"After all, A-Liu has two outfits to try on, so let's split into two groups for comparison!"
Metal stroked her chin as she looked over the four pairings, offering no comment on the aesthetic tastes of the three, but simply grouping the four outfits into pairs, shoving one set into the hands of Achernar and Liuzi, and pushing them into the fitting room.
"You two go change first, SpiCa can stay here and chat with me for a bit."
Metal even grabbed SpiCa's wrist as she spoke.
The narrow clothing store only had three fitting rooms, two of which were "coincidentally" occupied by other couples, leaving Liuzi and Achernar with no choice but to squeeze into one together.
They could have taken turns changing, but since Metal pushed them in at the same time, neither of them felt bold enough to come out first.
"Th-this fitting room is a bit small."
Liuzi spoke as if searching for a topic to ease the awkwardness, and Achernar chimed in:
"The whole shop is cramped, real estate in Zodiacal is quite precious after all."
And with that, the conversation died a quiet death, neither of them having anything more to say.
Clearly, they had bared it all to each other in the bathhouse just moments ago, yet this cramped fitting room space made them inexplicably shy once again. The brush of their skin against each other while undressing caused them to spring apart like a pair of electrocuted, timid young lovers...
Fitting rooms truly were magical spaces.
With the two of them nearly stripped down, it wasn't fitting for me to continue peeping, so I turned my gaze toward SpiCa.
"SpiCa, what do you think is going through A-Liu's mind? Bringing a Shark Princess sister along on a date with you? Could she