"Ichikawa-san," Nanami's mother said with a blank face. "It is time for you to leave."
"Hai!" As Momona hurries past Nanami's mother with a concerned expression, then stops to turn and bow. "And thank you for having me over!"
Momona hurries to the door and puts on her shoes and jacket.
"Ichikawa-san," Nanami's mother next said.
"Hai!" With a startled expression from not expecting her to be standing there.
"Wait for me outside down below at that park you can see from our door," Nanami's mother answered while still bearing that blank expression.
Momona opens the door and leaves, taking a moment to look over the balcony down below to see the place described as there is a picnic table. She turns away.
Then jumps with a frightened expression due to the enraged but muffled bellowing coming from within Nanami's place.
Momona hurries away.
Oh yes, Mrs. Amamiya is definitely from my world! She thought with an affirmed expression. Because I doubt any woman in this world would get that angry at their daughter for having casual sex! I know I would if I ever have a daughter and she were to go off and have casual sex with a total stranger! I wonder why her mother wants to talk to me? Could it be that she is willing to acknowledge what has happened to her?!
Momona reaches the spot and has a seat on the picnic table and thinks. I wonder how long Mrs. Amamiya is going to berate her daughter?
A couple of minutes later, Momona hears a door open from where she was standing and looks to see Nanami's mother emerge. Nanami's mother looks down at Momona and nods in affirmation, then walks in the direction Momona had taken.
Nanami's mother finally arrives as Momona stands. There is an awkward moment of silence between the two. Nanami's mother has a weary expression and next sighs.
"We have much to discuss, Ichikawa-san," Nanami's mother said. "So let us have a seat."
The both of them sit on the bench next to each other. For a moment Nanami's mother is silent with closed eyes, then looks upward ahead of herself with a solemn expression.
"You were right," Nanami's mother said while still staring upward.
"Y-You really are from my world," Momona said in a tone of finality while staring at Nanami's mother.
"Yes," Nanami's mother verified as she looks at Momona.
"Ah," Momona begins, "h-how long ago?"
"Twenty-three years."
Momona stares back at Nanami's mother with a bewildered expression.
"How did you do it?!" Momona asked with eagerness in her expression. "I mean, how did you manage to adapt to this world without losing your mind?!"
"Are you keeping your mind busy, Ichikawa-san? Such as throwing yourself into your schoolwork and taking up hobbies?"
"Yes!"
"Well now there's your answer. That's how I kept my mind stable and disciplined, so as to deal with this world . . . Unfortunately, it also meant having to hide the truth about myself . . . including from my own husband and daughter."
"How did you react back there when I first told you about my so-called illness, Mrs. Amamiya?"
"At first, I was skeptical. Then I knew it wasn't so. That and my daughter's presence prevented me from expressing joy."
Momona sighs with a weary look. "All those years . . . All those past years you kept that hidden from others until now. So how are you feeling right now?"
"A little better," Nanami's mother answered with a relieved look, then looks forward and upward once again. "I bet when you first discovered what happened to you, it felt like your whole world got turned upside-down, didn't it?"
"Yes it did!" Momona agreed.
"Suddenly having to put up with other girls behaving like boys and boys behaving like girls. Having to put up with taunts about your virginity, your hymen. Did you know," as she looks at Momona once again, "that having an intact hymen is considered to be a bad thing?"
"Yes," Momona admitted. "Because it could cause pain during the first time."
"I sometimes wonder what my other self is up to," Nanami's mother pondered as she once again looks forward and upward. "Given that my other self was suppose to be a pervert, she must have been having the time of her life when she first arrived on the other side . . . But now . . . Now I wonder if she is still living . . . She might have contracted AIDS and go on to infect a lot of men before dying."
"I know that feeling all too well," Momona said with a sullen expression as she also looks forward and upward.
"Now then, Ichikawa-san," as Nanami's mother gives Momona an eager expression, getting her attention. "Tell me about this Urisugi boy."
"His name was Urisugi Haruo and he was in my class . . ."
Momona tells all . . .
" . . . I figured a teenage boy from our world would treat this world as a place for easy sex," Nanami's mother said with a morose expression, which changes to an amazed one. "But it's amazing that someone not only from your school but also from your classroom got switched over after being intimate with your other self back in our world!"
"I know! What're the odds?!" Momona stated with an awed expression, then with a more subdued expression as she takes out her cellphone. "There is another like us. An American man named Dasutin U-iba. This is him."
Showing Nanami's mother the report about him.
"My isn't he a pretty one," Nanami's mother noted.
She reads the story about him . . .
"Well, well so he too got to enjoy himself," Nanami's mother sneered.
"He's here in Japan," Momona said. "He showed up at my house, looking for me."
"EH?!" As Nanami's mother stares at Momona with an astonished expression.
Momona also proceeds to tell Nanami's mother all about Dustin.
" . . . All over a dream he had of you that bought him thousands of kilometers over here," Nanami's mother mused.
"And I suppose getting switched to a parallel world doesn't sound crazy?" Momona answered with a lazy witty expression.
"Yeah, you're right. So this Dasutin. Wait! Is this the man-" As Nanami's mother makes a shocked expression.
"Yep, he's the one who had sex with your daughter. And right after that, he had sex with two more girls I know."
Nanami's mother lowers her head and snarls. "So just like this Urisugi-san, he's also taking advantage of this version of Earth! But unlike this Urisugi-san, he's giving it away and he's also a foreigner!"
"Does Dasutin-san being a foreigner really bother you?" Momona asked.
"Have you ever heard of the term, yellow fever?" Nanami's mother asked upon looking at Momona with an upset expression.
"That's a term to describe foreign men, especially White ones, who have a fetish for us East Asians." As Momona sneers.
"It's insulting is what it is!" As Nanami's mother scowls. "It implies that Western men only view us as sex objects! I'm sure you're aware of how back in our world, a fairly large number of Western men would come to Japan with the intention of seducing us Japanese females, or worse! As in the case of four American men back in 1998."
"Eh?" Momona pondered.
"It happened about a month before I got switched over to this world." As Nanami's mother has a distant expression. "I was in Osaka with my class on a field trip when a member of our group, a close friend of mine, went missing overnight . . . The next morning we were about to go in search of her before our teacher informed us that they were informed by the police that my friend was in the hospital." She next sneers. "Four men from the American Navy snatched her off the streets, snuck her into an abandoned warehouse next to their country's base, and raped her all night! Afterwards, they dumped her back out onto the streets naked!"
"Just like in this world!" Momona stated with a shocked expression and she tells Nanami's mother about the incident involving four American women with a teenage boy.
"What a scary coincidence!" Nanami's mother stated with a shocked expression. "I guess what they say is true about the Western women of this world!"
"That a lot of them are sexually aggressive? Yeah, I was told that too," Momona answered with a wry expression. "And I must admit that I find it strange because back in our world, Western women were not supposed to be into our menfolk. Supposedly, they didn't consider them manly enough."
"While over on this side, that's not an issue," Nanami's mother answered.
The two of them look forward and upward in a moment of silence.
"I've always wondered how a world like this could ever exist," Nanami's mother said. "How can there be an Earth where it is the women who are the sexual aggressors instead of the men?"
"You're not the only one, Mrs. Amamiya. But instead of this Earth existing and our Earth existing, why couldn't there have been only an Earth where the females behave like the females of our Earth and the males behave like the males of this Earth? Such an Earth would truly be a wonderful place because sex would not be much of an issue."
"Maybe there is," Nanami's mother suggested as she grins at Momona. "But then again that might also mean that there could be an Earth where the females act like the females of this Earth and the males act like the males of our Earth."
"Ugh!" Momona winced while looking at Nanami's mother. "Now that Earth sounds like a nightmare."
Nanami's mother smirks.
"If you don't mind me asking," Momona next said with a curious expression at Nanami's mother. "How did you meet your husband?"
"It was in college. We started off as friends and it grew from there. I felt relieved that he did not overwhelm me. That is one of the best things about this world: the men are not overwhelming like the ones back in our world."
"That sounds like something out of a romcom." Then notices Nanami's mother's puzzled expression. "You know, romantic comedy that is seen in anime, manga, visual novels. I have a friend who refers to those as, virgin delusion fodder."
"Is that so?" Nanami's mother smirked. "But it is due to that romcom that I now have Nanami. Speaking of which, she is technically a half: half of our world and half of this one. I don't know if you've notice this, but . . . Nanami is not as intense like the other females native to this world, and yet she seems more intense than either you or myself or any other female native to our world."
"Yeah, she does, does she," Momona noted. "And she had such purity." In a forlorn expression. "It approached the divine. Not even I was that pure back in our world and I'm still a virgin. I mean I was still a virgin right up until I got switched over to here."
"Yeah, I know," Nanami's mother said with a forlorn expression of her own. "And she threw it away when she met that Dasutin-san." Her expression turns grim. "If I ever meet that man, I'll be giving him a piece of my mind."
"I just happen to have his cellphone number," Momona said with a mischievous expression while holding up her cellphone. "You want me to give him a call?"
Nanami's mother stares back in silent contemplation.
"Yes, please do," she sneered.
With a smirk Momona does just that. Several seconds later and no answer.
"I wonder what he's-" Momona began, before there is finally an answer.
"Hello, Momona," Dustin was heard over her phone. "Sorry about that. What is it?"
"I just want to say that Amamiya Nanami's mother is one of us," Momona answered, "and has been so for the past twenty-three years."
"I knew it!" Dustin was heard.
"She's here with me right now," Momona said.
"Oh so does she-"
"We're gettin' laid!"
"We are!"
Two strangely familiar voices called out over her cellphone.
"Hey, don't!" Dustin was heard hissing elsewhere, only to hear giggling nearby.
Momona expression twists with fury, for it finally registers as to who those two girls were.
"I see I interrupted your playtime, so I'll let you get back to it!" Momona stated through gnashed teeth, then sneers. "Oh, but before I go I just want to let you know that Mrs. Amamiya here knows all about your involvement with her daughter. Here."
As she passes her cellphone to Nanami's mother, who takes it.
"You filthy scum!" She sneered in English.
She hands it back to Momona who checks to hear that he has hung up.
"He was with two more of my friends!" Momona snarled. "That makes five girls altogether!" Holding her splayed hand up.
"I doubt he's gonna be satisfied after this," Nanami's mother scowled.
"He's also staying in a hotel called, the Simple Stay," Momona leered.
"Is he now?" Nanami's mother also leered, then stands. "Thank you for that info, Ichikawa-san, and now I must be off," as she turns to casually bow before Momona. "I have a wayward daughter to punish."
"Don't let me keep you," Momona said as she stands and returns the bow.
They go on their separate ways and Momona's thoughts are of fury as her expression shows.
Those two idiots! They sure got over Urisugi quickly! And with Dasutin-san?! Oh, he has definitely gotten over his brush with the law back in his country!
Momona eventually arrives at her home and goes up into her room. She flops onto her bed, planting her face into her pillow.
Why the hell am I bothered by this?! It's not like Dasutin-san grabbed them off the street and raped them, nor even paid them for it. Back in my world, they would've easily said no to him and that would've been that. So why the hell am I so bothered by his screwing around?! It's not like we're a couple! In fact, I could never be with him because of how he's reacting to this world! Back in our world, he would've been considered a sexual predator taking advantage of vulnerable girls; in this world though he's just considered loose and easy and the girls are all taking advantage of him!
Momona rolls over onto her back while grimacing up at the ceiling.
Still, screwing around is not something any society actively encourages.