10. Period
When I parted my lips and roughly wiped around my mouth with the sleeve of my uniform, I heard a pisik snicker from above.
"Ooh, you're sucking much harder than I thought? So good."
The bastard pulled up the corners of his mouth and smacked his lips, then shamelessly reached out to pat my head. I irritably smacked the back of his hand away.
"Move it. Fuck."
"So prickly. A promise is a promise, so I'll cleanly knock off two days for you."
Then, a status window that was both annoying and welcome appeared in the air.
[ Nishino Yuka cannot resist Kurosawa Ren's kiss. ]
[ Remaining time: 2 days 23 hours 57 minutes (2 days deducted) ]
Phew... Fortunately, it's being reflected properly.
"Then have a good weekend, okay? Yuka."
The bastard smiled nastily as if satisfied, then swaggered up from his seat and left the changing room.
Kwang.
The door closed, and I was left alone in the changing room.
"...Hah."
I dropped to my knees on the floor and roughly rubbed my wet lips with the back of my hand. My head was a complete mess.
Holding my throbbing head, I placed a hand on the floor and got up with a seueuk. I felt the damp underwear between my thighs inside my skirt growing cold. At that moment, a terrible sense of reality hit me.
I'm crazy. I'm really crazy, Nishino Yuka. Just to shave off a mere two days, I bit and sucked that delinquent bastard's tongue myself? That son of a bitch, did he really use some hypnosis app or something?
And on top of that, I, I, got wet... I'd never been like that even once...
My face went hwaak hot.
"Aaaak!! Fuck!"
Crazy bitch, crazy bitch..!
With shame and self-loathing rushing in late, I screamed while tearing at my hair in the empty changing room.
**
Dawn the next day.
"Heueu..."
As soon as I opened my eyes, a nasty pain pressing down kkukkkuk on my lower belly made a groan burst out of me before I knew it. A stabbing pain pierced from my buttocks to my lower back, and something damp was flowing out between my thighs.
Ah, this is...
As soon as I pulled back the blanket, a red stain caught my eye. That thing I could never get used to no matter how many times I experienced it after reincarnating into a woman's body.
It was menstruation.
My menstrual cramps were especially severe. Just looking at my younger sister Yume, the closest comparison, she often ended at the level of just feeling a bit bad, but I had times when I really lay sick all day.
Pain as if my entire insides were being wrung out, and a nasty chill as if I'd caught a cold. And a terrible fatigue as if all the strength was draining from my body. The metallic smell made me nauseous, and my head spun.
I staggered to the second-floor bathroom, opened the drawer, and took out one sanitary pad with 'Large Winged' written on the package.
An object that, in my past life, I'd never even have held in my hand for my whole life. As I tore open the plastic, the smell of white, softly folded nonwoven fabric brushed the tip of my nose.
"Ahheueu..."
My fingertips trembled deoldeol. After roughly positioning it, I pressed the sanitary pad firmly onto the inside of my panties, then folded the wing parts sticking out on both sides over to the underside.
I had to focus with all my nerves, as if applying a smartphone screen protector. After a few trials and errors in the past, I'd realized that if it was even slightly crooked, blood would leak or my thighs would get chafed.
When I pulled my panties back up, I felt the foreign sensation of the thick pad touching between my thighs. A feeling like I was wearing a diaper. Though several years had passed since I became a woman's body, this unpleasant feeling was something I could never get used to even if I died.
Why the hell did it have to burst out exactly the day after that huge mess? And today was the day I'd decided to go see a movie with Michiru and Reika.
On top of being humiliated by the Golden-Tanned Delinquent bastard the whole time, menstrual cramps were crushing my body, so my condition was truly the worst of the worst.
**
Early afternoon. A dessert cafe downtown.
"Ah, seriously. When the protagonist opened that basement door, I was so nervous! Right, Reika-chan?"
"Yeah. The foreshadowing payoff was clean too. I never thought the cabin owner would be the culprit."
Michiru and Reika, sitting across from me, were chattering away about the thriller movie we'd gone to see together that morning. But I was resting my chin on my hand, straw in my mouth, just jjoook sucking down milk tea and blankly staring out the window.
I didn't even remember the movie's content well. My head was complicated, my condition was completely fucked... from the middle onward my head was ringing, so I just slept. Thanks to that, I kept having useless thoughts. Mostly about the Golden-Tanned Delinquent bastard.
...Fuck, the more I think about it, the angrier I get.
From the first day of transfer, he kept messing with me and pulling shit, then he hid his judo skills and even got the Wish Ticket. And using that as an excuse, he kissed me several times a day.
And yesterday? He said he'd stick out his tongue, so I should suck it myself? On top of that, I accepted that ridiculous offer. Just to shave off a mere two days... Of course, I had no choice because the bastard threatened me, but still.
Even so, to be completely swept up in that bastard's pace and slurp his tongue like a dog. The more I think about it, I'm disqualified as a human, seriously...
I will never again dance to that bastard's tune. For real.
Still, it's the weekend anyway. No school, and the one good thing was that I didn't have to see that unpleasant bastard's face. For now, let's rest well. Rest, and think about the rest starting Monday. Just then, Michiru, who had been chattering excitedly, looked closely at me spacing out and asked.
"Yuka-chan, what's wrong? You've been spacing out ever since the movie theater... Are you sick somewhere?"
"Huh? Ah.. it's that day today. My stomach hurts and I'm a bit down."
I answered vaguely. It wasn't a lie anyway. Reika watched me quietly with worried eyes, then muttered low.
"Ah... painkillers? Did you take them? Yuka, your menstrual cramps are severe."
"Yeah, I took them before coming out. I'm okay."
"What~! Yuka-chan isn't feeling well, so I guess I shouldn't have suggested the movie. Cheer up a bit!"
Michiru said with a worried expression, cutting the cake and moving it toward me.
**
After chatting roughly like that at the cafe and finishing our drinks, the three of us headed out to go eat a late lunch.
It was when we came out onto the bustling street and were looking around for where to go. Reika, walking beside me, narrowed her eyes slightly.
"..Huh? Over there, it's Kurosawa."
"Kurosawa-gun? Where?"
At Reika's low words, Michiru turned her head forward, and I too, upon hearing that name, felt all the hair on my body stand on end as I looked straight ahead nervously.
The bastard swaggering toward us from far away. A typical blonde tanned delinquent. It really was Kurosawa Ren.
Ah, fuck. This can't be happening. This is why rural towns are a problem. I never thought I'd run into him on the weekend. If I got tangled up with that bastard, my peaceful weekend could be ruined. I had to avoid him quickly.
"Reika. Let's not go here, let's go toward the station..."
Just as I grabbed Reika's shoulder and tried to slip out toward the left intersection.
...I saw a woman with a refined air clinging chalsak to the bastard's side, linking arms and smiling brightly.
"...Hah?"
The moment I faced that sight, my face went cold and stiff as if all the blood had drained away.
Yesterday in the changing room, he'd even threatened me and made me suck his tongue humiliatingly. And as soon as the weekend came, he was strutting down the street with another woman on his arm.
"Hik...!"
"..."
Maybe because they saw my expression turn terrifyingly murderous in an instant, I could feel Michiru and Reika beside me watching my mood.
Then, the bastard noticed us too. As soon as he spotted us, he subtly untangled arms with the woman beside him, then raised a hand shamelessly and walked over.
"Oh, we all run into each other here. Out having fun on the weekend?"
The bastard smiled with his eyes, lightly greeted Michiru and Reika, then immediately fixed his gaze on me and came closer.
"Hey, Yuka. Good to see you?"
"..."
The Golden-Tanned Delinquent bastard acted slyly familiar as usual, but my expression remained frozen.
But the bastard, as if he had no grasp of the situation at all, leaned his upper body toward me, whispered into my ear, and started grating on my nerves.
"Keukeuk. Your face is a sight. You relaxed because it was the weekend, right?"
"Hey, Kurosawa...!"
Reika, who had noticed my mood was unusual and was sweating cold sweat, lowly called the bastard's name to restrain him, but nothing entered my ears, which had gone bad from extreme stress.
Looking at that infuriating expression, I felt like I might grab the bastard by the collar right here or plop down and scream at the top of my lungs. I couldn't show such an ugly scene in front of Michiru and Reika.
Seueuk.
I turned my back on the bastard just like that, then started running like crazy.
"...?"
"Huh, huh?! Yuka-chan?!"
"Yuka!"
I heard my friends calling in confusion from behind, but I didn't stop.
I swear it wasn't an emotion like jealousy. It absolutely wasn't that I felt bad because the bastard cheated on me or anything like that. From the start, there was no way there'd be such a cringy emotion between me and that filthy delinquent bastard.
I was just angry.
Since three days ago, I'd been tasting the greatest humiliation of my life and my mental state was being mercilessly shattered, while the very person who'd done that cruel thing to me was enjoying the weekend with some other woman without a shred of guilt.
As if someone like me didn't even linger in his memory.
The fucking fact that I was the only one groaning over it made me so unfairly upset and resentful that my insides churned and I couldn't stand it. Michiru and Reika's voices calling me from behind grew faint and distant.
This is why I hate a woman's body. It makes me act impulsively regardless of my will.
**
My eyes, which had been blankly watching Yuka suddenly dash away, widened slightly. Even while being forced into kisses over and over, she'd always kept her spirit alive.
The girl who'd bare her teeth and hiss like a cat whenever she saw me was now running away as if fleeing, unable even to meet my eyes.
Her blank, fed-up face. Her flimsy steps stumbling over her own legs.
...What is this?
A strangely irritating, unpleasant stimulation stirred inside me. It seemed it was quite fresh that the girl who'd always just wakwak-ed at me had finally shown an unexpected reaction.
Yeah, it must just be because it was a fresh reaction. The urge to chase after her right now and grab her was probably just because I wanted to watch her ruined state a bit more.
"What, Ren? Who's that girl? A girl you know?"
The woman clinging to my side asked with a coquettish whine. A woman who'd followed me from Tokyo whose name I couldn't even properly remember. The kind of brainless bitch who spreads her legs if you buy her a few expensive things.
She was someone I'd called out roughly because I had nothing to do on the weekend and was bored, just to hang out with. I'd planned to go along with her moderately and kill the boring time, but...
"...Something suddenly came up for me. Go first."
The moment Yuka showed an unexpected reaction, that kind of boring entertainment didn't matter at all anymore.
"Huh? You came all the way here with me and suddenly? Ren, I'm bored, you know? Huh~?"
Ah, annoying. With her clinging chalsak and linking arms, her whining voice made irritation surge. I scowled hard and shook off my arm.
"I said get lost."
At my reaction, the woman's mouth opened and closed for a moment. She let out a hollow laugh as if dumbfounded, then, apparently thoroughly offended, spun around and snapped coldly.
"...Hah! He calls me out and then does this, what a real lunatic bastard."
The woman stomped her feet irritably and left toward the opposite side. Having peeled off the annoyance, I immediately approached Yuka's friends.
Hondo, frozen and sweating cold sweat, and Tachibana, standing expressionless. I scratched my head beokbeok, then let out a pik laugh and opened my mouth low.
"Am I... fucked?"
At my question, Tachibana answered without a single moment of hesitation.
"Yeah."