Chapter 12:

This Is Me! So, I'll do Whatever I Want To Do.

If You Really Love Me, Then You Should Love Yourself First!


This morning, I wake up early. But today, I decide to skip a class. Because I want to know what is going on to myself.

This perspective is really feminine. I’ll stick to my body…..I mean, Touka’s body for now.

I wake up from the bed and go to Souta’s room.

“Wake up, Souta! We’re skipping school this time.”

“I know, nee-chan. But let me sleep more.”

From this now I know our position is reversed.

I entered his room and pull his blanket.

“I say, WAKE UP!”

“Hey, don’t get rough, you tomboy woman!”

“Oh that’s how you want to play, eh? Alright then.”

I go the kitchen, grab a cup and fill it with water.

Oh, I’m gonna watering a plant today.

I entered his room again. Because we’re technically is the same person, he’s already wake up from his bed.

“Chill, chill. God you want to washed me. It’s still morning and you become stricter.”

Wait. Yes. For some reason, I become more stricter than before. I was not like this when I still Souta as the default.

“Anyway, don’t become such a strict person. You know you hated that kind of a person too.”

“Yeah, sorry. I don’t know, I just.”

“I agree. This world…….that PC.”

We’re looking at the same direction. To the PC.

As Souta, I turn on the PC, and that PC speed boot is out of this world.

“OK, let’s see. What happened here.”

I scrolled from the top to the bottom. There is nothing special in there. There’s a lot of lines of code, obviously. But to me there’s nothing interesting to see.

“What did you find?”

“Nothing.”

“Really, nothing?”

“You see it for yourself through me, though.”

“Yeah, I know. But still, it sucks.”

We sigh together.

“Anyway, how about a breakfast first?”

“Sure.”

We’re leaving the PC on for a breakfast.

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It’s still 9 AM in the morning, and we still not found anything.

“Yeah, to me it’s a jumbled line of paragraphs.”

“Yeah I agree.”

“Well this is not good. But, why are you here, Rina!?”

Yup, Rina is skipping a school and decide to come to our apartment.

“It’s alright. I want to skip the class anyway. But still, you calling me with my name is make me freaked out a little, Touka-chan.”

“Sorry, I call you with your name with my-…..I mean with Touka body.”

“No. It’s fine. I mean, now both of you is swapping a role. Now Touka is the big sister, while Sou-chan is become the little brother.”

“I mean…..It’s true.”

“Got it! Finally I found it.” I stop myself to tell the two about what I found.

“What do you found, Sou-chan?”

“This. This is not here last time. Or maybe it’s already in there but I don’t scroll down enough.”

I show them the new parameters. Nina and Kazu’s parameter.

“Wait, this is Nina and Kazu. From the supermarket.”

“Yeah, and look at this.”

I show them the specific line.

“The parameters had a same parameter as the other. So this is gonna be vital.”

I warned myself. “Hey, don’t change it first before-“

“I know. I don’t want to do the same mistake I did before.”

Rina, commented on Souta’s comment, “Yeah, don’t do that. Even to your ownselfs.”

“Sorry.” “Sorry.”

“Good.”

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Now it’s a 12 PM. Shiro is appearing again. But, I think this is surprising.

“I decided to make your apartment to become my own dimension.”

“Huh!?” “Huh!?” “Huh!?”

Me, Souta and Rina is shocked to what Shiro say. But, at the same time for some reason I know what Shiro meant.

“Uuummm. Shiro, what do you mean ‘own dimen-“

Shiro cut Rina with an answer, “I mean my own dimension. You three know my shrine, right?”

“Yeah.” “Yeah.” “Yeah, I know.”

“That, is my workplace. And now, I want to make Souta’s apartment to become my new home. Don’t worry, One would not invade your private place. And of course One will make One own entrance.”

I commented on Shiro’s excitement, “But you still need to enter from my apartment.”

“Well, you’re not wrong. But also not true as well.”

Rina raise her hand and ask a complement question to Shiro, “Can you explain it to us in the short version? I’m sure we can’t digest all of the info.”

“Sure. I can explain it.”

Shiro clearing her throat to prepare herself.

Oh no, is this gonna be long again?

“Ummm, long story short. For the longest time, One slept in One office. But today I have One own dimension of home. But in order One not make this world become haywire, One decided to make the dimension entrance in Souta-Touka’s apartment.”

“Okaaayyy.” Rina trying to digest Shiro word.

I think she understand it from the beginning. She only do that to tease Shiro. Just like what she did when we were young, well….. to be honest, she’s still doing that to her childhood friends. Including me.

“Now, I get it. Thanks Shiro.”

“No problem. But One gotta say, if you want to tease a god just because of their young appearance, well,….. you need to get better doing it. Otherwise One’s not amuse by it. Ha, ha, ha.”

Oh, that side of Shiro that we didn’t know about. And here, looks like she’s gonna burst like a overpump balloon.

Rina who’s in a little shock say to her, “Oh, this is the first time someone not pouting their mouth from my teasing.”

“You can say that. But, there’s other person who immune to your teasing out there, so….. don’t be discourage by that. But, One found you reaaaallyy interesting person.”

Shiro approach Rina and really stare at her….maybe for a good couple seconds.

“Wha…..what wrong….”

Shiro then touch Rina’s cheek, while Rina is still confused. Then, Shiro pinch it, and stretch it like a marshmallow.

“Uuuhhh…..Shiiirooo….Shtooopp….”

She still stretching it, for a long 2 seconds. After that, Shiro let her hand down, satisfied.

“Ah,….. that’s a cuteness right there.”

“Hey, what was that!?”

“And that, my Rina, is how you tease someone. But it work only for woman. So actually it’s actually worked when Souta is teasing you.”

Rina making her flat face again. She’s pissed, but not too pissed. Rina never pissed out on someone so much that makes her becoming mad. Even when I say Rina is pissed off or mad before, it’s like a banter or childish mad. It’s impactful, but it’s a harmless, I think.

I cut them to steer the conversation back, “Anyway, this is getting sidetracked too fast. So, what are you saying is, that you want to make your own dimension in my apartment.”

I continued on Souta side, “As long as you are not disturbing us, you can do basically whatever you want, and I want you to tell either me, Touka-nee-chan and Rina first.”

“One’s concur. In fact, my dimension is already finished.”

“Wait, what!?” I’m a little bit confused.

“What do you mean you’re done. Where?”

“That.” Shiro pointing out the blank little space between the kitchen cabinet, and the living room, and there it is……. A brown wooden door.

“That is not what I expected.”

“Really? I think you will like it.”

I’m asking as Touka, “Well, do you have a placard of your own?”

And without us knowing how, the new placard who say ‘Shiro’ on it, is already installed in the door.

“Already ahead of you, my friends.”

Shiro walk to the door and was opening the door to us.

“So, did you want to see what’s inside?”

“If we can sure.”

“Um, I’ll drink a water first.” Say Rina while get a water in the kitchen.

“We wait, don’t rush.”

After Rina drinking her water, we walked in, inside Shiro dimension.

“Wait!” Shiro is stopping us, I don’t know why.

“Umm…..Touka, uumm. I think, just in case, you need to change your default body into Souta again.”

“Oh, right.”

I almost forgot about it.

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