She had seen their photos and knew that the sisters, Suiren and Aoi, were not only good looking but also excellent in their studies. They should be able to adapt to the academics at Sobu High.
Besides, even if their grades were not good, with Hachiman teaching them, getting high scores at Sobu High would be easy.
"Why do you suddenly want them to come study at Sobu High? Weren't you always bothered by the fact that I go back to my hometown to see them every year?"
Hachiman looked at Kaede in confusion, as if she had taken the wrong medicine.
"But even if you don't mind anymore, it still won't work. Aunt Touka is teaching Suiren and the others herself. She won't let them leave the countryside to study in the city."
Kaede had always cared deeply about her status as the childhood friend who had grown up with him. He never expected that she would now want the Suiren and Aoi sisters to come to Sobu High.
Suiren and Aoi were about the same age as him. They studied in the countryside, and their mother, Touka, was still working there as a teacher.
If their own mother was teaching them in the countryside, how could she possibly let her two daughters come to the city to study?
"At this point, what's the point of being jealous anymore?", Kaede curled her lips and kept thinking it over.
"But you did say before that their mom is a teacher..."
"Then let their mom come teach at Sobu High! Sobu High is expanding its teaching staff anyway! One more teacher won't hurt!"
If it were before, she might have struggled with the issue of abusing power for personal gain. But at the current Sobu High, the student council president's authority was practically unlimited.
Arranging a teaching position was effortless for her.
"That probably won't work either. Aunt Touka may look strict and keep a blank face all day, but she's actually a very responsible teacher."
Hachiman shook his head again, feeling that Kaede was thinking too simply.
"Because of the declining birthrate, there are fewer students in the countryside. Many schools have shut down because they couldn't enroll enough students."
"But some schools have merged, bringing in students from nearby areas to study together. There aren't many teachers in rural areas, so it's unlikely Aunt Touka would come to Sobu High to teach."
Due to the declining birthrate, the city siphon effect, and other reasons, most young men had gone to work and live in the cities. The countryside was mostly left with the elderly, women, and children. Teaching resources were especially scarce.
Of course, in this extraordinary world, the sparsely populated countryside actually gave more room for monsters to survive.
"So the biggest obstacle isn't the Suiren sisters, but their mom..."
After listening to Hachiman's explanation, Kaede felt quite helpless, but she did not give up.
"In any case, I'll contact Suiren and the others first. Worst case, they can keep studying in the countryside and just teleport to the club at night to hang out with us."
She knew how terrifying Hachiman's teaching ability was. If he wanted Aunt Touka to put down her concerns for her students and come to Sobu High, it would be very easy.
But she also knew that Hachiman's abnormal teaching ability required close contact.
Unless every single student Aunt Touka taught was a beautiful girl. If that were the case, she could just recruit all those beautiful students into Sobu High together. But that was unlikely.
Hmm... she was overthinking it. She only wanted Suiren and Aoi to come to Sobu High so they could become magical girls together and fight against Iris and the demi human alliance led by the evil elves. In fact, whether they came to Sobu High or not didn't matter. As long as they joined the Service Club, that was enough.
Still, it would be best if Suiren and Aoi could study at Sobu High. Otherwise, wouldn't it look like she was afraid of them, asking for their help at night and sending them away during the day?
They were both childhood friends. Both were sisters. Not only had she spent the longest time with Hachiman, she and Suzu were twins.
How could she possibly be worried that Suiren and Aoi would threaten her position?
———
The Hikigaya family's breakfast ended with Naruse Mio's cries.
As her suppressed cries turned into heavy breathing, Naruse Maria, realizing disaster was about to fall on her, didn't even wipe her mouth. She scrambled and crawled out of the living room in a panic.
After a while, once she caught her breath, Naruse Mio got off Hachiman's lap. Without saying a word, she silently zipped up her ultra short shorts, clenched her fists, and turned to find Naruse Maria, who was either hiding somewhere in the house or in the neighboring Service Club, to settle accounts.
Seeing this, Gabriel and Vignette stopped discussing with Iris how to deal with Raphiel, the pleasure seeking criminal still on the run. They quickly stood up with Shion and Komachi to clean up the dishes.
Hachiman did not take the chance to squeeze into the kitchen to wash dishes with Gabriel and the others. Instead, he stayed with Kaede and the others, continuing to talk about his childhood friends in the countryside, transfer students to Sobu High, and recruiting new teachers.
Although Gabriel and Vignette were no longer as sensitive about some of his intimate actions, and he could touch them more boldly without issue.
Both Gabriel and Vignette were still thin skinned. They would absolutely not allow him to mess around with them in front of so many people.
Unless the others were basically already down, then Iris and the rest might drag them over for a brief taste before letting them go.
At home, that might not work. But in the classroom, where Gabriel still had to attend classes and take exams, she had no way to avoid him.
After all, the Gabriel in his house now was not the lazy fallen angel from the original story who hid at home playing games. She was still a top student little angel with excellent grades and conduct.
It was just that she had already been dyed with his color. Sometimes even her Godspeed failed. Unless it was an emergency, she would not recklessly use the Godspeed that would cost her dignity.
"Komachi, Shion, Sakura, Rin, we're heading out first."
"Mm, bye Hachiman-oniichan. We're heading to school soon too."
"Onii-chan, see you tomorrow!"
"Father-sama..."
Since Kaede and Rin had duty today, and they had already come down to eat breakfast, Hachiman and the others teleported to Sobu High together with them.
The house quickly became quiet, leaving only Komachi, Shion, Tohsaka Sakura, and Tohsaka Rin.
Yet even after Hachiman's figure disappeared from where he stood, the black short haired Tohsaka Sakura continued to stare silently at the spot where he had vanished.
Last night she did not get to sleep with Father-sama. This morning she did not get to sit in Father-sama's lap and eat breakfast.
He had not even kissed or hugged her before leaving. He just said goodbye to her the same way he did to everyone else.
"Sakura, Hachiman-oniichan has been pretty busy lately. And with exams coming up, he might not have time to play with you. Tomorrow's Friday. Come over to our place this weekend. He should be able to play with us then."
Seeing that Sakura was still fixated on her and Komachi's brother, Shion could not help but comfort her.
To outsiders, Shion looked like a cold, black long haired beauty. Though she was warm on the inside, she usually did not meddle in other people's business.
But after moving into the Hikigaya household and being influenced by its atmosphere, she had become a bit livelier.
Besides, she learned that Sakura had lost her father at a young age, closed off her heart, and barely spoke. In that sense, she lacked fatherly love even more than Shion did. She could not help feeling a bit sorry for her.
Now she even felt embarrassed to call Hachiman "Father-sama" in front of everyone. Sakura could jump straight into Hachiman's arms and call him Father-sama without hesitation. She was definitely more attached to him.
"Shion..."
After hearing Shion's comfort, the quiet Tohsaka Sakura slowly turned her head toward her and suddenly spoke.
"Didn't you sleep with us in Komachi's room last night? Why do you smell like Father-sama?"
"Ah? No way. Sakura, did you smell wrong?"
Caught off guard by such a sharp question, Shion's body instantly stiffened. Even the caring expression on her face froze.
No way. She had clearly used cleaning magic. How was Sakura's nose that sharp?
She had only kissed Hachiman-oniichan before going back to sleep. Maybe she hugged him just a little bit more.
"I won't mistake Father-sama's scent!"
Sakura stared straight at Shion, her tone absolutely firm.
"Well... maybe when I washed and dried Hachiman-oniichan's clothes, I accidentally got his scent on me..."
Shion had no choice. She could not exactly say she had gotten up in the middle of the night to sneak out for a late night snack. She forced an awkward smile and quickly made up an excuse.
Although they all had convenient cleaning magic now, it still required mental energy to use. Washing clothes with a machine that ran automatically was more comfortable.
Cleaning magic was just more convenient, usable anytime and anywhere.
"You randomly call Onii-chan Father-sama and act obedient in front of him. I didn't even want to say anything about that."
With her glossy black twin tails and pretty face, Tohsaka Rin sensed the awkward atmosphere. Though she felt Shion seemed strangely guilty, she still stepped in to help her out, looking speechless at her younger sister's suspicious attitude.
"Shion is Onii-chan's adopted little sister. She's family. So what if she smells like him?"
Even though they had been home all night and never saw big brother come back to shower, and in the morning he only got up when they were about to eat breakfast.
Compared to whatever was going on with Shion, she felt that her little sister Sakura was more of a problem.
She clearly was not that withdrawn anymore, just quiet by nature. Yet she acted obedient to win big brother's favor.
And now that big brother did not focus on her, she was questioning Shion.
Even if big brother and Shion had something going on, what right did Sakura have to question it?
Big brother just did not want to argue too much with Sakura, who lacked fatherly love. It was not like just because Sakura called him Father-sama, he really had to treat her like a daughter.
"What if big sister also smells like Father-sama?"
Sakura turned her head and stared at Rin, who looked like she knew nothing, and suddenly asked.
"Big sister? You mean Touka-nee was with big brother last night?"
Rin froze, her pupils suddenly widening.
"Not last night. I smelled it before when I was home. The scent was very strong."
Sakura shook her little head and calmly looked at Rin, who had just tried to stay out of it.
She had long noticed that her sister smelled like Father-sama.
When Shion secretly got up last night, she had quietly followed her.
But to her surprise, she lost track of her.
The Service Club was not that big. After she teleported there, she checked the living room, the bath, and several entertainment rooms. She could not find Shion, Father-sama, or anyone else she recognized.
After circling several times without success, she could only quietly return to the room and lie down.
It was already an hour later when Shion came back, carrying Father-sama's faint scent, and lay down beside them, satisfied as she fell asleep.
"Not last night... then earlier... could it have been the night of the concert?"
Rin's pretty face gradually flushed a charming red. She looked at Komachi in disbelief.
She knew that her sister had no feelings for that person from the Takamine family and did not like him. She also supported her sister not marrying him. There was no need to sacrifice her happiness for what little remained of the Tohsaka family assets.
'But... sister has only known big brother for a few days, right? How do they already, you know...'
'So this was what their world is like...'
"Uh... how about we go to school first? The student council has some things to handle. As for Onii-chan's matters, we can talk about them later."
Seeing the atmosphere becoming more and more awkward and no longer able to stay out of it, Komachi braced herself and softly reminded them.
One classmate and friend after another had joined the Service Club, either already magical girls or on the way to becoming one.
Well... Hiiragi Utena was a little different. She was a female executive of an evil organization.
No one expected that the timid and inconspicuous Hiiragi Utena in class would transform into a villain after school.
Yesterday, Hanabishi Haruka, Mizukami Sayo, and Tenkawa Kaoruko sensed an evil aura and went to capture Utena. Who knew that even three against one, they almost got counter killed. In the end, goddess angel Maijima Yuuri rushed over to mediate before they stopped and went home separately.
Now early in the morning, with no adults at home, Sakura who lacked fatherly love and wanted to call her brother Father-sama had dropped shocking news, letting Rin, who knew nothing, find out about Touka-nee and her brother.
She truly did not know what kind of expression she should have.
If this had been before, she would have been overjoyed. She might even have personally helped raise Sakura and Rin's favorability toward her brother, making them fall for him. If the magical girls in class like Hanabishi Haruka could get involved with her brother, that would have been even better.
But now... anyway, with Sakura's nose that sharp... in the future, Shion would have to be more careful.
"Komachi's right. Even though we can teleport, we should get to school early."
"Okay..."
Time really was tight. Not yet corrupted by Iris and skipping classes every day, Rin and Shion exchanged glances and nodded understandingly. They agreed to calm down first and discuss their siblings' relationships later.
Three against one. Even if Sakura wanted to keep talking, she could not.
Although seeing that Rin knew nothing, while Shion and Tohsaka Touka both had special relationships with Hachiman, Sakura already had other thoughts in her heart.
———
Komachi and the other three teleported directly to their school's rooftop.
Rin, who was a year above them, waved and left on her own. Shion brought the now quiet again Sakura to their classroom and greeted their classmates and friends.
Ichinose Honami's younger sister had already transferred into their class and was getting along well with them.
However, Ichinose Honami was afraid her sister might fall into Ichinose Ayano's clutches. She did not dare let her join the Service Club, nor did she let her stay overnight at the Hikigaya house like the Tohsaka sisters.
Of course, for safety reasons, Ichinose Honami also did not let her sister and mother move out.
Because Ichinose Ayano could not get Hachiman to visit the Ichinose house often anymore, the Ichinose home had actually become much safer.
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