The Other Members of the Pervert Trio

He needed someone he new well enough that he would recognize any changes in them and that he was going to see soon enough to check for them. Then he'd know if it was real or not.

"Menu." He thought and the blue hologram snapped open in front of him. He typed a named into the search bar.

[Processing. Target Acquired. Loading Information to UI.]

His best friend and fellow pervert appeared on the screen. He'd picked Matsuda first for no particular reason. There was a 3d-model of the almost bald young man and his ape-like face snoring away blissfully unaware in the corner of the screen. There were dozens of menus surrounding him. Issei clicked through a few checking what options were available.

It was everything. Absolutely everything. He could change the length of one of Matsuda's eyelashes or his species. He could shift him to having super model looks or age him into a grandpa. He could... his fingers hesitated over the [Gender] menu. He could change anything. Issei swallowed. He kept on looking through the other menus.

Would it be immoral? Absolutely.

There were tons of fantasy options in his change menus. Angels, Devils, Kitsune, and more. There was a Magical Power stat listed in there. With a bit of digging he found a spell list. Maybe this whole thing wasn't real. It wouldn't matter what he tried to change if he was just dreaming...

Was it a violation of the bro code? Absolutely.

A few more minutes of playing around in the menus and he'd found that he could Favorite options so he wouldn't have to dig through a series of menus just to find them. He could do the same to a change or a group of changes. Changes like...

Would Matsuda have done this to him? Absolutely.

Matsuda was his bro. A man like a brother. His companion on the long and lonely road of being an otaku pervert. But if he was also a hot girl wouldn't that road be less lonely for both of them? Surely Matsuda would see that this power was an amazing opportunity for them both. Really he was doing him a favor by making it so he could perv on girls without the boundaries of social convention. He would never remember being any other way and it would be better for both of them. This was his solemn duty not a perverted impulse at two in the morning.

Thinking those and other such self serving thoughts Issei opened the [Gender] menu. It was easy to find the options he was looking for. It was even easier to make the change.

[Processing Changes... Changes Complete. Reloading Target Model.]

It felt like... nothing really. The change must have been so small that he hadn't even noticed the strain the system had warned him about. The 3d model had changed. Gone was his bro Matsuda. Here was... Matsu-chan. Still his childhood friend. Still a relentless pervert. Now much more distracting as her sleeping form breathed in and out in the center of his vision.

Issei felt tears welling up in his eyes. Pathetic tears. Tears of joy. It had worked. He had been given his lucky break. An easy path to being a harem king without needing to change or grow at all. He pumped his fist. This was the best.

It was really compassion that drove him next. Matsu-chan was going to be his girlfriend. With the power to edit reality on his side that wasn't in doubt. He and her would ascend as pervert royalty together. But where would that leave Motohama? His other best friend. To suddenly be cast aside into the world bereft of bros and still maidenless?

Issei would never allow that to happen to a friend.

[Processing Changes... Changes Complete. Reloading Target Model.]

He remembered two lives. Dual memories overlapping like slightly different photographs stacked on top of each other and then held up to the light. In one he had found his bros Matsuda and Motohama. In another Matsu-chan and Moto-chan. In both they had become the Pervert Trio. It was less confusing then he thought it should be. He had no trouble telling when a memory came from one or the other.

He collapsed into his bed porno on the computer screen long forgotten. Tomorrow he would see if this was just a passing dream like the author is a total hack or if he had really changed reality which is the whole premise of the story.