Female Elliot’s shoulders buckled under the weight of Michael’s grip, which felt heavier than iron, crushing her with growing cruelty that sent waves of sharp pain shooting through her body..
This female body was weaker by biological leaps and bounds than her male body.
This violent grip alone was enough to strike terror into her veins and freeze her heart for a brief second, casting a pale shadow of panic across her lovely face as she thrashed helplessly, trying to resist in his hands.
She had no idea what to do or how to act!
Female Elliot was completely disoriented.
Her mind went totally blank..
If she used the Gender Swap skill right now to revert to her male version—just to dodge this dire situation and stop Michael from sleeping with her—she was almost certain her male self would resume thinking stupidly all over again, continuing to assume that the best and only path to survival was "Seducing Your Best Friend Is the Ultimate Sin!"
He wouldn’t think like her at all!
She realized with absolute clarity that her male self and Michael were close friends who shared the exact same logic. She knew that for Michael at this precise moment, most of the hope they clung to for survival and returning to their world had evaporated.. and Female Elliot’s agreement now represented his ultimate lifeline!
She clearly understood that Michael was trapped too.. mentally and physically backed into a tight corner, perhaps far more viciously than her own entrapment between his powerful fists! When any living creature falls under the spell of the absolute survival instinct, concepts like "friendship" or "guilt" toward the party caught in this trap begin to fade and gradually shrink away.
If she yielded now and picked the path of "Seducing Your Best Friend," then whenever she transformed back into a female in the future, she would be the direct victim in the line of fire! But if she flatly rejected this option, Michael would immediately choose the PATH OF ABSOLUTE POWER—the very path whose activation required sleeping with her and reaching climax together at the exact same time, without even needing her direct consent if she were forced into it!
She also realized that returning to her male version wouldn’t just mean changing her own mindset; Michael might think with a completely different logic and wouldn’t weigh things rationally like she was doing now.. Her male transformation might even turn the tables on Michael’s female version instead, and then that poor girl would be the one whose veil of chastity gets pierced and slept with by her!
Female Elliot felt there was no way out, no escape, not even a single decision that could yield a peaceful solution.. She began to bitterly ponder whether the System’s words were a guaranteed doom rather than a mere joke, and that their harsh destiny was to sleep together in the end as if a fate etched in deep crimson!
As her thoughts clashed and spiraled in frantic hysteria, Male Michael didn’t wait for her hesitation to settle.. Instead, he lunged forward with raw lust to clamp his lips onto hers once more by force! This violent movement dragged her mind right back to the horrific memory of the very first moment they were transported to this eerie world.
Female Elliot screamed in sheer disbelief, shoving his face away: "You’re out of your damn mind! I’m your best friend.. Have you lost your mind?! I’m Elliot!"
Michael flashed a cold, ruthless smile, his demonic face dangerously close to Elliot’s terrified expression:
"No, you’re just a fake, twisted copy of him! The real Elliot knows damn well he’s a man, and he’d never dream of making himself or altering his body into a female ever again! You girls are selfish, thinking about nothing but yourselves and your dignity.. Surviving impending death doesn’t matter to you, all that matters is that your bodies remain untouched! What good is pure chastity if our heads get chopped off?! To me, you aren’t my friend—you’re just a hot female, nothing more.. And frankly, I absolutely adore this body type! As I told you before.. I’ll try to be gentle with you!"
In those critical seconds, Elliot was consumed by absolute, icy despair over her friend’s reaction.. Was it even possible that her lifelong friend now saw her as nothing more than a lustful body rather than his intimate companion?!
Under the crushing weight of utter horror and overwhelming helplessness, and in response to the primal instinct of survival, Elliot decided to unleash the only weapon left in her arsenal:
[GENDER SWAP]!
Of course, she didn’t fully transition into her complete male form; in that desperate moment, she remembered the hybrid state that had resulted when she previously overused and disrupted the Gender Swap skill..
The "Androgynous" form.. a bizarre state, neither female nor male!
She triggered it instantly, for there was no other alternative to flee from this inevitable violation!
And at that crucial second.. Female Elliot’s features began to shift and gradually shrink. Her prominent chest flattened dramatically, though it retained a faint, incomplete swell! Her posture rose slightly, turning slender yet far from fragile, blending the fluidity of a female with the structure of a male!
Right before Michael’s astonished eyes, his friend’s strange hybrid form materialized!
Michael felt disgusted and bewildered; he didn’t know whether this hybrid being could truly be considered his friend or just another monstrosity! But he settled his thoughts, telling himself in a sharp edge that his friend was solely a pure male, not any form of these abominations!
Thus, just as he was about to press his assault and finally force his mouth against the lips of Androgynous Elliot...
Something utterly strange happened.. something magical and terrifying at the very same time!
The ground beneath Michael’s feet turned completely void and hollow!
Before he plunged entirely, Michael looked down in a spine-chilling shock, only to find a glowing blue magic circle opened wide on the floor beneath him, swallowing him whole as he plunged through it! Panic seized him completely as he caught sight of himself below, falling through the air once more..
At that moment, he began repeating the loop, falling from the opposite side of the suite!
He had fallen inside a PORTAL.. and the second he plummeted through, he emerged straight from the high ceiling of the suite, continuing his freefall downward once again toward the very same blue circle open on the ground!
And just before he fell for the fifth time in this loop, screaming in hysterical shock: "DAMN ITTTTT!"
He caught a glimpse of Elliot in his strange, hybrid beauty, enveloped in a dense aura of sparkling blue energy, looking equally shocked..!
A sudden theory flashed through Michael’s tumbling mind amidst his utter disbelief: Could Elliot have awakened one of the supreme abilities of the "CHILDREN OF DESTINY" simply by entering this rare hybrid state?! And is his friend executing this terrifying spatial ability on him right now to trap him in an eternal loop of freefall?!