JIM IS HIM

CHAPTER 03

Jim cried out in pain and distress.

Only one person heard his voice. It was Rena, but she thought he was just shouting while doing gym. He usually screamed sometimes while doing hard workouts, so Rena didn’t think it was abnormal.

“He works out in the gym so well, but why can’t he work half as much in bed?” Rena wondered. “Is his testosterone going to his muscles everywhere in the body except to his crotch?” she could only shake her head and mind her business, which was eating. She was a slow eater, so she would take at least fifteen to twenty minutes to eat simple breakfast.

Jim crashed on his bum and found himself gasping.

[Your body has been taken under control. You’re now my property, Mr. Jim Drake.] A rather sinister voice rang in his head.

“W-What?” Jim’s heart skipped a beat as he felt powerless like a man who didn’t sleep for three days straight. “Who are you? H-How do you know my name?”

[I think I already told you. I’m Anne.] the female voice in his head turned less hostile. [I’m a system with superpowers, and as far as biological factors are concerned, there’s nothing I cannot do!]  She sounded proud of herself.

“S-Superpower?” Jim didn’t believe it. “You think I’ll fall for your bullshit. You must be some kind of advanced AI gear that’s capable of directly talking with a person’s brain.”

[Hmph, don’t compare me with those crappy AI systems which don’t have a soul in them.]

“A-Are you saying you have a soul in you?” Jim’s heart raced down imaginary alleys of fear.

[Not one, but two.] She sounded proud.

“Huh? How’s that possible?” Jim felt like his neurons were dying from trying to comprehend what was happening to him.

[Well, you don’t have to know that, but there’s something you DO need to know.] Anne slowly broke down the story to him. [Long ago, there was a young scientist who excelled in creating soulful artificial systems, but he couldn’t get a girlfriend because every woman thought he was too eccentric. He had no choice but to masturbate all the time to release his frustrations. He wanted to stop the nasty habit, but he couldn’t. This went on for years, no, decades, until he grew absolutely sick of it. And he decided to create a system that’ll stop men from doing anything manly until they are actually able to have sex with women. And I’m that system.]

“You’ll stop men from doing manly things? What exactly does that mean?” Jim asked, looking quite confused.

[You won’t be able to masturbate ever again.] Anne sounded evil. [You won’t be able to lift weights. You will feel powerless when showing power and dominance is expected of a man. You won’t be able to do anything manly until you have sex with women. The more you have sex, the faster you’ll be able to overcome me.]

“Surely, you are joking,” Jim bent down and tried to pick up the 20 pound dumbbell, but to his bewilderment, he wasn’t able to lift it. He felt a surge of pain along the length of his arm, and he wasn’t able to even lift it up a little. “What the hell?” his heart started beating in a strange rhythm. He tried to lift the ten pound one, but he couldn’t lift that, either, because his veins were somehow becoming weak at the moment he tried to lift it. He kept lowering the weights until he was finally able to lift one dumbbell, but it only weighed 2 pounds!

At this point, Jim was doing his best to not cry in anxiety.

How could he who was capable of doing a hundred bicep squeezes with the fifty pound dumbbells and a thousand bicep squeezes with the twenty pound dumbbells be incapable of even lifting them? This was nothing short of a nightmare to him.

“This can’t be happening to me…”

He even tried doing push ups. However, his arms trembled as he tried to push his body up, and in the end, he wasn’t able to do even a single push up. Normally, he would easily be able to do 50 push ups without stopping. Heck, his highest in a single round was 222 push ups. So, not being able to take even a single pushup when he was feeling no particular abnormality in his body was scary and disheartening to say the least.

“Y-You demon!” he yelled in fright. “What have you done to me?”

[How cute it is to see a big man like you worry over your ability to exercise.] Anne chuckled without any sensibility. [This is why men are so stupid, and why I’m given the goal to get them across the river of stupidity and into the embrace of women.]

“What bullshit,” Jim walked out of the gym room and went straight into the bathroom. “If you think I’ll let you do whatever you want, then you’re gravely mistaken.” He grabbed a soap.

[You think you’ll be able to take me off your finger just with the help of soap?] Anne amusedly asked. [How silly you are.]

Jim applied so much soap, but he still was not able to pull the ring out. It was as if the ring had grown spikes and gripped his finger way too tightly for him to be able to pull it out.

[Kekeke.] Anne’s snickering only added to Jim’s frustration. [You’re so stupid, Jim. I can see that it’s going to be a long ride with you.]

Jim didn’t say anything and went into the kitchen and grabbed an extremely sharp knife.

[What are you going to do with it?] Anne amusedly asked again.

“You think you can bully me?” Jim put a napkin in his mouth and started cutting off his finger without any hesitation.

[Hey, hey, hey!] Anne was shocked beyond belief.