"Er... I can... um, make some tea for you, if you'd like. I'm sorry I don't have anything else to offer..." The girl trailed off nervously, still looking very unsure of herself. You got the impression that she'd probably never had a boy in her house before, both this new one and wherever she'd lived previously.

Now the ball was in your court, and you felt like it was better to accept the girl's offer than to turn it town. For one thing, you would've been a total dumbass to turn down an offer from a pretty girl like her, and another... you couldn't help but think that it would've tanked her self esteem if you shot down her offer.

"Sure, that'd be really nice of you."

"R-really?! Oh, I'm so glad..." The girl let out a sigh of relief she'd apparently been holding in, putting one hand to her ample chest as she exhaled.

"So... do you need any help carrying these upstairs, or..." You started to say, before the girl's cheeks colored slightly- no doubt still flustered that you'd seen a box filled with her unmentionables... and manhandled one of them.

"Er, no... That's alright. T-this box is the only one that I need to take up stairs right away... J-just give me a few minutes to get everything put away upstairs, then we can have some tea."

"Sure, sure. Should I, uh... just hang out here, then? Or would you like me to move the remaining boxes into the kitchen?"

"Would you?! That'd be great!" The girl exclaimed excitedly, forgetting her momentary embarrassment. You picked up the heavier box, while she picked up the much lighter box filled with her 'precious cargo' and the two of you went in separate directions. She vanished up the stairs, while you walked from the front entryway into the kitchen.

The girl's house wasn't too big, but it was a house and not an apartment like you lived in, so it was still quite a bit bigger. It seemed fairly new too; at least the paint on the walls looked fresh, new even, and you couldn't see any dings, dents, or chips in the woodwork anywhere.

Setting the box you'd been carrying down on the kitchen counter, you repeated the process of transporting the remaining boxes until the entryway was all clear.

Phew, that hadn't been a bad workout.

(((Well, good job to you, Shujin. You're not doing too bad, earning brownie points with this lovely lady.)))

'Thanks, Narrator, but was there something you wanted to say? You don't normally but in unless you have something to bring up.'

(((Right on the money as always, Shujin. I wanted to say... I think it's about time you took your shrinking power for a spin!)))

'Really? Are you sure?'

(((Shujin, you've been in this world for two whole weeks and you've only been practicing with it on your own. The whole point of you having that power in the first place was so you could use it for fun, and there's no time like the present to use it! You might as well start getting used to it)))

The Narrator had a point; having a power that was that awesome and not using it was just being wasteful. Besides, you weren't planning on anything creepy, like spying on your new neighbor while she was going to the bathroom or something. Your plans right now were, well... not exactly wholesome, but you didn't plan on doing anything that you'd lose sleep over either.

Plus... about a few days ago (coinciding with the day you'd initiated your time-delayed growth on Ruu, the Narrator had warned you that there would be active penalties against you if every 'event' you were in was too boring. You weren't sure what the penalties were yet, but they didn't sound good.

In other words, you'd been given an ultimatum; have fun with your pervy powers or bad things would happen to you!

Concentrating and closing your eyes, you felt your MIND count drop from 7/7 to 6/7... and when you opened your eyes, you'd shrunk down to a measly 3 inches high!

You knew what to do now; time to get up those stairs! Heading back down the hallway at a jog, you made sure to keep track of your remaining time. You had 10 minutes from now before you zapped back to your normal size, which would happen all at once from what you'd learned after many practice runs.

Pausing to catch your breath at the base of the stairs, you made your way up them as quickly as possible. Fortunately, they were carpeted, allowing you to use the fibers as handholds. Still, it took a couple of minutes to get to the top of the stairs. You had about seven minutes left.

Heading down the upstairs hallway, you paused outside what had to be the girl's room.

Man, you really needed to get her name. You couldn't just think of her as 'big-breasted neighbor.'

"Ngh... so... tight... I can barely breathe in this bra, but... it's better than giving him more reason to stare. And... oh, that was so embarrassing... I can't believe he saw these..."

Yeah, this was definitely her room, you could hear her voice inside. But what was she saying? You crept closer to the bottom of her bedroom door, practically crawling along the floor at this point. You could feel the fabric of the carpet below you brushing against your chest now. Thank god your power shrunk your clothes with you. You wouldn't have dared shrink yourself in her house if you'd had to account extra time for changing back into your clothes.

Her voice grew louder as you neared.

"At least he seemed nice... I don't know how long it would've taken me to move everything inside if I'd been on my own... And he didn't even stare at my chest! I guess it's... ow... a good thing that I... ngh... squeezed into this... Maybe he's a nice guy? Not like the guys at my old school... I'm glad to get away from them... as soon as my chest started growing, they couldn't take their eyes off of me, and the names they'd call me... I don't want to think about them..."

Ah, you were pretty sure of the type of girl you'd met now. A sort of 'reverse Izumi.' Rather than 'owning' her massive chest and lashing out at people who stared at her, this girl (who was still way smaller than Izumi was) put up a shell around her and tried to hide behind it. Also, it, uh, sounded like she was 'literally' trying to hide her bust from the public. Given what she was saying it sounded pretty likely that the poor girl was cramming herself into a bra a full letter size or two too small for her. And, ouch! From the context, it sounded like this was something she did on a regular basis You couldn't relate, but it must've been painful.

She'd probably like Izumi. Musing over what to do following this weekend, you decided to try and introduce your new neighbor to Izumi on Monday. You were certain that Izumi would take great care of her.

"But why didn't he stare at them? So many boys I've seen in the past can't stop staring at these huge things... I hope he wasn't thinking anything weird about them..."

You genuinely hadn't been, though not for the reasons the girl was thinking. Yeah, her boobs were huge, but that was by normal standards, and this world was anything but normal. Boobs that were normal-huge just couldn't compare in size compared to someone like Izumi or Souko.

"But... why was my esper ability telling me that everything would be okay now? No, not just okay... as soon as I met that boy, it was whispering to me that my breasts wouldn't be a problem for me anymore..."

Wait, what? Her esper? This... this was the first time since coming to this new world that you'd actually encountered someone else using their esper. You'd seen people using their espers on TV, and you'd seen out of the cooking club's window students in the athletic clubs doing feats that would've required CGI to pull off in your old world... but this was your first personal encounter with someone else's esper.

But what was this girl's ability? It was 'telling' her something, which sounded more like a pyschic/mind type ability than something physical.

But even more interesting to you was what specifically the girl was saying. You got the gist of it; she'd moved to your town because her family had probably wanted her to go to Pandora now that she had an awoken esper... or just as likely, she'd been unable to put up with the comments and harassment from the guys at her old school, and she'd transferred here, with her state as an Esper being coincidental. Most espers in the country went to Pandora, but not all.

More importantly... there was apparently a direct connection between you and her problem with her breasts going away. What the hell did that mean? That was a subject you wanted to learn more about.

You were at a metaphorical fork in the road now. You had about 5 minutes left before you zapped back to normal size, and you probably wanted to be downstairs when that happened. Plus, you probably didn't have more than another couple of minutes before the girl left her room anyway.

If this had been the Harem Protagonist Game, you were dead certain it would've been offering you a choice now; either crawl under her bedroom door to hear better, or retreat back downstairs.

Of the two, one allowed for decidedly more erotic potential, but at the same time you'd be in hot water if you turned back to normal in the girl's room. Torpedoing your attempt to befriend her wouldn't be a fun way to end the day.

So what did you do? Did you sate your curiosity, and try to learn what the connection between you and the resolution of this girl's boob-related problems was?

Or did you head back downstairs and wait patiently for her to come back down?

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Level: 13
Mind 6/7
Esper Level: DD