Dreams and Hopes Might Be Like This (2)

“Then I’ll release the transformation now, nyang.”

That was music to my ears. I let out a sigh of relief, and when Cookie waved his hand, my body was once again enveloped in light. Having to play the role of a magical girl at twenty-five was enough to make me sigh, but now that it had come to this, there was no helping it. I had no choice but to accept it. At least they were paying me, so it wasn’t a total loss. Monsters wouldn’t appear every single day, so I just had to endure it when they did. People used female characters in games all the time, right? I could just use whatever magic powers I had to smash the monsters that showed up, and if something really strong appeared, I could just run. …Yeah. That should work, I told myself.

“…………………………Hey.”

“What is it, nyang?”

“I’m still transformed.”

“No, it’s released, nyang. Look properly, nyang.”

I looked down at my body. The jeans and black T-shirt were the same ones I had been wearing when I went to the convenience store earlier. It wasn’t the lewd sight of me wearing nothing but black underwear like the so-called “default” costume. But for some reason, the black T-shirt that had become loose now had its chest area pushed out, and the jeans, along with the boxers I had been wearing underneath, slid down without anything to hold them up. The clothes had returned, but my body was still female.

“I completely disassembled your body at the cellular level, replaced it, and reconstructed it, nyang. There’s no way your original body could produce this appearance, nyang. If I had to perform such a grand magical transformation every single time, I’d be far too exhausted, nyang.”

“What are you saying?”

“Live as a woman, nyang.”

I grabbed Cookie by the head and slammed him against the wall.

“Change me back.”

“I-I can’t, nyang….”

“Change me back!”

“Kuhk!”

I stomped down hard on Cookie’s head. Blood trickled from his nose and he groaned, but there was no helping it. Live as a woman just like this?! After living as a man for over twenty years?!

“I’m really going to kill you. This isn’t a joke. So change me back. Right now.”

I shook Cookie violently and threw him around. Covered in bruises all over, Cookie spoke in a trembling voice as if he were about to die.

“I-if you want to go back… hah, you just have to meet the quota, nyang….”

Quota? What was that?

“If you defeat monsters… points set by Magic Land will accumulate, nyang… With those points… you can even terminate the contract and return to normal….”

“How do I use the points?”

“S-say ‘Open Point Shop,’ nyang.”

“Open Point Shop.”

I said it right away. A translucent holographic window appeared before my eyes, just like before. Along with the text “Current Points: 0pt,” various items were listed below in a row. There was all sorts of stuff. There were also categories like and . It was just like a game. I scrolled down and checked the items. Finally, what I wanted appeared.

A sigh escaped me. At least was 10pt and was 1,000pt, but this alone was nearly ten million points…

“Hey, this is…”

“It’s not me, it’s Magic Land’s rule, nyang. There’s no point complaining to me.”

“How can you even call that a rule…!”

“Haa, this is annoying, nyang.”

Cookie extended his tiny hand. What was he trying to do now? I was curious what new threat he would come up with this time.

“Watch closely, nyang.”

“Watch what.”

“Sleep, Red Sun!”

With a sharp tap!, a heavy fatigue suddenly pressed down on my head. Huh, what…? Sleepy……?

I collapsed onto the bed. I was sleepy. My eyelids were heavy. My vision was turning pitch black.

“Sleep well, nyang. Dream of me, nyang.”

Damn it, you damn doll……

“Mmmnya~.”

Unable to resist the approaching sleep, I eventually fell into a deep slumber.

“Has she fallen asleep, nyang?”

The sound of steady breathing could be heard. Even in her sleeping form, there was a strange sensuality, despite having only just become a woman. It must have been because it was an ideal body created by magic. Cookie floated in the air, looking down at her, ‍‍‌‌⁠​​⁠‌​​‍​​‍​‌​⁠‍‌‍⁠⁠‌⁠‌‍‌‍‌‌‌‍⁠​‌​‌​‌‍‌‌‌⁠‍​​‌‍⁠‌‌⁠⁠then gently descended beside her.

“It would be troublesome if she kept rebelling pointlessly like this… I’ll help her a little, nyang. Be grateful, nyang.”

A faint light gathered in Cookie’s tiny hand. He placed his glowing hand on the head of the sleeping “magical girl (25).”

“「You are a woman, nyang」…, 「There is nothing strange about being a woman, nyang」…, 「You are a magical girl of justice, nyang」….”

It was hypnosis magic. As a fairy of Magic Land, it was not strange for him to use magic to some extent. Without realizing that her thoughts were being altered according to this suspicious fairy’s tastes, the one who had become a magical girl… she simply slept soundly with a lovely expression on her face.

When I woke up in the morning, the fairy called Cookie was gone. It didn’t seem like everything had just been a convenient dream. Even with the slightest lowering of my head, I could see the full, ample chest rising from my bosom, and below that, the emptiness where the wind passed through. …I was still in a woman’s body. Yesterday’s events hadn’t been a dream. Only that doll-like con artist of a fairy had disappeared.

“……Did he run off, that bastard.”

Yeah, just thinking about it made my insides boil, but it was much better not to see him. With that thought, my stomach growled. ‘I’m hungry.’ For now, I should eat breakfast and think about the future slowly. I got off the bed.

‘……Something’s off.’

After roughly making do with whatever was in the house for breakfast (though it was already almost lunchtime), finishing a quick cleaning, and sitting on the bed, I decided to sort out the current situation. No matter how many times I checked my body, it was still a woman’s. My chest was swollen, and below, instead of anything, there was only a thin, indented axe mark. It was supposed to be an ideal female body, but no matter how much I looked at it, no lust arose. Was it because it was my own body, or had my mind also changed into that of a woman? I frowned and fell into thought. Why did I feel so at ease? Until last night, I had felt an enormous burden and difficulty because of becoming a woman… but strangely, now I didn’t feel the slightest anxiety. Rather, I felt comfortable because it was a woman’s body. As if I had been born a woman. Well. It didn’t matter, I guess. Sometimes things that seem incredibly serious feel like nothing after a good night’s sleep.

“I might as well prepare myself to live as a woman for a while….”

I scratched my messy hair. Maybe I should smoke a cigarette. The smoke might help me calm down a bit.

“I’m all out….”

Come to think of it, the reason I had been heading to the convenience store yesterday was to buy cigarettes. This wasn’t good. My heart, which hadn’t wavered even after becoming a woman, was starting to waver. My fingertips trembled. Cigarettes, I had no cigarettes…! …Damn it, thinking about it again pissed me off. Because of that damn doll bastard… Should I go out and buy some now? In this state? I looked down at my body. Both the pants and panties were so loose that I was only wearing a single T-shirt now. Even when I was a man, I had preferred loose clothes, so the T-shirt alone reached down to my thighs, barely. Well, it seemed like the important parts were covered, but… going out like this was a bit…

“First, the clothes are the problem.”

What should I do? Maybe order something online. If I ordered now, when would it arrive? But I had ‍‍‌‌⁠​​⁠‌​​‍​​‍​‌​⁠‍‌‍⁠⁠‌⁠‌‍‌‍‌‌‌‍⁠​‌​‌​‌‍‌‌‌⁠‍​​‌‍⁠‌‌⁠⁠no experience buying women’s clothes… Haa. Should I call a friend or something? But showing them this appearance was a bit much. It wasn’t like I planned to hide it forever, though.

While I was pondering, a mechanical voice suddenly echoed in my head. Ah, this was that. The guidance voice Cookie had mentioned.

“Costume?”

Transformation. Costume. Come to think of it, yesterday it had been the . That one with just underwear and a garter belt. …Was that what a magical girl costume was? The frilly, fluttery kind I had seen in anime when I was a kid.

So it was possible, at least. Anyway, random meant I wouldn’t know what I would get. Lucky and I hit the jackpot, unlucky and I got garbage, but I could remove it freely. There was no reason not to try.

“……………………….Huh? Wait a second. What did you just call me?”

Putting aside game-like terms such as “player,”

“Kei…?”

I hurriedly opened the status window. On the status window, where many fields had been blank, the two characters “Kei” were clearly written next ‍‍‌‌⁠​​⁠‌​​‍​​‍​‌​⁠‍‌‍⁠⁠‌⁠‌‍‌‍‌‌‌‍⁠​‌​‌​‌‍‌‌‌⁠‍​​‌‍⁠‌‌⁠⁠to the field. Huh, uh, my name, this? Wait, my original name was… ‘I can’t remember. What was my original name again?’ It was as if a fog had settled over my mind; I couldn’t recall my original name. This was confusing. Disturbing.

“……Well, whatever. I wouldn’t have been able to use my original name with this body anyway. More importantly, let’s do it. Costume Change. How do I do it?”

In an instant, my body was enveloped in light, and the large T-shirt I had been wearing scattered into particles. Another set of sparkling particles gathered on my body, and

“Oh……?”

Before long, I was wearing proper women’s clothing. A tight-fitting black T-shirt and a dangerously short white miniskirt. Even a luxurious handbag that women might carry was in my hand. When I tugged at the front of the T-shirt, I saw expensive lace underwear underneath. I skipped checking below since it was inconvenient, but I could tell by feel that I was definitely wearing proper panties. …Unlike what I had imagined, the outfit that appeared had an everyday feel. It was a relief, but had there been no option for something with higher defense?

‘Asking for that much would be greedy, I suppose.’

Anyway, I had obtained decent clothes with this. Good.

“First, cigarettes.”

I might as well buy some clothes while I was at it.

At that moment, I made one fatal mistake. In my haste to smoke, I had failed to check what needed checking. Because of that, I would come to regret it bitterly later.

“Are you there, nyang, Mekrak King?”

“Hm? You came. It’s been a while.”

“I’ve been busy with this and that.”

Inside the headquarters of the evil organization Mekrak, in the office deep within, a woman wearing glasses who had been alone—the Mekrak King—suddenly saw a strange sliding door appear before her eyes, and someone opened it and stepped through. Floating in the air was something resembling a cute cat plush doll. The fairy Cookie. A being of Magic Land and the very one who had turned Kei into a magical girl just yesterday (or rather, early this morning).

“Coming in person like this means you have something to say, fairy of Magic Land?”

“That’s right, nyang. I didn’t come here to play around out of boredom, nyang. I want to spend my free time eating sweet desserts and finally watching the lewd videos I’ve been putting off, nyang.”

Cookie swam through the air and approached the Mekrak King, then casually picked up and ate the cookie that had been on the desk. The Mekrak King gently stroked Cookie’s tail. From the outside, they looked like nothing more than a young lady who loved her pet.

“I found quite a good vessel and turned her into a magical girl, nyang. You can use her as a magic power vending machine ‍‍‌‌⁠​​⁠‌​​‍​​‍​‌​⁠‍‌‍⁠⁠‌⁠‌‍‌‍‌‌‌‍⁠​‌​‌​‌‍‌‌‌⁠‍​​‌‍⁠‌‌⁠⁠as much as you want, nyang?”

“Hoh.”

The Mekrak King let out an admiring sigh. While this arrogant fairy had turned many people into “magical girls” at his whim, there weren’t many he had described as “quite” good.

“What’s her name?”

“She’s using the name Kei now, nyang.”

“Good. I’ll pay special attention.”

“That arrogant tone is annoying, nyang.”

Though his tone was impudent, the Mekrak King snorted and let it pass.

“But you really are a nasty one. How many humans have you deceived and sold off to us?”

“I explained it properly, nyang. That they need to become magical girls for the sake of the world, for the sake of Earth, nyang. As long as those humans exist, there’s no need to touch other inefficient Earthlings, nyang.”

“They themselves probably don’t think that way at all.”

“Doesn’t matter, nyang. Those guys will believe they’re justice and defeat you with the power of magic, nyang. In that case, I’ll also believe in my own justice and do as I please, nyang. What’s the problem, nyang?”

The Mekrak King narrowed her eyes behind her glasses and looked at Cookie. Having finished eating the snack, Cookie wagged his tail and bid farewell.

“Then I’ll be going, nyang. I leave the rest to you, nyang. Enjoy the humiliation, nyang.”

His figure disappeared beyond the sliding door, and soon even the door itself vanished without a trace.