It occurs to me that there's not much of the fic actually left. We should be heading towards the grand finale, but instead we're putzing around with three naked girls and a pair of delinquents with the real villains nowhere in sight. Apparently the author fails pacing as comprehensively as he fails every other aspect of the writer's craft.
I'm working away until the weekend so probably won't have internet access, and if I do it'll only be to check messages and the like. As such, here's Chapter 18 as a single long update.