Chapter 3 rules

"The rules are for the attention of the harem members, the audience as well as our dear Master." began Nezoko as if to capture his audience's attention.

"For those who have been following our show for a long time, they will notice a few differences. First of all, to the delight of many and the regret of some, there will be no elimination this season. At least, no elimination is planned. If a member of the harem decides to leave the show of his own free will, we'll adapt," says Nezoko, without his words making any sense to the rest of us.

"Then for the classics, our 8 contestants here aim to win a total of at least 100 VPs to secure a place in the harem of our Master, William Hamon, at the end of the season", said Nezoko.

Okay, it was confirmed: this show really wanted to make his girls his harem. It was all nonsense. He didn't really know half of them.

"VPs can be earned by various means but mainly through major events taking place at the end of each round or through erotic actions with harem members including mainly the Master. Contestants start with 0 VP," says the hostess.

100 VP to recover. It would undoubtedly take days, if not weeks. How long could they keep them here?

"If a competitor goes negative on her VP total, she will receive a punishment that will increase from day to day until she goes positive again," says Nezoko.

Strictly speaking, since the contestants started at zero, they were all in the negative. This was the thought that crossed William's mind, but he decided it was better to keep it to himself.

"Next we come to one of the special features of this season. Each round will be associated with a specific theme. This theme will change at the end of each round, which ends after the round's major event. Story themes. In other words, the theme can be any work, saga, book series, film or anime you can imagine. One round's theme might be Marvel, while the next will be Tolkien and the next will be Dragon Ball. Frankly, the themes haven't yet been chosen, so the audience can largely influence which themes they'd like to see implemented. It's possible to make several branches for the choice of different themes," says Nezoko.

William didn't understand a word of it, but he thought that this part of the explanation wasn't really intended for them, but more for the audience.

"Then we come to the transformation part. Because yes, when I said that you don't come out of Harem Hotel unchanged, I meant it both figuratively and literally. Our dear participants will receive one transformation per day from the 3 proposed to the audience at the beginning of each day, so that at the end of a round they will have a total of 8 transformations", says Nezoko.

8 transformations! But what did she mean by that and how big were these transformations?

"I see some of them getting excited in the audience, so I'm going to calm their ardor right now. The harem members will receive 8 transformations per round, but at the end of the week they'll also be able to withdraw transformations according to their rankings in the major event. The winner of the event will even be able to withdraw up to 8 transformations," said Nezoko.

Okay, so if he understood correctly, they were going to be transformed and then retransformed in succession.

"As for the motifs of his transformations, they will be the characters of the works chosen. Taking the previous example, if the theme of the round is Dragon Ball, then the harem members' transformation motifs could be Goku, Vegeta, Bulma, etc. This means that the work chosen must have at least 27 significant characters, preferably quite different from each other," says Nezoko.

So clearly, if William had been told he could get Goku's powers one day, he wouldn't have believed it, but here, despite the circumstances, he couldn't help but be excited at the prospect.

_"Once again the audience is free to propose reasons for transformations for each participant. But let's move on to the explanations. Each night, one of the harem contestants will be obliged to sleep with the master; the others are of course invited to join them, but it's not compulsory at the moment." _said the hostess.

Obviously the prospect of sleeping in the same bed as a member of the opposite sex was exciting, but William had no idea what would happen if more than one of them showed up.

"Next we come to BP, BP or Bonus Points being the currency used in this show. You can earn them in a variety of ways, and you all start with 5 BP. Your BPs can be used to buy transformations for yourself, to buy transformation votes for your comrades, to buy items, or even to remove transformations, although the latter is extremely expensive. Any questions?" asked Nezoko.

Obviously, Iris raised her hand. Was that a journalist's reflex or a student's reflex ? Probably both.

"None. Wonderful. Now I can announce the theme of the round and move on to the transformations," said Nezoko, deliberately ignoring the young woman who raised her hand with more enthusiasm than William had ever seen among his students.

"The theme of the first round will be..."