Mahou Sensei Negima! is the creation and intellectual property of Akamatsu Ken and Kodansha.
Anything that Counts as Decadent Conquests.
Lesson One.
With special thanks to Darkenning.
The first time Chao Lingshen actually saw Negi Springfield in the flesh, he was standing in the office of the Headmaster, just as planned.
He was a bit taller than she had expected, which was in truth a plus for Chao. He also was handsome for his age, with dark red hair, a cute but not babyish face, and large, rounded dark brown eyes. He wore a well pressed dark green suit, tiny bifocal glasses precariously perched on his small nose, shiny black shoes, and a dark red tie. All in all, he looked like a perfect little British gentleman.
The old man sitting behind the wide desk smiled. "Ah, Chao-kun, Yotsuba-kun," he said warmly. "Close the door after yourselves, please."
Silently, she and Yotsuba Satsuki did as they were told. The boy looked at them curiously. The two young girls stopped before him and the Headmaster. "How may we help you, Sir?" Chao asked with a pleasant smile.
The elder cleared his throat. "Negi-kun, these are Chao Lingshen and Yotsuba Satsuki, two of the students you will be teaching during this term. Chao-kun, Yotsuba-kun, this is Negi Springfield, from Merdiana Academy in Wales. He will be your homeroom and English teacher, starting today."
The slightly taller of the two, a leanly athletic beauty with black hair and rosy cheeks, took a hand to one of said cheeks. "Oh, goodness!" she said. "What a truly unexpected development! But, isn't he too young, Sir?"
"Negi-kun is a child prodigy, a graduate with an Oxford summa cum laude level," Konoe Konoemon explained, with airs of almost familiar pride. "He's more than qualified for the task, Chao-kun."
The boy bowed deeply at the teenagers. "It's a pleasure. Please bear with me for the time being."
It was then that Satsuki noticed something unusual attached to the boy's back. It was a long, beaten wooden staff, mostly wrapped in old, yellowed bandages. "Springfield-sensei?" she asked with that ever so delicate voice, barely above a whisper but always clear. "If I may be so bold to ask, what is that thing you are carrying?"
"It's... a memento from my father... Yotsuba-san, right?" Negi Springfield answered. "And you are Chao-san?" he said to the other young woman present.
Chao smirked and nodded vigorously. "Yep! I do look just as Chinese as my name, neh?"
Negi smiled awkwardly. "N-Not that there's anything wrong with that, of course."
"Of course!" Konoemon folded his bony hands together, resting them on the desk. "Since all older teachers are either currently residing too far from the campus, or lacking enough space for a child in their accomodations, you'll be rooming with the girls for now, Negi-kun. There shouldn't be any problem with it, since they are two of our most disciplined and responsible students."
Negi blinked. "Seriously, Sir?"
"I'd never joke about such matters!" the bald elder said in serious tone.
Negi gulped. "But... I'd be intruding into the privacy of two young ladies!"
"It's okay, Negi-sensei," Chao said, sounding more amused than anything else. "I don't mind at all! Do you, Sat-chan?"
Her fair skinned, pleasantly plump roommate shook her head.
"See? I told you," Konoemon told the foreigner. "Chao-kun is a prodigy just like yourself, and both of them are among the best cooks in our school. You'll be properly fed and taken care of!"
Chao grinned and assumed a martial arts pose briefly. "I'm even skilled at kenpo, yo! So I'll protect you if anyone tries to bully you, Negi-sensei!"
Konoemon laughed. "Oh ho ho! There's that, as well! So never get her angry, Negi-kun!"
"I'll try not to," Negi said, clearly impressed but still dubious.
Konoemon pressed a button on a small caller on the desk. "Shizuna-kun? You can come in now. Show Negi-sensei the way to Classroom 2-A, please."
Almost immediately, in walked a gorgeous not-quite-young woman with long, light blonde hair and glasses, wearing a long skirt, high-heeled shoes, and a tight sweater. Negi blinked for a moment, eyes instinctively drawn to the newcomer's large bustline. Then he blushed and looked down.
"Minamoto Shizuna, my secretary," Konoemon said. "If you have any doubts or questions about Mahora, you can contact her at any point and she'll be glad to help you."
The woman smiled sweetly. She ran a hand through Negi's hair. "Welcome to Mahora, Negi-sensei!" she said. "Glad to have you here. Please follow me. I'll introduce you to your new students!"
Negi nodded, and he, Chao and Satsuki followed Shizuna out of the office. She led them out of the building and into a larger nearby one, then up some stairs and down a long hallway, passing by several classes full of chattering, noisy female students everywhere. Negi paid attention to all of them, awed at the new sights and wondering about the future.
Shizuna stopped before a closed door at the end of the hallway. "Here it is," she told the young man. "Junior High 2-A. I hope you-"
"Only one second, if you please," Satsuki said. She approached the door and rapped her knuckles on it, gently but also firmly.
Negi paid attention, noticing how she actually was knocking in Morse code.
It's me. Don't even think about it.
Satsuki stepped back then, as if waiting for something. Negi was about to ask her about it, but he felt Shizuna's hand resting on his shoulder, and he looked back at her. "Sensei?" he asked.
"Shhhhh," Shizuna said softly. There were several sounds of rustled motion inside the classroom, as if someone was pushing and pulling things with great haste. It was only when those sounds stopped that Shizuna let go of Negi's shoulder. "It should be safe now," she said then.
The boy gulped. He pushed the door open, and walked inside, then promptly found himself the sudden target of nearly thirty startled female stares.
He was used to having the full attention of others. It was part and parcel of being the top student in a magical school. But there was something different about it now, these were older girls - although a few of them didn't look it - and he was an outsider in their country. And all of them were beautiful, making the whole situation even more uncomfortable.
"Um... Good morning..." he began, unsure of how to follow up.
Shizuna approached a stunned thin girl with short hair, who was standing near the door holding a bucket full of water for some reason. "Be thankful to Yotsuba-san," the woman told her in a neutral tone. "She just saved you from a week of detention, Kasuga-san."
"I... I have no idea what you are talking about, I just found this bucket sitting here, and picked it up for ... reasons," the girl said blandly. "Who is this?"
Shizuna looked at Negi and nodded. He breathed deeply, walked up to the front of the class, and straightened his tie. "My name is Negi Springfield," he said. "I'll be your Homeroom and English teacher for the school term that starts today. I hope we all can get along and learn from each other along the way!"
Everyone just stared at him stupidly for some moments.
"What," a red haired beauty with mismatched eyes - one green, the other blue - said eventually.
And then a big breasted young lady with glasses and long black haired jumped from her seat.
"He's SOOOOOO DARN CYUUUUUUUUTEEEEEEE!" she squealed loudly.
A large avalanche of loudly cooing teenagers descended upon him like a ton of bricks the second after.
"Just look at him! Isn't he the cutest thing ever?"
"Ah ha ha! He's blushing! Any moment now he'll start crying!"
"Don't be a meanie, Misa! Oh, he reminds me of my brother!"
"Uwa, uwa, uwaaaaaa!" Negi said, trying to break free without hurting anyone.
A girl with light brown hair pulled back into a long ponytail walked up next to Shizuna. She adjusted her large round glasses and scowled. "Minamoto-sensei," she said humorlessly. "This has to be some kind of joke, right? To teach Kasuga and the twins and the others not to mess with teachers, isn't it?"
"I'm afraid not, Hasegawa-san," Shizuna hummed, looking at the girls giggling and surrounding Negi from all angles. That was when another girl finally snapped out of a red-faced stupor and stomped her way through her classmates, pushing them aside and trying to pull the boy out.
"S-S-Stop that already, everyone!" the beautiful blonde girl said, finally reaching Negi and tugging him to her protective wing, making him stumble so his head was stuck between her breasts. He hiccuped helplessly. "Don't you have any shame?! Harassing a poor young soul this way! Were you all raised in trees by savages?!"
"Aw, it's just some harmless playing, Iinchou," Kakizaki Misa smirked and shrugged.
"Ah ha ha, our new teacher, that's a good one, yeah!" Akashi Yuuna grinned and looked at Shizuna. "Okay, so where's Takahata-sensei now?"
"Teaching the new class the Headmaster reassigned him to," Shizuna said patiently. "Like I was telling Hasegawa-san, this isn't a prank played on you girls. Negi-sensei is a real academic prodigy and he'll be-"
"WHAT?!" the girl with mismatched eyes screamed.
The short, freckled Murakami Natsumi blinked. "For... For real? N-Not even Itoshiki-sensei or Fujimura-sensei? Why would you ask a child to teach us?"
From one of the back seats, next to an open window, a tiny blonde with long hair and green eyes glared at Negi with obvious hostility but said nothing at all.
"Because the Headmaster said so." Shizuna clapped her hands. "Everyone get back to your seats right now! And you, Sensei, please compose yourself."
Negi staggered back from the blonde who was still holding him. He blushed and dusted his suit off. "Y-Yes. Sorry, Minamoto-sensei. As I was saying, I'm going to be teaching you through a test period, starting today. This is my first time teaching, but-"
"Oh, COME ON!" the girl with mismatched eyes interrupted him. "We've got the worst grades in this level, and you're putting a newbie who isn't even twelve yet to teach us?!"
The blonde who had been called 'Iinchou' scoffed at her. "If we have fallen that low down the ranks that's mostly on you, Asuna-san! You're the absolutely last person who should be talking!"
"Oh, shaddap, Iinchou!" this Asuna girl said. "Of course you'd say that as long as a brat is involved!"
"What in the world you mean with that?" the girl who apparently was the Class Representative narrowed her eyes at her.
Asuna huffed. "Why to mince words? We all know you've always been-"
"Don't say it!" Iinchou said.
"-a big, fat, stark raving mad undeniable and campus-wide famous-"
"I'm warning you!" Iinchou warned her.
"- shotacon!" Asuna finished.
"I warned you!" the blonde growled, jumping on her as both girls started struggling and pulling on each other's hair.
Shizuna sighed miserably. "Three decades more... Three more decades and then I can retire!"
"How is that even a remotely comforting thought?" asked Hasegawa, frowning. If you'll pardon the redundancy.
"It isn't, Hasegawa-san! It isn't!" Shizuna replied, hands on her face.
Negi blinked. "What's a shotacon?" he asked.
"N-Never mind that!" Hasegawa told him. "If you really are a teacher, it's your job to separate them! So you do just that, will you?!"
Chao Lingshen smiled, watching the scene unfold.
Where she came from, youngsters rarely if ever behaved like that. This place felt so full of life, so warm, so charmingly chaotic. She would miss it when the time came.
Seeing Negi trying to step in the middle of the catfight and only managing to get himself wrapped into it, Chao swore inwardly, once more. I'll save you, she promised in her mind. No matter what it takes. No matter how low we have to stoop.
We WILL have a future ahead of us.
The rest of the day went well enough, in Chao's opinion.
Negi proved to be an effective teacher as expected, even if he needed Iinchou's help to reach the top of the blackboard, and Asuna wouldn't stop tossing pieces of chalk at his back when he wasn't looking. Most of the girls had predictably found him attractive or cute, and those who did not hadn't tried to antagonize him openly yet, not even Asuna. Chao could work with that.
When the bell rang, Negi sighed with some measure of soft relief. He smiled at his new disciples. "Well, looks like that'll be everything for today! Thank you, you've been a wonderful class today. See you tomorrow."
"Freedom! Sweet sweet freedom!" the tiny and pink haired Narutaki Fuuka ran outside, never looking back. Her long suffering twin Fumika followed her more slowly.
Asuna mumbled and grumbled on her way out, with Konoe Konoka smiling at her and patting her arm as they walked.
Chao came to Negi as he gathered his things for leaving. "Yo, Negi-bouzou," she told him. "You know the way to the dorms, don't you?"
Negi blinked. "Huh, yes, Takamichi gave me a map of the school this morning, before I met the Headmaster. Why?"
"Great, then you can go there on your own!" the Chinese teenager laughed, patting his shoulder. "Sat-chan will need to attend the Chao Bao Zi as ever, and Ku-chan and I will have a session in the Chinese Martial Arts club, so we can't walk you there, sorry yo!"
Iinchou already was at the door, but she froze there, one ear growing huge. "What?"
"What is the Chao Bao Zi?" Negi asked Chao.
"Oh, it's just the restaurant I own!" Chao laughed so casually, as it were an everyday occurrence for teenagers to own restaurants. "Even so, if you get lost on your way, just ask any girl you see for directions! Our room is-"
Iinchou already had flash stepped between them. "Wa-Wait a moment, Chao-san! 'Our' room?! What is this 'our' room business?!"
"Oh, that's right, we hadn't told you!" Chao said. "Negi-bouzou will be rooming with Sat-chan and me during his stay here."
"Please don't call me 'bouzou', Chao-san," Negi requested politely.
"Whaaaaat?!" Iinchou yelled.
"He said please don't call me 'bouzou'," Chao clarified politely.
"THAT IS NOT EVEN REMOTELY WHAT I MEANT!"
Ku Fei poked her tanned, green eyed, blonde head back into the classroom. "Chao? You coming or no?" she asked in her stilted accented Japanese.
"Give me a second, Ku-roshi!" Chao said good naturedly. "Iinchou, it was the Headmaster's own decision, what could we do about it?"
Iinchou blinked, with all the colors leaving her face. "But... But why you?! Granted, you are the academically most achieved of us all, but you are too busy with club activities all day long! Sensei needs someone who can be there for him at all times!"
Iinchou's friend Naba Chizuru, a beautiful and big breasted motherly type with long dark brown hair, patiently came up to her. "Ayaka, you are expected at your equestrian team right now."
"They can do fine without me for a while!" the blonde said.
"You are the captain," Naba reminded her.
"It's fine, Iinchou-san, you don't need to worry about me." He took a piece of paper Chao had just given him after scribbling something into it. He nodded at what he read. "Okay, so this is our apartment, but I'll need a key."
"Take mine," Chao gave him a small silver key. "I'll try to be home as early as possible, alright?"
"But... But... But...!" Yukihiro Ayaka babbled while Chizuru quietly dragged her out of the room.
And so Negi walked out of the building on his own, whistling a jaunty Welsh tune to himself. Since he had enough time to spend before dusk and until Chao and Satsuki went back home, he decided to stroll around for a while and get to know his surroundings. Maybe he'd find Takamichi along the way and ask him how his day went.
Most girls had gone to their clubs or apartments already, and the Mahora campus was mostly lonely and quiet, a stark contrast to all of the noise he'd witnessed that morning. Negi visited a few parks and fed some pigeons, walked around some springs, even bought some rather tasty bread from a street stand.
He'd gone to an isolated area near a small library building, what he understood to be an affiliate to the much larger Library Island across the campus, from what he'd overheard from one of the girls he saw leaving it. He sat down on a bench at the bottom of a long flight of steps sculpted in white stone, unwrapped his bread, and ate happily.
He was almost finished when he heard a gasp coming from above him, and he tensed up. From his angle, he saw a girl stumbling down the top steps and falling towards him. The large pile of books she'd been carrying flew in all directions, but that was the least of Negi's concerns now. Without hesitating, he pulled his father's staff out and pointed it upwards.
"Ras Tel Ma Scir Magister!" he shouted. "Deflexio!"
Immediately, a large cushion of compressed air formed itself around and under the girl, slowing her fall down until Negi could jump at her, catching her in his surprisingly strong arms before she could hit the pavement.
Negi panted, looking down at the gasping girl in his arms. He recognized her as one of his homeroom students. She was petite and thin, not that much taller than himself, and had short dark purple hair. Said hair had been falling in thick bangs all over her eyes that morning, but now the bangs had been brushed aside, and Negi was charmed by the face that had been hidden underneath. It was a sublime face, delicate and feminine, and with large, bright violet eyes, the most beautiful eyes he'd ever seen.
He could hear the quickened pace of her heart, and his also fastened in his chest. "Eerrrrrr... Muh-Miyazaki-san... right?" He gulped, trying to remember the class roster Takamichi had given him. "Miyazaki Nodoka?"
Miyazaki Nodoka only could nod without a word, trembling in his arms.
"I... I'm sorry!" Negi eeped, realizing what he had just done. "That was only an, a, you see - "
"He's a mage," another voice said from behind them. "And he's just saved your life using magic."
Negi, panicking, glanced back over his shoulder, even as Nodoka also looked that way.
They saw Chao Lingshen standing there, smiling at them both.
It was a statement of Negi's priorities that he gently set Nodoka down on her feet before spinning around to point a finger at Chao. "You... You followed me!" he said.
"I had to. You're a young man in an unknown land, and you've just proved that you are careless about your secret," Chao said evenly.
"You... You said you were going to your club! You lied to me!" Negi added.
Well, maybe he didn't have all of his priorities that straight, after all.
"I never lie!" Chao sounded mortally offended. "I went with Ku-chan but then I excused myself early!"
Nodoka blinked. The bangs of hair were covering the upper half of her face once more. "S-Sorry... What, what is going on here?"
"I just told you, ne?" Chao said, walking past a livid Negi to start picking up the books Miyazaki had dropped. After a moment, Negi joined her in the task. "Negi-bouzou here is a mage, and so am I. He's the son of Nagi Springfield, the greatest mage of his generation! Of course anyone familiar with the occult would know about him-yo!"
Negi blinked, pausing a moment. "Th-Thank you... Wait, you're a mage as well?!"
"That's what I just said, yes," Chao said patiently, giving the pale Nodoka her tomes back.
Negi did the same. Nodoka let out a vaguely grateful noise. "And you go around telling others about it so cavalierly!" he told Chao. "How can you accuse me of being careless, in that case? I only used a spell because Miyazaki-san's life was in danger!"
Chao sighed. "You don't know half of it."
"Eh?" Negi said.
"Never mind that now," Chao said. "This is the moment when we should erase her memories of the event, isn't it?"
"Wha-What?!" Nodoka stepped back.
Negi looked at Miyazaki and bit on his lip. "I suppose... But I hoped I would never need to do this. I'm not good with mental adjustment spells."
Chao smiled. "Neither am I. Only branch I'm bad at. This is a problem, neh?"
"Wha, what, exactly, are you planning to do to me?!" Nodoka asked, starting to panic.
"Nothing, Bookstore," Chao said softly. She looked at Negi. "That's our nickname for her, since she's surrounded by books all the time."
Nodoka blinked again. "It is?"
"Yes. You never hear it because they only call you that behind your back," Chao said benevolently. She addressed Negi again. "We need her to stay in the know, regardless. This is important."
"What? How so?" Negi asked. "It'd be a complete breach of the protocol!"
"I know," Chao said. She pulled her cellphone out and made a call. "Sat-chan? Close the restaurant early and meet me at the dorm's rooftop asap. I'll be bringing Negi-bouzou and Bookstore. Thanks, bye."
"W-Wait a moment!" Negi said. "If you truly are a mage, you can't let an outsider keep this knowledge any longer we absolutely need to!"
Chao stared at her. "She will die if she doesn't learn about magic soon."
"I, I, I want to learn about magic!" Nodoka said quickly. A beat. "Will it take long? Yue-Yue worries if I'm late getting home."
Negi frowned at his new roommate. "This isn't funny, Chao-san. Are you one of those preaching the necessity for an opening? You're just fortunate I don't represent Clock Tower! They'd have you killed for this!"
"Actually, no, I'm not one of those." Chao pocketed her phone back. "I'm from a distant future. I was born in a post apocalyptic dystopia marred by war and a plague that killed off ninety percent of all women in the world. We believe you are the key to minimize that damage as much as possible, Negi-bouzou, but we need to act quickly. Which is why I was sent here, to recruit you for a mass breeding initiative that will hopefully save all of our classmates from that certain death!"
Negi's eyes grew to the size of plates. "Whaaaaaat?!"
Nodoka fainted. Once again, the books tumbled to the ground around her.
Chao pulled her head back and sighed loudly. "Man, that was such a mouthful! I wonder if I revealed it all too soon." She hummed, rubbing her chin. "Well, there's still so much more to reveal, so the sooner the start, the better. Sorry about that, just in case. I did what I had to do!"
Negi was already helping Nodoka back to her feet, fanning the weakly hiccupping librarian. "Are you insane?!" he growled at Chao. "Nothing of what you said makes any sense at all!"
Chao extended a hand towards them. "Come with me if you want to live." There was a brief silence. "See? Would I know about that pop culture reference about a time traveler if I didn't come from the future myself?"
"That movie's been out for decades now!" Negi said. "Even I know that and I was raised in the mountains!"
"Ah, that's right, sorry. I got my Terminators mixed up. I was thinking it was a quote from Dark Fate, but it came from the original instead, neh?"
"She... She must come from another time," Nodoka said. "Nobody from this era would mistake Terminator movies for each other so easily!"
"... there's more than just the one?" Negi asked, confused.
"Or maybe they would," she muttered.
Chao turned around and began walking away. "Well, Sat-chan is waiting for us! We must go to the dorms anyway, don't we? So follow me and I'll explain things in greater detail once we're there!"
"May, may I call Yue-Yue first, she must be cooking dinner, and-"
Chao threw her hands up without looking back. "Yes, yes, all right, Bookstore, but please don't tell her about the whole apocalypse thing just yet."
When Negi, Nodoka and Chao made it to the rooftop, Satsuki already was waiting for them there, still wearing a chef's uniform that made her look even more like an overgrown adorable koala.
"Yo, Sat-chan," Chao waved a hand at her. "Glad you could make it. How much money did we make today?"
Negi gritted his teeth. "Would you please worry about money after we have sorted out what you threatened us with?"
"It wasn't a threat, just a a warning. Hardly the same thing!" Chao sat at the edge of the rooftop, crossing her legs. For a moment she enjoyed the lingering breeze on her skin. "It's a beautiful world, isn't it?"
"Have you told them about it already?" Satsuki asked, sitting by her side. "That was fast."
"We have a tight deadline!" Chao said.
"E-Excuse me, Yotsuba-san," Nodoka stammered. "Are you a... mage as well?"
Satsuki shook her head. "No, all I know about magic is what Chao has told me."
Negi frowned at Chao. "How long have you been sharing information with the rest of society?"
"Give me a rest!" the genius rolled her eyes. "I haven't told anyone but her and another classmate!"
"Hakase-san, r-right?" Nodoka gulped.
"..." Chao said. "I'm not saying."
Nodoka nodded. "S-So... Hakase-san, after all. It stood to reason..."
"That doesn't matter right now," Chao said. "Listen, a year from now on, a virus will spread from somewhere in East Asia. Exactly where, we have no idea. There have been several theories about Patient Zero and the virus' origins, but most records from this era were lost because of the war and because your societies foolishly abandoned most records on paper for digital, a medium that could be altered and deleted easily by those in power."
"Continue," Negi said, folding his arms. "Please."
"The virus was harmless to males, but they still could be carriers," Chao elaborated. "It was spread through airborne means such as coughing or sneezing. To ninety percent of females, it was lethal; several weeks of incubation followed by flu-like symptoms and then a quick physical decay, ending with an ebola-like death. A truly terrible thing. I hail from a bloodline of those immune to the plague, naturally. In my time, women are a valuable commodity, and I might have finished a trophy wife or worse had my family not protected me. For I had a mission."
"Oh my!" Nodoka gasped.
"Don't take it for face value," Negi told her. "Time travel is impossible, that would demand for control of one of the True Magics. You cannot alter the past, it has been proved by magic and science alike."
"Time travel is difficult but not impossible, yo," Chao said. "My family are all geniuses, and they had access to the writings of the five great sages of magic. Dana the Witch of the Rift, Stephen Strange, Aozaki Aoko, Zelretch of the Jewels and Kent Nelson."
Negi pulled back in great sudden awe, shaking despite himself.
Nodoka looked at him. "S-Sensei?"
Chao smirked. "I wouldn't even know those names if I weren't a top student of magecraft myself. As for the second past of your statement, it is true that you cannot change the past... your own past, that is. You only create a diverging alternate timeline. But my family still wanted me to live a better existence. Even if they can't hope for a better world for themselves, they wanted me to create one for myself. And I want to honor that wish, and to save those I've come to consider my friends. For that, Negi-bouzou, I need you."
Negi swallowed. "What am I even supposed to do? I'm not that good! I'm not an expert on medical research either. My father might be able to find a solution, but then you should have travelled further into the past!"
"No, your father was... is... a brawler and a warrior, but not the kind of researcher needed for this task," Chao said. Nodoka sat at the other side of Satsuki, feeling oddly dizzy for some reason. "And even we couldn't just travel anywhere in the past. You need a specific focal point and time, Negi-bouzou." She pointed at a massive tree on top of a green hill, dominating the landscape. "I needed the leylines from the World Tree to anchor my arrival here."
"Then how can I help you at all?" Negi asked.
"You... You mentioned a... 'breeding program', didn't you, Chao-san?" Nodoka put both hands on the lower half of her own face. "That's wh-what you want Sensei for?"
Chao's face tightened. "Yes," she said in a sober tone.
Negi blinked, taking some time to digest that. "With breeding, you mean..."
"If a woman in her fertile years mates with a man carrying immunity genes, both her offspring and her are immunized against the virus," Chao said. "Decades of research have confirmed this. The fetus' physical link to its mother pumps the antibodies into her system, granting her a strong measure of-"
"Then, then all you need is blood transfusions!" Negi yelped. "No need to... to... to breed with anyone else!"
"No, that has been tried for decades without any success," Chao said. "Apparently, the virus is related directly to fertility and motherhood, which is why many hypothesized it to be magical in origins. Females who are too young to conceive, and those past menopause, are just as immune as men. But once a child matures enough, she becomes vulnerable unless she is sterilized immediately. All vaccines have proved useless. Only hereditary immunity and childbirth, from a father with the genes for said immunity, are a protection against the disease."
"Oh my God. Oh, goodness. Oh, dear!" Nodoka bit on her fingernails, shaking violently. Satsuki rubbed her hand comfortingly.
Negi frowned. "What if you have just guaranteed a manner of self fulfilling prophecy by coming here?" he asked Chao. "What if you just brought the virus from your alleged future?"
"I was carefully scanned before coming here," Chao said seriously. "There was no room for any doubts! I'm not a carrier. And you are an inheritor of the immunity genes. That was... proved somewhere in your future, when you were tested for it. But not before everyone in Class 2-A fell a prey to the virus, other than-"
"Other than?" Nodoka hiccuped, after Chao only trailed off.
Chao shook her head. "That doesn't matter. Even if two or three survived, the rest are still unacceptable losses."
"Of course," Negi said, gulping a large knot in his throat. "But, what you are proposing... If I'm understanding you correctly, it's still insane, it can't be done, it's wrong and-"
Chao pointed a finger at his face. "Yes. You must have sex with all the girls here or they will die."
"GAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!" Negi said.
"No pressure, of course. You still should have a window of like one year to get used to the idea," Chao added. "Naturally, the sooner you start the more people you can save, so there's that, I suppose. Oops! Maybe there's some pressure after all..."
Negi took his hands to his head. "AAAAAAAAHHHHH!"
"Negi-bouzou, you'll alert everyone below," Chao chided him. "Most of them aren't ready for the truth yet!"
Nodoka looked at the ground several stories below.
"Don't even think about it," Satsuki said. "We'll pull through. Trust Chao, she knows what she's doing."
"She... She is telling a ten year old t-to have unprotected sex with all of us so we can get p-p-pregnant from him!" Nodoka pointed out.
"Oh, when you put it like that of course it's going to sound nasty!" Chao said. "This is the thanks I get for trying to save you!"
"AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!"
"It's kind of remarkable that he can hold that note for so long, given that the records are unanimous about him being a horrible singer," she added.
"I, I don't think this counts as singing, really," said Nodoka.
"You know," Nodoka said, voice sobering, "so far I've only seen actual proof of Sensei's magic, not yours. You've rattled a list of names Sensei recognizes as magical, but someone could have told them to you."
"A fair observation!" Chao said. She stood, turned away from Nodoka, rolled her sleeves up, and chanted, "Rast Teil My Magic Scir Magister..."
Negi's eyes widened.
Chao thrusted her hands forward. "Omne flammans flamma purgatus, domine extinctionis et signum regenerationis, in mea manu ens inimicum edat! Flagrantia Rubicans!"
A massive burst of crimson flame leaped from Chao's palms and shattered a large portion of the roof.
"Kyaaaaaa!" Nodoka said.
Satsuki sighed.
"Chao-san, you'll alert everyone below," Negi frowned. "Most of them aren't ready for the truth yet!"
Chao rolled her eyes and blew on her smoking hand. "Don't use my words against me! It was a small one!"
"What of the way you came here from your own time? Please prove that as well," Negi requested. "You must have used some kind of time machine, right? Can we see it?"
"You're asking for a lot, but I'm asking even more from you so it's perfectly fair," Chao said. She unzipped her schoolbag and pulled out a golden watch attached to a long gold chain. "Behold! Time Machine Cassiopeia! The technological prodigy that enabled our meeting!"
"How, how does it work?" Nodoka gasped.
"It doesn't. It can't work anymore, it was good for only one use and it took all of its energy to transport me to this era," Chao said while putting the watch away again.
"How convenient," Negi said. "And why is your incantation activation so similar to mine?"
"I'm a longtime admirer of your works," Chao replied. "You'll leave a large amount of books and treaties for future wizards to study."
"If this is an attempt to flatter me, it won't work," Negi warned her.
"Sensei, I know you may be outraged about what she's asked from you," Yotsuba cut in gently, "but please put yourself in her shoes. She's lost her family and loved ones and she doesn't think she'll see them again. She's trying to save us, the new family she has, and she believes she needs you for it. I know her story might be difficult to believe even for a mage, but at least listen to her."
Faced with that much sedate sweetness, Negi blushed, briefly feeling bad about himself for a moment. What a heel! his cousin's voice chided him in his mind. A gentleman never must make a lady sad!
Of course, it is important to never cross the line with your students! said a different version of his cousin's voice in his mind.
Twisted every way, what answer can I give, said Sarah Brightman's voice in his mind, for no good reason.
"I'm sorry!" he gasped. "I, I really am! But... Even if you ask 'that' from me, th-there's no way I could possibly save every woman in this world! I, I, I'd have to... make babies with all of them! That's not possible!"
"I know," Chao said. "Nothing we can do about that.
"I can't even make children at all, period!" Negi overheated. "I, I'm not mature enough for it yet!"
"Ah, now that has an easy solution," Chao answered, pulling a syringe set out of her schoolbag now.
Nodoka frowned. "W-What are you trying to do?"
Chao prepared the syringe. "This injection will infuse you with a special hormonal solution prepared by our best scientists. It'll make you able to impregnate women in a matter of days, should you accept receiving it. Naturally, I can't force you to receive it, but -"
Negi's eyes turned into swirling spirals. "D-Don't try to guilt trip me, please! I can't be rushed into that kind of life changing decision! No one should!"
"I'm not trying to guilt trip you!" she protested. I don't try to do things.
"What if the virus is in that syringe?" Nodoka asked.
"It's not," Chao said. "What would I gain from that? I'm a woman as well! You should know, we've bathed together!"
Negi shivered, looking at the needle. He thought back of his cousin, of Anya, of Professor McGuinness. He saw himself standing before their graves in the Welsh prairies, under a cloudy sky, and he made a decision.
He rolled his right sleeve up. "Okay, Chao-san. I know this is reckless and foolish, and unbecoming a gentleman, but I think you might be saying the truth after all. If you'll excuse the cheap cliche, give me your best shot, ma'am!"
"N-Negi-sensei, wait," Nodoka said. "Y-You can't agree just like this!"
"But, she said—" Negi began. "And, and my sister, I mean my cousin, and, and, and!"
"At least put her to some further test first!" Miyazaki said. "Can't you, I don't know, read minds or something like that? With some sort of magical device…"
Negi blinked. "Oh," he said with airs of great sudden enlightenment. "As a matter of fact, I could! But, but I never do that, since I wouldn't dream of prying into someone's privacy."
Chao raised her hands. "Like I said, I'm asking so much from you that I'm perfectly understanding of your need for any and all manners of proof, yo. You can read my mind however you wish, Negi-bouzou."
Negi gulped and stood right before her. "Th-Thank you, Chao-san." He put a hand on her forehead, closed his eyes, and whispered something.
A moment later, he stepped back, terrified. "It's… It's all true! All of it!"
Chao nodded calmly. "And you haven't seen half of it." Thankfully, she thought. You haven't learned about our true relationship or you'd be freaking out about it by now. Good thing I wasn't thinking about it then. Thanks, strict mental self control training!
Nodoka gulped loudly. "Then… Isn't there any room for mistake, Sensei?"
Negi shook his head, looking so haunted, it even disturbed Yotsuba. "W-Where she comes from, mankind is all but extinct… gangs of bikers roam the wastelands… a single traveler using the Fist of the North Star wanders the lands dispensing brutal justice!"
Chao might have blushed then, but her ever visible blush stickers made it difficult to say. "I always was a fangirl of Kenshiro-sama! I had the posters in my room, and everything! His fighting style wasn't compatible with mine, but it sure gave results!"
There was a beat. "So, are you getting the injection or not?" she asked.
"I am!" Negi offered his arm again.
Nodoka boggled in place. "Buh-But that would mean that I, that I also would need to… need to…!"
"That's fine, Bookstore, we always can look for another of the men carrying the immunity genes and get them to impregnate you," Chao said, casually sinking the needle into Negi's arm. "It could prove difficult, finding one in time, tho!"
"I, I don't want another man!" Nodoka cried.
"Geez, make up your mind!" Chao said, rubbing some cotton wet on alcohol where she'd just stung the boy. "That didn't hurt at all, did it?"
"It didn't at all," Negi said.
"Atta brave boy. Here," Chao gave him a lollipop.
"What if the virus is in the lolllip—" Satsuki began.
"Don't you get on my case too, Sat-chan!" Chao said.
Negi trembled, already regretting that incredibly reckless thing he'd just done. "So, now… what?"
"You wait one week until your body is prepared for copulation and fertilization," Chao said simply. "Then, you start interacting with girls in that way. Don't be afraid, I'll teach you the ropes!"
"If, if this is some kind of scheme to show Iinchou up, there are better ways to—No, I mean, worse ways to… Aaaaaahhhh, I don't know what is what anymore!" Nodoka said, clutching her head between her arms
Chao sighed. "Maybe you should head to your room and sleep, Bookstore. But please don't rat us out, as that could mean the death of everyone you hold dear. Once again, no pressure, ne?"
"I… I think I'll do just that… I mean, sleeping… if, if I can…" Nodoka headed for the stairs on shaky legs.
"You are forgetting your books." Satsuki pointed at a tall pile of volumes close by.
"Take them with you and give them to me tomorrow, please," Nodoka begged, disappearing down the stairs.
Negi looked after her, blinking with worry. "Poor girl."
"More selfish than I'd realized, though," Satsuki mused, continuing to survey the pile of books that was almost as tall as she herself.
"It can't be helped. " Chao shrugged.
"Can't I just undo this if I come to regret it?" Negi asked, flexing his arm in and out.
"I'm afraid you can't," Chao said. "Right as we speak, the formula is bonding to your genetic code! Think of why you're doing it! That way none of your partners or your children will suffer!"
"About that… One of the women I care about the most is my cousin Nekane…" Negi said. He blushed. "It, it would be wrong to -"
"Oh, if it's just a cousin, it's no big deal!" Chao waved a hand.
"She's more like my sister since we were raised together… or rather, she raised me."
"Negi-bouzou," Chao said. "Have you heard about Oedipus?"
"Yes, the Greek king who married his mother and it ended in tragedy for all involved," Negi said. "Is that supposed to make me feel any better?"
"Yes, in that you won't need to have sex with your mother," Chao said.
"Just the mothers of most of the girls in our class," Satsuki added helpfully.
Negi blanched as Chao gave Satsuki a mildly scorching look.
"What? I don't mind if my mom passes before I do, but I don't want her to die this soon."
Chao continued to stare at Satsuki for a moment, before returning her attention to Negi. "Trust me, if Oedipus had married his cousin no one would have batted an eye. Not even if she'd raised him."
"I, I just can't think of Nekane that way!" Negi insisted.
"Is she beautiful?" Chao asked.
"Yes! But this has nothing to do with that!"
"Oh, you say that just because your development hasn't kicked on yet," Chao said. "Once it does you'll undergo the obligatory Oedipus complex stage most men have to pass through, although you don't need to worry about sharing Oedipus' fate. Well, not as long as you play your cards right, but that's what I'm here for. To support you."
"… thank you?" Negi said.
She smiled brightly. "You're welcome!"
"I swear," Negi said, "if I hadn't just seen where you come from, I'd be finding it difficult to sympathize with you right now."
The next morning, Negi woke up after some troubling dreams. He first looked at the clock on the wall, and it wasn't even 5:00 A.M. yet. Then he squinted through the darkness, and more worryingly, saw Chao sleeping right next to him.
Negi glanced back towards the futon on the floor. Obviously, he had sleepwalked out of it and into Chao's bunk during the night. No small feat, since Chao slept in the top bunk of the room, with Satsuki taking the one below her. A pleasant scent drifted from the kitchen, telling him that Yotsuba already was up, cooking.
This was too early, even for someone raised in the hillside, but it was a minor concern as the young teacher realized something else. His penis felt swollen and hard under his pants, tenting up and towards Chao's body.
"GEEEEEEHHHHH-" he said, backing away from her.
Chao opened her eyes and smirked. "Please, Negi-bouzou," she said in a low voice. "Not again, you'll hurt your throat."
"-EEEEEEEHHH?!" he stopped abruptly. "KYA! S-Sorry, sorry, so sorry, Chao-san! I, I didn't mean to! This, this isn't what it looks like! Y-You'll see, I used to sleep with my sister, that is cousin, and, and-!"
Chao looked down and raised an eyebrow. "Oh dear, already? For real? It took a much shorter time than projected!"
"What?! What?!" Negi looked frantically at his crotch. "You, you, you mean that, this is-?!"
Chao hummed, sitting up on the mattress. "Everyone reassured me it'd take one week at least. I guess we underestimated the fabled Springfield vitality, goofy us! Well, no plan ever goes exactly as planned!"
"Is, is this bad?" Negi swallowed hard. No pun intended.
"Does it hurt?" Chao asked carefully.
"N-No, not really."
Satsuki entered the room, still wearing light blue pajamas and slippers, with a Piyo Piyo white apron around her wide waist. "Are you both all right?" she asked them.
"No! No, I'm not!" Negi said, covering his crotch with his hands. "Please don't look this way!"
Satsuki turned the bedroom's lights on. "Did it take effect already, Chao?"
"We are even better than we expect us to be," Chao said, truly impressed about her family's achievements. "Whether that's a good or bad thing remains to be seen. Negi-bouzou, have you had emissions during the night?"
Negi blinked. "Emissions?"
Chao moved her hand in circles. "You know, fluids leaking from your thing, yo! That's further proof of sexual maturity!"
Negi blushed, moved a bedsheet before himself to keep his front hidden from them, and peeked inside of his pants. "Th-There is a small wet spot there... Is that bad, Chao-san?"
"Does it have any blood mixed with the stain?" Chao asked.
"N-N-No, it's all clear, but..." He sniffed. "It smells kind of funny."
Chao brought her face closer to his lower half, making him gasp, and sniffed as well. "It's normal."
Somewhere in the dormitories of the High School students, Hitou Nami bolted up from her bed. "D-Don't call me normal!" she yelled.
She looked all around and rested back, blushing to herself. "Now I feel dumb."
Meanwhile, Chao put a hand on Negi's forehead. "Body temperature, okay." He took his pulse. "High but not extraordinarily so; to be expected from your stressed out condition." She forced his mouth open and looked into his mouth. "Everything looks good here, too."
"I, I don't feel bad, but... my whole body is kind of warm..." Negi began panting.
"Maybe you should take a cold shower," Satsuki said, climbing up to the bunk and feeling Negi's forehead too. "That helps when they are like this, doesn't it?"
"This is a special case, I'm not certain it'll work here," Chao had to admit, sounding doubtful for once.
Negi stirred and shifted awkwardly. "I feel... hotter and hotter by the moment..."
Chao frowned. "Okaayyyyyy?"
Negi rocked back and forth on the mattress, hugging his knees. "And the thingy is even harder now... Maybe I should see a doctor...?"
He paused for a moment, contemplating this. Chao, to her credit, seemed to contemplate it seriously as well.
"All doctors here are women, though, right?" Negi said a bit dazedly. "They'd have to be, male doctors seeing you would be uncomfortable for you, but... a female doctor seeing me this way would be... uncomfortable for me..."
"Mikado-sensei handles the night shift, but she must be about to hand it over to Sagisawa-sensei," Satsuki said. "Both of them are good professionals. You'll be in good hands with them."
Negi nodded rigidly. "Th-Thank you, Yotsuba-san. You are... so nice... in addition to being so pretty..."
He lifted his face and looked intently at Satsuki. Satsuki blinked, feeling slightly unnerved by the way he was staring at her.
"So pretty..." Negi repeated. "How couldn't I see it before...?"
"Sensei," Chao said, dropping the humor. "This isn't you talking. Try to control yourself. You can't rush the procedure, it's-"
By this point she'd grabbed his arm to hold him still, but he only used that to pull her towards himself. Chao cried out, losing balance and falling on top of him, pinning him on the bunk with her weight.
Negi blinked several times, looking up at her face. Her hair, habitually done in two small buns and braids, was loose now, falling all over her face and his, framing them together. "You are... beautiful as well, of course..."
Chao whimpered. "N-Negi-bouzou. Negi-bouzou! Th-There's no telling what may happen if you go along with your hormonal influx this quickly, the week was supposed to prepare you for-!"
"You said you'd help me, didn't you, Chao-san?" Negi said, taking her cheeks in his hands. "P-Please help me... I don't know what to do..."
She felt his hardness poking against her stomach, and she also felt a small wet spot growing in her panties. This was the legendary ancestor, a genius she had read about through her whole childhood. She had idolized his legend, and even though she'd rather have met him during his later years, she still knew well the kind of man he would become. The kind of man he was becoming right now, before her eyes.
"Oh, crap!" she said, moving down his body to start pulling Negi's pajama pants down. "T'heck with it, I can't control myself either! Whatever will be, will be, ne? Sorry, Mother! Sorry, Father! I'll have to start early so everyone can live!"
"He won't start growing facial hair and get a deep voice, will he?" a worried Satsuki said, watching her roommate throw Negi's pants to the floor, and then tug his Bob the Builder shorts down.
"No, the formula isn't meant to work that way, aaaaaand what the fuuuuuuuck," Chao trailed off. It was the first time Satsuki heard her curse.
"It's just that, you said the formula was supposed to take effect in a week and- ohhhhhhh, nuts," Satsuki trailed off as well, looking at the rather large thing protruding from Negi's crotch at the moment. "It's, it's bigger than I'd expected."
"Y-Yep," Chao said, staring fixedly at it.
"I'm so embarrassed right now," Negi said, but making no motion to cover himself.
Chao grabbed the thing and began pumping her hand on it. "Yipe!" Negi said.
"Does it hurt?" Chao asked, hand going up and down.
"N-No, it feels... nice," Negi chewed the air. "But, y-you surprised me!"
"Sat-chan, come here and help me, please," Chao asked tensely.
"W-Why me?" Satsuki asked.
"You're the only other girl in the room and he thinks you're prettier than me," Chao said, still rubbing Negi's dick. He moaned. "You have to."
"I didn't, didn't say she was prettier, you're both... ohhhhh, feathers, Chao-san... but, I noticed her beauty first, and, and, ahhhhhhh," he clawed on the bedsheets when Satsuki moved around to sit next to Chao, her oh so delicate hand touching his unit too. "This, this feels so great!"
"Be as loud as you want," Chao said, guiding Satsuki's hand along hers. "We prepared this for weeks so the walls are isolated against noise. The neighbors won't hear a thing."
"Thanks," Negi hissed, arching his back. Chao's movements were strong and firm but never harmful, but Satsuki's, while much less determined, were still gifted with a natural skill, that of someone who had spent a whole growth phase using her hands to create and please others.
Negi sighed happily, but then remembered he was breaking all of his vows as a teacher, and abusing his position immediately after arriving at Mahora. Snapping back to his senses, he tried to object and push both girls back, but then Chao's head zoomed down, and she took the tip of his boyhood into her mouth, starting to suck him off. He whimpered and moaned. He'd never felt anything like this before; as scarily pleasurable as Chao's hands had been, they didn't compare to her warm, wet mouth. She moved up and down in precise and competent jerks, licking and suctioning his length. "Chao… san…" he said.
Satsuki looked down, wondering exactly how experienced with men Chao was. Her friend had mentioned being trained for her mission once or twice - the mentions, not the training sessions - and Yotsuba hadn't thought much about it then. But now, it was somewhat disgusting to ponder. How early had she started? Had her first time been against her will?
Even if it hadn't, had Chao been capable of genuine consent, back then?
Of course, if she hadn't been, was Negi capable now?
Satsuki sighed to herself and put those thoughts in a part of her mind reserved for later. Time to fulfill her end of the bargain. She brought her round face down and gently kissed Negi's lips. They were so soft, somewhat wet, and slightly tasty of milk. Much to her shock, he began kissing back, clumsy and shaky, almost instantly. They were pecks, and he clearly had no idea how to use his tongue in a kiss.
Satsuki was no expert either, had from it, but she still had heard a few things about that, and so she cautiously stuck her tongue through Negi's lips. As a cautious as a girl can be kissing a boy four or five years her junior, at least. Meanwhile, Chao was moving her own hands down to lower her pajama bottoms along her panties, and then she began masturbating with both hands while still fellating Negi.
Satsuki blushed. But from the preparations she knew what to do next. She took a deep breath and began pulling Negi's shirt up, over his head, and tossed it away before rubbing his torso. He was surprisingly toned, with firm and defined muscle in his slim frame.
Chao paused, breathing at last as she pulled back from Negi. She took her shirt off, and then undid her bra. Negi's eyes followed the subtle bounce of her small, perky chest as it was unbound. Her nipples were hard and dark. Chao next tugged her pants and panties all the way off, crawling naked back on top of him.
Satsuki sat aside. "Are you sure you want to do this?" she asked both.
"Ah. Ah, ah ah ah... Ah!" Negi panted like a little animal, eyes glinting, and his hips pushed up as if with a mind their own.
"Ah. Ah, ah ah ah... Ah!" Chao said, moving so her vulva loomed over the hard on, her brilliant mind reduced to atavism.
"If that's the way you feel," Yotsuba began unbuttoning her shirt.
Chao regained some presence of mind, rubbing the vaginal lips across Negi's tip. He growled to himself. "First lesson," the girl told the boy. "Never penetrate a girl before being certain she's well lubricated. Or else she'll hurt, you'll have a hard time pushing it in, and you'll both be miserable later. See? I'm wet, so I can take it in."
"Yes, I, I can feel that," Negi trembled, trying to shove himself in.
Chao held him down. "In this case, I'm just excited from a long time of getting ready for this moment, but with most girls, you'll need foreplay. I'll teach you to be a good lover, but you must promise you'll never have sex with a girl who isn't ready, neh?"
Negi nodded desperately. "Please, Chao-san!"
"My dear boy. Glad you are so reasonable. Here, your reward," she cooed, and lowered herself. Bit by bit, he entered her, until she took him in to his base. "Mmmmmmm," Chao licked her lips over. "So hot..."
"Oh goodness, y-you're so tight," Negi hiccuped. This was even better than her mouth, the hands could not compare.
She grabbed his hands, taking them to her hips. "Help my motions along, softly, slow, up and down," she said in a voice dripping love. "That's it, Negi-bouzou, be the good man you can be."
Satsuki pulled off her pants next, and leaned ahead in her underwear, gulping. Chao rode Negi's 'negi' carefully, as if afraid to hurt him. The boy's fingers touched along the white skin, feeling inch by inch of her steady flesh, pressing and experimenting, making their way towards Lingshen's ass. They finally set on the buttocks, tight and strong, and Chao moaned an obscene pleasantry.
The Chinese lady bounced on him, beckoning Satsuki to come closer. Her best friend did so, and Chao took a hold of the back of the cook's head. She pulled her to herself and deeply kissed her soft lips. Satsuki blinked, not knowing what to do. This was the first time Chao had showed any kind of sexual interest on her. It had been an agreement between them that they would share Negi, but there had been no mention about mutual lovemaking being a part of it.
And even so, Satsuki did not pull back. She closed her eyes and returned the kiss, trying her best.
Chao's hands made it behind her female roommate, locating the clasp of the plain and white brassiere. She opened it, and the piece fluttered down on Negi's face. Satsuki's rather large breasts were liberated, and Negi gazed at them. They looked a lot bigger when she was denuded, with only a bit of subtle sag compared to Chao's, but that was due only to Satsuki's build. The nipples were wide and round, light brown in colour.
Negi, thrilled and inebriated on strange new emotions, pistoned harder and faster, impaling Lingshen's snatch time and time again. And then Chao said a shout, a musical word.
"OH!"
She squeezed around him, a faint wetness oozing around his virility, and Negi tried to move in once more, but it was harder now, he was somewhat stuck. This triggered some reflex on him, and he felt something abandoning his unit, shooting thickness into Chao, who cried in victory. "NEGIIIIII!"
Satsuki fell back on her butt, flushing and wheezing. Chao put her hands on Negi's chest, dropping her head ahead and mouthing several words in Chinese. After some moments, Negi answered in the same language. Satsuki didn't understand a word, but the relevant part was Chao leaning down and kissing him again right after.
The genius giggled. "I prepared myself for this all through my life. But it's only the start of my mission."
"What, what have we done?" Negi said.
"Did you like it?" Chao's hand caressed his cheek.
"Q-Quite..."
"Glad to hear that. You should recover quickly enough, so Sat-chan can have her turn." Chao kissed him in a less carnal way then. "Take the panties off, girl," she invited sweetly.
Satsuki breathed in, breathed out, and obeyed like a good girl, leaving herself completely nude too. Negi looked at her, tilting his head aside and drinking on the sight, and Yotsuba made an effort not to cover herself. This was the first time a man, or a boy, looked at her this way. She always was the provider behind the bar, never the target of looks the way Chachamaru, Chao and Ku Fei could be. So she had to ask him before doing anything else.
"Sensei." She gulped. "Do you... Do you actually find me attractive? Even though I am... fat?"
"Sorry, I don't understand the question," Negi said after a moment.
"You know, I'm fat. Overweight," Satsuki blushed even further. "I'm not thin and glamorous like most girls in the class, or even just small and cute like Bookstore or the twins. I'm just... far too wide and heavy, with no curves other than those of a ball. Normally, I'd never minded before, but... being with a man changes everything..." She lowered her head.
Negi knew, from previous experience with Anya, that there was no easy answer for this. If you tell a girl her weight concerns are unfounded she'll think you are lying to her and, in Anya's case, punch you. If you tell her that she only needs to lose some weight, she may think you are insulting her, and if she's Anya she'll punch you. Thankfully a combination of things he'd read, some overheard talk from his classmates, Nekane's advice and the movie he'd watched during the flight to Japan had given him a cheat code around that! He could only hope it would worked. Of course, Anya would just punch him anyway.
"You are beautiful the way you are," he said, touching Satsuki's cheek. "Don't let anyone tell you differently."
"That... That was my first kiss, Sensei," she told him.
"Mine too," he said. "That is, my sister kissed me often, but... not the same thing!"
"I should hope not!" Yotsuba said.
"You can do this tomorrow if you aren't ready yet," Chao told them. "Apparently the hormonal rush has left Negi-bouzou, so..." She closed her mouth. Satsuki and the boy had brought their faces together, kissing again, deeper this time. "Then again, why to leave for tomorrow the sex you can have tonight, ne?"
She moved a hand to Negi's shaft and the other to Satsuki's snatch, beginning to stimulate both.
"Eh!" Negi gasped.
"Gyah!" Satsuki added.
"I'm the director of this project and I favor a hands-on approach!" Chao said mischievously. She kissed Negi's face and then one of Satsuki's areolas. In a short time the boy was hard again, and Satsuki was sufficiently wet in her opinion. All the same, Chao spat in her hand and rubbed it across Yotsuba's vulva for extra slickness. "You can start now, if we want to be in time for school."
"Y-Yes, as long as Yotsuba-san is prepared?" Negi gulped. He moved awkwardly between the chef's legs.
Satsuki nodded shyly.
Negi breathed in, grabbed her legs, and went with the guidance of Chao, who moved him ahead, so he entered the cook carefully. "Aaaahhhhh," Satsuki said.
"So, so tight..." Negi said in awe, sinking into the girl who was under him, until something stopped the advance of the dick. "Huh? What is this?"
"It has to be her hymen," Chao said. "It's something many virgins have. It may hurt her a little at first, but you must break through it."
"B-But I don't want to hurt her! Nobody ever said anything about breaking a part of her!" Negi blurted out, looking back at the Chinese girl.
Satsuki braced herself. "G-Go on, Sensei. She's right, it, it's just a quick pain, I heard..."
Negi trembled. "If, if you're in too much pain tell me and I'll pull out."
He pushed in and in, acting on instinct more than anything else, until enough strength was applied and Satsuki yelped.
"AAAARRRGHHH!" Negi shook at the sight of a trickle of blood from Satsuki's sex. "I INJURED HER! A DOCTOR! CALL HER A DOCTOR!"
"You're a doctor," Chao told Satsuki while patting her head. Then she groaned. "Men are such children! I mean, you case is understandable, but..."
"It's, it's not a lot of pain, Sensei," Satsuki said. "P-Please go on..."
The pallid Negi hiccupped pathetically. "Are you... Are you sure, Yotsuba-san?"
"Yes I am sure and call me Satsuki..." she moaned.
Negi began moving in and out again, as cautiously as he could. After several moments Satsuki began gasping in pleasure, and he felt confident again, to some degree. He grabbed her doughy ass cheeks for leverage and thrusted, feeling the pleasure building up again.
"S-Satsuki-san..."
"N-Negi-sensei..."
"Try to synchronize your orgasms with those of your lovers," Chao lectured, a thumb rubbing Satsuki's clitoris. "I'll help as much as I can, but you must learn how to manage this on your own. Or else she might finish too soon, or you might finish before she does, leaving her unsatis-"
"Chao, shutttt uuuuup, this is our moment..." Yotsuba told her.
Chao sighed and sat back. "All the good I do and it's always repaid like this! I'm becoming Spider-Man, I tell you!" Beat. "Which would be sort of cool, now that I think about it."
"Satsuki-san," Negi rasped. "I, I am almost there..."
"Uwa!" She hugged him against herself, putting his head at the middle of her boobs. "Give! Give it, Sensei! PLEASE, PRETTY PLEASE, NEGI-SENSEI...!"
Negi's hips locked up in situ, and he ejaculated inside of her.
They kept hugging, both breathing laboriously, and then collapsed together.
"Not bad for a first time," Chao said. "But maybe it'll be better if we spend the rest of the day practicing."
"N-No," Negi said, moving on to rest face up, and blocking his eyes with an arm. "It's a school day. Our second one..."
"Which means you could still be recovering from a long trip." Chao then went down to the bottom bunk. She returned shortly after, finding Negi and Satsuki cuddling together and kissing. "Hey, if you do this you can keep on doing that all day long." She gave Yotsuba a phone.
Satsuki sighed. "Can't we enjoy the afterglow?"
"Do it and you'll have even more afterglows for the rest of the morning and afternoon," Lingshen insisted.
Satsuki reluctantly moved Negi off herself and made a call. "Hello? Mochi-mochi? Iinchou? It's me. Sensei is feeling still sick and tired from the travel, and he'll need taking the day off, sorry... N-No! No, you don't need to come! I mean... we'll look after him, I promise he'll be good as new tomorrow."
"Why didn't you just do that yourself?" Negi asked Chao.
"As I keep telling you, I cannot tell a lie," she replied with a hand on her heart. Well, one of her breasts, really.
"Ah," Negi said blandly. "W-Well, what if we just take a shower and have breakfast before thinking on anything else, anyway? We'll need to gather energy, and Nekane always says the breakfast is the most important meal of the-"
"I think I'm going for a liquid breakfast today, thankyouverymuch!" Chao said, swooping down and taking Negi's softened penis in her mouth, starting to suck him again and enjoying the taste of his fluids and Yotsuba's.
"I'm such a terrible teacher!" Negi said, pulling his head back.
Satsuki smiled, put the phone down, and kissed him once more.
To be Continued.