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Chapter Seven: Me, Minami, and a Bed

"I-I love you!" Yes, a stereotypical start to a Conquest, but with all the midway parameters, Keima didn't have much of a choice. He needed to know what was on Yuuka's mind. He needed her problem. "It hurt too much just being on the sidelines, while a cross-dressing pervert stole your heart! Please, I-I care for you, and I don't want you to get hurt and ashamed by that experience ever again!"

"Hypocrite," said Haqua du Lot Herminium as she rolled her eyes, and glared at the scenario unfolding in front of her. Keima was a cross-dresser before for Yui's second conquest, therefore making him a dissembler. After that revelation, she took a look at Keima's script, and as always, Keima Katsuragi was following it to the letter.

"W-What!?" said Yuuka Koyama, backing away a little. "But we never really interacted, and this is all so sudden, and-" Her rambling was halted by Keima's hands encasing her own.

Keima raised the hands up, and said, "C'mon, give me one chance! Let me fill in the hole in your heart!" He then swooped in and kissed her. Instantly, the Escaped Spirit was booted out of Yuuka's heart, therefore ending the anti-climatic capture. Why was Yuuka Koyama so easy to conquer? The hole in her heart was shallow, which says that her "love" for Kyouji Nemoto was merely infatuation. Thanks to the shock made by Keima's sudden confession, he practically rammed into the spirit, making it go out. Sure, it would be easy for the gap to open up again due to the lousy patchwork, but Keima's goal was to suck up all the Spirits in record time.

"Escaped Spirit in custody!" exclaimed Elsie, as Haqua was writing on her tablet, erasing Yuuka's memories. The thing on Keima's mind was that it was too easy. He had been expecting a slap and an angry Yuuka, and afterwards, he'd turn that hate to love. Sure, he had also thought of the possibility that the capture would end with that magical kiss, but he shoved that to the margins of his script, because the probability of that happening is a mere 1%.

"Kanon, Shouko, Yandere-ism... Chihiro, Yuuka, Normalcy... tsk, I can't see the ending yet! Wait..." He was making a connection between his universe and Akihisa's universe. The heroines were alike! Keima debated whether that tidbit of info would be useful in the future. Then the sounds of Sensors sounding off shook him from his analysis. He whipped around, till he was looking at the two devils, each one having a beeping Sensor in hand. Keima was perplexed. What did that mean!? On instinct, he hid behind the pillar (Yep, he had confessed on the rooftop. Again.) just as two figures appeared.

Minami Shimada and Mizuki Himeji.

"What do you mean 'Both of your sensors went off'!?" said Keima, baffled by the events that unfolded. "Isn't that inpossible!?"

"Not really. Mine probably went off on the ponytail girl, while Elsie's came off on the pinkette," summarized Haqua.

"A double Conquest!?" exclaimed Keima. Since he is technically the only buddy in Akihisa's universe, he would have to be the one to capture them both.

Haqua rolled her eyes yet again. "You know you don't have to Capture both at once."

"Objection!" exclaimed Keima, pointing one finger at Haqua and taking a pose like a lunatic. "I have to Capture them at the same time! Faster Captures equal more gaming time, which I am lacking!"

"And more Keima time!" exclaimed Kanon, adding in her five cents. She then proceeded to hug Keima, who had delved back into the Gaming World after his objection. Haqua's eye twitched.

"Hey human girl, I don't like the way you two are touching."

"Well, what're you going to do about it? You don't own him!" said Kanon. The gloves were off. She wasn't going to mess around anymore, not when she could see how easily Keima captures a girl. With that level of skill, he could Capture anyone. It scared the pink-haired idol to the max. Losing Keima would be like losing everything for her, and if she didn't get her happy ending...

...desperate times call for desperate measures.

"Aki!? Where are you, and why aren't you here!?" yelled Minami into her phone, a poor Keima Katsuragi on the other side.

"I have a cold," sniffled Keima, who had a Celestial Robe piece stuffed up his nose to synthesize a cold. "Would you mind bringing me the homework given today?"

"W-Why would I want to do that!?" Deep inside, she would die for a chance to go to Akihisa's house, but she kept the feeling from surfacing.

"Well, I guess I could just ask someone else, maybe Hideyosh-"

"I'll do it!" exclaimed the flat-chested girl, the volume assaulting Keima's ears yet again. "I'll be there right away!"

"Thanks," said Keima, flipping the phone closed. He then recalled the time when he had to hide Ayumi when Chihiro came over, leading to a bunch of fan-service. He hoped the situation would happen again, since he wanted to max out the girls's love points in as little time as possible to be able to salvage some gaming time.

It was time for the God to get serious.

"Aki!? You don't look so good," said Minami Shimada, setting a few worksheets on the end table in Akihisa's room. Keima turned his head toward Minami.

"Yeah. The cold hit me all of a sudden," said Keima, "so I wasn't able to get to a hospital in time." The brunette then tried to pick up the glass of water beside the sheets of paper, only to let it slip and wobble. If it weren't for Minami enclosing her hands upon his, the water would've soiled the worksheets. Minami and Keima blushed thanks to the close contact.

"Dang, you're hopeless," sighed Minami, tilting the glass for him. She watched as his luscious lips gulped in the liquid. Pushing the thought out of her head, she said, "No one else's here?"

"Nope. It's a little lonely, actually," said Keima, sighing. "It's a little too lonely, so... could you stay for a little while longer?"

"B-But I'm all busy, with... stuff a-and," stuttered Minami, having a reverie of her and Akihisa all alone in his house, doing- never mind. "A...a..."

A knock on the door and an "Akihisa-kun? Oh, the door's unlocked" interrupted the girl with the ponytail. Then the sound of a door swinging open could be heard, and had Keima cursing the high heavens.

"A freaking repeat!? How unoriginal can the Real get!?" whispered Keima out of frustration. Once the footsteps were outside the room's door, Keima shoved Minami onto the bed, grabbed the cover and hid the both of them. The door swung open, revealing...

...Mizuki Himeji.

What'll happen next? Will Keima's simultaneous Capture succeed, or will the real get in his way?

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