Story: SBO Negima

While it was always refreshing to get new customers, typically one prefers that they look like they're enjoying themselves. It kind of speaks for itself. A happy, smiling customer is better advertising than any amount of money can buy, and sitting by herself at the middle table of the cafe was a girl who was not smiling, not happy, and since they didn't seem to have any money on them at all, not a customer either.

As the owner of the freshly established Chao Bao Zi, this did not sit well with Chao one little bit! No-sir-ee bun! Or something like that anyway. The Chinese girl skipped over towards the oddly dressed Chisame with a smile on her face, leaned over, peered down at her until the frazzled girl looked up and nearly fell off her seat.

"Don't sneak up on me like that!" Chisame yelled.

"Sneak up on you like what?" Chao innocently asked. She looked the girl over and clucked, tutted and beamed. "Oh my, what a delicious dress! I didn't realise you were such a big Chiu fan."

Chao watched the girl closely. Oh, she knew fully well that Chisame was Chiu. She also knew that the girl didn't want anyone to know that she was. The other customers were all looking over now, directly at her. Out in public. Dressed like Chiu. Everyone else starting to discuss how much she looks like the girl. Chao honestly expected that would get the girl running out in a hurry, stammering excuses in her typical tsundere way...

"It - It's not like I'm wearing this stupid thing because I want to..." Chisame lamely offered, but stood her ground. Chao reeled. That was only half the reaction she had calculated! Something else must be going on.

"Oh?" Chao tilted her head. "Then whyfor are you wearing such a five-star dress out in public? My curiosity is starving for answers!"

Chisame fidgeted. She wrung her hands; she lowered her head. It was strange. As though she both wanted and did not want the attention at the same time. That was rather typically tsundere of her, and yet Chao was also quite bothered by it. And not just because it made her restaurant look bad!

Luckily she was a genius if she did say so herself. Which meant that finding the answer to this mystery was as simple as baking a cupcake. Especially when Chisame's stomach made a noise rarely heard outside a dragon's den.

"Skipped breakfast today? Naughty, naughty!" Chao admonished. Chisame bit her lip, and so the seemingly ditzy Chinese girl flicked her pretty little forehead. "No, no! I know you have no money, but I can certainly help out a classmate in trouble!"


"Oh, you don't want anything to do with the trouble I'm in..." Chisame muttered ominously. But Chao was hearing none of it! She used her deceptively high strength to pick up the slightly larger girl and scoot her along towards the back. "Hey! What's the big idea! Put me down! Right this moment, put me down!"

"Nuh uh!" Chao replied. "I've got a favour to ask, and it'll settle your stomach at the same time!"

Chisame opened her mouth to protest, and then her stomach made a happy, gurgling noise. Chao smirked. She called out to Satsuki while guiding her squirming classmate off towards the empty employee room.

"Satsu! One of those new special rice dishes, in the back room!"

"Okaaay!" Satsuki cheerfully called back. Such a nice girl, so friendly and cheerful. Unlike Chisame, who really needed to learn how to open up a little more. Which is exactly why Chao was going to help, help, help! She plonked her classmate down in an empty chair at the table in the middle of the room and beamed down at her.

"Satsuki's made a new, exciting, spectacular rice dish!" Chao fist pumped in triumph. "In my opinion it is splendid, perfect, a surefire money winner... But we haven't tried it out on anyone that doesn't know what's in it yet. So? So? So? How about it? Wanna be our trial runner?"

"Not especially," Chisame sniffed. Her stomach then said "yes, please" rather clearly, prompting the girl to rub her belly in a rather, shall we say, menacing manner. "I just want to be... Seen. In public. Hang out with... People. Real people. In the real world."

Chao checked the girl's temperature. No fever detected. Not sick. While she was doing that Satsuki arrived with the rice dish, nodded, smiled and handed it off to Chao, who in turn planted it in front of Chisame, who started to drool as though she were a dog in a certain well-known series of psychological tests and she'd just heard the bell.

"What's it called?" she asked, watching the dish and wiping drool from the corner of her mouth. "I mean, there's nothing... Gross in there, is there?"

"Nope, nope!" Chao wagged her finger. "It's just yummy, yummy, good for the tummy. Go ahead, have a taste and tell me what you think!"

You've never seen someone lift a pair of chopsticks with such trepidation. You've never seen anyone in this lifetime or any other hesitate so much. Yet there she was. She stuck the chopsticks into the rice, eyes flickering to Chao and then took a small, delicate bite -

Which quickly turned into a rather less elegant and refined shovelling of food into her gullet as fast as she could manage. Chao watched with a grin as she cleaned her plate. Thoroughly. Completely. Little realising she was the Gordian Knot being asked to please, hold this sword for a moment.

"Delicious!" Chisame gasped for air once she was done. The worry lines on her face vanished for a moment, and she patted her stomach contentedly. "Goodness, it's been such a weird day. I hadn't even realised how starving I was. Th-Thank you. That really hit the spot."

"You liked it?" Chao asked. Chisame nodded. "Even the truth potion I slipped in there just before feeding it to you?"

Ah. Chisame's face fell and turned completely white. "T-Truth potion...?" she asked.

"Yeppers!" Chao confirmed, slipping the bottle out of her sleeve. "Old sleight of hand trick. So? So? Tell me what's wrong!"

"I've caught a memetic bimbo infection that, like, is totally awesome and we need to spread it as far as we can," Chisame tittered, completely transforming in an instant.

Needless to say but so had Chao. Her rather modest Chinese dress turned out to be a size or two too small for her new, bustier and more curvaceous body. Which meant that the cleavage window which exposed a healthy amount of top, side, and underboob, was vulnerable to having her bust pop out of it at any given moment. Which would have been quite a sight to see, considering her bosom had grown to be a bit bigger than Chisame's. Chao's nipples had also undergone a noticeable change as well, gaining huge, puffy areolae that made her nips as big as the hair buns she always wore on the sides of her head. She still wore her classic buns, but the pigtails which hung out the sides had been extended by a length of several feet, and turned blonde as well. The result was as if her hair buns had been keeping her genius attached to her head all these years, and now that they'd been breached, Chao's IQ plummeted as her hair inched out until it hung around her waspish waist.

Chao was taller, too, making her tower over the idol bimbo, accentuated by a pair of stiletto heels. Her legs had grown out another foot, and were the perfect image of a healthy pair of legs. Meanwhile, her thighs and hips could be defined as possibly 'too healthy', full of thick meat that was exposed from the slit in her dress going high enough to show off her pelvic line. Along with the fact that Chao was no longer wearing any underwear, freeing her from any worry of her bubblebutt having to deal with a wedgie. Chao's hands rested naturally against her hip, and she leaned in towards Chisame with a content, bimbo smile and a faint titter -

"Did she like it?" Satsuki asked from the doorway. Chao's face became a frozen mask, and Chisame became completely mortified. Again. She was getting very concerned about the long-term effects of all this stress on her health, it was going to make Photoshopping the bad spots on her face a lot more difficult if she kept getting stress wrinkles. Then again, she supposed she'd prefer having to do that than get permanently stuck in bimbo mode and never have to worry about her flawless skin again.

"She did!" Chao announced with great enthusiasm, clasping her hand over Chisame's mouth before she could utter a word. "I think we can call this dish a huge, huge success in the making! Hooray!"

And now, it was up to a time-travelling genius to solve a little problem like spontaneous memetic bimbo transformations without spreading it any further.

1. Nodoka and Chachamaru press the limits of what is acceptable noise level in the library.
2. Satsuki insists on getting Chisame's true opinion on the rice dish.
3. Asuna is starting to get a little annoyed about Evangeline's attitude
4. Chao begins her own investigation into the bimbo outbreak
5. Something else