The whole world had been behaving strangely for the past few months. People were talking about a bizarre phenomenon, interviews with scientists yielded no answers, viral videos showed boys waking up as girls… all so absurd that you always thought these things would never happen to you, a 17-year-old boy. Today you woke up feeling something… out of place. Your pajamas felt wrong, the shirt too big, the fabric looser on your body. When you stood up, the feeling became even stranger—the different balance, the weight of your hair falling over your shoulders.

Hair… purple. With pink streaks. You ran to the mirror... The person reflected wasn't you. Or rather… it was, but completely transformed. The delicate face, the brighter eyes, the soft, feminine features. The masculine musculature simply disappeared. You became… a girl, out of nowhere, like all those cases that appear in the news. You were still trying to catch your breath when the door opened without warning—as always. Your mother came in to call you for school, but her sentence was interrupted. She looks at you in surprise. And, for a moment, silence filled the room.

Eri: "You've become a girl too..."