"Um, you can come in." I said before realizing that she actually couldn't because the door was locked. But the sound of my own now-male voice distracted me long enough that Rivi just decided to use magic to pick the lock, and the door swung open in the time it took me just to sit up in bed.

Instead of the confusion or disgust I feared, Rivi's look of concerned determination only seemed to harden when she approached me and saw my current form. "Who did this to you? Do you know? What happened?" Her tone took on a serious and dangerous quality that I had never heard from her before.

"Um, ah…" I hated using my voice to talk, but I also didn't want to sit there and type it out in front of her like an idiot. "Here let me just show you…" When the new system was installed it had imbued me with knowledge of the keyword needed to summon it. "Humanity system." I waved my arm expecting the floating brown screen to appear, but after it was summoned it flickered and immediately went out.

I furrowed my brows a little confused, but Rivi looked even more dangerously angry. Black wisps of mana seemed to drift off her and the room darkened a little. "Humanity system." She said again, and I felt her mana tugging at mine, forcefully summoning the new system interface from my soul.

[Humanity System v1.0]

[Humanity status]

[lvl. 0 (undead)] [0/100 HP]

[Quests: (currently available)]

[1. Cosplay as a cat femboy and strike a provocative pose in front of a mirror (50 HP)]

[2. Lift up or peer under Rivi's skirt on 'accident' (15 HP)]

[3. Secretly buy and wear duck-themed underwear (20 HP)]

[4. Pick five varieties of flowers and give them to Rivi after saying "I wove you vewwy much" (50 HP)]

[Inventory]

[Time Reversal Power (activated): Reverses user's body to its state at a fixed point in time for four hours. (Cooldown: 1 week)]

[Shop (currently unavailable)]

"That damn woman…" The mana spilling from Rivi's fingertips actually cracked and dissipated the illusory system screen. For a moment it seemed like she was at risk of legitimately exploding with all the mana pouring off of her, but she took a deep breath and the mana leakage suddenly ceased.

"Give me a second, Silvie, let me see your soul."

I nodded dimly, though I wasn't unsure of what exactly she wanted me to do.

She closed her eyes and held her hand towards me, and I felt invisible strings of mana pulling at various things deep inside of me. At last she breathed a sigh of relief and opened her eyes.

"I'm not well-versed in time magic, but luckily this wasn't a curse designed to be hard to unravel. Do you wish for me to dispel it now?"

"The…the time reversal thing?" I asked, still unsure of what exactly she was doing or referring to.

"Yes. Noe's placed a time curse on you through the intervention of the system, but it's just straightforward soul and time magic. I at least know enough to deactivate it, though I'd have to place a ward to prevent Noe from being able to reactivate it at will. Do you want to go back to being a girl now? You seem very uncomfortable as it is."

"Please," I gripped her arm. "Please dispel it." I couldn't stand being in this body for another second, my voice, my hands, the hair on my arms, the taller height, the…thing between my legs. I hated all of it so desperately I couldn't believe I had lived for seventeen years like this.

Rivi gave me a soft smile. "As you wish," but just before she raised her hands to start the process, I felt magic spilling out from my soul as my body began to morph and change.

"Is this you?" I asked a little panicked as the overwhelming sensations threatened to drown me in unconsciousness.

"No!" She replied, equally panicked. "I didn't start yet, what… what's…?"

I heard loud cracks as my bones started to change, and all I remembered was a horrible searing pain that flooded over me, immediately stunning me unconscious.

***

[Developer: hehe, everything's set for the new system. Is everything set on your end? Should we activate the blessing now?]

[Bell: Yeah, pretty much, but are you sure Silvie really wants to be human again? The closer we get to this, the more nervous I get that she won't actually pursue any of the quests.]

[Developer: Hmm, well if she doesn't like the prizes can't we always just get some more? And besides even if she doesn't follow through it'll still be pretty funny to see her reaction hehe]

[Bell: Yeah, I guess you're right…Still though, I can't shake the feeling like I'm doing something really wrong (っ- ‸ - ς)]

[Developer: Ahh, don't worry about it! For entertainment we must be bold and daring!]

[Bell: Alright, alright, are we activating it now then?]

[Developer: Just activated! She should wake up soon after the transformation's complete ;)]

[Bell: Um…]

[Bell: Why does she seem so distressed…?]

Noe leaned back in her chair looking through the screen at my meltdown in front of the mirror, her heart suddenly racing. Sh*t, did I f*** up? Sh*t, sh*t she looks really depressed!? What's going on!!!?

Sh*t did I mess up the curse, this is her body from before, right? Why does she look like she's going to fall apart at the slightest touch?

[Bell: Noe, I really don't like this, should we stop? It seems like Silvie's really hurt right now… ( ._. )""]

[Developer: Ahhh I don't know, let me check the spells again…]

Noe's fingers raced over the keyboard as she checked the lines of code while simultaneously bringing up the latest system scans of my soul. Yeah, yeah, everything should be right. There's nothing in the error logs, and the latest scans seem to imply that the curse applied correctly. She shouldn't be in any pain, though her status report does say her emotions are highly affected… Is there something…

[Bell: AHH NOE HELP THEY'RE ATTACKING ME!!!!!]

Noe jolted out of her reverie immediately returning to the live feed to see Rivi forcefully summoning the humanity system's display code from Silvie's soul.

[Bell: I just tried to hide the window, don't kill me please ｡°(°.◜ᯅ◝°)°｡]

The look on Rivi's face immediately clued Noe in that she had royally f*cked up this time. Are they…is it not, because it didn't work, but rather…because it did?

"Ahh, why did I do this?" Noe put her hands on her head. "I was trying to fix my relationship with Rivi, why was I stupid enough to interfere again!?"

Rivi's mana cracked the system window and Noe winced at the sound. "F*ck! She's going to kill me!! Ahh, fix it, fix it, ok, ummm…."

Noe returned her fingers to the keyboard rapidly inputting commands to shut down the new system. "Is it the time curse? It must be the time curse…What's so wrong with a time curse!?" Noe's eyes darted over the curse's spell-code as she rapidly begun the process of deconstructing it.

"Please, please dispel it." She heard my voice coming from the live feed as Noe finished the spell reversion program and rapidly applied the changes to the system's code. "Ahh, Silvie, I'm sorry." She buried her face in her hands. "This wasn't supposed to be like this." She moaned into her hands as the reversion began to take affect on my body. "Ahhh, I'm so stupid."

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