How to Comfort Your Party Members as a Priest

[Revising; bonus chapters will drop from time to time.] Ryan is an ordinary priest. He doesn't do particularly well after becoming an adventurer, either. Fortunately, three powerful adventurers eventually take him in, and he joins their party. The party leader is a hero with superb swordsmanship, unusual pink hair and eyes, and lean, well-defined muscles like a nimble cheetah. But he's a frivolous womanizer who visits brothels every few days, and his reputation among adventurers is terrible. The mage is an arrogant elf with blond hair, pointed ears, and a tall, slender build. His magic is devastating, but he often hits his teammates by mistake and acts haughty afterward, so no other party is willing to take him. The warrior looks shy and naive, like he would be easy to push around. In reality, he's tall and imposing, with broad shoulders, a narrow waist, and powerful muscles all over. He's joined many parties, but always insists on leaving halfway through, earning himself a place on countless adventurers' blacklists. Ryan: ... Now I understand why these big shots picked me. Having powerful teammates to rely on doesn't make life as easy as everyone imagines. His teammates can't stand one another and are on edge every day, leaving him stuck between them in a miserable situation. ...This can't go on! Ryan has a secret: he came from 21st-century Earth. After dying unexpectedly, he became bound to a System and was reborn on this otherworldly continent. But the System tells him that this continent will soon be destroyed. To save it, he has to find the Demon King. --Huh? I'm supposed to fight the Demon King? You're asking an office drone whose only skills are going to work and raising a dog to defeat the Demon King?! With no other choice, he can only put his hopes in his invincible teammates. If they all work together, surely they can defeat the Demon King and save the continent... right? Faced with the tension between his teammates, he watches their expressions closely, does his best to soothe each of them, cleans up their messes, and uses his way with words to resolve their conflicts and misunderstandings... Through sheer effort, he finally gets his teammates to toe the line (?!) Meanwhile, the System grows more and more sharp-tongued, and is determined to describe every teammate as a dog, constantly saying strange things that make no sense. Ryan often misses the dog who was by his side for fifteen years in his previous life. But now... just keeping his teammates calm is exhausting. How could he possibly have the energy to raise a dog? Now that his teammates are getting along, the journey to defeat the Demon King still doesn't unfold as smoothly as he'd imagined. The steady warrior begins to crave his embraces, the arrogant elf becomes obsessed with his scoldings, and even the flirtatious hero begs for his affection. Hold on, guys! Can we defeat the Demon King first? Reader advisory: 1. A self-indulgent grab bag of kinks, including a little cross-dressing play where the protagonist, who is on the receiving end, has no choice but to dress as a woman, as well as nonhuman and Lovecraftian elements and plenty of original worldbuilding. 2. The only romantic interest arrows point toward the protagonist. The other characters have a purely friendly relationship with one another. There is a little romance between parents, but no secondary couples. 3. The protagonist grows over time. This is not a story about someone who thinks he's ordinary but is secretly overpowered and humiliates everyone. 4. A fairy tale. Even the incubi are chaste. 5. No need to bet on a love interest. The main story gives the destined love interest his proper moment, the bonus chapters have a happy ending for everyone, and adults don't have to choose. 6. The protagonist has a steady core and doesn't know how beautiful he is. The love interests are more handsome than the supporting cast, and their builds are about as broad as a double-door mine worker's. ---- Upcoming work ---- "What should you do if you witness a murder on your way home from work and the 'killer' starts watching you?" Li Feng graduated from a prestigious university with excellent grades and became the kind of 996 office drone everyone envies. Because he has a baby face, he wears glasses to disguise himself. When trouble comes, he pretends to be blind. He's a master of slacking off and doing as little as possible, and his greatest wish is to retire early. Though the continually awakening superpowered people have brought many changes to society, life for bottom-level office drones remains the same old grind. One day, after accompanying his boss to a business dinner, Li Feng spots a tall man in an alley on his way home: blindingly bright yellow rubber gloves and protective boots, a suspicious black raincoat, a mask covering his face, and a pile of "mosaic" beside him as he cleans up a pool of blood. ...A murder scene? The next second, their eyes meet, and Li Feng finds himself staring into a pair of blood-red eyes. Before he can think, he instinctively curls his lips into a smile, uses the smell of alcohol on himself to pretend he's drunk, and treats the dangerous-looking man as an ordinary janitor. He makes drunken small talk, then casually walks out of the alley, narrowly escaping disaster. After getting home, Li Feng has nightmares all night. The shadow of the "janitor" just won't leave his mind. Even so, he still has to go to work tomorrow. The next day at the office, his manager suddenly calls him over: "Xiao Li, a few university students are coming in today for a work-study program. Show them around... It's a project we're doing with the Superpowered Employment Guidance Center. Go ask them about the details..." In other words, an ordinary person is supposed to teach superpowered people how to function in society... Who came up with this brilliant idea? Why not spare a thought for the office drones, too? Li Feng tries to push back: "Manager, I've got three projects on my hands..." "Oh, you can put those off for a little while. You young people are bound to have things in common. Get along, all right?" "...Yes, Manager." Li Feng gives up resisting and starts calculating his workers' compensation in his head. In the reception room, he looks at the students' youthful faces and gives them a polite smile. Just as he's about to speak, his smile suddenly freezes. One of them looks familiar... More precisely, his silhouette is exactly the same as the "janitor" from his nightmare! H-How is that possible? Perhaps noticing his gaze, the tall young man turns his face away, then quickly turns back and looks straight at him with dark eyes. "What's wrong, Senior Xiao Li?" ...Nothing. I'm just breaking into a cold sweat. I feel bad for the office drone, but this kind of office drone is just so appealing... It's that... that kind of tension. If we share the same kinks, feel free to bookmark my page. Thanks for the support (rolling around). Theme: Everyone deserves to be loved.