episode_0002

After finishing the meal, I returned to the subject’s room.

The white-haired girl reacted when she saw me.

The lost gaze that was always looking into the distance was directed at me.

That one subtle difference was changing the perception I had of the girl.

I picked up the microphone and tried to speak, but there was no answer.

I don’t feel any regret.

It just became a little uncomfortable to be in this room.

The girl watches my every move.

Just like me.

It looks at me all day long through a transparent glass wall.

If I spend time blankly, I won’t be able to tell whether I’m watching her or she’s watching me.

When the alarm sounded to signal that it was time to leave work, I packed my bags and got up from my chair.

Her gaze was still directed at me.

“Hello.”

The girl showed no reaction to the light greeting.

As I was looking at the girl, I turned off the microphone and left the room.

The shortened legs were quite uncomfortable.

Because the hallway seemed to have doubled in size.

In fact, I was a little disoriented and wandered around looking for Dr. Heblum’s laboratory.

“Was there anything special?”

Hebrew was sitting on a chair, eating a sandwich.

I approached him and handed him the folder I was holding.

“There was nothing special.”

“I see.”

Hebrum glanced over the documents I had handed him, threw them on the corner of his desk, and returned to focusing on his sandwich.

“I’ll go.”

I said goodbye to him and left the lab.

I walked for a while to avoid the busy employees running around.

Arriving at the staff quarters, I checked the number on my card and headed to my room.

Large enough for an adult male to live alone.

There was also a television and a computer.

In this case, it wasn’t a big inconvenience even if I couldn’t go home.

Since I couldn’t contact my friends by cell phone, I had to turn to Internet messengers.

There wasn’t really any luggage.

The clothes I had worn when I had my original body were no longer wearable, so I put them away in a separate storage locker and changed into the clothes and underwear that Dr. Hebrum had given me.

The girl’s body didn’t really give me any particular excitement.

I look at myself in the large mirror hanging on the bathroom wall.

The girl with long white hair was wearing a lab coat and had a grumpy expression on her face.

I lightly touched the employee card hanging around my neck and headed to the restaurant.

People’s eyes are gathered.

It seems strange to be walking around the lab in the form of a girl.

If it weren’t for the clothes he was wearing and the employee card hanging around his neck, he would have been immediately subdued and dragged into the lab.

I ordered my food while looking at the guards who flinched every time I showed up.

The shortened height was extremely uncomfortable.

I didn’t notice it earlier because Ramonax pressed the order button for me, but the touchscreen was quite tall.

It seemed like I had to jump to press the order confirmation button.

Jump up with your feet up and your hands raised.

The white hair flutters with a feeling of excitement.

The feeling of tickling my cheek is unfamiliar.

The outstretched hand failed to press the order confirmation button.

It was a little lacking.

“Haa… !”

With a deep sigh and a frown, he jumps up again.

The hand that was stretched out with great effort using short legs receives elasticity once again and rises high.

widely-!

It reached.

I jumped up with all my might and slammed my face into the touchscreen, but my hand managed to press the order confirmation button.

I pick up the receipt and the square pad that is printed underneath and head to my seat.

“Can I order by myself?”

As I sat down on the chair and fiddled with the pad, I heard a voice next to me.

“Ramonax?”

He was sitting right next to me when I approached him.

“Want some candy?”

“Uh… Thank you?”

Ramonax took a small candy out of his pocket and held it out.

I took the candy, my expression blank at his playful smile.

The pork cutlet set I ordered was going to arrive soon, so I was thinking of eating some candy after I finished my meal.

“Wow. This feels really weird.”

Tub-

Ramonax’s large hand is placed on his head.

I raised my hand with a heavy feeling and slapped the guy’s hand away, and he immediately apologized.

“Oh, I’m sorry. I just have that feeling for some reason… Do you know what I mean? ”

I nodded, rubbing my head with a displeased expression.

I could understand what he was saying.

He eats next to the girl he is in charge of as a test subject, looking exactly like her.

I knew he was a different person, but habits aren’t something that can be easily changed.

“You were touching that test subject’s head too?”

I asked Ramonax, straightening his rustling hair. He blinked his big eyes and became lost in thought.

“Um… .”

“Why can’t you answer?”

“Probably not?”

“Then why did you touch my head?”

“Uh… .”

He seemed to think for a moment, then placed his hand on my head again.

A heavy weight makes my head shake.

“Hey!”

“No, what should I say? It’s so cute that I don’t know.”

I slapped his hand away hard with a playful laugh.

Rather, it was my hand that was hurting, but somehow I was able to get his hand away from my head.

“It feels new to see someone who always seemed to have everything in the world in a young body.”

“You were thinking of me like that.”

“Would you like some more candy?”

I snatched the candy from his hand as he offered it to me with an awkward smile.

While I was talking to Ramonax, a tonkatsu set meal was delivered in front of me.

“Has your taste changed?”

“I think so.”

I stabbed my fork into the finely chopped pork cutlet.

The crispy, falling batter told me of the happiness that was to come.

As I stuff my mouth full of pork cutlet with a large fork, the hot heat spreads out.

“Are you staying in the staff dormitory starting today?”

“Yeah.”

“Can I come visit you in the evening?”

I looked up at the guy, munching on the pork cutlet that filled my mouth.

His expression crumpled at the unfamiliar feeling that was a little different from usual.

“Why are you so clammy?”

“Me?”

“Yeah.”

“I felt like that?”

“It wasn’t like that before. I think it is now.”

“That’s too bad. I just wanted to get closer to you.”

“The guy who used to be shy is now good at talking.”

I stuffed the remaining pork cutlet into my mouth, picked up my plate, and got up from my seat.

“Is that your taste?”

“Huh?”

Ramonax’s voice grows louder as if it was a rather sudden question.

I looked at his bewildered expression, smiled playfully, and walked away quickly.

The bouncy steps are light.

I feel a surge of joy at the thought of having hit a home run.

I threw my empty plate into the dishwasher and quickly left the restaurant.

I reached into my pocket, feeling the candy shuffling around, and took out one of the two.

A wrapper with a picture of a lemon on it and a long white stick extending from the bottom.

The candy, which looked so small when seen in its original form, appears quite large.

Take off the packaging and put it in your mouth.

A refreshing scent spreads throughout the room.

The tongue, which had become sensitive, trembled at the taste of the candy, which was stronger than expected.

sour.

It’s too cold.

The body that was trembling with the waves of saliva that seemed like they would overflow in an instant collapses in the seat.

“This kid… .”

What Ramonax handed me was no ordinary candy.

I wiped away the tears that were streaming down my face and looked at the entrance to the restaurant.

But I didn’t throw away the candy.

This is because the subtle sweetness that follows the sourness soothes the mind and body.

When I returned to my room, I took off the robe I was wearing and threw it on the chair and sat down in front of the computer.

I bit into the candy hard, even though the chair was raised to its maximum height, which was still uncomfortable.

A crunching sound and candy pieces scattering in the mouth.

“Ugh… !”

My salivary glands exploded again at the sour bomb that came again.

The sour taste that filled my mouth made me throw the candy in my pocket into the trash can.

The lid of the trash can that swallowed the candy rattles loudly, perhaps because it was empty.

dripping-

As I was debating whether or not to spit out the candy that had filled my mouth, I heard a knock on the door, so I got down from my chair and headed toward the door.

“Who are you?”

It was the moment when I reached out, opened the closed door, and asked.

A large hand suddenly sneaks in through the slightly open door.

As I stepped back in surprise at the sudden entry, the closed door opened wide and Ramonax was revealed.

“Ta-da~”

Ramonax was carrying a bag full of snacks like cookies and candies.

“How did you find me?”

“Huh?”

“I don’t think I ever told you which room I was using?”

“Of course I asked Dr. Heblum.”

I’m annoyed by Ramonax’s confident attitude.

I leaned against the wall, crossed my arms, and glared at him. He smiled awkwardly and said:

“Can I come in? This is quite heavy.”

I don’t know what he was thinking, but he was the only guy in this lab I could talk to comfortably.

Although his attitude was different from usual, I allowed him to enter since he wasn’t a bad guy.

“Come in.”

“Thank you!”

Ramonax quickly headed into the room.

Since the staff quarters were there, he naturally walked to the refrigerator and put the drink he had bought in it.

“Where should I put the cookies?”

“Just leave it anywhere. Your stomach is too small to eat it right now.”

It was quite annoying to see a guy bigger than me hanging around.

As I pass him by and sit down in front of the computer, Ramonax also pulls up a chair and sits down next to me.

“What is your purpose?”

I put my legs on the desk and said.

The white stick he was holding in his mouth was shaking up and down.

“What’s the purpose?”

“Did you get a special favor from Dr. Heblum?”

Ramonax’s gaze wanders to the side at my question.

“How did you know?”

“How could I not know? Your attitude is different than usual.”

Ramonax looked away with an awkward smile.

“So why is that?”

“It wasn’t anything particularly important. I just asked Jeff to make sure everything was okay.”

“Um… .”

I look away from Ramonax, who is mumbling an explanation.

I kind of knew it would be like that.

I stretched out my leg, turned on the computer, and absentmindedly moved the mouse.

The basic specs aren’t bad, so it’s clear that it’ll be able to run most of the games that come out these days.

I launched the messenger app on my desktop, entered my ID and password, and left a message to my friends informing them that I was going on a trip for a week.

“If Mr. Jeff suddenly said he was going on a trip, wouldn’t everyone think it was strange?”

“I’m not spying on other people’s messages.”

Come to think of it, Ramonax was right.

Since I was someone who didn’t usually like going out, a sudden trip seemed enough to arouse my friends’ suspicions.