Wheel of Punishment~
When we woke up on Saturday morning, it felt quite empty inside the house, now that both Hakkai and Yuzuha moved back to their own residence.
"I kinda miss having them around," Kazutora admitted after he sat quietly by the table when I was preparing the breakfast. Usually, they were chatting about various topics when I was preparing food, did it mean he got somehow attached to the Shiba siblings in this short time span? I felt kind of proud that he was making new friends, was my presence causing people to become closer in the Toman circles?
I tried to cheer him up a little but once we finished eating breakfast mom called me, she inquired about our adventures and also praised us for going to all three sexual education lessons. We both shared our experiences the past few days, of course, there were things that I omitted like agreeing to go on a date with Taiju.
"Right your grandparents wanted to see you, so we are planning to drive there on Wednesday, is it okay with you kids?" I had no clue where exactly they were living but was it the elderly couple I saw in the memory core function, living out in the countryside? I decided to give it a shot.
"What was their town called now again?" Dad soon shared the name which I quickly typed in the GPS function. It was a long way from Tokyo, in a far away village.
"You haven't visited them for a while since you always needed hospital assistance... but there weren't many problems with your health so far." I had this strange feeling that our parents were acting not their usual selves like they were forcing their cheerfulness. Did something happen to them? I wanted to ask but held myself back, it would be easier once they came back and I didn't want Kazutora to feel even more down and worried than he already was.
"You used to run around the sunflower and corn fields." Sunflowers were one of my favorite flowers, and I could try to investigate if there were any alien sightings around the corn fields. This trip already sounded wonderful.
"By any chance can I invite Keisuke for the trip?" Was he trying to steal all of Keisuke's attention for himself or was this another deliberate plan to set us together?
"We will ask your grandparents for permission." That was so cute, they called them our grandparents even if they were from dad's side, hence Kazutora wasn't related to them by any means. This made me wonder, were they delighted to find out they had another grandchild to pamper? Once the call ended I decided to tease Kazutora a little.
"Do you think you will get lonely without your friend around to keep you company? My poor baby." I put him into a hug, but unlike the usual reaction, he didn't say anything. Wait a moment was he having some sort of bad day today? Did some negative thoughts eat up his mind? I wasn't sure what to say to Kazu-chan since I realized he usually consoled his sorrows with Keisuke instead, I guess he still wasn't comfortable with me and our parents sharing such stuff. I held him tight until I had to start moving to not be late for my part-time job.
When my shift was over I came straight home, wondering what I could do to lift up my brother's spirits, I could always ask him what was bothering him, but I could tell he presumably wouldn't share his troubles with me. But hey he had a therapist session today that he was currently at, maybe the professionalist would help him overcome whatever was worrying him.
I was just laying in my bed considering taking a nap, but that's when the system presented me with the most nonsensical two options it probably pulled from its ass. If the system even had an ass that is.
'Would you rather try to seduce the Haitani brothers pretending to be a succubus or booty call Taiju Shiba?' I had enough.
"Piss off!" I yelled at the system and quickly added.
"I rather take any stupid punishment you have than chose any of those options!" There was a limit to how much I was willing to do for one stat only. I needed to keep at least some dignity, right? I screamed looking at the ceiling and thrashing around in my bed, however that's when a new window popped up.
"Punishment wheel?" I read out loud, what was this bullshit? The wheel was parted into many different sections, I read some of them.
"Guy? Cat? Catgirl? Toddler? There is even back pain? What are those supposed to mean?" I didn't care to read the rest just spun it around, to see what would happen. Once it stopped a congratulatory message emerged as if I won something.
"Guy, proceed?" was the system trying to give me a second chance in case I wanted to change my mind suddenly? I clicked on proceed button and awaited for the unforeseen.
"You will now become a guy for the next 12 hours?" I read my initial reaction was.
"Say what? You gotta be kidding me!" In a matter of seconds, I felt some strange changes occurring in my body.
"Holy cow, my boobs are gone." I took off my shirt and then bra and became really fascinated with how there were not many drawbacks.
"Wait." I looked into my pants next.
"Yep there it is." I was suddenly so amazed, how was this even possible? It felt like magic.
"My voice is deeper too!" I realized, I put the shirt back on and decided to show off this to the only person that I could. I put on some shoes, thankfully my feet didn't become any bigger, and ran over while yelling at top of my lungs.
"Takemichi!" he looked confused when he came out of the balcony, probably expecting one of his buddies to be there not me.
"Michi?" he asked and he must have realized I was about to tell him something important so he ran downstairs and let me in. We proceed to go into his room for more privacy.
"Check this out," I said while pulling off my shirt, causing him to freak out and scream in terror.
"What are you doing Michi?" he yelled while covering his eyes, blush spreading on his face, but when he spotted my manly chest his first instinct was to.
"Have you been fooling everyone this whole time?" I sighed, why did he have to come to the stupidest conclusion so far, as if he didn't see me in a swimsuit yesterday.
"No, I turned into a guy for a day!" I corrected him while shaking my head.
"How is that even possible?" He questioned as I gave him the full explanation.
"So the system gave me two stupid options for today, not wanting to deal with it I just asked for the punishment for not falling thru with its choices. So something called a wheel of punishment materialized and asked me to spin. One of the choices that it landed on made me into a guy for 12 hours...so now here I am." Takemichi just nodded but then he carefully asked.
"Does it mean you have... down there?" I immediately nodded my head.
"Yes I do have one if you must know... so how about we compare the sizes?" He gasped for air, probably because of my blunt delivery. His ears became red and he shook his head violently in denial.
"No way, you're still technically a girl, if Hinata hears about it she will tear me to shreds!"
"Oh come on, isn't this what guys usually do in their free time?" But Takemichi wouldn't change his mind, he just hid his face behind his palms, probably not believing this was happening.
"Geez, you're no fun." I then got another tormenting idea.
"I should take the opportunity and go to the hot springs." I laughed evilly causing Takemichi to ask.
"Are you some sort of pervert Michi?" I shook my head, it was just hilarious to mess with him, since his reactions were so cute and extreme. I just laughed causing him to smack my back for messing with him to this degree.
"I'm sorry I will stop." Well, that was a lie because another concept popped into my head soon after.
"Do you think that I have more chance now to steal your girl since I'm a guy now?" I wiggled my eyebrows playfully as he just yelled.
"Michi! Knock it off!" I know my chances were minuscule but hey he could have played along with the joke. Abruptly a mission popped out, I thought since I was performing a form of punishment I wouldn't have any mission for the next 12 hours, but maybe I couldn't just say no to any of them.
'Would you rather walk naked around Takemichi Hanagaki or send a picture of your bare chest to Keisuke Baji and see his response?' I glanced at Takemichi and asked.
"Would you freak out if I stripped competently naked?" He nodded his head in agreement as I sighed in defeat.
"What, what's happening?" I just gave an answer.
"Another troublesome mission." I took my phone and snapped a picture of my chest, just chest nothing else and send it over to Keisuke. His first instinct was to call, but remembering my voice's current state I rejected the call so he sent a wall of messages instead.
"Michi, who are you with? Who is that guy? Why are you sending me this?" I just waited for him to calm down as I sent another picture this time with my face in the frame. Confuse the enemy.
"What the hell?" Was his only response, I could already imagine his totally bewildered state in my head.
"That's me if I were a guy~" I responded, he quickly assumed I just paid someone to edit the photo as a prank.
"I'm worried about something, what if my bother realizes I'm a guy now.. that would be weird." Takemichi put his head to work and he soon announced.
"Just lay in bed and claim you have a slight cold, and wear oversized clothes, I didn't notice much different until you stripped." I nodded, but Takemichi could sometimes overlook certain stuff, so maybe it was easier to fool him than anyone else.
I went back home, and before Kazutora arrived I changed my clothes to something less form-fitting.
"What's with your voice Michi?" I just fake coughed and claimed.
"I think I got a slight cold, don't worry about it... it will probably be over tomorrow." He nodded his head but then mentioned the prank I did on Keisuke. I wasn't discovered with my skillful acting but today's trips to the bathroom were a disaster.