4 Just a Side Character
"Whoops." Behrman appeared from below Ana's newly transformed masculine falling body and caught him like a princess. "Ya didn't have to hit me so much. It hurts ya know."
The romance was developing smoothly between them as Behrman gazed into Ana's eyes, bringing his heart close to Ana's chiseled chest but…
Ana punched Behrman in the face again, this time dealing insignificant damage, and rendered all such fantasies out of the table.
"What do you mean by femboy?" Ana asked Behrman as they descended down to the ground, beside the gigantic crater in the barren and empty land that Ana had created.
"It is exactly what I mean."
No sooner did Behrman plant his foot on the ground than Ana jumped out of his ugly embrace.
"Just get to the point. Am I some freak now? A mixture of man and woman? A crazy monster that swings both ways?" Ana was anxious about his new identity.
Inside his heart, he desperately hoped that he wasn't a woman.
"No no. You're perfectly a man." Behrman flicked his fingers again and Ana's body started to revert back to a more feminine appearance. "Look for yourself if ya don't believe me."
[Ana Krauser: Rank (SSS/F)
Current Body in Use: Female (SSS)]
Ana examined this body, that Behrman claimed to belong to the chauvinistic dominant side, carefully.
Indeed, true to Behrman's words, Ana found that his private appendage was still present, and while he had no fat on his chest to call breasts, the overall frame of this 'femboy' body was thin, slender and very toned. His hair, which was silver in colour, was long and reached all the way down to his thighs.
If he were, in his previous self, asked to rate an image of this body after hiding the anomalies of the lower part, he would not hesitate at all to rate it a perfect ten.
"Are my chromosomes anomalous?" Ana asked Behrman.
"They're perfectly paternal!" Behrman made an X and Y pose with his body before moving on to his annoying act of finger flicking again.
Ana's body changed back to a taller and more muscular shape while his hair shrunk upto a perfect fade cut.
"Sigh…" Ana was tired both mentally and physically from all the shape shifting. Genuinely tired.
Maybe all the events and fighting had finally taken a toll on him.
He pulled on the strand of hair falling on his eye and found that it was grey in colour. Different bodies having differently coloured hair, a small detail that Ana might have missed otherwise, thankfully presented itself to him even though he hadn't asked for it in the least. Truthfully, Ana had no idea what he would do with this new knowledge of his, this knowledge that segregated and gifted him with two new identities, polar opposites in nature and battle power.
"Oh, ya must be feeling tired." Behrman came and held Ana's shoulder. "Let me help with that."
[Syncing male and female bodies…]
"You're feeling tired because your weaker male version can't handle the strain your stronger feminine side exerted on itself." Behrman explained.
[Sync complete
Skill sharing between bodies available]
"I've made it so that your weaker body can feed off the power of the stronger one, as much as its capacity allows."
[Passive Skill: Skill Sharing acquired]
"Behrman." Feeling his body energized again but not having the reciprocal congruence in his battered soul, Ana touched Behrman's shoulder on the other side. "What did I ever do wrong to you?"
"Eh. What're ya saying dude? You're like my best friend!" Behrman smiled at Ana.
"Then…why…" Ana's face sulked with a mix of depression and lost hope, "Why did you have to put that female body in the recipe?"
According to Ana, Behrman's cooking was a pure nightmare, a recipe for impending disaster.
"Dude I had to. Did you forget? This game is for Pure Pure Lovers! You do understand, right?"
"No Behrman, I don't…" Ana ultimately gave in and decided to listen to this crazy artist who had shattered his cherished pride. "Please explain…"
He desperately wanted to know what was this great cause, or should he say, great 'game' that had forced him to turn into something that would make him hesitate to view his own reflection.
In the back of his mind, he does recall hearing about a very hit dating game that his ex-girlfriend used to play all the time but Ana was too lazy to ever pay attention to it.
"Oh wait, looks like the military is coming." But Behrman quickly opened another one of his dimensional gates and pulled Ana in.
It only took a second before they exited the desolate and empty lands in which they had fought moments ago.
…
..
.
On the other side of the portal, Ana and Behrman reappeared on the rooftop of a building.
Ana found it particularly peculiar and strange, as if his luck was playing him in circles, since he had returned back to a place similar to the one from where all this melodrama started.
"Now, it looks like we're clear. So I'll start explaining now." Behrman did one of his fancy finger flicks again and Ana's naked body got covered with clothes that resembled a school uniform.
"Ana, you have been tasked to complete the game Pure Pure Lovers Paradise."
"You have already mentioned that before. Explain to me why I have been bestowed with a flippable girly appearance and why I should not start hitting you again for not making me normal." Ana demanded an explanation from Behrman.
"Woah scary dude. But sorry, I'll explain it to you." Behrman bowed elegantly.
Ana's patience was running extremely thin and Behrman could probably sense it because he soon started to explain Ana's task in detail.
"Since ya had come to this game world, or supposed to come at least, as a female, your original task was to kill the heroines in the story and disrupt the power of the Empress who rules the main empire predominant in this matriarchal world."
Ana only stared at Behrman, without interrupting his speech, and contemplated his life's choices.
"And now, as you have chosen to be a dude, you cannot rule the Empire with just a male body."
Ana clicked his tongue because Behrman's words stinged him. It was not a choice that he was a guy. He was a guy because he was a guy. He couldn't be a helicopter now if he suddenly wanted to. Or could he...? Ana decided that he didn't wish to find out.
"Why can't I just overthrow the empress while being a man?" Ana questioned him.
"The game's in-built laws prevent anyone from doing that. Surviving as a male worker is fine, but you have to be a female in order to rule this empire as its queen or the society here will rebel."
"Okay fine." Ana rubbed his eyes and digested the utter horse poop that Behrman was spewing. "But I'm not killing any girls."
Ana may have been a controversial man in his past life, but he was no lady killer.
"I have certain codes that I follow." And one of them involved not brutally assaulting a pretty woman, not unless his life was threatened at least.
"Yeah dude, I agree with you on that one." Behrman crossed his arms and nodded his head.
[New Main Task: Take over the role of the protagonist of Pure Pure Lovers Paradise
Current completion : 0%]
"So that's why I suggest a different idea, why not just steal the girls and bring them over to your side?" Behrman smiled.
"What?" Ana's consciousness fell from the sky. "What did you just say?"
"Plus dude, ya do know that you're just a side character in this game, right?"
"..."
Ana's headache was back in full swing.
"Who's there on the rooftop?" Out of nowhere, a female voice interrupted Ana and Behrman's intense conversation.
"Oops. Looks like my time's up." Behrman jumped like a dancer into one of his travel gates. "Just use your watch to access your system anytime you're in a pickle."
"Wait, where are you going?" Ana chased after him.
"Take care dude, tata." But Behrman's exit was faster and Ana narrowly missed him.
Ana internally cursed Behrman with all his vocabulary but soon sighed when he understood that he had been left alone in the middle of a strange place.
"What are you doing here?"
And to add burden to his jumbled thoughts, a stunning woman with green hair greeted him.
