Ange had pulled out her phone and called someone, but there was no response.
Just like with Rapha and the other angels, the birth of a perfect being was affecting heaven and likely hell as well.
“This really did turn Mutsuki-kun into someone who is loved by all of humanity and all other forms of life as well. Come to think of it, I haven’t seen a single cat.”
There was no sign of animals either.
They had a hard time imagining just how widespread these effects were. Could they be the only three living beings in the entire world?
“…”
But a question mark appeared in their minds.
In other words…
“Ah!” Machina looked up while suddenly checking the network. “A phone is receiving a call in this city.”
“Does that mean there’s still someone here!?”
“I am looking into it. Give me a moment.”
She used her phone to check the network and work out what phone was being used.
They did not know what this would lead them to, but there was not very much they could do at this point.
Adolescent Adam 9: Chapter 2 – The Final Discord
“N-n-n-n-no, no, no! Wait a sec. I can’t deny you’re good looking, but we only just met and we should really take things slower. Get to know each other first and all that. As the faithful guy, I prefer to do these things right, you know?”
“You do not like me?”
“I didn’t say that, nor would I ever, ever, ever. But how about we start by introducing ourselves?”
Tomono Sakae was flustered.
He had been playing video games in his room when a naked woman had appeared out of nowhere, so of course he was.
Was she a white woman? He had never seen anyone so pretty and beautiful, so when she stared at him with those azure eyes while her long, long platinum blonde hair swayed, he felt like he was being sucked in toward her.
He had a casual demeanor but was shy deep down, so this was too much for him. The most he could manage was to shut his eyes so he could not see her nudity.
“Gaze upon me. And then love me.”
“No, I’m not looking. You need to take better care of yourself.”
His odd fixation on purity overpowered the perverted side that every boy had. Lilith scratched at her head after running across this unexpected challenge.
“Sakae, it’s okay.”
“Eh? Mutsuki?”
The woman gave a look of wounded pride before transforming into a boy.
Sakae opened his eyes upon hearing his friend’s voice. The person he saw there was indeed the childhood friend he knew better than anyone who had been out of school for the past five days.
“I didn’t know what to do. What was that just now? Did you see her, Mutsuki?”
It was just as strange for his friend to be here, but he was still flustered from the beautiful woman’s advances. He wiped sweat from his brow and looked to Mutsuki once more.
He grew flustered all over again when he took a closer look at his friend.
Mutsuki was not wearing clothes either. He was naked. And…
He had a female body.
Sakae did not even have to check “down there” to tell. The budding breasts, frail shoulders, and general roundness were enough to notice the change in his childhood friend.
“M-Mutsuki? Eh? Are you Mutsuki?”
He doubted this was some stranger who happened to look like his friend. But he had bathed with the boy several times when they were little. He knew what Mutsuki had “down there”.
The girl who looked all the world like Mutsuki giggled and moved her face toward the confused boy.
“I am Mutsuki, Sakae. You can tell, can’t you?”
“I can…but…”
“I’ve turned into a girl.”
Her face moved closer and closer until their foreheads touched. The height difference meant she was definitely floating in the air, but Sakae did not find that odd right now.
“Well? What do you think of this version of me?”
The girl tore down all his defenses since she looked so much like Mutsuki. She laughed with an alluring smile that looked so very unlike Mutsuki. That smile rubbed the male mind the wrong way. Yes, it was the same provocative smile that woman had given before.
“Y-you look cute.”
The smile excited Sakae and he blushed.
He did not mean that as flattery. His childhood friend had always had a fairly cute face, so thinking of that friend as a girl made her so attractive he started feeling funny.
This boy had never been too fixated on looks. Ibekusa Machina was his classmate and Katsue Subaru was his homeroom teacher, but those breathtakingly beautiful woman had only elicited a “Yeah, I guess they’re good looking” from him.
But when the best friend he knew so well looked so cute…it set his heart pounding.
“I’m glad?”
“Ah…”
Her face was so close her breath reached him. It had a girly scent.
Then the lips from which that scent came pressed against his own. They were so surprisingly soft he took a step back.
They only made contact for a moment. The girl bumped her body – chest, waist, and below – against him and then flew through the air. She really was floating. She moved with a nimbleness freed from gravity and landed on the bed a short distance away.
“Then, Sakae, will you make me yours?”
“Eh? M-mine?”
“You want to do it, don’t you? I can tell. And since I’m a girl right now, we might as well, right?”
She lifted up one leg and held the knee. She pulled it as high as she could while lying on her back, so she was spreading her legs like a gymnast.
The lips hidden between her legs parted and showed off the pink within as if to temp him.
“Come on. I became a girl just for you.”
“Mutsuki.”
“Love me, Sakae. This hole here is just for you.”
She giggled and smiled in that provocative way while spreading her legs even more boldly.
The boy was helplessly drawn in. He took one step, then another to approach this person who had his best friend’s face but was something else.
“…”
And he placed his hands on her shoulders.
“No, Mutsuki.”
“Eh?”
“You’re crazy cute right now, but boy or girl, we’re friends. So I don’t want to make you mine.”
He only touched her shoulders. He looked his best friend straight in the eye.
“We’re equals as friends, so neither of us can be the other’s. That’s what friendship is, right?”
“…”
She shut her mouth with a calm smile on her lips.
She could say nothing more.
Friendship.
That word was so far removed from what she was doing now that she lost sight of what she was even doing.
But a moment later, the girl that was Mutsuki returned to being that blonde woman. Sakae was overpowered as he looked her in the eye and ended up clinging to her chest as if sucked in. A moment later, he became black water and disappeared.
“Friends.”
Lilith retrieved the floating speck of light…but she too could not move any further as she pondered something.
Even though a perfect being should not have had any questions.
The words left by that best friend remained in both Mutsuki and Lilith’s hearts.
An underground tunnel had been rapidly and directly dug from the Kurosaki facility to the Port of Kobe.
More and more ships had been piling into the port without waiting for approval. They bumped into the other ships and came to a stop, but then no one disembarked.
Then the ocean itself swelled up and parted those ships.
A single passenger ship left port.
The Sephiroth was a massive ship that would normally have been seen off with a grand event.
There was no parade since there were no people, but after it departed, decorative lights did turn on to decorate the ship almost as an afterthought.
The inside of the ship was also deserted and lonely, but…
“They have wine.”
“Thanks, Micha-san.”
It was not entirely deserted.
A young man was relaxing next to the filled pool on the aft party floor.