External File 01: Valentine’s Day Memorial Short Story – Chocolate from a Female Friend
On a certain planet,
in a certain city, a boy and girl were walking down the street toward their junior high school.
“Come on, please do it,” said the girl.
“Why are you asking me?”
“But we’re friends.”
They were students at the nearby junior high, dressed in their school uniforms. They had been friends since elementary school.
“That doesn’t mean you can ask me, a boy, to give Valentine’s chocolate!”
The girl had long silvery hair tied back in a ponytail per school rules. Speaking in a very boyish manner, she brushed off the request from the utterly ordinary-looking boy walking beside her.
“But you’re a girl today, aren’t you?!”
“Sure, but if I give you chocolate while appearing as a girl, the whole class will know about it.”
“I know! But I want to experience getting serious chocolate from a girl! Don’t worry, I have the chocolate ready!”
“Are you okay?”
“I’m fine!”
(Maybe I should take him to see a doctor soon…)
The girl was half dumbfounded by the boy’s insistent tone.
By the way, when the boy said
“But you’re a girl today, aren’t you?!”,
he wasn’t mistaken.
The silver-haired girl student, Shaun Lyatt, is Sumerian.
Soon after entering junior high, Sumerian gain the ability to change gender. Once a month during their “time of the month”, they transform from their usual male appearance into a female form.
During that time, they are required to wear the girl’s school uniform.
Then, at lunchtime:
“Hey boys! I’m giving out chocolate!”
Asha Dellander, a popular and socially savvy girl in the class, started scattering obligatory chocolates around. The chocolate-starved boys swarmed around her.
“Wooooaaaahhhh! Chocolatttteee!”
A hellish scene unfolded with their loud shouts and hollers.
Of course, both the giver and receivers were just playing around in good fun.
“Hey, she’s giving out chocolate I hear,”
It’s Obligatory, isn’t it?
said Shaun to her friend Kevin Coleman as they ate lunch watching the chocolate-tossing scene.
After Asha finished scattering the chocolates, Kevin excitedly stood up and proffered a chocolate he had bought to Shaun.
“Here Shaun! Give this to me!”
Shaun took the chocolate
“Here”
and simply handed it back to him like passing a printed document.
“No no! Do it while blushing shyly!”
“Like… this?”
Shaun tried to make the requested shy, bashful expression as she handed back the chocolate.
“No, not like that! You’re supposed to hand it over like ‘K-Kevin…please, accept this!'”
“K-Kevin…please accept this.”
Shaun followed the instructions, but Kevin shook his head disapprovingly again.
Asha, who had been scattering chocolates earlier, noticed the two boys’ exchange.
“What’s that about?”
“Kevin wants to experience a girl giving him serious chocolate. Since Shaun is female today due to her Sumerian cycle, he asked her to play that role.”
“What an idiot.”
Their classmates knew that although appearing as a girl today, Shaun’s base gender was actually male.
So the whole scene looked like a comedy skit.
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Fifteen minutes later,
the lunch break was nearly over but Shaun still hadn’t gotten Kevin’s approval.
“No no no no! More like this…radiate a faint, seductive aura! Why can’t you do it right?”
Fed up with Kevin’s excessive demands despite not even being in a drama club,
Shaun finally reached her limit. She opened the chocolate packaging,
Then took out the heart-shaped milk chocolate that said “I Love You” in white chocolate lettering,
‘Hmph! ’
and smashed it with her fist.
“Gah! My serious chocolate!”
Kevin was aghast as Shaun approached holding the chocolate pieces worth about 500 credits.
“How dare you do such a…thing?”
Kevin started to protest but stopped when Shaun glared and backed him against the wall.
Shaun then popped the smashed chocolate pieces into his mouth.
“Here. Eat it.”
“Huh?”
“Open up.”
Although Shaun is Sumerian with a base male gender, Sumerian can choose either gender.
It’s well known that if they develop romantic feelings for someone despite having the same base gender, it’s not unusual.
So it wouldn’t be strange if Shaun, who had always been close friends with Kevin, secretly harbored romantic feelings for him.
Their classmates’ eyes were glued to the sudden wall-pin and chocolate mouth-feeding scene.
(Seriously?)
(So bold!)
(Kevin, I’ll kill you later…)
Kevin was mesmerized by the lips of his currently perfect beautiful girl friend offering him chocolate.
(Seriously…Shaun is Sumerian. Sumerian can choose to become the ideal gender for their romantic partner! And Shaun’s definitely female right now! So…this is okay, right?)
As Kevin opened his mouth and leaned in with closed eyes, Shaun grasped his chin with her right hand, thumb pressing on his lip. With her left, she took hold of the chocolate piece in her mouth.
“Don’t get cocky, Kevin. After making me go through that ridiculous act over and over with no apology, if you plan to keep it up, I’ll put more pressure on and break your teeth.”
Shaun glared coldly while applying force with her right hand.
Kevin knew she was serious – his martial arts trained friend could be scary when angry.
“I’b sowwy! I’bm nod doing ‘at again!”
Hearing Kevin’s muffled apology, Shaun used her fingers to push the chocolate from her left hand into his open mouth.
“You’re paying next time.”
Kevin could only nod meekly at her words.
After releasing him from the wall-pin, their male classmates swarmed around Shaun.
“Hey Lyatt, do that to me too!”
“No fair, me first!”
“Can I get a lick of those fingers?”
Shaun classmates swarmed her.
The teenage boys were unexpectedly aroused by Shaun’s dominating gesture – one of the techniques her respected Drakken sister used to overpower men.
“What’s with you guys all of a sudden?!”
The boys desperately clamored to get chocolate mouth-fed by the beautiful female-appearing Shaun.
Amidst the chaos, one girl spoke up:
“Um, Lyatt…”
“Oh Class Rep! Help me!”
Shaun turned hopefully to the reliable, sincere class representative.
But her words were unbelievable:
“I want you to do that to me too! You can even break my teeth if you want!”
“Ehhhhhhh??”
Everyone was dumbstruck by her outrageous request.
“W-What are you saying, Class Rep?!”
“Please! I’ve wanted to get closer to you for so long! Big sister!”
“But we’re the same age!”
The class rep pleaded while gripping Shaun’s hand, leaving everyone bemused by her shocking declaration.
Afterward, at a family restaurant:
Kevin had taken the male-appearing Shaun out to eat.
“Why aren’t you female?!”
“‘that time of the month’ is over.”
Dressed casually, Shaun causally ate the most expensive steak set, unfazed by Kevin’s anger.
“I only agreed to pay for the girl you!”
“Too bad.”
Shaun continued teasingly eating the steak, grinding Kevin’s gears to no end.
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