"Potter-san, good of you to come." The Chairman welcomed Harry and Miss Nekonome into his office.
"Of course, Chairman-sama." Harry bowed with his teacher before he took a seat.
"Now, I have read the report you wrote for me. I've never had a written report before." The Chairman mused. "It was quite efficient without the terrified stutters and begging for mercy."
Harry tried hard not to smile. Even if Miss Nekonome was turning paler.
"Now, I would prefer that you dealt with these 'Anti-Schoolers' immediately. I have read your reasoning for wanting to wait, but, according to your own report, you have explicit testimony from a member of their group as to the identities of the members."
Harry frowned. "Not the anti-schoolers, Chairman-sama. The Anti-Thesis members, and only some of the higher ranked ones."
"Hmm." The Chairman was clearly not happy with this news. "I know the monster identities of every student. I could call the monstrels in and have them interrogated."
"In what way, sir?" Harry asked warily.
The Chairman chuckled beneath his concealment. "I do not torture children, Potter-san. I have better methods for extracting information. Your latest acquisition, Yakumaru Mako, she could do the job without upsetting your more human sensibilities." He said with a slight mocking tone.
"I don't like mind control. But if it is only used for obtaining the truth…"
"I am not of the human world, Potter. I am beyond even the monster world. It is why I have chosen you to head the SPC.
"I could have left it to die in legend, but I appointed you. And not just because you defeated the previous incarnation. You may do things your way… for now. But, you will be held accountable for any trouble that occurs that you could have prevented."
"If you give me the names of the monstrel students, I will use all I have available to determine if they are members of the Anti-Schoolers." Harry promised. "What would you want me to do with the Anti-Schoolers?"
"What would humans do?" The Chairman asked pointedly.
Harry frowned. "Usually they are imprisoned. They serve a set sentence. But… I don't think it would be a good idea to set up a prison near the school."
"You are to set the example, Potter-san. If you do not kill them, you must see to their punishment. You are permitted to use your current underlings and to recruit more if you feel it prudent.
"So long as the safety of the school is maintained."
So Harry started digging again. He needed a better place than the dungeons. An underground prison with one entrance that was heavily warded would hopefully work.
In the meantime, he had other duties to attend to. The School Festival Committee was meeting and as a class president he was required to attend.
Harry knocked on the door of the old, run down house that was nearly a mile away from the main campus. He was greeted by a student several years his senior with brown hair and glasses.
"Potter Harry, freshman class 3 president. I'm Kaneshiro Hokuto, Student Council President." The boy smiled winningly.
"Nice to meet you." Harry gave a slight bow.
Harry grimaced as he was led into the building. There was a large room with pillars and a massive circular table with other students around it.
Most of them seemed to be having trouble holding human forms.
Harry took an empty seat.
"Now that we are all here, we can begin." Hokuto announced.
Harry sat back and observed as Hokuto laid out his plans for the upcoming festival. It was heavily detailed and allowed little room for change. It wasn't a meeting to plan as much a briefing of how it was going to be.
"Now, about security." Hokuto eventually said. "For too long our school has been hounded by the efforts of these Anti-Schoolers to terrorise us and destabilise the school. We will not let them beat us. We will stamp out these criminals who threaten us!"
"You haven't invited the School Protection Committee to handle security." Harry pointed out. "But, I am already here. I figured there might be this issue so I have asked my vice-president to assume my duties as class president so I can represent the SPC."
There was a tired and resigned sigh as the lavender haired Mizore stepped out from the shadows with a notebook in hand.
"This meeting is private, Harry-kun." Hokuto admonished. "Your vice-president was not invited."
"Neither was the SPC, but we really should have been." Harry returned.
He grimaced as cracking ice was heard and a chair formed next to Harry. "Mizore, what have I told you about revealing your powers in public?" He hissed as the girl slumped into her ice armchair.
"Can't I just be your sex slave, like Mako?" She grumbled.
Mizore knew full well that Harry had never touched Mako. Despite Ririko's attempts to get him to let her join them in bed.
More often than not he would find his morning shower interrupted by foreign hands trying to scrub him. All on her mistress' orders.
But Mizore was still annoyed that Harry had nominated her as vice-president in retaliation for her nominating him to president.
"Anyway," Harry pushed past the unwanted insight to his private life, "the SPC is well aware of the Anti-Schoolers. We are tracking several suspected members. If they try anything then my people will take them down and use them to root out any others we don't know about."
"The SPC has no right to interfere with Student Council activities." Hokuto was trying to remain calm and reasonable, but he was clearly getting angry.
"What is this 'Anti-Schooler' thing?" One of the other students asked curiously.
"They are a group comprised mainly of monstrels." Harry answered.
"This is not the time or place for this." Hokuto interrupted.
"But not all monstrels are members." Harry ignored his senior. "They hate pureblood monsters and want to destroy the school as a message. They are part of a larger group beyond the school called-"
"ENOUGH!" Hokuto roared. "This meeting is over! Get out!"
"If you wish to know more, feel free to come and see me at my office." Harry inclined his head to the now worried and scared student who had asked.
The others were quickly heading out the door.
"Are we going to fight now?" Mizore asked. "I suppose it would be more interesting than this." She pouted as she tossed her notebook on the table.
"Considering how… unhinged Kaneshiro-san is, I am going to have to insist on the Student Council having a faculty advisor."
"Do not talk about me as if I am not here, Potter." Hokuto snarled. "You are off the Council. Take your snow-girl whore with you."
"You know, we only suspected you of being an Anti-Schooler because you are known to associate with another monstrel." Harry said as he stood. "The Headmaster, he confirmed that you are a monstrel, formerly a human."
Hokuto sneered. "So the almighty Hell King can't even stick to his own rules."
"He doubted you were part of the Anti-Schoolers. He believed you wanted what was best for the school."
"And I'm supposed to believe that you knew better?"
"Nope. I was just annoyed that you didn't coordinate security with the SPC. It is why we exist, after all.
"You are the one who revealed his intentions with a bad temper."
"Ah, the arrogance of youth. I have paid close attention to you since you defeated Kuyou, Mido and his underlings.
"You are nothing. You rely on the wisdom and strength of others. And even then, you choose your people poorly."
"Whatever." Harry was used to these sorts of insults. Usually from people who thought they were better. Harry knew his strengths and weaknesses. As far as he was concerned, his major weakness was not knowing what all his weaknesses were.
"Are you going to come quietly or are you going to cause more problems?"
"If you are asking if we are going to fight, the answer is yes."
That was when the twenty golden wash tubs landed on his head and a flash of red impacted him.
Harry looked at the unconscious and half buried Hokuto with amusement. "Most humans would kill to be around that much gold."
"It won't last, Harry." Ruby smiled as she emerged with Yukari and Keito. "It will vanish in a few hours."
"Like leprechaun gold." Harry nodded. "Still, how many is that, Yukari? It's the most I've seen you conjure before."
"Twenty." She smiled proudly. "I could do more but I would get tired."
"Whilst your power is impressive, you need to learn better spells, Yukari." Keito frowned. "Your bath tubs are fine for disciplining an idiot, but not for containing a killer."
"But he is contained." Yukari objected.
"And how will you confirm he is unconscious without struggling to move your conjurations? Whilst you are struggling with them, you will be open to attack."
And that was when the spider-woman was hit in the face by a flying bath tub.
"Yukari, see to Keito." Ruby ordered. She was cradling her left arm from where she had also been hit. "Harry! Rock!"
She yelled at her lover as she saw he had become stone.
Harry got the message and consciously reverted to a flesh form.
Standing in the middle of the room was a smirking Hokuto. "Pathetic."
"Harry-"
"I've got this, Ruby." He assured her. "See to Keito and send Yukari to get help."
"Help? Nothing can help you." Hokuto chuckled.
"Hokuto, lets be clear about this." He said as he took a defensive stance. "First you will fight me. If you win, you will have to deal with a vampire, werewolf, succubus and many others.
"If you still manage to defeat all them, well, provided he hasn't already gotten tired of waiting, you'll face the Chairman.
"Are you sure that you can take him on after you've defeated the rest of us?"
"If it takes my dying breath." Hokuto growled before he launched himself at Harry.
So Harry began casting.
The Chairman had spoken with him and pointed out that magical ability was not limited to human wizards and witches. Many yōkai were able to use magic.
As the Chairman had put it: He was off the leash.
He could use magic and he could even pass off some of his elemental abilities as magic.
Which was why the ground opened up under Hokuto and snapped closed around his legs as Harry threw distracting bolts of light at the ground.
But Hokuto was strong and ripped himself free. "Magic?" He snarled. "Face me like a true monster!"
And Harry obliged.
To Hokuto's horror, Harry grew massive in size, wings of an eagle erupted from his back as he grew a beak and his hands became talons, his legs became massive clawed paws and a tail appeared.
Hokuto was now facing a Griffin. The King of All Beasts.
Then the screaming began.
Moka and the others burst into the building and screeched to a stop. The massive Griffin was standing with one foot on the bleeding Hokuto, a massive talon pinning him to the floor of the room through his torso.
"Help… me." Hokuto wheezed.
That was when the beak impacted his head and he fell unconscious.
"Where did that thing come from?" Ririko asked nervously.
"I thought all the griffins were dead." Miss Nekonome was in awe.
"That's Harry." Ruby smirked as she calmly walked up to the beast. "This is his animal form, like mine is the crow."
"Ruby… this is a bit different to a crow." Moka was wide-eyed.
"Only because Harry is so powerful. If I was more powerful then I might have been something else."
The witch cast a sneer and a stunner at the pinned older boy before looking the griffin in the eye. "Harry, Keito needs help and this fool needs to be shown to his cell."
The griffin cocked its head to the side and scrunched its eyes. Then it began to shrink and reform into the human shaped Harry.
"Still a bit of a struggle to change back." Harry said as he stretched.
"Where's Mizore?" Yukari frowned.
Gin did a quick shift and sniff… and then he gagged. "She's over there." He pointed to a corner as he covered his mouth and nose with crook of his arm.
Harry was immediately on the move with Miss Nekonome. They found the purple haired snow-woman kneeling on the floor whilst feebly leaning against the wall. She was surrounded by vomit.
"Mizore, what happened?" Harry asked as he began casting spells.
"That was so gross." She pointed weakly to the blood covered Hokuto.
It was Kurumu who helped the nauseous Mizore back to the SPC building. Ruby and Miss Nekonome helped Keito back, the spider woman sent pouty looks at Harry and informed him she would be waiting in his bed so he could nurse her back to health.
Nobody missed her loud whisper to Ririko that she wanted to borrow Mako.
That left Hokuto. Harry released Inner Moka to help Gin get the former human to the SPC where Harry would send him to his new prison.
Then he had a meeting to get to.
"Potter-san, I sensed a lot of power an hour ago." The Chairman commented as the teen sat opposite him in his office.
"Kaneshiro Hokuto was the leader of the Anti-Schoolers." Harry informed him without pre-amble. "I may have taken offense at the School Protection Committee not being invited to the festival planning and been a bit… irritable.
"I managed to push his buttons and he tried to kill me."
The Chairman sighed. "Kaneshiro-san, I had high hopes for him. You should think of him as your potential predecessor."
"Because he was human?" Harry asked.
"It is very difficult to get monsters to work with humans and not reveal their true selves. He would have been able to help my students integrate with the human world."
"I don't know what to tell you, Chairman-sama, all I got from him was anger and hate."
"Where is he now? I would like to speak to him."
"I put him in a prison I built." Harry shifted uncomfortably.
Despite the shadows concealing the Chairman's face, Harry could see the look of amusement. "The dungeons were not enough?"
"I was worried about security. I asked Akashiya-san and Morioka-san to attempt to break out of the dungeons. Even Kuruno-san managed with brute strength.
"They certainly wouldn't keep a magical out, Shirayuki-san simply created a key out of ice."
"They were designed for the more… mundane monsters." The Chairman agreed. "Still, I wish to speak with Kaneshiro."
"Chairman-sama-"
"Now, Potter-san."
The prison was directly beneath the SPC building. But there were no entrances or exits. The only way in or out was by apparition… or if Harry moved the earth around him.
That said, even though the Chairman was likely aware of his nature, Harry apparated him into the only secure room that was never to be filled with prisoners. Currently only Harry and Ruby could access the prison as only they knew the location and could therefore apparate there.
The room opened into a corridor formed from rock, it was very hot, there was only one other room, there were sheets of metal at the opening, only a small window was formed.
Inside sat a brooding Hokuto.
"He looks a lot better than he did an hour ago." Harry commented. "Especially as he had a massive hole in his stomach."
Hokuto suddenly realised he had visitors. "Potter." He spat. "You think this place will hold me? When I break free-"
"Hold on, tell it to someone who might actually give a damn." Harry said before stepping aside and letting the white robed Chairman step into place.
"So you finally figured it out." Hokuto smirked nastily. "Though I doubt I ever had you truly fooled. I hope you get to watch as I bring your precious school down around you."
"Kaneshiro, Potter-san was wrong. I don't give a damn about what you have to say." A small smile could be heard in the Chairman's voice. "I was simply wanting to ensure that your cage was adequate.
"Goodbye."
Hokuto was stunned as the Chairman turned on his heel and walked off.
Harry grimaced at the screams of rage as he followed the Chairman back to the room they had arrived in.
"Your mastery of the elements is impressive, Harry-san." The Chairman said approvingly. He had brought Harry back to his office. "Not to mention your wards. I may call on you at the end of the year to evaluate our current protections and add your own."
Harry sat there silently.
"Speak, Harry-san." The Chairman instructed.
Harry sighed. "Akashiya-san said that if people knew, people like her father, what I was, they would try to kill me. But you don't seem to want to."
"A question, a statement or an observation?" He asked leadingly.
Harry paused thoughtfully. "All three?"
The Chairman chuckled. "I am a monster, Harry-san-"
"Chairman-sama… Kaneshiro called you a… 'Hell King'?"
The Chairman leaned back slightly. "Indeed. The boy was more resourceful than I thought.
"I am one of three. Do not dwell on it whilst you are a child. You have a long life ahead of you and it is best to have something to keep you busy.
"Regardless, I have no ill intent towards you because you were raised better than those that came before you. I was born what I am, I grew up in the violence, the evil. It made me, it defined me.
"Every day I fight my natural instinct to put those like Hokotu in their place.
"You have seen this many times in Akashiya-san, no?"
"It's not just pride, then?" Harry frowned.
"No. Her kind is at the top of the food chain, so to speak. She has a need to ensure that others realise that. It is in her blood."
"And my… how I was raised, that's enough for you to restrain yourself from killing me?"
The Chairman smirked. "I am ancient, Harry-san. I have had a long time to practice."
Harry just nodded, still contemplating things.
"Now." The Chairman sat forward, all business. "The festival starts next week. The student council is in disarray and without a leader.
"Do you have plans to deal with these new factors?"
"I told the council that they needed a teacher, at least as an advisor. At the moment, the only one I can think of that will work is Nekonome-sensei.
"As for the Student Council President, Ichinose-san, she leads the Swimming Club and, from what I saw, she was a decent leader… despite trying to kill Moka and me."
"Interesting." The Chairman said with sincerity. "Very well, if you select her, I will give my blessing. At least until next year when the elections are held.
"Now, what of the security preparations for the festival?"
"The SPC will be present. I have bolstered our ranks with people recommended by some of the teachers and Morioka-senpai.
"Chairman-sama, what are the rules and disciplinary measures for the alumni that might attend?" Harry asked carefully.
"You shall consider them students and expect them to abide the same rules. However, the punishments I leave to you."
That week was hectic. Harry's plans were put in place. Miss Nekonome agreed to act as the faculty advisor to the team on a temporary basis. Ichinose Tamoa, the Captain of the Swimming Team, agreed to act as the interim Student President.
Harry had to make a quick retreat when it became clear that, although they didn't want to eat him… they did want to eat him.
Ririko enjoyed teasing him when he rushed back to the SPC building, blushing like a virgin.
She then spent several hours groaning in pain and pleasure as Harry tied her to the wall of her bedroom and had Keito and Mako deal with her.
He had paid close attention to what his lovers liked and made sure that Ririko would not be teasing him about that again.
Until she wanted him to punish her.
Mizore was still pissed at him for making her their class representative on the Student Council. She managed to frequently sneak up on him and have her way with him as punishment.
Of course, they both knew that her ice constructs couldn't affect him. But Harry was no longer stupid enough to spurn the advances of the self-appointed harem.
All the sexually charged liaisons in the building had put Moka in a cranky mood. Both of them. Harry certainly didn't ignore them, but she couldn't help but feel left out whilst everyone but her and Yukari were having sex.
Harry had made a promise to the three that he would dedicate a day each of the festival to them.
That seemed to help.
Harry was stood on top of the school, leaning on the same railing that Kurumu had once used to bind Gin. The grounds were filled with people.
He didn't like it.
Harry was never a people person. Something that tends to happen when you spend most of your life in a cupboard and are blamed for literally everything.
It didn't help that he was, essentially, responsible for making sure these people stayed in line. It was the main reason he had accepted the others' arguments that he needed to wear the uniform of the Head of the SPC. So he was dressed in all black with a long coat.
It was just a step shy of a robe in his opinion.
For the most part, everyone seemed to be behaving and simply enjoying the festival. There was the occasional slip of the human form, but nothing unforgiveable.
He could see flashes of light from Gin's camera as he took photos for the newspaper. Moka was practically being mobbed at the Goldfish Scoop Booth, but no one seemed to be interested in scooping fish. He would keep an eye on her, just in case.
Yukari was performing magic tricks in the square. Harry had been very wary about that, he'd spent the past few months hearing about how monsters considered magicals little better than humans.
But the crowd she had acquired seemed to enjoy her show.
It helped that Kurumu was there, dressed fairly scandalously as her assistant. Twice he had seen her claws appear when someone said something… well, something she didn't like.
Still, it was good to see the usually fractious duo working so well together.
Standing on a raised platform, was Keito and her SPC squad. They stood casually, but watchful, like a guard tower. Hopefully a suitable deterrent to anyone doing something stupid.
"You're acting like a leader."
Harry didn't react to the voice of Chopper coming up behind him.
"Standing up here, watching over everything, planning for everything." The massive student said with amusement. "I can see why the Chairman picked you."
"Are you on 'duty'?" Harry asked curiously as his senior rested against the railing like he was.
"Nah, now that the gym teacher's been replaced, I'm back to regular old student. Just looking to prove my strength."
"So why aren't you down there? Are your parents there?"
"No, my kind don't take to schooling that well. I struggle. I just thought I'd come see what you were doing and ask about a certain rumour running through your people." He looked at Harry with a vicious grin. "Something about you actually being a griffin and not a real wizard?"
The grin turned nasty. "I don't like being lied to."
Harry sighed. "Senpai, I didn't lie to you. I am a wizard. Have you ever heard of an animagus?"
"What?"
Harry thought for a moment. "Monsters can assume human form. Wizards, some wizards, can turn into animals. Ruby can turn into a crow. My godfather into a dog and my father a stag.
"Ruby was teaching me how to do it and apparently, my form is a griffin. I've only been able to do it for a few weeks."
"So… you're a fake griffin?"
"I… I don't know. I was born a wizard." Harry frowned. "The Chairman knows I can change, maybe he can tell if there is a difference between what I become and a real griffin."
There was a screech of indignation and fear from below. One that Harry was familiar with. "I should go and deal with that." Harry said as he leapt over the railing and plummeted to the ground.
Harry landed next to the pink haired Moka, magic slowing his descent.
"Is there a problem, Akashiya-san?" Harry asked formally as the crowding male monsters backed up, cautious about the new player.
"Someone touched me inappropriately." She hissed with a blush.
Harry glared at the men, some grinned lasciviously, others adopted a look of cherubic innocence. "For the rest of the festival, no men are permitted near this booth."
"Says who?" One of the men demanded.
Harry looked at him like he was stupid. "Me you idiot. Didn't you see my lips move?"
The man growled and made to move but another grabbed his arm. They shared a look before the first man spat in the small pond Moka had set up for her booth. He spun on his heel and- was thrown to the ground as a blast occurred behind him.
"You dare?!" Came a deep, feminine and royally pissed voice.
The man was grabbed by the back of his vest and hoisted into the air, a foot off the ground as a furious Inner Moka glared at him.
The man was struggling to breathe as Moka slowly squeezed.
"Rikiishi-senpai!" Harry called out loudly.
There was a loud thud as the wrestler jumped down the three floors from the roof.
"You called, Potter-san?"
"Would you be so kind as to escort this fool from the school premises? If he chooses to resist, maybe he'll give you that challenge you always seek."
Chopper calmly grabbed the man by the back of the head and looked Moka in the eyes. "That's enough, Akashiya-san.
"Enjoy your evening and leave the labour to men like us."
Moka gave a quick squeeze and then let go. She turned and stalked over to Harry before she grabbed his head, tilted it and sunk her teeth into his neck.
Harry stood there, calmly staring into the eyes of the man in Chopper's meaty grip.
He had to discretely touch Moka in an inappropriate place to get her to stop, but when she did, she simply replaced her rosary allowing Outer Moka to return.
Outer Moka's cute face was marred with the same scowl as Inner Moka's. She gave Chopper a sharp nod and he marched off, the man still swinging from his grip.
"We'll call this a night, yes? Set you up fresh for tomorrow?" Harry suggested as he offered his arm to Moka.
She cast a forlorn look at her booth and nodded as she hooked her arm in his.
It was about an hour later and Harry had managed to cheer Moka up. He was now enjoying watching her babble excitedly as she skipped about in her long kimono.
"Kid, got a moment?"
Harry and Moka turned to see Chopper standing there, covered in blood.
"Chopper! What the hell happened?" Harry asked as he moved to check the larger student. The other festival attendees were now looking on with morbid curiosity.
"That cowardly bastard pulled out a human gun." He indicated a small hole in his stomach.
"Moka, get Ruby." Harry ordered. "All this blood couldn't come from there?"
Chopper was splattered with blood from head to toe. He grinned. "The bastard pulled the gun out. I pulled his head off."
"It doesn't look like the wound is going to cause you any serious damage. Ruby will remove the bullet and heal you up."
"I guess all those lessons you gave me on fighting ranged opponents paid off." Chopper chuckled.
The festival goers were now gawking. The idea that the little runt could have any power over the behemoth in front of him was… ridiculous.
"It would have paid off if you hadn't gotten shot." Harry frowned.
"He was aiming for my head."
Harry and Moka were calmly walking amongst the crowds when Mizore suddenly popped up in front of them.
"Harry… need a favour." She said in her usual calm and quiet manner.
"What type of favour?" Harry asked warily. The girl was far from the quiet figure in public that she was in the bedroom.
"I need you to pretend you're my boyfriend."
Harry frowned. "As opposed to… actually being your boyfriend."
"Just my boyfriend. My mom is here. She doesn't know about the harem and I told her I had a boyfriend." She said, seemingly apathetic.
"But what about when she finds out the truth?" Harry asked. "Why not just tell her?"
"What is the worst that could happen?" Moka posited. "My father knows and didn't do anything beyond get angry."
"He threw me through several trees!" Harry protested.
Moka giggled. "Oh Harry, we all know that if my father wanted to hurt you, no one would stop him. Not even the Chairman."
Mizore had a look of disgust. "Yeah, but my mom might try and join the harem."
Harry was wide-eyed with fright.
"Mizore, no one gets to join the harem without the consent of everyone." Moka said sternly.
"You don't know my mom." She muttered.
"Harry!" They turned as the exuberant and bubbly Kurumu flounced up in the revealing maid uniform she had worn for helping Yukari.
Harry had to brace himself as she jumped him. "Kurumu." He greeted with dry amusement.
"I need a favour." She said with pouty lips. "I told my mom you were-"
She was cut off as Mizore grabbed her by the hand and started dragging her off. "Come on Bazooka Girl. We have the same problem."
"I wonder if you'll have to meet everyone else's parents too." Moka wondered.
Harry began to sweat.
Eventually the day wound down and people went off to bed. Moka spent the night snuggled into his side whilst everyone else was with their parents.
Except Ririko who entertained herself with Mako and Ruby.
The following day started bright and early. Harry and the gang had breakfast in the SPC building as they discussed the upcoming day.
He was spending it, as promised, with Yukari. He had been briefly introduced to her somewhat silent yet smiling parents. He was pleased to be able to thank them in person for all the help they had provided.
The pair were walking down the make-shift concourse where the booths were being held when Harry noticed his walking partner had changed.
"So, you're the one who stole my daughter's heart."
Harry looked to his left to see the short, black-haired witch had been replaced by a tall, blue-haired succubus. "I really hope Yukari is alright." Harry said as he stopped and looked around.
He managed to glimpse the young witch being helped up off the ground by her parents and a scowling Ruby.
"The witch is unimportant-"
"You are a severe disappointment." Harry said with disgust. The succubus was shocked that he interrupted her. "I can see where Kurumu got her original poor personality from."
Shocked anger descended upon the beautiful face. "You dare?!"
"Shut up. Leave. And apologise to your daughter for embarrassing her."
"How dare you!"
Harry simply walked past her, leaving her outraged but confused as to how to respond.
Harry apologised to Yukari and the two continued their day. Ruby promised to keep an eye on Kurumu's mother to make sure she didn't interrupt them again.
Harry promised to make it up to her that night. He could see the witch's mind wander into fantasies of whips and chains. He figured he'd make it really good for her and invite Ririko. Ruby enjoyed them used on her, Ririko enjoyed using them.
They made it to lunch and Harry sighed as he found Yukari once again replaced. This time by a very pale, purple-haired woman in a white kimono.
A quick glance saw Gin had managed to catch the young witch.
"You do realise you just pissed off a witch, right?" Harry asked as he put down his sandwich.
The woman, who Harry deduced to be Mizore's mother, seemed unconcerned.
"And that witches can create some of the most intense and deadly fire in the world? Fiendfyre?"
She didn't get any paler, but she did turn slightly green.
Harry didn't like to waste food, but he left his sandwich and headed over to Yukari, thanked Gin and escorted her out of the cafeteria.
That evening he could see, in two separate instances, both Kurumu and Mizore yelling at their mothers. The mothers appeared to be pretending that they weren't embarrassed.
"I wonder why they kept trying to get you alone?" Yukari mused as they sat on a nearby bench and watched the evening's fireworks display.
"I have no idea what Shirayuki-san was doing, but I imagine Kurono-san was going to try and seduce me. From what I've learnt about Kurumu, succubae can be very competitive. She probably finds it insulting that her daughter submitted to me, instead of me succumbing to her daughter's charms."
"You do know she's your mother-in-law, right?" Yukari pointed out.
"Not until after we graduate." Harry scowled. "I'm not going to be married before I'm seventeen. Preferably eighteen."
"Will you at least marry me when I turn sixteen?" She asked pleadingly.
Harry put an arm around her and pulled her against his side. "I promise not to reject you just because of your physical age."
"But you will for other stuff?" She sounded miserable.
"The only thing that will make me reject you is if you can't get on with the others. That is very difficult to do when you consider the fairly fractious relationships between Kurumu and Mizore, Ririko and Inner Moka and… well, who knows what could happen."
"Are you expecting to expand your harem?" She asked teasingly, happier now knowing that Harry wouldn't reject her.
"Yukari, I didn't start this harem, I certainly don't control it."
That night was… not as relaxing as it should have been.
Twice Harry was woken when someone entered his room without knocking. First it was Kurono Ageha, Kurumu's mother who entered wearing a smirk and nothing else.
She backed out nervously when she saw the various female glares being sent her way, including the one from her daughter.
The second was obviously Shirayuki Tsurara, Mizore's mother. Who at least wore a negligee, but still backed out.
That was when Harry gave up and transfigured the door and its frame into a single piece of metal.