The group on the bed sleeps soundly throughout the night. It does not take long after Cassandra falls asleep for her to wrap one of her legs around Ryouta’s own leg, and consequently, on top of Serra. Alice ends up scooting farther up along his body until she’s subconsciously cradling Ryouta’s head against her chest, and Serra only moves whenever a certain something pokes up against the back of her head.

Aiko is the only one who wakes up during the night.

She walks into the bedroom to find where everybody is and sees her beloved Ryouta surrounded by three other girls.

It hurts her to see such a sight. Her heart hurts and violent thoughts whisper into her mind, but those thoughts are not directed at anybody that she is looking at.

They are only directed at herself.

She was unbelievably happy earlier to be reunited with her beloved Ryouta, but now that she sees just how happy and content he can be without her, dangerous thoughts plague her mind once more – thoughts that she has never been brave enough to tell anybody about.

But, Ryouta is happy, so that is reason enough for her to try her hardest to be happy.

Cassandra takes her leg off of Ryouta and starts rolling over. Only a thin space is left on the bed between her and its ledge, so if she completely rolls over, there is nothing to stop her from falling onto the floor.

While there may not be anything to stop here, there is somebody.

Aiko rushes over and uses her hands to push Cassandra back onto Ryouta. One of Cassandra’s arms end up flopping toward Aiko and almost smacking her in the face, which makes Aiko tempted to just let her roll over and fall, but she stays helping the blonde girl with a bust that she’s jealous of.

“You better appreciate this,” Aiko whispers with a smile.

Those dark thoughts are replaced by the happy memories that she made earlier. She has been reunited with Ryouta, has made two new friends, and she feels safe and comfortable around them all.

Until this day, Serra has been the only one since she was taken away from Ryouta as a child who she could feel happy around – who she could feel safe around.

Cassandra finally settles halfway on top of Ryouta, allowing Aiko to slump back and sit on the floor.

Something hard in her back pocket pokes up against her rear due to the uncomfortable position it has gotten into.

Aiko takes it out of her pocket and looks at it, opening it up to reveal the blade that she is so familiar with.

She closes it the moment those thoughts start returning. It gets shoved back into her pocket in a position where it won’t be poking her while sitting.

Maybe, just maybe, she’ll be able to get rid of those thoughts for good if she surrounds herself with all of these happy people.

She just wants to be as happy as Ryouta looks in his sleep right now.

For now, all she can do is continue trying to make others happy.

Then she might even learn how to make herself happy.

Aiko stretches and lets out a loud yawn that she’s worried will wake the rest up, but fortunately, they all remain sound asleep.

She looks over the bed for an open spot. The only space is at the very foot of the bed where she would have to be sharing space with everybody’s feet.

If that is the only spot with enough space for her, then that is the spot she will take.

Hours later, once the sun shines through the window of Ryouta’s bedroom, Ryouta blinks his eyes open and looks around. He’s confused at first when he cannot move his body at all. Something is pinning down his arms, keeping his legs spread, and pressing down on his feet.

He tries to figure out what’s happening.

First, he turns his head to look at what that soft, warm sensation is against the side of his head.

His eyes are met with the sight of Alice’s cleavage. Looking at her this up close, she has an even bigger pair than he thought. Though, that could just be the bra she is wearing pushing them together and up.

She smells nice.

Disgruntled mumbling makes him look down toward his crotch where Serra is trying to avoid harassment from his morning wood. Opposite of Alice is Cassandra with a bit of drool making a wet mess of his shoulder that she’s cuddling her face against, and when he leans up just enough to look past Serra, he sees Aiko curled up like a cat on top of his feet and using what little space is left of the bed – was left.

Seeing that sleeping smile on Aiko’s face makes him happy. He’s happy that she’s been reunited with him and that she’s getting along with everybody so well. She may have her rough moments with Cassandra, but aside from that, she’s been nothing but an energetic and happy, bubbly girl ever since she came to his apartment. It’s no wonder that she sleeps so much given how energetic and happy she always is. He’s pretty sure that he would be even more exhausted than her if he had to always be like her.

His only concern is that he’s hungry and doesn’t want to try to get out of bed since he’d probably end up waking everybody up.

All he can do is try to fall back asleep and hope that they wake up before he’s not tired enough to sleep anymore… but there is an issue with that plan.

He’s too excited.

He was much more tired last night when he fell asleep, but now he’s only barely tired, has Alice’s breasts up against his head, can feel Cassandra’s own chest pressing down on his arm, and Serra’s head keeps on bumping into his morning wood.

The current situation is as torturous as it is great.

Alice ends up slipping down along his body, taking her breasts away from the side of his head, and ending up with her lips right against his ear.

She softly moans in her sleep right into his ear, her breath occasionally brushing up against him and making him even more excited. Does this qualify as ear play? Does he have a new fetish now?

As if to confirm that he does, in fact, have a new fetish, her lips gently kiss the lobe of his ear before giggling into it.

He turns his head to look at her and sees her opened eyes looking at him with a light blush on her cheeks.

“Good morning, my hero. Would you like me to wish you a good morning in the same fashion tomorrow?” Alice whispers her question to him, their faces hardly an inch apart.

“It was uhh, pretty nice, I won’t lie,” Ryouta whispers back.

“I can see that,” she replies with a quick glance toward his crotch.

“That’s – every guy wakes up with that in the morning.”

“I see, my hero. If you have such a hard problem every morning, would you like me to assist you with it each morning?”

Ryouta gulps and blinks a few times. He immediately assumes that he misunderstood what she just said, but when he looks at her face, she looks completely serious. Her hand trailing down to his crotch really proves just how serious she is.

“Say something, my hero. This is much too embarrassing if you do not,” Alice whispers.

“Sorry, uhh, I – I don’t really know how to react,” Ryouta explains.

“Such a confident and dominant man in-game is shy inexperienced outside of it,” she says while placing her hand over his clothed erection. “But, I like both sides of you, my hero.”

“I’m hungry,” Cassandra groans.

Alice swiftly pulls her hand away from his crotch and hides it behind her back. Ryouta can’t help but laugh at how suspicious and surprised the expression on her face is.

Serra yawns, woken up by Cassandra’s leg bumping into her.

Aiko is the only one who remains asleep through the morning yawns and movement.

“I – I would love to prepare breakfast for us all if I could have some assistance in the kitchen,” Alice says, making sure to stick with a hushed voice as everybody has only just woken up.

Seeing how flustered she looks gives Ryouta an idea. She was calling him shy and inexperienced just moments ago, so now it’s time for some revenge. “Some sausage sounds nice. You want some morning sausage, Alice?” Ryouta asks her.

Alice blinks a few times at him.

He was hoping to fluster her some more, but instead, she ends up giggling. “I would love some sausage, my hero,” she answers between giggling.

Ryouta gives up. He ends up being the one getting flustered instead of her.

He’s going to have to look up on the internet how to tease girls, or at least learn how to embrace his inner Fenrir while in reality.