Although Hayase and her childhood friend are not lovers, it seems there is just some mutual affection.
In a reality where divorce after marriage is commonplace, falling for someone else before confirming a relationship is not a particularly serious issue.
However, Hikigaya still has little goodwill toward those "blond bulls." Ordinary pursuits of relationships are fine—both parties are willing, and if they later find they're incompatible, they shouldn't be forced to stay together for life. Even marriage allows for divorce.
But he utterly detests behaviors like drugging, coercion, or treating people as objects for public or private use. He believes that those who engage in such acts are scum who deserve to be severely punished before being sent to hell.
Still, even though he wants to deal with the "bulls" and earn the rewards given by the system, hunting these "bulls" needs to be approached cautiously.
Japanese police have very low efficiency, and without concrete evidence, cases are likely to be closed hastily or ignored altogether. Considering that he might frequently engage in such actions in the future, if many people die after having conflicts with him, he'd be under heavy suspicion.
Hikigaya thought he should first pay attention to his temporary club member, Hayase.
In doujin works, many female protagonists indulge in bodily desires. Now that it's been transitioned to reality, he wonders if this still applies...
'Can such a pure and timid girl really awaken a mother pig nature?' [T/N: Mother pig nature means promiscuous nature]
Hikigaya thought of Hayase's shy, innocent face and shook his head silently.
If he didn't know Hayase considered him a friend, he wouldn't have had so many thoughts. But since he knew, he couldn't just leave her alone.
Perhaps, during her short time in the Service Club, he should teach Hayase self-respect and self-love, to prevent her from being lured astray in the future.
Thinking about the development of the Service Club, Hikigaya stood at the school gate, watching the thinning crowd, silently waiting for someone.
Because Sobu High's disciplinary management is particularly strict, even after school, there is still a row of disciplinary committee members managing and supervising. They also return some confiscated but not-too-serious contraband items to students.
He had already spent quite some time at the Service Club and swimming club earlier, so his wait at the school gate wasn't long. Soon, he saw two girls with short, sky-blue hair carrying handbags as they walked toward him.
They were cute and charming, with slender figures. They looked identical, a pair of beautiful twin girls.
Only, one had a lively expression, and the other was expressionless.
One wore black mid-thigh socks, and the other wore black tights.
"You two are so slow. If you'd taken any longer, I'd have gone home alone to keep Komachi company."
Hikigaya looked at the approaching twin beauties and, with a faint smile breaking his usually calm face, complained to them.
In this unusual world, he was naturally not the original protagonist, who had no friends and only had his sister and parents as acquaintances.
Although he didn't have many friends, these twin beauties before him were two of the few, Kaede and Suzu
Hmm... To be precise, they were his neighbors and childhood friends who had always lived next door to him. Otherwise, with his rather laid-back personality, he wouldn't have had much interaction with them.
The more lively and talkative one was the elder sister, Kaede, while the typically expressionless but inwardly vibrant one was the younger sister, Suzu.
Because of her outgoing nature, Kaede was quite popular among freshmen. Not long after entering Sobu High, she was entrusted with important responsibilities by the former student council president, Ishiki Iroha. Currently, under Ishiki's guidance, she is serving as the student council president.
His Service Club, which barely met the minimum requirement of three members, was only successfully established by going through the back door with Kaede and Isshiki, promising several meals and a pile of snacks.
Of course, the rules were just loosened a bit, allowing him to form the club first and recruit members later. He still needed to find enough people to fill the spots eventually.
"This is your fault. Who told you not to join the student council to help me? There's so much work recently, even with Isshiki-senpai's guidance, I can't keep up."
Hearing Hikigaya complain after waiting for her only a while, Kaede swung her handbag and lightly hit his shoulder, glaring at him fiercely.
But she didn't take it to heart. As soon as she finished speaking, she turned to chat with the disciplinary committee members at the school gate.
"Thank you for your hard work today, everyone. Please wait a little longer, and you can go home."
"Huh? Isn't Makoto-chan here today?"
"She's assigned to patrol inside the school. She should be coming out soon."
"Oh, okay. When you see her later, tell her I've left first~"
While Kaede was greeting the disciplinary committee, Hikigaya silently exchanged glances with the expressionless Suzu beside him. When Kaede finished speaking with the committee members and returned to them in her usual lively manner, they resumed their previous conversation.
"Didn't the semester just start? Isn't having Suzu helping you enough? There haven't been many activities recently; the student council shouldn't be that busy."
Even before regaining his memories, his goal was to slack off and take it easy. He had no intention of joining the student council and dealing with endless work.
Being an honest, homebody member of the Go-Home Club was much better—he could go home early every day and spend time with his adorable little sister.
Although now, having regained his memories and knowing this world's dangers, he had no choice but to establish the Service Club.
However, the Service Club didn't have to conduct its activities in the clubroom. Once he had eliminated all the "bulls" on campus, he could move the club's activities to his home.
"It should be like that, but recently there've been some transfer students with rather special identities. Just assigning them to classes involves many considerations, making it very troublesome..."
As Kaede spoke about this, she couldn't help but complain, 'Why so many transfer students are suddenly coming? Sobu High has a high deviation value and is considered the best high school in the area, but they can't just cram everyone in.'
Hikigaya looked curiously at Kaede, who seemed hesitant to speak.
"Transfer students with special identities? How special? Yakuza heirs? Royal princesses? Future revolutionary leaders?"
Kaede glanced around and, seeing no one paying attention, tiptoed closer to Hikigaya. Her pink lips neared his ear, and she whispered softly, "They're really special. The transfer student arriving tomorrow is a princess of the elf tribe—a legendary demihuman."
"Elf princess???"
Hikigaya was stunned upon hearing the transfer student's identity. He looked suspiciously at his childhood friend.
'She isn't joking with me, is she? Why would an elf princess transfer here?'
"Really! Why would I lie to you?"
Seeing that Hikigaya didn't believe her, Kaede quickly added.
"Besides the elf princess, there are also several transfer students from various demi-human races coming over. You'll see them starting tomorrow."
Hikigaya shook his head, explaining why he found it so surprising to Kaede,"It's not that I don't believe you, I'm just wondering why they'd choose Sobu High. Normally, wouldn't they go to Tokyo? Why come all the way to Chiba?"
It was true that Sobu High have a high deviation score, and it could even be considered the top-ranked high school in the Chiba area. But at the end of the day, Sobu High was still Chiba's Sobu High—not Tokyo's.
A character like the elf princess, when visiting a foreign country, would normally have a political agenda. Let alone visiting another world. If she were to go somewhere, it should be to Tokyo, the political capital.
"How would I know? Maybe they think our school's clubs are exceptionally strong, and it's not just about academics. Anyway, the school received a lot of excellent student transfer applications. Because there were so many demi-human transfer students, they even screened out quite a few outstanding human ones."
When mentioning this, Kaede, who hadn't been the student council president for long, puffed up her chest with a sense of pride.
Aside from the school's reputation for high deviation scores, Soumbu High wasn't just known for academics—its clubs were numerous and powerful.
The soccer club, track and field club, tennis club, volleyball club, and separate swimming clubs for boys and girls, not to mention the women's competitive swimming club—all had the strength to compete at the national level.
Under the school's high-pressure policies, it seemed like boys and girls channeled their pent-up energy into sports, resulting in one success after another in club achievements.
Of course, even though these successes had nothing to do with her recent appointment as student council president, the fact that she was chosen to lead showed her capabilities, didn't it?
Looking at Kaede, who was nonchalantly dismissing the topic, Hikigaya shrugged.
"Maybe so."
Although he had no evidence, something felt off to him—Sobu High had too many peculiarities.
Having a lot of clubs and strong ones at that wasn't a problem.
But if you think about it, the proportion of beautiful girls in Sobu High's sports clubs seemed unusually high.
Every random club had rare beauties. For instance, Saki Hayase from the women's competitive swimming club—she could easily be the top-ranked goddess in most schools.
Yet here, in this school, even in the women's swimming club alone, there were several girls with looks on par with hers.
And now, even an elf princess from another world was coming. Without a doubt, this unseen elf princess would surely be a beauty too.
Although he didn't know the exact purpose of the elf princess's arrival at the school, it would undoubtedly cause a sensation.
Apart from a small number of demi-humans active in public, ordinary people rarely saw large groups of demi-humans, let alone a noble and rare elf princess.
Actually, the world still had hidden and unknown entities like monsters and spirits. But leaving those aside for now, discovering another world should logically lead to wars—for population, land, and resources.
Hikigaya couldn't understand why a war hadn't broken out.
Perhaps the other side had magical beings like demon kings, while this world had mutual destruction tools like nuclear weapons.
Or maybe this world wasn't as ordinary as it seemed, and beings like monsters dared not reveal themselves openly.
Of course, it was also possible that conflicts in the other world were fought quietly, with no results disclosed to the public.
As these random thoughts ran through his head, Hikigaya rode the train home with Kaede and Suzu.
At the moment, these weren't things he needed to concern himself with. As long as he could take care of the girls around him, that was enough.
Kaede stopped at her house's door, gave Hikigaya a firm pat on the shoulder, and scolded him sternly, "We're home. Tomorrow morning, Suzu and I will come wake you up. No sleeping in."
"See you tomorrow", Suzu who had barely spoken the whole way, waved her hand at Hikigaya. Her soft, almost monotone voice came from her little mouth.
"Got it. I'll get up early tomorrow."
Hikigaya waved to the twin sisters and headed to the door of his own house next door.
Being late as a student council president was embarrassing, and Kaede, who had just taken on the role, needed to set an example. She'd have to arrive early to assist the disciplinary committee with dress code inspections.
In the past, he might have felt annoyed at the thought of having to accompany Kaede and Suzu to school early.
After all, he didn't have many friends in his class, and arriving early would only mean daydreaming or reading books.
But now that he'd regained his memories and knew this world was dangerous, he naturally needed to go with them to school.
For their safety, waking up a little earlier and losing some sleep was nothing.
Hikigaya unlocked his door with a key and suddenly thought of how Kaede and Suzu weren't on the romance list. He immediately opened the list to see if he could manually add them.
He experimented a bit and found that he could indeed add them to the romance list.
Kaede and Suzu were both marked as close friends in their relationship status with him, 'Hmm… though they rank slightly higher than Saki as friends, they still aren't listed as lovers.'
Hikigaya casually added Komachi to the romance list. After changing his shoes at the entrance, he walked into the living room.
Although he hadn't figured out how to teleport to someone's location yet or whether anyone would see him teleporting, adding her to the list was the right move. Just in case he needed to protect Komachi, he'd be able to respond immediately.
"Onii-chan, you're home so late today. Did something happen?"
A cute girl with a small stature and an ahoge on top of her head was sitting cross-legged on the living room sofa. When she saw Hikigaya, she immediately released the fat cat she'd been cuddling and curiously looked at him.
"The Service Club recruited two new members today, and we also successfully carried out a club activity. Of course, it took a bit longer."
Hikigaya placed his bag with a few books to the side, then lay down on the soft sofa without pushing his sister, Hikigaya Komachi, away. His head rested on her lap.
It wasn't even that late—students who participated in club activities would generally return even later.
But since they were both part of the go-home club with no activities before, his coming home a bit later these past two days seemed unusual.
"What? People actually joined your weird club, Onii-chan? And you even had a club activity?"
Hikigaya Komachi was shocked by his answer, her small mouth agape in disbelief. Then she looked at him with concern.
"Onii-chan, you didn't get bullied by the two new boys in the club, did you? I heard Sobu High doesn't forbid impure relationships between boys, only between boys and girls."
"Komachi, fujoshi are the natural enemies of otaku. For the sake of our harmonious sibling relationship, you're banned from reading BL manga from now on."
Seeing that his sister didn't think it was possible for him to recruit female members, Hikigaya rolled his eyes.
"And have you considered that the new members might be two girls? Very beautiful ones, at that."
"Impossible! Onii-chan, with those dead fish eyes of yours, there's no way girls would like you. Only Kaede-neesan and Suzu-neesan from next door are willing to put up with you, coming to wake you up every morning for school."
Komachi poked his face with her finger and giggled, revealing her cute little fangs as she teased him.
"But don't worry. If you really can't find a girlfriend among your peers, Komachi will introduce you to some cute and obedient kouhai~"
"Ah! Komachi's remark just now scores really high as a sister."
"Hey, wasn't that last comment also highly offensive? I haven't fallen so low as to date a middle schooler."
Looking at Komachi's playful smile, Hikigaya rolled his eyes in exasperation.
'Does Komachi really look down on me so much? It seems I will have to show her what I am capable of.'
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