Yukino Yukinoshita instinctively sensed a faint trace of danger; from the playful glint flickering in Lin Ye's eyes, her heart kept flinching.
At this moment, she very much wished Lin Ye would leave first.
"Lin Ye, I'm tired. You should head back first!"
Yukino Yukinoshita bluntly expressed her wish for Lin Ye to leave. Right now, she felt that even letting Lin Ye stay overnight in the apartment was extremely dangerous for her.
It wasn't a danger to her chastity—after all, Lin Ye had just rejected her conditions, and he wouldn't force himself on her—but... other dangers couldn't be ignored either,
especially since her intuition at this moment kept reminding her so insistently.
"Yukino,"
Lin Ye grabbed Yukinoshita's hand. "You haven't even bathed yet. What's the rush?"
"I'm tired,"
"The thing is, I have a favor to ask. I need your help, Yukino."
Lin Ye gazed at Yukino with pleading eyes. "Right now, you're the only one suitable to help me. You wouldn't want me to go ask some other girl for help, would you? If you refuse, Yukino, I might have to go to Tokyo to ask Mai for help."
As his words fell, Yukino Yukinoshita instinctively shuddered, subconsciously rejecting the idea.
She didn't want that—she really, really didn't want that.
Letting Lin Ye go ask Mai Sakurajima for help would, in a roundabout way, increase the time the two spent together and deepen their feelings for each other.
Although Yukino Yukinoshita had more or less tacitly accepted this complicated three-person relationship, she wasn't willing to fully embrace it.
Within the bounds of what was permissible, her thinking was to reduce the communication and contact between Lin Ye and Mai Sakurajima.
"Sigh, Yukino really is angry today. It's my fault for not handling things well. For this favor, I'll just have Mai help out!"
As he said this, Lin Ye let go of her hand.
The instant his hand released hers, Yukino Yukinoshita's hand subconsciously grabbed Lin Ye's hand back, followed by a soft, sighing exhale.
"I'll help you, but if what you're asking is too much, I'll stop right away."
"Sure, no problem. If you don't want to do it, Yukino, then don't. You can stop at any time."
Lin Ye agreed.
By that point, even if Yukino wanted to stop, her consciousness wouldn't be able to change a thing.
"Go on! Tell me how to help."
"It's just a test—of my ability. I want to know this ability's exact feedback and any flaws it might have."
So that was it!
But after the sudden realization, Yukino Yukinoshita grew reserved again. "It's not Hypnosis or perspective, that kind of Inner World ability, is it?"
Even though she had already been seen through by Lin Ye's perspective, and had been hypnotized by Lin Ye, and the two of them had—save for the final step—done just about everything they should and shouldn't have, the girl Yukino Yukinoshita still worried.
A maiden's reserve and shame made it impossible for her to calmly accept all of this.
Her relationship with Lin Ye hadn't grown intimate enough for her to ignore her own bashfulness and shame to that degree.
"No, you can rest assured on that point, Yukino."
Body Swap was completely different in nature from Hypnosis and perspective.
Lin Ye was fully confident on this point.
"Mm."
"Then what ability is it?"
"Once we test it, you'll know, Yukino."
Yukino Yukinoshita hesitated for a moment, then nodded. "Fine,"
She nodded in agreement.
"Yukino,"
Faced with Lin Ye suddenly leaning in close, the girl tensed instinctively. After all, she was facing an unknown ability—nervous and curious at once, she wanted to know what it would be.
The next second,
Lin Ye pulled the girl into his arms, embracing her.
In her astonishment, Yukino Yukinoshita's ears caught a voice coming from Lin Ye.
"Let me enter your body!"
Yukino Yukinoshita: ???
She slowly put out a few question marks.
In no time, she felt her vision swim, and her field of view immediately changed.
"Hmm?"
She smelled a pleasant scent—it was her own fragrance, but compared to normal, this scent was very strong, incredibly sweet.
Why was that?
Amid her confusion,
Yukino Yukinoshita focused on the girl in her arms beside her—long black hair, an exquisite face, fair, flawless skin, the soft sensation constantly feeding back through every point of contact, stimulating her nerves.
A certain flame in her heart seemed to have been ignited.
"This is..."
She vaguely realized something.
"Yukino, this is the new ability I wanted to test,"
What sounded was a pleasant female voice.
Lin Ye pushed the girl away and stood about a meter from Yukinoshita. "Body Swap."
In an instant,
Yukino Yukinoshita's expression changed,
She never would have imagined such an ability could exist.
And her current body was Lin Ye's?
Yukino Yukinoshita lowered her head and looked at her own body,
At this moment, she was certain.
Without a doubt, the body she now had was Lin Ye's body.
Especially the faint reaction in a certain area, which made her realize that the body she now possessed was a man's.
"Yukino's body is so soft and squishy. It feels a bit different."
Lin Ye clenched his fist and rubbed his own cheeks.
Touching with his own body versus touching with this current body felt completely different.
Compared to Isshiki, there was also a notable difference between the two.
But both were very pleasant; in terms of physical sensation, she liked them both.
Yukino Yukinoshita watched the girl in her view touch herself, and that sight suddenly snapped her back to her senses. "Stop that, don't touch—"
It wasn't as if she had never been touched like this, nor was it as if Lin Ye had never touched her like this, yet the level of shame this time far exceeded any before.
Yukino Yukinoshita even felt it would be better to be taken advantage of by Lin Ye the way it used to be!
At least she could endure that kind of taking advantage.
"Wait, this is still a test. It's not over yet,"
But Yukinoshita had already, unable to restrain herself, come before Lin Ye and grabbed his hand. "Stop. You promised just now—I can stop whenever I want to."
"Cough, cough, cough."
Lin Ye coughed a couple of times. "You can stop, Yukino—but right now it's me continuing of my own will."
'Gulp...'
This guy was playing word games with her again.
From the very start, Lin Ye had been deceiving her.
"The test is over. Let's switch back."
"Yukino, do you really want this?"
"Mm."
In response to Lin Ye's question, Yukino Yukinoshita immediately nodded.
"If I can't get more detailed data, then I'll just have to find someone else to help."
Who would he find?
Yukino Yukinoshita didn't even need to think much—she knew Lin Ye would go to Mai Sakurajima for help.
A private secret like this—aside from someone close and trustworthy, there was no one else he could turn to.
In other words, if she chose to stop, Lin Ye would go to Mai Sakurajima to continue testing the ability.
That scene—
Yukino Yukinoshita trembled just imagining it, her whole body radiating intense discomfort.
The atmosphere froze; the temperature dropped.
Even Lin Ye felt a trace of chill.
Facing a girl whose Constitution attribute far exceeded his own, Lin Ye felt a tiny bit of cold creep up in this moment.
Would Yukinoshita resort to force?
He found himself unexpectedly looking forward to it.
"Not allowed."
Slowly, she spat out a single word.
"You're not allowed to ask Mai Sakurajima for help."
That was her answer.
"Then I..."
Lin Ye pointed at himself, asking,
Facing the inquiry in those eyes that were her own, Yukino Yukinoshita felt it strange, her emotions tangled. Right now she was hesitant—she wanted to agree, yet couldn't bring herself to say it.
If she truly agreed, what would Lin Ye want next?
"That's not allowed either."
"That's too much, Yukino. You want this and that and more—are you that greedy?"
But the girl shot him a cold glance. "Is that not okay?"
Seeing his own body make such an expression, Lin Ye felt a bit weird inside too.
"Not okay, of course it's not okay. Pick one of two: I go find Mai, or I continue the test. Choose one. Five-second countdown. If you don't decide, Yukino, I will."
He was applying pressure, forcing the girl to make a decision.
Yukino pursed her lips, conflicted. "You're not allowed to touch sensitive areas,"
The next second, her eyes flew open, because Lin Ye reached straight for a sensitive area.
"Already touched it. If you keep adding restrictions, Yukino, I'll touch every single area,"
"No, I won't let you do that. If you really do that, I'll be angry. I really will be angry,"
She gritted her teeth, staring at Lin Ye with a cold gaze.
"Fine, I agree,"
Lin Ye's willing agreement actually put Yukino on higher alert,
"In exchange, I want you to agree to two conditions, Yukino."
Just as expected.
This Lin Ye guy just loved proposing exchange conditions.
"Say them first,"
She didn't dare agree readily again; she had to learn the details before deciding whether to accept.
"First, bathing—together."
"No,"
"Then I'll just go by myself right now,"
Saying that,
Lin Ye turned to head for the bathroom, but Yukinoshita grabbed his wrist.
"No,"
"This won't do, that won't do—Yukino, what exactly will do?"
This bastard,
In the end, he still wanted to bathe together with her.
Damn it, damn it,
Bathing together, or Lin Ye bathing using her body—which one was harder to accept?
She felt that either one was hard for her to accept.
"I'll just decide for you then, Yukino!"
With that, Lin Ye made to go again.
"What's your second condition?"
"To stay over, of course—sleeping with my arms around you, Yukino."
Yukino Yukinoshita: "..."
This was also quite excessive,
and a condition somewhat hard for her to accept.
But compared to the first condition, she felt the second was easier to accept.
Besides, Yukino also remembered she had made a promise to Lin Ye: after she and Lin Ye became fiancés, she would allow Lin Ye to share a bed with her.
And now, it seemed that time had probably arrived.
This relationship was progressing so fast—so fast that she was caught a little off guard.
"I'll agree to your second condition. The first one, no,"
she said,
But at that moment she caught the smile flashing across Lin Ye's face—the smile of someone whose scheme had succeeded.
She'd been fooled,
Lin Ye's goal was the second condition all along; the first condition was just to raise her threshold of acceptance, making it easier for her to accept Lin Ye's true aim.
Damn it.
She had actually failed to notice, actually fallen for his trick.
She so wanted to take it back, but the words stuck in her throat and wouldn't come out.
"You have to agree to both conditions."
Lin Ye's next line, however, made her show a stunned expression.
This bastard, so greedy.
"Yukino, your reaction just now told me exactly what you were thinking. You must have been thinking that I used the first condition to provoke you so you'd more easily accept the second one, right?"
"Let me tell you—that was exactly my plan,"
Yukino Yukinoshita: "..."
"But seeing your reaction now, I don't want just the second condition—I want both."
In an instant,
Yukinoshita secretly regretted her insufficient self-control.
She only needed to agree to the second condition, but now, as it turned out, she had to accept the first one along with it?
The smile at the corner of Lin Ye's mouth made her realize this was probably another of Lin Ye's tricks—all of it was Lin Ye's scheme.
At this moment,
She was thrown into confusion—the girl excellent in both character and academics, the girl who had always held first place in her grade at Sobu High, for the first time felt her mind was not quite enough, felt she could no longer make sense of the actual situation.
"Looks like Yukino has tacitly agreed. So now, the two of us..."
"I didn't agree,"
Yukinoshita hurriedly said. "I can agree to the second condition, but the first—I cannot agree to. Even if you go to the shower right now, I still won't agree."
This amounted to Lin Ye forcing himself, coercing the girl into doing something she didn't want.
Yukino had already made her stance clear.
The atmosphere stiffened,
Lin Ye recognized the girl's resolute attitude—an uncompromising one. Once she had made a decision and turned stubborn, no words could change it.
"Well, since Yukino is my girlfriend, my fiancée, I'll agree to your terms,"
Seeing Lin Ye relent, Yukino Yukinoshita let out a sigh of relief too.
She had genuinely worried that Lin Ye would forcibly press on, go straight to bathe, and satisfy his various desires.
Although she had said she didn't care, deep down she still didn't want such a thing to happen.
"Alright, let's switch back!"
"Wait, give me another five minutes,"
"Mm."
But then, Yukino Yukinoshita regretted it. Watching Lin Ye control her body to perform all sorts of movements, the shame within her grew ever stronger.
This guy—what difficult poses was he doing?!
Those five minutes passed unusually slowly, but in the end they finally ran out.
Yukino Yukinoshita finally awaited the moment the Body Swap ended.
Upon returning to her own body, Yukino Yukinoshita suddenly felt the lingering sensations all over her body.
This feeling,
At the thought that it had been caused by Lin Ye using her body, her reaction grew even more intense.
Disgust? No, not that, but she didn't like it—it was extremely uncomfortable.
"I'm going to bathe first. No peeking,"
"I want to peek, and you can't stop me, Yukino. I can see right now."
The fact Lin Ye stated made the girl roll her eyes at him.
The perspective skill really was useful.
She even wanted to casually ask whether Lin Ye had used perspective on other women.
Such as Yui Yuigahama, such as Isshiki Iroha, or such as...
But in the end, she still didn't voice the question,
For such a question, even knowing the answer would mean little; it would only add unnecessary psychological burden. Better to pretend not to know.
That way, she could maintain her usual state of mind and continue interacting with Lin Ye.
'Splash, splash...'
In the bathroom, the warm water flowed continuously.
The girl with long black hair felt the warm water of the shower, her long black hair soaked, sticking to her face and shoulders.
She closed her eyes, breathing softly, calming the emotions within her.
For her, so very much had happened today.
"Phew..."
"This bastard, always finding all sorts of excuses to achieve his... his... outrageous goals,"
So excessive,
extremely excessive,
Yukino Yukinoshita cupped the warm water and pressed it to her face; only this way could she make her heart a little calmer.
Tonight she would share a bed with Lin Ye,
The first time in her life sharing a bed with a man—in her view, this was something only a husband should be able to do.
But now, Lin Ye, her boyfriend and fiancé, was also permitted to do it—and was about to do it.
"It's just being taken advantage of a little anyway, and it's not as if I've never been taken advantage of before."
She'd just get used to it,
Similar things would only grow more frequent in the future.
And her bottom line had been lowered again and again—as long as Lin Ye didn't perform intimate acts in public, she could accept it; in private settings, even if he did something a little more excessive, she could endure it.
Twenty minutes later,
She finished bathing and walked out of the bathroom wrapped in a bathrobe,
"Go wash up quickly. You're not allowed in my bed until you're clean,"
she reminded him,
Lin Ye headed to the bathroom.
"Splash, splash..."
Outside, the 'whir, whir, whir...' of a hairdryer sounded continuously.
Yukino Yukinoshita blow-dried her long black hair; it took quite a while before it dried.
"Phew..."
Listening to the sounds coming from the bathroom, Yukino glanced back, then rose and headed to her own bedroom.
She changed into pajamas, and even thought about wearing extra layers of underwear, but considering that extra underwear would only add to her own discomfort and serve no purpose, she gave up the idea.
Lying quietly on the bed scrolling through her phone, her heart couldn't settle.
The occasional noises outside kept drawing her attention.
Ten minutes later,
Footsteps sounded, and a 'knock, knock, knock...' came at the door.
Yukino instinctively rolled her eyes—this guy actually knocked? Now that was genuinely surprising.
"Knock, knock, knock..."
The knocking sounded again.
Yukino realized Lin Ye's intent.
"Now he's putting on a fully gentlemanly act."
She gave a snort.
"Come in,"
she then said.
It wasn't as if Yukino Yukinoshita hadn't considered refusing, or even staying silent, but she could guarantee that if she really did, Lin Ye wouldn't fail to open the door and come in—he would surely come anyway.
'Click...'
Lin Ye opened the door. "I thought Yukino wouldn't welcome me in!"
"You're not welcome."
Yukino Yukinoshita said first. "But does it matter? Even if I don't welcome you, will you actually not come in?"
"Of course it matters—otherwise why would I knock so many times?"
Lin Ye's smiling reply made the girl roll her eyes; she didn't believe a word of it, not one bit.
If she believed it and then asked Lin Ye to leave, there was no way he'd go; he'd surely say something like, 'I've already been given permission to come in, how could I possibly leave?'
It was all schemes—nothing but schemes.
So Yukino Yukinoshita said no more; talking more would have no effect anyway.
Lin Ye came to the bedside, looking at the girl on the bed,
The girl with long black hair looked up for a good while before shifting her body to make room for one person.
Without a word, Lin Ye immediately got onto the bed. "Two blankets are too much trouble,"
As he spoke, one of the blankets was tossed by Lin Ye to the floor.
This made Yukino Yukinoshita's eyelid twitch. She wanted to say something but held back.
She knew that whatever she said would be useless.
If it had been useful, things wouldn't have gotten to this point.
Yukino looked at the man beside her and, lips moving slightly, said, "You sleep first. I want to play on my phone a bit longer."
She just wanted Lin Ye to fall asleep first, to minimize the time spent being taken advantage of.
"Okay,"
This crisp reply startled Yukino Yukinoshita.
She watched as Lin Ye slid under the covers, turned onto his side, and then wrapped one arm around her waist.
Yukino Yukinoshita: "..."
As expected,
this guy was finding every way to take advantage.
"Lin Ye, could you not be so..."
"No,"
Lin Ye flatly refused, without sparing any feelings.
In the end, Yukino dissolved into a helpless sigh.
"Turn off the light. I'm getting ready to sleep too."
"Mm."
Lin Ye reached out to turn off the light, and Yukino, seizing the chance while Lin Ye did so, quickly shifted her body and slipped under the covers.
She pulled the blanket, as if to put up some resistance, but given the two's current situation, it was purely psychological comfort.
In the end, faced with Lin Ye's embrace, she gave up struggling.
"Yukino,"
"..."
"You smell so nice!"
"..."
"I want to smell you."
With that, Lin Ye leaned in even closer.
The girl could hear the sound of him inhaling.
This guy really wasn't holding back at all.
"Yukino, you're so soft!"
"Don't go too far,"
she reminded, warned.
Lin Ye gave an "mm," and didn't actually do anything too excessive.
The room was dim with the lights off,
with only the faint light streaming in from outside the window bringing a bit of brightness.
Yukino Yukinoshita lay flat with her eyes closed, her body slightly tense, but as she gradually adjusted, she slowly relaxed.
After seeing that Lin Ye had already fallen asleep, she too slowly closed her eyes.
At the very end, she softly said, "Good night."
Tonight, she had thought Lin Ye would be quite restless, that he would do many excessive things, but in the end he didn't; his behavior stayed within what she could accept.
She too closed her eyes and fell asleep, her consciousness gradually fading.
The room was silent, with only soft breathing sounds echoing.
The next day,
When Yukino Yukinoshita's consciousness slowly returned and she woke, she sensed something was wrong.
This Lin Ye beside her, who had slept so peacefully last night, was now being mischievous.
This guy—he'd gone too far.
...
Haruno Yukinoshita's consciousness slowly returned, and she gradually opened her bleary, sleepy eyes.
She hadn't rested well last night, and her mind was still a little groggy.
Something soft,
This sensation was nice,
Hm?
Why was there a bit of familiarity to it?
This...
Haruno opened her sleepy eyes and immediately saw, lying quietly beside her with eyes closed, this all-too-familiar girl.
Yukino,
her little sister, Yukino Yukinoshita.
She hadn't expected Yukino to still sneak into her bed and sleep beside her like she did as a child.
It had been so many years since Yukino had behaved like this.
Haruno Yukinoshita felt so nostalgic!
She truly missed that adorable little girl who used to cling somewhat to her big sister.
...
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