Chapter 136: Kouta gets hired.

Mafuyu took a day off from work following that night with Shi-chan and I.  I myself felt a small desire to have some alone time, as I have been just surrounded by the girls non-stop for a while.   My ideal hangout is in Akihabara, and with the suspension from school in effect until Monday, I had nothing but free time.

It also seemed like an excellent opportunity to check in at work, and see what was going on.  The new receptionist had already gotten to know me, and I found an item had been left for me.

“Kawamura-san.  Chiba-san has left this for you.”

It was a keycard badge.  It had my name, and a photo of my face on it.  From now on I didn’t need to use the reception desk, I was able to go directly into the office on the second floor without needing to have Chiba-san or Senpai paged to come get me.

I wonder why?

I head up, and am greeted by the usual trio I see.

“Freeter!”

“Yo, Freets what’s up?”

“Good morning, Kawamura-san.”

It was the coding trio, Iwani Naoto, Tanaka Kunio, and Setogawa Arisu.

“Good morning.  Any of you have any idea why I got one of these?”  I ask, holding up my new badge.

“Ah, it’s probably because of that woman.”

“Yeah, things might be changing around here a bit.”

“Fuck that jingle bitch.”

…?

Behind me senpai approached and slapped me on the back.

“Yo, Kouhai!”

“Sup, Senpai?”

“Oh, got the badge already, nice.  You came at the perfect time, come with me for a moment.”

I follow Senpai to Chiba-san’s office and sure enough, I understood what Setogawa-san meant when she said jingle bitch.

“I’m telling you, that outsourcing the animations to xxx studio isn’t going to be cost effective.  We can afford to use yyy studio instead, otherwise our budget will be seriously impacted!”  Chiba-san was arguing with Daitokuji-san.

“We are saying not to worry about it, we will handle the appropriate costs.  xxx studio will give our new game’s animation scenes the quality it deserves!  We’re aiming for a real AA title or better, yyy studio is complete dogshit.  Did you see how they butchered season two of that isekai series?  It was a travesty!  Just get it over to xxx, and draw up the paperwork for me to forward to the accounts department already!” said the slender ojousama.

“Ah, pardon me.  As requested, Kawamura-san happened to show up today for some reason, so I brought him in.”

Both Daitokuji-san and Chiba-san looked at me.

“Kawamura-san, perfect timing.  Beryl-sama here wished to meet with you.”

“Aa… good morning Daitokuji-san, how can I be of service?”

“We wish to have a discussion with you in regards to our new project, so we will collect you in a short while.”

“Not a problem.”

“Then that is all for now, you may go.”

I guess so.  I exit the office and hear the argument begin once again.  Senpai stayed behind and that left me heading back to the trio.

“Where did Iwani and Tanaka go?” I asked the remaining one of the trio, a cute woman a couple years older and the most recent hire, Setogawa-san.

“Word is there’s a new girl upstairs.  Min-Min scouted her, so of course those idiots took an early lunch.” she said with an exasperated sigh.

“Well, we are all otaku here, it’s not like that’s not what we like down to our bones, right?”

“Yeah.  But I drew the short straw.  I heard she was super cute, so I wanted to see her too!”

Ah, that’s what it was about.

“Instead I have to stay behind and deal with any of the dumb shit that jingle bitch is trying to propose to add on top of this already demanding new project!  Ugh… I need cute healing~”

Setogawa-san loves cute things.  Obsessively so.  Her desktop is a lewd art of Hachimitsu-chan from Magical Healing Honey Cure.

Yeah, it’s an ecchi OAV.  I’ve seen it, it’s good.

“I just wish I could see that part timer in her costume.  That loli.”

“... is Setogawa-san referring to Yorugata-san?”

“Yeah, it sucks that she doesn’t work there full time.  She used to work a lot more, but recently I heard she got a boyfriend, and hasn’t been around too much.”

“Ah, that would be my fault.”

“Why is that?”

“Because that boyfriend is me.”

“WHAT!?  You stole my healing loli?”

Setogawa-san is looking angry and devastated at the same time.

“Maa.. it’s not quite like that.  She was the one who stole me, actually.”

“Muu… I wanted to be the one to do yuri things with her…”

“You’ve got it tough, huh?”

“You have no idea.  I take care of my brother, but he’s already showing signs of being a fucking Hikikkomori.  Thank god he’s graduating this year, otherwise I’d be at my wits’ end if I had to add NEET to the rest of that word.”

“You take care of him?”

“Yeah.  Our parents died a few years ago, so I had to join the workforce early.  Not being a NEET was the only thing I asked of him… I know being a recluse for him at least is unavoidable for now.”

“Huh…”

“Say, do you know any way to cure that kind of thing?”

“Curing being a recluse?”

“Yeah.”

“He’s a guy, right?”

“I just said he was my brother.”

“Then it’s gotta be that right?”

“Hm?”

“Sex.”

“What?”

“Well, for a guy, once he has it, it’s not like he can ever forget the experience.   Once you get a taste of it…”

“Says the guy with what… three girlfriends now?”

I shake my head.

“I believe I’m up to seven now.”

Her mouth drops.

“Seven? What the hell… you walking eroge protagonist.  Go die!”

“I might just… do you know how drained I am every day… but death doesn’t come easily for the wicked.”

“...really though, seven?”

I nod.

“I have Shi-chan, Ruru, Kanae, Umeko, Chi-chan, Reiko, and Mafuyu.”

“Wait... you said Umeko?  Isn’t that the name of the girl that jingle-bitch was harassing Chiba-san about?”

“Huh?”

“No… nevermind.  Forget I said anything.  Rather how do you get so many girls to fall in love with you?  I’m not going to pull a punch, but you are a bit too average looking, you know?”

“Trust me I know.  I have no idea why these girls are interested in me.  I was just aiming for one… I wanted a normal relationship with just her, but all of a sudden it’s like every other route suddenly converged on me because I picked her as the target.”

“How… does it work?  Like in the real life?  Is everyone crazy jealous?  Do you all do it together like some crazy group sex… do any of them do it with each other?”

I can see her eyes twinkling for a moment, wanting to know how the garden works.

“Well, there’s a certain shared criteria among all the girls… and that’s that they are all messed up in some way, and they have to be able to enjoy each other, because I can’t handle all of them by myself.”

“Wait… so sometimes they are with you, and sometimes they are with each other… without you?”

I nod.

“What about that loli?”

“She’s… well… sometimes I think she enjoys my women more than me.”

“She’s into yuri?”

“Absolutely.  It’s even caused me some problems.”

“Haaah....  Kawamura-san…  could you lend me her sometime?”

“What, Ruru?”

She nods enthusiastically.

“We sort of have a no-straying-outside-the-garden policy…”

She claps her hands together and begs.

“I’ll do anything.  I just want to violate her a little bit.”

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“...”

“Ah… no good, huh?  Sorry, I just… really like cute things.”

“As do I…”

We share a strange moment together, before a sound which would become too familiar approaches me.  The soft jingling of bells.

“There you are.  We are ready to go.”

“If you’ll excuse me Setogawa-san, it seems Daitokuji-san has some business with me.”

She nods, and I leave the building together with her, and we head out into the street.

“You are familiar with Akihabara, yes?”

“Fairly.”

“Then take us somewhere we can dine and talk.”

“Do you want to eat anything in particular?”

“We trust you to decide on it.”

“Very well.  I know a good place you might enjoy.”

There is a special place that sells good curry rice, and has the best catgirl cosplay around not too far away.  It’s a walk, and not something I am sure Daitokuji-san is too fond of doing.  I can only imagine her being driven everywhere in a limousine or a fancy car.  Yet she’s keeping pace with me, and occasionally fanning herself as she somehow isn’t making as much noise walking as I expected her to.  It seems she knows how to control those bells she wears in her hair surprisingly well.

[Nekomusume Rakuen] the chalkboard menu outside the place reads, along with their pricing and current sales.  The building itself is small, and looks like a relic from before the highrises took over.

We are greeted by a cute hostess dressed up like a tabby.

“Good Meowrning, table for two-nya?”

“Yes, please.”

“Please follow me-nya.”

So we are led to a table, and given menus.  Not that it matters, the only thing worth ordering here is the curry rice, and everyone who comes here knows it.  So we place our order and wait for the food.

“Kawamura-san, usually we would approach this request a bit more delicately over time, but unfortunately, we have little of it at the moment, so we will come right out and say it.”

She fans herself, and a little jingling occurs. Then the fan folds up and she points it at me.

“Give us that beautiful creature you brought with you last time.”

…?

“Come again?”

“The blue haired beauty.  Sakura...somesuch?”

“Sakuraba-san?”

“Yes, her.  We absolutely must have her for our new game.”

“I don’t know if she’d be interested… as it is she was pretty tense meeting you for some reason.”

“That is not our problem.  It is now yours.  Make it happen.”

“Oi… I don’t know who you think you are, but you can’t just go ordering people unrelated around you know.”

“Who is unrelated?  You obviously have influence with her, correct?  Use it to bring her onboard.  I’ll have Chiba-san set up appointments with the 3d modeling department, and then with the recording studio.”

“...”

“What?  You have a reservation with us wanting her to be in the game?”

“No, it’s not that.”

“Then what is it?”

“I won’t coerce her if she doesn’t want to do it.”

“It’s not like we are expecting it to be done for free, she will be paid for her time.”

I shake my head.

“What aren’t you listening to me telling you?”

“We simply refuse to take no for an answer.” she says, arrogantly.

“...”

Our food comes, and while I eat normally, the table manners of this woman are almost regal.  She is rather beautiful with her drill hair and almost perfect skin.  She looks like she never missed a spa appointment in her life.  At the very least she seems to be enjoying the curry rice.

After we finished, I had thought the matter she had with me was over, but it wasn’t.  Almost the rest of the day was spent being her personal attendant as we went around to various places and she bought numerous things, almost all of which were to be delivered to the office.

I had listened to her talk and learned a bit about her.  She goes to Kotobuki Shoujo Academy, an all girls private school for the rich.  She’s admired and beloved by all the students and faculty (so she says) and in the last year had managed to work her way to her current position, which is in charge of breaking into the gaming sector.  Our company was just now making some waves with the monster daughter eroge, and it caught her attention.

While I didn’t know it at the time, it seems Chiba-san is actually the company director.  I thought she was just the office head.  She had decided to accept Daitokuji-san’s offer to be acquired and merge in order to increase her available budget for the game she really wanted to make, only she found out how hands-on she was.

When we got back, I ended up in Chiba-san’s office again with Daitokuji-san, and was informed about what the badge was in fact for.

“It’s so you can come and go.  Beryl-sama, and by extension the department of the Daitokuji Corporation she heads will be acquiring the company… however nothing will change except her coming on board as a producer of sorts, and handling some financing.  With this, you have been hired by me in an official capacity.  So you are free to come here and work.  You’ve also been given access to the server and will need to create an account to access the splithub.  Welcome aboard, Kawamura-san.”

I… got hired as a regular employee?

“So at the very least, please continue to show up on Mondays, and if you can find time Thursdays, and Saturdays.  That shouldn’t affect your school life too much, right?” Chiba-san asks me.

“Ah.. no.  Right now I’m not sure about school.”

“Oh, going to drop out?”

“No, nothing like that.  There was some trouble, and Shi-chan, Umeko, and a couple others along with myself received a suspension.  It’s until Monday when they decided what to do.”

“What happened?”

“Some assholes tried to rape a couple of girls on the rooftop as revenge against my friend and myself.”

“You are saying Sakuraba-san was assaulted?” Beryl-san asks.

“Almost.  I got there in time, and was able to prevent it, but at a cost.”

I lift up my shirt and show my still visible bruises from the beating I took until Kawazu and his friends came to our rescue.

“That looks like it hurts.” Chiba-san says, looking them over.

“It does. I imagine the dean is going to try and sweep it under the rug if he can, considering most of the assailants are regular players from the basketball and soccer teams, but we’ve got some damning evidence of our own, so if anything happens…” I infer.

“What school is this?” asks Beryl-san, waving her fan.

“Seijou High.” I reply, not seeing the harm in telling her.

“Anyway, if things go south, I’ll let you know and see how I can best commute here those days, or if I’ll be available more often.”

“Alright.  Don’t worry about this Saturday.  Go home and take care of yourself, and we’ll see each other on Monday.”

“Sure.”

“There’s a station by Setogawa-san, That’ll be yours to use when you come back.” Chiba-san informs me.

“Got it.”

I leave Chiba-san’s office, and go visit my new desk.

“Setogawa-san, it seems we’ll be neighbors.  I’ll be taking this space next to you.”

“Sounds good.  Bring a bunch of cute pictures of that loli to spice up the workplace!”

“...”

I part with the trio, and leave the office.  When I get home, there is a certain guest I was both expecting and not expecting.

All three of them are sitting at the kitchen table, and appeared to be chatting in a friendly manner until I arrived.

“Kouta!  Guess who came to visit?”

Three women look at me with very lusty eyes.

My son is scared.

So very scared.

Mom.

Shi-chan.

And Shiho.

“Kouta… as promised, I came to see Reiko.” Shiho says to me.

“Ah… thank you for doing so, Shiho.” I reply neutrally, not sure when Reiko is going to attack me.

“It seems Reiko and I… despite being apart, have been connected in more ways than one.”

Did mom say anything?

“Kouta, wanna have some more fun?” Shi-chan asks me.

I am prey to these apex predators.  I just know it.

I take a deep breath, but one thing is absolutely clear.

My body is not ready.

(Secret 96:  Kouta brought in some pictures of Ruru, a couple definitely NSFW and became friends with Setogawa-san very quickly.  And as for Beryl, she had taken an interest in seeing what could be done for Kouta and Ume with the resources she had at her disposal.)

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