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Makie, the Library Girls
Liegod: Make that six chapters in about two and a half days. And yes, I am. I keep having to rewrite sentences because I naturally use too much troperspeak and it would confuse people.
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Chapter 6
With two fifths of his list done for the day, Negi next went to Mahora Academy's gymnasium for his next mark. In all of his class, Makie Sasaki was up there with Ayaka and Nodoka in terms of people who were out for Negi, making her an obvious pick, though Evangeline's comments about the flexibility of a gymnast, again, felt more like she was recommending Makie for herself than for him. Oh well, point was, she suggested him.
When he arrived, Makie had one of the gym rooms to herself, practising her tumble. She wore her leotard, emphasizing her slender body. She envied the other girls in the class with their large breasts, but Negi liked her form just as much. Besides, her constant training gave her one hell of an ass.
Silently he stepped into the gym, the girl so caught up with her work that she didn't notice him until she landed a tumble only for Negi to be inches away from her face.
"Negi-sensei!" she exclaimed. He certainly did manage to sneak up on her. She was looking for the right words as her teacher merely leaned in, smiling as their lips met.
A strange feeling ran through Makie. It was Negi experimenting again, charging the gymnast's entire body with pure, unbridled lust. Her affections for him became wants, physical needs, the very fact he wasn't inside her driving her to madness. With their lips still locked, he led her slowly to a pommel horse, leaning her against it as his hand fished his dick out of his pants. With his cock in one hand, he pushed the fabric over her crotch to the side with the other and pressed his head against her entrance.
Makie moaned in agony as he teased her, the very tip of his cock waiting at her gates. She felt him grab one of her legs and pull it up, pressing it between them as he slid into her. She moaned, this time in bliss, his cock warming the biting cold of desire inside her. He gazed lovingly into her green eyes, numbing all the pain and laying pleasure over it, his hands roaming her body as he pumped in and out of her rapidly, each time eliciting a little squeal of joy from her.
Negi was in heaven as the slight girl's virgin pussy clamped down on him tighter than any before him. Almost as thin as Evangeline, she lacked the experience the vampire had with having objects shoved into that area, giving Negi a vice of hot, wet flesh he could really do some fun with. A little frustrated from his experiment with Kazumi not going as planned, this was the perfect cosmic apology for him; a ride in Makie's tight little honeypot.
"Makie-san, I was wondering if you wanted to-" Ako Izumi wandered into the small room to ask Makie if she wanted to grab lunch, only to find her teacher grabbing her. She hid behind some equipment, peering out to watch as Negi relentlessly pounded her, moans and intimate words filling the room. She didn't know what to sat, or what to do, so she merely watched.
The two continued to kiss deeply as Negi's every thrust sent a rush of euphoria through Makie's veins. She had heard sex felt good, but she had no idea it would have been so powerful, so passionate. Negi moved even faster in her, the only thing keeping him from pushing her directly onto the gymnastic equipment was that her leg wouldn't bed that far and he wasn't out to hurt her. Indeed, for all his rough movements she didn't feel any pain at all. It was strange, but she wasn't going to complain about wild, pain-free sex on her first shot.
Ako watched with increased interest, the sexual magic the two burned beginning to effect her as well. Her hands, without her paying much attention to them, found their way to her crotch. She gasped, a slight shock running through her at the very contact of her hand and her vagina. She obliged, unable to ignore the urge as, hidden behind gym equipment, they wouldn't be able to see them even if they weren't absorbed in each other. The sight of Makie pressed against a pommel horse with one leg raised as high as possible and Negi wailing away at her the most erotic thing she had ever seen.
Negi began to pull down her leotard, exposing her small breasts to the air. They were little more than buds, really, not quite ready to bloom yet, but he found them attractive nonetheless. "Makie-san, your breasts are beautiful."
Makie looked at him, shocked. Breast envy was a big issue for her, but here was the object of her affection, telling her otherwise. "But Negi-sensei, what about Chizuru or Mana or-"
"Theirs are beautiful, too, but different from yours. Sometimes, it's not size." He held one in his hand, all the while continuing to pound away at her.
"Then cum on them, please. If you think they're beautiful, then I want you to end with them."
Negi nodded, grabbing her hips as he neared the home stretch, Makie almost screaming in his grasp as he moved with near inhuman speeds.
Ako couldn't believe what she was seeing, but knelt behind the equipment, her hands furiously tending her pussy, she wasn't in a position to judge anything. She merely watched with morbid curiosity as the two continued their affair.
Negi triggered Makie first, just to feel it. He was pleased, her pussy clenching down so hard he almost struggled keeping himself from blowing his load. It was intense, Makie quivering against him, but he weathered the storm and, when her orgasm was through, knew it was time. He pulled out, aiming his cock straight up, his hand pumping it intently as he shot his semen, with a little help with aim from magic, directly onto the gymnast's little buds.
Makie smiled at her teacher as he fulfilled his promise. "Thank you, sensei," she smiled.
Ako lost it soon after that, stifling a powerful moan as she fell onto her back, kicking up at the air in pleasure at the height of her orgasm. She had no idea what had transpired, but she wanted a piece of it.
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With Makie done, only two people remained on his list, and lucky for him, they were generally inseparable He strolled nonchalantly into the Mahora library and went straight for the club room. Much to his relief, only Yue and Nodoka were in there at the time, the members from other years and Haruna somewhere else. Good, he wouldn't need to take them somewhere more private.
"Negi-sensei?" Nodoka asked, totally surprised; it was a recurring theme that day.
With two girls to deal with, sitting on opposite sides of a table, he didn't want to use his usual lead-in of a kiss. Instead, he channelled the magic outward, directly hitting both girls at once. He may have overdone it, a little, because they jumped him much like Setsuna and Konoka did.
The two bookworms tore off his and their clothes, Nodoka getting up for a second to close and lock the door. With no way for anyone to interrupt them, they got into position fairly quickly. It was the day the two had waited for, though not necessarily with the other. Well, Nodoka definitely had.
Yue quickly slid down his shaft, the thought that it seemed relatively painless not even crossing her mind as he put her hands on his chest and began to ride him fervidly.
Nodoka straddled his face backwards, facing Nodoka as he licked her dripping slit. The magic hit them hard, wetting them in record time. In fact, charged with more passion than she knew what to do with, Nodoka pulled her friend into a kiss.
Negi was loving his position; capping off a day of recruiting with a threesome. It also helped that, much to his surprise, Nodoka tasted sweeter than Ayaka, making her pussy a delight to lick. He didn't regret using too much magic, as it certainly wasn't hurting them, and it got them much more involved, while two of his previous marks had been pretty still and left him all the work. It was alright; he knew what to do next time.
Yue continued to pump up and down, his shaft sliding in and out of her. Her lips met Nodoka's, completing the cycle as sexual energy coursed through all three of them, further heightening their senses and pleasure as they went. What little magic ability she had made her sensitive to the powers flowing through her. She had no idea how to control it, but she certainly knew something was up, that magic drove her actions, but she didn't care. It only magnified emotions she already had, making her act on thoughts she'd had for a long time.
For Nodoka, who didn't have that sensitivity, it was bliss. Her preferred solution to the love triangle she'd entangled herself into was, after all, letting Negi have both, and having both he certainly did. She was in awe as his tongue probed her sweet pussy, by that point having all the knowledge needed to hit the right spots at all times, giving her a powerful sensation that, as the magic held her orgasm at bay, continued to build up to near unbearable levels.
The boy teacher claimed his fourth virgin for the day as his tongue scouted out his fifth. If he knew just how great sex was, he probably would have acted on Nodoka's advances the moment she admitted her feelings. Although without the magic it may not have been as powerful, her pussy not as sweet, He knew that desire drove the magic, and that at its core something special would have been shared between them. It was pretty much the same now, except with more powerful orgasms and a lot more people to spread love to.
Negi intended to go longer, but he lost focus as the club room door unlocked. He lost hold of their orgasms and they all exploded in ecstasy. his seed shooting up into Yue's quim as it clenched down on him, Nodoka's delicious nectar running down for him to eagerly drink.
In the doorway stood a very shocked Haruna. She knew to move quickly, though, rushing into the room, shutting and locking the door behind her, before commenting. "You guys always forget about me. I go for a few minutes, and you're sexing up Negi and making out." She walked over to them, working off her clothes. "Good thing I had the spare key with me, I would hate to miss out on this." She leaned in, joining her friends' kiss as the two girls and Negi were rather shocked by the development. Of all people, they never thought of Haruna as being into this sort of thing, or having feelings for Negi, though her rapidly beating heart said otherwise as magic ran through her. "Can I ride him next?"
"I think Nodoka should," Yue suggested as she dismounted Negi, a few strands of their intermingled cum dripping from her spent pussy. "She did technically have feelings for him first."
"Oh, alright," Haruna sighed. "In that case, can I at least clean you out while we wait?"
Yue nodded she leaned over the table, exposing her puffy pink pussy and cute ass to her friend.
Negi looked at Nodoka, placing his hand on her shoulder. "It's okay, Nodoka-san, just let me do this. I promise it won't hurt."
The shy girl nodded, her bangs obscuring her eyes as Negi rolled over so that she lay on her back and he lay atop her, pulling her into a deep kiss. He wanted Nodoka's first to be something special, to make her feel better, wanted, loved. Slowly he slid in to her, all the while keeping careful concentration this time, just in case someone else decided to unlock the door, losing his bearings and letting the pain hit her.
Nodoka lay there, her eyes closed, though it was hard to see beyond her bangs, as Negi sunk into her, claiming her virginity, just as she'd imagined. He didn't magically charge her as much, trying to keep it sacred, and she knew it. She kissed him deeper as he came down to the hilt, his entire length filling her up so much, magical energy beginning to crackle and surge, sending little shocks throughout her body, stimulating her nerves just enough to increase the sensations, but nowhere near as much as he had with every other girl.
Beside them, Haruna knelt on the floor as Yue knelt over the table, licking the girl clean of their teacher's semen. Diligently she went, holding the girl's ass as she got a nice position on the girl bent almost ninety degrees over the table. She played with herself idly as she went, having no idea about Negi's sexual magic and wanting her keep herself relatively unsatisfied for when she got a ride on Negi's quite impressive cock.
Negi was in heaven, Nodoka's pussy just as tight as Makie's, but with something about the girl that made it better, albeit less wild. He would likely spend his night with Nodoka if anyone, and there would be plenty of time then to get rough, but for her first, he wanted something romantic, more in line with what she imagined her first time being.
And Negi was right. Nodoka was in ecstasy, just like she wanted, him going slow and caring for her, their deep kiss continuing as he let a little magic out occasionally, causing her to moan into his mouth as their tongues danced gracefully to the rhythm sound of flesh on flesh with a vocal performance from Yue, who was easily brought to orgasm from Haruna's tongue.
Haruna continued to lick at her friend's honey pot even after her orgasm, intent on provoking another one in her before Nodoka and Negi were done. The taste enticed her, especially with the, much to her chagrin, increasingly scarce traces of Negi's seed in her. She looked forward to sampling Nodoka when it was her turn on Negi.
It looked like the two wouldn't go much longer. Nodoka was a virgin, and Negi was only ten, his incredible stamina almost entirely tied to the potent sexual magic around him. Without it, he was only matched by Nodoka's sheer inexperience. Still, they were having a grand old time. Their kiss remained unbroken as he continued to thrust into her, moans spilling out of their sort-of-sealed-sometimes-wide-open lips as their bodies heated up, pressing tighter together, bracing for the finish.
Negi howled, throwing his head up, as he spilled his seed into Nodoka. The feeling was all it took to send her off as well, a powerful climax rocking her as Negi continued to spill his cum into her. Their kiss resumed as she clenched down on him now tighter than even Makie during her orgasm, prolonging his own orgasm as he shot more into her; even if he wasn't affecting their sensations, he was still producing semen far faster than normal.
Finally, when it died down, he collapsed on her, their combined juices spilling out of her slit as he softened and eventually fell out of her. For all the magic he didn't use, it was still his best orgasm of the day, but for different reasons.
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Next chapter will get into the more harem-ey stuff, but just for the sake of reminding you, Negi's harem is currently
-Evangeline
-Asuna
-Konoka
-Setsuna
-Ayaka
-Ku Fei
-Kazumi
-Makie
-Nodoka
-Yue
-Haruna
The lucky bastard, and it's only going to get bigger. That's just half, at the very least.
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Chapter 6
With two fifths of his list done for the day, Negi next went to Mahora Academy's gymnasium for his next mark. In all of his class, Makie Sasaki was up there with Ayaka and Nodoka in terms of people who were out for Negi, making her an obvious pick, though Evangeline's comments about the flexibility of a gymnast, again, felt more like she was recommending Makie for herself than for him. Oh well, point was, she suggested him.
When he arrived, Makie had one of the gym rooms to herself, practising her tumble. She wore her leotard, emphasizing her slender body. She envied the other girls in the class with their large breasts, but Negi liked her form just as much. Besides, her constant training gave her one hell of an ass.
Silently he stepped into the gym, the girl so caught up with her work that she didn't notice him until she landed a tumble only for Negi to be inches away from her face.
"Negi-sensei!" she exclaimed. He certainly did manage to sneak up on her. She was looking for the right words as her teacher merely leaned in, smiling as their lips met.
A strange feeling ran through Makie. It was Negi experimenting again, charging the gymnast's entire body with pure, unbridled lust. Her affections for him became wants, physical needs, the very fact he wasn't inside her driving her to madness. With their lips still locked, he led her slowly to a pommel horse, leaning her against it as his hand fished his dick out of his pants. With his cock in one hand, he pushed the fabric over her crotch to the side with the other and pressed his head against her entrance.
Makie moaned in agony as he teased her, the very tip of his cock waiting at her gates. She felt him grab one of her legs and pull it up, pressing it between them as he slid into her. She moaned, this time in bliss, his cock warming the biting cold of desire inside her. He gazed lovingly into her green eyes, numbing all the pain and laying pleasure over it, his hands roaming her body as he pumped in and out of her rapidly, each time eliciting a little squeal of joy from her.
Negi was in heaven as the slight girl's virgin pussy clamped down on him tighter than any before him. Almost as thin as Evangeline, she lacked the experience the vampire had with having objects shoved into that area, giving Negi a vice of hot, wet flesh he could really do some fun with. A little frustrated from his experiment with Kazumi not going as planned, this was the perfect cosmic apology for him; a ride in Makie's tight little honeypot.
"Makie-san, I was wondering if you wanted to-" Ako Izumi wandered into the small room to ask Makie if she wanted to grab lunch, only to find her teacher grabbing her. She hid behind some equipment, peering out to watch as Negi relentlessly pounded her, moans and intimate words filling the room. She didn't know what to sat, or what to do, so she merely watched.
The two continued to kiss deeply as Negi's every thrust sent a rush of euphoria through Makie's veins. She had heard sex felt good, but she had no idea it would have been so powerful, so passionate. Negi moved even faster in her, the only thing keeping him from pushing her directly onto the gymnastic equipment was that her leg wouldn't bed that far and he wasn't out to hurt her. Indeed, for all his rough movements she didn't feel any pain at all. It was strange, but she wasn't going to complain about wild, pain-free sex on her first shot.
Ako watched with increased interest, the sexual magic the two burned beginning to effect her as well. Her hands, without her paying much attention to them, found their way to her crotch. She gasped, a slight shock running through her at the very contact of her hand and her vagina. She obliged, unable to ignore the urge as, hidden behind gym equipment, they wouldn't be able to see them even if they weren't absorbed in each other. The sight of Makie pressed against a pommel horse with one leg raised as high as possible and Negi wailing away at her the most erotic thing she had ever seen.
Negi began to pull down her leotard, exposing her small breasts to the air. They were little more than buds, really, not quite ready to bloom yet, but he found them attractive nonetheless. "Makie-san, your breasts are beautiful."
Makie looked at him, shocked. Breast envy was a big issue for her, but here was the object of her affection, telling her otherwise. "But Negi-sensei, what about Chizuru or Mana or-"
"Theirs are beautiful, too, but different from yours. Sometimes, it's not size." He held one in his hand, all the while continuing to pound away at her.
"Then cum on them, please. If you think they're beautiful, then I want you to end with them."
Negi nodded, grabbing her hips as he neared the home stretch, Makie almost screaming in his grasp as he moved with near inhuman speeds.
Ako couldn't believe what she was seeing, but knelt behind the equipment, her hands furiously tending her pussy, she wasn't in a position to judge anything. She merely watched with morbid curiosity as the two continued their affair.
Negi triggered Makie first, just to feel it. He was pleased, her pussy clenching down so hard he almost struggled keeping himself from blowing his load. It was intense, Makie quivering against him, but he weathered the storm and, when her orgasm was through, knew it was time. He pulled out, aiming his cock straight up, his hand pumping it intently as he shot his semen, with a little help with aim from magic, directly onto the gymnast's little buds.
Makie smiled at her teacher as he fulfilled his promise. "Thank you, sensei," she smiled.
Ako lost it soon after that, stifling a powerful moan as she fell onto her back, kicking up at the air in pleasure at the height of her orgasm. She had no idea what had transpired, but she wanted a piece of it.
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With Makie done, only two people remained on his list, and lucky for him, they were generally inseparable He strolled nonchalantly into the Mahora library and went straight for the club room. Much to his relief, only Yue and Nodoka were in there at the time, the members from other years and Haruna somewhere else. Good, he wouldn't need to take them somewhere more private.
"Negi-sensei?" Nodoka asked, totally surprised; it was a recurring theme that day.
With two girls to deal with, sitting on opposite sides of a table, he didn't want to use his usual lead-in of a kiss. Instead, he channelled the magic outward, directly hitting both girls at once. He may have overdone it, a little, because they jumped him much like Setsuna and Konoka did.
The two bookworms tore off his and their clothes, Nodoka getting up for a second to close and lock the door. With no way for anyone to interrupt them, they got into position fairly quickly. It was the day the two had waited for, though not necessarily with the other. Well, Nodoka definitely had.
Yue quickly slid down his shaft, the thought that it seemed relatively painless not even crossing her mind as he put her hands on his chest and began to ride him fervidly.
Nodoka straddled his face backwards, facing Nodoka as he licked her dripping slit. The magic hit them hard, wetting them in record time. In fact, charged with more passion than she knew what to do with, Nodoka pulled her friend into a kiss.
Negi was loving his position; capping off a day of recruiting with a threesome. It also helped that, much to his surprise, Nodoka tasted sweeter than Ayaka, making her pussy a delight to lick. He didn't regret using too much magic, as it certainly wasn't hurting them, and it got them much more involved, while two of his previous marks had been pretty still and left him all the work. It was alright; he knew what to do next time.
Yue continued to pump up and down, his shaft sliding in and out of her. Her lips met Nodoka's, completing the cycle as sexual energy coursed through all three of them, further heightening their senses and pleasure as they went. What little magic ability she had made her sensitive to the powers flowing through her. She had no idea how to control it, but she certainly knew something was up, that magic drove her actions, but she didn't care. It only magnified emotions she already had, making her act on thoughts she'd had for a long time.
For Nodoka, who didn't have that sensitivity, it was bliss. Her preferred solution to the love triangle she'd entangled herself into was, after all, letting Negi have both, and having both he certainly did. She was in awe as his tongue probed her sweet pussy, by that point having all the knowledge needed to hit the right spots at all times, giving her a powerful sensation that, as the magic held her orgasm at bay, continued to build up to near unbearable levels.
The boy teacher claimed his fourth virgin for the day as his tongue scouted out his fifth. If he knew just how great sex was, he probably would have acted on Nodoka's advances the moment she admitted her feelings. Although without the magic it may not have been as powerful, her pussy not as sweet, He knew that desire drove the magic, and that at its core something special would have been shared between them. It was pretty much the same now, except with more powerful orgasms and a lot more people to spread love to.
Negi intended to go longer, but he lost focus as the club room door unlocked. He lost hold of their orgasms and they all exploded in ecstasy. his seed shooting up into Yue's quim as it clenched down on him, Nodoka's delicious nectar running down for him to eagerly drink.
In the doorway stood a very shocked Haruna. She knew to move quickly, though, rushing into the room, shutting and locking the door behind her, before commenting. "You guys always forget about me. I go for a few minutes, and you're sexing up Negi and making out." She walked over to them, working off her clothes. "Good thing I had the spare key with me, I would hate to miss out on this." She leaned in, joining her friends' kiss as the two girls and Negi were rather shocked by the development. Of all people, they never thought of Haruna as being into this sort of thing, or having feelings for Negi, though her rapidly beating heart said otherwise as magic ran through her. "Can I ride him next?"
"I think Nodoka should," Yue suggested as she dismounted Negi, a few strands of their intermingled cum dripping from her spent pussy. "She did technically have feelings for him first."
"Oh, alright," Haruna sighed. "In that case, can I at least clean you out while we wait?"
Yue nodded she leaned over the table, exposing her puffy pink pussy and cute ass to her friend.
Negi looked at Nodoka, placing his hand on her shoulder. "It's okay, Nodoka-san, just let me do this. I promise it won't hurt."
The shy girl nodded, her bangs obscuring her eyes as Negi rolled over so that she lay on her back and he lay atop her, pulling her into a deep kiss. He wanted Nodoka's first to be something special, to make her feel better, wanted, loved. Slowly he slid in to her, all the while keeping careful concentration this time, just in case someone else decided to unlock the door, losing his bearings and letting the pain hit her.
Nodoka lay there, her eyes closed, though it was hard to see beyond her bangs, as Negi sunk into her, claiming her virginity, just as she'd imagined. He didn't magically charge her as much, trying to keep it sacred, and she knew it. She kissed him deeper as he came down to the hilt, his entire length filling her up so much, magical energy beginning to crackle and surge, sending little shocks throughout her body, stimulating her nerves just enough to increase the sensations, but nowhere near as much as he had with every other girl.
Beside them, Haruna knelt on the floor as Yue knelt over the table, licking the girl clean of their teacher's semen. Diligently she went, holding the girl's ass as she got a nice position on the girl bent almost ninety degrees over the table. She played with herself idly as she went, having no idea about Negi's sexual magic and wanting her keep herself relatively unsatisfied for when she got a ride on Negi's quite impressive cock.
Negi was in heaven, Nodoka's pussy just as tight as Makie's, but with something about the girl that made it better, albeit less wild. He would likely spend his night with Nodoka if anyone, and there would be plenty of time then to get rough, but for her first, he wanted something romantic, more in line with what she imagined her first time being.
And Negi was right. Nodoka was in ecstasy, just like she wanted, him going slow and caring for her, their deep kiss continuing as he let a little magic out occasionally, causing her to moan into his mouth as their tongues danced gracefully to the rhythm sound of flesh on flesh with a vocal performance from Yue, who was easily brought to orgasm from Haruna's tongue.
Haruna continued to lick at her friend's honey pot even after her orgasm, intent on provoking another one in her before Nodoka and Negi were done. The taste enticed her, especially with the, much to her chagrin, increasingly scarce traces of Negi's seed in her. She looked forward to sampling Nodoka when it was her turn on Negi.
It looked like the two wouldn't go much longer. Nodoka was a virgin, and Negi was only ten, his incredible stamina almost entirely tied to the potent sexual magic around him. Without it, he was only matched by Nodoka's sheer inexperience. Still, they were having a grand old time. Their kiss remained unbroken as he continued to thrust into her, moans spilling out of their sort-of-sealed-sometimes-wide-open lips as their bodies heated up, pressing tighter together, bracing for the finish.
Negi howled, throwing his head up, as he spilled his seed into Nodoka. The feeling was all it took to send her off as well, a powerful climax rocking her as Negi continued to spill his cum into her. Their kiss resumed as she clenched down on him now tighter than even Makie during her orgasm, prolonging his own orgasm as he shot more into her; even if he wasn't affecting their sensations, he was still producing semen far faster than normal.
Finally, when it died down, he collapsed on her, their combined juices spilling out of her slit as he softened and eventually fell out of her. For all the magic he didn't use, it was still his best orgasm of the day, but for different reasons.
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Next chapter will get into the more harem-ey stuff, but just for the sake of reminding you, Negi's harem is currently
-Evangeline
-Asuna
-Konoka
-Setsuna
-Ayaka
-Ku Fei
-Kazumi
-Makie
-Nodoka
-Yue
-Haruna
The lucky bastard, and it's only going to get bigger. That's just half, at the very least.