Chapter 29

“So… Moeka Mama is that kind of person…”

Kazuhiko said, his voice strained.

“Yes~ I’ve been like this since I was little~ I have a strong desire to make boys my baby and spoil them thoroughly~ But I’ve held myself back until now~”

If only you had kept that sealed away forever.

“Also, there was no one who really clicked with me~ But when I saw Kazu-chan because he was Reika-chan’s crush, I thought, ‘Arere?’~”

Huh~? That’s strange~? Is this boy my baby~? Something like that, he guessed, but he didn’t understand.

“And as we were having lunch together, I wanted to talk to you more and confirm it~ And then, sure enough~” 

“You’re looking at me like that…”

Wasn’t there some kind of monster or ghost like that? Kazuhiko looked at Reika again, silently pleading, “Help me!” But she just nodded.

“You finally found your soulmate, how wonderful.” 

“No! This isn’t a wonderful story! And I am your boyfriend!” 

“The fact that you assert yourself so strongly like that made my heart flutter.”

—Oh crap, there’s no one here who makes sense!

Kazuhiko felt as though he had been abandoned alone in a foreign land. Was this supposed to be an isekai transfer story? No, it was a contemporary romantic comedy.

Just as Kazuhiko felt his vision fading to white in despair, he realized there was one more person present. 

But this was the last of the three musketeers, her two friends. It was best not to hold out hope. However, she was also the only person he could cling to.

Kazuhiko looked at Tachibana Kurobe with the strong urge to cry, “Save me!” It was the gaze of a man crushed by despair, the eyes of a pitiful man seeking salvation. 

And, tragically—tragically—it seemed to have struck a chord with her.

“…Whoooa, yeah, that’s pretty good, Kazuhiko…” 

“Huh…?”

At that moment, Kazuhiko’s danger detection sensor, which had been continuously honed by Reika, showed a sudden reaction. 

But the fact that it only reacted when it was too late was typical of Kazuhiko. Tachibana subtly licked her lips, her lively face now stained with ecstasy.

“Uh, uh…?”

Is there really no salvation? Were there no gods or Buddhas left in this world? —They must be on vacation in Tachikawa or something.

“Reika and Moeka have good taste~ I felt the spark too.” 

“Ara, Tachibana too?” 

“Ara, ara~” 

“Huh? Huh…?”

At Tachibana’s words, Reika nodded with the look of a satisfied guardian watching over from his back, as if to say, “Finally, you get it”. And the insane “Mama” looked delighted, as if saying, “Finally, you recognize the goodness of my son”. 

Kazuhiko was the one who wanted to run away but couldn’t.

“So?”

Tachibana turned her palm upward and stylishly offered Kazuhiko her index and middle fingers.

“How much money do you need to be saved, Kazuhiko?” 

“Huh, what?”

How much? Be saved?

What exactly was she saying? Her usage of the word was wrong. —No, Kazuhiko didn’t understand yet, but the meaning was right. It just wasn’t normal.

“Ah~ Kazu-chan, Tachibana-chan is like this~”

Moeka offered a helping hand.

“She’s the type of girl who wants to spoil the boy she likes with money~”

What kind of girl is that!? 

Kazuhiko almost yelled in a dramatic style. The helping hand was truly a nice boat of madness.

Kazuhiko looked at Reika again, pleading, “Help.” —A man who never learns. But Reika explained properly.

“It means exactly what she said. Tachibana, despite appearances, is the daughter of a very well-to-do family. Not only that, but she’s a talented woman who even started her own projects within the company and earns money. Incidentally, Tachibana is the one who created that hypnosis app. She is truly our Cupid.” 

“Oh, stop complimenting me so much~”

Tachibana blushed, but shouldn’t someone comment on the “despite appearances” part? And was a pink and black spiral truly a good metaphor for Cupid?

“So, when she finds a boy she likes, she has this kink where she spoils him rotten with as much money as he wants. Up until now she’d never met anyone who clicked with her…You hit the jackpot, Kazu-kun. You’ve got a patron.”

Wait? Wasn’t Reika Tachibana’s best friend? Is this treatment okay? But Tachibana didn’t seem to mind Reika’s words. She actually spoke gleefully.

“Seriously~ Kazuhiko’s eyes just now were great~ How should I put it? Like, incredibly pitiful and it gave me a shiver?” 

“Hehe, you have good taste, Tachibana. That’s right, Kazu-kun is incredibly cute when he’s cornered.” 

“Yep, yep, I feel like protecting him and spoiling him too~”

” ” ” Ufu, ufufufufu ” ” “

“Hiiieee!?”

This trio were definitely women he should not be involved with. Reika, the perfect superhuman nympho; Moeka, the maternal Mama madness; and Tachibana, the Corrupted ATM. They use sex, motherhood, and money to drive men crazy.

They were, in short, the Three Great Horse(wo)men of manufacturing spoiled men. Why were these kinds of people so seamlessly mixed in as high school girls? If someone said they were agents of an evil organization planning to ruin Japan starting from high school, it would make perfect sense.

However, the reason they blended so seamlessly into the school must have been their status as the beyond caste. But since when did the beyond caste become another name for outlaws? 

And doesn’t that mean they haven’t blended in…? Well, a man with a keen sense wouldn’t want to find out what fate awaited him.

“A-actually, I’m Reika’s boyfriend. I don’t want to do anything that would shame Reika, or anything like that…”

Kazuhiko attempted to resist. But it was Reika who had brought him here.

“It’s fine. You are my splendid boyfriend. So you can proudly whine to Moeka like a baby, or beg for money from Tachibana.” 

“—”

Kazuhiko simply rolled his eyes back. It seemed both the gods and Buddhas had truly fallen asleep.

Then, Reika spoke again in a serious tone.

“Kazu-kun, please, satisfy their fetishes so that they don’t go astray. Otherwise, Moeka might become a sugar mommy eventually, and Tachibana might start blindly spoiling some unsuccessful band member. They are my best friends, you see.” 

“That’s a huge responsibility.”

Kazuhiko’s irises could no longer return. But did she mean that it was okay for Kazuhiko to go astray?

“It’s fine. Because you’re Kazu-kun.”

—Did you just read my mind?

Besides, Kazuhiko was Reika’s boyfriend. He wanted to be faithful to her—

“It’s fine. You’re just satisfying their fetishes; you’re not becoming their boyfriend. Even if the relationship progresses, you’ll come back to me, so it’s okay.”

She’s confident that I’ll come back, isn’t she? And she’d probably put a collar on him and drag him back if it came down to it.

But she had naturally read his mind again.

This was less a case of an understanding girlfriend and more a component of a Spoiled Men Manufacturing Machine.

“…P-please let me think about it.”

Unable to withstand the pressure from the three, Kazuhiko couldn’t outright refuse. But couldn’t it be said that Kazuhiko was still a man, simply for not being completely overwhelmed?

“That’s understandable~ But you have to call me Moeka Mama properly, okay~” 

“If you want pocket money, just say the word!” 

“Good for you, right Kazu-kun?”

“…Ha, hahaha…”

I’m so happy to have an understanding girlfriend (flat tone).

However, he couldn’t help but wonder if all three of them were planning to act this way at school too. 

They might be the perfect superhuman nympho, the maternal Mama madness, and the Corrupted ATM on the inside, but on the outside, all three were high-spec beautiful girls. 

They were truly outlaws wrapped in an aura, the unobtainable flowers of the unranked caste. If all three of them started pressing him at school…

A mob guy with a perfect superhuman beautiful girlfriend, who also had her beautiful best friends serving him. Kazuhiko’s nickname would become “Brutal Mob”!

Wouldn’t they look like the Four Heavenly Kings of an evil organization? Would the four of them start by invading the high school? Though the only one being invaded was Kazuhiko.

It seemed Kazuhiko had been thrown into a new eternal flame by the hand of the girlfriend he had just started dating.