I Was Not Popular With Girls in My Previous Life, but I Was Reincarnated Into a World Where Harems Are the Norm, and a Mentally Unstable Elf Beauty Follows Me Around - Chapter 28

Something That Never Runs Out

I woke up in the morning to find everyone on the bed. It was not quite wide enough for five people to sleep comfortably, so they lay on either side of me, two to each flank.

Among them, Sakura had been sleeping while holding Misty like a body pillow.

Seeing a sight like this made me reflect deeply that I, who had not even had a girlfriend back in Japan, let alone gotten married, had truly ended up marrying four women.

As I thought about that, Airi, who lay right next to me, was the first to wake up.

“Good morning, Kaito.”

“Good morning, Airi.”

“Last night was intense, was it not?”

“Yeah.”

We gazed at each other for a while. Then we embraced. We were not the talkative type, so the two of us did not need words. That was just fine for Airi and me.

“Airi, thank you again. I was anxious on my own, but because you were there, I managed to keep going this far.”

“You are welcome.”

Airi always accepted me just as I was. Even if this had been Japan, I thought I would have married Airi.

“You two, what are you doing from the morning! Let me join in too!”

Meg, who had woken up, hugged both me and Airi together.

“That is unfair! I like everyone too, you know?”

Misty followed suit and clung on in the same way.

“Oh my, everyone is so energetic from the morning. Were you not satisfied last night?”

Finally, Sakura joined in as well, and the family hug was complete.

A little over a year passed after that. Now the nine of us lived together. That was because each of them had given birth to my child.

Pregnancy periods varied by race, and they had not all happened at the same time, so the children had been born at slightly different times.

But they were all still babies for the time being, so each mother took care of her own.

“Kaito, could you help me a little?”

“Of course.”

The child with the elf Airi also had pointed ears, just like hers.

“Hey, Kaito. Could you watch this one for a bit?”

“Leave it to me.”

The child with the human Meg looked like an ordinary kid you might see anywhere in Japan. Well, that made sense.

“Kaito, stroke her ears; it makes her happy.”

“Got it.”

The child with Misty naturally had beast ears too, and gently stroking them stopped her crying as if by magic.

“Kaito, I am off to work, so take care.”

“Understood.”

The child with Sakura looked normal for now, at least in appearance. But she would probably awaken as a succubus someday, so I worried about that already.

For the time being, I had paused our activities as an adventurer party. The reason was, of course, child-rearing. Adventuring had no fixed days off to begin with, so taking maternity leave was easy enough.

But that would leave us without income, so I supported us by taking on solo explorations and monster hunts.

That said, I only accepted requests that were guaranteed safe. After all, my body was no longer just my own.

On top of that, there was Sakura’s salary. I was truly grateful that she worked so diligently.

So right now, all I could do was solo work and housework.

To be honest, once I actually found myself in a harem situation, it turned out to be tough. You could only enjoy it unconditionally and carefree up to high school, probably.

But all four of them said this to me.

“I am happy that I could marry Kaito. When I saw you recruiting party members at the adventurer’s guild, I actually felt a bit sorry for you. At first, I only meant to join for a little while. But as we spent time together, I did not want to leave. So I did my best to appeal to you in my own way. I never knew it could feel this good to have your feelings get through.”

“I thought you were hitting on me when you talked to me in the forest. But as we talked, I realized we both wanted to get married. So I suggested the agency. It was a meeting of interests, I guess? And then the agency introduced us to each other. I believe in fate. And I was not wrong. Because I like you this much, Kaito!”

“When I first saw you at the agency, I decided to prey on you. But who would have thought I would fall for you instead? Succubi get misunderstood a lot, but when we fall seriously for someone, we devote our whole lives to them. So I will make you completely happy!”

“Kaito is my lifesaver. But back then, I was still a child. So I wanted to grow up quickly, so badly. And when I grew up and met you, I was so moved I almost cried. I thought you might hate me, so I acted overly cheerful and exaggerated. But I did not need to. Because you accept me no matter what. I love you so much!”

I liked being alone. Even so, I sometimes thought, “Being alone is lonely after all.”

When I returned home, the lights were on, and my family waited for me. That was the sight I had ultimately never seen until the end back in Japan.

Thinking about it now, that was only natural. After all, I had never taken action myself. No encounters would come just by waiting at home.

That was why in this world, I decided, “This time, I will get married!” and took action on my own. And that led to now.

If I had lived the same life in this other world as in Japan, I would have regretted it twice over.

People cannot live alone, as the saying goes, and I felt that deeply.

And if my presence made someone feel happy, there was nothing more joyful than that.

So today too, I poured all my love into my family. But there was no need to worry. After all, that was an emotion that would never run out.