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Momoe Sawaki never needed a boy in her life to be happy, however, she’d be lying if she were to say she didn’t want one. For years, Momoe had girls swooning over her, mistaking her for a guy. She didn’t hate it per-say but for once, Momoe just wanted someone to swoon over her femininity rather than her masculinity. There was one person who liked Momoe’s femininity, Haruka, but it didn’t exactly work out. Haruka was far too pushy for Momoe’s liking. That day in the infirmary still haunts Momoe every day.
However, that doesn’t stop Momoe from fighting for Haruka’s revival.
Momoe has opened dozens of wonder eggs to revive Haruka, risking her health and life each time, each egg has a different girl in it from the next, they all have one thing in common though; all of Momoe’s girls have similar trauma to her.
There was one girl who was different though, a ‘girl’ who was in fact not a girl at all! One of Momoe’s egg ‘girls’ happened to be a trans boy, Kaoru Kurita. They both got on well with each other, relating to each other in different ways. Momoe always wanted to be seen as a real girls, Kaoru always wanted to be seen as a real boy. They were the perfect balance for each other. They quickly fell in love and even shared a kiss. But, all good things came to an end when it was Kaoru’s time to go. Within a second he disappeared into thin air, just like all the other egg people do. But no other egg person disappearance had ever hurt Momoe quite like this one. She cared about all the other egg people of course but she had never developed feelings for any of them.
Now, Momoe is sitting in her room, pressing lashes onto her eyes, placing bows into her hair, applying makeup to her face, all to calm herself, all to get over the only boy who’s ever been able to love her for her. She decides to phone the other girls to get their opinion, to ask if she’s the odd one out for grieving one of the egg kids.
All three girls: Rika, Ai and even Neiru answer almost instantly.
“Hey guys!” Ai smiles, it almost instantly cheers up Momoe.
“Heyyy!” Rika cheers.
A small upwards bend even appears on Neiru’s mouth. “Good evening!”
“Hey guys!” Momoe forces a smile. “Bit out of no where but can I ask you all something?”
The girls all nod and Momoe’s stomach begins to twist. How on earth is she going to explain this without sounding like a freak?
“Have any of yous ever like- grieved one of the egg people?”
The girls all go silent I’m thought.
“Not really?” Rika shrugged.
“Can’t say I have either.”
“I’ve grieved Kotobuki but I don’t assume that’s what you mean is it?”
A sigh escaped Momoe’s lips. “Guess I’m just the freak then.”
“Well hold on!” Rika yelled. “What do you mean? Did you like grow an attachment to one of the egg girls or something?”
Momoe shook her head and smirked. “Not exactly. See, I found a boy who genuinely liked me for me, he genuinely seen me as a girl. The only issue is, he was merely an egg boy and vanished into thin air.”
All the girls raise eyebrows and their faces contort into confusing.
“A boy?!” Ai cheers.
“I thought only chicks were in the eggs?” Rika states.
“It should be only girls?” Neiru agrees.
“Biological girls.” Momoe corrects. “The eggs only contain biological girls. Which Kaoru -the boy who liked me- technically was, but inside, he’s a boy!”
The girls go from confused to accepting.
“Oh! Despite having female chromosomes and biology, he identified more with the social standards of men?”
Momoe nods. “Exactly.”
“Ohh I’ve heard of that! Being transgender, right?” Rika asked.
Transgender. A word Momoe was all too familiar with. Maybe she could use this as an opportunity to tell the others about her true identity-
“Yeah.” She gave a weak smile. “He was transgender and I miss him and I don’t know what to do-“
Right then and there, Momoe broke down into tears. She had never missed anybody more.