(2) Sector A - Room Types
The facilities of the Reduction
Rage Room, like its name implied, all involved Reduced structures. Its rooms
had shrunken models that were capable of being set to whatever scale a customer
wanted, and these rooms, houses, buildings, and the like were all fine to be
played with and ruined. Model city structures that could be destroyed by her
made her feel like a kaiju. Apparently back during her school’s Reduction Week,
an underclassman’s suggestion got that idea in her head and she liked it.
“Mgaah! Finally I can breathe.
Wait, this is-?”
When Shizuku finally let him go
in Room A which was reserved for her, her eyes were sparkling at the multitude
of model buildings set up for her to play with.
“S-So many different things…!”
“In this room, we have three
different types of Reduced buildings ready for wrecking: the room-type, the
building-type, and the city-type. Each one can be adjusted to a size you prefer
once you connect the watch to it like we’ve done to your brother,” I stared up
the long legs of the staff employee and my sister to see the woman explaining
the area to her. “If you’re fond of consistent scales, your brother is actually
still too large for the city-types because our largest scale city-types would
require him to be less than 5 mm.”
So he’d be getting even smaller,
he did not like the sound of that. He was already 1 cm at the moment, level
with his kid sister’s toes if not smaller than the largest one.
Just how big was she compared to
him at that moment? Well, he was getting a very direct comparison considering
where he had been dropped. He was inside what looked like a replica of the RRR
suite they were all in, only this one did not have a roof. Well, there was
another difference – everything inside it was 3.5 times larger than him.
“How crazy - this is making me
feel short in addition to feeling tiny,” the shrunken brother frowned as he
tried to get out of the room he was in. The door knob was well above his head.
He struggled to jump to it, failing several times before he grabbed hold with
his legs hanging in the air.
“Fufufu~!” a giggle from above
showed that he was being watched. It was Akashi who had crouched down, making a
roof for the model suite with her crotch. “Since you shrank Hibiki-san already,
he’s a bit smaller than the currently set scale for the room-type.”
“Really?” Shizuku speedily
crouched. The shifting of her immense form generated a strong gust that blew
down on him. With his body dangling from the door knob, he couldn’t brace
himself. He lost his grip and fell down. “… Heheh… Hibi-nii’s so shrimpy.”
“And who’s fault do you think it
is?” he did not appreciate the remark and pressed the button on his headset to
talk back.
To his exasperation, Shizuku
wasn’t wearing the headset. She did not hear him and instead stood back up and
raised her foot. The dirt she had picked up from going barefoot in a public
building scattered down into the room like falling debris.
“Cough! Gak!” The dust and rubble
was worse than that time they had an earthquake when he was in the old school
building years ago. “Oh boy… Let’s not stay here.”
He had thankfully been opened the
door to the next room – the hallway toward the waiting room of the model RRR
office. He exited into the hall and moved toward the waiting area, but that
wasn’t that much of a distance in the eyes of the two normal sized women above.
The 120 square meter office suite
was 8 m x 15 m normally, but the model had been Reduced to 1:50 scale. It now only
took up a 16 cm x 30 cm rectangle, less than the size of a shoe box. Each room
he was in was only a compartment in that shoe-box sized model, so his 1 cm self
did not even get away from underneath Shizuku’s unmoving, 23 cm long foot.
“… Can I break this?” he heard
Shizuku ask as he struggled to reach the next door knob above him.
“Of course. The models use a
weaker effect than standard Reduction. The walls should remain together, but
the structure as a whole can be knocked down like a house of cards.”
“Oh! Then let’s go…!” Shizuku
announced as she lowered her foot. “Don!”
Whaaaaaaaaaaam!
“Hwargh!” Hibiki shouted. He had
gotten the door to the waiting room open just in time before his giant sister slammed
her foot down into the back rooms of the suite model. The walls that had
surrounded him crumpled like cardboard, and his body was sent flying forward by
the impact of Shizuku’s foot. His back slammed into the door front door of the
model RRR office.
“Ooh… The crunchiness feels
good,” in his post impact daze, he heard his sister’s voice. That wasn’t all
her heard though. It bothered him to have to associate what sounded like a
demolition team that was hard at work to simply be the grinding of his sister’s
bare foot, turning a replica of the office he had been inside into rubble. The
walls, like Akashi had said, were in piece, but each piece was now flat on the
ground, being scraped across the floor beneath Shizuku.
“Looks like you’re fine with
starting with the Room-type, Shizuku-san. I’ll leave you to your fun then,”
Akashi called her attention to alert her that she was leaving. “We only have the
three varieties of models in this sector. If you want us to restock them, you
can let me know or you can just move on to the other types in the room.”
“… It should be enough.”
The older Yukimura sibling would
have liked if Akashi had directed some concern to him, but she did not. There
was no reason for her to. Her client was Shizuku, not the tiny older brother
she had brought along as a toy.
“Sector?” he mumbled as Akashi
walked out of his view, not sure what she meant until Shizuku shifted her foot
forward. He closed his eyes as her toes nearly slammed into him, hitting the
last wall in the model office instead. It collapsed, revealing the rest of the
area around him.
The Room-type sector was a small
corner of Room A build like a children’s daycare playpen. A 20 cm tall
cardboard wall with a childishly colored sky surrounded three (now two) other
shoe box sized, Reduced rooms. An ordinary chair towered above each one, ready
for anyone who sat there to overlook the models.
“Mgph!” Hibiki found himself
pinched between Shizuku’s toes once again. His vision blurred as his giant
sister moved towards the chair, taking two heavy steps and rattling his head
when her foot landed and rose in rapid succession. Then, when she took a seat,
his barelegged sister raised her foot high and let him go. Gravity pulled him
down immediately. He landed with a loud crash, at least to his ears.
“I’ll start slow for Hibi-nii’s
sake,” To Shizuku, she was being gentle with him, but that was far from his
perspective. Shizuku sat in the chair like it was a throne, looming both feet
above the roofless structure.
“This is slow…? Wait, is this a
classroom?” Hibiki groaned as he tried to pick himself up. He realized that he
had dumped into a model school classroom. With him being 3.5 times smaller than
the scale the room was in, he was sprawled across a school desk with room to
spare.
“Hehehe…” giggled his
expressionless sister. She kicked her feet while seated in her chair, dispersing
the air strongly enough that the tables around him shook. “Isn’t this fun,
Hibi-nii?”
There was no way he’d be able to
consider this fun. His sister really had no concern for others besides herself.
Craaaash!
“Ngk!” Hibiki grunted as his body
suddenly was knocked off the table towards the front of the classroom. That
very table along with every other one in the room were scattered by the impact
of Shizuku’s right foot dropping right into the center of the shoe box sized room.
“Wow, everything went flying…”
the girl remarked before a giggle left her mouth. “Hehe. Hibi-nii went the
farthest. You’re much smaller than everything...”
Smaller was right. When he stood
back up, he saw that he was beneath desk level – only chair level with the
seats and tables that were still standing upright. Of course, the largest thing
in the room, filling up a majority of it after displacing all of the desks, was
his little sister’s colossal foot. Her big toe was twice as tall as the desks
and was pinning one down beneath it easily.
“… Let me fix the size for
Hibi-nii,” Shizuku mumbled not to him but to herself as she then touched the
Alteration watch.
“Oh no,” Hibiki readied himself
to be shrunken as his sister fiddled with the display.
Vrrrr…
“Huh? Wait, this isn’t-!” the
room around him started to shift, but not in the way he expected. The walls
were expanding but rather getting shorter. Shizuku hadn’t selected him to be
Reduced further. She had selected the room. And while he would’ve been grateful
for not getting any smaller, the shrinking room was contracting. The wall
behind him slammed into him and pushed him to the center where Shizuku’s foot
was. “Uwoah!”
The 27 cm x 20 cm model classroom
swiftly dwindled in size to less than 8 cm x 6 cm as Shizuku set it to the same
scale as him. The tables and chairs underneath her sole shrank until they were
hidden out of sight beneath her. The walls pushed inwards, slamming him into
Shizuku’s second and middle toes. The principles of Reduction forced the
structure to shrink towards the center. The walls desperately tried to push
against his sister’s foot, but in comparison to the mighty pillar, they were as
flimsy as paper.
The classroom imploded, unable to
win against Shizuku’s leg. The walls separated, each one falling to the floor
as Shizuku buried every object inside the shrunken classroom underfoot without
even having to move.
“It broke so easily,” his sister
noted. She was clearly enjoying the sight of an entire classroom being covered
under the sole of her foot. “Well, there is another one….”
“Uwoah! Waaargh!” Hibiki’s
stomach churned as his entire body was dragged back up through the air as
Shizuku turned her body to the third room in the sector. Much like the previous
times, she unceremoniously dropped him inside. “Urk!”
“This one’s a big one… not.”
Well, it wasn’t to her, but it
was pretty big to him. The last room-type Reduced building was a gymnasium that
could fit two basketball courts. At the very least, it had Reduced to the
correct scale when Shizuku shrank the buildings. It was properly sized for him.
“Hey, hey! Want to play a round…?”
Shizuku joked as she put one for each on both basketball courts. The nets
didn’t even reach half way up her foot.
“Don’t entertain her, Hibiki, she
won’t do what you want anyways,” the older brother reminded himself. He was
just as stingy with his energy as he was with money. He did not want to waste
it. The question, however, was just what Shizuku wanted to do with the
gymnasium model.
Sadly, his own resistance to
entertaining her provoked Shizuku. She didn’t appreciate his lack of
participation in her fun. She huffed, puffing her cheeks. “Muu… Hibi-nii’s
boring. In that case…”
In order to persuade him into moving
around, his gigantic sister had a terrible idea. She turned her body to grab
something from out of his view. Then, without hesitation…
Thuuuuud!
“Whoa, hey-!” an enormous object fell
almost directly on top of Hibiki who had to dive to the side to avoid being
buried beneath it. Immediately when it hit the floor, it tipped over. A sour, pungent
smell spread from it, filling his nose. His eyes opened wide and he took several
steps back. Shizuku had thrown her shoe in. “Mgk… It stinks…”
“Got you, Hibi-nii…” He was so
distracted by the offensive stench pouring out of his sister’s shoe, that he
didn’t immediately realize that she had forcibly made him jump towards her. He
was close enough for her to pull her foot over him without having to stretch
her leg.
Whaaaam!
“Wait a second! Gwah!” the older
sibling was athletic enough to evade being stomped, but his size and weight was
so miniscule that the strength of the impact alone launched him off his feet
away like a piece of trash.
“Hehe… So slow,” taunted Shizuku
before she swiftly brought her foot down again. She did not aim for him but
directly behind him, using the close-range shockwave to knock him away once
again.
“Damnit… She’s just making me
move…” he groaned, knowing full well her intentions were to get a reaction out
of him. Now that he had no choice but to use his energy, he knew his best bet
was finding a safer location to avoid being stepped on. His eyes wandered to
the walls of the model gymnasium. Her stomps had knocked down two of them. The
closest way out of the breaking box now had the obstacle that was the enormous
shoe Shizuku had thrown in that filled up one of the basketball courts. The other
was his only possible path.
This was, of course, hopeless. He
had no choice other than to run and avoid Shizuku’s feet playfully stomping
around, but his 1 cm tall body could only travel so far. Even his full
sprinting speed did not take him away quickly enough before Shizuku made use of
her hands. She still had one more shoe after all.
Thuuuuud!
“Wah!”
The shrunken sibling quickly
found his path cut off by the cavernous opening of Shizuku’s fallen shoe. He
retreat was cut off too by Shizuku’s foot which landed right behind him, crushing
the third wall of the room and knocking him into the shoe. The unbalanced shoe
fell back upright immediately after, and he tumbled onto the heel part of the
insole ungracefully.
“Should’ve seen this com… Bleck!”
the 1 cm brother wanted to voice his complaints but the rancid, saltine stench
made him gag. He was now directly inside the humid cave that was the inside Shizuku’s
shoe. Though she did not use it much, the fact that she was almost always
barefoot when she wore it meant that her foot-sweat and the dirt her bare feet
had always picked up had been directly absorbed into the insole over months.
“Caught you, Nii-san…” she spoke
those words with a sing-song voice. Turning around, Hibiki found himself
surrounded by the insurmountable walls of the shoe’s opening. The only light
that poured in from the opening quickly became blocked as Shizuku peaked in
from above, seeing his 1 cm form in the small impression the heel of her foot
had made.
He didn’t answer. He didn’t want
to uncover his mouth and nose. He could feel the thick odor surrounding him
like a heavy mist before he could even smell it. He refused to breathe in any more
of Shizuku’s foot odor than he had to.
“That was fun… Eguchi-kun couldn’t
run much last time, but I knew Hibi-nii wouldn’t disappoint me,” she thanked
him, but not for any reason he would want to hear her gratitude for.
“Ah. I broke everything already.
That was so fast… I didn’t get to feel like a kaiju much…”
“Kaiju…?” he had compared his
sister to a kaiju earlier too because the two of them sometimes watched those
movies together. His sister did find them cool, but he never thought she’d want
to emulate being a kaiju. “So this is why I’m here. Kaiju movies aren’t
completely unless people are running from them…”
Rumble…
“Wah. Can’t… get a grip!”
Shizuku reached down to pick up
her shoes. As she grabbed the one he was in, it tilted, sending him falling
down into the toe end of her shoe.
“Bleack! Ack! The smell-!” he
choked. From dirt and grime to sock fibers to sweat - everything terrible had
collected at the impressions of Shizuku’s toes. The foul odor was even more
concentrated where he had fallen.
There was no escape. Fortunately
for Shizuku and unfortunately for Hibiki, there were still two other sectors
with the two types of buildings left in the room Shizuku had paid for. She was
going to take him through all of them.
“Let’s keep going, Nii-san.”