Chapter 397: Curiosity killed the cat

It was the afternoon after successfully seducing Lilith and earning many points from her, right after school hours ended. Although Lilith could have challenged him to a duel with her after school, she did not do so and left straight from class.

Where did the girl go? According to Eiji’s guess, she went to the principal’s office to report and discuss something with that man. Eiji knew but he didn’t care because whatever it was must have something to do with him. He still had other things to do.

Lilith was very fragrant, but there was still another flower… another plot still waiting for him.

[Host, want to check your reward?]

Miss System didn’t comment on what her host was thinking, she was too lazy to do so and reminded her host about his reward.

She was such a good system.

“Miss System, is it your birthday?”

[I’m not having a birthday…]

“Did your neighbor give birth?”

[I don’t have a neighbor… No.]

“Then are you in a good mood?”

[…I’m in a normal mood.]

Miss System’s voice sounded flat.

Why? It was because she knew her host was thinking something silly.

That man thought there was something wrong with her because she nicely reminded him about checking the rewards even though this wasn’t the first time it had happened.

How rude.

He thought she was a stingy woman and if possible wanted her host to forget to check the rewards.

Actually it wasn’t wrong, but there was no way she would admit it.

“Is that so? Good for you.” Eiji said as he casually sat alone on one of the school park benches with his cell phone in his hand.

He didn’t go straight home with Lala and the others because he had an appointment with someone.

With his appearance like a male god, of course many students who walked home glanced at him. Some girls from other classes even invited him to play together at the arcade or other fun places.

Despite the bad rumors about him, his popularity among the girls at school was actually high. Not a few girls liked bad boys because they thought it was cool.

Eiji refused all the girls’ invitations with the excuse that he was waiting for his girlfriend which disappointed them. He liked pretty girls although many of the ordinary girls at Kuoh Academy were actually quite pretty and cute, but there was no way they could compare to the heroine and female supporting characters of a franchise.

His standards in choosing women are arguably high.

[Ding! It was detected that the host has changed the plot in the “Trinity Seven” franchise]

[Successfully changed the plot of “Trinity Seven” by 4% by teasing Lilith and making her like you even though she doesn’t realize it which could potentially change some plots in the future!]

Oh? Sometimes Eiji wondered how Miss System knew what the girls felt about him. Perhaps as a system whose specialty was inner voices, she could also eavesdrop on the girls’ hearts.

Speaking of Trinity Seven, this franchise had finally been officially added to his mission list. Eiji actually didn’t know much about this franchise, he only knew a few details and the beautiful girls who were there. For example Lilith, he knew her real name was not Lilith Asami.

[If I’m not mistaken Lilith’s real name is unknown to the girl herself because her memory was sealed by her father. Her name is Lilith Azazel, she is the daughter of the Demon Lord who guards the Sky Library.]

[In certain plots, Lilith will be kidnapped by her father because she is the key to opening the gates to various worlds including the main world of Trinity Seven which is actually an alternate world.]

Miss System: “….”

I was sharing your reward here but you interrupted?

In this situation, you still want to show off to the heroines!

Especially Lilith, that girl must be shocked and thinking of you in such a way. This is your real goal, right?

You want to make the girl even more curious about you.

This is a trick called “Curiosity killed the cat”.

Don’t know how many times her host has used this trick and it always works.

In the principal’s office.

Lilith who had just finished reporting her opinion about Eiji to the principal was suddenly stunned.

“Lilith, what’s wrong?” Master Biblia asked with a smile that Lilith found irritating.

Lilith didn’t know that man had been watching the scene of her and Eiji behind the old school building with his crystal ball.

“Nothing, I was just thinking about something.” Lilith said. Although she wanted to say she could hear Eiji’s inner voice, strangely there was always a mysterious power that made her unable to tell others.

And about Eiji’s inner voice, she was surprised because this was the first time she heard her real name. Or rather she thought Lilith Asami was her real name.

Before this she had heard from Eiji’s inner voice that she was the daughter of the Demon Lord and was the key that could connect many worlds. But because of her mission, Lilith forgot and only thought about it now.

She did not remember what her parents were like after all she was an orphan who grew up in an orphanage before the principal, Master Biblia picked her up to make her a student at the Royal Biblia Academy and thanks to her magical talent and hard work in research, she managed to become the first Trinity Seven member.

At this point she was convinced by what Eiji said in her heart, but were the things about her true identity true?

In the future her father would kidnap her, Lilith felt complicated about this. She didn’t even know the man and he seemed like a bad person.

To prevent herself from being kidnapped, she had to be more vigilant from now on. Lilith was becoming increasingly curious about what else Eiji knew about her that she herself didn’t know. This made her think of what they did during their lunch break.

T-That kiss… Boy stole her first kiss and wanted her to be his girlfriend!

This matter is a bit serious, right?

Lilith was actually confused, she didn’t reject immediately like she did to confessions from other men, strangely she couldn’t reject Eiji immediately after everything that happened.

She was hesitating…

“Hehe~ Is Lilith-sensei thinking of Eiji-kun? Go on a date with him, I approve of your relationship.”

“P-Principal, what are you talking about?! I’m not thinking about Eiji and I don’t need your approval!” Lilith shouted with a red face from embarrassment and glared at the principal.

Master Biblia laughed briefly before saying with a rather serious expression. “Well Lilith you’ve done well. Eiji seems to like you and even offered his help to you as long as you are willing to be his girlfriend.”

“Principal, don’t tell me you want me to…”

“No, I won’t force you. How could I force my student?”

“But you sent me on this mission…” Lilith looked at the man sitting in front of her flatly.

Master Biblia pretended to cough, “You are free to use any method to get Eiji to help us. So it’s up to you whether you want to be his girlfriend or not, Lilith.”

If you’re willing to be Eiji’s girlfriend, Arata might be sad.

But in the end the decision is yours.

Master Biblia swallowed these words. He was originally very optimistic about Arata, but he couldn’t take his side because there were other boys who were better than him.

…

At the same time on the other side.

Eiji had just received 1 positive point from Lilith and Miss System had also given him a reward.

That reward was—

[Ding! Congratulations host, you got “Soul Devouring”.]

“Soul Devouring? Miss System, where did you steal it from?” Eiji asked because he wasn’t familiar with this reward at all. In the past he remembered Miss System had given him a small devouring ability that allowed him to absorb magic or energy thrown at him.

But that was a small devouring ability.

Soul Devouring sounded more extraordinary.

It was clearly the ability to devour souls and according to the system’s description, he could devour as many souls as he wanted and each soul could increase his power.

How much his power could increase depended on the quality of the soul he devoured of course. Even so this is still a very cheating ability!

In eastern novel terms.

This could be called a heaven-defying ability.

Eiji was amused when he thought of the protagonists in those novels. For example the protagonist named Tang San, he wanted to want to steal Xiao Wu from him and let him watch as he and the bunny girl did…

[Host, please keep your mind from falling into the gutter of another franchise. And no, the reward this time I didn’t steal it from anyone, don’t slander me.]

Miss System complained. It seemed that in the eyes of her host she was becoming a woman who liked to steal.

It was true that some of the rewards she had given her host were from another world just because she was too lazy to copy them.

But this Soul Devouring ability? Tsk! I have it myself.

“So you made it yourself?”

[That’s privacy, host.]

“….”

Eiji rolled his eyes. At this moment the voice of the girl he was waiting for was heard.

“Eiji, sorry to keep you waiting. I fell asleep in my class.”

Who? It was a beautiful girl with black hair and red eyes whose figure was very sexy, especially the black stockings that wrapped her long legs.

She was Kasumigaoka Utaha. The beautiful senior of the third grade and at the same time one of the heroine of “Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend”.

Eiji never got tired of looking at her. He got up the chair and hugged the girl’s soft body which made her say “Geez~ Junior pervert.”

Even so, Utaha did not remove herself from his embrace.

“You made a promise to go out with me after school but you made me wait because you fell asleep in your class? Utaha-senpai, you’re cruel.”

Utaha smiled mischievously. “I’m sorry but I didn’t get enough sleep from writing my novel last night. And it looks like my boyfriend wasn’t too bored being made to wait because there were girls flirting with him before I came.”

[How did Utaha know?]

“There’s nothing like that.” Eiji said innocently. He was pretending, he was doing it to increase the credibility of his inner voice that the inner voice could not lie. After all, this small detail was rather important to cultivate every day.

This was for the sake of a bright future and no obstacles at all!

Though he knew he didn’t need to go that far but he just wanted to do it.

Utaha did not believe him. Without even hearing his inner voice. Actually, from the window of her classroom on the fourth floor, she happened to see when some girls approached Eiji and tried to invite him somewhere.

Fortunately the boy refused their invitation, he still remembered his promise with one of his girlfriends.

Bah. Otherwise, she would have ignored him for a week!

Utaha released herself from the boy’s embrace and hugged one of his arms. “Let’s just say I believe what you said, now let’s quickly go to the place you promised.”

“….”

Eiji smiled wryly, he wanted to leave immediately but Utaha didn’t know. Or rather he hasn’t told her, right?

The person who first invited him to play after school was actually himself.

But he didn’t just invite Utaha.

He also invited…

“Kasumigaoka Utaha! What are you doing here?!”

The blonde figure whose voice Utaha recognized very well pushed her and separated her from Eiji.

Utaha smiled but her eyes were not smiling at all. She was staring at Eiji in annoyance.

“Eiji, explain.”

“Hey are you ignoring me? Eiji, you owe me an explanation too! You said you wanted to invite me to eat together after school but, but why is this cow too…” Eriri glanced sarcastically at the black-haired girl standing beside her.

“Bad milk, you have a problem with my existence? I happen to feel the same way about you.” Utaha folded her hands under her large breasts. This movement made her breasts swell to the maximum which certainly sent a critical strike at someone.

However, before they continued their dog and cat battle to the next level.

Each of their hands was grasped by Eiji whose figure stood between them.

“Don’t fight, actually I invited you two together.”

“What?! If I knew it would be like this, I wouldn’t have eaten with Kasumigaoka Utaha!” Eriri gritted her little tiger teeth but she did not remove her hand from Eiji at all. She actually hugged the boy’s burly arm while glaring at Utaha on the other side.

Utaha also did the same except for baring her teeth. She pinched Eiji’s arm and said with her red eyes that would make most boys shudder.

“Eiji, I know you’re a greedy junior because besides me you also have many other women. But making me together with a golden retriever on this occasion is too harsh, right?”

“Golden retriever? Utaha, you cow!” Eriri did not want to be insulted and she did not hesitate to insult Utaha back.

But in this situation. Instead of being panicked by Eriri’s shout and shuddering because of Utaha’s gaze. Eiji was very calm, he could even still smile while tightly holding the two girls’ hands.

Both of their hands were soft even though Utaha’s were fuller. Eriri who was a mangaka had very slender and well-trained fingers, fingers with such qualities must be good when used for holding…

[Host, have you ever thought of increasing the censorship for underage children or people with strict morality?]

I haven’t.

[Oh, okay continue.]

Where were we? Right… Eriri has nice fingers to hold his little brother.

And to accomplish that. There was really no need to make Utaha and Eriri reconcile. But as the Harem King, Eiji at least wanted the two girls to get along with each other while with him.

“Utaha, Eriri. You two must have realized it but you two I already consider as my girlfriends… I want to go out with both of you at the same time. Can you grant it?”

Utaha had officially become Eiji’s girlfriend not immediately denying that she was his girlfriend.

But Eiji and Eriri’s relationship was still unclear. The girl was dumbfounded because even though in the past she had given Eiji a blowjob to get revenge on Tomoya. The boy had not confessed to her and she was also too shy to confess to him because of her tsundere personality.

But…! But…!

It would be a lie if Eriri said she didn’t like Eiji, especially after the boy had filled her stomach with his white milk. She had not forgotten the delicious strawberry flavor from that time and wanted it again.

Actually, it wasn’t just Utaha, she was also often jealous of the women who had recently joined the boy’s harem. Obviously she had become entangled with Eiji earlier than those women, but until now she had been ignored which left her unsatisfied and wondering if it was because she was less beautiful?

No, Eriri is confident in her own beauty!

But the only problem was her chest! She often cried over her small breast size. However, she remembered that Eiji had a method to enlarge breasts with his superpower.

Eriri was excited when she first heard this and the proof had already been proven by Nana from first grade who now had large breasts even though she was the size of hers before.

What Eiji said about him thinking of her as his girlfriend was shameless. Even so Eriri was happy. The only problem was that Eiji seemed to want him and Utaha to get along.

This is… I’m afraid this is impossible.

Utaha must also be thinking the same as herself in this regard.

But—

[Where’s my answer? Hey these girls are really… This makes me sad, I feel inferior to the protagonist Tomoya in the original work. Tomoya in the original work could at least make Utaha and Eriri get along when he was with them, but me? Even after I begged, these girls are reluctant to go on a triple date. Maybe I should cancel our plans.]

That’s a lie. Tomoya in the original work wasn’t even able to get the two girls to get along. Whenever they met each other, Utaha and Eriri would fight each other until their attention was diverted by their game projects.

Eiji only pretended to be sad using his inner voice which made Miss System unsurprised.

Leme wasn’t surprised either, she was watching like Miss System.

“Ugh… I, I… Well, I don’t mind doing it with Kasu-, I mean Utaha…” Eriri who had heard Eiji’s inner voice reluctantly agreed to his request.

She didn’t want Eiji to feel inferior to her childhood friend, Tomoya who was now a criminal and locked up in juvenile prison.

“Me too. I’m fine playing with Sawa-, I mean Eriri” Utaha also compromised. The expression love makes people stupid was true.

She also panicked a bit when she heard Eiji was going to cancel their plans. She was afraid that the boy would ignore her after this and spend time with the other women in his harem.

Eiji nodded in satisfaction. He had succeeded.

“Then let’s go. I happen to have found a food shop that is rumored to sell very good food. The location of that shop is not far from the school.”

Utaha and Eriri became a little curious about the delicatessen their boyfriend Eiji had mentioned. The former was often busy writing novels and usually rarely ate outside of home and school because she was too lazy to do so. While the latter was a doujinshi artist and a young lady from a wealthy family, in terms of food she also rarely ate out because the servants in her house would make food for her.

The two actually have some similarities because of their professions. But only love could make them be kind to each other.

Both of them let Eiji pull their hands, they didn’t glare at each other like they usually did because they didn’t want to make Eiji sad.

They forced a smile and refrained from insulting each other.

[Wow… You managed to tame the famous cat and dog in the original work. Host, should I clap?]

‘Play a lively clapping sound.’

…

Meanwhile.

There was a girl who after school actually had the same destination as Eiji and his two girlfriends.

The girl was almost to the place she was going but a two meter tall ghostly figure suddenly came out from inside a small alley and the creature that looked like a long black haired woman with pale skin and long nails saw her.

Her red eyes stared at her.

She saw her!

“You can see me? You can see me? You can see me?” Asked the ghost in a creepy voice under the afternoon sky.

“Hiii-! Why, why can I see it again?!”

Miko Yotsuya who had gotten used to a quiet life without seeing ghosts for two months thanks to Eiji was now losing her usual self-control. She forgot to pretend not to see the ghost and screamed until the ghost smiled so wide.

“You can see me!!”

“Nooooo!”

Miko cried and even ran because the ghost was chasing her! The ghost crawled among the crowd and chased her in that posture, how could she not panic?

Carrying her school bag, she ran as hard as she could and unconsciously called out the name of a boy that came to her mind.

“Eiji-senpai! Eiji-senpai! Help me!”

She shouted his name, but she did not expect that her request for help would be answered so quickly.

[Miko? Don’t tell me this girl can see ghosts again? Gosh, it’s probably because she’s the female protagonist of the franchise where every episode is about her seeing ghosts. Even after I took away her ability to see ghosts in the past, that ability can grow again in her.]

[Interesting.]

Don’t call it interesting. Can you help me right now?

Miko complained in her heart, she was panting after running for several minutes. Glancing back, the ghost was still chasing her!

Inevitably, she had to run again. But as she turned forward, she bumped into the chest of someone whose scent was familiar.

“Yo Miko, need help?”

“Yes!” Miko unhesitatingly replied because right now she saw Eiji’s handsome face. And not only that, there were also two beautiful girls famous in her school who were Kasumigaoka Utaha and Eriri Spencer Sawamura.

Both of them stared at her pitiful appearance that made her embarrassed.

“Okay leave it to me.”

Eiji pushed Miko’s body back gently.

“I found you! You can see me too? You can!”

The creepy female ghost shouted in a shrill voice and pounced forward.

Eiji stretched out one of his hands, a black portal with terrifying suction power opened in front of the ghost. It was the “Soul Devouring” ability he had just acquired.

The portal sucked in the ghost’s basically soul until it disappeared and added to its power as much as… To be honest it was so small that he didn’t feel the difference at all.

Eiji was not disappointed because from the beginning he knew the ghost was as weak as a flea.

Utaha and Eriri could only see the portal that Eiji created so they didn’t really understand what Eiji was fighting. But Miko breathed a sigh of relief when she saw Eiji managed to defeat the ghost.

She looked at the boy with a twinkle in her yellow eyes.

“Thank you for saving me, Senpai.”

“You’re welcome, is your house around here?”

Hearing Eiji’s question, Miko shook her head. “It’s quite far from here. I was actually on my way to a popular food store that my friend recommended.”

[Let me guess. It must be the same food shop that me, Utaha and Eriri were heading to. What a coincidence. I only chose that shop because I heard Risa’s random conversations with Lala and the girls in my class.]

The heroines, especially Utaha and Eriri fell silent.

So the one who told you about the food shop was Risa?

You were quite active because of what that girl said.

“Achuu!”

Risa, who had just finished bathing and was now playing with her cell phone while lying on the living room sofa in her house, suddenly sneezed.

“Who’s talking about me? By the way I don’t know when exactly Eiji will be playing at my house.”

…

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