Isekai by Moonlight

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I've come up with a little retcon, and April 1 is the appropriate day to post it. Return with us to the thrilling day that Robu-san met Usagi for the first time...

We chatted about the school and our experiences during our first day and a half. When I mentioned having the desk next to Mizuno-san's, Usagi smiled. "Oh, good! Ami-chan needs more friends."

Time to look puzzled for a brief moment. "'Ami-chan'? Oh, yes - one of our classmates mentioned that you knew Mizuno-san. I take it that you'd prefer I get to know her better."

Usagi nodded. "Yeah. She needs somebody to talk with who isn't me, or Rei."

"Rei?"

Usagi nodded again. "A friend of ours. She goes to a different school."

I noticed the time, and stood up. "Speaking of school, afternoon classes are going to start soon. It would look bad if Mako-chan and I were late for them on our second day."

The girls also stood up, and we all headed for the door back into the school. "And we mustn't make a bad impression during the first week," Makoto grumbled.

"I know. But if I'm going to be Mizuno-san's friend as well as yours, then I have to be a good boy, don't I? She has a reputation of being one of the best students in the school."

Makoto grinned. "Are you gathering a harem, Robu-san?"

"Are you volunteering, Mako-chan?" I countered with a grin of my own.

"Yeah, I'm volunteering."

I blinked in surprise. "Are you serious?"

"Very serious," Mako-chan replied. "And Usagi-san's my witness. You're a mysterious transfer student, so it's just proper that the girls you like fall for you."

"You're just as mysterious a transfer student as I am, Mako-chan."

"No, I'm Japanese and you're a foreigner. That makes you more mysterious than me."

Usagi-san grinned. "Oh, I get it! And that explains why I want to go home with Robu-san, too!"

"That's great! The two of us are the start of your harem, Robu-san!" Mako-chan announced.

Stupid genre conventions... but I had no choice. It wasn't as if I could ask Usagi-san about Tuxedo Kamen-san, after all; I wasn't supposed to know yet that he even existed. Besides, we had to get back to our classrooms.

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Mizuno-san and I were on class duty after school that day. We got to talking as we took care of all the little jobs that needed to be done.

"... and then she announced that they were both part of my harem. I don't know very much about Japan, so I have to ask: Is that normal?"

My classmate shook her head. "No, Donaldson-san, it isn't." Then, after a moment, she added, "But if you don't mind, would you be willing to accept me as the third member of your harem?"

To quote Sam Beckett, oh boy. Doesn't she have a... no, she hasn't met Urawa-san yet.

And it was beginning to look like my metahuman power was to get beautiful girls to not only fall in love with me instantly but also to not be jealous of each other.

Speaking of beautiful girls, Mako-chan and Usagi-san were waiting for me at the school's front gate when Mizuno-san and I finished with the class duties.. "Hello, Robu-sama! Oh, hi, Ami-chan. Did Robu-sama tell you that we're his harem?"

Wait a minute. Did Usagi-san say "sama"? And why wasn't anybody else reacting to that announcement? Did I have a second metahuman power to make everybody else not care about the results of my first metahuman power? Stupid genre conventions.

Mizuno-san answered Usagi-san. "He did. And I asked for his permission to join you."

Usagi-san took Mizuno-san's hands in her own. "That's great! We can all keep Robu-sama happy!"

"Since there's four of us now, we're going to need to stop for groceries on the way home," Mako-chan announced. Then she added with a smile, "Unless Robu-sama would rather enjoy something other than food...?"

"Oooooh, that sounds gooood..." The most frightening thing about that statement was that it came from Usagi-san and Mizuno-san in unison.

It seemed that nobody cared that I hadn't agreed to any of this; it was a done deal. And how in the world was I supposed to handle three girlfriends on a full-time basis? No, not full-time; two of them have something to do that wasn't "cater to my desires". Hurry up and discover that you're Sailor Jupiter, Mako-chan, so you can join them.

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Yes, of course Naru, Ichigo, Minako, and Rei join the harem later, in that order. And I did mention that this is an April 1 update, right?

Be happy that this didn't happen in the actual story, because this sort of Marty Stu genre convention is in my opinion one of the stupidest of all.

Oh, yes... a status update for the real story. Chapter 3, without the above change, is currently at 89 kB.