Suzuki Ichigo.


　He (...) was born to some really strange parents.

　His father didn't want to admit that Ichigo was his, and disappeared the same day he was born.
　The mother stubbornly insisted that the baby was her daughter and named her "Ichigo". But his cock was firmly attached to her.

　From then on, Ichigo was raised as a girl by her mother.

　Her birthday is April 1st. All her relatives said she was a "fake child".




　When she enters elementary school, Ichigo's situation changes.

　Bullying.

　That's just as it should be, with a girl's name, girl's clothes and a cute face, but her gender is male. But her gender is male. The six-year-olds around her looked at her in awe. They avoided it. They made fun of it. They treated it like germs.

"Why is this happening to us?

　Six-year-old Ichigo couldn't understand why he was being bullied, why he was dressed as a girl, or why he only had his mother.

　She was bullied day after day, and she didn't understand why she was being bullied, but she continued to endure it.
　Nevertheless, Ichigo continued to dress up as a girl, and someday her classmates stopped talking to her.

'Try to stay away from that girl as much as possible,' they said. There was advice for children in each family.

　It was natural. There is something wrong with Suzuki Ichigo's mother (・・・・). As the mothers interacted with each other, people around them began to notice the madness of the mother, who never doubted that she believed Ichigo was a girl.

　Thus, Ichigo was left alone.

　She continued to dress as a girl, as usual.




　Sixth grade. Ichigo's second turning point comes.

　She had to take a junior high school entrance exam.

　Ichigo decided to enter a public junior high school in the Kanto area to get away from her hometown.


　The entrance ceremony. He gets a culture shock.
　His classmates with shiny blond hair and no eyebrows, the school uniforms that are arranged so differently that it's hard to believe they are the same, the masks, the extensions, the false eyelashes, the metal bats, and so on.

　It was a den of delinquents.


We won't stand out here either!

　At the time, Ichigo was finally becoming aware of the fact that she was dressed as a woman. She enrolls in the school with a positive outlook, thinking that she would be able to do well in this school.


　However, it was not so easy.

　His uniform was, of course, the girls' uniform. And he looks and sounds like a perfectly lovely schoolgirl. At first, his classmates only recognized Ichigo as a girl.

　One day, an incident occurs. Ichigo charges head-on into the boys' lavatory.

　She says to the stunned boys, "I'm a guy, aren't I?

"We're men, aren't we?

　The boys, who were in the midst of puberty, didn't know how to treat Ichigo at once.
　Girls, on the other hand, didn't know how to treat Ichigo, who wasn't really a woman at heart.


　Result.
　Ichigo floated around like a champ.

　The delinquents solidified with the delinquents, the yang-caughters with the yang-caughters, and the yin-caughters with the yin-caughters, as the group became more and more solidified. It's a good thing that cross-dressers are able to stick together as cross-dressers, but unfortunately, Ichigo was the only cross-dresser in this middle school.

'Alone again ......'


　There was no point in being depressed, so Ichigo decided to concentrate on his studies.

　However, the classroom is as noisy as a zoo and it's very hard to concentrate. There's nothing fun about being in a classroom. She doesn't have any friends in her grade.
　Therefore, Ichigo runs away to the infirmary for refuge. The infirmary has become a refuge for students who are bullied.

　Thus, from the beginning of her first year of school, Ichigo goes to the nurse's office.



　It's been three days since she started going to the school nurse's office. The biggest turning point in Ichigo's life comes in the morning, when he goes to the nurse's office as usual.

　In the morning, as she was studying at her desk at the back of the nurse's office as usual, a noisy man came in, slamming his head in the door.

My stomach hurts. Oh my God, my stomach hurts. Oh my God, my stomach hurts!
Sato-kun, again?
No, I'm a pretty serious person today. I'm going to need a bed.
It's been five times already.
Isn't it better that he's at school?
.......

　A man in good shape and a school nurse being pushed around.

　It was a quiet place, but suddenly it was buzzing with activity and Ichigo was in a bad mood.

　A man who would have been lying in bed with an obvious temporary illness. Ichigo wanted to see the guy's face, wondering how thick-skinned he was.

　When the man had fallen asleep, he quietly flipped up the curtains.
　The scene Ichigo saw there was beyond his expectations.

''What the hell is this guy ......?''

　He was lying down with his VR headgear on and playing a game.

　What the hell is he doing at school? Ichigo inwardly chided him.


　It's been 3 hours. For the next three hours, Ichigo was so distracted by the man that he couldn't concentrate on his studies.

　It's past noon. When the last chime of the third hour rang, Ichigo closed his notebook and textbook for a lunch break and spread his lunch box on the table.

'Sato-kun, Sato-kun!　Lunch!　Sato-kun!　Get up!　Sato!
"...... uh?　Ah, you're Yoshida-sensei, huh? I thought you were a beautiful female college student.
That won't work anymore. Get up. Can we have lunch?　See?

　Yoshida-sensei, it's hard work. ...... While thinking about this, Ichigo eats her mother's homemade lunchbox.

　Then the man called Sato got off the bed and sat down with a thud on the seat opposite the table Ichigo was sitting at.

'...... eh ......'

　Ichigo, who has lived her life without interacting with strangers at all, stiffens at the sudden proximity.
　But Sato doesn't even bother to bail or make eye contact with her. His mind seemed to be filled with the game 99% of the time.

　Sato rustled and took out a jelly drink with the words "Energy Replenishment Max!" from his uniform pocket and poured it down the back of his throat while squeezing it.

　Apparently that was Sato's meal, Ichigo predicted, glancing over to observe.

　Then, after finishing his lunch in less than 10 seconds, Sato lies down on the bed, stealing a glance at Yoshida-sensei again.

　I'm sure they'll play the game again, he thought. As Ichigo had predicted, the next time Sato woke up was around the time the dismissal chime rang.


　...... This odd behavior of Sato continued in front of Ichigo's eyes for a month or two.

　Why is he so passionate about the game? I'm sure you'll be able to find out. For some reason, she couldn't help but wonder why she was so curious about Sato.


　Then, one day.

"What game are you playing, sempai?

　Strawberry was brave enough to ask.

'Oh?　Mövius Online, though.
Is it any good?
Yeah, it'll be great.


　These were the only conversations they were able to have after Sato's ten-second post-lunch time moment.

　Ichigo had been surreptitiously observing Sato's habits for more than two months, so he had seen that this was the only time to have a conversation. Otherwise, Sato had realized that he would be ignored if he wasn't good at it, as he prioritized the game over one or two other things.


　Sato Shichiro, the funny sempai, two years older and a third year. The game he plays is Mövius Online.

　A big page was added to Ichigo's Sato observation diary.

　For better or worse, this was Ichigo's fate.




　A year has passed since she entered the school. One year had passed since she entered the school, and Ichigo became a sophomore and Sato graduated.

　At the start of the new school year, Ichigo felt an indescribable sense of loneliness.

　When the new school year began, Ichigo was struck with an unearned loneliness, for Sato did not come to the infirmary. Although she had only spoken to him once, Ichigo had been watching him whenever she had time, so her sense of loss was greater than she had expected. The school nurse, Yoshida-sensei, also looked somewhat sad as she went about her work.

　At this point, Ichigo's resolve was hardened.

Let's try Mövius Online," she said.

　...... If the meeting with Sato was the biggest turning point, this decision was the second biggest. Why is that?


　-- Suzuki Ichigo, addicted to Mövius Online.


　No matter if you are a man or a woman, no matter how you dress, no one will say anything, no one will be creeped out, no one will avoid you. An ideal space where you can be who you want to be - a virtual world.

　Ichigo became a sleek, masculine, vexing, sweaty, dandy male heavily-armored knight in the world of Mevion day and night, perhaps in reaction to what he had been doing.

　In pursuit of Sato's shadow--.




　Three years have passed since he entered the school. Suzuki Ichigo graduated from middle school and entered the nearby public high school.
　With his scholastic ability, he could have gone to a higher level, even a top-notch school, but he wanted to go to a lowly public high school, similar to the one he attended in junior high school.

　The reason is simple. The school that Shichiro Sato had been admitted to (...) had been investigated.

　It is around this time that Ichigo's stalker temperament begins to show its mettle.

　Why is she chasing after Sato to such a degree? He didn't know why he was chasing after Sato so much, but he couldn't help but be curious about him.

　As a result, Ichigo entered high school as Sato's junior.
　However, as soon as she enters the school, Ichigo realizes her own failure.

　To begin with, Sato didn't go to school at all.

　Unlike junior high school, high school is not compulsory education. Going to school in the nurse's office, much less playing games in the nurse's bed, was not an acceptable thing to do.

　Therefore, Ichigo automatically stopped attending school.

　However, he was unusually good at getting to the point. He had calculated the number of days he needed to attend school beforehand and made adjustments to ensure the minimum attendance so that he could graduate just in time. It was a planned truancy that was calculated to allow him to miss the maximum amount of school.

　Then he poured all available time into Mevion.

　He had found Shichiro Sato. Shichiro Sato. Yes, the character "SEVEN", who was already the number one character in the world at the time.




　High school graduation. Ichigo studies for exams with Mevion on the side, and passes Toto University's second class of science examinations.

　Upon entering college, she left home and moved into a room next to the apartment where Shichiro Sato lived.

　Naturally, she never taught Sato Shichiro, never intended to teach him, and never even intended to meet him. It was for stalking, or rather, secretly observing him.

　After that, Ichigo concentrated on day trading for about three months to earn money for living expenses and school fees. He deposits an amount of money that won't trouble him for the next fifty years or so, and creates an environment where he can devote his time to Mevion and Shichiro Sato without worrying about it.


　At this time, Ichigo was starting to get back on track.

　Finally, it became one of Mevion's top 1,000 world rankings. His name is "Raspberry Issei". Raspberry is a French word meaning "tree strawberry".

　Ichigo, as the first raspberry, lived the world of Mevion like a man, adored by everyone as a reliable male knight. He did a number of manly things he hadn't been able to do before. His voice was set to a stern, dandy atmosphere, and his tone of voice was designed to be a silent, awkward, masculine man.

　Beside that, he continued to secretly observe SEVEN. Both in Mevion and in reality. After all, he couldn't help but be curious. He had to look at SEVEN at least once every day to feel comfortable, and he had to look at Sato at least once a week to feel comfortable. Ichigo was definitely a stalker.


　Then one day.
　There was a time when a university lecture was running long and the timing of my login was off by about 15 minutes than usual.

　...... Coincidence or inevitability? The place where I logged in, the SEVEN was right in front of Ichigo.

　Until now, Ichigo has been enjoying his observations, which have become his purpose in life, by stalking his friends and family and adjusting his time frequently to avoid running into the Seven. However, a mere 15-minute gap in time led to my encounter with Seven.

　Ichigo has been playing Mevion for a long time, but this is the first time she's met Seven, or in other words, Shichiro Sato, in the game. Naturally, Sato doesn't know that "Framboise Issei" is a junior transvestite he's only spoken to once in middle school. He wouldn't know the name Suzuki Ichigo, nor would he know that she was a transvestite in the first place, nor would he remember her face.

　Ichigo froze for a while, too much of a happening.

　Then, unfortunately, SEVEN people spoke to her.


''Huh?　Hey, didn't you swing a big sword in the Battle of Issenzza the other day?


　That was correct.
　Ichigo had seen one potential in the big sword, which was said to be a disadvantage in PvP, and he preferred to use it.

　And ...... it was nothing less than thrilling for Ichigo that Seven remembered that it was him.


　Surprise after surprise. Hence, I was unexpectedly - extremely impressed.


'Se-Yan!　Senpai, did you see that?　I'm so happy!　............ oh.


　In a moment, Ichigo forgot that she herself was the first generation of Framboise.

　If only Suzuki Ichigo, who looked like a girl, in her cross-dressing state, would speak in that tone of voice, that would be fine.
　In the state of a Tsurupage man, she spoke in a woman's language.
　It's also the first time they've met, calling them sempai.


　...... creeped me out. They avoid me. They make fun of me. I was treated like a germ. To Senpai, of all people.

　Strawberry's blood is going to be drained.


　But the words that came out of SEVEN were, as usual, diagonally different from what I expected.



''Alright, let's go to the dungeon together then.


　Ichigo didn't understand what was "good" and what was "then" and why it was "shall we go to the dungeon together".


　Just ...... unexpectedly, one thing I understood deep down.


　Despite being a man, Suzuki Ichigo was raised as a woman, yearning for masculinity, but never missing out on cross-dressing, and lived contradictorily like that.

　But.




　...... But, man or woman, it doesn't matter.

　I love this person, whether he or she is a man or a woman .......