Editing City Series:Volume8a Chapter2 (section)

===Aoe’s Sight Mode: In South DT’s Dearborn District===

'''<Aoe’s Over Reload>

Aoe switched to Sight Mode so he could see.

He doubted he would ever get used to the way everything became so clear in front of him. It reminded him of when the aircraft bulkhead burst open and revealed the sky just before he was thrown from a transport craft on a special mission.

He could see the sky now too. The amusement park’s white blimp floated in that blue sky.

He saw a large road below the sky. It was an arcade leading to the amusement park.

There were modern businesses like convenience stores and cafes, but they were made of wood or stone and run in an old-fashioned, time-consuming fashion.

Most of the people’s clothing was a mixture of medieval and modern.

All of the clothing had defensive padding and equipment latches. There were some people in purely medieval clothing and others in purely modern clothing. He also saw a jester from the amusement park exaggeratedly dodge around a carriage while laughing.

A pleasant mood covered the street.

A woman stood in front of him with all of that in the background.

That was Yuo.

Her eyebrows were raised and her fists clenched.

“You haven’t grown up at all, have you?”

The people in the immediate vicinity, the people who had passed them by a moment ago, and even the people on the other side of the road tried and failed to suppress their laughter. They made amused comments about the “cute couple” which redirected Yuo’s attention fast.

Panic covered her face and she frantically looked around

“Y-you misunderstand. We’re not a couple or anything even remotely like that.”

She stammered and tapped her belt.

Or rather, she tapped the white plate attached to the belt. That was her program control panel.

Pressing the button on its surface caused light to move near her right hand. Green lines of light drew out a short keyboard.

After pressing one button on that, the keyboard disappeared and the window above Aoe’s head was forcibly closed.

“Oh, god.”

Realizing nothing she said would convince the people of anything, she hung her head a bit. But she was still curious as well, so she stole glances at those people.

She still hadn’t looked at Aoe who stood directly in front of her.

With nothing else to do, he looked to her hands.

They were tangled with and toying with the bottom of the ponytail falling over her shoulder and in front of her chest.

He knew what that meant, so he spoke to her as cheerfully as he could manage.

“Don’t worry about it. I was talking about you.”

She finally looked his way, but she was glaring now.

“It bothers me ''because'' you were talking about me.”

“Mh. You don’t like being complimented? You are more modest than I remember.”

She blushed at that. He added another compliment with his eyes a bit below her face.

“You really have grown up.”

“Just so you know, my chest and hips are the same size they were 6 years ago.”

“They are? I take it back then. You haven’t grown up.”

“''You'' certainly haven’t.”

“Do I need to flip your skirt up like when we first met?”

She let go of her hair, lowered her fists in front of her, and let her shoulders droop.

She didn’t try to hide the weariness of her sigh.

Then she adopted an exasperated smile and tone of voice.

“Unfortunately for you, I now wear the Yard uniform’s tight skirt. Those aren’t as flippable as the flared ones from my old school uniform. Besides, your subprograms can’t handle skirt flipping.”

“Mh. Then I’ll just have to do this.”

'''I want to flip that skirt!

DT’s OS comprehended Aoe’s will and authorized a Download of his hands.

An emblem appeared on his hands and several breaking glass sounds came from them both.

“Eh?”

Yuo looked back toward the sound just as his hands grabbed the bottom of her tight skirt.

With a nasal grunt, he flipped up her green skirt with all his might.

It only took an instant.

The skirt pulled up to her hipbone and she wasn’t immediately sure what to do.

The flow of people around them had stopped. Everyone had fallen silent and motionless.

Aoe used that silence to clasp his hands together to worship Yuo and a window opened above his head.

<nowiki<I</nowiki> have wondered one thing ever since the mid-80s.>

“Oh?”

<In these modern medieval worlds, why does everyone where modern underwear below otherwise medieval clothing?>

Yuo thought about that for a second before screaming.

'''<Aoe’s Sight Mode has ended>