Chapter 35 Section 1

Tetsura and Subai are in a coffee shop next to Shinjuku Sanchome Station.Immediately after meeting, the two left the coffee shop and walked a short distance east.Zhe Lang originally thought that he might be going to the Kabukicho area, so he was a little surprised. "It's not such a grand store. It's a more calm atmosphere. How should I put it, a so-called elegant store." Sugai said triumphantly. "Yaqi. By the way, why do you know that kind of shop?" "I've heard it said that a friend of mine is an important person there." "Is that friend a man?"

"yes." "Does he have a penchant for that?" "If he knew that someone said that about him, he would be furious." Xu Bei winked as he walked. "He's a friend from work. The guy is an insurance agent for a life insurance company, and the owner of that store is a regular client of his." "Insured?" "Yes. However, it is not correct to say that the old customers are. They should be regarded as helping each other." "What's the meaning?" When Zhe Lang asked, Xu Bei covered his mouth with his palm after looking around, and said to Zhe Lang in a low voice: "I'm going to be blunt, it is difficult for people who inject hormones regularly to buy life insurance. Because life insurance companies think that such people are easy cancer, even though there is no scientific basis for it."

"Haha." Zhe Lang has also heard this kind of talk, and he understands what Xu Bei wants to say. "However, such people are also more worried about their own health. In case of emergency, they will want to buy insurance in advance. Therefore, the agency company will try to cooperate with their requirements. Alas, this can also be regarded as helping others. Of course, this is also because The current downturn has made it hard to find a heart-insurer.” Zhe Lang thought to himself: Because of the downturn, it is the company's aspirations that it cannot find new policyholders, but he endured it and asked, "So the agency company will release water on the insurance eligibility?"

"To put it bluntly, it is to turn a blind eye and close one eye. Because you can tell whether you have been injected with hormones or not. But the problem is that the agency company seems to find many loopholes for them." Zhe Lang understood that it turned out that helping each other was the way to go.Being able to save so much trouble, presumably the life insurance company will also get some benefits. It was around six o'clock in the evening.As the end of the year draws to a close, people seeking to get drunk or thrilled begin to roam the streets. Subai stopped in front of a brown building with a staircase leading to the basement.

At the end of the stairs is a door with a sign that says "BLOO" placed in front of it.Xu Bei whispered that he wanted to pronounce "BLUE". Open the door and enter, there is a large L-shaped bar counter, and the cabinets are full of foreign wine.A young man was washing things in front of the cabinet. "He" looked at Zhe Lang and the others unexpectedly. "It's still in preparation." The other party's voice was hoarse and rough, with an unnatural feeling.Zhe Lang is used to Mei Yue's voice, and immediately understands that they are like-minded people.

"Well, I know. Miss Aikawa and I have an appointment to meet." Sugai handed out his business card. "He" was wearing a white shirt and a black tie, accepted his business card, and confirmed Xu Bei's identity. "His" hairstyle has been carefully arranged, and the eyes staring at the business card are sharper than a man's. "Please wait a moment." After speaking, "he" disappeared inside the bar. Zhe Lang looked around the store.The whole store is quite spacious with several large tables.Two young men were playing poker in the corner, one of them was wearing a grey-black shirt and his hair was cut very short; the other was wearing a leather jacket and dyed his mid-length hair blond.Zhe Lang could only see their profiles, both of them had regular facial features.The way they threw the cards on the table was exactly like a man.Zhe Lang imagined that many women should fall in love with them.

The "he" just came back. "Miss Aikawa, please wait in the lounge." "The lounge is..." "this way please." "He" led Zhe Lang and the others to a small room of more than two square meters.Along the wall are hangers for men's clothes.In the corrugated cardboard box under the hanger, there are a few pairs of shoes thrown there randomly. In the center of the room are simple tea tables and iron chairs.This is where the interviews for applicants should take place.The two sat side by side, Subella took out the ashtray on the coffee table, and took out Caster Mild's cigarette case from the inner pocket of the coat.

"No matter how you look at it, you are a man, right?" Xu Bei whispered.This sentence seems to refer to "he". "yes." "That kind of appearance should be favored by girls, right?" Sugai exhaled white smoke. "But I don't know how about that. I heard that there are very few people in this store who have had a complete operation. Sigh, even if they have an operation, they probably can't be like ordinary men." He seemed to be referring to sexual prowess. "Has that person named Aikawa ever had sex reassignment surgery?" Zhe Lang asked.Before he came here, he heard from Sugai that the owner of this store was named Aikawa Fuyuki.Of course, this should not be her real name.

"No, I heard she didn't do anything." "have done nothing?" "She just didn't do anything. I heard that she didn't even do hormone therapy." "Yes." Zhe Lang tilted his head with a puzzled expression, isn't he completely a woman in this way? When Sugai finished his second cigarette, the door suddenly opened.In came a man wearing a black double-breasted blazer. "I kept you waiting, I'm Aikawa." She took turns looking at the faces of Zhelang and Xugai.Although her voice was hoarse, it was indeed a woman's voice.However, there is a strength in the voice that ordinary men do not have.

"Sorry for interrupting you all of a sudden." Xu Bei got up and bowed his head.Zhe Lang followed suit. "How is Mr. Yamamoto?" Aikawa said and sat down opposite.Seeing her sit down, the two also took their seats again.Yamamoto seems to be Sugai's friend. "He's still the same, and he can't rest all day long. But the hemorrhoids seem to have improved a lot." Hearing Sugai's words, Aikawa's expression softened slightly.She glanced at Zhe Lang. She combed her slightly longer hair back, her eyes were slender, and the lines of her nose and jaw were clean and neat, as if they were artificial.What surprised Zhe Lang the most was that she actually put on makeup.Of course, that's not a woman's makeup.The makeup of the eyebrows and eyes seems to show the masculine side of the man, and it is instantly reminiscent of Takarazuka's male character.

Zhe Lang introduced himself, saying that what he was looking for was actually a woman. "Her name is Saeki Kari. Since we are here to find someone, it means she is certainly not an ordinary woman." He added. "Not a woman at heart?" "Exactly." Zhe Lang put the photo in front of Aikawa.It was the photo of Saeki Kari that the female administrator of the Shizuoka Church had placed on him a few days ago. Aikawa picked up the photo.Her fingers are slender, with feminine and soft lines.She seemed pampered and had long nails. "Just looking at this photo, it seems that her body has not undergone surgery." Aikawa said. "She looks like a man now. Unfortunately, I don't have a picture of her now." "Are you sure she works in Shinjuku?" "I'm not sure. Because she was in the Waseda area before, I thought maybe she would work in Shinjuku, so I asked him to discuss it." Zhe Lang turned his gaze to Xu Bei. Aikawa held the photo in one hand and rested his chin in the other.After a while, she shook her head. "I haven't seen her. If it's someone who works in Shinjuku, I know nine of them." "My appearance and that photo should have changed a lot." "No, even if the appearance changes, I can't hide it from my eyes. I can probably imagine this person's current appearance." Maybe his eyes are not good, Aikawa narrowed his eyes slightly, and looked at the photo again. "She should be the type of Nakadomoto Tsuyoshi in recent years." It is said that dozens of young people with the same troubles have consulted with Aikawa, and she sometimes finds tubes for them to operate, so her words are quite convincing. "Sorry I can't help you." She said and pushed the photo back. "If you want to find this kind of person, where else can you start?" Zhe Lang tried to ask another question. "First of all, we need to find a few more similar shops, maybe they will work there regularly. Next is the doctor." "doctor?" "If you've had surgery, you've got post-operative care and you've got to have hormone injections. The guy you're looking for should be going somewhere to do those things." "Then, if we conduct a blanket search of the hospital in that area..." As soon as Zhe Lang said, a smile appeared on the corner of Ai Chuan's mouth. "The hospital should not disseminate patient information unsuspectingly. Besides, since it is a medical practice outside the scope of insurance, it is unlikely that the person concerned will use his real name. You can only go to all hospitals to talk about it. Since it is outside the scope of insurance It is unlikely that the person involved will use her real name for her medical treatment. You probably can only go to all the hospitals to stand guard and wait for her to join the Internet cafe one day." It's not the police, how could it be possible to do that kind of thing.Zhe Lang sighed, put away the photo, took out another photo and put it in front of Ai Chuan. "What about this person?" When Aikawa saw the photo, his expression changed slightly, probably because the photo was of a naked woman.That's the figure that Risako took for Mizuki recently. "Great body proportions." Aikawa said, but her tone was not lewd. "She's GID, she didn't have surgery." "It seems to be true. Are you looking for this person too?" "Yes. She used to work as a bartender in Ginza." "She looks perfect as a bartender." Aikawa smiled, then stared at the photo again.There was a serious light in her eyes, which aroused Zhe Lang's concern. "Where have you seen her?" "No, unfortunately, I don't know this person." "However, you just looked at the photo with special attention." "Yeah, because I thought it was an interesting photo. Was it you who took the picture?" "No, it's a female photographer." For some reason, Zhe Lang couldn't tell that his wife took the photo. "Female photographer? I see." Aikawa nodded in understanding. "What's the matter?" Zhe Lang asked, Aikawa pondered for a while as if thinking about words, and then slowly said: "Generally, people with gender identity disorder don't like to be photographed with naked breasts, because round and full breasts are women's. Symbolic. But this one is bare-chested without resistance. Not only that, but she's proud and seems happy to be photographed." Zhe Lang nodded.He clearly remembered how Mizuki looked when she took the photo, Mizuki at that time was just like what Aikawa said. "She can open up her heart so much, she should trust the photographer quite a bit. No, trust alone is not enough, it may be closer to love. So I can understand why she behaved so naturally when you said it was a female photographer. That is to say , this man loves women." Zhe Lang secretly admires Ai Chuan's insight. "You mean, is she really a man at heart?" "She can be said to have a man's heart. But at the same time, she is also a woman's heart. This contented expression shows it." "Is she a man and a woman?" "That's my guess. However, I'm confident I'm right." "What do you mean? She said bluntly that she is a man at heart." "She might say that. But people often don't even know themselves. Especially people like us." Ai Chuan clasped his fingers on the coffee table and stared at Zhe Lang's face. "You used the expression 'average woman' just now. Then, I want to ask you, what kind of woman is an ordinary woman?" "I think by a woman in general I mean a woman in body and mind." "I see. So, what does it mean to be a woman in the body? We can define it as having an XX sex chromosome. In fact, there are exceptions, so we don't care about it now. Next, what does it mean to be a woman in the heart? Did you want to wear dresses from an early age? Did you like to play house wine? Or do you prefer dolls to robots, and bows to baseball caps?" "I know those things are purely influenced by circumstances and habits. But it is true that there are female characters in the world?" Aikawa nodded deeply. "I admit that the characteristics of human beings are divided into men and women. Then let me ask you, do you mean a woman who is 100% a woman in her heart? As long as the woman part accounts for the majority of the whole, it is considered an ordinary woman." "There is no certain standard for the proportion, it is subjective. Who should decide this?" Zhe Lang closed his mouth, speechless.Aikawa stared at him and said, "You said you were free to remember? Have you ever interviewed transgender or gender identity disorder people?" "No." "So, if you were to interview them, what would you do?" This is a strange question, and Zhe Lang doesn't understand why she would ask such a question. "You should go to this kind of store first..." When he said this, Aikawa nodded. "That's right. In this way, you can easily find interviewees. We have a parallel relationship with each other, so people with the same troubles can get in touch one by one. But, you don't think this method Is there something fundamentally wrong?" Zhe Lang thinks about the meaning of Aikawa's words.However, he couldn't think of an answer.So she said: "The people interviewed in this way are limited to those who have broken through a certain degree of inner walls. There are often new faces here, and they will have the self-consciousness of being a man at first, which means they A heart wall has been broken through. Then, they will make up their minds to live as men, which has crossed another heart wall. There are also things that must be overcome when leaving the store to receive customers. In addition, "Aikawa raised his index finger. "In order to be interviewed, you have to overcome your own heart. The only thing you can interview is the voice of those who have overcome many difficulties. Recently, there have been many novels in this area, and each one describes a strong person. It almost seems like transgender people and people with gender identity disorder are strong-willed people. But the reality is not the case, and there are far more people who can’t even overcome the first level of mental strength and suffer.” After looking around, Aikawa picked up a piece of paper that had fallen on the floor.It's like an ad for something.With her slender fingertips, she carefully tore it into a strip of paper about twenty centimeters long and one centimeter wide. "Do you know the Möbius ring?" she asked Zeran. "Yeah." He nodded in confusion. Aikawa handed him the note in his hand, as if asking him to show it. Zhe Lang held the two ends of the note, twisted one end, and connected it to the other end.He was right, Aikawa nodded. "I think the relationship between men and women is like the front and back of the Möbius ring." "What's the meaning?" "If it is an ordinary piece of paper, the back is the back no matter where it goes, and the front is always the front. The two will never meet. But if it is a Mebius ring, if you think it is the front and move forward, Unknowingly, it will go around to the back. In other words, the two are connected. Everyone in this world is on this Möbius ring. There is no perfect man, and there is no perfect woman Not only that, everyone has more than one Mebius ring. Some parts of the average person are men, but other parts are women. In your inner world, there should also be many parts of women. People with gender identity disorder, Situations are different; the same transgender person has thousands of situations. No two people are the same in this world. Even the person in this photo is the same as me. It should not be possible to use the body as a woman and the heart as a man. It’s a simple statement.” After Ai Chuan finished speaking lightly, he stared at Zhe Lang as if observing Zhe Lang's reaction.There was no wavering in her eyes.She seemed to want to convey to Zhe Lang the troubles she had overcome and the great humiliation she had experienced before. Zhe Lang moved Meiyue's photo in front of him. "The woman in this picture compares the relationship between men and women to the North Pole and the South Pole. But I refute it by how it is different from the inside and outside of the coin." "I see. The North Pole and the South Pole, this one is good." The corners of Aikawa's mouth softened. "It's the same as the Mebius ring. If it's a coin, you can't go from the back to the front, but the north pole can move to the south pole. Because they are connected together. However, the distance is quite far away." "She probably meant that." Zhe Lang now clearly understood the meaning of Risako's words. "Don't you think it's weird that I didn't have surgery or hormone therapy?" "Actually, I was just about to ask you about this..." "Because I don't think I'm abnormal. I believe that with this heart, with this body, I am who I am. There's no need to make any changes." "But everyone who works in this store..." As soon as Zhelang said, Aichuan frowned slightly, shook his head slightly, and said, "I can't deprive them of their desire to liberate themselves. The sad thing is that in today's society, men are always required to be this way, women are to be that way, even their appearance No wonder. It’s no wonder that people who grew up under this social norm are obsessed with thinking that their appearance is not what they should be, and they hate round and full breasts. I don’t think there is such a disease as gender identity disorder. It should What is being treated is a society that tries to exclude the disadvantaged." "As long as society accepts it, they don't have to undergo hormone therapy and surgery?" "I believe so. But maybe it's impossible." Aikawa shook his head and sighed. "Humans are afraid of unfamiliar things. Because of fear, they want to exclude them. No matter how much you emphasize the word 'gender identity disorder', nothing will change in the world. We probably won't be able to convey our desire to be accepted to ordinary people in the future. ...and this unrequited love will continue." Her words were quite heavy, and they sank heavily into the depths of Zhe Lang's heart.He looked at Aikawa again, feeling unable to tell whether she was a man or a woman.She's probably both, or neither. Zhe Lang always felt that he had seen someone with the same eyes as her before, but he couldn't remember. Aikawa crushed the note just now in his hand. "The metaphor of the North Pole and the South Pole is not bad, but I still think the Mebius ring is more appropriate. Men and women are two sides of one body, and the relationship is inseparable. People will definitely show the characteristics of the other gender at certain points in time." After speaking, she smiled heartily. Back in the store, the two people who were playing poker moved to the bar.Besides them, there were two more people.They all have handsome features. "Sorry to bother you." Xu Bei said to them.The beautiful boys nodded without saying a word. Xu Bei opened the door, intending to leave.Zhe Lang said to his back: "Wait a minute." He went to the bar and took out Saeki Kari's photo. "Have you ever seen this person? But I don't think she is dressed like this woman now." The two people who were close to Zhe Lang first stared at the photo, and then glanced at each other. "I haven't seen her." "I do not have either." The other two seemed uninterested, so Zhelang held the photo in front of them. "What about you?" Zhe Lang asked the other two. "I don't know her either. If I work in this area, I know nine out of ten." The young man in a black shirt replied.His voice was low and completely manly. "Maybe it's not in Shinjuku." "If you don't know, you don't know." "Yeah. What about you? Don't you know?" Zhe Lang asked the young man who dyed his hair blond.He feels like a musician. "I don't know this person either, but..." He looked at the photo, wondering what he was thinking. "What's wrong?" "Well, I'm not very confident, but..." "How? You know everything, can you tell me?" "Well... If I remember wrongly, I'm sorry, I saw this thing that looked like a Christmas tree beside her." He replied uncertainly. "Where?" "I remember it was..." The young man brushed up his blond hair.stage. " what is that? " Zhe Lang asked, but the blond young man was silent.The others also kept their mouths shut.When Zhe Lang wanted to ask further, someone behind said, "That's a theater troupe." Looking back, Aikawa Fuyuki was standing in front of him. "Golden Jin, children's Tong, Jintong. There is a troupe called Jintong. Xiaojian, did you really see it on stage?" Xiaojian seems to be the name of the blond boy. "I'm not sure, but the stage is decorated with something like the tree in this picture." "What kind of troupe is the Golden Boy Troupe?" "A troupe where ordinary people gather." Aikawa replied, "However, you may add other meanings to it, such as shemale or transgender." Just hearing what she said, Zhe Lang knew the characteristics of this troupe.He nodded, looked at Xiaojian, and asked, "Can you explain in more detail?" Xiao Jian turned his body to Zhe Lang, and took a peek at Ai Chuan before speaking. "Just tell him." After she said this, Xiao Jian looked up at Zhe Lang with a relieved expression on his face. "I think it was this summer, and my friend asked me to see the Golden Boy show. It seems to be called "Mrs. Santa Claus". There is a silver Christmas tree on the stage, very similar to the tree in this photo." "Yes, Mrs. Santa. Do you go to their shows often?" "I don't go often, it should be the second time. Golden Boy doesn't often perform in public." "Is there such a woman among the actors?" Zhe Lang pointed to the photo on the bar. "I don't remember what each of the actors looked like. They all wore heavy makeup and it was a long time ago. Only the Christmas tree is impressive, so I remember it." Maybe that's right.Zhe Lang thanked him and put away the photo. "Where is the office of the Golden Boy Troupe?" Zhe Lang asked Ai Chuan. She smiled wryly. "The Golden Boy Troupe doesn't have the style of an office. It's just a group of people with other jobs who are interested in acting." "What about the contact information?" Hearing Zhe Lang's question, Ai Chuan turned his eyes away from him and remained silent for a while.Her drooping eyelashes are long. "It's okay to tell you, but I don't guarantee that you can ask questions." "How do you say that?" "Because the head of the group is a weirdo, he doesn't accept interviews from the media at all, and he hardly does publicity, so if you name the title of a freelance reporter, maybe you will be rejected." The team leader has the responsibility to deal with complicated issues, and Zhe Lang understands the mood of the other party to act cautiously. "Anyway, I'll try and see." "Okay." Aikawa disappeared into the lounge, and came back two or three minutes later.She holds a business card in her hand. "My name is written on the back, so you just say I introduced it." "Thank you." The business card reads "Saga Zhengdao, head of the Golden Boy Troupe".It seems that the home and office are located in Chidi, Tagaya-ku, Ichigo. "Saga is an old friend of mine. We used to do bad things together." After speaking, Aikawa narrowed his eyes. "Is he a man?" As soon as the words came out, Zhe Lang thought it was over. But Aikawa didn't look angry. "If you mean biological sex, his sex chromosomes are XX." "I see." There was gradually noise outside the gate, and the beautiful boys sitting at the bar began to sit upright.Zhe Lang looked at Xiang Chuan, and wanted to thank him again before leaving.At that moment, he thought of the person who had the same eyes as her. That is Suenaga Mumi.