Chapter 4: How Are You So Sure I'm a Spirit?

She was a very pretty girl, but if he remembered correctly, the protagonist of this world was supposed to be an androgynous handsome boy with short blue hair and brown eyes. So who was this person standing before him?

"What's with this person?"

Sensing that something was off, Li Zihan began questioning the system, which could occasionally still be useful.

"Probably, maybe, perhaps Itsuka Shido."

The system once again let its host down with an utterly useless answer.

Could this be the original setting?

He vaguely remembered that Itsuka Shido's original concept had been a girl, which left him deeply conflicted. But in the content he had seen in his previous life, as well as the light novels he had read in the world of Re: Creators, the protagonist had always been male!

The boy's gaze upon the girl before him sharpened.

"Shiori, that's a Spirit! Not some ghost or monster!"

On the airship in the sky, the girl chewing on a lollipop held her forehead with one hand, embarrassed by her sister's blunder.

"I... I understand."

Though she was the older sister, Miss Shiori seemed completely cowed by her forceful younger sister. Rubbing the knee that hurt from her fall, she looked at someone whose gaze seemed rather hostile and suddenly wanted to go home.

"Miss, aren't you going to introduce yourself?"

Feeling that this world seemed to contain things beyond his understanding, the boy's lips curved into a faint smile.

Perhaps this trip would be even more interesting than he had imagined.

"H-hello... I'm Itsuka Shiori!"

With a professional team serving as her solid support, the girl looked at the boy with long hair dark as obsidian and golden eyes that easily brought gods to mind, then stammered out her introduction.

"Your expression is way too stiff, Shiori!"