“H-Hello…”

Ruo Tianxin gave the strange girl in front of her an awkward but polite smile and said hello. She carried her suitcase inside, then turned and hurried straight toward the bedroom.

Ruo Xiaoxi stood there, still waiting for a chance to respond. She watched her younger sister barrel straight into her room as if Xiaoxi were invisible, completely ignoring her.

Ruo Tianxin’s brain couldn’t quite keep up. She hurried toward her older brother’s room.

What was going on? How was there a strange girl in their house?! And she was wearing nothing but a white T-shirt and a pair of panties, like she’d just rolled out of bed.

How close did you have to be to someone to dress like that in their house?!

This was bad. Really bad. Ever since her brother started living alone, with no one to keep an eye on him, he’d gotten bold enough to bring a girl home! If things were as bad as they looked, she’d have to tell Mom and Dad!

No wonder. You’ve got the nerve to bring a girl home, but not the nerve to answer my calls?

Ruo Tianxin instantly transformed into the morality police. She wouldn’t be harsh with the girl standing outside, but she did need to shut the door and give her brother a proper scolding. How could he bring a girl home?

“Bro!” Her earth-shattering shout rang through the room.

Ruo Tianxin stopped at the doorway. All she saw was a computer desk and an empty chair. The computer was even still showing a game, so he had to be home!

She looked around, wondering if her brother was too guilty to face her and had hidden somewhere. She checked the bathroom too, but no one was there. Finally, she strode over to the huge wardrobe.

Ruo Tianxin pushed up her bell sleeves, baring her two slender, fair forearms. She was ready to drag her brother out and give him a good beating. But the moment she opened the wardrobe, the sight inside left her completely stunned.

“Why are all these clothes for girls?”

There weren’t many clothes in the wardrobe—just three or four pieces hanging there, leaving most of it empty.

But every single piece was a girl’s hoodie or skirt. There were even a few bras in a cute style hanging up.

Meanwhile, Ruo Xiaoxi was still standing blankly in the doorway, not understanding why she’d been ignored. She watched her little sister walk out slowly, lost in thought and looking grave.

Then her little sister’s puzzled gaze finally settled on her.

“Um, what are you looking for…?” Ruo Xiaoxi asked, for lack of anything better to say.

“My brother… Where’s my brother? My big, whole brother?” Ruo Tianxin couldn’t make heads or tails of it. She even spread her arms to show just how big he was. Where had he gone?!

Ruo Xiaoxi awkwardly scratched her cheek. Her guilty gaze drifted off into the distance, and she spoke so softly her voice was barely audible. “Because I’m right here. Of course you wouldn’t find me in the room…”

“Huh? W-What did you say?” Even though she’d spoken quietly, Ruo Tianxin had still heard her.

Ruo Tianxin took a few steps forward until she was standing in front of the beautiful stranger. Then she planted both hands on the girl’s shoulders, almost as if she wanted to pick her up.

Ruo Xiaoxi gazed at her little sister with an earnest look, then gave a few adorable blinks for good measure.

Ruo Tianxin: “…”

Ruo Xiaoxi: “…”

Ruo Tianxin: “…?”

Ruo Xiaoxi: “…!”

“Bro, you’re disgusting! You’re really disgusting!! Kimo!!!” Ruo Tianxin suddenly screamed and staggered several steps back, looking ready to grab her suitcase and flee the house in the middle of the night.

Huh?! Ruo Xiaoxi jolted. That was not the reaction she’d expected.

“W-Why are you suddenly insulting me?” Ruo Xiaoxi asked, baffled.

“Oh my god, that voice is so cute! Help, you’re maji de kimo, onii-chan!!” Ruo Tianxin was so shocked her words got tangled up, and she broke into an even more impassioned rant in Japanese.

“How am I disgusting? Huh? What? Why?” Ruo Xiaoxi spread her hands innocently, her mind full of question marks. Wasn’t her little sister supposed to be overjoyed and throw her arms around her in a situation like this?!

Why was her little sister looking at her like she was garbage and backing away in a panic?! Hadn’t she turned out pretty cute as a girl? Still, being seen by her little sister made her cheeks burn with embarrassment.

“Help, you’re a lolicon! Bro, I always thought you were just an ordinary, run-of-the-mill lolicon!”

“And what’s an extraordinary lolicon supposed to be?! Besides, I’m not one!”

“You’re exactly that kind! You like petite, cute girls, and now looking at anime girls isn’t enough for you? You actually—actually turned yourself into a loli!”

Ruo Xiaoxi’s mouth twitched.

I consent to donate. Your sister really just has a cold. Doctor, I consent to donate.

“What kind of mental gymnastics led you to that conclusion?! If I could do something like that, why wouldn’t I have turned into a girl sooner?!” Ruo Xiaoxi shouted, face flushed red.

“How am I supposed to know why you didn’t turn into a girl sooner?!”

“Hey! We’re not even talking about the same thing! Get back on topic! And you—get back here! Don’t actually pick up your suitcase and run!”

“How do I know you won’t make me your next target? I’m pretty, and I’m petite too. I-I don’t feel safe around you!”

“If you don’t feel safe around your own brother, where could you possibly feel safe?!”

The siblings—or rather, the sisters—shouted at each other like two enraged lions for a while. Ruo Tianxin was briefly stunned by Ruo Xiaoxi’s last remark, but at least she calmed down after that.

The two girls sat together on the sofa in silence.

They were both so awkward that they didn’t seem like sisters at all. They were more like a pair of strangers on a first date, and the air grew mysteriously uncomfortable…

“So… why?”

“A mosquito bit me.”

“What kind of mosquito?”

“A really big one.”

“How big?”

“About as big as you.”

“What kind of tropical-rainforest mosquito flew into your house?”

“No idea. Could’ve been a bat from another world, too.”

“What did it look like?”

“A loli.”

“Are you still half-asleep?”

“Do I look like I’m still half-asleep?”

“Oh. Then I guess I’m the one who’s still half-asleep.”

“Wake up already! This isn’t a dream!”

Ruo Xiaoxi tried to explain the unusual events to her little sister one step at a time. But Ruo Tianxin clearly still couldn’t accept it. How had her perfectly normal older brother turned into her older sister?

No way. She had to go tell Mom and Dad!

Having a child means giving birth to a son and raising him until he turns into a daughter.

But Ruo Xiaoxi had probably guessed what her little sister was thinking. She’d already told her not to tell their parents just yet.

“Then how did getting bitten by some mosquito or bat turn you into a girl?!” Ruo Tianxin asked, baffled. The cute little girl in front of her was now about her height.

Looking down carefully. Oh ho, her chest has developed quite nicely—nice and round.

Bigger than mine? Isn't that a bit too much?

I couldn't help but feel a bit tempted to go up and give them a firm pinch, just to see how it would feel.

“It was a vampire loli. I was asleep, so I got caught off guard. I never stood a chance.”

“You’re really… a girl now?”

“Yeah, absolutely. Do you think this body could belong to a boy?”

"Then let me touch."

"Ah... ah? Wait, where are you touching?! W-wait, uwah, nya!"