Disorientated Feelings (Part 46)

[Author's note: the first child is a girl, but the mother (protagonist) thinks she's a boy. The opposite is true for the second child.]

Itsuki and I considered the options available for the future of our first child. No, cost isn’t a problem as the both of us have well-paying jobs. What we are more concerned is the outcome of the child’s future if we decide on the option, which is mostly in the unknown. I want the child to be normal, but neither do I want to restrict what my son’s potential. I see that he’s not studying, but yet, score full marks, so if he studies, he could be learning that older people would usually learn. This indirectly means that he could have a college degree at a young age, or maybe higher.

However, him being a smart kid and having me as a parent who hold a high job position means that he could be popular, but also means harder for him to find a friend. I want him to be normal, but I’m not exactly normal myself, biologically, but that’s not my choice. Unlike other (normal) families like mine, I won’t pressure him to study to have a job like mine. I wouldn’t mind if if he picks up a career in driving trains, but I do have to admit that his potential would be wasted if that happens considering that he’s academically smarter than peers of his age.

Whatever the choice may be, it’s likely to set a path for my daughters, but if two of them are also as smart as like their brother, the remaining child would be vulnerable to being bullied… I don’t know if that would happen, but as their parent it is my concern. If he really has my memories, him attending school is like me attending at least 15 years worth of attending school again, which I certainly wouldn’t be happy if I am taught the same thing again.

To confirm that my child has my memories, and to what degree, I would have to ask him things that I remember that I never mentioned to anyone, including Saeko and Itsuki.

Me: “Er… Sorry for asking this out of the blue, but what do you know about your father around the time I first met him.”

1st child: “Well, the first time you saw him was during lunch break right after golden week as he was looking into your classroom. Dad heard about you from his classmates for being a smart and beautiful girl. Of course, back then, you simply saw him as one of the many boys who admired you, and never paid attention to him until he crashed into you while struggling to carry your classmate’s exercise books to the staff room. Mentally, you were still not interested in him, but your body reacted as though he’s your man for the rest of your life, which seems to still be true today. Dad didn’t mind because, to him, the most popular girl in school has thrown herself at him, who, unlike other boys, never competed for your attention.”

I don’t think I can remember seeing someone I know BEFORE knowing them for the first time, but it does seem that he has me and Itsuki’s memories and cross-referenced then to come up with that answer. I feel creeped out at how detailed he described it as if he was me. I really wasn’t interested in Itsuki, but him bumping into me triggered something in my body that forces me to love him forever.

Me: “Okay… what other memories of me do you have from before you were born?”

1st child: “You went with 5 of your college friends to New York from California by car. One of the cars had a flat tire along the way. Another memory is you meeting grandfather after a failed interview right after collecting your high school uniform. The latest memory I have before I was born is you finding out how the previous bosses, of where you work now, treated them. There’s more.”

…Huh?! Although this did happened, I never mentioned any of these to anyone else. He could hear from other people, but how does he know about the car I was in having a flat tire that happened along a deserted road America?! Even Itsuki and Saeko doesn’t know the details of that trip other than being a graduation trip, and I only showed them photos when I was at New York City. That last memory he mentioned was not long before I became pregnant with him. Now I’m freaked out.

It became clear from my little test that that this child is too smart for a normal school as he inherited all the knowledge I have at the time of giving birth to him. No wonder he’s strangely well mannered for an infant as, to him who has my memories, may be thinking that he was me and suddenly finds himself in the body of an infant born from who he though he always has been. I am worried that he could be more of a likely target among certain people because of what he is, or my job position.

1st child: “Mum, why are you asking me these questions? Don’t you know them yourself?”

The question here is how do you know something that I never told anyone else about.

Me: “Well, after the parent-teacher meeting, I have been thinking about your teacher’s advice of skipping grades, or transfer you to an another school for smart children such as yourself, but I don’t know if you are fine with that, especially being separated from your friends. Although, the schools in question are close enough to not have the need to move house. It doesn’t have to be soon: we can do it from the following school year.”

He seemed to be staring blankly at me for a moment after I talked. It has been a while since I had a one-on-one conversation with him. Also, he and my other children grew up in this house.

1st child: “Well… Maybe I’ll think about it first. Although, I do find the things taught in school is something I already know and are too easy. I don’t know what grade my knowledge level is equal to, so is there some kind of an exam or something to measure it? As for friends, I do have some, but not really close enough to go out together.”

I was surprised at how he said that: he spoke with vocabulary that only middle school students or older would usually be able to use naturally.

Me: “I will search for past exam papers for fourth grade and higher and see if you can do it. Maybe high school and college papers if necessary. I suspect that you might have inherited my memories, as I never told anyone about that flat tire while I was traveling in America, but you described that in detail.”

1st child: “Huh? Didn’t you show me a video of it before? It seems so clear and detailed from your point of view.”

That can’t be right.

Me: “Um, I did not record any of the events you mentioned.”

1st child: “Huh? You didn’t? Then what was I… Wait, I have your memories?! How is this possible? But I don’t know anything about what you do after I was born.”

I would like to say something like “Hatsuya modified me in a way that also affects the children I give birth to“, but I guess it’s better not to say that. After all, it’s not like I even know of such things until long after I have given birth to two children. It’s like they wanted the work invested in me to be passed to my children, but doesn’t want ME, the subject in question, to know about it until it has already happened as they believe that I won’t produce children and/or kill myself if I did.

Since they are already born and almost grown up, parent-child bonding, the society, and the law, wouldn’t let me kill my children, and they really took advantage of “what will happen to my children when I die” situation that would also prevent me from committing suicide. Especially the parent-child bonding part.

Me: “I don’t know why myself. I guess its because you are my child after all and inherited things from me. My wild guess is that your mental age could be the same as me. Anything else?”

1st child: “Yeah, thanks for talking to me and the thought of not wanting me being separated from my friends. Well, since you said I could skip grades, maybe I would try that first before transferring schools. If primary school is too easy for me, are there other schools for me?”

Me: “I don’t know for sure, but I have heard of a 10-year old attending universities.”

I’m reluctant to say that as I want to see my children in high school as teenagers.

1st child: “Okay, thanks mum. Oh, and one more thing: Saeko told me about the curse preventing you from knowing what gender I am. You are seeing me and ***** (name of 2nd child) as nothing more than a ghostly presence that feels like you and dad combined that is hard for you to look and hear, which is worsening as we get older as our bodies develop what Saeko calls “gender differences” and the differences would become greater.”

Saeko, what on earth have you been teaching my children with? Well, that is partly my fault for dumping my responsibility of raising my children to her.

Me: “Did she say anything about solving it?”

1st child: “Something about it being effective if I’m not mentally prepared for it. She didn’t go into detail about that other than you having to talk to her. Although, it does answer my frustration of why you are treating me like a ***** and giving ***** clothes for *****. I guess it doesn’t matter now as males are mysteriously becoming young females rapidly. Just look at what happened to our grandfathers and great-grandparents.”

My dad has been turned into a teenage girl recently as he is above 40, but mum remain unchanged as the age that would happen to females is 80. Since dad is female now, he would become a young girl again when he turns 80 (120 if you count from the year he was born) years old. That means nobody dies of old age as no one could become old to begin with. More girls means more children could be produced, but with declining number of males necessary to make females pregnant, that it’s harder for that to be possible. Although, the time it takes for a male to generate “the fertilizer” is just a few hours, compared to a woman’s pregnancy time of almost the whole wear. The technology already exists for females to have children without males should they have difficulty, but the child resulting from this method is always female as the genes necessary to produce males are completely absent.

Being a scientist, and as a female myself, it’s kind of sad to see more and more females on the street at the cost of fewer and fewer men. Also, what’s so great about the female gender? Actually, it’s the default gender for us humans when we were simply eggs in the mother’s womb. Males are somewhat like a mutated version of the female human that is crafted to meet the needs of the female counterpart, including having increased toughness and strength for defending the females, and body size so that girls could hold on to them. That largely explains why males have nipples, and they can still feel arousal if you touch the area of skin were, on females, is where pee comes out from.

Females are “pure” humans (eg. not be turned into males), they naturally have longer lifespan. Rapidly changing emotions is an another annoying feature that I’m aware of, but can’t stop it. If I’m wearing a skirt, and if the toilets have washlets in it, I don’t even need to touch my private parts during my entire time in the toilet. A woman can get aroused easily from being touched as their skin is more sensitive than males. I don’t want to get aroused unnecessarily by my own hand every time I use the toilet. If all this happens to my body, imagine everyone else experiencing the same thing, and the shock from males who had been turned into females that are not used to the body.

Part 45 | Part 47

599th post: Experience from travelling

These past few years, I have traveled to several regions and countries that are quite far away from home. As I traveled, certain aspects about how different a place may be from what I’m familiar with is become more apparent. Things that I take for granted too.

Depending on what country it is, cost of living may be lower than where I’m from. Although, if I’m unfamiliar with the currency of the country, that can be a hard thing to tell, especially if the rates are not dividable by 10 without a remainder. Well, 2 and 5 too, but that requires more thinking. However, some products, especially ones produced from my country, or an another country, may be more expensive than back home if you calculated the exchange rate of the price you see there. Although, for some places, spending $100 (around there, and something like that in other currencies, and stated price might be before/after tax, and if the store participates) would allow you to refund the tax.

While planing for traveling, try to avoid those “travel packages”: you might be paying for things like hotel accommodation that may cost more, and/or things that you might not need. On top of that, you might be rushed from place to place like a heard with perhaps an inflexible schedule. You may look at a brochure at a travel agency and find it expensive, but keep in mind of what it’s made up of and you might be able to plan for a trip that would cost less. Mine makes up of the following order:

1. Deciding roughly where and when to go – So you know where you are going, and see if you have free time / take time off work around that time.
2. Booking the flight – some flights do not fly daily, or the cost of the plane ticket might be cheaper on certain days. It might also be cheaper to land in one airport, and depart from an another, than to backtrack to the airport you arrive in. Some airlines might have hidden discounts for certain routes and flights.
3. Booking accommodation – Feel free to use sites that searches room rates, types, location and availability for you, but you may want to check with the website of the hotel in question directly if they offer cheaper rates. Also note that you might pay less if you pay the fees in cash of the currency of the country it’s in, but check with the hotel if cash payment is even accepted. The nights you might spend with overnight travel, or being at the airport because of a late arrival or early departure, should also be considered into the dates you would be staying at the hotel.
4. (optional) Do not tell others that you are even going for a trip – Especially if you want to go alone: you wouldn’t want people you may not go along well to come along or being asked to buy something that would be troublesome for you to get or bring around.
5. Bring as little clothes as possible – Hotels might provide a service that washes your clothes, or at least have a laundromat near the hotel. Clothes may seem light, but several clothes packed in a bag can add kilograms to its weight. Weight is something you want to reduce/avoid when taking a plane, or at least bring around.
6. Electrical Plugs – Don’t forget to check the voltage, frequency, and the type of socket of the country you are visiting: it may be completely different from your home country. However, IT devices like mobile phone chargers and laptops usually are already designed to handle all the differences, except the plug itself. Things like bulbs and those with a motor…. maybe not.

Also, the things you bring along, including the bag that you bring your stuff in, should also be considered. That bag with wheels and a retractable handle attached weighs more and has fewer storage area than bags of the same design without them.

Among the places I’ve been to, the most eye opener was traveling through the towns and villages of Malaysia as practically almost every aspect of what I’m familiar with is very different: food, layout of places, *cough* waste management *cough*, transport infrastructure, the way people dressed, and so on. They are all very different from what I’m (very) used to back home. Food from back home itself is also hard to find.

Of course, not everywhere is safe. Try to dress and behave in a way that do not attract attention, though this particular step can be ambiguous: people of a country may not even bat an eyelid, but the same thing in an another can attract attention. Hard to tell, but how developed a country is, and/or how conservative/religious the people are, is usually related. Traveling in groups (females especially) can be better when the safety from being attacked is questionable.

598th post: Lost and corrupted images

This month, I had taken a lot of pictures with my new camera. However, something happened about 1.5 weeks later that caused the memory card to become messed up.

Cause is unknown, but I’m sure it has nothing to do with the camera itself as it wasn’t in it when it happened. However this caused the data on the memory card to become corrupted. Except for those taken on two days, pictures were mostly recoverable.

Teary Promise (Part 14)

I felt uneasy about Hisakawa-san telling me to meet her at the lowest level of the basement car park of a nearby shopping center. It almost feel like I’m walking into a trap. Am I really walking into one?

The location of the meeting place alone seems suspicious enough to me. I was already scared enough for today from being lost in a foreign land all by myself, and again when my phone rang even though I thought it had no cellular coverage here when I checked. I checked again now: there is currently no signal again.

The area where Hisakawa asked me to wait has a lot of cars parked near there, but otherwise void of people. The only sound here are from the cars driving around and some ventilation machines.

Not long afterwards, I saw Hisakawa sticking her head out, calling out to me, as though she does not want to be seen by others. She seemed to have tried to crossdress like a man, but the shape of her body is too feminine to be able to pass of as a man, especially with that large burst.

Hisakawa: “Sorry about how I look. Apparently my own body only allows me to wear certain types of clothes. If I try to wear other types of clothes, it gets repelled out like a strong magnet.”

I find it strange that it’s even possible for clothes to be repelled out of your body by itself, let alone specific type of clothes, but it does explain why pictures of her (via mom) seem to have her only wearing certain types of clothes.

Me: “So why did you want to meet me at a random spot of this car park?”

Hisakawa: ”Well…”

Part 13 | Part 15

596th post – Concept of mind/body swapping/changing

You may have come across some (fictional) stories, or a part involving, where one finds themselves in a body of something different from what they are used to. This can be to an animal, an item, or even a robot, but most authors usually restrict this concept to between humans of the same gender not too far away, and know each other prior to it happening.

So what you find yourself in someone else’s body and then someone else talks to you as if you are their parent/child/sibling. Psychologically, these people are complete strangers to you, but the body you are in makes you to be related to them by blood. Your original family members would also not recognize you.

Methods of how that happens, or what happens later on, is different, but “waking up one morning” and “demanding to change back” are usually the typical things that happens. For the latter, it usually involves someone else who cause it to happen (usually a scientist), various difficulties (expense, conditions that are hard to achieve or happens once in a very long time), and reluctance to reverse it.

Stories involving body/mind changing can be told in many different ways: chasing someone down by possessing people near the target commonly found in action movies, or in ways that would intentionally raise the arousal levels of the reader. The two I mentioned are what they are commonly used in.

Due to the nature of this concept, it’s also not clear if mind swapping means being in a different body, or have memories of someone else while leaving no memories of who they were before that. In the latter case, the person would perceive themselves as being in a different person’s body, even though their mind never moved at all, as the only memory they have is that of someone else. To other people, telling these two methods apart can be hard, possibly impossible.

To put it simply, everyone has the same mind, but (without synchronization and) due to exposure to different things that is location and time-specific on top of what a person knows at that time, that is where differences happen. Even siblings and twins too: one would encounter something that happened in the absence of the other, or the actions they do (who knows and do things differently from the other).

Speaking of mind-swapping, I have watched Kaiba (カイバ; Winter 2012 anime) that is based on this concept, but the weirdness of this (far weirder than Nisemonogatari on a whole different level) makes it difficult to watch that nobody watches it unless they are… No, that’s a bad example… Cocoro Connect (top image) is a better example of what I’m writing here.

(PS. If you are wondering why this is numbered as the 596th post instead of the 597th post, that’s because it’s in the order I created them, which includes post that I created first, but publish posts newer than that. That would mean that the previous post is actually the 592nd even though it came out after the 595th.)

Teary Promise (Part 13)

On one of those days my group visited a place somewhere that is quite some distance away from the city center. Not sure where, but I do know that most of the way there has nothing but high-rise apartments. Unfortunately, I got separated from them while figuring out on getting around at an unfamiliar place. I don’t know how it happened, but it did.

I’m kind of scared to approach anyone, who are already looking at me. My uniform kind of stands out as there aren’t any schools in this country that has a similar design, judging by the students that I had seen. My mobile phone doesn’t seem to work while overseas. Payphones are nowhere in sight and, even if I do find one, I don’t have the coins for it. Also, I don’t remember the numbers to dial to contact people who might be able to help me.

People were already looking at me because the design of school uniform I’m wearing is not used in local schools. The fact that people are even looking at me makes me scared. I would like to ask the locals for help, but the problem is that I am unable to speak the language. I don’t have any additional clothes with me, or have money to buy any new clothes that would have me to blend in.

I’ve never felt this scared before. Being in an unfamiliar territory too doesn’t make me feel at ease either. What I’m fearful the most is to have suspicious men to approach me and, being a girl, more likely for them to do something to me.

Well, my first instincts are to head back to a more familiar area. The trains around here surely must eventually link to around there, but where is the nearest station? I’m sure they had noticed that I’m missing, but did they know when and where I was separated from them? I don’t even know where I am, and I don’t know how others would be able to locate me.

*****

Walking around, I heard a soft ringing tone from not too far away. It sounds like mine, but it’s of the generic type that anyone else could have it. Plus, mine does not work overseas anyway.

Well, that was what I thought, but the ringing was persistent. Also, the loudness and angle of the ringing remained the same no matter where I went, so the only way that is possible is if it’s mine, but how is that possible?!

Feeling scared, I slowly took out my phone. Just as suspected, all that ringing was coming from my phone. What’s even creepier is that the name of the mobile carrier my phone belongs to back in my home country appears there too at full signal. Who is calling me?

It’s the big boss of the company my mother works for, Hisakawa Saeko. I had her number saved on my phone because it had accidentally synced my mother’s contacts on the family computer. Mine and mom’s contacts have since been merged that it becomes a very long contact list. The phone’s interface makes it difficult to delete contacts in this very long list, on top of mom’s knowing people who has the same family name as my friends whose given name I’m not sure about, which explains why I didn’t delete them.

Hisakawa: “Yumiko-chan? Are you okay? Your group of friends had told the staff that you went missing while traveling with them.”

The one calling me is mom’s big boss, but the voice and the words she said suggests that she’s also the Mizuho girl that I’m sharing the hotel room with. So, it wasn’t some girl who did a poor impersonation of her, but rather a very good disguise. I don’t know if it’s because she knows my mother that she revealed her true identity to me.

Me: “How are you calling me? My phone did not have a signal the last time I…”

Hisakawa: “Now is not the time to talk about that! I can’t maintain this call for long. Anyway, if you are the schoolgirl I’m seeing, turn 45 degrees to your left and wave your free hand while looking towards the sky.”

She can see me? But there’s nothing but the wide open sky in the direction she asked me to look at, and a camera in that direction is certainly out of the question. Maybe she’s looking at me from behind? I feel silly doing it in a crowded area, or be facing away from where she could be looking at me from.

Hisakawa: “Ah. That is you. I’ll be picking you up at the lowest level of the basement car park of the shopping center near you in a while.”

For some reason, she chose to pick me up at a basement car park instead of the road near me. I guess it’s the only deserted place inside a very crowded area, but doesn’t the location sound suspicious, like ambushing me for a kidnap or something? I am a daughter of a scientist who is important to some degree after all, and I heard of scientist of similar rank, but at Hatsuya, has been killed by terrorists many years ago.

I have my doubts if the female voice that called me was even the Hisakawa-san I met.

Part 12 | Part 14

595th post – Remembering the Tohoku Earthquake

It has been exactly a year since the large earthquake happened in the Tohoku region.

I remember a year ago when people were calling and messaging me to check if I’m okay. I’m relatively unscathed, and I don’t have relatives affected by this.

Tokyo was relatively unaffected, and buildings remain standing as they are designed to withstand strong earthquakes. Although, food supplies, and things like radios and batteries were mostly empty shortly after due to people rushing to buy this and/or supply routes/factories were affected by it.

Outside Japan, and most foreigners inside Japan, the situation at that time was kind of exaggerated by the lack of knowledge (and spreading their misinformed knowledge to others) of what is happening, and the areas affected. The fear in these people seem to imply that the whole of Japan is affected.

As for the radiation, yes there was dangerous radiation around the Fukushima 1st nuclear plant, and, yes, radiation levels in other parts of Japan are higher than usual since that incident, but if you put that in perspective, it’s still within safe levels, and still lower than in other parts of the world.

It’s… painful for me to write further, so I’ll stop here.

594th post – Windows 8 Consumer Preview

Got my hands on the Windows 8 consumer preview. Download time is smoother than expected. Besides opening the Weather app and installing the two apps at the bottom right, this is what you see right after installing. Background colour could be changed from the green seen in the consumer preview.

Like before, you can create an account with a Windows Live account. If you have an Xbox or Hotmail account, you can use that to sign in.

App
All most of the apps you see in the Developer Preview are mostly gone, but it does make up with being able to use the app store that was unavalable in the Developer Preview. Of course, the screenshots you see here are for the Japanese version, so it may be different from what you see here.

Animation, and simentanously viewing weather of other cities, seems to be missing here compared to the Developer preview. It looks weird with that blank area at the far right. My only real complaint here is the units the tempreatures and distances are in. No country outside the US uses those units anymore.

Control Panel and Settings

Apart from some fine-tuning since the Developer Preview, and beign able to pick a different colour scheme, the settings page seem very much the same. Accessing it, however, has changed: it’s located at the bottom of the settings panel where you adjust the volume and stuff.

Language Settings

You can add emoticons too

Sad to say, the option to switch between display languages is not there: just the keyboard layout. This was avalable in Windows 7 Ultimate Edition (the full-featured and most expensive version). However, I hear that there are plans to do that.

Being the Japanese version and having the Japanese keyboard, the Japanese input should be there too. Although there’s a different UI in the metro version, it looks the same as Windows 7 for the desktop mode.

As a test, I installed Google’s IME thing, which I primarily use in Windows 7. Sad to say that it doesn’t work in the metro interface, though it does work in the desktop mode. (It crashed cmd.exe when I tried to use it.)

Other Pre-installed apps
Well, I don’t know if it’s because of the location settings somewhere, or if the server is not working, but these apps don’t work well. Maybe I just don’t have an Xbox to begin with.

What on earth is this?

Conclusion

Well, this isn’t the finalized version, so there do tend to be some bugs and crashes here and there. Some things work on the Desktop mode, but not in the metro version. Although, I haven’t restarted the PC since installing the updates you saw in one of the screenshots above. (@^^)/~~~

From the very start of writing this post to the end, this was written on a computer that was running on battery, and I see that it could run for longer. That does tell you about how energy consumption (which directly affects how long a battery lasts before it needs to be recharged) has been imroved a lot by having apps that are not in use to be in a “frozen” state. It’s like the program has been closed in terms of usage of PC resources, except that it’s not closed.

I’ll use it again at a later time to see if there are hidden things that are yet to be found.

593rd post – The leap year

The 29th of February is something that happens only once every 4 years. Even in the other years, February is still the only month that has less than 30 days.

Seemingly coincidental is that the summer Olympics takes place in every leap year, though the event itself is a few months after February. I somehow see the summer Olympics as something more significant than the winter one.

The timing of this summer Olympics signifies how much time has passed. The Beijing and Athens Olympics are still fresh in my mind, but those were in 2008 and 2004 respectively!

This tells me how fast time has passed, and I feel old.

Alternate Dimension (Part 83)

1st Daughter: “Mum, have you seen where my notebook is? I don’t remember where I left it.”

Kotomi: “Oh, how could my son be so careless? You would have a hard time finding a girlfriend if you don’t remember things about her. I think I saw it next to the phone.”

The daughter can’t correct her mother that she’s a girl and not a boy, so she just played along with her.

1st Daughter: “I see it! Thanks!”

Due to Kotomi being unable to tell the genders of her first two children, for years that she assumes that the first child is a boy. Me and everyone else is trying to correct her, but all attempts failed as she can’t hear or see those words, and her assumptions go uncorrected. Even the first daughter gave up of her mother referring to her as her “son”. The opposite is true for the second child, who is the only actual son in the family, whom Kotomi thinks it’s her “daughter”.

Kotomi: “Oh, and when are you going to find a girlfriend? There now are more girls than boys around your age. Surely at least a few of them…”

1st Daughter: “Mum! Stop it! I’ll… I’ll figure it out myself!”

Being a girl, she is reminded of how hard it is to find a boyfriend: there are several times more girls than boys, so the chances of finding a boyfriend who doesn’t have another girlfriend is very slim.

Lately, the elderly and random younger males have been mysteriously been turned into young women. Except for the first year it happened, those who had been changed by this could remember who they were before and, apart from that relating to being a young woman, their lives are mostly unchanged.

This means that nobody could die of old age as they become young again, and they make up for the declining births, though cancer and accident-related types of deaths are still possible. However, the main problem here being the declining number of males. Soon enough, there would be no births: Not because women can’t get pregnant, but there being no males left who could make that happen. Several companies, including Hatsuya Research, have offered ways to get these women pregnant without the need for a male at all, but it’s not possible for children born from this method to be a boy at all.

This also means that there is a possibility that these women would not die of health problems associated with old age as their bodies are automatically biologically renewed to a teenage or young adult age, which theoretically means that they could live forever. However, they are still vulnerable to die of other causes.

Well, that is what it seemed like, but it got stabilized when the male population is left with only 20%. However, due to the rapid and unpredictable decline of the male population, production of male-related things have been stopped, and male-associated activities are non-existent due to insufficient men. This is to reduce the impact of the shock of the men who may one day unexpectedly be turned into a woman and the people around them.

This means that, even though the human male has somehow narrowly escaped from being extinct with a population that is now about 80% female who aren’t (biologically) above a certain age, the influence for these males to behave like men is almost non-existent. They are slowly adopting the female behavior as they have no exposure to the male ones, and the very people who could have prevented that from happening had already been turned into teenage girls at the first wave with no memories of who they were. The gender difference between male and female has now been reduced to nothing more than gender-specific physical features. Simply put, males have been reduced to just girls that were born with male features.

Well, there was a suggestion to have these males to watch old videos that are male-orientated to have an idea of how they should behave, but the only people who can understand what they were looking at are of around college level, and among the men who watched it, there appears to have been no influence on their behavior.

Part 82 | Part 84