The Hentai Protagonist System

“What about this? Just give it a chance, will you?” asked Rina.

 

“No” I said.

 

“Come on, pleeease. Just give it a chance! You can’t really say you won’t like it unless you try, right?” pleaded Rina, for what it felt like the thousandth time this day.

 

“I know my tastes enough to know that it will be only a waste of time and money” I said, starting to feel exhausted from having this discussion again.

 

“Pleeeease” begged Rina, holding her hands together and looking at me with puppy dog eyes.

 

...honestly, if it wasn’t for what she was asking right now, that might have been enough to agree with anything.

 

“...only if you try that volume over there” I said, pointing to a shelf filled with manga.

 

In response to my request, she simply pouted, with a tinge of red on her cheeks as well.

 

“I-I can’t do that. I-it’s too embarrassing to j-just go over there right now, so in the open” said Rina, completely refusing to even consider the idea.

 

“And now you know how I feel” I said, finishing this argument.

 

“Mrnnn” Rina continued to pout, her cheeks swelling a little bit.

 

We were currently inside a manga cafe, browsing for titles that we might find interesting to read.

 

We were currently on another date.

 

It’s been a week ever since Anna agreed to be my girlfriend, and therefore a member of my harem and the relationship that we developed was going along well, although not as much as I’d hoped.

 

I didn’t stop to visit Yuria at night, something obvious but that needed to be said, but I also found spare time to enjoy a little frisky time with Anna as well. We couldn’t just have sex immediately, thanks to that the promise I did with Yuria, but that didn’t mean we couldn’t do... other things as well.

 

As for her request to watch me and Yuria while in the room, I asked to put it on hold for a while.

 

Don’t get me wrong, I obviously wanted that, but to get my head to truly accept that was an entirely different matter. It was obvious that at some point I would have to find a way to get used to the idea, since I wanted a threesome as soon as possible, but that didn’t mean it was easy to really do it.

 

Anyway, that was a problem for another day. Right now I’m enjoying my time with Rina.

 

“Come on, just once and I promise to never bother you with this again. Oh, how about this one?! One of my friends said that it was really really good” said Rina, with her eyes sparkling and practically shoving that volume on my face.

 

To her request, and after a single glance on the cover, I simply looked at her with utter indifference.

 

“Rina, no means no” I said, not even bothering to argue anymore.

 

Now, as for what she was trying to make me read, it’s something that it’s better to be described a little bit. On the cover of the volume, she was trying to pressure me to read was two ikemen, lightly dressed, and in a rather provocative pose.

 

It didn’t need a genius to figure out what is the main genre of that manga.

 

“Mou, you really are stubborn” said Rina, getting annoyed at my constant rejection.

 

Let me clarify one thing, I don’t think that Rina was really a fan of that genre. She never showed any interest in those scenarios whatsoever and never seemed to be particularly interested when two men were showing behavior that might make a few of the more enthusiastic of that genre go wild in fantasies. I think she just likes the idea of a guy reading that genre openly, and she was trying to make that scene happen with me for some reason.

 

Honestly, it was tiring having to deal with that side of her. It is the only part of her personality that I found to be a disappointment.

 

“Fine, let’s just get another and be done with this” she said, humphing and storming away from me.

 

I sighed in resignation and followed, knowing that trying to talk with her right now wouldn’t do any good.

 

‘I’ll just let her read a little bit and she’ll calm down’

 

There were very few things that reading manga wouldn’t be enough to calm Rina, and this little scuffle wasn’t one of them.

 

To be honest, I was actually trying my best to spend as much time as possible with Rina on this date. Not only because I enjoyed spending time with her, but because I wanted to go home at a specific time. Mom and Anna would go out for some time at the beginning of the night, so I was trying to get as much time with Rina in the open as possible so we would arrive home when they were out.

 

Pissing her off enough to end the date wouldn’t help me one bit.

 

We selected a few volumes that caught our interest and went to our private booth. Thanks to the allowance that father give to us, which wasn’t big but also wasn’t small, we manage to save enough to reserve a private booth for the day.

 

We could spend as much time reading manga as we wanted. We just end up losing a little on the money for snacks, but both of us tended to forget to eat when too immersed in a story that we really liked.

 

We were about to reach our booth when Rina turned the last corner and...

 

“Uhp...”

 

“Aghh...”

 

...crashed with someone.

 

I obviously immediately went to help Rina, to which she simply nodded as thanks, and then I looked back at the person she crashed with.

 

She was a girl around the same age as us, with a figure that was similar to Anna and Rina, more developed than most girls her age. She was squeezing her eyes in pain while massaging one of her legs. She had long brown her tidy in a ponytail, which gave a sort of athletic air around her.

 

‘I don’t remember ever seeing her here’

 

I won’t say that I know everyone that comes to this manga cafe, but I’ve been here enough to recognize the faces of the usual clients.

 

She was new here.

 

I approached and extended my hand.

 

“Are you alright?” I asked, trying to sound as polite as possible.

 

At my words she immediately glared at me, looking like she wanted to pierce a hole in my head.

 

It appeared like she was itching for a fight.

 

‘...there’s always a new problem, isn’t there?’