"Nothing..."
"We found absolutely nothing...What a pathetic excuse of a library."
"That's a bit harsh, Chi."
Futako and Chiisana dropped their shoulders as they came back to Futako's house after a full day of investigation. They hung out not really as they had originally planned today, most of the time had been spent browsing through the thousands of books at the city's biggest library in the hope of finding clues about what happened to Futako.
But, to their demise, nothing relevant came out of it. On top of that, something even worse had happened.
Chiisana held her forehead with a hand on her hip. "I can't believe in the end we were kicked out because they thought we were searching for porn."
"I mean you did search some outrageous things."
"It's not my fault, OK?! You wanted to start with the books they had, so I let you go through them. Meanwhile, after hours of finding nothing on my side, I got frustrated, OK? Sure, with a clearer mind I would not have typed stuff like 'Japanese teen girl with a dick' or even 'real-life futanari'. I agree this part was stupid of me."
"Yes, right...That 'futanari' seemed close though and you seem to know about it. What is it?"
Chiisana's face reddened, and her mouth fumbled. "T-T-That's...not true? Anyway, I'm spent. Let me rest at your place before going back home."
Futako beamed with a smile despite having her question avoided. "Sure, I got you some ice cream in the fridge."
"Ice cream at this hour? Oh, well."
The both of them were relaxing on the sofa of the living room eating cookie dough ice cream in individual small pots. Chiisana in particular seemed the most tired. She was not really athletic, more the indoor type of girl than anything.
She mostly only enjoyed going out when it was with Futako. Though it had been the case today, she could not help being tired because of the circumstances. Her body sank into the sofa and her head jutted back. Her expression became more relaxed with her eyes closed.
"..." On the other end, Futako was not as exhausted. Rather, part of her mind had been focused on something else other than finding out what happened to her body. She did not know if it was because of her new member and some sort of hormonal reaction, but she felt her eyes had been glued on Chiisana even more than before. It was akin to a thirsty wanderer in front of a glass of water.
She had done her best to calm down throughout the day to prevent another disaster like this morning. It was starting to be hard to not look at Chiisana with lewd eyes, though. Especially when the girl was just wearing a strap top with a pair of tight-fit hotpants. The small gap between the skin and the clothing lace-like straps exuded a certain charm that drew the gaze,
This was probably one of the most revealing casual tops she had worn outside and certainly, one that did marvel to stimulate Futako's brain. She even wondered if Chiisana had worn it just for her, but she scraped this idea as just some fantasy on her part.
Chiisana slightly opened her eyes and made eye contact with Futako. A fake oblivious expression was plastered on her face as she questioned her. "What?"
She really seemed to enjoy teasing Futako today.
"N-Nothing, I was just thinking it's a shame we found nothing even though you were there to help me...I'm sorry...for all kinds of reasons." The end of her sentence trailed in a whisper, but Chiisana was still able to hear it.
"..."
"..."
Silence fell down around the two girls. It was maybe a mix of the exhaustion after being out the whole day and the situations they had been in, but a strange, fleeting mood seemed to have settled between Futako and Chiisana.
In the end, it was Chiisana that broke the stalemate.
"Hey, Futako. About this morning..."
"...Yeah?"
"...You said you liked girls. Is this why you are sometimes looking at me with lustful eyes?" She went straight to the point.