Published at 31st of August 2019 1:16 pm

Volume 10, Chapter 02: Following in the Steps of her Inspiration

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The scent of perfume sweetly brushed the tip of my nose. Well-formed beautiful breasts rich on elasticity pressed onto my back. When I shifted my gaze to the side, I could confirm brilliant chiselled facial features.

For some time now, Kaorun was faintly smiling while tightly hugging onto my back for some reason.

But, how long would this pleasant hug continue?

It was evening after school ended. Like we had agreed on yesterday over the phone, Hijiri and Kaorun offered the living room in their house for our meeting. To discuss the election campaign there, Machina and I went home once, then headed over to Hijiri’s house.

But whatever she might be thinking, Kaorun greeted us with her usual maid clothes.

At the entrance hall she had clung onto my back and I didn’t bother to retort, since it was too troublesome, but even after I sat down in the broad living room, she was still clinging to my back even now.

Two soft breasts. An aromatic and pleasant scent. The continuous sensation of her warm body made me run out of patience and I interjected.

“…I can’t focus on the meeting like this. How long are you going to stay like this? Or rather, what are you even doing?”

“Replenishing my energy. Please do not mind me and start with the meeting.”

Don’t ask for the impossible while leaning that charming body onto me. Seeking help, I threw a glance at the cool beauty with dignified features, Hijiri, who gave off a gorgeous aura as always.

But contrary to Machina, who had a weary expression, Hijiri just smiled a bit.

“Shinobu-kun, Kaoru-san is tired from various things. Please allow it for a bit longer.”

“Tired? Oh, she couldn’t sleep, since she was thinking of me.”

“Ehm, she’s not like me… wait, no. Remember, I talked you before that we hiring a new maid. So she’s kinda busy with these preparations lately. Besides, it seems she researched about the election until late at night yesterday.”

A new maid and researching the election, huh. Reminded me, the current head of the Gogyou Household, Sougo-san decided to hire a new maid so that Kaorun could devote herself to studying for the entrance exam after it turned out that she would be able to attend university together with Hijiri.

Hijiri said something quite concerning during her sentence, but I dared to ignore it by just saying “I see” while remembering the stuff about the new maid, whereupon Kaorun rested her chin on my shoulder and gave a joking warning.

“Shinobu-sama, the new maid is a really adorable girl. I am sure she will come to live in this house in the near future, but please do not lay your hands on her.”

“I can’t promise that.”

“Sh- Shinobu-sama, you natural gigolo!”

When I replied joking, Kaorun playfully grinded her chin onto my shoulder.

…It felt a bit nice. After all, her round breasts innocently trembled stimulating on my back with every movement from her, transmitting an indescribable softness and elasticity.

But keeping my cool eagerly, I softly called out to Kaorun.

“I see that you worked hard for Machina’s sake. Even though you were tired from the stuff with the new maid, you looked into the election until late at night too, right?”

“Exactly. I really worked hard, so please give me a reward. For now, could you let me hear some sweet words? I expect some really romantic ones that soothe my tired heart.”

It was a similar request to the one on the phone yesterday, but I decided to respond suited.

“—I want to give up everything and caress.”

“Caress me? I understand.”

“After caressing you, I want to toss you aside.”

“Muh, how rude. The God of romance will not be pleased at this. I will present you a kiss now, so please accept it and give me a wonderful remark.”

“J- Just how desperate are you for sweet words— hey, wait! What’re you doing! Don’t try to kiss me for real!”

While I enjoyed exchanging jokes with Kaorun like that, Machina made a face like she wanted to say something, but Hijiri quietly started talking by giving me a side-glance.

“Machina-san, they’ll stop their jokes soon enough and then they’ll surely participate seriously in the meeting after having played around. For now, let’s start the meeting with just the two of us at least.”

“…So you got used to it too, Hijiri.”

Machina showed a wry smile and nodded, then she started the meeting together with Hijiri with the table between them while ignoring us. Watching over these two, Kaorun dropped her voice faintly.

“They will not give us a retort.”

“Our disputes might already be an everyday occurrence.”

“It would be more precise to call it mannerism. A moderate stimulation is essential for our everyday life. Shinobu-sama, would you like to try a slightly radical and daring approach now to attain that stimulation?”

“…I believe a nonchalant life is the greatest treasure ever. Therefore I don’t call for radical and daring stimulations. Sorry, but I decline.”

“Please do not sound so callously. Just be yourself, Shinobu-sama, and casually do as you please for a stimulation. Please make it dirty. How about we move to the bed?”

“But keep the lights off, okay? In the faint twilight, I want gaze at your heart alone— as if! Why do you look a bit happy? Don’t touch me with your dirty fingers! Ah, hey. I said no! Stop! Stop it, Kaoru-san!”

I inadvertently lapsed into respective speech and urged her to stop, but Kaorun didn’t stop at all. She happily stroked my cheek with her slender fingertips and while my protesting voice echoed ineffective, she brought her light red lips closer to me, lightly pressing them onto my neck.

…This wasn’t good. I had hid it with the collar of my clothes, but at this rate she would find the kiss mark that Luna gave me last night. While I hastily tried to get Kaorun off me, Hijiri and Machina gradually started to shiver their bodies to hold in something, as they were observing my situation.

“Oh my? A kiss mark on your neck…”

The moment Kaorun isolated said so, they surely lost their patience. Hijiri and Machina stood up with attitude and approached Kaorun together, calling out to her.

“K- Kaoru-san! What’re you doing! Hurry up and get away from Shinobu-kun! It’s not fair for you alone to do something so enviable!”

“Right! Just like Hijiri said, it’s not fair, Kaoru… wait, Hijiri? Aren’t these your true feelings? Should you be saying that?”

“Aw…”

“S- Sorry, I said something unnecessary. I didn’t thought you would turn bright red like that.”

“…It’s fine. I can’t make physical contact with Shinobu-kun like Luna-san or Kaoru-san, so I’m really envious. Same goes for you, doesn’t it Machina?”

“Yes, I can’t kiss or hug Shinobu like my sister, can’t get petted on the head like Nazuna, nor can I take a bath together with— wait, I’m not like you! Don’t make me say weird things too, Hijiri! Just to tell you, that weren’t my true feelings!”

“Is, Is that so? For that it was rather specific though…”

“—Okay, Hijiri-chan, Machina, over there! This is not the time to be doing that! We have troubles!”

Calling them to a stop with a somewhat shrill voice, Kaorun pointed at my neck sharply.

“This kiss mark is not from me! It has already been on his neck before I could give him one! Just what is going on here, Shinobu-sama!”

“Yeah, it was forced onto me last night by a roguish lady. I wanted to casually play around for some stimulation, but fell for her innocent lips.”

The moment I cracked such a joke, Hijiri, Machina and Kaorun stiffened their expressions all at once.

“…So someone could force a kiss mark onto Shinobu-kun. How enviab— *cough* Using force isn’t good after all. You should have reprimanded her.”

“That’s for sure. I can’t stand coercive ways either.”

“Shinobu-sama, I am not really one to say as I tried to give you a kiss mark as well, but just who was it that forced it onto you?”

“The natural erotic big sister.”

When I honestly gave an instant reply, Hijiri and Kaorun turned around as soon as hearing my answer,

“I’m sorry, Kaoru-san, for suspecting you about the kiss mark…”

“No problem, Hijiri-chan. After all you believed me when I told a lie the other day. Well, that aside, it is about time that I participate in the meeting as well.”

behaving as if nothing had happened, the two of them made their way to the table of the living room.

Feeling a bit doubtful, I tried calling out to Machina, who remained here.

“Hey, shouldn’t Luna get a little scolding?”

“That’s impossible. We‘re up against my sister. I can’t tell her off.”

Smiling a little bit sadly, Machina quickly went after Hijiri and Kaorun.

Even while I still considered it doubtful, I got to the table like the girls and this time we started the meeting seriously, whereupon Kaorun brought in a huge whiteboard into the living room from wherever and took lead of the meeting.

“Now then, the results of my research from during my breaks of work are that there are currently five people including Machina running for the position of the student council, though it has not officially been announced yet.”

“…Five even, huh. That’s much.”

“Because the organisation called student council at your high school seems to hold some level of power.”

As to respond to my surprised outburst, Kaorun wrote “4 Rival Candidates” on the whiteboard.

“Most likely there are some people amongst the candidates that think something on the lines of ‘Guehehe, I’ll gain power and have my way’ or ‘I’ll earn some back channels and enter a first-rate university’. I will not speak bad about it, but…”

Slowly stopping her words, Kaorun made her tone somewhat decisive.

“I hardly believe that Machina will loose to such opponents.”

“In other words, as long as they don’t pull any dirty tricks, Machina can get elected easily?”

“Not long ago that would have been the case. But as of now, the situation has changed.”

“…It changed?”

“What do you mean?”

When I and Machina tilted our heads all alike, Hijiri interjected reserved.

“Ehm, remember how I withdraw my candidacy for the student president not long ago? It might be due to that, but it seems the current Vice-president is now running for the president position. She’s experienced with the elections and is popular, so I don’t think she’ll let us win so easily.”

“…We can’t lump her together with the other candidates, huh.”

Speaking of, previously Hijiri was asked by the current student president to succeed the position. But due to her job as an exorcist and some troubles with me, the burden increased on her while she prepared for the election and she collapsed once at school.

Afterwards we reconciled and she prioritized her work and spending time with me, so in the end she withdrew from the election.

But, like Hijiri had said, her withdrawal might have consequences.

After all Hijiri was very popular. Her election would have been pretty much a given.

But now that she withdraw, the number of candidates increased, since they thought they have a chance now, and like Kaorun had said, it wasn’t all that unbelievable that amongst them were some people who were after the power or back channels of the president position.

Maybe the current Vice-President decided to run, because she couldn’t tolerate that?

While making such a guess, I crossed my arms and leaked a sigh at heart.

…Either way it would be a difficult election. Machina must have thought of the same. She showed a bit of worry in her expression and when I felt the atmosphere in the room get somewhat heavy, Kaorun lightly clapped her hands as to brighten up the current atmosphere.

“The Vice-president might prove to be a formidable opponent. But I do not have the slightest intention of losing. Let us come up with a plan together to win the election.”

On her words, we all looked at each other and nodded back firmly, whereupon Kaorun faintly smiled and threw a glance at Machina with a serious expression.

“I do believe you are aware of it already, Machina, but the election campaigns finally start in a few days. First we need to promote your face during the campaign.”

“…My face?”

“Indeed. There will be students who still not know about you. At the same time we promote you, we also have to make sure that you leave a good impression on the students.”

After softly responding to Machina, Kaorun wrote “Promotion” and “Improve Impression” on the whiteboard.

“For now, let us focus on these two points. It might be the basic of basics, but greet the students at the school gate every morning without fail. We should ask your classmate for assistance on this matter. Shinobu-sama, please accompany Machina at the school gate.”

“Sure. I’m weak with mornings, but leave it to me.”

“Incidentally, keep your cross-dress on at that time.”

“Okay, I have a trauma with cross-dressing, but leave— like hell I would say that! Why are you suddenly joking around? Please, do it seriously.”

“It was not really meant as a joke. Excuse me for this, but your scary face would scare the students and turn our desired good impression into a bad one instead. To avoid that from happening, it is essential that you cross-dress.”

…Regrettable I thought that she was right.

But I really hated to cross-dress. When I inadvertently leaked a sigh, Hijiri backed me up, as she couldn’t endure seeing me like that.

“Kaoru-san, Shinobu-kun seems opposed to the cross-dressing, so I’ll go with Machina to the school gate instead. That should be fine, right?”

“…I cannot approve of that. Your withdrawal caused troubles for the members of the student council, who had prepared for the election so far, right? Machina’s rival is one of these members, the current Vice-President. It would not be favourable for you to come out in the open, Hijiri-chan.”

While Hijiri dropped her shoulders from the light rebuke, Kaorun looked at me while continuing her words with “It is wiser to have you work behind the scenes, Hijiri-chan”.

“Therefore, Shinobu-sama, please cross-dress for Machina’s sake. Since Hijiri-chan will be working behind the scenes, I believe you are the most suitable to back up Machina.”

“Well, guess so.”

“Then please do us the favour and cross-dress. You are not the kind of cold-hearted person that would leave the brave, yet worried Machina all alone at the school gate, or am I wrong?”

Uncertain if she was serious or joking, Kaorun had an overly passionate tone. In regards, Machina showed a wry smile and made a reserved follow-up for me like Hijiri.

“You don’t need to worry that much, Kaoru. It certainly would be reassuring to have Shinobu with me, but another classmate will help too…”

“No, I’ll be with you.”

Slowly reaching out my hand, I patted Machina’s head.

“After all, I’m the most suited one to bring out your tricked&retort— I mean, bring out your charm. For that I’ll cross-dress or whatever else.”

“…The other day, they had a program about Freud’s words ‘A slip of tongue gives you a glimpse of a person’s true feelings’ on TV, you know? I think I just got a glimpse of your’s from the slip just now, Shinobu. Well, it made me a bit happy…”

So she was a bit happy. I was a bit surprised… When I was thinking so, Kaorun nodded satisfied, raised her slender waist and swiftly took Hijiri and Machina’s arm.

“Well then, we have covered the important points, so let us proceed with the creation of a poster next. I heard that you hang up the posters of the candidates on the school’s black board. I have already prepared the camera and outfit, so let us take a picture for the poster at once.”

“Kaoru-san, I’m impressed you knew about that. But what’s with this hand?”

When Hijiri dropped her gaze on her held arm, Kaorun replied without hesitation.

“I concluded that it would be too embarrassing for Machina alone. So please get changed as well on this occasion, Hijiri-chan. It a chance to seduce Shinobu-sama.”

“…Seduce Shinobu-kun? I, I wonder if I can pull it off.”

“Of course you can. I am sure Shinobu-sama will be pleased. Please try your hardest for both Machina and Shinobu-sama.”

“Yeah, okay. I’ll.”

Hijiri agreed relatively easily. On the other hand, Machina, held by Kaorun just like Hijiri, handed out a stop to Kaorun hastily.

“W- Wait, Hijiri! Don’t fall for Kaoru’s sweet talk! We’re talking about Kaoru here, so she has prepared weird outfits without doubt! Besides, why even get changed? Just take a photo with the school uniform— wait, don’t pull, Kaoru! Stop it, let go!”

Machina protested by swaying her legs and arms to and fro, but it was fruitless and she disappeared from the living room together with Hijiri by being dragged by Kaorun.

But well, taking a breather was important too. Resting my head with a wry smile, I decided to wait for them to return while resting my chin in my hand on the table…

Then a few minutes went by and because I stayed up late yesterday, I unconsciously was about to doze off, whereupon the door of the living room opened quietly and the girls finally returned.

But Kaorun, who had a single lens reflex camera hanging around her neck, aside, the moment my eyes fell onto Hijiri and Machina’s outfits, all my sleepiness was blown away at once and I inadvertently widened my eyes greatly.

…Amazing. Their outfits were rather attractive. Their costumes were quite different from each other, but first off, Hijiri’s was generally speaking a shrine maiden with a short skirt?

A snow-white short-sleeved Kimono with a pure sense of chastity. Arranged with a mini-skirt instead of the traditional red Hakama. The length of that skirt was incredible short and exposed Hijiri’s beautiful thighs openly, bewitchingly emphasising her healthy and beautiful legs.

I could for fall it at any time. Hijiri’s own charm surely played a great role for it. The traditional Japanese trimness and an elegant charm were perfectly combined.

But in no way inferior to Hijiri, Machina’s outfit had quite the impact as well.

Normally she was already showing off a Queen-like radiance anyway, yet she now wore a suggestive bondage fashion, which improved her elegant seductiveness.

A bondage wear that gave off a bewitching black brilliance.

That wear seductively highlighted Machina’s bodyline, which possessed outstanding proportions. Her voluminous breasts and slender waist. Her firm thighs that peeked out of her short pants. Her elegant legs that were clad in stockings with a garter belt. All of them emitted a sex appeal that fascinated you sweetly.

Before I noticed it, I had been at a loss for words from being fascinated by Hijiri and Machina, but just how did Kaorun get the two of them to wear these daring outfits?

Suddenly returning to my senses, I tilted my head in doubt.

…Reminded me, they took quite the time to get changed, but did she persuade the two during that time? Kaorun, with still the camera around her neck, wiped her forehead like she wanted to say ‘Whew, I did it’, whereas on the other hand Hijiri and Machina each formed their red cheeks into a bright smile.

“Good, Shinobu-kun really seems to like it…”

“He’s trying to hide it, but you can see he’s grinning. Kaoru was really right.”

They whispered that to each other. Amidst that, Kaorun softly pulled out a video camera out of her pocket and for some reason started to film, holding the camera into my direction.

“Hey, Kaorun. You don’t need to film me. Stop it.”

Even while saying so, I posed with a wink, whereupon Kaorun opened her mouth with a good mood.

“This wild man with the fearless features is Nanjou Shinobu-sama. A great man, who made Hijiri-chan his lover. He likes strolls on the beach, sunsets and sexy women. Please call me if you would like to know his three sizes. And lastly, Shinobu-sama, please a word for all your fans in the nation.”

“I’ll gently embrace any fan of mine, regardless of gender. If you have troubles, come to me anytime. I’m like a convenience store, available twenty-four hours a day without rest.”

“Okay, that was the lame Shinobu-sama that does not know when to stop screwing around. But even this mischievous side of him is cute.”

While cracking an usual joke, Kaorun slowly shifted the camera towards Machina.

“Next we have the red-haired Queen, who looks fantastic in bondage fashion: Machina Liebelei Orangelo. Her special traits are Tsundere and her combination of easily getting tricked only to retort afterwards. A word from you as well on this occasion, Machina. If possible, please something that gives off the feeling of stepping onto a man’s heart with pin heels.”

“—Listen up, my cute servants. Until I say otherwise, keep your dirty mouths shut. Got it? If anyone besides me speaks, I won’t show any mercy… wait, what are you making me do! Besides, who are you calling a Qween!”

…Machina bit her tongue.

Instantly, the red-haired Queen blushed up to her ears. Her outfit and body were sexy, but looking at Machina made me smile naturally after all. After Kaorun smiled like I did, she moved the camera towards Hijiri and filmed a perfect low-angle.

“Now then, this dignified black-haired cool beauty is my own vaunted little sister, Gogyou Hijiri-chan. Currently you can see a part of her panties, but white sure is fantastic. As expected of Hijiri-chan. Please a word from you too.”

“Aw, it’s embarrassing, so stop it… Don’t look… No, don’t film me…”

Without her usual dignified brilliance, Hijiri trembled her voice with shame.

Somehow my heartbeat became strangely rapid. Hijiri grabbed the hem of her skirt tightly with both her hands and bashfully fidgeted her knees against each other. Nothing that, Kaorun suddenly approached me and held the camera out to me.

“Shinobu-sama, I will now do the photo-shooting like initially planned. I entrust the video camera to you. Please film it neatly for a keepsake.”

“I’ll make the actor shine.”

Nodding large-hearted, I directed the camera at Kaorun without delay.

“Okay, this beautiful woman with the sharp features and maid clothes is Kaorun aka Gogyou Kaorun. She’s a surprisingly shy older sister that loves jokes. On this occasion, a word from you, Kaorun.”

When I let myself get carried away with the joke, Kaorun made a blown kiss “Mm… *kiss*“ along with a bewitching pose.

“How was it? Did it excite you?”

“…I think whatever I’ll say will only hurt you. And I don’t want to hurt you.”

“An angelic smile of a devil!?”

To be honest it was quite exciting, but I kept quiet about it, since it was embarrassing.

Upon that, Kaorun quickly started to take pictures of Hijiri and Machina with her single lens reflex camera around her neck, as she didn’t seem to mind it, even though she looked slightly sour.

“Well then, you two, this might be a bit sudden, but please take off all your clothes and get nak… I can tell by your expressions. You are against it. Then instead down to the underwear…. No good either, huh. I understand. Well then, could you at least strike a sexy pose?”

…I had read this negotiation method in some book before.

Highball technique, I believe? First you start with an unreasonable offer and when the other party starts to ponder, you immediately give a compromise, making the other party agree on the true offer. It was a trick to casually raise the other party’s anchor.

And as they fell for that, both Hijiri and Machina readily took the demanded poses like saying “If it’s just that”, whereas Kaorun on the other hand set up her digital camera.

“You are both very charming, Hijiri-chan, Machina. So fantastic. Really cute.”

Praising them like that, she used another negotiation method and when the two of them showed hesitation, Kaorun brought up my name with “You two, Shinobu-sama is enjoying it too” or “Shinobu-sama is fascinated by you too” and made them take daring poses.

During that, their abundant breasts were prominent on the leopardess pose generally used for gravure idols and I could look into their deep cleavages. Also, on the pose with her legs spreads their beautiful legs glittered bewitching and I was fascinated by their smooth and long legs.

Of all things, they next got on all fours, then lightly stuck out their ample bottoms into my directions while I got a fleeting and fascinating glance on the white panties under Hijiri’s short skirt and pink panties under Machina’s short pants.

…Too dazzling for my eyes. While I was agitated, Kaorun softly shifted her gaze towards me.

“So, Shinobu-sama, how do you currently feel?”

“Like I’m in heaven. Though I think it’ll change into hell soon…”

“Rest assured, Shinobu-sama. I will accompany you to hell.”

…In other words, she had no intentions to stop yet?

As it might be expected I tried to stop her, but before I could, Kaorun called out to the two girls.

“Okay, please look over here now. Listen, it is about time you take off your skirts and panties… No, I am merely joking. Well then, please raise up your bottoms a bit more. Now please shake them lightly, like you were going to seduce Shinobu-sama.”

When Kaorun urged them like that, Hijiri and Machina looked at each other and were a bit hesitant, but

“Hijiri-chan, Machina. Shinobu-sama is eagerly awaiting. He is completely grinning on a rare occasion, you know? Please do your best for him.”

tempted by the perverted maid, both flushed their cheeks after a short hesitation and slowly shook their waists sinuous.

Their beautiful bottoms trembled bewitching. Their ample hips followed Kaorun’s instruction and started to move up and down as to seduce me. Next their movement changed to left and right, lastly drawing circles like scrubbing something.

That alone was already plenty stimulating, yet every time they moved, the short skirt and short pants gradually rolled up nevertheless, perfectly showing Hijiri’s white and Machina’s pink panties. Their round buttocks were in plain view now.

In this situation, the two of them flushed their cheeks even more and continued to move their waists, whereupon their snow-white bottoms rocked dirty and sweetly bounced to show off their outstanding springiness.

Ehm, personally this was like heaven to me, but… should they really be doing that for a photo-shooting? When I got a late guilty consciousness, Kaorun continued the shooting, ignorant of my feelings. Furthermore, she took out a crib sheet from her pocket and showed it to Hijiri.

“Hijiri-chan, please read this sentence now along with some sweet moaning.”

Hearing that request, Hijiri damped her eyes from shame and timidly opened her mouth.

“—P, Please make me your pet.”

What an incredible impact. When I felt even my own cheeks inadvertently getting hot, Kaorun showed Machina a crib sheet too.

“This sentence is for you, Machina.”

“—Tonight, do it from behind <3 LIKE HELL!” As she returned to her senses as expected, Machina faintly raised her voice at the same time she made her tricked&retort combo. “Give it a rest already with making us do such things, Kaoru! Sure, I was happy getting praised. And since Shinobu liked it too, I kinda got into it, but now that I think about it, there’s no way we can use these for the election poster! In the first place, why are you still filming, Shinobu!” “S- Sorry. You two were just so charming, that I unconsciously…” “Eh? Charming? Is that so--- wait, no! You’re filming again! You should stop Kaoru now, Shinobu! Hijiri, say something too!” “…As long it makes Shinobu-kun happy, I’m fine with it. I can’t seem to tell him off.” “J- Just how devoting can you get…” Hijiri made a small troubled smile. Machina made a small sigh. As for Kaorun, “If we make good use of the data in this digital camera and video camera, we might win the election rather easily.” Saying so isolated, she took the video camera from me, whereupon Hijiri and Machina hastily raised flustered voices. “K- Kaoru-san! You can’t! I can’t show something that embarrassing to anyone besides Shinobu-kun! Please stop!” “Right! What’s wrong with your head! Hand over that digital and video camera at once! I’ll erase all the data from so far!” “P- Please, anything but erasing the data! It makes such a good keepsake!” Along with her words, Kaorun swiftly turned her back to them and quickly escaped the living room. In regards, Hijiri and Machina chased after her while calling her to stop, leaving me all alone in the living room again. …Would we restart the meeting when they got back? It was about time we took this a bit more serious. We certainly overdid it a bit. For now I started to engage in some self-criticism alone in the living room, whereupon suddenly quiet footsteps sounded and with the door opening, a man with firm features showed up. He was Hijiri’s father, Gogyou Sougo-san. Did he come home just now? Correcting my posture, I called out to him with “Thanks for having me over”, whereupon Sougo-san gave me a small nod back, then showed a sullen expression for some reason. “Nanjou-kun, I saw Hijiri and the others in the hallway earlier, but why were they dressed like that?” “…Juvenility, I guess. Please overlook it.” “Mhm, that’s youth for you. Still, these clothes belong to my wi--- No, never mind.” How could I not mind? But I didn’t mention it out of consideration, whereupon Sougo-san softened his sharp look and changed the topic. “Reminds me, Elni is living at your house, right? How’s she doing? Still at home now?” “I think she’s lying under the heated table together with my sister…” The other day Elni had fawn on my mother with “Please”, so earlier than usual the heated table was set up in our living room. But Sougo-san should be avoiding Elni. So it was surprising that he brought up Elni by himself. I titled my head doubtfully. “Where did that come from? It’s rare for you to talk about Elni.” “Well, you know, it has gotten colder lately. I just remember that Elni doesn’t like the cold. I’m going to excuse myself now, but when you come over the next time, bring Elni along if possible. I would like to have dinner with her once in a while.” “…Dinner with Elni?” “Elni is… my precious friend, you know.” That was a real surprise. That Sougo-san thought of Elni like that… Sougo-san smiled faintly. But his tone was somewhat depressed and his eyes were filled with a faint sadness for some reason. Also, as he still was thinking of Elni, he showed a really kind, but somewhat sad smile when he left. That complex expression left a strangely lasting impression in my chest… Then I spent my time absent-minded for a while, whereupon the girls finally returned to the living room. But as the photo shooting data had regretfully been erased, Kaorun was crying sobbing, whereas Hijiri and Machina had changed back into their original clothes. In time then, Kaorun seemed to have overcome her depression and this time started a serious photo shooting. Once that was over, we again discussed things regarding the election and after a fruitful time, Machina and I bid our farewell to Hijiri and Kaorun with leaving the Gogyou mansion. By the way, on that occasion Kaorun whispered “Trust be told, I managed to copy the data from just the video camera onto a memory card before it got erased, protecting it with my life. I will make a copy and present it to you next time, Shinobu-sama” near my ear, but that aside for now. Under the setting sun, Machina and I made our way home side by side. Midway, we made a little detour and casually went to the shopping district, whereupon we suddenly spotted a street vendor. There were all kinds of hats lined up and Machina stopped to look at them as she was interested. …Hee, there was even a cat-ear hat. Suddenly my vision had fallen onto a cute hat that was shaped like cat-ears. Together with Machina I watched the hats for a while, but I just couldn’t suppress my prankish nature, so I took the cat-ear hat and put it onto her head. “…Looks better than I thought. Really cute. Sorry to interrupt your fun, Machina, but could you mimic Nazuna for a bit?” “Meow! I love you, Broth--- wait, where did that come from? Don’t make me do weird things! Besides, this hat is, well… a bit childish, wouldn’t you say? Sorry, but I don’t think it suits me.” “---I’ll buy this one.” “Wh- Why are you buying it without hesitation!?” While I purchased the cat-ear hat on the spot, Machina timidly pulled on the sleeve of my clothes. “Could it be, you’re giving this hat to Nazuna as a present?” “No, it’s a present for you.” After removing the price tag of the hat, I now softly made Machina wear it. “Yeah, cute. If you like it, take it. But if you don’t want it, I can give it to Nazuna.” “…I’ll take it.” Holding down the hat with both her hands to signalise that didn’t want to part with it, “Thanks, Shinobu.” Machina lightly flushed her smooth cheeks and showed a bright smile. That smile was so much cuter than the hat, gradually warming up my chest. As such even I got happy, but my great deal of embarrassment encouraged me to avert my eyes from her. Then we resumed our way home, but the by-passing people smiled upon seeing Machina and as she herself noticed that too, she gradually turned redder. But she never took off the hat, so I called out to her with a wry smile. “Ehm, you can take it off if it’s too embarrassing, you know?” “It sure is embarrassing… but you bought it for me and said it was cute, so I don’t want to take it off.” …I would have never guessed it would make her so happy. In that case, I probably should have bought a more decent one. On the way home under the night sky where stars sparkled here and there, I lightly scratched my head while Machina reached out for the hat on her head and suddenly said isolated. “In the past, my mother gave me a present like you did just now, Shinobu. Back then it were clothes instead of a hat, but I considered them childish and cruelly said ’Don’t want them’, even though it was a special present.” As she remembered said time, her tone filled faintly with regret. “My mother smiled a bit sadly, which kinda hurt me, but I couldn’t say that I wanted them at this point, so I thought to properly accept them later on. But in the end… I didn’t get the present.” “Because you couldn’t be honest?” When I interjected softly, Machina slowly shook her head to the side and even while smiling a bit, her voice was somewhat faltering. “Right afterwards… my mother passed away. The house, the clothes, it all burned down and left nothing behind. It was the last present of my mother, yet I couldn’t apologize, nor could I thank her for it… I was really stupid.” Still smiling forcefully, she caressing touched the hat on her head. Surely she regretted it even now. Machina’s mother was killed by humans. She passed away due to the unreasonable impression that those who stay with devils are devils themselves… and left the Old Man Bram and Machina alone.

I couldn’t fathom just how heart-breaking that was. I simply bit down on my lips and after a short pause, I quietly opened my mouth.

“Hey, how was your mother like?”

“…A really fascinating person.”

Proudly throwing out her chest,

“As a kid, when I still couldn’t control my devil powers well, I hurt my mother by mistake. But even though she saw this inhuman power and got hurt, my mother said ‘It’s alright’ and embraced me like always.”

Softly narrowing her amber-coloured eyes,

“It didn’t bother her at all that I had devil blood in me. My mother was as kind as my sister, as smart as Kaoru, as funny as Elni and before she passed away, she was as adored by everyone as Hijiri.”

Machina slowly spun her words affectionately.

“Ever since I was small, I wanted to be like my mother. That desire grew even stronger after I came here to the human world. It’s also the reason I’m interested in the student council.”

Shifting her yearning gaze to the starry sky, she filled her tone with a warm passion.

“I believe that I can get closer to my mother when I become the student president and get along with a lot of people, doing something for them. That I can live as a human when I become so kind that people around me boast about it.”

Stopping her words while still looking up to the starry sky, Machina suddenly dropped her voice.

“But, the election seems more difficult than I thought.”

“…You’re insecure?”

“You heard what Hijiri said, right? The current Vice-President is running too. She seems really popular, so it’s way more likely that she’ll get elected instead of a no-name like me.”

While making a weak sigh, she cast down her eyes a bit.

“Hijiri’s election would have been a given if she had run for it. If somehow my sister or Elni could run for it, they probably would become the student president too. But it’s no good for me.

I can’t be like them at all.”

“You don’t have to be… like them.”

Slowly and quietly,

“Sure, they may have qualities you don’t have. But you also have qualities they don’t have.”

I naturally let my feelings flow out of my mouth.

“You were called a ‘Failure’ like myself. But unlike me, you can’t hurt anyone, are really strong and kind. Moreover, you have a lot of cute sides.”

That was why I was no match for Machina.

“Precisely because you’re like that, we all want to help you. For your sake, I’ll even cross-dress. I’ll do anything. Therefore…”

Reaching out my hand straightforward without hesitation,

“Let’s work hard together from now on.”

I petted her head as gentle as possible, whereupon Machina spread her arms a bit

“…You’re so caring, Shinobu. Just like my sister.”

and maybe tried to hug onto me.

But she slowly lowered her spread arms and spilled quiet words.

“It’s so mysterious. Normally you screw around, only tell jokes, tease me or make me do weird things and sometimes do sexual harassment, yet when you pet my head like this, I forget about all that and think about wanting to stay with you forever…”

“Want a hug then?”

“Fufu, says Mr. Shy. It’s one of your usual jokes, right?”

Regretfully getting away from my hand, Machina smiled fleeting with “Stupid Shinobu”.

But her smile illuminated by the starlight was somehow fickle and for some reason my chest started to hurt, getting the sudden impulse of wanting to embrace her.

Amidst that, Machina showed a bit of hesitation, then grabbed my hand reserved.

A small and soft palm. The warmth transferred over from it slowly spread over my whole body while my heart gradually filled with passion. My feelings became stronger.

—I want to protect her forever.

Even as a hybrid devil, Machina was chasing after her mother’s vestige even now and wished to live as a human in the very human world that took her mother away from her.

—I want to be with her forever.

Not all that honest with a weak side like Old Man Bram had said, but incredible cute and kind, she was my family.

—If it was for her sake, I could do anything.

Returning the squeeze on her small palm, I moved my gaze a bit, whereupon the moon, which was clearly visible now, gently illuminated Machina’s profile…

* * *

Why was a winter’s morning so cold?

Early morning on the first day of the election campaign period. Like we had agreed on in the meeting the other day, I would cross-dress and stand in front of the school gate together with Machina from today on, greeting the incoming students. We technically also arranged the help from our classmates, but as I woke up earlier than usual, I was not only quite sleepy, but cold too.

If I were to give in to the temptation of my sleepiness here, it would make me the kind of useless guy that lets his classmate work for the election campaign while enjoying another nap in the warm bed himself.

…I didn’t want to become that kind of guy.

Therefore I bid a cool farewell to my bed and dressed myself snugly next, leaving my room elegant.

But, I was actually damn sleepy. It was damn early and I somehow managed to get up by myself without my cell phone alarm. But having Luna wake me up in the morning was still the best.

Due to having lost my morning’s pleasure, I couldn’t shake off my sleepiness and moved on while stifling a yawn, whereupon I suddenly run into Elni in the hallway.

Elni probably only just got up herself too. Her usual twintails-tied hair was hanging down straight and she still wore her nightcap on her head. Seemingly she was more cold than I, as she lightly shivered her delicate body.

“Morning, Elni. So cold again today. I see you’re shaking a bit, are you okay?”

“…I’m done for. I hate the cold. The Goddess stands no chance against rain, wind, snow, summer heat or Shinobu’s coolness.”

“Rather frail for a Goddess. You don’t stand a chance against anything.”

“—But I stand a chance against life! And against myself! Anyway, to escape this cold, I’ll go on a trip to warm place!”

“Hey, don’t spout cool phrases while trying to sleep in my arms. Go make a short trip for the heated table in the living room.”

I made a small retort like that, but Elni’s body was really warm, her pleasant fragrance tickled my nasal cavities and I got excited by a sweet and soft sensation, but I kept quiet about that to Elni.

Cladding myself in composure, I moved on again, then softly pulled her off from my body, which she was clinging to, in front of the living room.

Upon that, Elni headed straight for the heated table in the living room. While watching that with a side-glance, I went to the dining kitchen, where surprisingly everyone was already present.

…They all wake up rather early.

My mother and Machina sat at the table with their heads together, reading the morning newspaper, whereas Luna prepared breakfast with an adorable apron in the kitchen. Nazuna was wiping her head with a towel, as she had taken a shower, and came running over with a smile as soon as she noticed me.

“Morning, Brother! Looks like you got up on your own today.”

“Yeah, shamefully it was a tough fight. Morning, Nazuna. You’re up early today too.”

“Yeah! Because I’m training every morning! The Nazucat Knuckle-arrow lit up my fire this morning too!”

“Even your proud Knuckle-arrow will be defeated by this cold. Even now, I’m about to freeze up. Do something about it, Nazuna.”

Replying with an energetic “Meow!”, Nazuna hugged onto me while still smiling. Apparently she was going to warm me up with her own body temperature.

“Ohh, so warm. No need for heaters this winter then.”

When I smiled a bit and petted her head, Nazuna rubbed her small body against mine like a cat with “Meow, meow”.

In the corner of my vision, Machina was looking at me kind of envious and my mother, noticing that, showed a roguish smile, calling out to her.

“Hey Machina-chan, I don’t think Nazuna alone can relieve Shinobu’s cold. He said he’s freezing up, remember? So why don’t you hug onto him as well?”

“W- Well, since the situation calls for it— wait, no! Why are even you teasing me, Tomoe-san! Nazuna can handle it on her own.”

“…And your real thoughts?”

“I want to get my head petted like Nazuna after all… wait, I said don’t tease me! Why are you and Shinobu so good at sweet talking? Is it in the genes?”

“Ehm, I think you’re just easily falling for it. If anything, I would say Shinobu got his frivolous mouth and natural gigolo ability from my husband.”

While speaking out a fact that sadly couldn’t be denied, my mother showed a wry smile and asked further.

“Still, why are you so shy with everyone, Machina-chan? Just cling to Shinobu once in a while when you want to play or attention. You can hug or kiss him like Luna-chan does, you know?”

“…I would feel bad for my sister.”

Knitting her eyebrows a bit, Machina mumbled with a small voice. On the other hand, I couldn’t hear her words well and exchanged a look with Nazuna, whereas Luna approached me with a smile and holding a coffee cup with both her hands.

“Shinobu-san, please have this to wake you up. How many sugar cubes do you want?”

“I’m fine with black. I can’t get enough of the flavour and bitterness.”

“So mature, Brother!”

Regardless of my slightly forced behaviour, Nazuna looked at me with sparkling eyes, then shifted her gaze curiously to the coffee.

“Hey Brother, can have a sip?”

“…Nazucat, can you appreciate the bitterness?”

“I, I can! My dream is to become an enchantress like Kaoru-san! I’ll show you that I like black coffee!”

Well, I knew that her dream was to become an enchantress, but why did add “like the perverted Maid” in front of it? Since when had she added that unnecessary part?

I knew I was being rather rude to Kaorun, but I only felt a bit guilty, whereupon Nazuna took a sip from the coffee without time for me to stop her.

“M- Meow~! I can’t drink this after all!”

“…It’s a long road to being an enchantress.”

Nazuna raised pitiable scream. I took the coffee cup from Nazuna with a wry smile and enjoyed the rising flavour lordly, then I took a sip like Nazuna to enjoy the bitter taste reserved for adults.

“…Let’s give it to Mom.”

“Y- You’re such a kid, Brother!”

I couldn’t really appreciate the bitterness of the coffee and Nazuna made a sudden cutting remark astonished.

“Don’t make a bitter face and drink it yourself. You can’t get enough of it, right?”

“D- Do not worry, Shinobu-san. I will bring you some sugar right away.”

My mother’s merciless retort and Luna’s warm kindness kind of hurt me…

After finishing breakfast and getting ready for school, Machina and I hurried on our way to school with white breaths while everyone else sent us off with a “Give it your all”.

By the way, even though we were going earlier than usual, Nazuna still came with us and told us about the student council election that ended recently at her middle school to give at least a bit of reference.

“…So at the support speech, Mii-chan and I showed the magic tricks we learned from Elni-chan and everyone liked it. I don’t know if it’s thanks to that, but my friend Arisugawa-san, who run for the president position, was elected.”

“You guys really did the magic tricks…”

“We practiced a lot after all. Arisugawa-san was really happy too. She made her usual loud laughter with ‘Ohoho~! Finally my time has come! Ohoho~!’, but afterwards… she cried.”

“Sh- She must have been really happy.”

While I gave agreeable responses like that, Nazuna tried her best at remembering about the election and gave us all kinds of advices, but sadly hardly any of that was really helpful. Still, Machina listened to her and narrowed her eyes gentle.

“Thank you, Nazuna. That’s helpful.”

At the usual crossroad. Machina tightly hugged Nazuna on the parting, then softly took my hand, walking on just like that.

But it was certainly rare for Machina to do something like that.

The way to school together with Nazuna and me. Machina’s actions gave off the feeling that she really wanted to treasure that time, which made me dubious. But I didn’t interject in particular and headed to school together with Machina. When I set foot into the classroom, the greater half of the girls in class had a joyful smile as soon as they noticed me.

“Ah, Nanjou-kun and Orangelo-san are here!” “It’s time for cross-dress!” “We’ll make the greatest cross-dress for Orangelo-san’s sake!” Leave it to us, Orangelo-san. Also… Katou-kun, I can understand that you want to record all this with your digital camera, but we aren’t having a photo shooting here today. Concentrate on the election.”

With that, the girls dragged me to the changing room like on an arrest, putting me into cross-dress in no time.

…I’ll keep it a secret that the girls looked like piranhas for a moment.

But even though I was prepared for it, cross-dressing was indeed painful. For a while now I was feeling chilly as I wore a skirt now. Occasionally I had heard that a lot of women were sensitive to the cold, but it was impressive how they could keep wearing a skirt in this cold.

After I left the changing room with that impression, I glanced at the girl walking next to me.

Big eyes and a smooth bridge of nose. Smooth white skin and the rumoured F-Cup sized huge breasts.

The girl with the innocent charm was my classmate and childhood friend, Minami Ouka.

She was going to help with the early morning election campaign too. While I got cross-dressed, Machina likely headed to the front gate together with our classmate, the Pervert and started her campaign by now. I quickly should join her.

Thinking so, I headed for the school gate, whereas Minami suddenly pulled out dog-ears from her pocket and gave me a curious look.

“Shinobu-chan, you’re really pretty today.”

“I heard that plenty already. Like this, I can get any discounts on Lady’s day. It has already come down to this, so I’ll just bewitch boys and girls alike for Machina’s sake.”

“Th- Then how about putting on these dog-ears?”

“…It would make me too popular, so better not.”

While gently rejecting the dog-ears, I moved to the school gate with Minami, who lightly dropped her shoulders, but for some reason Machina knitted her eyebrows troubled nearby by and the Pervert next to her also made a wry smile.

By the way, the Pervert with the handsome features was my best friend, Asada Kouta, whose essential parts were mainly made up of siscon and lewdness.

Well, that aside. When I doubtfully followed Machina and Asada’s look, there were already unknown students at the school gate and immediately understanding the situation, I frowned a bit.

“… I see. We all had the same idea, huh.”

“No. That’s not it, Shinobu-chan.”

Even though her spot for the greeting had been taken, for some reason Minami shook her head and replied.

“Not all of us had the same idea. My idea was— how I can cling to you with the cold as an excuse or how I can put dog-ears onto you!”

“…You’re erotic as always.”

“I, I’m not erotic! I was partly joking!”

After denying it with red cheeks, Minami corrected her tone and continued.

“Anyway, what do we do now? It would be for us to cut into their position, right? For now, I’ll go back to the shoe lockers. It should still be free there…”

“Okay, please secure the place for us. Thanks, Minami. You’re erotic and cute again today.”

“I, I’m happy for the cute part, but you could you leave out the erotic?”

While answering reserved, Minami went back on the way we came on and after watching her leave, I headed in front of the school gate and softly rested my palm on Machina’s head.

“Sadly it looks like the gate won’t work. Let’s give up on it for today. Minami just went to secure the shoe lockers for us. After we spied on our opponents a bit, let’s join Minami.”

“Yes, I’ll have to thank Minami later on. And I heard it from Asada just now. See the girl with the ponytail in the group? She’s the current Vice-President.”

“Hee, so that’s her. She certainly has an aura.”

When I followed Machina’s look, I could see a girl with beautiful hair tied up in a ponytail.

Her almond eyes full of confidence were impressive. She was rather brilliant, albeit not as much as Hijiri, and you could tell with one glance that she was the leader of the group. For a short while Machina and I silently watched them, whereupon the still present Asada gave an explanation with a sullen face.

“To stay on the topic, her name is Himuro Kana. Her three sizes are 87-58-84, E-Cup. She’s popular with the students, though not as much as Gogyou-san, and well trusted amongst the teachers too. But I don’t really like her. It’s kind of unpleasant.”

“Unpleasant? What’s up with you, Asada? Saw your face in a mirror?”

“Yeah, seeing my ugly self in the mirror displeased me greatly— as if! The heck you’re talking about, Nanjou! Besides that’s rude, when my face is essential handsome!”

“…I would say God made an essential mistake when he gave you that face.”

While giving such a retort, I tried to enjoy our usual slightly harsh communication, but on a rare occasion, Asada didn’t went along with my joke and disgustingly grabbed the sleeve of my clothes with “Listen to me seriously!”.

“I can’t deal with Himuro. She’s scary. You know, actually, she… is always watching me with lewd eyes.”

“To the infirmary, at once. And don’t come back. Your paranoia is a serious case.”

“No! It’s the truth! She’s really looking at me with weird eyes! She must be an even greater pervert than me!”

“If you don’t give it a rest, you’ll be sued for defamation. Besides, Himuro-san was it? What part of her looks like a pervert? At first glance, she looks like a nice girl.”

I commented so a bit wearily, but Asada furiously shook his head.

“The world has people called closet pervert, you know? She’s that kind of pervert. Without doubt, she’s a pervert. And a hardcore one at that. Even I’m afraid of her.”

“So what? Let’s say she is a pervert, then our school has a pervert as a Vice-President? And that pervert is even running for the president position. Are you implying she’s running a perverted campaign for perverts from perverts?”

“…It’s annoying how you keep using pervert, pervert more than I. What’s with that distrusting look! Believe me already, you beautiful bitch! I said Himuro is a pervert! I’ll put my life, which is even more important than earth itself, on the line for it!”

“Not convincing, when it’s such a cheap life. Besides, what you mean with beautiful bitch? Are you picking a fight, stupid Siscon?”

“A siscon is a characteristic! What’s wrong with loving my older sister? To begin with, you’re a siscon too for loving your little sister!”

While quarrelling half-jokingly, I had a bad communication with Asada, whereupon Machina hastily got between us and mediated right away.

“H- Hey, stop it, you two. It’s rude to say ‘Pervert, Pevert’ with a loud voice. Himuro has been looking this way for a while now, you know? She’s surely angry.”

Just like Machina had said, the current Vice-President Himuro-san was looking our way. Or to be more precise, she shot a somewhat passionate gaze at Asada. That said, she didn’t really look angry and approached us with a smile.

Instantly Asada turned pale and retreated without hesitation. Seeing that, Himuro-san made a small sigh, then shifted her gaze towards Machina and me.

“I believe you are Nanjou-kun and Orangelo-san?”

“Yeah, that’s right. You know us?”

“Of course. You are famous at school.”

“As the handsome gentleman and the beautiful Tsundere?”

“…No, as the shy cross-dressing idol and the red-haired queen.”

Instantly, both Machina and I dropped her our shoulders and hung our heads.

“Ah, I’m sorry. I apologize if I have offended you.”

“No, it’s alright. Rather, did we offend you? Having the Pervert and me call you a ‘Pervert’ must have been annoying, right? I’m really sorry about that.”

“Fufu, I don’t mind, so don’t apologize. I didn’t come to complain. I just wanted to greet you. Maybe you heard from Asada-kun already? I’m Himuro Kana, Orangelo-san’s election rival.”

With her almond eyes still full of confidence, she looked straight at Machina with these eyes.

“We’ll be opponents in the election, but let us fight fair and square.”

Himuro-san extended her slender hand for a handshake. In regards, Machina timidly took her hand, as she was somewhat overwhelmed by her refined behaviour and personality.

“B- Best of luck to both of us.”

“….So cute.”

Saying so, Himuro-san licked over her lips bewitching for a second, so I got in between them right away to take Machina under my wings.

It, It might be better not to make fun of Asada’s sense of smell. Maybe Himoru-san really was a pervert?

When I disrespectful feared so, Himuro-san shifted her gaze from us to the school building and opened her mouth remembering with “Reminds me,”.

“I heard that on a rare occasion Asada-kun and the gentle Sadist are working for the election this time. With Asada-kun on your side, I can’t let my guard down.”

“I know that Asada has his connections, but… who’s that gentle Sadist?”

“The shy cross-dressing idol. It’s your other nickname, Nanjou-kun.”

On my casual question, Himuro-san answered with faintly flushing her cheeks. Ignoring me, who got a light shock, she mixed a charm into her tone for some reason.

“Remember that I said you were famous at school? To be honest, I have been interested in Nanjou-kun for a while. Because I’m a maso— I mean, because Nanjou-kun is so charming.”

She made a rather concerning utterance, but Himuro-san gave me a somewhat passionate gaze as if nothing had happened.

“Hey Nanjou-kun, do you want to enter the student council if I get elected? Of course I’ll invite Asada-kun too. I’ll just create new positions for some kind of reason… What do you say?”

Along with a bewitching smile, Himuro-san brought her finely chiselled features closer to me, whereupon Machina tightly grabbed the sleeve of my clothes and flickered her eyes with worry.

…Hey, hey. There was no way I would be swayed from something like this.

Shifting my gaze slowly back to Himuro-san,

“I appreciate the offer, but I don’t like the idea of working under someone.”

and resting my hand softly on Machina’s head at the same time, I made my tone more decisive with “However”.

“That said, I wouldn’t mind working under her. Just not anyone else. So I have no intentions to work for anyone but her.”

“… I see.”

Hearing my answer with my true feelings, Himuro-san sighed a bit regretful.

“To make the gentle Sadist say all that, I expected nothing less from the Queen.”

“Hey, don’t call me by that nickname.”

“In the first place, I’m not a Queen!”

In spite of my and Machina’s instant retort, Himuro-san seemed not bother by it

“The strongest rival is you after all, Orangelo-san. I can leave the other candidates alone, but you alone are different. Seems like you’re popular with the students too.”

and shifted her confident eyes to Machina, faintly raising her tone against her.

“Still, I’ll win against you and make the Pervert and gentle Sadist mine— I mean, I’ll get Asada-kun and Nanjou-kun’s support. Good-bye, Orangelo-san.”

“…Did you just say you would make them yours? You said that for sure. I think you would do better respecting people’s will.”

Machina warned her reserved, but Himuro-san waved her hand without replying to it and turned around, leaving while saying “I spoke too much of my true feelings” to herself.

Amidst that, I got the feeling that I suddenly saw Kaorun’s face in the corner of my vision, but apparently Machina didn’t notice it and jerkily pulled on my sleeve she held onto.

“Hey Shinobu, you said you wouldn’t work for anyone but me, is that true?”

“—Quite right, Machina. While living in harmony with Hijiri, I want to keep laying down on your or Luna’s ample ass. Damn, life isn’t all too bad.”

“Yep, like Kaorun said, your asses— As if! What a distortion! It’s completely off! Though I carelessly leaked my true feelings since I kind of admire Machina…”

At the time I retorted, I added something unnecessary, which made Machina turn red, but I stopped my words midway and cleared my throat with a cough. Anew I faced the suddenly appeared Kaorun.

Maybe she borrowed it from Hijiri. Kaorun perfectly wore the uniform of our school and didn’t stand out at all here. Well, in a way she did, since it suited her very well.

But, I tilted my head doubtfully.

“…What are you doing here?”

“Reconnaissance on the opponent, I suppose. Like they say, if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperilled in a hundred battles. Besides, I was concerned about you, so I decided to drop by for a bit.”

“Hijiri’s not with you?”

“Hijiri-chan is not suited for tasks like this. Because her glamour lets her stand out. But then, she looked kind of disappointed, as she wanted to join in as well. However, as she was thinking of you, Machina, she showed me her usual dignified smile with ‘I have to do something too’, you know?”

Hearing these warm-hearted words, Machina flickered her eyes a bit and noticing that, Kaorun showed a slightly dubious expression while shifting her gaze towards the school building.

“I will resume my reconnaissance now. Please leave it to me and concentrate on your own tasks, Machina. I will gather all the data on the other candidates. Especially the girl called Himuro deserves my full— eh, meow!”

A complete turn-around from her soft tone. Kaorun suddenly raised hysteric voice. The reason for that was undoubtedly that Machina embraced Kaorun. Wasn’t this a first? Gently pulling Kaorun into an embrace, Machina mixed her tone with kindness.

“…I’m so happy. Thanks for helping me, Kaoru.”

“W- W- Wh- Wh- What are you saying! I, I am just taking a natural course of actions. It does not require any gratitude. After all, you are… my friend.”

Turning bright red up to her ears and replying so, Kaorun hastily got away from Machina.

Then she went off in an escape, but she must have been quite agitated. On her way she tripped on a rare occasion and turned even redder upon fleetingly looking over to us, then got up quickly and walked away again.

While watching after all, I noticed my mouth naturally forming a faint smile.

“She rarely shows it, but Kaorun quite likes you too.”

“…I also, well, like her…”

Smiling embarrassed, Machina softly took my hand.

“I- It’s about time we head for the shoe locker too. Minami and Asada are waiting. I have to give my best at the campaign to not let down my supporters.”

“Yeah, you can count on me for backup. Even in cross-dress, I’ll be cool.”

I nodded with such a joke, but Machina was even more kind than usual, which inevitable made me feel something amiss again, and even while we conducted our morning campaign, I just couldn’t shake off that feeling…

* * *

My classmates participated in the election campaign more motivated than I had thought. As to not lose against the Vice-President Himuro-san, everyone helped out and Machina’s popularity raised from the greetings in the morning, during lunch break and even after school. Additionally conducting numerous discussions and campaign pledges. we greeted the evening at the end of a busy week.

Machina and Elni had gathered in our living room. While sitting at the heating table, they enjoyed a game of poker on my initiative together with me with the condition “The loser has to listen to one order of the winner” added.

During that, Elni, who lost all her betting chips, started to pretend to sleep to fool us and Machina and I watched at her with a wry smile, whereupon

“*snore, snore*…”

Softly pushing her cheek onto the table, Elni was really sleeping of all things at some point by making peaceful sleeping sounds. When I looked at her, somehow even I got sleepy.

Maybe it was the power of the comfy heated table, but I leaked a yawn from my sleepiness, whereupon Machina quietly stood up and left the living room, only to return after a while with a blanket and paper. Next she put the blanket over Elni, sat down at the heated table and dropped her gaze onto the paper while putting her hand against her chin with a “Mhm”, as she was thinking about her election speech.

Now Luna entered the living room with a smile.

She was carrying a basket with tangerines in her hands, sat down at the heated table and peeled a tangerine from the basket, then gentle held it out to me with “Shinobu-san, please open up wide~” while still smiling.

I felt slightly embarrassed, but moved by her soft smile, I let Luna feed me the tangerine, whereupon Machina looked somewhat envious at Luna and the sleeping Elni suddenly raised her head, looking at me right away and raising her voice a bit with “Ah!”.

“Keeping the tangerines to yourself, that’s not fair, Shinobu! I don’t know why, but I was sleeping!”

“…You reap what you sow.”

When Machina retorted with an ironic smile, Elni dropped her gaze half-asleep and puffed up her cheeks a bit upon noticing that all her poker chips were gone from the loses.

“Who was it! Who took my chips while I was sleeping! That’s so mean!”

“…Of course they’ll be taken when you lose.”

“Did you dream of winning, or what?”

Machina retorted again and I lightly slapped her face, which apparently completely woke up Elni and she cracked a joke with a meek face.

“Getting hit – fixed the circuits – in my head.”

“You’re like an old radio.”

This time I showed a bittersweet smile, whereupon Elni laughed embarrassed and Machina called out to her roguish.

“Hey Elni, what was the loser of the game going to do again?”

“…Getting feed a tangerine by you.”

“Right, that was it. I’ll peel one right away, so wait a bit— wait, that’s not it! I won, so I get to give you an order!”

Even while showing her usual tricked&retort combo, Machina peeled a tangerine cheerfully and moreover put it into Elni’s mouth, making a request.

“I’m writing my campaign speech right now, but could you help me, Elni?”

“…Me? Your speech? Aren’t you asking the wrong one?”

“You should be able to come up with something interesting, no? It ends up way to stiff when I write it alone. You just have to be your usual stupid self.”

“Then leave it to me! My usual stupid— wait, who are you calling stupid! That’s a bit rude! Now I’ll come up with something extra interesting to put you to shame!”

While playing around like that, both Machina and Elni dropped their gazes on the paper and started to wreck their brains. On the other hand, I became sleepy while watching them and started to doze off, whereupon Luna gave me a soft suggestion.

“Shinobu-san, if you are sleepy, go to bed, okay?”

“…I’m fine, I think. I don’t plan to sleep until I took my bath and ate dinner…”

“But you look like you will fall asleep any moment. I will go prepare the bath and dinner, but you will catch a cold when you sleep in the heated table. So let me bring you to your bed.”

“…Seems like you would do something weird to me, so no thanks.”

“I, I will not do such a thing! Sure, I gave you a kiss mark the other day, but you did not pay any attention to me back then, so I felt like pulling a little prank…”

Luna blushed and started to defend herself, but even while feeling guilty, I slowly closed both my eyes and abandoned myself to the slumber.

“Uhm, Shinobu-san, please listen to me. You cannot sleep here, okay?”

“It’ll be fine, probably. I don’t intend to sleep until I had my bath…”

“Y- You look like you are going to sleep for real. It would be too dangerous to take a bath like that, Shinobu-san. If you want, I can accompany you in the bath.”

“…Sounds good. Please do.”

“Eh? Really? But you are only saying that because you are already half-asleep…”

“No, I’m not. Really. I can promise you.”

“I, Is that so. I am really happy. It is a promise then.”

“Sure. I actually have a lot of willpower. Even if I take a bath together with the natural erotic big sister, my reasoning would never…”

Yeah, it wouldn’t last. I had spilled my true feelings due to my sleepiness. To my sorrow, Luna flushed her cheeks happily and sparkled her eyes, so I timidly started talking in a panic.

“Ehm, sorry, Luna. Please forget I said all that. I’ll take my bath alone— wait, h- huh? Luna-san? Could it be… you’re angry?”

“…You are always joking around, Shinobu-san.”

Standing up while sadly facing sideways, Luna swiftly left the room.

“W- Wait a sec, Luna! I’m sorry! Please come baack!”

My sleepiness was completely blown away. While I stood up and left the living room in a haste, I could hear Elni and Machina’s voices say “It’s like he’s chasing his runaway wife” “…I want to take a bath together with him too” “Eh? What did you just say, Machina?”, but I certainly had no time to mind it.

Running down the hallway in pursue of Luna right away, I yelled out apologies to her.

“I’m really sorry! I meant no harm! Forgive me, Luna!”

“Sh- Shinobu-san? You do not need to apologize so much. You were just speaking half-asleep, yet I am sulking like this. Thus I should be apologizing.”

Luna, as she turned around, looked apologetic, which made me more keen on my apology.

“Being half-asleep doesn’t serve as an excuse. It’s a fact that I made you angry. To make up for it, I’ll listen to one request of yours. So forgive me.”

“C- Can I request anything?”

Ah, I might have carelessly run my mouth again. Flushing my cheeks like before, Luna sparkled her eyes. In regards, I decided to add some words reserved.

“…As long as it’s not taking a bath together, I’ll listen to anything.”

“Then, well, could we sleep together tonight?”

M- More or less an easy request. When I reluctantly nodded back, Luna showed a bright smile and disappeared into the bath anteroom like that while humming.

I believed that she started to clean the bath now. With a side-glance at her, I made a small sigh and returned to the living room, but for some reason Elni and Machina were in a little dispute and as soon as they noticed me, they raised their voices a bit.

“Shinobu! Listen to this! I gave my best to come up with a speech! Yet Machina said ’Hey Elni, is something wrong with your head?’ worriedly! So I inadvertently ended up nodding with ’Yeah’!”

“It’s your fault for saying something so stupid that makes you nod inadvertently! I’m sure you don’t realize how stupid you are because of your stupidity!”

“I realize at least that much, how rude— wait, who are you calling stupid! I’m not stupid! I’m just slightly less intelligent!”

“That’s what we generally call stupid! Besides, there’s no way I can use that for the elect—”

“Wait, stop! For now, calm down, you two.”

Left alone, the quarrel would surely continue. I got between them right away and cleared my throat with a cough. I looked at Machina to ask for the circumstances first.

“So, what are you two quarrelling about? What happened?”

“…We wrote my election speech together until a moment ago, but Elni said I should do magic tricks like Nazuna and on top of that, she even suggested I should use hypnosis. Don’t you think there’s a limit to how much she can joke around?”

A valid point. Slightly wearily, I shifted my gaze to Elni.

“Could it be, you dropped your brain somewhere?”

“…Yeah. Since it’s so small, I can’t seem to find it.”

“S- Sorry, Elni. I only wanted to show you the limit of a joke. So please don’t make such a sad face.”

“Don’t apologize, Shinobu. I’m at fault. I gradually reached my limit by writing the speech, so I told a weird joke to get a change of pace. But that wasn’t okay. I’m sorry, Machina, that I couldn’t help you at all.”

When Elni lowered her head apologetic,

“…I’m sorry too. I got impatient, because I couldn’t come up with any good ideas. You only wanted to be helpful, yet I failed to noticed that and said something mean to you.”

Knitting her eyebrows, Machina lowered her head too. Apparently the two of them reconciled right away. After showing each other a smile, Machina called out softly to Elni.

“Hey Elni, I don’t plan to use it for the election, but that hypnosis really work?”

“Are you interested?”

“Not really. I was just wondering how it’s different from the charm spell of us devils, but when I saw a program about hypnosis the other day, I thought it sounded really fake. It was all a scam, right?”

“Mhm~ Some of them surely are scams, but at TV shows they rehearsal beforehand for indoctrination to make it easier to fall under hypnosis.”

“Hee, is that so?”

As her curiosity was piqued, Machina leaned over a bit, whereupon Elni replied with a big nod.

“Yeah, because real hypnosis is supposed to be applied slowly over time. The world knows people as hypnotists. A lot of them are frauds, but I think hypnosis does work.”

“You’re quite knowledgeable about it. How do you know all that, Elni?”

“A woman I know is a self-proclaimed hypnotist. She taught me various things, so I know some stuff. If you want, I can hypnotise you for a bit, Machina.”

“Fufu, sounds interesting. For recreation then please.”

She literally must have wanted to take a breather. Machina smiled softly. In regards, Elni eagerly started to prepare, as she wanted show off her good side. That said, the preparations were as you sometimes see it in a manga, she just tied a string to a five-yen coin.

But, there was one point different from the manga. Elni let Machina herself hold the string with the coin.

“When I say ‘Okay’, this coin will swing to the side. There’s no need to physically swing it, just think in your heart that it is… ’Okay’… The coin started to swing left and right. It’s swinging… It’s swinging… It’s steadily swinging… Swinging more…. and more… “

When Elni applied something like indoctrination by speaking with a soft and easy to understand tone without a pause, there was no change in the coin at first, but in time Machina started to swing the coin by herself and noticing that, Elni softly whispered into my ear.

“…This might actually work, Shinobu. People that unconsciously swing the coin themselves like that are likely to fall for indoctrination.”

It was somewhat authentic… and I didn’t want to bother them.

While I quietly took my distance from them, Elni now made Machina stop the movements of the coin, swing it sideways, stop it again, draw a circle and lastly stop it again with her still soft tone.

In that situation, Elni took the coin from the somewhat absent-minded Machina and urged her to close her eyes. Next she told her “Machina, right now you’re on a hill from where you can see a beautiful lake. A fresh wind is blowing. It feels really good with the flowers blooming near by”.

Probably it was easier to accept a comfortable indoctrination. Giving Machina a pleasant illusion by indoctrination, she likely wanted to pull her into the world of hypnosis next.

To be honest, I was doubtful about hypnosis myself, but this might actually work. Elni invested a lot of time and continued to call out to her softly, then

“—Okay. From now on, you’re Shinobu’s little sister. You call him with ’Dear Brother’. Today you’ll be a honest girl like Nazucat. You don’t need to hold back or get embarrassed like usually. Fawn on Shinobu all you want.”

Elni softly gave the last indoctrination and then clapped her hands to make her open her eyes, whereupon Machina slowly opened her eyes and flickered her gaze with “Mm…” somewhat sleepy.

…Did the hypnosis really work?

Elni’s earlier words had a somewhat solicitous ring to it. Moreover, I would like to see a honest Machina. Feeling a bit curious, I checked her state, whereupon Machina restlessly looked around, but upon seeing me, a smile bloomed on her face.

“When did you get back home— Dear Brother?”

The hypnosis might have worked perfectly.

As soon as she approached me, Machina generously pressed her soft and voluminous breasts onto me and clung to me without hesitation. Moreover, she brought her juicy pink lips closely, only to innocently start kissing my cheek. Inadvertently I leaked a surprised voice from my mouth.

“M- Machina? What’s up so suddenly? Were you really hypnotized?”

“…Hypnotized? What are you talking about?”

Apparently she wasn’t aware of it herself. Machina tilted her head while still clinging to me.

“More importantly, what is the matter with you, Dear Brother? Your face is bright red. Are you okay?”

“To be frank, I’m not really okay. Because you’re suddenly kissing me. Why are you doing that?”

“Because seeing your face made my chest hot and I felt like kissing you. Can I give you one more?”

“No. Please stop. I’m at my limit in various ways.”

“I see… You are against it. Could it be, you… hate me?”

“No, no! That’s not it! Not at all!”

Getting away from me, Machina damped her eyes sadly.

Wh- Why was she about to cry now? Even while I was in quite the panic, I hastily explained.

“Y- You know, I, well, like you. But no kissing. It’s too embarrassing.”

“…My sister is allowed to kiss you, but I am not?

“No, I wouldn’t go that far. Fine, kisses or hugs, just bring it on.”

Machina adorable puffed up her cheeks sulking with still wet eyes, so I inadvertently felt excited and spread my arms right away, but

“I knew it, you are so kind.”

I, I might have been overhasty. Colouring her cheeks in a bright red happily, Machina clung to me again and following placed a kiss on the corner of my lips with a sweet “*kiss*” sound.

…Not just my cheeks, I felt hot up to my ears.

Moreover, in spite of me being in such a situation, Elni, who had quietly watched so far, childish teased me with “Fufu, Shinobu was kissed” and a smile, so I turned even redder, whereas Machina suddenly got away from me and straightaway rushed over to Elni.

“Elni.”

She happily animated her voice and this time presented Elni with a hug and kiss.

Receiving that, Elni blinked her big eyes in surprise, then timidly opened her mouth.

“M- Machina? Why even me?”

“Obviously because I like you. Sometimes I say harsh things to you, but I really like you. I did not so at first, but right now, I think of you… as a kind of older sister.”

…I knew they got along, but not that Machina had opened her heart to Elni this much. Elni surely felt the same. She instantly turned red, whereas on the other hand I wanted to get back at her, so I imitated Elni and fired some childish and flouting words.

“Haha, Elni was kissed.”

“—Shinobu, stop these childish acts. Okay?”

“S- Somehow, it’s quite shocking to be told that by you, seriously.”

There I lightly shrugged my shoulders, whereupon Luna, Nazuna and my mother showed up doubtfully in the living room together, as they had heard the ruckus.

At the same time Machina noticed them, she brightened her smile and went over to them, first hugging and kissing Luna like she had done with us. Luna blinked her eyes with “Wh- What is the matter, Machina?” and my mother widened her eyes too, whereas Nazuna called out to Machina surprised.

“Ehm, Machina-chan? What’s going on? You’re kinda weird.”

“I am not weird. I am no different from always.”

She really wasn’t aware of the hypnosis herself, as she softly denied it while getting away from Luna. Then she hugged onto Nazuna with “More importantly”.

“Why do you not call me with ‘Oneechan’, Nazuna?”

“Eh? Ehm, that’s rather sudden.”

“Not really. I always thought about it. Of course you do so for my sister. But you also call Hijiri with ‘Oneechan’, right? That is not fair. I want to be your older sister too.”

“I, I consider you as an older sister, Machina-chan. You’re family. But I thought you might be against it…”

“How could I be? I really like you, Nazuna.”

“Yeah. I also like you— Machina-oneechan.”

Nazuna surely was happy herself. Forgetting the current situation, Nazuna formed her faintly flushed cheeks into a smile, whereupon Luna smiled gentle with “Good for you, Machina”, as the amiss feeling slipped her mind too.

But, as expected, my mother still seemed collected. Looking at Machina with a slight confusion, she interjected a bit humble.

“Machina-chan? Seriously, what’s wrong with you? You’re really a bit weird.”

“…Why are even you saying that, Tomoe-san? I think I am like always.”

“Th- Then, could you act like a Queen like always?”

“Q- Queen!? That is so mean! I do not really like teasing others! If anything, I like being teased gentle!”

I got the feeling she made an unbelievable coming out.

Even I became agitated unconsciously, whereupon small tears dwelled up in Machina’s eyes, as she might have gotten a shock from my mother’s joke. In regards, my mother hastily lowered her head.

“Sorry, Machina-chan. Not only did I take the joke too far, I also made you say something unnecessary. I apologize, so forgive me.”

“… If you give me a kiss… I will forgive you, Tomoe-san.”

S- Somehow, Machina was really cute. While I felt excited again, Elni, who observed everyone, pulled on my sleeve and suddenly touched a matter.

“Hey Shinobu, it’s seems there are people in this world that would like to use hypnosis to make girls strip.”

“Well, I guess so, but what about it?”

“The woman, who taught me hypnosis, told me that it’s basically not possible to make people strip even with hypnosis. If the target doesn’t mind stripping himself it’s one thing, but hypnosis cannot bring out something that’s not there.”

“I see. So it’s not almighty.”

“Yeah. So even using hypnosis won’t make someone do something he absolutely doesn’t want to do. But if the targets thinks that it’s okay or wants to do this or that, then I heard that hypnosis can make it possible.”

While slowly spinning her words, she looked at Machina and narrowed her crimson eyes softly.

“…Machina actually might have wanted to act spoiled like that.”

After saying so quietly, Elni shifted her gaze towards me.

“Shinobu, I think my hypnosis will wear eventually. So could you let Machina act spoiled for a little while?”

“Wow, you’re really like an older sister to her…”

Machina was probably a bit stressed out from the election campaign.

This might serve as a good breather. After I answered with a firm nod, I continued to watch Machina’s smile for a while together with Elni…

Afterwards, Elni and I properly explained the stuff about the hypnosis to Luna and the other out of hearing from Machina. Upon that, they agreed to Elni’s idea too, but later the indoctrination didn’t lift at all and even now Machina was under hypnosis.

Meanwhile, as she wanted physical contact, Machina hugged and kissed me numerous times, so I was a bit worn out.

Of course I wasn’t against her physical contact. Actually, I was happy about it. It was pleasant how she honestly fawned on me.

But after all, I might like the usual Machina better.

I couldn’t express it well, but even when she wasn’t honest and quarrelled with Elni, that was a part of her.

But well, the indoctrination should lift soon, so oh well. There was no need to seriously ponder about it like this. I quickly blew the cobwebs away and headed for the bath anteroom to take my bath.

The only thing I had to be careful about there was the possibility to run into one of our girls changing when opening the door carelessly.

If that were to happen, it would get awkward for both of us without a doubt.

Therefore I properly knocked on the door and entered the anteroom after confirming that no one was inside. Such an improper act for a pubertal boy. Following I took my clothes off coolly and cheerfully wrapped a towel around my waist in the end.

Perfect. All blind spots covered. While I nodded firmly, the door suddenly opened without a knock.

“Ah, taking a bath too, Dear Brother?”

“Kyaa! Machina you pervert!”

Because Machina had shown up suddenly, I covered my body with both my hands and raised a scream half-jokingly.

Upon that, Machina giggled “You are as funny as ever” with a small smile, but the moment she saw the sword scar running over my chest, she instantly clouded her expression and knitted her eyebrows a bit with her amber eyes flickering.

…I got that scar from Hijiri when I protected Machina previously.

I myself wasn’t bothered about it at all, but Machina might feel responsible for it. She stared somewhat teary at the scar, then she touched the scar with her warm palm like caressing it.

Her palm was soft and supple, her touch really comfortable.

But she dropped a shadow over her expression and it was painful to see her like that.

“Hey, hey. No matter how charming my hard-boiled body is, you stop touching now. Touching costs extra, you know?”

To change the atmosphere, I cracked an usual joke.

Upon that, Machina started to soften her expression, as the joke did the trick, and I made a sigh of relief in my chest, calling out to her while still keeping up the joke.

“Anyway, Machina, if possible, could you get out soon? As you can see, I have my graceful bathing time now. If you peek, I’ll scream again.”

“I am not going to peek… but can I come in too?”

Wh- What was she saying out of the blue? Don’t make the same request as Luna. While I greatly panicked, Machina pulled out a small glass bottle from the pocket of her skirt.

“Elni gave me a self-made bathing powder earlier. Let us make use of it and go in together.”

“Bathing powder? Wow, Elni can even make something like that? Well, it’s really girly… but that aside. Going in together is a no-go. Something so more embarrassing than hugs and kisses is too much for me.”

“But we are siblings? You do not need to get so flustered.”

Handing me the bathing powder from Elni, she continued with “You are weird, Dear Brother” and took off her top and skirt without hesitation, as she was eager to take a bath together. In no time she was just in her underwear.

“H- Hey, I didn’t agree to it! And cover your body a bit! You’re girl, so it’s unbecoming.”

“…Really, why are you so flustered?”

While tilting her head doubtful, Machina obeyed my instruction for now and turned around, but unhooked her brassiere with the hand behind her back right away.

There the bra felt fluttering to the ground and my vision fell onto her white smooth backline that was without any moles. Her splendid slender waist. And her well-formed bottom that perked up in her panties.

Bending her waist so that this bottom was sticking out towards me, Machina put her hands onto her panties and lightly shook her juicy hips right and left, slowly pulling down her underwear.

Instantly, her embarrassingly shaking snow-white bottom showed up and her buttocks with soft elasticity trembled as well. Moreover, between her charming buttocks, I got a fleeting glance at something that I wasn’t supposed to see…

While my heartbeat fiercely accelerated at once, Machina unmindful turned around slowly and bounced her breasts seductively, even generously exposing the pink buds in the middle of her breasts.

On the other, I was inadvertently fascinated by her beautiful body and was kind of dumbfounded, whereas Machina jerkily pushed me on my back into the bath and when I returned to my senses, it was already too late.

Machina grabbed my shoulders from behind. My path to escape was blocked. She wouldn’t let me escape from here so easily. She was quite persistent…

The agitation let my pulse beat unchanged fiercely, but I freed myself from obstructive thoughts and quickly washed my body with my eyes closed as much as possible, then retreated into the bathtub for now. Next I used the Elni’s bathing powder that I got from Machina earlier.

Upon that the cloudy grown bathwater faintly hid my body and with that, it would surely keep me from seeing Machina’s seductive body, even when we took a bath together.

But the nervousness wouldn’t go away at all and when I tightened the knot on the towel around my waist while soaking in the water, Machina called out to me with a smile.

“You are rather quick with washing your body, Dear Brother. It is a shame you did not let me wash your back.”

“Conversely, I’m relieved.”

“Geez, you’re so cold…”

It was a somewhat sulking tone, but she wasn’t angry. Machina started to wash off the sweat with the shower while humming in a good mood, and going by that, Machina surely would be satisfied when we soaked in the water together just for a bit.

I closed my eyes again by thinking that, but the shower sounded rather alluring and then the sound suddenly vanished, only for Machina now finally coming into the bathtub.

When I fleetingly opened my eyelids to check on the situation, she had her back to me and luckily didn’t bring her body any closer than necessary.

…With this distance, I might not have to strain my reasoning.

I relaxed a bit, whereupon Machina slowly turned around her head and showed me an innocent smile.

“Hey Dear Brother, hug me from behind.”

“—*hug*!”

“Y- You are only speaking it out. Stop being mean and do it properly.”

In a spoiled tone, Machina leaned her back against my chest with “Dear Brother”.

St- Stop it. Because Machina moved, her beautiful bottom was now pressing onto my body. Even while having an ample softness, her hips had a tender elasticity.

That had already more than enough impact to crack my reasoning, yet Machina continued to beg me with her spoiled tone “Hurry up, Dear Brother…” while bouncing her snow-white bottom grazing.

Embracing her and sealing her movements might be better than letting her struggle alluringly like this. An unavoidable situation. I closed my eyes once more and timidly reached out my hands, embracing her from behind that way as she requested… or so I had planned, but

“Hahn!”

An unexpected bewitching voice reached my ears and on my palms I felt an extremely pleasant sensation from soft big orbs. First off, I changed the locations of my hands for a test with my eyes still closed and lifted these two round objects up from below, whereupon

“Mm, Dear Brother, do not, play with my breasts…”

At the same time of hearing this enchanting voice, I felt a juicy materials bouncing up and down on my palms. These were without doubt Machina’s breasts. O- Of all things, I did something outrageous.

Instantly a cold sweat started to break out on my forehead and when I timidly opened my eyes to confirm, I was holding up Machina’s white big breasts and these plentiful voluminous breasts were showing their upper half over the cloudy bathwater, perfectly allowing me a look on even the faintly pink pinnacle of the breasts.

Just how should I apologize… While I searched for words to apologize in my agitation, Machina faintly flushed her cheeks, as she surprisingly wasn’t angry, and showed me a roguish smile.

“Dear Brother, you pervert. What are these hands?”

“G- God’s invisible hands…”

It wasn’t the time to crack such a joke. I immediately tried to pull back my hands from her breasts, but

“Could it be, you wanted to touch my breasts?”

Saying somewhat happily, Machina overlapped her own palms with my hands.

“If it is for you, I will let you touch them all you want.”

Because she told me these incredible sweet words, I fondled her breasts for a moment on a careless impulse, whereupon

“Ahh… your hands… are so wonderful…”

Her voluminous breasts that didn’t fit into my palms melted in my hands and bounced sweetly to show of their outstanding elasticity.

“Fuhn… Somehow… my breasts feel hot now…”

Machina started to shiver her body alluringly and my reasoning fissured with a cracking sound, so I decided to remove my hands from her appealing breasts at once.

“Sorry, Machina. I’m already done for. I’m getting out. Please don’t stop me.”

“…Eh? Why? We only just got in.”

I started to raise my hips along with an earnest request, but faster than that Machina changed her position with attitude and of all things clung to me from the front to stop my movements.

“Please, Dear Brother. Stay with me a bit longer. Don’t go, Dear Brother.”

“E- Even if you say so, sometimes a man has to go! And now is such a time! Please let go of me!”

Shouting such, I moved desperately, but sadly enough it only worsened the situation.

White huge breasts pressing onto my chest.

They showed up from the bathwater once again, writhed seductively, and sexily trembled to make waves while on top of that, even the pink buds frequently showed up fleetingly.

Moreover, as we both struggled around, in time my nipples and well, her pink pinnacles of her breasts rubbed against each other.

“Ahn… Dear Broth… Not there… Uhn…”

Machina’s voice filled even more with glamour and I could feel her pink peak getting somewhat erected. While my reasoning was about to be blown away any moment and before I completely forget myself, I— heavily slapped my cheeks with my palms to stimulate myself.

Instantly, Machina got away from me and blinked her eyes, as she was certainly surprised.

“D- Dear Brother? What are you doing? What is the matter?”

“…There was a harmful bug.”

by the name of Shinobu— I added in my heart. Thanks to the hug that drove my reasoning crazy being over, I got out of the bathtub as fast as possible and grabbed the knob of the bath door.

There Machina’s sad voice from the bathtub reached my ears.

“Dear Brother, you are already going?”

“I, I got a physiological phenomenon. I’ll go pluck some flowers.”

“…Okay. Nothing I can do then. But Dear Brother, let’s take a bath together again next time.”

Hearing that innocent request, I fleetingly snuck a peek, whereupon Machina was covering the central parts of her breasts with her hands for some reason, even though she didn’t show any signs for covering anything before. My reasoning would crumble again if I were to think deeply about it‘s reason, so I refrained from doing so.

By the way, the physiological phenomenon was a lie. After replying to Machina with a wink of my hand, I got changed and moved to the dining kitchen, where I unexpectedly run into Luna.

Upon that, Luna headed for the fridge with “A milk after your bath, right” and a smile as soon as she saw me, then handed me a cup with milk. When I took the milk with words of gratitude, she casually brought up a matter.

“Reminds me, Shinobu-san, do you know where Machina is? I wanted to play with her, but I cannot find her.”

“Machina is in the bath now. I guess she’ll be out soon?”

“…In the bath? Ehm, you just got out of the bath and Machina will be out soon too, which means… You are not going to tell me that you took a bath together, are you?”

“Rather than taking one together, it’s more like she forced her way in…”

When I answered honestly, albeit mumbling, Luna puffed up her cheeks a bit, but

“I, I am Machina’s older sister. I, It is not bothering me at all. I get to sleep together with you today anyway…”

Somewhat forcing a smile, she left the dining kitchen with saying “I wanted to go in together too” to herself. Judging by that and knowing Luna, she might have showed a smile with “I am coming in as well” if she were to spot Machina and me together in the bath, and gotten into the bathtub with us in the end.

That was a bit exciti— No, a bit dangerous. After drinking the milk, I shrugged my shoulders lightly and returned to my room…

For a change of atmosphere I wanted to enjoy some reading on the sofa in the living room today instead of my room, but for a while now Machina stood behind me and openly rested her voluminous breasts on my head.

“Hey Dear Brother, when will you play with me?”

The indoctrination still didn’t wear off and she pressed for attention by bouncing her alluring breasts lightly. But even while I felt my heartbeat accelerating, I kept my gaze lowered on my novel.

“Hmp, as if the novel was your lover. Stupid Brother…”

Even while leaking a slightly sulky voice, Machina didn’t move away from me at all. I kept receiving the sensation over her breasts that overflowed with elasticity and the sweet fragrance of her body, but when I finally couldn’t endure it anymore, I gave a her light warning.

“…Machicat, sit down for a bit.”

“Yes, okay.”

As she was happy that I was paying attention to her, though whatever was going through her head, she bloomed a smile and sat down in my lap. Fufu… The sensation of her squishy butt was the best.

I had no time to enjoy her round hips and gave her another warning.

“Hey, where do you think you’re sitting down? Get off right now. You’re so heavy that my legs are about to break.”

“I, I am not that heavy!”

Hearing my joke, Machina turned around with her lips puckered a bit, as I seemingly made her angry, and play-bit on my neck due to whatever was going through her head.

To be honest, it felt quite good, but I cracked a joke to distract.

“M- Machina… turned into BADMachicat.”

“SO BAD— wait, I am not BADMachicat! If you are that rude, I will bite you some more!”

Along with her words, Machicat happily continued the play-biting for some reason.

…Maybe Nazucat would turn out like this if she grew up.

Feeling her soft and well-formed lips on my neck, I felt incredible restless, whereupon the door of the living room suddenly opened and Luna showed up in a really sexy outfit.

The so called naked under just a white shirt. As she got out of the bath, her cheeks were lightly flushed. I could clearly see her cleavage from the unbuttoned V-neck area, moreover I couldn’t help but be fascinated her brilliant thighs and slender beautiful legs.

I was inadvertently captivated, Machina on my lap puffed up her cheeks and lightly pulled on my ear, whereas Luna as soon as she noticed us

“I, I am Machina’s older sister.”

forced a smile again and came over with her huge breasts bouncing.

“Shinobu-san, I am all ready. Let us sleep together tonight. When do you plan to go to bed?”

“…When the sky starts to get whitish. After all, I’m at the age where I wanted to smoke while getting drunk on the dawn.”

“Then I will get in the bed first and wait for you. Please join me when the night is over.”

Like I had promised her before Machina got hypnotized, Luna was keen on sleeping together.

Furthermore she was naked under just a white shirt. While I was stunned at once, Machina jerkily pulled on my sleeve while getting off my lap.

“Hey, you two are going to sleep together?”

“M- Makes you envious, huh.”

When I kind of forced a joke,

“…I will sleep with you too.”

Machina suddenly clung onto me tightly and seeing that, Luna

“I, I am Machina’s older sister. So I let Machina have the primacy tonight— wait, it is no good after all. Shinobu-san promised me. Please make it some other time, Machina!”

took my arm in resistance to Machina, as she couldn’t endure it anymore.

“I rarely get such a chance! I will be sleeping together with him!”

“Th- That is not fair! It is always you!”

“…You took a bath together with him, did you not? Even though he will not do that for me… You are not being fair, Machina.”

Luna raised a moderate protest. In regards, Machina hesitated for a moment, but didn’t let go off me, thus the two of them jerkily pulled on my arms.

…C- Could they be quarrelling?

This was probably the first time I saw them fighting. While I was stunned even more, Machina and Luna continued their dispute while still holding my arms.

“You are not being fair, Sister! He is always so nice to you! And you always kiss and hug him! You two are really close!”

“You are close to him too. I am really envious how you two always talk so happily…”

“I am only being teased! Sure, he can be really kind, but he is even more kind to you!”

“Th- That is not true. He really treasures you. Sometimes I even think that it is not fair. Please, I beg you, give up on today.”

“…I no longer want to give up.”

Machina’s squeezed out voice was filled with a small tremble.

“I love you, Sister! That is the reason I always gave up, since I felt sorry for you! But actually I wanted to fawn on him like you do! I want to hug and kiss him!”

Either influenced from the hypnosis or simply her true feelings,

“This will be the last time! So please! Let me stay with Shinobu a bit longer!”

…Machina let out the words “last time” and changed my title back to the usual “Shinobu”, only to look at our faces like she had come back to her sentences, whereas Luna let go of my arm.

“I’m sorry, Sister, for saying something selfish.”

“….It was me, who was selfish. I should have considered your feelings more.”

When Machina cast down her eyes and hung her head, Luna knitted her eyebrows too and replied apologetic with “I am sorry”.

The atmosphere in the living room became somewhat heavy and Machina and Luna both felt depressed.

“I will go back to my room.” “No, I will go to my room. If you are alright with it, Shinobu-san, please sleep together with Machina.” “That will not do. You were looking forward to it, Sister. Yet I was really selfish…” “No, I did not consider your feelings, Machina…”

Like that, they got more depressed every time they opened their mouths and unable to watch this any longer, I made a suggestion reserved.

“Ehm, then how about you both come to my room?”

— Wait, even if it was on the spur of the moment, what outrageous things was I saying?

S- somehow I even got a cold sweat. When I timidly checked their reaction, Machina and Luna surprisingly changed their expression slowly into a smile after looking at each other and both nodded while still smiling. But, sleeping together with both of them… would my reasoning prevail?

I realized my slip of tongue at this point, but it was already too late. Machina pushed me on the back to the hallway with a smile, whereas Luna, regardless of being naked under her white shirt, climbed up the stairs in a hurry and the fleeting glance I got at that moment was on her snow-white bottom that unexpectedly wasn’t clad in panties.

…Luna wasn’t wearing panties? Reminded me, she was the type that slept with hardly any clothes on. But that attire would be bad for sleeping together. While I got flustered, Luna turned her head around and animated her beautiful voice.

“Well then, Shinobu-san, Machina, I will go fetch my pillow. Please give me a moment.”

“S- Sure, but more importantly, Luna, before that, please put on some—”

Before I could ask her to put on panties, Luna slipped and overturned backwards, so I inadvertently swallowed down my words and tried to support her on her waist, but I received a soft sensation on my whole face and collapsed on the spot. I absorbed the fall at once, so it didn’t hurt.

But strange enough my vision was pitch black. What was this squishy sensation that covered my face for a while now?

There was a sweet fragrance. The round warmth was pleasant too. But the lack of oxygen made me get a bad feeling alike to a déjà vu and moved my head a bit, whereupon an alluring “IYAAAH” voice suddenly reached my ears and that something that covered my face bounced bountiful.

“Shinobu-san, that is… close to… Yah… my bottom… Ahn…”

C- Close to her bottom? That meant, of all things it was Luna’s beautiful butt that pressed onto my face? Then it was too risky. Luna wasn’t wearing panties right now. My cheeks got hot instantly and I moved my head again to crawl out under her bottom at once, but

“Mm… You are so daring, Shinobu-san… I am happy, but you cannot do… like that…”

She probably moved in resistance. But Luna’s ample hip rubbed seductively all over my head. I felt a juicy elasticity at the same time as the enchanting fragrance got stronger… I unintentionally made the situation worse. My breathing was in peril. My consciousness got dizzy. But not giving up, I continued to struggle, whereupon

“Yaah, that is, my weak spot, Nhaah, Ahhh… Haaahn!”

Suddenly a sweet soprano voice sounded and the bottom pressing on my face started to convulse in shivers. Following, Luna’s bewitching moaning reached my ears.

“Mm… When you play a perverted prank like that, even I will play one too.”

The lack of oxygen made me unable to move to stop Luna. While my consciousness gradually became more hazy,

“C- Calm down, Sister! I did not get the right timing, but I think he is just in pain from lack of air.”

“Eh? Is that so? I thought for sure…”

Machina’s flustered voice sounded somewhat distant and when Luna raised her waist, her well-formed charming bottom filled my vision and maybe from that my consciousness recovered at once, but as expected I averted my eyes from her hips and closed my eyes…

Afterwards, Luna lowered her head apologetic instead of angrily, so I spoke out an apology too. Then I returned to my room with Machina and continued to chit-chat for a while. After that I finally slept together with the two of them… while still not having asked Luna to wear panties.

By the way, Machina’s indoctrination still didn’t seem over. She once reverted to her usual addressing, but still called me “Dear Brother” now. With the lights out, the room was in a faint darkness. I softly lay between Machina and Luna, where Machina animating her voice.

“Hey Dear Brother… wait, huh? Are you asleep already?”

“*snore, snore*”

“…I guess I can kiss him all I want while he sleeps?”

“I’m awake! Your dear brother is awake!”

“Mm… *kiss*…”

“Ahh! You kissed him even though he is awake! I will too!”

“L- Luna? Why are you kissing me too? Stop it, you two!”

In spite of my begging, the two of them repeated sweet kisses on my cheeks numerous times. Looked like I wouldn’t get any sleep. Enveloped by their warmth, I was wide-awake and in time Machina started to make peaceful sleeping sounds. As Luna noticed that too, she called out to me quietly.

“Shinobu-san, are you still awake?”

“Yeah, seems like I’ll stay up until dawn for real, but what’s up? Can’t sleep?”

“Yes. I was thinking about things and lost my sleepiness.”

Replying so with a still quiet voice, Luna started to tell me softly.

“Machina seemed to have a lot of fun today. She still is under hypnosis, but like she said herself, I think she really was holding back usually and actually wanted to act spoiled like today.”

“…Might be.”

“My father once told me that Machina was really honest as a child. She might have been a girl like today. And the reason she changed a bit was that her mother passed away.”

Her voice was peaceful and gentle, yet somewhat sad.

“I believe Machina thinks that she will cause troubles again if she stays with someone or acts spoiled.”

When I asked back “…Troubles?” like a parrot, Luna dropped her voice and replied.

“Machina is a hybrid devil, so she was hated as a ‘devil’ in the human world and despised as a “failure’ in the demon realm. Machina painfully understands what happens to the people that stay by her side, that she loves, in the human world.”

—Machina’s mother was killed by humans. A despised hybrid devil. Machina might think that if she were to stay with someone, that precious someone would get hurt again. While I bit onto my lips, Luna breathed out lightly and softened her tone a bit.

“Since she is like that, even I had trouble getting close to her. So when she called me ‘Sister’ for the first time, I was really happy and really came to love my cute little sister. For that moment alone, I was glad to be a devil.”

Luna slowly continued with her still peaceful tone.

“I was rather powerful in the demon realm. If anything happened, I could deal with it. I believe Machina could relax and act spoiled with me because thought that if it was with someone like me, she as a hybrid devil could stay with me without hurting me.”

“…And she can’t relax with weak humans like us?”

“Originally that might have been so. But after spending time together, I think Machina came to love you all. I get the feeling that Machina is opening her heart, more than she has ever done to me, to you and Elni in particular. But she is a really kind girl…”

After showing a small hesitation, she quietly brought up a matter.

“She might be thinking that she should go back to the demon realm before someone gets hurt because of her again. When I heard that she is running in the election, I thought she would try to live in the human world and was really happy about it.”

Temporarily stopping her words, Luna was a bit at a loss for words with “But”.

“when I look at her lately, I get a bit worried. It looks like she is trying hard for the election, but it appears she is troubled about something and is strangely kind. Besides—”

“Machina spoke to me the other day.”

Interjecting softly, I cut into Luna’s words.

“She said she wants to be like her mother. She believes that she can live in the human world as a human when she gets close to her mother. That’s why she’s trying hard to chase after her mother.”

As peaceful as Luna, I filled my words with feelings.

“Sure, she sometimes looks down. But I’m sure she’ll be fine. Bram called her ‘weak’, but I don’t agree.”

Softly reaching out my hand, I petted the head of the sleeping Machina.

“Machina is far stronger and kinder than me. So she’ll be fine.”

“Yes…”

Replying quietly, Luna suddenly straightened up her upper body.

“I should let Machina have the primacy today after all. Machina rarely acts spoiled like she did in her childhood. At times like these, I want her to act spoiled all she wants. I mean, I am her older sister.”

In the dim room, Luna left the bed with a gentle smile and brought her face closer to Machina.

“I love you, Machina” with that, she placed a small kiss on her cheek.

“Well then, Shinobu-san, I will return to my own room…”

Still smiling softly, she filled her voice with warmth.

“I will give my best too, so please support Machina from now on as well, Shinobu-san.”

“I said I would protect her after all…”

When I replied with a firm nod, Luna made a relaxed sigh of relief, then quietly left the room. Left behind, I thought of Machina sleeping next to me as really lovely and like Luna had told me, I wanted to support her.

I wanted to protect Machina, who was continuously hated from both humans and devils because she was a hybrid devil. While the strong feeling overflowed in my chest, I peacefully fell asleep at some time, enveloped by Machina’s soft warmth…

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