By now, a fair number of people had already gathered around the kagura hall.
As Shido squeezed his way into the crowd, the solemn beat of the drums rang out. At the sa ti, Mikoto, dressed in a chihaya, wearing a golden crown, and holding gold and silver fans, slowly walked to the center of the kagura hall.
The kagura flute played a sacred lody for the ritual, and the girl began to dance.
Mikoto's dance was dignified and clear. Each movent of her hands and feet gave off the clean purity of a shrine maiden, and the beauty of a young girl.
[She's amazing…]
Shido stared at Mikoto on the stage without blinking.
As faith had faded with ti, kagura dance had slowly beco a simple ceremony. Aside from parishioners who still kept their faith, or ani fans chard by shrine maidens, very few people paid attention to this solemn dance, which could even look a little stiff.
But Mikoto's dance changed Shido's idea of kagura.
It was beautiful, pure, and impossible to look away from. The girl danced like A no Uzu(goddess of dawn, mirth, revelry, and the performing arts in Japanese mythology) herself, offering to the people, and to the deity of the shrine, a graceful dance so beautiful that it could make Amaterasu co out of the Amano Iwato(Heavenly Rock Cave).
(TL:DAMN IT, this novel used so many japanese mythology term and na, ugh! so annoying to search)
After setting down the gold and silver fans, Mikoto changed to kagura bells tied with five colored ribbons. She moved her wrist, making the bells ring with a clear sound.
For a mont, the people watching even forgot to speak.
Only the music of the kagura dance remained around them, weaving together with Mikoto's movents, intoxicating like fine wine.
When the dance ended, applause burst out from the crowd.
[!!!]
Mikoto slowly stepped back from the kagura hall. And in the instant she disappeared behind the stage, Shido saw the girl smile sweetly in his direction.
Once he realized that it definitely was not his imagination, his face quickly turned red.
"Yo, isn't this Itsuka Harem?"
At that mont, a hand patted his shoulder. When Shido turned around, he saw the upperclassn wearing very "friendly" smiles.
[This is bad!]
Shido quietly blad himself for being careless. He had known Mikoto would be performing a kagura dance, but he had forgotten to stay alert for the upperclassn who were very likely to appear nearby.
[Right! Tonomachi!]
Not far away, his friend Tonomachi happened to look over. So Shido sent him a desperate signal with his eyes.
However—
[Go in peace, Itsuka.]
Tonomachi rely raised his thumb and gave him a bright smile.
"Co on, let's have a little talk over there."
And so, Shido was forcefully taken to a dark corner of the shrine.
"What exactly are you trying to do?"
Looking at the three people who had driven him into a corner, Shido showed a wary look.
"Let's be honest, Itsuka. What exactly is your relationship with Mikoto-chan?"
One of them asked.
"J-just… ordinary friends."
[Yes, Shido and I are just ordinary friends who have kissed, gone on dates, and who have cook at his house every day.]
The mont Shido said that, he could not help rembering the girl's dark, teasing smile.
"Ordinary… friends…"
"Don't joke with us. Would ordinary friends cook for you every day?"
"As expected, if we want this guy to tell the truth, we have to use this."
As the upperclassn spoke, they took out sothing wrapped in several layers of plastic from a bag.
Looking closely, it was a candied apple.
"Don't tell …"
Shido's eyes widened. He rembered a certain extrely dangerous sweet.
"That's right! This is a surströmming(TL:it's that one super slly canned fish) flavored candied apple!"
"Feed it to him!"
"Carry that stink on you and be hated by Mikoto-chan for the rest of your life!"
The instant the wrapping was torn open, a horrible stench spread out.
"Stop it!"
Looking at that terrifying weapon of mass destruction, Shido felt his stomach twist. However—
"Urgh…"
"N-no good…"
"It stinks. It really stinks too much!"
Before they could even feed it to him, the three upperclassn themselves nearly collapsed under the power of the candied apple.
They had no choice but to seal that demonic food back inside the cellophane.
"Damn it…"
"Anyway, hurry up and confess."
"First base? Second base? Don't tell … ho run?" (TL:They an have Shido and Mikoto gone ABC all the way already)
"T-there was no ho run! We just slept normally!" (TL:there's no saving blud)
Looking at the upperclassn, who were still closing in on him even though the sll had not yet faded, Shido could not help shouting.
"Just…"
"Normally…"
"Slept…"
However, in the next instant, the three of them showed expressions like they were about to kill soone.
[This is bad!]
Only then did Shido realize that, in his panic, he seed to have leaked so extrely dangerous information.
"There is no other way."
"We have to use that."
"Yeah, let's use that to punish the riajuu Itsuka!"
As if they had discussed it beforehand, the three of them took down the bundle from their backs. Inside were—
A wig and a yukata. (TL: oh hell naw, this is spicy as hell aahahhahahah)
"Wait! What are you doing? Why do you even have those things with you?"
Shido understood very well what those were. There was no other reason: ever since Mikoto appeared, he had already tried on those forbidden clothes more than once.
"What are we doing? Of course we're going to make you wear won's clothes and appear in front of Mikoto-chan as a crossdressing pervert!"
"Co on, co on. We prepared all of this just for you."
"We guessed you would co to the festival, so we specially prepared this outfit and wig."
Facing the three people closing in step by step, Shido had nowhere to run.
And then—
"Eek—!"
Along with a series of screams, Shiori-chan, wearing a white yukata patterned with irises and long flowing hair, appeared before the three of them.
"This… is bad."
"What do we do… huh?"
"Yeah, let's leave it like this… huh?"
The three of them looked at the pitiful Shido and completely forgot about throwing the crossdressed him in front of Mikoto.
After looking at each other for a while, they all said at once:
"She's so cute, it's acceptable!" x3 (TL:heh~)
"W-what? Wait! Wake up already! From a biological point of view, this is strange, right?"
Watching the three of them change from hatred into so kind of rotten gaze, Shido's inner alarm bell rang violently.
"No, no, no. I don't know why, but if it's Itsuka Shi—Shidomi-san, I think it's fine."
"It's not Shidomi, it's Shiori!"
"Then, Shiori-chan, look. Compared to a girl, doesn't Shiori-chan look even more erotic?"
"What part is erotic? Exactly what part is erotic—!?"
"Anyway, Shiori-chan, since you're a boy, I think you should try everything boldly!"
"I don't want to try it! Don't co any closer!"
As the three of them kept approaching, Shido sat on the ground and backed away using both his hands and feet.
Then, just as the upperclassn's hands were about to touch him—
"What are you people doing to Shido?"
Thwack, thwack, thwack!
Three talismans accurately struck the backs of their heads, knocking them unconscious.
"Shido… are you… all right?"
After finishing the kagura dance, Mikoto had heard from visitors that Shido had been taken away. Following the direction they pointed out, she ca to this dark corner and saw Shido surrounded by the three of them.
After knocking the three out with talismans wrapped in small spirit energy, she walked forward.
But what entered her eyes was Shido, for so reason, dressed as a girl.
Whoosh—boom!
At that mont, the fireworks display began.
Borrowing the light from the sky, what entered Mikoto's eyes was Shiori-chan, wearing a white yukata, sitting on the ground while trembling, tears even shining in the corners of her eyes. She looked so pitiful and lovely that one could not help wanting to hold her and dote on her. (TL: so certain person would love this sight)
"Um… so Shido, no, Shiori-chan likes boys? And it was even f… fou… fourso?"
Mikoto looked at the three n on the ground, covered her reddening cheeks with her sleeve, and whispered.
"That's— not— it—!"
One bright point of light after another flew into the night sky, cruelly drowning out Shido's tearful explanation under the sound of exploding fireworks.
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