Chapter 25: Teasing

The door was finally pushed open.

When they left, the room had been a bit messy due to class, but now it was neat and orderly—obviously someone had come back to tidy up.

Through the entranceway, Elena saw the black-haired man with his back to her.

Fen, wearing casual clothes, was leaning on the sofa, quietly reading a book.

Kelly took off her small leather boots, not even bothering to put on slippers, and her white socks made a crisp tapping sound on the wooden floor.

“Hey! Tin Can! We’re back—”

Kelly gave Fen’s currently vulnerable back a heavy smack.

It was hard to say how much personal grudge was behind that hit.

“Damn! You scared me.”

A hint of resentment and anger appeared in Fen’s calm eyes.

“Where did you go—”

The little loli put her hands on her hips, walked up to Fen, as if signaling him to put down his book first.

“After class, I took Little Elena out shopping—”

‘Don’t… don’t call me that in front of Fen!!!’

Elena just wished the little girl would say less.

She now had a sense of shame from having her dark history exposed in front of her best friend.

“Little Elena? Cough… cough… looks… looks like you two get along well?”

Fen imagined the scene with a bit of perverse interest.

‘Elena… she actually accepts being called that by others?’

He certainly couldn’t imagine the scene of his once tall and sturdy knight friend being pestered and called “Little Elian.”

Fen struggled to hold back his rising smile.

“Of course—take a look at the new clothes I picked out for your sister, what do you think?”

Fen’s gaze followed the little girl’s eyes toward Elena, who had been hiding in the entranceway all along.

‘Don’t… don’t look at me!’

The girl’s heart was in complete turmoil.

She used her flustered, hovering hands to try to block the burning gaze.

But not only did this fail to break Kelly’s stereotype of her shyness in showing herself, it added a hint of the charm of a neighbor’s little sister—a charm of being shy only in front of her own brother.

‘So… so pretty!’

Although Fen had repeated that word countless times in his heart since Elena transformed, the girl’s appearance clearly deserved endless praise.

‘This dress has no extra decorations or patterns. This clean style… actually suits Elena’s temperament…’

‘Wait… wait?’

‘A… a dress?’

‘E… Elena… how can she be wearing a dress!?’

‘During the first transformation… didn’t she specifically ask me to buy men’s clothes and pants for her!?’

‘It’s… it’s only been two weeks!!!’

‘She… adapted… this fast?’

‘This appearance now… is this really the original protagonist…’

‘Such a big difference…’

‘An image like a neighbor’s little sister…’

‘This innocent look… completely… completely like a girl!’

‘So cute…’

‘It’s completely dancing on my XP…’

‘No… not good!’

‘If Elena finds out… that I got aroused by my brother…’

‘I’ll be seen as a pervert!’

gulp

That was the sound of Fen swallowing.

‘Why… why isn’t she saying anything?’

‘Give… give some comment, Fen!’

Fen’s scorching gaze made the girl feel mortified.

‘He… he’s disappointed, isn’t he?’

‘So different from the Elian in his heart…’

‘This is bad…’

‘As expected, he thinks it’s disgusting!’

thump thump

This was the sound of Elena’s heart pounding from nervousness.

‘I… I can’t look her in the eyes! Staring so directly… she’ll definitely think I’m a pervert, right?’

‘I… I don’t have the face to see Fen anymore…’

Unable to meet each other’s gaze, the two surprisingly lowered their heads in unison.

“Hey… why aren’t you talking?”

The little girl’s voice sounded at an inopportune time.

“I’m… I’m sorry!”

The silver-haired girl spoke first.

“Why… why are you suddenly apologizing?”

“Me… looking like this… wearing a dress and all… it’s really… really disgusting, right!”

Elena had already closed her eyes, ready to wait for her friend’s mockery or questioning.

“How… how could that be!?”

The anticipated scene did not appear.

“Huh… you… you don’t think it’s disgusting?”

“Impossible!” Fen was anxious. “You’re obviously so pretty!!!”

Realizing what he had said, Fen froze.

‘Da… damn it!’

‘I… I said what I was thinking!?’

“Huh?” The girl was stunned.

‘So Fen also thinks I’m pretty!?’

‘So Fen doesn’t mind me dressing like this!?’

The anxiety and doubt vanished completely, leaving only secret joy in the girl’s heart.

‘Fen doesn’t think I’m disgusting…’

‘Fen also thinks I’m pretty…’

‘And… Fen… is he shy?’

The usual Fen gives off a calm and composed feeling.

Even when joking among friends, with his slick tongue, Fen rarely loses face.

Elena saw surprise and shyness on this man for the first time.

Realizing that Fen was also shy, Elena felt less ashamed instead.

‘This feeling… it’s very novel…’

‘My friend… can also show this kind of expression…’

An “evil” thought uncontrollably arose.

‘I… I really want… to tease him a bit more…’

The girl swayed her light body, leaning slightly forward.

She gently bent down, close to the man’s ear, and let out an exceedingly seductive whisper.

“Then… big brother—”

“You… where do you think… looks good on me?”

“Which… which part?”

Now it was Fen’s turn to be uneasy.

Not wanting Kelly to hear, she deliberately whispered close to the man’s ear.

“After all… I used to be a man too…”

“I know a little about what men like… and where their eyes mainly go…”

Fen felt the girl’s aura suddenly change…

‘It was like a hunter looking at prey…’

“Is it here?”

Elena touched her own face, fair and rosy.

“Or here?”

Elena pointed at her slender legs.

“Could big brother be a pervert…”

“Uh…”

“It’s not what I’m thinking, is it…”

“Could it be… here?”

The girl focused her gaze on her own full chest.

“E… Elena… act normal!”

“I… I’m scared!”

The girl’s step-by-step testing and teasing finally broke Fen’s composure.

‘So… so cringey, these siblings…’

The purple-haired loli watched the whole scene with a speechless expression.

‘Good thing they’re not my family… otherwise it would be a disaster…’