I think we could've won. I'm strong, you know, despite how I look."

"… That I understand. I only saw your Zeiros fight, but your level of movement was on a different plane."

"Eh, getting praised by comparison to Zeiros isn't really flattering～"

"Sorry about that."

"Ahaha, just kidding."

Shaina laughed brightly.

"It was strange Zeiros challenged Shaina with that level of skill, but as that futanari-lover, I guess he was betting on a long shot."

"That'd be it, yeah～

"Thanks to that, I got to slap him with an approach ban — super lucky.

"I mean, seriously, every single time, he'd come on creepy and gross, and it was super-bothersome.

"Now it's all clear!

"Even just now, when I got close, he ran away, didn't he? Aha, zamaa."

… Zeiros was really hated, huh…

I'd better be careful not to get hated too…

"The A-Class Tournament must've been tough to win through.

"But in Shaina's year, Aldis wasn't there, was he…"

"My year had old man Wallace, who was crazy strong, and the rest were nothing much.

"Or rather, the championship-favorite types, Gramps Wallace took out a fair number of them.

"In exchange, Gramps Wallace himself was crazy strong… I lost my one 3-on-3 to him, and that's still my only loss to this day…

"The strongest opponent I beat was about Romos's level.

"Beating Romos at least let me avoid being called a lucky runner-up like Zeiros, though."

"The one who challenged you this year was Romos too, wasn't it. Silvana said you'd win."

"Yeah, yeah. He came at me. Bearing a grudge from back then maybe? Well, I beat him back lightly.

"… Or rather, weren't you watching my fight?"

Guri guri, she hugged me and ground her forehead against mine.

"Ow, ow, s-sorry, sorry…!"

More than the pain, it was the breasts pressed against me that felt good.

"Mou～… W-well, anyway, if it became known you beat Lady Ursula, of course you'd be dragged into bed.

"… Uwaaa… Lady Ursula and a bed! Uwaa… Naoto, with that meek-looking face, doing something so audacious…"

"… Audacious, sorry about that."

"… You mean, you put it in Lady Ursula? Th-that… the beautiful Lady Ursula…"

"No, that kind of graphic talk is a bit…"

"Whaa～, even though you listened to plenty of graphic talk about me and Carla?"

"You told it on your own… w-well… we are. Properly."

"Ahaaaaaa…"

What was she getting worked up about, this girl.

"… You're really something, huh…"

"What kind of assessment is that?"

"Eh, ehh… I mean, having sex with that divine, too-beautiful person, it'd be too overawing. It wouldn't be strange even if it actually wouldn't get up. Or are you the one being done…?"

"I absolutely don't get done! I'm strictly the doer!"

"Oh, h-huh, that so. Heh. Manly. I don't dislike men like that.

"A man's gotta be manly, after all!"

She patted my head in a ii-ko ii-ko kind of way.

"Amazing～. Sex with Lady Ursula… haa… amazing… hoh…"

"What kind of reaction is that?"

"No, well, kind of… my opinion of you went up a bit…"

"Sorry I look pathetic."

"Ahaha…"

Somehow, with Shaina, I really could talk so freely and have so much fun.

"… So, after becoming S-Class, you can't push back the 3-vs-6 disadvantage anymore, right.

"You're not planning to add members?"

"Hmm, it's not that I'm rejecting the idea of adding. I know having 6 is better…

"But the three of us, we had this fated encounter, see.

"So I want the next girl who joins us to have, you know, that shubibi electric current, a fated encounter too.

"… Thinking like that, there just hasn't been a girl I'd want that way…

"I guess that's how we ended up just three…"

"I see…

"Now that you mention it, I haven't really gone looking for companions either…

"Of course, there were a few times when, in a fight, I thought 'I want this girl' and bet to take her…"

I was planning to do that with Sonya next, too…

"Eh, you don't go searching for companions? Then how did you gather them?"

"Uhh… well, sort of, various ways…"

How should I put it.

"Eh, no fair. The hardest thing in this world is being able to meet good Garumon.

"Skipping that step is a cheat, a cheat～. No fair."

She pinched my cheeks guri guri.

"Ihai, ihai…"

Geez.

… But I thought I understood Shaina's jealousy.

Now that I thought about it, I hadn't used S-Class's abundant funds to go searching for UR-Class Garumon either.

But the chance of really meeting a girl I'd want, doing that, seemed low.

I had thought about it a little.

UR-Class Garumon, they say, number at least 10,000 worldwide.

But UR-Class Garumon are divided into 3 tiers by initial value: 4800 - 4900 - 5000.

They exist in a roughly 6:3:1 ratio.

Which meant there were only about 1000 initial-value-5000 UR-Class Garumon.

• Garumon transferred from other worlds are a separate slot.

• The Demon Gods and Demon Generals of monster territory are a separate slot.

So in actuality there were more than 1000.

But otherworld-transferees were Reido Academy Seven-Greatest-Beauties or current top-idol level, and monster-territory meant Demon-God or Demon-General-candidate level, so either way the numbers couldn't be that many.

A world with surely 1.1 billion people, and only 1000 — that really was few.

That said, the 24 S-Class Masters could hold a total of only 576 Garumon, so for S-Class Masters to fully stock initial-value-5000 UR-Class Garumon shouldn't have been impossible.

But besides me, not many Masters had all 24-plus slots packed solid with initial-value-5000 UR-Class.

Even Leonhardt-san had a few that weren't initial-value-5000.

This was, of course, because Leonhardt-san wouldn't discriminate against a Garumon for not being initial-value-5000. That was a matter of his character.

I didn't want to discriminate either. A girl who happily joined me, if she's initial-value-4900, "tch, don't want her" — I wouldn't do something so cruel. No way.

… So, I should just say "what an adorable girl this is, I absolutely want her as a companion!" with conviction, and add her as a companion.

Then whether her initial value was 4800 or 4900, to me she was the supreme beauty. Who cared what the system rated her — stand tall.

… Well, as of now, every girl I'd thought was cute and absolutely wanted had been initial-value 5000, and conversely the girls who were cute enough… weren't necessarily initial-value 5000.

… It was almost uncomfortable, like the system had perfectly seen through my preferences.

Well, even initial-value 5000 didn't always mean my type. In the beauty - cuteness ratio, the ones leaning too far into beauty. Like a Hollywood actress or a Greek statue. Astoundingly beautiful no doubt, but not sex objects, somehow too artistic.

… Anyway, digression aside.

Buying a UR-Class Garumon at a shop wasn't actually impossible.

There were two kinds of shops.

System-direct shops, and shops that went through the system but didn't really — illegal black markets.

At system-direct shops, UR-Class Garumon were cheap.

The price gap between value 5000/4900/4800 wasn't much. You could buy one for just 10 million G or so.

The system kept the sale price down so it didn't run wild.

… And so, they sold in an instant.

Really, in the blink of an eye, they sold.

I'd seen a UR lined up at a shop once. I thought "oh, a UR" and tapped to see the description, and "SOLD OUT" was displayed.

To buy one of those took considerable technique. And you had to glue yourself to the shop for over a month, watching without missing a beat.

Leonhardt-san, to obtain Adelia, had his 24 subordinate knights camp out on the system and persist, they say.

… And so, for those who gave up on being able to buy one of those instant-sellouts — people who'd happily pay more — their only choice was the black market.

On the black market, UR-Class Garumon sold for 1 billion, 10 billion. Well, that was probably the appropriate price.

… However, the black market had no system guarantee, so even if it was listed as a value-5000 UR, there was no guarantee anywhere that it was genuine.

The likelihood of being defrauded was far higher.

Spending 1 billion or 10 billion to get scammed was too painful to look at…

So, at any rate, buying a UR-Class at a shop wasn't impossible, but it was difficult.

I understood why people hesitated to buy at shops.

But asked whether you'd go that far to glue yourself to the shop… ultimately the thought of wanting a more properly fated encounter was what kept that kind of action off the table.

"A fated encounter, huh… hope it comes."

"That's right. Haah, a fated encounter… maybe it's lying around somewhere～?"

"It's not the kind of thing that lies around, geez!"

"Ahaha!"

We all laughed together.

"… Even just meeting for the first time and opening up like this is… well, saying it would be tactless."

So Carla murmured.