Chapter 7: “Girl, become a slave~!”

[Suddenly, you can distinguish between kun’yomi and on’yomi readings of difficult kanji…………!]

Jinzuko reacted as if she had witnessed Moses parting the Red Sea. Or perhaps someone who was paralyzed from the waist down suddenly standing up. You can often see that kind of thing near Seoul Station in Korea, though.

[How did you do that?! You were just speaking baby-talk Japanese a moment ago! Huh? Ah, could it be that you were deliberately playing a trick on me all this time………….]

“Stop joking around, and what’s baby-talk Japanese?”

[It’s because you speak Japanese like a baby babbling, so it’s baby-talk Japanese! Huh? Baby-talk Japanese, baby-talkese…………… Yes! Baby-talkese! This is better!]

I don’t know why she’s so happy that I can speak Japanese properly.

[Pfft………… baby-talkese, just like that. Hehe.]

Now she’s laughing alone, excitedly waving her hands.

[Ah, right! So how did you do it? And what did you mean by calling me a miko earlier? Huh? Ahjussi.]

Then, she suddenly remembers what she had forgotten and urges me to answer.

ᅳTwinkle☆★

I wonder if those eyes sparkling uselessly like stars is the power of a miko, or if it’s just a ghost effect.

Anyway, it’s hard to keep up with her tension.

I forgot that she’s an active middle school student who just eats and chats.

Well………… after school, her older brother, and the language center bug, a lot of things have been normalized today, so she must finally be relieved.

“Yeah, yeah. The tongue disorder treatment, right?”

Of course, it wasn’t a bad thing, so I smiled along with her.

Even I had that much social skills.

However, because the person inside was a man, I couldn’t smile brightly like a real active middle school girl.

“Hmm~ really? Our Jinzuko-chan seems confident that she can understand my explanation, huh?”

Instead, because of my physics major, a bit of arrogance was added, making me sound a bit like a mesugaki.

[Yes! Of course! Huh? But for a moment, ahjussi, it seemed like your tongue disorder relapsed at the end………….]

“It’s just your imagination. Don’t worry about it.”

[Ah, yes.]

“Anyway, it’s going to be a bit of a difficult explanation, are you okay with that?”

[Of course! I don’t know why, but since this happened, I feel like I’ve become a little smarter! I feel like my brain is spinning a lot faster too……………! That’s why I can do things like this now!]

Jinzuko said proudly, and showed off the first skill of a middle school ghost, psychokinesis.

……….Wow, a skill! And telekinesis at that!

[Look, ahjussi! My hair! Now I can even make it float!]

As a physicist, it was beyond unbelievable, it was a sight I could never accept. How much that unbelievable movement was physically impossible.

But surprisingly, I wasn’t that surprised.

Now that I’ve become TS, I’ve abandoned unprofitable physics……………! That wasn’t it at all.

“Well, thanks to that, I got showered with yellow water from my body.”

[Don’t worry! If I keep practicing like this, maybe I’ll be able to do it soon! Re-possession!]

Actually, that was just Jinzuko’s ghost effect.

It’s similar to when she made her eyes sparkle like stars earlier.

Ghosts usually change their appearance like this and that, right?

She was the one who gave it a name that was far from what an active middle school student would name it, like the first skill,

so now it was just an illusion created by Jinzuko that only I could see,

and it couldn’t interfere with real objects or people at all.

“…………It tickles, so just give up for today.”

Except for me.

-Wiggle wiggle! Squirm squirm!

Jinzuko moved her fingers separately towards me.

Like the hand movements of a perverted old man.

[Hehehe…………… ahjussi! Come here!]

But these things look uselessly cute when a Japanese middle school girl does them.

No, Shizuko, aren’t I too pretty?

Doesn’t that mean that if I imitate it now, I’ll look like that too?

“First, calm down and sit down, so I can explain.”

[Ah, yes!]

“The reason why my tongue disorder was briefly fixed, and the reason why you mistakenly think you’ve become a little smarter yourself, seem to be roughly similar.”

[Huh? ‘Briefly’? Was the fact that you no longer speak baby-talkese temporary? Oh, what do I do?! Then I’ll go back to being my original, not-so-smart self…………!]

So it’s a misunderstanding, that.

It’s just, mixing.

To be precise, it’s being encroached upon.

By my ego.

“First, listen. First of all, I’ve only observed and experimented directly for a day today, so it’s all just a thought experiment based on that, so it’s only speculation for now.”

[Yes.]

“Still, I think I’ve found a few candidate theories that could be the basis. Hmm, first of all, what you need to know is…………….”

[Question!]

Ji, Jinzuko raised her hand like a real student.

Like an elementary school student, not a middle school student.

“Yes, what part of the explanation that wasn’t even an explanation was curious to you, our Shizuko-chan.”

I decided to play along, like playing with my cousin’s younger sister.

[Yes! What is a thought experiment!]

……………Ah, that?

[You said you did an experiment like thinking( shikou)……? right?]

“Yes, that’s right. You listened very well.”

Where’s the good job stamp?

I need to stamp one on each of her proud cheeks right now.

[Then wouldn’t doing an experiment according to one’s taste( shikou) be against the spirit of a scientist who should be fair?!]

“……”

Uh, um.

Unfortunately.

Because I suppressed my tongue disorder, it seems that the original owner of this body’s Japanese stats have dropped a lot.

No, no matter how much the two have the same pronunciation in Japanese.

Still, shouldn’t everyone have heard of the term ‘thought experiment’ in middle school science?

[Hehe……… how about it? Ahjussi. Even though I look like this, I’m a model student with above average grades~]

“…….”

And yet she’s called a model student? And above average? Wow.

This is why scientists and experts around the world are talking about Japan sinking………………

But does Jinzuko even know that her stupidity is causing her country (not the person’s name) to sink in real time?

[Hehe, yes~? How about it, how about it? Do you see me differently now? Huh? If you have anything to say to me, you can say it~]

Instead, she’s puffing up her shoulders, asking for praise.

Don’t peek with a squint, asking when I’ll praise you.

I won’t pat you on the head even if you stick your head out, pretending not to, while wriggling.

Because of the bathroom trouble earlier, you’re also reflected, and it smells a little……….

ᅳVibrate!

Huh. It’s no use.

Even if you try to interfere with my body like that, I won’t pat you on the head.

It’s just ticklish like before—

[Huh? It worked.]

“ᅳUgh?!”

ᅳIt was supposed to be, but it wasn’t.

“……Kyaaak! My, my stomach…………!”

For reference, the place where Jinzuko tickled me with her self-proclaimed first skill of a middle school ghost was my stomach.

“Inside my stomach! There’z a strange feeling……………!”

At first, it was just ticklish, the interference of the ghost who was the original owner of this body.

But when it was successful, it felt like my stomach wasn’t mine.

I couldn’t move the middle school girl’s belly fat as I pleased, but the feeling of it being moved by someone else’s will, not mine, was too vivid.

If I tried to resist the interference, it just hurt like hell.

This is why they say that too many cooks spoil the broth.

I feel like my mind is going to a mountain.

[Hehe, how about it! This is the price for always teasing me and ignoring me because I’m a middle school student!]

I don’t know where she got the inspiration from, since I haven’t explained it yet and no one but me knows the principle.

Or maybe it’s because she’s from a family that has inherited the blood of a miko, and she’s unconsciously wielding that power.

Ah, come to think of it, she was the one who brought my mind here and forcibly made me TS into a Japanese middle school girl.

[A bad adult like that, a middle school girl will punish you directly!]

As if Jinzuko had finally caught a chance to pay back what she had suffered from me,

and as if she couldn’t miss that golden opportunity,

she started to think hard.

What?

[Hmm~ how can I punish ahjussi well and get praised………….]

Punishment.

“Fi, First take it out! Take it out first and di, discuss it…………! I, I’ll praise you………… I’ll pat you on the head, I’ll praise you mindlessly……………!”

For reference, I was trying to say discussion, not coitus.

“Huh?! Th, There was a strange feeling just now…………! I’m touching a place I shouldn’t be touching! The inside between my lower abdomen and navel…………!”

[Huh? Between the lower abdomen and navel? The inside? Hmm? Ah~ Aha……….]

“……,?”

For some reason, Jinzuko suddenly looked at me with pity.

As if recalling something and sympathizing with it.

[I see. That’s it. That thing that hurts every month.]

[Come to think of it, ahjussi doesn’t know, right? You wouldn’t know, right? You can’t know, right? Because you didn’t have it.]

[Then, now… you need to know?]

……………I see.

I understand now.

The reason why Jinzuko was practicing the power of a ghost to repossess my body, and giving it an exaggerated name like the first skill.

Maybe, it was a reference.

Or maybe it was foreshadowing.

Because “skill” is—

[Since it’s about time…………… yes, about a week later. How about it? I’ll help you, so why don’t you preview it in advance?]

It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to call it “magic”.

“Paam! Papapapapapapa! Pam! Paam! Papapapapapapa! Pam!”

And that realization gave me strength.

“On the old site of Baekje, Gye-baek’s spirit is clear and Gwan-chang’s young soul is in the underworld! On the majestic Hwangsanbeol, Yeonmudae stands tall! The strong men of Korea gather here, oh~! The pride of young people, the Army Training Center! Verse 2 omitted, Geung-geun, give me strength!!”

So I could shout the counter of magic.

Then I felt something between my lower abdomen and navel disappear.

Instead, it was filled with a strong spirit, and I could move soon with the yang energy that rose deeply from my danjeon.

Whoa!”

I flew like a butterfly and approached like a stinging bee in an instant,

ᅳGrab!

I caught it.

[Haa~ ahjussi, haven’t you realized it yet? The era where you can mess with my body is over.]

One arm of that damn bathroom middle school girl.

“Ugh…………….”

Sigh,

[So from now on, I, the rightful owner of this body, will educate you to be a proper middle school girl according to my taste( shikou).]

[After this education, I’ll also properly educate you on the bathroom, hehe.]

Phew.”

I managed to grab one arm, but it was hard to move like a butterfly and a bee with a body that hadn’t eaten properly all day,

so I couldn’t do anything but watch as Jinzuko concentrated again and activated the first skill of a middle school ghost,

[I’m going to try that thought(shikou) experiment that ahjussi said he did too~♬]

But it was okay.

As long as I keep touching any part of that psycho middle school ghost’s body, whether it’s her arm or anywhere else,

[Uh, uh? Why suddenly…… ah, it was working fine earlier?!]

she won’t be able to interfere with me anymore.

“……Come to think of it, I haven’t explained it yet?”

Everyone probably forgot.

This is what we were talking about when I asked what the principle of self-healing my tongue disorder language center was.

“Jinzuko, you’re bugged right now.”

The reason why she suddenly begged to be praised and patted was the psychology of a poor man who just wanted to be mindlessly petted.

The reason why she suddenly laughed at the Korean expression ‘baby-talk Japanese’, shortening it to baby-talkese, and suddenly said come here, was because she was patched in Korean.

And the reason why she suddenly had a outburst and said she would punish me was because in order to survive as a man in the south of a certain western peninsula, I once immersed myself in the genre called freedom, saying that it would be good for both of us, and I got addicted to it.

[Urgh…………!!]

Jinzuko, looking very frustrated, with a somewhat familiar expression and pose,

[……………What have you done to me!!]

said a line of a third-rate villain that would only appear in a web novel or light novel.

“As expected…………….”

If it got worse when I grabbed her arm, it’s more certain with this.

Now that Japanese chuuni middle school girl, is being influenced by my past life in real time.

My past life? Possession? Anyway, at first, I had a hard time resisting because I was like that in many ways.

……………Especially when I experienced the telekinetic bathroom education earlier.

“But if you become like this just because your tension has risen a little, isn’t your mental strength too weak? Huh? Jinzuko.”

Or maybe it’s because I was too strong, a 27-year-old incel, and from a physics department where people with 200% full ego.

Well, it must be hard for a kid who hasn’t even experienced graduate school, and is basically an elementary school graduate, not even a middle school graduate, to overcome that dark emotion.

Maybe I should praise her for holding on until now.

Because,

【Ugh?! What are you talking about…………!】

Now she’s speaking Korean, not Japanese.

I wondered why only I was patched in Japanese and why she wasn’t.

Maybe it was completed half a day later, and when I grabbed her arm just now.

The Korean patch.

However,

similar to how I had a tongue disorder when I was TS reincarnated as Shizuko,

[Who do you think you are……………! Do you not know that this is the royal presence?! How dare you………!!】

just that her brain is bugged.

[In the first place, my name is Maria Theresia Astroreban! How dare you to the Grand Duchess of Astroreban……………! Will you not let go of this hand immediately?!】

It’s also very, very severe.

And the settings and lines seem to be mixed up………….

I should have stopped reading web novels while running automatic experiments.

Of all the many things, useful knowledge wasn’t patched, and a lot of useless memories were entered.

“Sigh…… really.”

Come to think of it, I should have noticed when she suddenly started saying baby-talk Japanese, baby-talkese, and all that.

I was too soft.

I didn’t want to do this, but well, since it’s come to this, I have no choice but to take special measures.

“It can’t be helped.”

So I muttered “Shoganai na~”, which was number 69 on my bucket list of things I wanted to say when I was in middle school, in Japanese,

“Jinzuko.”

【Huh?! Wh, What………… how lewd…………!】

while grabbing even Jinzuko’s last remaining arm,

“From now on, I’ll make you a no………… no.”

Bug removal and re-patch.

“I’ll make you a graduate student.”

I started debugging.

For reference, the patch name was as follows.

“Girl, become a s*ave~!”