"Ugh..."
A groan escaped my lips naturally. My whole body felt heavy, as if I had been beaten all over, but at the same time, strangely light. The morning sunlight streaming through the window stung my eyes.
I tried to sit up, but something felt wrong. The center of gravity of my body had shifted. And more than anything, my chest felt incredibly heavy.
"Hey, Fernand! Are you going to sleep until noon?"
Suddenly, the door burst open, and Lotos walked in energetically.
"Get up, you lazy drunkard! We need to go see the Cardinal... Heok?!"
Lotos, who was striding towards the bed, suddenly froze in place. His eyes widened as if they were about to pop out of their sockets as he looked at me.
"Wh-who are you?!"
"What are you talking about, you bastard? It's me, Fernand."
I frowned and rubbed my eyes, my voice sounding strangely high-pitched and clear, like a silver bell. Wait, my voice?
"Kyaaaak! Why is there a naked woman in Fernand's bed?!"
Lotos screamed and quickly turned his back on me.
"Naked woman? What nonsense..."
I looked down at myself, wondering what he was making a fuss about. And then, I froze too.
There were two lumps of flesh in front of my eyes.
Even when I was young, when I rolled around like a dog on the battlefield, and clearly until yesterday, there were women's breasts that I wanted to see and touch whether I was sitting or lying down.
"No, but why are these attached to me?"
I was complaining about my current situation while fondling my breasts.
They were so big that I couldn't even grab them with both hands, and the soft feeling made me feel stable the more I touched them.
"Y-Young Lady! Please get dressed...!"
Lotos was still turned around, acting strangely, as if he didn't know who I was at all.
"Hey, Lotos. It's me, Fernand."
"Young Lady, it is not right to tease a man like this. Please get dressed while I am being a gentleman...!"
"You fucker, it's me!"
Ppak!
Unable to contain my anger, I got up from my seat and slapped Lotos's smooth back of the head with my palm.
"No, this hand feel?!"
Lotos looked at me with wide eyes.
"Yeah, it's me, you son of a bitch."
"Heok?! Heueueup!"
Lotos, who was looking at me, took a deep breath and turned back around.
"Is it really, really you, Fernand?"
"Then what crazy bitch would be naked in my room?!"
"Maybe, just maybe, there's an extremely unlikely possibility that you, Fernand, succeeded in seducing a pretty Young Lady and that's how this happened?!"
"No way in hell!"
Peoeok!
I kicked Lotos in the back.
"Keuheok!"
Lotos fell forward from my kick.
"Aish... my feet are small and pretty too..."
That was my impression of my feet, which had been hidden by my breasts until I kicked Lotos in the back.
"No, then is it really you, Fernand?"
Lotos, who had been lying face down, jumped up and asked me.
"Yeah, I don't know why I turned out like this, but it's Fernand."
"Okay, then who was telling the truth about what we said at the tavern yesterday?"
"What I said was the truth, so who else would have told the truth?"
"Bullshit, you're definitely Fernand."
Lotos chuckled at my words and sat on the edge of the bed.
"How did you get that body?"
"I don't know either. If it was something I ate, then not only me but you should be like this too."
I scratched my head nervously.
"Now that I'm like this, I can't even go to the cathedral even if my body hurts, so what the hell..."
"Well, what if you're falsely accused of being a witch?"
Lotos nodded as if he understood my words.
"Anyway... still... you've changed for the better."
Lotos looked at my face and then scanned my body from my chest down with lecherous eyes.
I felt goosebumps rising on my arms as his gaze swept over my body.
"Are you... going to keep staring like that forever?!"
"Alright."
When I said that while covering my body, Lotos nodded and withdrew his unpleasant gaze.
"Anyway, what's going on from the morning?"
"That... the letter that Cardinal Roang sent us, don't you remember?"
"We have to go... but with my body like this..."
I fondled the lumps of flesh attached to my chest.
It really felt soft, bouncy, and good to the touch.
"Still, Cardinal-nim called the three of us, so we have to go, right?"
"Yeah, we have to go even if we have to cover ourselves with a robe."
The Cardinal-nim might know the reason why my body turned out like this.
"So, we both have the same opinion... then what about Aramis?"
"You know that friend's personality well, don't you?"
"Yeah, I know him well, isn't he the one who's so eager to run there right now?"
Lotos laughed loudly at my words, and I laughed along.
"Anyway, I sweated so much last night because I was sick... I need to wash up a bit."
I struggled to get out of bed and picked up a bucket.
"Please fetch some water for me."
I held out the bucket to Lotos.
"I would have said no if it were normal!"
Lotos raised his index finger at me.
"Since you have become a woman, I will gladly do it for you."
Lotos took a pose as if he was formally greeting me, and then took the bucket and left my room.
I took out a well-dried sponge.
"I'm back!"
The bucket was soaking wet, as if Lotos had drawn water from the well.
I was about to wet the sponge when I suddenly looked at Lotos.
Lotos was looking at the curves of my body with lecherous eyes.
"Aren't you going to turn your head?"
"Oh come on, don't be so stingy... it's not like it'll wear out if I look a little, what's the big deal..."
"Turn it."
At my words, Lotos grumbled and turned his body towards the wall.
I started wiping away the sweat with the wet sponge.
Unlike when I was a man, the flesh on my chest was so big that it was a bit embarrassing to wipe it.
"Hieueung..."
Every time I rubbed my chest with the sponge, a ticklish sensation made it hard to get used to the moans that came out.
Still, I endured the strange feeling and wiped the cleavage and under my breasts cleanly with the sponge.
I wiped my upper body and it was time for my lower body, but how did my butt and pelvis get so big...
My suddenly changed body had changed to an unbearable extent.
If there was a woman like this in front of me, I would have hugged her right away without thinking and tried to share affection.
Now I've become that kind of woman.
'Oh my... what kind of situation is this...'
I gave a self-deprecating smile and continued to wipe my body.
"Anyway, I need to get dressed..."
I struggled to get out of the tub and opened the closet.
Lotos was still turned around, clearing his throat, as if he hadn't gotten used to my body as a woman yet.
I took out a shirt from the closet and tried it on, but it was too big, like a child wearing an adult's clothes, the sleeves were too long and the bottom of the shirt came down to my knees.
"This... the clothes don't fit at all..."
I frowned and took a leather strap and tied the waist of the loose shirt.
"The boots will probably be loose too."
I put on a robe and sandals.
My feet had also become smaller, so the sandals didn't fit and were loose.
"Lotos, what are you doing? You can turn around now."
I called out to Lotos, who was still turned around and silently looking at the wall.
At my words, Lotos slowly turned around and looked at me.
"The pants are too big to wear, and the shirt doesn't fit. I like having breasts, but it's just full of inconveniences."
I grumbled and grabbed the leather strap and smoothed out the wrinkled part of the shirt with my hand.
"Hey, take off your robe once."
"Robe? Alright."
At Lotos's words, I immediately took off my robe.
"Hmm... doing this makes you look like the ancient goddess painted on the palace wall."
"Like this?"
I imitated the appearance of the goddess painted on the palace wall that Lotos mentioned.
"Wahaha! Yeah, exactly the same!"
Lotos clapped his hands and laughed excitedly.
"Lotos, no matter how exciting something is, such a big commotion from the morning..."
While I was posing, Aramis came in, holding the broken doorknob.
"Where did Fernand go?"
Aramis looked back and forth between me and Lotos and looked around for me.
"Well, I don't know where Fernand is either."
Lotos shrugged and pretended not to know at Aramis's question.
"Eueheum!"
"Ah, I didn't greet you. Nice to meet you, Young Lady. I am Aramis Derus le Doerteing..."
When I cleared my throat, Aramis greeted me.
"Puhahat!"
"Euehahaha!"
Seeing Aramis greeting me without knowing who I was, Lotos and I grabbed our stomachs and laughed.
As we started laughing, Aramis's face turned red, thinking he was being ignored.
"Hey Young Lady, if someone is introducing themselves, you shouldn't laugh like that..."
"Hey Fernand. Did you see what Aramis did? I am Aramis Derus le... Keuheuheute!"
Lotos mocked him by imitating Aramis's actions.
"Ahaha... sorry Aramis. It's me, Fernand."
I wiped the tears that had formed in my eyes with my finger and apologized to Aramis.
"No... Young Lady, what is..."
"Hey, Fernand is under some kind of curse and is in that form now."
Lotos put his hand on Aramis's shoulder, who was stammering without understanding what was going on.
"Curse? I never said it was a curse, how do you know if this is a curse, Lotos?"
"I don't know either. I just thought it might be a curse, so I just said it like that."
"No, I don't know what's going on... what are you two talking about?"
Aramis, who still hadn't grasped the situation, looked at me and Lotos and asked.
"Aramis."
At my call, Aramis looked at me.
"Let's stop joking around. An unbelievable incident happened where my 27 years of life as a man have been completely blown away."
"Yeah, that pathetic Fernand is gone and that beautiful Young Lady over there is Fernand."
"What?! You're Fernand?"
Aramis, who heard the explanation, asked me with wide eyes.
"Yeah, or should I prove it?"
"No... if you guys said so, then that's probably it."
Aramis went to the chair and sat down as if his legs were giving out.
"Ha... so why did you become like that?"
"I don't know either."
"This is not the time to do this. Let's go to the cathedral right now..."
"Go to the cathedral?"
At my words, Aramis realized something and shook his head without finishing his sentence.
"No, it would be better to just cover it up ourselves."
There was silence between the three of us for a while.
Aramis, who had been staring at me, got up from his seat.
"Where are you going?"
"Looking at what you're wearing, I don't think I can stand it, so I'm going to tell a servant to bring some women's clothes."
"A skirt? I hate skirts. It would be enough to just have leather pants, a shirt, and a buff coat that fit this body."
"That doesn't mean we can meet Cardinal Roang in that outfit."
"Ha... that's true."
Agreeing with Aramis's words, I sighed and nodded.
"How about just... Lotos and Aramis, you two go?"
"Absolutely not."
At my words, Lotos and Aramis widened their eyes and objected.
I swept my bangs back and got up from my seat.
"Then what are we going to do?"
"Didn't I say it earlier? I'm going to call a servant to bring clothes."
"No, I'd rather die than wear a skirt."
"You don't even have a beard, but you're good at talking."
"Not only the beard but other things have disappeared too."
Lotos whispered to Aramis, and they both chuckled.
Feeling upset by their laughter, I pulled the blanket over my head and curled up on the bed.
"Okay, from today onwards, 'Fernand Marius de Lisdang' is a dead person. What are you all doing not leaving the tomb of the deceased?"
"He's sulking."
"He's definitely sulking."
At my words, Lotos and Aramis laughed heartily and pulled off the blanket.
"Now, let's go change clothes quickly!"
Lotos grabbed my left arm, and Aramis grabbed my right arm and dragged me out of the inn.
"Let go, let go of this!"
The more I struggled, the tighter Lotos and Aramis grabbed my arms.
I would have resisted if it were before, but now that I've become a woman, my arms wouldn't budge.
"Come along quietly and put on some clothes!"
"Haa..."
In an unavoidable situation, I sighed and was dragged away by the two of them.
When I came down to the first floor, the people in the lobby were chatting with each other, but suddenly became quiet and stared at us blankly.
Seeing that, a mischievous thought flashed through my head.
"Kyaaak! Kidnapping, it's a kidnapping... Eup!"
"Seriously, think about your situation and stop joking around!"
When I screamed kyaak, Lotos covered my mouth.
"Everyone, it's a misunderstanding. This is not a kidnapping, but this Young Lady ran away from home and is being caught again, so she's joking around... Come on, follow me quickly!"
Aramis raised his hand to the people and made excuses, then quickly dragged me to the carriage.
"Euehahahat!"
I got into the carriage and looked at Lotos and Aramis while laughing.
"Why is it so fun to see your reactions? Am I the only one having fun? Ahahat!"
Lotos and Aramis's faces soured at my teasing.
"Let's go to the clothing store first! Grimo, what are you doing? Why aren't you starting the carriage!"
"Yes, yes, I understand!"
Grimo, who was innocent, was sweating profusely at Aramis's shout and drove the carriage.