Chapter 2: Conrad's a girl?

Wondering for the past ten minutes where Conrad disappeared to, Wolfram decided to check his brother's room. They were late for welcoming Yuri back from his home on Earth, and he knew full well Yuri would worry if Conrad was not there to greet him. Just as he was a bout to turn the doorknow he heard voices in the room, as well as grunts.

"Just how do you put on this infernal thing?" he heard a voice grunting from Conrad's room.

"Oh, Conrart," he heard Gisela say, trying not to laugh, "Here like this..."

Wolfram forced the door open, yelling, "CONRART!" to stop the behaviour when he saw a beautiful woman facing him.

Slightly smaller than he.

Her brown big as his own in surprise...

Trying to put on a bra.

And blushing furiously...

Chest almost bare... with big...

Shinou help me, Wolfram thought to himself. The woman screamed as did he.

"GET OUT!"

"WHERE'S MY BROTHER YOU....!"

"I'M CONRART YOU IDIOT!"

"Con...?"

"OUT!"

Wolfram closed the door quickly, shuddering. The last time Conrad was that angry... Shinou! How would Yuri react?!

"And stay there till I come out, please," the woman's voice called again, calmer.

Wolfram studied his new sister as she came out. She was slightly smaller than he was, with long brown hair braided. He confirmed her to be Conrad when he saw the partially hidden scar over her right eyebrow. He shuddered as Gisela gave him a look saying, "Ask her later." He shook at the thought of Yuri's reaction.

"Wolf," Conrad said, noticing his discomfort, "I'm not going to bite!"

"Your godson might," said Wolfram.

Conrad, or rather Conrada, took a moment to digest this and looked at her brother quizzically. Wolfram sighed, "He's coming today..."

Conrada leaned against the wall, head in hand, remembering the conversation she had with Gwendal and Anissina. It was luck that Gisela came by to find her in that state. An hour before the healer confirmed that she was a woman not only on the outside, but inside as well. As if the day had not gotten any worse, Wolfram just had to see her trying to put on a bra which was highly uncomfortable. How do women stand this... this... chest plate?!

Now Yuri's coming! This was not a good day...

"Think of the worse why don't I?" she said allowed.

"You had an idea this was going to happen?" asked Wolfram incredulously. Conrada looked at him, eyebrows raised. "Ah," said Wolfram, understanding the situation,"Worse case scenario."

"No use hiding," she said, "Remember when he found Anissina using Dorcascus and neither Gwen nor Gunter."

Wolfram shuddered. Shinou forbid that incident with Dai Shimarron would happen again.

"Your excellency," called a familiar voice. Conrada felt dread crawl up her spine. This was going to be a very long day...

"Yes Yosak?" said Wolfram.

"Have you seen the captain?"

Wolfram pointed his thumb to the brunette bombshell next to him. Blue eyes widened.

"Captain?"

Conrada sighed, "Yes I got turned into a girl, and it was a lab accident..." Yosak held his hand up, "Say no more, I'll save the questions for later." Conrada smiled at him appreciatively as she had done to Gisela. It was only by luck there was a spare brown uniform for women. The next problem was: how is Yuri going to react to this new change?

Yuri felt something crawl up his spine. It was cold.

Something was happening in his kingdom, and he knew it was not going to be pleasant.

It was lucky both his and Murata's exams had finished. He said nothing about the chill he felt as they entered his house and entered the bathtub to Shin Makoku.

"Okaiiri-nasai Heika, Geika," an unfamiliar voice called as they caught their breath. Both boys looked to find a beautiful woman holding towels for them. It made both boys wonder if Yuri got his navigation wrong again.

That was until Yuri saw Wolfram.

"Wolf," he asked looking around, "where's Conrad?"

"Well..." said the girl, smiling nervously, "About that your highness..."

Yuri thought he knew that smile but could not place where he saw it before.

"Hello," he said pleasantly, "You look like my godfather," he beamed then, "only prettier, are you his sister?"

"Well..." she said nervously, wondering how to explain to Yuri about the current situation. Exasperated from beating around the bush, Wolfram stepped forward and gestured his hand towards the bombshell whom Yuri had noticed, as did Murata, was slightly shorter than Wolfram.

"Yuri," Wolfram said slowly and angrily, "This is CON-RART."

"Oh," said Yuri not very surprised as he dried his hair. Realisation punched him in the stomach, then he and Murata yelled, "NANI?!"

Everyone in the temple heard the two boys. Shinou heard as well. Though he felt sorry for Conrad, he chuckled to himself thinking it was going to be quite an amusing year ahead.

They were confronted by Gunter and Gwendal back at the castle soon after Conrada assured her king that she, Gwendal and Anissina would explain everything. From their conversation, Yuri could only figure out that they were talking about Conrad's current position. Yuri looked at his Godmother sympathatically as she blushed furiously. He was certain that his reaction did not help the slightest. What bothered him most was how Conrada managed to keep calm through it all. Espcially being shorter than Wolfram. Yosak had given him a look not to say anything about the matter as they rode back to the castle.

"Are you trying to tell me that Anissina actually used Conrart in her experiments and he changed into a girl?" Gunter was saying incredulously before he noticed the party had entered the room. He looked at the woman standing beside Yuri and said, "I would not believe that within the next two millennia."

"Oh?" Conrad said with a raised eyebrow, "Who's the one who put frogs in your desk knowing everyone in the school would hear you scream?"

Gunter squinted at the girl checking every detail from the innocent look in her brown eyes to her mischievous smile. He started laughing then.

Yuri stared; he had never seen Gunter laugh so hard upon someone's misfortune. Especially not Conrad's.

"I-I- ah! I'm s-s-s-s-sorry, C-C-Con..." he snickered, "Con- rart... It's just so..." he fell into gales of laughter again. The way Gunter was laughing and Conrad, or Conrada, seemingly unmoved by it, it had something to do in their past. Gwendal pinched his nose in exasperation. Why oh why did Gunter had to be the first to laugh at Conrada?

"Hai hai," said Conrad mock wearily, "Every single one of my pranks are backfiring on me."

Realisation woke Gwendal from his musings as he looked sharply at his sister.

"Conrart," he said slowly, "What did you do?"

Now only Conrad winced, "Can we not talk about this?"

Though surprised, Yuri did not ask. Hearing Gwendal making that scary voice was enough to make him shiver. Even Wolfram was shuddering. It seemed to Yuri that Gwendal used that voice to keep both Conrad and Wolfram out of trouble. Either that or they incured Gwendal's wrath, which Yuri mercifully did not see often.

"Conrart?" said a familiar voice.

Everyone looked towards the door to find the last person Conrada wanted to see.

Her mother.