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The Trinity of Tokiwadai
Chapter One Hundred Six: The Crushes of Frenda Seivelun - The Date
"Ummmm~! Naru-sama, you're such a good kisser!" Frenda complimented with a moan as the Number 2 sucked on the pulse point on her neck that was exposed by the unbuttoned collar of her dress shirt as they made out. Praise that had the Level 5 biting down lightly, causing the Level 0 to squeal in pleasure.
That was not to say that Frenda was only receiving pleasure. Playing her part in their make out session, the Norwegian had one hand cupping one of the other blonde's naked right breast - Naru-sama having rolled up her sweater and bra to give her access - and her left was down her skirt and panties where she was fingering the Level 5. Efforts that had Naru-sama moaning into her flesh as she continued to kiss her carotid pulse point as she worked towards making the best hickey possible. A response that when combined with Naru-sama fingering her pass her flipped up skirt and pushed aside panties, made Frenda once more moan in pleasure.
"Ohhh~! You're so good~!"
Why was Frenda making out with Naru-sama? In her new house next to Ruiko-sama's own house no less? Well, it was simple actually. Naru-sama might not be the Level 5 that she wanted but the other blonde was hot as hell and that made up for it. At least enough to make out with.
However, as fate seems to hate her, things were just getting good when suddenly Sequenzia-sama and Meigo-sama barged in.
"Freeze!" Sequenzia-sama shouted as she kicked the door to Frenda's bedroom down.
"Get away from our Naru-chan, you Scandinavian whore!" Meigo-sama, looking uncharacteristically furious, added as she grabbed Naru-sama by the shoulders and gently but firmly pulled her girlfriend away from Frenda.
Shocked by the Saint-Esper Hybrid's sudden, violent arrival, both Frenda and Naru-sama flinched in surprise and practically leapt away from each other, helping Meigo-sama in separating them.
"Huh!?" Frenda said, blinking in confusion from the sudden loss of the stimulation Naru-sama had been providing her and the strange, unexpected turn of events.
What! This doesn't make sense! Why do Naru-sama's girlfriends have separate bodies? Don't they share Sequenzia-sama's body?
Even as she was struggling to process that, Sequenzia-sama grabbed Frenda, lifted her off her bed and began carrying her towards the wrecked door.
"Wait! What are you doing!? This is my bedroom! In my house!"
"I don't care! Stay away from our Naru-sama!" Sequenzia-sama hissed angrily as she quite literally tossed Frenda out of the room, causing her to land painfully on her butt in the hallway outside.
Pain that was disproportionate. Disproportionate enough that it caused Frenda's vision to turn black.
"Aaahh~!" Frenda shouted in pain and alarm as she snapped awake and abruptly sat up in her bed, her body covered in cold sweat.
Looking around her, she found that she was in her unilluminated bedroom in her new house. Patting herself down and finding she was dressed in the nightgown she wore as her pajamas instead of the disheveled outfit in what she now realized was a dream, she quickly breathed a sigh of relief.
"That's the last time I eat expired mackerel." She promised herself before letting out another sigh, though this time it was one of lament. "Darn! Even my subconscious knows that pining after Naru-sama is a bad idea. I mean, I'm not even serious about it, my heart lies elsewhere, but with how territorial her girlfriends are, even thinking about it was a bad idea. No matter how super sexy she is!"
Truly, blondes having more fun was a sinful truth. As a blonde herself, Frenda could say that with authority. But as exciting as the idea of being with Naru-sama was…
"I like not being a hamster." She added with a shudder as she recalled the very real threat that Meigo-sama had leveled at her when she'd jokingly suggested a foursome when she'd run into her yesterday.
~ Flashback ~
It was a slow day in the Trinity base and after finishing her daily tasks, Frenda found herself hanging out with Naru-sama in the cafe in the Maniple portion of the base. The latter having popped by to pay a visit after her school day.
"So what did you think, Naru-sama?" Frenda asked the Level 5 as she finished taking a sip of her latte.
The [Elemental Empress] looked up abruptly as she finished taking a bite from her chicken pie. Only after daintily swallowing the food in her mouth, did the Tokiwadai ojou-sama reply. "You mean Eden Corp and how quickly it's growing?"
"Yup." Frenda confirmed as she used a fork to cut a portion of the slice of cheesecake that she had ordered with her drink. "To borrow from Kinuhata's tic, Eden Corp is growing super quickly, isn't it?"
"I guess?" Naru-sama said with a shrug. "But it's not really surprising. I mean it's essentially funneling technologies that were being hoarded on the Dark Side and pushing them into the mainstream. Just look at Capacity Down and Counter Capacity Down. If something is good enough for the Dark Side, then it's definitely going to be useful."
Frenda replied with a nod after savoring her bite of cheesecake. "That's true. And I suppose that having some big hits like Indian Poker and Level Upper doesn't hurt either."
"Exactly." Her superior said as she took a sip of her tea. "It also helps that it got the support from the onset from bigwigs like Oyafune-sama and Heaven Canceler. Association with them brought in a lot of investment and when those paid off thanks to those big hits you mentioned, that just attracted more investors."
"Yeah, but even then it's still something of a surprise that it got big enough so quickly that it earned Kiyama-sensei a place on the Board." Frenda said with a disbelieving shake of her head before taking a sip of her latte.
"That's impressive, no doubt about it, but the attrition the Board suffered lately helped with that a lot." Naru-sama said with a shrug as she took another bite out of her chicken pie. "If they hadn't lost so many members recently, they'd probably have been less receptive to adding Kiyama-sensei to their ranks. At the very least, they'd have waited a little longer to see if she would manage to keep Eden Corp going long-term before even considering inviting her onto the Board."
"Makes sense." Frenda said after a thoughtful hum. "I guess considering how their members keep dropping like flies lately, the Board must've been feeling a little desperate."
"Oh, definitely!" Naru-sama said with a ladylike giggle.
Smiling at having managed to get a laugh out of the Level 5, Frenda turned back to her meal and cut off another bite of her cheesecake.
"On another note," Naru-sama said as she looked at Frenda with a teasing grin. "I've heard something very interesting recently. You've secured yourself a date, an official date, with Rui-chan at last, haven't you?"
Frenda cocked an eyebrow at that question. "And where did you hear that?"
Seriously! How did she find out about that!? I'm sure Ruiko-sama would not tell her anything.
Being the little devil she was, Naru-sama smirked. "I have my ways. Now answer my question! Is it true?"
"I'm not saying anything."
"Awww~!" Naru-sama said with a cute whine, before her expression quickly changed back into a teasing smirk. "Well, if you're not going for a date with Rui-chan, then why not go on one with me instead?"
As if it was an act of fate, this was the exact moment when the other blonde's girlfriends decided to show up for a visit.
"Don't you dare say yes, Seivelun-san!" Meigo-sama all but screamed as she threw herself at Naru-sama and wrapped her girlfriend in a tight hug. "Naru-chan is ours!"
Switching who was in control of their shared body, Sequenzia-sama turned her head to shoot a murderous glare towards Frenda. "Try it and see what we'll do to you."
"Shu-chan, Arisa-chan! Calm down! I was joking! Joking!" Naru-sama said urgently as she tried to calm her furious girlfriends down.
Frenda should have known better. She did know better. But at that moment, she just couldn't help herself and foolishly proceeded to continue the joke.
"No need to be jealous, Sequenzia-sama, Meigo-sama." Frenda said with her best sultry look. "We could just have a foursome."
It was just a joke. Really, it was. But only partially so. She might be pining after another Level 5 but Naru-sama was beautiful beyond words and Frenda wouldn't mind some skinship on the side. She knew the focus of her affections, if she ever did snag her, wouldn't hold it against her.
Perhaps, Sequenzia-sama and/or Meigo-sama read her mind. Who knew what the Saint-Esper Hybrid could do? But whatever the reason, they didn't take it as a joke. At all.
"Frenda Seivelun, stay away." Sequenzia-sama said, her eyes narrowed and one of her hands slipped towards the weapons pouch she wore on her hip. Even as she did, the features of her face shifted, becoming both gentler and angrier at the same time.
"If you don't, I'll figure out a way to use my magic to turn you into a hamster." Meigo-sama threatened. "Don't you dare touch our Naru-chan!"
Frenda gulped nervously at the very real prospect of ending up as a rodent. Like she thought earlier, who knew what the Saint-Esper Hybrid could do?
Thankfully for Frenda's status as a human being, Naru-sama stepped in.
"Shu-chan, Arisa-chan! Stop that!" The Level 5 scolded as she returned the hug that her girlfriends had not yet released her from and planted a kiss on her cheek. "Frenda-chan was just joking."
""Naru-chan-"" The Saint-Esper Hybrid began only to be cut off by Naru-sama leaning in to kiss her into silence.
"If you do, I'll reward you."
"Reward us?" "How?"
Smirking coyly, Naru-sama replied. "Well… We could go find ourselves a private room and I could give you some more kisses and cuddles. Want some?"
""Yes!""
Wow! She calmed them down just like that? Frenda thought as she blinked in disbelief. Truly, Naru-sama is such a romantic guru. Or maybe she just knew how to play her girlfriends like a fiddle. Or both. The two things aren't mutually exclusive after all.
"Okay. Then let me finish my tea and snacks first. Oh, and be nice to Frenda-chan as we wait."
Sequenzia-sama nodded and releasing Naru-sama from the hug, she moved to get a chair. Thought not without shooting Frenda a glare as she did.
Damn! Did Sequenzia-sama and Meigo-sama really see through me? Or are they just naturally that territorial? Either way, there went any hope of any bedroom fun with Naru-sama. Frenda thought as she shuddered in terror at the glare. She had no illusions of her chances of pulling her blonde superior away from her current girlfriends but she wouldn't have minded someone as sexy as the [Elemental Empress] being her sex friend whilst she waited for her beloved to sort things out with Accelerator-sama so they could be together. Which sucked! Because from the gossip she'd heard, Naru-sama was apparently super kinky.
Seeing her reaction, Naru-sama laughed. "Oh, there's no need to be so scared, Frenda-chan. Shu-chan and Arisa-chan - mainly Shu-chan - aren't willing to share me with anyone but they aren't going to do anything to you just for joking about it. Right, Arisa-chan, Shu-chan?"
Blushing hard at being called out for her possessiveness, Sequenzia-sama just nodded before Meigo-sama replied confidently. "Only if you reward us for not overreacting, Naru-chan."
"Don't worry, Arisa-chan. I will. Just be patient." [Maniforce] said with an amused shake of her head as she took a bite of her chicken pie. "As for you, Frenda-chan, you shouldn't even joke about foursomes around my girlfriends. They are uber territorial. I once jokingly suggested to them to have a foursome with Rui-chan and they got all territorial like this too. I had to punish them wonderfully for it!"
Ah~! So they're just territorial. Frenda thought with a sigh of relief. That being the case, I wonder how many love rivals Sequenzia-sama has chased away without Naru-sama even realizing. With how territorial she was and the Level 5's fanbase, I'd bet there had to have been quite a few of them.
"Mou! Naru-chan, you make us sound so bad." Meigo-san said with a pout. "But think about it from Shu's and my perspective! I mean, we wouldn't have to be like that if you didn't attract so many people to you do we? Honestly, I sometimes think you have some kind of uncategorised power to draw people to you!"
"Or maybe it's just because I'm cute and blonde?" Naru-sama retorted with a sip of her tea.
Frenda joined the Saint-Esper Hybrid in nodding in agreement even as Meigo-sama replied. "Yes, that's a possibility too."
"Whatever the case," Sequenzia-sama said, cutting into the byplay between her other half and their girlfriend as she turned to look at Frenda with a warning glare. "Take this as your last warning, Seivelun-san. Arisa and I refuse to share our Naru-chan with anyone."
Message received loud and clear. Frenda thought as she nodded frantically at the raven haired Esper-Saint Hybrid. She'd keep a respectful distance between herself and Naru-sama going forward. It was a loss but not a massive one. Her sights were set on another Level 5 after all.
~ Flashback Ends ~
It's such a shame. Naru-sama and her girlfriends would've been great as sex friends. And with her smile alone enough to make me hot and bothered I could totally use more of those! To work off all the unresolved sexual tension Ruiko-sama gives me, I need more sources of release!
Flicking her bean, even using her toys, just wasn't enough anymore! And sadly, even Shinka-kun just wasn't cutting it either.
I wonder if that Teleporter needs an extra hand since Misaka-sama is as straight as a two-by-four. Frenda thought with a wistful sigh. Nah! She's probably 'saving' herself for her precious 'Onee-sama'.
Sighing, Frenda resigned herself to not being able to find an easy solution to all the pent up sexual desire that she was feeling lately.
Though it shouldn't be a problem for much longer. Not if tomorrow goes well. Frenda mused as she turned to the outfit she'd hung up in front of her dresser. Something she'd spent practically the whole afternoon picking out so she could wow her dates tomorrow. She was sure of the response of one of them. Thanks to their previous dates, even if they hadn't labeled them as such, she had given her a good idea of what she liked. But impressing the third person on the date was essential and she would spare no expense to do so.
And that means I better get back to sleep. The petite blonde concluded as she snuggled back under her bed covers. Being sleep deprived on a date is a terrible look!
And as she fell back asleep, the Norwegian found herself greeted with much more pleasant dreams than earlier in the night. Dreams about a raven haired beauty and her albino knight welcoming her into the family and, as it took a steamy turn, their bed as well. Though that was a dream for her alone.
On one chilly winter night, Accel was dressed in a black suit, a mauve tie, and a blue vest with white stripes under a gray asymmetric overcoat as he waited at a bus stop along Konoha Avenue in School District 7. Why was he dressed up so formally? Well, as one might have been able to guess, it was because he was waiting for his girlfriend, Ruiko, so that the two of them could go on a date.
His girlfriend had set things up for the night. Plans that saw her booking them a reservation at a Spanish restaurant on the street named Olla Podrida where they'd have dinner as the first part of their date before they headed over to a concert hall in School District 9 to attend a concert by the Academy City Symphonic Orchestra.
I guess she's in an ojou-sama mood if she's got us planning to visit a classical music concert. Accel thought with a bemused shake of his head.
His girlfriend was really a living contradiction. On one hand, ever since she had become an actual ojou-sama as Eden Corp blew up, she had increasingly started acting like one. Yet, on the other hand, she was still every bit the nymphomaniac that she'd been when they'd started dating. She was just better at hiding it.
I'd place good money that even though we'll be attending a classical music concert, she'll somehow leverage it into something down and dirty.
He had just come up with that conclusion when he spotted Ruiko's bus pull into the stop and she stepped off. She, however, was not alone. To his surprise, she was accompanied by her henchwoman, Frenda. And with both of them dressed up all formally, it was clear that Ruiko fully intended for the blonde to accompany them on their date.
What is Ruiko thinking!? Accel couldn't help thinking but such thoughts were put on hold as he caught sight of exactly how the two girls were dressed for the occasion.
For her part, Ruiko was dressed in a dark blue, long, fitted coat with a hood with faux fur trim. An open coat that she wore over a purple short satin dress that featured a V-neckline with just the right amount of plunge cleavage, a seamed fitted bodice held up by dual spaghetti straps whilst featuring a cinched natural waist and a mini length A-line skirt. Lastly, in an admittedly rare example of practicality on his increasingly image obsessed girlfriend's part, she completed her look with a set of flesh coloured pantyhose to cope with the winter chill. All in all, she looked so beautiful that Accel could feel his throat turning dry at the sight of her.
Looking just as eye catching, the Frenda girl was dressed in a wine colored collarless jacket with gold embroidered trim and princess sleeves, a pinstripe blouse that had a collar decorated by some embroidered lace, a navy ruched pencil skirt, black pantyhose and of course a beret, he'd rarely seen her without one, that matched the color of her jacket. Frankly, if he wasn't already with Ruiko, her appearance would've had him turning his head if she spotted her on the street. As it was, she was looking gorgeous enough that Accel found it hard to return his attention to his admittedly equally beautiful girlfriend.
Why? Because the Frenda girl's outfit was a lot more flattering size wise than her normal outfits which in hindsight must either have been pretty loose or she'd been binding her breasts, 'cause she was looking positively busty in this get up. Not quite as big as Ruiko after she'd used Bust Upper but somewhere in the same ballpark. He should have realized that before now having seen the blonde Level 0 in a bikini in Hawaii but to be fair, he hadn't been paying that much attention back then. So the truth of the matter was just sinking in and the realization of that left him dumbstruck.
And he wasn't the only one who was appreciative of how the Norwegian looked. "You really do look gorgeous, Frenda-chan."
"And like I keep saying, you exaggerate, Ruiko-sama." The blonde replied with a blush as the two girls finished getting off the bus. "I can't possibly compare to you. You're the one who is looking gorgeous today."
"No, no. You really do look good. You've got to tell me where you got that outfit."
I don't care for fashion but I want to know that too. Accel thought as he licked his dry lips.
"Why? You want to add something similar to your wardrobe?"
Ruiko just smirked. "That and buying more for your wardrobe, Frenda-chan. I like to see you looking good."
Yes, that's a good idea, Ruiko! Accel thought with a grin. Getting her to dress like this more is a good idea. Though… Why the hell is she so lightly dressed!?
Seriously! She didn't even have a coat, only that thin jacket. It was winter damnit! Wasn't she cold?
He would've thought it was Ruiko using her powers to keep the blonde warm except he wasn't detecting anything. Plus if his girlfriend was going to use her powers to beat the cold, why not use it for herself?
It must be her Norwegian ancestry giving her resistance to the cold. Accel thought with a shrug as the girls got close and he pushed away from the digital advertising board next to the bus stop that he was leaning against while he was waiting.
"Yo, Ruiko!" He called out to his girlfriend with a wave.
Turning to him as she heard her name, Ruiko smiled and offered him a curtsy. "Konbanwa (Good evening), Accel."
"Hi, Accelerator-sama." The Frenda girl said, echoing the greeting with a wave that got him nodding back in acknowledgement.
Rising from her curtsy, ignoring the odd looks that what she did got her from the NPC passersby, Ruiko hooked an arm around one of the Frenda girl's and began guiding the other girl towards him.
"Ruiko, what's the Norwegian doing here?"
"I invited her." Ruiko said with a coy smile. A smile that told him she was up to something particularly mischievous. Or what she thought in that cute little head of hers fit that bill.
"On a date?" Accel asked with a cocked eyebrow. As pretty as he found the blonde, he still wasn't comfortable with her joining him on a date with his girlfriend.
Ruiko obviously didn't believe that. Instead, she nodded and offered him a pair of puppy dog eyes and asked, "Is that a problem, Accel?"
Accel wanted to refuse. They were on a date damnit! Why did they need a third wheel? But he couldn't resist Ruiko. He just couldn't.
So he just nodded.
"Yay! Thanks, Accel." Ruiko cheered and quickly hooked her free arm around one of Accel's before she began guiding all three of them towards the restaurant.
In Frenda's opinion, the date was going well. Just as planned, the throuple were sharing dinner in the Olla Podrida restaurant that Ruiko-sama had booked for them. It was a quaint place with a large box light that dominated the roof and whose white walls were decorated by various paintings. Its seating was a mix of tables and booths, one of the latter of which they were currently seated in.
By this point, they had finished their meal and were enjoying their desserts. Desserts that took the form of burnt cheesecakes and were making small talk by discussing the food they had just enjoyed.
"So, Frenda, you had a potato salad with Spanish conserved tuna, carrots, peas and mayonnaise as an appetizer; and anchovies served over crusty tomato bread as an entrée, right?" Ruiko-sama said, like she didn't already know that. "How was it?"
"Well," Frenda said, tapping her chin thoughtfully. "The tuna and anchovies were good, but give me some mackerel anyday!"
"What's with your obsession with mackerel?" Accelerator-sama asked with a cocked eyebrow. "I still remember how you first became friends with Ruiko."
Frenda blushed at that as she recalled that embarrassing incident. She still remembered how she'd acted like a fool after Ruiko-sama had bought out all the canned mackerel at the supermarket where she ran into the Level 5 and how her antics had led to her getting invited to the [AIM Sovereign]'s home for dinner.
Hiding her embarrassment, Frenda shrugged. "What can I say? I just like mackerel."
"And I will cook some mackerel curry soon and invite you over."
"Ruiko," Accelerator-sama said with a snort. "Why are you cooking for your henchwoman? You don't need to."
Ruiko just shrugged as she replied. "Why not? Besides, you can come over and join us for dinner too. I can cook something that you like too. You like that souffle I made last week didn't you? I'll make it for our dessert."
Accelerator-sama frowned but nodded. "Okay. I'll come."
Giggling at how easy it was for Ruiko-sama to manipulate him, Frenda rejoined the conversation. "Curry with souffle for dessert? Do they even go well together?"
"We won't know until we try it." Ruiko-sama replied with a bemused smile.
"Speaking of trying things out," Accelerator-sama said with a cough. "Ruiko, how was your sautéed shrimp appetizer and cured Spanish ham entrée?"
"It was good." Ruiko-sama admitted. "I liked the dichotomy between a seafood appetizer and a meat main course. Plus both were prepared well too."
"How can you tell?" The Number 1 asked, looking curious.
"Seriously, Accelerator-sama, did you forget who your girlfriend is?" Frenda said with a giggle.
"I've had similar dishes before on missions outside the City. They weren't as good." Ruiko-sama admitted with a smirk.
"You had them on a mission?" Accelerator-sama asked with a disbelieving frown. "I doubt that the food you got to eat on them was much of a high bar."
"That's probably the case but it's the bar I'm working with. Besides, the food was good enough for my tastes and that's what matters."
"That's fair, I guess."
"And what about you, Accelerator-sama?" Frenda asked, turning an expectant look towards the pseudo albino. "What about your food? You had fritters for your appetizers and a pork shoulder main course, right?"
The Number 1 nodded. "It was okay. Not great, not terrible. Which is pretty much what I expected from this place, it's not exactly fine dining."
His words prompted Frenda to look around the restaurant and noted that everyone there was dressed casually and were shooting them looks of confusion and disbelief.
"Speaking of that, I think we're overdressed for this place, Ruiko-sama."
"You can blame that on Accel, Frenda-chan."
"Why's it my fault?"
"Well, you're the one who said he heard about this restaurant and wanted to try it out. And not even because the food is good but because you wanted to support the place after it got smashed during Vento of the Front's invasion of the City."
"Hey! Supporting local businesses is important." Accelerator-sama countered. "Plus, it's your fault that you decided we would eat here on a day you want to attend a concert by the Academy City Symphonic Orchestra where formal dress is mandatory."
"Accelerator-sama has a point, Ruiko-sama." Frenda-chan noted playfully. "So this is your fault."
"Yes," [Multi-Skill] admitted with an adorable pout. "I suppose it is."
Frenda giggled at the Level 5's expense whilst the Number 1 smirked.
"Though, Ruiko, I have to wonder, why do you want to go see the Academy City Symphonic Orchestra anyway?"
"Mikoto-senpai recommended it. She attended a few of their concerts and said it was good, so I thought to give it a try." Ruiko-sama said in reply to her boyfriend's question.
"Oh?" Frenda said, shooting the [AIM Sovereign] with a sly look. "And the fact that it's totally not Naru-sama's speed and so she won't be there to interrupt things didn't factor into it?"
"No comment." Ruiko-sama said evasively as she blushed.
The Number 1 snorted. "At least that means she and her girlfriends won't interrupt our date this time."
"Are you really that butthurt about the last time she interrupted your date with Ruiko-sama?"
"Why shouldn't I be? It was annoying!"
"Yet you're not minding my presence all that much." Frenda pointed out.
The pseudo albino shrugged. "That's 'cause you didn't just appear out of nowhere and were there from the start. That I can deal with. Especially since Ruiko asked me to let you join. But the Chibi and her girlfriends just showed up out of nowhere and butted in. That was annoying as hell."
Frenda nodded in understanding. So he's okay with this entirely because Ruiko-sama asked him to be. He really is whipped.
Glancing at Ruiko-sama and spying the serenely happy smile on her crush's face as Frenda got along with Accelerator-sama, the blonde couldn't help but muse, I guess I'm no better. If she asked me to do anything, I'd probably do it too.
"By the way, just to cover our bases, the [Railgun] isn't likely to interrupt us either is she?" Accelerator-sama asked, causing Frenda to abandon her ponderings and turn her attention back to the conversation at hand.
"No she won't." Ruiko-sama assured him. "She isn't even in the City at the moment."
"Where'd she go?"
"On orders from the Board, she is escorting Kashiwagi Mai to the Incarnation of Kagutsuchi's hometown, Fuyuki, to retrieve something." Frenda explained. "She should be back by tomorrow."
"Fuyuki? That town that got burned down and is now just one big cemetery?"
The resident info broker nodded. "Yes, and, before you ask, that fire was caused by Kashiwagi Mai, though the details behind it are something I never bothered to look into."
Frenda joined Accelerator-sama in shooting her disbelieving looks.
"What's with those looks? I don't know everything." Ruiko-sama said defensively. "Besides, Kashiwagi Mai isn't our enemy and we aren't likely to work together anytime soon, so I never bothered researching her background. If either of those facts change, then I will."
"That sounds more like you." Accelerator-sama said with a relieved sigh.
Frenda nodded in agreement. "You wouldn't be our resident encyclopedia on anything and everything if you couldn't at least look into something at the drop of a hat."
"Are you done?" Ruiko asked with a roll of her eyes. "The concert is starting in about 30 minutes. We should head off soon."
"Got it!" Frenda said as she took a big bite out of her cheesecake and Accelerator-sama nodded before doing the same.
Smiling at that, Ruiko-sama joined her dates in hurriedly finishing up her dessert as well. They had a concert to rush off to after all.
"Wow! Ruiko-sama, you really got us good seats." The Frenda girl said as she, Ruiko and Accel took their seats in the box of the concert hall that Ruiko had booked for them for the Academy City Symphonic Orchestra performance that was the highlight of their date. A statement that had Accel rolling his eyes in exasperation.
"What do you expect? That Ruiko would have us slumming it in the cheap seats on a date?" Accel said as he and the girls sat down on their plush seats.
"Hey! There's nothing wrong with watching things from the cheap seats once in a while." The blonde shot back. "Getting in touch with the plebeians every so often is a good thing."
"'Plebeians', Frenda-chan?" Ruiko paused in scooting her seat closer to his own to turn towards the other girl. "Are you insinuating we are bourgeoisie, now?"
"Bourgeoisie? Very funny, Ruiko-sama!" The Level 0 said with a scoff. "If anything you and Accelerator-sama are Academy City nobility, what with being Level 5s and all."
"Don't forget that she's a true blue ojou-sama nowadays too." Accel added with a smirk, causing Ruiko to spin towards him with a shocked, betrayed look.
"Accel! Whose side are you on?"
"The truth's?" Accel said with a teasing smirk, prompting Ruiko to pout and the Frenda girl to burst into laughter. Laughter that only grew more intense when his girlfriend turned to the other girl to pout at her. A chain of events that had Accel chuckling as well.
He was fairly sure that Ruiko would get back at them for laughing at her but before she could, the concert hall's lights began to dim, signaling that the concert was about to begin. Smothering his laugh, and hearing the Frenda girl do the same, Accel turned towards the stage as the emcee stepped forward and began greeting the guests.
He should have offered the woman his attention but he was a little distracted by Ruiko finishing scooting her chair next to his own and leaning into him, planting her head against his shoulder. A move that he responded to by wrapping an arm over his girlfriend's shoulder. As he did, he noticed that even as Ruiko was leaning into him, the Frenda girl was doing the same to his girlfriend with the blonde having moved her own chair so that it was flush to the brunette's. A closing of the distance that allowed her to cuddle with Ruiko. Heck! She had practically wrapped herself around Ruiko like an octopus whilst she pressed her entire body into his girlfriend so tightly that her ample breasts were squished into the [AIM Sovereign]'s side. It was insanely intimate!
"Wha-" He began only to be shushed by Ruiko.
"Quiet, Accel. The concert is about to begin." Ruiko scolded as the first fast paced notes of the famous overture from Gioachino Rossini's Guglielmo Tell began to fill the hall. "We can talk later. For now, let's enjoy the concert."
Accel wasn't about to comply. The Frenda girl was making moves on his girlfriend! With him right there no less! However, before he could do anything, Ruiko discreetly moved a hand down and patted his groin. An unspoken indication to him that he would be rewarded if he kept quiet.
"We'll talk about it later. I promise. Just let me enjoy the concert for now. Right, Frenda-chan?"
"Yup. We'll definitely talk about it later."
Accel frowned but with a final sigh, nodded. "Okay."
Thus, Accel set aside his concerns and turned to enjoy the concert whilst cuddling not just with his girlfriend but with the Frenda girl as well. A state of affairs that should have been tense but thanks to Ruiko's calming presence by his side and the wonderful music, he was actually able to mostly relax and enjoy the performance. Despite that, he hadn't forgotten that his girlfriend seemed to be inappropriately cozying up with another girl and he needed answers. But like the girls said, that was for later.
Several hours later, after enjoying a surprisingly entertaining concert by the Academy City Symphonic Orchestra, the date was finally coming to an end and Accel found himself walking his dates, his girlfriend and her henchwoman, towards the bus stop that would allow them to take the bus home. And as they walked, Ruiko had hooked one of her arms around one of his own as they walked. Which was fine. It was the level of affection that her girlfriend tended to show him when they were in public. What wasn't normal was the fact that the Frenda girl had simultaneously wrapped both her arms around Ruiko's other arm.
Not that the girls seem to find any of it strange. Instead, they were busy discussing how much they enjoyed the concert as if nothing was strange about their behavior at all!
Sure, he had enjoyed the date. He even liked the Frenda girl's company as both an acquaintance and a date. Heck! He loved having two beautiful girls as his dates! Both of whom, despite paying plenty of attention to each other, gave just as much attention to him as well. Well, Ruiko gave him more - including rewarding him with a handjob in a unisex handicap toilet during the intermission for him keeping things quiet about his concerns - but considering she was his girlfriend that only made sense. Oh! And the jealous looks he got from the guys seeing him with them was amusing as hell! And a nice, if unneeded, boost to his ego. But putting that aside, the whole having a sudden third person on their date was still a little weird. And he needed some answers. He had waited long enough to hear them!
So as they reached a relatively empty stretch of street, Accel stopped, pulling the two girls to a stop as well, and turned to his girlfriend to finally ask the question that had been eating at the edge of his mind the whole date. "Ruiko, what in the world is going on?"
"I was wondering when you would ask." Ruiko said as she released his arm and gently pulled her arm from the Frenda girl's hold as well before giving him a pleading look whilst folding her hands into a begging gesture. "The truth is, Accel, is that I want Frenda to be our third wheel."
"'Third wheel'? What do you mean?"
"I've discovered that I'm bisexual, Accel." Ruiko confessed. "And that means that whilst you more than satisfy my need for masculine love or as much as Kaa-san's rules allow, I sometimes crave some feminine love as well, and that's where Frenda-chan comes in."
"I doubt you're worried about it but I'd say it anyway." The Frenda girl said, moving to stand beside Ruiko and look at him with earnest sincerity. "I have no intention to steal Ruiko-sama away from you."
"That'll never happen, Accel." Ruiko added. "No matter what happened, you're still my number one. Always and forever."
"And I'm perfectly happy being Ruiko-sama's number two."
Accel was almost sold on what the girls were saying. They sounded so honest and earnest. But with something like this, he had to be sure.
"And what about the Chibi?" He asked, shooting the Norwegian a glare. "I heard you proposed a foursome to her and her girlfriends."
"That was a joke. Besides, I got shot down." Frenda said with a shrug before her tone and demeanor turned teasing. "Ruiko-sama was generous enough to be my rebound."
Accel turned to look at Ruiko sharply.
"We haven't done anything beyond some flirting." Ruiko insisted with a roll of her eyes. "This whole date was so we could get your go ahead to begin a relationship."
He didn't know how much he believed his girlfriend. Not because she was deliberately lying to him but rather that she had very different definitions of what constituted flirting and what could be considered more. Oh! She intellectually knew the difference, but she couldn't really internalize that understanding. She also tended to be brutally honest with him. Thus he was sure that, by her own warped standards at least, Ruiko was being honest with him.
Sighing in relief at that, he instead turned to face the Norwegian. "What's with you and Level 5s anyway?"
"I have a thing for girls in power and I am not ashamed to admit it." Frenda confessed with a shrug. "Well, mainly girls. I don't mind guys either but I generally prefer girls."
"Frenda-chan, you're rambling." Ruiko chided with an amused giggle.
"Opps, sorry." Frenda said with a blush. "I'm nervous."
Ruiko nodded and wrapped an arm over the other girl's shoulders and gave her a comforting squeeze.
Ruiko really does like her. Accel realized with a frown. But was that enough reason for him to open their relationship to this girl?
The girls must've noticed his hesitance as they responded to it by shooting him puppy dog eyes. Looks that soon had him caving.
The things I do for Ruiko… Accel thought as he succumbed to the inevitable.
"Fine." He said with a sigh. "Frenda can join our relationship."
""Yay!"" Both girls cheered before sharing a quick kiss in celebration.
A sight that had Accel smiling. I could get used to this.
He was just finished thinking that when suddenly the girls leaned into him and kissed his cheeks.
Correction! I could get used to this. He concluded with a pleased grin.
Omake: Help in Telling the Family
Edasaki Banri, adopted daughter of Kiyama Harumi and sister to the Number 3 Level 5, was spending a boring Friday night after dinner and finishing her homework watching some anime before bed in her dorm apartment. Said apartment was one of the highly sought after single person units that Sensei and Imouto-chan had secured for her after she'd told them she wanted to live alone. The thought of having a roommate after what had happened to Erii was… Just not something that she could live with.
Tonight, her anime of choice was a romance slice-of-life show set in the familiar setting of a high school. It wasn't anything original but it was interesting enough and her attention was well and truly captured by the animated images playing across her television screen. However, half way through the night's episode, her viewing of the romantic hijinks of the characters on screen were interrupted when her doorbell suddenly rang.
"Huh? Who could it be?" Banri asked, blinking in surprise and glancing at the clock.
It was late at night and she wasn't expecting anyone, so she had absolutely no idea who could be at her door now. Thus, acting with the kind of caution that her family, Imouto-chan in particular, had drilled into her, she grabbed the taser - which was technically illegal for a middle school student like her to own - that she kept as a self-defense weapon and picking up her phone, opened the app that allowed her to view the feed from her doorbell camera. As she did, she blinked in surprise as she noticed just who was at her door.
"Imouto-chan?" She asked, turning on her doorbell cam's inbuilt intercom.
"Konbanwa, Banri-nee!" Imouto-chan said as she offered the cam a curtsy. "Can I come in? I need your help with something."
"Let me get this straight, Imouto-chan." Banri said with a sigh. "You've fallen in love with Frenda-san-"
"I wouldn't say I'm in love with her," Imouto-chan countered, blushing. "But I do have feelings for her."
Of course you do. Everyone with eyes have known that for ages! All that's changed is that you finally seemed to have admitted it to yourself and decided to act on it at last.
"You've gotten her to join you and Accelerator in a polyamorous relationship! And I know you! You wouldn't have done something as major as this if you weren't sure. You are in love with her."
Imouto-chan looked away, too embarrassed to admit her feelings.
Where was this hesitation when it came to Accelerator-san? Banri couldn't help but wonder.
Then again, Imouto-chan had years to catalog her feelings for the boy. Despite outward appearances, Imouto-chan was a timid person at heart, especially when it came to her feelings. Even if she tried to hide it, it had taken a lot of opening up for her to properly accept them as her siblings all those years ago. To be frank, even if Imouto-chan would deny it to her dying day, that is if she was even aware of it, if not for that accused experiment Banri doubted her sister would've ever fully embraced them as family. So this sudden realization that she had feelings for another girl, belated though Banri herself thought it was, must've shaken her. And that wasn't even taking into account the discovery that she was bisexual or the polyamorous aspect of the relationship she was pursuing, which each must've taken quite the courage to come to grips with.
"Yes, I think I do love her." Imouto-chan admitted. "Not as much as Accel, but…"
"But enough that you didn't want to choose between them?"
"There wouldn't have been a choice," Imouto-chan said with a shake of her head. "I'm raising children with Accel already."
"There is always a choice." Banri corrected. "You could've just rejected Frenda-san but that would've broken your hearts. So you found another way instead."
"Frenda-chan suggested it."
"Of course she did." Banri said with a roll of her eyes. Imoutou-chan's new girlfriend was a sneaky person if she ever saw one, so of course she'd been the one to come up with this solution to their potential love triangle.
"Okay, now that's settled, let's discuss what you came here for. Advice on how to break this to the rest of the family."
The rest of the family already knew, or strongly suspected, of course but Imouto-chan didn't need to know that. In fact, Banri briefly toyed with the idea of discreetly informing everyone ahead of time and telling them to act surprised when Imouto-chan told them but quickly discarded the idea. Not only would Imouto-chan certainly figure out what she was doing, their genuine surprise that Imouto-chan had finally come to her senses would beat out any attempt at acting they might pull off. Whilst Park-chan and Maki-nee might be able to pull off a decent act, she doubted the rest of their family could. They were just terrible actors!
This left her with only one option. "Okay. Let's see what we can come up with."
A couple days after brainstorming with Banri-nee, Ruiko found herself standing in front of Fremea-chan and her own assembled family, including Kaa-san, her siblings, and her daughters with Accel and Frenda in a lecture theater in the Eden Corp headquarters. Even Hyouka was attending from the Imaginary Number District even if she couldn't be there physically.
"Okay, everyone's here." Banri-nee said with a smile as she finished doing a quick headcount.
"Why's that a surprise, Banri-chan?" Maki-nee asked with a cocked eyebrow. "You cashed in your turn to decide what we did together for our group hangout and pestered us all to make sure we'd come, so of course we're here like you asked."
"The only question is why Sensei's here. Or Accelerator-san and Frenda-san and her little sister for that matter." Shengxi-nii said before he turned to Kaa-san. "Sensei, do you know what's going on here?"
Smiling knowingly, Kaa-san glanced at Ruiko and her partners before answering. "I have a hypothesis, but no, I don't actually know."
The audience broke out into confused murmurs at this as they tried to ask each other what was going on. Banri-nee, playing her role as master of ceremonies for the event, let them keep going for a bit before finally louding clearing her throat.
"Can I have everyone's attention?" She said in a raised voice.
She waited for everyone to quiet down before finally continuing. "Okay, now that everyone's listening, I'll explain why I've gathered everyone here today, even using my chance to decide the choice of our group hangout activity to do so. You see, we're here today to tell everyone something very, very important."
"Yeah, we can guess that much, Banri-chan." Khulan-chan said with a roll of her eyes whilst pointedly looking at Ruiko. "So what's so important that Ruiko-chan wants to share?"
"You can just be patient for literally a minute or two longer and she can tell you herself, you know." Banri-nee said with an annoyed shake of her head.
"Sorry." Khulan-chan replied with a wince. 'I just got a little impatient."
"No worries." Banri-nee said, waving the apology aside. "Let's just move on okay?"
This was met with agreement from everyone and seeing this, Banri-nee turned to Ruiko. "It's all yours, Imouto-chan."
"Thank you, Banri-nee." Ruiko said, offering her telepathic sister a smile as she stepped forward.
Turning to her expectant audience, Ruiko gulped nervously. She had fought in pitched battles and faced the prospect of her death on more occasions than she liked to count, but she had never been this anxious. Maybe that was an exaggeration, but it certainly didn't feel like it right now! Not with the weight of what she was about to share and the eyes of so many of her loved ones looking at her. She was the [Army Slayer] however and just like she had fearlessly stepped forward to massacre entire armies for the City in the past, she mustered that same courage for the much more pleasant task at hand.
"As Banri-nee said, I have something very important to tell you all. Something that I assure you, I will give you a full explanation for. But to get things started, I think action speaks louder than words."
"Ruiko-nee, what do you mean?" Kenta-kun asked, looking at her curiously.
In lieu of a verbal answer, Ruiko turned to Accel and Frenda, who had been waiting off to the side, and gestured at them to come closer. Once they did, and Frenda was in range of her arms, Ruiko reached out and pulled the blonde towards her and into a passionate kiss. A kiss that if they weren't in front of their families, Ruiko would've supplemented with some petting. She'd recently learned that her girlfriend had a sensitive spot at the top of her intergluteal cleft which when touched in the right way could turn her to putty immediately. For this occasion however, Ruiko employed truly herculean restraint and refrained from exploiting that knowledge.
Even without it, the kiss was passionate enough with their ample battle of tongues and how they held each other so close that their breasts were practically melded together into a single sensual mass of feminine flesh despite their clothes, that it left their audience gasping in surprise or cheering triumphantly. Obviously, some were expecting this outcome.
All good things must come to an end, and soon Ruiko and Frenda were forced to pull apart to catch their breaths. And resisting the urge to continue once they did, they instead stepped away from each other. The moment they did, just as planned, Frenda stepped aside and Accel moved to replace her. Unlike with Frenda, with her boyfriend, she found herself the one being pulled forward into the kiss. With a tug to her arm, Accel pulled her into another deep kiss.
Their kiss was met by murmurs. Some of confusion but a surprising amount of understanding. Not that Ruiko managed to do more than dimly register that fact. Where she had shown restraint during her kiss with Frenda-chan, Accel felt no such inclination to do so. Thus not only did he pull her nubile body flush against his taller body, but he also happily exploited one of her weak spots. Moving the hand holding her upper body against his own so that his hand could reach under her breasts, he stretched his fingers to run them across the underside of her left boob outside the view of their audience. It was only a brief touch, no more than a tickle, but it was enough. Not enough perhaps to turn her to putty but enough to make her weak in the knees. Pouncing on this weakness, Accel began kissing her even more aggressively, quickly gaining the upper hand.
I-I have to stop this or he'll ravish me right here on stage and in front of everyone! Ruiko realized as she gently pushed against Accel's shoulders.
To his credit, the moment she began pushing him away, he stopped and backed away. The problem was that Ruiko's legs were still feeling a little weak and she almost fell. Thankfully, he caught her before she could embarrass herself in front of everyone. A hold that she casually leaned into as Frenda moved to join her, so that both of them were being held in a loose hug by the Number 1 whilst they held each other's hands.
If their kisses had stirred up their audience, the three of them standing there as a loving throuple had them exploding into a veritable uproar. Some, like their daughters and Fremea-chan, were cheering and shouting congratulations. Questions were thrown at them from worried siblings, whilst others just exchanged looks of disbelief or resignation.
"Everyone! Shush!" Banri-nee shouted, silencing everyone.
"Thank you, Banri-nee." Ruiko said, offering the Telepath a grateful smile before turning back to the audience whilst simultaneously using some emulated Electromastery to turn on the lecture theater's projector and the Powerpoint presentation that she had prepared for the occasion. "Now, I promised an explanation. So save your questions and let me explain things first. Is that okay?"
The audience exchanged looks, some mutinous. But any who thought that way were quickly silenced by Kaa-san.
"Is that okay?" She repeated, with a smile that belied the look in her eyes that told them that anyone who disagreed would earn her ire.
Faced with her parental authority, everyone quickly expressed their agreement.
Shooting her mother a grateful smile, Ruiko began her presentation. "So as you can see, Accel, Frenda, and I have decided to start a relationship together. So let me explain what exactly that means-"
It was not often that Naru found herself stunned. Being an agent of Academy City's General Superintendent and the Jinchūriki of the Kyūbi no Yōko, she saw enough strange shit, either during her duties or in the memories of his homeworld that Kurama shared, that she was sure pretty much nothing could truly surprise her. But that belief was shattered as she heard what Rui-chan had just told her and Mikoto-senpai during lunch the next day at school.
"That worked!?" She asked the Number 3 with a look of disbelief.
"Yes, Naru-chan, it did." Rui-chan confirmed with a nod.
"Seriously!?" Mikoto-senpai, freshly back from her trip to Fuyuki, echoed Naru's own disbelief. "A Powerpoint presentation worked!?"
Rui-chan shrugged. "It was less the Powerpoint that did the trick than the flood of information I inundated my family with. I hit them with not just the fact that I am now in a polyamorous relationship with Accel and Frenda but my plans on how said relationship would work and the rudimentary plans for our future together. By the time I was done, they literally had nothing to say."
Rudimentary plans my ass! Betcha she had everything planned down to the day. Calling them drafts that are subject to change are probably more accurate.
Sounds like your best friend. Kurama agreed with a laugh. As is coming up with the idea to quash objections from her family by overloading them with information.
"And are you happy with the outcome, Ruiko?"
"I'm over the moon." Rui-chan confessed with perhaps one of the sweetest smiles that Naru had ever seen the Number 3 sport.
"Then I'm happy for you." Mikoto-senpai said with a smile of her own.
Tell her I am too.
I will. Naru reassured her partner.
"I am too, Rui-chan. And Kurama says he is too."
"Thank you." Naru's bestie smiled brilliantly once more. "I really appreciate it."
Naru smiled back, pleased beyond words that Rui-chan had found happiness.
Done and done! Thanks to Nameless as always!
Ah, truly, love is in the air! And in the panties in the case of Ruiko and Frenda. Mostly Frenda with how thirsty the petite blonde is. Poor girl, but at least the throuple is legit now! Or Ruiko's Harem? Harem sounds better… Man, do you think if Naru didn't get her own GFs that Ruiko would have gone for her too?! XD
Nameless: And so we've finally got Ruiko her harem. Yay! With it done, there will be a little more exploration of their relationship here or there but the throuple are a done deal. Hope you guys liked the road that got them here.
On another note, there is something that might become a point of contention. We had addressed it in the chapter but I think it worthwhile to repeat the logic. Basically, at one point, Ruiko appears to lie about what she's got up to with Frenda to Accel. Something that we know to be true as we've seen what she's got up to with her side piece and some of it is clearly a lot more than what most would consider simple flirting. To that effect, keep in mind what Accel thinks on the matter. Basically, Ruiko's perception of what is considered flirting and what is more is warped. So, in her mind, she wasn't lying.
E4E: I mean, to be fair, Ruiko's only other example of a successful known relationship is Naru, who is her bestie, and she's an overall deviant and massive flirt and tease. So really, taking cues from her and such.
Nameless: So in the omake I had Accel be more aggressive in his kiss with Ruiko than she was with Frenda. Do not read too much into it. I know we like to imply a lot of things with things at times, but this time it was really just Accel generally wanting to make his girlfriend weak in her knees in front of everyone on that occasion whereas said girlfriend was feeling restrained when it was her turn kissing her girlfriend. No more than that. Promise. Though if you really wanted to, I guess you could argue that it's just a result of Accel, or guys in general, being more daring/reckless? But like I said, that's a stretch as we know Accel isn't always this assertive.
I feel that makes sense, plus relationships are new to him in general so he's just trying to do what he can to get it going or just trying to show his own 'sauve' ability. Even though he's got the drip down for sure.
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