Volume 2 Chapter 2 The Secret Desire for Beautiful Hair and the Brain-Melting Recoil of Transformation
Edited by: Kanaa-senpai
”Hey, can I get everyone’s attention for a sec?”
After using her Gift on the girl named Yaginuma and confirming that Hirose had glowed in response, Hibiki brought it up to the trio during their lunchtime break.
”So, it must be reacting to one of Hirose-kun’s skills, right? But which one could it be?” Koharu wondered aloud, while Kirino mused beside her, their bento boxes spread out on the rooftop bench.
”The skills we know you’ve got are ‘Skin Quality Improvement,’ ‘Fat Burning,’ ‘Depilation,’ and ‘Hair Quality Improvement.’ It has to be one of those four, I reckon.”
”I… I think I know,” Hibiki chimed in, though she hadn’t yet described the girl in question.
”That girl’s hair was a mass of tight curls, like a perm. Probably natural, too… I mean, no girl would choose a style like that unless she was trying to be a comedian or something—it’s just unthinkable.”
”—’Hair Quality Improvement,’ then,” Hirose finished her thought, locking onto the answer.
”But what should we do? Should we go talk to her?” Koharu asked.
”It worked out great for you and Kirino, but… we won’t know unless we try, will we?” Hibiki mused.
”Yeah. Let’s just start with a simple conversation,” she asserted.
Since Hibiki’s Gift had lit up, it was practically a guarantee that the person was seeking out Hirose for something. The choice wasn’t about if they should talk, but how. Even if it seemed meddlesome, his skill had solved major problems before—the benefit outweighed everything but the inevitable Recoil.
* * *
That same day, Yaginuma Asami, on cleaning duty, was stretching high on her tiptoes, a blackboard eraser in hand, trying to scrub the top edge of the board clean.
She was too short; she couldn’t reach a thing. She eventually brought over a chair and carefully started working on the board, section by section. Then:
”Ah-bah!?”
Looking up while cleaning, she lost her balance, and the eraser flew from her grip. Asami started to tumble off the chair—
”Asami-chan, look out!”
A classmate who saw the fall quickly tossed her broom aside and rushed to help.
Too late.
Just as she should have pitched head-first, Asami somehow twirled mid-air and landed miraculously on both feet.
(Phew, that was close,) she thought.
”Asami-chan, are you okay!?” The concerned classmate checked on her right away.
”…I-I’m f-fine…” Asami mumbled, shaken.
”Are you sure? Tell me if you need help, okay? Also, your bangs look like they’re blocking your sight, so I personally think you should cut them shorter, but… that’s just my nosy advice!” The girl offered the well-meaning advice, looking at Asami’s tightly curled ‘bomber head’ of hair.
”Ah-bah… I’ll think about it,” Asami nervously managed.
”Great! Let’s get back to cleaning!”
As the two returned to their work—
”—Asami-chaaan! You’ve got a visitor! Looks like someone from the second year.”
Another student on cleaning duty called Asami’s name from the back entrance of the classroom.
”Ah-bah…?”
”We’re basically done anyway; I’ll handle the rest of the blackboard. Go on!”
”Oh, thank you…” Asami walked toward the entrance, a question mark practically floating over her head.
* * *
”—It’s nice to meet you, Yaginuma-san!”
”Ah-BAHH!?” Asami squeaked, recognizing the person who called her. (It’s that girl with the gorgeous hair I passed at lunch…)
”Um… sorry to just drop this on you. I really just wanted to talk for a bit… do you maybe have ten minutes after this? It’s just a simple chat,” Hibiki asked gently.
”Ah-bah-bah-bah… i-is it m-me you want? I don’t know what this is about, but… t-ten minutes is f-fine,” Asami stuttered.
It was the first time an upperclassman had ever spoken to her since she enrolled. Her body trembled with nerves, but she wasn’t the type to refuse a request. She agreed to hear the senior out.
* * *
After school, they were on the rooftop again. Rindou Hibiki and Yaginuma Asami were sitting alone on one of the benches, while Hirose, Koharu, and Kirino sat on another bench further away, observing them discreetly. They’d decided a full encirclement by four people would be too frightening.
”I didn’t introduce myself properly. I’m Rindou Hibiki, from the second year! Nice to meetcha!”
(S-So dazzling… cute… beautiful… Ah-bah…) Asami, seeing Hibiki’s dazzling smile up close, couldn’t look directly at her and kept her gaze fixed straight ahead.
”M-My n-name is… Yaginuma Asami… s-senpai,” she haltingly responded.
”Thanks! Is it okay if I call you Asami-chan?”
”My class calls me that, so… I-it’s okay…” Despite her difficulty with eye contact, Asami was answering everything.
”Okay, so let’s get down to business. See, I have a Gift called ‘Desire,’ and one of its skills lets me find people whose wishes can be granted by someone else.”
”‘Desire’… that’s an amazing Gift.”
”And I’m sorry for checking without permission, but… Asami-chan, do you happen to have a problem or a worry you’re dealing with?” Hibiki asked softly.
”A worry…” Asami fell silent for a long moment, thinking deeply.
Finally, the words tumbled out:
”…I guess it’s my height.”
Hibiki instantly collapsed dramatically onto the bench. “ZOOOONK!”
”W-Well, you do look a little short, but… is it really bothering you that much?” Hibiki stammered out.
”Just now, when I was cleaning the blackboard, I couldn’t reach the top and fell off a chair…”
(That is a problem, I guess, but… Hirose’s skills don’t include bone lengthening or height-increasing spells…) Hibiki thought.
She figured directly bringing up the delicate hair topic might not be the best move. Instead, she made eye contact with Hirose and decided to talk about his skills directly.
”Look, see that guy sitting over there?”
”Ah… yes.”
”That’s Hirose. He’s got several skills derived from his Gift, and they are: ‘Skin Quality Improvement,’ ‘Fat Burning,’ ‘Depilation’… and ‘Hair Quality Improvement’!”
”————!?”
The instant she heard the last skill, Asami shot up from the bench. Hibiki knew right then that she had hit the key word deep in Asami’s heart.
”Okay, I’m just gonna say it. Asami-chan, are you worried about your hair?”
”Ah… Ah… Ah-bah… Y-Yes,” Asami gasped, clutching her own head before slumping back onto the bench.
”Hirose’s skill can adjust everything, from the amount of hair to the quality of the new hair that grows in. Hey, just look at my hair for a second, okay?”
Asami tentatively looked at Hibiki’s beautiful hair right in front of her. Hibiki ran her fingers through her own hair like a comb, showing off its smoothness.
”It’s beautiful, right?”
”Yes… too beautiful…”
”It was already pretty good, but this is beyond that—he made it exactly the way I wanted it to be.”
”Amazing…” Asami murmured, gazing at Hibiki’s hair with an expression of intense envy.
”If you’re struggling, Asami-chan, we really want to help. So, please tell us what you want to do—”
Asami looked forward again and began to speak in a small, faint voice.
”—My hair… it’s been like this since I was born. By the time I started kindergarten, it had already turned into this shape.”
Meaning, a tight, round ‘bomber head’ of curls.
”All the other girls had lovely hair, and I was always so jealous… but there was nothing I could do about it…”
”What about chemical straightening?”
”I figured it would just go back, so… I never did it.”
Chemical straightening is basically a temporary ¹. You have to keep going back, and for someone with hair as stubborn as Asami’s, it must be truly awful.
”I see…”
”But… if this can fix it from the root… and if the volume can be lessened… I’m interested.”
Hibiki smiled.
”This isn’t about hair, but look over there. See those two girls next to Hirose?”
”Yes—”
”They both had different problems, but Hirose’s skill solved them. They both say their lives have been so much more fun since then.”
Noticing the gaze, Koharu and Kirino waved to Asami. Asami gave a slight, hesitant bow in return.
”I’ll say it again. If you want this, Asami-chan… let’s improve that hair quality!”
”…………Yes.”
Just as Asami gave her consent, a spring breeze WHOOSHED across the rooftop, catching Asami’s hair and blowing it up, completely exposing her forehead.
”Ah-bah!?”
”—Eeh!”
Embarrassed to be seen, Asami instantly used both hands to plaster her bangs back down.
But Hibiki had seen.
(Her eyes… her eyes… they’re absolutely stunning…)
The eyes Hibiki saw were a perfect double-lid, large in size… and the color of her irises was a striking, beautiful turquoise blue.
”Asami-chan… do you have any foreign blood in your family?” Hibiki gasped.
”Ah-bah… m-my grandfather was English… so I’m a quarter,” she whispered.
”No way!! ²“
(This is it… If we fix her hair, she’s going to turn into a doll-like, absolute beauty!) Hibiki felt a burst of excitement in her heart.
”So, if we’re doing this—there’s actually a Recoil that comes with the skill’s activation…”
And so, Hibiki began to describe her own experience to Asami.
* * *
The time machine rolled back about three weeks.
”—Alright, Hibiki, here I go.”
”M-hmm.”
”—’Hair Quality Improvement.’”
Hibiki was lying on the bed in her own room, her head resting on Hirose’s lap as he activated the skill.
His hands, radiating a pale white glow, settled gently onto Hibiki’s scalp.
”Ah! Ah! Ah… ♡”
Instantly, the Recoil began to manifest, and Hibiki started to moan softly.
Hirose’s five fingers combed through her gorgeous hair, touching her scalp directly. He slowly stimulated the area with the pads of his fingers, kneading gently to reach the hair roots.
”I-It f-feeeels sooooo good… ♡”
Listening to Hibiki’s gasps, he moved over her hairline, temples, and the back of her head, down to her sideburns and the nape of her neck. The stimulation to her scalp began to spread throughout her entire body, making her hot and hyper-sensitive.
But after about a minute, the sensation changed.
”Ngh!?”
Hibiki suddenly let out a strangled, unfamiliar cry. Her eyes rolled so far back they were almost all white, and her face became a mask of pure, distorted ecstasy. Her body began to twitch and convulse with sharp tremors.
”Is… is she gonna be okay?” Hirose whispered, concerned.
”Hibiki-chan’s face looks terrible…” Koharu and Kirino, who were watching to see the process, noted that this Recoil was different from all the previous ones.
Perhaps it was because he was touching the head directly. Hibiki’s head was shaking as if her brain was being scrambled ³, and her eyes were wide and bulging.
Then, even though the treatment time was nowhere near over, it happened.
”Ngh… Ohhh—Oooohh!? ♡”
After one final, loud cry, Hibiki went completely limp and still.
”————”
The three of them exchanged glances.
”—Is Hibiki-chan passed out?” Kirino inquired.
”Looks like it…”
Hibiki had drooled slightly from her mouth, and her eyes were still open as she lay there unconscious.
Hirose considered stopping the procedure, but he could practically hear Hibiki yelling ‘Why did you stop!?’ when she woke up, so he continued the treatment.
Instinctively, he knew that this Recoil was only an intense stimulation to the head and wouldn’t cause any actual physical harm. He kept going, but—
”…She’s still making a terrible face,” Koharu commented softly.
Because Hibiki had passed out with her eyes rolled back, a truly awful Ahegao expression was on full display before them.
”Next time I get this done, I think I’ll ask him to put a towel over my face from the start. Like when you get a shampoo at a salon,” Kirino murmured to herself.
”R-Right…”
They couldn’t laugh. They couldn’t, but the sight was so utterly extreme that the three of them worried they wouldn’t be able to hold back for long.
So, for the sake of Hibiki’s honor, Koharu carefully placed a handkerchief over her face.
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Mini-summary:
After using her Desire Gift to find the next student in need, Hibiki and Hirose target the shy, self-conscious Yaginuma to offer his Beautician skill. The scene is set for a magical girl transformation but the consultation is complicated by Yaginuma’s nervousness. After revealing her stunning hidden eyes and accepting the offer for Hair Quality Improvement, Hibiki recounts a vividly sensual flashback detailing the skill’s intense brain-orgasm recoil, setting a shocking tone for the upcoming transformation.
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T/L:
1 [“Temporary Effect” is the translator’s simplification of the Japanese ‘一時的な効果’ for easy flow, acknowledging that a lot of folks might not be familiar with chemical treatments like hair straightening and how they need constant upkeep, making the magic Gift a truly valuable wish-fulfillment element.](↩)
2 [“No way!!” is a punchy, US-style equivalent to the Japanese ‘So desu ka!!’ (Is that so!!), but with the added excitement that fits Hibiki’s dramatic personality on finding a hidden half-foreign beauty!](↩)
3 [The Japanese here is literally ‘as if her brain was being stirred up,’ which I intensified to ‘scrambled’ to convey the full, intense, and slightly erotic neurological shock of the ‘Recoil.’ It’s about that intense feeling being transmitted right to the brain.](↩)
Notes:
• Kirino – Strikingly beautiful with blue long hair (F, 168cm), Kirino is gifted with ice magic and feels isolated because of her appearance. Hirose’s Beauty skill helps her improve her self-image and social comfort, directly affecting Kirino’s relationship with her family and classmates.
• Yaginuma Asami – 16-year-old 1st-year, many inherited/stacking gifts, stores items, reflects attacks, teleports, resists conditions, mixed Japanese-English.
• Rindou Hibiki – Hirose’s cheerful, bold classmate who is the first to request his Beauty skill. Hibiki (F, pink bob hair, 158cm, F-cup) is outgoing, expressive about her interests, and quickly becomes Hirose’s girlfriend after an explicitly intimate scene. Her reactions help set the adult tone of the story.
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Edited by Kanaa-senpai.
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