This is a new day, everything bursting with hope

Nick felt much better when he woke up that morning. For a moment, he thought that everything that had happened with Dakota had been one long dream. But as the memories crystallized in his mind, he realized that it was too vivid to be a dream.

He sighed. After finally getting the chance to have a real conversation with Dakota again, he’d hoped to reach her. But she was as stubborn as always.

“Mm… ehehehe…”

Nick glanced down at Rose, who was curled up beside him with a big grin on her face. Her hair had grown even longer it seemed.

Rose: 11400 BP + 500 BP = 11900 BP

Rose: 11900 BP + 300 BP = 12200 BP

She must have crossed off a few more bounties last night, he thought, noting that her hair now reached past her shoulders. He also realized she’d be getting more BP later in the afternoon, once she hit the 24-hour threshold for copying Morgana’s clothing style.

Well, the important part was that she looked pretty pleased about how last night went. Nick knew he’d gone a little overboard, but he was glad that everyone seemed to have a good time. As for his other partner…

He turned to the other side of the bed, where Dawn was sleeping serenely. At some point last night she must have had the sense to remove her glasses before falling asleep, because they were resting beside her on the nightstand.

Nick was relieved to see she was smiling, too. He stretched his arms over his head and let out a yawn, trying to figure out how to get out of bed without waking up either woman. After the exhausting night last night, he wanted to give them as much time to rest and relax as he could.

“Nick, we don’t have to go all the way to the Banquet Hall you know,” Rose protested as they exited the elevator. “I could have prepared you something in the Master’s Suite!”

“After last night, I want to give Mary some time to rest,” Nick calmly explained.

“And he probably doesn’t want any of his semen spread into the food again,” Dawn noted, adjusting her glasses. “…I mean, not that I had an issue with that, to be clear.” Her cheeks reddened.

The trio had stopped off in the lounge area connecting the girls’ rooms. Although Rose had been fine with heading right off to the Banquet Hall, Dawn needed to make a stop first.

“I have to get changed,” she said, gesturing to her rumpled clothes. It was a nice outfit, but after how much sweat she’d shed yesterday, it seriously needed a deep cleaning. “You guys aren’t going to just ditch me, right?” She asked suspiciously.

Rose smiled innocently at her. “Whaaaat? Why would we ever do that?” She asked, batting her eyelashes.

Dawn squinted her eyes into a glare. “…Right. Well, unlike you, I get to wear clean clothes, so I’m gonna.”

“And fix your hair,” Rose called after her. “It looked quite nice yesterday, now it’s all tangled up and messy.”

“Come on, Rose, play nice,” Nick said. “The night’s over, you don’t have to keep being so competitive with her.”

Of course, Nick knew that was a futile request. For Rose, competing with other women was as natural as breathing; the blonde didn’t seem to have it in her to “play nice” with anyone, not really.

She flashed him a smirk, and shook her head, proving his point. “You’re wrong, Nick,” she said firmly. “Now isn’t the time to play nice with others. I’m almost there, you see. I’m so close. You think I’m going to give up now?”

“Huh? So close to what?” Nick asked, confused.

Rose raised her hand and showed him. The number “98” was glowing on the back of her palm.

Nick gasped. “Rose-! That… I completely forgot…”

“I have 98 VP, the highest out of anyone,” Rose pointed out. Her lips formed a thin, firm line. “I’m only 2 VP away from getting to 100. Before, that would have been enough to win the whole thing. But right now, it’s only halfway there.”

She shook her head. “I could have done it last night, you know,” she said quietly. “If I got pregnant, I mean.”

Nick winced. Last night had been a blur by the end. He’d been so drunk on the pleasure Rose and Dawn were providing him he’d just done as he liked. But one thing that stuck out vividly in his mind was Rose goading him about the possibility of knocking them both up, which had brought him back down to reality.

If she hadn’t said anything, he might have ended up doing something he would be regretting right now.

Rose noticed the concern on her face, and frowned.

“Nick, whatever you’re thinking, just know you made the right choice,” she said, placing her hand over her heart. “I’m not ready for that yet. In the heat of the moment, yes, I couldn’t think of anything better, but I was blinded by pleasure, and I wanted to please you. So even if I lost control for a second there, don’t think that you denied me something I wanted. Last night was perfect.”

Nick was relieved to hear that. It wasn’t often, but every once in a while Rose knew just the right thing to say to him.

“Almost perfect, anyway. If I’d won the competition, now THAT would have been perfect.”

…And more often than not, she would ruin it. At least this time it seemed like she was doing it on purpose, judging by the coy wink she gave him.

Nick sighed and rolled his eyes. “Well, Rose, considering how badly you seem to want this, I’m willing to oblige. If you have a suggestion for what can get you those last couple of VP, then I’d like to help. As long as it’s before breakfast.”

He didn’t know if Dani was planning anything for today. Probably not, but he hadn’t really had a chance to coordinate with her. That was another reason he wanted to go down to the Banquet Hall early, because Dani usually got breakfast pretty early and he wanted to catch her.

Of course, they were spending a lot of time here, too…

“Well, that’s the thing,” Rose tittered, scratching her cheek. “I’m having a bit of trouble coming up with anything else, if I’m being honest…”

Nick nodded understandingly. There was a reason Rose had the highest VP out of everyone, and it was because she’d worked the hardest for it. Out of all the girls in his harem, he had probably done the most varied sexual acts with Rose out of everyone.

So it made sense that she was running out of ideas for how she could maintain her lead, and get those last few points over the line.

“Maybe I can help with that.”

Rose jumped. She whirled around to see Dawn, freshly dressed and hair brushed straight, holding her hands on her hips.

“D-Dawn! Wow, that was… fast,” Rose said, forcing a smile to her lips.

Dawn adjusted her glasses. “I had a change of clothes already prepared yesterday,” she informed the other girl. “It was the responsible thing to do, you see.”

Rose nodded. “Oh, right, makes sense. You were expecting to get all hot and sweaty on the date last night, so of course you’d prepare for the morning.”

Dawn blushed and scowled at the other girl, but she didn’t deny it.

“…So what was that you were saying about wanting to help?” Nick asked, trying to redirect the conversation back to a subject where they could all get along.

Dawn nodded again. “Right, as I was saying-”

Before Dawn could finish her sentence, the swift sound of footsteps plodding over carpet interrupted her. Nick turned just in time to see Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin tackle him into a big warm hug.

“H-hey!” Nick cried out as she knocked him down onto the couch. He barely noticed the skintight pink top and frilly white skirt adorning the dark-haired girl’s frame, too focused on her arms that were almost crushing his ribs.

Dawn sighed in frustration while Rose tried to keep her cool.

“Sounds like someone’s eager to see you,” the actress said dryly. “Dawn must have been preparing you for a surprise, eh?”

Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin nodded cheerfully.

“No!” Dawn said, scowling. “I thought she was asleep! I was really quiet when I was getting dressed, certainly I didn’t make more noise than the game machines!”

Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin smirked and rolled her eyes. As if it mattered how quiet Dawn was.

“I’d say that she wouldn’t be a very good assassin if someone could sneak up on her in her sleep,” Rose pointed out, earning her a nod of confirmation from the assassin.

Dawn sighed again. “Whatever.”

“Hey, uh, it’s good to see you, too,” Nick said, giving the clingy girl an awkward hug back. “But could you let me go, please? I’m still a little worn out from last night.”

Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin made a disappointed face, but she let him go and got off the couch.

Rose took the opportunity to glance at the other girl’s hand. The number “95” was glowing over it.

That’s right, she started off with a ton of VP, and she’s been doing a lot with Nick. She’s the closest one to beating me right now. Rose put her game face on. But I’m not gonna let her get an edge over me that easily, no ma’am!

“So Nick, about what we were talking about before,” Rose cooed sweetly, pressing her fingers together. “Do you think maybe you could help me out a bit…?”

“I already said I was going to,” Nick assured her, standing up.

“Right, but you don’t know what you’re missing, right, Rose?” Dawn jumped back into the conversation. “Leave it to me, I can handle this.”

She picked up a notepad and a pen from one of the tables and began scribbling on it. Rose raised her eyebrow curiously.

“Dawn…?”

“Just let her be,” Nick advised the other woman. “Dawn’s at her most relaxed when she’s making notes.”

“Ah.”

Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin let out a silent scoff and rolled her eyes. She grabbed another notepad and pen and began to take notes herself!

…Well, maybe you could call them that. It was a series of illegible scribbles that maybe resembled letters if you squinted. But she was so proud when she showed Nick that he didn’t have the heart to tell her that he couldn’t read a word of it.

“Look at how hard you tried!” He said instead, smiling like a parent whose child had just smeared their fingerpaints all over the paper in a bizarre swirl.

Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin grinned from ear to ear, just happy to be praised.

Dawn cleared her throat loudly.

“Okay, I’m done,” she said, tearing off the paper and dropping it on the table in front of them. “If you take a look, these are all the sexual acts Rose has done with Nick since coming onto the show. It’s quite thorough, I assure you.”

Rose:

Kiss

Touch Penis

Handjob

Blowjob

Swallow Cum

Fully Naked

Touch Boobs (Nick)

Hug

Touch Boobs (Rose)

Sex

Boobjob

Facial

Threesome

Anal

Masturbate

Hotdogging

Rose’s jaw dropped. She snatched the list up and turned bright red. “That-! How did you know that we did anal-?!” She had been trying to keep that a secret!

“An educated guess going by your hair length, and your bounty sheet last round, along with the fact that there are only so many actions worth 20 VP; 10 for the act and 10 for the first time bonus. It was the only option I could come up with,” Dawn said bluntly.

Rose fumed at her.

“Well… she’s not wrong, this is a very thorough list,” Nick admitted. “You even got it in order, too, wow.” He blushed when he saw the mention of his own boobs getting touched. The time he spent in a female body had been short, and not something he had any interest in revisiting any time soon.

He really hoped that whatever Dani had planned for today, it didn’t involve that.

“Anyway, take a look at my list of sexual acts,” Dawn moved on, scribbling down some more notes. The embarrassment of revealing all this came secondary to her interest in detailing things in order, one of her personal hobbies.

Dawn:

Kiss

Fully Naked

Facial

Blowjob

Swallow Cum

Princess Carry

Touch Penis

Handjob

Sex

Touch Boobs (Mine)

Twerk

Boobjob

Hotdogging

Hug

Threesome

“As you can see,” Dawn indicated, “I’ve almost done as much with Nick as you have, Rose.”

“Almost,” Rose emphasized. “As in, ‘not as much’.”

Dawn rolled her eyes. “By ONE thing. Whatever. The point is, I’ve also done some stuff with him that you haven’t. For example, Nick gave me a princess carry. I was the very first one, in fact. Maybe even the only one. And then there’s this one here as well, twerking.”

She blushed. “That was… yeah.”

Nick nodded, remembering that steamy encounter quite well.

Dawn cleared her throat. “Anyway, those are both worth 1 VP each. So if you can pull them both off, you’ll be at 100.”

Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin squinted at the lists, trying to make sense of them. But obviously she couldn’t. Even with Amelia’s lessons it would be quite some time before she was able to read such complicated words, much to her chagrin.

“Wait, but what we did last night, that should absolutely count towards twerking!” Rose protested. “I was shaking my butt for him and everything!”

Nick felt his face heat up as Rose broadcasted that to the entire lounge. He was sure a couple people probably heard that through their doors.

“Evidently not,” Dawn said, shrugging. “I suppose twerking requires a bit more shaking or something. I don’t know. I was otherwise occupied at the time.”

Rose smirked. “Yeah, you were completely wiped out from sucking Nick’s cock.”

Dawn glowered at her while Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin mutely laughed.

“Regardless, I don’t think twerking is the best thing to do right now,” Nick said. “At least, not right here. What about the princess carry one?” He turned to Rose. “If you want to do that, I can help.”

“It won’t be enough though,” Rose said with a sigh. “But… obviously yes?”

She started fussing with her hair. “I-I mean, if you want to, anyway… but I might be a little heavy, I mean…” Rose emphasized her large breasts. “I’m usually much lighter. Vivian gave me these, and they’re great, but don’t hold it against me if I’m too heavy for you, okay?”

“I think I’ll be fine,” Nick said.

Dawn smirked in amusement. “Rose isn’t wrong though, we’ll need to come up with something else if you’d rather not her twerking in the middle of the lounge.”

“Let’s save that for later, okay?” Nick suggested. He had done a lot of things with a lot of girls. Helping Rose figure one out wouldn’t be too hard. For now… “So… how do we do this? I mean…”

Dawn had been easy due to her small stature and her weight. But Rose was a full-figured bombshell. And Nick wasn’t exactly a body builder.

Plus, he wasn’t sure how much he wanted to tax his body after last night.

“Just think of it like a tumbling routine, I suppose,” Dawn suggested. “It’s simple physics. Start by crouching down, and put one arm behind Rose’s knees and the other behind the small of her back. Then hoist her up like you’re lifting her up on a chair.”

Nick looked at her. “…You learned this in gymnastics?”

Dawn’s cheeks turned a bright pink. “…Yes, gymnastics, exactly,” she huffed, her tail twitching behind her. She was a very poor liar. “Look, it doesn’t matter, okay? I know what I’m talking about. Just… just do it!”

Nick followed her directions as best he could, while Rose stood stiff as a board. She was trying very hard to keep the embarrassment off of her face and pretend like she didn’t have a care in the world.

It’s okay! Rose told herself. I didn’t eat breakfast yet. And I’m still pretty dehydrated from last night, too, so I’m definitely gonna be light!

If Nick said she was too heavy for him, she might just die of shame.

“Ah!” Rose let out a startled cry as Nick tucked her legs up and tried to lift her.

Their concerns were warranted. Rose may not have been heavy, but she was certainly harder to carry than Dawn, especially with her enhanced breasts jiggling around and slapping into Nick’s chest as he tried to get a good grip on her without outright groping.

Rose sucked in air and pulled in her waist to look as skinny as possible, as if that would actually help her get lighter, and tried to let Nick do his thing.

After a bit of effort he was able to get her into the proper position. He had to hold Rose’s body close to him to keep from dropping her, and Rose wrapped her arm around the back of his neck to balance herself as well.

She looked bashfully at him, and smiled.

“It’s… really comforting,” she admitted, nuzzling her cheek into his shoulder. “Being held so gently like this?”

Nick blushed. It was strange, after the hot and steamy sex they’d had last night, he was actually getting shy just giving the girl a princess carry.

“Is there any limit for how long I’ve gotta do this?” Nick questioned.

Dawn smirked. “Why? She too heavy for you?”

Rose gasped, enraged. “Dawn! How could you say that!”

“No, of course not,” Nick said. Sure, maybe his arms were getting a little tired and his legs were starting to wobble, but he could handle it.

Princess Carry! +1 VP

“Ah!” Rose gasped in joy. She kicked her legs as she moved her hand up to get a better look at her number rise to 99, unwittingly throwing off the delicate balance Nick had set.

“H-hey, Rose, stop squirming!” He gasped.

But his warning came far too late to do any good. He started to tip over, falling forward and unceremoniously dropping Rose on her butt. He managed to at least stagger over to the couch before losing his balance, at least, leading to her being deposited on the soft cushions instead of the hard ground.

In the meantime, he face-planted on the floor.

Rose’s face burned with shame. She didn’t want to take getting dropped like that personally, but it was embarrassing!

“F-for the record, I meant to let him put me down!” She asserted to an audience of unbelievers.

“Sorry,” Nick apologized sheepishly, standing up. “I guess I got a little off my game…”

Rose opened her mouth to assure him it was okay but Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin jumped between the two of them before she could. Her eyes were shining and she waved her hand eagerly, flashing an impish smile.

Dawn resisted the urge to burst out laughing. “Well, I guess we have another passenger who wants a ride,” she said, clenching her jaw tight. “Lucky you, Nick!”