Deep Dive

I buy both Optional Step for 1 and Conditional Step for 2. I keep three perk points just in case, but I like having more options with those two.

I close the app and go to the bathroom to relieve myself. When I leave my stall and see myself in the mirror, I don’t exactly see what I expected here, my face is rounder and more feminine and my eyelashes are longer.
Someone normal would think that’s just an impression, but I’ve spent the last two weeks with a magic app so I know what to expect. Kinda, actually seeing myself more feminine in the glass is terrifying, is that what Matt feels when he looks at himself everyday?
God, I’m not a good friend and I don’t know what he would do if he knew that was my fault.

I grab my phone again, and go through my perks while wild ideas go through my head.
Do my perks have hidden effects as well? And one of them would be what caused this? But why is it _I never noticed having any compulsion before _then?
As I read through my perks one by one, the culprits makes itself clear and I let out a sigh of relief.
Fuck, I’m so dumb! Okay, everything’s alright, it’s just Perk Sharing II doing it’s job. I guess it makes sense, Matt bought the Femininity I perk for some reason, and now it’s shared with me.

Which means it’s easy to fix, I simply need to buy Perk Toggle and disable his perk. I guess I’m sorry for him, I wouldn’t like my perks being disabled just after buying them, but I refuse to be affected like that.

You bought the Perk Toggle perk for 1 point.

I have two points left, but that’s unimportant. I go to Matt’s profile and press his Femininity I perk.

Femininity I : Become more feminine (Hidden: Makes you want to become more feminine)
Toggle for Target
Toggle for QuestMaster

Oh, Perk Toggle is better than I thought and allows to disable the perk only for me, or for my targets.
I obviously toggle it off for me, and check back in the mirror, magically, I can see my face harden back into the one I had before. I think Beauty I might have synergized with Femininity I making it’s change way stronger than it should have been.

I look back at my phone, should I toggle the perk off for Matt as well? When I see the panic it put me under, I don’t want my best friend to suffer from it as well.

Before I toggle it off however, a message I didn’t expect at all appears on my screen.

Matt bought the Femininity II perk for 2 points.

(Matt’s POV)

That was a good stream. I had a lot of fun, and I saw my followers increase everytime I checked. I think I can make it, I reread my new perk.

Popularity Boost I : After watching your content, people are more likely to recommend it to their friends.

Yep, that’s a perfect perk for me, I want to become more popular so that works in my favor. I also received an additional reward as well I didn’t use yet.

All-Rounder : Obtain 10 distinct perks [+1 perk fusion]

I don’t really know what a perk fusion does, but a button to use it appeared on my profile, I’ll keep it for now.
I go look at myself in the bathroom’s mirror, my rounder face and androgynous body is intimidating, I wish I was more feminine.
I’m surprised by my thoughts, do I wish to be more feminine? Is that really what I think when I see what I became?
I’ll admit I feel better about my body than I did before getting the app, but that’s because of my noticeable weight loss. And because I look prettier.

I guess I can’t deny it anymore, I look so far from what I was, it might have been my desire all along.

I got a sweet voice to get more viewers and because I wanted to sound girlier. And now I’ve done the same with my body twice, both with Beauty I and with Femininity I.

I can’t go farther than that, John would judge me if I did.

Okay, now I’m lying to myself, I know that the more girly I get the more John will like my body. If that’s really what I want for myself, I need to rip the bandaid off, it’s not like anyone else will notice anyway and I can just tell John it was the reward for a quest!

You bought the Femininity II perk for 2 points.

I look in the glass as my changes happen.

First I notice my waist shrinking down and my hips flaring up. Followed by my arms becoming actually thin for a man. I then see that most of the fat I still had in my belly moved to my butt.
The biggest change is my face though, as my feature become softer and my hair grows down to my neck. I have to push my bangs out of my face to check out my newly improved body.

I feel some relief when I see my reflection, so that’s what I wanted to be. I still have my dick, and no breasts but people would hesitate to call me a boy now. I still have a way to go, but I’m pretty sure I’ll look as girly as I want when I buy Femininity III, sadly the perk costs 3 points and I now have no points in stock so I’ll have to do some more quests to get there.

(John’s POV)

He bought Femininity II on his own, I won’t toggle the perk off then, It might have been a nightmare for me but it looks like it was what he wanted, and I’m okay with anything as long as he’s happy.

Femininity II : Become a lot more feminine (Hidden: Makes you want to become a girl)

I close the app and go back to work, it close to closure time, and I have some things to do before that.

I turn the computers off, and I put back the books returned at the last minute by late customers before Maria grabs her stuff and tells me to move, she’s the one actually closing the doors everyday, I guess the boss doesn’t fully trust me with that yet.

We leave on our own ways, and I go pick up Sandra, we don’t have a lot of visits today, but who knows, we only need one apartment to be the right one.

“How is it going John? Ready to drive me around some more?” Sandra asks as she gets in the car.

“I’m fine, I’m fine, how about you? How was work today?” I ask in return as I start the car, and follows the GPS to our first location.

“I guess that was alright, one of the cars was a real piece of work though. I won’t bore you with the details but my boss promised things to the customer, and I ended up having to do some magic, all for the customer to end up yelling at us for the price of the repairs.”

“I see, that’s pretty bad, does that happen often?”

“Kinda, it didn’t happen much back home because everyone know each other, but in the city, people can just go to another garage if they fight with this one.”

I guess that makes sense, people care less when they think they won’t see you ever again.

We arrive at our first visit of today, and it looks pretty good. It’s a bit small, and the cost is still pretty ridiculous, but compared to the others it’s the best one.

“What do you think of this one?” I ask, and Sandra seems to agree, but we then start hearing heavy steps above.

“I guess it might be a bit loud?”

The man that took us on the visit is frustrated as the steps from the neighbors echoes as loudly as his voice trying to minimise the issue.

“And another miss, I guess we were lucky the neighbors arrived when they did, that would have been a pretty bad surprise if I took it.” Sandra says before putting on her security belt.

“Yep, and it was pretty much the best one yet.”

We do two more visits but none of the apartments are any good.

“You don’t have to pick me up tomorrow, I think you need a break so I only took one visit for friday.” Sandra tells me as I park in front of Alex’s gate.

“Okay I guess I’ll see you the day after tomorrow then.” I tell her and she waves at me after closing the door.

(Rita’s POV)

“Y-yes, I’d like you to check out my cosplay in person…”

June seems shocked by my request, certainly wondering by what alien lifeform I was replaced.

“First you send me a picture of yourself in geeky cosplay, then you ask me to forget about it, and now you’re telling me you want me to see it in person? Girl you need to think about what you want.”

I know what I want! But the quest tells me to cosplay in front of someone! And I want the reward, even if I need to get laughed at.

“Please? You can tell me what to improve?” She seems to take my bait.

“I guess if you really want my help, I can’t leave you hanging. Fine, go change and call me when you’re done.” She says as she turns away and sits down at her desk.

She grabs two sheets of paper and start following a tutorial on how to make a turtle with origami. June’s always like this, she gets a new obsession every week or so, completely giving up the last one, it feels like she can do pretty much anything compared to me.

I go to my room and change into my Wei costume. It covers me more than the Waterkeeper and I never sent June a picture of it.

When I’m done, I call her in, and she seems surprised by what she sees. I hear my phone ring telling me that my quest is complete and she hurries to my side and turn around looking at my cosplay while I stay frozen in embarrassment at the attention.

“Girl, that’s a pretty alright cosplay for a beginner, good idea to use two layers to get the white fur from the original.”

“You know Underwatch?”

“Seriously Rita? Obviously I know Underwatch, that’s a super popular game and you can’t go on social media without seeing some fanart of it.”

Right, since she doesn’t play games I assumed she wouldn’t know, she didn’t seemed to recognize the waterkeeper, but I guess that’s because Light Souls is not as popular.

“Anyway, that’s an okay costume, but there’s still some work to do, first you didn’t even do your hair!” She explains.

“B-but I never post my face!”

I made a mistake, I can almost see the stars in her eyes.

“You post pictures online? You have to give me your username!”

Ugh… That’s exactly what I tried to avoid… Please someone help me. This is so awkward!

(John’s POV)

Before going home, I check the app.

Rita completed a hard quest. [+10 xp] [+10 bonus xp]

Cotton completed an advanced quest. [+7 xp] [+7 bonus xp]

Name: Rita
Surname : Torres
Gender: Female
Age : 22
Level 11 (6 / 30 xp)
Class: Cosplayer
Perks : Makeup I, Photogenic II, Modelling I, Flirty I, Cosplay II, Pokerface I, Parasocial Affection II, Body Confidence I
Perk Points : 4

Body Confidence I : Makes you less self-conscious concerning your body. (Hidden: Small compulsion to dress in skimpy clothes)

Name: Cotton
Surname : Newman
Gender: Female
Age : 18
Level 3 (7 / 10 xp)
Class: None
Perks : Regret I, Reading I
Perk Points : 2

Reading I : Increase reading speed by 50%. (Hidden : Small compulsion to read books)

She levelled up and I think it is the right time to finally give her a class. I thought about it for a while and at first I wanted to make her my maid, to make her serve me coffee when she comes by, but I feel like that’s pretty mean so I opted for Perfect Student instead, in hope it would improve her life and make her less bitchy in the process.

I press Add Class, and as I see the list, another class attracts my eyes. What about making her a secretary? It would both make her more professional, and generally more subservient.
That’s a bad idea, I repeat to myself as my growing erection disagrees.

I imagine her adjusting some fake glasses and leaning forward showing me her cleavage as she serves me coffee in a short pencil dress, and I can’t go against this picture as I press it.

You have assigned the Secretary class to Cotton.

I read the message and I feel the pressure of the choice disappears. That’ll have to do, I can’t change it anymore so whatever.
I start my car, and try to think of something else while I drive home.

Author's Note : Hope you liked today's chapter, I wanted to warn everyone in advance that I will slow down my update frequency by a lot very soon, I might do a chapter a week depending on how life's doing, but don't expect daily chapter to keep going as I have other priorities getting in the way and I'm a slow writer. (Today's chapter took around 3-4 hours to write for example.)