"Welcome back..."
Elf, who was sprawled on the living room sofa, weakly greeted Homura as he returned.
"Why do you always end up like this?" Homura sat down beside her.
"There's nothing to do..." Elf replied while rolling over. "Everyone's busy with everything except the scriptwriters. Hana doesn't want to play with me, and Nayu is busy with her own novel..."
In short, after all the game's story was done, Elf was the only one left idle.
Homura couldn't help but find it amusing.
"If you're bored, find something to do. Is the script proofread already?"
"Hana is working on it..."
"Then give some advice to the character designers. It can increase their efficiency."
"Utaha is handling that..."
"..." Homura was speechless. "So, now you're just being a couch potato?"
Elf glanced at him with rolled eyes.
"I'm rolling over right?"
"That's still a couch potato!" Homura retorted.
Rolling over on the couch didn't change that fact!
"Homura, isn't there anything fun to do?" Elf asked boredly.
"Fun things... Hmm..." Homura thought for a moment. "How about dancing 'Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss'?"
"Wait, why are we talking about that song?" Elf sat up abruptly.
"Because of Chika. She danced without telling me." Homura raised an eyebrow.
"Why is Chika suddenly brought up?" Elf raised her eyebrows.
Without answering, Homura quickly searched for the video and then showed it to Elf.
"Here, watch it yourself."
===
After Elf finished watching.
"It really is Chika!" Elf exclaimed, surprised.
Chika quietly performed a dance herself and nobody knew about it.
However, how did Homura find out?
Seeing Elf's expression, Homura guessed what she was about to say.
"Honoka told me. Otherwise, I wouldn't have known."
Upon hearing that, Elf raised an eyebrow.
"So, you mean, Chika didn't tell you, but she told Muse?"
"I guess she's feeling guilty or something." Homura concluded as he remembered the moment when Chika asked him for his dance video.
"Well, it's okay. As long as she does a different dance for me, I'll let it slide." Homura grinned mischievously.
"That smile... Why do I feel like you want Chika to dance something indecent?" Elf had a perplexed expression.
'What the hell? Indecent? Chika Dance?' Homura stupefied for a moment before retorting. "No, it's entirely decent!"
"I don't believe you..." Elf's expression turned mischievous. "Unless you dance it for me..."
"Whatever, don't believe it then..." Homura sighed and stood up, clearly not willing to let her have her way with him.
However, as he was about to leave, Elf suddenly grabbed him!
But who was Homura? Did she think she could just hold onto him that easily?
Ignore her and keep walking!
Surprisingly, Elf ended up hanging onto him like a koala.
"What do you want, really?" Homura was exasperated.
"Dance for me! Otherwise, I won't let go!"
Ignoring her, Homura shook her off a bit, causing his sleeve to tear and fall halfway.
Elf, who had fallen to the ground, took advantage of his momentary confusion to discard the torn sleeve and clung to his arm.
"It's not often I get to see something interesting! There's no way I'll let you escape!" Elf said defiantly.
Homura's mouth twitched.
"There's no music... even though I said I want Chika to do a different dance, I haven't worked on the music yet, okay?!"
"I don't care! You have to dance!" Elf said adamantly.
"Homura-kun..." Nanami suddenly appeared in the stairwell, looking bewildered at the two of them. "What are you guys doing?"
"It's all her fault." Homura grumbled. "She got bored and insisted I dance. If I don't, she'll hold onto me like this. Look, she tore my sleeve!"
Nanami: "..."
===
After some negotiation, nothing seemed to work, causing everyone out.
Nayuta, upon seeing Elf hanging on Homura, had her eyes light up before running to hold onto his other arm!
Everyone was left speechless.
"Nayu..." Homura tried to cover his face but then realized he had no arms left to use. "Why are you joining in on this too?"
"As long as Elf doing it, I will do the same!" Nayuta said defiantly.
Seeing this, Sagiri climbed onto Homura's back and clung to him as well.
Everyone: "..."
"Embarrassing..." Muramasa muttered quietly.
Elf, with her keen ears, heard Muramasa's mutter.
"Hana, why don't you join too? Hold Homura's front!"
"Pfff... Hahaha..."
"Pffft..."
Eriri and Utaha burst into laughter.
Blushing furiously, Muramasa shouted in anger.
"Impossible! You're just playing with me again, aren't you, you demi-human!"
"Mouuu! Hana, did you just call me demi-human again?! Do you want me to call you Daddy?!"
Hearing 'Daddy', Muramasa froze.
""Daddy?""
Nanami and Eriri glanced confusedly at Muramasa.
"Ahahaha! It's nothing!" Muramasa waved her hand in panic, glaring at Elf with gritted teeth.
"Homura-kun... what are you going to do? This can't go on forever..." Megumi couldn't help but ask.
Homura chuckled.
"Well, what could I do? Elf insists on making me dance. I don't think I can just dance randomly and satisfy her. Plus... there's no music."
Yes.
Music was the most crucial part.
Dancing wasn't a problem for him. If there were suitable music, he would have danced long ago and Elf wouldn't have pestered him like this.
Utaha, looking at Homura with three girls holding onto him, raised an eyebrow and then asked Elf.
"What do you want?"
"What do I want?" Elf thought for a moment before answering. "Well, as long as Homura dances some move I haven't seen before..."
'Something she hasn't seen...' Utaha facepalmed before shooting a suspicious glance at Elf.
Was this girl intentionally making excuses, and actually just wanting to get close to Homura?
"Alright..." Homura sighed. "You girls should release me."
"Oh, you finally giving in?" Elf grinned.
"Who said I'm giving in?" Homura shrugged. "It won't be long before your arms get tired and you won't be able to hold me anymore. Even if you can still hold on to me, I doubt you'll still be holding on when I decide to sleep. You don't want to sleep with me, right?"
Upon hearing that, Elf was flabbergasted.
She couldn't hold on if that really happened.
"Um... I actually don't mind..." Nayuta mumbled quietly.
Homura: "..."
Girls: "..."
They had forgotten! This shy girl had secretly hoped for a long time that Homura would let her sleep with him!
Utaha and Eriri, looking determined, stepped forward and, one on each side, lifted Nayuta off Homura.
"How could we let you succeed..." Eriri said with a huff.
Seeing this, Elf silently released Homura.
"Sagiri..."
Homura gently patted Sagiri's little hand wrapped around his neck.
"You should come down too."
"Just a little longer... Nii-san..." Sagiri buried her face in his neck and took a deep breath. "My oniium is about to be fully charged..."
Homura: "..."