Chapter 1
As a Spirit Transformed in Date A Live, I Refuse to Date, by Upside-Down Zhongsheng.
My name is Qian Lingmeng and I am a Spirit. I am panicking right now because the boy standing in front of me, named Shido Itsuka, has just asked me out on a date.
If this were before, I should have been happy if someone wanted to go out on a date with me, but right now I cannot feel happy at all...
Shido: "Lingmeng, can you go out on a date with me? I will definitely save you!"
Looking into the boy's resolute gaze, I really could not bear to turn him down, so I replied in a tactful tone.
"Get lost! Even though I am a girl right now, Laozi's inner self is still male! If you want to get gay, go find Kannazuki!"
Shido: "..."
This book turns the protagonist female; don't read if you dislike, and spare me your complaints.
Chapter 1: Transmigrate, Boy!
"Um... I won't waste words. You've already bit the dust, the kind where not even your ashes are left."
In a stark white space, a terribly sweet-looking, blonde little loli said this to the boy standing across from her.
...Stop talking utter bullshit, I just grinded a game and stayed up late, so how did I die?
The person speaking was a boy. At that moment, his brow was tightly furrowed, and his mood did not seem very good.
The boy's name was Ling, with an ordinary appearance, twenty-four years old, single, a college student, and an orphan since childhood who lacked affection. He usually liked playing games, browsing Bilibili, and watching anime, making him a typical otaku.
Because of the recent rise of the novel coronavirus, schools were suspended, which allowed him to stay holed up at home all day grinding games.
Yet he never expected that he would end up in this place just after falling asleep and waking up, and even be told by a stranger that he was already dead. No matter who it was, they would never believe such a thing, right?
"Hey~ It's a bit troublesome to explain. Anyway, to put it simply, 'My name is Xier Ya, and I am a goddess. The reason you died is because you were accidentally electrocuted yesterday by a heavenly lightning bolt I released that traveled along the internet cable. To compensate you, I plan to let you reincarnate into another world.'"
Calling herself a goddess, the little loli named Xier Ya scratched her head and spoke somewhat awkwardly.
...Damn, there are too many things to complain about and I don't even know where to start. Let alone whether you are actually a goddess or not, why the hell did the lightning you cast split off and strike me along the internet cable? Do you think you're Yang Yongxin? No, not even Yang Yongxin is as awesome as you!
Listening to Xier Ya's absurd explanation, Ling's brain could not process it for a moment, and he grabbed Xier Ya's shoulders, shaking her violently.
"Ah~ ah~ ah~ ah... You mortal, let go of me already! If you keep shaking me I'm going to throw up."
"Er... Sorry, my emotions were just a bit too excited."
Ling came back to his senses, immediately letting go of his hands, and looked apologetically at Xier Ya, who had stars spinning in her eyes.
"Cough cough-- It's fine. It's normal to be this excited when you die in such an unfathomable way." Feigning calmness, Xier Ya coughed twice and said, "As for why I struck you with lightning, that's because last night while I was playing Honor of Kings, you little brat killed me over a dozen times in a row. In a fit of anger, I accidentally released it and it traveled down the internet cable to strike you."
"Good grief, so that no-ob who kept getting killed by me over and over again was you! You scared me to death. When I was playing yesterday, I thought some little kid had logged in, but I never expected it to be you. Haha, I'm dying of laughter."
Ling recalled the scene from last night where he practically beat up a kid, and so he couldn't help but burst into laughter.
"Hey hey-- That's going too far! Even if I'm a bit "terrible" at gaming, you don't have to be like this!"
Seeing Ling unashamedly laughing at her, Xier Ya's mood instantly soured, and she spoke with a dark expression.
Yet even though she said that, Ling still showed no sign of stopping and continued to laugh.
...You're still laughing! Shut the fuck up for Laozi!
Veins bulged on Xier Ya's face as she raised her right hand and swung it hard toward Ling. A purple bolt of lightning struck Ling dead center.
"Ah~ I'm gonna die, I'm gonna die, I was wrong, Goddess-sama, please spare me..."
Caught in the middle of the lightning, Ling was being tormented to the point of wishing he were dead, his lips continuously uttering pleas for mercy. At that very instant, Ling finally believed that Xier Ya was a true goddess.
"Hmph! I'll spare you this time. Let's see if you ever dare to laugh at this throne like that again." Xier Ya crossed her arms, her expression filled with disdain.
With a gentle snap of her fingers, the lightning that had been crackling on Ling's body instantly vanished.
Lacking the torture of the lightning, Ling collapsed onto the ground as if drained of all strength, opening his mouth to spew out a puff of black smoke.
"Ugh ah~ I really thought I was going to die just now? Er... It seems I'm already dead to begin with." Ling got back up, looked at Xier Ya ahead of him, and joked, "I never expected Goddess-sama to play human games as well!"
"What? A goddess isn't allowed to play games? Forget it, let's drop this nonsense. I am going to let you be reborn into another world right now, so get yourself ready."
"Wait wait wait, you can't just make me be reborn like that! At least you have to tell me where I'm being reborn to!"
Seeing that Xier Ya was about to start right then, Ling hurriedly stopped her. After all, if she reincarnated him into a world like Dragon Ball where world-destroying battles happened on a whim, then even if he had hundreds of lives it wouldn't be enough!
"Why do you have so many damn concerns? Just rest easy, I still know a thing or two about the little schemes going on in your heart. You're simply worried that the world you're being reborn into is too dangerous, and that since you're too weak you'll easily die."
Xier Ya directly called out what Ling was thinking inside.
To this, Ling only smiled awkwardly: "Haha, you actually saw right through me."
"Hey-- Although the world you're going to be reborn into can be considered dangerous, I will turn you into the strongest race in that world, so you can rest assured!"
Seeing Ling's cowardly appearance, Xier Ya spoke with a face full of contempt.
"Is that so! Then I can rest easy." Ling patted his chest and let out a sigh of relief: "I'm ready, let me be reborn!"
"Fine, fine, after chatting for so long, we're finally done."
With that, Xier Ya gently snapped her fingers, and a blue-glowing portal appeared out of thin air in front of Ling.
"Right, since you're getting a fresh start anyway, why don't you change your name while you're at it? That way it can count as a truly new beginning."
As if thinking of something, Xier Ya suddenly put on a mischievous grin and spoke to Ling.
"Why are you suddenly bringing this up out of nowhere? Even if you say that, if you suddenly ask me to change my name, I can't think of anything."
Ling shook his head, looking at Xier Ya in complete bewilderment.
"It's fine, it's fine! I've already helped you pick one out. How about you go by 'Qian Lingmeng' from now on? Doesn't it sound nice?"
"It sounds nice and all, but why does this name sound like it belongs to a girl?"
"Oh, come on—don't worry about such petty details! Go, go, go, hurry on inside."
With a mischievous grin, Xier Ya shoved Ling toward the portal. Though Ling found it a bit strange, he still obediently walked on through the door.
Finally, Ling stepped through into the portal—
Haha... I wonder what kind of reaction he'll have to his new body after reincarnating? That'll teach you to dare laugh at me earlier, serves you right!
Staring fixedly into the portal, Xier Ya kept muttering something under her breath at the side of her mouth...
------------------This is a post-transmigration dividing line
"Woo—woo—woo—woo—woo..."
Not long after Ling entered the portal, a clamorous siren wailed across a city somewhere in Japan, shattering the original peace and tranquility.
At the same time, the expressions of people who were still active on the streets instantly froze upon hearing the siren. Following that, they all sprinted swiftly toward the shelter.
In just a few short minutes, the streets were completely empty, and everything was frighteningly quiet.
Just at that moment, the sky above the city seemed to undergo spatial compression as the surrounding air tore at each other, forming a black sphere.
Then, that sphere began to slowly descend toward the city.
The instant the sphere touched the city, with a bang—! a fierce explosion struck, and the city was instantly smashed to smithereens by the powerful shockwave, as if a massive hole had been blown right through it.
Spacequake. That was the name of this phenomenon, which first appeared thirty years ago in the border region between Mongolia and China's Inner Mongolia. Accompanied by a violent explosion, it blew a massive hole straight through Europe and Asia.
This incident caused around one hundred and fifty million deaths, inflicting unimaginably heavy losses on the world at that time. Because of this, later generations referred to the event as the "Eurasian Great Disaster".
Even after this, spacequakes of varying scales would still continue to break out across the world from time to time.
People had simply no way to prevent spacequakes, so they could only rely on machines to predict their arrival in advance. As long as the slightest unusual fluctuation appeared in space, the alarm would sound to remind people that a spacequake was coming.
Upon hearing the alarm, people would flee to pre-built shelters to take refuge, just like the scene a moment before.
At that moment, the spacequake began to slowly recede, and the vague figure of a person faintly appeared at the center of the spacequake.
What the hell—what is this situation? How come the surroundings look like they've been nuked?
That's right, this person was none other than Ling. At this moment, he was standing on the only patch of ground that was barely still intact, looking dumbfounded at the ruined and desolate scene all around him.
Come to think of it, where is judging by the surrounding architecture, it doesn't differ much from my world, so this place should be about the same as my original world, right? Scanning his surroundings, Ling didn't forget to mutter under his breath, Sigh~ I thought I'd transmigrate into a world of swords and magic. Although I'm a bit disappointed, this isn't bad either.
Ling walked along while letting out an inward sigh of emotion.
Just at that moment, Ling inadvertently passed by a collapsed building, and a mirror with more than half of its surface shattered reflected his own appearance.
"..."
At that moment, Ling suddenly fell silent for some unknown reason, because the person appearing in the mirror was not what he looked like before his death, but rather a girl he had never seen before in his life.
This girl had long, light-golden hair with a braided strand tied on the right side, powder-blue pupils, a high-aroused nose bridge, and cherry-red lips... To put it simply, she was "extremely pretty." Ling could guarantee that you wouldn't find more than a handful of such gorgeous girls in his original world.
The girl's attire was no whit inferior to her appearance either. Atop her head she wore a crown embedded with three multicolored rhombus crystals, and she was dressed in a pure white long dress. On the left and right sides of the long skirt's hem were colorful peony blossoms, while the fabric around her waist was very minimal, leaving the girl's slender waist exposed without any concealment. On her slender and exceptionally long legs she wore a pair of simple brown boots, adding a touch of rustic simplicity to the grandeur.
If it were normal times and Ling had encountered a beauty like this, he would definitely have been so excited that he couldn't sleep a wink, but he couldn't laugh right now.
Because the beautiful girl before his eyes was none other than... himself...
Chapter 2: "He" Becomes "She"
Hey, hey—what kind of joke is this? How did I, a dignified, hardcore manly man, end up turning into something like this?
Looking at the petite girl's appearance of himself in the mirror, Ling experienced a complex mix of emotions welling up inside him at that moment.
This has got to be a trick! I probably just look a bit androgynous right now, right? Actually, I'm still a male, right?!
Ling refused to accept his current appearance, and thus continuously hypnotized himself.
With trepidation, Ling placed his hand down toward his lower body, and he fell into utter despair. For the little buddy that had accompanied him for over twenty years had now vanished into thin air, and his lower half was currently in a completely vacant state.
It's over, completely finished... The thing I was most proud of as a maaaan is gone...
Having given up resistance and accepted reality, Ling collapsed limply onto the ground, his gaze filled with emptiness like a salted fish that had lost its dreams.
Clearly, he was still a pure, innocent virgin, yet right after transmigrating, his sex directly inverted. This was something Ling simply could not accept.
(Damn it, shouldn't this kind of gender-bender plot only appear in certain novels? Why did I have to run into it?)
Ling thought to himself inwardly. At that moment, he finally understood what Xier Ya's mischievous grin and the sudden demand for him to change his name before the transmigration meant.
Presumably, she must have known long ago that he would turn into a girl, right? No! Ling felt that him turning out this way was definitely intentional on Xier Ya's part, and her goal was simply to get back at him for mocking her for playing games like a "noob."
...You treacherous little bro Xier Ya, I just laughed a little, was that really necessary? I curse your mom to always pay higher prices at the vegetable market, your dad to always get squished in the subway on his way to work, your grandpa to always have people pointing fingers and giving advice when he plays chess, and your grandma to always lag half a beat behind when square dancing... (ten thousand characters omitted above)
Ling rambled on and cursed Xier Ya like this for several full minutes, practically chewing out her entire ancestral lineage up to the eighteenth generation.
Meanwhile, Xier Ya, who was playing games on her own turf, suddenly sneezed for some unknown reason.
Rubbing her nose, Xier Ya said in puzzlement, "Why on earth would I sneeze out of the blue? Whatever, forget it. It must be that kid realizing he turned into a girl and impotently raging as he curses me, anyway."
Finishing her sentence, Xier Ya lowered her head again to play her game...
Ha~ I'm exhausted.
Not long after, Ling... no! At this moment she should be called Qian Lingmeng. Lingmeng felt her throat was a bit dry, so she stopped her elegant and easygoing tirade. After all, even if she kept on cursing it wouldn't be of any use, and in the end she would only be wasting her breath.
With a hint of resentment, she rubbed the two quite large mounds of flesh on her chest, and Lingmeng felt an unprecedented sense of pleasure.
(They're so big, I feel like they must be a C-cup by now?)
Lingmeng thought to herself. Although it sounded a bit lewd when spoken aloud, Lingmeng actually had a fleeting moment of feeling that turning into a girl wasn't necessarily such a bad thing.
Damn, what on earth was I just thinking? How could I, as a man, have a thought like that? Releasing her hands, Lingmeng berated herself. Huh? It looks like something is flying over toward this place?
Inadvertently noticing through the mirror that a group of things resembling birds was rapidly flying toward her from behind, Lingmeng hurriedly stood up, turned around, and gazed into the sky.
"It feels like those things have wings, are they birds?" Staring fixedly at those dark figures, Lingmeng guessed, "Wait, something doesn't seem right!"
As time passed, those dark figures got closer and closer to Lingmeng, and her visibility of them increased as well, until those dark figures were only a mere few hundred meters away from Lingmeng, at which point she began to notice the abnormality of the situation.
That was because Lingmeng discovered that those things flying in the sky were fundamentally not any sort of small birds at all. Replaced in their stead was a group of... girls wearing tight-fitting suits, equipped with thrusters and wings on their backs, and holding new-type Gatling guns and Light Swords in their hands?
Chapter Three: The Spirit That Has Not Been Logged In...
Right now, Lingmeng was extremely nervous. If you asked why, it was because right at this moment all around her, there were dozens of girls wearing bizarre mecha holding Gatling guns and Light Swords who had surrounded her.