[Haughty TF, Queen TF]

“Ehehehehe… What a brilliant little plan this’ll be…”

A cheeky laugh echoed throughout the night as a golden glint flickered against the blackened sky above. All while a green-haired boy dressed in a gaudy yet erotic costume stretched on top of one of the biggest buildings in all of Mimoto City.

King Cobra. The arousal-fueled minion of Golden Freedom, was having the time of his life. And it all revolved around the crown he twirled between his fingers. A crown that looked almost prettier than the one he wore on his own head.

“Who would’ve thought that little Spider wanted to try and deal with that girl indirectly? Then again, given her track record, I shouldn’t be surprised.” Cobra giggled to himself as he tossed the crown up and down a bit, toying with the trinket that should enable him to have plenty more fun over the next few days.

A crown made from the same material that their Jõtai were made from. If one were familiar with the usual workings of Golden Freedom’s approach to corrupting the populace and setting them free, this didn’t seem too different from those. And yet… Something about its golden glow made it that much more alluring to any onlooker.

Except the boy himself, of course. There was no way that he’d fall for the charm of a simple trinket. There were very few things that could charm him, and they were exclusively lean like himself.

“I can’t wait to see the look on her face when she realizes what I’ve done with her little trink-”

Just as Cobra gloated about what he had planned, he noticed that he didn’t have the crown in his hands any longer. Indeed, as he turned to look off the side of the skyscraper he stood atop, he could see a familiar golden glint slowly descending towards the ground below. At such a speed that there was no way he could manage to catch up and retrieve it in time.

With a soft laugh leaving his lips, the serpentine exhibitionist decided to cut his losses and disappear into the night. And probably hide for a few hours after that so that Spider wouldn’t kill him for losing track of her latest scheme.

Whatever it did, they wouldn’t be around to find out…

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“Yumeko?”

“Yes, Mikai?”

“What do I do with this?”

It was an ordinary weekend in Mimoto City. As ordinary as it could be at any rate. Between the fact that one of the young girls in the city had to do double duty as a student and as a heroine, and the fact that people regularly were turning into monsters known as Jõtaijin to try and free themselves from their dull lives, quiet moments were far and few between.

And in this one quiet moment, the aforementioned young girl wanted to break the silence. What better way to do that than to pull out a strange crown that she had found while she was out walking at night?

Her companion, the fair-hearted and black-haired Yumeko Watanabe, raised an eyebrow as she slowly looked at the golden crown that her friend held. Something about it set off flags in the back of her head, though she couldn’t quite understand why. “Where’d you find that, Mikai?”

Mikai Fushimi, the sandy-blonde shortie serving as the impromptu heroine for the entire city, shrugged her shoulders a little. “I couldn’t sleep last night, so I took a walk, and then it nearly hit me. Like, it fell from the sky and didn’t break when it hit the ground!” She sounded surprised, and yet that tone of hers was brimming with excitement. As if she had been waiting for this very moment… Probably so she could mess around with the crown in the safety of good company.

“From the sky? Mikai, crowns don’t just fall from the sky. Especially not an expensive one like that.” Yumeko explained as she lightly pinched the bridge of her nose. She loved the shorter girl, but that didn’t stop her from feeling some amount of frustration over the way she behaved. How could somebody that saved so many people and made them all smile be so… Well, stupid was a harsh term. Adorably dense? That was probably more accurate.

The sandy-blonde girl pouted a little as she drummed her fingers along the rim of the crown. “Well it did! And I dunno anybody that’d own a crown from the sky anyway, so..!” She huffed and she puffed and she put the crown on without even thinking about the consequences. Because she wanted to see if it fit, and then she could probably get her friend to snap a picture. Or get scolded. Either way, she had waited the rest of the night for this chance, and she wasn’t going to-

A brief jolt started to shake through Mikai as the golden crown started to glow powerfully. She knew what this glow was all about, it was the kind of glow that consumed people and turned them into Jõtajin. But it felt… different? Like, it wasn’t enhancing her emotions or suppressing them exactly. It was more like it was laying its will on top of hers…

Yumeko watched as the short girl was covered in that bright golden glow. Unlike the ways that many victims had been turned into Jõtaijin in the past, this only managed to wrap its power around her body instead of forcing her into a cocoon. And thus it made it easier to see how she changed.

It started with her school uniform. The golden energy sank into it and made it grow out in such an extreme fashion that it looked like the girl was buried under layers and layers of cloth. It became a bountiful and extreme dress that only the grandest kind of royalty would wear. And even then, the dress seemed like it was meant for regular use. Even royalty wouldn’t wear a dress this garishly golden and extreme in terms of its layers at all times…

Of course she couldn’t just change through a simple dress. No, Mikai was going to be more than that. Her hair grew longer and curlier until every single strand was curled several times over, to the point where it looked nearly as layered as her dress. Combine that with a bit of makeup to make her face shine as golden as her dress, and it was impossible to think of her as anything but royalty. Just a glance and you’d register her as a proper queen, though you wouldn’t be able to know what she ruled over.

“Hah!” Mikai cried out as she suddenly unfurled a fan, one created from the same golden energy that had transformed her. Even her eyes, so preciously pink just moments ago, had turned a sharp gold. “I see, this was my crown all along! I was a fool for delaying the inevitable! I should’ve put this on the moment it fell into my grasp!”

Yumeko stared at her friend and took a deep breath. Alright, Mikai had managed to get herself turned into a queen of some nature. And just by being in her presence, she felt that she had to kneel down and serve her. While she’d happily do that any other day, this seemed incredibly reversible. The crown had transformed her, so it only made sense that she could turn her back by removing it.

“Mi- My Queen, may your humble servant ask but one tiny question?” The black-haired girl put on her best performance as she kneeled in front of her golden-dressed friend.

The converted queen raised her eyebrow as she put her fan in front of her lips, frowning as she looked down upon her former friend turned servant. “You may, peasant. But make it quick. I will not waste any unnecessary time on somebody like you.”

“Of course, my Queen.” Yumeko said as she stood right back up and looked straight into the short girl’s eyes. Even after the transformation, she still maintained the same sort of body. And that meant that she had but one option available to her.

“May I put an end to your reign?”

Yumeko stuck her arms out and grabbed the crown, taking advantage of the difference between the two girls’ heights. Even Mikai was shocked to see it happen, and the excessive thickness of her dress made it difficult to stop this heinous act from happening.

“You may not! Give it back! Give it-” Moments after the crown was removed from the shorter girl’s head, the golden glow in her eyes disappeared… And with it, the dress that she wore. Because the influence of the crown had been purged from her body, leaving her with memories of what she had been doing but none of the other side effects that came with normal Jõtai pollution. “What did I just do..?”

The black-haired girl smiled as she noticed her friend returning to normal. Great. She just had to trash the crown, and everything would be back to normal. And then they could carry on with their day, and nothing bad would ever happen again.

...Or she could put on the crown and become a queen and she could rule over Mikai for a change. That was an incredibly tempting proposition. So tempting that her eyes had already started turning gold, as her hands slowly but surely lifted the crown onto her own head.

This time it was Mikai’s turn to watch as her friend’s attire was replaced with the exact same dress as the one she wore, though not without a little bit of a chest-window that exposed her slightly bigger bosom to the world. Otherwise the changes were identical, though they looked a lot less cramped on a girl that happened to be a bit taller.

“Now then, what to do with this silly peasant that dared to try and play with my crown?” The golden-eyed Yumeko grit her teeth a little as she looked at Mikai with nothing but disdain. She considered her a friend? A laughable proposition! A queen like her needed no friends, much less companions that were as troublesome as her! She should just kneel down before her and understand where she belonged!

“Don’t say things like that to your friend, Yumeko!” Mikai said as she quickly focused her eyes on the crown atop of her friend’s head. “I can’t let that crown make you a big haughty meanie!” She cried out as she tried to jump up towards the crown.

Unfortunately, she wasn’t nearly tall enough to get past all those dress layers and at the same time reach her friend’s head. Resulting in the golden-eyed queen laughing at the futility of her attempts. “You are but a fool, peasant! There’s no way that you could take away my right to rule! You are but a mere nobody! A simpleton! You cannot-”

“Henshin!”

Nothing stopped Mikai from quickly transforming into her armored Jõtaider form and using the power of her flames to boost herself, resulting in the taller queen losing her crown in what felt like an instant. And just like what had happened before, all of the queenly aspects completely disappeared as the sandy-blonde held the crown within her hands.

Yumeko quickly shook her head back and forth as she tried to regain her sensibilities. Okay, so she had just acted like a haughty queen. She knew she shouldn’t wear the crown to stop herself from falling victim…

Which was why she felt nothing but disappointment as she turned around and the crown had already found its way onto the armored heroine’s head, causing her armor to shatter and for the queenly persona to take over again. All as a terrible laugh left the short girl’s lips and sweat ran down the black-haired girl’s forehead.

This cycle would continue again and again. All while a certain somebody clad in pure red watched from afar, keeping her distance as she peered through a cute set of tiny binoculars.

“So this is what Spider had planned? To temporarily turn her into a queen?” The woman, Baroness Bat, sighed a little. “She’s lucky this plan failed. She would’ve been a part of this endless cycle if she had succeeded…”

Thus, another ordinary day went by in Mimoto City. And this incident of queenery would soon be a long forgotten memory…

Until Spider once again got her hands on the crown she had lost, and then it would restart from the beginning.