"We've finally made it." I said. The sun hung low in the sky and shadows were slowly growing longer.
A N.P.C. walked up to us with hands spread out, "Welcome to the village Yama. Sirs, madam, is there anything I can help you with?"
"I'm a guy." Akasuta said, agitated.
The N.P.C. looked baffled. "Excuse me, but are you sure?"
"Of course I'm sure!" Akasuta demanded. He stomped off ahead of the group furious.
"Wait up!" I yelled. The group jogged to catch up with him. "You can't let this get to you. It's not that big of a deal."
"Not that big of a deal?" Akasuta retorted, "It is a big deal. Even the villagers think I am a woman. How am I supposed to keep telling myself that this armor is worth wearing if everything I've ever known is going to change because of it?" He made a valid point. I could think of anything to say and he took the silence as proof that he had won. We followed him to the town inn and stepped inside.
"I'm parched." Oshinobi said sighing in relief.
"Me too!" Kaminari agreed. "Also, I'm starving." I nodded my head. The three of us moved to find a table.
Akasuta sighed, "I'm gonna go change into some better clothes."
"Go ahead, we'll save you a spot." I replied. He seemed to lighten up at the thought of changing into different armor, and changing back to his normal self. He walked over to the innkeeper and bought us two rooms for the night. Then he turned and disappeared up the stairs. "He sure is moody today." I said.
"Sure is," Oshinobi replied, "He's letting this get to him a lot more than I expected."
"He almost killed me earlier." Kaminari pointed out.
"Yeah, but you deserved that one." Oshinobi chuckled.
Upstairs there was a sudden outburst of curses, and Akasuta ran down the staircase, now wearing much more casual clothing. His breasts still there and clearly visible. "They didn't go away!" He shouted bewildered.
I looked around, glad to see that we were the only ones in the lobby. "Calm down." I said.
Akasuta's eyes burned with anger as he looked up at me. "Calm down? I'm gonna teach you to calm down here in just a second!" Oshinobi grabbed his arms and impeded his movement towards me. I took a step back aghast.
"We can work this out." Oshinobi said, calming the atmosphere. We moved to one of our rooms for more privacy, as well as to avoid scaring the N.P.C.s that would probably start to appear soon, now that the sun had almost set. "Ok, can you explain to us what your problem is?" Oshinobi asked.
"I just had a permanent life change, my problem should be obvious." Akasuta replied.
"But it's not obvious at all." I said.
"Kaminari added, " I don't see why there's a problem in the first place. It's not a big deal, the game glitched, so what?"
"That is all you guys ever say on the matter. 'It's not a big deal' have you even considered how I feel about all this?" He questioned.
"Of cou-" I started to say but I was interrupted by Kaminari's shout, "What do feelings have to do with anything, you're just a girl, it's not like you're gonna die or something!."
"You know what, screw you guys! I'm done!" Akasuta stomped out of the room in a fury of curses.
"Wait Akasuta! We are supposed to stick together!" I yelled, but he either didn't hear me, or didn't care.