Chapter 68 – There Is No Paradise Where You Run Away
Laysha wandered the streets alone.
There was no set destination.
I just walked devastatedly along a deserted alleyway.
“Heheuk..!”
Laysha, who was barefoot, stepped on a sharp piece of metal and fell.
“It hurts…”
Red blood flowed from the slightly torn soles.
Laysha, who wiped her wounds with tears in her eyes, stood up again and walked down the street.
As if possessed by something, I walked for a long time and arrived at the police station.
The police station was not the destination.
I was just walking towards the police station by chance.
The police station building, the only one that glowed in the dark, felt like the only existence that would save Laysha, who had despair.
But…
[The government is involved]
The words Rize said in the garden lingered in my head.
If she’s telling the truth, she won’t be able to get help from the police.
Rather, it might be dragged into the garden.
I couldn’t believe the words of Rize who betrayed me, but…
Even so, the suspicion that the government was involved could not be dispelled.
“Ha…”
Laysha turned around and went back the way she came.
Before I knew it, the night sky gradually brightened, and the scarlet dawn glow was beautifully colored.
As rush hour approached, I saw one or two people wandering the streets.
Laysha, who didn’t want to be seen by others, crouched next to the trash can in the alley.
Could there be a garden wizard hiding among them?
How many people will be kind enough to help a woman who is almost naked?
Is there anyone who will believe me if I tell the truth?
Laysha was terrified and trembled alone as she imagined this and that.
“Hungry…”
The body that returned to normal resumed physical activity.
A rumbling sound echoes in the stomach, which has not eaten all day.
Laysha, who grabbed her hungry stomach, shed tears with a sad heart.
“Huhhhhh…”
The world outside was so different from what I had imagined.
I don’t remember doing anything
Why is life so twisted..?
The reality was harsh.
There was no one I could trust, so I couldn’t ask for help.
“I’ll just be in the garden…”
If I had known in advance that Rize would betray me…
Instead of killing Roosevelt in the bedroom, he would have chosen the option of abandoning Rize.
“Haaaaa…”
Even if I regret the past now, I can’t turn back time.
“No… Rize is not at fault… It’s my fault anyway.”
Even though he was betrayed in the wrong way, he couldn’t just blame Rize.
It was Laysha’s own will that chose to run away
It was Laysha’s own will that killed Roosevelt
It was Laysha’s will to come this far
I wondered if it was too conscienceless to blame all of this on others.
“To the garden… I want to go back…”
Why do I keep thinking of gardens?
On the topic of breaking the nest by yourself.
Laysha repeated the foolish thing to regret her past.
There is a legend that a frog that has been living in a well for a long time accidentally goes out to look around and returns to the well after witnessing a reality that is completely different from the world he longed for.
Laysha was in exactly that position.
“No. No no…”
Facing her reality, Leysha clenched her fists and stood up.
As long as you live, you will see hope someday.
What would it be like to be homeless without a single penny?
It was new blood compared to the harsh torture he suffered in the garden.
After she escaped, Leysha, determined to survive like a tenacity, rummaged through her trash that was trampled under her feet.
It was useless trash to her others, but now she was full of things that couldn’t be better.
An empty soju bottle could be used as a water bottle, and a piece of torn cloth could be used as a bandage or toilet paper substitute.
Disposable work gloves, used ballpoint pens, aluminum can trash, bent iron pipes, etc…
Leysha picked out her mediocre junk and piled them in one place.
“Should I sleep here tonight?”
The weather was hot, so she wouldn’t freeze to death, but she had to cover herself with something to avoid catching a cold.
It reminded me of how homeless people usually used newspaper as a blanket.
The moment she thought she had to find the newspaper, Laysha accidentally found the newspaper piled up next to her trash can.
Clean newspapers are piled up as if they had just been thrown away.
“Was it originally…?”
Thinking that she might have overlooked it, Laysha spread out a piece of newspaper and made a nest for her.
After creating a comfortable space for one person to lie down, she piled trash around it to make a windbreak.
Laysha smiled and laid her down.
It doesn’t feel fluffy… But maybe it’s much better than bare ground?
She made a quilt out of the rest of the newspaper and reached over to cover it.
I open the newspaper and try to cover her body…
“What?”
Laysha’s expression hardened when she accidentally saw the front page of the newspaper.
[The seriousness of the low birth rate society! A sharp decline in the number of newborns. Is the TS system a failed plan?]
“This… What the hell…?”
The representative article reported on the front page of the newspaper was an article about the TS system.
I don’t know what it is.
Leysha suddenly felt a strange sensation run down her spine.
When she read this newspaper, she somehow knew something about the reality she was in.
Raising her body, she read her newspaper from her seated position.
– In a society with an ever-increasing low birth rate, the number of births last year was around 3,000.
– The male to female ratio of 100:0 reached 0% for the first time in the world due to the virus!
– Raising serious social problems in the future…
– Implementation of the TS system to alleviate the polarization of gender balance
[What is the TS system?]
– A surgical system that changes XY chromosomes to XX chromosomes with advanced technology. In other words, it is a system to change the male body into a female to adjust the gender balance.
– No side effects at all. The safety of the drug to be consumed after surgery has been verified through several bioequivalence tests.
– TS surgery has a completely different meaning from sex reassignment surgery. To become a woman who is physically and mentally perfect. Pregnancy is also possible.
– If you voluntarily perform TS surgery, you can receive various other national benefits such as full support for surgery expenses / living expenses / various medical benefits and guarantees for old age.
– So far, about 200,000 TS patients are living in Korea.
“What the hell is this..?”
The hand holding the newspaper trembled.
The information that I couldn’t believe even when I saw it with my own eyes made my mind dizzy.
“No… That’s nonsense…”
Laysha came to the conclusion that she had become a test subject forcibly subjected to the TS system.
“It’s not… I can’t…”
Why?
How?
Leaving behind the unanswered question, Laysha opened the back page of the newspaper.
[About FE virus (Female END)]
– Due to the FE virus that appeared like a comet a decade ago, the death rate of women increased rapidly and the birth rate of female children rapidly decreased. FE virus genetically responds only to women, and thoroughly destroys the immune system, causing rapid aging and deterioration of the condition. To date, there is no cure, and patients infected with the virus have a fatal fatality rate to the extent that they will die unconditionally within a day at the earliest or within a month at the latest. In addition, it had the highest contagiousness among viruses, and it was confirmed that 99.8% of the virus was infected when it came into contact with a woman infected with the FE virus. Up to now, the number of living women (living in confinement facilities for the preservation of mankind) is less than 100 in Korea, and humanity has suffered an unprecedented world apocalypse.
[FE virus, is it okay?]
– To begin with, humanity is gradually regressing into the past. The end of mankind is imminent. Research on the FE virus is still ongoing, but there is no clearly disclosed information yet. An urban legend is spreading in the world that it is an unknown virus spread from outer space to destroy mankind. Do you know Is it really the work of aliens…
[Abandonment of development of FE virus and alternative measures]
– Researchers who failed to develop an immune system against the virus temporarily suspended the development of a treatment for the FE virus. Instead, it introduced a new system for fundamental population growth policies. It is the TS system that turns men into women. Using highly developed scientific technology, it is possible to transform a male body into a female one in just one day. Now that women’s human rights are being emphasized, the TS system cannot but be a groundbreaking technology that will create a new world. Will humanity be able to overcome the FE virus..?
[Statement of the TS system]
– The current result of the national vote on the TS system is 50.8 : 49.2, and even after several years, public awareness is still remarkably low. Protests against the TS system are expected to continue until a solution to the social problems caused by the rejection of women who were male and the decrease in marriage and birth rates due to gender imbalance is presented. On the other hand, according to the words of CEO Albert, who runs the garden facility…
“Uh..?”
Laysha, who was vaguely reading the newspaper, opened her rabbit eyes and was surprised.
‘TS Altar Chairman Albert’
A photo of Albert in a stylish suit giving a passionate speech about the TS system was posted in the newspaper.
