Ore, Twintail ni Narimasu:Volume 2 Chapter 2

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Chapter 2 A Deviant on Campus

Aika often visits Souji’s room before going to school each day.

Growing up under the regime of her Martial Artist grandfather, Aika was never allowed to sleep in as a child.

Souji, however, as a fellow student of Aika’s grandfather, was awful at getting up in the morning.

He was known to sleep through fairly loud attempts to wake him up.

As such, it was Aika’s duty as his childhood friend to make sure he got to school on time.

After standing in front of her full-length mirror and carefully tying her twintails with blue ribbons, Aika nodded.

She set about on her ‘morning call’ the same as always, jumping the narrow gap between her and Souji’s bedroom windows.

If he didn’t wake up it’d be a ‘morning knuckle’ waiting for him instead, although recently the ‘call’ itself has sufficed.

“Huh?” Souji’s bed was empty, Aika felt the blood drain from her face. “Don’t tell me… Twoearle?”

Aika quickly deemed Twoearle the culprit.

Intently going after Souji’s virginity, she was a force to be reckoned with.

Repelling her advances in itself isn’t too bad, but her recovery ability and persistence were tremendous.

Recently every night had turned into a prolonged struggle on multiple fronts. They often went by with Souji being none the wiser.

Since Twoearle would aim for when Aika was asleep and try to get in bed with Souji, Aika had started sleeping shallowly so she could guard against these attacks.

Sleeping like this while still maintaining her habit of getting up early took a tremendous amount of willpower.

It looked like this morning Twoearle might’ve gotten a head start though.

“Oh god, don’t tell me she’s taken him down to the base”

After descending the stairs in a fluster, Aika found Souji in the bathroom.

Without noticing a slightly relieved Aika, Souji continued to stroke his Twintails as if he were in a shampoo commercial.

“…twintails?” this was a scene Aika couldn’t let continue.

Although Souji was in the bathroom, he had the appearance of the young girl the world worshipped as an idol, TailRed.

Aika stayed still a few moments, processing what was in front of her.

Was Souji planning to take of his clothes and have a shower while being transformed into TailRed?

Wash every corner of his body and study the differences between male and female anatomy to get a head-start on health classes?

Wearing the expression of a detective who'd just secured photographic evidence of a cheating spouse, Aika's face glowed a hot red and she took a deep breath to calm herself.

However, the scene never progressed how Aika was dreading.

Souji just continued to smile dumbly at his twintails' reflection in the mirror.

Aika drew her hand in front of her chest. Not because of the intense satisfaction she could see in Souji's smile, but so she could transform into TailBlue.

"Hmm, everything's looking okay!"

"Everything's not okay! You need to get your head checked!"

Hoping to render capital punishment on the twintails bewitching Souji, Aika charged in swinging her arm like a hammer.

However, they deftly flicked out of the path of her attack. It was almost as if they had eyes of their own.

Even flicking them around, Souji moved in such a way that there was no risk of them getting tangled up, either.

"Stop, Aika. Violence against twintails isn't okay!"

"...what!?"

Aika, who wasn't expecting Souji to dodge her attack, stumbled forward

"Did you know I was there the whole time!?"

"Uh, sorry, I don't know what you're talking about Aika. My Twintails obviously told my a threat was incoming"

TailRed spouted some up-in-space nonsense as if it were common-sense. Souji's twintail-sickness was evolving even faster than Aika thought.

"My face and body are one thing, but if you come at my twintails I'll defend them at all cost"

"Usually that'd be the other way around..."

Aika reversed her transformation and placed her hand on her forehead.

"You weren't in your room when I woke you up so I was really worried and... you pervert! I can't believe you! Dressing like a girl on your own accord and grinning at the sight of your twintails in the mirror...

It's already too late for you, isn't it!"

"This isn't 'dressing like a girl'. Also, I wasn't grinning at my twintails, I was using them to cultivate my willpower!

On days I wake up early I thought looking at my twintails like this wasn't a bad idea. For me and you, Aika, twintails are our source of strength,"

He wasn't wrong, but to Aika their source of power wasn't necessarily their twintails by themselves.

They say the early bird captures the worm, but Aika wasn't feeling the least bit satisfied with this morning's early start.

"How do I know you weren't planning to try taking off your TailGear after transforming and get in the bath? I can't put it past you, Souji!"

"Uh, no. If I was going to take a bath I'd turn back to a guy first,"

As Souji calmly defended himself against Aika's ridiculous allegations, Aika widened her eyes in shock and felt her body stiffen.

"Are we running low on time? Sorry Aika, could you wait for me in the living room? I'll be ready in a minute"

"Oh god..."

As Souji undid his transformation and left the bathroom, Aika saw a glimpse of Souji's longing expressing as he held one of his twintails one last time for the morning.

"He he he..." "Ahh!"

Aika was shocked to see Twoearle rush into the bathroom as soon as Souji vacated it. How long had she been watching them?

"Why don't I guess what's on your mind? Souji-sama's no longer touching your hair as often as he used to, and you're starting to get desperate, aren't you?"

"Who're you calling desperate!"

Aika struggled to keep her embarrassment from showing on her face. Souji used to often absentmindedly twirl the ends of Aika's twintails, but he'd been doing it less recently.

"No Aika, you have to admit it. Your body's just aching for Souji-sama's fingers!"

"Stop making everything sound lewd, you pervert!"

"Why don't I guess what's on your mind? Souji's no longer touching your hair as often as he used to, and you're starting to get desperate, aren't you?"

"Pervergarhh!"

Twoearle was able to start her day strong, with a morning knuckle and a brisk near-death experience.

"I can't believe this, even taking your bashfulness into account, this horrible treatment! I'm just telling you the truth, you know?"

"What do you mean 'bashful'??"

"You think people can be in the same room as you and not notice? When Souji-sama fondles your hair you look like you're in heat!"

"No, that's wrong. I just get ticklish sometimes..."

Aika's voice was uncharacteristically soft, which only served to spur Twoearle on.

"Souji-sama is already able to achieve his daily intake of twintails by himself, I guess you could call it a form of masturb-"

"You're responsible for this, you turned Souji into a woman! Don't twist this to being about me!"

Aika butted in, managing to cut off Twoearle's sentence just in time.

"That's why I'm being responsible and trying to make Souji-sama a man. Night after night after night after night Aika-san keeps interrupting us! Admiral Miharu has started to lose faith in me!"

"I've been in sleep deprivation ever since you arrived here!"

Shadow were indeed starting to appear under Aika's eyes.

"Aika-san, listen to me for a minute. Souji-sama is at a very sensitive age for a boy. At this rate we'll start to see impacts on his development"

"He's already looking pretty impacted to me"

"Now, I do agree with you there. Putting aside turning into TailRed and everything, Souji has far too little interest in the female body!"

Aika visibly shivered.

"Now say any healthy teenage boy suddenly found himself in a girls body, what would he do?"

"Don't go asking me!"

"Don't kid yourself, Aika-san, you know the answer"

"Ughh.."

Aika, aware she knew less about these things than she let on, didn't argue back.

"It's his body. Anything he did would be forgiven! He wouldn't cause anyone any grief! He could let out his libido without his conscience troubling him!"

Twoearle's eyes were starting to appear bloodshot.

"First you'd look, then you'd touch, then you'd stroke... You'd adventure a bit and see how a bra looked in the mirror. You'd take it off again, maybe you'd just take everything offffffffffffffffffgaaah!"

Aika grabbed Twoearle's hands, whose fingers were wriggling seductively to accompany her onslaught. She then proceed to fold all ten fingers violently upward like origami paper.

"Even being a teenaged boy, there's no way in hell he's get turned on by an undeveloped body like that"

"Exactly!"

Twoearle surged towards Aika, seemingly untroubled by the state of her fingers.

"Even though he's attained a female body, he's cursed with one he can't fool around with. Now where does he direct that pent-up curiosity? And that's where I come in"

Twoearle proudly slapped her hand against her chest, returning Aika's intense glare with a smirk.

"It's completely fine for him to get curious as a result of his transformation into TailRed! To want a more sploogy female body to see, to touch!"

"Wait..."

Twoearle again pushed towards Aika, fondling her own chest. Her eyes had lost their focus and were glazing over, and her hair had turned into a bird's nest.

"And then he reaches the one and only answer. 'Oh that's right, Twoearle has some boobs doesn't she'! And at that point we're supposed to enter the two-hour *science of the female body* special, but why have I been waiting a whole month to have Souji-sama's test tube inside m..."

"Huh? I think I might've fainted, I can't remember anything... Owch!"

Twoearle shakily stood up, a raised lump bulging on the side of her forehead.

"You've been missing out on sleep, haven't you? We just found you taking a nap on the floor,"

"Oh, right. It feels like I got karate-chopped so hard my cranial bones separated. I guess my sleep-deprivation gave me a migraine..."

Twoearle was lying on the floor in the bathroom nestled in flowers, silent, her eyes closed.

It must have just been the impression the scene had left, but it really seemed like a bed of flowers had bloomed in the bathroom.

With dignified beauty even as they scatter; although she'd been battered to a pulp by a barbarian who couldn't be bothered debating her, she still hadn't lost her dignity and grace.

The silver-haired Japanese maiden, Twoearle, unwavering in the face of mortal peril. She had truly manifested that symbol of Japanese beauty, Yamato Nadeshiko.

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"Today I finally get to transfer into school with you guys! Lets get some good energy going, Woo!"

"All I'm feeling is anguish"

Twoearle and Aika's moods were in stark contrast.

"Twoearle, what's with the neck brace and all the casts you've got on?"

"Oh don't mind me at all, they'll be off in five minutes anyway"

How much of a zealous realist would you have to be to hear something like that without batting an eyelid?

The three had already walked to school together several times, so by now we were used to Twoearle wearing a lab coat over our schools uniform. Nevertheless, Twoearle was ecstatic at the thought of finally making her debut at Yougetsu High School.

Sandwiching a weekend in after her first day would reduce the impact of her arrival on campus, so her first day had to be on a Monday.

"Twoearle, I'm begging you, please don't come out with anything that's not part of the background we agreed on for you. You know I couldn't Ad-Lib if my life depended on it"

"Oh, don't worry, I'll behave! hehehefufufu..."

Twoearle's smile was a little too fishy to believe, but we had no choice but to trust her.

I went over Twoearle's background again in my head; She was a relative from overseas that was staying at my place temporarily. I wasn't sure we should reveal our living arrangement, but Twoearle emphasised that this fact was of utmost importance to her.

In any case, it was important to agree on something so that it wouldn't come back to bite us later. The possibility that Twoearle would cause some kind of trouble was of course at the back of our minds, but at Yougetsu people seemed to be able to cope with that stuff pretty well, so unless she does something particularly catastrophic we should be fine.

"I'm more worried about this, honestly..."

The bracelet on my right arm gleamed in the morning sun as I held it up in front of me.

"You didn't find any issues with the Imagine Chaff, did you Twoearle?"

"Sadly, no. This is just based on the simulation I ran taking into account Erina-san's off the chart twintails attribute, but it didn't result in any interference with the Imagine Chaff at all."

Then why on earth would Erina be able to see my bracelet? Thinking of the properties of Imagine Chaff, there was only one other possibility that came to mind...

Just like when I could see Aika the first time she transformed into TailBlue.

"There's no way..."

I shook my head. I'll worry about that another time. Our first priority is making sure Twoearle's first day in class goes by without incident.

By the way, probably via some kind of underhanded tactics, Twoearle had been placed in the same class as me and Aika.

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"Today we have a new student joining our class..."

Our class teacher's wary voice ebbed over us in morning homeroom, and my body stiffened as the classroom door started to open. Why do I have to be this nervous? My throat's so dry it feels like sandpaper!

I looked across the room at Aika and made eye contact.

(Listen Aika, no matter what you do, no fighting. Violence in front of everyone in the class is out of the question.)

Aika received my message and nodded vigorously.

(Got it, Souji! As soon as Twoearle starts to act up I'll stop her as fast as I can, and I'll use force if I have to!)

One of the perks of having a friend as close as Aika is this almost supernatural degree of information we can exchange just by making eye-contact. Looks like Aika got the message.

Twoearle entered the classroom, her silver hair gently fluttered as she walked, shining as it caught the light. Astonished gasps could be heard from male and female classmates.

It'd be easy to forget Twoearle's otherworldly beauty if we didn't occasionally come across scenes like this. Twoearle's pale skin matched the colour of the chalk she used to spell her name on the blackboard: Mitsuka Twoearle.

Twoearle finished writing, stood next to her name and smiled.

"Mitsuka!?"

Everyone's gaze immediately turned to me. A tide of hushed voices filled the classroom. I would've panicked if I hadn't been the center of scenes far more distressing than this many times before as TailRed.

"Good.... this ith... just what I wanthed... to shee"

What's wrong, Twoearle! There's already drool leaking from the corner of your mouth! Go back to that face from thirty seconds ago!

"Twoearle-san is~~ Mitsuka-kun's relative~~ she's moved here from overseas and now~~ she lives with Mitsuka-kun..."

Sensei warily wrapped up Twoearle's introduction. Twoearle, shocked, cut her short.

"W wait a second! I was going to say me and Souji have the same last name because we live together and rile everyone up even more, and then gradually invite more and more misunderstandings and then masterfully and climactically reveal the truth!? What's with that boring explanation!"

"Well~~ we actually have another person to introduce today~~ I couldn't really spare you any more time,"

Sensei didn't seem too bothered about she'd derailed Twoearle's script.

"What?!"

Twoearle was shocked by the direction the scene was now taking. As if synchronizing with Twoearle and Sensei's conversation, the classroom door opened again, and a woman strode in.

Clad in a maid uniform like the one we'd seen her in two days before.

"I'm Sakuragawa Mikoto, I'll be your Phys. ed. teacher from today."

"Ooh, it's good to have you!"

"..."

"..."

"..."

The class was dead silent.

"Ah, Sensei?"

A female classmate timidly raised her hand, but our teacher, with an expression like an obnoxious athlete trying to talk the referee out of a red card, feigned ignorance.

"I know nothing~~ I know nothing at all!"

Failing to read the room as well as outright lying her way out of responsibility; our homeroom teacher was revealing more of her true nature.

That being said, my eyes have always been fixed on the Student Body President, so I've never really paid attention to her maid, but she really was beautiful, and she suited twintails. As a bodyguard, maybe the twintails were so her hairstyle matched that of her young charge. Maybe it was just her style.

Either way, she didn't start wearing them recently on a whim. Those twintails were like a calling card to her. She's a professional, without a doubt. Fluffy like cotton candy, her twintails were regressing me back to my childhood.

"Wait, what's going on? Where did I go wrong? It wasn't supposed to go like this!"

A panicking Twoearle was sounding like a villain who'd had the tables turned on her while victory was all but assured.

The maid, Sakuragawa... sensei, stepped up to a shocked Twoearle and shook her hand. Her confident, adult aura seemed to bring the room under her control.

"I'm sure you all know me already as the maid responsible for guarding Shindou Erina-sama. However, if I'm always idle on campus Erina-sama sometimes worries about me being bored, which the superintendent worries could impact her studies. Hence, the superintendent talked to the headmaster and decided to grant me the role of a part-time gym teacher. Before you ask, yes I do have a teaching license."

A gym teacher wearing a maid uniform instead of a tracksuit- just what is our school coming to? I'd seen her fearlessly take on Ultima Guil forces before, so I know she's up to the task when it comes to physical fitness, at least.

"Although I have to say, you all are very well-mannered. A woman as stunning as myself appearing in the classroom would usually invite questions about my body measurements or whether I have a boyfriend... don't let me being Erina-sama... The Student Council President's maid scare you!"

Easy for you to say! Even Aika still has her mouth wide open in shock...

"Wait just a minute! What're you doing, coming in after me and acting like you own the place? This is my battlefield!"

"Don't be like that. You're still young, you'll have many more opportunities to take questions"

"No I don't! Today is my one and only chance at this!"

"I like your enthusiasm, young lady! Okay, I tell you what, lets make this fair by both taking questions at the same time... So does anyone have any questions?"

The class remained silent. Everyone sensed the same thing. Delicious bait was being dangled, but approaching it would cause a steel cage to fall, trapping you. You could be aware of this danger, but that didn't make the hungry urge to jump in any easier to supress.

"Hmm? I feel an intense gaze... Is that you, Mitsuka-kun?

"Uargh?!"

I'd been dozing off, but being called out like this shook me awake. We had met before in our clubroom, sure, but why would she... Gaze? Don't tell me I'd been staring at her twintails while I was half-asleep! I have to be more careful.

"No no I..."

"Sensei! Mitsuka likes twintails!!"

Someone finally raised their voice. Not to ask a question, however, but to rat me out... You've really done it now, Classmate A! Sorry, I still don't know your name!

"Well then, maybe I'll give you this. For a student who truly appreciates twintails, a small gift."

Maid-sensei approached my desk and handed me an envelope.

This size... A photo? A suggestive one of her twintails? I see... to present something like that in person, she must have a sizeable amount of confidence.

"This, isn't a photograph... a folded sheet of paper?"

The words printed on that paper were words that a fifteen-year-old boy like myself had no business seeing...

"You're pleased, aren't you!"

"Unless I'm mistaken, this is a Registration of marriage document..."

"Unless you're mistaken!? Do you really have so little confidence in your reading abilities?"

"In the bride section, your name is filled in, sensei."

"Of course it is! Recording the names of bride and groom, you give Registration of Marriage forms their meaning. If you hand them over blank you risk offending your partner!"

"What partner?"

"Why, you, of course!"

Something's not right here. How is she saying something that goes completely against common sense, with such overwhelming confidence?

"You like twintails, right? Then you should have no issue at all marrying me!"

She grabbed one of her twintails and held it out towards me. My heart skipped a beat, but this isn't the time to let her get the better of me. If I do, my life is over.

"Of course there's a problem, old woman. Souji-sama has already been sold to someone else!"

Twoearle stepped towards Sakuragawa-sensei, trying to take back the initiative. She was already completely immersed in the intense atmosphere permeating the classroom.

"Souji-sama, tear that up and throw it away right now! Sensei, who permitted you to marry Souji-sama? I've been betrothed to him since my previous life!" Twoearle said and gazed triumphantly around the classroom, who didn't react.