53 Vol 1. pt. 53 Patch 9.0: Preparing for the Tournamen (2/2)

Cassandra looks down at the shorter girl and begins shouting, but it is the passersby who hear Cassandra's embarrassed frustration rather than Serra.

Ryouta finally relaxes. As worried as he was about this – as inexperienced as he feels, this is just like how they are in-game. The only difference is that he's not as tall and as masculine looking as he is in-game, but neither of these girls seems to care. They both agreed to meeting him offline, after all.

He finally gets a good look at them as Cassandra shouts and Serra tries not to laugh.

How did he not notice sooner?

He feels like a traitor to himself.

Cassandra is wearing a… she's wearing…

A sweater. Sure, she's wearing black leggings that accentuate her legs and thighs, but a sweater.

Even if it's a sweater and slightly baggy, it hugs against her chest which reminds Ryouta that she's actually pretty busty. It's almost impossible to tell in-game since the armor she wears keeps everything suppressed and hidden without any hints, but this sight in addition to remembering how she looks at work reminds him that she's got a great chest.

Ryouta normally wouldn't think of such things just from looking at a girl, but she's wearing a sweater. There is nothing more that Ryouta wants to do when he sees a girl wearing a sweater than grope and poke her through it. It would combine two of the best things there are in this world: one, groping boobs; and two, the softness of a sweater.

At least, he imagines that groping boobs would be one of the greatest joys there is.

Serra looks adorable as well. She's wearing a knitted hat that looks two times too large for her head and a parka that looks more like a dress on her petite figure than a jacket.

Cassandra lifts her head to look at him with a raised eyebrow. ”Hey. Just where do you think you're looking?” she asks.

He's totally caught.

To Ryouta's surprise, Serra gives Cassandra's chest a quick poke through her sweater as if trying to assist in whatever perverse thoughts he's been conjuring up within the sweater-obsessed mind of his.

Serra may not be able to hear it, but Ryouta and everybody else around hears the surprised squeak that Cassandra makes.

Cassandra doesn't even know how to react. Her lips are quivering, eyes are twitching, and she's pure red because of what Serra just did in addition to knowing what sound she just made.

Serra and Ryouta exchange a thumbs-up as Cassandra tries processing all of this.

Cassandra is only taken out of her bluescreen of a thought process when Ryouta speaks up. Serra watches his lips to read what he's saying mainly but follows his hands as well.

”I uhh, sorry. I wanted to be cool and smooth with this, but I can't really think of a good way to ask this, so – Serra, Cassandra, will you…” his voice grows quieter with every word as he hesitates both with his voice and hands.

If he was able to man himself up to confess to them properly in real life instead of through the game, he can man himself up again.

He takes a deep breath.

”I like you both a lot. A ton. I've never really felt anything like this for any other girl before, but being with you two makes me happy, and I want to make both of you happy, so will you go out with me?”

It feels as if time freezes. There is no wind, the only noise comes from those walking around them, and he hears a couple of girls giggle to each other nearby as they walk past him.

He realizes that his eyes are closed.

He shut them as tightly as he could after asking them out. Everything just feels so cringy and awkward and like he has no idea what he's doing. He's afraid to see how they look right now.

Something soft and warm presses against his lips.

If his heart didn't want to jump out of his chest again from asking them out, it does now as he can only assume what – or who, is kissing him.

”H-hey! That's not fair!” Cassandra shouts.

Ryouta opens his eyes and sees Serra standing on her tiptoes to reach his lips. Even if he's shorter than most guys are in real life, Serra still has to lean up on her tiptoes to reach him.

Serra looks directly into his eyes with a warm smile and a light blush on her cheeks.

Ryouta has no idea how to respond other than with a smile of his own.

Before he can do or say anything else, Serra hops backward and pushes Cassandra forward.

”Wh-what do you think you're doing?!” Cassandra shouts at the smaller girl pushing her from behind.

Ryouta's and Cassandra's faces are right in front of each other. He's almost a foot taller than her in-game, but here, he's hardly an inch taller.

He already let one of these girls take the lead, and he doubts Cassandra could do it from her nervous fidgeting, so he closes the distance by himself and presses his lips against Cassandra's.

She makes more of those flustered and feminine noises, but they are muffled from her lips pressing against his.

Her heart can't take much more of it. She pushes Ryouta away and turns away from them both to hide her face. ”I didn't say you could do that!” she shouts.

Ryouta doesn't know if he just messed up or not. He knows that she's a bit of a tsundere, but he's still new to this. He wouldn't put it past himself to misread a situation and go too far. ”Sorry, did I—” he tries apologizing but gets cut off.

”Shut up! I – I didn't say not to do it!”

”So, it was alright?” he asks, just wanting to make sure.

”I'm… I'm not answering that, you bastard.”

Serra sneaks around to the front of Cassandra and sees just how bright red her entire head is.

Cassandra's face transcends beyond simple blushing when Serra leans up and kisses her.

Ryouta doesn't know who's doing more confessing right now: him or Serra.

But regardless of who's doing the most work right now, he's just happy that it's all going smoothly.

He confessed to the girls he cares about, they accepted his confession, and they get along on their own. He has heard before about how modern harems can't work healthily unless all parties involved are romantically involved with one another. The biggest problem is that people try to treat them like one person having multiple relationships instead of just being in one large relationship where everybody cares about one another.

But with this, he doesn't have to worry about that.

Serra backs away from Cassandra with another smile. Only, she's blushing less than she was with Ryouta.

He's worried that she's going to grow dangerously confident and forward.

He doesn't know if either he or Cassandra could handle her if she does.

Serra may be the weakest of them in-game, but when it comes to displaying affection, her power level is the highest of them all.