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2. Adaptation (1)

Even if the world is going to end, morning will come

I remember rolling around in bed, struggling with my identity and feeling unfamiliar with new sensations.

It seems that I fell asleep with my mouth drooling from the warmth of modern civilization that I felt for the first time in a long time.

Look, isn’t the saliva flowing from the corner of your mouth right now?

” Uh… Is it morning already? Churp… I feel like I woke up early compared to when I slept so late? ”

I wiped the drool from the corner of my mouth, got out of bed, rubbed my eyes, and headed to the bathroom to wash my face.

” Phew, as expected, I have to wash my face with cold water to wake up~ ”

And just in case, I looked in the mirror, but as expected, there was still the pretty girl who resembled Patruna there.

” Ha! Well, I already knew the voice was the same, but I looked just in case, and this is what it looks like… ”

‘I guess I should get used to it by now,’ I thought as I poured a glass of water in the kitchen and headed out to the terrace.

The window creaks open, and the cool morning breeze caresses my hair, making me feel good.

I rested my chin on the terrace railing and looked out at the scenery.

” It’s quite a beautiful sight considering the world is on the verge of destruction. ”

If someone saw it, they might snap at me, asking if I could say something like that when the world is going to end, but still, the scenery I saw was quite something to see.

The tower in the distance, the half-collapsed buildings around it, the green vines and moss covering the buildings, and the trees stretching out beneath them.

Of course, there were very few places that looked like that, and most of them were desolate, barren landscapes.

” No matter how much I look at it, I can’t figure it out. One side is a complete ruin, but the other side looks like nature has returned to its original state after quite some time has passed… ”

After looking at that ironic sight, I drank all the water left in the cup and returned to my room.

Enjoying the scenery is enough, but now I have to adapt to this body and learn the skills to survive for the remaining month, which will be quite a challenge.

*****

After a quick breakfast, I rummaged through my closet to get ready to go out.

After taking a bath yesterday, I had a hard time staying sane, so I just wore whatever I saw and didn’t notice.

As expected, there were only clothes for women or with a neutral feel.

Oh! Of course, all the underwear was filled with women’s items. Oh my!

” Hmm, should I just wear a hoodie, a short-sleeved T-shirt, and dolphin pants or something? We’re not going far. ”

I didn’t realize it because it was so comfortable, but these dolphin pants were pretty sexy.

No, that makes sense. They’re so short, they’re almost like hot pants, right?!

I was lucky that I was able to spread my divine power a little bit, because there were no people in this building. Otherwise, I would have died of embarrassment. Seriously!

” Looking at the date, it’s March, so I guess this is okay. It was pretty warm on the terrace earlier. ”

After getting dressed and putting on my shoes, I opened the door.

I opened the door, which seemed to have been closed for quite some time, with a creaking sound, and found myself in a hallway of some length.

However, it was broken here and there, with the concrete crumbling down and revealing the outside, and plants growing through the holes.

” Heuk, ugh, dust… Is it true that no one has ever been here before? ”

I headed toward the stairs, brushing away the dust with my hands.

When I looked towards the elevator, the door was open. The elevator itself seemed to have already fallen down, so I just turned around and headed towards the stairs.

Looking at the stairs, the writing was already faded, but I could barely tell that it was the 10th floor.

” Well, it must be because it’s this high that it looks so good. ”

I tried to go upstairs just in case, but the stairs were already blocked by collapsed concrete and rocks.

After going down about five floors, my skinny body was already getting tired.

” Haa, haa, ugh… heh… what… how can my body be this tired and messed up… Seriously… ”

I took a quick rest from my tired body and popped my head out through the open emergency door to look at the 5th floor hallway.

The hallway was covered in a white blanket of dust, as if to say that no one lived here.

” Hehe, phew, just in case, let’s go and open the door. ”

The hallway, covered with a white blanket of dust, soon began to become dirty with the footsteps of a small woman.

The moment you think that you have opened several doors but not all of them are open!

The door to the house at the far end opened with a creaking sound.

” Oh! It’s open! Alright, let’s go in?! ”

The interior seen after opening the door like that

It was a room filled with blood that had already hardened to the point where it had turned black.

*****

The first thing I saw when I came back here was bloodstains and a dark smell.

The scenery caused my frail body to unconsciously give way and collapse.

” Heek, why are you giving up on something like this! I’ve seen it more than once or twice…! ”

Perhaps it was also the effect of the gender change, but her fingertips continued to tremble and her legs were now held together with her arms.

After a few seconds, I felt my lower abdomen getting warmer and the trembling of my body that had been filled with fear subsided.

My body, which had been unable to move properly, began to move again.

” Haa, I didn’t know why I was given the protection of courage, is this why… This body is so sloppy… ”

I got up, dusted off my butt, infused my rosary with divine power, and took out my armor.

And before I knew it, I was holding a bastard sword in my right hand.

” Just in case, it might be a good idea to check. ”

While holding the sword in one hand, he created a ‘holy fire’ made of divine power in the other hand.

In fact, when I was in the other world ‘Maderona’, I didn’t have even a speck of talent, so it took me several months to even make this simple painting.

No matter how much you know how to do it, if you don’t have talent, you wouldn’t have been able to make it like this.

” There’s no big problem with moving the divine power, and since there’s a lot of it, I think I can maintain it for a long time? ”

As I turned the divine power around in that way, a warm light surrounded my body.

At the same time, information about the armor worn came to mind, accompanied by a slight headache that seemed to pound into my head.

” Patruna’s Armor? A growth-type armor…? It’s also partially summonable, so it’s quite convenient? ”

You could experiment with it and make it so that only the cloak or robe shows through, or only the metal part shows through, or only one side of the glove shows through.

I quickly got used to the armor and used the sword in a similar way.

With a crackling sound, the sword was engulfed in a ‘holy flame’ made of divine power.

However, the name of the Bastard Sword was Durandal, and no other information came to mind.

I think it was probably blocked artificially, but I don’t know why.

How can you know what God is thinking? He turns a normal man into a cute and pretty girl.

” Oh, what are you talking about? You’re really cute and pretty… ”

As I tossed my head around, I unconsciously thought that she was cute or pretty, and my face flushed with lukewarm heat.

After using some divine power and slightly swinging the tip of the sword, he headed towards the inside of the blood-soaked room.

In the kitchen and living room, there was already dust and broken furniture. I went in a little further and opened the door, which had several handprints and was slightly broken.

Corpses the size of small children were lying in ruins, rotting away.

The bones were almost visible, indicating that the person had been dead for a long time.

” Ugh… ”

The unexpected sight of the dead children and the resulting smell made me feel nauseous, but I managed to stop myself thanks to the guardian.

The corpse was burned with a holy fire, turning it white.

” Hoo… I hope you can go to a good place… ”

*****

I was already exhausted from my first exploration, so I didn’t even think about going down to the first floor and went straight up to the 10th floor where I lived.

Fortunately, unlike when I first went down, I wasn’t that tired, perhaps because my body had been strengthened to some extent by divine power.

I was just mentally exhausted from having only tasted a glimpse of this cruel world.

I went back to my room, took a quick shower, sat on my bed, and gently covered my shivering body with the blanket.

I knew that I wouldn’t see a good sight since the world was already falling apart.

However, perhaps because of the shards of miserable reality before my eyes, my body started to tremble again, even though it had stopped due to the protection.

When I came to my senses after burying my face in the blanket, the sky outside the window had turned into a dark night sky.

There were traces of tears on the blanket, as if they had been shed.

That scene, which I could have just ignored until recently, brought tears to my eyes every time I thought about it, perhaps because I had turned into a woman.

” Hoo, hoo, it can’t go on like this…! ”

I wiped away the tears that were about to flow down my arms, threw off the blanket, and got out of bed.

Open the window on the terrace and look at the moon

And he just quietly knelt down on one knee and prayed to Patruna.

This is an oath.

Even in this rotten and corrupt world, I will do my best with this one body.

I won’t let anything like the children I saw today end up like that.