Rito woke to the gentle tug of fingers in his hair.
He blinked, groggy. Run knelt beside his bed, light green hair brushing his cheek, her hot pink eyes sparkling with shy determination.
"Rito-kun~ Hold still! I'm making you look princely for the school's Sports Day!"
She held a ribbon, Mikan's spare hair tie, and was attempting to braid a section of his messy bedhead into a tiny side-plait.
Her fingers were soft, careful, but trembling slightly. Each brush of her knuckles against his scalp sent a shiver down his spine.
Ren's voice exploded inside her head.
"STOP DOING THIS! THAT'S MY ENEMY! AHHH! MY PRIDE!"
Run squeaked, nearly dropping the ribbon by Ren's shout. Her cheeks flushed a deep crimson.
"E-eh?! B-but it's for Rito-kun's victory?"
Lala burst through the door, tail swishing, holding her Stretchy-Stretchy-Elastic-Rope-kun.
"Run-chan~♡! See, I've got the perfect prop! We'll use this for tug-of-war! It stretches 100 meters!"
Mikan stormed in behind her, a single vein pulsing at her temple.
"Don't even think of trying to experiment any invention in the house. And also, Rito's hair doesn't need ribbons!"
Run froze, the ribbon dangling in her hand.
Lala tilted her head.
"But Mikan-chan… It's for the sports day spirit!"
Mikan didn't budge to Lala's requests.
Rito sat up, rubbing his face.
'Here comes another day.'
…
The kitchen was already a disaster.
Pancakes stuck to the ceiling like pink frisbees once again.
Run stood at the stove, apron tied in a perfect bow, spatula in hand.
"I-I thought that I could make those heart-shaped ones for sure today…" she mumbled, eyes watery.
Ren's subconscious roared.
"YOU'RE RUINING MY REPUTATION AS A MAN!"
Lala bounced around, tail swishing.
"Run-chan! Let's add rocket fuel!"
Peke zipped in, swirl eyes spinning.
"Lala-sama, if you do that, Peke calculates 87% chance of the kitchen exploding."
Mikan slammed a dishcloth on the counter.
"Out of the kitchen! All of you! Now!"
Rito just rubbed his brows.
…
Sainan High School – Sports Day.
It was Sainan High School's Sports Day, and the atmosphere crackled with energy. The field was alive with color and deafening noise. Banners flapped wildly, and students roared their support from the stands.
In the center circle of the grass track, the ultimate test of strength was about to commence.
Ren stood ready, his two-toned spiky hair gleaming in the midday sun, his hot pink eyes blazing with manic determination.
"TUG-OF-WAR OF TRUE MANHOOD!" he bellowed, his voice echoing over the loudspeakers. He gripped one end of Lala's latest questionable invention: the Stretchy-Stretchy-Elastic-Rope-kun, a shimmering pink cord that looked suspiciously like a giant rubber band.
Rito gripped the other end, resigned.
Lala waved enthusiastically from the sidelines, completely ignoring the danger the rope posed. "Rito! Pull hard!"
Near the stands, Haruna watched with a mixture of nervousness and sympathy, clutching her sports uniform.
She silently hoped that Rito would win.
Standing right beside Haruna, her friends, Risa and Mio, were gleefully taking photos.
"Look at Rito's face! He's trying so hard not to fall over in public!"
"He's going to trip, I guarantee it. And when he does, I'm getting a video angle of the century!"
The familiar, affectionate voice of the alternate personality cheered from inside the rival's mind, Run's subconscious.
"Rito-kun, you can do it! I know you're strong! Pull, Rito-kun, pull!~♡"
Ren's furious response was a silent explosion.
"SHUT UP! STOP CHEERING FOR HIM, YOU TRAITOR!"
Just before the referee could blow the starting whistle, Yui marched past the center circle, clipboard clutched fiercely. She paused just long enough to deliver a threat.
"Ren Elsie Jewelria! And Yuuki Rito! Keep this competition dignified! NO SHAMELESSNESS IN COMPETITION!"
"Ahaha…" Rito could only laugh awkwardly at Yui's words. After all, just the other day she caught him and Ren in a suspicious situation.
The whistle blew.
They pulled. The elastic rope stretched and stretched.
Fifty meters.
Seventy meters.
One hundred meters.
Ren's feet dug trenches into the turf, his muscles bulging as he poured every ounce of his Memorzean strength into the fight. Rito, his own muscles honed, pulled back, his abdominal muscles flexing under his thin gym shirt.
Then, disaster, fuelled entirely by emotional overload and poor alien engineering.
SNAP!
The rope failed. It recoiled with the force of a cosmic slingshot. Ren was sent tumbling forward, but Rito, due to the tension, flew backward like a missile.
At that exact moment, the intense combination of physical strain, masculine rage, and the scattered dust triggered a violent reaction in Ren's body. Ren opened his mouth and let out a loud, uncontrollable sound:
"AAAA—ACHOO!"
With that sneeze, a puff of smoke erupted. Ren transformed instantly into Run.
Rito flew straight into Run's path.
CRASH!
Rito landed heavily on top of her in the soft grass.
Run's arms wrapped around his neck instinctively, holding him in a close embrace.
"R-Rito-kun…" she murmured, her breath hitching. Her hot pink eyes were wide with shock, but also filled with starry, immediate adoration. Her soft body was pressed fully against his back, and her light green hair was splayed out beneath them like a halo.
Ren's subconscious screamed, a high, panicked tenor.
"GET OFF MY BODY! YUUKI RITO! YOU ARE DEFILING ME! THAT IS MY BODY TOO! GET OFF!"
…
On the sidelines, the reactions were instant.
Haruna gasped, clutching her mouth, her face turning bright red with mortification for Rito.
Near the finish line, Tenjouin Saki watched with palpable disgust. She scoffed loudly. "Utterly vulgar! That commoner, Yuuki Rito, and his chaotic alien pet have ruined a perfectly good competition!"
Kujou Rin frowned beside her. "Saki-sama is right." she agreed sternly. "That boy has no decorum."
Fujisaki Aya, however, wrung her hands. "Oh dear, I hope Run-chan is okay..."
A few feet away, Risa and Mio cheered like they had won the lottery, phones held high.
Risa leaned in, grinning wildly. "YES! That's what you call an accident! I told you! Did you get the close-up, Mio?"
Mio didn't look away from her screen. "I got the slow-motion! This is gold! This is going straight to the Sainan forum!"
Rito scrambled up, his face exploding crimson as he realized the completely intimate, embarrassing nature of the situation and the sudden switch in body forms.
"S-SORRY, EVERYONE! It was the rope! The sneeze! I swear I didn't mean to land on her!"
Yui's voice, laced with hysteria, cracked across the entire field.
"YUUKI RITO! SHAMELESS PUSHING DOWN IN PUBLIC! THAT IS A TWO-WEEK SUSPENSION!"
The entire Sports Day crowd, having witnessed the epic Tug-of-War finale, erupted in a chorus of confused gasps, cheers, and pointing fingers, ensuring the embarrassing accidental encounter was seen by the entire student body.
…
Yui's clipboard trembled violently in her hand. "DISQUALIFIED! BOTH OF YOU! That was utterly unacceptable!"
Ren's subconscious wailed.
"MY DIGNITY! We might even be suspended! And you are swooning! Get out of here before this pervert tries to—!"
Run rushed away from the center circle, moving toward the stands, trying desperately to regain control of her composure.
Lala bounded over, tail swishing with irrepressible cheer. "Next event! Three-legged race!"
She produced the Wrappy-Wrappy-kun, a glowing pink ribbon.
"Wrap it around your legs! You'll be super connected!"
Rito sighed, the inevitability of Lala's alien invention was a never-ending event.
'There's no escaping from her inventions. I just need to get strong enough to be capable of facing the consequences caused by them.'
At the starting line, Rito and Ren, who had come back by a forced sneeze to compete, stood side-by-side, their right leg tied to his left. The ribbon felt strangely warm.
Run cheered from inside.
"Go Rito-kun! I love running side-by-side with you!~♡"
Ren growled, his face tight with strained concentration. "I'LL WIN THIS! I refuse to be beaten by a clumsy pervert in a synchronized step!"
The whistle blew.
They lurched forward in an awkward, lopsided gait.
One step. Two.
Then—
FWOOM!
The Wrappy-Wrappy-kun malfunctioned. Instead of merely binding them, the glowing ribbon instantly tightened, fusing their legs together with crushing force. The sudden, unnatural closeness threw them off balance.
They spun.
Like a human tornado, they began to spiral across the field.
"WHOA—!"
Rito's arms flailed wildly, trying to grab onto anything solid.
Just then, Ren's face smashed hard into Rito's shoulder. They spiralled even faster, an unstoppable blur of flailing limbs and gym clothes.
Their course was tragic: straight toward a group of worried onlookers, specifically Haruna, who was standing nearby, watching anxiously.
The moment they reached the sideline; the ribbon finally broke with a high-pitched PING!
The accumulated centrifugal force launched Rito away from Ren.
Rito flew forward, arms outstretched. He slammed straight into Haruna, tackling her to the ground.
CRASH!
Rito landed on top of Haruna, their faces mere inches apart. His hand, in a clumsy attempt to break his fall, rested gently on Haruna's chest. Time seemed to freeze as their eyes locked, her wide, violet gaze meeting his stunned, amber one.
Haruna let out a soft, high-pitched squeak, her cheeks blooming a vivid scarlet. "A-ah… Y-Yuuki-kun…"
Rito's breath hitched, his heart pounding. For a fleeting moment, he didn't pull away. His hand lingered, not out of intent but as if caught in the gravity of her gaze. A nervous, almost tender smile flickered across his face, his voice barely a whisper. "Sairenji… I… didn't mean to, but… you're—"
Before he could finish, Ren's eyes, still reeling from the spin, snapped to the scene of the crash. His face instantly flushed with pure, righteous fury.
"YUUKI RITO! YOU UTTER PERVERT! Not only do you assault me, but now you lay hands on another woman! This is UNFORGIVABLE!"
Yui, witnessing the double-whammy of the day's "shamelessness" and the highly visible intimate contact, turned snow white. She let out a small, strangled squeak, then crumpled to the grass in a dead faint.
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