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If you were to ask Shuichi for his honest thought on this new live of his... Well, he wasn't the biggest fan. Was it the worst thing? Heavens no, it was certainly much better than having to navigate the cruelties that was the killing game he went through. On the other hand, being thrown into yet another unfamiliar world wasn't the most easy to adjust to, especially when it seemed it had a rather... Infantile twist to it.
A simple world, but a world with rules nonetheless. Those to come him must be ranked into one of three places; the lowest being the most free, yet unreliable and the highest being the more reliable, yet independent one with the middle being, well, the in between of the two. This was not out demeaning those, but to help them coming from their past lives to understand themselves better, a chance to be their truest selves.
Now, Shuichi would be all for this... If not for his luck landing him in the little rank, meaning he had to essentially be a baby for someone else to care for. Really? Surely the middle rank would be better fit given his drive to help others around him, must he really not be able to do much? To jumble things up even further, there was another change that surprised Shuichi upon waking up... A more physical one, at all.
The detective was no stranger to questioning his gender. Ever since he was young, he found himself more comfortable with femininity, feeling the desire to dress and look pretty grow more and more as he did. With his life, though, it was difficult to find the time and confidence to take that step forward, and the killing game was the final nail in the coffin to just bottle it up and forget about it as a whole... Well, with all of that behind Shuichi, it seemed there was no need to keep ignoring it anymore.
Not that he could, really. It's not exactly easy to ignore the fact that your body has changed from something more male to now female, with his bluish-black hair closer down to his shoulders and, well, a more pronounced chest.
Thankfully, it seemed most of those around Shuichi were quite understanding of these changes, even some of them going through the same thing one way or another... He just wished that he had at least one person he used to know to help him through this, if not someone personally to come in and adopt him. Don't get him wrong, the Realization Center was nice, but it would also be nice if he could get out and see more... Well, at least the feeling of being in a closed/open space wasn't the most unfamiliar to him.
At the very least he could get to actually be outside for a while. With the line he stood in dispersing, playtime official began at the playground as Shuichi wandered off to a more distance corner of the fence. Sitting on one of the swings, he idly swayed back and forth, more focused on watching the city movement around the center instead of the other littles. Bustling, but oddly peaceful, enough to help him think about... Everything, without the creeping thoughts of both his babyish and transition pushing into his head.
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