I was completely pissed, all of my masculinity had vanished.

  "Wait, how am I supposed to go to school looking like this ?!"

  I relentlessly started to hit the wall in my bedroom as I heard steps from the wood stairs below.

  "Why are you making that much noise, dumba..."

  At my door, a badly shaved bearded man with a whisky bottle in hand confronted me. It was my dad.

  "Kyaaa!"

  "Kya ?"

  I was so embarassed, it seemed as if this body was gifting new sounds I didn't even know I could make.

  "She did tell me this would happen eventually...", he said scratching his head while the odor of the alcohol in the room was getting stronger.

  He wasn't surprised at all, as if he completely expected my body to do a complete 180.

  "Who are you talking about ?"

  As I asked the question, that idiot of a dad passed out drunk on the floor. He never changed , he was always like this. Always drinking from morning to evening.

  I leaped across his body, trying to find a solution to the problem at hand.

  "It's fine, right. Nobody will recognise me anyway, I bet they wouldn't even notice the difference if I just keep using the same uniform."

  The uniform was way too rge but it at least hid the one part of my body that would make it too obvious. Just the tought of wearing a bra for those sent shivers down my spine.

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  I had managed to arrive at Santa Maria unnoticed, although those baggy pants made it kinda hard to walk. I sat in my favourite chair and removed my phone from my pocket.

  "Maybe a skirt would be more confortable."

  I let out while getting weird looks from the people around me. Behind me was Ryder, staring at me in confusion.

  "Sorry, sis but this is where my bro sits. I won't let him have the chance to have a beauty heat his chair while I get no action."

  I couldn't help but feel disgusted by what he just said.

  "Ew, never said that again, bro."

  "Bro ?"

  I realised I messed up by calling him as usual. I can't even begin to imagine how much he'd make fun of me if he found out I turned into a girl somehow.

  "Wait a minute, did you call me a beauty ? Oh my god, ew. You're always like this, stop making moves on every attractive girls you see. "

  I realised for a second this would imply I was seeing myself as an attractive girl. This new body was definitely having some weird effect on my mental.

  "Rejected again..."

  He sighed.

  "By the way, why are you wearing the male uniform ?"

  "I- I prefer pants !"

  " Well, I'm not one to judge."

  I managed to not expose myself like a champ.

  Like a gift from the heavens, the little rascal I was searching for appeared in the cssroom. Her party hat was a very distinct feature after all. She seemed to be humming a song.

  I ran out of the room while capturing my target.

  "Girl, why did you bring me in the toilet ?"

  She had a point. For some reason, the girls bathroom felt like an appropriate pce for discussion in my mind.

  "I need to have a word with you."

  "Oh, I always expected this moment to happen, a petty human wanting my autograph ? Who am I to refuse ? Of course you'd be mesmerised by me."

  She put both of her hand on her hips and pumped her chest.

  "So insufferable..."

  "Excuse me ?!"

  "Me, the magnificent Li, insufferable ? Surely you jest."

  "Why did you suddenly start talking like a noble, you egomaniac witch..."

  "The guy from yesterday ?!"

  "Why are you surprised, aren't you the one who did that to my body ?"

  "Are you actually braindead ?"

  She facepalmed while looking straight at me.

  "I said I use Spatial Magic. Spatial as in Space. Not reality warping, not morphing magic, spa-tial magecraft."

  "Ok, I get it. You have nothing to do with it but surely you have an idea."

  "Hm, I'm a witch my dude. Sure, my mom knows a lot because she's 1225 but i'm just 14. I don't have the knowledge you gain from living centuries."

  "She's what ?!"

  "1225, you got a problem with that ?!"

  "Sounds like a very old grandma."

  "Never say that in front of her."

  Her eyes went bnk as she remisniced about something.

  "You'll get your ass beat senseless..."

  "Ah ! I was getting distracted ! Don't you have any idea of why I could have turned into a girl."

  "Well, if my mom used a phone, I could ask her right now but there's also that option."

  "Hm ?"

  She held her right arm with her left and raised two fingers.

  "Undurchschaubarer Fluchtweg!"

  "Huh ? German ?"

  A giant purple circle appeared from the palm of her hand, gradually cutting open space to reveal a shelf with animal stickers on it.

  "It should be here", she said while passing her arm through the gaping hole that showed another room.

  "This is another level from the walking on walls..."

  "Let's see, grimoires, encyclopedias. Species encyclopedia. Ah, there you go."

  She took out a gigantic book from the hole before it closed. The scriptures on it were inconprehensible.

  "Gender change, gender change.... Ah!"

  "Found something ?", I said while getting closer to her.

  "Just when I said I didn't wanna mess with anything divine..."

  "I remember that but how is that relevant ?"

  She had a pretty serious face while gring at me.

  "You see, I always tought you had a pretty unusual amount of karmic energy for a human ever since I met you the other day but this expins a lot. You probably have even more than me. But why is it that I get a shorter lifespan and you get only this ?"

  "I'm not sure I follow."

  "In short, you aren't human. This curse right here is a result of a taboo union that should never be. You inherited a specific trait of one of your parents without the benefits. You're stuck in that body for eternity . I'm sorry."

  "Not human..."