The Next Day

I woke up the next morning on the lap of a still naked Maria who looked at me with a smile.

“Sorry. Guess I didn’t know my limit,” I apologized embarrassed.

Maria giggled.

“As long as you’re okay, that’s what matters.”

I almost felt like crying in such an embarrassing situation. Being unable to handle just three girls when I aimed to have a harem!

Talk about lame.

But that didn’t matter right now. What was important was that it was time to focus on executing the plan to bring Katarina into the harem.

With that, I cleared my head and prepared for the coming task.

After attempting a few experiments, I knew my plan was foolproof. With the day finally upon us, it was up to the other girls to bring Katarina to the location where I’ll make her fall for me.

If anyone’s wondering why I don’t just walk up and straight up make her mine, it’s because she’s known to be extremely dense and could easily twist my words around.

That’s why I had this whole thing planned. If you wanna win over a dense protagonist, do something they can’t ignore.

As I stood behind a building, the girls led Katarina out towards a pier.

“Whoa! It’s so pretty!”

Katarina seemed amazed by the site. But things were about to get interesting.

I looked at the wooden bridge Katarina was standing on.

“It’s normal for the wood on that bridge near me to collapse with only one spot still standing, that being where Katarina is.”

At that moment, the rest of the girls moved off the bridge without Katarina noticing, and I used normality to move everyone else off the bridge.

Suddenly Katarina was shocked by the shaking of the bridge and everything collapsed underneath her.

“Whoa!”

Before long, she was standing on a single wooden pole that was too far away for anyone to reach.

I muttered another sentence under my breath before leaping into action.

The girls managed to act as if they were confused by what happened and Katarina seemed generally confused by the situation.

Moving at that moment, I jumped into the air and scooped up the spot Katarina was on and lifted into my arms.

“Don’t worry, miss! I’ve got you!”

Keeping her close to my chest, I jumped off the wood just before it collapsed and landed safely on a shore nearby.

“You okay miss?”

I looked down to see Katarina relaxing closely in my arms before suddenly realizing where she was and she blushed a bright red.

“Oh! Sorry! I just thought Uh…that your chest was comfortable and Uh,,,arg what am I saying!?”

I chuckled lightly at her words.

“Well nice to meet you. My names Y/N. What’s yours?”

Katarina stopped her stuttering for a moment as she nervously introduced herself.”

“M…my name is…is Katarina Claes.”

I bowed to her.

“Greeting Miss Claes. I’m a new person in town who will be relaxing around the place known as the magic academy. If you ever need me for anything, just let me know.”

She jumped a little when I mentioned the magic academy since that is currently the place she’s learning at and just tried her best to keep her composure.

With that, I went on my merry way with her still standing in awe before her friends came to pick her up.

I thought back to what I said before I went out to help her, “As of right now, isn’t it normal for any girl saved from danger to fall in love with the first man who saved them on the spot?”

After realizing I’ve been just saying stuff is normal instead of asking the question of if it was normal, I began to test things out a bit more. That’s when I stumbled on the term “as of right now.”

Normally, my powers allow me to alter people's perception of what is normal and what isn’t.

But one drawback is that because people think it’s normal, it causes the word to ripple through time and make it so that it was always normal.

But adding “as of right now” changes it so that it only started right then and there.

The reason I needed this test was because there were plenty of people in Katarina’s life before me who had saved her from danger on multiple occasions. So by adding this rule in now, I’ve overwritten any other possibilities other than my own.

And now, all I have to do is ask her to become mine.

Even when you're dense, when you're in love, you immediately become a lot more perverted.

With that, my plan was now halfway complete.