Before dawn, Tatsuki went home and had already dropped Kanae off early.
By the time he got back, Kanae had dinner ready.
Coincidentally, Haruno was there too.
"Sis, why are you at Tatsuki-kun's place?" Yukino came over to check on Haru, only to find Haruno and the cat already sitting at the dining table, waiting to eat.
Haruno twirled a finger and smiled brightly. "I'm exhausted. I didn't feel like cooking today. And honestly, Kanae's food is way better."
Kanae set down the bowls and chopsticks and asked gently, "Yukino, Eriri, eat with us. I made extra on purpose."
Eriri scrunched up her face. "I'm not. My mom already made dinner. Damn it!"
After rubbing Haru's little paw, Yukino nodded. "Okay. I'll go wash my hands."
After dinner, Yukino and Haruno didn't leave either—they helped Kanae clean up the dishes.
Haruno sat on the couch and fed Tatsuki grapes. Normal grapes. The way she fed them, though, was anything but normal.
Yukino quietly petted the two cats, both of them drowsy.
Tatsuki enjoyed Haruno's lewd grapes while also enjoying Kanae's massage service—living it up.
Of course, as agreed, he also told them what had happened back then and he used the Dominator to let them see what he'd seen, even more clearly.
Watching the entire process of the galaxy exploding left the two of them stunned.
After a while…
Haruno and Kanae's movements were getting more and more indecent.
Yukino, the only one not joining in, finally couldn't take it anymore. "Sis, aren't you going home?"
At that, Haruno fed another lewd grape, her eyes spinning with mischief. She giggled. "Mmh, it's late. Tatsu-kun, I'll head back first, okay?"
As she spoke, she gave Tatsuki a pointed wink.
He got it. He hadn't forgotten Haruno's payment.
Haruno slowly stood up and stretched. Her ultra-short, gauzy nightdress couldn't hide the teasing curves underneath, and Tatsuki's mind immediately started wandering.
She strolled out the door in a lazy, unhurried way—but after a few seconds she suddenly turned back and smiled at Yukino. "Yukino, I'm going to bed, okay? You should go back and rest early too."
"Got it," Yukino replied calmly.
"Hehe~." Haruno finally left.
A few minutes later, Yukino stood up as well. "I'm going back too."
But before she left, her eyes flicked toward Kanae. Kanae answered with a gentle smile, which made Yukino both embarrassed—and oddly relieved.
Yukino passed the elevator, went into her own apartment, and closed the door and right then, the elevator doors opened.
Haruno stepped out.
Looking toward Yukino's door, she wore a satisfied, smug look. "Oh my. Little Yukino really is such a good, obedient girl…"
Haruno didn't go home. Instead, she went right back to Tatsuki's place.
"Big sis is asleep."
Back in the living room, Yukino stared at Haruno's tightly shut room door. After taking a deep breath, she tiptoed back to her own room.
A few minutes later, Yukino carefully opened her door and slipped out again.
Her face was flushed. She'd changed into a black, thigh-high maid outfit—and she'd put on cat ears.
Her steps were light and awkward, and the cat tail hanging under her skirt swayed with a faint tremble behind her.
Thinking of how disappointed—and angry—Tatsuki had seemed when his emotions burst out earlier today, Yukino forced herself to be brave. She wanted to comfort him.
She'd prepared for everything. She'd even discussed it with Kanae, and Kanae had agreed to give up the room for her. And now her sister was already asleep. All that was left was Kanae's message.
"Bzz. Bzz!"
Her phone, on silent, vibrated.
Kanae: Tatsu-kun already went back to his room.
Yukino: Th… thank you, Kanae-san.
She put the phone away. The message was here, so it was time to move. She'd already put everything on—there was no backing out now.
As she slipped outside, Yukino closed the door without making a sound.
After locking it, she hurried toward Tatsuki's place.
Even though all the apartment's security cameras were under Tatsuki's Dominator control and effectively gone, walking through the hallway dressed like this still gave Yukino a humiliating, exposed feeling.
She quickly entered Tatsuki's place and shut the door. Step by step, she approached his bedroom door, building herself up mentally in front of it.
More than anything, it was the tail behind her that made her feel so uncomfortable. That spot felt even worse than when Tatsuki normally went into… it. It was a powerful mental block, the kind that made her whole body tense up.
In the adjacent room to where she stood…
Kanae tucked the blankets around the cat and Neko, who'd just fallen asleep. She put her phone back on the nightstand, a faintly subtle smile at the corner of her lips.
"Well… I hope Yukino can accept reality."
After all, I only said Tatsuki went back to his room. I didn't say what he went back to his room to do.
So what exactly was Tatsuki doing?
Yukino steadied herself. Finally, she reached out, gripped the doorknob, pressed down—and pushed.
"Mm… *slurp—*…"
"!!!"
Yukino had thought only Tatsuki was inside, but what she saw instantly overloaded her brain.
Haruno was here.
Tatsuki and Haruno were tangled together in a full 69, holding each other close—warm and sweet to an absurd degree.
Hearing the noise, Haruno lifted her head, shocked. "Yukino? Why are you here? And… what are you wearing…?"
Tatsuki released the delicious thing in front of him, licked the corner of his mouth, and smiled in a way that clearly meant something.
He could actively share senses on his end—on Kanae's side, she was passively linked to his shared senses.
He knew perfectly well that Yukino had been talking to Kanae and this exact situation was what he wanted to see.
"I…" Yukino, scared out of her mind, tried to back away, but before she could, Tatsuki flashed behind her. With a slight push, he shoved her stiff body onto the bed.
He closed the door slowly, wearing a triumphant smile. "Yukino, you're already here. Why leave?"
As his words fell, the door clicked fully shut.
"Nnghh~"
…
"What's up with Yukino? She's been even colder today," Yui asked, leaning close beside Tatsuki.
Yukino had been gloomy all day.
Even in the Paranormal Research Club, everyone could feel that icy atmosphere coming off her.
Yui had no idea what happened, so she could only ask Tatsuki—since he lived in the same place as Yukino.
It would've been better if she hadn't asked.
The moment she did, Yukino—already extremely sensitive—was listening with her Observation Haki the whole time, hearing everything perfectly clearly.
A sharp gaze shot straight over.
Tatsuki just smiled and said nothing, leaving Yui completely confused.
It wasn't that he couldn't answer—he just couldn't say it out loud.
Even if Yui went to ask Yukino herself, Yukino probably wouldn't be able to explain it, either.
Because there was a very good chance her brain had basically fried on the spot.
She'd been suddenly shoved onto the bed by Tatsuki. Then, he'd lit her up, and right in front of Haruno, she'd lost the calm she always had.
Other than tensing her entire body and clamping down with everything she had, she couldn't think of anything at all.
With no other way out, Yukino eventually became a toy in Tatsuki and Haruno's hands, played with however they wanted.
Yukino was certain—that was the darkest day of her entire life and also the day she'd hit the most peaks in her entire life.
Afterward, Yukino fled from Tatsuki and Haruno's embrace as her shame had completely detonated.
That was why she was so sensitive now.
Haruno, on the other hand, took it all incredibly well.
At first, when Yukino appeared, Haruno had been shocked too, but after seeing Tatsuki bully Yukino hard…
The surprise and disbelief slowly turned into a kind of pleasure.
So she joined Tatsuki, and together they put Yukino through torment beyond imagination.
Tatsuki remembered it extremely clearly.
How Haruno helped pry Yukino open like a shellfish and fed it to him, how she yanked on Yukino's tail, how she gave her that extra shove, and how she and Yukino ended up stacked together.
Thinking back on it, Tatsuki could only call it heaven.
It had all happened so suddenly. Better to give Yukino time to calm down first.
Tatsuki turned slightly and glanced at the two girls beside him.
One was quiet Megumi.
One was lively Yui.
Both were wearing short skirts and showing off pale thighs—something only he got to appreciate.
Tatsuki felt like a pretty despicable bastard.
He'd actually used sensory domination on the entire world just so he could privately enjoy his girlfriends' bare thighs.
I'm such trash~.
Under the table, his two big hands slid up onto their soft thighs, kneading and rubbing lightly.
At that…
Megumi kept her eyes on her phone, tapping with her left hand, while her right hand—completely practiced—found its way to Tatsuki's groin.
Since Megumi was being that proactive, Tatsuki naturally didn't hold back either and started pressing the attack…