"Keine, I wanna go play with Mokou too!"
"Finish your homework first."
"Uuu—" Under Keine's ironclad supervision, Cirno and the other little ones could only pout at the coffee table, scribbling away.
Every escape attempt ended with Keine plucking them back, sometimes even confiscating their snacks.
Watching their miserable faces, Ran smiled and brought them some fruit.
Meanwhile, on the sofa—
"Lady Patchouli, feeling better?"
"Mmm… A bit more to the side. Harder. Still sore."
"Like this?"
"Mmm~" Patchouli savored the massage, but her mind replayed last night's scandalous scenes.
Marisa, sitting in the boss's lap, arms locked around his neck, even as he pounded her into oblivion.
That's why our shoulders ache! It's like our arms got ripped off!
That traitor deserves divine retribution!!
As she seethed, Rin. watching them from across the room. heard the Sage chime.
『 The system has detected a romance target. Added to the list. 』
『 Main quest established: "Capture" Koakuma 』
『 Reward: Weakness Infliction. 』
"..."
"Why didn't you trigger this when we first met?"
『 Busy building the wine cellar. Someone has to prepare the battlefield. 』
The Sage's righteous tone implied this household would collapse without it.
Rin rolled his eyes.
Then perked up at the next alert—
『 』
『 New Product: Bubble Tea Ingredients & Equipment 』
『 Daily Quest: Sell 10 Cups of Bubble Tea 』
『 Reward: 5 Bubble Tea Recipe + Ingredients 』
'Bubble tea?!' Rin's eyes sparkled.
"Marisa!"
"Here!"
Marisa zoomed over from the shop, vibrating with anticipation.
"C'mon. Let's make something delicious."
At those words, Suika and Yuugi's earsperked up.
'New booze?!'
"Nope. Not alcohol."
The two immediately lost interest, resuming their mopping.
As Rin and Marisa raced to the warehouse.
Back in the Bamboo Forest…
The battle had reached its climax. Amid their flurry of wild punches, Kaguya fumbled the console.
Right as Mokou swung her fist—
CRACK.
Time froze.
Then—
"GYAAAAAAAAAAAH—!!!"
"MY BRAND-NEW, UNOPENED, GAME-FILLED HANDHELD!!!!!!"
Mokou clutched her ears, the screechpiercing her eardrums.
Aya, still hiding, paled.
'I need to leave!!'
But before she could flee—
WHOOSH!!!
A galeerased the flames, the bamboo trembling in its wake.
A silver strand brushed Aya's vision.
Then a handgrabbed her scruff.
"I surrender! I'm just a bystander! I didn't burn anything!!" Ignoring her pleas, the mysterious figure dragged her toward the wreckage.
Mokou, mid-charge, froze under the oppressiveaura.
'You cheater! Since when do you bring your mom?!'
Before she could protest—
BONK! BONK!
Twoknuckleshammered Mokou and Kaguya's skulls, sending them rolling in agony.
Kaguya sniffled, cradling the shattered console like a fallen comrade.
When Mokou finally sat up, she gaped at their intervener.
Silver hair gleaming like moonlight, framing a face bothgentle and aloof.
Her red-and-blue robe, embroidered with constellations and hexagrams, cloaked a figure so voluptuous it stunned Mokou.
'How the hell is she that stacked?!Did she drink milk from the source?!'
Eirin ignored her stare, tossing Aya aside before flicking Kaguya's forehead again.
"I'm busy brewing. Take your squabbles elsewhere."
Under her piercing gaze, all three shrank like scolded children.
Satisfied, Eirin vanished.
Only for Mokou and Kaguya to immediatelygrapple again.
"You featherbrained arsonist! Pay for my console!!"
"I bought that!"
"Heretic! Die!!!"
"You bitch—"
WHOOSH!
Suddenly, they found themselves outside the forest.
The console'sremainsdumped beside them. And at its place, a fist-sizedcrater in a nearby boulder, its cracks still crawling outward, which silenced them both instantly…