I enter home with a book in my hand.
"I'm home"
I remember the task given to me; read the book, write a review on paper and finally share how the book felt exactly a week later.
Hmm, I guess its a doable task.
I could also message her regularly to ask the meanings of the harder stuff in the book to maintain my 'wolf in sheep clothing' appearance and slowly shed the wool over the coming months.
"Welcome home, Yuu. Me and Yume were just waiting for you."
Mom informs me from the kitchen.
I guess I'll leave the planning behind and enjoy lunch.
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Me and Yume were walking towards the metro station.
The shopping plaza is two stops away.
I tried to go up to collect my wallet and other stuff but Yume was surprisingly diligent and kept everything ready and dragged me out.
Kind of felt as if we needed to rush to the mall or her she'd have to pay a penalty of some kind.
"So Yume, how's school these days?"
"Huh? Odd of you to ask this. But it's nothing special. This semester we don't get to go for our field trips and focus on the high school entrance tests. Hehehe, some of my friends also joined cram school from this year. If only they'd regularly review their material they wouldn't be slaving their days after classes."
"Well I suppose each to their own. Some prefer to do their jobs the last minute and can actually complete it while others are like you. Anyways, if you do need some help you can ask me."
"Sure, I have some homework left for math this week. Can you complete it for me?"
"I will surely fill every answer incorrectly if am you give me your homework."
We make our way to the metro, change 2 stops and walk towards the shopping mall.
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3 hours later, we exit the shopping mall.
I am holding 4 shopping bags and Yume is holding one.
I only have one question: what the fuck just happened?
We went across 20 different shops, saw like 80+ clothes which she made me try on.
Yume is still standing tall and unaffected while I am about to wither.
Does she have another battery for shopping?
Or does she have some kind of stat bonus that lets her save energy every time she enters a new shop?
If she weren't my sister I would have probably sent her to get researched on or dissected; maybe humanity could find a new energy resource from her and global warming might decrease.
Anyways we end up going towards the saloon next to the mall.
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Right now we're at the dessert shop treating ourselves to waffles and ice-cream
"Yuuta, your hair looks quite good. Before they were all going in weird directions and looked messy but right now they're a bit more organized and match well with your head."
Yume appreciates the barber's craft while munching on her strawberry ice-cream waffle.
"Agree, at least they're not covering my eyes and my face now. The little waves in my hair would make setting it troublesome but the way the its cut kind of gives it an unrefined yet good look."
I agree with her as I take a bite of my choco-vanilla waffle.
The barber truly saved me here.
I didn't really hope for much and went in asking for a crew cut so that I could set them properly once they grow again but the barber gave me a suitable trim and set my hair with a little treatment.
Of course I'll have to maintain them well now or they'll turn shaggy once again and there's no way in hell I'm going to look like a fucking weirdo again.
But with this my makeover is complete.
Well I'll exclude the progress to be made on adding meat to this scrawny body but that should take a month or so to progress.
After eating our dessert, we head back home.
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I greeted Mom and escaping her clutches as she wanted to see how good I look from all angles, I went up the stairs to my room.
Yume was acting kind of weird.
She came up to the house, remembered something and suddenly said she had to go to her friend's house after giving me the shopping bag in her hand.
I enter my door... this is the mess she was trying to hide.
A smile came up on my face, of course it wasn't a happy smile in the slightest, heck if Yume saw it then she might shudder and try to bring up a crucifix as if to protect her from me.
It seems that when Yume was searching for decent clothes in my wardrobe, she let the others out as if they were rags and now the there's a whole pile of unfolded clothes in the corner.
I open my phone and send Yume a message.
Of course nothing threatening or intimidating at the slightest.
I just told her we needed to have a nice lengthy 'chat' when she returned home.
I also cut her escape route by telling her that I'd end up visiting her friend's house if she thought of staying there overnight.
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After dinner, I went to the river bank to enjoy the fresh air and sat down on the stairs while listening to some chill music.
Looks like that weirdo there is still running alone.
At least they're not only doing launch practices today.
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Anyway onto the important part.
Now that I've had my make over, I need to find what to do next.
Now the big question is if this is truly a manga or light novel, or this is a complete other parallel world with normal people?
No, cancel the parallel world thing.
This should be just a normal light novel.
I should probably search for the protagonist.
Of course, I'm going to witness whatever drama is there from the closest seats possible with popcorn and soda.
After all, when does one get to witness hormonal teenagers go on about their youth.
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Now about me.
I need to find what to do for myself.
Now that I've transmigrated, I might as well enjoy life myself.
Luckily majority is similar to my past life so there's a lot of good stuff to do.
Ah, I can't all out on stock markets and stuff since I remember fuck all, plus this is a parallel world so the butterfly effect must be already taking place.
Hmmm, I might buy Bit Coin for the future but that would take years to give maximum returns.
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It would also do me good to be more socially active.
It wasn't like I was a loner or such, in fact I had a dope time in high school with the boys.
But I never truly opened up to anyone.
I never tried to rely on someone for anything much and didn't put extra efforts in forging relationships.
It didn't affect me when I entered university.
But then lock down happened and the whole balance was upset during online classes.
By the end of my final year in university, I could barely even call 4 people friends and the number of acquaintances would be less than 15 out of hundreds of students.
I mean what did one expect from a socially reclusive animal like me, who relied on physical contact to maintain friendship, to do when suddenly we had to do everything online which frankly drained my energy every damn session.
And on top of that I pretty much had depression, talk about deadly combinations, hahaha.
Either way before I whine too much, all I mean to say is that I'm going sure as hell not going to go down the same road again and try to carve a new path.
And this time I'm going to enjoy every bit of the journey.