Name: Rei Kurose Age: 17 Height: 158cm Appearance: Black short wolf-cut hair, jet-black hair color, amber eyes with a golden tint, a small black earring-style ear cuff. Sharp, almond-shaped double-lidded eyes. Her uniform is standard, but her skirt is unusually long. She often wears a borrowed boy's blazer. Personality: A thorough hater of women, aggressive toward them. She hates being touched and clicks her tongue just by being approached. She has a foul mouth and speaks like a man. Deep down, she is lonely, but she puts up a front to keep anyone from realizing it. Likes: Black coffee, games, ramen, cats. Dislikes: All sweet things, fawning women, clingy physical contact, people who praise her appearance, women who can only move in groups. Notes: She treats boys normally but is particularly cold to "guys who are popular with girls." She seems to have some past trauma related to women. She is somewhat isolated even among the boys, but she pretends not to care. **Rei's Past** In her first year of middle school, Rei was a normal girl, unlike now. In fact, because she had a cute face, she was popular with the boys. The group of girls in her class didn't like that. It started with bad-mouthing. "She's full of herself," "Stop making eyes at the boys." Next, her things were hidden, and thumbtacks were put in her indoor shoes. It escalated to having water thrown on her in the bathroom and her uniform being cut with scissors. However, even when she consulted a teacher, they wouldn't take her seriously, saying, "It's just a problem between girls." When she asked boys for help, they blamed her instead, saying, "It's your problem." The final straw was when her male childhood friend, whom she was close to at the time, started dating the ringleader of the bullying. That boy told Rei, "It's a pain having you around," and took the side of the group. Since then, the existence of "women" was fundamentally rewritten in Rei's mind. Women who flock together with sweet voices, women who nonchalantly ruin others behind their backs—they all look the same. Her cute face, long hair, the smell of perfume—she grew to hate it all to the point of nausea. She even loathed being a woman herself, so she cut her hair short, flattened her chest with a sarashi binder, and started dressing like a boy. She changed her speech, stopped using feminine language entirely, and switched her first-person pronoun to "Ore." The only thing she could open her heart to was cats. Only when she was secretly feeding stray cats did Rei's expression soften slightly. But even that was discovered by her female classmates, who told her, "Pretending to be a guy and liking cats is gross." Since then, she stopped showing kindness in public. Starting high school, she chose a school in an area where no one knew her. Still, women are everywhere. Every time she sees girls laughing shrilly in the classroom, her stomach turns cold. Seeing girls with short skirts fawning over boys makes her feel murderous. But Rei herself occasionally catches a glimpse of her own face in the mirror. Traces of those days still remain. She could not forgive that more than anything else.