Chapter 5: What should I do if I forget the recipe?

Staring at the silver hair she held up in her hands, Keti’s pupils suddenly contracted.

A bad feeling welled up inside her, and her body started to tremble uncontrollably.

Keti’s gaze was drawn downward against her will.

The first thing she saw was a pair of snowy white breasts, about the same size as her former teammate, the Nun Layla!

Uwahhh, th-this…what is this?!

In her shock, Keti instinctively weighed the bouncy mounds with both hands, then reflexively swallowed hard.

Ugh…

Sorry, I’m a sucker for big boobs.

No, wait!

Even if I like big boobs, aren’t these…growing on my own body?!

Keti continued looking down—slender waist, plump thighs, soft and pale little feet, and the most crucial place!

Gone?

The sky is falling!

After reaching down to check for herself, Keti’s face instantly turned pale.

After confirming again and again for three seconds, she finally realized—

“I’ve turned into a girl?!”

The childish, shocked voice she heard upon speaking seemed to confirm Keti’s suspicion even more.

The corners of the silver-haired girl’s mouth twitched, and for a moment, she couldn’t accept this reality at all, her head spinning…

Eh, whatever——!

Wadashi, why did something like this happen?!

No, no, no, this must be a dream, it has to be a dream, haha!

Ah, I get it.

It must be the Potion’s fault!

The Potion I drank last night must make people dream of turning into girls!

Hahaha…

Wh-what a mischievous Potion, what’s the point of having dreams like this?

Ah!

I can’t keep making things up—what kind of Potion would have such a bizarre effect?!

Ugh…

This has to be a dream, right?

Or a hallucination?

I must be daydreaming?!

Click——!

She almost fainted again.

After a long moment, Keti finally slapped her own head in frustration, then managed to stand up, taking a deep breath.

Art……

As much as she hoped this was just a dream, after secretly pinching her own now soft and tender little butt and feeling a sharp pain…

Keti could only force herself to calm down.

Reality was right in front of her, so Keti had no choice but to organize her thoughts.

First off, she really had turned into a girl, and as for the reason…it was most likely the Potion she had randomly brewed last night, right?

Girl.

Ahhh, so why did I have to go and do something so stupid?!

Ugh, well, I guess turning into a girl is still better than dying from poison on the spot, but…

In a way, this is pretty much the same as being dead!

At that thought, Keti quickly got up, found a mirror in the studio, and looked at the reflection inside.

Messy silver-gray hair draped over her shoulders, amber eyes twinkling, a petite figure of one and a half meters, yet with a pair of snowy white mounds, and those childbearing hips, perky and peach-shaped, plump thighs and a slender waist.

Even the loose men’s clothes couldn’t hide that alluring figure.

Under delicate features, a flustered and uneasy little expression appeared, making even Keti’s own heart skip a beat.

So, so cute!

Such an adorable little loli…

If only this wasn’t me, it’d be perfect!

Guh, when I first touched my hair, I even fantasized that maybe an angelic beauty had come to comfort me after I was kicked out of the party…but I never expected…

Even though the current appearance was cute, Keti couldn’t feel happy at all.

After all…becoming like this was basically social death!

If I go outside looking like this, who would believe I’m Keti?

Not just strangers—even my former teammates who lived with me day and night, or even my own parents, might not believe it?!

Guh…let alone that, Keti didn’t want to face them like this at all.

They’d definitely look at me with weird eyes, and I wouldn’t even be able to explain why I drank the Potion in the first place!

“Pft~ Because you’re so useless, you wanted to turn into a girl to come crawling back to us~? Heh, Keti, you really are disgusting, gah.!”

She couldn’t help but imagine Alice’s face full of disdain, saying such things to her in her mind…

After a moment, Keti quickly shook her head.

No, no way.

If I look like this, I can’t even go back home!

The son they raised with such difficulty got kicked out of the party by Alice and turned into a daughter—her parents would probably faint from anger on the spot, right?

I have to turn back, I absolutely have to turn back!

Fortunately, as an Alchemist who had brewed countless tools and Potions, Keti knew just how miraculous Potions could be.

Thinking calmly, in theory, if there’s a Transformation Potion that turns people into girls, then there must also be a Reverse Transformation Potion that can turn someone back.

And as opposites, there must be some connection in their recipes.

If I can figure out the recipe for the Potion I drank last night, then I’ll definitely be able to reverse-engineer the recipe for the Reverse Transformation Potion!

But the problem is…

I can’t remember at all what ingredients I used last night!

What do I do?

After sobering up, I have no idea what I put into the cauldron!

I can’t remember a single thing!

All I remember is that I added a whole bunch of stuff.

The key is, I never keep a materials ledger, so I can’t even deduce it by seeing what’s missing, this…

What else can I do?

Try every ingredient one by one?

Hiss…

No way, I was lucky not to get poisoned to death last night.

If I keep recklessly brewing, I might as well find a place to jump off a cliff—it could be a fate worse than death!

FFLA……

How small, heheー

After thinking calmly for a while, Miss Keti finally realized there really was no way out, and she fell into deep despair.

The worst part was, she had never even heard of such a Potion before.

Back when she spent every day in the Magic Academy library in the Imperial Capital, she had read so many illustrated guides and taken so many notes, but never once had she seen a Potion with such an effect.

Why…why did things end up like this!

And of all times, it had to happen when she was at her lowest.

Even if she had brewed this Potion while sober, at least she could sell it to make some money…

What should I do now?

As Keti was pondering this, suddenly, there was an urgent knock at the door.

Wh-who’s there?!