Harem route?
"Hey there, mister. Would you like someone to warm your bed for you?"
"Shut up! I saw him first!"
"Gosh, those girls… Hey, mate. Would you like to practise together?"
As soon as I stepped outside of the doors of my lodging, I was instantly surrounded by a huge crowd of overly affectionate people. It seemed that the news of my test already managed to spread through the sect, pulling an insane crowd of people hoping to make use of my abilities.
"Everyone, I'm honoured with your propositions, but I will have to sadly refuse them. Speaking from experience, I can tell that no one here would like to make the sacrifices necessary to achieve what I did. Did you guys forget how pitiful my cultivation is?"
I could diss everyone here, I could attempt to praise them or just do my best in an attempt to escape this damned encirclement. But all of those ways offered only a temporary solution to the problem. Even if Garra were to appear here and save me right at this moment, she would only put the trouble aside for a moment, making it come back even stronger due to how her reaction would validate what most of the people gathered here already guessed.
"What?!"
To my surprise, it wasn't Garra that magically appeared right as I thought about her to save me from the trouble. Following in my steps, Rubia actually moved outside of the house, most likely alerted by the commotion. Her robes still slightly unkempt, she was the perfect picture of a girl that just finished… enjoying herself with her partner.
"Fuck, he already has someone…"
In one instant, more than half of the crowd shook in disappointment. Turning my head to the side, I nodded at Rubia, expressing my insane gratitude. I wasn't as naive as to think that her robes were like they appeared now just a moment ago. Despite how obedient and meek she was in bed, I couldn't deny how damn quick she had to be to react so swiftly!
"Okay, okay. That will be all for today. Everyone, please leave before I will stop asking and will make you leave."
At last, the voice of my teacher appeared amongst the crowd, instantly shutting down the male part of it. Despite how reluctantly everyone started to leave, in just a few moments the area emptied out, allowing me to finally take a proper breath.
"Thanks for the help, you two."
Once again nodding my head to Rubia, I could notice a satisfying smile appearing on her lips. Right. Even if our relationship wasn't anything serious yet, she just managed to make the entire damned sect think that it wasn't the case! But once I nodded to express my thanks to Garra, I suddenly understood that she also had her reasons for helping me out right now.
Who knew, maybe she was the one that spread the news to put me in a pinch herself?
"Since you are so grateful for my help… how about we go to the shared guild so that you could show me what you did last time? After all, while my friend's report should be already prepared, I still want to see it with my own eyes!"
Garra acted even quicker than I guessed she would. While her reason for solving my current problem was obvious from the get-go, I still hoped that I would get some time for myself so that I could see what the normal level of one's ability was around this place.
"If that's your wish… then sure."
Hanging my head in defeat, I pretended not to see Garra's satisfied smile. Silently declaring defeat with this gesture, I moved my eyes back to Rubia for a moment. Her face… Even though I was sure she didn't know that I slept with Garra, I could tell that she somehow managed to guess it from our quick exchange!
Her face was twisted in jealousy mixed with slight anger and disappointment, yet she didn't even attempt to stop me as I moved toward our teacher.
"Hey, cheer up. I will thank you properly a bit later."
Reaching forth with my hand and rustling Rubia's soft hair, I could see her complexion improving at the sound of my promise.
"Okay then, see you soon!"
Quickly backing out into the house as if worried that her face would betray how excited she was about my promise, Rubia left me all alone with our teacher. And Garra didn't seem naive enough to miss all the hints that her female student gave her.
"Not wasting any time, do you?"
Smiling lightly at the situation, Garra turned around while making sure to swing her shapely bottom right before my face. It seemed that while she didn't really mind me being with another girl, something inside her turned the competitive spirit of this silly teacher of mine.
"Yeah, I hate wasting time. So let's stop dawdling here and let's get everything done. I still want to practice a bit today."
Prompted by my words, Garra finally started moving. Following obediently in her steps, I finally had some time to myself… Or rather, some time to check all the annoying notification messages that were hanging around my field of vision ever since I dared to enjoy myself with Rubia for a bit!
*Congratulations!*
*By injecting your detergent into the body of a mate, you managed to clear her cultivation from the clogs!*
*Awarding two social cleaning points!*
*Congratulations!*
*By injecting your detergent directly and repeatedly into the body of your mate, you managed to thoroughly clean the clogs on her cultivation!*
*Awarding four social cleaning points!*
*Congratulations!*
*Hosts objective cleaning reached first evolution stage!*
*Once hosts breakthrough to the next realm, a subskill will become available!*
*Remaining levels to breakthrough: 2*
Just those three notifications were enough to leave me puzzled. What, fucking around was enough for me to grow my skillset? If that was the case, then isn't this system forcing me down the harem route?