"Um, Ebihara—"
"N-no, no need, I also have an exam to supervise this afternoon!"
Hearing Rurikawa Tsubaki suddenly call out to her, Ebihara Urara, who had just taken off her white stockings, hurriedly waved her hands, flustered as she slipped her shoes back on and jogged out of the office.
Bang!
"Ah! We have new stockings here, you can change into—"
Watching Ebihara Urara flee in panic without looking where she was going, Rurikawa Tsubaki felt extremely awkward and embarrassed. In truth, she had only wanted to remind Ebihara Urara that she could go find a pair of stockings she liked and change into them.
Maid Shion had stored quite a lot of clothes in the student council office, just in case.
These clothes were meant to be used for moments like this, but Ebihara Urara had panicked too much and completely failed to understand her meaning.
"Let's go to the exam first. Tonight, have Maid Shion call her over to the club together. Once she gets used to it, she won't be so flustered anymore."
Kaede glanced at Origamine Ouka, who was lying on the desk and showed no sign of calming down at all, then left the student council office together with Rurikawa Tsubaki and Suzu.
Origamine Ouka was very capable. Successfully pulling her in so easily this time gave Kaede a lot more confidence about bringing in other demi-humans as well.
If she remembered correctly, the little notebook Origamine Ouka gave her recorded the basic information of many demi-humans.
If she deliberately picked demi-humans like Origamine Ouka who were easily affected by Hachiman's life energy, maybe they would end up begging her to let them join, one by one.
But it wasn't just Origamine Ouka. Ebihara Urara also made her think of some pretty good ideas.
To deal with the increasing number of demi-humans and the children of financial conglomerates among the human factions at Sobu High, they needed to come up with measures to expand enrollment among ordinary students.
If the number of ordinary students increased, then to meet educational needs, they would definitely have to recruit more teachers as well.
She would go ask Hiratsuka-sensei about the situation, see if Hiratsuka-sensei had any teachers to recommend.
If so, great. If not, they could raise the pay a bit and attract lots of young and pretty teachers to come teach at Sobu High.
Those daughters of financial conglomerates and noble families who came for family interests, as well as demi-humans with all sorts of agendas, were hard to deal with, but wouldn't these ordinary students and ordinary teachers be easy enough to handle?
As long as Hachiman turned them all into magical girls, she, as the student council president, wouldn't have to worry about the increasing number of conglomerate daughters and noble ladies anymore. Even those demi-humans wouldn't be much of a concern.
As Kaede walked toward the teaching building with Suzu and Rurikawa Tsubaki, looking at her close sisters beside her, a development plan quietly took shape in her mind, one centered on Hachiman, with all teachers and students across the school revolving around the Service Club.
Inside Sobu High, everything revolved around the Service Club. Outside Sobu High, it revolved around the Service Club organization.
Back when she didn't know about magical girls, Miss Asou Miyuri had already been thinking about dragging her best friend's daughter into this.
Now that there was the temptation of becoming a magical girl, it went without saying. The Yukinoshita family contacted allies to join the Service Club, and those people the Yukinoshita family brought in could in turn become forces on her side.
Even Lala, who didn't care about any of this at all, had been pulled to their side by Iris.
Now Iris and Lala were both Hachiman's fiancees, and their relationship was so close. If another racial war broke out in the other world, the forces behind Lala wouldn't possibly just sit back and watch their Princess Lala help Iris alone.
Kaede suddenly realized something. This was all Iris's usual method.
After confirming that Hachiman was the savior of the elf race, Iris hadn't actually done much. She had simply packaged up all the demi-humans who had designs on Hachiman and sent them straight into his bed. As long as she ensured her own position by Hachiman's side, then those demi-humans conquered by Hachiman would become her assistance.
Now the merfolk had already become allies of the elf race. If Ursula hadn't run off to look for someone and never returned, the dragon race would probably already be allies of the elf race too.
However, whether it was the mermaid songstress or Ursula, they would both actively pull more people in.
To curry favor with Hachiman, who was favored by Iris, the Ichinose family had been constantly sending their daughters to Hachiman's side. Seeing Iris's faction grow larger and larger, other big families would probably start copying this as well.
Iris just stayed by Hachiman's side, doing nothing, simply lying there, and the elf race's allies kept increasing. Then the allies developed allies of their own, and her people grew more and more numerous.
'Terrifying…'
No wonder that despite having an entire elf race behind her, Iris hadn't aggressively pulled elf race members over to receive Hachiman's aid, only selecting a few elves with excellent aptitude to come help.
'That evil blond elf princess!'
'Luckily, luckily, it is still not too late!'
Kaede felt she needed to go back and have a proper talk with Gabriel, Vignette, and the others. While the angels and demons hadn't yet been dragged into this mess, they needed to discuss how to deal with Iris, this evil source.
———
Elf Princess Iris had no idea that in Kaede's imagination she had already become the root of all evil, the true culprit who had led Hachiman to fall into his current state.
Right now, together with Aegis and Lumilia, she was inside the renovated girls' dormitory behind Sobu High.
"The demi-human assistance plan I just mentioned, everyone can consider it carefully. If you join now, I can help persuade our club president to assist you, you know~"
Aegis stood straight behind the sofa, while Iris and Lumilia sat upright on it.
Looking at the snow maiden clan led by the Aoe family in front of her, as well as the six sisters of the vampire Kiriya family, Aegis wore her usual sweet, gentle smile on her flawless, delicate face, the kind that made people instinctively want to protect her.
"Demi-human assistance plan…"
Sitting opposite Elf Princess Iris and Lumilia, Aoe Kuon of the Aoe family and Kiriya Nadeshiko, the eldest daughter of the Kiriya family, sat upright and solemn.
The snow maidens, mostly white-haired and faintly emitting a chill, and the Kiriya vampires, each with different hair colors and appearances, stood behind their respective representatives, guarding them, just like the knight Aegis.
Elves, snow maidens, vampires. Without exception, they were all races considered exceptionally beautiful and rare in the eyes of ordinary people, and now they were all crammed into this small dormitory room.
Yet whether it was Aoe Kuon and Kiriya Nadeshiko seated on the sofa, or the snow maidens and vampires standing behind them, none of them paid attention to the crowding. Instead, they all stared gravely at the elf princess Iris, who wore a smile on the sofa.
As soon as the snow maiden and vampire factions obtained permission to enroll, they rushed to Sobu High ahead of time. Naturally, it wasn't just to complete enrollment procedures a couple of days early and move into the dorms to grab good spots.
Their real goal was to make contact with Hachiman before other demi-humans or humans arrived.
However, none of them had expected that right after student council president Kaede led her people away, Elf Princess Iris would bring her group into the dormitory and start talking about a demi-human assistance plan that left everyone visibly shocked.
They had never imagined that the dignified elf princess, or rather, the elf royal princess, Iris, would do something like this.
For a moment, they didn't know what to say.
Their purpose in coming was indeed to seek Hachiman's assistance. The contents of the demi-human assistance plan aligned perfectly with their goal.
But the elf princess's own elf race should need it too, right? Even if she didn't warn them not to interfere between the elf race and their helper, why was she instead providing them with a plan and helping them get assistance more smoothly?
This extremely abnormal behavior made them suspect whether the smiling elf princess before them was speaking ironically.
"Well… My mother only asked me to bring everyone here to transfer schools and help everyone integrate into society. She didn't say anything about me participating in this…"
Aoe Kuon, the young lady of the Aoe family, was the first to break the silence among the three sides. She slightly lowered her head, glanced at her proud, curvaceous figure, blushed, and explained softly.
"If I were to join the demi-human assistance plan too, I'd have to go back and discuss it with my mother first."
Although she was also a snow maiden, Aoe Kuon, the leader of the group, was not one of those coming this time to ask Hachiman to help them conceive.
The reason Aoe Mai, the head of the Aoe family, had sent Aoe Kuon, this extremely stay-at-home young lady, to lead the group was purely because the snow maidens behind her were even more reclusive and even less familiar with human society. Without someone to lead them, it would be very easy for them to cause trouble.
Although there were snow maidens with very lively personalities, even those lively ones mostly lived in the mountains, at most occasionally hiding their identities to stroll around nearby towns at the foot of the mountain, buy some things, and then return to the mountains.
Due to their stay-at-home habits, physical constitution, and other reasons, the snow maiden population had become increasingly sparse. That was why the snow maiden clan leader, Shou Shuangxia, had no choice but to send them down the mountain to Sobu High to seek Hachiman's assistance.
"No rush. Miss Kuon can go back and think it over. I wonder if these snow maiden ladies would be willing to join the assistance? You all came to Sobu High together, so it shouldn't be just to study, right?"
Seeing that Aoe Kuon had no intention of joining the assistance, Iris expressed slight regret, but she didn't get discouraged. Unhurried, she turned her gaze toward the snow maidens behind Aoe Kuon.
A pair of twin snow maidens with nearly identical appearances and blue-white hair.
A silver-white-haired snow maiden with her head lowered, looking very shy and introverted.
A black-haired snow maiden with waist-length hair, lively eyes, and a cool, aloof temperament.
A purple-haired, short-haired snow maiden hiding in the corner, seemingly biting on a lollipop.
Although Aoe Kuon and her mother Aoe Mai controlled considerable Aoe family influence, there were only the mother and daughter among the snow maidens in the Aoe family. Iris didn't care much whether the Aoe mother and daughter participated in the demi-human assistance plan.
What she cared about was this group of snow maidens who had come out of the deep mountains. There were a full five of them. The effect of serving them would be far better than serving just the two snow maidens of the Aoe family.
Kaede might think she was pulling in various factions, but in reality, she truly hadn't thought that far.
At the beginning, it was simply to follow the club president's wishes and not force the president to do things he didn't like.
Now, she had only vaguely sensed the reason why their strength and the president's strength had grown so quickly, and she just wanted everyone to be able to serve the president better.
The president could awaken Kaede and the others' powers as magical girls. Then what had they awakened, having also greatly increased in strength after receiving the president's assistance day and night?
Thinking of how the president had specifically asked Lala and Leticia to help the mermaid princess Meroune awaken her bloodline, Iris felt that the ability the president possessed might also lean toward helping demi-humans awaken their bloodlines, purify their bloodlines, and enhance their strength.
It was just that the president wasn't a demi-human and didn't understand demi-humans as well as humans, so unlike Kaede and Suzu, who awakened magical girl powers, they hadn't shown any special changes for now.
"Your Highness Iris, hello. You can call me Miyuki. Are you certain that this Mr. Hachiman can assist so many of us?"
The snow maidens exchanged glances. In the end, the pair of twin snow maidens stepped forward. One of them briefly introduced herself, then couldn't help voicing the doubt in her heart.
"I know Mr. Hachiman is indeed very powerful. Otherwise, he wouldn't be able to assist so many demi-humans at the same time. But now Mr. Hachiman has to assist many demi-humans, including the elf race. Does he really still have the capacity to assist us?"
"You should know about our snow maiden clan. Among demi-humans, we snow maidens are a rather special race."
"Our... needs, once stimulated, are very hard to calm down…"
"If Mr. Hachiman can't satisfy us, it's very likely, very likely… he could die on the bed…"
By the time she reached the end, the snow maiden who called herself Miyuki felt a bit embarrassed. The snow maidens and vampires present all blushed slightly.
Unlike the human factions who wanted to approach the elf princess through Hachiman and attach themselves to her, the snow maiden clan came here mainly to have Hachiman help them conceive.
Although the snow maiden clan, a demi-human race consisting only of females, had survived for so long, and every snow maiden's appearance was far from poor, even extremely beautiful.
Still, like the elf race, the snow maidens faced the problem of low population, for many reasons.
The snow maidens' bodies were cold. If they didn't control it, they would easily emit cold air that humans couldn't withstand, which was one factor. Their strong desires were another.
Each snow maiden had different personalities and habits. Not all of them necessarily liked such things, but if they truly had needs, those needs would definitely be extremely intense.
A single snow maiden, acting on a whim, might need a full day and night. If there were multiple snow maidens, it went without saying.
If they hadn't learned that demi-human races with equally strong needs, such as the elf princess, the mermaid songstress, and the dragon clan leader, had already received assistance, they probably wouldn't have believed that someone could satisfy so many snow maidens at the same time.
Even so, they still doubted whether Hachiman truly had the capacity to satisfy them.
This kind of matter really required caution upon caution. If they misjudged Hachiman's strength, it wouldn't just harm him. Even the desires they had long suppressed would become very hard to restrain again.
"Of course it's true. I have no reason to lie to you. If you don't believe it, you can personally try it. One by one, slowly joining."
Iris understood the snow maidens' concerns. At first, she herself hadn't imagined that the prophesied elf savior would be this strong. She had thought he would only help them give birth to high elves and then they would have to wait for the newborns to grow up. Who would have thought that the savior could directly increase their strength?
Looking at Miyuki and the sister beside her who looked so similar that one couldn't tell them apart without careful inspection, she playfully blinked and smiled.
"Our club president really likes sisters, you know."
"Umm… can we think about it a bit more?"
Stared at by Iris's direct and bold gaze, which seemed to be saying to immediately go serve Hachiman, Miyuki suddenly couldn't quite handle it either and hurriedly tried to stall for time in a roundabout way.
"We just arrived today and haven't had any contact with Mr. Hachiman yet. Shinto and Miyuki and the others have rather shy and introverted personalities. They wouldn't be able to directly receive assistance from Mr. Hachiman."
This elf princess… seemed a bit different from what they had heard.
What she hadn't said was that the reason so many snow maidens had left the clan together to come here was because the dragon clan leader Ursula had persuaded their clan leader.
They had thought the elf princess would be extremely resistant to their joining, but instead she warmly invited them to join the assistance together.
This was completely different from what Ursula had told them, which inevitably made her wary.
Was it Ursula who had lied to them? Or was the elf princess before them lying? Or were both sides lying to them?
Although she didn't know why the dragon clan leader and the elf princess would lie to them.
In terms of strength alone, their snow maidens probably couldn't defeat either side.
"Taking time to think it over is the right thing to do. But Miss Miyuki, you can try proactively interacting with our president."
Iris smiled and nodded. Being rejected again and again by the snow maidens didn't affect her mood at all.
She had come just to greet this group of snow maidens first, to give them an initial impression of her side, making it easier for her to pull them in later.
As for whether these snow maidens would truly refuse to join in the end... No demi-human could resist the president's charm. Especially these snow maidens with strong desires. Once a snow maiden tasted that irresistible, intoxicating pleasure, in order not to be isolated after joining and to be able to grab more time serving, they would definitely pull the others down one by one.
"What about you, Miss Nadeshiko? Are you interested in joining the demi-human assistance plan?"
Iris turned to the other side, toward the Kiriya family's eldest daughter, the vampire Kiriya Nadeshiko, who hadn't spoken and was simply sitting there with dignified elegance.
This gentle and refined young lady of the Kiriya family had great presence. Coupled with the fact that the Kiriya family had six sisters, each with seemingly distinct temperament and personality, the president would definitely like them very much.
"Our Kiriya family... is a bit different from the snow maiden clan. We only need Mr. Hachiman to choose one person he fancies from among us."
Kiriya Nadeshiko glanced at Aoe Kuon beside her, her expression a little conflicted.
"However, we vampires need to drink our husband's blood to complete a special ritual. Only after drinking the husband's blood can we become the next head of the family. I wonder if Mr. Hachiman would be able to accept that."
Actually, according to vampire terminology, the Kiriya family should be called the Kiriya Count family.
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