Chapter 1
My fate was already sealed. Lian Qi had me kabedon’ed1 against the wall.
I looked at her timidly. This is my house! Lian Qi, don’t you dare do anything reckless…
“‘Speak. How many more things are you hiding from me?’ She stared at me, her gaze looking like it wanted to eat me alive.”
I hesitated. I was actually struggling with the fact that I’m a boy.
“‘N-nothing,’ I said weakly.”
“‘Really, there’s nothing.‘”
I lied, so~ my face felt a bit hot.
It’s not that I’m deliberately trying to hide it from Lian Qi. It’s just that for the past fifteen years, I didn’t even know I was any different from Qifeng and the others.
In short, I’m just not mentally prepared to confess to Lian Qi yet… So~ for the sake of me being bullied by her, please forgive me, okay?
“‘You’re blushing.‘”
I broke out in a cold sweat. Lian Qi saw through me after all?
“‘You’re… teasing me… how can my face not be red?’ I laughed awkwardly, praying Lian Qi would think it was shyness, and not…”
“…associate it with the blushing from lying.”
“‘So, your reaction… are you looking forward to me punishing you?’ Lian Qi giggled mischievously.”
“‘Wh-looking forward to it? Of course not—’ I retorted shyly. I was about to say ‘who would look forward to being punished’ but then I suddenly thought of Qifeng…”
“Isn’t she a living example?”
“But I’m not her…”
“‘Last time, you promised to accept my punishment after we got home. I have an… indescribable video on my phone, you know. Do you want to review…’”
”‘…what you were like back then?‘”
“‘N-no, that’s fine.‘”
I said quickly.
“‘I… did… say that…’ I lowered my head, too embarrassed to look at her.”
“‘So, I can do whatever I want, and you’ll just take it?‘”
My head snapped up—“‘Ehhhh?? Wait—’”
“‘Punishing you isn’t the goal, you know. It’s to make you understand where you went wrong, so you don’t make the same mistake again.‘”
I gave a weak laugh. “‘I’m so touched you can say that.‘”
She’s… not just punishing me to deliberately make me feel shame? Did I reform Lian Qi? The sun must be rising in the west.
“‘Before, you abandoned me and the sisters, and that was one thing. This time, when we ran into the Demon King’s subordinate, you actually left me to face them all by myself…’”
”‘…She leaned against the wall and sighed. ‘I’ll just keep a lower profile from now on, so I don’t get recognized as a Transmigrator again.‘”
I couldn’t help but smile. “‘A low profile? And who was it that forcibly kissed me in front of so many people?‘”
“‘Huh? You think that was a forced kiss?‘”
“‘Wasn’t it? I wasn’t mentally prepared at all!’ I glared at her reproachfully. ‘And you used such a self-righteous excuse…’”
”‘…to forcibly kiss me, saying something about ‘replenishing magic’…‘”
“‘How much magic power can my saliva even give you?‘”
“‘Was that me forcibly kissing you? Didn’t you kiss me back?‘”
“‘I did not!’ I retorted, my face burning with embarrassment.”
Don’t listen to her lies. I really didn’t—.
Lian Qi suddenly grabbed my arm.
“‘Well, we’re in here now. This should be low-profile enough, right?‘”
“‘Eh? What—’”
“‘The punishment… is coming.‘”
“‘Wait wait wait! Hold on!‘”
I suddenly felt that if we keep going on shamelessly like this, I’m completely playing with fire. I feel like my secret is sooner or later going to be…
“‘You… can’t…‘”
I said to Lian Qi, blushing. One hand desperately held down my skirt, while the other stopped her hand.
If this goes any further, my secret will be discovered.
My intention was to prevent my identity as a boy from being exposed, but in reality, I probably just looked like a girl being reserved, right?
So Lian Qi probably didn’t suspect anything was wrong with my reaction. Her cheeks were flushed, like she was slightly tipsy after drinking, looking at me.
“‘Your expression makes me want to eat you up.’”
…what if she finds out I’m a boy and finds it boring? I gave a weak laugh and took the chance to flip…
…over and lie face down on the bed.
”‘…What’s wrong with you?‘”
She… Lian Qi can’t tell, can she?
Actually, I’m not totally lying, because my body really does feel uncomfortable… when a boy’s body…
…does shameless things, my body becomes very strange—it has some… weird reactions…
It’s… it’s too lewd, isn’t it? It’s completely beyond my control. I’m truly ashamed.
As for what kind of reaction a girl’s body has, I have no idea. On the surface, besides blushing, Lian Qi doesn’t seem any different?
“‘Why is your stomach bothering you again?‘”
“‘I don’t know, either…‘”
I’m finding this trick is tried and true. If I say my stomach hurts and Lian Qi still makes a move on me, then she’s truly a beast…
…no, worse than a beast!
Luckily, although Lian Qi likes to bully me, she still cares about me.
“‘I’ll go get you a cup of hot water.‘”
Hot… Actually, I should be drinking ice water to cool down.
“‘Thank you…’ I had to say with a smile. ‘I’ll be fine after resting a bit.‘”
I really will be fine after just resting a bit.
Lian Qi got off the bed and walked out of my room, then suddenly turned back, poking her head in from behind the door. “‘Does the Saintess… also get her period every month?‘”
I said weakly, “‘Isn’t… isn’t that a matter of course?‘”
“‘As long as you’re a girl, it happens. The Saintess is no exception.‘”
Lian Qi nodded. “‘So, as long as you’re a girl, it happens.‘”
“‘Then, does that mean that as the Saintess, you can also get pregnant?’”
”‘…Wh-why are you suddenly bringing that up? Can you get me pregnant?‘”
“If I could get pregnant, it would truly be a miracle of the Holy Light.”
“‘Of course not. I’m a girl too, remember? Yuri is fine… but we can’t have a child. That’s just how it is,’ she said, standing at the door with one hand on her hip.”
“‘A crystallization of our love? Your thinking is way too progressive…‘”
She giggled. “‘It’s a real shame. I want you to have my babies.‘”
My face instantly turned red from my neck to the top of my head, like boiling water. I was practically steaming.
After all… Lian Qi is the kind of woman who would deliberately leave a hickey on my neck to “claim ownership”!
“‘Just go get the hot water!—’”
But, Lian Qi, Lian Qi… you should be more worried about yourself, right? Spending all day with a “lone man and woman” (me). Huh? Speaking of which…
How… do boys get girls pregnant?
I watched Lian Qi leave my room. While she was gone getting the water, I finally climbed up from the bed.
What I’m ashamed to admit is… the fabric of these panties is too narrow, and it’s… uncomfortably tight.
At the same time, I heard thump, thump sounds on the spiral staircase. I quickly straightened my skirt, grabbed the hem and pulled it down, and quickly lay back down, face-down. When Lian Qi returned, I pretended nothing had happened and gave her an awkward smile.
She handed me a cup of hot water.
“‘Thanks.‘”
The cup felt warm in my hands. I guess Lian Qi can be caring sometimes.
She specially prepared this hot water for me, it would be bad not to drink it. I had to take a sip.
…it’s killing me!
My body was already overheating. Drinking hot water was undoubtedly adding fuel to the fire. You can’t imagine how uncomfortable it was.
“‘This… I brought this for you, too.‘”
“‘Ah… Th… thanks…‘”
Lian Qi really thinks I’m on my period, huh?
“‘By the way… Lian Qi.‘”
“‘Hm? What’s up?’ she asked.”
I held the cup, staring into the hot water, and asked her, stammering with embarrassment: “‘When… you’re doing… those…’”
”‘…shameful things with me, does your body… experience anything different?‘”
Actually, I was also curious what real girls feel, so I couldn’t help but ask. But—isn’t this question a bit too…
Being asked this by me, Lian Qi pursed her lips nervously. To me, it looked like she was being coy and shy.
“‘I… I get wet…‘”
I nodded, as if I understood, but I didn’t.
“‘Don’t you? Or… do you not feel anything for me?’ she looked at me and asked in return.”
“‘Of course… I do too,’ I laughed weakly. ‘My… feelings are all written on my face.‘”
“‘Eh?? How—’ I looked utterly ashamed.”
Geez… I feel like I’m already used to her teasing…
“‘You drink the water. I’m going to take a shower,’ she told me. …after doing… shameless things on the sofa…”
Eh? She’s going to shower because she got wet? I remember… at the magic academy…
…after… she had the same routine, right?
I still remember it clearly. Lian Qi was straddling me, having stripped down to just her black underwear.
My body, disappointingly, became strange and disobedient again…
Even though Lian Qi’s body, when undressed, is slender like mine (our heights are almost the same, so don’t think I’m shorter than her just because I’m a bit weak-willed…) but it’s still a real girl’s body. Her chest is… delicate and petite…
(Though it doesn’t look that prominent when she’s clothed.) So it’s impossible for me to just ignore it.
I seem to be ‘especially’ mindful of Lian Qi… Maybe it all started from that first meeting when I walked in on her bathing. Don’t…
…be fooled by how calm I looked then, just apologizing and quietly closing the bathroom door. That was actually the first time in my fifteen years I had seen a girl…
I’ve said so much. All that time I spent letting my body calm down just now, all wasted. Now I can only continue lying face-down…
Praying I can calm down by the time Lian Qi finishes her shower, because I need to shower too. N-no, don’t misunderstand. It’s not because I…
…got wet too.
Ahem… okay, fine. Actually, I also—
Footnotes
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璧咚 (bìdōng): “Wall-slam,” a popular trope in Japanese and (by extension) Chinese media where one person pins another against a wall. ↩