“Oh, congratulations! You made a really good choice.”

As soon as the dog Manny shouted in an excited voice, Jenna’s surroundings suddenly began to change.

“What? What is this?” Jenna screamed in amazement as she found herself standing in the missing white room which appeared inside the screen for a moment earlier and disappeared.

“Welcome to the room of opportunity. How do you feel? It’s really cool, isn’t it?”

There were six multi-vision screens in the small room which had nothing but Manny who was sitting proudly by itself. 

“Huh…? But when are you leaving my dream?” Jenna, convinced that the current situation was a dream, accepted it with an impassive voice.

Manny exclaimed happily, “Oh! Yes, you must want to wake up from your dream right away. It’s not a dream but it doesn’t matter. Now, it’s time to choose your new world. Which of the six screens in front of you is your favorite?”

Jenna, who struggled to ignore what the dog had said that it was not a dream, turned to the six screens.

The first screen showed images of armor-clad knights lined up in a row in front of a castle against the backdrop of the Middle Ages.

The second screen showed an Indian, as if in the Wild West, and gunmen chasing them on horseback. Jenna, who frowned at the two backdrops which had no romance at all, turned to the next screen.

The third was the scene of a giant, wearing a Viking’s helmet, arriving at the shore and looting the town, while the fourth was the scene of women in colorful clothes, smoking cigarettes and chatting.

Jenna turned to the fifth screen, flustered by the scenes being shown. In a large banquet hall, a thin red-haired woman in a silver dress and a handsome, silver-haired man in a blue robe danced. 

Jenna turned to the last screen, thinking for a moment about the colorful costumes of the people and the ballroom which was like a scene from a fairytale. There was a scene where a beautiful woman was sitting on a luxurious bed, hugging a baby. The last screen, caught between grandeur, dynamism and glamour, made her feel more relaxed. Jenna touched the last screen without hesitation.

“Oh! You like that screen. That’s an unusual taste. It’s great to see you choose a different world with only two people in it. I’m glad you have a good eye. But there’s one thing that’s missing. I can’t send a new soul to the world you choose. Moving the dimension, the newly born soul is limited by one every fifty years. We still have five years left before the next birth. I don’t know what to do with this…”

“Wait, what are you talking about? What’s with this world in a different dimension, and what’s the new soul? No matter how dreamy this is, this is a little…” Jenna poured out her words without hiding her embarrassment but the dog ignored her and continued speaking calmly.

“Manny is a dimension manager who keeps his promise. I’ll have to find an empty body that has lost its soul in a sudden accident.”

“Dimension manager? It’s already weird enough that you’re a talking dog so it wouldn’t be a big deal for a dog to manage a dimension,” Jenna murmured in desperation, thinking she was having a great dream. 

“I promised to get you out of your current life. Just trust this Manny. Manny is a friend of Jenna’s. Are you ready?”

“Wait, ready? What ready? What’s the matter with you? I’m nervous!”

“Manny is so happy. Here we go. One, two, three!”

“Hold on, stop! Wait!”

Jenna hurriedly stopped the dog who was excitedly tapping something on the keyboard in front of the monitor.

“Jenna, do you have anything to say? The command to move to another dimension is quite complex and I have to focus. If something goes wrong, you might fall into an unknown dimension!” Manny muttered discontentedly and urged Jenna to hurry up if she had anything to say.

Jenna decided to enjoy this fun dream properly and began to quibble according to her usual clear personality. “I heard I am getting out of my current life. You said that I would not be born again, and I would go into another body that I don’t know of. I don’t like that either. Take it back. I’ll go into the fifth screen which I saw earlier.”

“Once you’ve already chosen, you can’t take it back. Decide whether you give up the opportunity or accept the life you have chosen.”

“You’re so cheap. Taking back a move is accepted in a chess game but I didn’t have enough time to make those life threatening choices. Take it back, take it back, or cut my belly!”

“Why cut your belly? That’s a cruel thing to do. Manny refuses it!”

“You’re making me mad. Can’t you really take it back?”

“No, I can’t.”

“Then you should have explained it well from the beginning. I would have chosen carefully if you had warned me that there’s a person’s life that I should be involved in among those six lives. You’re guilty of dereliction of duty.”

“...”

You don't have anything to say, do you? Then compromise with me.”

“What kind of compromise are you talking about? Manny doesn’t want to make a compromise.”

“I’ll accept the life I chose so give me an ability to do something good. Shouldn’t I have any ability to move on to another dimension? I don’t want to suffer from any hardship, so give me the ability to do something useful.”

“What ability do you mean?”

“Well, like an ability to get a good job and live in a good place. I can become a lawyer or politician because I have a great deal of eloquence or I have a great athletic talent. Anyways, you should know something that could be better than what others have. Give me one of those.”

“I can do that but I can’t tell you which one you will take because it’s randomly assigned.”

“What? That’s nonsense! A dimension manager dog that can move a person into another dimension can’t give me the power I want?”

Somehow, she felt uneasy about the fact that a small dog is on such a heavy duty as a dimension manager. “You have to be honest. You’re lying about being a dimension manager, aren’t you? You don’t have the slightest ability, do you?”

“What kind of words are you accusing me with? You don’t have to take it if you don’t want it. Manny is a super dog with a tremendous ability to get in and out of all dimensions.

At the sulky voice of Manny, Jenna thought, ‘Was I too excited even if this is just a dream? Or in any case, who cares?’

“I’m just dreaming of Manny’s voice but I think I’m excited,” Jenna said with a smile on her face.

“Not bad, is it?”

“Yes, it shouldn’t be bad since it’s better than others.”

“All right. Anything is better than nothing. Okay, quickly shoot that ability.”

“It’s not possible here. If you enter the new body, you’ll be randomly given the ability.”

“Really? You must keep your word.”

Jenna agreed with Manny, wondering how far this fun dream would go. The next moment, the surroundings lit up.

“You stupid sh*thead. Is this the ability I got?”

The ability was that she was the most beautiful woman of all.

Jenna, who had woken up from sleep, said, “I can’t believe it!” when she realized that everything she had thought was a dream was real and that she had woken up in the body of a little kid in a scary lace nightgown. 

When she finally recovered from the shock and tried to face reality, a screen suddenly appeared in the air, dancing like it was teasing her. The glittering screen displayed colorful, glittering letters that did not exist in this world. 

'An ability to be more beautiful than anyone else. Congratulations on your new body! Aging will be two to three times slower than others and if anyone is praised for being more beautiful than Jenna, they will disappear.

The phrase ‘more beautiful than Julietta’ (the name in your family register in this world), will make the person praised for being more beautiful to disappear from the world regardless of gender or age. 

Do you like your ability? Then, I hope you can live a happy second life. I’ll sincerely pray for you. Good luck!’