What Do You Mean There Are Other Transmigrators In My Harem Fantasy?

“Hey, Miss Atherva~ Do you do anything else for fun?” Lisa asked.

The Comissar painter did not even show any reaction to her question and continued to paint.

“Surely you must have something that you do when you’re bored, right?”

Ather continued to ignore her.

“Sometimes when I’m bored, I like to go find Aster and have fun with her, you know?”

Still no reaction from the painter herself.

Well… I didn’t really understand why they were so adamant about wanting to mess with her before but I guess if she was like this throughout all the carriage rides when she wasn’t painting, I could guess that the girls were definitely annoyed by it.

Although one thing I wasn’t sure of was whether they were doing this to annoy her back or this was their attempt at getting her to stop being so hyper focused on her painting?

That still doesn’t explain why they’re doing it though…

Anyway… Lisa told me that all I needed to do was to sit a short distance behind her and not do anything so that was what I was doing.

I decided not to question it and followed along since I thought it would be better that I was involved somehow so I could stop them if I thought they were going too far.

Lisa went over to her side and bent at her waist so that she was looking at her directly face to face.

“Heyyyy~ Miss Atherva? Helloooo~ Can you hear me? Oh my gosh! Aster’s naked right behind you!”

Come on, Lisa… Do you think she’s some kind of pre-schooler or something? She definitely won’t–

“WHAT?!!” Ather screeched, immediately turning around to look in my direction with wide eyes.

… Really? I mean… I get she’s really interested in me being her model but that’s a little too much don’t you think?

Obviously, when she realised that I wasn’t exactly naked, her face turned into a scowl and she glared at Lisa who was smirking at her.

“Ehehe~ Made you look, didn’t I? Well, now I know you actually do want to see our Aster naked~ What a perv you are~”

Ather didn’t dignify her with a response and simply went back to painting.

Lisa wasn’t done yet though as she moved behind her, “Hmm… What if I told you that Aster’s wearing nothing underneath that nightgown so if you were to just take a little peek under there you could see her deliciously naked body?”

Lisa… Is this seriously your plan?

Ather’s hand actually stopped and I was expecting her to say something when all of a sudden, the painter’s figure suddenly disappeared from where she was seated.

Eh?

“Mnnnnnfffff!!!” A voice came from below, prompting me to look down.

There, all tied up and gagged was Ather in a turtle shell bondage.

Err… What the hell happened here?

Lisa jumped over to my side, her face now changed to one of rage, “I knew it! I fucking knew it! We weren’t seeing things!!!”

Eh? What is going on?

The rest of my girls also appeared around me, surrounding the tied up Ather and also glaring at her.

“You!” Emilia cried out, pointing an accusatory finger at the tied up girl. “You’ve been using Chronomancy to peek on Aster!!! You’ve been sneakily painting other pictures of Aster and stashing them away without paying us!!!”

Wait, what?? What the hell is going on?!

Ather was glaring at my girls and shooting them dirty looks but try as she might, she could not free herself from the binds.

“Umm… Can someone tell me what is going on?” I asked.

“She’s a scammer, that’s what!!” Emilia cried out, still pointing her finger at Ather. “She has Chronomancy magic!!”

Lisa nodded at her, “At first, we thought we were seeing things when sometimes, her figure would suddenly move unnaturally during random times. But now we figured it out!! She has been using her chronomancy magic to speed herself up so that she can make more paintings of you without us knowing!!”

I blinked at her, “Eh? Really? I didn’t even notice…”

“Probably because she had no ill will towards you, Mistress,” Katsuki suggested. “Had she expressed killing intent towards you, I’m sure you would have reacted.”

“Umm… I doubt it… Since she effectively stopped time didn’t she?”

“That is incorrect, Mistress. She simply made time for herself move faster so that she could do everything faster than what a normal person could perceive. Since Miss Emilia and I are used to dealing with fast opponents, we could still see her figure blurring for a second whenever she moved like that.”

“Wait a minute… So was that the real reason why all of you were pissed at her? Why didn’t you just say so?”

“She was also eavesdropping on us whenever we’re with you, Boss!” Emilia answered with a huff. That’s why we had to pretend like we didn’t know about it while laying this trap for her!”

I blinked at my girls once again, “What did you do?”

Lisa gave me a peace sign, “Katsuki here drank an invisibility potion and simply stood near you with the rope ready! The moment she sees the blur, she immediately jumped on her to tie her up!”

…

Wait, you’re telling me that Katsuki’s speed was basically fast enough to catch up to Ather’s control over time? Just how fast is Katsuki able to move?!

Oh wait… Maybe her unique skill came into play?

Wait, that’s not the important thing right now.

I looked down at the tied up Comissar, “Is err… Is what my girls said true?”

“Mnngggghhh!!” She cried out into her gag.

Oh right. Err… Let’s just get that off of her for now…

I reached down and pulled out her gag, prompting her to shout out immediately, “That’s not true!! I never made any extra paintings of her!!”

Umm… So she’s not denying the fact that she did use Chronomancy to do something?

Emilia crossed her arms, “Don’t lie to us you bitch! I know you did!!”

“I did not make any new paintings!! I only used it to make sketches!! That is totally different!!”

“Prove it!”

Ather snapped her mouth shut and looked away, which obviously looked mighty suspicious even to me.

Emilia grabbed her by her collar and pulled her up to face her while shaking her, “You think you can scam us?! Time to pay up you bitch! Cough up every single piece of artwork you have right now or else we’re reporting you for scamming us!! Let’s see what Goddess Ralaie will say when she finds out her own Comissar has been going around scamming people!”

Oof… Should have figured Emilia would be really pissed since this was related to money…

“I… I really… I really didn’t paint!! It was all sketches!”

“Stop lying! Why would you even need to use your Chronomancy if it was just to sketch Boss?! That doesn’t make any sense!”

“That’s… That’s because it’s the only way I could do it without losing myself when I’m looking at her directly!!” The artist cried out. “If I didn’t do that, I would have been drooling all over her and that might make her feel creeped out of me!! There’s no way I was going to allow that to happen!! I had to take a good look at her to make the sketches which means I was close to her!! All within touching distance!! I knew I couldn’t keep my usual expressions when I am presented with a sight like that so I had to use my Chronomancy to make sure she never saw the faces I was making when I was sketching her!!”

Err… What? I feel like things are getting even more ridiculous now…

She really used her magic just for something like that? I mean… She already kind of makes those really excited faces when she’s painting me so… How bad can it be right?

Emilia wasn’t giving up yet though, “Oh really? If that’s the case, show us your sketches then! Or else we’ll take it that you’re lying and report you to the Guild!”

“No!! Never!!” Ather rejected stubbornly, showing way more expression than she ever did in front of the other girls.

Lisa came up beside Emilia and cleared her throat and stretched out her palm, “Ahem… Miss Atherva? You do realise that if you don’t comply with us, you won’t be able to paint Aster anymore because we would just leave right?”

There was a second of silence before a book appeared out of thin air to land in Lisa’s palm.

Wow, really?

Lisa then flipped open the book and the moment her eyes landed on the first page, her eyes widened and her jaw dropped.

Eh? What did she see?! I wanna see!

She then very slowly turned the book around to reveal that it was a sketchbook which meant that Ather was telling the truth.

Then I realised that while she did answer truthfully about the sketch, she omitted the fact that it was a sketch of a manga…

A manga where she drew of me and her having sex…

…

Girl… You were a doujin artist back in our original World, weren’t you?