Challenging B-Class

All right, time to get my head back on straight. From here on, we had to aim for B-Class.

And we had to do it within three months. After that, the battle with Yamagata-kun was waiting for us, within another month.

There wasn't a moment to spare.

… That said, before getting frantic, the first priority was gathering information.

"… Leone. Before we throw ourselves into C-Class with our sights set on B-Class, there's one thing I want to ask. About C-Class… Leone, your final ranking was D-Class, right? With your abilities, I think you could've held your own in C-Class too… Why didn't you ever try to make it to C-Class?"

"Ah… To explain that, I need to talk about my previous master again… about Aike."

I thought Leone had been intentionally avoiding the subject of her previous master. It must have been her way of being considerate, not wanting me to feel a former man's shadow looming over her and get strangely hung up on it.

But I wanted to know.

"I want to hear it. I decided I'd accept everything, the past included, and love you, Leone. I want you to tell me all of it."

"… All right."

And so, Leone began to speak.

"I touched on it briefly during that business with Frige.

"Aike and I were childhood friends, and we both went on to the same Melk Academy. He had outstanding grades, graduated at the top of his class, and when we left, he set out together with me, Firil, and Elise.

"The four of us, his Garumon, honed our skills together.

"Modesty aside, I was a talented Garumon, and after graduation he kept getting stronger by leaps and bounds, distinguishing himself in no time.

"Everyone thought he'd just keep climbing smoothly all the way up.

"… But at one point, he kept only me and let Firil and Elise go.

"The reason… well, he explained it to me. For Aike, the only Garumon he could love from the heart was me, he said…

"If he couldn't truly cherish his other Garumon from the heart, he didn't think they should stay with him.

"… I think you, Naoto-san, would understand."

"… Yeah, I can definitely sympathize with that."

That must have been exactly why Leone had taken an interest in me.

Even being born into this world, he was a truly affectionate, admirable man.

… That said, in my case, I didn't think I was so admirable. After all… I was just a sucker for a pretty face.

Firil and Elise were certainly beautiful, but it was more of an "oh, they're pretty, sure" kind of feeling.

Leone, though, hit like, "Whoaaa! What a beauty! A literal goddess! And on top of that, she's hot! What is this, what an erotic pair of breasts!"

If someone had told me I could have sex with Firil and Elise, I'd probably have been like, "Eh, I'm good, thanks."

… Well, even Aike-san might not have been so quick to let them go if his companions had been beautiful girls every bit Leone's match, like mine.

No, I shouldn't speak ill of the deceased. He loved Leone with single-minded devotion, and he died. That was the whole of it.

"After that, I kept fighting solo. Going solo is a disadvantage, but it has the merit of letting you take in EXP more easily and level up faster. So I had a double advantage of high rarity and high LV, and in D-Class I was undefeated… C-Class was well within reach, but as we gathered information on it, he stopped trying to advance. This is where the main topic begins."

With that, we all straightened up and listened again. I prepared drinks.

"All right then, about the C-Class information we'd gathered.

"First, the rank of Garumon.

"In D-Class, the standard was HR-class Garumon with an LV cap of 40.

"In C-Class, those nearly disappear even at the bottom, and SR-class Garumon with an LV cap of 50 become the baseline.

"The maximum LV of an SR-class Garumon is 50, the same as SSR-class and UR-class Garumon.

"At the same level, a higher-class Garumon is stronger thanks to their skills, but their stats aren't all that different.

"Lower-class Garumon are easier to level up.

"So if you can't beat three SR-class Garumon at sufficiently high LVs, you can't make C-Class.

"But it's hard, if not impossible, for me alone to beat three opponents.

"At least, winning consistently would be impossible.

"On top of that, in C-Class tournaments and big matches, full battles begin.

"Two parties, a 1st party of three and a 2nd party of three, swap in and out: a six-on-six all-out fight.

"Winning that on my own would have been all but impossible.

"… And so, he got cold feet.

"In a situation where losing even once would mean I'd be taken from him, he just couldn't bring himself to challenge C-Class.

"In the end, without ever even trying for C-Class, he saved up his retirement funds in D-Class and retired."

"He didn't know about Eora, where you can be promoted without beating a C-Class?"

"He didn't. He found out after retiring… but when I asked if he'd come back and aim for C-Class through Eora, he wouldn't budge. The fighting spirit had already left him."

"I see."

That was the C-Class information Leone, with Aike-san's help, had pulled together during her D-Class days.

"… Thank you, Leone. And my thanks to Aike-san too."

The key points being:

• Each individual Garumon is strong, almost all SR-class at LV 50.

• More 6-vs-6 battles.

That was the gist of it. And on top of that, the conditions for promotion to B-Class were: place within the top 64 of C-Class, finish in the top 4 of the qualifier, and win a swap match against a B-Class Master. Those were the points.

C-Class was on a whole different level… I needed to be careful. Could we even compete as we were now…?

For starters, we were still only five. We were one short.

"All right, then I'll handle explaining the general C-Class information."

Lyuka was up next.

"C-Class has roughly ten thousand. One block has roughly five hundred, divided into twenty blocks. And B-Class has 512. Promotion to B-Class is about 1 in 20. A-Class has 128, S-Class only 24. Considering the ratios, B-Class is sometimes called the hardest rank to be promoted into. Of course, the truly hardest is, without question, S-Class. The promotion exam to B-Class is held once every six months. The next one is the month after next, so if you advance there, you'll meet the condition of reaching B-Class within three months. Conversely, if you can't be promoted there, that's the end of it."

"… Yeah."

If this promotion exam weren't within three months, it would have been flat-out impossible.

… Well, Yamagata-kun had at least confirmed that bit. He was a properly fair person.

"As for the conditions to participate in the B-Class promotion exam… that is, the C-Class tournament… the top 64 from each of the twenty blocks are granted entry to the qualifying tournament. Up to 1,280 people can participate, but participation is voluntary, so in practice not nearly that many enter each year. Those who make the top 4 in this C-Class tournament are eligible to challenge a swap match with B-Class. If you win the swap match against a bottom-ranking B-Class member, you're officially promoted to B-Class. That's the rule."

"I see… so that's what we're aiming for."

The immediate goal was clear.

First, in the next two months, we would aim for the top 64 of C-Class. Then we would make the top 4 in the C-Class tournament and get promoted to B-Class. That was all there was to it.

Well, just how harsh that "all" was, I had no idea.

"To make the top 64, the C-Class block you belong to is going to matter."

Leone-san cut in and prompted Lyuka to explain.

"…"

But Lyuka let out a small sigh. A grown-up gesture.

For someone as well-mannered as Lyuka, it almost looked like bad manners, but it was more like she just didn't really want to do it.

What was it… was there something hard for her to explain?

"Yes… it's true that here, I should explain each of the twenty C-Class blocks individually.

"Naoto-san, your ranking is currently not displayed. That's because you don't belong to any C-Class block. Once you join a block, your ranking will be displayed… Each of these twenty blocks has its own characteristics, ranging from harsh blocks to easy ones. You'll need to choose a block that suits you. As a former NPC, I can explain the features of each block, but… Naoto-san, please choose one of them in particular: Seeds Block."

"… Eh, why?"

I couldn't help asking back. I mean, if there had been no choice, that was one thing, but when there were options and you were told to pick a specific one, of course I was going to ask why.

Not that I'd have had any objection if Lyuka was the one recommending it.

"… Because in Seeds Block, Setsuna Akai-san and Haru Midoriya-san are there."

I'd been worried about whatever it was that had Lyuka looking so reluctant, but it turned out to be the best possible reason!

Not just Setsuna, but Haru-kun had been found too!? That was the best news there could be! There'd never been better news.

"! You found them! Thank you so much, Lyuka!"

Beaming with joy, I gripped Lyuka's hand tightly to show my gratitude.

The two of them in the same town… which meant maybe Setsuna and Haru-kun had been transferred together?

That, too, would be an ideal situation for me. If there was anyone in this world other than me I'd be willing to entrust Setsuna to…

It could only be my best friend, Haru-kun.

It was an unbelievably perfect situation. Ahh, even though the system was wicked enough to pair Maika up with Noda, I guess it did good things now and then too! … Well, the fact that I got paired with Kanan was a good thing too, in hindsight.

But Lyuka had a slightly complicated expression on her face.

… Hmm? Now that she mentioned it, it didn't feel like she'd just found them yesterday or today. More like, they'd been found for a while, but she'd kept quiet about it until this very moment…

That was the impression I got.

But what of it? Setsuna had been found, that was what mattered. My most precious sister… and even my best friend Haru-kun… there was no question this was the best news.

… Still, a doubt crossed my mind. Why hadn't she told me such happy news right away?

Could it have been that they were in such a bad state Lyuka couldn't bring herself to say it…?

… Damn it, let me not think about Setsuna's state for now.

In any case, if she had been found, then whatever state Setsuna was in, I just had to rescue her.

Even if I had to bet my own life on it.

"As for the features of Seeds Block, fierce Garumon Battles between fellow C-Class Masters are the norm, earning it the alias of the Battle Block. Once you reach C-Class or above, in other blocks, you can refuse a Garumon Battle that wagers Garumon without any drawback. The same is basically true in Seeds, but Seeds has a unique system: the forced battle system. If you pay the system money, you can force a battle even on an unwilling opponent. In other blocks, for example in Sarouge Block, the C-Class Masters who belong there go to the monster territory, and points are awarded based on the number and quality of monsters slain. Their ranking is decided by those points. There are various other unique features. For a Master who's just come up from D-Class, it might be the town with the least change of pace."

"… Yeah, I don't mind that at all. Let's go to Seeds right away."

It seemed harsher than the other blocks, but having fought my way through D-Class, where one loss meant losing a Garumon, this felt like more of the same.

But after being told how outclassed I was by C-Class Masters compared to D-Class, and adding a system where losing meant a Garumon gets taken…

Honestly, it felt like I was just stacking up death flags.

But Setsuna… what if she'd been taken from Haru-kun's side under that very system, by some despicable bastard, and was being put through hell…

Unfortunately, I had a candidate in mind for someone who'd do exactly that.

Right. Nezu. Yamagata-kun had said as much.

That Nezu bastard was after Haru-kun. That utter bottom-of-the-barrel…

If Setsuna was at Haru-kun's side, he'd absolutely have tried to take her by any means.

… Aaah, no good, I couldn't sit still from worry.

I clenched my fists tightly.

"… Understood. Let's transfer to Seeds, then."

Sensing my anxiety, Lyuka opened a Gate right away.

And in an instant, we arrived at the C-Class town of Seeds.

"… Hm? Here, this is the town entrance?"

Normally, when you go through a Gate, you end up at the town entrance, in most cases.

But where we'd just arrived was a single house along the coastline. An old, wooden building with character…

The signboard read "Yuria's Magic Shop."

"Magic shop… it's more on the outskirts, isn't it."

Inland, there seemed to be other buildings considerably further off. It looked like the outskirts of town, separated from the rest by a forest.

"… Well, in any case, let's pay this place a visit. Magic shop, huh; this Yuria, is she someone you know, Lyuka?"

"… Um…"

Lyuka seemed to be having trouble saying something.

…? Hmm, the fact that Lyuka had been hiding something from me, ever since earlier, was starting to bother me.

But, smack smack!

I slapped my own cheeks and decided not to worry about it.

When I came here, I'd resolved to trust Adelia, Leone-san, Lyuka…

If she had been deceiving me about something, I'd have died long ago.

Once you trust someone, you trust them to the end. Even if I got tricked, so what.

I knocked on Yuria's Magic Shop.

… And the door swung open without a sound. Meaning come in, I guess.

"Pardon the intrusion."

Together with everyone, I stepped into the house.

"Fufufu, I've been waiting, Naoto Akai!"

The place looked like a magician's workshop. The kind of pots and reagents witches are always shown stirring were lined up everywhere, leaving no spare space.

But… more than any of that, what caught my eye was the girl who was apparently the workshop's master.

C-cute! … A truly adorable, beautiful girl.

The long pink hair was right out of a fantasy world.

Her large red eyes, slightly upturned and full of strong will, gleamed like rubies, and lovely cherry-pink lips…

… Beautiful. Cute. And on top of that, even under a thick magician's robe, the unmistakable presence of large breasts.

A peerless beauty on par with Kanan and the others, my own companions!

Honestly, she was just my type. I wanted to do erotic stuff to her…

… Wait, even though I came here so worried about Setsuna and Haru-kun, riddled with anxiety, what's wrong with me.

A beautiful girl just showed up in front of me and I was getting carried away by something so frivolous!

… But she really was cute…

"Fufufu, I am the great mage Yuria. A great mage of my caliber knows full well why you've come here. I can see it, I can see it… you've come looking for your sister and your best friend. Am I correct?"

"! … That's right."

What a quick understanding.

But quick to a degree that was a little odd…

"Fufufu, indeed. In which case… you've come to the right place. But the right place is also a foolish place. Do you understand what I mean?"

"?"

"Fufu, of course… it's because someone of your level cannot possibly rescue that sister and best friend of yours from my hands! Now, allow me to introduce my adorable slaves. Come, Setsuna, Haru!"

Snap!

With that, Yuria raised her hand high and snapped her fingers, and from the back room, first one, a beautiful girl appeared.

"… Onii-chan!"

"… Setsuna!"

Ah, no doubt about it. The bobbed short hair, and unlike the changes in hair color that often happened in this world, her glossy black hair was unchanged.

My little sister Setsuna Akai. Her lovely face appeared before me just as it had been the day we were separated.

… Except, her form was… completely naked.

Beautifully white skin, and a magnificently large bust. Lustrous, beautiful, cherry-pink nipples at the tips. The supple line from the curve of her waist down to her thighs.

The faintly pubic-haired delta and all… everything fully on display, that's how Setsuna stood.

"… Ah, you're safe, thank goodness… I was so worried. I wanted to see you…!"

"Onii-chan… I'm so glad you're safe too, Onii-chan… I wanted to see you…"

Setsuna told me that with a slight tear in her eye.

Thank goodness, really, thank goodness…

… Ahh, really… I'd been so worried. Lyuka's behavior had been off, so I'd been certain she'd been taken by Nezu this time and made to suffer every kind of cruelty…

They say Garumon don't age and their looks don't change, but you could tell at a glance from a girl's overall vibe whether she was being treated well or not.

No wounds, no bruises. Her glossy skin was radiant… she was blushing in embarrassment at being naked, but…

Setsuna was just as she'd been in the original world. If anything, thanks to her wonderfully beautiful naked form, she shone even more beautifully than in the original world.

Ahh… Setsuna, you've grown up…

Come to think of it, when was the last time I'd seen her naked? The last time we took a bath together was in the first year of middle school, wasn't it.

Back then her breasts were just starting to bud, and her pubic hair had only just started to grow in faintly.

Our parents had told us firmly to stop, since she was a middle schooler now, and we'd stopped.

Setsuna had looked lonely about it, but…

Now her breasts… ahh, magnificent. They had grown so big. Such large breasts… white and beautiful. If I rubbed and squeezed them, how good would it feel. If she squeezed them around me, how blissfully I'd cum…

The pubic hair was on the thinner side, but it had grown in fuller and glossier than back then. Shaving that would feel great too…

… Wait, what was I getting turned on about with my own little sister!

… But naked Setsuna was so beautiful that I couldn't tear my eyes away.

"… O-Onii-chan… if you stare at me too much, it's embarrassing…"

Setsuna fidgeted.

"A-ah… s-sorry, Setsuna. But Setsuna, you're so beautiful… I can't take my eyes off you."

"Hau… O-Onii-chan, did you change a little? Before, you were too embarrassed to look at me much…"

"… Y-yeah… I met some wonderful companions here, and… I gained a little confidence in myself, and decided to live more honestly."

"… Ehehe, Onii-chan… somehow, you've gotten even… cooler than before."

Setsuna praised me like that… That made me happy.

It wasn't like Setsuna hadn't always been kind to me before. She was my cute, wonderful, beloved little sister…

But she was world-class on the violin, and in beauty, no one stood beside her.

At Reido Academy, there were upperclassmen with comparable looks like Kanan and Maika, but Setsuna had only just enrolled and never had occasion to meet them.

The result was that her pride was extra high, and she had a strict side that expected the same heights from others. In short, she wasn't a kid who handed out praise lightly.

For that Setsuna to easily praise me here showed real growth.

"… Setsuna, you've changed a little too. You've gotten kinder than before, haven't you?"

When I said that, Setsuna blushed a little.

"… Maybe. Here, Haru-kun and Yuria-san have been really good to me… so I've gotten a little kinder, maybe?"

I saw. It seemed she'd been blessed with good company.

"Setsuna-chan, no good. Shh."

There, Yuria, belatedly, hushed Setsuna.

"E-erm… r-right now, I'm being held captive by an evil mage…"

Setsuna corrected herself with a wry smile.

… Hmm, the cracks in the act were starting to show. Well, they'd been showing from the start.

"… Personally, I find it unsatisfying that you've barely touched on the fact that your beloved little sister appeared totally naked… but it seems you got to enjoy your reunion with her properly!"

"Yeah, thanks, Yuria."

I thanked her with a smile.

"Sarcasm! That was sarcasm just now! 'How dare you make my little sister your slave!'… I want a reaction more like that, you know!?"

But Yuria seemed unsatisfied.

"Eh, ehh…? Th-then um… how dare you do that to Setsuna…?"

I honestly didn't… well, I sort of got it but I didn't get it. But fine, since she'd said so, I'd react a little.

"Fufu, good reaction!"

But once I played along even a bit, Yuria gave me a delighted smile.

If she was this happy, maybe I should play along a bit more. I didn't really get it, though.

"Now then, next… I'm looking forward to your reaction when you behold the changed appearance of your best friend! Come, Haru!"

Snap!

Yuria snapped her fingers again.

Step…

And not as boldly as Setsuna, but a little hunched over, with both hands held up to hide his body, the one who appeared was…

"E-erm… is it… Haru-kun?"

It was natural that I couldn't tell. To start with, his hair had changed to a beautiful green.

That alone wouldn't be unusual as a change in this world.

There were people who changed and people who didn't, that was all.

His features were unmistakably Haru-kun's. Slightly pensive, large, gentle-looking eyes. A face that at a glance looked exactly like a peerless beautiful girl…

But, his appearance now was…

Bounce, jiggle… He was carrying a magnificently full pair of large breasts.

He was trying to hide them with his hands, but those breasts were too big to hide at all.

The vibration of his footsteps made his breasts shake out from his arms, and the pink, gleaming nipples were peeking through. The nipples were beautifully shaped too…

Such top-grade large breasts. And from the curve of his waist down to the line of his plump thighs… he looked perfectly like a girl, and nothing else.

What's more, a peerless beauty of the highest grade.

At Reido Academy there were existences known as the Seven Greatest Beauties. Kanan, Maika, Eclair, Yumi Tsuchiya, Sawako Aozawa… that was already five.

The remaining two had yet to appear, but they had certain personality issues, and people had said that if it weren't for him being a boy, Haru-kun should be put in instead. I knew that.

But Haru-kun's appearance now would, without question, get him counted among the Seven Greatest Beauties.

By the way, Setsuna wasn't on the list because she had just enrolled, and the Seven Greatest Beauties just hadn't been reviewed yet.

Of course, Setsuna's existence had been a major topic among Reido Academy's beauty connoisseurs.

If those events hadn't happened, this year's Seven Greatest Beauties review would have been white-hot.

Right now Haru-kun, by every measure, was a perfect girl… except, there was just one place.

The other hand he was using to hide his crotch, while also trying to hide his breasts, where he had a faint trace of being a boy: a male organ, apparently, was still there.

"N-Naoto-kun…"

He called my name in the same lovely voice that sounded like nothing but a girl's, just like before.

… Ahh, he's transformed, but yes, he's… my best friend, Haru-kun.

"E-erm… Haru-kun, you look so different. You've changed a lot, but… That look really suits you. It's truly… beautiful."

When I said that, Haru-kun's cheeks flushed red.

"T-thank you, Naoto-kun… If Naoto-kun says that, it makes me happy…"

He was bashful, but smiling.

… C-cute. He was already perfectly, only a girl.

I gazed at him, transfixed.

Haru-kun looked down, also flustered… the conversation broke off, but I wanted to keep looking at Haru-kun forever.

"Mmgh… hey, I'm putting on my evil dark lord act here, pay attention to me a bit more!"

Yuria puffed out her cheeks and complained.

While I was zoned out, Yuria was scolding me.

Eh, dark lord? Where?

"… Look, this is where you say, 'You're the one who turned Haru into this body!' or something like that, and get worked up!"

She was feeding me her info.

"Eh, really?"

So it wasn't that he'd turned out this way naturally upon being transferred to another world?

Since hair color changes happened, I'd thought sex changes might happen too.

"I see, it's thanks to Yuria… Thanks, Yuria… Wait, me thanking her isn't right either."

I mean, it wasn't like Haru-kun was mine to thank for, but I felt like saying thanks anyway.

"Uuu… f-fufufu. W-well, that kind of reaction is also within my calculations. You think of me as just an adorable beautiful girl, so you're being so casual about it. Surely I couldn't have done anything to harm these two… Will you still be laughing after seeing this?"

With that, bash, she tossed off her black robe.

… And what do you know, underneath she was completely naked.

Beautiful, magnificently large breasts and pink nipples matching her hair color hit my eyes.

… But more than those gorgeous, alluring breasts, something even more striking was standing erect from Yuria's crotch.

Something that should not exist on a beautiful girl: a male organ.

On Yuria, a beautiful girl of about 160cm in height, an oversized penis, slightly out of balance, was standing erect.

Compared directly, mine's probably a notch larger, but in proportion to body size, it'd look about the same as mine.

"Eh… e-erm, Yuria, you're… a boy?"

"Fufufu, surprised, aren't you. I am a mage who has perfected Potion Create. I can make any sort of medicine. With the help of a certain S-Class Master, I created a divine elixir called the 'Yin-Yang Divine Elixir,' a divine elixir that makes you a hermaphrodite. The medicine I produced… I made my slave Haru drink it as a human experiment, and once I confirmed it was sufficiently effective, I drank it myself. Fufufu, isn't that awful? Having drunk the Yin-Yang Divine Elixir, Haru and I are now perfectly hermaphrodites… what you'd call futanari. In this world, an existence that is both man and woman is one that is both Master and Garumon. So… right now, I am the Master who has Setsuna and Haru as slaves!"

Throwing both arms wide, Yuria made her appeal.

I-I saw…

"… Erm, in other words, Yuria, you're protecting these two…"

"Wroooong! Domination! I have them as slaves and dominate them!"

Yuria was earnestly playing the bad guy.

But, well…

I gazed quietly at Yuria's appearance.

"…? Ah, I see. Fufufu… so you wanted to take another look at this body… Fine. Take a good look. Haru, no more hiding your body."

"Auu… i-it's embarrassing…"

But once Yuria, his Master, ordered him, Haru-kun couldn't disobey.

He brought both hands behind his back.

… Those magnificently large breasts came fully into view.

And, whether feeling my gaze, or seeing Yuria's and Setsuna's bodies, his crotch twitched as it grew erect.

When fully erect, his penis was about the same proportion as Yuria's.

Since Haru-kun was a few cm taller, he was a few mm bigger, in that sense.

I looked again at the two of them naked.

A perfectly beautiful girl's body, with a sturdy man's penis growing out of it. What an unbalanced, bizarre figure.

Androgynous, hermaphroditic, things like that, right? What was it. I thought I'd seen the word in some myth or fantasy novel, and at the time I'd just gone, hmm, both man and woman, and let it slide.

But seeing the real thing right in front of me…

… What was this. How should I put it.

… Erm, like, somehow… simply…

Ain't this hot?

Right, a girl's body is incredibly erotic, but adding a man's organ, an unusual sort of thing to it, made the eroticism stand out even more, kind of.

Like watermelon and salt, opposing things brought out each other's eroticism, in a sense.

Plus, the body of a girl, normally so far out of reach, having the familiar element of a man's penis on it, made it feel suddenly close and intimate.

And then, you know, whether a girl is sexually aroused, you can sort of tell from how her nipples stand and her crotch dampens, plus her expression, but compared to a man it's hard to tell.

But right now, Yuria's and Haru-kun's penises being erect made it instantly clear they were sexually aroused, so they felt really… approachable, somehow.

… Nice. I liked it. Bene. (Why Italian.)

Following the shaving, this was the moment a new fetish budded in me.

Eh, no, the shaving still wasn't quite a fetish… probably.

"I see, futanari… it's hot!"

For the moment, that was all I said.

"Hauu…"

Haru-kun was blushing red and bashful, but…

"… Hii!"

Yuria was bright red and bashful, too.

"O-oh, really? You… you don't think it's gross?"

Yuria bashfully checked, looking up at me.

"Not at all. If anything, beautiful. Hot."

Crap, I was getting too excited too. I was getting strangely tongue-tied and clipped.

I made a strong thumbs-up.

"Y-yeah, thanks… wait, this isn't the time to be cozy! 'What an eerie body…!' 'Fufufu, I'll teach your bones the merits of this body.' 'Ngh, to such a bizarre body… how mortifying…' That's how it was supposed to go, with you saying no, no, only to be slowly drawn in… Aaah, geez, why are you so unreadable?"

Yuria muttered to herself, glaring at me resentfully.

… Hmm, if she had gone to all this trouble to set the stage, maybe I was being inconsiderate.

It felt as awkward as completely missing every step of a surprise birthday party.

"… The fact that you didn't get angry even at this point, that's beyond easygoing, that's just spineless, isn't it? It can't be helped. I hadn't planned on going this far… but brace yourself. You'll tremble before my dark-lord-of-evil performance! … Now, then… which one shall I command? All right, Setsuna, suck on my dick!"

"… Yes, Yuria."

Commanded by her Master, Setsuna obediently complied.

"!"

That command… certainly came as a shock. To have my pure, lovely, beautiful Setsuna, who had been a chaste, innocent maiden who knew none of the world's ugliness, made to suck a man's organ…

But, whether or not she could read my heart…

Setsuna, still naked, knelt at Yuria's crotch and opened her lovely mouth to take Yuria's penis in.

"Mm, hamu, mm…"

Slurp, slurp, smack…

That innocent, lovely Setsuna, my precious little sister Setsuna, had a man's penis in her mouth.

… That fact itself was, indeed, a shock.

Well, I'd been more than prepared for the possibility, given that she could have come to this world.

What with Maika's example, too.

Setsuna's fellatio was quite skilled. Taking it deep into her throat, hot and intense, then pursing her lips and sucking…

To make him cum more easily, she was giving the right kind of strong stimulation in good fellatio form.

This couldn't have been her first time.

She must have, by now, been made to suck Yuria's penis, or maybe Haru-kun's, many times.

That, certainly, was a shock.

But more than that…

"Mmh, ah, ah… feels good, so good, Setsunaaa…"

Yuria, moaning from being sucked, was hot.

As she was being sucked, her large breasts swayed bounce, bounce. Sweat lightly broke out and her nipples stood up.

Her crotch… well, wasn't fully visible, of course, but drip, drip, droplets fell from between her legs.

Even while being sucked, it seemed her crotch was getting wet and dripping nectar.

Yuria's hotness as she got sucked overwhelmed and even seemed to drown out the shock of Setsuna being the one sucking, like it was just a flavoring that further stoked my arousal.

My most beloved precious Setsuna. But, given that we were siblings, a relationship that wasn't supposed to be consummated, I'd have to be prepared for her eventually becoming someone else's.

… When that time came, if I imagined the partner being someone like Noda or Nezu or Ishiguro, the worst people I could think of, my insides would boil over…

But Haru-kun would be different. I might not even get angry. If anything, it'd be like a yuri thing between beautiful girls.

So if there were a partner I could accept Setsuna marrying, it'd be Haru-kun, I'd thought before.

In that sense, Yuria was the same. If anything, she was hot and attractive, beyond shocking…

"Mm, ha, haaaa… I'm cumming, I'm cumming, I'm gonna cum! Setsuna, so good!"

"Mm, hamu, mm, Yuria, mmh"

Setsuna picked up the pace.

Slop slop slop

In time with that, Setsuna's breasts and Yuria's breasts shook bounce, bounce and…

"Mmh, cumming, cumming!"

Twitch! Yuria arched back and her body shook.

Spurt, splash, splash, splash…

She came hard, releasing into Setsuna's mouth.

"Mhah… ha, aah… that was great, Setsuna… drink it all properly. If you spill it… I'll spank your bottom."

"Mm, mh, mh…"

Setsuna, maybe still struggling with the bitterness or feeling her throat poked, teared up a little but earnestly swallowed the semen down…

Finally, she opened her mouth to prove she'd drunk it all to the last drop.

"Fufu… well done. Such a good girl."

Yuria stroked Setsuna's hair as she said so. The touch was properly gentle, full of feeling.

"… Fufu, well? How was that?"

"…"

Clap, clap, clap…

I applauded. I mean, I had been shown something pretty nice.

Behind me, Kanan and Lyuka clapped along too.

"That was super hot."

"… Aah, geez! What's with this?! This guy will not move how I plan! Lyuka!"

Yuria finally complained to Lyuka.

"… My apologies, but I can't really say… Naoto-san isn't the kind of person we can easily plan around, I think."

Lyuka looked apologetic.

"… Really, you didn't pull a 'just kidding from the start' reveal on me, did you?"

"I haven't. It was painful for me to keep things from Naoto-san as well."

Lyuka was unhappy at being needlessly suspected.

… Hmm, it seemed Lyuka knew the situation.

Come to think of it, she'd said before, "I'm hiding things too, but please don't get angry when that comes out."

This must have been it.

True, the fact that Setsuna had already been found and she'd kept quiet about it had kept me worried…

But it wasn't something to be angry about. Without Lyuka using the mage network, we wouldn't have found them at all.

That said, if I kept being clueless about reading the room, the conversation wasn't going to move forward.

I should read the room a little.

"… Well, gathering from the situation, I take it you want me to go all-out and seriously challenge Yuria to take Setsuna and Haru-kun back?"

"Ah, that's it! Exactly! As expected, you do get it. You've gone up in my book!"

Yuria praised me.

"Fufufu, if you hadn't caught on, next I'd have had Setsuna give Haru a blowjob, and if you still didn't catch on, I'd have had Setsuna and Haru both blow me at once… I was going to escalate, but if you've caught on, that's enough."

At that statement of Yuria's…

"Eh, ehhh!?"

I was probably more shaken than at any other point so far. So, not catching on a little longer would have been the correct move!

"Hold on, take that back. I want to see that! Continue, please!"

"N-Naoto-kun, w-wait, no, that's embarrassing!"

A flustered Haru-kun.

"Onii-chan! Come on, you can't keep goofing around forever! Yuria is, despite all this, serious!"

I got scolded by Setsuna too.

"Fufufu, so. If you want to take Setsuna and Haru back, have a Garumon Battle with me. But the rule is Continuous Garumon Battle! A Continuous Battle… a normal Garumon Battle has a 24-hour cooldown after each match… But until set conditions are met, the Garumon Battle stays in a continuously active state. So, again and again, Garumon Battles continue back to back. It's one of Seeds town's special rules. The condition is, taking Garumon from each other one at a time. Whoever takes all of them wins! Until one side has taken all the other's, the battle continues endlessly! Plus, there's one more condition. That Leone of yours, you cannot send her out until she's the last one! Fufufu. If you want Setsuna and Haru back safe, accept all these conditions!"

"… Erm, that's no problem in itself, but…"

… She thought she had me forced to comply by holding hostages?

Honestly, I didn't see anything particularly problematic with the rules.

In any case, it seemed Yuria's roundabout actions all along had the goal of doing battle with me.

"… I have lots of catching up I want to do with Setsuna and Haru, but does it have to wait until after the battle?"

"Talking during break time is fine. But in any case, having one match is non-negotiable. We're doing it right now!"

Yuria was smiling boldly.

An Endless Garumon Battle until all Garumon on either side were taken… Once you started, wasn't this pretty grueling?

Without that mindset of definitely getting Setsuna and Haru-kun back no matter what, you couldn't keep up your spirit, I bet.

My guess was, by playing the villain, she planned to fire me up to fight seriously and gauge my real ability… or perhaps make me her practice partner. Something along those lines.

The ringleader was Yuria, and she'd gotten Lyuka to cooperate with her plan, the way I read it.

Whether Lyuka felt reluctant, or thought it silly, I could ask later.

… But if the rule was until all Garumon were taken, Yuria herself had to be included. After all, she was both Master and Garumon.

If I won three more times, I'd get my precious sister Setsuna, my best friend Haru-kun, and this incredibly cute Yuria.

Thinking about that, I felt my fighting spirit blaze up fierce, with no need for anger.

I selected "Yes" on the system screen.