Chapter 27: No, Um… Why Did You… Have Sex with Me?

"Good... I’ve cleared the conditions to return to my original form."

After performing the status check, the red-haired woman murmured with a look of relief.

"Return to your original form? Does that mean you’re transformed?"

The red-haired woman nodded at Kazui’s question. Then, still touching the Orb, she declared:

"Leo!"

Immediately afterward, the Orb emitted a red light, and a large amount of red smoke began billowing out from it.

"Wh-What is this?"

Kazui raised a voice of surprise as his entire field of vision was filled with the red smoke. It was a strange kind of smoke; he did not choke on it.

Within a few seconds the red smoke melted into the air of the room and vanished. When Kazui recovered his vision, the red-haired woman was no longer there.

In her place stood someone Kazui knew very well. So shocked that his heart nearly stopped, he opened his already large eyes even wider and spoke the person’s nickname.

"Y-Yuri?"

"Yes, it’s me."

Looking embarrassed and awkward, Yuri — standing right in front of Kazui — answered. His slender, well-proportioned body was completely naked, without a single thread of clothing.

Confirming his own fully naked male form after returning, Yuri muttered:

"If I cancel it while naked... I go back to being a man while still naked, huh."

"Eh? Why are you here? What’s going on?"

Kazui had roughly guessed what was happening. However, he also understood that if his guess was correct, he was going to feel extremely awkward.

That was why, while praying that his guess was wrong, he asked Yuri the question.

"The red-haired woman... that was me transformed."

Hearing Yuri’s reply, Kazui realized the unfortunate truth: reality was exactly as he had guessed.

(I thought she resembled someone... it was Yuri...)

Looking carefully, far from merely resembling him, her face when feminized had not changed that much. However, because Kazui had not known of the existence of a skill that could change one’s sex, it had never occurred to him that the red-haired woman’s true identity was the transformed form of the male Yuri, so he had not noticed.

"My native skill is called Leonization. It’s an ultra-rare skill that temporarily grants extremely powerful martial-artist-type combat ability."

With a bitter expression, Yuri added:

"In exchange, the body becomes a Leona... in other words, it turns into a woman."

The state in which a male body is feminized by using Leonization is called a Leona, which was why Vice had called Yuri "Leona." Vice knew of the existence of Leonization and, using Sexual Appraisal, had been able to confirm Yuri’s true sex.

Therefore, the moment she saw Yuri, Vice had realized that he was in the feminized state known as a Leona after using Leonization.

"No, um... why did you... have sex with me?"

Even though it had been while feminized, learning that he had had sex with his best friend who was a boy left Kazui flustered.

"When I become a woman with Leonization, I can’t return to being a man unless both I and the male partner reach climax through sex with a man. That’s why I had you help me so I could turn back into a man."

Yuri continued his explanation.

"I used Leonization in order to save you, Kazu. So this time you should cooperate to help me, right?"

(That’s right... this time I was saved by Yuri.)

One of the three people who had saved him — the red-haired woman — had been his best friend Yuri. In other words, it could be said that Kazui’s life had been saved by Yuri.

"Well... if that’s the case, then I guess it couldn’t be helped."

Kazui was still shocked that he had had sex with his feminized best friend. However, since it was the result of Yuri saving his life, he decided to accept it as unavoidable.

"Thank you for saving me. Thanks to you... I didn’t die."

Kazui thanked Yuri once more.

"It’s fine, no need for thanks."

Looking a little embarrassed, Yuri replied.

"But why while I was unconscious?"

"I figured I’d finish it while you were still unconscious, Kazu. I thought it would be less awkward for both of us that way."

"I see..."

Yuri’s words were not a lie. However, there had been one more reason why he had started having sex without waiting for Kazui to wake up, though he did not reveal it.

"Well... for now, let’s take a shower and get something to eat. We’re both sweaty, and you must be hungry."

Far from just being sweaty, Kazui’s and Yuri’s crotches were stained with semen and love juices, and there was also a little blood on Yuri as proof of her deflowering. And just as Yuri said, Kazui was feeling hungry.

"Yeah."

The two of them got up with languid movements and climbed down from the bed. Yuri’s combat uniform and underwear were lying on the wooden floor.

"When I take off clothes while I’m a Leona... they go back to my original clothes when I return to being a man, huh."

Yuri picked up his combat uniform and underwear. Before having sex with Kazui, he had stripped off the women’s clothes he had been wearing in Leona form and left them on the floor.

While in Leona form, the clothes had been tattered from Vice’s attacks. However, clothes worn in the Leona state automatically repaired themselves over time, so the damaged parts had already been fixed before they started having sex.

Therefore, Yuri’s combat uniform and underwear, which had returned to the state from before using Leonization, were undamaged. They had returned to their original condition after being repaired.

"Ah, right!"

Kazui, who had started walking naked toward the bathroom, suddenly raised his voice.

"What about the two people who saved me — Ebony and Ivory?"

"I’ll talk about it at mealtime."

Yuri answered immediately.

"There are various things I have to tell you about what happened while you were unconscious. It’ll be easier to understand if I talk about Ebony-san and Ivory-san at the same time."

"Yeah."

Kazui agreed with Yuri’s words. The two of them then moved to the bathroom and began washing their dirty bodies under the shower.

While tasting various complicated feelings about having had sex with his same-sex best friend, even though the situation had been unavoidable...