Chapter 1: I became a woman.

The black fox cut through the wind and ran.

The severity of the injury was unusual. It had to find a new ‘vessel’ quickly.

The previous ‘vessel’ had long been a miserable corpse.

The fox felt its life force draining away.

There wasn’t much time.

It quickly scanned the ground.

Was there a human suitable to be its vessel?

There was.

A young man passing through a dimly lit alley, lined with streetlights, caught its eye.

Judging by his well-built body, he seemed to have trained his physique diligently.

The fox dilated its red eyes, peering deep into the young man’s inner self.

Excellent physical attributes.

A keen sense for using his body.

Above all, the overwhelming talent hidden within.

A suitable vessel.

It was fortunate.

The fox darted like an arrow and entered the young man’s body.

Thump-

Jeon Chayeon, who had just entered university this year, had finished exercising and was returning to his studio apartment.

His leg muscles were aching from the heavy weight training he had done on his lower body.

It was a pleasant pain.

Chayeon whistled and placed the convenience store lunch he had bought on the way on his desk. He had showered at the gym, but he felt uncomfortable because he had sweated on the way back.

He threw off his clothes and went into the bathroom.

As he stood under the pleasantly flowing water, he felt a stinging pain in his back.

‘What is this? Did I do something wrong while exercising?’

He turned his head, facing away from the mirror, to check his back.

A strange black pattern was drawn there. It looked like an animal’s tail.

“What is this.”

Just as he was getting flustered, he suddenly felt a pain that made his vision blur.

He instinctively dropped to his knees from the excruciating pain he had never felt before.

It was a pain that didn’t even allow him to scream.

His vision darkened.

How much time had passed?

Chayeon, who had collapsed in the bathroom, opened his eyes.

He couldn’t immediately grasp the situation, but he soon realized that he had felt a severe pain in his back and had fainted.

Was there something wrong with his body?

With a worried heart, he got up and looked in the mirror.

In the mirror,

There was a naked girl he had never seen before.

Skin as yet seemingly unblemished.

Shiny black hair, long and straight, with strangely long sideburns.

It was noticeable that the ends of her hair turned red.

Moreover, her bright eyes were also red, as if she were wearing colored lenses.

“What is this.”

He blurted out the same words as before in his confusion, but what he heard was not a low-pitched male voice, but a young woman’s voice. Although it was closer to a mezzo-soprano or alto, it was clear that it was a female voice, not a male one.

Smack!

Wondering if he was dreaming, he slapped himself hard on the cheek.

But he only felt a tingling pain, and nothing changed.

“F*ck, what the…”

[Let me explain.]

Suddenly, he heard a voice from inside his head.

It was a strange sensation, as if someone were speaking directly into his mind.

He looked around, but he was the only one in the bathroom.

“Who is it?”

[I am a black fox with nine tails, a Heukgumiho. From now on, I will be your companion for life.]

“What nonsense.”

It was a sudden, unknown voice, but he replied calmly.

“Is it you? Did you make my body like this?”

[If you mean changing your gender, then yes. Only a woman can accept me as a vessel, so I changed your gender.]

“I won’t beat around the bush. Give it back.”

Chayeon growled in a low voice.

[…Interesting. You must be flustered by the given situation, but you can demand it so confidently. Aren’t you curious about what kind of situation you are in?]

“I don’t care. Whether you’re a Heukgu or a Cheolgu or whatever. If you created this situation, then put it back the way it was.”

[I’m sorry, but that’s impossible.]

[The only way for you to return to normal is for me to leave this body. But as long as you have been chosen as a vessel, it is impossible for me to leave in my current state until the vessel is broken. In other words, I can only leave if you die.]

Chayeon stared at the girl in the mirror, that is, his transformed self, with a dumbfounded look.

It felt like a bolt out of the blue.

[But it’s not like there’s no way at all.]

“What’s the way?”

Chayeon asked urgently, looking at himself in the mirror.

[Kill the Baekgumiho and its vessel. Then you can absorb its power and break the connection with the vessel.]

“So you’re saying I can kill a b*stard like you. Where is it?”

[I don’t know. But you can feel it if you get close. I think it’s somewhere in this country anyway.]

“You’re talking sh*t, really.”

[…]

The situation was absurd in many ways.

Where had his manly body, which he had trained for years, gone, and why was he a fragile girl?

Besides, the way to go back was to kill a fox that he didn’t even know where it was.

It was a bolt from the blue.

The surreal situation beyond the realm of the unreal was absurd.

“You’re saying I have to kill someone I don’t even know where they are. More than that, what are you?”

[You ask that rather late. As for me, I am an existence that reigns at the very top of all spirits and divine beasts. I am a Heukgumiho.]

“That’s cheesy. Aren’t you ashamed?”

[…]

He was accepting the situation surprisingly calmly.

Was it because it was such an unreal thing?

If he was suffering from a mental illness and having delusions, then there was nothing he could do about it, and if this was really reality, then he had to kill that Baekgumiho in order to regain his gender.

Whether he could trust this suspicious being, who claimed to be a Heukgumiho, who had settled in the body of a healthy man living a normal life, was another matter, but there was nothing else he could rely on right now.

“Heukgu, next question. Why did you come into my body?”

[…The name Heukgu sounds stupid, and the sound is not very good.]

“What is the purpose of entering my body?”

He ignored the foolish grumbling and asked again.

[…I am an existence that can basically live by parasitizing a vessel. But a while ago, the vessel I was originally living in died, so I was looking for a new vessel and found you.]

“Why me of all people?”

[Your excellent physical attributes and physical abilities were suitable for making you a vessel.]

“But that excellent physical ability is gone now.”

Chayeon looked at the mirror with a dumbfounded expression.

There was only one fragile girl in her nakedness.

It was a body that didn’t seem to have ever exercised.

[It doesn’t matter. Your excellent sense of body will remain as it is.]

This unknown being said it didn’t matter, but it was a very big problem for him.

A body that had suddenly become a woman.

He had to go to school tomorrow, but what should he do?

What would he tell the people around him?

Above all, the muscle loss was severe.

[I don’t think it would be a good idea to go to school. Apply for a leave of absence. You can apply online these days, can’t you?]

“…Can you read my mind?”

[Of course.]

“This is fcking bullsht.”

He uttered his impressions as they were.

By the way, this being, who claimed to be a ‘Heukgumiho’ from a fantasy world, knew too well about concepts like leave of absence and the Internet.

It was getting more and more suspicious.

[Beings like me always live with humans. So there’s no way we can’t know things that are closely related to human lives.]

“…That voice that feels strangely proud is annoying.”

Haa, he sighed without realizing it.

“Okay. Let’s say I take a leave of absence. How am I supposed to find and kill a Baekgumiho that I don’t even know where it is?”

[You have a very thorough attitude of wanting to get rid of me.]

“Of course.”

The sound ringing in his head was a problem because it made him feel bad, but the biggest problem was that he had become a woman.

Of course, Chayeon had lived as a man for 20 years.

Moreover, he had a stronger macho sensibility than other men.

There was no way he could be happy that he had become a woman.

[First of all, I recommend going to ‘Jindal’.]

“Jindal?”

[It is an academy that gathers and trains those with supernatural abilities. My previous vessel also attended Jindal. There are several beings like you there, that is, beings who have spirits or divine beasts like me in their bodies.]

“This is crazy.”

Was there anyone else in this situation besides him?

Maybe he could get a hint there.

It would be better than acting on the words of this untrustworthy guy.

[The statement that you can return to normal if you kill the Baekgumiho is true.]

“Reading my mind is really f*cking annoying.”

Anyway, it seemed like he should go to that place called Jindal for now.

Chayeon came out of the bathroom and was about to put on his clothes when he realized that he didn’t have any clothes that fit him.

He was originally a muscular man with a height of 183cm.

There was no way he would have clothes that fit a woman who didn’t even look 160cm tall.

“This is really f*cking annoying.”

Not long after becoming a woman and already for the third time, Chayeon muttered the same curse.

The next day, the girl who had fallen asleep naked, Chayeon, woke up early in the morning with tousled hair.

It was summer, so despite being early in the morning, the sunlight was quite bright through the window.

He was still dazed from waking up, but he soon looked down at his body and recalled what had happened yesterday.

“F*ck.”

As soon as he realized it, he cursed without realizing it.

It wasn’t a dream or anything.

Even after waking up, he was still a woman.

The muscle loss was severe.

[I’ve been feeling it since yesterday, but you’re quite the gym rat.]

“Don’t even use that word.”

It was something he had overlooked yesterday because it was so natural, but this fox could also speak Korean fluently.

[I basically know how to speak all languages.]

“You’re strangely competent.”

Chayeon’s usual routine was to start the day by running.

But today it was impossible.

“Where am I supposed to get clothes?”

He had been naked since yesterday.

He had tried wearing his original clothes before going to bed last night, but they were too big and kept falling off.

To get clothes, he had to go out first.

But to go out, he had to put on clothes.

It was a dilemma.

“Hmm…….?

[How about asking your friend Jo Namyeon?]

“I feel bad.”

He was already thinking about that guy, and it felt unpleasant that he was reading his mind and talking to him.

Jo Namyeon.

He was a high school classmate and one of his close friends.

Unlike Chayeon, who had a short two-block haircut and a masculine image, he was a man of noble birth, so to speak.

Like his face, his relationship with women was very complicated, but apart from that fact, he was also the person he could trust the most.

He felt like that guy, more than anyone else, would accept this unreal situation without any problem.

Finally, he holds his phone in his hand.

He finds his name in his contacts, makes a call, and the sound of a dial tone is heard, and a soft, beautiful voice is heard from the other side.

“Hello.”

“Hey, bring some women’s clothes to my house. A size that’s a little under 160cm.”

“……?”

He could feel the puzzled look over the receiver.

It was only natural, since a woman’s voice that he had never heard before would be heard beyond the name Jeon Chayeon.

“I’m Jeon Chayeon. I turned into a woman yesterday. So I don’t have any clothes. So please.”

He said only what he wanted to say and pressed the end call button.

[You’re a real woman.]

“I’m a man, you lousy fox.”

Then, dozens of minutes later, the sound of someone knocking on the door was heard.

When he opened the door, there was a blond, handsome man with a piercing in his ear.

It was Jo Namyeon.