Outbreak Company: Volume 11 by Ichiro Sakaki

Author:Ichiro Sakaki [Sakaki, Ichiro]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Published: 2019-10-20T16:00:00+00:00

While Myusel and Clara were making dinner, the rest of us gathered in the living room. Two Elvias stood in front of me and Minori-san where we sat on the sofa.

Obviously there weren’t actually two of her; one of them was Amatena, dressed up to look like Elvia. I knew that perfectly well, but I couldn’t resist the impression that I was seeing double. We had hidden the most obvious differences between the two of them. In other words...

“Well, there you have it,” Hikaru-san said proudly as he took them in. In his hand he was holding... hair spray.

That’s right: Hikaru-san had used hair spray to turn Amatena’s silvery-white fur, ears, and tail a brown color like Elvia’s.

“What’s this?” Amatena murmured, gazing at her newly brown tail. We hadn’t really told her the specifics; we’d just gone to work on her fur with an unfamiliar tool. Even the normally unflappable Amatena was understandably surprised.

“It’s something from our country that lets you change the color of hair,” I said with a smile. “I don’t think you can stay here forever, but you’ll have to hide out for a bit while we figure out if you keep running or what. The easiest thing to do was to make you look like Elvia.”

Hikaru-san added, “About this hair spray—if you shampoo yourself in the bath, it’ll come out, but it shouldn’t run if you just sweat or get a little damp. We’ll have to redo it each time you bathe, and it won’t be great for your hair, but it’s better than a total dye job.”

“You wouldn’t want to use too strong a coloring on her tail or anything,” Minori-san said.

“At least it’s better than paint.”

“Sorry about that...” Elvia said, deflated.

While she had been hiding Amatena from us, Elvia had been using paint to cover her sister’s fur. But her paints were water-soluble, so a bath—or even a good sweat—would take them right off. The sweat droplets might even wind up colored. Like Hikaru-san said, this colored hair spray was by far the better option.

Elvia looked over at her sister, amazed. She reminded me of the doll we’d had made of Petralka, so much that I almost wanted to ask them to pantomime each other. As we sat there staring at them, though, Amatena narrowed her eyes at me. “What?”

“I was just impressed. You two look like twins.”

“You think...?”

“He’s right,” Elvia said with a nod. She’d been living with us, which was to say with Japanese culture, for a while, so she was slightly less shocked than Amatena by what Japanese products could do.

“Want to see? I’ll bring you a mirror,” I offered.

“I have a better idea,” Hikaru-san said.

“Huh?”

He pulled out his phone, aimed it at Amatena, and waved with his free hand. “I’ll take a picture. Look this way! Elvia, line up next to her?”

“Sure thing!”

“Wh-What’s going on?” Amatena was distinctly unclear on what was happening.

Hikaru-san snapped away. Then he called up the picture he’d just taken and held it out for the girls to see.

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