“What?” I asked. I was just sitting there, trying to enjoy Cami’s chest while she squirmed on top of me, while also watching the battle, but then Window appeared and distracted me from everything.

  “Doesn’t that describe Clawdia?”

  “I don’t think it’s that deep.”

  “Window, are you saying you want me to step on your face?”

  “You know you’re in a relationship with over ten real people, right?”

  “You know you have a daughter who is a real person, too, right?”

  “You know you just complimented me and revealed your kink, right?”

  Window started to grow red after that, so she disappeared before either of us could say anything else.

  That was when Cami tilted her head to kiss my jawline and grab my attention. “Master?”

  “Yeah?” I replied.

  “I volunteer for helping you practice be rough enough to break the bed. You want to make Window happy, don’t you? Then you need to practice to get good at it so you can make her happy. I volunteer.”

  “You just want me to wrap my hands around your neck and choke you until you can’t even breathe anymore. The bed breaking is just a bonus to you.”

  Cami… trembled and blushed just from hearing those words even more than she was when I was groping her.

  “In that case, maybe my hands have been on the wrong things these past few minutes.” I slipped my hands away from her chest, slowly trailing them up toward her neck, causing Cami to let out an excited gasp. “I wonder where you want these hands to go. Maybe… on top of your head?”

  “I… I like headpats… but…”

  “But what?”

  Cami bit her lower lip before grabbing my hands herself and guiding them up to her neck. “He-here…”

  “You’re pretty flustered all of a sudden. I thought you’re supposed to be the pervert who’s good with all this lewd stuff?”

  “But… neck touches…”

  “Is it really just neck touching if I choke you?”

  I moved my hands onto each side of her neck, the tips of my fingers from each hand meeting each other in the front, and then I tightened my grasp. Cami immediately responded by moaning and grinding down even harder against me as she arched her back, drool already running down her chin.

  That was when Window reappeared.

  “We’re getting practice,” I explained. “Isn’t that right?” With my hands still around Cami’s neck, I made her head nod.

  While still choking Cami, I looked out over the battlefield and saw a swarm of crabs snapping their pincers over and over again, and each one also had a flag sticking up from their bags that showed a bowl of soup with an X over it.

  It was a good thing Delphi was too distracted to see that. Then again, what would happen if she did? Would she go berserk? Get depressed? Reeducate them? I wasn’t sure. Either way, Window gave me the new information she wanted to give me.

  I looked over at Delphi and saw her helping several crabs into a boiling pot of soup.

  “You know, maybe the crabs have a point,” I said. “It does look like she’s encouraging them to commit ritual suicide for cannibalism over there, and it looks like she’s helping them do it.”

  Looking back at the battlefield while tightening my grip around Cami’s neck a bit more, causing her to shudder even more as her drool made it down to my fingers, I noticed that the crabs were pretty huge. The ones in Delphi’s class were just normal, small crabs. But the ones on the battlefield? They were about half the size of Valkyria.

  “It’s been too long since I’ve had crab,” I said. “Let’s have crab for dinner tonight.”

  The incoming crabs must have heard what I said, took the flags off their backs, drew on them using markers that I didn’t understand the origin of, and then put the flags back. Now, not only was there an X over soup, but there was an X over my face.

  Claire then turned back to look at me, showed an incredibly lustful expression for a moment upon seeing me and Cami, and closed her eyes. The next time she opened her eyes, her expression was back to normal as she said, “If you desire, I would be glad to turn these beasts into your dinner, my lord.”

  “Just beat them up,” I replied. “I can snap some crab meat into existence without having to kill any crabs for it.”

  Claire nodded and turned away to resume focusing on the battle.

  Meanwhile, Chloe waited for the first crab in her lane to reach her.

  Chloe and the crab had a dramatic stare down… and then they swung their arms at each other.

  The crab swung with a giant, spiky claw.

  Chloe swung with a small, human fist.

  The two forces met at the halfway point between their bodies, and there was an immediate gust of wind—no, multiple gusts of wind, that kept on blowing outward from the impact zone.

  It was way too dramatic of a punch for a simple enemy.

  But it didn’t stop there and dramatic music even began to play from all around us.

  “After… after coming so far… I won’t give up here!” Chloe shouted as her fist began to glow.

  “Window,” I said.

  Understandable.

  Then the crab looked at Chloe with determined eyes, and his claw began to glow as well.

  That was when my vision was replaced by… a training montage of Chloe working out, sparring at the gym, and… reading fight scenes in manga.

  The training montage ended and brought us back to the present battle. “I’ve worked so hard, and I have friends to protect now, so I won’t let you defeat me!” Chloe shouted as the energy around her fist intensified even more.

  And to match her intensity, the crab’s energy glowed brighter, too.

  Pieces of Chloe’s clothes then began to blow away, but nothing that would make her look indecent. Then she even started to look scratched up all over her body despite nothing scratching her. “For everybody who is looking up to me… for everybody who I want to protect… I’ll defeat you! Even if it means never crying again, I won’t let you pass!”

  The energy around Chloe’s fist and the crab’s claw intensified even more, as did the bursts of wind continuously flying out from between them.

  Chloe then fell to one knee, but she didn’t let the punch end. She kept her fist exactly where it was before.

  The crab looked like he was about to win, especially as his fist glowed even brighter than Chloe’s… but then Chloe’s shone even more brilliantly, and cracks appeared all throughout the crab’s claw.

  The next moment, the crab’s claw shattered and the raw energy poured into Chloe’s fist sent the crab flying through the ocean just as I often sent Window flying through the sky.

  The shark boss, Sharricane, who had apparently been watching from the back the entire time… saw what happened and raised a white flag.

  And with that, the battle was over before the boss even stepped onto the battlefield.

  “I don’t know, either,” I said.

  Chloe then stood up and came running over to us with a wide smile on her face. “I did it!”

  “That was… intense,” I said.

  “Right? That was so cool! I’ve always loved shounen, too, but I never thought I’d actually get to be in a shounen battle! I love bribery.”

  “Wait, what’s bribery have to do with anything?”

  “Oh, I told the crab I’d give him a coupon for unlimited pizzas for life if he acted out a super epic battle with me and let me win. I wanted to try scaring the boss so we wouldn’t have to deal with him.”

  Claire then landed on the ground next to Chloe and said, “Excellent plan. I did not even get to do anything because of your masterful strategy. Not only have I been deprived of affection, it being stolen by other women, but I have been deprived of proving myself on the field of battle as well.”

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