After wrestling with it for a while, Elina gradually came to terms with the fact that she’d turned into a girl. But she’d also come to a new realization: becoming a girl didn’t mean she had to end up with a guy. Yuri was a perfectly sound choice, too!

Love between girls is true love! Straight relationships are heresy!

Elina planted her hands on her hips and nodded. There was nothing wrong with that idea.

Now that she’d accepted the whole gender situation, the next step was to get familiar with this new world.

First things first: she needed to find out what she looked like.

Elina walked over to the full-length mirror beside the vanity. The moment she saw the adorable little girl reflected in it, she clapped a hand over her mouth to keep from gasping aloud.

The beautiful girl in the mirror wore pink silk pajamas and stood about 1.4 meters tall. Her long, golden hair fell loose to her waist, gleaming softly. Her pale blue eyes were as beautiful as the sea, and her flawless fair skin had a delicate rosy tint. She had soft pink lips and exquisite features that could make the world pale in comparison. The fluffy cat ears on her head gave her a lively, adorable air, while the tail swishing behind her completed the picture. The perfect cat-eared little girl, meow~

A cat-eared little girl cuter than any 2D character was basically an angel, meow~

Wait, that’s… me, isn’t it?

Elina: “……”

“Dammit, I’m still a kitten catgirl!” Elina grabbed the pillow beside her and angrily hurled it to the floor.

Just like a puffed-up Little Kitty~

After a few seconds of fuming, Elina suddenly realized something was off. This kind of behavior was way too girly. She couldn’t keep this up. Maybe she should…

Never mind. This body was as cute as a 2D character, so whatever she did would come off as adorable. She might as well get on with surviving for now.

Elina sighed. Her cute cat ears drooped, and her swishing tail fell to the floor. She quietly walked over to the floor-to-ceiling window and looked out at the magnificent city.

Aside from the building she lived in, which looked like a medieval castle, there weren’t any especially tall buildings in the city. Most were two- or three-story houses with pointed roofs and shops on the ground floor. A few distinctive-looking structures stood here and there, though she couldn’t tell what they were for. Many people on the streets carried weapons on their backs. Some wore sturdy armor, while others wore mage robes and carried what looked like staffs. Judging by all that, this had to be a Western fantasy world, one where people had abilities like magic.

Wait, wasn’t the new book she’d been planning a Western fantasy?

Could this be a coincidence? Had she somehow crossed over into the world of her unfinished novel?!

But that raised a serious problem: she didn’t know much about this world at all. She’d only worked out a few ideas—some races, professions, countries, the general power levels, and the main power system. Knowing just that wasn’t going to help much.

After all, even if she’d crossed into an unknown world, wouldn’t it be easy to find all that out if she really was a princess of high standing?

What she wanted to know was who the protagonist was, exactly!

And where were all the treasures and lucky encounters?!

Unfortunately, she hadn’t worked any of that out yet. The only character whose details she knew was Elina, the heroine’s archenemy, a princess from the Frank Empire. Spoiled and indoctrinated from a young age, she resented the heroine, who was always stronger than her. During an adventure, her elemental power went berserk, and she tried to take the heroine down with her—only for the protagonist to save the heroine, who then fell in love with him. What a ridiculous plot.

But in her own outline, Elina was a golden-haired catgirl, meow~

She couldn’t be that unlucky, could she? The world wouldn’t really do this to her…

Hopefully, it was just a coincidence.

Elina shook her little head, trying not to think about all that bad luck, and went back to recalling what she knew about the heroine.

The heroine was a princess from the Anya Empire. After the Frank Empire destroyed her country, she was absorbed into the Frank Empire and began her path of revenge. Along the way, she met the protagonist, who saved her. That was the story.

But even though she knew all about the villainess and the heroine, she still had no idea who the heck the protagonist was!

There were too many places where the protagonist could enter the story. She’d kept wondering whether he was a prince from an ancient kingdom, a villager from the starter village, or even another transmigrator. She still hadn’t figured out his backstory by the time she’d been hit by a car and sent to another world. But it was definitely too late now. She didn’t think she could change the world’s setting just by thinking while inside it…

Should she try it?

Elina gave a little cough, excitement flashing in her pretty eyes. She was the author who’d created this world. If she could change it with her thoughts, then she could turn herself back into a man—and win over the heroine and make her his wife. Heh heh heh…

Elina struck a pose and cried out, “Gale, obey my command!!!”

A few seconds later, a light breeze brushed Elina’s skirt, sending a faint chill over her~

Thump.

Mortified, Elina flopped onto the bed and rolled around. Her cat tail wagged of its own accord. Good thing nobody had seen her. If someone had…

When a cat wags its tail, it means it’s about to smack someone, meow!!!

But embarrassment aside, sticking close to someone powerful was what mattered most, meow~

She’d spend this life as a lazy cat, find herself a cute young lady to be her owner, and scrape by like that.

But her first priority was still finding the protagonist. This world was out of her control, and who knew what world-ending Demon King might show up later? As long as she stuck with the protagonist, she was guaranteed not to die. The one thing she could be sure of now was that the protagonist was a man, so it couldn’t be her. She’d just have to be a supporting character.

Elina lay on the bed and sighed helplessly. How had she ended up inside her own new novel, the one that had nothing but setting notes and no plot at all? That was just too cruel!

Still, at least she knew what kind of world this was. That would give her a head start. No matter what world you ended up in, strength was the most important thing for a transmigrator.

Elina let out a long breath and began recalling what she’d established about this world. It was a gigantic floating landmass called the Phil Continent. According to her setting, the people who lived there didn’t know that—in other words, she was the only one who knew this vast continent was actually just a floating island. But she hadn’t thought any further than that, so even she had no idea what lay beneath the Phil Continent.

……