When I woke up in the morning, an unfamiliar ceiling came into view.

Of course it did.

This was the first time I had ever woken up in this enormous bed.

On top of that, we had made it a canopy bed at Roa’s suggestion, so it looked like the kind of bed a noble would sleep in in a fantasy story.

But there was something far more important than waking up in such a grand bed.

“Mm...”

That was Minori, the beautiful girl waking up beside me.

Even her trademark ponytail had apparently been undone for sleep, and her hair lay scattered over the bed.

I had seen her like this several times before, after baths and so on, but it still felt fresh.

“Good morning, Minori.”

When Minori opened her eyes, she looked startled for an instant after seeing me, then her face quickly turned red as if she had remembered something.

“G-good morning, Sousuke.”

Minori hurriedly sat up.

The bed and the floor around it still held strong traces of what had happened yesterday.

My pants, used condoms, towels that had wiped away our sweat and other traces, the distinctive smell, and the crimson sign of Minori’s first time.

Since the bonus area and the pure-white space had come between then and now, it felt as if a fair amount of time had passed, but the state of the room immediately brought back the events of last night.

“Uh... Minori. Your front is open.”

“............!”

I had left the buttons of her uniform undone, so her skin was visible.

She hurriedly covered her chest with both hands.

“Ugh... This is embarrassing.”

I was pretty sure we had done much more embarrassing things yesterday, but perhaps that and this were separate matters.

“Is your body okay?”

“Y-yes. Thank you... It feels a little strange, but I’m fine.”

“Just to be safe, let’s ask Chiyu for Basic Heal.”

“Y-yes. ...But I wonder if that will make Chiyu feel bad.”

True. Asking my healer girlfriend to heal the first-time pain of another girlfriend might be a pretty scumbag move.

“No, but she cast Painkiller for us, so it should be fine, right? And if Chiyu has any complaints, she’ll tell us properly.”

“Yes... You’re right. And... Sousuke?”

I had climbed out of bed, put on my pants, and opened the window to air out the room when Minori looked at me.

“Hm?”

“O-other girls apparently did... various things in the morning too, but we have the event coming up, don’t we?”

“Y-yeah...”

We were supposed to gather in the living room as soon as we woke up.

But for the past three days, I had done various things with Chiyu and the others in the morning too.

Maybe it would not be good if Minori were the only one without that.

She got out of bed, quickly straightened her clothes, and came over to me.

Then she moved close enough to gently place both hands against my chest, rose slightly onto her toes, and kissed me.

“So... I’ll hate it if you don’t properly pay attention to me later, okay...?”

When she said that with moist eyes, there was no way I could refuse.

Not that I had any intention of refusing.

“Y-yeah. Of course.”

“Good.”

She smiled softly, and then we headed to the living room together.

Chiyu was standing just before the living room, and she quickly cast Advanced Heal and Purify on us.

Purify was probably a substitute for a shower.

The event was about to begin, so there was no time to wash away the traces of last night.

Casting the spells in front of everyone would have been far too obvious, so she had apparently been considerate.

“Thanks, Chiyu.”

“Mm. Don’t mention it.”

Chiyu raised her thumb with a straight face.

“Th-thank you, Chiyu.”

“Now Mino is officially in the harem too.”

“I-I suppose that is what it means.”

Minori blushed again.

I had thought this again and again, but it was a situation I could never have imagined back in Japan.

Chiyu, my childhood friend. Shouko, the gal kind even to otaku. Shion, the graceful girl overwhelmingly popular with the boys. Minori, the strict, serious, intelligent Class Rep.

And now I was dating all four of them at the same time.

“So-kun, only twenty left.”

“Why are you assuming I’m going to get involved with every girl?”

There were twenty-three female students, and if we added Ms. Luminous, there were twenty-four women on the island.

You could also say one-sixth of the women on the island were my girlfriends...

“E-even if saying all of them is going too far, I do think there might be more.”

“There definitely will be. The legal wife knows.”

“Mmm... N-no, we need to focus on the event right now.”

The things I had done with Roa and Urume’s actions in the changing room crossed my mind, but I chased those thoughts away because this was not the time.

The three of us entered the living room, and I looked around at everyone.

“Morning. I want to explain things to Mashiro and the others too, so should we go outside?”

I nodded at Shouko’s words.

“Yeah, let’s do that. Event participants, let’s head outside.”

The final participating members were me, Chiyu, Shouko, Minori, and Mamonaka.

Yumekai’s barrier ability was useful, but this time, she would be protecting the house and the people staying behind.

The participating members headed outside, but for some reason, the other members came with us too.

It seemed they were seeing us off.

When we went outside, the early morning light was faintly bright.

Fenrir Mashiro approached Shouko, and black dragon Micron approached me.

“Ohhh, there, there. Mashiro, you’re such a good boy today too. We’ve got the event coming up, so I’m counting on you.”

“I’m counting on you too, Micron.”

I gently spoke to her while petting the fluffy black fur.

“Oh, right. Mamonaka, could you try transforming into a phantasmal beast for us?”

Mamonaka, who had been gazing blankly at us, flinched.

“O-okay! Um, then I’ll try turning into a Fenrir first!”

She closed her eyes as if concentrating. Her body glowed for an instant, and the next moment—

A Fenrir appeared.

“Wow. That’s amazing! She might be a little bigger than Mashiro?”

Shion clapped her hands in surprise.

“Myao, that’s awesome! Let me fluff you!”

When Urume hugged her, Mamonaka-Fenrir gave a troubled cry.

But the one who reacted even more strongly than Urume was Mashiro.

Mashiro approached Mamonaka-Fenrir and stared at her, breathing hard through his nose.

Mamonaka-Fenrir backed away several steps in obvious distress.

“Mashiro, stay. She may look like a Fenrir, but Myao is So-kun’s heroine candidate.”

“...Phantasmal beasts are living creatures too, so I suppose it’s only natural for them to want to leave descendants.”

At Chiyu and Minori’s reactions, Mamonaka-Fenrir flinched and returned to human form.

Once back to normal, her eyes were teary.

“Hey, Mashiro! You can’t scare Myao like that!”

When Shouko scolded him, Mashiro drooped his shoulders dejectedly.

“U-um, Mashiro? I’m okay, so you don’t have to be that depressed...”

Mamonaka comforted him.

“...Just to be safe, if you transform, wouldn’t a black dragon be better?”

“Y-yeah.”

Mamonaka nodded rapidly at Yumekai’s advice.

“...If Lady Shouko summoned a female Fenrir, and she formed a pair with Lord Mashiro, would baby Fenrirs be born?”

Roa murmured a simple question.

That was something I wondered about too, and if children were born, I also wondered how those children would be treated.

Would they count as Shouko’s summoned beasts, or would they be free to move around outside the restrictions of her ability?

Well, it was not something to think about right now.

While we were talking, the time for the event to begin drew closer.

The party had already been changed to a five-person composition, and everyone was in good condition.

“It’s about time.”

“Everyone, may fortune favor you in battle.”

Roa sent us off with a phrase that sounded like something from a martial-arts or war story.

“To think there would be an event that makes students fight each other... Please, everyone, come back safely.”

Ms. Luminous clasped her hands as if in prayer, looking worried.

“With this strongest team, you’ve totally got this! Do your best!”

Urume cheered us on with full energy.

“...Well, leave this side to me. Until Kuno and the others come back, I won’t let anyone through.”

Yumekai accepted responsibility for guarding the base.

“I’ll make a delicious breakfast and wait for you.”

Shion hid her anxiety and said that with a smile.

“Yeah. We’re off.”

“We’ll bring back a Right to Return.”

“We’re absolutely gonna win!”

“I’ll do everything I can so we can all return together one day.”

“It’s okay, it’s okay, it’s okay...”

Mamonaka alone looked anxious, but for the most part, everyone seemed the same as always.

Then my vision suddenly turned pure white.

The next instant, we were in a forest.

When I looked around, there was a splendid sand castle built directly behind us.

I supposed we had to protect this while destroying the enemy castle.

“So-kun, that.”

Chiyu pointed toward the sky, and when I looked that way, I saw a crystal-like hexahedron floating in midair.

Then words appeared on it.

【First match begins in 5, 4, 3.】

Apparently, it had been placed there in place of a blackboard or monitor.

“All right, it’s starting.”

【2, 1—0.】

The first match began.