"Agh!"
"*Cough! Cough!*"
I prompt myself up to my feet, screaming and coughing like my lungs are attempting to escape from my ribcage.
"Shit!" I say, still feeling a rush of adrenaline.
I look around...
How am I alive? I should be dead!
I still remember the train honking at me and approaching while getting onto the platform.
There is no way I could still be alive!
I look around me, looking for the train.
But I am no longer on the platform.
Everything is... white...
I am in a forest, covered in snow. White as white can be.
There is a river nearby that is not frozen and is running.
Odd... it doesn’t snow where I live. Since the dust storms, even rain has become rarer.
I have never seen this much snow!
But that does not resolve my situation. Where the hell am I?! I was in a train station and about to die!
I look around once more. No buildings, no street, no train about to turn me into minced meat.
"Okay, what is happening?" I ask as I take a couple of steps.
All I can hear is the sound of birds.
What the hell is happening? I cannot make sense.
I check my body. My arms are there, my legs too.
My face seems to be intact.
My chest is...
Huh?
I check my chest again to make sure.
Soft... round...
Fills both my hands.
I have my hands on my chest.
...why do I have boobs?
I open what I am wearing and look down.
"WHAT THE FUCK?!" I scream when I see that I have a mid-sized chest.
I notice my clothes. I am wearing a red and black kimono with a bow behind me. It is made of a soft fabric... probably silk.
Where did I get this?
Where did I get boobs, first of all?!
I run towards the river. I need to check myself.
My reflection shocks me... because what I see is the image of the girl who was on the other platform. I touch my face to confirm.
Then I notice the top of my head... two fox ears. I grab them and I feel them. They are real. I try to pull them, but my body stops me from doing it strongly enough to hurt myself.
They are real. I can see them go flat when I start to realize what is happening to me.
I take a step back and trip, falling onto my butt.
I have no idea what is happening. How did I get into this situation?
And now that I saw myself... or the cosplay girl... she seems more familiar.
I have seen that face somewhere... but it was impossible! It makes even less sense that I am her!
I stand up and look around me once more. Against a tree, right where I woke up, is a sword leaning against a tree.
Is that...?
I reach for it and I take it, closer to observe it. I take it out of the scabbard.
The blade is dull, made of a dark steel that reflects light.
I knew who I was... on who I transformed.
[Name: Amber]
[Class: Wizard]
A screen appears in front of me. It caught me off guard and made me jump. The name is the same.
Wait... is this a System?
[HP: 25450] [MP: 41520]
[STR: 20]
[DEX: 14]
[PER: 24]
[CON: 30]
[MAG: 46]
[WIS: 43]
[CHR: 30]
-Check Skills- -Check Feats- -Check Equipment-
The stats are the same.
My save of Inns of Ellen. A game where I was reaching the first big wall before the endgame content. I was playing a spellcaster, one who did not use a staff or a wand. She carries a dull sword that is so weak it can barely cause any damage.
The screen that was in front of me... was similar to the one in the game.
And the name...
That is the name of my character in there.
I turned into my character in the game... I am Amber, the Wizard who carries Bloodless, a black steel wakizashi she does not use.
"Oh... okay," I say.
I put the sword back where I found it.
I get on the floor and lie on my back. I see the sky and look at it. Then I interlace my fingers over my stomach, close my eyes... and I open them again.
I do it again. I close my eyes, wait a few seconds. Then I open them again.
.....
NO NO NO NO NO NO!
How?! Why?! When?!
I am now my character?! Like, for real?! How is this possible?! And a girl?! How am I meant to process this?!
I HAD A DATE NEXT WEEK! THAT WELL HAS BEEN DRY FOR A COUPLE OF YEARS!
And then, a word repeated in my head.
"Girl..."
Oh no.
The realization just hit me, and I have to make sure!
In a rush of fear, I stand up and open my robe. This was important. I don’t care about the cold (And Vulpins have a natural cold resistance, coincidentally). I just let it drop.
I am wearing white underwear (which, yes, I did put on her in the game), and I drop my panties.
...
It is gone.
I don’t have my little guy anymore...
Now there is... something else.
"Aaaahhh! What the hell?!" I scream out of my lungs.
This is not happening!
*Rustle rustle*
I hear something moving behind me. I feel my left ear move involuntarily back to where the noise came, and I turned around.
"What is happening? Someone needs help?!" A girl asks.
From between the bushes, a blonde girl with blue eyes wearing a breastplate that covered her chest, thigh-high leather boots, shorts, and a brown top under her armor with long sleeves, comes out, agitated and looking at me.
We stare for a couple of seconds.
"Aaaaaahhhh!" She screams and gets behind a tree. "I’m sorry! I’m sorry!"
"Aaaah!" I scream back, covering myself with my arms and crouching in embarrassment. "Don’t look!"