Chapter 12
Chapter 12
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Translator: MadScientist
Chapter: 12
Chapter Title: The Changing Ga-eul
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⚙ SHOP LIST ⚙ [Skills] [Items] ─ [Sort Ascending] [Search] Remaining Balance: 15,000,000 won [Eyes] [Nose] [Lips] [Facial Contour] [Hair] [Voice] [Breasts] [Body Adjustment] ... [Heavy Strike] [Low Kick] [Uppercut] ... [Massage] [Baking] [Tai Chi Fist] [Flexible Body] ... [Random Dildo Summon] ... [Steel Camouflage] [Beast's Heart] ... An endless, sticky feast of skills unrolled before me like a taffy pull with no end in sight.
The first things that caught my eye were the top-listed skills related to appearance.
There were just way too many.
Par really must be the director of a Gangnam plastic surgery clinic.
Excluding the skills tied to physical appearance, the actively usable ones were priced way too high. With my limited funds right now, they weren't even options.
So, what I needed to focus on immediately was changing my looks—and I had to think this through carefully.
I couldn't sell my face on cam broadcasts just yet. There were tons of face-related skills, so it made sense to save up and upgrade those later.
That meant sticking with the dullahan look for a while.
Next, I filtered out the skills I couldn't use right away.
That left skills excluding the face: voice at 50 million won—immediately out. So, hair, breasts, and Body Adjustment were the survivors.
After agonizing over it, I tapped on each of the final three. The descriptions for hair and breasts were similar, but Body Adjustment was a bit different.
Body Adjustment: Your body becomes beautiful. Your body is reconstituted. Purchases stack to increase skill level. Price: 200,000 won "Reconstituted?"
The Par-special bracelet from a few days ago flashed in my mind.
"Was 'reconstitute' always such an unsettling word...?"
I had to do it, but damn, it was unnerving.
I looked down at my body—long hair reaching my tailbone aside, there wasn't a hint of femininity anywhere.
The peach had changed things a bit, but it was still just... that.
Basically, a guy with long hair.
Staring daggers at the word "reconstitute" floating in front of me, I pulled out a cigarette and stuck it in my mouth.
"Gotta do it anyway, but man, I wanna put it off."
I lit up, sighed, then raised my finger and hit the buy button.
⚙ SYSTEM NOTIFICATION ⚙ Purchase cannot be undone. A gasp escaped me.
"Does that mean I can't undo my life?"
Steeling myself, I hit confirm.
—Crack!
"Crack? Feels like a scene I've seen somewhere...?"
—Snap!
"Guh?"
Suddenly my waist gave out, and I lurched. The cigarette slipped from my fingers, hit the ground, and sparked.
With my waist gone slack like that, I couldn't stay upright. My knees buckled toward the dirt.
My arms trembled as I braced against the ground to keep from toppling.
Bone-cracking sounds kept echoing as I stared at the floor. The only thing in view—my arms and hands—had wisps of smoke rising from them.
"Huuu... No pain, surprisingly?"
Vitality flooded my utterly drained body like it had never happened.
I stood, dusted off my hands, and checked the back. I could guess what that smoke had been.
My skin had improved dramatically.
It had been rough and crappy to begin with, so the change was obvious at a glance.
No— it wasn't just improved. It was normal, like any regular person's.
"That dark skin turned flesh-toned."
Realizing I couldn't keep going in the yard, I picked up the fallen cigarette, extinguished it, and headed inside to the bathroom mirror.
"Whoa, just the skin change turned me from beast to human."
I swung my arms and legs around—no clue what caused those bone sounds.
"What was that? Free chiropractic?"
Apart from the skin, I had no idea what had changed. I went to my room, unrolled the folded mattress, lay down spread-eagled, and opened the skill window.
Body Adjustment Lv. 1 Price: 400,000 won "400,000 won... Four days' pay."
Still, the thought that I'd earn it back by working my body filled me with resolve.
⚙ SYSTEM NOTIFICATION ⚙ ... —Snap
"Guh."
Every time a snap echoed through my body, my breath caught—but there was hardly any pain. Lying there, rolling my eyes, I saw smoke rising from my whole body, nails included.
"Oh! Look how pretty my nails got."
As the smoke faded, I kept buying mindlessly, flat on my back.
⚙ SYSTEM NOTIFICATION ⚙ Body Adjustment Lv. 4 Price: 3,200,000 won "Last one—go!"
⚙ SYSTEM NOTIFICATION ⚙ ... In that instant, the room burst into full bloom like peach blossoms—bright pink flowers of light fluttered beautifully.
The glowing petals slowly settled, sinking into my body as if taking root.
⚙ SYSTEM NOTIFICATION ⚙ Peach blossoms settle into your body. ⚙ SYSTEM NOTIFICATION ⚙ Fallen Fruit piece reacts to the peach-blossom-infused body and begins digesting. Peach scent settles into your body. Your body becomes even sweeter. ─Your body begins to reside in Heavenly Peach─ ✨ Body Blooming with Peach Blossoms ✨ Peach blossoms settle into the body, and peach blossom color lingers. Price: Conditional Transcendent The changes kept coming, and the flood of messages left me dazed.
How long ago did I eat that fruit? Why was it only digesting now? It didn't make sense.
And what the hell did "transcendent" even mean?
I'd expected something flashy like stars dangling from the Voice skill, but nope. Tapping purchase did nothing.
"At least tell me the condition."
As I lay there scanning the messages, a sweet scent started wafting from somewhere.
I lifted my arm and sniffed—subtle, sweet, mood-lifting peach.
So this was what "peach scent settling into the body" meant.
A soft, womanly breath mixed in, giving it a sexy yet natural vibe—fresh, perky, and downright pleasant.
The silver lining: it wasn't strong enough to notice unless you were right next to me.
I'd almost become a walking perfume pouch.
The addictive, feel-good aroma had me burying my nose in my arm, sniffing away, until curiosity about the full changes hit. I bolted to the bathroom.
"Whoaaa..."
I stripped naked and inspected my transformed body from head to toe.
Every inch of skin was baby-soft smooth, glossy like it was oiled.
My cheeks had a light peachy flush—no makeup needed for that lively, cute glow.
The skin was snow-white, but with rosy blooms in spots, blending into something peach-like.
Finger tips, toes, knees, elbows, heels, shoulder blades, hip bones—places usually a bit redder—were now a soft, bright rosy pink.
My ugly, stubby pencil-stub fingers were now long and slender despite the hand size, tips a pretty rosy hue. Couldn't get prettier.
Nails and toenails gleamed like fresh clear manicure and pedicure.
Glancing back, a cinched waist met a plump, pretty butt—the center rosy like fruit, downright seductive.
"Whoa, thin waist makes the hips and ass look even sexier. Peach-butt central."
Belly pale and smooth, navel adorably reshaped. Just looking made me crave belly kisses and raspberries.
Thighs perfectly fleshed—wear short shorts on the street, and every guy with a pulse would stare.
Could a person even look like this? Straight out of a comic.
The ultimate ideal form humans could dream up—a body straight from fantasy.
Except the chest.
"Flat as a Manchurian plain."
Nipples a lovely pink, but nothing to write home about.
"Status Window!!"
⚙ SYSTEM NOTIFICATION ⚙ Remaining Balance: 8,800,000 won Breasts: Breasts enlarge. Breasts become beautiful. Purchases stack to increase skill level. Price: 50,000 won My finger, heading straight for buy, slammed on the brakes.
"Hmm... Should I just leave it like this?"
Men like breasts.
But that doesn't mean they hate women with small ones.
What gets dicks crazy isn't breasts—it's women.
Would anyone hate a beautiful woman for small breasts? Hell no.
Having them makes you happy, but lacking them doesn't make you hate her.
Girls stressing that guys will hate small tits? Massive delusion.
On blind dates, guys ask "pretty?" not "big tits?"
Plus, small ones let you snipe that niche fetish crowd who go nuts for flat.
"Still, bigger's better."
They like small, but love big. That's dicks for ya.
"Let's do it."
⚙ SYSTEM NOTIFICATION ⚙ Breasts Lv. 1 A slight mound formed. A-cup territory?
⚙ SYSTEM NOTIFICATION ⚙ ... I blankly watched them grow as I kept tapping, until the skill window stopped responding.
Breasts Lv. 5 Breasts transform into the most ideal form matching the body. [Max Lv] ⚙ SYSTEM NOTIFICATION ⚙ Remaining Balance: 7,250,000 won "Now the chest is majestic."
Gravity-defying like in anime—perky, bouncy, the kind that'd make any guy drool. Not a hint of sag.
People say this size causes back pain and sagging, but I felt none of that.
"Barely any weight either."
Anyone who saw these would get an instant hard-on.
Cinched waist, huge tits—gravity could eat shit. Like a pro illustrator had hand-drawn every curve on a petite anime girl.
Big, yet perfectly gathered and perky, suiting my small frame just right.
At this point, they held shape without a bra. Did I even need one?
Poking and prodding my new chest, I glanced at the mirror—and some grotesque mismatch stared back.
Sleek, flowing ideal male fantasy body from the neck down.
And a half-finished woman's face.
Improved skin brought a pretty peachy blush to my cheeks. The fruit from Par had normalized it somewhat, but next to this breathtaking body, the contrast made it look even weirder.
"Talk about peak imbalance."
It was my body, but I couldn't help a disbelieving chuckle.
"Hmm... 7.25 million left. Eyes next? Or hair?"
With a mask, nose and mouth stay hidden, but half-cam below the neck would show hair.
"Status Window!!"
⚙ SYSTEM NOTIFICATION ⚙ ...