Heroine-Saving System: Reborn In A Third-Rate Manga As The Protagonist-Chapter 87: Rough Night

Yume no Amai was a pretty mature establishment with intimate tables for two.

It looked like a normal upscale cafe if you ignored the live piano player positioned at the side playing soft jazz, the cold air conditioning calibrated for ice cream preservation and the romantic ambient lighting.

Koya and Ichinose were seated at one corner table with menus on their table. Meanwhile, Bobby sat alone at a separate table, completely focused on consuming a large cup of vanilla ice cream like his life depended on it.

’So he can’t speak but he can swallow perfectly fine.’ Koya thought with an internal sigh as he shifted focus back to Ichinose.

He’d left his manga bag in the car while she had stored hers in her storage ring. Koya had to admit, Ichinose looked quite pretty. The soft lighting made her skin glow.

"So Koya-kun... I didn’t know you were that much of a manga fan," she said. "Not many people are into anime and manga these days."

Koya’s eye twitched. He had 3 million followers.... there were a LOT of people who liked it.

"In ALI I mean, it’s always O-dramas with the girls," Ichinose continued. "You know, those romantic dramas featuring Omni Supercity models. Rich CEO falls for ordinary girl, love triangles, dramatic misunderstandings. The girls at school absolutely obsess over them."

She rolled her eyes.

"It’s annoying seeing them mindlessly crush on guys who don’t even know they exist."

’Oh, K-dramas also exist in this world,’ Koya thought. He wasn’t a fan... he’d never tried watching them and never would. He actively despised their fangirls and fanboys too.

"I feel you completely," Koya said while looking at his menu. "Even though it’s primarily a cafe, it also sells desserts and ice cream... Pretty good selection."

"Yes..." Ichinose said while looking at her own menu again, though she clearly already knew what she wanted. "I usually go with the custom biscuit heads and then some vanilla ice cream when I’m around here. It’s become my regular order."

Koya raised an eyebrow with slight amusement.

"You love eating edible heads of yourself? That’s genuinely weird," he said with a small smirk.

She reddened immediately and opened her mouth to defend herself, ready to explain that the treats were actually really good and not narcissistic at all...

"But nonetheless, let’s order it," Koya continued before she could speak. "Sounds interesting."

Ichinose called a waiter over... The young man took their orders and rushed to the kitchen and now that they were left alone, Ichinose watched as Koya brought out his phone and began scrolling.

She was trying to keep the blush from spreading across her cheeks. She was on an actual date with the most popular guy in ALI, apart from Itsuki. Even though this wasn’t officially romantic, she couldn’t help feeling nervous.

However, she wasn’t thinking about romance at all right now... She had business considerations. Ever since the last stream in the Outer Zone and the Order attack, her viewers had been begging to see Koya appear on stream again.

He was extremely marketable... The two streams with him had broken her viewership records. Her audience would be ecstatic to see how different he looked now especially with his changed eye color.

It made her wonder if he was using contacts.

"Koya-kun..." she started while twiddling her thumbs. He looked up, giving her full attention. "So that manga you were buying... the Hero revenge one. Is there any particular reason?"

"Oh?" Koya set his phone aside. "It was recommended by a friend. And I’m a manga fanatic myself, so I decided to check it out."

"Well... I really recommend that one personally," Ichinose said earnestly. "Even if it looks cliché, it will genuinely surprise you."

Koya chuckled, and the sound reminded her of her favorite anonymous streamer.

"Well, I’ll have to be the judge of that," he said. "Besides, why are you even out shopping? ALI resumes next week. Shouldn’t you be preparing?"

"I could say the same about you," Ichinose puffed her cheeks. "I just went to restock my manga collection."

She paused awkwardly. "Not like I was planning to goon to it or whatever."

Koya raised an eyebrow... Who actually got off to Pornhwa? That was really weird.

"I wonder how everyone’s doing after the Order attack," Koya said. He mostly worried about Hakua... after her failed mind control, she’d looked utterly shaken.

"Everyone’s been worried about you," Ichinose said. "You haven’t answered any texts or group chats. I was worried too."

’If he died, how would we stream?’ was her actual thought.

"I’m fine. I just silenced the chat app," Koya said. "You guys send way too many messages."

"You should keep it unsilenced," she insisted. "What if important messages come in? Like mid-terms or emergencies?"

"It’s still pretty early into the school period, we can’t have mid-terms yet."

Ichinose then leaned forward. "Now I have a question... Who’s that guy?"

She gestured at Bobby, who was now halfway through his first massive cup with two more waiting. Koya wondered if he’d be paying for all that. He didn’t really see the point especially since Bobby was responsible for this delay.

"Oh, he’s my personal driver," Koya said casually. He immediately hated how bratty that sounded.

Bobby visibly flinched before continuing to eat.

"Personal driver...? Since when did Koya-kun become that wealthy?" Ichinose’s eyes went wide.

Koya shrugged. "He doesn’t cost much to employ."

The waiter returned with their order... these were large vanilla ice cream cups and twelve custom chibi biscuits resembling their heads.

Koya lifted one up. It was colored to look like him perfectly, with red flecks in the hair that made him look distinguished.

"Don’t like it?" Ichinose asked.

Koya bit into it and flavors exploded across his taste buds. Chocolate base with raspberry cream filling. He scooped ice cream too... it was a perfect combination.

"Now I can definitely get behind this..." Koya said while grabbing another.

Ichinose chuckled... He looked like an excited child and after he ate several, she cleared her throat.

"So Koya-kun... are you interested in joining me for a stream?"

Koya paused. "Stream? What do you want to do? Raid the Outer Zone again?"

"Well, you’re a fan favorite," she explained. "They give tons of donations when you’re on board. If we raid somewhere dangerous, we’d get massive views."

"You shouldn’t risk your life to stream," Koya said with concern. "What if something bad happens?"

"Well Koya-kun, some of us don’t have those opportunities," Ichinose said, becoming somber. She ate a biscuit before continuing... she needed to hook him completely onto her story in a way that she could bring him onto more streams.

"I need money... for my sick sister."

The sick sister lie was the oldest manipulation tactic, but unless he accessed her records, he’d never know.

"She’s in Omni Supercity receiving treatment," Ichinose continued, bowing her head. "She has a chronic illness requiring constant expensive care. Most of my income goes to helping her."

That was a complete lie... most went to skincare products, she needed to look pretty after all. Ichinose was sure that even the most beautiful woman in the world, Hakua Shirogane used some sort of skincare too.

"Please assist me..."

"If you put it like that... sure." Koya said. "Where should we meet?"

She was a heroine and besides if it was something to help her out, he didn’t mind besides that meant more hunting.

"Tomorrow, around 12 PM," Ichinose said gratefully. "Meet me at the building where you fought that hive."

Her plan worked flawlessly.

"Good. I’ll make sure you don’t get hurt," Koya said while patting her head and she blushed.

He called the waiter. "I’d like to buy more and take this one as takeaway. Also Bobby... get up. Let’s head home."

...

Hakai exhaled slowly as the car pulled smoothly into Star Mansion’s driveway.

The White Hall base had been destroyed completely, which honestly wasn’t part of the original mission parameters.

She’d wanted Koya to raid the location systematically, eliminate everyone inside, and maybe leave the children there for the Order to extract and use as leverage later but there was also a distinct possibility that Kubo had installed an automatic explosive system triggered by total casualties.

If that was the case, then she couldn’t really blame Koya for the outcome.

’But there are no more problems with this mission,’ she thought with satisfaction. ’I finally have the Uzumaki Chains in my possession, even if I only secured one of them.’

They were incredibly powerful tools capable of absolute mind control and compulsion. As for why Council Member Kubo had been keeping such legendary artifacts hidden instead of using them for political gain, she didn’t know.

But the Order would accomplish far more with them than some simple council member’s makeshift criminal organization ever could.

She was currently on her bed wearing a silk nightdress that Koya had bought for her during his shopping trip, hugging the gigantic teddy bear plushie close to her chest.

She was doing it purely because it was comfortable and soft, not because she particularly liked the gift or anything sentimental like that... Definitely not.

The bedroom door opened a few minutes later and Koya entered, sitting down on the bed next to her with his back pressed against the opposite side of the plushie.

"Thank you for all the gifts, babe," Hakai said with a genuine smile, though she deliberately didn’t look at his face. They were both resting against different sides of the bear like it was a wall between them.

"You’re welcome. It turns out the White Hall base had a self-destruct sequence that automatically detonated the entire facility once everyone inside died," Koya explained.

Hakai smiled slightly to herself.

It was exactly as she’d expected and anticipated. If she couldn’t give Kubo credit for combat skills, she absolutely had to acknowledge his tactical intelligence and paranoia.

She’d actually implemented her own similar systems throughout every Order member and base except for Koya’s personal safety obviously, but if anyone ever attempted to spill Order secrets under interrogation, or if the Order was ever compromised and members were captured in mass, they would all automatically die and her bases would erupt with the nuclear materials she kept stored beneath them in reinforced vaults.

They would never implicate her or reveal organizational secrets.

"I see... did you manage to secure the important items?" Hakai asked while turning to look at his beautiful face properly. "You can keep anything else you looted from the treasury... I only want the Uzumaki Chains specifically."

"Right," Koya said while the ring on his finger glowed with stored mana. It was their wedding ring, and it also functioned as a high-capacity storage ring.

"It’s here... one of the chains is for you after all, as promised."

He released the item from storage and the chain came clattering to the floor with a metallic sound. It was slightly pink-tinted and really long... honestly it was easily fifteen meters when fully extended.

Once it landed, Hakai controlled a bit of Darkness energy to bring it floating over to her hand.

’She can use Darkness Manifestation so effortlessly and with such precision,’ Koya thought with a touch of envy as she caught the chains smoothly.

For him, it still took significantly more mana to use her affinity properly, and he wasted a lot of darkness energy on inefficient manifestations.

’I seriously need to learn that kind of fine control,’ he thought. ’And I guess I’ll probably get a higher Blood Affinity after sleeping with Victoria tonight since she’s a vampire.’

Hakai suddenly blurred off the bed with speed and was standing directly in front of him in an instant, laughing as she shot the chain forward.

It wrapped around him from both sides, binding his arms to his torso then it began glowing with purple energy.

"Very good... now I want you to go downstairs immediately and tell Victoria that you’d rather spend time with your real wife," Hakai said with a somewhat manic grin. "We technically drew in our spar earlier, but she won the rock-paper-scissors. So I want you to fuck me again tonight. Go tell her you want to be with me, not her."

Koya blinked calmly.

Unlike when the Red Crest had used both chains together, his Thought Aegis skill was barely reacting to this single-chain compulsion.

The mental pressure was there but easily resistible.

If he wasn’t completely mistaken, he could actually see a distinctly jealous expression on Hakai’s normally composed face. Somehow he wasn’t even offended by the attempted mind control. It was almost... cute?

There was an awkward amount of silence as Koya just sat there, completely unaffected by her antics. Hakai let go of the chains with a defeated sigh.

"You broke through the compulsion, didn’t you?" she asked with resignation.

"Yep," Koya replied simply.

She blushed before quickly returning to her bed and flopping down.

"Well, thank you for the mission completion, whatever..." She pulled the covers up slightly to hide her embarrassed face. "Just get out of my room now."

"Sure thing. Have a goodnight, babe." Koya said while walking to the door.

He shut it behind him.

Hakai felt her heart fall slightly with disappointment, but she pushed the oversized teddy bear to the side, revealing the mission documents and organizational paperwork hidden beneath it.

"Now... how do I properly sort all of these out?" she muttered to herself.

"Oh, right—"

The door opened back up and Koya poked his head in.

Hakai tried desperately to hide the confidential papers and mostly succeeded in shoving them under pillows.

"I wanted to ask... do you have a reliable contact for selling gold?" Koya asked. "I’ve accumulated a whole lot of it, and my Order blade broke during the fight. If I could get another one issued, that would be amazing."

He really liked those Order-issued blades... they were sleek and perfectly balanced. They just needed to be significantly stronger and more durable.

"Fine, I’ll send you the contact information tomorrow," Hakai said while still not looking at him. "Just go already."

Koya closed the door once again.

...

Victoria took a deep breath as Koya entered her bedroom. She could finally see him properly, and she was genuinely happy to spend this time together. The fact that he would be sleeping in her room tonight made her heart race.

He looked really handsome right now in the soft bedroom lighting.

"Hey, honey," Koya said warmly as he looked at her.

Victoria blushed deeply and drew the covers up against her face to hide her expression.

She was feeling incredibly shy right now.

Hakai had told her some details about what happened during their "mating" which was how beasts referred to it.

Humans called it sex while Vampires themselves referred to it more elegantly as "the act of procreation," but that formal terminology didn’t make her any less nervous and flustered.

Her sister had said it was incredibly painful during her first time too so it made her really nervous.

Koya stood in front of the clothes rack and slowly began taking off his shirt, revealing his muscular torso underneath.

His body was significantly more defined than before... the bloodline awakening had done wonders for his physical development. It gave him more defined abs and broader shoulders, he might have even grown a bit taller.

He slowly removed his trousers and revealed the noticeable bulge against his underwear, even though he was still soft then he hung his clothes neatly on the rack.

He’d taken a quick shower at a public bathhouse after the mission, so he didn’t smell like ash or blood or anything unpleasant, after that Koya climbed onto the bed with her, the mattress dipping slightly under his weight.

"Are you ready...?"

She nodded meekly and Koya slowly lowered the covers that Victoria was hiding behind, revealing that she’d worn an incredibly skimpy nightdress underneath... it was a black lace that left very little to the imagination.

His breath caught slightly.

He began kissing her, using the experience and technique he’d learned from Hakai the previous night.

The kiss started with gentle lip-to-lip contact, then gradually introduced tongue when she seemed comfortable and grew sloppy until saliva started dripping from underneath her chin.

Victoria felt slightly overwhelmed by the intensity and he noticed her tension before slowing down, letting her gradually get used to the sensations and rhythm of his kissing before proceeding further.

It wasn’t before long that the Vampire was tongue-wrestling with him as well and groaning into his mouth as he took a hold of her hips.

Koya brought his face back and gave her a small kiss on her forehead.

"Cute."

It made her blush and then his hands moved to the hem of her nightdress and slowly began lifting it up and over her head.

"You’re absolutely beautiful," he said genuinely while taking in her curves and pale skin... She was perfect.

Victoria smiled, though her hands trembled slightly. "Do I... do I really look beautiful to you?"

"Yes," Koya replied without hesitation. "Genuinely gorgeous."

He reached behind her and unhooked her bra with ease. It came off so smoothly that it made Koya briefly think that Hakai’s bra yesterday had been deliberately faulty... like she’d specifically wanted him to rip it off at that particular moment.

Nevertheless, he focused on Victoria completely. He leaned down and looked at her breasts, they were round though they weren’t as big as Hakai’s oversized breasts... they were amazing and her pink nipples stood out on her pale skin.

He slowly took her left nipple into his mouth and Victoria gasped at the sensation, it was an unfamiliar one and it made her back arch slightly.

"H-honey... I’m sensti~"

Her words cut off as Koya used his fingers to work on her right breast, pinching her nipple and rubbing it slowly while taking a few grabs at her wonderful flesh and it made her moan even louder.

If it wasn’t for the fact that the rooms were sound-proof, her moans could have gone all over the mansion, after a few minutes, he switched to her right breast, giving it the same attention that he did to her left breast while pinching the one that he had just been working on.

Victoria moaned louder and then he activated Speed Blitz on just his tongue as he pressed both breasts together and worked on them simultaneously with the increased speed.

"W~ Why are you so~ so~ so~ fasssss~"

She stopped trying to talk, her breasts were incredibly sensitive due to the Blood contract, Intimate gestures between them were more sensitive than usual so right now, she couldn’t form a coherent word enough for this.

All she knew was that something was building up...

"Hubby... I think~ I think I’m going to~" She bit her lip down and tried to stop it... she didn’t want to pee here.

However it couldn’t be stopped. She let out a loud moan and her face flushed as a fresh spray of wetness erupted from underneath and stained her panties completely and the bed below.

"Haah~ Haah~"

"You look satisfied." Koya commented as he looked at her eyes while bringing his face back and she tried to avert her face.

"I peed on the bed... How do I look the other girls in the face?" She asked while trying to cover it up, she felt like crying.

"Come on, that’s not pee." He said while moving his hand down her smooth stomach, despite her being this strong, she didn’t have a six-pack. "I’ll make you feel amazing Tori."

As he was going down, her fears kicked in... She knew she was confident about wanting him, her body wanted him down there and she did too, she didn’t want her husband to be off finishing by himself in the tub, she wanted to help him however her fears didn’t allow her.

"H-hubby..." She suddenly started crying making Koya blink, he was really confused as to why she was behaving like this. "I don’t... I don’t think I’m ready..."

Victoria waited for him to get angry... however it never came.

"Okay."