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“Hey, Kim…”

Kim saw the look of apprehension on Vivian’s face as the heiress approached her, and she immediately knew that this probably wasn’t going to be something she wanted to hear.

“…What?” She asked cautiously, looking at the older girl. “Something to do with Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin and her clothing?”

The assassin perked up, and glanced at the two women.

Vivian shook her head slowly. “It, uh… it’s not about that,” she said. “I wanted to talk to you, actually, Kim, about my checklist… and about how I can help you out.”

Kim raised her eyebrow. “…Is now really the right time to talk about this?” She asked the other woman warily. She had a pretty good idea about how this was going to go, and she didn’t want to get involved in any frustrating problems.

But, when she saw the way Vivian reacted to her question, she immediately felt bad. “Hey, uh… I-I didn’t mean it like-”

“No, it’s fine,” Vivian said, shaking her head. Better to just take the hit to her pride and stop thinking about it… …But then she saw Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin still staring at her, and remembered what she was supposed to be doing here.

That’s right. Part of my checklist tells me that I’m supposed to be helping Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin learn to communicate with people properly and directly. Can I really attempt to do that if I can’t even communicate properly with Kim myself?

No, she couldn’t. So, she took a deep breath and faced Kim directly.

“…My checklist tells me that I have to help you out like this,” Vivian said, showing the other girl the exact text of her checklist.

• Enhance Kim’s breasts as much as she is comfortable with.

Kim immediately made a twisted face, and looked up into Vivian’s eyes. “…You’ve gotta be kidding me,” she said, shaking her head.

“Yeah, I figured you probably wouldn’t react well about it,” Vivian said, scratching her head sheepishly. “Sorry for, well… you know.”

“No, don’t apologize,” Kim said. She was starting to get really irritated by the fact that she had to keep telling the other woman that. Vivian kept falling all over herself to apologize for her actions, and while Kim could understand her feelings, it was grating at time.

“…I wanted to tell you honestly,” Vivian said directly to Kim. “I also figured that… you would probably react better if I told you how I was feeling about this whole thing.”

Kim nodded. She did appreciate Vivian’s openness, and she also noticed that Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin was listening intently.

Open and honest communication. Vivian and Kim were on the same page about helping Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin with that, at least.

…But, that didn’t mean she wanted to have her boobs made bigger. “Do you think I want to get my breasts expanded again?” Kim asked, looking down at her lingerie-clad chest. “Remember how that went last round?”

Her expanded breasts had been very unwieldy.

“Things were different then,” Vivian pointed out. She held up her hands. “…But, hey, I’m not going to argue with you,” she assured the other woman. “If you don’t want your breasts to be expanded, that’s totally fine! It means that my checklist is finished! It says to expand it as much as you’re comfortable with, and if you’re not comfortable with bigger boobs, problem solved!”

With that dealt with, Vivian was happy to move on and approach Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin again, to help her out instead.

But Kim was mulling over some difficult situations. She looked uneasily at Vivian, and then down at her own breasts.

She thought back to the hot spring and how much fun she’d had teasing Nick the way she did- the way she’d rubbed her breasts against him, with Dawn. Nick had clearly been enjoying himself- how much more enjoyment would he have gotten with bigger breasts?

…Kim already knew the answer to that question. And she also knew that Vivian would have been able to get a decent return on her investment if she’d already put some money into Kim’s boobs earlier in the round.

“…Okay,” she said, “I’ve given it some thought.”

“Eh?” Vivian’s eyes widened in surprise. “What do you mean?”

Kim shrugged. “Look, I don’t really care one way or another about my boobs being bigger, that’s never mattered to me.”

Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin widened her eyes and covered her mouth.

Kim leered at the surprised expression on her face. “Come on, it doesn’t,” she protested, shaking her head.

The playful assassin shrugged her shoulders and pinched her lips together in a mocking grin that made Kim roll her eyes.

“Well, uh… …Wow,” Vivian said, scratching her cheek. She wasn’t sure what to make of this. “Sure, I’ll help you out!” She said, even though she knew that Kim was really the one helping her out. Or maybe it was a mutual helping out, she couldn’t say for sure.

Regardless, she was happy.

“So, how big do you want to make ‘em?” Vivian rubbed her hands together gleefully.

Kim sighed. “Can you not look at me like you’re ready to devour a delicious steak?” She asked the heiress.

“Sorry.”

Kim had a lot to think about. She tapped her chin thoughtfully, and glanced at her breasts again. They were a little bit smaller than Vivian’s- although, depending on the outfit, one could say they were about the same size.

“…I don’t want them that big,” Kim said. “Just a little bit bigger, that should be a nice boost. Maybe up a cup size or something.”

Vivian nodded. “Right, so… how many Bonus Points would that be.”

“I don’t know!” Kim replied. “It’s your transformation, shouldn’t you know about that?”

Probably.

“How about something like, like 200 BP?” Vivian suggested.

“Will that be enough?” Kim wasn’t so sure. “How about we go for 500 BP to be safe? That seems reasonable.”

It would be better than last time, when Vivian plumped them up with a massive investment that had made her clothes practically burst open as a “distraction” for her and Dakota.

She would rather not deal with that again.

“500 BP?” Vivian nodded. “Sure thing, if you’re okay with that, I’m glad to help you out!”

She called up her screen, and made her investment.

Vivian: 6300 BP – 500 BP = 5800 BP

Kim bit her lip. She felt a tingling sensation in her breasts and looked down to see them slowly start to expand. They pushed out against her brassiere, which started to pinch and get a little tight on her growing body. She gasped in surprise.

The tomboy grimaced, immediately realizing what the problem was. “Oh, man,” she groaned, shaking her head. “I forgot about this.”

She’d been so in her own head that it hadn’t even occurred to her to take her bra off first, and now she was dealing with a bit of a problem.

Kim reached behind her and unfastened her bra just as her breasts stopped growing. It popped free and fell to the floor, letting her chest breathe freely. She took a deep breath and exhaled, stretching her arms over her head.

“There we go,” she murmured. “That feels much better, oh yeah…”

It was a freeing feeling, to not have to deal with the pinch of her bra on her enhanced tits.

“Very nice,” Vivian said, giving Kim an appreciative whistle. The tomboy rolled her eyes. She figured that Vivian was just giving her a hard time.

But on the off chance she wasn’t… “…Thanks, I guess,” Kim said, looking down at her boobs. She reached down and gave them a little heft on the underside with her hands. They were weightier, too, not so inconvenient that they would cause her problems, but noticeable.

She glanced over at Vivian, and then at Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin, who was currently still in her underwear. Kim was bigger than both of them, now, substantially bigger. Not big enough to be unwieldy, but there was no question between the three of them who had the largest chest at this point, thanks to Vivian.

Kim felt a stab of triumphant pride when she looked at the heiress, then quickly pushed those competitive feelings aside. Now was definitely not the time, and this was definitely not the person she wanted to be competing with.

Not that she wanted to compete at all, with anybody, but, well…

…

“Satisfied?” Vivian asked with a playful smile on her lips. Unlike Kim, who was trying not to be competitive, Vivian didn’t feel any need to compare herself to the other girl. She had learned a long time ago to be comfortable with her own body.

The only person who wasn’t comfortable right now was Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin. She puffed up her cheeks and looked enviously at Kim, staring at her enhanced boobs with a smoldering jealousy.

Kim felt a shiver down her spine. Why was her friend giving her a look like…?

…

Oh.

Yeah, she understood.

“Hold on,” Kim said before the assassin could do anything reckless. “I know what you’re thinking, and pause for a second, okay?”

Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin raised her eyebrow, while Vivian just looked confused.

“Uh, what?” She asked, flicking her eyes between the two girls and wondering what Kim was talking about.

Kim sighed in exasperation. “She’s… uh… about to ask you to enhance her own breasts,” she explained to the heiress. “Isn’t that right?”

Vivian looked at Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin.

She was quite proud to see that the mute girl had no qualms about being upfront and honest about her feelings, and Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin nodded her head in happy confirmation of Kim’s accusations.

“…Haven’t we just spent like the last hour picking out clothes for you to try on, though?” Vivian asked the mute girl. “If you expand your breasts, then they won’t fit anymore.”

The assassin shrugged. Clearly, that didn’t matter to her.

“She knows that Nick has a fetish for making a girl’s breasts get bigger,” Kim said. “That’s why she doesn’t care. Because she knows that she’ll be able to catch his eye like that better than anything she might be wearing.”

Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin cheerfully bobbed her head up and down.

Vivian’s face turned red as she processed Kim’s explanation. She remembered back when she had gotten that massive increase to her breasts as a result of that bounty, and how Nick had reacted when he saw her body like that.

Yup. She could see where Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin was coming from.

Whether or not she should endorse that line of thinking, well…

She was less sure about that.

“Well, I mean…” Vivian mulled it over. With how sexually forward Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin tended to be, a sizable investment in her breasts could be quite lucrative indeed.

It was definitely something worth considering, anyway.

But, on the other hand, she had to think about the clothes that would all be rendered useless here, too… some of those outfits, Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin had picked out clearly just because she thought that Nick would want to see her in them.

…But the rest?

No, some of those she’d really liked.

“…Wait, don’t your breasts naturally grow a little bit every day, anyway?” Vivian realized, remembering that aspect of the assassin’s transformation. It was the reason that their breasts were about the same size now, even though the assassin’s were normally a little smaller than hers. “Do you really need ME to help you- …Oh, well, okay, then.”

Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin was nodding rapidly before Vivian could even get the words out. Evidently, the heiress didn’t know what she was talking about, because the other girl was determined.

And she did want to help. Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin was communicating directly with her, and making her desire clear- at least, as clear as she could without using her words, anyway.

What kind of person would Vivian be if she didn’t support the other girl, now that she’d finally made that decision? Not a very good friend, that was for sure.

“Look, we can give you clothes in all manner of sizes,” Kim pointed out. “…But I don’t know how helpful that’ll be.”

The idea of buying clothes for Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin had always seemed like a dubious one to Kim for exactly this reason. Because of how the assassin’s breast size fluctuated, it was difficult to tailor clothing to her that would still fit the next day. Especially when the other girl seemed to be gleefully embracing Nick’s desire for breast expansion.

…Kim herself had played around with that a little before, in Dream Alley. Which was why she’d been modest with Vivian just now.

But Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin was anything but modest- the mute girl wanted it all, without any arguments.

Honestly?

Kim wouldn’t be surprised if the other girl demanded Vivian invest her remaining 5800 BP all in her breasts, that was how determined she seemed to be.

“How about we start off small?” Vivian suggested. “Nothing too insane or anything. Just a modest enhancement of 800 BP, to round things off and get me down to an even 5000. Would that be alright with you?” She asked the other girl.

Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin mulled this idea over. Kim didn’t think she looked very convinced by the suggestion. But, to her surprise, the other girl nodded in agreement. Apparently, she was fine with going along with the idea.

That was a good sign.

“Great!” Vivian clapped. “I think that’ll be best for everyone. Now then…”

She got started, but before she could, she glanced at Kim’s naked chest, which the tomboy was just leaving hanging out (why bother putting a bra back on?) and then over at Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin, who was very much still wearing a bra.

“…How about we ditch the top, love?” Vivian asked with a cheeky smile.

Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin raised her eyebrows for a moment, and then, realizing what Vivian was suggesting, gladly complied. She stripped off her bra and let her small breasts come out, and then presented herself proudly to Vivian with her chest pushed out for the heiress to do her work.

Vivian was happy to help. She called up her screen again and gave Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin a modest increase. Nothing too scandalous.

Vivian: 5800 BP – 800 BP = 5000 BP

It was a nice increase. Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin’s breasts expanded outwards until they were at a nice, substantial size, a little bit bigger than Kim’s enhanced bust. It was enough to hold pleasantly in her hands, and still well within the range that she was comfortable with due to having achieved this size with her nanomachines in the past.

That fact actually left Vivian a little intrigued.

“So, I just gotta asked,” the heiress said, scratching the side of her head. “What do you think is gonna happen now, when she starts getting her nanomachines? Will they keep increasing along with her new size? Or is nothing going to change until she gets to this size naturally?”

Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin had finished putting on a new bra.

When she heard what the heiress said, she stood stiff as a board, and looked at Vivian in alarm.

Clearly, she didn’t like that thought.

“…Knowing this show?” Kim stroked her chin thoughtfully. “The producers will probably just have her breasts keep growing without any interference.”

Echo’s face flashed through her mind. Knowing how much the actual Mary seemed to fetishize breast expansion (whether she knew it or not) made the answer to that question seem pretty obvious, in hindsight.

“…Yeah, that’s definitely going to be the case,” Kim said, shaking her head and dispelling her vision of her twisted former friend.

Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin let out a silent sigh of relief. She turned back to the wall mirror and checked out her appearance again, to see how she looked in the lingerie.

“…Well, you know, now that that’s settled, we really should think about this stuff a little bit more, don’t you agree?” Vivian asked with a grin.

Kim looked at her, not quite sure what she was talking about. “Huh?”

“The clothes, I mean,” Vivian clarified. “We still have clothes shopping to do, don’t we, Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin? We have to get your new outfits picked out!”

Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin brightened, and nodded quickly. She seemed unlikely to be getting versions of the nurse costume, or Mary’s outfit, and Kim had made her (and Nick’s) feelings about the schoolgirl uniform quite clear.

Beyond that, though, it was anyone’s guess what the assassin might end up choosing for her clothes, especially if she was looking for something to enhance her new buxom frame.

Vivian just hoped that whatever she picked out, it wouldn’t be so tight that it couldn’t expand to support her breasts as they grew throughout the round. Or, even more daunting, if Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin came to her again and demanded another enhancement to her breasts.

If that happened, Vivian wasn’t sure she would be able to tell the other girl no.

Especially not when she saw how happy the mute girl was, and how she turned to Vivian with a cheerful smile on her face.

Yeah, Vivian was a bit of a sucker for a girl’s smile.

“…Well, you certainly made quite a selection,” Kim said, trying not to look too happy about how many things the girls had picked out. As expected, Vivian hadn’t bought any clothes for herself, but that was fine.

Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin had grabbed enough clothes for the both of them.

And she’d run up quite a bill in the process.

Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin: 9200 BP – 2600 BP = 6600 BP

Kim: 13500 BP + 1300 BP = 14800 BP

Vivian whistled when she saw the numbers go up. “Wow, Kim, you’re really raking it in,” she said, shaking her head. “I mean, I’m rich, but when it comes to Harem Hotel money, you’ve really got a nest egg for yourself, don’t you?”

Kim shrugged, and tried to downplay it as best she could. “It’s not that big of a deal,” she muttered, scratching her cheek. “I’ve just been doing my job, that’s all.”

“Yeah, but what are you planning to spend it all on, that’s what I want to know,” Vivian said. “You’re almost at 15000 BP! I bet you could get some really great stuff for that much!”

Kim knew she could. The question was, what did she even WANT to buy?