"Gina! Stop hugging my boyfriend! Aya, you too!"
"Hehe… My hero's arms feel nice…"
"… Hey Bloed, you don't like me?"
Bloed was speechless. Looking at the three drunk girls hugging him and feeling the heat of their bodies, he did not know how to react.
He tried to struggle out of their hug, but to his surprise, Liu Ying hugged him tightly and pressed him against the chair. Then, she kissed his lips.
'… This girl…'
A few seconds later, Liu Ying's separated her lips from Bloed and licked her lips before looking at the honey-haired girl and the black cat provocatively.
Immediately, Gina hmphed and hugged Bloed's neck.
"I can kiss him too!"
"Don't you dare!" Liu Ying reacted immediately, jumping towards Gina and blocking the little girl with a smirk. "He is mine!"
Unfortunately, she forgot that Gina was not the only danger.
Using the opportunity when her two opponents were distracted, the usually shy cat girl replaced Liu Ying on Bloed's lap and kissed his lips softly before blushing.
"… Mm… It feels nice…"
She then smiled embarrassedly and kissed his lips again.
The other two girls became furious.
"Thieving cat! Move away!"
"Aya! I thought we were friends!"
This time, Gina and Liu Ying cooperated to subjugate Aya.
Unfortunately, Aya's petite body and her cat features made her very agile. She evaded the attack of her two competitors and glued herself to Bloed's chest and kissed and licked his cheek this time.
"Aya!"
"Thieving cat! I wanted to kiss him first!"
Watching the girls fighting drunkenly, Bloed smiled bitterly.
But at that moment, he noticed a pair of ice-cold eyes fixed on him.
"… Scum." Princess Elwha said as though looking at trash.
"Hey! They were the ones that attacked me."
"Hmph! Do you think I don't know you are enjoying this? Did you forget we can share what we are feeling?"
Bloed was tongue-tied.
That was true.
But hey, he was a man. It was a normal reaction.
He looked towards Sara to ask for help, but the dark-haired girl was seated on the ground with a lost expression, holding a cup of wine dazedly.
'… Could it be… She is drunk as well?'
Fortunately, she was not attacking him like the three girls glued to his body.
He then looked at the other two men in the hall, Toby and Prince Calisto, but they were slurring and giggling foolishly.
'Dammit! Nobody here has resistance to alcohol!?'
In the end, he could only rely on himself to escape.
Unfortunately, it was very hard. Liu Ying's physical strength was greater than his, and Aya was a B-Rank practitioner like him, so he could not escape easily without injuring them.
In the end, the poor Gina was the most disadvantaged. She could not defeat Liu Ying nor Aya, and thus, she could only watch as the two girls kissed Bloed's cheeks, neck, and chest repatedly.
But when Bloed thought that the situation could not turn worse, he heard an unexpected voice coming from the entrance of the hall.
"… Brother?"
Bloed froze. He instinctively looked towards the entrance only to see his younger twin sister, Eres, looking towards the scene of him and the girls with her eyes opened wide.
And behind her, he saw Regina looking at him with the coldest eyes he had ever seen on her.
'Dammit, why am I so unlucky?'
Fortunately, it seemed that some god heard his prayers.
Because at that moment, Eres's expression turned ice-cold, and her mana erupted powerfully against the three girls.
"What do you think you are doing to my brother!?"
Almost immediately, Liu Ying, Aya, and Gina jumped off from Bloed and stood up in front of him protectively.
The girls' drunk stupor faded slightly. Facing this formidable enemy, they put away their differences and joined hands for the first time in the night.
Eres's face turned chilling. Powerful mana was released from her body, reaching the middle stage of A-Rank.
"Die!"
Then, she unleashed a powerful punch towards the girls.
Liu Ying put on a serious expression. She did not hesitate to release her Aspect, allowing the image of a black knight to take shape behind her back as her physical strength climbed to a much stronger lever.
Then, she clenched her fist and used [Silent Touch] to release a punch against Eres's attack!
*Boom!*
The powerful shockwave generated by the clash of the two attacks blew the tables and chairs nearby away.
However, Bloed did not have time to pay attention to that.
Because to his surprise, he saw Eres's punch suppressing Liu Ying and forcing her to take several steps back.
'Impossible!'
He knew how overbearing Liu Ying's physical strength was. He could not believe that his sister could suppress her.
In fact, even Liu Ying was surprised.
However, she did not panic.
Because at some point, the cat girl had appeared behind Eres, using a knife-hand to attack Eres's nape.
But then–
"Sister Aya! Retreat!��
Aya did not hesitate. She immediately jumped back, stopping her attack and fading into the shadows nearby.
In the next instant–
*Bam!*
The space where Aya was just now exploded.
If Gina had not warned her in time, she would have been injured!
Bloed, Regina, and Elwha, who were observing the battle, were surprised.
"Strong." Elwha put on a grave expression.
Bloed nodded. His sister was much stronger than he expected.
He could see that she was not even using her true strength.
But at the same time, he was feeling helpless.
He was grateful that his sister helped him to escape from Liu Ying, Gina, and Aya's drunk battle; however, he could not understand why his sister seemed so enraged and why the three girls were fighting her so fiercely.
"Hey, Regina, can you stop them?"
"Why should I? These vixens are plotting to steal my boyfriend. It would be great if they kill each other and eliminate my competitors."
Bloed was speechless.
Girl, you are becoming crueler and crueler.
At that moment, he heard a voice coming from behind him.
"… You are so popular, Mr. Bloed. Four beauties fighting for you."
Bloed's eyebrow twitched. He recognized that voice.
Looking behind him, he saw an expressionless fox girl watching the battle entertainingly as she ate a chicken drumstick.
"… Miss Eve, you are here."
"Mm." Eve nodded without changing her expression. "I came when I smelled the food, but I was not expecting to see such an entertaining show… You are still as popular as always, Bloed. Whom do you like the most? The demon, the cat, the little girl, or the sister?"
Bloed cursed at the fox girl in his mind.
Dammit, why did you ask something like that?
He could feel Regina's gaze turning colder than the coldest tundra. If he dared to answer, he was sure he would suffer.
As for the princess of the elves, she once more glared at Bloed and murmured a word under her breath.
"… Scum."