Chapter 251 251: Natsumi Date (Part 1)

December 26th, the day after Christmas.

"Sorry, did I keep you waiting?"

In front of the department store by Tengu City Station, a girl with long black hair met a girl with long green hair.

Mikoto looked at Natsumi, who was standing in front of the department store entrance, and apologized.

Although in truth, she had arrived about fifteen minutes earlier than the promised time, Natsumi seemed to have arrived even earlier.

"No… I just got here too."

Natsumi said awkwardly.

In truth, because she had been tangled up in thoughts like, "Maybe Mikoto will arrive even earlier", "If I arrive too early, I'll have to wait a long time", and "Mikoto might hate Natsumi for making her wait", the girl had arrived one hour before the promised time.

"Speaking of which, is it really okay? You're going on a date with me, not Shido."

Mikoto asked in confusion.

Because of the head start during the time they saved berserk Shido, Mikoto had promised to go on a date with Natsumi. However, Natsumi had kept delaying it, then suddenly made this request the day after Christmas.

"No, it's fine. Actually…"

Natsumi said somewhat helplessly.

In truth, the date had originally been planned for Christmas Day. The girl had kept worrying about when exactly she should ask Mikoto to go on a date.

On December 23th—

Would this be too early? Would it make Mikoto feel troubled?

On December 24th—

Maybe Mikoto already has other plans tomorrow. Forget it.

On December 25th—

I've decided. Today, I'll definitely ask Mikoto if we can go on a date.

And then, tragically, when she arrived at the Itsuka house in the morning, she learned that Mikoto had chosen a date with Shido that day as her Christmas present.

Since Shido had just dressed himself as Shiori, Natsumi had half vented and half helped by turning Shido into Shiori.

But because of that, she also gained a wonderful idea.

How exactly should she go on a date with Mikoto?

Today, Natsumi made up her mind.

"Then, where does Natsumi want to go? How about the department store?"

Mikoto asked.

"Mm."

Natsumi nodded, then held Mikoto's hand and said:

"But before that, there's somewhere I want to go."

Just like that, she brought the girl into an alley. A short while later, a strange light bloomed inside the alley.

"W-wait… what exactly is going on?"

Mikoto looked at herself and shouted in surprise.

The familiar weight on her chest had suddenly disappeared. The light, fluttering skirt of a girl was also gone.

She looked at herself in shock and discovered that Natsumi had turned her into Shido.

"Wh-what's wrong with it? Mikoto used to be a boy anyway, right?"

Natsumi looked at Mikoto, who had become Shido, and said shyly.

Today, she wanted to go on a date with boy mode Mikoto. That was an idea she had suddenly thought of yesterday after turning Shido into Shiori.

Honestly, if she wants to date Shido, she can just go find him directly. Natsumi really is still lacking confidence.

Mikoto sighed in her heart, subtly misunderstanding what Natsumi meant.

"But if we run into Shido like this, we'll be exposed."

She thought for a moment and said that.

"It's fine. I turned Shido into Mikoto. Today, he should be sweeping snow at the shrine."

Hearing Mikoto's words, Natsumi turned her head away and said with a slightly black bellied tone.

"Pfft… cough, cough…"

Although Natsumi had become much more obedient now, thinking carefully, the little witch before her had once made everyone suffer quite a bit. Mikoto could not help silently mourning for Shido in her heart.

And so, the two of them chatted while strolling through the department store's cosmetics area.

"Huh? Onii-chan and Natsumi are on a date?"

Suddenly, a girl with red twin tails appeared before them—Itsuka Kotori.

"Mm. I'm on a date with the super cute, super cute Natsumi-chan."

Mikoto smiled and held Natsumi's hand.

Although she could directly explain that she was Mikoto, considering that Natsumi wanted to spend today dating "Shido", Mikoto did not reveal it.

"Ugh… wait… what are you saying…"

Hearing Mikoto call her cute, Natsumi blushed and said shyly in a small voice.

"Sigh. Since when did Onii-chan's mouth become so sweet? If you could always stay like this, maybe my work would become a little easier."

Kotori bit on a Chupa Chups and narrowed her eyes with a smile. It was impossible to tell whether she was happy that Shido had become better at coaxing girls, or subtly angry.

"Mm-hm, I'll do my best. Right, Kotori, your work… it really has been hard on you. Thank you."

Hearing Kotori's words, Mikoto answered full of energy.

Although half of it was said from Shido's position, Mikoto herself also wanted to thank Kotori for always working so hard to make the Spirits happy.

"If… if you know that, then work harder, honestly."

Hearing Mikoto's words, Kotori's face turned red with a pop. The girl folded her arms and turned around with her back facing "Shido", speaking as if she were angry, yet also shy.

"Mm-hm. For my cute little sister, Onii-chan will work even harder! So it's fine to rely on me more too."

Mikoto looked at Kotori, smiled, reached out, and patted the girl's head.

"W-wait, what is wrong with Onii-chan today…?"

As if she had been electrocuted, Kotori jumped up at once and looked at Mikoto in shock.

"Eh? Is something wrong with me?"

Mikoto tilted her head.

"Ugh… honestly. In any case, you'd better do your best. If you make Natsumi angry, I won't forgive you! Hmph!"

Kotori felt that today's Shido was a little strange, but he did not seem to be in a berserk state either. In the end, the confused Kotori threw out those words, then ran off with quick steps.

"Ugh. As expected, I can't act like Shido?"

Watching Kotori run away, Mikoto tilted her head in distress.

Although she had tried to show Shido's good points, it seemed she had made Kotori angry.

But thinking carefully, Kotori's attitude toward Shido seemed to have always been like that.

"Mikoto… you're very good at wooing girls."

Natsumi looked at Mikoto, who had turned into Shido, and said with a helpless expression.

"Eh? I'm really not."

Mikoto shook her head. Even before crossing over, she absolutely could not be called the type who was good at getting along with girls.

"Forget it… let's go over there."

Natsumi seemed to give up on continuing this topic. She held Mikoto's hand and pointed toward a certain cosmetics specialty shop.

"Mm."

And so, Mikoto nodded and held Natsumi's hand.

After leaving the department store, the two had just reached Tengu City Station plaza when rain suddenly began falling from the sky.

"That's strange. There wasn't any rain in today's forecast."

Mikoto said in distress. Neither of them had brought umbrellas. Fortunately, as long as they returned to the department store, they could buy rain gear.

"The rain feels really sudden."

Natsumi nodded.

"Yeah, very… sudden?"

At that moment, Mikoto suddenly realized something.

No matter how one looked at it, it was impossible for the sky to go from clear and sunny to cloudy and drizzling so suddenly. That sort of thing would only happen when a certain girl was crying.

"Natsumi, did Yoshino say where she was going today?"

Mikoto turned her head and asked.

"Eh? Yoshino said she was planning to go to the shopping street."

"Alone? Let's go take a look!"

Mikoto and Natsumi looked at each other.

Although their date had once again been interrupted, considering that Yoshino might have run into trouble, they still could not just sit back and do nothing.

And so, the two ran toward the shopping street.

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