I have a lot of questions right now.

If I were to put it into words, it would be so ridiculous that I would want to laugh and say, “how is that possible?”
But that was why I had to be sure.

I commended Yuika to “turn right, right” and held her left ear in front of me.
I hear voices saying “no” and “not good”, but I ignored them for now, and just as I’m about to blow into Yuika’s ear…

“I can’t allow it, after all, I don’t know what would happen to me if I do.”

Yuika defended herself by pushing her left ear against her left shoulder.
Both of our hands are clenched in a lover’s grip. It was the only way to defend herself.

However. Even though it was to protect her left ear she turned her head to the left at an extreme angle.

“Too bad your right ear is wide open now, huh?”
“What!? No, sorry! This is an afterimage!”

Yuika turned to the other side with a shuffle and put her right ear close to her right shoulder. Of course, it was not an afterimage or anything.
And when she does, I tilt my head back and aim for her left ear, which is now open again.

“I got it! There’s an opening in your left ear!”
“What!? I-It’s an afterimage!”
“Naive! Now the right ear!”
“Afterimage of an afterimage!”

“Left ear, then right ear again!”
“An ordinary afterimage, disguised as an afterimage!”

“Then I think left ear!”
“I read that. True afterimage!”
“Then right, right, left, right!”
“Dang, not yet, not yet, true fate, normal fake!”

“Then, up, X, down, B, L, Y, R, A!”
“Not yet! Za-zazaza? Eh, what’s that!?”
“It’s a hidden command from the Super Famicom, Kakarot!”
[TLN: Super Famicom, a Nintendo controller.]

It was worth it, having played her father’s retro games as a child.
Yuika was so confused that I took advantage of the situation.
I instantly put my face to her empty left ear.
But she couldn’t tell if it was her left or right ear, and she was moving in both directions.
Because of that.

“Phew, you’re…!?”
“Eh?”

For a moment, my lips touched Yuika’s cheek.

Her slender shoulders twitched, and her grip tightened.

“S-Souta kissed me on the cheek…!”

Yuika’s cheeks turned a beautiful red color.
I also felt my face getting hot all at once. But I couldn’t let her see my face like this. So…

“An afterimage!”

To deceive her, I pulled Yuika closer and blew into her left ear.
That was the moment.

“—Ah.”

Yuika’s body jumped up with a jolt.
Her grip slipped with the momentum, and she clung to me like a drowning child. At the same time, her soft body twitches uncontrollably in my arms.

Ah, oh no, I thought.
The reason part of my brain made a split-second decision, and I put my hand between her black hair. Pushing Yuika’s face against my shoulder.

“Bite!”

Yuika was obedient. Or maybe she wasn’t capable of making rational decisions anymore.
She did as she was told and bit my shoulder.

That’s how I managed to stifle the sweet voice she gushed out.

“—Yaughhhhhhhh!”

I shivered all over with a jittery jolt, and drops of sweat flew from my burning skin.
I feel a light, sweet pain in the shoulder through my shirt. It was mostly the feel of her soft lips, and just a little bit of teeth against mine.

It was not that I find the pain comfortable…this would be somewhat perverted, wouldn’t it? No, it was not. It shouldn’t be at all, yeah.
Though, I screamed in my brain.

Saaaaffffeeee—!

It was safe.
Because Iori was screaming in the next room over.

“‘What was that pinkish voice? Was that Onee-chan!? …No, no, there’s no way Souta, the brother I look up to, would go that far next to her little brother. It sounded like a high-pitched, feline voice, and now it was…yes, my powers are awakening! Stand? Quirk? Or materialization? Anyway, I’m sure it was some kind of ability that summoned the owner of the current voice! Yay, Kisaragi Iori, age 14, has awakened! I’m so happy!’”
[TLN: Stand from Jojo, Quirk form My Hero Academia, I don’t know hunter x hunter things so 具現化系 was what it was called, if anyone know comment below.]

From the looks of it, neither Iori nor the neighbors found out.
So it was safe. Very safe. Very, very safe. Please let that be the case.

Yuika loosen in my arms.
She had no strength at all. If I don’t support her, she was going to slip and fall to the floor.

The confirmation is over.

I murmured, somewhat stunned.

“Yuika, you, really were a person with very sensitive ears…”
“I don’t nynaw…”

She replied, huffing in my shirt.

“I don’t know what’s going on nyanymore…”
“I know, right—”

Anyway, kitten-san, my uniform is not food.
This was the reason why Yuika’s behavior was so strange.

…Yeah, it was that thing, the ear cleaning. Yesterday’s ear cleaning did uh, that, and it turned her on like a couple who crossed the line.
So the bad guy was…me. 10 to 0, I’m the guilty one.

This confirmed the cause and who the war criminal is.
The rest…

“Fuhmm, Souta is delicious nya…”
“‘Now, answer my summons! Thy name is Cat Sl*ve Gabriella!’”

…What should I do about this situation?