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“Senior! Senior-!”

A knock on the door.

Consciousness gradually returned. Vita slowly raised her eyelids in a dazed state.

‘… What is it, who is it?’

A question like that occurred to me, and I rolled around on the bed.

“Gasp-!”

Suddenly, I came to my senses and realized my situation.

Right now, I am none other than a woman. And all night long…

When he got up, Vita’s face turned red as he saw the naked body right under his eyes.

“… Oh, no.”

How immersed must you have been that you passed out and didn’t even put on your underwear?

I looked at my watch and realized it was almost lunchtime.

‘Who is it? This weekend?’

After thinking for a moment, Vita looked for Madopon first.

To put it simply, Madopon is a very convenient means of communication. With just this one thing, you can contact people regardless of time or place.

[2 absence notifications.]

– Senior, it’s Lou. How did the duel go?

– Did something happen? I heard some strange rumors.

The situation has been assessed.

The guy outside right now is probably his close junior, Lu Millionaire. It should be obvious.

Vita’s junior by one semester and a member of the Libra dormitory.

It’s a dormitory for quirky students whose slogan is intelligence and exploration, and in fact, that junior is quite a unique guy.

After recalling that fact, Vita put on her clothes and started to crack her fingers.

‘Welcome, you.’

It was Luke who introduced me to ‘that medicine’.

Of course, if you think about it, it was done out of good intentions, so there was nothing wrong with it. But still, can’t you help but feel annoyed?

[I’ll open the door for you, so come in.]

Vita wrote a reply and immediately opened the door.

“Come in, senior?”

Then Lou comes in.

Two times- two times-

A guy who is unnecessarily cute for a guy.

Light pink curly hair, large green eyes. He is the same height as his female counterpart.

“Wow- Oh my… !”

Vita pounced on the back of Lou’s head like a cat.

You get hit for a while.

Even though her body has changed into that of a woman, the reason she is still slim is because Vita has been working out for a long time.

“Who, who are you-?!”

Lu, a boy from Libra Dormitory, was really embarrassed.

“If you don’t know, die.”

“Eek, what?!”

Clearly, he had come to his senior Vita’s room, but why was there a mysterious beauty there?

“No, who are you?!”

I’m almost out of my mind.

Even though I was wearing an armband, it didn’t actually hurt.

What should I say, instead?

The girl’s unique skin and scent were felt for a moment. It was too much stimulation for Lou, who had no immunity.

“Does it hurt, huh?!”

No matter how I look at this situation. Is this the lucky skebe I’ve only heard of?!

As she walked, her top rolled up slightly, revealing her white flesh. Lou’s green eyes were filled with confusion. How defenseless and natural was this?

So, his face soon turned red like a tomato, and Lou screamed.

“Ah, it hurts-!”

“Why are you being so sarcastic?”

Vita let go of his arm.

But I can still reveal the truth to this guy. He was my closest friend to begin with, and he was the main culprit involved in the incident.

“It’s me, Vita.”

When Vita told the truth, Lou’s expression became blank.

“Uh, huh…?”

“I’m your senior, Vita.”

Lou grimaced.

“… Don’t lie.”

Short, curly pink hair and gentle green eyes.

At first glance, the cute little guy had a slightly unusual personality.

It wasn’t for nothing that she was assigned to the Libra dorm. She blushes a lot, but she keeps saying what she wants to say.

“There’s no way a pretty girl like you would be an otaku senpai…!”

Bam-

Yeah, I’m going to get a hawk. Just like that.

***

“What, huh?”

“Yes… Sorry.”

It was Lou who was kneeling, holding a chestnut in his hand.

“What kind of a jerk is that? You should call him a model student.”

It was an unacceptable statement for Vita’s lofty pride.

It’s true that his interpersonal relationships aren’t very wide, but they’re surprisingly narrow.

The words are different and the meaning is different.

After all, I was just busy studying and didn’t want to expand my meaningless relationships.

“So-called friends. There are those who say they are friends but are meaningless, and those who are not.”

Because we have a relationship where we truly give strength to each other.

It’s one thing to have dozens of shallow friends, and another to have at least one truly genuine friend.

“Senior, you’re the latter?”

Vita nodded, quite confidently.

“Yeah, that’s right. It’s a relationship between men.”

That was indeed the case. In fact, he probably didn’t know that he had been building an iron wall around himself with that thought.

Lou nodded as he encountered lengthy rationalizations as to why he had no friends.

That baseless confidence, that innate ego.

“What did you just say is true… ”

Because I’m like Senior Vita.

Vita just sighed as she looked at that Rue.

Of course, it might be hard to believe.

If a senior you were close with suddenly becomes a woman, you’ll feel cognitive dissonance. Well, I completely understand.

“I don’t know, Lou?”

Well then, I guess I’ll have to prove it.

“That damn weird potion you introduced me to caused this.”

“That… A.”

Soon an odd silence fell between the two.

In the first place, no one else knows about the medicine, that is, except for those two.

“Really, really…?”

Remembering that fact, Lou’s expression changed.

Now that I look at it again, it’s clear that the senior I remember has the same hair and eye color.

“By any chance, your younger sister…?”

“Don’t you know that I’m the youngest of the four brothers?”

“What anime does your senior like?”

Lou came out of nowhere. Vita answered the question right away.

“Magical Girl Eve Rosaline.”

“What is your favorite famous scene?”

“The scene where the protagonist awakens in front of the villain Jackal. I told you.”

“Why did you like that part?”

“Because it’s a scene where the protagonist who didn’t give up is rewarded.”

Lou, with a nervous expression, continued to ask questions.

After perfectly answering a dozen or so questions in a row, Vita hammered home the point.

“Would you believe me if I told you this? Last time, we went to the cosplay festival together. We even took a picture with cosplayer Lala there.”

You even know the name of the cosplay. Your otaku instinct tells you.

This is definitely a similar thing.

The many memories we shared, the words and actions that were no different from those of a senior I knew.

After a long moment of silence, Lou soon came to understand.

“Really… Senior Vita?”

The senior I was close with suddenly turned into a woman?

***

Lou and Vita were close friends.

First of all, both of them are otaku. They first met by chance at a cosplay festival.

Did they say that they are like each other? Did they say that they are like birds of a feather flock together?

We became quite close because we had something in common: we were both short for a man and had a complex about our cute looks.

So I definitely thought the recent rumors were strange.

In Lou’s opinion.

-Hey, did you hear? Vita Shamal ran away.

-I heard some girl came out there instead?

Okay, that’s right.

Who is Vita Shamal? There is no way this person, the embodiment of competitive spirit, would run away.

“That was… a senior.”

“That’s right, it’s me.”

A rather solemn atmosphere.

Lou knew how much Vita had pursued masculinity and how competitive he was. But wasn’t it just him who had caused trouble?

“… Sorry, senior.”

Originally, I knew how to distinguish between when I was being whiny and when I needed to make a serious apology. And now is that time.

From Vita’s perspective, it looked like a small pink ball of fur lying face down. It was so cute for a boy that he couldn’t help but feel weak.

After sighing for a moment, Vita opened her mouth.

“No, Lou. If you think about it, it’s not really your fault. Who am I to blame?”

It’s all my fault. I was just punished for daring to cheat in a sacred match. It’s just the price I pay for my ugliness.

“So, get up.”

But for some reason, Lou didn’t move at all. He just buried his head in his hands.

“Hey, what are you doing?”

“Phuhat-!”

After a while, Vita’s face turned red as she saw Rue’s pupils shaking in confusion. Only then did she realize the situation.

‘No, no way…’

I was in a hurry to get dressed earlier, so I stuffed the underwear that had fallen out under the bed. At that moment, Luga was looking at the place with his head stuck in it…

“That, senior… I didn’t mean to!”

“Die, just-!”

An additional bump developed on Lou’s rounded crown.

One that hit at first, and one that just now.

When Vita paused for a moment, wondering if he had hit her for nothing, Lou frowned and suddenly spoke.

“Sniff sniff… Senior… ?”

“Why, again?”

“That, somehow… there’s a strange smell in the room… ”

Because he could guess what the smell was, Vita, who flinched for no reason, let out a “squeak” sound.

“This is, really! Where are you saying that it smells in a woman’s room?! That’s bad manners.”

“No, then. What should I do if it smells?”

Anyway, I heard that Libra guys have no empathy? They have very little sensitivity.

“Haa… Lu. That’s why you haven’t had a girlfriend until now.”

Vita got a little stung and overreacted.

If I had known this guy was coming, I would have ventilated the room a little.

The silent guy, who had been pouting, stuck out his lips and made a timid rebuttal.

“… Even my senior doesn’t have a girlfriend.”

First of all, Vita Shamal is also a sly person. It is a well-known fact that he is clumsy when it comes to dealing with women.

“… This is really true.”

“Or is it now that my senior is my girlfriend?”

“Are you crazy, you?!”

“Joke, joke.”

Before another lump could form, Lou changed the subject.

“Anyway, senior. What are you going to do now? Does everyone know this fact?”

“Of course my family knows.”

I have no intention of revealing this to my other friends.

“Except for two or three people you meet as often as me, can you even say?”

“Sure, maybe.”

Vita sighed and shook her head.

“What should I do? I should just live like this for now and then go back to being a man.”

Shy- Shy-

Hesitating again. Even if you don’t sympathize with the story, you’re probably getting ready to talk nonsense.

“But, senior. Maybe it wouldn’t be so bad to live the life of a pretty girl for once… ”

“Are you treating me like a woman, now?”

Bam-

Another bump appeared on Lou’s head.

But even as he touched his head, Lou thought to himself.

‘Medicine is truly scary.’

Just now, I got hit with a chestnut for saying that there was a smell in a woman’s room, and now I got hit with another chestnut for treating her like a woman.

‘… This kind of change is already happening. It’s scary, senior.’

It seems that my senior has definitely become a woman. Vita had no idea what Ru was thinking.

***

After Lou went back, Vita calmed down.

-So, senior. How did the duel go?

Now that she knows that the woman in the rumor is Vita, Vita gives a vague answer to Lou who asks about it.

They said it was a draw.

Since there is no evidence at all, it’s not like it’s wrong, right?

Yeah, right.

It’s not a moral victory.

But after that, he kept asking me what kind of event I had played and how it ended in a draw.

Vita, whose face was red, forcibly sent Lou out. Asking useless questions.

“ha-”

I’ve been sighing more and more these days.

I revealed the truth to Ru due to unexpected circumstances, but Ru was my closest friend to begin with. If I had to pick one best friend I made at this academy, it would definitely be him.

‘… Well, I guess it’s okay.’

I think he’s definitely a tight-lipped guy, despite his looks.

Vita lay in bed, her thoughts running wild. Memories of the past two days came flooding back to her.

‘Forget it, forget it.’

Vita tried hard to rationalize to herself that she had only momentarily given in to physiological needs.

A sudden thought occurred to me and I opened the window. I should get some fresh air.

I feel the cool autumn breeze on my bare face and calm my mind again.

‘Until I turn back into a man…!’

From now on, I will never be swayed by desire.

I firmly promise that it will never happen again.

The worry that suddenly comes to mind is-

“Ah… That’s right.”

I had forgotten about this, but looking at the calendar, I can clearly see that tomorrow is the start of school.

I guess it means that my life has been so lazy lately that I have unconsciously forgotten this fact.

Vita reflected again. At the same time, she felt lost.

I’m a little used to going to the bathroom now, but I’m not used to the female lifestyle. When I met Lou earlier, I was wearing men’s clothes.

What should I do from now on? How should I really live as a woman?

What should I do about the dormitory?

“Ugh… ”

I really have so many worries that I can’t find an answer.

And, if.

‘What if I can’t go back…?’

If I have to continue living like this as a woman.

My eyes are getting dark. I don’t want that.

When Vita was wrapping her head in worries of all kinds.

-Ah, ahh…

Suddenly, a broadcast is heard.

-Student Bianca Shamal, please come to the principal’s office when you hear this broadcast.

It was a call from the teachers’ office.

***

At that time, the school playground.

Under the cool autumn sky, male students with their shirts off were sweating profusely.

Two-Bounce Game. A fast-paced game where you dribble the ball twice and then immediately shoot. It’s all about fast tempo and individual skills.

“Hey, stop it-!”

All eyes on the court are now on Carlyle.

Two golden eyes sparkling between sweat-soaked black hair, and her dry, loose hair blows lightly in the wind.

Like a beast on the hunt.

Using his lightning speed and superior physical strength, he quickly overtakes two of them, then fakes for a moment to overtake the other one.

And, shoot-

“Oh, shit.”

“How do you win this.”

“Oh, as expected.”

Of course, the shot went in.

Amidst mixed reactions.

After Carlyle high-fived his teammates and took off his shirt to drink water, someone came up to him and spoke.

“Hey, Carlyle-! They called me from the principal’s office?”

Carlyle, who was just brushing back his sweat-soaked bangs, paused for a moment at those words.

There’s still a game left, but I have a guess.

Because there’s a name I heard on the in-house broadcast earlier.

‘Bianca is in the teachers’ office now…?’

Yeah, probably.

It was an easy decision to make.

As Carlyle put down his water bottle and hurriedly put on his clothes, surprised eyes followed him.

“What is it, go?”

“Yeah, thanks.”

In a word, my way.

Even if it was a call from the principal’s office, I might not have gone if it was Carlyle Schultz before. But this time it was different.

Well, actually.

It’s easy to guess why he called himself.

Carlyle, who was walking, found himself smiling without realizing it.