A girl's wailing cry suddenly rang out...
There was no explaining it to Haruhi... no explaining it!!!
Fine. In Suzumiya Haruhi's current perception, he—formerly Kyon, now Kyonko—was an utterly adorable ponytailed girl, while Itsuki Koizumi, formerly a boy, was now a girl with fox-like eyes and a fox-like smile!
Other than the SOS Brigade's Haruhi, none of the Team Members—or anyone else in this world—felt that anything was wrong.
This was practically a nightmare he could never wake up from. "August" had been manageable; once they understood Haruhi's regrets, it would have been fine. But how was this supposed to be solved now?
Make Haruhi believe he was a man?
There was no way that would work no matter how he looked at it. And if he went straight to Haruhi to discuss it, not only would it fail to produce the desired result, it would backfire!
What was he supposed to do?!
Find Jiu Ming!!
Two days had already passed. No matter how long he had stayed outside, he should have returned by now!
Since he had run into this self-sabotaging pitfall—and, in a sense, it had been caused by that guy—there was absolutely no way he could be allowed to get off scot-free!
Looking into the mirror provided by Koizumi, Kyonko sighed inwardly. He had to admit that his former self had been an utterly ordinary male high school student, while his current self... Hey! What was he thinking? This was absolutely nothing to be proud of!!
Kyonko roared madly inside. The schedule for finding Jiu Ming absolutely could not be delayed!
If they were going to die, they would die together!!
"Yo-ho, little shopkeeper, how could you leave without saying goodbye?" Yakumo Yukari smiled at Jiu Ming. Seeing that he showed no response for a long while,