'Iris... Suzu...'
'Hikigaya-kun... Kaede... haa...'
Tsubaki never would have thought that she was just following Usui Makoto's suggestion to stay behind and check on Hikigaya and Kaede's situation, while also keeping an eye out to prevent them from being discovered for their impure relationship.
If she had known the price of peeping with Usui Makoto was this, she would've absolutely run far away and just let Maid Shion accompany Usui Makoto instead.
Although Usui Makoto beside her now was perfectly fine, Iris had clearly set her sights on Tsubaki. Even if she ran, she'd probably still be targeted by Iris, but at least it'd be better than the terrible situation of almost being found out by Usui Makoto right now, tsk...
"Are you really okay? Do you want me to take you to the infirmary?", Usui Makoto squatted down, looking worriedly at Rurikawa Tsubaki sitting on the ground.
What's going on, could it be that she's sick?
She and Vice President Rurikawa Tsubaki weren't in the same class, and didn't have much interaction, only became a bit familiar because of Kaede.
At this time she didn't know if Rurikawa Tsubaki had some kind of hard-to-speak illness, but Rurikawa Tsubaki's popularity was quite good, and she seemed to have good athletic performance too, shouldn't be reduced to this state just from peeking through a class period, right? Even if she didn't exercise much, she shouldn't be like this.
"Really... it's nothing... mm cough cough...", Rurikawa Tsubaki lowered her head, covering her mouth with one hand to suppress her voice as she explained through gritted teeth, while the other hand pressed on her school uniform skirt, afraid Usui Makoto would discover her awkward situation.
Even she herself hadn't figured out the specific situation, so she had no way of explaining to Usui Makoto. If Usui Makoto misunderstood that she was a girl who secretly peeked at her best friend and childhood friend outside then got self-**ed, she really wouldn't have the face to come to school again.
"Huh? Vice President, wait here for me, I'll go get Shion," Seeing Rurikawa Tsubaki's increasingly obvious abnormality, Usui Makoto became even more suspicious, but she didn't think further, and hurriedly got up to bring the Maid Shion back to take care of Rurikawa Tsubaki.
Rurikawa Tsubaki had her head lowered so she couldn't see her eyes, but from her snow-white face framed by shoulder-length jet-black hair, her face now looked like a ripe red apple, so red it seemed it might drip blood.
Clearly just squatting here, yet as if she had undergone intense exercise, still tightly covering her mouth and struggling to breathe, could it be asthma?
Otherwise, given Rurikawa Tsubaki's family background, common illnesses weren't something to worry about treating; only incurable asthma would match the current symptoms of her suddenly having rapid breathing and being unable to stand.
Hearing that Usui Makoto was going to call Maid Shion, Rurikawa Tsubaki hurriedly raised her hand to stop her, but as she looked at Usui Makoto's hurried back and raised her hand, she still couldn't voice any objection.
Even if she stopped her, it would be useless. In her current state, she simply couldn't explain, and Usui Makoto definitely wouldn't just leave her here feeling bad. She couldn't guarantee when Hikigaya and Suzu would stop inside the office.
Yes, she could clearly feel the changes happening to her body were related to Hikigaya, even judging from Suzu's reaction inside the office at this moment, the familiar sensation on her body was clearly Suzu's real experience.
Rurikawa Tsubaki tried to remove the silver bracelet on her hand, but found it seemed to be magically bound, unable to find a way to remove it. She could only lean her head against the door of the student council office, struggling to control her hands that were hard to restrain, and weakly looked at the situation inside.
However, in the next second, Rurikawa Tsubaki, who wanted to see what was happening inside, suddenly widened her eyes.
'Iris? How is she inside?'
'She's not afraid of being discovered by Kaede?'
'Wait a minute, Iris what are you doing? Why are you taking that bracelet off of Suzu's hand and putting it on Kaede's?'
'Stop it!!!'
"Vice President?"
Soon, Usui Makoto returned with the lookout maid Maid Shion, but upon returning, she saw that Rurikawa Tsubaki's condition seemed even worse, leaning lifelessly against the door looking up at the ceiling, as if she had lost the will to live.
"Milady, what's wrong? Should I call a car to take you out for a checkup?", Maid Shion also saw her mistress's bad condition and quickly ran over to help the nearly collapsed Rurikawa Tsubaki who was about to lie down on the ground.
She had heard from Usui Makoto that her mistress was sick and had found it strange. In the past two days, Milady only had more dreams than usual, occasionally needing the bed sheets changed, but her physical condition had been pretty good.
But now, seeing it with her own eyes, she couldn't disbelieve it anymore.
Milady's condition was actually this bad, she couldn't even sit.
"No... no need... Let's just go inside and rest for a bit," Rurikawa Tsubaki tried her best to not reveal any abnormality and slowly stood up.
Although she and Usui Makoto had been watching outside for a long time, it was only just now that she was plotted against by Iris. The intensity inside was something even Kaede and Suzu could still endure, so naturally, she wouldn't be that miserable, just couldn't quite suppress it.
What really broke her down was the familiar sensation experienced in the flesh being transmitted from her good friend Kaede's body.
She didn't know if it was because of this, or because this teasing-from-a-distance feeling made it even more unbearable. In any case, the strange taste it brought her was even more indescribable.
"Ah? You're going in at this time?"
Staring at Rurikawa Tsubaki and Maid Shion, Usui Makoto covered her mouth in surprise.
She thought that once Maid Shion was called over, Rurikawa Tsubaki would be taken away to get treatment or rest.
She hadn't expected that Rurikawa Tsubaki, clearly unwell, not only wouldn't leave but even wanted to push open the door to see Hikigaya and Kaede.
'That's too bold, isn't it? Whoa!'
"Mm..."
Rurikawa Tsubaki didn't explain further, glanced weakly at Maid Shion, and Maid Shion instantly understood Rurikawa Tsubaki's meaning. After knocking on the door to alert the people inside, she slowly helped Rurikawa Tsubaki up, waited a while, and then pushed open the student council office door.
As a fallen noble of the Rurikawa Tsubaki family, Rurikawa Tsubaki wasn't some pampered rich lady who would act blindly out of pride.
Although she didn't know what that elf princess Iris was thinking, obviously already confessed to Kaede that she wanted to pursue Hikigaya, yet still insisted on messing with her.
But now the sensation on her body was all coming from either Kaede or Suzu inside. Then as long as she went in and stopped the intimacy between Hikigaya and them, wouldn't she be able to escape this embarrassing situation where she could feel Hikigaya through just a door separating her from her good friend Kaede?
Doing this might even make Iris drop the act and show herself, letting her and Kaede face things honestly.
But now with Usui Makoto, the morals committee member, still here, Iris shouldn't go so far as to drag an innocent person into this, right?
"Hehe, how clever...", In stealth mode, Iris looked at Rurikawa Tsubaki being supported by Maid Shion and Usui Makoto into the student council office. Hearing Kaede's slightly flustered voice from inside, she nodded in satisfaction.
As expected of the one she had her eye on, even in such a moment, still thinking clearly about how to break the situation.
Rurikawa Tsubaki chose to enter the office herself, in front of Kaede and the president, she really couldn't continue.
Doing something while invisible was certainly possible, Kaede and Suzu were ordinary people, unable to detect her messing around in secret.
But she merely wanted Rurikawa Tsubaki to completely give her heart to the president and not be able to leave him, not simply to embarrass her. So of course she wouldn't go too far at such a time.
"Umm... should we continue now? Or go ask the school board about what that fuzoku event is all about? We never asked the president to keep a distance from us," Also in stealth, Aegis softly asked.
They had been following the president for a long time and had personally watched him discuss the fuzoku event with Kaede and the others. They knew that the so-called fuzoku event had a goal, to make the morals committee members eliminate the president's desires so he'd have no energy to deal with them.
But their relationship with the president wasn't as simple as outsiders believed. They had deep connections with him and needed the president's life energy.
Clearly, the event the morals committee wanted would only trouble them and affect the president's ability to support them.
"That fuzoku event? That's just the human side's attempt to address the declining birthrate issue, probably doomed to fail. But things in the human world have nothing to do with us, unless it involves diplomatic matters, we don't need to care. Let's just do our own thing," Iris waved her hand, indicating that she had long known about the fuzoku event.
"Today the president will be quite busy, so let's go back and play with Ursula, see if the president's control collar on her has malfunctioned."
She knew that some humans, after learning a bit about the president's situation, wanted to use her and the mermaids' fame to make the president a model for promoting human-demi-human unions and polygamy to increase birthrates.
But clearly, that wasn't realistic. The president could do it because he was the president, normal humans had weak life auras and simply lacked the ability to maintain polygamy.
Instead of thinking about such unrealistic things, better to think about how to make the president more effective in aiding their elven tribe.
The president's life energy was so abundant and dense that even after aiding them every day, he didn't weaken. Instead, he grew stronger.
If it weren't for all the elf girls staying in the elf forest, or going out on adventures where they might meet someone they like, she would've wanted to bring all elf girls in heat to receive the president's support.
Elves were close to nature and long-lived species. Those with higher life energy lived longer and became stronger. With the president's quality of life energy, the next generation born from his aid would surely include many gifted, powerful high elves.
In this case, she simply wouldn't consider the human-side plans of human-demi-human unions and polygamy.
Of course, for Ursula and the others, that's even less of a concern. Ursula, as a dragon, looked down on physically weak humans. Mermaids didn't have population issues either.
"Aegis, remember to take initiative next time~ Even if you're too shy to ask for help, you should talk more with the president. Otherwise, if you get punished like just now, it'll be your turn~", Iris looked at Aegis beside her, smiling as she reminded.
Although Aegis had been obedient since stepping down from her princess position, she was too obedient now. Because she had made too many mistakes before, she now only considered Iris and not herself.
Many times when Iris wanted Aegis to approach the president proactively, Aegis would always have various reasons to avoid it, finally doing it with a red face, acting like she was forced. Usually, she was also silent and didn't stick to the president.
If Iris didn't keep dragging Aegis along to ask for the president's help, with Aegis like this, it would probably be hard to get pregnant before her mating season ended.
"...Got it," Looking at Iris who resembled a behind-the-scenes villain, Aegis couldn't help but shiver, muttering that Iris had changed a lot since coming here. She used to be smart too, but never treated her like this, she even "threatened" her now.
"Good. Many demi-humans have already caught wind of things and are very eager for the president. We absolutely cannot let other demi-humans take him away," Seeing Aegis's resistance gradually decrease, only embarrassed to court the president openly, Iris continued her instructions.
To the human side, many demi-humans seemed to come to this school because she was a peace-loving elf princess. But all demi-humans knew that many of them came for the president.
Ursula did, the mermaid songstresses did, so did they. Even the succubus sisters who had only arrived two days ago were no exception.
Someone who could support mermaids, Ursula, and the elf princess at the same time, a historically unprecedentedly powerful supporter. The president's fame was spreading widely in private.
Even without considering children, there were other demi-humans with needs who had their eyes on the president.
But because succubi would absorb energy just by touching a human with their fingers, and a little longer could kill them, the three succubus sisters were still observing and hadn't rashly approached the president.
Even Iris wasn't sure if the president could withstand the succubi's powers. His life energy was indeed vast and dense, she and Ursula hadn't finished absorbing him before he recovered. But succubi were truly gifted in this regard, and the three sisters were several-hundred-year-old virgin succubi...
That kind of pent-up suction force from hundreds of years, she really was a bit worried the president wouldn't hold up.
BEEP! BEEP!
At this moment, Aegis suddenly took out an elf communicator from her bosom, looked at the message displayed, and hesitantly looked at Iris.
"Iris, the tribe sent someone."
"Are many elves coming? Who's leading them? Nina? Sifa? Or Christine?"
Iris's eyes lit up, immediately asking.
Finally someone was coming. Even though she knew the president liked her a lot, facing more and more demi-humans turning their attention this way, the pressure was heavy. She really hoped more elves would come to receive the president's love.
Logically speaking, something this important would be led by a royal, meaning she could not only meet her good sisters but also pull them in to ask the president for support.
"None of those—it's... it's Lumilia."
"Lumilia? Her mating season arrived too?", Iris blinked, looking a little puzzled.
Lumilia was the youngest elf princess among their sisters. A well-behaved and obedient, beloved child. She remembered there were other elf princesses also in their mating season. She hadn't expected the youngest Lumilia to be sent this time...
———
Hachiman, still in the student council office, didn't know that Iris's elf clansmen were already on their way, and even more, it was Iris's younger sister leading them.
Right now, he was in an awkward, or rather, a very delicate, situation.
The noise made by Rurikawa Tsubaki and Usui Makoto outside the door earlier certainly hadn't escaped his notice. If it had, he would've already entered "Love Live Mode" with Kaede and Suzu, and wouldn't have given them any chance to peek.
Precisely because he knew they were outside, he couldn't start Love Live Mode.
When Iris appeared beside him, he had also clearly felt Iris's mischievous little hand unlocking Suzu's empathy bracelet.
But at that time, he didn't have the chance to separate himself to deal with Iris and could only let her take the empathy bracelet to play a prank on Rurikawa Tsubaki.
"Kaede, we're back."
Usui Makoto and Maid Shion supported Rurikawa Tsubaki as they walked in, helped her sit properly on the sofa, and only then breathed a sigh of relief, turning their gaze toward Hachiman and Kaede on the sofa opposite.
On the surface, the two didn't seem to have any major issues, just that Kaede's face was a bit flushed, and her clothes were slightly disheveled.
Big sister Kaede was sitting in Hachiman's lap, while little sister Suzu was snuggled tightly against him, with an air conditioner blanket covering the three of their thighs.
This situation was a bit unusual. Normally, Kaede and Suzu's positions should be reversed. Kaede definitely wouldn't be shameless enough to sit in Hachiman's lap in front of them.
However… seeing Kaede still clinging to Hachiman at a time like this, her smooth, slender little feet dangling lightly in the air, Usui Makoto and the others all tacitly refrained from asking why Kaede wasn't sitting upright by herself, but was instead being so intimate with Hachiman.
"M-Makoto-chan, and Tsubaki, Shion, why did you all come back again? Isn't it class time now?"
Feeling Usui Makoto's gaze vaguely locked onto the spot where she was leaning against Hachiman, Kaede's flawless, delicate face turned even redder. She couldn't help but change the subject and mutter in a small voice.
Hachiman hadn't told her that Rurikawa Tsubaki and Usui Makoto never actually left, so Kaede didn't know that her two close friends from the student council and class had just been eavesdropping right outside the door.
But now it was class time, and the three of them, Usui Makoto, Rurikawa Tsubaki, and Shion, who should've long since left, suddenly knocked and came back into the office. It startled her so much she only had time to change into her uniform top. She couldn't help but overthink it.
Why would the three of them come back together out of nowhere?
Could it be… they never left in the first place?
Just thinking about this possibility made Kaede feel unspeakably ashamed. Her body tensed reflexively as she turned her head and glared fiercely at Hachiman, who looked completely unfazed.
'It's all Hachiman's fault! If he and Suzu hasn't ganged up on me, I wouldn't have thought about launching a counterattack herself!'
'Now look what happened! My and Suzu's secret. everything between the three of us and Hachiman is completely exposed to Makoto-chan and the others!'
As student council president, how was she supposed to face anyone from now on.
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