“Hey, Ouga…… let’s do Student Council together……?”
“Ouga…… Boku wants to be with you longer, from morning till after school……”
From both flanks, Karen and Mashiro creeping closer, inch by inch.
D-don’t come……!
I do NOT want to step onto a worksite as black-corporate as this……!
But my feelings didn’t reach them — both my arms were captured.
As if to say we’ll never let go, my arms were sandwiched into the two pairs of twin hills.
The big-breast-harem development I’d been dreaming of — and yet no joy.
“You’re popular, Ouga-kun.”
How did it come to this!?
To explain the beginning of this affair requires rewinding the clock to that morning.
◇ ◇ ◇ ◇ ◇
“Good morning.”
”…… Yeah, morning.”
Face close. Every morning when I open my eyes, Alice’s face is right there and it makes me jump.
She doesn’t need to lean in that close…… well, being able to see a beautiful woman first thing in the morning is one of the perks.
…… More importantly.
”…… Did something happen, Alice? You’re earlier than usual.”
To promote my body’s growth, I’ve kept a strict routine since childhood.
So I notice immediately when something doesn’t match the habits ingrained in my body.
“My apologies. There is a matter that needed to be conveyed to you as quickly as possible, so on my own judgment I woke you.”
“Fine. Something serious enough to wake me?”
“Please take a look at this.”
“Mm, what’s this? A letter…… no, that’s not it.”
A single sheet of paper handed to me by an unusually restless Alice.
What on earth, this early in the morning……
”…… Huh?”
After finishing reading the text on the page, I instinctively crumpled it.
“Appointment Notice — To Sir Ouga Veret
Hereby appoint you Vice President of the Royal Lichberg Magic Academy Student Council.
Royal Lichberg Magic Academy Headmistress — Floné Milfonti”
”…… Alice. Last night, did I get drunk and accept Council membership or something?”
“No, nothing of the sort.”
“Then what the hell is this?”
“Most likely…… having determined that Lord Ouga’s resolve is firm, Headmistress Milfonti has made the decision unilaterally.”
”…… That’s the only explanation.”
What are you DOING…… that goddamn old hag……!!
“Alice! Today’s training is postponed! Get me changed at once!”
“Yes, sir!!”
Apparently anticipating my reaction, Alice already had my uniform laid out and dressed me briskly.
The moment she finished, I sprang from the room, leapt out the window, and was out of the dorm.
“Follow me, Alice! I’m going to grill the Headmistress!”
“Understood!”
I tore down the still-empty commute route to the building, and sprinted straight for the Headmistress’s office.
“Headmistress Milfonti!! Explain what the hell this is, will you!?”
She wouldn’t think she could pull a stunt this big and walk away clean.
I threw the door open and stormed in — but the room contained not the Headmistress I was hunting, but——
“My, Ouga-kun. You look distressed — what’s the matter?”
——her apprentice Reina.
“Nothing else for it. I wanted a little word with Reina’s master……”
“Then it seems my business is the same as yours.”
So saying, she held up a sheet of paper as well.
It was a memo stating that, since my Council induction was decided, she was to look after me.
“Reina. After yesterday’s exchange, I absolutely did not consent to joining the Council.”
“I understand the firmness of your resolve, Ouga-kun, very well. This is, without question, what one might call my Sensei’s runaway behavior.”
“That said,” she continued.
“That same Sensei is, it seems, no longer at the academy.”
”…… What?”
“Please listen calmly, Ouga-kun.”
The cascade of events was outpacing my brain’s processing.
In the midst of it, Reina spoke to me with a placid, quiet voice.
“I would like to accommodate your feelings to the greatest extent. But…… wouldn’t it be all right to hear what they have to say first?”
“They?”
Following Reina’s line of sight — Mashiro and Karen were standing at the entrance to the office.
The two had rushed here as well, panting.
“Ouga……”
“Ouga……”
“Wh-why are you both here……?”
“A letter came to me, too. When I looked, it said Ouga was joining the Council……”
That hag……! Not just me, even Mashiro…… ugh!?
Mashiro lunged at me in something like a tackle, then ground her head against my chest.
“Why didn’t you tell me!? If Ouga is joining the Council, then so am I! You told me to follow you, after all!”
“H-hold on, Mashiro. Yes, I told you that — but I haven’t decided on joining the Council——”
“——Eh?”
Now you too!!
“You’ll be joining the Council, right, Ouga? Because I — your fiancée — am there. After throwing that much love at me, of course you will.”
“No, Karen — that and this are different stories——”
”…… I see. I’m sorry. Just because I became your fiancée, I was suddenly closing the distance too quickly. I’ll reflect on it……”
“Ngh……!!”
Why do you take it like that!?
No, in Karen’s case it can’t be helped! Whoever shaped her personality this way — Karen’s trash father, I curse you……!!
“Ouga…… Boku wants to be with you longer, morning to after school……”
“Hey, Ouga…… let’s do Student Council together……?”
Even with those upturned-eye pleas, I won’t lose……! Absolutely won’t lose……!!
This life, I decided to do what I want!
Even if it’s the request of my own harem candidates Mashiro and Karen, no means no.
"""Ouga (-kun)……"""
The big boobs closing in from both sides finally — landed on my arms.
The full, ripe, dangerous fruit pressed firmly, squishingly, against me.
A heavenly scene I’d been aiming for — yet what was being forced on me was a hellish choice.
I…… I……!!
”…………Actually, I’d been thinking I might join the Council.”
“Yes!! Ouga, I love you!!”
“Ouga…… thank you!!”
“Aah…… I’m glad you two are happy.”
…… I said it. I went and said it……
N-no — I didn’t bend my own will…… that’s right! This is a strategic action!
I can earn Mashiro and Karen’s affection.
And further, I can learn the Council’s inner workings to rescue Reina!
It’s a two-birds-one-stone choice — that’s why I picked it.
I did not lose to the two of them — to the boobs (mom)……!
“Fufu. Welcome to the Royal Lichberg Magic Academy Student Council. We welcome you, Ouga-kun.”
Knowing or not knowing the inner excuse I was laying out for myself, Reina watched me get tousled while wearing the usual inorganic smile.
And thus, by the Headmistress’s scheme, my Council membership was settled at lightning speed worthy of the name [Floné the Lightning Strike].