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Normally, as a boy, one would more or less be a bit chuunibyou.
Anticipating a beautiful girl falling from the sky to pull oneself from the mundane into the extraordinary; suddenly awakening superpowers that cause everything around to change dramatically; having a powerful dark force sealed within one's body that must be unleashed to protect family; or even transmigrating to another world and going on a rampage with cheat skills…
Even if he usually appeared to be peace-loving and harmless, it was undeniable that Nukumizu Kazuhiko had also had similar thoughts.
However, after graduating from his second year of junior high, he deeply realized that he was just an ordinary person. After entering high school, this mindset gradually became buried. The light novels he liked to read also changed from the past, from fantasy genres that made one's blood boil, such as fighting against the world alone or risking one's life to defeat the strongest with the weakest, to daily life genres focusing on sweet romances with various types of beautiful girls… Huh, why does the latter feel even more fantastical…
In any case, after coming to terms with his own ordinariness, Nukumizu Kazuhiko understood that his life would continue peacefully like this.
After graduating from high school, he might choose to go to college, attending a mediocre university, and after graduation, become a normal company employee—it would be even better if it wasn't a black-hearted company—he would occasionally work a little overtime when appropriate, and after work, go to an izakaya with colleagues he got along with to have a few drinks and bond, returning home slightly tipsy and being complained about by his sister Kaju; then, under the urging of his parents, he would marry a woman who was neither too pretty nor too ugly and have children, bearing the heavy burden of a family and continuing to follow in his parents' footsteps, finally dying peacefully in his seventies or eighties. If he could pass away peacefully in his sleep without any pain and without burdening his family, that would be even better.
Nukumizu Kazuhiko firmly believed his life would continue peacefully, just as it was.
Until he woke up this day.
"Did I read light novels too late last night? My body feels strange today…"
Nukumizu Kazuhiko stretched, feeling an inexplicable sense of discomfort all over his body.
"Huh, my hair is already that long… Eh?"
Because her nape felt a bit itchy, she smoothed her hair, only to find that what was ordinary men's short hair yesterday had suddenly grown to shoulder length today—no, it was even longer.
"Su-supernatural phenomenon?"
Nukumizu Kazuhiko quickly got out of bed.
He wasn't sure if it was his imagination, but not only his hair, even his voice felt a bit strange.
As a boy, it was natural that there wouldn't be a Mirror or similar items in his room, so she tiptoed to the bathroom and froze solid when she saw herself in the Mirror.
The person in the Mirror was no longer the 'Nukumizu Kazuhiko' he had been accustomed to seeing for sixteen years—whose eyebrows and eyes were quite ordinary, making him easily lost in a crowd of passersby—but a girl with long, straight black hair, slightly curled at the ends, with a bunch of unruly cowlicks probably from a bad night's sleep, and slightly drooping eyes that gave her a somewhat listless, weary look… a girl?
Nukumizu Kazuhiko instinctively touched his chest.
There was almost no rise and fall, but whether it was psychological or not, the touch felt indeed slightly softer and smoother than his own yesterday.
Next was the decisive moment.
She tremblingly reached her hand down towards her crotch.
"…Ah, it's gone."
His little Kazuhiko, who had accompanied him for sixteen years—though occasionally its excessive vigor caused him trouble—was, no matter what, a part of him.
It had disappeared.
"Onii-chan… huh?"
Suddenly, his sister's voice came from the bathroom doorway.
"Kaju…"
With his mind in a jumble, Nukumizu Kazuhiko was about to confide the strange change he had experienced, but then he immediately remembered that he had become a girl. It was uncertain if his sister would recognize him, and it would be terrible if he were mistaken for an intruder. So she said in a panic, "Um, listen to me, I'm not a suspicious person…"
"Onii-chan, when did you start liking cross-dressing? If you have that idea, Kaju can lend you her clothes for free, you know."
The gentle, sisterly girl said softly.
"Kaju, can you recognize me?"
"No matter how you dress up, Onii-chan is Onii-chan, right?"
The girl replied.
Nukumizu Kazuhiko was on the verge of tears… To think that even she herself could barely recognize the person in the Mirror.
"Ah, is it better not to recognize you? If Onii-chan likes this kind of play, Kaju has no problem with it."
The girl lifted a corner of her nightgown and, mimicking the movements of a socialite on TV, curtsied to her brother: "Greetings, my name is Nukumizu Kaju, are you my brother's girlfriend~"
"I don't have such a strange fetish!"
Nukumizu Kazuhiko felt goosebumps rising.
She quickly told her sister that she had turned into a girl after waking up.
Nukumizu Kaju listened without changing her expression, then stared at his chest and pondered for a moment.
"Heh."
Suddenly, she abruptly reached out and kneaded her brother's chest.
"Eek!!!"
Nukumizu Kazuhiko let out a startled cry, recoiled a step, covered her chest with both hands, and looked at her sister in astonishment.
"Excuse me."
Nukumizu Kaju, her hands still suspended in mid-air as if kneading, was silent for a moment, then continued, "It seems to be true…"
"Why can you come to such a conclusion just by touching my chest?!"
"Nukumizu Kazuko, surpassing Nukumizu Kaju, is born!"
"Don't say such strange things after touching someone's chest! Do you think I'm joking?!"
"I wasn't doubting Onii-chan, but sometimes people's perceptions and reality can deviate, can't they?"
Nukumizu Kaju retracted her hand, made a small fist, brought it to her mouth, and lightly coughed: "For example, the Kaju Onii-chan sees now is actually the Kaju from a few nanoseconds ago, and the voice you hear now is what Kaju said two or three milliseconds ago. Reality is actually much more illusory than we perceive. Even if Onii-chan suddenly couldn't recognize his true gender for some reason one day, Kaju wouldn't be too surprised."
"I have absolutely no interest. More importantly, what should I do now…?"
Nukumizu Kazuhiko rubbed her forehead in distress: "Anyway, I can only take the day off today…"
"Don't worry, Onii-chan!"
"Do you have a plan, Kaju?"
Nukumizu Kazuhiko suddenly felt a glimmer of hope.
"Even if Onii-chan turns into Oneechan, Kaju's love for you won't change!"
The girl showed an incredibly tolerant and warm smile.
"Rather than tolerance, I'd prefer it if Kaju had a solution…"
Nukumizu Kazuhiko was on the verge of tears.
That being said, Nukumizu Kazuhiko actually had no expectations whatsoever that his sister could come up with a solution, as he himself was completely at a loss.
An ordinary person encountering such a supernatural situation would be utterly helpless.
If all else failed, should he go find those strange individuals who always loiter in the park, talking about suspicious religious topics?
No, no, no, joining a suspicious religion would be even more dangerous than turning into a girl, wouldn't it? Rather than dragging Kaju into some kind of trouble because of this, he might as well live with this woman's face.
"Well, although Kaju thinks it's not very likely,"
Perhaps seeing her brother's truly distressed expression, the girl didn't continue to joke, but mused, "But at Kaju's school, there's supposedly a child who has mastered 'dark Magic'…"
"Dark Magic?"
"Yes, although based on Kaju's observations, that child is probably just misunderstood, but if we absolutely have to try everything, perhaps asking her might work."
"At this point, even a one-in-a-million chance must be seized."
Nukumizu Kazuhiko's eyes were firm: "Please help me, Kaju."
"No problem, I'll go prepare ladies' panties, a mini-skirt, and a cute little camisole right away."
"That's not the help I need!"
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