Chương 107: Side Story:”The Close Siblings of Mick Lab”

"What. Is. That. Magnificently stupid piece of oversized garbage?" Yu leisurely ate his toast (or something like it) for breakfast, sipped his morning coffee (a black liquid resembling it) relaxedly, and finally, heavily raised his hips to ask him. The one being asked, the self-proclaimed 16-year-old genius boy Mick, quickly smoothed up his unkempt, messy blonde hair. And he wore a nihilistic smile that he thought was cool. According to him, a Scientist Smile.

"You finally asked, Assistant! Even though I've been standing here at the entrance excitedly for thirty minutes, just to show it off to you!" He was wrapped head to toe in a device that looked like golden-plated armor made of machinery. On his back were tattered wings made from vinyl-like umbrellas picked up from a nearby dump. On his chest were shabby breasts made from soft cushions, also picked up from the dump. Every humanoid machine he made always had something imitating breasts attached.

According to him, they were packed with humanity's romance. By the way, this must be the 75th time in two days he's shown off something like this. According to 【God Vessel】.

"No. I don't remember ever becoming your assistant."

"Fuffuffu. Tonight is the night I settle things with you!" Yu casually looked out the window. The morning sun was shining brightly. It's summer. A good season for hunting magic beasts.

"Go, my strongest mobile armor 《Gigant 69》! Crush the enemy before you! Go!" Maybe I should take Meret to the sea next time, Yu thought, nodding in agreement with himself.

"Huh!? Why!? Why won't it listen to me!?" Lately, Dajin has been in a lull too. Peace is wonderful, isn't it, Yu thought, his mind wandering to this land he was indebted to every day.

"Ah—! My legs—they're tangled—! Heeeelp!" Yu sighed loudly, "Haa," making sure it was heard. He walked up to the armor looking annoyed. Then, he gently placed his hand on the abdominal part." 《Qi Severing Palm》" The refined technique using Qi force completely pulverized only 《Gigant 69》. Without hurting Mick inside at all. Thoroughly, so it could never be used again." NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MY GAAAAAAAWD!" Even though he was liberated, seeing Mick holding his head as if he had gone mad, Yu reconsidered.

Maybe he shouldn't have saved him. The only people who can make him feel this wonderful feeling are this guy and Lenks. Both are blonde. Annoyingly bright blonde.

"Let me tell you the number one improvement point that even an amateur can see at a glance." Mick's movement stopped abruptly. To him waiting with a solemn look, Yu said with half-lidded eyes.

"It's super lame. I absolutely wouldn't want to walk outside in that."

"As expected of my Assistant. A precise opinion. That was the one thing you shouldn't have said though..." Seeing him hang his head deeply and start drawing endless figure eights on the floor, Yu put his hand on his forehead. Not again. In a word, he is a terribly troublesome man. Mick. He's very playful and interesting, but if you get involved seriously, no amount of energy is enough.

"Don't get depressed, Mick. I feel kinda bad." Yu offered some heartfelt comfort just in case, but Mick stood up abruptly as if nothing had happened. He put his left hand on his hip and pointed his right index finger high. According to him, a Scientist Pose.

"The essence of science lies in challenging the unknown! I won't be discouraged by a failure of this magnitude! I'm Maybe Legend!" Half-baked English—I wonder what kind of language it was originally in this world. Yu felt his heart growing colder from the usual exasperation.

"Actually, you can stay depressed a little longer." Shall I go say 'Good morning' to the sleepyhead Meret soon? Just as he turned on his heel, his shoulder was grabbed firmly by Mick. Looking back, he was shedding tears profusely. Only at times like this, his eyes are clear without a single cloud.

"Pleaaaase! Pay a little more attention to meeeeeeee!"

"Yeah... Ah, I get it. I get it, so don't cry. Okay?" When Yu comforted him like a baby, he instantly became energetic and laughed loudly. According to him, a Scientist Laugh. He said he already used Smile.

"Fuffuffu. Hahahaha! I see! You want to see this genius Mick's invention that much! If you insist, I might show it to you!"

"... So, what are you going to show me today?" Yu, completely used to the usual flow, urged him without much reaction. Mick showed a supreme smile as if it were the beginning of the world. He just couldn't help but be happy to show off his inventions. Seeing this carefree smile, Yu ends up thinking it can't be helped to play along.

"Thiiis is it! Pan-paka-pan-pan-paaan!" Saying the sound effect himself, he scurried to his research desk. Opening the drawer with an air of importance, he looked at what he picked up, grinned, and came back. In his hand was a simply built canned food. Grinning, he was waiting patiently for Yu's words. A face saying he absolutely wouldn't start unless Yu said it. Honestly, it was terribly annoying, but Yu resigned himself and decided to play along.

"Ohh! What is the invention this time, Professor!" Satisfied with Yu's acting, Mick raised his index finger sharply and began explaining triumphantly. According to him, Scientist Explanation! Yu thinks he's satisfied as long as he attaches 'Scientist' to everything. With unnecessarily high tension.

"Let me explain! It's very useful for escaping the clutches of the terrifying Policemen when you accidentally steal vegetables from a field because you're hungry at the end of the month!"

"That's just a crime, you know."

"I name it! 《Smoke-kun》 (mumble)""Ah, you get quiet there." Mick grinned and put his hand on the lid of the can vigorously.

"Or so you think— Open the Gate!"

"Ah!" Instantly, a massive amount of white smoke covered the desolate laboratory. Nothing could be seen. The vision was painted out until it became truly white, and the two were coughing violently. If you spot this narrative on Amazon, know that it has been stolen. Report the violation.

"Goh! Goh! Who opens it right there suddenly!"

"Moreover, offu! It has a tear-gas effect! Effu!"

"You, the one who opened it, are taking the most damage, right!? Hefu!"

"Ha... To notice that! Geho goho! As expected of my Assistant!"

"Notice that yourself! Kefu! Turn on the ventilation fan quickly!"

"However, in this smoke, there is a 99% probability of not finding it! Gefun!"

"Hoitto." A clear girl's voice was heard, and the ventilation fan switch was turned on. Soon, as the vision became clear, a beautiful girl with a pink ponytail was standing at the edge of the laboratory with her arms crossed. She is a reliable 12-year-old. Her only flaw is that she is weak in the mornings. Yu calls out.

"Oh, Meret. You were awake?"

"If Big Brother makes that much noise, anyone would wake up. Normally." Meret. Mick's sister, but they are not related by blood. Originally, the two were war orphans and were abandoned in a dump before they were old enough. Since then, they have lived supporting each other. Unlike her brother Mick, she is generally a person of common sense, although she has a bit of a mischievous side.

"Big Brother. I'm hungry. Let's have breakfast."

"Mm. That's right. Shall we have food soon?" Yu had already finished breakfast, so he decided to watch the two. In the first place, the reason he came here today was for their breakfast. Eventually, "Breakfast" was ready.

"Hey, hey. Big Brother, Big Brother. The funds have bottomed out this month too—""A matter of life and death. Sister. Very well. You eat that bean soup." Bean soup in name only, a terribly meager food with just a few beans floating sparsely in hot water. The siblings were grateful for such a thing normally. Until Yu came, it was always the norm for them to live a life literally on the edge of life and death like this.

In the first place, this laboratory was originally a shack built from scrap iron in the dump by the siblings with great effort. And the reason he started research has a very noble reason: to earn money with inventions so his sister wouldn't starve. Yu had secretly heard about that from his sister's story. Mick laughs it off as being for world ambition, but he is a good brother who thinks of his sister.

"I thought that would be the case anyway. I brought toast and Warkel meat." From the 『Super Compression Bag』, the only invention Yu has felt value in so far, he took out the toast he was eating in the morning and the meat of the magic beast Warkel. Placing grilled Warkel meat on toast is a classic delicious combination. Their eyes sparkle. Since they show joy in an easy-to-understand way every time, Yu didn't feel bad about it either.

By the way, about the 『Super Compression Bag』, apparently, when he tried to make a normal futon compression bag, it accidentally connected to another dimension or something. It's a truly tremendous invention, so Yu had strictly told them never to spread it until they became adults and learned about the world properly. Otherwise, he judged that they might be forced into terrible contracts and have it misused, or worse, killed and stolen.

Instead, he decided to have them make it for Yu personally, and as a legitimate usage fee, he provides a part of the money he earned from magic beast hunting and mercenary work as research funds every month. However, even if he gives them a lot of money, he only makes useless inventions, so it was the norm to be poor like this at the end of the month. Yu understood that well, so he tried not to give money all at once. Instead, he makes sure to show up like this at the end of the month.

"Wait a bit. I'll make it for you now." Yu transforms into a woman and heads to the kitchen in a humming mood. First, she started grilling the Warkel meat carefully with Fire Magic. There is a trick to the heat control to make it delicious. It was a chance to show off the cooking skills she cultivated in the second other world 『Mishrabam』. By the way, the siblings have known Yu's true identity from the beginning. It starts from the meeting of Yu and Mick.

Mick, who happened to see Yu transform, felt an abnormal interest as a research subject and got incredibly excited... well, it's a history like that.

"Here. Sorry for the wait."" "Ohh—!"

" The rising aroma of rich meat. Dripping meat juices soak into the bread dough. In front of the special Warkel Toast, the two raised voices of admiration simultaneously, breathing heavily through their noses. Even if not related by blood, Yu thinks their vibe in places like this is truly like siblings."

"Itadakimasu!"

""Bon appétit." As soon as they said it, the two children devoured the toast as if forgetting themselves. Yu, the older sister who is almost twenty, watched the scene with a smile. After all, it makes one happy to see others eating what one made deliciously.

"Really, Yu's cooking is always delicious!"

"Yeah. It's the best! Big Brother!"

"Fufufu. The grilling method matters, but adding a pinch of this spice is the accent."

"Yummy—!"

"Nom nom."

"Ah, they're not listening." Yu, whose painstaking trick was lightly ignored, was lightly depressed alone. After the meal. Yu, who became a man, was made to stand against the wall with an incomprehensible antenna device pointed at him.

"Hey."

"What is it, Assistant."

"Just because I'm a little sturdy, can you stop making me a test subject for mysterious experiments every time?" Mick waved his finger tsk tsk.

"Sample! That's the duty of an Assistant! The job is to end up as a monstrosity and eat me to death!"

"I think you watch too many movies." Although he wouldn't understand the meaning since he doesn't know movies, Yu dared to say so. Mick entered his own world and was completely intoxicated.

"Ah. Science is truly the forbidden fruit! Is there no way to resist this sweet temptation!?"

"This guy is hopeless." His experiment this time was an attempt to extract unknown energy from Yu's 『World of Heart』. However, Yu was frowning grandly at the fact that the words he had been repeating like a chant for a while were completely different.

"Become a woman. Become a woman."

"Can I stop and go home now?" Recalling that nothing good ever happened with forced transformations, Yu was finally starting to get grumpy. Just as he concluded in his heart that going out to hunt magic beasts would be much more meaningful.

"Hyper Beam to pry open the 『World of Heart』! Fire! Pochi-tto-na." Before he knew it, without any mental preparation, a mysterious beam was fired from the mysterious antenna. An intense light covered the laboratory, painting it white. The moment it hit Yu—what on earth did Mick prepare—a change really began to occur in the 『World of Heart』. 『Kyaaaaaaa!? 』 『Uwa!? 』"Ore" (Me/Male) and "Watashi" (Me/Female). Strong gravitational forces acted on the two Yus, pulling them together.

Just like that, the two collided violently and—. Why, it wasn't well understood, but it seemed a miraculous thing had happened.

"... What have you done! It stopped in a weird place!" When the light ceased. What was there was neither a man nor a woman. Reason remained completely male, but the body had become half-heartedly female—it was Yu. At least the face remained male, but the chest was firmly swollen. He or she—panicked and groped the crotch, turning pale as if blood had drained.

"Both... are there..."

"Ohh. Yu-Big Brother has Big Sister's boing-boing." Meret is frolicking carefree. Mick was nodding with his hand on his chin. He's unusually calm only at times like this. Annoyingly so.

"Hmm. A failure, huh..."

"No, is this the time to be convinced! Put it back!" Yu shouts. Man or woman. Even if he tried to transform into either, it didn't go well, and he was impatient. Mick was lost in thought, but did he come up with a bright idea? He claps his hands.

"I know! If we sell this world-rare Futanari to the appropriate place, a huge amount of research funds for my lab will... Fuffuffu."

"That might be a good idea for Idiot Big Brother."

"Don't try to sell people on your own, you two!" Unable to bear it, when Yu shouted with all his might, Meret giggled mischievously.

"Teasing Yu-Big Brother is fun, isn't it?"

"Shh. He can hear you. Sister." He really heard it clearly, but recalling the past, he couldn't retort strongly, so Yu decided to just direct a cold gaze at the two. 『We're in trouble. It seems the spiritual body and the physical body got mixed up and tangled weirdly. 』 『Don't just sit there carefree! Let's try to separate. 』 『Hmm. Big Sister thinks it's not bad to stay together with Yu like this. 』 『Huh. Were you the Big Sister? 』 『Well, practically something like that. Yu is like a handful little brother.

』 『Sorry for being a handful little brother. 』 『Fufu. When you were small, you were always crying to me. 』 『Is this the time to talk about that? 』 『It means Yu is Yu no matter how old you get. 』 Beside the two Yus who were flirting unexpectedly carefree inside the 『World of Heart』. The siblings had unusually serious faces.

"But if he really gets bought, we'll be lonely, right? Big Brother."

"That's right. Sister." Both of them felt that every day had been fun since Yu came. If possible, they want him to stay leisurely forever. Even if they were told that he would leave someday and never come back again. But they can't say such things to someone who has resolved to leave and stop him. So, at least they are researching the 『World of Heart』 instead. Hoping it would help Yu even a little. This is Mick's secret, and Meret is also supposed to never tell Yu.

"... By the way. Wouldn't everything be solved if Big Brother didn't waste money?"

"You don't understand! Sister! You have no dreams! For the time being, you have no chest!"

"Muu—. It'll get bigger from now on!" Meret puffed out her cheeks while rubbing her still flat chest. Beside her, Mick is wearing a smile like a villain, "Kukkukku."

"Dreams should be expanded! Yes! Like this one!" Following his male desire, he grabbed and kneaded the breasts of Yu, who was continuing the internal conference, firmly. Furthermore, he boldly sandwiched his face in them.

"Here lies Utopia! ——Ohh! It's packed with plenty of dreams!"

"——Hoh. Putting your face in someone's chest with smooth talk... you have some nerve." Scared by the voice that sounded strangely menacing, Mick hurriedly moved his face away and—. There was Yu, twitching his/her temple. Before he knew it, she had become a completely female figure. And in Full Rage Mode. Even Mick couldn't possibly tell a joke in front of this.

"Arueee? Yu-san, you returned to normal before I knew it? Could it be that the female personality, which is a bit harsh, came out stronger? Ahaha..."" 《Fal-Tickle》" Yu exploded one of the most vicious Wind Magics she devised herself. Tickling Magic. The ultimate punishment magic that never stops tickling until she is satisfied, no matter how much you cry or scream. Mick twisted his body and started laughing explosively.

"Stop! I'm weak to this! Uwahahaha! I'll die of laughter! Ahahahahaha!"" Die of laughter for eternity." With eyes of ice not inferior to Will, Yu spat out the words.

"Mmm~" Meret is smiling happily. Yu turned around and asked in a gentle tone.

"What? Meret."

"Somehow, it's nice. Things like this."

"Maybe." Mick Lab was noisy and peaceful today as well. Later, Mick would leave his name in history as the greatest eccentric genius researcher in Iskira history, but that is another story.