The Day I Returned to Earth and Became a Woman
After finishing my academy classes and heading home, I was struck by a massive truck and ended up in the otherworld. It had already been 200 years.
At first, there were many events, but finally today, by completely destroying the final kingdom of the otherworld, Ahendal, I was able to complete every quest the System had assigned me.
Successfully eradicated all life forms in the otherworld Barzena. Reward: Activate the Earth return protocol.
“Hahaha!! Finally going home!! Finally can get rid of this bony body!!”
Normally, a normal human couldn’t survive 200 years.
But as a normal human, there was no way I could eradicate every living creature in the otherworld within my lifespan.
So I chose to learn black magic, transcend even death, and become an Elder Lich to complete the quest.
Earth return is ready. Searching for a new vessel to hold the user’s soul.
“Ooh! Of course it’s a human, right?”
Yes. Then shall I return to Earth?
“Is that a question? Of course I’m returning!!”
“Then the return protocol starts now.”
At the same time as the System’s guidance message, the mana skeleton that had wrapped my entire body began to melt away.
The adamantium-hard skeleton that had sustained me for hundreds of years turned to dust, and the life force vessels holding my soul collapsed.
But instead of fear, I shouted with even greater joy.
“Finally…!! Finally escaping this green skull body!! Now I’m human again!!”
Transferring the user’s soul to a new vessel usable on Earth.
“Yeah, transfer to human!! A healthy young man! A body with decent height around 180cm and some muscles would be perfect!”
Searching for an appropriate vessel… Complete. Starting vessel attachment.
“Good, here it is!!”
With the System’s final message, my vision turned completely white—
“It’s cold?”
When I came to my senses, cheap fluorescent lights were flickering on the ceiling.
Plus the damp musty smell and the creaking bed springs.
This… if my memory was right, it was definitely a cheap one-room apartment in Korea.
“S-senses are back!! Hahaha… I’m back! This is Earth’s air…!!”
I jumped up, relishing the joy of feeling sensations I hadn’t experienced in over 200 years, and ran to the mirror.
And the moment I saw my reflection in the mirror.
“…? What the hell is this…?”
I froze in place.
Because in the mirror was a strange girl.
Black hair reaching her shoulders, an androgynous face with a half-loose t-shirt.
And most importantly—
“What? Where did my handsome face go? The life of an alpha male disappeared and now I’m just dangling as a little girl?”
I pinched my chest hard to deny the unbelievable reality.
But the vivid sensation that came through only confirmed the reality even more.
And then the System message popped up like the finishing touch.
Notification: Provided the most suitable ‘human vessel’ for the user.
“Damn, where is this suitable?! I was an Elder Lich!! How can this loli body—
Condition satisfied. Earth return complete.
“……Fuck.”
Argh, I guess I returned to Earth as a woman.
After the shocking reality sent my mental state to Andromeda for a moment, I barely recovered and started getting information from the cheap computer.
“Um… so during the 200 years I was in the otherworld, only 10 years passed on Earth?”
Anyway, the two things I needed to remember for sure were these.
The first was that 10 years ago, when I fell to the otherworld, gates appeared simultaneously worldwide and awakened people appeared to solve them.
The second was that people who awakened could use the System-exclusive gallery for awakened people.
“Whoa, that’d be fun!”
Honestly, even before returning, I wondered why the System would say powers would apply on Earth too, so enjoy it like this.
So at first I thought it was some kind of nonsense, but I never imagined Earth would change like the otherworld Barzena.
“Then first I need to check if I’ve awakened to use the gallery? I need to check the status window?”
I decided to check my status window first through the information online.
Because I needed to do galgal.
“Status window.”
“Hmm… this is good, right?”
The otherworld Barzena I lived in also had a System, but there was no separate concept of a status window.
Mages were just ranked by circles, knights by auras, and spirit mages by the ranks of contracted spirits.
So I wasn’t sure if the stats were good or bad.
“…Anyway, one thing is clear—mana is obviously abnormal.”
The only thing I could clearly tell was that the mana stat was abnormally high.
But thinking about it, whether stats were good or bad, it didn’t matter now.
After all, the only thing that mattered to me was whether I was recognized as awakened and could do galgal like other awakened people.
After confirming I had awakened, I closed the status window and clicked the hunter community icon next to the System.
“Awakened authentication complete. Please set your nickname.”
“Nickname? Hmm…”
There were too many names that came to mind, so I thought for a moment and slowly typed on the keyboard.
[Nickname: NecroEmpress]
And when I set the nickname, the scenery I hadn’t seen in 200 years unfolded before my eyes.
“Ooh!! This is it! This is the scent of modern people!”
The gallery felt like an oasis in the desert to my eyes that had only seen blood, war, death, and corpse fragments for 200 years.
Even though it was a special community only for awakened people, this space where brainless posts, profanity, and nonsense ran rampant… ah, paradise of galgal!
Unable to hide my excitement, I immediately used the floating hologram keyboard to start writing my first post.
[Title: Aah, you idiots, welcome. Newbie who gets to galgal after 200 years.]
[Author: NecroEmpress]
While I lived in Barzena, everything else was fine, but the otherworld people were a bit too clean? I guess you could say they didn’t smell like people.
But here, the smell of idiots’ gathering place is so strong it’s happy to die.
-?? Suddenly shooting wide area from the first post?
-Why wide area? I’m not an idiot.
-Hide the gal log and don’t say that? It’s chaotic.
-Haha, caught?
-Really new today? Why crazy from the first day?
-Title so scratched, came in scratching belly, idiot hunters lol
“Ooh… this is it! This is the scent of Korea I missed!”
I completely immersed myself in galgal, forgetting that I had become a woman, and kept reading the rapidly updating comments.
“Soldier? Speaking of which, what happened to my subordinates in Barzena?”
One user’s comment reminded me of a forgotten fact.
Whether my soldiers who helped me process countless kingdoms, empires, and other races over 200 years had safely followed me to Earth.
“Well, I can just check… assuming I can summon them properly here too, Death Knights should be enough.”
I muttered quietly and snapped my fingers.
At the same time, pitch-black mana flowing from my fingertips spread throughout the room, forming a large magic circle on the floor.
“Kukukung—!”
The magic circle began to glow black, the cheap one-room floor began to shake slightly, and soon a massive silhouette slowly emerged from the black shadows.
A knight in iron helmet and armor, red will-o’-the-wisp flickering in his eyes.
A loyal knight who was reborn through death and followed only his master.
The Death Knight had been safely summoned.
“Crururur…”
He knelt in front of me and said.
“Master. Command.”
“Ooh… summoned well? Even though my appearance became so cute, you recognize me?”
“Of course. The soul hasn’t changed, so there’s no reason I can’t recognize it.”
“Good.”
I had briefly thought it was ominous if I attacked the moment I saw me as a woman.
But as expected, my loyal subordinate.
After confirming the undead had been safely summoned, I took a photo of the Death Knight to post in the community.
But at that moment.
“Ting—!”
“Special monster summon successful!”
“Entity name: Death Knight / Rank: SSS”
“…Eh? SSS-rank?”
The System notification suddenly rang, and the Death Knight who had no rank or anything suddenly got one.
Of course.
“Whatever, whatever, let’s eat kimchi.”
“Kimchi? Understood.”
I had no particular thought, so I took a photo of the Death Knight through the System and posted it to the community.