Breaking Out the Red Yarn

“Aki!? Are you alright? What happened? Where’d you go?”

“In order: Yes this is me, I’m alright, I got in a fight against a gang member, and I crashed in a warehouse.” It feels bad lying to her but I had to tell her something.

“G-gang?” I let out a small breath as I prepared to lie to my girlfriend. I’m a piece of shit for this, but I can’t put her at risk.

My eyes scan over the TV announcing the latest news and I realize how much easier this has become for me. Well not emotionally, but at least I can make up an excuse way easier.

“Apparently Tres Magia is taking a break from hero work and leaving the protection of the city to some guy called Veil after they lost to some new villain.” I pause as I take a breath, Utena is dead silent on the other side of the line. “I guess the small-time gangs that are still around somehow found out and decided to restart operations.” She still doesn’t make a sound but I hear her breath hitch in her throat as she nearly starts to cry. Fuck, she must be scared or even terrified that Tres Magia is gone now.

“D-don’t worry Utena! I’m sure this mysterious Veil guy is really strong! Otherwise Tres Magia wouldn’t feel comfortable leaving the city to him!” Welp I have to go wipe out some random gangs now. Sorry guys but you’ve been cursed to be obliterated.

“A-aki, I-I’m sorry.” What?

“Utena, there’s nothing to apologize for.” She doesn’t respond and instead just hangs up after starting to cry.

“What the fuck?” My mom bops me on the head as I stare down in confusion at the phone.

“Language.” I give her a confused look as my heart quivers at the sudden wave of feelings that flood through me.

“M-mom, she hung up on me.” Her expression falls and she gives me a hug as tears start to well in my eyes. I didn’t even know her not wanting to talk to me would make me feel this way. It kind of scares me. My breaths become ragged as I hold my mother tight. 

We spend quite a while like that as my thoughts race in a panic.

Did I betray her by disappearing so suddenly? Did I say something wrong on the call? Whenever I’m faced with a question I have no answer to, something that can’t be solved with brute force or chunni I do that.

But, we aren’t at that point yet.

“Sweetie, it's going to be alright. I’ll speak to Ms. Hiiragi and I’m sure we’ll work things out.” She pulls back her phone and enters her room as I listen into half of the conversation.

“Is everything alright on your end?”

I heard some muffles but through the door I couldn’t hear anything properly. 

“What? That's- Alright.” They talk for a bit longer as the tea shakes in my hand. I stare at the door of a room I haven’t entered in quite some time.

Mom exits the room and sits down next to me on the sofa. Her hand gently presses against mine, her eyes are sad and her face turned in a light frown.

“Utena is crying and won’t leave her room.” I freeze and turn towards her.

“What?” I feel tea splash on my hand and realize I've completely crushed the tea cup in my hand. The small porcelain shards don’t even break my skin. An obvious indicator of my strength and durability, but mom just hugs me tight instead of acknowledging the feat.

I hug her tight and I can never admit this to anyone else but I cried in her bosom. My friend- no. The girl I fell in love with she hates- I cut off the thoughts before they can spiral. I stand up and turn towards the door.

“You’re going in there again?” I nod, before freezing and staring down at my mess. She waves me off. 

“I know that look, I’ll handle this. If you can’t figure it out in an hour I’ll drive you over to her so you two can make up.” It wouldn’t really be as easy as just talking to her right? I shake my head, perhaps it's the chunni speaking but things are never that simple. 

This entire situation doesn’t make any sense. Utena cares for me a lot, why would she refuse to speak to me and start crying like we’d broken up.

No. Something is wrong here. Something is strange about her and has been for the past week. I approach the door handle and crack it open.

Inside is a room with a massive board, countless thumbtacks, an old computer, a printer, and tons of other art supplies. Most importantly however is a sealed box that I approach after locking the door behind me.

The dust in the room causes me to let out a cough lightly as I turn on the lamp. This room has no windows and is completely private.

This is the conspiracy room.

I open the small box and take out the most powerful conspiracist tool in existence. I take out a large bundle of red yarn. I turn a small alarm clock to one hour and set it. It’s time to get to work.

The first thing I do is that I write the words ‘Hiiragi Utena’ on a piece of paper, then thumbtack it to the board, followed by my name. I link the two of us with red yarn and stare at it for a moment. The worst possible outcome of this situation is that Utena doesn’t want to be together with me anymore. 

I can’t believe that. That's it . . . I just refuse to believe it. There’s something else here. I think back to our conversation. She’d called me, she WANTED to speak to me. She wanted to be with me. She was driving over when it happened after all.

Something I said in that conversation must have caused this reaction. I think about what I had said, the memories being forcefully recalled by my brain.

I said I got attacked by a gang member, Utena had specifically brought attention to that. I added the words ‘Gang’ to the board, and set a minus symbol paper in between the two strings indicating a negative connection. She’d been questioning and I’d elaborated. I’d spoken of Tres Magia and how they left, I’d also referred to Veil. Tres Magia’s departure was what caused my injury . . . I added Tres Magia and Veil to the board. The connection between them was neutral at the moment, but the connection Tres Magia had to Utena was positive.

Tres Magia leaving caused me to be hurt. I’d created ‘Tres Magia Leaving’ and ‘Personal Injury’ to the board and linked them as well.

To Utena Tres Magia’s departure is what caused my injury, but why the hell would that cause her reaction? She refused to speak with me after saying she was sorry? Sorry for what? Sorry for not being there for me when Tres Magia was gone, sorry she had to avoid me . . . or sorry that this was her fault?

I freeze. Tres Magia left because of the new villain. That’s what I told Utena. I blink and add ‘The Villain’ to the board as my eyes narrow. My eyes widen as I come up with a theory so insane it might just be right.

This new villain has been strange. She’s been a girl about the age of the other magical girls, and she’s never done extreme harm to them to my knowledge. She hasn’t harmed any civilians either. She’s only targeted the magical girls.

Utena has been strangely obsessed with her. From saying she was misunderstood, calling her a magical girl, and apparently having information on the magical girl that she’d refused to tell me until ‘something’ had happened.

What if that something was the ‘misunderstanding’ being cleared up? I add it to the board and stare in confusion for a moment. My thoughts return back to my conversation with Magia Sulphur.

Sulphur had heavily implied a fight had gone very poorly for them, but up until this point that sort of intense act hadn’t coincided with the villain's modus operandi. It didn’t make sense, unless of course the villain had a reason to act out of the norm. I add my disappearance to the board with a growl.

For example, if someone they loved went missing.

Everything adds up, and I really don't like the picture I’m seeing. If Utena is this new villain then that brings up a lot more problems that solutions. Part of me secretly hopes she is because she’s sexy as fuck and I’d love to be dating a sexy villian, but if she’s deadset on conquering the world I have no idea what to do.

Wait. I know exactly what I can do. I can stop her as Veil, which I’d intentionally not linked to myself on the board. I wince as I’m reminded of the day Utena had that nasty bruise. That lines up with when I’d hit the new villain full force in the chest.

The new villain is obsessed with magical girls, her appearances coincide perfectly with me not being with Utena, and . . . hasn’t acted despite Tres Magia saying they are no longer protecting the city. Almost as if she wasn’t in a proper emotional state to do so.

I stare up at my conspiracy board as my expression flattens into a line. 

I have to go see her.

I practically fly into the air at the sound of my one hour alarm going off. Holy shit that scared the fuck out of me!

AN: For anyone this is what the conspiracy board looks like:

I press on the thing as my heart slams in my chest, a knock at the door draws my attention.

“Let’s go see Utena-chan.” A determined expression makes its way onto my face at her words. I’ve got to change my story, even if it makes me look cringe by saying something like ‘I fell flat on my face and it was embarrassing!’ 

I have to do it because she blames herself for what happened to me.

Once we arrive I’m tempted to just climb up the wall and enter her window but that idea falls flat as I decide I should instead just go with a more honest approach.

I knock on the door while holding mom’s hand and staring at the ground. The door cracks and Ms. Hiiragi allows us to come inside.

“I’ll speak to your mother for a bit, you go up and speak to Utena-chan, Akihiko-kun.” I nod and move up the stairs with bated breath before knocking softly on the door.

No answer.

“Utena, it’s me.”

Again I get no response, just a muffled cry. At least she’s in there and not out trying to commit genocide on some random people for being ‘gang members’.

“Utena. I’m sorry for lying to you.” I really am. It hurts when I lie to her, and even more when I do it straight to her face. But I can’t tell her what I’ve been up to as Veil. Not yet at least. Her being a villain is completely out of character, and until I figure out WHY she’s doing this I don’t know if I can trust whoever gave her this power in the first place.

If she really just is being a pervert, then that has an easy solution. But . . . if she’s being controlled, if she’s being manipulated, or worst of all if she truly does want to rule this world and molest magical girls purely out of self interest . . . I’d have to stop her.

“W-what?” Her shaky voice goes through the door and I let out a soft sigh.

“I wasn’t attacked. I fell down the stairs while trying to look cool and hit my head really hard, I ended up sleeping in an alleyway.” I take a breath to steady myself as I continue. “It was really embarrassing and I didn’t want to tell you but I thought you should know.”

The door creaks open and her tear stained face stares at me with an expression of hope. I give her a small smile.

“See, I’m fine.” Honestly I’m half tempted to just go ahead and tell her I’m Veil. That my injuries are from a freaky dungeon thing . . . but I can’t worry her like that. The dungeons are exhilarating, fighting villains and heroes alike gives a rush I can’t get anywhere else. I’m going back to those dungeons no matter what.

“R-really? I-Nobody hurt you?” I’ll just love her as much as I can in my civilian identity and make sure she doesn’t get too injured as Veil . . . even if she does end up wanting to take over the world. The image of her taking over the world as a sexy villain makes me blush faintly and I bring the girl into a hug.

“I’m sorry for worrying you.” I gently run my hand through her hair then lift her chin up towards me when she tries to look down. The lewd smile on her face is broken by a kiss on the lips. She pulls me into her room and holds me close. 

I wonder if I should tell her that I know? A small part of me wants her to be the one to tell me instead of taking that away from her. An erection starts to grow in my pants at the idea of fucking a sexy dominatrix though.

“A-aki . . . do you want to?” I let out a gulp as the horniness overwrites my rationality. The idea of fucking a hot demonic girl is just too much to resist.

“Utena, isn’t there something you want to tell me first?” She blinks in confusion before blushing and clutching my arm tightly.

“I-I love you.” My smile at the words and caress the side of her face lightly.

“I love you too . . .” I hesitate. I don’t know if I can really push her on this, and what if I’m wrong? Everything points to me being right but I just can’t shake the feeling of wanting her to say it to me.

Then her smile falls and a small expression of guilt makes its way onto her face.

“Utena? Are you alright?” She holds onto me for dear life, as though this is the last time she’d ever be able to hold.

“A-aki I’m sorry.” I let out a nervous gulp. Here it comes. Tears start to pool in her eyes as she speaks the next words that make my brain stop working.

“I cheated on you.” There’s a pause as my jaw drops. “W-wait that’s not what I meant!”

What. 

She starts crying and looking up at me as though I was going to push her away. I sit there dumbfounded for a moment before the realization hits. She cheated on me with Tres Magia because she molested them. That’s totally what she meant, isn’t it?

Thank fuck I used the Conspiracy room. Otherwise I’d be heartbroken right now. I’m conflicted, but what she did was supremely hot so I’m kind of alright with it!

“Utena. Start from the beginning.” She freezes and stares up at me with shock and confusion.

“Y-you don’t hate me?” I let out a sigh as I looked at her. I don’t think I could ever hate this girl.

“No. But please elaborate before I start jumping to conclusions.” There’s a determined expression behind her eyes before she stands up.

“I-I haven’t been entirely truthful with you.” I let out a slow nod as she reaches into somewhere and after a shiver runs through her entire body she pulls out a star.

“T-trans Magia.” The transformation happens right before my eyes. The adorable Utena turns into a sexy demoness and my eyes widen slightly in confirmation.

“You’re sexy as fuck right now Utena.” I give her a thumbs up and she puts her hands on her chin while blushing.

“T-thank you- I-I’m sorry for not telling you sooner.” I give a measured nod.

“So about cheating on me?” She pales and tears start to pool again as she speaks.

“I-I did things, BDSM things . . . to Tres Magia.” Woah. Utena knows what BDSM is? 

“I see.” My hand is on my chin as I process her words. I’d already known that and I still can’t get over how sexy she is. My dick starts lengthening as I stare and she spots it.

“T-that's right, Aki likes b-bad girls.” She starts panting a blush appearing on her face as she stares at the tent in my shorts. “A-aki . . . you’re really not mad?”

“Utena . . . I just want you to be happy. If you’re a sadist . . . I can’t be a masochist for you. I don’t enjoy that sort of thing.” I take a weighty breath filled with passion. “But I love you. I want to be with you. If you have to deal with your other urges with the Tres Magia then . . . I understand.” 

She slams into me and practically pins me to the bed. Her eyes turned into stars and only made me find her even more attractive. This version of Utena is perfect in every way! She pants over my form as my own eyes widen.

“S-so magical girls aren’t cheating?” I let out a small sigh at her words, a small drop of drool falling on to my chest from her mouth.

“You should still ask me first . . . but yes. Magical girls aren’t cheating.” She lets out a breath as her entire body tenses up, a vibration goes through her and- did she just orgasm from the idea that she didn’t cheat on me?

Utena might be the cutest and sexiest girl in the entire world right now. She starts grinding her pussy on my crotch making me kiss her on the lips.

Our tongues merge and I realize that in this form she seems to be far more proactive. I like it, but I won’t lose that easily! I push her to the side to her surprise and mount her instead of the other way around. Then I pull off and start to remove my clothes into a pile. Looks like those extra clothes I have here will end up coming in use after all.

“So y-you’re not breaking up with me?” I pause at that. Then I think back to my conspiracy board as another conspiracy brews in my mind. Am I in a Yuri universe? Weird hentai shit has been happening lately, the girls in this world are far more forward, and . . . Utena is a total perv to magical girls and from what I can tell has the power to corrupt things. 

Is Utena a Yuri protagonist!? You know what, I’m not going to worry about it. Utena is the girl I’m in love with. That’s all that matters.I turn back to the girl in question who looks depressed at my silence and make sure I can clear any misunderstandings before we continue

“I’m not breaking up with you. I love you Utena.” She lets out a squeak and mutters a response.

“C-call me Magia Baiser when I’m like this.” I raise an eyebrow and send her a smirk as the final piece clicks into its perfect place.

“You really are my favorite Magical Girl.”

AN: Despite everything Akihiko is a fourteen year old child. He’s a chunni, and he has hints of his past life flowing through him but he’s still just a kid. He wants the girl he likes to be like him back, and thinking she hated him makes him cry.

Anyways, Utena and Aki progres their relationship this chapter with the power of red yarn! (if you set a board with red yarn you can figure literally anything out)

As always please leave nice comments, they help push me forward!

Thank you for reading and I hope you enjoyed!