Today was Saturday, and everyone was enjoying a leisurely weekend at Shido's house.
Shido himself had been invited out by Tonomachi to play. At the mont, only the Spirits were sitting together at ho watching TV.
On TV, a prank program was being broadcast. It showed the audience just how much makeup could change a person's appearance. In the footage, a husband faced a woman who had been made up, yet he stubbornly failed to recognize that she was his wife, whom he had lived with for many years.
"Ohh, makeup really is amazing."
Tohka said, her eyes sparkling with excitent.
"…That's true. If it weren't that amazing, how could an ugly girl like possibly beco cute?"
Natsumi sat curled up in the corner of the sofa.
"That's not true. Natsumi is cute even without makeup."
Mikoto smiled as she stroked the girl's head and comforted her.
"Mm-hm, exactly. A girl as cute as Natsumi-san isn't sothing you can find just anywhere."
On the other side, Miku grabbed Natsumi's thigh and rubbed her cheek against it. Natsumi made a sound like a cat whose fur had puffed up, then jumped onto the backrest of the sofa.
"Well, even so, that man really didn't understand his own wife at all."
On the other side, Kotori said while biting her Chupa Chups.
"Agreed. If it is Shido , I am confident I could identify him within 0.5 seconds."
Origami nodded. It sounded exaggerated, but Mikoto, who had shared mories of the original worldline through Shido, knew that she was absolutely not joking.
No matter whether Shido disguised himself as Shiori or anything else, he could not escape Origami's eyes.
"Kukuku, hearing your words has given a fine idea. Why don't we stage a grand masquerade and see whether Shido can identify our true identities from within this chaotic ball?"
"Agreent. Let us see whether Shido can recognize us after makeup."
Kaguya proposed a strange idea, and Yuzuru expressed agreent.
"But, but, if you want to make everyone look so different that they can't be recognized, that might be a little difficult."
Yoshinon waved its short arms as it spoke.
The rabbit puppet was right. After all, the Spirits were all stunning beauties. No matter how they were made up, they could not beco so beautiful that they were unrecognizable. Or rather, cuteness and beauty beyond that simply did not exist.
"Ah, but if we make everyone ugly, then that should be no problem."
Yoshinon continued.
However, that proposal was rejected. Girls all loved beauty.
"If… there were a way to directly beco soone else…"
Yoshino said softly. If becoming even more beautiful was impossible, then simply transforming into soone else would work.
"Ah… wait a mont…"
Hearing Yoshino's words, Natsumi froze for a mont. Then she jumped down from the sofa's backrest, sat on the sofa, and closed her eyes.
A short while later…
"Yah!"
Along with a tiny scream, Natsumi's body emitted a faint amount of spirit power.
"Could it be…"
Seeing Natsumi like that, Mikoto suddenly had a very subtle premonition.
"Mm. I recovered a tiny bit of spirit power. In that case, I can turn everyone into soone else."
Natsumi nodded.
[As expected of the child who stole Yoshino's throne as the number one most emotionally unstable Spirit.]
Mikoto thought with a wry smile.
"Unfortunately, although Natsumi's spirit power has recovered, it hasn't reached the point where everyone can transform."
Reine said as she fiddled with her computer from where she sat nearby.
"Well, there's no need to go that far."
Kotori sighed. Although the suggestion Kaguya made was interesting, and she also wanted to know whether Shido could recognize her without relying on appearance, causing a Spirit's spirit power to flow in reverse for sothing like this was still not right.
"By the way, what exactly did you imagine?"
Kotori then asked. She did not know what kind of imagination Natsumi had relied on to cause her spirit power to flow backward, but if possible, they should try to avoid such a situation from happening in reality later.
"Huh? A-actually, I imagined Tohka."
Hearing Kotori's question, Natsumi lowered her head awkwardly.
"Huh? ?"
"Mm. You see, Tohka is super cute and super pretty, right? So I imagined myself walking down the street with Tohka, and when I ntioned that makeup had made prettier…
"Tohka smiled and said to , 'So makeup is that amazing? I never use makeup at all.' Sothing like that."
Natsumi said weakly.
"That really is… saddening."
Mikoto smiled wryly. The contrast between a girl who beca pretty through makeup, and a girl who was an unrivaled beauty even barefaced, was simply too cruel.
"I'm sorry! I'm sorry! As expected, using Tohka as the reference for my imagination was wrong, wasn't it?"
Natsumi kept bowing and apologizing.
"No, it's fine."
Tohka shook her head, then smiled innocently.
"Because I really don't use makeup."
"Puchi!"
Hearing Tohka's words, Natsumi looked as if a sword had pierced her heart. She clutched her chest and collapsed.
"Tohka…"
Mikoto looked at the overly airheaded girl with a wry smile. Tohka had not realized at all what kind of critical hit her "comforting" words had dealt to Natsumi.
Not just Mikoto. Most of the others were looking at Tohka with expressions that said they did not even know where to begin retorting. Tohka herself rely tilted her head blankly, completely failing to grasp what had happened.
"Should I call this childish innocence? Sotis, natural airheads hurt people more than black bellied schers."
Kotori looked at Natsumi and sighed helplessly.
"Ah, as of now, the reversed spirit power is sufficient."
Reine said while adding sugar to her coffee and glancing at the screen.
anwhile, at the ga center.
"So, you asked out today just to buy this?"
Shido shook the strap in his hand and said helplessly. It was rchandise of a heroine from a certain gal ga. Apparently, it was only being sold today, and limited to one per person.
"Sorry, Itsuka. But since it's Liliko's rchandise, not being able to buy one extra to keep for collection really leaves unable to accept it!"
"Yes, yes."
Looking at Tonomachi, who had fallen in love with a 2D girl, Shido said helplessly.
"Shido… san…"
At that mont, he heard a familiar voice. Turning his head, he saw Yoshino, who had sohow arrived at the ga center.
"Yoshino? You're not with everyone else?"
He asked in puzzlent. It was quite unexpected that the shy Yoshino would go out alone.
"Huh? Um… actually…"
"What is it? Is there sothing you want to buy?"
Seeing Yoshino fidgeting, Shido asked.
"No… actually…"
"Speaking of which, Yoshinon is really quiet today."
At that mont, Shido noticed that Yoshinon, who would usually jump out to help whenever Yoshino was flustered, had not said a single word.
"Uu… Yoshinon… this… um…"
Hearing Shido's question, Yoshino beca even more flustered.
"Uooooh, what's this? Is that cute kid also part of your harem?"
At that mont, Tonomachi interrupted their conversation, also drawing Shido's attention.
"She's not part of a harem!"
Shido blushed and retorted. He did not notice that, at that mont, Yoshino lightly patted her chest, as if she had relaxed.
"Damn it! You riajuu! Itsuka harem king ! Since you already have so many girls in your harem, at least give your little sister, brother in law!"
"Don't joke around. I'm not giving Kotori to you! Also, who's your brother?!"
Hearing Tonomachi's wild nonsense, Shido said angrily.
"Shido…" (TL:ahh..it's her)
However, he did not notice that Yoshino, who was standing beside him, showed a touched expression after hearing those words.
"What? So you really are going to make a move on your little sister too? Not only do you have a harem, you're even a depraved guy with both a lolicon attribute and a siscon attribute!"
"What nonsense are you talking about?! Who would make a move on his own little sister?!"
However, the emotion on the girl's face vanished without a trace in the next instant.
"Uu…"
After standing stiffly in place for several seconds as if struck by lightning, Yoshino put the puppet on her hand into her mouth, then took a black ribbon from her pocket and tied her blue hair into twin-tails.
User Comments
0 comments from readers