Ch.138Enemy of the Pure Love Enthusiast (1)

We arrived at the villa right away. It was only a three-minute walk from the beach. For accommodations near the beach, being close to the sea was all that mattered.

“Big brother… isn’t here,” Eri said.

“Ah… Shotaro-san?”

There were signs that someone had been working in the villa, but it seemed he had suddenly gone out somewhere.

Ding!

Just then, Eri’s phone rang.

“Ah. My brother says to go ahead and eat without him,” Eri said.

“Office workers… have it rough,” I muttered. Even during vacation, the calls never stop coming.

Anyway, we had already prepared the barbecue equipment.

I immediately set up the charcoal grill. The key was mixing in some quick-light charcoal.

Tssssss!

After that, I lit it with a torch. With the quick-light charcoal, the fire caught quickly.

“Ohhh… it’s lighting up,” Umi said, looking at the fire with excitement.

“But isn’t the heat a bit weak?” Taiga asked.

Certainly… we’d have to wait for the fire to catch properly. However, I was not a man who knew patience.

“Everyone, stand back.”

I immediately pulled out the salad oil.

“What are you going to…”

Umi tilted her head in confusion.

“Hyah!”

Drawing on my experience from my previous world, I poured salad oil around the quick-light charcoal.

I used to go camping a lot back then… that’s right. After my second work failed and my spirit was crushed, I went camping alone. If my third work hadn’t sold decently, I would have gone down the path of becoming a mountain hermit.

WHOOOOSH!!!

As the oil poured in, the flames immediately shot up fiercely.

“WOOOAH!!! FIRE!!!!”

Umi seemed incredibly excited watching the flames rise.

“W-wait!! The fire’s too strong!”

Eri seemed worried about that.

“Hmph.”

Think I didn’t anticipate that? I immediately grabbed the tongs.

By throwing some unlit charcoal on top, I could control the heat.

The flames soon subsided.

“Shota!! Amazing!!!”

Umi’s eyes sparkled.

“Hmm… that might be kind of cool.”

Taiga also had an impressed expression.

“Ufufu. Shota has many hidden talents.”

Eri said while patting my head.

Eri… she agreed to Tina’s harem plan and said she’d help persuade others…

But last time with Mika, or whoever, she took a hard stance. Does Eri have some criteria for selecting harem members?

Right. Mika… how am I going to explain that? I was starting to get a little nervous.

Anyway.

“From now on, don’t call me Shota. Call me the Inferno Master.”

I said while holding up the tongs.

“Ugh! Seriously!! Just when I was thinking you were cool, you had to ruin it!”

“Hehehe. That’s the usual Shota.”

Umi and Taiga made a fuss.

“Alright, everyone!!! Bring the meat and vegetables!”

I immediately directed my girlfriends.

“Okay.”

Everyone hurriedly took out the ingredients from the cooler.

That’s when their personalities showed. Taiga just opened the packages and mindlessly placed the meat and vegetables on the grill.

Umi, with her slightly higher domestic stats, tried to arrange them nicely. Though she was still just placing them on the grill.

Eri… brought skewers and neatly cut the vegetables and meat, arranging them in order.

“This way you can eat everything without being picky, right?”

Eri said with a bright smile.

“Really… Eri!!!!”

Her wife skills were improving day by day. She was truly a heavenly woman.

Anyway, I let my girlfriends play around while I focused on grilling the meat. If it were beef, I could have cooked it roughly, but… this was pork. It was safest to grill it until it looked a bit charred.

Another key point was sprinkling pepper or seasoning when it was about half-cooked.

My girlfriends were busy with their phones or taking pictures to upload to social media. But their eyes kept drifting toward the meat. Hehehe. They must be hungry.

I was hungry too. After all, I had just fought a fierce battle with a crazy mountain man. It was natural to be hungry.

“Alright!!! Everyone!! It’s ready!!”

I clapped my hands and announced.

“Meat!! Meat!!”

“Shota!!! You’re late!!”

“Ufufu. Good job, Shota!!”

The trio of girlfriends immediately rushed to the grill. They seemed to have been waiting for quite a while. All three of them gave the impression they’d prefer meat over vegetables. They were carnivorous women who immediately pounced on the man they liked…

And so, we enjoyed our barbecue party.

“Mika? Why is she so late?”

That’s when I wondered.

“Hmm… Shota. You seem concerned.”

Eri said, narrowing her eyes.

“Huh? Well… we have delicious food here, so it would be nice to share it.”

I said.

Honestly… I am curious about the pretty guest coming. Well… my girlfriends don’t know that Mika has transformed.

“Well, that’s true.”

Surprisingly, Eri quickly dropped her offensive.

Eri had seen Mika’s previous photos. She was starting to feel at ease, thinking that Mika’s plain type wouldn’t be competition.

While we were in the middle of our barbecue party, Umi shouted loudly.

“Hey!! There’s a karaoke machine here!!”

I immediately reacted to Umi’s shout.

“What!!!! Japanese karaoke?!! Oh!!! Amazing!! Subarashii!!!”

I rushed over.

Shit… I can’t resist karaoke!!!

“Hahaha! Shota! Why are you imitating a foreigner?”

Taiga also laughed and followed me.

“Karaoke… Shota. You like it?”

Eri said with a smile.

“Hmph. Well, our first date with Shota was… at a karaoke place, right? Right, Shota?”

Umi blushed and glanced at me.

However, I had no time to worry about such things!

Time to queue up songs!!!

“Sonna!!! Yasashiku shinaide!!! Donna kao sureba wakaranai!!!”

I immediately started singing.

“Damn it!! You’re crazy about singing!!”

Umi got angry right away.

Anyway, we continued our luxurious party—eating barbecue until we were full, then singing, then eating again when we got hungry.

That’s when it happened.

“Oh. Shota.”

Shotaro appeared. Next to him was a girl about my age.

She was a gyaru with long, navy blue straight hair. Personally, I thought that pure hairstyles and gyaru style didn’t match as a “heresy,” but… this wasn’t bad either. I realized that the combination of a modest face and a not-so-modest voluptuous body could be surprisingly good. The world of gyaru is… vast.

Anyway, this girl was Mika. The villain who had been on an unannounced three-month hiatus.

“Ah. So you’re Shota? Nice to meet you. I’m Mika.”

Mika said casually to me.

But… something felt off. Mika was glaring at me with incredible intensity. Her likability had already plummeted.

“Th-this is Mika…? Hey! Eri!! Didn’t you say she was plain?”

Umi immediately whispered to Eri.

“Wh-what? She gives a different impression than in the photos…!”

Eri looked flustered.

“It doesn’t matter. Our Formation Z is invincible. We won’t let her get anywhere near Shota.”

Taiga nodded like a sports coach. Taiga… you’re living in a completely different genre.

“W-well… get along, okay?”

Shotaro then tried to leave to get back to work.

“Ah. Shotaro-san. Thank you for your hard work. Here’s some meat.”

I put some meat and vegetables on a paper plate and handed it to him.

“I also put some beer in the cooler just in case.”

Then, I handed him a can of beer.

“Hmph. Thanks.”

Shotaro accepted the food with a smile.

“Arrrgh!! This is so annoying!! Why do you have to be nice too?!! If you’re a playboy, don’t be considerate! Just be openly trashy!! It’s confusing!!”

Suddenly, Mika lashed out at me.

“Getting angry at someone you just met… this one’s a weirdo on Umi’s level.”

I unconsciously muttered.

“Hey, Shota. What’s that supposed to mean? Why am I the standard for weirdos?”

Umi immediately grabbed the back of my neck.

You don’t understand. I just submitted it to the academic society. The unit for measuring weirdness is now UMI. Elegantly pronounced “U-M-I.” 1 UMI. That represents one Umi’s worth of weirdness. Everyone, remember this.

Anyway.

“Sigh… I saw everything.”

Mika pointed at me.

“Y-you… earlier today… with those women… y-you did all sorts of indecent things outdoors!! A-are you lovers?! Or not?!! Just physical partners?”

Mika stammered with a red face.

“Ah… you saw?”

This is kind of embarrassing. That aside, Mika, you were already here? Then why did you only show up now?

“Yeah… they all seem like your girlfriends.”

I said, hugging all three of them. I was planning to add one more soon.

“N-no way…!!!!”

Mika stammered.

“Oh? Despite dressing so provocatively… you don’t have much experience, do you?”

Suddenly, Umi was filled with a sense of superiority. She stroked me and continued.

“Love takes many forms.”

Umi said with a chuckle.

No… Umi, I was your first too. Why are you acting like you have experience?

“Th-this isn’t… pure love!!!”

Mika cried out loudly. Ah… so she thinks harems aren’t pure love.

“A-anyway, it’s just a relationship based on lust!!! Normies’ promiscuous relationships… wawawawa…!!”

Mika stuck her head into the ice-filled cooler.

Tsssssss!!!

At the same time, the steam from Mika’s head rapidly cooled down. She’s crazy too. I’ve never seen someone immediately stick their head into an ice-filled cooler.

“Haah… I-I shouldn’t have come… You’re just looking for an excuse to pounce on me too, right? You’re like a monkey with nothing but lust in your brain!!!”

Mika immediately distanced herself from me.

Monkey? That’s a bit harsh…

“Ooh ooh aah!!!”

I immediately imitated a monkey. I couldn’t resist.

“Stop going with the flow.”

Taiga lovingly smacked my back.

“Don’t make assumptions. Shota isn’t the type to pounce first. We have to pounce on him first before he gets in the mood.”

Taiga opened her mouth to support me. Taiga… that’s TMI. And it’s not even supporting me.

“O-okay, enough of that!!! That’s not what’s making me angry!!”

Mika’s anger didn’t seem to have subsided.

“Why are you writing such otaku web novels while being a normie!!!!!!!! That’s what makes me the angriest!!!!!!”

Mika roared so loudly that the beach echoed.

“This is really… the worst…”

Right after, Mika sat down nearby with an annoyed expression. She seemed to be having a moment of realization.

Yeah. She’s an interesting one. I got a sense of what kind of person Mika is.

Let’s be friends!!!!