“Hey, it's time to get up you're going to late to school.”

“I told you I schedule now get out of my room sis.”

“Don’t make me come in here again. If I’m late to school it’s your fault.”

“I know, I know. Now get out so I can get dressed.”

I get up and go to the bathroom grabbing my clothes I laid out on my nightstand. I look into the mirror to see myself in the mirror. With my short blonde hair, blue eyes, and tall build. I get dressed and brush my hair getting ready for school. I then go into the kitchen and put some bread in the toaster.

While waiting I look at my texts to see a meme thread in one of my friend’s group chats. I pour myself a glass of juice and drink it down as my sister walks to the door.

“Hurry up we’re going to be late.”

Her long hair reaches her shoulder and her green eyes shine with excitement for another day of school. I have no idea why she is happy to go. I hate it, but I have to go. I put my finished toast on a paper plate and run to the door grabbing my backpack. I see her smiling face waiting for me at my car.

“We aren’t going to be late. Now let’s go.”

I step out the door but the second I do the ground goes out from under me. I fall into a dark abyss screaming out as the darkness that surrounds me in fear. Then I wake up and open my eyes to a sunlit room in a huge king bed.

The room is unfamiliar but that's the least of my concerns. I wince as my entire body screams in pain from my sudden reaction. I feel like my entire body is sore and I fall back onto the soft bed I am in.

I slowly try to move my fingers and try to get a feel for what state my body is in. I feel lighter so I must have been stripped of my gear.  I relax and try to calm myself. I need to figure out what happened and where I am. Then I need to find a way out and back to the human camp.

I shouldn’t have come here on my own it was a huge mistake in hindsight, but I was just too impatient and I failed as a result. I shouldn’t have trusted him. Even if it wasn’t poisoned it could have been drugged. I should have seen that, but the food looked too appetizing and I fell right into his trap. Though he couldn’t have been telling the truth. What he was saying wasn’t possible.

I tried lifting myself up again. It was uncomfortable but manageable. I breathe heavily from the effort and look around my surroundings. It was a nicely decorated room with the king bed I was in taking up a majority of the room. The sun shone through the window lighting up the room. I was a door on the other side of the room. Though I wasn’t going anywhere anytime soon. My body was already protesting my current actions.

Suddenly I felt something touch my shoulders. I try to brush it away but it comes right back. I grab it and bring it to my face to see what it was and I see blonde hair. I pull on it in curiosity and wince in pain.

Was this my hair? It was never this long before. I look down to see my worst fear coming true. I then grab for my privates to confirm my fear. I shudder in fear as I realize that what he said was true. I was now a woman!

I yell aloud in panic and try to further inspect my body. Checking my breast and running my hands through my hair.

“This! This can’t be true! It can’t be!”

I hear a knock on the door and turn in fear. I had no weapon and I was in this state as well. I was going to be at the mercy of whoever entered through that door. I shudder in panic and fear.

“Are you okay miss?”

I back away from the door in shock and fall to the floor as I had reached the end of the bed. I scream again and fall to the floor with my body screaming in more pain.

“Miss!? I’m coming in.”

I couldn’t see it but I heard the door open and the maid’s feet walk across the floor towards me. I try to stand up in response, but I can’t get my body to work. So I just end up squirming in vain on the floor as a result.

“Are you okay miss?”

The maid looked at me in curiosity. Not knowing what to make of my compromising position. What was I wearing clothes? This is all happening too fast I can’t keep up! I cover myself as best as I can with the sheets from the bed.

“I-I'm your personal maid miss. I have been tasked to take care of your needs. Would you like me to fetch you some clothes?”

“Yes, I would.”

She then walked to a nearby dresser taking out some basic undergarments and a white dress. She laid the clothes out on the bed and looked at me worried.

“Would you like some help miss?”

I hated to admit it but I was too weak to stand on my own right now so I would have to cave in for now. It seemed though that my life wasn’t in immediate danger though so that’s a good thing.

“Yes, I’m not exactly feeling that well in all honesty.”

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“Would you like to take a bath first? It might help you wake up and refresh.”

No not a beth I’d rather cover what I am now rather than examine it further. Though I’ll probably have to confront it eventually.

“No, I’d like to get dressed first and get some food.”

“Very well miss. I will bring you some breakfast after we get you dressed.”

She then helped me onto the bed and started dressing me. Luckily I avoided the awkwardness of not knowing how to dress in these clothes by being dressed by someone else. Though I’m not sure how I felt about her looking at me when she was dressing me. Though she was very professional about it so it wasn’t a big deal.

Afterwards, she helped me back into bed. As she is about to leave I ask her.

“Can you get me a . . . mirror. I would like to see my appearance.”

“That can be arranged, miss. I’ll be right back.”

I lean back against the bed lost in thought. I guess this means that I can’t go home now. How am I supposed to prove to my parents that I was their son? I hugged my legs to my chest. I didn’t know what to do. I cried at this fact not wanting to admit that this was my new reality.

I could still try to kill the demon king, but my form has changed and with it, my combat style will have to change as well. My body won’t move the same way, but I should still retain all of my attributes from before. I’ll also have to find my old gear and find a way out of here if I can’t fight him head on. I’ll gain more strength and come back to defeat him for what he did.

First, though I needed to recover from this change. It left my body physically weak. I need to regain my strength so I have a chance to escape. So, for now, I’ll have to put up with whatever his plans are until I get better. Though I don’t know how long that will take. I close my eyes and quickly fall asleep due to my exhaustion.

 POV: Demon King Seliph

“So how is our hero?”

“She seems to be doing reasonably. The elixir worked as planned and I have my maids keeping close watch over her. Though I must ask you why you choose this course of action instead of killing her.”

“The humans would have just summoned another hero. With the current hero dead they would be able to summon another. Though they would have lost most the progress they have made so far against us. The reason I’m doing this is to hopefully end this cycle of death and destruction. Though since they only summon male heroes and demon kings are always male as well this is the only way.”

“Couldn’t you have taken the elixir and seduced the hero instead?”

“The demon lords only respect power and during my transition, I would be usurped and defeated. There is also the fact that we are more unified than the humans so we have to use that to our advantage. I hold political power, but the hero is only a pawn to the humans. So I will try to use her power with my political power to somehow form a truce and hopefully end this cycle once and for all.”

“I understand your majesty. Though how will we deal with the hero? We have no idea how she will react to this news, and I fear she will be against this wholeheartedly having once been male herself.”

“We shall facilitate her recuperation and show her that we aren’t the bloodthirsty monster she was led to believe. We shall also respect her wishes as she comes to terms with her new role. I believe even with minimal cooperation we should be able to at least call for a ceasefire within the month. From there we will try to create a lasting a peace and treaty with the humans.”

“But what about a hier? Wouldn’t there be problems?”

“We will deal with that issue later. For now, we need to end this pointless war and heal our kingdom’s wounds. I will not pressure her and it isn’t like we are pressed for time. Due to our power levels, time shouldn’t pose a problem for several decades.”

I hear a knock at the door of the office. I can feel the presence of the hero’s maid behind it.

“Come in!”

The door opens to reveal the young lady. She is oblivious to the fact that she is taking care of the hero. She believes she is tending to a captured noblewoman that we had previously captured. I told her to report in when the hero woke up to see how she was doing.

“How is our guest?”

“She seems quite sore and exhausted. She was having trouble standing and was confused at her circumstances. She seemed quite composed, but I believe it was a facade. She seems quite confused and scared. Not surprising considering her circumstances.”

“Has she asked for anything?”

“All she asked for was some breakfast. I asked if she wanted a bath, but she declined when I asked. I believe she is just scared due to her being in an unknown environment.”

“Good! Keep me updated on her condition when she improves enough to walk on her own let me know. I wish to talk to her at that time. But first, she must recuperate and heal.”

“Yes, your majesty!”

She bowed and walked out of the door closing it silently behind her.

“Everything seems to be going well. At this point, we must wait and see how she reacts. Notify me if anything urgent happens. I must make my way to the front lines to try and negotiate a ceasefire to buy us more time. I should be back soon, but I still wish to be informed if anything abnormal happens.”

“As you wish my majesty. I promise we shall watch over her with the utmost care. You have my most solemn word.”

“Thank you Felicia, your word means a lot to me. Now I shall be off. Tell the stables to prepare my mount!”

“Yes, your majesty.”

Now the hard part of how to bring this war to an end has just begun. I only hope that I can get her to see what I have planned and that she doesn’t resent me for what I have done. For we both have a hard road ahead if we are to succeed in my plans.

As I walk to the stables I see the general who led her to the palace.

“I hear everything went as planned your majesty.”

“It did. You did your part magnificently. I am glad it went off without a hitch. I hope they treated you well.”

“They only had me imprisoned for a couple hours. It wasn’t anything you need concern yourself with. Though I am curious how our guest will act in the future. I believe it will definitely be entertaining at the very least.”

“That I can agree with you. Though now we must negotiate a ceasefire with the humans. To do so I wish to show them a large show of force and power. So inform me of their situation as I ride. I wish to end this with as little blood as possible so don’t leave anything out.”

As we walked he explained the situation. The hero and her vanguard were supposed to prep for a grand siege on the city while waiting for reinforcements to resupply them. If we forced their surrender before reinforcements arrived we could end this before it became a long drawn out siege which would cost both sides dearly.

With this information, I relayed the order to my other generals on how to move out as I rode to front lines. If it all went to plan it should all be wrapped up in the next couple of days. We just had to wrap things up before the end of the week. Which should be a piece of cake.

Now let’s get this plan underway. The sooner the better.