The women in Honoka’s recently-created harem made their way into the bathing chamber and began disrobing in short order. Conveniently, there were several towels, soaps, bottles of body wash, and various other bathing supplies within the baths already, so there was no need for the women to head to their rooms beforehand.
Of course, Honoka being both the gentleman at heart that he is as well as being inherently shy (especially in the presence of so many women) averted his eyes and was hesitant to so much as lay a hand on his clothes, let alone start disrobing.
“Honoka-kun, is something wrong?” asked Touko as she finished pulling off her dress shirt and began undoing her bra.
“Come on, slow poke,” said Rinon as she proceeded to pull off her knee-high socks. “It’s not really bathing if you have your clothes on.”
“Sorry but…doesn’t this make any of you feel uncomfortable or awkward, even in the slightest?” asked Honoka.
“What does?” asked Natsume, who was in the process of removing her skirt.
“Undressing in front of a guy, of course!” a blushing Honoka answered.
“If it was some random-ass guy, then sure,” replied Rinon, who was now down to her bra and panties by this point. “But since we’re partners and all that, there’s no problem. Now stop being so pansy-assed about this and strip already.”
“You’re all HONESTLY okay with this?” asked Honoka, feeling as though he was in some kind of dream state.
“Honoka-kun, you really need to learn to relax around women more often,” sighed Kazane, who just finished unhooking her exquisitely tasteful brasserie and letting her stupendously firm bosom come free from the bra cups. “Sweet as it is for you to be bashful over this sort of thing, the sooner you relax and come to terms with this, the better off we’re all going to be.”
“Exactly,” added Kanae as she finished unbuttoning her dress shirt. “We ARE your partners after all, Takamiya-kun…I mean Honoka-kun.” The mop-haired girl momentarily blushed in embarrassment as she felt the compunction to correct herself in addressing the man to whom she was now partnered with. “There’s really no need to be so shy about this sort of thing, given our relationship in this whole matter.”
“Mmm-hmm,” hummed Touko as she nodded along while she proceeded to remove her bra and panties.
‘What kind of erotic fantasy have I fallen into?’ thought Honoka as he processed all these responses. ‘There’s no way that so many women would be flat-out okay with this deal, at least not without SOME resistance to it all. I can understand Ayaka-chan not having a problem with it, but ALL of them!?’
Before he could voice another response, Honoka found himself being spun around before catching the sight of Ayaka Kagari’s large face zooming in on his own face rapidly, with her lips crashing against his own and her tongue outright demanding entrance into his mouth. The act caught him off guard, which gave Ayaka her window into shoving her tongue as deep as possible, combing over every square inch of Honoka’s mouth as she kissed him with the usual amount of vigor she was known to use when making out with him.
Several of the other women simply watched in blushing awe at how brazen and direct Ayaka Kagari had become when it came to expressing her love for Honoka, except for Kazane, who simply smirked in delight. Kasumi herself was a mix of shocked and seething, envious as she was that Ayaka could go for what she desired without the slightest reservation. She had half a mind to butt in and plant her own lips on Honoka right there and then, but figured it would be best to let Ayaka finish up her own kiss, lest a catfight break out as a result.
“Now Honoka-kun,” said Ayaka after finishing up the kiss, “we’ve been over this before, Sweetie. Whenever I sense that your mind is troubled in ANY way whatsoever, I’m going to kiss the living hell out of you until you’re no longer fretting with worry or trouble of any kind…and I mean that to the fullest extent down to the last letter, got that?”
Honoka could only weakly nod in response, his mind overwhelmed by Ayaka’s passion pouring into the kiss as she held him oh so tenderly yet firmly against her while her tongue invaded as much of his mouth and throat as possible.
“Very good then,” Ayaka lightly grinned. “Now then, let’s get you out of those clothes and get you cleaned up then.”
A minute or two later, Honoka was stripped down to absolutely nothing whatsoever. He showed a modicum of hesitance in taking off his underwear, but Ayaka gently persuaded him into relinquishing his boxers, kissing him in the process. While reluctant at first, Honoka ended up taking them off, given that all of the other women were in nothing but their birthday suits by this point.
Afterwards, the group made their way into the splendor of the baths, slowly dipping themselves into the soothing bathwater, with some of them openly exhaling and sighing in wondrous bliss at how heavenly the perfectly warmed bathwater felt upon their skin. While the vast majority of women found a spot to relax within the bathwater separately from one another (leaving a few feet in space from each other), Ayaka bathed with Honoka directly in her lap, gently caressing his body all over as she slowly and sensuously washed every part of his upper body before proceeding to wash his lower half.
As Ayaka bathed Honoka, Kasumi couldn’t help but puff her cheeks in a clear enough sign of jealousy, wishing that it was HER who was washing and caressing Honoka’s body instead of Ayaka being the one to do so. Now that it was revealed that Honoka and Kasumi weren’t blood related, the pink-haired workshop witch had become more emboldened than ever to pursue Honoka romantically. Even though she had always come to love and cherish him as her precious “Onii-chan,” she was now only too eager to take the next step and have them become boyfriend and girlfriend…scratch that, have them become engaged to one another, and not long after become MARRIED to one another. Of course, given what Kazane-san had elaborated to everyone not so long ago in the living room, Kasumi would be expected to share with the other members of the group, given that they too were to be paired with Honoka much in the same way as Hime-sama and Kazane-san were to Honoka.
‘If that’s what it takes to be with Honoka-kun…so be it,’ thought Kasumi as she watched her beloved be washed by the eleven-foot-tall Ayaka, wrapping him in her embrace as she washed and massaged Honoka’s smaller body. While Kasumi certainly wasn’t thrilled at the idea of sharing, she was willing to accept it if that was the only way she could be wedded to Honoka.
For a while, Ayaka proceeded to wash Honoka’s body - ALL of his body - while the other women proceeded to make small talk with one another (partly to kill time while they bathed, and partly to serve as a distraction so that they need not gaze too long or too intently as Ayaka methodically washed every nook and cranny of Honoka’s body without a care in the world). Out of everyone in the party outside of Ayaka and Honoka, Kazane was by far the most composed and relaxed of the lot. Most likely this was due to her age (being several centuries old no less) so she wasn’t flummoxed in the slightest at the sight of Ayaka wanting to express her love for the young man currently wrapped in her embrace as she proceeded to wash and massaged each and every part of his body.
‘Oh, to be young and in love,’ thought Kazane as she witnessed Ayaka tenderly caressing each and every part of Honoka’s body as she delicately scrubbed him, paying close attention to the more delicate parts of his body as she worked her magic. The older workshop witch couldn’t help but grin at how adamant Ayaka was in her care for Honoka, while Honoka himself couldn’t help but sigh and even moan in response to Ayaka’s touch.
“How does it feel, Honoka-kun?” asked Ayaka as she washed/massaged his thighs and calves.
“It feels…like my body is turning into butter, Ayaka-chan,” sighed Honoka. “Everything is just…melting away. I can’t…quite put into words…just how good…it feels.” Ayaka grinned upon hearing that.
“I’m glad to hear that, Darling,” she said at little more than a whisper. “It makes me happy to know that you’re happy, Honoka-kun.” She then leaned in for a smooch, not once letting up in her washing/massaging session while she locked lips with Honoka.
“I…must say, Hime-sama,” stated a blushing Natsume, “you’re certainly not…shy when it comes to being…intimate…”
“That’s an understatement if ever I’ve heard one,” added Rinon.
“Two things I have to say in response to that, ladies,” replied Ayaka, barely making eye contact with anyone other than Honoka. “First off, a maiden in love shouldn’t be afraid to let the one she knows just how much she loves him, and secondly…he is YOUR partner as well as mine, just as a reminder. While you’re not necessarily REQUIRED to love him the way that I do, it would certainly help for the sake of this arrangement, and do all of you some good to know what it feels like to love someone from the bottom of your heart…especially you, Rinon-chan.”
The green-haired workshop witch couldn’t help but blush and grumble in response as Ayaka proceeded to French kiss Honoka while she washed and massaged his body (her hands currently focused on his nether-regions at the moment) while Honoka melted into her embrace. The other workshop witches simply stared in wonder at how in-control Ayaka was being in that moment, unafraid to show to everyone just how much she loved and treasured Honoka in such a moment of romantic intimacy.
“Kasumi-chan,” Ayaka said, “get over here.”
“W-what? Right now?” the pink haired workshop witch replied.
“No, sometime in the next thousand years,” answered Ayaka. “Yes, right now.” The sarcasm in Ayaka’s voice was clear enough to pick up on.
While somewhat hesitant at first, Kasumi slowly made her way over towards Ayaka, standing in front of the larger woman holding Honoka in her lap while she cleaned/massaged/kiss him.
“Come closer,” said Ayaka in between kisses with Honoka. Kasumi obliged until she was less than a foot away from Ayaka.
In one swift motion, Ayaka wrapped an arm around Kasumi’s smaller body and roped the younger girl into Ayaka’s lap. Kasumi briefly shrieked a short “eep!” as Ayaka secured her within Ayaka’s lap, making sure there was no way Kasumi could get out unless Ayaka LET her get out.
“H-Hime-sama, what are you doing?” asked a flustered Kasumi.
“Giving us both what we want,” replied Ayaka matter-of-factly.
“I beg your pardon?” asked a confused Kasumi.
“You heard me,” replied Ayaka. “We both know you love Honoka-kun deeply. Don’t beat around the bush on that topic. So I’m letting you have some quality time with him…under my supervision, of course. And as for what I want, I simply want the both of you in my arms right at this moment, plain and simple. After all, I already told you: You’re MY lover as well as Honoka’s lover, both to him and to me. So I simply feel like having the two of you in my arms at this moment, and I figured that you’d jump at the chance to have some quality time with Honoka-kun to boot, so there’s no problem with what I’m doing now, is there?”
Kasumi simply sat there in stunned silence, not sure how to respond to what Ayaka just said. It was a sentiment which was shared among the other women (minus Kazane, of course).
“And as for the rest of you,” Ayaka said, lifting her head up to look upon the rest of Honoka’s harem, “know that what I just said extends to the rest of you as well. You - ALL of you - are MY lovers as well as Honoka-kun’s, got that? I intend to…no…I WILL have a turn with each and every one of you alongside Honoka-kun, understand?”
The other women (minus Kazane) simply stared in wide-eyed shock at Ayaka’s declaration. Even Kasumi couldn’t help but be at a loss for words at what Tougetsu Academy’s “Hime-sama” just said to all of them. While she certainly was no stranger to putting her foot down when it came to making demands and issuing commands over what she wanted, she seemed to be doing it all the more as she grew larger and larger. It seemed that as Ayaka’s size increased, her self-confidence and assertiveness grew alongside it.
“I’ll take your silence as a ‘yes,’ whether you intended that to be the case or not,” Ayaka added, letting everyone else know that the matter was not up for debate. She then turned her attention to the Honoka siblings seated in her lap, her disposition softening somewhat as she gazed down at the two of them. From an outsider’s perspective, Ayaka bathing both Honoka and Kasumi would have looked akin to a mother washing her children or an older sister washing her younger siblings, at least from a size perspective given how much larger Ayaka was than the two occupants currently in her lap.
“A-Ayaka-chan, please don’t intimidate the others,” said Honoka. “You know I don’t like it when you try to coerce others into doing what you want.”
“I know that, Honoka-kun,” she replied. “I promise that I won’t hurt any of them or anything along those lines. They are MY lovers as well as yours, so resorting to violence simply will not do. Now no more worrying, okay Sweetie? Just relax and let Kasumi-chan and I tend to you from here on, alright?”
Sighing in acquiescence, Honoka simply nodded along, figuring that he might as well make the best of the situation.
The night proceeded with both Kasumi and Ayaka washing different parts of Honoka’s body, with Ayaka using one arm to wash Honoka and the other to wash Kasumi.
“Hime-sama, you really don’t need to be washing me alongside Onii-chan,” said Kasumi, slightly annoyed that Ayaka was washing her alongside Honoka.
“Two things, Kasumi-chan,” replied Ayaka. “First off, when we’re at home in private, just ‘Ayaka’ or something along those lines will do. No need for formalities when we’re in private settings, understand?”
“But-” interjected Kasumi.
“But nothing,” Ayaka cut her off. “In fact, say it.”
“Say what?”
“My name. Say my name,” Ayaka clarified. Kasumi paused in awkward silence for a few seconds.
“Kasumi-chan, if you don’t say my name, I’m going to make out with you hardcore in front of everyone here, and I won’t stop until you pass from orgasming, do I make myself clear?” Ayaka said in that trademark monotone voice of hers.
“Alright alright!” declared a blushing Kasumi. “Ayaka! Okay!? Happy now?”
“I’d prefer ‘Ayaka-chan,’ but I’m okay with that for now. It’s a step in the right direction,” replied a smiling Ayaka. “And as for the second thing, since you’re my lover, I feel I should get to wash you whenever I feel like it. If it’s any consolation, you’re welcome to wash my body in return. I figure that it’s only fair.”
“I’d rather wash Onii-chan,” Kasumi shot back.
“Nothing wrong with that whatsoever. I just feel that there’s no need to limit yourself to such a thing in a relationship such as this. Like I told everyone, I intend to have a taste OF everyone, which includes you of course, my sweet little Kasumi-chan. So in the spirit of fairness, you’re welcome to return the favor whenever you feel like it…assuming that I’m not busy with Honoka-kun, of course, though I suppose we could always turn a bicycle into a tricycle if it comes to that.” Kasumi couldn’t help but stare wide-eyed at Ayaka’s brazenness once more, to which Ayaka simply responded with a smirk in turn, as if to say “You heard me.” to the pink-haired girl in her lap.
“Now then, no more talk,” Ayaka continued. “Just relax and let Ayaka-onee-chan clean the two of you while you clean Honoka-kun, okay?” Deciding to get her mind off of Ayaka’s offer of a threeway makeout session, Kasumi did just that, proceeding to run her hands up and down Honoka’s backside with sudsy soap bubbles as she traced the contours of his bones and muscles all along his back and shoulders.
For a while, the conversation took a more relaxed tone, with the other girls making the occasional bit of smalltalk with one another, partly to find some useful distraction so that they wouldn’t be stuck gazing at Ayaka washing/caressing both Honoka and Kasumi in her own corner of the baths. Most of the conversation was between Natsume, Touko, and Rinon, with Kazane occasionally getting a word in here or there. Ever the quiet one, Atori kept to herself as far as responses went, only relying on a mix of eye contact and nodding or shaking her head to any “yes or no” types of questions.
Eventually, as the night wore on, Honoka couldn’t help but feel rather tired. Perhaps it was a mix of both dinner and lounging in the warm bathwater for too long. Whatever the cause of it was, he found himself nodding off, ready to fall asleep in the baths right there and then.
“You alright, Onii-chan?” asked Kasumi, the concern in her voice all too apparent.
“Yeah, I’m fine,” replied Honoka, who then yawned rather distinctly right afterwards. “I just find myself feeling [yawn] really sleepy all of a sudden.”
“Then I suppose we should get you dried off, dressed, and ready for bed then,” replied Ayaka, who proceeded to pick up Honoka and carry him ‘bridal style’ out of the baths and towards their towels. Whether or not Honoka would have spoken up in modest resistance was a moot point, given how tired he was and simply didn’t have the energy to resist Ayaka carrying him around. If he was being honest, he very much enjoyed being carried in Ayaka’s arms like he was a newborn infant or a very small child, being held and nestled in the protective embrace of his giant, beautiful guardian.
Unbeknownst to Honoka, Ayaka and Kazane decided to move things along ever so slightly to ensure that he would fall asleep not long after dinner. For you see, when the servings were being passed out to everyone around the table, Ayaka and Kazane had a quick whispering session between the two of them while nobody was looking. After thirty seconds or so of chatter between them, they agreed that it would be best for Honoka to fall asleep soon after mealtime, so Ayaka quietly crushed up some sleeping medication which Kazana handed to her into a fine powder and sprinkled/mixed it into Honoka’s food. The medicine would be masked by the overbearing flavor of the night’s meal, so Honoka would be none the wiser as he ate it.
Truth be told, they were a little surprised that Honoka had stayed awake for as long as he had in the baths, but now that the medicine had done its job, it was time to proceed to the next step.
Not long after Ayaka and Kasumi finished drying off and clothing Honoka, the other women proceeded to make their way out of the baths, drying and clothing themselves right afterwards. Once everyone had on their nightly attire, Ayaka and Kazane gestured for the other women to join them in one of the large studies within the estate. When asked why everyone was to assemble in said room, the answer was simple.
“To proceed with the sealing ritual, of course,” said Kazane. “We are now going to have you all formally bonded to Honoka-kun.”
After drawing an extensive magical circle in chalk along the floor and pulling out a spellbook, Kazane began to chant the incantation. With Honoka (still asleep) lying in the center of the circle, the seven women gathered around him along the circle’s edge, each of them perfectly spaced out from one another.
Kazane’s instructions were pretty clear. Once she began the incantation, the other witches were to join her in repeating the chant. One by one by one, the other women joined in the chanting session, and within minutes, all seven women spoke in perfect unison as they repeated the magic words. As they chanted, the circle began to light up, bathing the room in brilliant white light. All the while, Honoka (in deep sleep the entire time) began to slowly hover off the ground, his arms and legs limply hanging off to the side as he was lifted higher and higher ever so slightly. Eventually, his body stopped its ascension, hanging listlessly in the air by a good five or six feet off the floor.
By that point, the women were chanting in perfect unison, with the glowing light reaching a fever pitch (almost to the point of being blinding, like a flashbang grenade going off). With the last chant, the light abruptly exploded and a minor shockwave permeated throughout the room knocking most of the other women back a foot or so (all except for Ayaka and Kazane, given their larger sizes and powerful builds).
As the women recovered from the impact, the light dissipated and Honoka slowly descended back down until his back made contact with the floor, still asleep the entire time.
“So then, is it done?” asked Natsume.
“The sealing process should be complete,” answered Kazane. “We are now all joined to Honaka Takamiya via the sealing process. All of you are now partnered to him in the same way as Ayaka and I are.”
“So…will the growth spurts stop then?” asked Kasumi. “No more of either of you two getting bigger?”
“It’s a little too early to tell at this point,” Kazane replied. “We won’t really know until tomorrow morning at the earliest. It depends on how effective the sealing spell which we just casted ends up being. In theory, the spell should hold, now that there are seven of us to help keep it in place instead of just two. Help lighten the load for each witch, so to speak. But it’s only just a theory for the time being.”
“That’s reassuring,” mumbled Rinon in clear sarcasm.
“Evermillion IS a very powerful entity after all, Rinon-chan,” Kazane replied, overlooking Rinon’s snippiness.
“We’ll find out in the morning whether it worked or not,” said Ayaka. “For now, it’s best we all retire for the night and get some sleep. She proceeded to pick up Honoka once more and make her way out the room. “You coming, Kasumi-chan?” The pink-haired girl didn’t need to be told twice, nodding and following Ayaka out the study.
“Fair point from her,” added Kazane. “Let’s all get some sleep then shall we? I’ll see you all in the morning.” She then left the room, with the other workshop witches vacating the room soon afterwards and heading to their respective bedrooms not long after.
Within minutes, everyone at the Kagari estate was tucked into a bed. Even the Ivory Quintet decided not to tempt fate or push their luck and sneak around the place, out of worry that they’d be caught by either one of the maids or the many workshop witches who now resided within the place. From their perspective, it was bad enough when it was ‘only’ Ayaka, Kazane, and Kasumi living within the place, but now with another four women added on top (three of them witches), their chances of being able to pull something off had dwindled even more than before. If it wasn’t downright impossible to make a move to successfully capture Honoka before, it certainly was now. The KMM Gang was simply too outnumbered to be able to pull off anything even remotely close to a kidnapping, especially given how tied-to-the-hip Ayaka was to Honoka at this point (with Kasumi coming in at a close second).
At the very least, until they had assistance from their mistress (Lady Medusa) or help from other tower witches to help even the scales, the KMM Gang resigned themselves to making the best of the situation and decided to call it a night as well.
And with that, everyone in Babel was tucked into bed. Honoka (still in a deep sleep the entire time) sat nestled in between Ayaka on his left and Kasumi on his right, witch Kasumi’s arms and legs draped around his body while Ayaka draped her massive limbs effectively over BOTH of them, cocooning them against her larger frame. Within minutes, the two girls drifted off into blissful sleep, content to have the boy they loved beyond measure safely in their clutches.
………
Fast-forward to the next morning…
As the sun crested over the horizon to bring forth the new day, life resumed as usual throughout Tougetsu City, with the usual hustle-and-bustle of people waking up, eating breakfast, and making their way out and about the streets to do this thing or that thing.
Fortunately, it was the weekend, so in the case of Honoka and the others at Babel, they could sleep in for a little bit, which they all ended up doing so for a solid hour longer than would normally be the case.
As he stirred awake, Honoka turned to both his left and right, taking in the sight before him. On his left side was Ayaka, with her massive chest gently pressed against the side of his head and her angelic face still asleep as it hovered over his own, with his head underneath her chin by a good bit. He smiled at the sight, not just over taking in her beauty, but happy to see her so blissfully at peace as she slept.
He then turned to his right side, figuring that he would be greeted by the sight of Kasumi’s own face slumbering peacefully right next to his own. While he was correct about it being Kasumi slumbering right next to him, he was shocked to find out that it wasn’t her face which he was greeted with…
…but Kasumi’s own bosom pressed gently against the right side of his face.
While Kasumi’s breasts weren’t as large as Ayaka’s in comparison, they weren’t anything to sneeze or scoff at either. Though Honoka would never have outright asked her what her cup size was, if he were to guess, she was a solid, healthy C-cup…with the potential to become a D-cup over time, given her age.
As he gazed upwards, he could make out Kasumi’s own slumbering face, a small grin on her lips as she mumbled something in her sleep. He couldn’t quite make out every word, but he was pretty sure that he heard the name “Onii-chan,” here and there as Kasumi muttered. While hearing that might have made him somewhat uncomfortable, he resigned himself to the fact that now Kasumi was bonded to him in the same way that Ayaka (and all of the others in the living room) were bonded to him now. And now that it was revealed that Honoka and Kasumi aren’t blood-related, it was safe to assume that Kasumi would romantically pursue him with no holds barred from here on out.
Even so, with all of that being considered, those developments were of a very minor concern compared to what he just witnessed. Honoka’s little sister was now anything BUT little now from a size perspective. While it was hard to tell from this position, he guessed that Kasumi was at LEAST a solid nine feet tall if not ten feet or more, which could only mean that Evermillion’s power had flooded into her the same way as it had with Ayaka and Kazane. Honoka also wondered when exactly the ritual had happened, given that he didn’t remember anything after conking out in the baths, feeling very, VERY sleepy not long after being washed by both Ayaka and Kasumi.
‘Guess it happened while I was out of it,’ he thought in self-reflection.
That made him consider something else: If Kasumi had grown in size from whatever magical spellbinding contract happened last night, what did that mean for the other girls? Did they grow in size as well? And if so, then by how much? Honoka was a little frightened to find out, getting a gut feeling that he’d be greeted by a troop of towering witches whenever he ended up crossing paths with them.
A moment later, Honoka was pulled from his thoughts by the quiet muttering coming from his right. It seemed that Kasumi was stirring awake, given the slight shifting she was engaged in.
“Mmmhm,” groaned Kasumi as her eyes slowly opened, blinking a few times as she slowly turned her head from side to side. A moment later, she tilted her head down and saw the top of Honoka’s head.
“That’s weird,” thought Kasumi out loud. “Why would I go to sleep like this? I normally wouldn’t go to bed all hiked up like this. Guess I moved around in my sleep more than usual.”
“Morning, Kasumi-chan,” said Ayaka, who apparently had woken up at the same time. “How are you feeling?”
“Hmm?” asked Kasumi, staring directly at Ayaka. “Oh, I feel fine…well-rested in fact.” Kasumi then proceeded to turn around and scoot off the bed, expecting to fall a bit as she descended and was surprised when her feet made contact with the floor much sooner than expected. She blinked in genuine surprise before standing up…
And up…
And UP…
As Honoka looked on in bewilderment, his gut feeling was confirmed outright. Kasumi HAD grown larger, and significantly larger at that. Until she stood next to Ayaka, he wouldn’t know who among them was the taller of the pair, but whatever the height gap was between Ayaka and Kasumi, it had shrunken substantially by now. Honoka also pondered as to whether or not Ayaka (and by extension Kazane) had increased in height or not, given how regularly these growth spurts appeared to be occurring. He could only hope that the rate of growth had diminished somewhat, assuming the sealing process went as intended.
Turning around, Kasumi went wide-eyed as she gazed down at Honoka, still lying in bed in Ayaka’s embrace. For a few seconds, the pink-haired workshop witch simply stood there in stunned silence, taking in the sight before her. From Kasumi’s perspective, Honoka looked so…small now. If anything, from a size perspective, Kasumi was most certainly the “big sister” between the Takamiya siblings now.
“Whoa…” said Kasumi with little more than a whisper. “This is…unreal…”
“You sure you’re feeling okay, Kasumi-chan?” asked Ayaka in a teasing tone. “Try not to let the increased elevation throw you off now.”
“I…I’m fine,” huffed Kasumi, getting her bearings and trying not to look too flummoxed or awkward in the process. In response, Ayaka decided to get up as well, standing tall and proud as she did. From what Honoka could gauge, Ayaka was still the taller of the two by a good amount, but the difference in height had become much less than it was the night before.
“What say we measure ourselves today, just to see where things stand, shall we?” Ayaka asked. Both Honoka and Kasumi looked at one another, each one still marvelling at the size difference between them now, before eventually going along with Ayaka’s suggestion. From Honoka’s point of view, he felt downright TINY now, being the smallest between the three.
‘I get the feeling that I’m smaller than ALL of the others now here in the Kagari estate,’ thought Honoka as he got out of bed, ‘well, maybe except for some of the servants and those five tower witches and all, but still…’
Once Ayaka fetched some measuring tape, both she and Kasumi stood up against an open patch of wall in the bedroom, marked their heights with a line, and proceeded to measure the tape as had been the case up to this point. A moment later, their heights were read out.
Kasumi: 10 feet, 3 inches
Ayaka: 11 feet, 6 inches