I Became the Lieutenant Character in a Cute Girl Game

Prologue

For some reason, instead of the moderately firm chest of a man I originally had, there was something large and soft right in front of my eyes.

A chest that should undoubtedly belong to a woman was in my field of vision.

No matter how I thought about it, what I was seeing should not have been attached to me.

"......"

And the reflection in the room's mirror... showed a woman with beautiful blonde hair and a well-endowed chest.

It was a sight that should never have appeared in my vision.

Because I was a man.

I had lived as a man for over twenty years, and aside from the brief moment before I was about to join the military, I had never once wanted to become a woman.

I had never taken any drugs that might cause hallucinations.

I mean, I never touched drugs at all. At worst, my only addiction... was to caffeine.

I didn't drink much alcohol, and I never smoked, so there was absolutely no reason for me to be hallucinating.

"Ah, ah."

I tested my voice as if performing a microphone check.

A strangely clear and pure voice rang out.

"...No way."

A sudden thought crossed my mind.

At the same time, the thought of "Really?" also crept in.

It was only natural because what I was thinking made no sense at all.

If only this were a dream, if only it weren't reality, then this would have been a perfectly ordinary situation.

"No, this can't be. This really can't be. This is impossible."

It was an impossible situation.

So impossible that I found myself muttering to myself, something I rarely did.

I should have woken up as usual, grabbed my phone, and drained the in-game stamina that had accumulated overnight.

Not real-life stamina, of course—only the game’s stamina.

After all, stamina replenished over time, and if I didn’t use it, it would be a waste in terms of experience points.

But my everyday routine, my plans, had become reality.

Yeah, it might as well have become reality.

Because I hadn't been playing the game Catharsis for all that long.

Yes, Catharsis.

Even the name sounded strange, but that game was the problem.

"I started it thinking, 'It's just some weird weeb game'..."

Who would've thought it would turn out like this?

To be honest, the game wasn’t all that great. There wasn’t a compelling reason to play it obsessively.

The story wasn’t exactly top-tier, either.

But still, the story was decent enough to keep reading, and the characters were pretty and cute, which made playing enjoyable.

Of course, the only reason I played it at all was that, aside from the player character, every playable character was a girl.

Because I wasn’t gay.

I didn’t like guys.

If I had to like male characters, I’d prefer cool, badass middle-aged men or muscular, manly characters.

Not some weird, black-haired, otherworldly high school boy character.

"Seriously... Why am I Lindera...?"

I really couldn't understand the situation.

I had just come home like usual, completed my daily quests with dinner, brushed my teeth, and lay down in bed, listening to ASMR to help me fall asleep.

But why had I become Lindera, the lieutenant character from Catharsis...? I really couldn't understand it at all...