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The heat bore down on me as I walked through the streets of Tokyo. The weathergirl had predicted record highs today, and boy was she right! The sweat was pumping down my face, and I needed a break bad. Well, there is an arcade at the end of the street, so maybe that is air conditioned. Though is it really all right for a man my age to go into an arcade without a child?
And there I saw my salvation. For on the side of the road was parked an ice cream truck. I would have ran to it if not for the heat. Yet it was to my woe to see the line formed up in front of it. Begrudgingly, I took my place in line and waited in the heat.
To my luck, nobody else really came behind me during this, so I had a nice breeze to cool me off. Well, except for one little girl. But she was so short, it really didn't matter.
"Next!" called the ice cream man. I walked to the window.
"I'll take two ice pops!" I said with a smile.
"That'll be 300 yen," said the ice cream man. I handed over a couple coins and he went to the back. A few seconds later he came back with my order. "You're lucky," he said, "these are the last two items on the truck! Well, have a nice day!"
He closed the window and drove off. I smiled. Success! I had found my treasure!
And then I felt a small tug on my pants. "Sir," said the girl behind me, "can I have one of them?"
I almost fell backwards. "Little girl, look here..." I started.
"My name is Nagisa," she said.
"Fine, then Nagisa, look here! I paid for these bars, and I intend to eat them!"
"But it's not nice to not share," she said.
I laughed. "Look, Nagisa, this is an adult world. Sharing doesn't exist here. You work hard and earn what you want. Those who fail get the leftovers, which I assure you, there won't be any!"
She glared at me. "Sir, I'm telling you to share with me! I have money!"
I laughed again. "Not to mention, this is a man's world! We're not bossed around by women to start with!"
She reached into her bag, and out she pulled a toy magic wand. I nearly burst out laughing. "What are you going to do, cast some sort of spell on me?"
She nodded. "Oh fluttery wand of pink, make this man become what he thinks! Make him learn from his hate, until 100,000 cones he's ate!"
I was still laughing until I saw sparkle fly out of the wand and hit me right in the chest. And with that, I felt pain throughout my body. I was shrinking rapidly, and my bones were crunching to reconfigure themselves. My body hair burned right off my skin, and my head hair lengthened almost down to my rear. I gained a tiny bit of cushion in my rear, and my hips spread out slightly. I felt a small pop in my groin, and that was when I realized what had just happened.
"What the hell..." I said in my new voice. "Why am I a girl?" I looked down at my chest. "And a young one at that?"
Nagisa laughed. "Because I'm a witch in training. You don't share, you suffer my wrath!"
I sighed. "That's a little extreme." I sat down on a bench, and handed out an ice pop. "OK, I learned my lesson. I'll share," I said.
The girl happily took the ice cream, and together we ate in silence.
"So," I said as we finished and cooled down - both our bodies and our heads - "can you change me back?"
The girl laughed at me. "Change you back?" she asked. "That's part of the conditions! ' until 100,000 cones he's ate.' You're not changing back until you eat 100,000 scoops of ice cream."
I stared right at her. "What did you say..."
She smiled. "100,000 scoops of ice cream will change you back."
"100,000!" I yelled. "That's 300 scoops a day for a year!"
Nagisa nodded. "Or 3 scoops a day for 100 years. It's your choice how you want to go about it. But don't worry. You won't age while eating, so we can be best playmates for as long as you want!"
I instantly regretted my decision to not share at the start.
Short little story I wrote as I wait for my commission payments to come.
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