Chapter 1
Today, too, I sat on a bench in front of the church and gently tore off a piece of warm bread to eat.
Perhaps because it had plenty of milk in it, it wasn't at all hard to swallow, and its chewy texture and aroma lingered in my mouth.
“Mmm…!”
For a beggar like me, who had no way to earn money, the free meals handed out by the church were truly moments of sweet dopamine.
Everyone knows it as an obvious fact that sweet, delicious food gives a woman's body an appropriate sugar rush and helps relieve stress.
“Sister Ria, don't eat only bread again! Here!”
“Huh? Thanks, Roxanna.”
Perhaps my quietly tearing into the bread had caught her attention, because Roxanna, a tiny girl in a nun's habit, held out a milk bottle that gave off a rich, savory aroma.
Maybe it was because I showed up at the church whenever I had the chance every day, but sometimes a little something extra trickled down to me besides the standard meal.
“Let's eat this, then go pray to God!”
“…I'd rather not.”
“Ehh…! All the nuns say they like you, too….”
“I'll help with the cleaning instead.”
“All right…! Then let's clean the chapel together!”
“Sure, let's go!”
I stuffed the bread into my mouth, gulped down the milk to push it into my throat, and stood up from the bench.
My usually sly and affable personality was a great help at times like this.
When I thought back to two months ago, when I somehow possessed a woman's body in another world… Actually, I had possessed it while sleeping, so I didn't remember much. Still, it felt like a tremendous amount had changed.
On the first day, I nearly died after being hit by a carriage. On the second, I nearly got raped by passing bandits…. On the third, there were orcs and goblins, and on the fourth, ugh….
Being able to overcome all sorts of threats and settle down somewhere like this was truly wonderful.
“Our little squirt!”
“Kyahahah!”
I gave Roxanna a piggyback ride into the church, bouncing her along.
It was a little sad becoming a woman from a man, but only my body had changed. The way I acted was still exactly the same as when I was a man, so it didn't bother me.
Aside from the inconvenience of having a voluptuous chest and hips….
Once we reached the chapel, I set little Roxanna down, grabbed the broom lying in a corner, and swept up the dust in an instant.
“Sister! Sister! I can't reach over there!”
“All right! I'll sweep this part and come over!”
Roxanna couldn't reach the statue of God at the far end of the chapel, so she hopped up and down with a handkerchief, asking for help. I went over right away.
“Sister, you're so tall!”
“You'll be this tall before long, too, Roxanna.”
To ten-year-old Roxanna, even an average woman's height must look enormous, but in just another year or two, she would be able to grow as tall as me.
Swish, swish-. Since God actually existed in this world, I wiped away the dust as carefully as I could.
I must have scrubbed quite diligently, because once the statue had become glossy, I put down the handkerchief.
“Phew….”
“Good job, Sister!”
I stroked Roxanna's head as she bounced around while clinging to my waist, then dropped heavily onto a bench in the chapel.
Meanwhile, Roxanna had somehow ended up lying on the bench with her head on my thigh and her legs curled up adorably, so I teased her.
“Should I become a nun while I'm at it?”
“R-Really!? Are you going to become a real nun now?!”
Roxanna's eyes lit up, and she rubbed her face against my thigh.
“I'll think about it once Roxanna grows a little more!”
“Ngh…! Sister, you're a liar!!”
I revealed that I was only joking and gently stroked Roxanna's hair.
Part of me had considered joining the church and living there, but I had a bigger goal.
…Actually, it wasn't that grand a goal. I simply wanted to meet a good wife and live well.
In this free world, where even marriage between people of the same sex was allowed, I wanted to charm some rich young noblewoman and live as a househusband.
Even I had to admit that the body I'd possessed was exceptionally beautiful.
Long eyelashes, a refined nose, large eyes, lips like cherries….
Even with my poor eye for beauty, this was far beyond merely pretty.
So it shouldn't be difficult to charm some pretty woman and settle down with her.
Unfortunately, men were more likely to hit on me than women, which was rather irritating….
“Roxan… she's asleep.”
Perhaps because Roxanna was still only ten years old, she had entered dreamland not long after making my thigh her pillow.
“Roxanna…! You said you were cleaning—where did you go… Oh my? Sister Ria?”
“Sister Dimecus? Roxanna's sleeping here.”
I gestured to the little troublemaker sleeping on my thigh for Sister Dimecus, who had come all the way into the chapel looking for Roxanna, who hadn't reported back even though the cleaning was finished.
“I'm sorry, Sister… You always indulge Roxanna's whims….”
“It's all right. I do it because I like it, too.”
“Perhaps Sister Ria would like to join our church as well….”
“No, thank you.”
“…Tsk.”
Sister Dimecus's attempt to recruit me was crushed in an instant.
“I'll take Roxanna back to the nuns' quarters when she wakes up.”
“Thank you as always, Sister Ria.”
Sister Dimecus then carefully left the chapel.
Left alone in the chapel with Roxanna, I nodded off for a while before eventually falling asleep, too.
….
“Sister…!”
“Hmm…? Roxanna…?”
“Hehe… You look really pretty even when you're sleeping, Sister!”
“…Do I?”
Had post-meal drowsiness come over me?
Roxanna had woken up before me, and I opened my eyes to her fingers poking my cheek.
“…It's late, so let's go to the nuns' quarters now, Roxanna.”
“Uh-huh!”
When I got to my feet, rubbing my bleary eyes, Roxanna tightly grabbed my hand.
“Hehe!”
I watched the energetic little girl's antics fondly as I escorted her back to the nuns' quarters.
“Sister! See you tomorrow!”
“Yeah, you too, Roxanna!”
After being sent off by Roxanna, who waved her hand vigorously, I returned to the streets.
Unfortunately, the church didn't lend beds to beggars, so I had to find somewhere to sleep myself.
Of course, all that meant was that they didn't officially lend out sleeping quarters. The chapel was always open, so I could simply sleep there.
Humming to myself, I went for another walk around the neighborhood.
The city where I currently lived served as a common hub for this world, so I could see countless adventurers.
From a female knight carrying a huge greatsword on her back that made me wonder if she could even wield it,
to a female dwarf decked out in weapons that looked like modern arms,
and even sexy mage ladies who seemed to have come on a business trip from a magic tower.
I began fantasizing about charming one of those women and marrying into wealth, then peeked at passing female adventurers from a distance where they wouldn't notice me.
It was a somewhat lurid hobby, but anyone would look when women walked through the streets as if it were perfectly normal, with their cleavage exposed and their outfits verging on bottomless.
At that point, they were practically asking me to look, so I stared openly.
And since I was a woman too, no one picked a fight with me for looking at other women.
“Hey, pretty lady?”
“No, thank you.”
“Yes, ma'am….”
There were occasionally male adventurers who spotted me and tried to pick me up like that, but if I rejected them right away, they all backed off and disappeared.
I was enjoying my eye candy and was just about to pull a cookie from my pocket when—
“The call of the Star of Destiny has reached this place.”
“…?”
A woman with her face hidden beneath a long robe approached me mysteriously, holding a large pearl and scattering constellations around her.
“I can sense it within you. The same current of fate that flows through us.”
“Who are you…?”
“I'll explain later, so come with me.”
“…Umm. Just a moment….”
Just as a man can't resist getting into a sports car when someone attempts a drift by the roadside and shouts, ‘I'll explain later, so get in already!’,
I couldn't resist my curiosity. I quickly stuffed the cookie into my mouth and began following the mysterious robed woman.
She wasn't involved in organ trafficking or anything, was she?
No matter how safe this city was said to be, it wasn't as if kidnappings never happened….
As I followed the robed woman while sorting through such trivial thoughts, I fortunately reached an elegant mansion without anything like that happening.
“Whoa….”
The door creaked open, and I started getting my hopes up at the thought that I might finally have a chance to marry into wealth.
“Mira, you're back? Hmm…? Who's that?!”
“Hmm?”
When we entered the mansion, I saw a silver-haired dark-elf rogue in a skin-tight leather outfit and a red-haired knight with her hair neatly tied back, both enjoying tea time.
“The call of the Star of Destiny-.”
“-Following it and blah blah blah…. You're going to do that again, aren't you?”
“…Uu.”
The dark-elf rogue cut off the robed woman's words and teased her slyly, causing the robed woman's serious voice to grow increasingly timid.
“But… the Star of Destiny…!”
“Ugh…! Not that Star of Destiny spiel again!”
“-Enough.”
Just as the two women's voices began to rise,
the red-haired knight raised a hand and quickly stopped them both from getting carried away.
“Vika, Mira. It's rude to argue in front of a guest.”
“Tsk… Fine~.”
“I'm sorry….”
The red-haired knight accepted both apologies at once, then offered me her hand and introduced herself.
“Sorry for the commotion. I'm Karina.”
“…No, it's all right. I'm Ria.”
When I took the hand of the woman who had introduced herself as Karina, I was overwhelmed by the force of her grip.
…How could a woman's hand be this strong?
“I'm Vika~.”
Once the introductions were over, the dark elf named Vika, who had been sitting crookedly in her chair, called out her own greeting.
……”
“…Yes?”
The woman in the robe fidgeted, unable to introduce herself.
Only after letters began to bloom in the shining pearl did she finally open her mouth.
“As commanded by the Star of Destiny, I shall reveal my name here. My name is—.”
“—that astrology junkie over there is Mira~.”
Just as the stars began to bloom and a grand self-introduction was about to begin, Vika waved her hand dismissively and gave me the name first, clearly fed up.
“Uu…!”
Astrologer Mira took off her hood, showed off her tousled purple hair, and shouted,
“I hate you, Big Sis Vika! I'm not reading your fortune anymore!”
“Suit yourself~.”
Mira, who had brought me here, huffed, opened the door behind the living room, went inside, and slammed it shut.
……”
They had told me to follow them, so I had. Meeting all these pretty women and exchanging names was nice, but….
I had absolutely no idea what was going on, and even my usually sociable personality couldn't force out a word as I stood there in silence.
“Sorry, Mira gets whims like this sometimes.”
Karina, who seemed like the only person I could actually talk to, pulled out a chair for me and offered me a cup of tea.
“Excuse me….”
I awkwardly took a sip of tea and gauged the two women's moods.
“…So. Is everyone here now~?”
“It seems so. Mira's Star of Destiny cannot be wrong.”
Since they were talking about something only they understood, I quickly began thinking it over.
With all this talk about the Star of Destiny, and everyone being here….
Could this be some kind of adventurer party?
A thought suddenly came to me.
A story about four beautiful women making history after meeting through fate.
“…!”
This was the perfect lineup for a yuri story about a party of beautiful women, and I almost felt drool slipping from my mouth.
If things continued like this, wouldn't I be able to achieve my goal of marrying into wealth?
“Heh heh heh….”
I had no idea, as I demurely sipped my tea with lewd thoughts, that the mere thought would send a tingle through my lower belly and a rising sensation through me.
‘The Star of Destiny…! Haaah…!’
‘Aah! Acard…! Hey…!’
‘Stop…! A-Acard! Not there! Ooooo?!’
I had no idea this wasn't a yuri party, but a harem party….
To top it off, they were openly having sex with a guest present….