Baby steps
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There were a few ways you could go about this. As much as you wanted to split Jouko's pants open and reveal her underwear-clad rump to the world... you didn't want to be stupid about this. Jouko might not have been the sharpest tool in the shed, but she wasn't dumb either (which sounded more insulting than you meant.) If her few scenes told you anything about her personality, it was that she was a very prideful person, prioritizing things like expanding her gang's influence and battling rival hoodlums at the cost of spending time studying or preparing for school.

So if her pants ripped open in the middle of the street, regardless of whether or not you had anything to do with it... well, you might just find yourself on the point of a sword anyways.

Plus... well, Jouko had always been a bit dense at receiving sexual innuendo in the game, but even she would realize something was amiss if her buttocks grew by three whole centimeters.

You'd have to be careful about your power if you didn't want to be busted right away.

And staring as you were at Jouko's huge ass, squeezed into her khaki school pants... gave you an idea.

Your power was size-manipulation. The narrator had made it very clear that you weren't limited to yourself and the women of this world- inorganic material was fair game.

So... well, it might've been going too far to use Jouko herself as the training dummy for your inaugural usage of your reality hax power... but Jouko's pants, on the other hand?

(((Oh ho ho... I like the way you think, Shujin! Smart, but still wanting to have some fun!)))

Ignoring the cackling narrator, you briefly looked around to make sure no one else on the street (which was mostly deserted anyway) and then narrowed your eyes in focus.

You weren't sure how your power actually worked- like if you needed to know the actual science behind this, or things like the numbers of what you were shrinking; like the exact height/width of a rock on the ground... or more importantly, the measurements of Jouko's pants...

But it seemed like your power superseded all! You imagined Jouko's pants shrinking by 1 centimeter- the seat of her pants only, not the length of the legs or the width of the waist.

And before your eyes... Jouko's ass cheeks became just a little more pronounced, proudly bulging out against the tight fabric.

'Damn, I didn't think khaki's would ever look sexy on someone... but I stand corrected!'

Jouko's butt now had the illusion of the cheeks swelling a centimeter in size, though in actuality her body measurements were unchanged.

Jouko abruptly stopped walking. You nearly walked right into the taller girls back before you stopped yourself. Crap, she'd felt something... though looking back at it in hindside, Jouko's pants had looked really tight even before your little 'adjustment.' So it was only logical that she'd be able to tell that something was amiss...

"What's up, Jouko? Y-you didn't see a rival gang member, did you?"

The stutter in your voice was faked, and while it hurt your pride a bit to act weak in front of such a hot girl, appearing as innocent as possible was definitely the best course of action here.

Jouko looked back at you, a faint frown on her pretty face.

"No, nothing like that. I just... Never mind, it's nothing. But worry not! As a Shiri, I'd never let a civilian under my protection come to harm from a rival gang!" And just like that, Jouko was once-again brimming with self-confidence. Damn, if you had the self-confidence this girl had, you'd probably be the emperor of Japan by the end of the year.

You knew she'd definitely felt something, but she'd been able to brush whatever suspicions she had out of her mind mere seconds after they popped into her head!

(((Heh, that girl's probably used to having to wear tight clothes. Looks like she just thought it must've been her imagination... Good on this one, Shujin. She doesn't suspect a thing!)))

Those thoughts aside, the latter half of Jouko's sentence stuck in your mind.

"What, so I'm under your protection now?"

"Of course! While you aren't a fighter in my gang, I won't forget that you had the desire to aid my cause! If I want to truly inherit my father's title, then I must protect all who look up to me, not just those who fight along side me!"

Huh. Well, that actually made you feel kind of warm and fuzzy inside.

"Well, I don't know what help I'll be, but don't hesitate to call on me if there's ever any help I can provide!"

Jouko smiled back at you, clearly pleased by your words.

"Of course! Now, hurry up, school awaits!"

Jouko sped away from you, leaving you (and the Narrator) in her dust.

Damn, you hated to see a girl like that go, but you loved watching her leave!

That was truly a legendary ass.

(((Nice job, Shujin! You cleared your first scene! And it was a high-difficulty one too!)))

You continued walking along at a leisurely pace while talking to the Narrator in your head.

'So, how does all of this work? I know you said that my life isn't 100% like a video game, but... come on, I have a stat screen and everything! There's definitely some game aspects here.'

(((Eh, it's probably just easier to show you. Open your stat screen.)))

Doing so, you blinked when you realized that there was a new option before you- rather than just opening up automatically to your info, you were now provided an option to select your own screen, or select a heroine's screen.

You opened up the heroine's window... and saw a bunch of blank screens, except for one- with Jouko's name on it.

'Uh, Narrator? This is... a lot more blank than I was expecting.'

Which was very much true- Jouko's page currently had... well, her name, and pretty much nothing else. The same slots were there as yours- Level, Title, Esper, Esper level... but everything was replaced with black question marks. Moving on to the personal info page... all you could see was her age (18.) Damn it! Not going to lie, you were kind of hoping that it was going to tell you her three sizes...

(((Buddy, you can't unlock all that stuff right away! You have to work for it! You only just met Jouko, and you were only with her for what, ten minutes?)))

That... kind of made sense. You were still disappointed that you hadn't automatically unlocked her measurements, though...

Oh well, moving on. At least now you had the time to ask a question that had been bugging you all morning.

'Narrator, how does the level work? And I mean, my level, not the Esper level.'

(((Like I said, open your stat screen and you'll see.)))

Following the bodiless voice's instructions, you opened your stat screen.

>>>>>Shujin Kou<<<<<

Mind: 5/5

Level 5 System Hint: (complete scenes with heroines to gain experience. Gain experience to level up. Certain scenes are worth more experience than others.) Reward points available: 4

Title: N/A

Esper Level: FFF

Personal Info: Open Tab to see more

>>>>><<<<<

So... you'd already gone up... four whole levels?!

(((*Whistling* Damn, not bad for a first scene! Hell of a way to enter the game!)))

'I mean... I'm happy, but... four levels at once?'

(((Shujin, most of the opening scenes involve simply meeting a girl and talking with her. Not literally talking your way out of a Yakuza execution. Fatal bad endings showing up this early on is super rare. No wonder the system gave you so many experience points for your fist scene. I thought at most you'd have to talk your way out of Izumi slapping you or something!)))

Well, that made sense. Just like a video game, harder quests granted more exp then easy quests. But...

'Okay, what's the 'mind' stat, then?'

(((Eh, that's an easy way of seeing how much 'ammo' you have for your ability. Basically, as you are right now, you can use your ability 5 times before having to rest- uses are reset whenever you go to sleep. Or when you level up. And I'm pretty sure you get one point back whenever you eat a meal. Remember this, though- mind isn't tied to your esper level. It just says how many times a day you can use your ability. Esper level controls how strong your ability actually is. Speaking of... that FFF rank won't be hard to raise. You could probably get it to F by the end of the day.)))

Well, that was... actually helpful. It sure told you a lot, at least. Looking down at your feet as you walked down the sidewalk- now quite close to the school's campus...

<<+ 2>>

You added two centimeters to a pebble that was next to your foot, instantly enlarging it from a tiny pebble to a small rock.

There was another unusual noise- this time, a deep, ringing *gong* rather than a bell chiming. Opening up your stat screen, you saw that your Esper level... was a whopping FF.

Well, losing one F was pretty good. It seemed like 3 centimeters of total growth had been enough to raise it. Though something told you that it was going to take more and more usage to level up the higher leveled it got. Hell, it might take a week or two just to go from an E rank to a D rank, and according to the narrator, those levels were still considered to be very weak by society.

You were about to cross the school gates- but before you did so, you couldn't help but open your stat screen one last time. This time, you focused solely on Esper level.

Esper Level: FF = Pathetic overall ability. Currently capable of minimal physical alteration (other.) Power: 1-4 centimeters. Extremely short term major physical alteration (self.) Duration: 1 minute, 30 seconds.

Well, there was a little more info there now. By god, you were going to use this ability until you had practically no limits on your power! The ability to control the size of things around you was going to be fun!

(((Alright, now we're talkin', Shujin! Now get in school and see where fate takes us!)))
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March 23