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8. Aftercare (4)

Suddenly, I started to feel a little creepy when I saw Yeonseo looking at me with her eyes turned pitch black.

” What are you talking about all of a sudden?! Hurry up and move your hand away! Sigh… ”

” This…this…! Monster…! How on earth…?! How did you do it!!! ”

” So… So… What are you talking about! ”

A strange sensation started to rise from below my waist due to Yeonseo’s hand, so I quickly moved her hand away, got up from the bed, leaned against the wall, and asked her.

” What…? Of course you mean those soft and chewy breasts, right? ”

‘Hey, what kind of girl is talking like that…!’

” There’s no need for a review, so why are you mad! ”

” Sure… when I first hugged you, you were the same size as me… no, you were smaller…! But… why is it a little bigger than me this time! ”

” How would I know that!!! And what are you doing with just the size of my breasts! ”

” Just a little?! You just said that?! You’re all grown up now, right? Huh?! ”

Yeonseo crawled out of bed, then came down and began to trudge towards me with her shoulders hunched and her arms waving.

Then she reached in front of me and pressed and touched my left breast hard and brought her face towards me.

” This damn fool! I liked him because he was the same size as me…! He betrayed me!! ”

” Hehe… So why are you thinking that way by yourself and then saying that to me! ”

He was touching me and then suddenly, as if he had noticed something, he took his hand off and touched my head, then he started comparing it to his own height.

A dark shadow fell over his face again, and he soon sat down and opened his mouth with sobs.

” …also …has lost …more than before… ”

” What? Speak louder. I can’t hear you. ”

Soon he started yelling at me with tears in his eyes.

” Height! Grew up! Clearly…clearly, you were shorter than me! Now, it’s just a little bit different! What the heck! Both your height and chest grew! This monster! What have you done!! ”

I was speechless at the sight of her now going beyond being a dirty word and starting to call me a monster.

‘How would I know that…?’

I’ve grown taller than him? Is that true?

At the unexpected words, I walked towards the sink and looked at myself.

As Yeonseo said, her breasts, which had been slightly swollen, had now grown to show their shape and she felt like she had grown taller than before.

And what’s different more than anything else…

” Has my hair…grew…? I’m sure that even this morning, the side of my hair wasn’t covering my ears…?

The back of my head used to cover my neck a little, but now it’s completely covering it…? What the… This is so scary… ”

No matter how much I think about it, I can’t figure out why it changed like this.

The only things that happened today were that a monster appeared in the shantytown in the morning, I went to rescue Ara, and finally, I took down the guys who had attacked the settlement.

So it’s not like I ate or got something that suddenly made me grow like this.

‘Then what the heck…? Why is it like this…’

As I was looking at the sink, Yeonseo, who was sitting there, came over and grabbed my shoulder.

” Get smaller again! Get smaller…! ”

” What the hell are you talking about!? Wait… Wait, it hurts… It hurts…!? ”

” Oh, at this rate, you might surpass me! You monster! I told you not to grow up alone! ”

” I don’t know either! Why did it become like this…”

He made Yeonseo turn around with his hand on her shoulder and went back to the bed to sit with her.

Since I didn’t know anything about it, I started talking about it in the hopes that maybe we could figure something out if we thought about it together.

Of course, it seemed like Yeonseo was helping because she wanted to figure out a way to grow as well.

” So you really have no idea? Even before that, there was a situation where ‘I grew up like this’. ”

” Well… I don’t know since it’s only been a month since I came back. ”

” Hmm… So have you ever gotten anything new or anything? ”

When I think about it carefully, it definitely happened ‘just once’.

” When we went to attack that tower! I think it was like that back then! ”

” Oh, that time? Oh, that’s right? At that time, you suddenly took out another sword besides the one you were using? Did you say the goddess gave it to you? ”

” Yes, she is the goddess Patruna, the source of my power. ”

” What does that goddess do? She must be a pretty strong goddess to suddenly give you weapons like that, right? ”

” Hmm, well… I don’t know if she’s strong, but since she’s the goddess of love and purification, when she defeats a monster or a villain, she’s purified, right? That was our wave gimmick back then, and thanks to that, we were able to catch a lot of monsters. ”

Yeonseo closed her eyes, crossed her arms, and seemed to think for a moment, then opened her eyes and shook her head.

” Isn’t the timing weird? If that’s the case, you should’ve given it to Hyunseok before he got hurt. Charlotte, you were in danger too, right? ”

When I heard that, I remembered that time and gently caressed my lower abdomen with my left hand and thought.

The constant pain in my lower abdomen due to my first period, then the sudden headache I had for some reason, and then the thought of being able to rest made me relax and my body move slower than I thought.

If Hyunseok hadn’t stopped him, he wouldn’t have died, but he would have been seriously injured.

As the sight of him being injured came to mind, she suddenly felt a stabbing pain in her heart, so she lifted the hand that had been caressing her lower abdomen and gently grabbed her clothes.

” What’s wrong? Your expression suddenly became serious. ”

” Yeah, I just remembered that time… If it weren’t for Hyunseok, I would’ve been seriously hurt. Of course, it’s a bit weird that Hyunseok got hurt because of that… ”

” Were you that worried? ”

” That’s right, that’s right, you got hurt like that because of me right in front of your eyes. ”

” Hmm, is that really all? ”

” Huh? Then why is there anything different? Of course you feel a little bad since you got hurt because of me, right? ”

” Oh, we need a little more time. Ugh ”

” I don’t know what you mean… Ah! There was something similar to that before. Was it when I first got hold of Durandal? I had a similar headache then. ”

” Headache? ”

” Yeah! I had a headache back then, and even before I got my hands on the new ‘Kurtana’, but after I got it, the headache went away and instead, I remembered the information about the weapon. ”

” Other than that? Is there anything else? If you assume that the headache is caused by reading new information, what else is there? ”

I thought that all that was left was Gaho… so I told him about Gaho as well.

I said without much thought that since we were going to be together anyway, it would be good for both of us to know this much information.

Of course, I left out the story of her becoming a woman from a man, and just said that her appearance changed, and I was waiting for her answer.

Yeonseo suddenly threw her body towards me, closed the distance between us, and grabbed my shoulder.

” That’s it! Love’s protection! ”

” Huh…? Why is that? That would just make Patruna change into something that resembles her… ”

” Hey, if I listen to the story so far, is that really all the goddess did? Isn’t it unnecessary to give her that orderly protection? ”

” Is that so? ”

” Okay! Okay~ Listen carefully? ”

Yeonseo, who put her right hand on her waist and raised her index finger with her left hand, spoke to me with a confident expression.

And as I listened to that story, I felt my face getting hotter and hotter, something I had experienced many times before.

I laid down on the bed, my body swaying, in the same W-shape I had been sitting in, with only my back leaning back.

After that, Yeonseo said that she had resolved her curiosity and left me alone, turned off the lights in the bedroom, and manipulated the device to disappear into her own world.

*****

I thought it would be uncomfortable for Yeonseo to stay still, so I laid down properly, turned my back to Yeonseo, and lay facing the other way.

But even though my body was tired from showering and eating, I couldn’t come to my senses because of Yeonseo’s words that kept coming to my mind.

What Yeonseo said was…

‘You said that the Goddess governs love and purification, right? Then purification will help with the combat part. But the love part! This is important!’

‘Have you heard this saying? [A girl in love becomes beautiful.] What do you think? If that’s the case, then isn’t the change in appearance due to falling in love?’

‘ So, Charlotte fell for Hyunseok, so her body started growing after that! What do you think? Huh? Am I right?! ‘

” What nonsense are you talking about… Why am I… in love… ”

In some ways, Yeonseo’s words were understandable.

Of course, that is if she were an ordinary girl. But I am not an ordinary girl, I am a woman who was a man.

So, it’s nonsense for me, a man, to fall in love with Hyunseok, a man.

But for some reason, the pounding of my heart is stopping my thoughts.

Even though I wanted to keep sleeping like that, I kept thinking about this story and before I knew it, Yeonseo had fallen asleep and I was just staring at the ceiling when a thought suddenly occurred to me.

” Right! Now that I think about it, I changed my body into that of a girl who can be loved… Isn’t it because I received love that I changed like this?

Yeah, that’s right. I don’t like guys at all! Rather, as Patruna said, I’ve met so many people and been attracted to them, so as a result, my body has grown. ”

Surely this is right. Even though I was a man and became a woman, there is no way I would commit the ‘female corruption’ that is said to be one of the charms of TS material, right?

Fiction is fiction and I live in reality so it’s definitely different.

Rather, the hypothesis that he changed because he received the love that came to mind now is more convincing.

‘ So, it’s not that I’ve become a corrupted female, but rather, because I’m pretty and cute, I’m loved, so my body is changing so that I can be loved more and more. ‘

This is probably correct.

Yeah, otherwise it wouldn’t make sense!

My head felt refreshed and I wanted to sleep, so I gradually drifted off to dreamland with the sound of Yeonseo breathing slowly next to me as the background.