Love Fest!

As they reached his house, they saw a car parked in the front. They head to the door and see Maki and her mother bantering over something.

Maki called out to his name, Shio looked behind her and saw her daughter's boyfriend with Umi.

"Good Evening, Shio-san." Hiroto greeted Maki's mother. Shio nodded before looking at the girl behind him. Umi got slightly nervous, but it didn't show in her face. She got nervous because they reached his house. It wasn't like this when they celebrated here before, but she tried to ignore the feeling that she was experiencing.

"Is this girl a member of the group as well?" Shio curiously asked. Shio learned all of their names earlier. They still had to introduce themselves out of courteousness.

"Yes, I'm Umi Sonoda, a member of the School Idol Club!" Umi introduced herself while doing a curt bow. Shio approved, Umi was courteous and her beautiful long hair was attention-worthy likewise, every friend introduced to her were likable as they all had their cute personality. She asked Umi about Maki and what she had been doing in the school, which made her daughter flushed and embarrassed.

"I'm thrilled that my daughter now had so many friends." Shio appreciated Umi and the others, since having friends like them will make her more independent. She didn't go to those popular academies while her friends in middle school applied to other schools, so she was alone when she enrolled at Otonokizaka. But now, having Hiroto by her side was already a motivation for her to pursue what she wants.

"Mama!" Maki got embarrassed before covering her mother's mouth. Hiroto and Umi can't help but chuckle at their display.

"I will help cook the meals before I go back," Shio said she will help her husband in the hospital so she can monitor that he wouldn't find out while most consideration was to help.

"Shio-san is more than welcomed!" Hiroto smiled before gesturing to enter the apartment.

"But he will help too." Maki pointed at him, which made her surprise before chuckling. Umi also suggested that she will help cook, and they agreed.

"Let's enter first." He rolled his eyes before entering the house, Mamako was talking to the girls before they saw him entering alongside the others.

"Umi-chan!" Honoka approached before whispering to her. Honoka wanted to know what happened, after all of her fervent encouraging, she wanted to hear some romance stuff, after all, every girl like to talk about it and they weren't an exception.

Honoka asked, "Did you do it?" Umi wanted to be ignorant but she can't help speak out to Honoka's energetic and curious face. Kotori walked and gazed at her with that same expression.

"Th-that's, hah… I didn't." Umi smiled helplessly, but she got embarrassed when she remembered what she did before they reached here.

'I made him pat my head and walked through here holding his clothes ahh!" Umi slapped her cheeks to remove the thoughts in her mind. Seeing her like this, made the two more curious about what happened.

"Ahh, that's a bummer but why do you have that look?" Honoka suspiciously asked and tried to rouse Umi to continue what she was telling, she didn't seem to want to talk about what happened given that embarrassed face.

"What are you blushing on?" Kotori eyed her, Umi waved her hand frantically denying her suspicions.

"Stop already mou!" Umi snapped before looking at the two with a surrendering tone and chose to say it later or tomorrow since they might forget to ask later.

Mamako called out to Shio as they began to talk endlessly. This also happened during the visitation of Maki and Shio, but this time, it was more troublesome and the discussion was hard not to listen without initiating a rebuke because of their praises. Meanwhile, Umi was curious and began listening to their talk while she sat on the sofa. She was slightly sad that Hiroto and Maki's mother knew each other and had a good relationship.

It reached the point where they were talking about him and that made him show a wry smile, they headed to the kitchen before starting to prepare the food.

It was true that he was good at cooking. Shio turned wide-eyed hearing it from his mother before

"Your son's really a multi-talented male!" Shio was amazed as Mamako immediately described his talents that he showed consecutively.

"If it didn't come from you then I won't believe it!" Shio can't imagine how much stuff he was hiding, she knew that Mamako only lived here for two months. She couldn't help but inspect more about her daughter's boyfriend.

"He had many skills that he didn't show to me before." Mamako enthusiastically interested what she had seen over the past weeks.

Hiroto saw the members sitting in the living room with curiosity on their faces. Honoka turned her attention to the living space before walking near a wall.

"Your house is really clean and spacy!" Honoka walked to the designs on the wall. There were his other paintings of animals and scenery. He did a few so that he could design the house under his mother's asking.

"Who made this art, it's so good." Rin lightly touched the cat painting, she likes the vibrant and life-like feeling of it.

'If you saw my portraits of everyone I wonder what reactions they will have." He chuckled but he didn't say and was thankful enough that his Mom didn't hear his words.

Hiroto began preparing the ingredients, Umi and the mothers helped prepare the food. The two mothers were gentle as they saw Umi's composed but sometimes blushing face when she got close to him, the light on their eyes didn't stop to shine.

'So this girl had a feeling for him, no wonder.' But they pitied her because Maki was already his boyfriend. They like this thoughtful girl, she was helpful when they cook and she was courteous. Everyone wanted a son/daughter who was as mindful such as her.

They had to eat before they studied, he scheduled it like that moreover Kirisu will be coming and was invited to eat here as well. They made many dishes, some iconic Japanese cuisines while some of the foreign food for the exotic tasting of the carmine haired girl taste which he made especially for her.

Hiroto walked upstairs and called out Kirisu in the door.

"Sensei?" He knocked on the door and this timeless rubble was heard in the sound of the footsteps before he heard the clanking of the door opening and saw Kirisu looking behind the door first and after seeing him, she quickly moved outside before closing fast. She breathes in relief before looking at the speechless Hiroto.

"..."

"Is it time?" Kirisu asked as stoic as ever, but she looked at the casual wearing Hiroto and slightly eyed him from top to bottom.

"Yeah, we need to eat first before we study is that alright?" Hiroto asked looking at her.

"I appreciate your concern.." Kirisu nodded while she goes back to her room as she had to gather her teaching materials and the books needed before they head downstairs. She also asked some curious questions about what she would teach them about.

"Actually I haven't asked them as well." He said contemplating since he didn't know what subjects they were bad with, but he had prepared many categories of study peripherals and skims of different major subjects and topics that would be in the test.

In the time around and this month, he had improved his studying as he used the memorization capsule he got during the time with Maki's date.

[Memorization Capsule] Rank: E

Use to improve to greatly increase memorization capability for two hours.

He still had 9 of these capsules and trying out one, it felt like he could remember anything that he saw and at that time, he was able to study with 500 times the efficiency. Studying history and few subjects that needed memorization turned easy. It would only take for him to look at the words before he can remember it anytime afterward. It was now a bank of knowledge in the side of his head that can be recalled anytime he wanted. Although the boost can only remain for two hours and the efficiency is all that matters since you only need to skim to a sentence while the knowledge will remain throughout his life. Rank E stuff was likely to be overpowered in some sense.

'I can also give it to the girls if they were in pinch.' He felt proud of himself. Kirisu asked him if he was okay, which made him lightly scratching his head.

"It's good that your thinking of studying like this, you already joined the club right?" Kirisu asked she didn't know that there wasn't a club for them yet.

"Yes." Hiroto smiled wryly, he didn't want to talk about it, while he will be able to help out. He couldn't reconsider their decision since it was what they wanted.

"Is there a problem with your club?" Kirisu saw his troubled look. He waved it off but it seems she wouldn't back down on helping him.

"..."

"Hah..there is actually, we haven't applied our club to be approved yet." Hiroto lightly sighed.

"Eh? Why? don't you just need to sign the agreement with the student council?" Kirisu felt confused and looked at him seriously.

"There's a club similar to our own and it happened to coincides with the Student Council rule of limiting the creation of the club that was similar to another existing one," Hiroto explained the problem, he pointed his idea of the group appealing to the one and only member of the club and talking to her was hard since she had that feisty attitude. Kirisu rubbed her chin, she didn't mind helping him before saying.

'She's willing to help out?' He felt surprised seeing her like this. He wondered if she was still the teacher he knew.

"I could ask the Student Council to approve the creation of your club but they already decided right?" Kirisu asked.

"Yes."

'She really does.' He smiled inwardly.

"Noted, call me if they failed. I will assist if this matter comes forward." Kirisu said strictly while looking at his eyes. He appreciated her concern as he thanked her.

He picked up the books in his c.h.e.s.t before heading downstairs. Kirisu's had a mindful of questions, she happened to be somewhat curious about the club he joined. Kirisu asked him what was their club,

"Eh? My club?" He was slightly fearful of telling her. She might not like the idea but in her head, what she thought was the different serious issue.

"It's uhh....." Hiroto didn't if he should say it or not but from the looks of it. He wouldn't be able to escape in this situation, he just prayed that she won't get angry at them.

"The school idol club.." Hiroto plainly said.

"..." Kirisu's nodded, he felt hat she wanted some explanations.

"The purpose of the club was to help the school situation." He immediately followed up and defended the club so that she won't lecture them for a few hours. But she only let out a small chuckle, she wasn't angry at them at all. What they had been doing was to help the school situation, she had seen their effort but she didn't know he joined and only knew he was helping and believe he joined a different club. The others named it his group, his harem 'Hiroto's crib,' which she leered at the idea, and scolded those that were making false rumors with blackening face and densely murderous aura, probably just the imaginations of the students.

"Ah! There was that kind of rumors." His cheek dropped a sweat. He had been mentoring them after all, it would be strange if others didn't get curious about the school idol while he was close to them. The idea again slipped into his active mind and made trouble for him.

At the end of their talk, Kirisu lectured him for a few minutes, basically telling him to study with eager motivation while later, she will lecture the others about the importance of studying even if they wanted to help the school, studying is the basic foundation for every society contributors and that was ingrained in her mind.

The dinner was somewhat lively as every member was excited about the food they will eat. Shio left before the dinner was served, she wanted to eat with her husband and she didn't want to get her stomach and decided to leave before she gets hungry over the top tasting food in the world.

Even if the strict Kirisu joined them, nobody was unhappy when they saw the aromatic and the glistening food on the table. His mother sat on the host side, while he sat on the left and beside him were Maki, Rin, and Hanayo. At their counterpart was Kirisu, Umi, Kotori, and Honoka who were sitting on the opposite side of his mother.

Rin and Hanayo got silent in the overall situation but their foodgasm face had removed their silent expression and began talking about how good the food is.

Kotori didn't like garlicky food that was presented but she still tried some and praised it vocally.

"I love the food you make Hiroto-nyah!" Rin praised him while she gave a ten out of ten gestures. Every tasty meat she had was good for a cat person's stomach.

"He always brings food during lunch after-all." Umi tasted every other food on the table. It was the same for others as they tried on the dishes they liked.

"Yeah, this is like a 5 star serving in a hotel!" Honoka praised as she quickened her pace before eating a slice of Okonomiyaki.

"Have you been in a star hotel at all?" He rolled his eyes.

"No, I haven't at all!" Honoka said proudly before chewing another food in her mouth.

"...."

Hanayo was on the verge of becoming a taste specialist, she had a look of a researcher that knew all the ingredients used in the food.

"This taste feels like.....ah!" everyone laughed in fro. Rin was busy eating that she can't rebuke their laughing. Mamako smiled at the scene, 'it may be good if I have this much daughters.'

"He conquered everyone's stomach already he~he, be careful or he might conquer the heart as well," Mamako said with intonation, he felt she just dropped a bomb. Hiroto wanted to reprimand her but she just chuckled.

"..."

"It's a joke," Mamako said.

The others got to thinking while few got a slightly redder cheek and try hard not to ponder in this situation. Kirisu suddenly had some perspiration over her cheeks while she denied in overeager thoughts looming in her head.

After the icebreaker dropped by his Mom, the atmosphere turned lighter. It questioned him how she was able to make the mood better with just that. While in actuality, the food was the reason that lightened the scene.

At the living room, on the round of the sofa's, Kirisu started teaching them with a poker face. The members can't help but evaluate in their minds about the strict and composed lecturer with different variations.

Everyone had a 30-minute allocation for her to teach. Everyone had some subjects they wanted to be taught. Seeing them busying themselves, he walked to the kitchen. He diluted one of his memorization capsules and used 1/3 of it and making it into a coffee. He gave it to the girls and it made results, albeit they thought that it just the caffeine that waked up their rested minds. The increased clarity it gave made them easily soaked the information without making them tired. Kirisu also noticed it but she didn't heed other thought.

She was the part of the exam maker, so she knew the topic it had on the majority. So she focused on teaching the cuts of important things in the exams, while not giving out what the exams will have. Since they had different subjects, Kirisu had to look for some books.

Rin was almost as bad in every subject but was only bad because she doesn't try. She was a bit scared of Kirisu but when she listened to her, it turned out easy for her to understand, she was converting the formulas into understandable mnemonics that were easy to memorize. After Kirisu taught her, she was able to use her brain and store some knowledge in it. What Kirisu taught her was math and she managed to learn something out of it.

Hiroto taught Maki the basics of diagnosis of patients. She turned wide-eyed hearing it from him and smiled at his mindful consideration. Maybe, he had studied for this because he wanted to help her. Thinking of that made her blush before looking at him with a leer.

"You didn't have to do this, you know?" She twirled her hair. Hiroto chuckled at her display before resuming to lecture her.

He taught the others after they had finished with Kirisu's lecture, what he did was also as effective as a professional teacher.

It was around 9 pm before they finished, Kirisu went back to her room. Everyone learned that she was living in the apartment upstairs which made them wide-eyed before looking at Hiroto speechless.

"Don't look at me like that, Kirisu-sensei just moved this past month," Hiroto explained slightly.

"That was why you can ask her to teach us," Honoka said with understanding.