She had no idea where she was, but ever since her consciousness had awakened apart from her body...

Lonis had realized that this was the real world.

It wasn’t because she had any objective proof. It was just that the security of having a body felt completely different from the unease of drifting around as a soul.

So even though she had a girl’s body, Lonis wasn’t planning to kill herself… Maybe this world had some kind of gender reassignment surgery that could turn her back into a boy~?

“Haaah… But first, I need to figure out what kind of world this is. Magic? Superpowers? Cultivation? The apocalypse?”

Lonis shook her head and let out a long sigh.

She really didn’t want to admit it, but her voice was lovely. If she could use it to say, ‘Hero, I love you more than anything!’

Then even her past self would’ve fallen head over heels for her, wouldn’t he?

The surroundings were also a surprise to Lonis. She stepped out of the little room she’d been in, and found a long corridor beyond the door.

It looked a bit like an underground fallout shelter, and a bit like the interior of some huge base from a sci-fi movie.

Metal floors. Strip-shaped emergency lights. When this place was brand-new, it must’ve felt incredibly modern—like you were about to become a Gundam pilot or something.

But now…

Everything had fallen into ruin.

Rust covered the metal floor, and many of the emergency lights had been destroyed.

Only a handful still shone faintly, guiding Lonis onward.

(Why does it feel like the whole world’s been destroyed and I’m the only one left…?)

Lonis furrowed her brow. No wonder the “System” had said this time-travel mission was hell difficulty.

If she’d traveled back to the Middle Ages, she could’ve used her brains to conquer primitive people. But if she traveled to the future, she’d be the primitive one getting conquered.

And she was stuck in a girl’s body, too. There was just no way…

(Damn it! Damn it all!)

Just thinking about how cute her body was made Lonis see red.

She’d tried taking off her clothes earlier. She’d even tried walking barefoot instead of wearing her high heels.

But…

Both the heels and the dress had little lock-like fasteners at the ends. Without a key, she couldn’t take them off at all!

She had no idea what the bands at the tops of her stockings and long gloves were made of, but they were firmly stuck in place and wouldn’t come off.

So, much as she hated it, Lonis had no choice but to keep walking through the corridor in this cute but impractical girly outfit.

…

“Damn it…”

High heels made walking incredibly difficult. Lonis had to keep her head up and shoulders back just to stay balanced.

But when she stood up straight, she felt a strange pressure in her chest—a reminder that she was a girl now. A girl with a baby face and a huge bust, at that.

So before she’d even walked a few hundred meters, Lonis was drenched in sweat. Her stockings and dress were damp, her thoughts were starting to grow hazy, and a distinctly girlish pant slipped from her throat without her meaning to.

“Haaah… Haaah… I think I forgot to put points into stamina. If I’d known this would happen, I should’ve maxed it out…”

Her mind was a little foggy, and as she walked, Lonis lost track of where she was.

By the time she came to her senses, she’d reached a desolate area. The corridor looked even more ruined than before. The ceiling had partly collapsed, and heaps of broken stone blocked her way every so often.

…

An EXIT sign hung above a staircase leading upward. But closer by, there was a sign that read, “DANGER: KEEP OUT.”

The danger sign looked like it had been put up later, but Lonis couldn’t afford to worry about that now.

She just wanted to escape this dungeon-like place as quickly as possible, find somewhere with people, and see if she could figure out how to turn back into a boy.

“Come to think of it, what does ‘Savior No. 114515’ mean? Were there more than a hundred thousand people before me?”

The thought dampened Lonis’s spirits a little. After all, wasn’t being a time traveler more appealing if you were one of a kind?

If time travelers were as common as cabbage, then what would even be the point?

That was what Lonis thought, little knowing…

…

…

With a sharp click—

All the emergency lights went out.

The entire corridor plunged into darkness. No matter how wide Lonis opened her eyes, she couldn’t see a thing.

“What’s going on? Did the power go out?”

The silver-haired girl looked around in confusion. She’d faced situations like this many times before, back when she was a Hero.

But she’d had extraordinary powers back then, so she’d never been afraid.

Now, though, Lonis felt a fear she couldn’t put into words—a shiver rising from deep inside her, as if some terrifying presence were watching her from the darkness.

“W-Who’s there?! FUCK, come out already!”

The silver-haired girl spun around, but the darkness was absolute. She couldn’t see anything.

All she could hear was a slow, rustling sound, growing louder and drawing closer. “Squelch, squelch.”

“I’m warning you, I’m a savior who’s killed dragons! D-Don’t even think about trying anything!”

Lonis shouted in a fierce, girlish voice, but… The monster in the darkness wasn’t afraid at all.

Perhaps it was ravenous by now. Seeing the delicious silver-haired girl before it, it reached out with its tentacles…

“Huh?!”

She couldn’t see a thing, but Lonis felt something sticky wrap around her ankle.

Then, as if poison had been injected into her body, a tingling sensation spread from her ankle, gradually traveling through her entire body.

(W-What is this…?)

Years of battle instinct made the silver-haired girl try to jump back and counterattack at once, but her high heels wouldn’t let her put any force into the movement.

That wasn’t all. The monster’s tentacles also wrapped around Lonis’s slender waist and wrists.

The crushing force was like that of a raging bull. It gave Lonis no chance to break free… And in an instant, the poison spread through her entire body, leaving her unable to lift even a finger.

(W-What is this thing? This is bad!)

Being tied up was bad enough. What Lonis found even harder to admit was that the moment the monster restrained her, she felt a spark of pleasure!

The restraint felt good—thrilling. It was as if the girl wanted to arch her body and give in more completely to the monster’s attack.

But Lonis knew why. It was because of how she’d designed this girl: she’d made her a bit of a masochist, so all the discomfort she felt turned into pleasure. The helpless feeling of being restrained and abused was as addictive as poison.

“I… I can’t. I absolutely can’t… give in to a monster…”

As a Hero, getting defeated was humiliating enough. But if she got swept up in pleasure like some girl, then she’d be nothing better than a slut.

So the girl gritted her teeth and held back every sound.

But the tentacled monster?

It didn’t care about any of that. Driven by desire, it just wanted to bind the girl and drag her back to its lair, where it could savor her at its leisure.

And so…

The silver-haired girl was dragged away into the depths of the darkness.