Vol 5. Chapter 38: Subspace Time Flow??

Vinny clutched his head and stared at the blue-haired girl in the mirror, whose face was pure confusion and blank bewilderment.

He, Vinny Facilis.

The famous Camella Royal Capital’s notorious young master, who had transmigrated or been reborn onto Tyrelis Continent, had already spent something like a year and a half, almost two years, here.

Granted, in most cases, he did not dare believe in future events. After all, back then, his life had been so precarious he had needed to decide whether he could live until the next day by flipping a coin. But he had imagined what his future self might look like. Would he graduate plain and ordinary? Would he die by the roadside, ignored by everyone? Or would some fate heroine chop his head off one day for something like stepping through the door with his left foot first?

But he had never, ever expected that one day he would actually turn into this?!

If the him from a year and a half ago saw this, he probably would not even recognize who the person in the mirror was.

Once his thoughts reached that point, Vinny’s feelings became extremely complicated.

Was this change an accident, or was it destined?

“Sorry to keep you waiting, young lady. I’ve prepared your clothes for you.” Before long, the young shopping guide walked out, carrying two bags packed with clothes in exquisite boxes. When she saw Vinny sitting on the shop sofa in a daze, seemingly thinking about who knew what, she walked over and spoke.

“Oh, thank you.” Vinny accepted the clothes with a somewhat hollow look in his eyes.

He glanced at the two boxes placed inside the bags. He clearly felt somewhat frightened by his own transformation, but when the clothes actually reached his hands, it was still hard to hide the excitement in his heart.

All right. Stop getting tangled up over it. At least at the moment he got the clothes, he was happy. Wasn’t that good enough?

Vinny comforted himself like that in his heart.

“Young lady, which set would you like to wear? I’ll seal the other one away for you,” the shopping guide said respectfully.

“Well.” Vinny hesitated for a moment. “I’d like to try them on. May I?”

“Of course. The fitting room is right over there.” The shopping guide gestured for Vinny to look toward the little room nearby. “Try them on first and see whether the sizes fit. If they don’t, just tell me and I’ll help you change them.”

“All right. Thank you.” With an uneasy heart, Vinny carried the two sets of clothing into the fitting room.

Only after he opened the boxes did he discover that what he had bought was not merely a combination of tops and skirts. What he had bought were full sets, including socks, hair clips, and shoes.

No wonder they were called seasonal limited styles. Luckily, he had come at exactly the right time. If he had been a few days later, they probably would have been completely out of stock.

This probably had something to do with the Chosen One Granted by God Tournament starting soon as well. Everyone was busy preparing for the event. For Huawo Clothiers on campus, a season that should have been peak season had instead become off-season. At the very least, customers were not quite so feverish.

Vinny then opened the other box. The grooves inside the box likewise held a full set of accessories.

Indeed, if these two sets were mixed and matched, they really would look very good.

Although Vinny had not put them on yet, his intuition told him that was the case.

The dim yellow light inside the fitting room fell over her ice-blue hair, and also over the large full-length floor mirror, reflecting his face.

It was fine. It was fine. In any case, the person wearing these clothes right now was not him. It was some strange blue-haired girl.

Vinny pressed his lips together and began changing clothes in front of the large full-length floor mirror in the fitting room.

He already had plenty of experience by now, so changing into women’s clothing had also become easy and familiar for him.

He would try a single-set combination first.

This set was a silver-gray pleated short-skirt outfit, embellished with black. It came with a tie decorated with striped accents, and if one looked closely, the pattern on it was extremely delicate and carefully designed.

Paired with the excellent texture of the silver-gray lotus-leaf-edged pleated short skirt, it really had a matte quality and was highly distinctive.

The matching over-the-knee socks were black-and-white striped long socks with ribbon bows.

After Vinny changed into this matte deep-white set, he kept feeling that there was probably a more suitable hairstyle, so he tried tying his hair into pure twin tails, using the matching bow hair clips. From the look of it, the designer had also defaulted to twin tails as the hairstyle.

Although he was not especially good at tying this kind of hairstyle, so it did not come out very neatly, he had accidentally created a kind of messy beauty.

Twin tails on both sides, one small and one large, paired with the black-and-white striped over-the-knee socks, instead brought out that sense of contrast.

Hiss, hiss, hiss!

After he finished dressing up, Vinny sucked in a cold sheet of bean jelly.

This—this was not right, was it?

Wasn’t it a little too compatible?!

It was a bit too different from what he had imagined.

He had originally thought that this kind of clothing would definitely not look too good on him. After all, he was not actually a girl.

In the end, reality proved that imagination was limited after all. Without truly putting it on, it was impossible to rely on imagination alone to fully picture the image.

The blue-haired girl in the mirror had instantly transformed from the beautiful JK girl from earlier into an idol girl performing onstage, the kind who would guarantee a one-hundred-percent head-turn rate if she walked down the street.

But this was also too, really too—

Vinny looked at the black-and-white striped over-the-knee socks worn by the blue-haired girl in the mirror.

This was the first time he had worn such an, mm, overly embarrassing outfit. It made him look like some idol girl.

If it was over-the-knee black stockings, those were the standard school uniform at the academy, and everyone wore them, so that was still fine.

This was really—

Vinny hurriedly changed out of this set and switched into the other limited style.

Damn, it even had slouch socks.

A black skirt matched with a white top, with a red satin ribbon tied into a bow at the chest. The cuffs used a flower-bud lace-trim design.

Mm. At a glance, it belonged to the kind of lively girl full of energy and overflowing with youth.

This one was also very pretty. Although he was absolutely not this kind of person, he had to admit that it really was quite pretty.

Wait. No.

Vinny frowned.

Since when was he this kind of style? He was not a girl at all, all right??

Eh, no, this was not right, was it??

Vinny had originally imagined that this was only a case of his eyes being bigger than his stomach. Maybe after he bought them, these clothes would not be as suitable as he imagined. Maybe they would look extremely awkward.

But he had never expected this.

What Shicodale said might actually be true. After shaking off his malnutrition, Vinny’s extremely excellent foundation had been completely revealed. He was like a clothes rack, able to perfectly handle any style.

Should he say, as expected of the Saintess bloodline?

Of course, the big-sister style might not be so easy to handle. After all, the hardware was missing.

Aesphyra’s hardware did not meet the standard. He directly had no hardware, because he was a boy.

“Gulp.” What should he do?

Vinny felt that his current self was a little strange. If these two sets of clothes had not fit well after he put them on, that would have been fine. He had not expected them to fit this well.

Crap. He really was tempted.

This was just like playing games in his previous life, playing a female account like a dress-up doll. When he saw something pretty, he could not help being tempted and wanted to buy that skin.

Although the nature of it was a little different, did he now also feel a bit like he was playing a female account??

Probably, right?

Vinny tried several different combinations again. In the end, he felt that a white top with a butterfly satin ribbon paired with the silver-gray pleated skirt looked the best. However, what he used was not the original matching red ribbon, but a spare blue ribbon instead. Matched with his hair color, the visual effect was excellent.

For shoes, he chose that pair of little black leather boots and matched them with the school uniform’s over-the-knee black stockings. Very good.

As expected, the hairstyle was still the shoulder-length loose twin tails he was most familiar with and liked best. Only, the hair clips were changed to the matching blue bows with black edges, which suited his hair color very well.

Then he put on ice-crystal earrings.

Perfect!

People depended on clothes, just as horses depended on saddles. Once he changed into this outfit, it gave off a completely different feeling from the JK outfit.

Vinny looked at the beautifully dressed, bright and gorgeous blue-haired girl in the mirror, and crossed his arms at his waist in satisfaction.

This image was incredible!

If only he could switch to this skin at any time. Just looking at it was pleasing to the eye, damn it!

Too wonderful. The only flaw was that after changing into it, he felt as though something about him was not quite right somewhere. But right now, he was in a very good mood, so he was too lazy to fuss over that.

Vinny nodded in satisfaction, carefully gathered up the remaining clothes, put them back into the box, packed them away, then carried the box with both hands and walked out of the fitting room.

“Have you finished changing? Do the sizes fit?” Seeing that Vinny had finally walked out, the young shopping guide looked over, and her eyes widened slightly.

This blue-haired young lady really was a natural clothes rack. Perfect body proportions, paired with that slim waist and those legs—it seemed as though any clothes would fit her perfectly.

Compared to before, the person who had walked out now seemed as though she was the real her from ordinary days: a pampered, wealthy young lady from a great house, a proper noble daughter.

“Thank you for your trouble. Your eye is truly excellent. The size fits perfectly,” Vinny thanked her in a gentle tone.

“Eh? You flatter me. It’s only part of my duty.” The young shopping guide did not know whether it was her imagination, but she kept feeling that after the other party had gone into the fitting room and come back out, even her bearing and the way she spoke had changed.

It was probably an illusion. Maybe she had been like this earlier as well, and the guide simply had not noticed much.

“Please seal this set away for me. Thank you.” The blue-haired girl handed one of the boxes she was carrying to the shopping guide.

“All right, I understand.” The shopping guide took the box and could not help glancing at Vinny again.

Earlier, she had felt that the other party’s bearing was a little strange.

It was not that she discriminated against anyone. It was only that most of the people who bought clothes in this shop were noble young ladies, and the bearing on those noble young ladies was very distinctive. It was a feeling she could not describe, but because she had seen it for so long, she had grown used to it.

Earlier, she had not quite sensed it from Vinny. Looking now, it had indeed been her imagination.

“How much is it in total?” the blue-haired girl asked respectfully.

“May I ask whether you have VIP status at our shop?” the shopping guide asked after walking to the cashier counter.

“I don’t.”

“Would you consider applying for one?”

“My apologies. Please forgive me, but I’m in a hurry,” the blue-haired girl said, sounding slightly apologetic.

“Ah, that’s all right. I’m sorry for delaying you. The total is this amount. Here is the bill. You may check whether there are any errors.”

“No problem.” The blue-haired girl took out the wallet from inside her uniform and paid. “I’ll temporarily store the other set of clothes with you. Please take care of it for me.”

“You’re too courteous. It’s only right. Please take care, and welcome again next time.” The shopping guide gave the blue-haired girl a slight bow.

He really had made something of himself. Now he could buy clothes at Huawo Clothiers as he pleased.

After walking out of the clothing shop, the blue-haired girl fell silent for a moment. Then, immediately, she felt a sense of strangeness.

As though waking from a dream, she looked at the clothing shop, then looked at the pedestrians outside the commercial street, and opened her mouth.

Earlier, his attention had been immersed in the clothes, so a lot of his behavior had been completed subconsciously.

Now that he thought back on it—

This was very weird. This was very weird, don’t you think??

But if he insisted on digging into it, he could not find anything wrong.

There was nothing wrong with being polite to people, was there? What was wrong with that?

Then, since there was nothing wrong—

Vinny glanced vaguely toward the large pendulum clock hanging in the center of the commercial street. In an instant, his pupils constricted, and he nearly let out a sharp scream.

No, how? How had two hours already passed?!

What was going on? Had he seen wrong? Or had the commercial street’s large pendulum clock broken??

Why had time run so fast? Had he tried on clothes until he somehow tried himself into another parallel space-time with a faster time flow?!

Crap. If it was already this late!

Vinny had no time to think too much. He hurriedly ran in the direction of the arena.

It was over, it was over. They had agreed on after lunch, but now nearly two and a half hours had passed, and he still had not appeared!

Wasn’t this standing her up??

She would definitely think he was messing with her, making her wait in place like an idiot for more than two hours, standing her up!

Hey, hey!

He had just bought these new clothes, and now he was running as soon as he put them on. Wasn’t that too wasteful?

What if he sweated? Even if he did not sweat, what if they got stained with something and became dirty?

Fortunately, Vinny had [Exceptional]-rank affinity with the ice element, so his heat dissipation ability was very good.

After he broke into a run and reached the arena’s front gates, he adjusted his breathing while searching for that familiar figure.

He did not see her. Still did not see her.

Could it be??

That guy—could she have not waited for him? Could she have thought he had been lying to her?

Vinny looked all around for Aesphyra’s figure and discovered that he could not find her anywhere.

Could she be waiting for her inside the arena?

Impossible, right? He had not even arrived yet. How would he know which arena she was in? If someone was waiting for another person, they would definitely wait outside the entrance.

As expected, had she left??

“Gulp.” In his disappointment, the blue-haired girl’s cheeks flattened at once.

How? How had this happened?

Earlier, she had even said it would not take much time, yet she had never expected time to pass this quickly.

Why had no one reminded her that when picking clothes, time flowed several times faster than usual??

And Vinny’s arrival also attracted many people’s attention. The students coming and going were all drawn by this extremely eye-catching, dazzlingly dressed blue-haired girl.

There were even a few bold ones who looked eager to try. Several times already, they had pretended nothing was going on as they passed by him.

What is wrong with you guys?

If this had been before, he might already have started hissing at them. But right now, he had no attention to spare for any of that. He fetched a towel, used it as a cushion, sat down in front of the arena stairs, and stared blankly at the passersby, as though someone had abandoned him.