"Eh, it's Elf?"
Hiding behind the stairwell corner, Sagiri widened her eyes in shock.
Having returned for her second playthrough, Sagiri naturally recognized Yamada Elf, who lived next door.
But...
"Why did Elf appear out of thin air?"
"Could she really be a ghost?"
Sagiri bit her lower lip, instinctively running down the stairs.
"N-No!"
Although Elf was a bad woman trying to snatch away her brother, in the previous playthrough, they had been very close friends. No matter what, she didn't want to see Elf turn into a ghost.
This was what you call a preconceived notion.
Elf appeared out of thin air, combined with Anna yelling "Ghost," so Sagiri subconsciously mistook Elf for a ghost girl.
"Sagiri?"
Hearing footsteps behind him, Sora instinctively turned his head, only to see a pale-faced Sagiri sprinting over. His head immediately began to throb.
Yamada Elf ending her invisibility and materializing out of thin air, Yanami Anna scared out of her wits, plus Sagiri suddenly running downstairs... the situation had abruptly descended into chaos.
"Sora, let's run!"
Although Anna was incredibly panicked, she hadn't forgotten Sora. She grabbed him and tried to flee out the door.
When encountering a ghost, the first reaction is, of course, to run away!
"Anna, wait..."
Sora hurriedly tried to explain.
Unfortunately, his childhood friend was a gluttonous sea otter. Anyone who eats a lot naturally possesses considerable strength; she actually managed to pull him up.
"Eh, my invisibility reached its limit?"
Elf blinked, quickly realizing what had happened, and awkwardly stood up.
Grabbing a strawberry daifuku while invisible was fine, but getting caught was very embarrassing.
And so...
Thud.
Elf collided directly with Anna.
"Ouch, ouch, ouch..."
Elf fell dizzily to the floor. In the confusion, her right hand accidentally touched Anna's body.
The next second.
The clothes on Anna's body vanished without a trace.
A dazzling holy light entered Sora's eyes, causing him to subconsciously widen them.
"Eh...?"
Anna blankly looked down, and her pretty face instantly flushed red at a speed visible to the naked eye.
"Ahhhhhhh! I've encountered a lewd ghost that strips people's clothes!"
Elf instinctively shot back.
"I am not a lewd ghost!"
"Nii-san, you're not allowed to look!" Sagiri puffed her cheeks and yelled. "Close your eyes right now!"
"..."
The living room was in utter chaos for a moment.
Sora snapped back to his senses and quickly turned around. His mind was in a daze, filled entirely with the dazzling holy light he had just seen.
It seems side effects are not invariable. The more magical corruption there is, the more exaggerated the side effect...
Elf's [Right Hand of God] was originally only able to randomly sacrifice one piece of clothing on the touched target. But after the side effect grew stronger, almost all the clothes on Anna's body were sacrificed.
Taking a deep breath, Sora quickly calmed down and spoke with a steady voice.
"Anna, don't be nervous. She's not a ghost. She's Yamada Elf, who lives next door. The reason she suddenly appeared just now is because of her invisibility ability."
"Eh, invisibility?"
Anna, squatting on the floor covering her chest with her hands, blankly looked up at his words.
"That's right, it's invisibility." Sora could only tell the truth now. "You can understand it as a magical girl from an anime."
"When did Elf become a magical girl?"
Sagiri's cherry lips parted slightly, an expression of disbelief on her small face.
Elf in the previous playthrough was clearly just an ordinary person. How did she become a magical girl in the second playthrough?
Something's wrong!
No matter how you look at it, something's wrong, right!
"The reason your clothes suddenly disappeared mysteriously is related to Elf..."
Sora quickly explained the situation clearly, then turned to Sagiri.
"Sagiri, go get the bathrobe from the bathroom."
"Okay..."
Sagiri agreed, ran to the bathroom with a patter-patter, and quickly brought out a white bathrobe, presenting it to Anna.
"Here, hurry up and put it on."
Foul! The gluttonous sea otter's body is way too much of a foul!
"Thank you, Sagiri..."
Elf's pretty face was burning hot. She quickly took the bathrobe and put it on, finally letting out a long sigh of relief.
Waiting until Anna had put on the clothes, Sora finally turned around and began to introduce them.
"This is Yamada Elf, who just moved next door yesterday. A magical girl who can turn invisible..."
As he spoke, he looked at Sagiri and continued the introduction.
"This is my little sister, Sagiri. It's rare for her to come downstairs today."
(Are these the two thieving cats from the Losing Heroine Diary?)
Anna forced a smile, though she was too embarrassed for it to be truly bright.
"Hello, I'm Yanami Anna. I'm Sora's childhood friend..."
As Anna introduced herself, she secretly observed Elf and Sagiri. A wave of nervousness suddenly washed over her.
(Bad, bad, bad. Could Sora have a flat-chest complex?)
(He definitely does, otherwise why would he marry the two of them after graduating from college... their common trait is clearly having the figure of an elementary schooler. Even if they graduate college, it's impossible for them to grow, right?)
(Oh no, Sora actually likes girls with that kind of figure... what am I, possessing a large 'E', supposed to do?)
"I'm sorry..." Elf finally stood up, her small face full of apology. "I just wanted to taste how delicious the strawberry daifuku was, which is why I accidentally bumped into you... I am incredibly sorry, I will compensate you double for the clothes, please don't worry!"
"There's no need for double compensation." Anna pursed her pink lips. "At least it was only my clothes that disappeared, everything else is still there."
Elf's [Right Hand of God] could only erase other people's clothes. Things like schoolbags, phones, and accessories were completely unharmed.
Fortunately, tomorrow was the weekend. With two days off from school, buying the school uniform back online wouldn't be a problem at all.
Sora extended his left hand to Elf, reminding her seriously.
"Let's purify your magic power first. Don't touch anything during this time."
"Please do."
Elf naturally lifted her right hand and placed her soft hand into Sora's palm.
When there were outsiders present, Elf quietly changed her form of address, no longer calling him Servant.
"Nii-san, what are you and Elf doing?!"
Seeing their clasped hands, Sagiri's eyes instantly widened.
"Sora?"
Anna also looked as if she had been struck by lightning, stepping back half a pace in disbelief.
Didn't you just say Elf only moved in yesterday?
You've known each other for less than three days, and you're already holding hands?
The speed of this cheating is way too fast, isn't it!
"Don't misunderstand, I'm just helping to purify her magic power..."
Sora, with a face full of righteousness, earnestly began to explain.
"That's right." Elf helped testify from the side. "If the magic power isn't purified, my right hand will be unusable. Whoever I touch, their clothes will disappear."
"But why can Nii-san see it?" Sagiri furrowed her delicate eyebrows, her tone confused. "Could Nii-san also be a magical girl?"
Sora was speechless. "I am a male."
Anna, covering her chest with her hands, subconsciously muttered upon hearing this.
"Then a magical boy?"