0. meeting

So, sometime often.

I had a conversation with an acquaintance I met on the Internet.

We happened to be the same age, and we became very close because we had the same taste.

was such an acquaintance.

And on that day, we started having a particularly deep conversation.

As usual, it was such a conversation that started in the stream of consciousness.

The introduction was nothing special.

These days, novels obsessed with novel platforms seem to be popular. What do you think?

At that time, I replied that it would be quite interesting.

Even if it is a novel written with non-mainstream material, there is a way to breathe by attaching an obsession tag.

Then the friend said:

So if you add a TS tag to a novel you’re obsessed with, isn’t it a cheat key?

That’s how the TS-related story began.

Then the friend said.

What do you plan to do when you become TS?

I remember answering that question like this.

If you become TS.

Without a means of identification, if you can’t prove yourself to your acquaintances.

Then, if you can trust your body to the last person, what will you do?

It was just a boring joke like what would you do?

And at the end, we exchanged the address of the house where we are staying with each other.

It’s a meaningless joke that if you knock on the door later or call here, you’ll give some help.

If someone hadn’t entered my room by entering the password, I would have thought that I had added one novel subject.

So, to sum it up in one word.

It was like being fucked.

whether that person is a friend whether friends or not.

Whether it was the former or the latter, there was no doubt that it would be a headache.

“……………..”

“……………..”

At most, the height should barely exceed 160 cm.

A woman in a rain-soaked hoodie and shorts stood on the porch.

It looks like it just came out of the house.

Besides, it looked like he wasn’t even wearing shoes.

“……………..”

The woman silently squeezed the water out of her clothes.

It took a while for me to think that it shouldn’t be like that while watching the water dripping on the front door.

“So… by any chance… last time that… curry bread…?”

I think it’s funny, but I had no choice but to say the friend’s nickname.

Because the woman in front of me entered my room with the password.

If it’s not my acquaintance, it’s a dangerous situation.

In fact, there was no way to deal with it, whether it was an acquaintance or not.

“yes.”

“Ah, that’s fortunate. I wondered what if it was a criminal…”

The woman was silently squeezing out water.

The woman, who had squeezed the water out of her clothes, looked around.

I seemed to have an idea of what he was trying to do, so I opened my mouth in a hurry.

“Oh… throw your clothes in the bathroom.”

“yes.”

“Rather than that, was it a woman? It was the first time I knew it. I thought it was a man.

“Yes, it was a woman.”

“What? Was it a woman?”

I stopped breathing for a moment.

It was because of the question and answer I had the other day that I thought of an unrealistic development.

Changing gender overnight.

But it’s also nonsensical.

He said that the woman in front of him was a woman.

So it’s not like he changed from a man to a woman.

If so, what the hell did he mean by saying that?

I was curious about that, so I had to ask.

“Was it a woman?”

“Literally. It was a woman.”

The woman walked away dripping, then crouched near the porch.

After watching the water flow from the clothes pressed against his body, he handed the towels he had hung up to wash to the woman.

After a little commotion, a woman sitting on a towel stared at me.

“So, can you explain in more detail…? I thought it was simply a runaway or something.”

“I’m not running away. It’s because I was kicked out.”

“…What? But it was a woman… I don’t know if what you said is true.”

I shut my mouth and chose my words slowly.

Then, the woman began to speak in a way that would not hurt her.

“That… doesn’t everyone usually have a means of identification? Like something only the two of them knew when they were young.”

“……………..”

“First off, I’ll help you, so why don’t you contact your family and think of something to prove your identity?”

He smiled cautiously.

The situation is serious when you see that they came to me, an internet acquaintance, rather than contacting other acquaintances.

Why didn’t he go to his acquaintances and find the day he met on the Internet and come all the way here?

So, you can think that there is no one to turn to except me.

But the woman shook her head slowly.

Before I could ask what that meant, the woman took off her hood.

And the ears were exposed.

“……….ah?”

My mind was blank.

It felt like being hit by something.

The woman in front of me had ears.

The ears of an animal that has fallen down like a lob ear rabbit.

The color was black, following the color of her hair.

I could understand now.

“Because of your ears, you were kicked out without being able to say anything.”

“Yeah. That’s why you can’t even call her a woman. She’s a beast that resembles a human.”

“that’s……”

The woman playfully lifted her ears and looked.

Originally, there was nothing where human ears should have been attached.

It was definitely heterogeneous.

The place where it should be is empty, and there are ears where it should not be.

My heart thumped.

However, he did not show his expression and kept his expression bright.

“Well… Then what happened?”

“It’s obvious. I was treated like a crazy bitch. I have rabbit ears on my head, and I don’t have human ears.”

“But, all of my acquaintances…?”

“Because I didn’t have many friends in the first place. If I were to say acquaintances, there would be three at most, but all three of them didn’t seem to know me.”

The woman smiled with a dry expression.

Even after he said it, he seemed to mean that his answer was absurd.

To be honest, I was dumbfounded too.

“…So that’s why you came all the way to me?”

“Fortunately, when I begged, they threw tens of thousands of won.”

“How many… 10,000 won…?”

“I used it all for transportation.”

I’m at a loss for words.

How should I treat an acquaintance who came to me in a state driven to the edge of a precipice?

In addition to being unidentified, it also has rabbit ears.

This is the body changed into something resembling a human.

I can’t even think of whether there are human rights.

It would have been better if, as he joked, he had changed from a man to a woman.

If that was the case, I would have been able to find a way at the district office.

But only like this…

….I thought it would be better to say at least a full statement.

No, to be precise, it seemed that I had to talk about any subject.

An unknown ominous feeling ran down his back.

So I opened my mouth to ask her name, but the woman spoke first.

“Yes.”

“Huh? Yeah. Tell me.”

“What is your name?”

“Uh… name? Park Si-woo. What about you?”

“Kyung-hee. Choi Kyung-hee.”

“Um, then can I call you Kyunghee?”

I forced a smile while looking at Kyunghee.

However, Kyunghee shook her head and laughed without saying a word.

I didn’t know what the situation was, so I stayed still with a bewildered expression, but Kyung-hee opened her mouth.

“No, roughly… just call it comfortably.”

“comfortable…..?”

At first, he nodded his head in agreement.

“Isn’t it cold?”

“it’s okay.”

“That… is it?”

Kyunghee wrapped her arms around her knees and buried her face under them.

I didn’t think I could touch it anymore, so I hurriedly got up and thought about it.

I feel like I should do something, but I don’t know what to do.

In the end, I thought it would be better to give him something to warm up, so he slowly opened his mouth.

“Do you like coffee or cocoa?”

“yes.”

“Then what should I give you?”

“Anything.”

“Okay.”

With trembling hands, I poured water into the electric kettle and pressed the power button.

Since I said it didn’t matter, I was thinking of drinking a relatively easy-to-drink coffee.

I wondered if instant coffee would be enough to warm my body.

After waiting anxiously for the water to boil, he poured coffee into a cup and poured water over it.

When I brought it back after stirring it with a metal spoon, Kyung-hee smiled faintly and accepted the glass.

I thought it was okay because I was laughing, but it didn’t seem like it.

The eyes that had lost their liveliness shook anxiously.

The mouth that seemed to smile slowly twisted.

It seemed that he was trying to block the rising anxiety with a smile.

I wanted to talk to her, but for now I decided to observe the situation and stay still.

It seemed like it would be enough to just try to stop him when he was about to do something unexpected.

Anyway, as I was watching, I saw Kyunghee slowly drinking coffee.

It must have been hot, but watching him blow on it, I wondered if it was okay, but it didn’t seem like it.

His expression improved, but his eyes were still shaking.

Come to think of it, if you see that you came without shoes on…

“Your foot… isn’t hurt?”

“yes.”

“It’s good. You came walking without shoes…?”

Kyunghee shook her head slowly.

I was about to say what that meant, but Kyunghee spoke first.

“I came naked on the roof of this building.”

“……..why?”

“Why do you think it is?”

Kyunghee smiled as if it would break.

oh

Shit.

It was my fault for asking something I shouldn’t have asked.

Kyung-Hee, who emptied the coffee with trembling hands, smiled silently.

I decided not to ask any further, and thought about what to turn the topic around.

As expected, it would be better to talk about how we met.

After changing the topic roughly like that, it would be enough to warm up the body somehow and then put it to sleep.

Even though it was a self-contained room, it was a bit spacious, so it was enough for two people to stay.

“Me, Kyung-hee… Hey?”

“yes.”

“Still, I’m glad you talked like that last time, right?”

“……………..”

“I didn’t know I’d be that last acquaintance.”

“That’s right. That’s right…”

Kyunghee said as she unzipped her hoodie.

“Will you write down the contract?”

“……What?”

“The last question in that story was the answer to whether you would entrust yourself to that acquaintance even though it might attack you who suffered TS.”

“……….ah.”

“Of course I was originally a woman, but now I feel like a monster that can’t even be called a human.”

that’s right. It was something like that.

Even if that friend could attack him, did he intend to rely on his body?

It was a story from a long time ago, and I completely forgot about it because of the current situation.

Then, at that moment, Kyung-hee, who pressed her chest tightly, burst into an empty laugh and added,

“If you want. So I don’t know if you’ll be satisfied, but you can use it whenever you want.”

Maybe.

Seriously.

It was like being fucked.