Chapter 148: Femboy transformation!
[Sudden Quest!]
[Quest: Bring Sera Kaede to Pound Town.]
[Failure Penalty:]
Lose 98% of girth and length.
Both balls explode. One at a time.
Permanent transformation into a femboy.
[Reward:]
Mystery Gift Box.
$10,000,000.
[Time Limit: 1 Hour.]
"..."
Blink.
Blink.
Blink.
Kaizen blinked so many times his eyes started buffering like a 2004 dial-up internet connection.
The blue system screen didn’t change.
He rubbed his eyes vigorously until he saw celestial stars.
Still there.
He violently pinched his own neck.
Ouch. Still fucking there.
He grabbed his own head with both hands and shook it back and forth like a dog trying to eject a wet chew toy.
The glowing blue text remained completely, horrifyingly unfazed.
"..."
"...What the actual, literal, cosmic fuck?"
Kaizen slowly, carefully reread the penalty.
Once.
Twice.
Three times.
"...Lose ninety-eight percent..."
"...Balls explode... one at a time... why is there a delayed timing sequence on that?!"
"...Become a femboy..."
His brain bypassed all the physical mutilation and skipped straight to the last line item.
"...Become a WHAT?"
His soul almost alt-F4’d itself straight out of his body under the heavens.
"WHAT KIND OF DOG-SHIT, UNHINGED PUNISHMENT IS THAT?!" Kaizen roared internally, his jaw practically unhinging.
"Losing my junk?! Fine! That’s standard villain-system evil!"
"My balls exploding in a localized double-kill event?! Also evil!"
"But THIS?!"
Kaizen pointed at the floating holographic screen with a violently trembling finger, his eyes bloodshot with pure, existential panic.
"WHO THE FUCK DESIGNED THIS SYSTEM?!"
"YOU CREATOR MOTHERFUCKER, COME OUT HERE RIGHT NOW!"
"I JUST WANT TO TALK!"
"...WITH A STEEL CHAIR! TO YOUR FACE!"
Silence.
The System gave exactly zero, mathematically impossible fucks.
Kaizen’s left eye began to twitch uncontrollably.
"No..."
"No, no, no, no, NO..."
"A femboy?"
"ME?!"
He looked down at his broad, muscular chest. He looked at his calloused, lawless hands.
Then he looked back at the screen.
Then he looked down again.
"...Absolutely the fuck not."
Unfortunately, his own high-tier imagination immediately betrayed him.
A pleated pastel skirt.
Thigh-high striped socks.
Some 200lb Orc warlord calling him "cute."
Him holding a pink boba tea and calling a sweaty Guild Master "daddy."
Kaizen physically recoiled so hard his spine cracked like a whip.
"GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY HEAD!"
He slapped himself across the face twice, hard enough to leave bright red palm prints.
The mental images only became higher resolution. 4K OLED rendering.
"NOOOOO!"
He pointed an accusing finger up at the invisible, rusty-virgin creator in the sky.
"WHAT’S YOUR DAMAGE?!"
"WHO HURT YOU?!"
"WHICH THERAPIST GAVE UP ON YOUR SORRY ASS?!"
"DID A GYM GIRL REJECT YOU IN MIDDLE SCHOOL AND NOW I HAVE TO PAY THE PRICE?!"
The System remained dead silent, the blue light glowing with pure, unadulterated malicious apathy.
"..."
"...Motherfucker."
It didn’t even have the decency to deny it.
Kaizen slowly turned his head.
His dark, panicked eyes locked onto Sera, who was still kneeling on the damp cave floor, panting, completely dazed, her ass cheeks still glowing red from his slap, her moist center throbbing in unfulfilled agony.
[Time Remaining: 59 Minutes, 42 Seconds.]
Kaizen’s face went completely pale.
’I have less than an hour to turn this athletic, anger-issues gym slut into a willing participant, or I’m going to be shopping for maid dresses on Amazon by dinner time.’
He swallowed hard.
Deep in thought.
Very deep.
Life-changingly deep.
Meanwhile...
Sera was having a complete mental breakdown on the cold floor.
’...What the fuck is wrong with this guy?’
One second he was aggressively grabbing her bare ass cheeks and sawing her g-string like a lunatic.
The next second?
He was screaming at absolutely nobody.
Pointing frantically into empty space.
Threatening the ceiling with a steel chair.
Making expressions that belonged strictly inside an asylum textbook.
’...Maybe he really is a retard.’
She had been cornered by a literal psycho.
BOOM!
Three figures suddenly crashed onto the cave floor.
Dust flew everywhere.
"Sera-chan!!"
Leo shot forward like a misguided missile.
"Are you alright?! Did something happen to you?!"
He hurried to Sera’s side, checking her over from head to toe in a panic.
Seeing Leo fuss over another girl...
Hina’s eyebrows twitched hard.
A dangerous, sweet smile appeared on her face.
Then she turned toward Kaizen.
She had watched his entire absurd performance from above with her Ghost Eyes.
The random screaming.
The violent swearing.
The furious conversation with invisible sky demons.
The dramatic pointing.
The guy clearly wasn’t doing anything to Sera anymore.
If anything...
He looked like he needed immediate, emergency psychiatric assistance.
’No point stalling anymore.’
Hina loosened her tight shoulders.
’He wasn’t doing anything to that gym slut anyway.’
Whatever he had done, he was finished.
And it had become completely impossible to stall Leo-kun, who was pacing around like he urgently needed to take a massive shit.
Meanwhile...
Kaito couldn’t care less whether Sera was alive, dead, crying, laughing, or filing a restraining order.
His attention was somewhere else entirely.
His sharp, edgelord eyes slowly swept across the dark surroundings.
A cave.
Dark.
Cold.
Moist enough to make every surface look deeply suspicious.
Jagged rocks covered the walls.
Water dripped rhythmically somewhere in the distance.
The entire place practically screamed:
"A boss fight is about to happen."
Nobody cared.
Kaizen didn’t give a single shit about a boss fight.
His eyes were glued to a giant, glowing, ticking clock in the air.
[Time Remaining: 58 Minutes, 12 Seconds.]
His soul left his body again.
For some godforsaken reason...
The femboy penalty scared Kaizen far more than losing ninety-eight percent of his junk.
Or even having his balls explode.
One after another.
That wasn’t death.
That was the absolute, cosmic execution of his masculinity.
"..."
His entire body shivered.
"...Never."
"I’m okay, Leo-kun," Sera said with a soft, relieved smile, forcing her trembling legs to hold her up. "I was just waiting for you guys to come down."
Leo let out a long, pathetic sigh of relief.
"Thank God... Hina saw something down here and told us to hold on until she confirmed it was safe."
Sera froze.
’Hina...’
’Ghost Eyes...’
Her heartbeat instantly skipped three entire beats.
Saw...
Something?!
’N-No way...’
’Don’t tell me...’
’She saw EVERYTHING that happened down here?!’
Her body went completely stiff.
Slowly...
Very slowly...
She turned her head toward Hina.
"..."
No eye contact.
Not even a single glance in her direction.
Hina wasn’t looking at her at all.
Her gaze remained dangerously locked on Kaizen.
Who...
Was still standing there.
Completely motionless.
Lost in whatever catastrophic mental civil war he was fighting against the universe.
Sera blinked.
Then looked back at Hina.
Then back at Kaizen.
"...Hehehe."
A dark, triumphant grin slowly spread across her face.
’I know that look.’
’Oh... this just became insanely interesting.’
Every girl knew that look.
The suspicious, territorial one.
The one that silently screamed,
"Who the hell is that woman and why are you looking at her?"
Sera almost laughed out loud.
’Princess...’
’You are so fucking cooked.’
She looked at Kaizen.
The clueless, lawless idiot who had aggressively grabbed her bare cheeks and sawed her g-string earlier.
Then back at Hina.
The athletic, competitive gears inside her head began spinning at Mach 5 speed under the heavens.
A wonderfully evil, highly toxic plan was rapidly taking shape.
’You stupid princess...’
’You’ve always loved stealing things from me.’
’My spotlight.’
’My achievements.’
’Even the people around me.’
Her smile widened.
Dangerously.
’This time...’
’I’m taking something from you instead.’
She glanced at Kaizen once more.
’Even if it’s just a trash-faced pervert...’
’It’s yours.’
’Which makes stealing it a million times more satisfying.’
The smile on Sera’s face grew sweeter.
Which somehow made it ten times more terrifying.
Meanwhile...
Kaizen stared at the floating holographic screen in absolute, raw horror.
[Time Remaining: 57 Minutes, 04 Seconds.]
He took a deep breath.
Looked at Sera’s newly sinister, thirsty smile.
Looked at Hina’s burning glare.
’I don’t know what the fuck either of these crazy bitches are thinking right now...’
Kaizen cracked his knuckles, his eyes turning cold and desperate.
’...but someone is getting taken to Pound Town in the next fifty-seven minutes, or I’m buying a skirt.’
Clap! Clap!
Kaizen suddenly clapped his hands together.
Everyone turned to look at him.
He nodded with deadly, life-or-death seriousness.
"Alright."
"Let’s explore the dungeon."
Everyone nodded in unison.
Outwardly...
five young hunters, united by teamwork and shared purpose.
Inwardly...
three completely distinct, highly illegal crimes were actively being planned under the heavens.
Kaizen clenched his fist, his knuckles turning white.
’Survive the quest. Keep my balls. Zero femboy transformation.’
Leo smiled warmly, his heart full of pure, noble innocence.
’I’ll protect Sera-chan with my life.’
Sera smiled even sweeter, her eyes glistening with dark, competitive malice.
’I’m going to steal this trash pervert right out from under your nose, you stupid princess bitch.’
She accepted Leo’s hand and stood up, smoothing down her tight leggings.
Then...
Almost deliberately...
She stood close to Leo.
Very close.
Close enough to make certain high-tier observers take immediate notice.
Hina noticed.
Of course she noticed.
A thick vein instantly popped on her pristine forehead.
Crack.
She nearly ground one of her molars into literal dust.
Then...
She smiled.
A terrifyingly beautiful, highly lethal smile.