The sky was overcast. The red glow of the setting sun shrouded the earth, dyeing everything blood-red. Beneath that crimson veil, the softly falling snow looked like scattered fallen blossoms.
Akemi Miyano drove the red Ford Mustang along the warm crimson road, taking Fujino, the Shimo-Kasa Sisters, and Ai Haibara home before nightfall.
After returning home, Fujino went back to his open-plan room, sat on the sofa, and tuned into a music program playing Yoko Okino's MV.
He was not entirely sure what kind of commotion choosing animal mimicry would cause.
What if he suddenly let out a bear's roar? He needed an excuse ready.
Once he had prepared himself, he opened the system interface and selected a panda as his target.
Are you sure you want to select a panda as your mimicry target? Confirmed. Mimicry has begun. Current mimicked animal: Panda | Iron-Eating Beast
The system's prompt appeared on the interface, its voice sounding beside his ear.
Fujino felt an itch in his ears and nose, while a sudden wave of heat surged through his entire body.
It felt a little like he was in heat.
Or perhaps like he had taken some kind of yin-yang aphrodisiac.
Yet there was no particularly unusual sensation.
Fujino took a deep breath and suppressed the heat coursing through him.
He began carefully sensing the changes in his body.
Amid the heat, he could clearly feel the muscles all over his body rapidly growing in a distorted manner.
The muscles beneath his skin twitched, but soon returned to normal.
In the end, they wrapped around his original muscles while maintaining their original size.
His skin was also proliferating in a strange way, but eventually returned to normal just like his muscles.
The scents in the surrounding air gradually intensified, allowing