>>1840267We look up. The sudden emergence out of the blue of this person didn’t let us notice at first. That is certainly the bug catcher outfit, but it might have misled us. The person standing right before us is taller than any small kid – about my size – has a slender figure and even though he/she looks at least fourteen, the voice is too high pitched to be male. Then there’s the fact that the hair is short like a boy’s and there is no breast to speak of. The face is not a clear indication of the gender; this bug catcher is awfully androgynous.
“Are you really a girl?” I find myself asking.
“How dare you? Of course I am! Here!” The bug catcher suddenly drops his/her shorts and we see a… yup; that would be absolute and undeniable proof that this bug catcher is a female. “Why do people always have a problem guessing what I am? Is it the shorts? The hair? Do you know what I was asked when they gave me my first Pokémon? They asked me ‘Are you a boy or a girl?’; the nerve!”
“Um… do you usually go around pulling your shorts down to show people you’re a girl?” Questions Aria. “Also, you can pull them up now.”
“I’m forced to do this more often than you’d think” she complain as she puts her clothes in their place. “Once I was chased around the public baths by a crazy lady with a broom like some sort of pervert. Then, there was this other time…”
a) Great, so there’s nothing to be ashamed of. Let’s just carry on to Gray City and leave this girl alone.
b) This is a struck of luck! I can bet my money against her clothes. Our sizes are similar enough!
c) She’s distracted! Strike first and strike fast. Take her stuff. Law of the Jungle, err… forest.
d) Write in.
