Curse Reversal?! Ange & Katrina's Chaotic☆Body-Swap School Life
One morning, Ange wakes up and notices her voice sounds strangely deep. Looking in the mirror, she sees the face of her best friend, Katrina! A scream echoes from the next room. Rushing over, she finds Katrina, now in Ange's body, blushing furiously while fumbling with her pajamas.
They aren't the only ones. A mysterious curse has struck the academy, swapping almost everyone into a body of the opposite gender. The dependable class president, Lize, now finds herself in the body of a small, cute
Curse Reversal?! Ange & Katrina's Chaotic☆Body-Swap School Life - A Big Turnaround in Gym Class?! Discovering Each Other's True Strengths in the Other's Body
The light streaming through the classroom window felt strangely dazzling.
Day two of the body swap. As soon as morning homeroom ended, the whole class was wrapped in a restless, fidgety atmosphere. Third period was PE. And the event was volleyball, as the sports rep had written in big letters on the blackboard.
"Yesss! Ball games! I'm so excited!"
Ange kicked Katrina's long legs back and forth as she turned to look at the seat next to her. There was Katrina, neatly putting away her textbook with Ange's small body.
"Ange, I'm... not very good at ball games..."
Katrina stared anxiously at the small hands that weren't her own.
"It'll be fine! It'll work out somehow!"
Ange took Katrina's hand and squeezed it tight. Even though it was her own hand, it looked so slender with Katrina inside it, and Ange felt a tiny bit of wonder at that.
"'It'll work out somehow' — that's all you ever say."
Those words spilled from Katrina's lips in Ange's voice. That voice trembled just a little, but it also sounded like she was smiling.
"Because that's my catchphrase!"
They looked at each other and laughed. The classmates around them were also making a commotion, pointing at each other in their swapped bodies.
"The guys in girls' bodies for PE is seriously impossible!"
"Right back at you! Running in a guy's body is way too embarrassing!"
"Ugh, everyone's so noisy."
The classroom had been in a bit of a festival mood since morning.
***
The chime for third period rang.
As Ange slipped her arms through the sleeves of Katrina's gym uniform, she still couldn't get used to the feeling of a body that wasn't hers. Long arms, long legs. Every time she moved, it felt like her intentions and her body's movements were just slightly out of sync.
"Hmm... this is your gym uniform, right, Kat? It feels a little tight around the chest."
Finished changing, Ange glanced down at her chest. Katrina's body was far more glamorous than Ange's. The fabric of the gym uniform stretched taut, and it felt like it stood out even more every time she moved.
"Ange's gym uniform is so baggy on me. I never realized you were this small..."
Katrina, who had been changing beside her, let out a sigh as she rolled up the sleeves of her oversized gym uniform. Ange's body was petite and delicate, so the standard-size uniform slipped right off her shoulders.
"That's my usual look! Come on, let's go!"
Ange pulled Katrina by the hand and dashed off toward the gymnasium in their gym clothes.
Most of the students were already gathered in the gym.
Basketball hoops hanging from the high ceiling. Mats stacked against the walls. And the white lines of the volleyball court drawn on the floor. The air in the gym was a little colder than usual, and the squeaking sound of shoes could be heard from all around.
"Everyone, line up!"
PE teacher Verde-sensei shouted in his usual booming voice. He looked the same as always, but he hadn't been swapped. Ange remembered someone saying yesterday that he had been off school grounds when the swap happened.
"Today we'll do volleyball in match format. Mixed-gender team battle. Even in swapped bodies, give it your all. It'll be a good experience!"
Verde-sensei grinned.
"A good experience, he says..."
Katrina murmured quietly beside her. Ange's large brown eyes wavered with anxiety.
"Alright, let's do this! With Kat's body, I'm sure I can pull off some amazing plays!"
Ange clenched her fist and psyched herself up.
The teams were announced, and Ange and Katrina ended up on the same team. The opposing team had several boys with good athletic reflexes.
The whistle to start the match blew.
The first serve was from the opposing team.
*Thwack!*
The ball came flying into Ange's team's court.
"I'll get it!"
Ange kicked off the ground with Katrina's long legs.
She jumped far higher than she expected. Her field of vision rose smoothly, and she could clearly see the other side of the net. It was a view she had never seen before.
She received the ball. The ball hit her arms and flew cleanly to the setter.
"Amazing! I can move so well!"
Ange's excitement skyrocketed.
Her team's setter tossed the ball up. It floated softly right in front of Ange's eyes.
Ange jumped with all her might.
Katrina's body felt much lighter than Ange's. Because it had more muscle strength, even at the same weight, she could move far more nimbly than in her own body.
She swung her right arm through.
*Bam!*
The spike stabbed into the opponent's court.
"Whoa! Katrina-san, what an amazing spike!"
"Woo! Nice kill!"
Cheers rose from her teammates.
"Ehehe, it went in!"
Ange hopped up and down happily. Katrina's long silver hair, tied in a ponytail, swayed against her back.
"That was amazing, Ange. That spike just now was really beautiful."
Katrina clapped her small hands together and praised her.
"It's all thanks to Kat's body! The jumping power is on a whole different level! Let's do it again, again!"
Getting carried away, Ange scored another spike on the next play.
*Bam!*
It went in again.
*Bam!*
Three in a row.
"Isn't Katrina-san in amazing form today!?"
"She's usually so much more reserved, what's gotten into her!?"
"She's seriously our ace!"
The cheers from around her lifted Ange's spirits even higher. She, who had always been clumsy at sports and caused everyone trouble during ball games, was playing such an active role.
But that was when it happened.
That was when she noticed a boy on the opposing team staring intently at her.
That gaze was different from the look of someone cheering for a sport. Every time Ange jumped to spike, her chest, clearly visible through her gym uniform, swayed. Her long legs stretched out. Each time, the boys' eyes turned that way.
(Huh...?)
A slight cloud passed over Ange's smile.
While waiting for the serve, she overheard two boys on the next court whispering to each other.
"Katrina-san really does have a great figure, huh."
"When she jumped just now, you could see quite a bit."
"Dude, where are you looking?"
"I mean, it just gets in your eyes."
Snickering laughter.
A sharp pain shot through her chest.
This wasn't Ange's body. It was Katrina's. So, the one being looked at should be Katrina, not Ange.
But the one moving this body right now was Ange. The fact that the gaze directed at her wasn't watching her sport, but watching her body, stabbed into her chest with a raw, vivid pain.
(Kat... has always been looked at like this...)
Ange remembered.
Katrina was always being fawned over by the boys. Because she was beautiful and had a great figure, she drew eyes just walking down the hallway. But at times like that, Katrina always looked down a little and hid her mouth behind her hand when she laughed.
She wasn't happy about it.
Being looked at was suffocating.
"............"
Silently, Ange prepared for the next play.
The fun feeling from just moments ago suddenly felt heavy.
***
Meanwhile, in the corner of the same court, Katrina was struggling.
"Ah..."
Even jumping with Ange's small body, she couldn't reach the ball. She stretched her arms out desperately, but it was completely different from the height she used to reach.
"Ange, nice fight!"
Her teammates encouraged her, but Katrina's heart sank further and further.
Now it was her turn to serve.
Katrina took the ball. In Ange's small hands, the ball felt awfully big.
She took a deep breath and served.
But the ball flew weakly and unsteadily, dropping just short of the net.
"Ah, don't mind!"
"Let's do our best next time!"
Katrina was filled with a sense of apology.
And then, right after that.
A powerful spike from the opposing team came flying straight at Katrina's face.
There was no time to dodge.
*Thud!*
The impact turned her vision pure white.
""Kyaaaaa!""
"Kat! Are you okay!?"
Ange rushed over in a panic. Katrina was crouching down on the spot, holding her nose. Red blood dripped through her fingers and onto the floor.
"It hurts... I'm sorry, the match is... because of me..."
Katrina's voice was trembling. Hearing her say that through tears in Ange's voice made Ange's chest tighten.
"Who cares about the match! Let's go to the nurse's office!"
Ange put her arm around Katrina's shoulders and left the gym. Verde-sensei's voice shouting "Go to the nurse's office!" flew after them.
The hallway was silent and still, and the cheers from the gym sounded distant.
"Take your time, okay."
"Yes... thank you."
Side by side, they walked to the nurse's office.
***
The smell of medicine hung in the air of the nurse's office.
A white curtain swayed gently in the breeze from the window. Four beds were neatly lined up.
The school nurse, Mrs. Hanabusa, pressed gauze to Katrina's nose with calm hands.
"The nosebleed will stop soon. But you need to rest quietly for a while."
"Thank you very much..."
Katrina thanked her in a small voice. Her voice was slightly muffled because of the gauze stuffed in her nose.
Mrs. Hanabusa closed the curtain and stepped away.
Only the two of them were left in the quiet nurse's office.
"I'm sorry, Kat. I got carried away and was all excited."
Ange sat down on the round stool beside the bed and hung her head.
"It's not your fault, Ange. I'm just bad at sports."
"That's not true! Kat, you're not bad at sports. It's just hard to move because you're in my body right now."
At that, a tear spilled from Katrina's eyes.
"Ange, you were always acting cheerful in this small body. Even when you couldn't do well in PE, even when the boys teased you, you always smiled and said 'It'll work out somehow.' I never understood how you felt until now."
Tears streamed one after another from Ange's brown eyes. Seeing her own face crying felt incredibly strange.
"Kat..."
Ange wrapped Katrina's small hand in both of hers. Katrina's large hand completely covered Ange's small ones.
"I'm the one who never understood how you felt until now, Kat. I was always thinking about how I wished I were beautiful like you. But you were hurt by being looked at. During PE just now, I understood for the first time. The boys' stares were so unpleasant, so painful."
Katrina's eyes widened.
"Ange, you noticed?"
"Yeah. You always showed your true face only to me, didn't you, Kat. When you looked down in the hallway, you weren't embarrassed — you were escaping their stares. I never noticed that kind of thing until now. I'm sorry."
"Ange... thank you."
Katrina started crying again and squeezed Ange's hand back tightly.
In the quiet atmosphere of the nurse's office, the two of them held hands for a while.
From outside the window, they heard the chime signaling the end of PE class.
"Kat, has your nosebleed stopped?"
"Yes, I'm fine. I wonder if it's okay to take the gauze off."
Katrina gently removed the gauze from her nose. The bleeding had already stopped.
"Good! Then, after school, do you want to chat on the bench in the courtyard? I want to talk more about today."
"Yes, let's do that."
They looked at each other and smiled — a real smile this time.
***
After school.
The wisteria trellis in the courtyard was bathed in the soft afternoon sunlight.
The flowers hadn't bloomed yet, but a cool breeze always passed through the wooden bench under the trellis with its tangled, twisting vines. It was a famous meeting spot for students, but for some reason, no one was there today.
Ange stretched out Katrina's long legs and sat on the bench. Beside her, Katrina, in Ange's body, sat small and neat.
"So many things happened today, huh."
"Yes. PE class was tough, but... there were good things, too."
"Good things?"
"Yes. That you noticed my feelings, Ange. And I also understood a little bit of the hardship of your small body. Until now, I was satisfied just being together as best friends, but by being in each other's bodies, I feel like we truly understood each other for the first time."
Saying that, Katrina c
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