Magical Girl? Tricked Into It! Chapter 1

Magical Girl? Tricked Into It!

Author: Dimensional Traveler Nep

Synopsis:

Tricked into a contract by a scumbag wizard staff.

Ando Koichi, who felt the 3D world was a trash game, was forcibly turned into a pretty girl.

Upon learning that fighting carried mortal danger, he just wanted to slack off and return to daily life.

Yet unable to break the contract, he was forced to spend his days in the guise of a pretty girl.

To his shock, his childhood friend, playmate from the past, and unrequited crush all crowded around him at this very moment.

"Damn magic staff! If you hadn't tricked me, I wouldn't be caught dead as any magical girl—give me back my normal life!"

"What? I can change back... But think about it, you've gotten used to it after so long, you've made friends, wouldn't it feel weird changing back now?"

"Actually, being a girl isn't bad either." So said the girl who was once a boy.

Volume One: Concerning How I Was Tricked Into Becoming a Magical Girl : Chapter One: The Magical Girl Was Once a Boy

"Roarrrgh!"

Beneath the dim sky, a giant beast emitted a bizarre roar.

It crawled on all fours, its head resembling somewhat of an alligator snapping turtle, though what it carried on its back was not a turtle shell, but layers upon layers of curled-up coils resembling a snail's shell.

It stopped in front of a twenty-story building, opened its blood-alligator maw, and bit down on the structure, tearing off a chunk crunch like eating a piece of chocolate without chewing very thoroughly before swallowing it whole. A bite finished, another followed, and in no time it had consumed half the building.

"Wow, what a great appetite, though who knows what's actually delicious about this junk."

The twin-tailed loli in a cute magenta outer outfit casually tossed aside the binoculars in her hand; the discarded binoculars did not hit the ground, instead turning into a mass of red liquid mid-air, which then transformed into a magic staff of the exact same magenta color.

"Can't be helped, considering the Void World is made of magical energy. If we keep letting this Void Beast eat, it might just evolve."

Clearly a hard metallic creation, this talking magic staff could not only float in mid-air, but also flex its metal rod and front-decoration parts in sync with its speaking tone, looking quite user-friendly.

She rolled her eyes, striking a helpless expression: "It'll be a hassle if it lets it evolve. Come on, Ruby, let's finish it off in one go!"

"Yay! Finish it off!"

The magic staff cheered, transforming into a red liquid that flowed entirely in front of the red-haired loli. After reshaping through magical energy adjustments, it re-transformed into a bow a head taller than the red-haired loli herself.

She lifted her right foot to brace against the bow body, pulling the bowstring taut with both hands.

Magical energy slowly gathered on the bow, and a shaped magical energy arrow transformed into a crimson shooting star that pierced the sky as she released the bowstring.

This precise arrow pierced the head of the feeding Void Beast, sending it off to paradise before it even had time to let out a dying cry.

"Getting dragged in like this every time, when is this ever going to end!"

"You have to believe in yourself, after all, you're the strongest and cutest magical girl."

"But this old man doesn't want to be a magical girl!"

"Being a hot-blooded youth, only to have to go and save the world as a magical girl after turning female—why is my luck so terrible!"

The red-haired loli ranted and vented, shouting up at the sky of this world.

"If you keep yelling, any passing magical girls will know you used to be a guy."

This little cutie was the top star of the Magical Girl Tokyo Branch, code-named "Red Princess", Ando Meiko. It was just that her—his?—becoming a magical girl was purely an accident, seeing as a year ago, she... he? was still just a loser otaku whose confession had failed.

Time rewinds to a year ago.

The boy soaking in the water rested his head against the edge of the bathtub, gazing at the ceiling and letting out a deep sigh.

With his eyes closed and nothing to do, a person naturally recalls recent events.

Today was the third time Ando Koichi had confessed to the girl he liked most, yet it had failed once more, and her rejection had left him feeling utterly despairing.

As expected, the 3D world is just a trash game, he couldn't help mentally complaining to himself.

Though an ordinary-as-ordinary-gets high school otaku, Ando Koichi was slightly chubby, his looks nothing special, yet overall somewhat pleasing to the eye.

When all was said and done, he didn't know why he could keep persisting after being rejected so many times, and even now, illusions of her still lingered.

Closing his eyes, his mind was entirely filled with the bishoujo raising game he had just played...

If my childhood friend were to move and live here...

If the girl a year younger than me next door could still chase after me like before, calling out with that sweet smile, "Big Brother, wait for me," "Big Brother, I like you best"—if things like that were true...

If I were the protagonist in a romance galgame...

If I...

His consciousness gradually blurred until he lost all sensation.

"Ugh... Did I fall asleep..."

Opening his eyes, he found his physical state identical to when he entered the bathtub, yet this was not the bathroom, meaning the place he lay was not inside a tub.

Everything his field of vision touched was pitch black, making him feel as though he had been placed at the start of a game, where the only light sources in the entire world were himself and a blinking point of light resembling a quest objective.

He paced forward toward the bright spot.

Not until he walked right up to it did Ando Koichi's expression shift to shock. The sole thing present was a soft bed, upon which lay a red-haired twin-tailed girl as pure as a newborn infant.

Her skin was white and smooth as milk, and on her somewhat babyish loli face, cherry-red lips parted and closed slightly as if breathing.

With this raw and continuously fluctuating scene before him, he widened his eyes and could not help swallowing a mouthful of saliva.

"What kind of bishoujo raising game god-tier development is this?"

Though the opening seemed thoroughly cliché, it genuinely excited him because this was his exact preference.

Furthermore, the sensation was far too realistic, to the point where Ando Koichi nonsensically pondered whether he had been struck to death by a mud truck crashing into the bathroom while bathing and thus transmigrated to another world.

"Let me take a peek—an opening for a restricted game like this ought to have some triggerable events."

So he said, yet a smile no words could describe floated onto his face, resembling a farmer who watched a rabbit knock itself unconscious against a tree trunk.

For some reason, even though something kept warning him, Ando Koichi felt his body slip from the control of his brain as he slowly approached the girl, his outstretched finger trembling in mid-air.

Just a little closer, just a hair away.

Through the air alone he could sense that touching this skin would surely feel wonderful, yet he was reminding himself that if the girl suddenly snapped awake a moment later, he must remain as calm as though nothing were amiss.

As long as I'm not embarrassed, the embarrassed one is definitely someone else.

The result went smoothly; his fingertips had already made contact. Just as imagined, the skin was smooth, with a soft and delicate texture.

As he became somewhat intoxicated by it, he suddenly turned his head only to see the girl staring up at him curiously with wide eyes.

Ando Koichi smiled faintly in his heart; he had anticipated this exact scenario moments ago.

Under the girl's gaze, Ando Koichi calmly retracted his hand and stepped straight back several steps...

The next instant, he dropped to his knees: "I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I was wrong, please forgive me!"

If I don't apologize, I'll die, right? Definitely die, right? Getting caught red-handed in a dream was something he hadn't anticipated at all.

The obsession to push forward even if discovered shattered like plate glass in that very instant, and no matter how hardened his heart, he was at best a somewhat cowardly, somewhat introverted otaku.

The loli sat up, crossing her legs while casually resting one foot on Ando Koichi's head.

He expected her to punish him, but her very first words were not to pursue the matter, instead tossing out this baffling question.

"Hey, do you feel despair toward your life?"

"A little, but despair is a stretch. At most, it's just annoying," he answered truthfully.

"Do you want to live a life like something out of a 2D anime?"

"I do, of course a romantic comedy would be best. If possible, I want to be the protagonist."

"Do you want the power to change everything about your current status quo?"

"Well, anyone asked that wouldn't refuse, right? But what's the price?"

"Do you want to possess me?"

This question was an absolute bombshell. "Do you want to possess me?" Why did such a beautiful, exhilarating phrase and sentence exist in this world?

Seeing him stay silent for a long time, the loli wore a heart-captivating, small-devil-like smile.

"Answer my question honestly, and I wouldn't mind letting you lick my feet."

Ando Koichi felt his brain crash on the spot. Lacking the vital CPU support of his brain, his center of thought began shifting downwards, and he uttered that single word in a voice that was practically a slip of the tongue: "Want."

"Would you be willing to sign a contract with me and become a magical girl?"

"Willing... Wait, hold on, a contract? What was that just now?"

"Hahaha, too late!"

Amidst the girl's silvery, crisp laughter, his vision was enveloped by a blinding white light erupting from her body, and then he lost consciousness once more.

"Ugh..."

The surrounding environment was no longer the dark place he had just seen. Located in the bathroom, Ando Koichi rubbed his somewhat dizzy head while recalling that ridiculous dream.

--Did I soak for too long... My head hurts so much, I need to get out of here fast...

For some reason, his body felt somewhat heavy, and a subtle sense of imbalance made him somewhat uncomfortable, perhaps owing to sleeping in the bathtub or soaking for far too long causing physical issues.

Yet he did not dwell on this problem; feeling somewhat unwell, he only wanted to rush out of the bathroom back to his room.

Stepping into empty air as he left the tub, Ando Koichi's body instantly lost its balance, and immediately following that, a horrific scream echoed throughout the entire bathroom.

"Eeeek!"

Yet compared to the pain, he cared far more about the sound he had just emitted. How could this possibly come from a boy's throat?

"Wait... Eh? Why—why has my voice turned into this?"

No matter how he tried to speak, the sound produced was not his original deep, magnetic male voice, but instead a crisp, pleasant, and somewhat soft girl's voice.

A chill washed over him, and Ando Koichi quickly stood up from the floor, but accidentally stepped on a bar of soap he had used and carelessly left scattered without cleaning up.

"Yikes!"

Letting out a miserable shriek in a crisp girl's voice, his buttocks made intimate contact with the tiles inside the bathroom.

"It hurts, hurts like hell..." Trying to ease the pain, he massaged the spot where he had just fallen with his hand.

Wait, what was... what was this tender, firm, and elastic tactile sensation?

He only realized it when he stood back up and looked down, but his vision was completely blocked by two mounds of fat, preventing him from seeing his own feet at all.

"Eh?"

"No way, I couldn't be, I couldn't still be dreaming, right? I should actually still be sleeping in the bathtub, shouldn't I?"

He gave his own face a hard slap, and the only feeling was pain, very intense pain, pain that almost made Ando Koichi want to cry, which also told him that he was not dreaming.

He instinctively looked toward the only half-length mirror in the bathroom.

Although this mirror was covered with a layer of thin mist by the steam lingering in the bathroom, the figure reflected in the mirror appeared even more curvaceous, and this could by no means be him.

Casually pulling over the spare towel folded to the side to cover the mirror, as if preparing to go into battle, Ando Koichi took a deep breath and then let it out.

The mirror was wiped clean, and the hand that removed the towel trembled slightly.

"God... could this, could this be me?"

He incredulously stretched out a hand to stroke his own face, and the person in the mirror naturally followed along, making the exact same movement.

Perhaps because she had just come out of the hot water, the cute girl in the mirror had a slight flush on her cheeks, and beneath a head of long, waist-length black hair was milk-white skin that could well be called mutton-fat jade, with slender arms proportioned just right and long, flawless legs that lacked nothing in the way of a proper, fleshy feel.

Most importantly, judging by eye, that location below the neck should be able to rank fifth or even sixth among the twenty-six brothers and sisters.

"Not good..."

This was by no means a good thing. Ando Koichi did not dare to continue admiring the completely different self in the mirror, and flung the towel over it, the towel slapping against the glass and completely covering it behind.

Taking advantage of the time while he was still sober and retained his sanity, he hurriedly ran out of the bathroom, dried the water off his body in the changing stall, and changed into the clothes he had prepared.

The process of getting dressed was extremely agonizing; his clothes appeared much larger because of this body that had shrunk a few sizes, and no matter how he wore them, they slipped off his shoulders, looking not the least bit graceful.

However, none of that mattered anymore; he just wanted to hurry back to his room and then ponder what sort of ghost-like event had happened to him.