| Three's A Crowd ~ Training Trio ~ Saimomoharu |

Too cool 4 Tsumugi

Upon arriving at the cafeteria, the trio noticed they were the only ones there. On the table, there was a note that said

We're in Tsumugi's lab for a cosplay presentation. If you don't show up then you're dead!
-Himiko + everyone else except for you three lol

"Great. Just what I wanted to do today. Sit through a stirring cosplay presentation."

"Chin up, Maki roll. I'm sure I'll find a way to make it interesting."

The three grabbed pastries from the kitchen that they would then eat on the way up to Tsumugi's lab. When they opened the door, Shirogane immediately noticed.

"And- Ah, how nice of you all to finally join us! I was just about to explain my first convention!"

"Thanks, Tsumugi." Shuichi kindly offered. Kokichi mumbled something about how the three of them were probably planning how to kill the rest of the group, but the three were too tired to engage. They chose a spot far behind the rest of the group where they could whisper without anyone hearing.

But first, they sat through long, rambling stories about Tsumugi's many convention experiences, along with the intricacies of every character she'd ever cosplayed. About an hour and a half in, Kaito broke the ice.

"I'm boooooored."

"Shh. Don't be rude." Maki ordered.

"I've been not rude for the past hourrrr something has to happen!"

"Like what?" Shuichi pondered.

"Like..." Kaito's face lit up with excitement. An idea had struck!

"What is it now?" Maki groaned.

"I have been so kind as to think up a way for you two to escape. Yes, I know, you're welcome."

"Just the two of us? Why not all three?" Shuichi added.

"Because...because you and Maki should go have sex!"

Maki whipped her head back toward Kaito, whisper screaming "do you wanna die ?"

"Do you want everyone to catch us?"

"What?" Maki questioned, wondering what kind of threat Kaito could possibly cook up now.

Kaito began to slowly rub Shuichi's thigh, whispering in his ear "Make sure to treat Maki well. I know you'll be a good boy."

Before Maki could protest anymore, another erection rose from Shuichi's pants.

"Shuichi!" Maki added, but the damage was done and his boner was here to stay.

"I'm sorry! I can't help it! Kaito just started...doing stuff to me!"

"That's right. As Shuichi's friends, we should handle his boner problem before the others see. It is our duty as teammates to help him out."

"Why can't you go help him?!"

"Because, I know he loves me the most. And I know you like me the most. I love that you both love me most, but for the benefit of our team, you two need to strengthen your own bonds."

"This is an awful idea."

"Well now, you don't really have any choice, do you? Unless you want to humiliate Shuichi in front of everyone?"

Shuichi himself was not too excited about this plan, but he definitely didn't want to be exposed in front of all the other classmates. He gave Maki a pleading glance, as if to say let's just get out of here.

"Fine. My room. Leave a few minutes after me to look less suspicious."

Maki left the room with no one else noticing; Tsumugi was too busy arranging another cosplay to care.

While waiting for a few minutes to go by, Kaito fed Shuichi advice:

"Should I be dominant again?"

"You two can make the choice. I think Maki still could be more submissive but she might be more comfortable being dominant with you."

"Should we have like...full sex?"

"What do you mean by full sex? There's all kinds of sex!"

"You know what I mean, like..." struggling to get the words out, Shuichi did the classic sex hand gesture 👉👌

"Ohhhhh right. Again, that's up to you two. You both should be able to make decisions without me. That's difficult, I know, since I too highly value my opinions. But we need to be more like an egalitarian triangle and less like an isosceles."

"Egalitarian?"

"You know what I mean! The equal triangle! Just get out of here..."

"Fine."

He stood up, his back facing the group in case anyone happened to turn around so they wouldn't see his boner. He made his way to Maki's room and gently knocked.

The door cracked open. Maki gave him one of her typical dark and cold looks. She didn't say a word as she opened the door to let him in.

Closing the door behind him, his eyes darted around the room as he searched for something to say.

"Come sit." He glanced toward Maki as she was already sitting in the edge of the bed. He obliged.

"So...how should we do this. I mean, we don't have to do anything-that you don't want to. I'd be fine with anything. Only if you were-"

"Hey. Calm down." Maki interrupted, "I...want to do stuff. So .... We should do it."

"...like, what?"

"Well, you could...like we could have...full sex?"

"R-really?"

"That would be...fine by me..."

"Um, wouldn't we need a condom for that? Or if you were on birth control..."

"No need. I'm sterile."

"Oh." He could tell by the tone and look with which Maki said that that it was not by her own choice. He figured it must have been some kind of measure taken while she was an assassin. He looked at her and saw tears falling from her eyes.

"M-Maki?!"

"I'm... sorry!" She cried, moving her wet face to rest on his shoulder as he wrapped his arms around her in an awkward hug. They fell back on the bed, laying there for a minute as Shuichi let Maki heave and sob.

"If you're not mentally ready, then we definitely don't need to do anything."

"But I want to...I actually really want to. I want to take my power back. My control back. Last night was liberating. I want to do fun things with you guys. I..." she paused for a moment, letting more tears drip down her face.

Shuichi wiped them with his thumb as he encouraged her:

"What is it? Say whatever you want, just be honest."

"I sound so dumb right now."

"No! You don't! You're expressing your emotions and I think that's beautiful. You're beautiful."

Shuichi hadn't noticed it, but as he tried to passionately convince Maki, he was tightening his grasp around Maki's wrists. She looked at him with wide, wet eyes.

"W-what is it?" He asked.

"The way you're holding me."

"Oh," he stuttered, noticing his tight grip and loosening it, "sorry. Got carried away."

"No...I liked it. Do it again."

He was confused, but once again tightly held Maki's wrists. He saw her face begin to turn red.

"You like this?"

"Yeah..."