My Friend’s Harem is Obsessed With Me – Chapter 129

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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: FusionX
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“Is it going well?”

“Huh? Didn’t you just leave earlier?”

“…… I came to see you.”

Belin Mayas came and sat next to me as I was watching the twins, Ben and Valtory.

I told him just in case, thinking Diana might have been with him earlier, but I guess she wasn’t his purpose.

“Yes, well. It’s going well, I guess?”

Since I had been watching only them from after the lecture ended at 4 until the sunset, my eyes were a bit dry.

The twins were busy preparing for the competition with Pales Academy, not only in ball sports like battle soccer and mana volleyball but also in sword events like the previous king’s game test, so I was learning a lot.

The twins, who saw me together with Belin Mayas…

At first, they waved their hands at Belin, and then they gave me the middle finger, asking if I was still next to him.

I also reflected the middle finger with a smile, and Belin sat next to me, let out a dry laugh, saying they were hopeless.

“Just in case, I’m telling you, I’m not on your side or Tana’s side.”

“Yes?”

“When I first told you about the duel, I said it was to save Tana, but to be exact, it was because I wanted to give her a chance. It’s too pitiful for her to be dragged to the slaughterhouse without any resistance just because she’s from a branch family.”

“Yes, I suppose so.”

I knew it wasn’t unconditional goodwill.

In the first place, the reason Belin proposed the duel wasn’t that he wanted Tana to actually win, but to give her time to struggle even a little.

“I’ll tell you for reference. If Tana wins, Valtory will be taken away as the princess’s maid.”

“……”

“I don’t know why, but I heard the princess’s side directly requested it. They said they would like us to provide a maid.”

“Is that so?”

“Yes, so even though Valtory is pretending not to care, she’ll actually be quite desperate. That child’s dream is to become an outstanding swordsman with her twin brother, not a maid.”

Belin was watching Valtory, who was sweating and swinging a sword with her peers.

Following his gaze, I also turned my attention to her.

From the perspective of having watched those children for a few days, the two of them definitely seemed to have passion and dreams.

It was evident that they were very satisfied with their current lives.

“I’m sorry, but this side is also going to be desperate. I have no intention of harboring unnecessary sympathy.”

“Yeah, of course. The duel is only three days away now, so I just wanted to say that it would be nice if everyone prepared to the best of their abilities until then.”

Belin got up from his seat, brushing off his pants like that.

I also followed him.

“Huh? Weren’t you spying on them?”

“It’s over. And now we need to check.”

“……Check?”

Stretching my creaking body from sitting for a long time, I made one request to Belin.

“Let’s have a duel.”

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Three days later, the day of the duel.

Since all the lectures were over and we had borrowed the academy’s separate dueling ground, it took quite some time to start the duel even on the day.

Perhaps because of that, Tana was so nervous that her deep breathing was excessively rough even when she arrived in front of the dueling ground, and Eve next to her started stretching a bit excessively, saying her body was stiff.

“Urgh!”

Watching Eve move her body back and forth, I thought she was definitely stiff today, but a light blow suddenly hit my side.

“Aren’t you blatantly staring only at Eve?”

It was Hayun, who had come to cheer for the duel today.

“Yeah, Eve’s body seems a bit stiff. I think I should go and help her loosen up.”

“……Sigh, if you were blatant, I would dislike it.”

“Huh?”

When you’re too tense and move your body violently, you can get hurt.

So I was going to go and help her, but Hayun grabbed my shoulder.

“I’ll go and help. And keep in mind, the person you like is Eris. Eris is also waiting for you.”

“What’s this about so suddenly? Of course.”

What is she talking about?

“I heard that even if you don’t have feelings, they can develop if you get physically close to other girls. So don’t create such opportunities. I don’t want my friend to become a Casanova.”

“Gosh, you didn’t hear it, you read it. Eve told me that the loan rate for romance-related books has been quite high recently.”

Then, unusually, Hayun’s face turned red with embarrassment, and she shouted back.

“It’s because of you! You keep consulting me about romance all the time! I’m studying things I don’t even know well to help you with that!”

“Yeah, that’s right. Thank you, teacher!”

“It’s annoying.”

Hayun turned her head and went to help Eve stretch.

Although she said that, thanks to Hayun, I had received various advice and had also become firm about the direction.

“Hey, I came to watch.”

I naturally dodged May’s hand as she approached and tried to link arms with me.

She immediately made an annoyed expression, but I answered with a sage-like expression.

“Teacher Hayun just said it’s wise to avoid excessive physical contact with other women, so I can’t go against that.”

“Bullshit.”

“……”

I didn’t expect her to say it so blatantly.

May glanced at Hayun, who was spreading Eve’s legs, and warned me.

“Hey, don’t let your guard down just because they help you. Usually, those who are in the supporting role end up baring their fangs later.”

“Huh?”

“I’m telling you to be careful. Don’t put your head in a snake’s mouth just because you asked for help.”

She’s thinking of Hayun the same as herself.

“She’s different from you, so it’s fine. We’re completely flawless friends.”

May clicked her tongue and took out a candy from her hooded sweatshirt pocket, unwrapped it, and warned me.

“If she asks you to go somewhere, reject her saying you have to meet me. If she says she’ll help you with practice or something, slap her right away.”

“Is that a kidnapping method? And what practice?”

“Sex.”

Momentarily shocked, I stared at May with wide-open eyes and a gaping mouth, but she pushed the candy she had just unwrapped into my mouth with a playful smile.

She pushed it so hard that it hit my uvula, but…

“Ack!”

“Hehe, if you want to practice, come to your big sis!”

“Hey, I told you not to use that word!”

As if expecting me to say something, May immediately turned around and ran to the opposite side.

Anyway, the kid has only matured in strange ways…

I need to find a way to deal with that.

“……”

Feeling a presence behind me, I glanced back and saw a small white-haired girl staring at me intently.

“What are you looking at?”

I spoke a bit sharply, feeling like I had been caught being swayed by May, but Sen snorted.

“You know what? There’s a betting pool going on at the academy right now.”

“Is it May’s gang again? I told those bastards last time to stop doing weird things, but……”

“No, it’s not them.”

Sen shook her head from side to side.

Perhaps she still hadn’t gotten rid of her old habit from the Chokugen Faction, but she delivered the information to me as if reporting.

“It’s about who the Night King’s girlfriend is.”

“What?”

What did I just hear?

I didn’t mean to ask her to say it again, but Sen deliberately said it once more.

“Who is Daniel McLean’s girlfriend?”

“Crazy bastard! There’s someone running a betting pool like that? Who is it! Which bastard is it!”

“I’ve already wiped them out, so you don’t have to worry.”

Seeing Sen speaking calmly again, I wondered if she was playing with me, but anyway, it was fortunate that she had taken care of it.

“Really? Phew, thanks.”

“By the way, Eve was the highest at 37%, followed by Rin.”

“You don’t have to tell me that.”

I didn’t want to know that at all.

“Disappointingly, I was at 3%. But since I have a bond with them, I let the students who bet on me go.”

“Why did you let them go?”

At this point, I just asked according to the flow of consciousness.

It seemed difficult to expect a proper answer from Sen anyway.

“Huh? They’re the ones who believed in me. So it’s like a reward, I guess?”

“……”

Enough.

I don’t even want to get involved.

Anyway, Sen said she had taken care of it, so she must have handled it well in her own way so they couldn’t do it again.

“Forget it, just go.”

As I waved my hand as if shooing a fly, Sen pouted her lips and headed towards Hayun.

Tana and Eve seemed to have loosened up their bodies and were lightly swinging their swords, and Hayun was assisting them.

“I’m here.”

“Huh? You came too?”

“Of course, I have to come. You said it’s a very important duel for Tana.”

Rin approached, brushing the hair by her ear.

I didn’t expect Rin to come, so after thanking her on behalf of Tana, I was wondering when the Mayas twins would arrive…

“But did you enjoy it?”

“……Huh?”

Although it was late summer, summer was still summer.

The sweltering heat was at its peak, but strangely, the back of my neck felt cool as if someone had used ice magic.

“I asked if you enjoyed it.”

Rin looked at me with a picture-perfect smile.

It was a question I had been asked several times, so I didn’t ask what she enjoyed.

I was just so used to it that my body now answered as it remembered.

“I didn’t enjoy it.”

“Is that so?”

“……Yeah.”

I slightly turned my head and looked towards the door of the dueling ground.

The Mayas family twins were entering there, along with the royal servants who came to take away today’s loser.

‘Ah, should I just go as a maid instead?’

Feeling disillusioned with academy life, I unknowingly had a strange thought.

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