"Hey! Snake Bastard!" You call out to Orochi. "Your fight is with me, remember?" You keep your voice calm. "Don't you want to pay your debt to the Worm Bastard who sacrificed his body to you?" You take a step forward as you pull the Kaleidostar from your pocket. "Come on, I'll butcher you for the second time!" You thrust the Kaleidostar emblem up into the sky. You really didn't want to have to resort to this, but with any luck, Amethyst won't screw things up this time and turn you into a girl. "Kaleido-Amethyst! Activate!" You call out the activation words. Please, please work.

You feel your body changing, but in a subtly different way than last time, and the emblem in your hand springs to life. "Yes! I... I did it! I'm a genius!" The emblem sounds happy as it observes its own work. You look down at your body to see that you very much still have your male body, and you feel yourself breathe a sigh of relief. That's one less thing to worry about, and now that you've become the Mahou Shounen Kaleido-Amethyst, you feel like you can do anything. You reinforce your body almost by instinct, and you can tell that right now, you're way stronger than you were before. You feel like you're being looked at with a mixture of awe, bewilderment, and amusement. You don't know what you're wearing exactly right now, but you're confident it's not a dress, at least.

Part 20