Story: SBO Negima

Chao slipped out into the main area of the cafe, and wobbled a little bit from the transition between bimbo and not bimbo. She was carrying some takeout boxes for whatever reason, and quickly put them down with the rest. Oh, she was getting a headache from this! A quick glance over herself, and she could see that she was back to normal. The reason for that became obvious right away: Satsuki was currently looking at her and smiling knowingly while stirring a pot.

Alright, that was promising. It meant that she didn't have to know someone was watching her for a fact, just so long as someone was. Then she'd be her normal self... So long as the people watching her weren't also bimbos.

Despite the minor bout of anxiety she was feeling Chao put on her usual chipper face and set her brilliant mind to work. So, to stay herself she simply had to stay the centre of attention, was that it? Alright then! Time for her to put on a show!

"Ladies and gentlemen, I hope you're enjoying your dinner!" Chao remarked, producing some bright red balls from her pocket. "Now it's time for a show!"

Among her many, many talents Chao was an expert juggler. Now she was going to have the chance to prove this metaphorically and literally at the same time. While she was literally tossing around these red balls and gathering a smattering of applause from her cafe's customers, Chao was internally planning plotting and preparing her next move.

She had to priorities that needed her utmost concentration. The first: Ensuring this bimboness did not spread. The second: Curing her own bimboness. These two were going to prove quite problematic for her. Researching the cause while keeping her usual intelligence and drives was going to be a difficult thing to do without informing someone else of what was going on. She'd have to keep her research tight and on point, someone watching her without working out what she was doing. That would be tricky to say the least as the second she wasn't being watched it seemed likely that her bimbo self would work to undo everything she was working towards.

Which put her in mind of her bimbo self. That version of her was obsessed with two things: Sex and spreading this as far as she could. Ultimately those were really the same goals, as the latter led quite naturally into the former. She'd have to be careful. There was no telling what that other her would do in order to spread this further!

Regarding spreading it further Chao did have one good idea. Memory manipulation. Maybe, just maybe, if she could find a way to erase someone's memory of this... thing, then they'd be protected by it. From what she'd seen so far it seemed as though it was <i>knowing</i> about the bimboness that caused it to spread. So if someone forgot all about it, they'd probably be cured! Lucky for her she happened to know of a memory tonic that could erase the last thirty seconds of memory when drunk, otherwise -

"Order number 3!" Satsuki called. Chao's attention fell back upon the chef, who was turning around to reach for a takeaway box. "Your ramen is ready!"

Takeaway box...? Hang on. That was strange wasn't it? Chao didn't remember picking up those takeaway boxes when she was a bimbo earlier on. Yet she had definitely been holding them when she'd left the room! When had she picked them up? Why?

Though her expression remained the same upbeat happy look she always wore inside Chao seized up and sprinted across the cafe, seizing hold of Satsuki's wrist firmly at the very last possible moment, right as she was about to open the takeaway box.

"P-Pardon me a moment," Chao said to Satsuki. "Allow me!"

"Eh...? Okay! If you want." Satsuki seemed confused, but better slightly confused than ditzy!

Turning the box away so that only she could see, Chao opened it up with her heart racing. As she feared, inside the box was a pair of words written in lipstick that made her gulp. "Secret bimbo". Her eyes fell down on the pile of takeaway boxes lying next to the door. There were probably more of them in there too by now! Seeing no alternative course she could take to stop this thing spreading further, Chao opened up the door and tossed the box inside. There!

Having done this she immediately checked the next on top of the pile. The same as before! She tossed it in the room. Out of sight, out of mind. The next was just the same, that devious airhead! Yet the fourth on the pile had something different written inside.

"Like, you know you're being watched just now don'tcha?"

You know... That was a pretty good point. Chao was not currently possessed of breasts that could smother an adult, nor by a dress sense so gaudy it could act like a flash grenade. Which meant she was being observed at that very moment. With a heavy gulp and beads of sweat forming on her brow Chao slowly turned around to see Satsuki staring at her.

"Chao? What are you doing?" the chef asked.

Gah! D-devious! It was a bit of a blow to the old ego being outsmarted by a bimbo. Even if that bimbo was technically yourself. She had predicted that Chao would figure this out and how she'd try to resolve it, then taunted her over the attention this would bring!

"Oh, this?" Chao said, tossing the box into the room as casually and cheerfully as she could manage. "Well... It seems as though some naughty prankster has written perverted, lewd messages in our takeaway boxes. For the sake of our reputation I'm getting rid of them before they get passed out to our beloved customers!"

"Oh," Satsuki gasped. "That's quite horrible! What a wicked prankster, trying to interfere with someone's enjoyment of our delicious food. I'll never be able to forgive them as long as I live!"

"R-Right!" Chao continued. "That's why you, uh, shouldn't look at what they've written, it'll only upset you even more!" Uh oh. That was a pretty dark and scary aura coming out of the chef's body!

"Chao. Please take the boxes away and examine them where I cannot see them," Satsuki whispered. Chao gulped. "I can't even look at them right now without getting upset."

Fear is a pretty potent overriding factor. While Chao was kind of worried about allowing herself to become a bimbo again, staying out here while Satsuki was so completely upset by the 'prankster' seemed like rather a more immediate concern. On that basis she grabbed hold of the boxes and ducked back inside the room, then like totally smiled as she became a vapid whore once again.

"How did it go?" Chisame breathlessly asked from the floor, still overcome by her earlier experience with Chao.

"Totally as planned," Chao answered, dumping the takeaway boxes on the floor. She strutted across to her fellow bimbo, hauled her to her feet and kissed her right on the lips. "Now, like, Satsuki's bound to call campus security to investigate these boxes. And when campus security, like, asks to see them she'll have no choice but to hand them over!"

"And that means campus security will, like, totally start asking people about secret bimbos!" Chisame tittered. She found a renewed source of energy and grabbed hold of Chao's hips, then pulled their curvaceous bodies closer together so they could boob hug. "Spreading this all that much more, and making everyone totally fun and sexy and stuff!"

"Mm, yeah that's the idea," Chao sighed. "But that's just, like, the first part of what I've got in mind. Time for stage two."

1. Sure enough, Satsuki contacts campus security. What can Chao do to stop them?
2. Haruna pays a visit to the library, notices something odd going on.
3. Asuna arrives at the cafe, complicating matters for everyone.
4. Chachamaru goes looking for Evangeline.
5. Something else