(1) RRR

Breaking things could be cathartic. The sense of power, the release of inhibitions, the feeling of freedom for disregarding the status quo and completely destroying it – there were many reasons why it felt good. Some children threw tantrums vented out their bottled up emotions because of this. She had never thought of it before, but after getting a taste of it apparently during school, she discovered just how fun it was.

“… Hibi-nii… You too… You’re joining too.”

“Shizuku, just because I had to drive you here doesn’t mean I’m joining. You paid for your time here. The parking fee was enough for me. I’m not wasting any more money on something only you are interested in.”

He honestly wished she hadn’t. Then she wouldn’t have convinced their mother to force him to escort her that hot summer day.

Hibiki Yukimura’s younger sister, Shizuku, was an absolute oddball with strange tendencies. Nothing about her made sense in his opinion. As the older brother, he always had to try to rein the second year high school girl in, and when he couldn’t, he had to make sure everyone around her knew or else he and his parents would receive many embarrassing questions. Having to explain everything Shizuku did was a nightmare to the more responsible sibling.

Thud!

“Oof!”

“Nnn…Hibi-nii’s stingy…” his sister’s pulled both of her legs up while seated and slammed her bare feet into his arm. He groaned and endured it. It annoyed him that she always used her feet to retaliate. She always gravitated to using her feet when she could. With her having taken off her shoes while they sat in the waiting room, he could feel each and every toe of her left foot as she put more pressure into his arm. “You should join… It feels good with more people…”

“Feels good? And here I thought being okay with polygamy was crazy enough coming from you,” Hibiki sighed as he grabbed his sister by the leg and forced her to sit properly. “I’d prefer not know about my little sis’s kinks.”

That was right. Besides her love of going barefoot which required constant reminding to get her to at least wear shoes outside, apparently his sister was in a polyamorous relationship - sharing one guy between four girls. How the boy had managed to get a legitimate harem of girlfriends was beyond him, but he had Hibiki’s respect for somehow being able to get Shizuku of all people to cooperate and share.

Sadly, that apparently wasn’t the only kink anymore. The sign that was in front of the door they had entered explained everything.

[RRR Destruction Hall]

The Triple R Destruction Hall was apparently a rage room – something he had read about online. It was one of those places where you could go and completely destroy whatever you wanted to let loose. He had never gone to one before, but it was apparently a good way to release stress and pent up frustrations. His sister didn’t have pent up frustrations, however. He knew that very well.

“Crushing things is fun…” his short haired sister kicked her legs up and down in her seat while scrunching her toes.

He could only stare at the blank face Shizuku was making incredulously. Though it was always hard to read his younger sister’s expressions, there was a pleased aura surrounding her that sent a shiver up his spine. “You need to introduce that Eguchi kid to Mom and Dad already. I need someone who understands my pain.”

“…Eguchi-kun? Oh! I should have asked him to co- Mffph!”

He covered his sister’s mouth with his hand as quickly as he could to cut off the thought she had. “I shouldn’t have said that. That kid probably has enough trouble with you as is.”

Choosing to go to a rage room during her summer break… Shizuku shouldn’t have been allowed inside in the first place because rage rooms required her to be 18 or older; however, RRR apparently had a stipulation that if an adult gave permission, they would allow it. He was the consenting adult…

Honestly, though, why was it that it had to be him? His sister seemed oddly pushy about having him take her. He should’ve pondered that question more carefully. Hibiki had thought he was simply there to sign the paperwork allowing his high school age little sister to enter, but that wasn’t the case. With all of the laws and technology he had lived with for practically his whole life now, he should have realized what the three R’s in RRR stood for.

“Okay Yukim- Oh, sorry. You’re both Yukimura. Shizuku-san, Hibiki-san, we’re good for you two to enter the back,” the bespectacled employee with an RRR T-shirt and a skirt with bike shorts underneath, Akashi, opened the door past the reception to lead them in. “Shizuku-san, the Reduction Platform is ready for your brother.”

“… Huh?”

In Akashi’s hand was a clipboard with the full name of their business emblazoned on the back. RRR – Reduction Rage Room. This was no ordinary rage room where entrants got to break things. RRR was specifically catered for people with a taste for Alteration.

“Reduction Platform?” Hibiki choked on his own saliva, knowing exactly what Reduction entailed – shrinking him in size. “Um… Akashi-san, I’m not taking part. I just came here to sign the form for Shizuku.”

“Oh, that’s impossible. We can’t have a minor take part unless their guardian is present. And because you’re a male guardian, we can’t have you around our facilities unless you are Reduced.”

“I can’t just stay out here in the waiting room?”

“Unfortunately not,” Akashi shook her head. “You signed the form, Hibiki-san. We all have to obey the laws while we’re here. And we are not offering refunds now that we’ve prepared the machine.”

He should have read the paperwork more carefully. Turning to his sister who he was well aware had known about this the whole time, Hibiki silently pressured her for an answer with a glare. Though she kept the same expressionless face as she always did, she put up two ‘V’ peace signs with both hands confidently. This was why she had wanted him to come.

“Let’s have fun… Hibiki Onii-san…”

…

………

……………

“You’ve got to be kidding me,” Hibiki Yukimura groaned at the sight before him. RRR was located in a small multi-office complex in one of the offices at the end of the hall. It was supposed small, but that was no longer the case when he was a fraction of his normal size and standing on a table as wide as a field.

“Thank you for being so cooperative, Hibiki-san. Most men would have left right away,” a loud voice thundered down. The blue wall that he was staring at was simply the blue fabric of her bike shorts that employee who had welcomed them, Akashi, was wearing under her short skirt.

Hibiki did not speak. He was not going to waste his time shouting up what looked to be dozens of meters to Akashi’s ears. He waited until the light on the headset and wristband he had been given turned green before he wasted his breath. Pushing the button on the headset to use the microphone, he answered. “The only reason I’m staying is because you said no refunds.”

“Your little sister calling you stingy was a very apt description. Ah, I suppose she’s not so little at the moment.”

“Real funny.” Hibiki was not appreciative of the joke. He was more used to Reduction compared to Shizuku who had only just experienced it for one week a few months earlier, but he still did not like it. “That girl, she definitely knew this and didn’t say anything because she wanted this to happen.”

“That’s typically the case here honestly. Destroying things is one thing, but it’s apparently more fun when there’s someone tiny to witness it all,” Akashi discussed the observations from being employed. From the sound of it, she didn’t seem to be in the same group as his sister… likely because it was her job to clean it all up.

Whaaam!

“Is Hibi-nii ready…?”

“Gwah!”

Another thunderous voice boomed into his ears, but that wasn’t the only boom. A powerful impact hit the table he was on caused by none other than Shizuku who had walked in and bumped into the table. Rather than shaking it, the strike was strong enough that it pushed it and him. He was launched forward, off the table. Desperately as he flew through the air for that brief instant, Hibiki waved his arms, trying to grab whatever he could.

“Mffgh! That… was close…” the shrunken college student face-planted into the wall in front of him. He had grabbed onto the fabric of Akashi’s compression shorts in time to avoid falling after being launched horizontally, but the distance to the ground was so far from his miniscule perspective that he was starting to develop vertigo. “I hate this already.”

To change something’s size and shrink it down to whatever level one desired - Reduction was a powerful invention. It could turn the strongest and tallest objects into no more than a pebble. The durability of anything Reduced was increased, but people who were shrunken down always felt more vulnerable due to the change in scale.

Hibiki certainly felt vulnerable now that the 160 cm short haired girl he had known since she was born was a moving landscape. He was presently only 3.5 cm tall. At 1:50 scale, his sister was comparable to a kaiju at what looked to be 80 meters in height to him. The 168 cm Akashi he was clinging onto resembled more of monumental skyscraper than a person.

“Yes, he’s ready as you can see,” Akashi answered his sister professionally. She took a step back for Shizuku to look. Hibiki ground his teeth and tightened his grip as much as he could to avoid being flung off during her short step. “Since you didn’t state which size you wanted to start with, we’ve currently set his scale for the largest we have available. That’s fifty times smaller.”

“… Hehe… Hibi-nii’s small…,” he heard his sister laugh but he couldn’t turn his head around while holding for his life tightly to Akashi’s shorts like a rock climber to a perilous cliff. His insect-sized self clinging to the woman’s shorts like a piece of lint must have poked Shizuku’s funny bone.

“As your brother is your adult guardian, he’ll have to be with you no matter where you go today. The band we placed on him will adjust his size accordingly if you’d like to change the scale of your room and its structures.”

Akashi’s attention was only focused on his sister. The fact that she didn’t consider helping him or peeling him off her leg said more than enough. The way she spoke treated him more like an accessory than an actual supervising guardian. That was just how it was. From his own experience back in high school with the compulsory Reduction Week, he knew this was how Reduced men could be treated. That was just how society was these days due to the laws of Alteration. If their mother had taken Shizuku instead, she wouldn’t have been shrunken down.  

He wasn’t going to be able to get much say over what was about to happen, and that was probably the most pressing issue for Hibiki. Though Akashi had called him her guardian, Shizuku was the one in control for today.

“… Any size? How about all?”

“If you think you can manage all of them within the time slot you paid for, then yes. Just remember to take Hibiki-san with you when you leave. We’ll add another 1000 yen to your bill if you happen to forget.”

“Am I only worth that much?” Hibiki frowned, wishing he could put his hand to his headset to turn on the mic and snark at Akashi. Sadly, there was no time for that as a thumb and forefinger as thick as his torso pinched him. His body was roughly squeezed and pulled off of the blue bike short wall. “Grk!”

It wasn’t Akashi who had peeled him off but Shizuku. His colossal younger sibling was not the least bit gentle as her fingers pressed tightly into his chest and back. It wasn’t for very long, though. Without even bringing him up to her face, Shizuku let go without warning.

“Whoooaaaaaaah! Ooof!” His fall didn’t hurt too badly due to Reduction’s durability enhancements, but Hibiki landed on his back onto the wooden floor of the Reduction Room. “Hey, be a little more there, Shizu…ku…”

The older Yukimura sibling stopped talking when he realized he wasn’t looking up at his little sister… or rather, not all of her. All he could see above him was the sole of her right foot.

Slaaaam!

“Grk!” Hibiki braced himself as best as he could, but the moment his sister’s house sized foot hit the ground, he was launched a full two meters from his perspective away from the wind force.

Those two meters weren’t even ten centimeters from Shizuku’s perspective. She simply didn’t even have to take another step forward to brought her barefoot towards him. Her big toe, over half the size of his shrunken body, landed immediately next to him.

“Still too big…” he heard Shizuku say. As expected of her, instead of using her fingers to check his size, she was using her toes. Looking up at the towering 40 meter peach skyscrapers that were his little sister’s legs, he noticed something had changed – Shizuku’s clothes. Likely to make sure they wouldn’t get dirty while she was messing around, they had made her change to the same blue tight bike shorts and RRR T-shirt that Akashi had sans the skirt. What was more curious was the large watch that was similar in color to the wristband he had been given.

Vrrrrr!

He understood quickly as Shizuku’s finger pressed onto the screen on her watch. Her toe that was chest level to him rose up to eye level.  

“Huh? Did she just…?” Hibiki only got out that much before everything around him expanded once again. Shizuku’s big toe suddenly shot up to roughly twice his height.

“Changing his size already? 1 centimeter, huh?” Akashi read the display on Shizuku’s watch.

Shizuku answered with a nod. To Hibiki’s dismay his now nearly 300 meter tall sister flanked in on both sides with her right foot’s toes. Her big toe and second toe pinched together, squeezing him in place like a trash compactor.

“Mghph!” Hibiki felt his feet leave the ground as Shizuku put her weight on her heel. He helplessly dangled in the air at the mercy of the girl’s toes.

“A little better…” giggled Shizuku.

“We usually cater our rooms to people who want to just break things, but girls like you do pop up from time to time who just want to mess with the guys they bring,” Akashi noted before looking down at him. Hibiki wondered if she could even spot him wedged between his younger sibling’s toes. “Although, to be able to pick him up with your toes, I think you’re the most dexterous girl we’ve had. Are you okay going barefoot?”

“Yes,” nodded the girl. “It feels better…”

“Better?” Akashi tilted her head. She was confused at his sister’s kinks for a moment, but she soon shrugged. “Well, I don’t judge. Much like everyone else who has paid, you’re free to use the facilities here, Shizuku-san. Please enjoy RRR to your heart’s content.”

“…Seriously, please don’t let her do that,” groaned the shrunken brother. He finally managed to get his hand free to be able to hit the button on his headset that still connected to Akashi’s headset. He was doing his best not to breathe. The pungent salty smell of the sweat and dirt between Shizuku’s toes was close to triggering his gag reflex.

Despite hearing him, however, the young woman glanced down at him and said nothing. Both of them were aware that there was nothing he could do. She waved farewell with a professional smile. This was just business for her and the customer she was working with was Shizuku, not him.

“Whoa!”

That could easily be seen by how he was just being taken along for the ride as Shizuku began to walk. His stomach churned as he was forced upward when Shizuku lifted her foot, and his entire body was rattled by his titanic sister’s footfalls when she landed on the ground.

“Let’s go, Hibi-nii…” Shizuku scrunched her toes and squeezed him one more time before making her way out of the Reduction room.

(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.”