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Okay, so either Dryad and Elijas are the same person somehow, or there's more than one person doing all this. And considering what Kai said, Dryad is also likely the same person as the unknown third friend of Lene's.
It still looks like they're trying to set up a Harem for Nikolai. With the exception of Lene, they've all been tempted to gain weight for the purpose of attracting Nikolai to them.
* Tanya relapsed into eating junk food and became more open with doing so after Nikolai said she looked cute.
* Mari began chowing down hoping Nikolai would notice her, and upped the intensity after seeing him with Tanya at the cafe.
* And now Emma has been convinced Nikolai likes em bigger, and seems resolved to give up her diet after both seeing Nikolai watching Mari and Lene, hearing him tell Elijas he likes woman who enjoy themselves, and being desperate to be closer to him than he is with Kai.
Lene is the only outlier, just suddenly starting to pig out after talking to Elijas once, and falling for Andre instead of Nikolai. And whereas whoever this is took a more indirect approach with the others, they had a more direct hand in setting up Andre and Lene. Though, if Kai is right in that Lene is "Patient Zero", it does make sense to establish a control group to see if the results of the others pan out like they did with Lene.
So of course, that still just leaves one question: WHY? Fattening the girls up alone could be seen as Elijas and Dryad just getting a kick out of it, but they seem to specifically playing matchmaker, and aside from Lene and Andre, it's specifically for Nikolai. Why him though? Aside from being the protagonist, why him in particular?