Chapter 55: Conditions for MAX Affinity
Translator: RaidenTL
Chapter 55: Conditions for MAX Affinity
Now that I’ve claimed the hidden reward, I head toward the room where Yukina is.
Submerged in the water, still asleep, she looks mystical.
Even though I’ve ejaculated nearly a hundred times over the past two days, a heroine really is on another level. Just looking at her mystical, sacred appearance makes the blood rush to my dick.
“Shall I assist you while you wait?”
“No, I’m fine. I feel like I’ll die if I do any more.”
I wonder if the shrine maidens think of me as a public utility now; they’re throwing themselves at me at every opportunity.
To be honest, I was the one who got excited and hammered away at them, so I can’t really blame anyone else.
The shrine maiden who was tending to Yukina’s room withdraws with a look of regret.
I did it about fifty times a day… and since I was doing it while fueled by the Blood of the Immortal and all sorts of elixirs, my stamina was probably four or five times higher than normal.
Does that mean that without any buffs, I can go about ten times a day?
Even ten times is an absurd number in reality.
I’ve seen some crazy bastard on the internet claim to have jerked off seven times in a day, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone claim ten.
Maybe it’s because I’ve come so much over the last two days that I’m in a deep state of post-nut clarity, but I’m really overthinking these useless things.
Just as I’m shaking my head to clear my thoughts, Yukina’s eyes flutter open.
Her eyes dart around as she tries to grasp the situation, and then her gaze meets mine.
A soft smile forms on her lips as a small bubble escapes her mouth, and she slowly sits up.
If it were me, I would’ve woken up underwater, realized I couldn’t breathe, and thrashed around pathetically, but Yukina is calm and elegant even when waking up.
She shakes her head once to flick the water away, then brushes her hair back with one hand as she looks at me.
“It’s been a while.”
Damn, that was cool.
Brushing back her wet bangs with those calm eyes while speaking so nonchalantly—there’s no way that isn’t cool.
I should copy that later.
“Welcome back to the ordinary world, in both body and mind.”
“Thank you for giving me this world.”
I tried to say something cool myself, and she just played along naturally. This is why I can’t help but like Yukina.
But I always think this: isn’t enrolling in Yggdrasil already far removed from "ordinary"? Ah, never mind.
I push aside the stray thoughts bubbling up from my post-nut clarity and take Yukina’s outstretched hand to help her up.
“Ugh—”
As she stands, her strength fails her, and she falls right into my arms. I pull her into a tight embrace.
“Sorry… your clothes got wet.”
“It’s fine. They’re going to get a lot wetter from now on anyway.”
“…You always have to say one thing too many. I was starting to feel touched, but you ruined the mood instantly.”
Despite her grumbling, Yukina buries her face in my chest and rubs her cheek against me.
Cute.
A shrine maiden steps in to support Yukina, explaining that although she was sleeping, she consumed a lot of physical strength during the preparations.
Once her strength returns a bit, we’ll have to merge our mana immediately, so there’s a lot to prepare.
The shrine maidens strip her clothes and use large towels to dry every nook and cranny of her body.
Yukina seems awkward about being waited on, glancing around nervously and flinching whenever a hand touches a sensitive area.
“Don’t look.”
“Why? It’s a good view.”
Yukina tells me to go away because she’s embarrassed to show the process of drying her hair and getting dressed, but I can’t miss a sight like this.
After this, we’ll merge our mana, and then merge our bodies…
Wait… excuse me, shrine maidens, aren’t you touching Yukina’s body a bit too aggressively?
It’s so aggressive that the world is tilting… Ah, wait, I’m the one tilting.
Thud—
With a loud noise, my consciousness cut out.
“Gah—!”
“It’s okay. Just stay lying down.”
I tried to jump up in surprise the moment I regained consciousness, but Yukina, who was looking down at me, pressed her hand against my chest to stop me.
……
I stared blankly for a moment, trying to grasp the situation. Remembering that I had fainted, I let her soft hand push me back down.
A lap pillow. How grateful I am.
I look up at her while resting my head on her soft thighs.
The backlash finally hit me.
Right, no matter if this is an eroge world and I’ve leveled up my sex stats, fifty times a day for two days is just insane.
It seems that as soon as the effects of the Blood of the Immortal wore off, I couldn't overcome the accumulated fatigue and collapsed.
Yukina, keeping her hand on my chest where she had pushed me down, slowly strokes me with a bittersweet expression.
“My mana has been merged into one. I’m okay now.”
“But why the long face?”
“I’m sorry. You suffered so much because of me, didn’t you?”
“……”
No… uh… are you doing this on purpose? You’re not acting all innocent to guilt-trip me and get the upper hand from the start, are you?
However, Yukina’s blue eyes hold nothing but genuine worry for me.
I reach up and touch the cheek of the girl who is worrying so much.
“I’m sorry to say this while you’re so worried… but I actually enjoyed myself quite a bit…”
I hope there are no gentlemen out there calling me tactless.
I’m going to build a harem party by picking up the heroines Akito discarded, and even if it feels heavy or scary right now, I think it’s better to be honest from the beginning.
“Even if you enjoyed it, you overworked yourself to the point of collapse. I don’t have experience, but I saw a lot of things in the Organization. No matter how high a man’s libido is, if he does it too much, he can’t even get it up and loses all desire, right?”
Ah… well… I could still do it.
I can’t bring myself to say that. Even if I did, she wouldn’t believe me.
Yukina’s hand, which had been softly stroking my chest, moves to my cheek.
“Just let me say this. Thank you.”
Yukina’s face leans down toward mine, and I feel her soft lips.
There was no tongue, and it was just a light, non-erotic kiss, but for me—having just come from all sorts of sex—it was the most arousing kiss of all.
As they say, the end of all tuning is pure love.
After tasting her sweet-smelling lips, Yukina pulls back.
I naturally stroke her thighs as I sit up.
Just as I’m about to touch her breast—which fills my palm—and kiss her again, Yukina pushes me away with both hands.
“Why…? We can have sex now.”
“That… could you not use the word ‘sex’ so bluntly… No, that’s not the point. A lot of time has passed.”
Time? The light coming through the window doesn’t look much different from when I collapsed.
Wasn’t I out for just an hour or two?
When I look at her in confusion, Yukina gives a wry smile.
“You were unconscious for a whole day. To be precise, twenty-five hours.”
“……”
Good god. No wonder I feel hungry.
Just how bad was the backlash? I was out for a full day, but it felt like I had only closed and opened my eyes.
I should probably hold back a little next time.
Let’s aim for forty times instead of fifty.
Wait.
“Hold on, so the weekend is over?”
“Yes. Today is Monday.”
“What about Yggdrasil?”
“Wouldn’t it be too much to go now? I already told Haruna and Mary that you collapsed.”
I check the clock; there’s about an hour left until school starts.
It’s a distance that can never be covered by public transport from the edge of City D to the center of City A in that time.
Grades are important, but maybe I should just give up and have a deflowering event with Yukina…
“And… I also need some time to prepare myself mentally… so please wait just a little longer.”
Yukina blushes and lowers her head in embarrassment.
Right, a student should go to school. What was I thinking?
I stand up, check my body, and reach out to Yukina.
“Then let’s go to Yggdrasil.”
“Now? Even if we leave now, we’ll arrive just as school is ending.”
“What did I say my magic was?”
“…It’s not magic.”
Is magic really that special? Realizing the impossible is what magic is.
I quickly finish my preparations and, guided by Rina, exit the Clan’s territory.
Teresa looked regretful to see me leaving in such a hurry, but she sent me off with a request to visit again since I still had my "heirlooms" there.
“On behalf of the Diana Clan, I thank you for the grace you have bestowed upon us, Yeon-woo-sama.”
As Rina bows, Linda, Hazuki, Mei, Tomo, and Adit, who followed along, also bow politely.
They look so modest that it’s hard to believe they were the same women lewdly shaking their hips just yesterday.
The Shrine Maiden Clan is born with two types of mana from the start. They accumulate mana in their Soul Vessel and, once they grow up, they receive a man.
It’s not that their mana merges into one like Yukina’s, but when they become pregnant, it temporarily changes into a single mana. So, the Soul Vessels used by the Shrine Maiden Clan are actually… used as pregnancy tests.
Whir-whir-whir-whir—
While I’m saying my goodbyes, a loud noise echoes from a distance as a helicopter descends.
“……You really do things I could never even imagine.”
“If you have money, these things come to mind easily.”
When you have overflowing cash, everyone buys a private helicopter, right?
While I was at it, I bought the most expensive one and decked it out with every possible option, making it the fastest thing in the sky short of a military gunship.
Although I’ve only used it twice so far and thought it was a bit of an overconsumption, it’s great to have when you’re in a hurry.
In reality, Central is incredibly vast, so you can even buy means of transportation in the game.
It’s not quite the size of a province, but it’s far too large to simply be called a "city." Just crossing into another city takes a significant amount of time.
I’m greeted by the pilot—a total salary-thief—and as soon as we board, we’re flying across the city.
“This is my first time on a helicopter.”
“There will be many more ‘firsts’ with me in the future.”
Including sex, of course.
Yukina chuckles at my words and leans her head on my shoulder.
She looks completely like a girl in love, and I feel the warmth of her hand as she softly holds mine.
I think I’m starting to understand now.
I think I was thinking too much in terms of game systems.
Normally, even if you take Yukina’s virginity, her affinity doesn’t hit MAX.
In the game, Akito has to keep hitting on her, go through several sex scenes, and complete various events to fill the MAX bar.
But right now, Yukina loves me.
The way she looks at me, the way she softly strokes my hand, the way she worries about me—it’s more than just a simple lover.
Even though we haven’t had the deflowering event or gone through other events yet.
I was stuck in "game-brain" mode.
Yukina is a heroine, but she’s also a person living in this world. I don’t necessarily need to follow every single event; I just need to focus on the core.
I obviously had to raise her personal affinity, but by providing her with a relationship with Haruna, safety, and fulfilling her wish to break away from the back-alley Organization, she came to love me.
Ultimately, events are designed around the core elements of the heroines.
For example, Angelica wants to overcome her shyness and fragility. Her main events involve Akito staying by her side and providing the catalyst for her to become stronger.
Chika is prideful but feels the limits of her talent. Her main events involve resolving the anxiety she feels as she falls behind the other heroines despite her efforts.
Takeo’s reformation event didn’t happen as an in-game event either, but it was ultimately achieved by him realizing the "brother" he trusted and followed was actually a piece of shit, leading him to reflect and repent.
In other words, just as I granted Yukina’s wish, helping Angelica overcome her fragile personality or resolving Chika’s anxiety will earn me massive affinity.
Then what about Frey…
……
What is Frey’s? Restoring her family? There was no event like that, was there?
Isn’t the main event finding the heirloom she’s spent her life searching for? The heirloom itself is her core desire… so why haven’t I been able to do anything with Master? Is it because our relationship isn’t deep enough yet?
Instead of overcomplicating it, the key is to stop looking through a game-brain lens and see them as people.
I just need to help the heroines with what they desperately desire and interact with them like a real person.
Is my post-nut clarity still not over?
These are important thoughts, but they aren’t exactly what one should be thinking while Yukina is leaning her head on your shoulder with such a happy expression.
By the time I snap out of my thoughts, the helicopter, having flown in a straight line, arrives at Yggdrasil in no time.
“I’ll jump from here.”
“No, no, no, no! You can’t! You have to land at the helipad.”
“I won’t get hurt.”
I’ve learned landing magic from Frey; are you underestimating me too much?
However, the salary-thief pilot frantically stops me.
“It’s not that! We have flight permission, but we don’t have permission for an aerial drop. If you jump now, it’ll trigger an emergency alert!”
Ah… right.
I guess I should have ridden helicopters more often to know that.
Yggdrasil is a government-related institution, so security is naturally tight, and even small things like this require permission.
In the end, we had to wait for the helicopter to land. Since helicopters rarely visit, students began to gather, buzzing with curiosity.
Dammit, this is exactly why I said I’d just jump.
We stepped off the helicopter under the gaze of the students, and among the onlookers, I spotted Mary and Jade.
“You’re really advertising that you had sex, aren’t you?”
As Mary spoke with an exasperated expression, Yukina blushed and hid her face.
I’m exasperated too.
We didn’t have sex. If we had, I wouldn’t feel this cheated.