CW: Suicidal ideation, nudity
Ugh...my head hurts...
As my consciousness returned, I foggily opened my eyes, feeling a wave of vertigo hit me. Trying to get my bearings, I saw a large rocky corridor, with unfamiliar rock walls and foreign crystals studding said walls. Each crystal glowed softly with an unearthly pink light, gently illuminating the cavern.
Heh, unearthly...Toto, I have a feeling we're not on Earth anymore.
It was at this point that I noticed that the ground seemed...oddly far away? And I seemed to be moving? Looking around behind me, I noticed two large, black-feathered wings.
Of course! I picked [Vallen] after all. It's a race with an increased affinity for [Spatial Magic] and has black wings and cute little demon horns...yup, yup, that's totally my taste.
Recalling what the voice in the pure white space said, I thought
[HP: 50/50]
[MP: 100/100]
[PWR: 10]
[DEF: 5]
[MAG: 20]
[RES: 10]
[AGI: 15]
[WIS: 15]
[WPR: 26]
SP: 30
[Reincarnator (B)]
[World Handbook Lv.1] [Skill Select x5]
[HP Auto-Regeneration Lv.1] [MP Auto-Regeneration Lv.1] [Spatial Magic Lv.1] [Flight Lv.1]
Seeing my status, the corner of my lips lifted up slightly, before breaking out into a full-on grin.
That was totally worth the gamble, huh?
[Vallen] {Spatial Magic+}
[Vallen] have black feathers on their wings, two horns on their heads, and are 90% female. They have skin colour ranging from light purple to grey. They have an affinity for [Spatial Magic] {truncated}.
This was the information shown to me when I scrolled through the list of possible races to be reincarnated as. Without looking at anything else, the first thing I focused on was "90% female". That meant that if I chose [Vallen], there would be an excellent chance that I would be reincarnated as a woman. In my past life, being born a man was roughly 120% of the reason I hated life. It was awful going through life being seen and treated as a man. It was even worse going through puberty, hearing my voice break, gaining muscle in places I did not want, and dealing with...that thing doing jumping jacks the moment anything remotely sexual passed through my mind. Of course, it calmed down over time but waking up to tents in the morning was the single worst thing to start my day. I often thought "what if I just died and could be reincarnated as a woman?" or "why don't I just kill myself so I don't have to deal with this?" Dark thoughts, I know, but when you have to live a life being something you're not, that life becomes little more than disposable baggage. It was why I could never bring myself to get a job, why I could so easily accept my death, and why I automatically decided to pick [Vallen] the moment I saw it.
If I had been reincarnated as a male [Vallen], however...I might just have lost it.
Now...time to investigate!!
As I pivoted in the air to resume an upright position, my body came into view. Amethyst-coloured skin, slate-coloured hair, modestly sized breasts...my heart quickened as I saw my own breasts.
These...these are mine! After looking at a flat chest for so damn long and wishing and praying and hoping...these are breasts of my own...
I felt my vision blurring, my eyes welling up with tears as I poked my own breasts from the side and held them in my hands.
This just feels...so right...
Pulling my lower body up, I looked down at my nether region, expecting life to play a cruel joke on me by giving me a half-assed transformation. But...there really was no sign of that offensive one-eyed snake. Instead, what greeted me was smoothness that disappeared to between my thighs. Putting one hand between my thighs and touching my v*vla for the very first time, I almost couldn't stop sobbing.
It's gone, it's really gone! And in place of that, I have what I've always dreamed of...wait, am I dreaming??
I pinched myself hard on my thigh, then slapped myself in the face. Realising that this was probably either reality or the deepest, most realistic dream I've ever had, I heaved a sigh of relief.
It looks like I've got this body now, for keeps...wait. Why the hell am I naked? This cheat system could give me a whole new body but not clothes? What kind of bullshit 98% measures are these? Well, whatever. I'm apparently in some endless labyrinth anyway, it's not like someone's gonna see me right off the bat.
Quickly adjusting to my current condition of having the body I've always wanted but having to be unclothed in the meantime, I decided that it was time to find a way to protect myself. A labyrinth would mean monsters, right? And traps? So I'd definitely have to be battle-ready soon or I'd die before having the chance to even properly celebrate my new body.
Checking my status again, my focus was drawn to the title [Reincarnator], and its associated title skills [World Handbook Lv.1] and [Skill Select x5]. Drifting to a more sheltered corner of the corridor, I activated [World Handbook Lv.1] and settled myself in for some reading.