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Sorry.

It has been a whole night since I have been told about the photo shoot date.

Since then, I told those three categorically, “You will just interfere, so don’t come with me to the job!”. They have more or less nodded, but they were grinning at me until the end, so I wasn’t sure whether they really listened or not.

Nevertheless, the date of the photo shoot has been decided. I kept sighing in distress on my way to school.

If possible, I don’t want to participate in a photo shoot at all. Not to mention, I will be photo shooting with ladies’ clothes. Why would I be happy about crossdressing, photographed, having the photos printed in posters, and then put up all over the country?

Well, I’m the cause of it¹, so I can’t complain…

However, this and that are different matters. Even though I’m not complaining, I don’t like what I don’t like.

“Haa…” I sighed again.

“You keep sighing today.” Shin, who’s sitting in front of my desk commented.

Welcome back. Right now is a break interval between classes. The next class is gym, so the girls went to the girls’ changing room, the boys remained in the classroom to change.

Shin has finished changing, so he is now lounging in front of my desk, waiting for me to finish changing.

“Well, there’s a reason for it…”

I took off my blazer and neatly folded it on my desk. And then, I unbuttoned my white shirt one by one.

“Well, things are just the way they are, so my condolences.”

“Mou, thinking that it is you someone else’s problem”

“Well, it actually is someone else’s problem.”

I unintentionally take off my white shirt roughly due to Shin’s mocking. However, I neatly folded it and stacked it on top of my blazer.

“Definitely don’t look. Listen, definitely, okay?”

“I know, I know. It’s fine. I won’t peek.”

“How suspicious…”

While I keep glare at Shin, I unbuckled my belt, unfastened the zip and took off my pants. Of course, I neatly folded them and put it on my desk too.

With only my undershirt and underwear remaining, I began putting on my gym uniform².

“Why so suspicious? I told you I won’t peek.”

“I’m still suspicious. You said so, but you may be scheming something. Yes, you must be.”

“I’m not scheming anything. Why suspect your own childhood friend?”

“I’m suspecting you because you are my childhood friend!”

It’s only because we are childhood friend that I understand Shin. Shin never hold back when teasing me, he is a man that is a little reckless. I know because we have be a long-time childhood friends.

I kept staring at Shin, but he only pleasantly smile at me.

“You really as scheming something.”

“I said that I’m not.”

“Lie. You always smile when you lie.”

“That is the lie. I’m always smiling.”

“Usually, you wear a 0 yen smile. This time, you are wearing that smile that is usually served with a Happy Meal set.³”

“What’s with that analogy…”

“It means that you are shady.”

“I’m hurt.”

He said, ‘Haa, I wonder why he don’t trust me at all’, while sympathizing with himself and shrugged.

I usually trust him, but not at a time like this. I’m sure that he would pull a prank anyway.

I’m too embarrassed to say that I usually trust him, so I kept it to myself.

As I chatted like that, I almost finished changing. I wore my gym trousers, and I just need to wear my gym shirt.

“Alright. Then, let’s go. What’s the exercise for today’s gym again?”

“It’s soccer. By the way, can I tell you what I think every time?”

“Hm? What is it?”

“Why are you always look so seductive whenever you are changing to gym clothes?”

“Ha?” I replied with confused voice against Shin’s sudden, confusing question.

“Eh, what are you saying?”

“I mean, look. Why are you always so sexually alluring whenever you are changing to gym clothes?”

“Again, what are you talking about. A changing guy can’t be sexually alluring⁴. Are you okay?”

“You are the only one saying that… Look all around you, everyone is blushing like a tomato and are looking at you.”

“…You’re right. Is everyone okay? Is there an influenza outbreak going around?”

“All of us are infected by a virus from being around you.⁵”

“Eh, what are you saying?” Shin began mumbling nonsense. Shin sometimes start saying incomprehensible things like this.

“See, look at Sukimoto. You made him as red as a tomato.”

“Bah! Stop it Izumi!⁶”

Shin pointed at a nearby classmate, Sukimoto-kun. He was flustered when Shin picked him out of the group, but when he looked at me, he immediately turned away.

He’s right. Sukimoto-kun is redder than anybody else.

“Are you okay, Sukimoto-kun? Your face is completely red, should we go to the nurse office?”

I approached Sukimoto-kun and pressed my hand on his neck. Immediately after, he turned from hot to even hotter.

“A, are you really okay, Sukimoto-kun!? You are terribly hot? We should go the to nurse office! That being said, let’s go!”

“Eh, no, I, I I’m fine! Nothing’s wrong!”

“That’s impossible! You are really hot! I know that gym is fun, but don’t overdo it!”

Boys, no matter how old they are, always look forward to physical education. That’s why they would try to push themselves to get to the PE class⁷.

However, it would mount to nothing if you faint in the class. Take care of your health and moderate exercise is the most important thing!

“Hey, let’s go! Let the PE class go this time!” I pulled Sukimoto-kun’s hand to the nurse office.

“No, I really don’t enjoy PE class! I, I’m really okay!”

However, Sukimoto-kun is very resisting for a reason.

Muu, I know that you want to go to PE, but if you faint, then everyone would worry… is Sukimoto-kun actually a stubborn person?

“You can’t! If you faint, then your friends would worry about you! Come oon, let’s go to the nurse office!”

“I, I’m really fine! Oi, someone, help!! Heeeeeeeeeelp!!”

“Come on, mess around more and you might get worse, you know? It’s fine, so just be quiet and accept going to the nurse’s room!”

“I don’t have a fever! It truly was nothing! Oi, you guys! Don’t just blush, help me! Tasuketeeeeeeeee!”

“Sorry, English only.”

“Haven’t I used English before saying tasukete!?⁸”

“Then Chinese only.”

“You guys wouldn’t even get it even if I say it!!⁹”

“Hey! If you don’t calm down, you can get worse, you know?”

“Hey, why is Kisaragi really active today!? You usually are only active around Izumi!! On that note, Izumi!! Stop laughing out loud and save me! You are the main culprit of this!!”

“Sorry, I only speak French.”

“As I said, you guys won’t even understand it!? Why is everyone asking to be conversed in a language they don’t even understand!?” yelled Sukimoto-kun. Shin began hugging his stomach and laugh from his reply.

And so, I caught up to it. This was all his scheming.

“Shin, you plotted this!”

“No no, Kurona is the one who jumped into his own misunderstanding. I only said that the sight of you changing is so bewitching that everyone blush in embarrassment.” Shin said while making snark kufufufufu.

“That isn’t t…”

Before I can retort to Shin’s prank, I recall what happened and realize that he never said about them having a fever. I was the one who assumed that they are having a fever and worry about them¹⁰.

Khu! Me and my premature assumptions!

“…You’re right, you didn’t say it.”

“See? Geez, Kurona, you keep jumping to conclusion. I said it explicitly, you know? The sight of you changing is so bewitching that everyone blushes.”

“Oi, stop it Izumi!”

“Don’t push us to a corner more than this!”

“He misunderstood Kisaragi-san! We weren’t excited from the sight of you changing!”

“He’s right! Today is a little hot, isn’t it? Our body is just running a little hotter than usual!”

Shin smirked with a nasty smile, and everyone panicky try to stop Shin and explained.

However, I completely understand. Whenever Shin is making that face, it is when he is saying something amusing. He always make that smile whenever he is pulling one over me.

“It okay, I understand that this is all part of Shin’s prank.”

“Re, really?”

“Really really.” I said as I nodded.

Everyone’s expression brighten and they pat their chest in relief.

But of course. Saying that they were excited from seeing a man changing can’t be anything but a bad joke. I would hate it if a girl happened to be listening and misunderstand. Yes, yes.

I empathize with everyone’s sentiments and nod my head in agreement.

But I think I should clarify myself more, so that there’s no more doubt that I’m still misunderstanding something.

“It’s okay, please be rest assured. I understand that no one here is stimulated by a boy changing.”

“T, that’s great.”

“Un un. I mean, there’s nothing interesting to see with me changing, it wasn’t charming either.”

“Uh, un un.”

“Besides, I have zero sexual appeal, and neither am I cute.”

“…U, n.”

“To top it all, no matter how you look at me, I’m a boy!¹¹”

“…………”

“Yes! There’s not even a factor that would bewitch anyone! Hahaha-”

“”””Nonsense!!””””

“Hae!?”

When I was about to laugh this weird atmosphere away, everyone suddenly collectively voice out their disagreement at the very end.

“W, what’s wrong! You surprised me so much I made a strange voice!!”

“Who cares! Listen Kisaragi-san, you are very attractive!”

“Hee!?”

Oi, is he going to drop the bombshell!?

“Listen to me carefully, Kisaragi. You are indeed a man. However! You look like a girl! In other words, you are a femboy!”

“Even in the category of femboy, you body proportion is outstanding!”

“That slight femininity that boys doesn’t have!”

“That white snow-like fair and smooth skin!”

“Not to mention that smaller than average man’s body size!”

“Furthermore, that alto voice that is at the precise midpoint between a man and a woman, that unisex voice!!”

“Indeed!! Calling you the perfect femboy is not exaggeration!!”

“In other words!”

“””””We are always excited by you!! We are sorry!!¹²“””””

After they spoke with great vigor, everyone apologized with heads down together for the last part.

Shin was laughing out loud while holding his stomach, to the point that he is crying.

Hee…. Hmm…. I see….. They were excited by me, a boy… hmm….

Taking advantage of the fact that everyone is still looking down, I slowly step back, one by one. And eventually, I arrived at the classroom’s door. Precisely at that moment, everyone who have their heads down turn up, waiting for a new development.

Tears has pooled up unintentionally, so showing everyone that sight, I hugged my own body and scream, “All of you are undiscriminating beast in heat——!¹³”

I immediately run out of the classroom with that parting words.

Even though the class turned rowdy after I ran away, I paid no heed and keep running.

When I arrived at the school yard, the bell rung. The boys didn’t come down and was treated as late, without any extraordinary circumstance noted.

That day, I do my P.E. with the girls, while the boys were being scolded in class for an hour.

By the way, this is going a little out of topic, but I heard that after I ran away, Aoi burst into the classroom, and every boy received a punch to the pit of the stomach and they couldn’t fight back. Shin fought Aoi himself to stop it.

After school, I met Aoi who had a refreshed expression. She said, “I have bestowed Heaven’s punishment on every one boy who was looking at Kuu-chan lewdly☆”, so I guess that rumor was true.

After that, Shin, looking tired, apologize for taking the prank too far, and the boys also apologized to me.

The boys said, while they recognize me clearly as a boy while wearing a blazer, when I took off the gender-specific piece of clothing, they suddenly become unsure of my sex.

Since everyone apologized earnestly, I leave them to be water under the bridge. I mean, they are boys in puberty, they still don’t know what excite them. It can’t be helped, nn¹⁴.

When I forgave them for it, they looks even more apologetic and apologize even more. By the way, Shin, the main culprit of this incident, has bought me 10 volumes of novel and a dozen of ice cream cups, Karen’s share included¹⁵.

While it may be a neckbreaking cost for a high schooler, Shin earned pretty money from his magazine and model gig, so there’s no problem. Rather, the spending was quite cheap¹⁶.

I considered strategically ask him to treat us to a movie, lunch, and also dinner. I should be entitled to that much at the very least.

And also, last digression, ever since then, I ended up going to another room to change. Unbelievable…

1. Richie: Was it? I remember that the only thing you did was getting clothes for free.
2. TN: While translating, I was tempted to translate undershirt to lingerie because the original Japanese word have either meaning lol
3. TN: Looking online, apparently, McDonald’s Japan menu used to list an item called “smile” that cost 0 yen. If you order one, you can take a photo with the counter clerk smiling. I think you can imagine the different between a smile (grin) that a clerk make for a photo and a service smile from buying an expensive set. By the way, even though it has been removed from the in-store menu (there are reports you still can order them, even though it is off-listed), it is on the McDonald’s delivery menu. It looks like they will just draw a 0 yen smile like this. On a side note, a high school part timer wrote a blog that said that someone ordered 10 smiles. I’m not sure how it works, so was that part-timer.
4. TN: The word, in Japanese is used especially for woman. I’m not sure if “sexual allure” is also exclusively for woman in English.
5. TN: We need to quarantine him.
6. TN: Just a reminder, Shin’s full name is Izumi Shin.
7. Richie: I wonder if he obtained that theory from personal experience, from someone with firsthand information, or a hearsay from Aoi.
8. TN: Of course, in the original, English Japanese, Help tasukete.
9. By the way, in Chinese, you can either say 救命 or 救救我. It’s probably a bit extreme since this is used in life-threatening circumstances though.
10. TN: Kurona is an airhead. Protect him from gas-lighting.
11. TN:
    > Kurona (yesterday): “I understand that some people mistake me for a girl.”
    > Kurona (today): “No matter how you look at me, I’m a boy!”
    Lol. Man, I love Kurona.
12. Richie: Everyone is so honest. Good job.
13. TN: I was tempted to translate it as “All of you are wolf in sheep skin!” to which I will comment, “But you are the sheep in wolf skin”, but alas, I couldn’t stretch it that far.
14. TN: Really guys, sex is new things for pubescent boys, so them some slack. Still Kurona, it sounds like you don’t have personal experience… Oh well, that what makes Kurona Kurona.
15. While it does not specified how big each cup is, I checked online and there was one dozen set with 120 mL cup each, just as a reference.
16. TN: Wait, they are highschooler? I thought they are middle schooler. I pull back my comment about pubescent boys being a naive sex beast.

    Edit: I wrote this note last year. I don’t know what I was thinking to be mocking them, but I decided just to leave them just for the lolz.

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