I was reincarnated.
And in a woman's body, no less.
"Huh?"
I realized I had a past life when I was around five years old.
The moment I hit my head on the monkey bars while running around excitedly at the playground and collapsed.
My vision spun round and round as if I were seeing stars, and while lying flat on my back looking up at the sky, memories of my past life flooded in like a tidal wave.
"Urp...!"
Unable to endure the sudden deluge of information, I spewed my guts out.
"Oh dear, Seoyun!"
My parents took me, unable to come to my senses, to the hospital.
"She hit her head?"
"Yes, Doctor. It's nothing serious, right...?"
"Well, as you can see from the X-ray here, your daughter is perfectly fine."
"Th-then why can't she come to her senses!"
"It's very rare, but there are cases where an external shock causes an 'Awakening.'"
"A-Awakening? Our child?"
Rushed to the hospital, I had a raging fever and couldn't come to my senses.
Half-asleep and half-awake—no, in a foggy consciousness due to the high fever—I listened to my parents and the doctor and thought.
'Wait, this was a fantasy world?'
When I opened my eyes, the world spun round and round, so I had no choice but to keep them closed.
At least if I couldn't see in front of me, I only felt the heat of my burning body.
"Uugh..."
"Seoyun!"
"Our daughter! Come to!"
"Hot..."
And so, I was hospitalized for about a month while they monitored my condition.
"I think you can be discharged now."
"Thank you, Doctor."
"Not at all. Your daughter was tough. Ah, right. Don't forget to visit the Korean Awakened Association."
The doctor stroked my head and took out a business card from his desk drawer.
"I know a junior there. If you tell them I sent you, you'll probably be seen quickly."
"Thank you so much for looking out for us...!"
"By the way, are there cases of Awakening at such a young age?"
Father asked, tucking the business card into his pocket.
"It's my first time seeing someone Awaken at such a young age too. Little one, you have to stay healthy, okay?"
So, discharged and having gone to the Korean Awakened Association, we didn't have to wait long.
"Ah, so this is the kid Senior Han mentioned?"
"Yes, we were told we could get tested right away if we contacted you here..."
"You've come to the right place. Please wait a moment."
Did we wait about five minutes?
We sat down for a bit and were watching Pretty Cure when we were told to come in, that preparations were done.
"Yes, could you place your hand on that measuring device, that is, the orb over there?"
I tried to touch the giant sphere as instructed, but with a child's body, I couldn't quite reach it.
"I'll get you a chair. Just a moment."
It was only now sinking in that I had become a girl.
"Hup!"
Not wanting to be treated like a child, I stood on my tiptoes, trembling, and stretched out my hand.
Tok-
The moment my fingertips touched it, the giant orb began to glow brightly.
"Huh?"
Then, with a beep-beep sound, the eyes of the employee who had gone to get a small chair widened.
"Wh-why is that?"
"Is it a bad ability for our daughter?!"
"No, no, it's not that. Please wait a moment."
Whirrr.
Soon, several sheets of paper came out of the printer.
The employee shuffled them, brought them over, and explained to my parents while showing them the papers.
"As you can see from this, your daughter seems to have Awakened a supernatural ability on the 'Healing' side."
"Healing...?"
"Not just in Korea, but this is an incredibly rare ability worldwide!"
"R-really?"
The employee looked around and lowered his voice.
"If people found out a young child Awakened such a rare ability, wolves would swarm from everywhere."
"Wolves...?"
"I mean it's an ability that other large Guilds and S-Rank Awakened would drool over."
"Gasp!"
Having said that, the employee quietly tapped on a keyboard and soon printed out a different paper.
"For now, we'll record your daughter as having Awakened a 'Strengthening' ability. It's best if only you two know it's 'Healing.'"
He explained that while another ability might be fine, Healing was so rare that we had to be careful.
That if things went wrong, I could be kidnapped while alive and dissected.
That the best thing would be to join the Korean Awakened Association, but since I was still young, that wouldn't be easy.
"So, let's keep this a secret just among us. Understood?"
"Then, from the doctor as well..."
"Yes, it's a secret from Hyung-nim too. Doctors are the ones who go craziest over Healing abilities."
The employee took back the papers he had given my parents and put them in a paper shredder.
"Little one, from now on, if anyone asks, just answer, 'I get stronger!' Got it?"
The employee held out a candy and said.
Returning home.
"Now, Seoyun. What do you say if someone asks?"
"I become tougher!"
"Hmm, that's our daughter. I wonder who you take after, you're so smart."
"You too, don't go around blabbing and watch your mouth."
"Hehe, you know I keep my lips sealed."
And so, my secret was kept.
...Until I started elementary school.
"Ow!"
"Seoyun, you okay?"
This Healing ability, if it were anyone else, I wouldn't know, but on me it applied automatically.
What that means is,
"I have a band-aid!"
"O-oh... thanks..."
I snatched the band-aid my friend held out as if stealing it and stuck it on my knee.
"Does it hurt?"
There was no helping it since small scrapes healed in an instant.
"Yeah... it doesn't hurt thanks to you."
"Thanks to me... hehe."
Still, it was fine as long as I was careful, so it wasn't a big problem.
It was a bit of a shame that, being in a child's body, it didn't move the way I wanted.
'Ugh... I was over 180 centimeters in my past life, though.'
Because I was assigned the locker on top, I grunted and stretched up on my tiptoes to open the door.
"Here. I'll help."
"...Thanks."
"Hmph, it's only natural between friends."
Fortunately, I was able to make friends too.
I had worried whether I could get along among little kids, but once I actually lived it, it was manageable.
Kids are, well, should I say pure.
Maybe because they were still young, there was no passive-aggressive fighting.
"Seoyun is going to play with me!"
"No, she's going to play with me, idiot!"
"What? Why am I an idiot!"
"G-guys, don't fight..."
"..."
At least it was better when they bickered to your face if they didn't like something.
Even though I was a woman now, I had absolutely no confidence in fitting in with women's mind games.
Come to think of it, they didn't even subtly beat around the bush.
"Now, now. We can all play together, so let's not fight."
"Hmph... I wanted to play with just the two of us."
"That can be later."
"Really?"
"Hey, Kim Mali!"
"It's not Kim Mali, it's 'Kim Mari!'"
"What are you saying, Kim Mali is Kim Mali!"
And so, somehow, my childhood passed without any major issues.
Until puberty hit.
"Ugh, uugh..."
"Seoyun, are you okay?"
"Her face looks like she's dying, seriously."
"Could it be... is it 'that day' today?"
Unable to answer, I collapsed onto my desk and barely managed to nod my head.
My lower belly ached as if it were cramping tight, and I groaned from muscle pain like my whole body had been beaten.
"Did you take... medicine?"
"Even if I do... it doesn't help..."
Mari nodded as if she understood and took something out of her bag.
"Chocolate?"
"Eating something sweet helps me a little."
"I don't have an appetite right now..."
"Tsk! This is exactly when you need to eat!"
"Forget it. I'll open it for you."
Yuhyeon, who was beside me, instantly tore the wrapper and put it in my mouth.
"Damn... I was going to open it!"
"Why are you getting mad over something like this."
"You, you're always such a...!"
"G-guys, Seoyun is struggling..."
"Ah." "Ah."
My head was already heavy, my chest felt tight and weighed down.
I was in a condition where I felt like dying overall, and with them fighting in front of me, it was twice as hard.
"...Let me sleep a little."
What? Wasn't I a Healing ability user?
Surely, a period that normally just ends for others doesn't heal and bleed and heal and bleed for me, making it twice as painful, right?
...Right?
Please tell me that's not true.
Having gotten used to my womanly days and with time passing, I took the CSAT too.
"Seoyun! Did the results come out? Did you pass?"
"Of course..."
"Of course?"
"I passed!"
"Kyaaaa!!!"
Since it was my second time taking it, I did pretty well on the CSAT.
No, honestly, I did way better than expected.
To be frank, it was no different from retaking, so it was right that I did better than in my past life.
"Come to think of it, where's Gahyeon?"
"Ah, Gahyeon... hmm..."
"No wonder I hadn't seen her..."
Mari, Yuhyeon, and Gahyeon, whom I had hung out and played with since childhood.
Unfortunately, Gahyeon hadn't gotten into her desired school and had decided to retake, but.
"No, it's not retaking... it's a leave..."
"Oh, it's different?"
"Retaking means... having nowhere to go..."
"So it's a do-or-die situation, huh?"
"Hey, it'll work out! Gahyeon, you studied the best out of all of us!"
"Yeah! For now, just forget everything and drink!"
"Okay, we say cheers on three, right?"
"Waitwaitwait! I-I need to Boomerang this!"
"Who here uses an iPhone?"
Still, having become an adult, I enjoyed my twentieth year of youth with everyone.
"Kyaaaaaack!!!!"
"Wh-what happened!"
"S-Seoyun..."
Thanks to my Healing ability, I had no hangover, but I couldn't help suspecting that I was still drunk.
"Wh-what is this...?"
"..."
A silhouette visible even through pajamas.
A violent sight that exuded sheer weight just by looking at it.
The front seam of her pants was slightly wet, as if a little had leaked out while she slept.
"Th-th-this... could it be..."
Gulp. I swallowed my saliva.
"Is this... a cock?"
"...!"
"Ack, aack! Sorry, sorry!"
Mari had grown a dick.
An enormous one at that.