Josuke Higashikata, a first-year student at Joestar High School in Morioh, wakes up one morning to a bizarre and terrifying discovery. His pants are way too loose. Looking in the mirror, he finds a stunningly beautiful girl staring back, a girl with a familiar face and a very unfamiliar body.
Panicking, he rushes out to find his home in utter chaos. His nephew Jotaro is now a hulking, muscular man. His mother has transformed into a stooped old guy. It seems a mysterious curse has swept through
A Bizarre Gender-Bender Rhapsody - Waking Up as a Beautiful Girl!? Morning Chaos at the Higashikata Household
"Uwaaaaaah!!"
Monday morning. The Higashikata house in Keyakidai, second floor, in her own room.
Jousuke's scream echoed through the entire house.
She stood frozen in front of the mirror.
Reflected there was—a breathtakingly beautiful girl.
Large, bright blue double-lidded eyes. Framed by long eyelashes. Beneath her right eye, a familiar beauty mark.
Lustrous black hair reaching all the way down her back. Perfectly straight. Her bangs cut blunt and even just above her eyebrows.
Skin so pale it was almost translucent.
"...Who the hell is this?"
Even her voice was high-pitched. Not her usual voice at all.
Jousuke fearfully touched the mirror with a fingertip. The cold feel of glass. The beautiful girl in the mirror made the exact same movement.
"I-Is that me...?"
She looked down at her own hands. Slender fingers. Delicate wrists.
Her gaze naturally drifted downward. The standing-collar boys' uniform blazer felt just a little tight around the chest.
Jousuke gulped.
And then.
She touched her own chest with both hands.
"...You've gotta be kidding me."
Soft. A definite sensation. This wasn't a dream.
Her pants were about to fall off. The waist was ridiculously loose. She'd folded the hems over multiple times, but they still looked sloppy. Thank god she'd slept in just her underwear.
"Mom! We've got a huge problem!!"
Jousuke threw open the door and burst into the hallway.
—And then.
Nearly tumbling down the stairs, she rushed into the living room.
"You're so loud, first thing in the morning... wait."
The source of the voice was—a middle-aged man with a slouch and a sullen expression.
A head of unkempt, gray-streaked hair. He was forcibly squeezed into a floral-pattern dress like the one Tomoko had been wearing just yesterday, which made for an utterly bizarre sight.
The man—or rather, Tomoko—stood in front of the cutting board. Knife in hand. She'd probably been preparing breakfast.
Their eyes met.
A moment of silence.
""Gyaaaaaah!!""
Jousuke and Tomoko screamed at the same time.
"Who are you?! Where's Jousuke?! A burglar?! I'm calling the police!!"
Tomoko advanced on her, knife in hand. A man's deep voice, but the tone was completely Mom.
"Mom! Calm down! It's me, Jousuke!!"
Jousuke desperately rattled off words.
"Don't you lie to me! Jousuke is much taller and—"
"I'm telling the truth! When I was five, Dad walked out, and after that you raised me all by yourself! When I had a fever, you ran through the snow to the Budougaoka shopping arcade, the one with the Angelo Rock, to buy me medicine, right?! At my elementary school graduation, you were the only one who came, and I was so happy!"
Tears began to well up in Jousuke's eyes.
"And, when I started doing my pompadour in middle school, you got mad at first and said it made me look like a delinquent, but then you gradually started saying it looked cool! And last night's dinner was hamburger steak. You said, 'Jousuke, you've been tired lately because of all the Stand stuff'..."
"Jousuke... Is it really you...?"
The knife clattered from Tomoko's hand.
"Yeah, Mom."
"Uwaaaaah... Jousuke! Jousukeee... How did this happen...!!"
Tomoko collapsed in tears, her voice a man's low cry. Jousuke found herself absently rubbing her mother's back.
Apparently, the abnormality wasn't just her.
Amidst the chaos, Jousuke grabbed her smartphone.
She selected 'Hirose Kouichi' from her contacts.
He picked up on the first ring.
"Hello, Kouichi?! Something insane is happening, get over to my house right now!!"
—Thirty minutes later.
The front door of the Higashikata house rattled open.
"Jousuke-kun! Are you o...kay...?"
Kouichi froze.
Standing in the entryway was a beautiful girl he'd never seen before. Her big blue eyes were glistening as she stared intently at Kouichi. Even the slightest gesture looked like a painting.
"............"
Kouichi's face turned bright red.
(Huh? Who is she? She's insanely cute. Has Jousuke-kun always had a girl like this at his house? Or rather... my heart is pounding like crazy right now.)
"Oi, Kouichi! You came! Get in here!"
Jousuke said that, using her usual masculine speech.
"...Jousuke-kun...?"
"Yeah. It's me. ...Actually, wait. You just made a weird face, didn't you? You looked at me and thought something weird, didn't you?"
"I-I didn't think anything! Nothing at all!!"
Kouichi waved his hands frantically.
When they entered the living room, Tomoko, now a man, was sitting there in deep dejection. Kouichi sat down beside her, formally kneeling in a small posture.
"...So, Jousuke-kun turned into a girl, and Tomoko-san turned into a man. But nothing's changed for me."
"That's right. Why are you the only one who's fine?"
Jousuke was in front of the mirror, desperately fiddling with her hair.
She was trying to somehow style her long black hair into a pompadour. But it was impossible. The moment she let go, it just fell smoothly down her back.
"Jousuke-kun... isn't it about time you gave up? I mean, the way you are now, your hair is definitely better just left as it is."
"Shut up! It's my trademark!"
Unconsciously, Jousuke combed her fingers smoothly through her hair.
That gesture, too, looked ridiculously picturesque.
Kouichi blushed again.
(What is this feeling...? Even though I know it's Jousuke-kun.)
"...A-Anyway. If this is an anomaly involving Stand users, I think we should consult Joutarou-san."
"Joutarou-san, huh. Yeah, you're right. He should be at the Morioh Grand Hotel right now."
Jousuke reluctantly stopped messing with her hair.
The two of them went outside.
The morning air of Morioh Town was still chilly. The sky was a cloudless blue.
Jousuke and Kouichi decided to pass through the station front and cut across the Budougaoka shopping arcade. It was about a twenty-minute walk to the hotel.
At the station rotary, a few taxis were parked as usual.
It was when they were passing by a café.
"Hey there, young lady!"
A college-age man called out to Jousuke.
"...Huh?"
Jousuke glared sharply, but when the current Jousuke did it, it just looked like a beautiful girl being slightly miffed.
"Wanna grab some tea? The cake at this café is delicious. My treat."
"Not interested. Let's go, Kouichi."
"Wait a sec! If your friend wants to come too—"
The man tried to grab Jousuke's arm.
The moment Jousuke got goosebumps.
"E-Excuse me! She's with me!"
Kouichi smoothly stepped in front of Jousuke.
He was a little shorter than her, but his gaze was dead serious.
"...Heh, is that so."
The man gave Kouichi a sour look and walked off, clearly annoyed.
"...Thanks, Kouichi."
"Nah... I kinda figure protecting Jousuke-kun is my job now."
Kouichi laughed, a little embarrassed. But there was just a hint of confidence in his eyes.
An alley in the shopping arcade.
There, three familiar shadows.
"Oi, oi, if it ain't Kouichi!"
The usual trio of thugs. The guys Jousuke had taught a painful lesson to before.
"You got yourself a girlfriend! And she's crazy cute, too!"
"Just 'cause Jousuke ain't around, even a shrimp like you can get introduced to chicks, huh!"
Kouichi's face twisted in anger.
But before he could act—
Thug B grabbed a fistful of Jousuke's hair and yanked it.
"Anyway, young lady, doing a fake pompadour like that... you copying that guy Jousuke? Quit it with that lame-ass hairstyle like his!"
—In that instant.
CRACK!!
"...Don't you ever make fun of my hair again."
Jousuke, still in a woman's body, summoned Crazy Diamond.
The pink Stand beat Thug B's face to a pulp, right up to the brink of being beyond repair.
"Gyaaaah!! Nobody did nothin' to you!!"
Thug B spun once in midair and slammed into the alley wall.
Jousuke's blue eyes were seriously enraged.
"Dorarararararara!!"
"Run for it!! This chick is insane!!"
The three of them fled in a desperate scramble.
"Jousuke-kun... even if your gender changes, your ferocity doesn't, huh..."
Kouichi muttered with a strained smile.
Fifteen minutes later.
Jousuke and Kouichi arrived at the Morioh Grand Hotel. The largest hotel in town, eight stories tall.
They asked for Joutarou's room number at the front desk.
They took the elevator to the fifth floor.
"Alright... this is it."
Before them was a door bearing the nameplate 'Kuujou Joutarou'.
Jousuke banged on the door.
"Joutarou-san! It's me, Jousuke! Something crazy is happening, please open up!"
The door opened.
What emerged from inside was—a giant of a man, well over 190 centimeters, with bulging muscles.
Short-cropped black hair. Sharp aquamarine eyes. A hat pulled down low.
"Who the hell are you?! Where's Joutarou-san?!"
Jousuke braced herself.
But the giant man, upon seeing Jousuke's face,
furrowed his brow sadly.
Put a hand against the wall. Looked down.
"Jousuke... please don't call me 'uncle'."
The voice was as deep as ever, but the tone was that of a pure maiden.
"Right now, I'm... very easily hurt..."
Jousuke and Kouichi were at a loss for words.
Only the wind blowing through Morioh Town made a sound outside the window.
"Joutarou-san... what the hell happened to you..."
Jousuke forced a strained smile.
The strongest Stand user, her last hope, was mentally unstable.
As the severity of this anomaly sank in,
(I have to do something. But—first, I need to comfort this depressed giant in front of me.)
In her head, Jousuke felt like she could hear Crazy Diamond letting out an exasperated "Dorararaa."
Right before her eyes, Joutarou sat dejected in a maiden's pose.
How was Jousuke supposed to deal with this unexpected challenge?
She had absolutely no idea.
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