Looking at the touching sight of Inui Sajuna and Inui Shinju's sisterly love, Hachiman felt a little helpless.
Sure, he had never planned to let go of any beauty who was delivered to his mouth, but he never forced anyone.
If he were the type to force people, he'd have gone off to play in the otherworld long ago. They had slavery there, after all. Why would he be lying around at home every day waiting for people to be delivered to his door?
"You think... I'll believe that? Th-then what about that girl you just put on the table next to Rem and Ram...?"
Inui Sajuna panted for breath. Seeing Hachiman still quibbling and trying to talk her around, her little face flushed bright red, but she bit her cherry lips, shoved away Inui Shinju beside her, who was trying to take her place, and threw herself at Hachiman, wrapping both arms tightly around his thighs.
"I don't know her name, but she's a pretty famous pure-image idol, right?"
"Anyway... you're not touching Shinju!!!"
She had seen with her own eyes that the vast majority of the girls in cosplay outfits threw themselves into Hachiman's arms of their own accord, without a trace of reluctance at being forced on their faces, only joy and delight filling their hearts.
But she had also seen with her own eyes that girl who had already collapsed to one side and was then pulled back up and taken by force.
She'd already gone completely limp and couldn't even crawl. If that wasn't force, what was?
Based on the bold guess that Hachiman was the only man at the hot spring con, she even suspected that the ones who'd come to him willingly had probably all been forced to eat something to end up like this!
Otherwise, why would they be so crazy about Hachiman? He was just a little handsome, a little rich, a little powerful, and maybe a little inhuman in that department.
Ptui, ptui, ptui! And here she'd thought so many girls at the hot spring con meant it would be safe! She'd miscalculated completely!
Yes, he was the only man here, but with all those girls, he still wasn't satisfied, and now he was going after her and her sister too!
"..."
Watching Inui Sajuna, who had pounced on him and bitten him at the first word of disagreement and couldn't hear a word of his explanation, Hachiman felt a headache coming on.
Kujou Sakura's situation really was hard to explain, and Sajuna definitely wouldn't believe that Kujou Sakura liked being forced.
If he hadn't known Kujou Sakura was an Underworld heroine, and remembered there was such an oddball among the Underworld heroines, he probably wouldn't have dared to force Kujou Sakura into satisfying her special taste just because of a character quest.
Just like the earlier case of Sakurase Shino, the timid, withdrawn succubus girl, Hiratsuka Shizuka still didn't know that the withdrawn problem girl Sakurase Shino had thought herself deeply sinful and accepted her education willingly, and that it had nothing to do with how good his counseling was.
"Sister!?"
Inui Shinju hadn't thought that far ahead. Seeing her sister, whom she'd meant to take the place of, throw herself straight in front of the gun, she was frantic.
Her sister was reliable much of the time, but in a matter like this, it should be her turn to step up.
With her sister's slender, adorable, fragile body... she was so afraid her sister wouldn't be able to take it...
So many people over there had collapsed...
"D-don't... don't mmph come over mmph... hurwy... gwo..."
Seeing Inui Shinju about to come closer again, Inui Sajuna shoved her away without thinking and tried to talk her out of it, her words muffled.
To keep her sister from getting hurt, she had to use her own petite body to block Hachiman's ugly desire, which had never once weakened.
She had no confidence in herself at all, no technique and no strength, only willpower to hold out with, but whatever happened, she would not let her sister get hurt!
If it came to that, she'd have Marin step in personally. Marin was the one who'd brought them here, so Marin had to take responsibility!
"Uh..."
Kitagawa Marin and Amano Ririsa, standing nearby, exchanged a look, their already rosy cheeks turning even redder.
They wanted to say how touching sisterly love was, too.
But the way Inui Sajuna looked right now, she really did seem to be guarding her food, not wanting her sister to fight her for the man.
"Sister..."
Inui Shinju, pushed away by Inui Sajuna, hesitated too, her plump thighs pressed together and rubbing restlessly against each other.
She had wanted to take her sister's place so her sister wouldn't get hurt, but she also genuinely thought Hachiman was a good person.
Otherwise she wouldn't have dared face Hachiman, and wouldn't have had the courage to say it out loud on her own.
But if things were like this now...
Unlike Kitagawa Marin and Amano Ririsa, who were only guessing that Inui Sajuna was guarding her food, Inui Shinju, as her younger sister, really believed her sister was acting tsundere, saying one thing and meaning another.
Because if her sister were really angry, she would never have this strange look, half embarrassed and half furious. She'd never seen her sister like this before.
Love at first sight was ridiculous, and her sister wasn't the boy-crazy type, but the two of them had grown up together as sisters.
She felt safe seeing Hachiman, and she didn't mind some close contact with him, so it was only natural that her sister would have a good impression of President Hikigaya too, wasn't it?
If her sister wanted it herself and that was why she wouldn't let her take her place, she didn't know what to say...
"Sajuna, I won't deny the hot spring con was held for a special purpose to begin with, but you... Mm, let's talk about it in a bit."
Hachiman looked down at the hairpin ornament swaying on top of Inui Sajuna's head and tried gently pushing her head away, but Inui Sajuna still clung tight and wouldn't let go.
After waiting a while, once she loosened up a little, Hachiman pulled her away.
"Sajuna, I think you can calm down now."
"Don't pull me off! I said let me do it alone..."
Inui Sajuna, pulled off by Hachiman, panicked. Ignoring the bitterness filling her mouth, she tried to go back to blocking Hachiman's fierce firepower.
But hearing Hachiman tell her to calm down again, in that soothing way, her frantic self suddenly froze in place.
It seemed that after she'd kissed Hachiman, the restlessness inside her had settled quite a bit. It wasn't like before, when she kept craving something she couldn't have, so badly she thought she'd go mad.
But... now it seemed like she wanted it herself...
Didn't that mean she was a nympho herself?!
No, no, no, it was this guy's fault!
Inui Sajuna clamped both hands over her little mouth and throat, trying to rein in the greedy desire sprouting inside her, trying to spit out what was in her mouth, but all she could hear was the sound of herself slowly, deliberately swallowing.
Bitter?
No, it was sweet. It was actually sweet...
Inui Sajuna's body trembled uncontrollably, and she savored the bitter fruit she'd swallowed of her own accord, unable to believe it.
"I don't really know how to put it, but I don't think you should resist it too much."
Hachiman looked at Inui Sajuna, who had bowed her head in regret, pulled her up, held her in both arms, and looked into her eyes, face to face.
"The girls back at the booths were like that only because they already liked me, or they had that kind of need for me. You're different."
"You only got a bit fond of me from entering the cosplay state. Some close contact should have been enough, but the harder you hold back, the stronger your body's instinctive rebound will be."
While Inui Sajuna had been struggling just now, he'd been thinking about how tonight's hot spring con had gotten so heated.