[#CreativeAward2026] #18 Menopause Fantasy: Saint Hormonia Quest ~Mom, Did You Reincarnate Again Today?~

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Hello😀
I'm Azami, currently reincarnated in another world.

★Recap of the previous episode★

To make the hamburger steak my daughter loves, I went to the meat section of Ito-Yokado to buy "domestic coarse-ground beef."

There, I unexpectedly reunited with my old comrade-in-arms, Hieko!

But the excitement was short-lived,

when the Sage Yoshie suddenly appeared

"Yattokame!"

(What on earth is a 'yattokame'? Is it some kind of green turtle?🐢),

and with that, the supermarket aisle transformed into a massive, endless corridor of ice.

And to make matters worse, I realized I was back in those pink pajamas again😡

What on earth is going to happen to me from here?😭 ﾐ☆

Episode 6, Part 2: Azami is in a huge pinch with stiffness and chills!

"Wait a minute... where did my coarse-ground domestic beef go!"

Spreading out before me was a massive ice corridor that seemed to go on forever.

Far from returning to reality, I was completely trapped in some place I couldn't understand at all.

I was absolutely craving hamburger steak tonight, and the anger at having my perfect housewife's dinner schedule ruined was enough to make the fibers of my pink pajamas stand on end.

However, even that bristling of my pajamas was quickly stolen away by the intense cold.

"Ugh, ugh... It's cold, so cold..."

My short moan leaked out into the icy freezer.

Being cold is painful, but what's worse is that my fingers won't move.

The "finger stiffness" that I previously only had to endure for a few hours in the morning has completely locked up due to the intense cold of this corridor.

Especially the middle finger of my right hand, which I'm being forced to hold a ladle with.

It's stuck stiff and straight, as if it's trying to pick a fight with someone.

Not only am I in my pajamas, but my manners are terrible, me!

I won't be able to show my face to the neighbors like this 😨

"...Aza-chi. ...Be careful. ...This is a place where the cold of my reality and the Demon King's curse resonate."

Hieko's voice, as she stood next to me holding a laundry pole, was trembling violently.

When I looked, something terrible was happening at her feet.

From the ankles down of the puffy boots Hieko was wearing,

pale blue ice thorns, as if they had a will of their own, were crackling and clinging to her, completely fusing her to the floor.

"Hey, Hieko! Your feet are frozen! Can't you move!?"

"...Yeah. It's freezing down here❄️

With my poor circulation, I'm going to freeze in this world🧊

...This is the curse of the Demon King Estrogen Loss. ...Ch-ch-ch-chattering🥶"

Hieko's fingertips were turning purple from the double punch of this cold and the stiffness in her joints.

Demon King Estrogen Loss.

To think he would do this to a middle-aged woman's cold sensitivity, what a jerk😡

"Hehehe! Hehehehe!"

At that moment, a swarm of eerie dwarves made of mud and frost crawled out from the cracks in the ice wall.

They swarmed my right hand without mercy, clinging to my stiffened middle finger!

"What is this? Dwarves!?"

"...Aza-chi, those are '"Rigid Hand Gnomes'. ...Stiffness monsters that lock up your finger joints first thing in the morning."

The dwarves looked at us, unable to move, and sneered triumphantly.

"...Don't underestimate me!"

I forced my right hand to move, even as it was losing all sensation.

A sharp pain shot through me as I tried to bend my fingers.

But if I back down here, I might never be able to make a hamburger steak for my daughter with my own hands again.

I cannot forgive the idea of this coarse-ground domestic beef going to waste!

I tried to swing my ladle down at the little people on my middle finger, intending to unleash my signature lethal ladle attack—

That was the moment.

Crack-crack-crack.

My right elbow, both shoulders, and even my knee joints suddenly locked up and became immobile, as if invisible cement had been poured into them.

"What...!? N-no way, I can't lift my arm...!"

Looking down, I saw the little people gathering from my middle finger up my arm and down to my feet at an unbelievable speed.

Stiffness spread throughout all the joints and muscles in my body.

(Th-this is...)

It's like the stiffness of a morning covered by a low-pressure system!!

The stiffness of a housewife (in menopause) worsens on cloudy or rainy days.

It's not just the joints in my fingers; my thigh muscles and even my knees are creaking and aching as if I have muscle pain.

Just like on such a day, covered by the stiffness gnomes, I froze completely like a scarecrow.

Looking next to me, Hieko is completely covered in ice up to her thighs, looking like a sculpture now.

"Hi-Hieko... stay... strong..."

I opened my mouth to encourage the trembling Hieko, but because of the intense cold and the stiffness in my temporomandibular joint, my jaw was chattering so much that I couldn't speak properly.

"A-Aza... tchi... m-my jaw..."

"Ch-chatter, chatter, chatter, chatter, chatter...!"

“C-cough... ch-chatter, chatter... 🥶🧊”

Me in my pajamas, rudely flipping the bird, and the frozen heavy warrior.

In the middle of a giant refrigerator,

we could only make eerie sounds of “chatter-chatter-chatter-chatter” at each other.

So, in an unexpected turn of events, both of us have ended up completely frozen stiff 🧊 in a huge crisis! 😭

Usually, a single blow from my “ladle” would have saved us, but this time I can’t even swing my arm down.

Between the cold and the stiffness, even my mouth is chattering so much that we can’t even hold a conversation.

Will we actually be able to survive and escape from this freezing cold refrigerator?

Next to the domestic ground beef, we’re about to become frozen meat... 🧊

Please wait for the next miracle 😀 ﾐ☆

Azami @ Reincarnating in Another World
50-year-old part-time housewife. Currently reincarnating in another world 😀

#Menopause #ReincarnationInAnotherWorld #FingerStiffness #DemonKingEstrogenLoss #DomesticGroundBeef

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