Shichen and Momo's situation was obvious to any normal person—Lala was just too innocent.
Of course, that was also why she didn't mind, which was exactly why Momo could act so recklessly.
Once they got home, Shichen started making lunch, with Momo and Kotegawa Yui helping out as assistants.
Everyone else just went off to do their own thing.
Since there was no "Magical Girl Kyoko" at noon today, Lala and the others started playing video games. Even Frieren and Yami got into it.
Murasame Shizu got corrupted along with them.
Mikado Ryouko, on the other hand, couldn't really join in with the younger girls. She lay on the living room sofa reading, and of course it was a medical text.
The knowledge on this planet was a bit different from what she knew—after all, she'd mainly treated aliens before.
Different body structures.
But in the end, the principles were similar—she could take the best from both and combine them.
Nana couldn't fit in with Shichen's group of helpers and wasn't really into games, and she wasn't familiar with Mikado either, so she had no choice but to sit with Lala and the others and watch them play.
But she couldn't focus on the game at all—her mind kept replaying what had just happened.
The racing heartbeat, that electric jolt of pleasure she'd never felt before.
And the feeling of lips touching lips, so deeply imprinted in her mind.
…
"Yui-nee, how've you been lately?"
In the kitchen, Momo took the initiative to chat. She and Kotegawa Yui were pretty familiar with each other by now.
"What do you mean 'how'?" Yui asked, confused.
"Hehe~ I can totally tell, you know~ Yui-nee, you must've been well nourished by Brother-in-law lately, right?"
"N–Nourished?! What are you saying!" Yui immediately went crimson.
"Hehe~ Compared to a week ago, you're a lot more sultry now. You must've done that kind of thing with Brother-in-law a lot, right?" Momo asked, envy in her tone.
"Not a lot…"
"Oh? So there has been something, at least?"
"W–Why are you asking about that? It's kind of shameless, you know…" Yui whispered.
"What's wrong with it? If you did it, just admit it~"
"…" Yui looked over at Shichen, silently begging for help.
Shichen just shrugged, signaling that he was powerless here.
Why did this girl love asking about this kind of thing?
Is she that curious?
Then again, she was that age, right at the point where you start caring about that stuff—especially after that night when he'd teased her and wound her up. Maybe he'd awakened… an interest.
Even though Yui had experienced more than once now—and Shichen had already introduced her to a few different positions—it was still bedroom stuff. There was no way she'd calmly talk about it.
Faced with Momo's questions, she could only keep her mouth shut.
By the time they finished cooking lunch, Momo still hadn't gotten anything out of her, leaving her extremely frustrated.
She decided she'd just have to experience it herself.
She'd have plenty of chances from now on.
At lunch, Shichen explained Mikado Ryouko and Murasame Shizu's situations to Momo and Nana.
The most annoyed one was Nana.
She'd only been gone a week, and Shichen had already picked up another woman. What was it going to be like in the future?
Would the house be filled with women?
But with her personality, she couldn't just say that out loud and chew him out—she didn't have the "standing" for it.
Unless she also became his woman.
But how could that ever happen?
So she stayed quiet until the meal was over, expression cold, not saying a word.
Unfortunately, no one noticed her.
After lunch, Shichen took Lala and the others back to school, then came home again.
Momo and Nana were still at the house; their rooms needed to be properly redone.
Before, they'd just been staying temporarily, so he'd only thrown a bed in. But now that they were going to live here for real, he had to give them proper rooms.
Furniture had to be complete, and they needed decorations.
Furniture he could set up for them, but the decorations were up to their personal tastes.
Shichen worked on Momo's room first.
"Thank you, Brother-in-law~" Momo waited until Nana wasn't looking, then hooked onto Shichen's arm and pecked him on the cheek.
"No need to be polite with me."
"Momo!" Nana shouted too late.
"What?" Momo shot back, full of confidence.
"You're doing that again!"
"What about it? It's totally normal to do that when Brother-in-law and I are mutually in love, right? And he just helped me set up my room—shouldn't I be thanking him?"
"T–Thank him… not like that!"
"What's wrong with it? With the relationship I have with Brother-in-law, isn't that just normal?"
"You…"
"Brother-in-law, let's not worry about Nana. Can you help me sort my clothes next?"
As Momo spoke, she flipped open her clamshell phone and tapped a few times. A pile of colorful little fabrics popped out of it.
All of them were her underwear.
That phone was Lala's "D-Dial," basically a four-dimensional pocket.
You had to admit, Lala's brain really was something—technology on par with magic.
"Momo! Why are my stuff here too?!" Nana suddenly shrieked, then rushed over and scooped up a bundle of underwear.
Shichen glanced over; yeah, those were hers. Very small sizes.
"We've always stored them together," Momo said, unconcerned.
"You… you let him see all of it!"
"What about it? It's not like I'm wearing it. And with those sizes, Brother-in-law wouldn't be interested in looking anyway," Momo said mercilessly.
"You…" Nana was so angry she couldn't talk, both furious and unable to refute her.
"Momo, that's too mean," Shichen couldn't help cutting in to comfort Nana. "Small has its own charms."
"Really? Brother-in-law, do you like them small?" Momo instinctively puffed out her chest.
Very full.
"I don't judge by that," Shichen said, eyes flicking briefly to her chest. "What matters is the person. If I like her, I like all of her."
"Then stop staring!" Nana snapped.
"Ahem."
"With that attitude, you're the last person I should be comforting," Shichen muttered. "Big or small, what's so great about it? Big ones are just a burden, hard on your shoulders."
"You're just jealous!" Momo said.
"I am not!"
"Do you even believe yourself?"
"I…"
"Okay, okay, you two stop it. Talking about this is pointless. Let's finish the room first; Nana's room still isn't done."
"I'll listen to Brother-in-law. Brother-in-law, help me fold these, okay?" Momo pointed at the pile of underwear, totally unabashed.
"You really need me to do that?"
"Of course. That way I can see which ones you like and which ones you don't."
"If I don't like them, then what?"
"Obviously we'll destroy those."
"…"
"Momo, you're really… something," Nana said, hugging her own underwear tighter, looking at her with pure disdain.
"Humph~ You know nothing. We're going to be living together now. If we're always seeing each other, what if I'm wearing a style Brother-in-law doesn't like?"
"Always seeing each other…"
Nana suddenly realized that was going to be an issue.
"Ah, you don't need to worry about that. For you it doesn't matter," Momo added.
"You're so annoying!"
Shichen ignored their bickering and started sorting Momo's underwear.
They all looked practically new, though quite a few were clearly worn ones, and some were ones he'd bought her himself.
He went through them piece by piece, touching each one. There wasn't a single one he didn't like.
Maybe they were all styles men generally find appealing.
Or maybe they were all carefully chosen by Momo—every piece was cute.
"All right, all right, time to do my room now," Nana finally couldn't stand it and urged him.
She'd been watching Shichen folding underwear for over ten minutes; she was about to lose it.
How did this situation even exist?
"Got it."
Shichen nodded, left Momo's room, and went to Nana's room to set up furniture.
Nana didn't follow. She stayed behind in Momo's room, still hugging her own underwear.
"Aren't you going to go be alone with Brother-in-law?" Momo asked.
"Who wants to be alone with him!"
"Then don't be alone with me either."
"Who wants to be alone with you? I'm just keeping an eye on you, so you don't get to be alone with him."
"So jealous, just admit it," Momo said, shaking her head.
"Who's jealous?!"
"Don't think I don't know how excited you were when Brother-in-law kissed you."
"I… I wasn't excited at all!" Nana immediately straightened her neck and denied it.
"I'm your twin sister. You were using my body—I know exactly how you felt."
"I was not! You're the one who ruined my purity. My first kiss…"
"What's the big deal? When you kissed Brother-in-law, it was in my body. And when he kissed you, I was using your body. You didn't actually do anything," Momo explained patiently.
"Huh? Is… that how it works?" Nana tilted her head, frowning in confusion.
What Momo said sounded kind of reasonable, but also somehow wrong. She just couldn't find the flaw.
So then she was still pure…?
Like hell she was!
If you follow Momo's logic, then it's all her loss, isn't it?
When she kissed him, it was in Nana's body. When he kissed Nana, it was her controlling Nana's body.
Didn't that mean she was the one being taken advantage of both times?
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