*This is a little different from what I normally do. This is technically a 'flashback' chapter, in that it's events have already been referenced in the main Esper storyline. This just explains how Shujin met Izumi and Souko in this storyline.*


The day started out normally enough. You were walking back to school, wondering over who you were going to meet today. You were looking forward to spending the day with Ruu and Satomi; honestly Pandora's approach to education was way more your style than traditional school. After morning homeroom, which was shared between students of the same age, everyone split into their clubs.

Plus, since you were going all in on the cooking thing, that meant that since you were effectively 'learning a trade' already, per the school's rules you only needed to graduate after completing the basics of math, science, and writing.

(((You're in a good mood, huh, Shujin?)))

'Who wouldn't be? I barely have to try to get through school, which means that I can spend way more time doing what I want to do- flirting with the babes of Harem Protagonist- and all the ones who weren't part of the game, like Haruko! Being able to cook really well is a skill I can make money off of once I'm good enough, so that's a plus too.'

(((True enough, you can certainly say that the way to a woman's heart is through her stomach- if you're good enough at cooking, that is.)))

You continued conversing with the Narrator as you walked down the road, taking a turn into the park between your apartment building and Pandora's massive campus. Ruu would likely show up to school after you, while Satomi, who lived in one of the dorms, was certainly already there.

As you walked through the park, you saw a girl...

Wait.

You remembered this setup.

Was this where you finally got to see Izumi in the flesh? It had been barely more than a day since you'd entered this world, but it felt like years had gone by while you were waiting for this legendary scene to play out in 3-D!

Sure enough, you could see a girl at the other end of the park, walking in the direction of your school.

She was wearing your uniform, making it look like her enormous chest- enormous even at this distance- look as if she was carrying something huge and heavy, like a set of white puffed-up pillows in front of her!

It had to be Izumi; nobody else was built like that!

Or at least, that's what you would've thought until yesterday; where you'd met the super-stacked beauties like Haruko, Aki, Mio, and more!

But still... Izumi was special. Her whole deal, other than being the tsundere of the game, was that she was 'the busty one.' Which meant, logically, that she might still have the biggest bust around, even compared to somebody like Mio, who in terms of sheer centimeters was packing the biggest bust you'd ever seen!

You jogged closer to the girl. She didn't hear you approach, probably being lost in thought or something. As you drew closer... you realized that something wasn't right with this picture.

'Is... Is that really Izumi? I mean... her boobs are HUGE, but... the hair isn't right! And I always thought Izumi was taller than this!' You thought as you neared. Sure enough, while the girl was sporting a whopping rack- a pair of zeppelins big enough that the girl's buxom bulk was visible even from behind...

You'd always had the mental image of Izumi being taller than Shujin by at least a couple of inches. This girl, and you had serious doubts that it was Izumi, as you got close enough to make out her hair color and style, was her.

For starters, the girl wasn't tall. She wasn't exactly short, being maybe an inch shorter than your own unimpressive height of 5'6in / 168cm. And her hair...

Yeah, there was no way this mystery girl was Izumi. Izumi had short, dark blue hair and a red ribbon. There was no ribbon of any color in this girl's hair, which was long, flowing down practically all the way to her hips, and it wasn't any shade of blue, but a shade of black so lustrous it was, in true anime-style, tinted purple.

And while this girl definitely wasn't Izumi, fate had determined that you were apparently going to act out Izumi's introductory scene in the game all the same, because at that moment your foot snagged on something- a root breaking through the path, a loose stone, anything- and down you went with a gasp!

Just like Izumi had done so in the game, this girl turned in alarm at the noise of your gasp, her eyes widening as you fell right on top of her!

*BA-BOING*

"Eep!"

"Mmph?!"

You had just enough time to see the beige fabric of the girl's puffed-out sweater vest rushing up to meet you, before with a soft fabric-on-flesh squishing sound, you found yourself buried up to your ears in the girl's enormous chest!

Your momentum carried both of you to the ground, the girl landing with a thump on her backside, while you landed with a considerably more muffled *whump,* feeling the girl's huge breasts jiggling around your face from the impact!

'...Makes for a better landing than crashing face-first into the ground,' You idly thought to yourself, momentarily enjoying the sensation of so much soft warmth surrounding your face.

This girl might not have been Izumi, but you were starting to think that Izumi might actually lose out in the bust department to this girl. Talk about a set of pillows! These things could put you to sleep!

Of course, it wasn't like you were planning on staying lodged in the girl's vast bosom for long. Ecchi logic or not, you didn't want your first impression with the busty mystery girl to play out like a scene from one of those dumb romcoms where the girl smacked the guy around, and-

"What the hell do you think you're doing, you PERVERT?!"

You didn't have time to enjoy it for long anyway.

You were yanked from the pillowy depths you'd been lying with your head between quite abruptly by someone strong and very angry, being spun around to come face to face with...

Another pair of humongous boobs. Wow, either you were really lucky, or you'd just used up all of your luck for the day in one five-minute period. Because God Damn you'd gone and met not one girl, but two girls with tits so big you could compare them to friggin' volley balls!

You couldn't see the new girl's face from your position, and to be honest your eyes were more drawn to the way her blouse strained ominously with each deep, angry breath she took in- Hell, you could freakin' see the buttons on her tight shirt pulling apart slightly every time she breathed! Each breath brought a little teeny tiny glimpse of pale flesh and light blue fabric as the second huge-breasted girl inhaled and exhaled, preparing to knock some justice into you.

Oh right.

That.

Uh... shit.

"Any last words before I knock you into next week, perv?"

"The girl, who clearly hadn't realized she'd given you an eyeful of her own humongous melons, yanked you fully upright, allowing you to see her clearly...

This was Izumi. The hair, the eyes, the boobs! This was your number one favorite heroine from Harem Protagonist!

"Staying silent's not going to make me go easy on you, you know. You're just digging your own grave!"

Ah hell. You'd gotten tongue-tied and now Izumi was even closer to beating the stuffing out of you. This was a side of her you'd only seen the games hint at- her righteously angry side! You didn't need to be a genius to understand her thought process- from her perspective, it would've more or less looked like you'd run up behind the other girl and dived face-first into her chest!

...It was kind of neat to see Izumi's introductory scene get flipped like this, where she was playing 'defender' for another equally busty girl, but on the other hand... Angry Izumi could be defused so long as you chose the right words. Pissed off Izumi was less likely to listen to reason. Were you screwed right now?

"Please don't hit him. I know he ran into me on accident." The voice was soft and quiet, but still carried easily between you and Izumi. The two of you looked at the other girl, who... wow...

Her long hair, a classic 'hime cut' framed a pretty face that was a mixture of 'hot' and 'cute' (unlike Izumi, who had more of a 'fiery beauty' image going for her.) She had a rather unreadable look on her face, but her pink cheeks proved that she'd noticed your presence in her bosom just as much as you'd enjoyed it.

"What? But he just ran right into you!"

"He didn't mean to, I saw the look on his face. It was an accident, I'm sure of that."

'Mystery girl, I don't know your name, but I'll buy- or make you lunch for the rest of the week for saving me from Izumi's wrath,' You thought, thinking of a fitting reward for the girl.

"But-" Izumi wasn't quite ready to give up her pursuit of Shujin-targeted violence just yet. Fortunately for you...

"I am quite alright, and as you were not the person he ran into nor was it your chest he was buried between, I'll thank you not to beat anyone up for my sake, especially when I don't want you to," The girl's expression remained strangely neutral, but you swore you could see the barest hint of a frown on her placid features.

"H-hey! I'm just trying to help you! And you shouldn't be talking about stuff like your chest so openly, least of all in front of a guy you don't know!"

"My chest? Yes, this boy here did just fall right into my chest. Like a car's airbag, one might say, given by how my breasts spared him from greater harm when we fell to the ground. Curiously enough, 'airbag' has been used on rare occasions as a euphemism for a girl's breasts amongst English-speaking people, though the cruder connotation would 'funbags.'"

...What?

No, seriously, what the hell? Why were you suddenly getting an impromptu lesson on 'boob euphemisms?'

A quick glance to your side showed you that Izumi looked similarly stumped, the anger having been drained out of her to be replaced with confusion and bewilderment.

All you could think was that whoever this new girl was...

She was one kooky character!

Not that her being a little wacky was a bad thing though, not at all!