Chapter 38 – Tricking a God.
After confirming our new relationship, I smiled at Tess and held her greasy hand.
"Tess, now that you are my girlfriend, I'll give you your first gift."
"Iver, you already gave me enough..." - She smiled back, tightening her hand.
"Even if it means becoming thin?" - I raised my eyebrow.
"... Then I will humbly accept it." - She said shyly.
"..."
"Yep. Women care about their looks, alright..." - I thought.
"This process will take around 20 minutes. Stay still, alright?" - I said.
"Okay..." - She nodded and stayed on the bed.
Nodding to her, I willed my evolution power and was about to strengthen her with Basic Energy when Trod stopped me.
{Wait. Use Evolution Energy first. Her body has accumulated large amounts of excess food energy. Let her burn it first.}
"Ah... Good idea." - I inwardly nodded.
I then infused her with 10 Evolution Energy.
Immediately after that, her body began to tremble a bit.
"Mm... This feels nice..." - Tess mumbled.
"Stay here, Tess. I will clean your house in the meantime." - I said.
"Okay..." - Tess mumbled.
Nodding, I exited the room, reactivated camouflage, and looked around before frowning.
"Let's clean this pigsty..."
Tess was now my girlfriend, and I planned on crashing at her place from now on. At the very least, I should clean it up.
I collected the garbage inside my Storage(In a separate space) and cleaned up all the pills, syringes, and glass pieces on the floor. Finally, I rearranged the furniture and opened the windows to let the foul air out.
After I finished, the place was upgraded from a hobo garbage dump to a filthy, smelly, banged-up house.
"Well... This much is an improvement, but it isn't livable yet. I should continue cleaning this up." - I muttered.
With that in mind, I searched for some cleaning tools. After two minutes, I found a dusty closet with a broom, mop, and cleaning detergents.
Using them, I roughly her floor and furniture. Although there are still corners I didn't clean, I could officially call this place livable.
Now, all that was left was the bedroom, which I intentionally left since Tess was still inside.
Walking to the bedroom, I knocked on the door.1Our MC knows manners.
"Tess? May I come in?" - I called out.
However, there was no answer.
Frowning, I opened the door and walked in.
"Tess, are you okay— I-I-I-I-I..." - My brain short-circuited.
There she was, a young, slender woman wearing an oversized stretched-out t-shirt, held up by her giant bulging breasts, soundly sleeping on the bed.
Her long, slender hands looked soft yet toned, and her long fingers looked delicate. Her long, toned legs held a perfect balance of muscle and fat, and her calf and thighs were perfectly shaped, tucked in oversized short pants.
And then there is her stunning oval face. She had a smooth forehead, full perky cheeks, a small upturned cute nose, a well-defined jawline, an elegant chin, seductive full lips, and a tight, smooth neck.
It drew me in so much that I selectively ignored the bald patches on her head, the slight unibrow between her thin eyebrows, and the unshaven hair on her arms and legs.
The change was too big. I could barely recognize her.
No, probably, everyone that knows her would never recognize or even associate her with Tess from before.
From a she-monster that could deter men of steel to the stunning woman before me. It was like the difference between an ugly caterpillar and a beautiful butterfly.
And this is with her unkempt body.
As long as she grooms herself, she will become a natural beauty and head-turner wherever she goes.
"Fat Tess turned into Hot Tess... And she is now my girlfriend... A girlfriend that I already reached home base with..."
"Gulp*..."
At the thought of it, Iver Jr. woke up.
However...
After looking around the dirty room, Iver Jr. quieted down.
"Yeah... Let's clean this up before I have any dirty thoughts..."
With that thought in mind, I swept through the room and connected the bathroom.
I started by throwing the leftover garbage bags and drugs in my Storage, and then I was left with a slight dilemma.
"What do I do with these dirty clothes?" - I thought as I picked an overstretched XXL panty in disgust.
After looking at the now-slender Tess, almost swimming in her previous clothes, I decided.
"Forget it... She won't be missing these."
With that in mind, after checking the pockets, I dumped those clothes inside the garbage sub-storage. I would later find a chance to throw it all.
After storing everything and putting everything I found in the pockets on the side, I cleaned the floor to an acceptable degree.
I then stared at Tess again, soundly asleep. Looking at her giant clothes, I took some of my spare clothes and a towel on a chair, and after hesitating a bit, I took off her oversized shoes and socks and threw them away too. I also wanted to cover her with her blanket, but after looking at the filthy thing, I left her as is before going to sleep on the living room couch.
Although I slept with her once, and the queen-sized bed was big enough for the both of us, I was uncomfortable with sleeping together with her all of a sudden, especially without getting permission... and also because it was smelly as fuck.
And so, I slept on the relatively clean couch.
...
Sunlight shined through the veiled window, lighting up a bedroom.
"Mm..."
A young woman sleeping on her bed winced, slowly waking up.
"Hua~"
She yawned, stretching her arms a bit before rubbing her face.
Habitually, she slowly got up from bed, which was hard for her obese and inflexible body.
But today, she felt light, almost feather-weight.
"Hm...? Was it always so easy...?" - She mumbled.
However, she quickly discarded the thought as she sat on the bedside and habitually got up.
However, the moment she did...
Slip*
"Hah...?" - Her groggy eyes couldn't help but look down.
She saw her pants and panties on the floor.
That was odd, considering she usually had to struggle to take them off.
But then, her eyes noticed something off.
Her legs.
Her stocky, lug-like fatty legs.
They became... slender and athletic.
She then looked at her hands.
Her sausage-like fingers turned slender and delicate, and her barrel-like arms turned slim and toned.
Pulling her shirt, she looked down, a challenging task earlier because of her neck fat.
Before this, her belly was so fat that she had to lean forward or use a mirror to see her legs. But now, she saw a toned body with slightly visible abs and two large fleshy orbs barely holding up a giant bra.
Feeling that the bra was uncomfortable, she let it slide off her shoulders and boobs, falling to the ground like a hoop.
She only had her T-shirt, which now felt like a sticky, smelly, stretched rag barely held by her shoulders.
Thinking of something, she opened her phone and activated the face camera.
She saw an unfamiliar stunning woman. She gently touched her now-smooth skin, her azure eyes in a daze.
The memories from last night resurfaced.
After digesting those memories, the young woman couldn't help but look around her room.
The hobo dumpster of a room turned clean again. All her dirty clothes, drugs, fast food boxes, and garbage bags were gone. Her floor was clean for the most part, and the furniture was also cleaned.
The only unclean part was herself and her bed, reeking to the high heavens.
"He... Cleaned my room while I was sleeping?" - She incredulously thought.
And then she noticed that, on her chair, some neatly folded clothes and a tower were placed. They were not her clothes since they were too small for that, so that could only mean they belonged to him.
"He... cares about me..." - Her eyes softened as a warm smile tugged her lips.
She genuinely felt touched. It has been so long since someone cared about her.
However, that warm smile soon turned into a sly, victorious grin.
Casually throwing her phone on the bed and undressing her rag of a shirt, she took the towel and walked naked into her bathroom.
After getting into the shower, letting the hot water wash her sweaty body, she couldn't help but giggle.
"Hmhmhm... I, the rich fat ugly girl, tricked a god into becoming my boyfriend!" - An uncontrollable look of euphoria flashed on her now beautiful face.
From the moment the man who previously slept with her, Iver, healed her face and revealed his godly status and divine presence, she instinctively knew she was in the company of a mighty being.
The moment he asked her to become his high priestess, she became wary.
That divine being revealed himself to her, even healing her face and clearing the drugs from her system.
If life told her anything, nothing comes without a price.
Tess knew her worth. She only had two advantages, money, and intelligence. And she wasn't all that rich, either. Her net worth was around $25m.
It might seem like a lot, but she was a dime a dozen in Seattle. There were plenty of rich and intelligent people in Seattle. People with social connections and networking. In their eyes, a slightly successful stock trader like her was worthless.
That is why she bluntly stated, "Why me? I am just an ugly and fat loner."
She was testing the waters to see if there was any trickery.
And then came his answer.
"Looks can change. The heart and mind, not so much. I give you this lifetime opportunity. Serve me, and I'll grant you what your heart truly desires."
That sentence had many underlines.
The first was, "Looks can change."
That told her that the divine being could make her thin again. Perhaps even hot.
The second was, "The heart and mind, not so much."
That part was utter nonsense. She could smell the lie from a mile away. Her heart was already as blackened as coal by this point. Instead, she suspected that the divine being... felt pity for her. Or, perhaps, she was a convenient tool.
The third was, "I give you this lifetime opportunity."
He was telling her that this chance is a now-or never-thing. If she rejected him, she wouldn't get a second chance. He might unheal her new face, delete her memories, or kill her. He did reveal his identity, after all. Silencing her was normal.
On the other hand, if she accepts, she will keep her new face, and he might turn her thin again, like how she was as a child.
Those two things cannot be bought with money. She already checked. Only he, a god, can grant it to her.
And the final and fourth part, "Serve me, and I'll grant you what your heart truly desires."
That was a completely unnecessary move. He could have cowed her into submission by the simple promise of turning her beautiful.
She was that desperate.
However, he gave her an open promise, like a blank check. All she had to do was write the price.
Does she want to be beautiful? All women do, but it was too shallow of a wish.
Does she want money? She wouldn't mind having more, but she didn't need it.
Does she want power? It would be nice to be the one pushing others around for once, but that was all.
Does she want her dead parents back? She wasn't sure this divine being could grant that wish... at least, in the way she wanted.
Does she want happiness? All humans do, but can he grant her true happiness?
So, what does she want? The answer is simple and silly, like a little girl's dream.
Love. She wanted to be loved. That was her real wish.
But would it be a good idea to wish for love? Wouldn't that be a waste?
So, why not think out of the box, and ask the divine being for the thing that could grant her everything at once?
"Can you become my boyfriend?"
By having this divine being as her boyfriend, she can get everything; Beauty, money, power, happiness, and, most importantly, love.
As for why she didn't ask him to be her husband? She wasn't sure he would agree. After all, she was leveraging their one-night stand.
And, from the looks of it, her gamble succeeded.
She, a mortal at the bottom of the gutter, successfully deceived a living god into becoming her boyfriend, granting her everything she ever wanted... And more.
And in return, she will be his devoted priestess(Girlfriend), serving him wholeheartedly like a faithful wife.
From almost nothing, she got everything. Her happy ever after.
However, this ordeal also told her that her new god(Boyfriend) was naive and easy to deceive.
"Oh, my dear, sweet Iver. I, your new girlfriend, won't let anyone deceive you ever again... Hmhmhm~" - She chuckled.
She then looked at her slightly hairy hands, legs, and pubic hair. Because of her condition, she neglected to groom herself like most normal girls. She also remembered her unibrow and bald patches on her short-haired scalp, which now had budding hair.
"I should start grooming myself. Both for myself and for him..." - She muttered.
And then her smile returned.
"Oh, well. First, shower~." - She smiled and began to hum a happy tone.
After her shower, she wanted to stare at herself in the mirror but realized it was broken.
"Oh, right, I broke it three months ago..." - She muttered.
After getting rejected, she went ape-shit mad and smashed every mirror in her house. It was so loud that the neighbors called the police.
"Hm... Now that I think about it, the furniture also got damaged. I should replace it later."
Nodding to herself, she wiped herself clean and then looked at the clothes Iver gave her.
They included a T-shirt, men's boxers, and long jeans with a belt.
By all means, these are men's clothing, but they were better than her super-large clothes.
"Hm... Should I try the cliche and only wear the shirt?" - She smirked.
But after remembering her ungroomed state, she dismissed the idea.
"I'll first groom myself..."
With that decided, she obediently put on her borrowed clothes.
However, she did find the clothes a bit tight.
The big breasts and butt she inherited from her late mother made it hard to wear, and her nipples felt uncomfortable rubbing against the fabric.
"Ungh... Endure it, Tess. Order some clothes later..." - She told herself.
While telling herself that, she exited the bathroom and quietly entered the living room.
Like her room, the entire house was now clean. Although it wasn't perfect, it was much better than before.
She couldn't help but feel touched and lucky.
"Such a good boyfriend! How many guys clean for their girlfriends?" - She unknowingly smiled.
And then she saw him.
The plain-looking Iver, the same guy who took her virginity that day, now her god and lovable boyfriend, slept soundly on her couch.
Seeing how defenseless he looked, a naughty thought sprang into her mind.
"Should I give him some morning service?" - She thought while looking at his pants.2She's a carnivore!
But she soon discarded the idea.
"No, Tess. It can wait. Save it for a better time."
Holding back her urges, she quietly walked to the kitchen and started making breakfast.