Cursed Gender Swap?! The Mafia Bosss Love Bullet Seven Shots
Luca Kaneshiro, a popular VTuber from NIJISANJI EN, is the boss of a mafia with flowing blonde hair tied at the side, a white hat with a black band, and a pinstripe suit. He is short-tempered and likes to play the villain, but deep down he is a mischievous, friendly golden retriever of a man.
One day during a stream, the screen suddenly goes white. When Luca opens his eyes... he has become a girl! And all of his Luxiem friends have also swapped genders in total panic. Now a beautiful mafia boss
Cursed Gender Swap?! The Mafia Bosss Love Bullet Seven Shots - The seventh love bullet is laughter and bonds.
The light quietly faded away.
Luca Kaneshiro watched the rainbow-colored waves recede, still collapsed on the floor. The cold floor of Golden Barrel's second basement level. The legs of the golden sofa came into view. A white hat lay toppled right beside them.
They moved their fingers.
Thick. Knotted. A man's fingers.
"...My voice."
The sound that came from their throat was low and hoarse. Not a girl's voice. Their own voice, heard for the first time in nearly two weeks. Luca pressed their hands against the floor and slowly pushed themselves up.
Their shoulders felt heavy. Their chest felt light.
(I'm back.)
Luca stared at their own palms. Then, they raised their head.
There was a full-length mirror against the wall. The same mirror that had made them scream countless times since the gender swap. Luca staggered to their feet. Their legs were long. They almost stepped on the hem of a skirt—but didn't. A man's legs.
They stood before the mirror.
Reflected there was—Luca Kaneshiro, the man, with golden hair tied at the side. Pale purple eyes. A white hat. A pinstripe suit. Not a single thing different from before the gender swap.
Luca pressed a hand against the mirror.
Their fingertips touched the cold glass.
"...I'm back..."
Their voice trembled.
"I'm back... I'm really back..."
The tears wouldn't stop. With a man's face, in a man's voice, Luca clung to the mirror and wept. Nearly two weeks of confusion and terror, and the pain of not being able to answer their comrades' feelings—it all overflowed at once.
"Pog... this is pog..."
Luca cried out loud in front of the mirror.
How long had they been like that?
Suddenly, their phone buzzed. Luca wiped their tears with their sleeve and looked at the screen.
A message from Ike Eveland.
"Luca, I've changed back. My body—it's my original male body. What about you?"
Then, notification after notification rang out.
Vox Akuma. "Not 'young lady'—you brat. I'm back to normal too. What about you?"
Mysta Rias. "Senpai! I got taller! I'm the original me! What about you, senpai!?"
Luca gripped their phone.
"...So everyone's back."
They laughed, and tears came again. Luca typed a group reply to the three of them.
"Everyone, come to Golden Barrel. Right now."
Then, Luca looked down at their clothes.
The women's suit that Taylor Rich, the owner of the costume shop "Costume Parade," had tailored for them during the gender swap. The chest was tight. The waist area was, well, strange. Luca hurriedly stripped off the clothes and pulled a men's suit from the closet.
They slipped their arms through the pinstripe jacket. A white shirt. A black necktie.
They looked in the mirror once more.
"...Alright."
They picked up the white hat and pulled it down low.
This is me.
——
Golden Barrel, first floor.
Four men gathered at the bar counter.
The first to burst in was Mysta Rias. His short orange hair bouncing, his large amber eyes sparkling. The seventeen-year-old detective kept opening and closing his hands.
"Nyahaha! Look, senpai! I'm properly back to being a man! My height's back to normal too!"
Rias spun around in front of Luca.
"Shut up. You were a guy from the start."
"No no, those two weeks were seriously rough! My skirt kept fluttering, and senpai kept yelling at me that everything was showing when I ran!"
"It WAS showing. It was definitely showing. That pink—"
"Wahh! Stop it! Please forget that!"
Rias shouted, turning bright red.
Beside him, Ike Eveland smiled quietly. Short silver hair. A blue streak. Narrow blue eyes. They adjusted their glasses with a finger. The twenty-one-year-old novelist was as composed as ever, even back in a male body.
"...We've finally settled down."
Ike's voice was low and calm.
"You never really panicked even when you were a girl."
"I did panic. Just not as much as you."
"The hell's that supposed to mean?"
"Exactly what it sounds like. You screamed every time you looked in the mirror."
"Shut up! Of course I screamed! I'd turned into a woman!"
Ike let out a soft laugh.
And then, at the end of the bar counter.
Vox Akuma leaned on the counter, staring intently at Luca. Lustrous black hair. Crimson eyes. The twenty-five-year-old voice demon had lost none of their allure even back in a male body. If anything, their deepened voice only added to the dangerous atmosphere.
"You brat. Now that you're a man again, I'm a little lonely."
"Don't say creepy shit!"
"You were so cute as a young lady, too."
"I'll kill you, you bastard!"
When Luca shouted, Vox laughed with delight.
The four of them sat down in front of the counter. Luca brought out their finest liquor and glasses from the back of the bar. Some of them weren't actually old enough to drink, but today was special.
As Luca handed out the glasses, they looked at each of the three in turn.
Ike. Vox. Rias.
(Everyone made it back safely.)
A warmth spread deep in Luca's chest.
"...Anyway, you guys. I'm glad you're all safe."
At Luca's words, the three looked up.
"I'm glad you're safe, too."
"I was fine from the start, of course."
"Senpai, I actually had a pretty good experience during those two weeks!"
"What kind of experience?"
"Um, like, I kind of understood how girls feel—how hard skirts are, how to style hair and stuff!"
"You were totally enjoying the gender swap, weren't you?"
"Eh, you could tell?"
"It was obvious. Ike told me you were glued to the mirror."
Rias shot up from his chair.
"Ike-san! Why'd you have to tell them!?"
Ike pushed up their glasses and said with a straight face:
"Because it's the truth. You were quite taken with your female self, posing in front of the mirror."
"I wasn't posing! I was just checking!"
"And who was it laughing 'nyahaha' while making their skirt flutter?"
"Vox-san too! That was—the wind did that on its own!"
Rias turned bright red and collapsed onto the counter.
Luca burst out laughing.
"You guys are way too funny!"
The laughter of the four echoed through Golden Barrel.
Those nearly two weeks of being gender-swapped. That period had been truly rough. Screaming every time they looked in the mirror. Nearly falling every time they wore a skirt. Running away from their comrades' confessions.
But now.
They could laugh together like this, the four of them.
Luca raised their glass.
"Let's make a toast. To us getting back to normal!"
"Yeah, let's."
"I like it. Lead the way."
"Cheers!"
The glasses clinked.
——
The night deepened.
Through the window beyond the bar counter, the surface of the Emotion River was visible. The river of emotions had been dyed pink until two weeks ago. The color of romantic love. But now, it was different.
A calm blue.
The color of friendship and trust.
Luca tilted their glass and gazed out the window.
"...The river's color has gone back."
"Yeah. The pink lasted quite a long time, after all."
Ike also turned their eyes to the window.
"When that river turned bright red, I really wondered what would happen."
Vox said, swirling their glass.
"...That was my fault."
Luca's voice sank a little.
"No. It wasn't your fault."
Ike said it quietly, but clearly.
"The reason you were suffering back then was because you're kind. Because you truly didn't want to hurt your comrades."
Luca looked at Ike.
"...But I couldn't return your feelings."
"You don't have to return them."
Ike smiled softly.
"As long as you stay who you are, that's enough for me."
Luca tried to say something. But the words wouldn't come.
Then.
"...Luca."
Vox looked at Luca with a serious expression. Their usual seductive smile was gone. Their crimson eyes pierced straight through Luca.
"My love for you was real."
Luca held their breath.
"It wasn't because of the curse. It wasn't because of the gender swap. I liked teasing you. I liked seeing your reactions. And before I knew it, I'd genuinely fallen for you."
Vox's voice was low, sweet, but serious.
"Even without the curse, I love you."
Vox said it, then grinned.
Luca gripped their glass.
"...Vox..."
"Don't make that face. I'm just stating a fact."
Vox reached toward Luca's cheek.
Luca smacked the hand away.
"Don't touch me, you creep!"
"Oh my, there's no need to be shy."
"I'm not shy! I'll kill you!"
Vox laughed out loud.
Beside them, Ike quietly spoke up.
"...My love for you was real, too."
Luca looked at Ike.
Ike stared at Luca with the blue eyes behind their glasses.
"I tried to write it into a novel to sort out my feelings. But the more I wrote, the more my feelings for you overflowed. I couldn't throw it away. Even now, I can't bring myself to throw away that manuscript."
Ike said this and placed a single notebook on the counter.
Luca looked at the notebook.
"...Ike, you..."
"When you saw that one line in the manuscript, I thought my heart would stop."
"...That one that got blown away by the wind?"
"Yes. The page that said 'the person I love.' You didn't realize it was a love letter to you. That obliviousness was very much like you."
"Don't call me oblivious!"
Ike let out a soft laugh.
"But that was for the best. As long as you didn't notice, I could stay by your side."
Ike's voice was calm, but somehow tinged with sadness.
Luca couldn't say anything.
Then.
"...Please, stop..."
Rias, still collapsed on the counter, spoke in a muffled voice.
"Don't make fun of my first love..."
Luca looked at Rias.
"...First love?"
Rias jerked his head up. His amber eyes were wet with tears.
"Yeah! So what! Is it wrong for me—I mean, for me to fall for you, senpai!?"
Rias's voice cracked.
"I saw you as a girl and thought, 'she's beautiful,' and then—wait, do I actually like senpai?—and I didn't even understand it myself, but when I saw you crying, I seriously wanted to help you, and..."
Rias rambled on in one breath, then suddenly clapped a hand over his mouth.
"...Ah."
He turned bright red.
"Nyahaha... um, please forget what I just said..."
"Like I could forget that."
When Luca laughed, Rias turned even redder.
"I said forget it!"
"No way. I'll remember that you liked me."
"Stop it! Just pretend it never happened!"
Rias collapsed onto the counter again.
Laughing, Luca looked at each of the three in turn.
Ike. Vox. Rias.
They'd all said they loved Luca.
Not because of the curse. Real love.
Luca set down their glass.
"...Hey, you guys."
The three looked at Luca.
Luca took a deep breath.
"I think of you all like family."
Their voice was quiet.
"I want to keep streaming with you, keep laughing with you. The time I spend with you all is the most important thing to me."
Luca looked into each of their eyes, one by one.
"I can't return your feelings as romance. I'm sorry for that. But my love for you all is real."
Luca said it, and smiled.
A straight, sun-like smile.
The three were silent for a moment.
Then.
"...Those words are more than enough."
Ike smiled quietly. Their blue eyes narrowed gently.
"I believe in your 'love.' So I can put an end to my own feelings now."
Ike said this and hugged the notebook to their chest.
"...That's an answer just like you."
Vox laughed. But in their eyes, faint tears glistened.
"Family, huh. Not bad. I'll keep teasing you—my family—from now on."
Vox wiped their tears with a finger and grinned.
"...That's a very senpai-like way to wrap things up."
Rias raised his head and smiled awkwardly.
"But being called family... it makes me kind of happy. I'm your kouhai, and your family. That's enough for me."
Tears glistened in Rias's eyes too.
Luca looked at the three of them and smiled.
"Alright! Then we're drinking till dawn tonight! Spill all your embarrassing gender-swap memories!"
"Your screams echoed through all of EN Square, after all."
"Shut up! You were crossing your legs in a skirt, deliberately showing off!"
"Your reactions were just too entertaining."
"You perverted demon!"
"I'll take that as a compliment."
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