Rinne was the first to go.
"Whoa! First up is Rinne! So she really is the wife, huh!"
[So Rinne is first.]
As Itsuka-kun approached Rinne, his clothes changed into a swimsuit.
So that was done with spirit waves too? Amazing.
[Haha, if it’s for Shido, we have to hurry.]
"There it is! Everyone, choose!"
As soon as Rinne finished speaking, three choices appeared on the screen.
They were:
① Press up against Shido and seduce him with your body
② Call him "Honey~" and tease Shido
③ Use Shido as a boat and ride the water slide
Those were the bizarre options we were given.
"This really feels like ① or ②."
Even Maria, who was now independent from [Fraxinus] and no longer involved in choosing, frowned and said that, so I really couldn’t understand the 기준 for those options.
"Eeeh~ ③ is better! It’d be nice to wrap a rope around his neck and ride him like a sled..."
"...Take him away."
As expected, Kannazuki-san openly revealed his perverted tastes.
Before he could even finish speaking, at Murasame-san’s order, the other crew members dragged Kannazuki-san into a room somewhere.
Of course, Rio’s ears were already being covered by Marina.
"P-Please save me!!!"
Ignoring Kannazuki-san’s pitiful screams as he was hauled away, we each voted for the option we thought was right.
"...This is a little troublesome."
The result was 50 to 50.
With the ratio of ① and ② split exactly down the middle, Murasame-san thought for a moment before speaking.
"...Let’s try ① first."
[Ah, yes.]
Following Murasame-san’s instructions, Rinne started with ①.
She led Itsuka-kun to a bench, sat close beside him, and wrapped his arm in hers.
"W-Woah..."
Her figure, which had been hidden by her school uniform and not very noticeable before, was now fully on display as she boldly showed it off.
As she pulled Itsuka-kun’s arm up to her chest and hugged it there, Yoshino covered her eyes with her fingers and let out an exclamation.
Though if you’re just going to spread your fingers and look anyway, why bother covering them?
"Hmm..."
Meanwhile, Mayuri was carefully observing Rinne’s actions, seemingly deep in thought.
I didn’t know what she was thinking, but the tips of her ears were turning a little red, so I guessed she was embarrassed.
[Shido, you don’t need to force yourself. Even if Shido doesn’t feel his heart race for us, our feelings of love for you won’t change.]
Holding Itsuka-kun’s arm tighter as she voiced her true feelings, Rinne smiled and said,
[Haha, I appreciate the feeling. But if you’re this sloppy, you can’t... ]
[...I said it before too, but I love you. Honey.]
Before Itsuka-kun could even finish speaking, Rinne leaned her head against his shoulder and called him honey, and the boldness of it sent a blush across Itsuka-kun’s face.
Ta-da-da-daa~!
Needless to say, Rinne had succeeded in winning him over in no time at all.
"She used ① and ② at the same time. As expected of the main wife."
"Respect. So that’s what a wife with a child looks like."
Watching Rinne, the Yamai sisters sounded impressed, and I nodded in agreement as well.
I never expected her to use both choices at once.
Well, the reason "honey" worked probably had a lot to do with Rio, whose cheeks were being kneaded by Marina, but still.
"Eeeh..."
"Marina, stop squeezing her cheeks already."
"No, this is weirdly addictive, you know?"
"Geez..."
Watching her focus entirely on squeezing Rio’s cheeks made me sigh.
Sure, Rio’s cheeks were soft and had a dangerously addictive bounce to them, but Marina was taking it a little too far.
Still, Rio didn’t seem to hate it much, so I left her alone and focused back on the screen.
[This is bad, I got caught.]
[...Ugh!]
On the screen, Rinne was blushing and Itsuka-kun was laughing.
Anyone looking at it would think Rinne was the one being cornered.
"She already got him?"
"Ah, you escaped."
Kannazuki-san, who had escaped from the punishment room, muttered, looking extremely disappointed, "I should have seen Shido-kun sledding!" but soon the next turn began.
"Ooh! Next is Ren!"
The one who entered the fray after Rinne was Ren.
Maybe because they were sisters, or maybe because they had simply agreed on it, Ren stepped forward wearing a one-piece swimsuit.
[Oh, next is Ren?]
[Hehe, as the eldest, I’ll show you my charm.]
Ren spoke confidently, placing a hand on her chest as if full of self-assurance.
But because of how she looked, it came across less like an adult’s confidence and more like a child’s brash little act of confidence.
I knew you shouldn’t judge by appearance, but I couldn’t help seeing it that way.
"Looking at her like that, she doesn’t seem like the older sister. It feels more like the younger one is pretending to be an adult."
Mayuri, who was watching with me, voiced a similar impression, which only proved that my thought wasn’t wrong.
[Hmm, then could you wait a bit? I need to get ready too.]
[That much is fine.]
Ren went off somewhere, saying she needed to prepare, and after a little while she came back.
"Is that... sunscreen?"
What Ren had in her hand when she returned was sunscreen.
I didn’t really know what she intended, but Ren, carrying the sunscreen, led Itsuka-kun to one side of the pool and had him lie down.
There was a mat on the floor, or maybe I should call it a beach mat?
Something like that was laid out, so there was no risk of his back scraping against the ground.
[Alright, I’m starting now.]
Saying that, Ren squeezed sunscreen into her hand and started applying it to Itsuka-kun’s body.
What on earth she was trying to do, I couldn’t tell at all, so everyone watched in confusion.
"Uncle!"
Rio, freed from Marina’s hands, called out to me.
"Hm? What is it?"
"I have a question!"
"What is it?"
Was she curious about what that situation meant?
At Rio’s words, I tilted my head and asked what her question was.
"You said Uncle had to kiss Papa, right?"
"...R-right?"
Why are you bringing that up here?
"Then couldn’t Ren... no, Ren-nee’s ability make it so we don’t have to?"
Did she almost say Aunt Ren and then correct herself to older sister?
Anyway, couldn’t the kiss be handled with Ren’s ability...?
"What ability?"
"She summoned another Kotori-chan or Mama before, didn’t she!"
"Ah..."
The ability Rio was talking about was the one Ren used last time when she fought us and summoned shadows.
Rio seemed to think that with that ability, she could summon my shadow and use it to solve the kiss with Itsuka-kun.
...Rio, are you maybe a genius?
Could Rio be smarter than me?
That was a perspective I had never even considered.
Using a shadow to kiss Itsuka-kun—how could anyone think of something like that?
"Murasame-san, is that possible?"
"...That’s a perfectly reasonable idea."
Just in case, I asked Murasame-san whether it was possible, and she too answered positively, her eyes widening as if she hadn’t thought of it at all.
"...Since the shadow Ren created is connected to the main body, it’s effectively another Hiki."
As Murasame-san said, the shadow Ren created is connected to the main body.
Ren herself had mentioned that fact, and I had also seen with my own eyes that injuries inflicted on the shadow were transferred to the main body.
In other words, if the shadow kissed him, it would be the same as me kissing him.
Without kissing him directly, it would still count as me having kissed Itsuka-kun.
"Rio, you’re seriously a genius."
"Huh? Hehe, thanks!"
Rio was my lifesaver, seriously.
"...But that still only works if Ren’s spirit power has fully returned."
"Ah..."
Just as I was celebrating the hope I’d found, despair came crashing down with Murasame-san’s words.
Right, the reason Ren could summon shadows in the first place was because, inside the barrier created by the angel Samael, she had my soul.
Transferring souls might somehow be possible through the Fire Keeper, but there was no way to restore Ren’s spirit power.
"Haa..."
Feeling deeply disappointed by that fact, I turned back toward the monitor, where Ren was still sitting on top of Itsuka-kun and applying sunscreen.
Splash!
Then, in the middle of it, sunscreen splattered onto Ren’s swimsuit.
[Ren, your swimsuit... ]
[Ah, no.]
Looking at the sunscreen on her swimsuit, Ren said in a troubled tone.
However, a meaningful smile was on her face.
I know exactly when Ren makes that expression.
‘Does she have something in mind?’
Since Ren always wore that smile whenever she was plotting something, I thought that and watched the screen intently—then something happened.
[...Huh?]
[Huh?]
All of a sudden, Ren’s body began to glow, and her body changed back into her original form.
As a result, the swimsuit she had been wearing tore apart and turned into little scraps of cloth barely covering the important parts.
"Don’t look!"
"W-What the hell!!!"
Natsumi jabbed my eyes and blocked me from seeing the screen.
Ta-da-da-daa~!
"It seems unintentional, but Ren cleared it!!!"
Only the fanfare and Kannazuki-san’s voice told us that Ren had finished winning over Itsuka-kun.
"...Congratulations, Hiki. Ren’s spirit power has returned."
"I see..."
That’s great and all, but I can’t see anything.
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