"Ah! Found you!"
Just as the two walked out of the shop, satisfied, they happened to run into a sowhat familiar woman who looked about twenty-five years old.
"Honestly, why weren't you answering your phone, Miku?"
Shido knew that person. Her na was Kurebayashi Subaru, Miku's manager.
"Huh? Who are you?"
Miku seed to have completely failed to recognize her and tilted her head strangely.
"What do you an, who am I? I know you wanted so private ti over the weekend, Miku. Unfortunately—your schedule changed. An advertisent shoot originally set for Monday has been moved to today due to unavoidable circumstances."
As she spoke, she walked over and took Miku's hand. If she had not seen the online posts saying that Izayoi Miku had appeared in Tengu City's shopping district, she would not even have known where to look for her.
"Sorry, Shido-kun. I'll be taking Miku with first."
While dragging Miku away, she turned her head and continued:
"By the way, you two are not on a date, right?"
"Huh? O-of course not!"
Facing that gaze, which seed capable of killing, Shido shook his head like a rattle drum. As Miku's manager, Subaru-san was extrely opposed to Miku getting caught up in scandals, and Shido knew that very well.
"Good. In that case, we'll be leaving."
And so, Subaru-san dragged Miku by the arm, completely ignoring the poor girl as she cried out, "Let go of !" She forcibly pulled her into the car.
"Haha… ahaha…"
All Shido could do was laugh dryly and wave goodbye. Perhaps precisely because she loved Miku and wanted her to beco the most famous idol, Subaru-san was very Spartan when it ca to work.
"Good luck, Miku."
Shido sighed. As Miku's car gradually drove away, he also turned around and prepared to return ho.
As for what happened afterward—how the hugely popular idol Izayoi Miku appeared in a strawberry cream puff comrcial with a pure, innocent aura completely different from before, showing an expression overflowing with appetite, and received praise like "Just watching her makes that cream puff look delicious"—that was a story for another ti.
"Kukuku, next is our turn, the children of typhoon!"
"Discovery. We have found Shido."
Before he had walked far, Shido's footsteps stopped again.
"Kaguya, Yuzuru?"
The two before him were undoubtedly the Yamai sisters. And yet, for so reason, Shido felt a faint sense of incongruity.
The reason was this: Kaguya usually wore her hair tied up behind her, dressed in exaggerated clothes, and spoke in strange phrasing.
Yuzuru, on the other hand, wore her hair in a three-braid style. Compared to Kaguya, her clothes were more ordinary, though for so reason, every sentence she spoke was always prefaced with a two-character word.
And now…
"Kukuku, what is the matter, Shido? Have you lost your way within this masquerade?"
The girl speaking in exaggerated phrasing had her hair styled in three braids and wore fairly plain but still cute casual clothes.
"Request. Please identify which of us is Kaguya and which is Yuzuru."
On the other side, the girl with her hair tied up spoke with prefaced words, while wearing a black won's trench coat adorned with all sorts of strange accessories.
"Even if you ask to guess which one of you is Kaguya and which one is Yuzuru…"
Shido looked at the two of them in confusion. What exactly was going on today? The Spirits kept appearing in abnormal states one after another. Yoshino like Kotori. Miku like Tohka. Yuzuru like Kaguya. Kaguya like Yuzuru.
"Co, speak quickly. Whether you can pierce through this magic mirror woven by illusion shall be judged by us, the children of typhoon!"
"Question. Is Yuzuru truly Yuzuru, or is she Kaguya?"
However, there was no ti left. The Yamai sisters gradually closed in on him.
"Ugh…"
Shido narrowed his eyes and held his chin between his index finger and thumb, thinking hard. Since the two of them had asked this, it was very possible that Kaguya and Yuzuru had swapped identities.
When he thought about it carefully, if they changed their hairstyles, switched their speaking styles, and swapped their clothing preferences, Kaguya and Yuzuru—who already had the sa face—were essentially impossible to tell apart.
However, there was still one tiny difference.
"Right…"
No matter how they changed their tone, hairstyle, or clothing, Shido knew that Kaguya and Yuzuru still had a difference. His gaze moved downward, and with a red face, he glanced over the two girls's chests.
"I've got it. You are Yuzuru!"
He pointed at the girl with the three-braid hairstyle.
"And you are Kaguya!"
Then he pointed at the girl with her hair tied up.
"Hold on! First of all, you guessed wrong! And Shido, just what did you use to make that judgnt?!"
"Yuzuru" blushed and covered her chest with both hands as she shouted.
"Astonishnt. I did not expect there to be such a thod of distinction."
"Kaguya" also lowered her head in surprise, staring at the swelling of her chest.
"Even if you say that, considering Kaguya and Yuzuru can completely swap hairstyles, clothes, and speech patterns, the only way left to judge is by the che… chest, right?"
Shido scratched his cheek awkwardly, his gaze wandering as he spoke.
That was right. In fact, there were still differences between the twins. For example—Kaguya's chest was clearly smaller than Yuzuru's. It was not because he constantly observed girls' chests that he knew this. It was simply because Yuzuru had teased Kaguya about it more than once, so it was impossible for him not to know.
"Uuugh, I'm so frustrated! So frustrating! Why would I be mistaken because of chest size?!"
"Yuzuru" shouted, her temper flaring.
"Pride. Although Shido mistook Yuzuru and Kaguya, sohow—Yuzuru feels that she has won."
anwhile, "Kaguya" showed a slightly black-bellied smile.
"I guessed wrong?"
Shido had no idea what was happening. Especially since "Kaguya" was proudly sticking out a chest that was obviously a size smaller than "Yuzuru's," which made Shido even more confused.
"Guhhh… It's those devil fruits, isn't it?! Those fruits blinded Shido's soul and made him choose wrongly, didn't they?!"
"Protest. Please do not do this. Right now, Kaguya's chest is clearly the larger one."
In Shido's eyes, "Yuzuru" reached out with both hands to grope "Kaguya's" chest, while the latter emphasized the words "right now" and hid behind Shido, clutching her chest to avoid the attack.
"Damn it! Don't run!"
"Mockery. Since Kaguya's chest is currently larger than Yuzuru's, due to air resistance, Yuzuru cannot be caught."
The two began circling around Shido.
"Stop right there!"
"Refuse. I will not stop."
In the end, while chasing each other, the two ran off into the distance, leaving Shido standing there alone in a daze.
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