"Lumine, Miko wants you to come keep her company." The moment he got back to the city, Kaito spotted Lumine by the roadside, just returning from finishing her breakfast.
Since Lumine was alone right now, Kaito simply got straight to the point.
Of course, he still didn't spell out the specifics.
"Miko wants me to come keep her company?" Hearing something like that out of the blue, Lumine couldn't help feeling it was a little odd, but she agreed anyway. "Sure, no problem. So is she at the shrine right now?"
"Yeah. Lumine, let's head over there first." Kaito gave a nod and started walking toward the edge of the city, with Lumine following behind.
After the two of them had walked for a while, Lumine couldn't help but ask, "So why does Miko want me to come keep her company? Kaito, it just feels... a little strange."
"Actually, I'm playing a game with her right now. I'm not sure whether you'd be interested in joining in, Lumine." Since they'd already walked out of the city and there was no one else around, Kaito got ready to explain to Lumine exactly what it was about.
If Lumine didn't like it, then he just wouldn't take her to the shrine.
"A game?" Looking obviously puzzled, Lumine went on, "What kind of game?"
It had to be said, by this point Lumine was growing more and more puzzled.
Still, she was extremely curious about the game Kaito and Miko were playing.
"Have you ever heard of a mascot suit?" Seeing Lumine ask, Kaito first posed this question.
"I have. What about it?"
"It's the kind where you wear some little toys inside the mascot suit, and only I can take them off you."
"Only you can take them off, Kaito... hmm... I suppose that's fine too."
Hearing that there was a way to play like this, Lumine hesitated for a moment and then nodded.
She'd been curious all along about whether Kaito had been playing something with Miko in private, so now that it was confirmed, she really wanted to join in.
Besides, this way of playing that Kaito described—she figured it should be pretty nice.
"Then let's go." With that line from Kaito, the two of them instantly vanished from where they stood.
Since Lumine had already agreed, there was no need for them to dawdle all the way over.
The shrine basement.
"Mmgh, mmgh..."
Here in the basement hidden beneath the shrine, a pink fox spirit bound by chains was lying on the bed at this moment. Her two paws kept fidgeting nonstop, one up and one down, while strange whimpering sounds drifted out from her fox head.
"She wouldn't happen to be... Miko, would she?" Just then a voice suddenly came from the side, startling the humanoid fox so badly that she sat right up.
It had to be said, the state Miko was in now was rather beyond Lumine's expectations.
If it weren't for what Kaito had said earlier, there was no way she'd have recognized the fox spirit before her as Miko.
Miko: "!!!"
Not having expected someone to suddenly show up, Miko was scared out of her wits in an instant, and that almost-satisfied feeling from a moment ago vanished without a trace.
But very soon, she saw two familiar people.
It's Kaito and Lumine...
How are they here so fast...
Oh no!
They couldn't have already seen what I was just doing, could they?
The moment she thought of this, Miko was instantly mortified beyond words.
But in the state she was in right now, surely she couldn't have been found out, right?
"Looks like we came at a bad time, Lumine." Just as Miko was still wondering whether she'd gotten away with doing that sort of thing unnoticed, Kaito's words shattered her wishful thinking.
"Mmgh, mmgh..."
In her eagerness to explain, Miko had completely forgotten about the thing in her mouth right now.
"Miko, is she... unable to talk?" Hearing those whimpering sounds, Lumine's heart suddenly started to race a little too.
If she were to be treated like that too...
"Yeah. We've got to add a few things to her, or she'll just keep doing naughty things down here." Nodding, Kaito decided to add a few things to Miko in her current state.
And as that thought of his took shape, a set of locked, iron undergarments instantly appeared on Miko's body.
What is this?
Looking at the thing that had suddenly appeared on her, resembling underwear, Miko was curious about what it was.
Is it metal?
And there's a lock too???
Now Miko understood—from here on she couldn't do what she'd just been doing.
But even so, Miko suddenly grew a little excited again.
Lumine: "..."
Watching the things on Miko's body from the side, Lumine naturally understood what they were.
Wait!
Miko's even chained up here...
After realizing this, Lumine grew more and more eager about what was going to happen to her next.
"Down here you may as well turn into a dark fox—it's not like you need to go out anyway." Just then Kaito suddenly said this.
A dark fox?
Lumine, who was feeling a bit puzzled, suddenly noticed that the clothes on Miko's body were no longer that fluffy material, but had turned into a kind of black leather—very smooth, with several zippers here and there.
?
Suddenly feeling the clothes on her own body grow very tight, Lumine looked down and discovered that she was now wearing a skin-tight outfit, the kind with zippers in various places that reflected a glossy sheen—exactly like the clothes on Miko's body right now.
"You put this on yourself, Lumine." While Lumine was still looking down at the changes to her body, Kaito handed her a fox head just like the one on Miko's head right now.
"Okay." Taking the thing Kaito handed her, Lumine made to put it on, but she suddenly noticed there seemed to be something inside the fox head.
This is...
Uh...
Looking at the thing inside the fox head, Lumine hesitated a little.
"Do you want to switch it to the little-ball kind?" Seeing Lumine hesitate, Kaito asked this.
Although he'd already made the thing inside Lumine's fox head shorter and smaller, Lumine still seemed unable to accept it.
"No need, I'll be fine."
Since the thing in Miko's mouth was surely the same, Lumine felt she couldn't lose.
After that, taking a deep breath, Lumine swallowed the thing into her mouth and then fitted the fox head snugly onto her head.
I really want to throw up...
Holding that thing in her mouth, feeling the gagging that kept coming over and over, Lumine genuinely wanted to take the fox head off her head.
But after she reached up with her hand, she was startled to find that the fox head seemed to have already fused with the clothes on her body—she couldn't feel any seam at all.
Strange...
How come I can't feel where the seam is...
Because of the shape of the fox head, Lumine couldn't see what was going on at her neck right now.
And just as she was doing this, Miko, sitting on the bed, was watching her.
Hmph! Hmph!
Little girl...
You can't take it off either, can you...
If only she could speak right now, Miko really would have loved to jeer at Lumine a few times—even though she herself was in this exact same state.
What do I do...
I'm suddenly regretting this a little...
After fumbling for ages and still not getting the thing off her head, Lumine suddenly felt a twinge of regret.
But there was no helping it—right now her mouth was stuffed full with that thing and she couldn't speak at all.
My hands...
At this point Lumine discovered that her hands could only stay clenched in fists, while on the outside they looked like fox paws.
"There, the little fox's modification is complete too. Got to leash you up as well." As he said this, Kaito also conjured a chain at Lumine's neck, linking it to the same iron ring.
Lumine: "..."
What do you mean, modification complete...
I'm just wearing a mascot suit...
As for what Kaito said, Lumine silently thought this to herself.
"Oh right, I've got to add a few things to you too, Lumine." As if suddenly remembering something, after saying this Kaito conjured onto Lumine's body the same things as on Miko's.
Only a hard sensation...
No feeling at all inside...
Reflexively touching her chest with her own fox paw, all Lumine felt was a hard sensation.
Wait!
What am I going to do about going to the bathroom?
Suddenly thinking of this, Lumine immediately started whimpering.
Although she was trying very hard to make her words clear, all she could hear was her own whimpering—you couldn't make out a single thing she was saying.
What do I do...
I won't have to wet myself down here, will I...
No way!
I've got to gesture it out to Kaito!
But how am I supposed to gesture it?
Pondering this question, Lumine sank into deep thought.
Right now she couldn't speak, and she couldn't write words at all either—there was simply no way to make Kaito understand what she meant.
But even this feeling of being unable to do anything—she felt it actually wasn't so bad.
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