Chapter 1
Putting the shock of turning into a woman behind me, I decided to get out of here first.
“Fuck… fuck…”
My old body had disappeared.
“Status Window!!”
I tried summoning my status window in midair, but there was no response.
As expected, I had lost everything related to my old body.
Once again, I had to start everything over from the beginning.
‘It’s okay… I can do this.’
I still couldn’t forget the faces of the bastards who had violated even my corpse and cut it up.
‘Before that, I need to find somewhere to live…’
I would make a careful plan and get my revenge. That was my goal for now.
Just as I was burning with thoughts of revenge…
“Hey, who’s there??”
“Huh?”
A middle-aged security guard in a fluorescent safety vest looked at me atop the pile of garbage, his eyes widening as he jumped in surprise.
“Good grief, you startled me!”
“W-wait a second…”
How was I supposed to explain this?
For a moment, I felt as if my brain had stopped too, and the security guard initially seemed to think I was a ghost. Then, perhaps realizing I was human, his eyes began rapidly scanning me from top to bottom.
“Ooh…?”
“Uh.....?"
.
.
“Aaaaaah!!!”
A beat later, he realized I was a naked woman and bolted, the garbage bags fluttering behind him.
“No, miss!!! Where are you going!”
-Thud thud thud!
As I ran at full speed, I could feel my huge tits bouncing lewdly.
"Ngh..."
I clutched my breasts and ran through the pain.
‘Why is my body… Damn it!!’
Fortunately, I spotted a door nearby that looked like an entrance.
"Miss!!"
Leaving the man calling desperately after me behind, I dashed outside.
-Screeech… Bang!!
I wrenched open the rusty green metal door and slammed it shut with a backward kick.
‘W-where am I…?’
When I looked up, I saw the familiar, ordinary buildings of a Korean city.
Low-rise and high-rise buildings were mixed together in all sorts of ways, with familiar businesses like restaurants, cafés, and convenience stores scattered around.
Right in front of me stretched a not-so-wide sidewalk and a two-lane road.
It wasn’t a particularly bustling district with many high-rise buildings, but it was still a downtown area teeming with cars and people.
And naturally,
Just as I had seen them, they saw me too.
"Huh...?"
“Aaaaaaaah!!!”
“W-what the hell? Some crazy woman…”
As the pedestrians around me began screaming, even more people turned their eyes toward me.
People walking along the sidewalk.
People drinking beverages in cafés inside the buildings.
People looking at their phones on buses.
Everyone was watching me.
“Ah, no…”
Some people were so startled that they called the police, while others lifted their phones and began taking pictures and videos.
“D-don’t take pictures!! I’ll report you all. D-don’t!”
My face. My breasts. My pussy.
There were three places I needed to cover, but I only had two hands.
In my panic, my hands flailed back and forth, unable to decide where to go.
"I’m sorry! I didn’t mean to look! …But I couldn’t exactly not look…"
“She must be crazy…”
“I’ve never seen a figure like that in real life…”
My fidgeting hands only caused one important area after another to be exposed, but I didn’t even have the luxury of worrying about that right now.
I desperately tried to avoid the people and flee into a nearby alley, but…
[Grandma’s Pork Gukbap—70 Years of Tradition]
They say there’s no paradise for those who flee.
Maybe the gukbap restaurant in this alley was famous, because dozens of people were lined up waiting, and I made eye contact with every one of them.
I learned later that it was right in the middle of lunchtime, when foot traffic was at its peak…
“Uh…uh?”
When my eyes met those of so many people, everyone—including me—opened their eyes wide in surprise.
“Wow…”
“Is this a MuTube hidden-camera prank to see people’s reactions?"
“Wow, fuck… she’s freaking pretty.”
"She’s fucking huge..."
“Oh, my… that body…”
“Hey, hey, you’ll get arrested if you keep that up.”
“Isn’t she a crazy bitch? Oppa, don’t just stare—report her already!”
‘Why are there so many people around here…’
The constant click-click of cameras could be heard nearby.
It was practically a criminal act, of course, but whether they thought it didn’t matter as long as they weren’t caught, or simply wanted to photograph my body even if they were caught, everyone kept taking pictures enthusiastically.
“D-don’t look!!!”
I shouted threateningly, but the clicking didn’t stop.
***
Thanks to the huge number of reports, the police arrived quickly and caught me near the alley within five minutes.
I was dragged straight here, wrapped in a large blanket, and questioned by a middle-aged police officer.
Fortunately, they hadn’t handcuffed me or treated me like a serious criminal, but being arrested for public indecency… This was incredibly humiliating.
“……”
“Haa… What’s your name?”
The police officer looked at me as if I were some strange person.
‘Oh, heavens…’
No, should I be praying to a constellation now?
Come to think of it, my connection with all the constellations who had contracted with my old body had been severed too.
I had once been the number-one person in the world, and now I was a woman being questioned naked at a police station… A sigh escaped me on its own.
-Bang!
“Miss, does this look like a joke to you?”
“Whoa, you startled me!”
Perhaps the countless calls had put him under considerable stress, because the police officer looked irritated. He slammed his hand on the desk and shouted angrily.
‘What should I do…’
I had only just possessed this body, so there was no way I could know its name.
On the other hand, if I gave my old name, I was obviously a dead person and a completely different man from me. They would surely take me for an even crazier woman.
Besides, I was in a situation where I needed to take revenge on those bastards. If I told them I had returned without any power, wouldn’t those traitors secretly kidnap me and torture me?
‘If it were just torture, that would be lucky. With this body…’
The thought of the tortures I could suffer as a woman sent chills through my body.
There was only one way to make excuses here.
“I-I don’t remember…”
I had to pretend to be as pitiful as possible. I would pretend that some unknown evil organization had abducted me and erased my memories, then answer pitifully.
An inexplicable, scorching humiliation wound around my body, but I had to endure it. With this body, which had returned to the level of an ordinary woman, there would be plenty of things I’d have to endure from now on. Couldn’t I endure just this one thing?
‘Right. If it’s for the greater cause…!’
But,
“Good grief, I’ve seen all kinds of crazy nutjobs, but…”
"Huh...?"
Apparently, my pitiful act wasn’t enough to fool the sharp eye of a veteran police officer who had subdued all kinds of drunks and lunatics. Instead, I only got cursed at more.
“No, I really don’t remember.”
“Miss, do you know where this is?”
The police officer lowered his voice, thrust his face—covered with sparse stubble—toward me, and glared sharply.
“A police station..?”
“Then what’s the name of this country?”
“Korea… right?”
“You remember pretty well. You speak Korean well, too. Then what the hell did you forget!!!!”
-Bang bang bang!!
The police officer now kicked his chair back, stood up, pointed at me, and shouted.
“Do you think I haven’t seen the likes of you a hundred times? Huh!!! Just because your face is pretty, you think that’s all it takes? You obviously got shitfaced and slept somewhere weird. Or you were doing drugs.”
“N-no, I wasn’t!!”
“Tell me the truth, now!!!”
‘Why isn’t this working? In novels, saying I’d lost my memory always worked…’
It was unfair. But could I really reveal my true name?
And if someone was pretty, wasn’t the other person supposed to fall in love at first sight and let everything slide?
For the record, I learned what my face looked like when I saw its reflection in a glass door while walking around naked.
It might have been a little conceited, but I thought my looks were practically national-treasure level. Apparently, none of that worked on a veteran police officer.
“Ugh, whatever. You’re really in for it now. These days, your fingerprints and face scan will tell us who you are! You really think the police are a joke, don’t you?”
-Bang!
The police officer slammed the desk loudly and left.
'Ahh....'
As I sat there dumbfounded, I heard some people whispering nearby.
“Tsk… What could such a pretty young lady have done in broad daylight?”
“Who knows? She walked around downtown completely naked~”
“Does she keep that head on her shoulders just for decoration?”
“Hahaha! There’s no other crazy bitch like her…”
“That’s what I’m saying. The world’s gone to hell~”
"No, I’m not a crazy bitch!"
‘Fuck…’
The drunken old men who had been dragged in after causing a scene while drinking during the day were treating me like a crazy bitch.
‘Haa, how did this happen to me…? Why did I end up in a body like this?’
About five minutes later.
“Ahem… Why is this happening?”
Test results.
There was no match. No similar person, either. No record of a deceased or missing person.
The alcohol and drug tests also came back normal, of course.
In other words, this person wasn’t Korean and had either entered the country illegally or had never even had their birth registered.
“What the hell…?”
‘Exactly… what the hell? Is the owner of this body not Korean?’
I had secretly hoped this would be my chance to find out who the owner of this body was and where she lived, but that chance was gone.
I tilted my head in confusion, just like the police officer.
“Can you speak English?”
Suddenly, the police officer asked me a question in English.
“Um, uh.. yes. A little.”
I tried to answer as calmly as possible, but…
“What? So she really is Korean?”
The officer kept muttering “as expected” and tilting his head in confusion.
‘No…’
He had figured out I was a native Korean from my English pronunciation. It was embarrassing, but I had to admit it.
“You don’t remember your home address either?”
The police officer’s tone had become a little kinder by now.
“No… I don’t remember anything about my past.”
'I do remember it, I just can’t say so....'
“You don’t even know your own name…?”
“No…”
Perhaps this was his first time dealing with a case like this, because the police officer looked quite flustered.
“Haa… Was there even a manual for something like this…?”
He spent some time searching through the computer, then repeatedly made calls to someone.
‘He doesn’t seem like such a bad person after all.’
I had been a little intimidated at first because I couldn’t fight in this frail woman’s body, but once he realized I truly had amnesia and was unidentified, he became considerably kinder.
About thirty minutes later.
“Ahem, I really thought you were some kind of weirdo earlier. I owe you an apology. I only just learned this myself, but apparently, in very rare cases, people can lose their memories like this. I thought it was the kind of thing that only happened in dramas… Let me apologize once again."
“No, it’s all right.”
He bowed his head deeply and handed me several sheets of paper.
“There may be a family looking for you, so we’ve uploaded your picture to the missing-person database. Just choose the name you’ll use from now on, read through the various benefits, and sign here.”
“Uh… right away?”
"Normally, you’d have to visit the court, the administrative offices, and the hospital in turn, but apparently, in the case of a woman presumed to be the victim of a serious sex crime, those procedures can be postponed. A woman who’ll guide you to your temporary residence will be here shortly."
"Uh...."
Ah, this damn country.
No, now that I was a woman too, was it a good country?
In any case, since a young woman had been wandering the city naked after losing her memory, the government was providing some kind of help. I didn’t know whether they actually had the authority to do that, but I was getting a house for free, and I could skip all those annoying examinations for now.
"Of course, you’ll also need to write a statement explaining what happened, so I’d appreciate it if you could write down where your memories began to return."
I roughly wrote that I had opened my eyes in a garbage dump and described what I remembered, even though I was embarrassed by the memory of walking around naked. They would probably assume I was a woman who had been kidnapped. As for the investigation, the police could handle it themselves.
And the important thing was.
‘Name.’
People usually have their names chosen by their parents.
My name in my previous life was Lee Do-hyeon.
I had been an only child, so I never had a younger sister or an older sister, but my mother had once had a name picked out in case she ever had a daughter.
‘Lee Do-hee.’
The Do meaning peach (桃), and the Hee meaning brightness (熙).
The meanings had probably just been cobbled together however, but what mattered was that I was carrying on the will of my former self, Lee Do-hyeon, as a member of his family.
And since the peach and this pink hair suited each other so well, it was perfect.
'Punish the traitors and see the end of the Tower.'
With looks and a figure like this, I could make a living without any trouble by simply streaming online, filming vlogs, or doing lookbooks while spouting nonsense. But I didn’t want to do that.
‘Phew…’
I had a mountain of things to do.
***
A short while later, the auntie(?) who was supposed to show me where I would live arrived at the police station.
'What the hell? She said it was some auntie....?'
"Oh my~ Hello~"
I couldn’t find anywhere to put my eyes as a feast of flesh clearly visible through her clothes greeted me, even without her bending forward.
"Ah... hello."
Despite her kind-looking appearance, she had an aggressively voluptuous body.
'How is that an auntie?'
She might not have been a young woman in her twenties, but she felt completely different from the ‘auntie’ I had imagined.
When I raised my head slightly, she was smiling warmly and waving at me.
"Ho ho ho.... We have such a cute one this time~"
Her gentle, languid voice lingered in my ears.
“You’re Do-hee, right? Shall we go together, just the two of us?"
"Ah... yes, I’ll go."
I had been staring blankly without realizing it, so I answered a beat late.
I shook my head vigorously to clear away my distracting thoughts, then followed her out.
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