Book #031, Japanesque Collection, Themes: Rejuvenation / Gender Flip / Secret Hot Spring, Keywords: Rejuvenation, Age Regression, Secret Hot Spring, Gender Swap, Retirement, Second Life, Wife/Husband Swap, TS, Body Swap, Magical Realism.
He wanted to retire. He didn’t expect to be reborn.
Mario Aso has just turned sixty. He is ready for a quiet retirement, pension checks, and a peaceful life with his wife. But a class reunion changes everything when he reconnects with Misaki Gotoda, his middle school crush, now a stunning, high-powered executive.
Misaki has a secret: she knows the location of a legendary hot spring in the mountains of Nagano said to grant eternal youth. Skeptical but intrigued, Mario joins her for one last adventure.
The spring works too well. Mario doesn’t just become young; he wakes up as a beautiful, 20-year-old woman. And Misaki? She has transformed into a handsome young man.
Suddenly, Mario must navigate a world turned upside down. He has to hide his new body from his wife, learn to walk in heels, and work as a female office assistant under a younger boss. But as the magic fluctuates and his body shifts between old man and young woman, Mario must decide: Does he want his old life back, or is being a “cute young girl” the retirement he always secretly wanted?
A chaotic, steamy, and heartwarming comedy about second chances and the fluidity of the soul.
[CONTENT WARNING] Contains themes of: Age Regression (Older characters becoming physically young/pre-teen), Gender Swap, Infidelity/Affair themes (complicated by the gender swap), and Age Gap relationships (mentally older/physically younger). The ending involves the protagonist adopting a pre-teen identity (randoseru / elementary school life).
Heat Level 4 (Steamy / Complex) Contains explicit sexual scenes involving gender-swapped characters. The dynamics are complex: Older Mind/Younger Body, Female-to-Male (Misaki) x Male-to-Female (Mario), and Wife x Fem-Husband.