Phantom Thief Becomes Cute and Lovely (2)

The bar, where the unique scent of wine had permeated the furniture… It was my first time here, but to appear as if I were used to such places, I kept my gaze on the Demon of Lust.

With eyes that held a hint of resentment.

“..You could have sobered up, so why did you do that?”

“Ahahaha~ I said I’m sorry~ Still, I’ll buy you a drink, so bear with me, okay?”

From my shoulder to my pants, which had been drenched in vomit. They were neatly washed, with no stains or food residue left, and became fluffy and dry… She must have used magic, as a pink orb sparkled and vanished from her finger.

『Klaus』… Most Clausins, excluding common mobs like Aku, use magical power as a medium for magic, but humans, who couldn’t even feel magical power before the invasion, can neither learn nor use it.

Magical Girls are special. A Magical Girl is someone chosen by the Guardian Force to become a guardian protecting the stars, and the magical power taken from such strong individuals is high-quality sustenance for Klaus, she prattled on.

As I was about to go to the convenience store to buy a hangover cure, I felt a hand on my arm and turned around. The woman looked refreshed, as if she had sobered up, and with a snap of her fingers, a white blouse and black suit, befitting a noble, appeared over the black underwear she had been wearing.

They say clothes make the person. The woman, who had been a drunken nuisance just moments ago, apologized for her rudeness in an elegant outfit, but then half-forced me to the bar, asking me to be her drinking companion.

“Getting drunk feels so good, you know. Of course, I hate hangovers, so I purify my body with a Clean Skill beforehand… Sorry about throwing up, but I washed it all off, so can you forgive me? Here, ah~”

“Ah. Ah..”

The woman’s eyes sparkled, and my mouth was slowly forced open. Indeed, there was no way I would have willingly walked all the way to a place like this. She must have cast some kind of suggestion or hypnosis.

My consciousness was clear, but as my body moved on its own, I felt a distinct haziness, as if I were drunk, and I ate the fruit the Demon of Lust put into my mouth like a baby bird.

“It’s delicious, isn’t it? Want to try this too?”

“..Could you please send me back?”

“Alright then… just stay until I finish one bottle. Then I’ll send you right back.”

“Haa… fine. Just drink it quickly.”

Ttorreureuk-

The Demon of Lust seemed to call a waiter, then placed an empty wine glass in front of me and poured about half a glass of red wine.

“Cheers to us lonely singles!”

“….”

“Don’t worry. I didn’t put any drugs in it. I don’t prey on kids with human rights, like the Unaffiliated or Aku.”

You already did, you crazy woman.

Me. Me.

Even if it was erased, I was still showered in vomit, and though I wasn’t violated, I was dragged all the way here.

The toast I should have had with Miwol… I lightly clinked glasses with a woman I’d just met today, who had also thrown up on my shoulder.

“Haaah… Soju is good, but this tastes great too… Huh? Why aren’t you drinking?”

I watched her drink… A strange feeling came over me as I saw her profile, tilting back the glass held in both hands.

She was taller than me, yet cute, and her mature appearance was fittingly alluring and even seductive… This must be what a Demon of Lust is like.

“I was checking if there was any poison.”

“Hmph… You weren’t staring because you were smitten, were you? Ah, no, that can’t be right~ You have someone else you like, don’t you? Right?”

Since things had come to this, I thought it was an opportunity to ask her if she knew anything about the Klaus Seven Stars, nobles, or security technology while we talked… but she beat me to the punch.

And on the most sensitive topic!

“..That’s right.”

“Don’t be so gloomy… You’re making me feel bad for no reason. You shouldn’t make a sad face when there’s delicious food in front of you, you know?”

Miweol… What on earth happened that she suddenly left? She did leave with a smile thanks to me, but the more I recalled that tearful face I first saw, the more complicated my feelings became.

As I aimlessly stared at the glass in my hand, I felt a slight poke on my cheek and turned my head. It was the woman’s finger.

“Want to tell your story? You look so stifled that the alcohol isn’t going down well… Maybe you’ll feel a little relieved too.”

I was depressed alone about the broken promise, but drawn by the sweet scent that made my head spin just from smelling it, I slowly began to open my mouth.

As I drank the alcohol and spoke for longer, the feelings I’d had since the moment I first met Miweol, and my romantic emotions, surged out.

“…So, with a dinner date set, I was going to confess… but it didn’t work out well..”

If I had known this would happen, I would have tried sooner. Regret washes over me, wondering if things would have been different if I had approached her more actively first.

“Maybe I’m a guy who doesn’t understand women’s hearts, or maybe there was something she didn’t like… but Miweol choked up, saying she suddenly remembered something she had to do, and I couldn’t even get angry… I just felt depressed…”

“You’re handsome, you know… If you go around saying you’re ugly with a face like that, other losers will curse you out, you know? They’d try to kill you, human rights be damned.”

“Thank you for saying that… I’ve drunk a lot, so I’ll pay too.”

“It’s fine. I dragged you here, so I should take responsibility.”

The wine glass was emptied and refilled repeatedly. Before I knew it, the promise to stay only until one bottle was finished was broken, and when I came to my senses, it was after we had drunk three more bottles.

Staggering, I tried to take out my wallet, but the woman took out money from her suit first, paid the bill, and then helped me out of the bar.

It was less like being helped and more like being carried… Klaus people are really strong, huh… I shouldn’t get caught. Yeah…

Suddenly, the Demon of Lust flashed a lewd smile, but to me, completely soaked in alcohol, it just looked like a gentle smile.

“But… who are you, noona?”

“Me? I’m one of the Seven Stars. The number one among them, Halo.”

Pointing to the ring floating above her pitch-black horns, she introduced herself as one of the Seven Stars.

Usually, things like that are erogenous zones, but seeing her tap it with her finger like that, I guess it’s not.

“Why does a Demon of Lust have a ring? Are you moonlighting as an angel?”

“I’m a bit special~ I told you I’m one of the Seven Stars.”

Among the Seven Stars, the powerful leaders of the invading Klaus, only the lowest-ranked, Warden Gould of the Tax Evader Containment Facility, had descended to Earth.

Does she think I’m a fool who wouldn’t know that… I’ll never fall for it.

“Lies… How can one of the Seven Stars be passed out on a trash bag wearing only underwear? A homeless person can’t be on the same level as that purple bald guy on TV.”

“Ah… I have a Skill called 『Rape Desire』. I wanted to experience it, so I was there, but no one came…”

Rape… what?

“I thought if I was wasted, some monster or human would assault me… but nothing like that happened. The Seven Stars know my true identity, so they won’t sleep with me. A female body is just too difficult, you know…”

Even if it was a world invaded and gone to ruin, there’s no way there could be magic like that desire… I wondered if I had misheard her due to being drunk.

I was getting sleepier… and my head hurt. Both internally and externally.

Every time the woman, who called herself one of the Seven Stars, walked while supporting me, the horns rising from behind her temples tapped my head, and with the hangover slowly creeping up, I just wanted to lie down and sleep quickly.

“Anyway, you want to be close to that girl, Miwol, right? Is that your wish?”

“Yes…”

…The atmosphere.

It seems to have changed a little.

“..Alright. I’ll grant that wish.”

“Wait… what… Oh?!”

My body, which had been held by the woman, floated into the air, and a sense of emptiness, along with the sensation of my entire body being kneaded, and my vision simultaneously blacking out.

“What are you, Mmph?! Mmph!!”

“Quite high-quality magical power… though you don’t seem to know how to use it. I never imagined there’d be someone among ordinary people similar to a Magical Girl.”

Just as a silkworm larva spins silk to wrap its body in a cocoon, a black liquid rising from my toes covered my entire body, but I couldn’t resist even once. A sense of powerlessness gradually set in, and I even felt the eerie sensation of my flailing limbs melting away.

“This is my thanks for drinking with me. I told you, didn’t I? The Seven Stars know my true identity, so they won’t embrace me… I can freely change my gender, but you’ll be fixed in your changed gender. Rebirthing a body isn’t something just anyone can do, so give up on returning.”

“Mmphb?! Mmmph─!….”

“I cast a sleep spell. Leave the rest to me… Now, have a good dream.”

With the woman, Halo’s, words about a soul settling into a newly formed body, my consciousness completely faded.

Didn’t they say a larva melts and merges its body within a chrysalis, to be reborn as a new being? The difference is that I’m being forcibly merged…

“Black is a bit dull, so I’ll add some highlights… and waves, and for the eyes… should I make them purple?

The eye shape… sharp but slightly rounded… Ah, since the boy is human, I’ll need to use perception alteration magic too, won’t I? It’s annoying having so much to do… but yes, I’m starting to get fired up.”

*****

To Klaus Seven Stars Halo, a Demon of Lust who could be called both she and he, gender was merely another world to discover pleasure, and their very concept of sex differed fundamentally from humans.

Most Demons of Lust settled and lived in a gender they preferred, but Halo was one of the Seven Stars, said to be the pinnacle among the Clausins, and was called the number one strongest.

‘A being far from ‘ordinary’-that was Halo.”

“He was on the taller side, so… maybe I should shrink him quite a bit?”

Because she was a being that transcended ordinary concepts, even as a Demon of Lust, she alone could not drown in waves of pleasure.

Even if she transformed into a female and received enough semen to fill her womb, or if she repeated ejaculation and copulation for an entire day in a male body, the Demon of Lust herself gained no particular pleasure.

Some revered her, saying she was indeed the strongest, while others looked on with pity, calling her a stone doll who couldn’t even feel pleasure from masturbation.

Even absorbing magical power from Magical Girls on other planets didn’t make her stronger. The Klaus characteristic of gaining strength by seizing magical power was also unusable by a Demon of Lust whose strength defied common sense.

‘I tried everything to get weaker… but it was useless.’

It was boring. A tedious routine of alcohol and work repeating for hundreds of years… Fortunately, the ninth planet, Klaus-009, had exceptionally developed food and creative culture. It had been a long time since she’d seen a planet overflowing with elements to enjoy.

Animations, web novels, vast platters of food enough to fill a long dining table… For the first time in a while, Halo indulged in enjoyment.

But Halo was a Demon of Lust.

No matter how much a masterpiece novel or film was praised, she couldn’t squirt byutbyut vaginal fluid while watching it.

Even tasting the finest delicacies, the sensation only went as far as ‘delicious,’ and she couldn’t directly satisfy her sexual desires.

She activated her Rape Desire and went to a good spot for someone to penetrate her, lying there wasted on alcohol… when an unexpected man caught her eye.

To liken him, he was a water tank with a faucet the size of a needle. A being like a thick blank sheet of paper, who possessed an inexpressibly vast amount of magical power in his body but didn’t know how to use magic.

‘I want to taste him right now…’

Halo, being a Clausin, could also absorb magical power from others, but she couldn’t grow through magical power extraction. She didn’t even get weaker by simply inducing a few lewd states.

In that case.

If she couldn’t get weaker… then she could make others stronger. That was Halo’s answer.

With this child, couldn’t she create a Clausin who could fight on equal terms with her? The child she did the same thing to in the past hasn’t been heard from since, so she wasn’t sure…

As she entertained such thoughts and finished the modification, his clothes, wallet, and phone-unnecessary organic matter for his body-fell off.

Rummaging through the wallet, the name written on the identification tag (former ID card) wasn’t quite suitable for a woman, so she fell into thought for a moment.

“Should I change his name too…”

“Sehwa? Seyun? Seyeon? They’re all no good… I’ll go with the first name that comes out of your mouth.”

The man who tore through the black membrane no longer bore any resemblance to his former self.

“Haaah… Modifying others is always difficult, you know…”

A physique so small she’d want to hug it, a very slight… not overdone but natural wavy bob, and eyes that, though unseen with them closed, would be dyed a spotless violet.

“Maybe I’ll have a taste just once… Her breasts are so soft and squishy… I made them myself, but I’m truly impressed…”

Grow breasts like watermelons on a physique like this? That’s impossible. Even if not quite watermelons, let’s just make them as luscious as ripe fruit.

The body hair growing on his private parts and armpit hair were not specifically set to grow. The clean, smooth mound and sturdy pelvis, compared to his slender waist, also had Halo’s preferences added.

“I don’t know who you’ll be with, but I thought a smooth mound would be better, you see.”

“Oh, look at me. I forgot about the clothing modification…”

“The perception alteration is done… Good, work finished.”

Most of the clothes just needed to be shrunk, so it was done with a snap of her fingers and didn’t take long.

Everyone around him, except for… her, would perceive the lovely ‘woman’ before their eyes as having always been a woman, from this moment on.

The reason she left his own perception unchanged was that, unlike with others, she couldn’t rule out the possibility of overloading his brain with a sudden self-transformation and turning him into a wreck.

And… she was curious.

The sight of himself, a normal human man and not a Demon of Lust, falling into depravity as a female, might return to Halo herself as the pleasure of voyeurism.

As Clausins grow stronger by stealing magical power, there would be more fools challenging Halo herself, so she wouldn’t be bored for a while.

For that purpose, she placed a few restrictions on his sleeping body, similar to those she had on herself. So that he wouldn’t become a monkey engrossed in sexual intercourse, lost in pleasure… but slowly, over time, become a female.

“Status… added.”

***

『Pain Resistance LV 1』

『You can withstand impacts strong enough to cause fainting. Additionally, pain is slightly alleviated.』

『Corruption Desire LV 1』

『You will gradually be tainted by lust. Slowly… very slowly. As your level increases, your body will transform into one that seeks pleasure.』

『Blessing of Contraception: Always Active』

『As long as you have magical power, you will not become pregnant even if you receive a creampie. No dominant gene can fertilize your ovum.』

I want to add other things too… but maybe I’ll just put a lock on them. If I put too much in at once, he might break, and it would be better for the boy… girl to gradually become aware of his transformation as he’s tainted by lust.

“Haaah… I guess it’s because I focused so hard after a long time… My head hurts… Well then, goodbye. Next time we meet… become a bit more of a female, Phantom Thief Lupin.”

Since she had kneaded his body, of course, she also opened his memories. His family life wasn’t particularly good… but she never imagined he would be a Phantom Thief.

Even knowing his identity, she had no intention of blabbing about it. Rather, it worked out well… With his perception altered, the bomb of Human Rights Fees, which he would have had to pay more of as a man, would probably now fall on her.

Since she’s 2■ years old… she’ll probably live her entire life having her magical power extracted in prison unless she robs Guld’s vault.

“If she’s lucky… Guld might even take her as his wife?”

If she doesn’t want that… then she just needs to be a Phantom Thief skilled enough to overcome the crisis.

Or a Magical Girl could save the Phantom Thief in distress. There are many anime like that… but what will reality be like?

Will she fall into lust and depravity, or endure and rise up… I’m looking forward to it.

“Fufufu… See you next time, my cute little rabbit.”

It’s a shame, but she had other matters to attend to, so it was time to return to her planet and get back to work.

What will you have become the next time I meet you…