Balance Policy: Chapter 10

BALANCE POLICY

CHAPTER 10 OF THE MANGA

On the way back from the river, Masamoi pilots the bicycle, and Kenji is well enough to stand on the back axel. When the two pass by a salaryman walking in the opposite direction, the man looks at Kenji with a leering gesture and a look of desire on his face. This unnerves Kenji. The man even turns to look back at Kenji, her skirt erotically fluttering in the wind. When the two arrive at home, Kenji dismouts from the bicycle. She then tells herself that ever since she was released from the hospital as a girl, many men have been giving her strange and troubling looks. Wanting to test Masamoi in this regard, Kenji grasps the hemline of her skirt and flips it up and down, as if the skirt was flapping in the wind, just to see the look and expression that would come upon his face. Will he react like that salaryman ? Without much ado, Masamoi gives Kenki a well deserved look of bothersome annoyance. He tells her to just stop already ! Kenji asks if he is going to ogle like other men and boys do ? Not today!

At that moment, Masamoi's older sister comes outside. She sees Kenji flapping her skirt, showing glimpses of her pineapple panties, and asks what is going on ? Kenji quickly lets go of her skirt, and becomes quite embarrassed, but says nothing. Nee-chan asks if they went to the river ? They did. Nee-chan then suggests that the two of them take a bath right now. Masamoi questions why Nee-chan has *two bath towels* ? Nee-chan nonchalantly states that the two of them would always bathe together in times past. Masamoi gives her a stern look of "Oh, really?"! Nee-chan immediately realizes her misconception, and chokes out an acknowledgement of the differences now. Kenji merely states that she will bathe when she gets home later. But the bath is all set up for two, states Nee-chan. Turning to Kenji, Nee-chan suggests that the two of them take baths together. After all, we are both girls. Kenki is quite surprised, but after thinking about it for a few moments, readly agrees.

Bathing with another girl turned out to be a whole new experience for Kenji. The intimate closeness was not even half the lesson. Nee-chan takes this opportunity to give Kenji her own special girl-with-girl advice. For instance, Nee-chan says that girls learn early on the grownup attribute of deception, including self-deception. They begin by telling their heart and spirit what they want to hear, so as to prove that their covert inclinations are true. They learn to ignore what the reality of the situation is, if it differs from what their own preconceived emotions and desires are. Other gems of Girl's Wisdom are reviewed. In a while, Nee-chan points out that Kenji needs to begin shaving her legs. Kenji, however, insists that they are fine. Fine for a boy who has hairy legs all the time. See, self-deception, croons Nee-chan, thinking that you are still a boy. She gently and patiently shows Kenji how to handle a razor to shave her legs.

Later, after the baths are all done, Nee-chan, in a shirt and shorts, offers to slice up a watermelon for the three of them. Kenji, wearing a plain, gray, short-hemline dress, goes into the room where Masamoi is doing the rest of his homework. Masamoi asks what happen with Nee-chan ? 'Nutten much. Masamoi remarks that Kenji was never very good at making up stuff, like right now. Kenji sarcastically asks why he thinks that she is not telling what really happened? Because we have been friends for so long, that he knows Kenji's emotional and spiritual makeup 'like the back of his hand', Kenji changing into a girl notwithstanding.

(End Chapter 10)

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