Chapter 166: I am Pursuing Hachiman

"I can still eat dinner. I am a demon who will become a great demon in the future. Just a mere dinner, how could I not be able to eat it?", Satanichia was eating snacks. Hearing Hachiman looking down on her, she hurriedly raised the potato chips in her hand, seriously looking at Hachiman.

"Then eat more later. But if you can't eat, don't force yourself. We have so many people, we can handle it," Hachiman glanced at the big-hearted Satanichia, smiled and nodded. He left some dishes; if not enough later, he would bring them out, and if enough, he'd save them for making a lunch box tomorrow.

Although usually it's better to make a lunch box in the morning to keep it fresh, given that now he doesn't wake up so early, and even when he wakes up he wants to laze in bed a little with Iris or Shion and the others, it's better to prepare tonight.

"....", Komachi glanced at the bulging Satanichia beside her, then looked down and found that she could directly see her own flat belly, feeling secretly speechless.

Satanichia seemed to love eating unhealthy snacks too; why was there such a big difference between them?

Later she would see how much Satanichia could eat, to check whether it was an issue of her eating too little.

Actually among the many girls present, Komachi wasn't even the flattest. The one who should be truly anxious was Gabriel, already a high school student but still incredibly petite.

However, no one mentioned this, because after all, this was Hachiman's home. Komachi was flat, Iris wasn't big either.

Even Kaede, who wanted to pick out real rivals among the girls, wouldn't randomly attack others personally.

"Alright, you all come to the dining table and eat. If we delay further, it will get very late," Hachiman saw everyone still sitting on the sofa, looking at each other, with no intention of getting up, and urged them.

Upon hearing Hachiman's words, Iris and the others slowly got up and walked to the dining table, but they still didn't immediately sit down.

"The Club President should sit at the main seat. Kaede, you sit next to the President, okay?", Iris looked at Kaede, who was still staying calm and secretly observing everyone, and said with a smile.

As the childhood friend of the President, knowing him the longest, Kaede sitting beside him was fitting.

"Then what about the other side? Should Gabriel sit or should you, Iris?", Kaede looked at Iris and the silent Gabriel, her eyes narrowing slightly.

She certainly knew she should sit next to Hachiman. But since Suzu and Tsubaki would both sit on her side, she couldn't let Suzu sit on Hachiman's other side, right? And letting Tsubaki sit didn't seem appropriate either; after all, Tsubaki wasn't close to Hachiman.

Among those present, aside from her as the childhood friend, based on closeness of relationship, there were two suitable people to sit on Hachiman's other side.

One was Iris, the elf princess. The other was Gabriel, Hachiman's desk neighbor.

These two blonde girls, their reasons for appearing at Hachiman's house were abrupt and far-fetched.

Especially Gabriel, she was already Hachiman's desk neighbor at school, and now she even moved to the apartment next door?

"Iris should sit. I'll just lean against Iris," Before Iris could speak, Gabriel directly said.

Aegis had to fulfill her duty of guarding; she needed to always stay beside Iris. Gabriel sitting next to Aegis avoided making Aegis stand behind Iris while awkwardly eating.

"Alright then," Seeing Gabriel proactively giving up the seat, Kaede couldn't probe into their thoughts toward Hachiman and could only temporarily give up. She helped bring some dishes and sat down, leaving the spot between herself and Iris empty.

"What a pity...", Raphiel had wanted to help Gabriel, feeling a little regretful seeing this. But she also knew she couldn't rush it, lest Gabriel noticed her small schemes.

Right now Gabriel wanted to make Hachiman stop liking her, so she had to create some distance, but also not be too far to monitor him.

Raphiel wanted to help Gabriel, to gain Gabriel's trust. Then when Gabriel pretended to fall, and it was inconvenient, Raphiel could help Hachiman win over Gabriel, maybe even Vignette too.

An angel and a demon falling for a human at the same time... judging by Gabriel and Vignette's personalities, they probably wouldn't even fight. Starting with the harmony between an angel and a demon, maybe it could even promote peace between Heaven and the Underworld.

If she could orchestrate such a situation, as the mastermind behind the scenes, just thinking about it made her excited.

Gabriel, sitting next to Aegis, glanced at Raphiel, whose face was flushed and who seemed a bit excited, and couldn't help feeling puzzled.

'What exactly is Raphiel thinking?'

'Since earlier, Raphiel seems absent-minded and will occasionally blush.'

If Gabriel didn't know that Raphiel hadn't had much contact with Hachiman, she might have misunderstood that Raphiel liked Hachiman.

Soon, Vignette and the others also finished tidying up the kitchen and sat down with Hachiman.

Komachi pulled Satanichia along, took some dishes with Shion, Maid Shion and the others, ran to the living room sofa, placed them on the coffee table, and started eating.

Actually, there was still room at the dining table, but it would be too crowded. Moreover, Komachi felt if she sat as the sister next to her brother, then the others would have to compete for just one seat.

Now that she finally had a chance to help out, she wanted to make sure her brother lived comfortably.

She hoped for drama to explode only under a situation she could still control. Right now, the scene seemed beyond her control.

Hachiman looked at Iris and Kaede smiling brightly on both sides, Raphiel itching to make a move, Rurikawa Tsubaki with evasive eyes, and Suzu's expressionless face, feeling a bit helpless.

Everyone was being very rational, not causing a drama was great. But this atmosphere... why did it feel like they were playing Three Kingdoms Kill...

If he were the monarch, would he have to defeat all rebels and traitors?

Hmm... but it didn't seem exactly like that, because here there were no rebels, only loyalists like Iris, while Suzu was an undercover traitor on Kaede's side.

If it was about killing off his inner corruption, then Gabriel could indeed be considered a rebel, Iris the foolishly loyalist, and Raphiel the angel who just wanted to watch the chaos and laugh at everyone in the end.

While Hachiman was arranging everyone's "roles" in his mind, he kept a calm surface, smiling at Rurikawa Tsubaki sitting next to Suzu and said, "Vice President, sorry, there are a lot of people today. I don't know if you mind; if you don't like it, I can separate a plate for you."

Too many people, separating individual plates would take too much space. Recently, they always ate this way at home.

Vignette, Gabriel, Iris, and the others were used to it, but today's guest, Rurikawa Tsubaki, was the first time eating with them like this, so it was necessary to ask beforehand.

"Hikigaya-kun, you don't have to be too concerned about my feelings. Although the Rurikawa family claims to be nobility, we've long fallen into decline. I'm not that delicate," Rurikawa Tsubaki felt her heart tense when Hachiman looked at her, but realizing that he was just concerned about her comfort with dinner, she smiled and shook her head.

"As for the 'Vice President' title... outside of school, just call me Tsubaki,"The other day Hikigaya still called her Vice President, and hearing him call her that again, she thought it was better to change the title.

Otherwise, thinking about those things in front of Kaede made her feel unbearably awkward.

"Alright then, let's start eating. We can chat while we eat."

Seeing this, Hachiman no longer delayed and announced the start of dinner.

Tonight, there wasn't any special arrangement; after dinner, they could just rest at home.

But it was already seven o'clock. After eating and chatting for a while, it would be eight or nine o'clock. Considering that Rurikawa Tsubaki wasn't staying overnight and had to return to her own house, it was better to eat early.

With Hachiman's announcement, everyone picked up their chopsticks.

Although each had their own small thoughts, after praising Vignette and Shion's cooking and enjoying the delicious dinner, the atmosphere at the table gradually eased a lot.

"Why were you guys so busy again today? I ran into Usui, she said the disciplinary committee is short on manpower?", Hachiman, seeing that everyone's mood was still pretty good, found a topic to continue easing the atmosphere.

Normally, Kaede and Suzu's student council wouldn't have so much work. Recently, he also hadn't caused any incidents involving lives, so they shouldn't be coming back so late.

"Actually, it's nothing much, it's just that today there was a meeting at school, and all the class disciplinary committee members had to attend, only leaving the necessary duty personnel, so manpower was a bit short. Our student council's four members all went to help patrol," Kaede spoke about this matter a little speechlessly.

"Recently, Tokyo's Advanced Nurturing High School seems to have wasted a large amount of national tax money without achieving any results and was disbanded, and a batch of students were distributed to our school. It seems that bullying incidents happened this morning, although stopped by the disciplinary committee, but the school discovered that the students' disciplinary issues were again serious, so now the school seems to be considering new management methods."

"So many 'seems' and 'maybe's. You as the student council president still can't confirm it? The school only notified the disciplinary committee and not you?", Hachiman also felt a bit speechless listening. Kaede was the student council president, yet she sounded like she was talking about rumors.

"What could I do, the disciplinary committee members who attended the meeting were all stammering and reluctant to talk. It seems to be called some 'customs activity'," Kaede rolled her eyes at Hachiman and said angrily.

"If even I can't know, it probably isn't officially added to the disciplinary rules, just implemented internally among the disciplinary committee, or trialed only on one class or a small group of people."

"Customs activity?", Hachiman heard this term and felt a bit of impression, maybe it was related to some plot he knew.

But based on this alone, he still couldn't be sure what the situation was.

'Customs activity carried out by the disciplinary committee... might be trialed on a small group of people...'

This kind of disciplinary issue shouldn't have anything to do with him, right? He was now behaving extremely well, avoiding people at school no matter what he did, whether using Love Live mode or soundproof barriers, it completely didn't affect the school's discipline.

Although his Service Club did have a lot of girls, and he might get noticed by the disciplinary committee.

"There's nothing much on the disciplinary committee side, I've already asked Makoto-chan to inquire, we'll talk after finding out clearly," Kaede waved her hand, not wanting to discuss school matters anymore, her eyes staring straight at Iris across from her.

"Rather than asking why I came back so late, why don't you properly explain why Iris is always coming to your house? Did you use your authority as the Service Club president to drag her to your house?", She still didn't believe that Hachiman could hook up with an elven princess, and the elven princess had just transferred not long ago, how could she already be hooked up with Hachiman?

A dignified elven princess, even staying at a hotel must be in a very high-class one, let alone eating. How could she run over to Hachiman's house late at night for dinner?

And looking at Iris's familiarity with Hachiman's home, it seemed not just once or twice.

"You're slandering me? Am I the kind of person who abuses power for personal gain?", Hachiman also rolled his eyes at Kaede, who was trying to slander him.

Since becoming the Service Club president, he had actually only exercised his authority once, making Yukinoshita Yukino call him 'President-sama', but that was related to a bet with Yukinoshita Yukino.

The Service Club was such a mutual-help club that didn't even charge for completing requests; where was there any place for him to exercise power? Could refusing to let them participate in service activities even count?

"But you're someone who wants to build a harem...", Kaede looked at the sweetly smiling Iris and said faintly.

She didn't believe it. Even after exposing Hachiman's intent to build a harem, someone would still like Hachiman.

"Kaede, you misunderstood," However, Iris's smile didn't diminish, and even looking at the somewhat resentful Kaede, her delicate, flawless face showed a faint blush, making her smile even sweeter and cuter, "Although it's a bit embarrassing to say this in front of everyone, actually, I am the one pursuing the president~"

"???"

Kaede stared blankly at the sweetly smiling Iris, seriously suspecting she was hallucinating.

'Just now, Iris said she is pursuing Hachiman? And not Hachiman pursuing her?'

Gabriel and Vignette exchanged glances, their expressions also a bit subtle.

They knew the relationship between Iris and Hachiman, and knew the reason for seeking Hachiman's help, so naturally they didn't doubt the truth of Iris's words, but they didn't understand why Iris suddenly revealed this, when before she had hidden it so well.

And she said she was pursuing Hachiman... Hmm? Only said pursuing?

"Hard to believe? Or you don't wish for me to like the president?", Iris softly laughed without surprise and winked at Kaede.

She hadn't revealed her intimate relationship with the president, just saying she was pursuing him would create pressure on Kaede, making Kaede less concerned about saving face.

Once Kaede and the president grew closer, got used to sharing a bed like the others and couldn't leave the president, only then might she reveal her relationship with him.

"...Iris, you're an elven princess, right? Can you freely decide your marriage like us?", Kaede wanted to say she didn't wish for it, but after opening her mouth, she still didn't directly answer, instead questioning if Iris's thought was just a whim.

Although she had previously speculated a little, thinking Iris had ulterior motives for approaching Hachiman and wasn't just a simple club member relationship.

But she didn't expect Iris to say it so straightforwardly without needing her to probe.

Now that Iris spoke first, it became hard for her to say Hachiman was too flirtatious or that she didn't believe Hachiman could marry an elven princess; otherwise, if Iris truly liked Hachiman, wouldn't that push Hachiman toward Iris?

"Although like many demi-human races, the elves also face the problem of declining birth rates, the elven race follows the principle of free love and never forces any citizen to fall in love or have children. Let alone me, even ordinary princesses have no arranged marriage regulations, and everyone's love is very free."

Iris explained with a smile. This explanation wasn't just for Kaede, but also for the suspected angels Vignette and Gabriel.

Even though the elven population was gradually decreasing, many elves still pursued spiritual freedom, unwilling to force themselves to like someone just for reproduction, and the elven race never forced those elven girls in their reproductive period to find someone to have children with.

It was just that as an elven princess and future queen, she needed to set an example, which was why she came to this world seeking someone who could revive the elven race and restore the elves' glory.

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