Hm?
Shi Tiexin subconsciously made a startled expression.
The beauty in the shop window made the same startled expression.
Shi Tiexin tilted his head left, then right.
The beauty tilted her head left, then right as well.
Shi Tiexin was astonished. "What the fuck... I logged into a female character?!"
Old Six watched the joke from the side and said with a grin, "Doesn't this feel like creating a shemale character in one of those ancient online games? Come to think of it, your mind arts are formidable. Your hypnosis is outstanding, and controlling women is as easy as turning your hand over. This shouldn't be anything worth making such a fuss over, should it?"
"Get lost. Don't make me sound like some kind of pervert. A man as full of martial virtue as me would never treat others like marionettes on strings—unless there was absolutely no other choice." Shi Tiexin looked at Old Six. "And do you know why I'm surprised? Because this brain clearly belonged to a man."
Old Six was surprised as well. "How do you know?"
Shi Tiexin said with certainty, "Are you looking down on my Biology skills? I can thoroughly analyze an enemy's immune recognition proteins in the blink of an eye. How could I get something like chromosomes wrong? This brain clearly belonged to a forty-eight-year-old grown man. So we weren't the ones logging into a shemale character. He was. We merely stole his account."
Old Six recalled something. "I remember now. In my world... I mean, this Virtual World, attitudes toward gender identity are very inclusive. Transitioning is convenient. As long as someone makes up their mind, anyone can undergo the modification, and they say there isn't even the slightest sense of incongruity afterward. I used to think it was an advance