Demonic Pornstar System novel Chapter 198

Chapter 198: Damn

Nyx was the first to break the silence.

Then Luna followed, snorting with barely suppressed laughter before it spilled over.

"You’ve got one hell of a little sister," Nyx managed to mouth the words, wiping a tear from the corner of her eye.

Luna followed with a similar tone of voice. "Obsessed, clingy, loud, and terrifyingly committed. I can respect it. But also... damn. Just damn."

Kaiden rubbed the side of his head, sighing.

Across from them, Aria and Bastet didn’t laugh, but they weren’t exactly stone-faced either. Aria looked... unsure. She tilted her head, brows drawn in concern. Bastet, meanwhile, rested her chin on her fist, golden eyes narrowed in thoughtful amusement.

Then, Aria spoke.

"...Kai, you do know we’re not in the state of Alabama, right?"

Kaiden turned toward her, eyebrows lifting.

Aria didn’t back down. She didn’t look away. She met his gaze head-on, steady and unflinching, despite the clear nervousness flickering in her eyes.

He stared for a moment longer. Then sighed for a second time.

"It’s not like that. Alice is just..." He paused, searching for the right word. "Clingy. That’s all. She’s gonna grow out of it. For sure."

"She’s gonna grow out of it."

"For sure."

Nyx and Luna echoed in perfect sync, each word dripping with sarcasm.

Their matching looks said it all: You’re delusional.

Bastet finally chimed in as she tilted her head thoughtfully. "I don’t know much about human familial customs, but I’m pretty sure it’s not standard practice for the mother to have to pry her daughter off her son while she’s screeching about rather dying than being separated ever again."

Kaiden gave her a flat look.

"Thanks for the insight, Professor Bastet."

She gave him a feline grin. "I just voiced an innocent observation of mine, Master~"

He looked to the rest: Nyx’s amused smirk, Luna’s mischievous glint, Aria’s concerned brows, Bastet’s smug neutrality.

None of them looked ready to drop the subject.

They weren’t judging him. But they weren’t pretending this was normal either. Kaiden sighed the third time, heavier than ever before.

"Anyways... Let’s shift focus."

The girls laughed together at him running away, but didn’t press the matter any further.

A flicker of light shimmered into being above his palm.

The System window returned.

[New System Quest: Fangirl Bottleneck]

[...]

"This is what we’re dealing with now," Kaiden said.

"The system’s calling it a bottleneck..." Luna mused, stroking her chin in thought.

"Well, I mean, it clearly is a bottleneck. There’s no reason to put it more gently," Nyx added. "We have more than three times the needed views and income to reach rank 3, but we’re only one-tenth of the way to reach the fangirl requirement."

"But what else can we do?" Aria asked before continuing,

"Based on its own wording, which was ’the Successor must cultivate a following whose devotion stems from genuine connection and profound inspiration. Superficial engagement, while boosting views and income, does not translate into the deep admiration required for this metric.’ It clearly suggests that the fangirl metric is simply going to be slower to accumulate than the other two, no matter what we do."

Luna nodded in agreement. "You’re right, I believe. And we’ve already been trying to make Kai appeal to the horny sluts by doing variety content and also having things like your nurse RP focus on him."

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