"Name?"
[Name?]
The instant Huai Shi opened his eyes, he saw a gigantic goose-like creature standing before him. Beside it floated an interface that looked like a holographic projection:
"Gender, age, occupation..."
[Su Lin: "Gender, age, occupation..."]
"Huai Shi."
"Male."
"Seventeen."
"Gigolo... no, Astronomical Society."
[Huai Shi, male, 17, gigolo... no, Astronomical Society]
The subtitles that had left him utterly baffled synced perfectly with the giant goose's voice and movements. Huai Shi had answered on reflex.
"Wait. What the hell?"
He lay in a bed in a room that resembled a bedroom, though it was filled with medical equipment. The giant goose beside him wore glasses on its beak and held a clipboard and pen, apparently recording his answers.
He quietly flipped through the Book of Fate within his soul, trying to understand what was going on. What he found nearly made him cough up a mouthful of blood.
Man, I've only been asleep for a few chapters, and we're already starting a whole new volume?
Noticing Huai Shi's expression, the goose-like creature studied him briefly, then said, "Mr. Huai Shi, you're finally awake. Your sex-change operation was a success."
"?"
[?]
His forehead, still numb from the lingering painkillers, practically produced a question mark of its own.
"Tomorrow News said that would help you relax. It does seem to have worked." The giant goose nodded, apparently pleased with the tip.
[Huai Shi: I think there's something seriously wrong with your penguin brain, Mr. Su Lin.]
"Holy shit."
This thing can read my thoughts too?!
"Ahem, slip of the tongue, Mr. Su Lin." Huai Shi hurried to be polite, trying to make up for his accidental honesty. "Technology these days is incredible. Your chat even generates subtitles from thoughts in real time, hahaha..."
"But I haven't been made into some