Chapter 1: Did I Just Become a Woman?

Nero woke up naked and felt sand in every corner of her body. The sand was extremely uncomfortable and stuck in all possible areas, causing her a lot of annoying sensations. The last thing she expected was to wake up in a different place from her comfy and comfortable bed. Her last memory was of going to bed after eating an instant noodle and taking a shower. The uncomfortable sand made her whole body itch as she tried to brush off the excessive dust on her. 

Nero finally sat down and noticed more awkward feelings, in addition to the odd circumstance of waking up in a different place: She didn’t feel right about herself… or could we say himself. Even her thoughts were as if a woman was talking. The only voice in his mind was feminine. She was in a state of pure confusion. Her mind was astonished by the sensation as her body gave completely new and strange feelings. But even more strange was that her body felt a lot more energetic. It felt very different from anything she had ever felt before; it was a feeling of power as if she could do things that she could never dream of doing before.

Nero stood up and tried to recognize his environment. Looking up at the sky, the moon was highly bright and the air was cold and clean, reminding her that she was still completely naked. Her body shivered a little because of the cold wind touching her exposed skin. 

The first look at her hands felt odd. There were no male hands, but rather a woman’s. Her arms were also different and her skin was a little pale. When she touched her hair, Nero realized another thing: As she brushed away the sand with her own hands, a small strand of hair was visible, making her even more astonished by the look. It was white.

“But what the hell is going on with me?” As she replied to her own mind, her eyes were caught by another peculiar part of her body. The curiosity grew bigger. 

"Do I... do I have breasts?" Nero went beyond confusion.

As if listening to her question, something rather suspicious appeared in front of her. At first, Nero gasped due to the sudden manifestation floating in the air. It looked like some sort of soaring screen. When she tried to touch it with a finger, the manifestation wavered like a water surface and Nero couldn’t touch it. 

“A hologram?” 

Nero looked in every possible direction trying to find any kind of projection machine or device, but as soon as she tried to move away from the floating board, the screen followed her. A text popped out on the screen, and she was able to read it. 

"But what?"

Nero looked around suspiciously, but even looking carefully in every corner, she couldn’t find any hidden cameras. Not far away, she saw some people walking and chatting naked, but there were no signs of cameras. 

 "This is crazy! What kind of joke is this?"

Nero looked at the floating screen and went on full alert because of the previous description. If this was true, her own life was at risk. But was that really real? Nero was sure she was actually a man in his 21 years of age. How could he even know if that body was him? Was it really his life that was at risk?  

"I must be going crazy!" Nero also felt something strange on her back: "What is this?" The moment she reached back, she felt something soft to the touch. It was even softer and more delicate to the touch than baby skin.

"Urghhh?!" The moment she took a sample of what it was, Nero felt a slight pain. It was worse than pulling a strand of hair out of her head: "A feather?!", Nero was completely surprised to see that it was a white feather with some pink colored details. She almost screamed out loud in confusion and surprise. 

But, as it was written on the transparent screen in front of her, she needed to avoid drawing attention. She couldn't put her life on the line, even though the situation might be only a weird dream.  

Before even thinking about how she would be able to identify this Mandrake monster plant, the moment she looked at a plant closer, a tiny interface popped out, describing a name: Seaside Plant - Wax myrtle. When Nero paid closer attention, every plant had their name shown by this interface. It was identical to an MMORPG game she was used to playing. 

“Urgh! I hope I can wake up soon!" She grunted under her breath as she escaped north from where she was.

The worst part was the excitement she felt when she first heard her own voice. It was extremely strange how she could feel excited by it, and at the beginning there was no odd sensation in her body, even though the floating screen announced some sort of worm wriggling around inside her, but as time passed, Nero started to feel it in the form of flashes of pain. 

"I need to hurry!" Nero told herself. Her sweet voice made the worries look like nothing. It was too gentle. Indeed, it was something pleasant just to hear. 'Urgh, this is too weird!!' She couldn't help screaming in her heart. It was all very strange for her to look, think and talk like a woman even though she was a man not long ago.

'I can actually get famous on the internet with a voice like this...' Nero thought as she walked.

Looking from side to side in a state of urgency, she noticed that there was no one close, Nero began to accelerate her steps, she could see on the semi transparent screen that she had already spent 5 minutes of her time available, now having only 25 more to find the Mandrake.

Nero was walking and looking around in every possible way, as if her eyes were those of an eagle: leaving nothing behind to escape her vision. For a long time, she began to believe more and more in her current situation, and the pain she felt was getting stronger.

‘I don't know this place where I am... it doesn't make any sense. If only I had a map... 

Then a new screen suddenly appeared when she thought about the map. A new holographic screen was next to the previous one where it showed her mission. Despite being surprised by this, she knew there was not much time left. Not wanting to waste so much time, Nero turned her attention to the map floating in front of her and started to analyze it. The map was very similar to a game, huge and full of different locations. 

Like many video games maps, most parts of the map was obscured. The only part revealed was where she had already explored. Nero tried to move the map with mental commands, discovering that he could zoom in and out in a very easy way at her command.

Zooming in, she had an enhanced view of the nude beach she was on before. Although she could see the names of the continents, the details were obscured in every part where she didn’t go yet. However, Nero didn’t have time to think about it much. Her attention was caught by the strange names of that land. Those were names she wasn’t used to.

Nero's fear was growing stronger and stronger. It had been 15 minutes and she had not yet arrived at the so-called Beginners’ Forest, where the screen indicated her to go. Time passed as she walked and finally the forest was near, as written on the map.

"Damn it! How am I going to find this Mandrake monster plant in this forest with the little time I have left?” Nero cried out frustratedly in the dark, gloomy forest. Only with the moonlight illuminating the place. She wasn't happy about it: there were only 6 minutes left as she looked at the floating screen.

The pain she was feeling was intensifying, she could only clench her teeth and continue to search for the Mandrake thing. Fortunately, she could still see the name of everything she laid her eyes on.

"These things that bounce around, are those…?" Nero murmured, sighing heavily. As she looked around looking for the Mandrake plant, a tiny pink round thing came towards her jumping like an energetic rabbit.

‘Ahh, I'm really confused! This thing clearly came out of a game and is now coming towards me!’

Even thinking about it, she still couldn't deny the pain she was feeling, which made her want to believe that, even being a dream, she could be in pain. But this was just Nero trying to convince herself of the reality before her eyes. It was almost like she was no longer on planet Earth and somehow managed to transmigrate to another planet in a female body with wings.