chapter 1
01. This is a parallel world
“Do you know what the multiverse is?”
I asked a question to a friend who was building toy blocks with a bored expression.
At my sudden question, my friend moved his gaze from the toy block to me and opened his mouth.
“What? Multiverse?”
“Yes, the multiverse. Do you know?”
“No, I don’t know.”
My friend turned her attention back to the toy block, as if she was not interested at all.
“I see. Is it an unfamiliar word?”
“Where else did you get that strange knowledge? I’m going to cut down on the internet.”
“So, do you know about the multiverse?”
“I don’t know. Take no interest.”
Guy, it’s cold.
It looks pretty on the outside, but why are your actions so cold, wasteful.
“Multiverse. It is often called the multiverse theory, but it is a theory that other universes exist besides ours.”
“Ah, I’m not interested.”
“It’s an interesting theory, so why don’t you listen to it?
So, for example.”
I continued the explanation by building a new tower next to the toy tower my friend had built.
“Based on this possibility, you in another universe could have built two towers. Or maybe he was playing with some other toy.”
“That’s not a multiverse, it’s a parallel world.”
… ….
Huh? Is it?
Come to think of it, that seems right.
More than that, why do you know?
Besides, why did you pretend not to know? It’s embarrassing to say this naughty boy.
“You call it a parallel world, not a multiverse.
After all, our geniuses are different. Thanks for letting me know.”
“Noisy.”
“By the way, how about something like this?”
I picked up the blue and red blocks and continued.
“Could there be another parallel world with an equal ratio of males and females like this block?”
“What?”
After hearing my explanation, my friend looked at me with a puzzled expression.
“What nonsense are you talking about?”
“Why doesn’t it make sense? If it is a parallel world created based on possibility, wouldn’t it be possible enough?”
“Common sense wouldn’t be possible. If there had been even the slightest possibility of that in the first place, we men would not have been so protected.”
Well, is that so?
If that was possible right away, I wouldn’t have to live a life like this confinement.
No, this is not it.
What if you agree?
Am I too used to the common sense of this world?
“In your world, if that’s common sense, it might be possible, right?”
“How could such a world be possible because of common sense?”
“Uh… therefore.”
How do you explain this?
“… A world where the roles of women and men are reversed?”
“… ….”
After hearing my words, my friend glared at me with an expression as if looking at filth.
“Go away if you’re going to talk nonsense like that.”
“That is too much. Is it a parallel world that can exist based on sufficient possibilities?”
I can assure you.
Because I have lived in that world.
However, my friend denied my words as if it were nonsense.
“Does that make sense?
And the basis of possibility? What possibility?”
“Uh, the basis is, so.
If the s*x ratio is similar, to what extent wouldn’t each other’s roles be reversed?”
“What? Ha, so what you mean.”
My friend said, putting his hand on his forehead as if his head hurt at my words.
“When the s*x ratio between men and women becomes equal, women no longer need to be thirsty for men, so they become more docile, are you saying?”
What is it, you pretended not to listen, but in the end you listened to everything I said and even understood it.
After all, this guy is a good guy.
I snapped my fingers once to show that my friend’s explanation was exactly right.
“Yes, that’s it!”
“It’s a world where women are docile. If such a world comes, I will welcome it with open arms.”
“Isn’t it?”
“Let’s say that. But why is it that a man is a woman, just imagining it gives me goosebumps. Anyway, why do men change into women?”
“Uh… ….”
Will that happen again?
How do you explain this?
Stuck at my friend’s question, I thought about what to say while rolling the red block around.
What do men from that world and women from this world have in common?
“Umm, like s*xual desire?”
Took.
My friend dropped the block he was holding in his hand with his mouth wide open.
“…… s*xual desire now? Did I really hear that?”
“Huh? That’s right. s*xual desire.”
“…… Crazy. I wasn’t listening to you.”
The friend raised his hands and covered his face as if he had seen something terrible.
“So you mean. A man chases a woman, and a man, like a woman, boils his libido and goes into heat for 24 hours, you mean?”
Hey, as expected, geniuses are different.
If you tell me one thing, you know ten.
Isn’t that great?
“Is it really going to happen that way?”
“—Wook. Whoops.”
The friend just kept his head down and suddenly began to vomit.
Was my example so disgusting?
To the point of nausea?
Looking at my friend who couldn’t stop gagging, I felt a little guilty. I hurriedly approached my friend and patted him on the back affectionately.
“Hey hey, are you okay?”
“Wow, I’m going crazy because of my mother these days, why, why are you?”
As I patted him on the back and looked at his friend’s condition, it wasn’t usually serious.
His complexion was pale and bluish, and before he knew it, tears welled up around his eyes, perhaps because of the nausea.
At this point, I was worried that something really big would happen. Even so, men in this world are weaker than sunfish.
Of course, this is the standard for me and the girls.
“Be patient. I’ll call the security guards.”
“Mi, are you crazy?!”
As I was about to get up to call the security guards, my friend urgently grabbed my hand and stopped me.
“At this point, ooh. If he sees a woman, he will vomit up his intestines!”
What kind of sea cucumber are you? Vomit up to the intestines.
“That, is that enough?”
“So don’t do anything stupid, ugh.
Give me more pats on the back.”
I had no choice but to quietly pat him on the back until he calmed down.
After a while, my friend’s nausea finally stopped. He seemed to have calmed down, but his complexion was still pale, which made him worried.
“I’m sorry. Because I said something stupid.”
“Haa, that’s enough. So, don’t say such horrible things again.”
He readily accepted my apology.
He may be cold in his words and actions, but he’s a really sweet and kind guy when you get to know him.
Of course, it’s limited to men.
If you showed a little bit of this kindness to a woman, your popularity would have exploded by now. From my point of view, I felt that my friend’s appearance was a waste.
“hahahaha, thank you for forgiving me. After all, you are my best friend.”
“… Will be your only friend Who else would be friends with a geek like you?”
It hurts!
I never thought personal attacks would come in here.
No, but you also have only me as a friend, right?
It’s not common to have boys your age, but you and I have little interaction with the other boys at the shelter, right?
“Haa, that’s really the worst. I was not in a good condition because I was worried about visiting my family…. Do you really want to cancel today?”
“Huh? Are you okay? A family visit once a week?”
“… ….”
“I’m really, really sorry. It’s just because of me….”
I felt sincerely sorry that the time I spent with my family was ruined because of me.
When I sincerely apologized, my friend looked at me with an expression of disapproval.
“… I’m here to ask you, how do you casually accept family visits?”
Of course it’s good. Are you a family?
Besides, in this prison-like shelter, except for you, a friend, the only people you can interact with smoothly are your family, so it’s bound to be good.
But I can understand to some extent that my friends think of me as strange.
The boys here, including their friends, were reluctant if they didn’t want their families, because I’ve never seen them take care of them or be kind to them.
I feel it all over again, but it’s a world I can’t really get used to, no matter how many years I live.
“Um… Wouldn’t it be nice to be a family?”
“Even as a family! A woman is a woman!”
…… ?
Family is family, why are you picking on women there?
Could this child be the kind of person who thinks of his mother or sister as a woman? Isn’t it?
I don’t remember raising my friend to be an inbred, you bastard!
Of course, I didn’t raise it.
“Haa, you really are strange. How can you look at a woman and be okay?”
Well, of course.
Because I lived twice as long as my current life in common sense, which is completely opposite to common sense here.
But I couldn’t tell the truth.
No, I wouldn’t believe it in the first place.
So I shrugged my shoulders and playfully dismissed my friend’s words.
“Well? It must be because I ate something wrong when I was young.”
“… It certainly makes sense.”
My friend took it seriously with a very serious expression.
Just seeing a friend who sincerely accepts a silly joke made me laugh out loud.
“What is the truth? It can’t be.”
“It makes sense. I heard from other staff… You said you were breastfeeding the old way?”
“Hey! Shame on you when you talk about enemies!”
“Really?! I thought it was just the employees’ delusions and rumors, but was it true?!”
My friend looked at me with a look of astonishment, as if she couldn’t keep her eyes wide open.
Oh! So what!
It’s a baby, but it can suck on its mother’s breast!
I’m hungry, what can I do?
I also found out later that if she doesn’t breastfeed at first, she only feeds formula after that!
If you knew, I would have breastfed my mother in the first place!
…
……
………
Anyway!
How can a baby hold back his appetite in the first place!
It is not enough to cry as if you were like a mother’s chest, so you can see the seizure.
『Ding-dong~ Ding-dong~』
Then a familiar alarm sounded from the speaker on the wall.
Thanks to the sound of the alarm, my friend and I stopped our conversation and naturally moved our gaze toward the clock hanging on the wall.
Oops, has it already been this time?
I didn’t notice the time passing while I was talking passionately with my friend.
“Oops, has it already been like this?”
Three in the afternoon.
After checking the time, I started to get excited.
“Hee!”
But, on the contrary, her friend started to tremble all over her body as if she was frightened.
『Hello. The administrative office will inform you.”
A dry male voice sounded like a mechanical sound coming from the speaker.
『Today, I inform you that the time for family visits has arrived. Even if it is inconvenient, I sincerely hope that you visit the meeting room on the 1st floor and spend precious time with your family. We will guide you once again.”
“Ah, this is really the worst. Why is it now? I really hate it. No. I don’t want to go.”
My friend’s appearance was spectacle.
He clutched her head and trembled with a look of despair, as if the world had come to an end.
Feeling sorry for my friend, I patted him on the shoulder and said.
“It’s okay, it’s okay. Rest today
I’ll talk to the visiting supervisor. Because he is a good listener when it comes to what I have to say.”
“Gee, really?”
“Sure. Just believe in this brother.”
When I beat my chest and confidently asserted, my friend looked at me with bright eyes.
A friend’s passionate gaze as if looking at a savior. I was a bit burdened by that gaze, so I secretly avoided his gaze.
To be honest, half of it is my responsibility.
Since you ruined your friend’s mentality by talking nonsense, you should take responsibility for it.
“Well then, I’ll take care of you.”
“Yes, don’t worry. So get some rest.”
I got up after roughly tidying up the toys I was playing with.
“Hey, Jinhyo.”
“Huh? Why?”
As I was about to leave the door, I stopped at my friend’s call.
When I turned my head and looked at my friend, he was looking at me with a stern face.
“Do I really, really, really have to come back?”
“Poop. What are you saying?”
Hey, what do you mean you have to come back?
Am I a warrior going to defeat some demon king?
Or are you a soldier on the battlefield?
It’s too bad.
Whew, yes. I have to understand
Because if you’re in the men’s shoes, you need enough courage.
I walked out the door waving my hand and saying I’ll be back to reassure my worried friend.
As I entered the central hallway, I began to see men of various ages dressed in the same outfit as me.
But, unlike me, all of them frowned and made faces as if the situation was really terrible.
Some boy was crying, shedding tears like chicken droppings. Beside him, a boy who looked older than him was barely comforting him.
It was a bit pity to see that the boy who was comforting him was barely holding back his tears.
But aren’t you guys doing too much?
Hate meeting your family to the point of crying?
According to my common sense, this situation is
No, this world was just embarrassing.
It is not enough that men and women are reversed,
A world where even the s*x ratio is unbalanced.
It is a very absurd world.
“Come to think of it, did you say that the gender imbalance rate was further collapsed and a new number was updated?”
Was my self-talk quite loud? All the boys in the hallway were looking at me with startled expressions.
Ah, this is a mistake.
“Hey, hehehe! aaang!”
“Ooh, don’t cry, huh, huh, huhhh.”
The boy, who had barely stopped crying, started crying sadly again. And as if that cry became a catalyst, the other boys around her started crying too.
The hallway began to fill with the sad cries of boys.
hahahaha, what should I say about this?
A funeral hall with a sudden atmosphere?
I’m a little embarrassed.
However, it seemed that I was not the only one who was perplexed.
Because I could see the security guards watching us from afar.
It seems that they are not surprised at all.
How embarrassing he was, he forgot to hide himself and exposed himself.
But if the boys accidentally found the security guard, something bigger would happen.
“──!! aaa!!”
“Kyaaa!”
Ah, I really found it.
A boy who happened to spot the security guard sat down on her floor, screaming. Then the other boys started screaming in the same way and sat down on the floor one by one.
hahahaha, confused, confused.
Now I don’t even know.
I need to get out of here.
I tried to ignore the messy hallway, turned to the stairs, and sprinted down.
Security guard sisters! Sorry!