If you enjoy gender-bender stories with strong character development and yuri themes, TS Lily Archive is worth your time. It’s a focused library built for readers who want story first, without distractions.
Preview the site below, or open it in a new tab for the full reading experience.
In the past, Hoshino Sakio would have thought that delinquents who bullied others were already outrageous enough—like monsters wearing human skins.
Now, she was facing something even more absurd.
What did it even mean for a person struck by lightning to survive, then stand up and become a monster?
Before her stood a mantis monster, about as tall as a person, its dark green carapace slick with oily shine.
Its serrated forelimbs sliced the air with a sharp, wind-cutting sound as they swung toward her.
Sakio tried to dodge, but the blade edges only drew closer.
This is bad!
Just as it seemed her head would be severed, Paranoid Doll shouted first:
“You can dodge its attacks.”
With those words, Sakio’s body nearly acted on instinct, twisting sideways and backward.
Her knees slammed into the ground, and she slid half a meter across the floor.
A sharp sound rang in her ears as the blade scraped the spot where she had just stood, cutting a deep groove into the cement.
Spray of water hit her, making her shiver even more.
Who’s speaking?
Before she could get up, the mantis monster retracted its forelimbs sharply.
Biting her teeth, Sakio rolled to the side.
Just as she dodged, the spot she had curled into was struck again, sending fragments of gravel into her arm.
It hurts!
“A scratch doesn’t hurt!”
The pain vanished almost instantly.
No time to think about who was helping her—Sakio’s mind was consumed by a single thought:
I have to run!
She scrambled to her feet and bolted deeper into the alley.
She was in such a hurry that her backpack fell to the ground, but the doll remained clutched in her hands.
This one—if she ran toward the crowded streets, she could have shaken off the mantis monster.
But no, she ran inward.
The doll had to cover for Sakio’s choice.
“Mantis monster, you don’t want to harm this girl.”
But the mantis only paused for a moment, soon locking its compound eyes back on Sakio.
The doll panicked: “It’s not working!”
A determined mind could resist lies, but the mantis monster clearly wasn’t in that category.
Perhaps someone was controlling it from behind, negating her ability.
If it were a large monster, Sakio could use the alley’s narrow space to her advantage.
But this mantis was far more at home in the alley than she was.
Her canvas shoes slipped on the wet ground.
Every step required desperate balance, each stride kicking up mud.
She crouched low, squeezing through the narrow gap between two buildings, barely wide enough for one person.
Raindrops the size of beans pelted the rooftops, mixing with her rapid breaths.
But the teeth-grating scraping behind her didn’t fade.
As she prepared to turn the next corner, Sakio glimpsed a fleeting shadow in the rain overhead.
The mantis shook its membranous wings, breaking the rain into finer mist.
Six barbed legs hooked into the wall crevices.
It was leaping between the walls!
The mantis jumped down, blocking Sakio’s path.
Its scythe-like forelimbs snapped together, cutting through the wind toward her face.
“You…”
Before the doll could speak, the forelimbs slammed onto Sakio.
The impact felt like colliding with a truck.
Bang! She was flung sideways, letting go of the doll.
She crashed into a trash heap to the right, tipping a garbage bin.
The metal bin scraped along the puddled ground, leaving a long streak of water.
“Hey! Are you okay?”
Her subordinate!
The doll fell to the ground and tried to get up to check on Sakio, but the mantis kicked her over again.
The mantis realized the moving doll had interfered with it before.
Time to deal with this annoying little thing first.
Just as the scythe was about to pierce the doll, a figure leapt up and scooped her into their arms, avoiding the strike.
The doll recognized the figure—it was Sakio herself.
“You’re okay, subordinate!”
“When did I become your subordinate?” Sakio looked at the doll in her arms.
“So you’ve been helping me all along? This light… did you create it?”
She pointed to the faint glow enveloping her body.
It was this light alone that blocked the fatal strike and healed the scrapes she’d gotten while fleeing.
It allowed her to save the Paranoid Doll in time.
“Holy energy!” The doll’s “V”-shaped mouth flipped into “∧.”
“You and Saint Florina, what’s your relationship?”
She seemed angry.
But Sakio didn’t notice.
“I’m glad you know Florina! That’s perfect.”
She could show Florina later—what was up with this doll?
“Perfect my foot!”
She and that saint were mortal enemies!
Paranoid Doll felt a pang of sadness, pressing against Sakio with a little pout.
“Why are you still tied to Florina? I finally wanted to recruit you as my subordinate, and now I’ve failed so completely!”
The doll imagined putting a clown nose on itself.
Sakio quickly pressed it down: “Stop rubbing, it tickles!”
Watching the two bickering before it, the mantis let out a furious shriek.
How disrespectful!
The screech was so sharp that Sakio had to cover her ears.
“The monster’s coming again.”
But before its forelimbs could strike, a blade intercepted them.
The rainwater had frozen in the mist, refracting the image of twitching rabbit ears and a pair of eyes burning with rage.
So it’s you, ruining my fun!
Hishiro Kishiro shouted sharply: “Big bug, you’re facing me!”
Alone, she pressed the blade against the mantis, forcing it to retreat.
“Magical Girl Silver Moon!” Sakio cheered.
The appearance of a magical girl meant she had bought enough time.
“Sak… it’s you again!” Hishiro’s eye twitched.
She wanted to call out Sakio’s name, but remembered she was now Silver Moon.
She couldn’t reveal it.
“I’m here. Leave quickly.”
“Thank you, be careful.”
Bowing in thanks, Sakio turned and ran with the doll.
She couldn’t interfere with the magical girl’s fight.
The mantis monster abandoned the chase and focused its compound eyes on Hishiro.
To it, the rabbit was a far greater threat.
“If you don’t move, I’ll come first.”
Hishiro summoned an ice spike, stabbing toward the mantis’s eyes.
Crouching, she dove at the mantis, slicing a semi-circle with her dual blades.
The monster twisted its spindle-shaped body, letting the spike embed into the wall.
It deflected her blades with its forelimbs.
It had new-leaf level strength!
After a brief skirmish, Hishiro estimated the mantis’s power.
In her previous self, she would have likely lost, waiting for a senior’s aid.
But people grow stronger!
Having fought the darkened senior and with her recent magical boost, she could definitely hold her own!
If You Notice any translation issues or inconsistency in names, genders, or POV etc? Let us know here in the comments or on our Discord server, and we’ll fix it in current and future chapters. Thanks for helping us to improve! 🙂