When I took the Ring of Reversal and the Ring of False Darkness out of my inventory and equipped them, the space around me rippled as if it were distorting, and my appearance changed.
“Haa....”
When I let out a deep sigh, what came out was not my low voice, but a clear, high-pitched one.
“Kyaa~! Miss Miyuki, you’re back!”
The culprit who had turned me into this immediately latched onto me, praising me as if I were something wonderful and starting to touch me all over, while Miss Len just stared at me in confusion, unable to say a word.
“So the [spirit] is Len’s essence, in other words the shape of her heart, huh... Kuu, that’s cool... a bandage [spirit]. She’ll definitely do something like release her restraints near the end...”
Even then, Miss Kaguya kept staring at Miss Len’s [spirit] with obvious envy.
“Uh... could Hieta maybe be a hermaphrodite or something?”
Miss Len said that while looking at me.
I understood that, from her point of view, a man had suddenly turned into a woman, so I could at least understand why she’d say something like that.
Yes, I understood.
I just couldn’t accept it.
“What are you talking about, Miss Len....”
“You were a man just now, but now you’re a woman. If you have both, then that’s a hermaphrodite... isn’t it?”
“....”
I hated myself for being unable to refute her, because she was right.
‘No, if I’m going to argue, this is only what I look like on the outside...’
My insides were clearly male and only my appearance was female, but that was a pointless argument anyway, since everyone else would only see a woman.
“That feeling on her chest!”
“Hey! Where are you touching?!”
When the hand that had been roaming around my waist moved up to my chest, I was so startled that I jumped away from Miku.
Miku was already radiating the aura of a predator that had found its prey, licking her lips.
In other words, escape was impossible.
“Please stay still, Miss Miyuki!”
Miku rushed over at twice her usual speed and wrapped me in a hug from behind.
Since she wasn’t an enemy, I couldn’t attack her, so I had no choice but to let myself be restrained.
“Sss, haa.... Miss Miyuki, you smell nice too....”
“No, wait a second. Miyuki means...”
“That’s what Yoshinon was talking about earlier.”
When Miss Len muttered that with a confused expression, Itsuka-kun answered her, and her face twisted a little.
“Then Miyuki was Hieta’s female form...?”
“...Yes. I’m Miyuki.”
We’d only just met, and yet not only had she found out I could turn into a woman, but even my name in that state had been exposed, so my face burned.
I’m not usually the type to feel embarrassed, but it felt like I’d been stripped naked for everyone to see, and right now I just wanted to die.
‘I didn’t think my secret would be exposed this fast...’
With Miku around, it was a secret that would eventually come out, but I thought it would only be after we’d gotten somewhat close.
But no, Miku had once again become the variable, and I’d been exposed immediately.
So I covered my burning face with both hands and lowered my head.
“You’re cute even when you’re embarrassed!!!”
At that, Miku completely lost it and squeezed my body even tighter.
Then, with that soft sensation pressing in from behind, I could feel my face heating up even more.
“Mm... I see. So this is what TS is.”
“Where did you even learn that from...?”
“More importantly, could you stop the other one?”
Wondering what was going on, I spread my fingers and looked through them at Miss Len, only to see that Miss Kaguya was still examining and touching Miss Len’s [spirit].
It struck me all over again that if Miku was obsessed with women, then that side was obsessed with chuunibyou, and I pushed Miku away.
“Hey, hey, knock it off already.”
“It’s been so long since I’ve seen Miss Miyuki. Please let me enjoy this a little longer!”
It was true that Miku and I went to different schools, and since she was an idol she was busy with work, we hadn’t met very often.
Even when we had time to meet, I’d always shown up in my usual male form, so the number of times she’d seen me as Miyuki could be counted on one hand.
So I could understand why she was this obsessed to a degree.
“How far are you planning to reach?!”
I did not think the hand that had been on my chest needed to keep moving lower and lower.
“A bandage... [spirit]... cool...”
“Hey, she’s not listening to a word I’m saying.”
“Apologies. Our Kaguya has caused you trouble.”
At least the normal one, Miss Yuzuru, was able to stop Miss Kaguya in this situation while I was trapped by Miku, so that was a relief.
I could physically pull Miku off me, but if I did that, I might end up hurting her, so I couldn’t.
So now I had no choice but to rely on Miss Yuzuru.
“Though she does seem very interested. She has the exact same eyes she had when she was looking at the dragon keychain at the souvenir shop.”
Wrong.
It seemed like that side was so devoted to Miss Kaguya that she wasn’t even thinking about stopping her.
“K-Kaguya? Maybe you should stop now....”
“Wearing bandages and restraints on her arms too... wouldn’t that look cool if we added it to our [spirit] too?”
Itsuka-kun tried his best to stop her, but by then Miss Kaguya could no longer hear his voice.
I knew that when people focus too hard they stop noticing what’s around them, but I wondered just how focused she had to be to end up like that.
Come to think of it, Miku’s hand seemed to be heading somewhere else....
“M-Miku! That’s enough!”
Miku was trying to slip her hand inside my clothes and touch my chest.
Last time, at least I’d been wearing an undershirt because I was thinking of it as cross-dressing, but right now I wasn’t wearing one at all, so I grabbed her arm and pulled her off me.
“What the hell are you doing!”
“Haa, haa, Miss Miyuki....”
“This is insane....”
Miku had completely lost her reason at the sight of my female body after so long.
Watching her like that, I rubbed my throbbing temple and brought down the side of my hand on the top of her head, knocking her out.
“Phew....”
Once I was out of the situation where my dignity as a human being was being threatened, I let out a sigh of relief.
I thought I should avoid turning into a woman in front of Miku from now on, and took off both rings and put them back into my inventory.
‘Honestly, staying in a female body isn’t good for my mental health.’
How bad could it be if my HP had already been cut in half?
Seeing that my HP, which was based on mental strength, had dropped by half, I turned around, secretly drank an Estus, and walked over to Miss Kaguya, who was still touching Miss Len.
Miss Kaguya was still in the middle of staring at Len’s [spirit].
“Miss Kaguya?”
I called her name and was about to tell her to stop.
“Um, Miss Kaguya?”
No matter how many times I called, I got no answer back.
“Miss Kaguya? Hey, Miss Kaguya?”
I kept calling, but she still didn’t come to her senses, and I could only shake my head at the way she kept staring at Miss Len’s [spirit].
I hadn’t expected it to be this bad, so while I was thinking about how to pry Miss Kaguya away, I came up with a good idea.
“Miss Kaguya.”
“Kyaa!”
Just to tease her a little, I leaned close to Miss Kaguya’s ear while she was focused and whispered softly, and she grabbed her ear and toppled backward.
“Oops, that was dangerous.”
Luckily, I caught her back before she fell all the way over, so she didn’t hit the ground.
“W-Wh-wh-wh-what are you doing!”
“What did I do?”
“Y-You just whispered in my ear...!”
Watching Miss Kaguya’s face turn red as she protested made me wonder why I felt a little sadistic.
I told myself it was because her normally over-the-top speech had turned into plain, ordinary words, and that made her even cuter, then finished rationalizing it to myself and said to Miss Kaguya,
“You should stop now. Miss Len is getting uncomfortable.”
“I-I know this is my fault, but this is a little much, isn’t it?!”
Miss Kaguya stood up and said that to me, but honestly, I judged that if I hadn’t gone this far, she wouldn’t have stopped.
“Who was it that kept being called from the side and didn’t even listen?”
“W-What? I did that?”
“Explanation. Hii kept calling Kaguya from the side. But Kaguya was only looking at the new spirit’s clothes.”
“I did do that.”
When Miss Yuzuru and Itsuka-kun testified, Miss Kaguya wore a blank expression for a moment before apologizing to Miss Len.
“Ahem. Sorry, I just... Still, the way this bandage is wrapped so loosely is kind of clever, if I’m being honest...”
Still unable to come to her senses and obsessing over the bandages, Miss Yuzuru shook her head and grabbed the napes of unconscious Miku and Miss Kaguya.
“Arrest. Now then, Kaguya, Miku, let’s be going. It would be troublesome if the new spirit thought all seniors were like this.”
“Ah! J-Just a little longer...!”
Miss Kaguya tried to resist, but Miss Yuzuru was stronger, and she was dragged off without being able to hold out.
“Dismissal. Then we’ll excuse ourselves here. Note. Len, Kaguya and Miku are like this, but they truly are welcoming you. Please understand that much.”
“Miss Yuzuru is right. Their behavior may be a little odd and uncomfortable, but there’s no malice in it at all.”
Both of them were just a little off from normal people, so they’d reacted that way, but they weren’t doing it to make Miss Len uncomfortable or to bully her.
It was probably more accurate to call it a kind of accident....
“Yeah... I could feel that painfully well. And... I saw it myself too.”
“Please don’t say that while looking at me....”
Miss Len pointedly mentioned the fact that Miku had made me turn into Miyuki.
Thanks to that, my face felt like it was heating up all over again.
“Relief. Is that so. Then.”
Still, perhaps because Miss Len didn’t seem to think badly of them, Miss Yuzuru looked a little relieved as she dragged Kaguya and Miku away.
“Aah! The bandageseeee――!!!”
I decided the desperate scream I heard in the process was just my imagination.
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