I Was Genderswapped and Reincarnated as a Villainess, but I’m Making this My Personal Yuri Game

r>Mastering anything at all is an amazing thing.
Papa thinks that learning random things halfway isn’t good.”

“Father.”

Kuh! I didn’t think that this sly old man could ever say something that good.

But it was just like father said.
Even if the Hundred Earth style was considered improper by society and didn’t receive much reception, it’d be great if I could fully master it.
Wasn’t it good to work hard to change how the world valued it in the end? I wouldn’t be submissive.
I would stand tall.
I was Momochi Sadao’s disciple!

“Thanks to you, father, I can sleep soundly today!”

“Is that so? Thanks to Papa, right? Then, can you call me Papa?”

“I will now return to my room.
That was a delicious meal.
Thank you, ‘father’.”

“Aah… okay…”

There seemed to be a dejected sly old man, but I didn’t mind him.
I returned to my room with a skip in my step, ready to work hard and change the verdict on the Hundred Earth style.

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Recently, my everyday life has been fun.
I enjoyed talking to Azami-chan and Satsuki-chan in Touka Academy, and, no matter what I said, I didn’t hate master and the Hundred Earth style.
Well, I didn’t hate it in the beginning, but ever since recent matters, I’d steadily grown to like it more.

My master’s training was definitely hard, however… the joy of knowing things you didn’t know before, and doing things you couldn’t do before, was irreplaceable.
I still couldn’t get master to compliment me, though…

“Greetings, Satsuki-chan.”

“Sakuya-chan, greetings.”

I greeted Satsuki-chan and she responded with a greeting of her own.
But there wasn’t any energy in it for some reason.

“What’s wrong? Did something happen?”

“…huh?”

I asked her that, and she looked up, surprised.
I crouched down a little so my eyes were at the same level as Satsuki-chan, who was sitting at her desk.
When having a serious conversation with someone, you had to talk at the same eye level, making sure you made eye contact.

“Why…? No… it’s nothing.
Nothing at all, you know?”

Strange… something had definitely happened.
But maybe I shouldn’t press her if she didn’t want to say so.
Of course, pointlessly pressing her would give us more time to connect than if I left her alone.
But there were also times when it’d be better to leave someone alone instead of forcing them to say something they themselves didn’t want to.

You wouldn’t know what the right answer was unless you asked… that was also the problem of mutual relationships.

Maybe Satsuki-chan didn’t want me to ask about overly complicated things because of our current relationship.
Maybe it was the type of thing she’d talk about with a close friend, but not something she’d say to someone she’d occasionally seen at school.

Thinking like that, I felt a little lonely, but… even so, my relationship with Satsuki-chan was like that.
We were just classmates who greeted each other and talked a little at school… maybe it wouldn’t be great to pointlessly invade into complicated circumstances…

“Oh… I understand…”

“Ah…”

Saying that, I stood up and thought I heard Satsuki-chan saying something.
She looked slightly apologetic.
But I should stop asking her more pointless questions.
It might seem heartless, but… I wanted to become closer to Satsuki-chan, but… so then, I…

“You said that it’s nothing, Satsuki-chan, so I won’t ask you any further… but, you know, I think of you as a friend.
I’d want to help if a friend of mine is troubled, so if you think you need help or want to talk to someone, I’ll respond to the best of my ability.
So… if you think of me as a friend too, then… please tell me anytime if something’s troubling you…  okay?”

“…”

Satsuki-chan didn’t say any more.
But it didn’t seem like she was rejecting me.
She wanted to say it, but she couldn’t.
She wanted to talk about it, but couldn’t do that.
Maybe she was having that conflict.

Of course, I didn’t know what Satsuki-chan was thinking, but… I didn’t think that I ruined her mood, or that she was rejecting my offer.
So, all I could do was wait for Satsuki-chan to talk to me afterwards.
Thinking that, I returned to my own seat.

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As expected, Satsuki-chan was acting very strange today.
Everyone else didn’t notice, or maybe didn’t care, or maybe noticed but left her alone, but anyway… no one asked her about it.

Satsuki-chan had some friends, more than I did.
For some reason, everyone just looked at me from afar, and I made no new friends.
Why? Maybe it really was the Lady Sakuya curse…

Well, enough about me.
More importantly, Satsuki-chan.
She had friends other than me, but none of them noticed her condition, or noticed but left her alone… what should I do? Everyone was worrying as well, so maybe I just shouldn’t stick my nose into it?

As I was thinking that, I was drinking tea at the Five Norths Association…

“Hey, you…”

“Huh? What’s wrong, Azami-chan?”

Something rare happened… yes, something really rare, wherein Azami-chan started a conversation with me.
She almost never did that.
When it did occasionally happen, it was only for perfunctory things.
When I started the conversation, she’d answer, but it was very rare she started it.

Especially in the Five Norths Association, where Satsuki-chan stayed with her clique and Azami-chan stayed with her own, so they had never talked to me or come over.
Even so, Azami-chan had come over now and called out to me.
It was an incredibly rare thing.

“Don’t casually call me Azami-chan! I’ve told you that countless times before!”

Wasn’t it alright… Azami-chan was Azami-chan after all…

“Then, Azami-chan, do you have any business with me?”

“I said don’t call me… agh! Whatever! You can call me that now! More importantly, what happened to that girl?”

I insistently called her Azami-chan, and she folded.
If she slowly got used to it like this, then maybe we’d become closer.
She seemed like the type of person you’d easily get closer to if you pushed her.
Satsuki-chan seemed friendly on the surface, but I could tell that she was a bit distant, or something like a step away.

“Who’s that girl?”

“I said, that girl! The one you always talk to! Haven’t you noticed that she’s acting weird?”

It looked like she was talking about Satsuki-chan.
I hadn’t really always talked to her, but okay.
It was more of a relationship where I could tell she was being slightly distant.

That was all well and good, but it looked like Azami-chan had also noticed something was up with Satsuki-chan.
She cared about her, too; so much to even come ask me about her, since she thought that Satsuki-chan and I were close…

“Fufu.”

“Hang on, something’s weird, you know? Your own friend’s acting strange, this isn’t the time to laugh.”

“That is true.
I am not laughing at Satsuki-chan.
I had thought that you were cute, coming to ask me about Satsuki-chan’s condition.
I was also happy that you care that much for her.”

“Wha-! I don’t really…”

Azami-chan was also very cute with her face bright red and making furious denials.