Reborn in another world as a Hermaphrodite

"Isn't that where dwarves live?" Sophia pointed out.

"Dwarves? What is that?" Meiya curiously asked, her face looking a little confused again.

"Um, well, it's like short, muscular people with a bunch of facial hair that live on the mountain."

"That's a separate species?"

"Not exactly... Humans, dwarves, and elves are all created together as one; at least, that's how the story goes."

"Huh. I really need to learn this world from scratch... Kate, how are you so knowledgeable about this?"

"I just used to travel a lot with my professor... Anyway, the fourth place we can visit is Northeast, where elves live.

But there really isn't much to do there besides scenery. At least, that's what I felt the last time I went there.

And there are a lot of restrictions on things you can do... Like not being allowed to eat meat and——"

"We're good on that."

Sophia and Mary both chimed in agreement for once, as they couldn't imagine only eating vegetables for the entirety of spring break.

"Then that leaves us with the last option. We can visit the east where... Wait..."

Katherine froze for a second, realizing it was the single place she never visited with her professor.

"It's the pirate port." Luqing suddenly murmured as she stopped eating her food.

"Oh right, yeah... It's where a lot of trading routes go."

"It's where our milk is brought from, right? All the from far east to that port?" Sophia curiously asked.

"Y-Yeah, Ahem, anyway, we are not visiting there... That leaves us with four options."

"I want to go to Ironpeak. I want to explore dungeons again!" Mary excitedly proclaimed.

Sophia considered all the options for a second and then agreed with Mary because all the other options had severe drawbacks. .net

From temperature to food restriction, the only one that had no 'hard' drawback was Ironpeak.

"Meiya, what do you think?" Katherine asked, looking over to her for her opinion.

"I don't mind it. I'm just hoping I get to see a dwarf and a dungeon myself."

With all three agreeing to it, Katherine turned over to the last two, who had been mostly silent the whole time.

"I don't mind it."

"Same."

"Then it's decided! Pack everything up, and we're going tomorrow!"

---

As Alex finished taking a shower and started packing his clothes, he was bothered by what Luqing and Miss Amy had said in class.

Even though he never had a school health examination himself, he could remember seeing people's experiences with it online.

It was just the polar opposite of possibilities, from average basic BMI checkups and health checkups to full-blown strip searches.

For a second, he thought of skipping it on purpose, but it just felt too stand out.

Especially since the school operates under almost a boarding school system where everyone lives at the school.

In all the days he had been at school, no one had ever skipped school besides a few people who were sick or late.

In his mind, calling in sick for a 'health' checkup is like skipping a doctor's appointment because you're not feeling well.

It just didn't make any sense, no matter how he looked at it, leaving with only one option.

"Maybe I should ask Mom to help me make an excuse for the day... She would understand me, right?"

With the idea confirmed inside his head, he finally closed his suitcase before lying back down on the bed.

A few minutes later...

Just as everything faded to black for Alex, shots of color reappeared right before him.

He sighed as he opened his eyes again, only to find himself no longer on the bed.

Instead, he was in the middle of an empty field, with grass and trees all around him.

"Sarah, where are you at?" Alex asked out loud as he waited for her to show up.

"I'm right here! Took you long enough to sleep today."

Sarah appeared out of thin air before descending from the sky right in front of him.

"You know why," Alex murmured as he ready himself for the upcoming grueling battle.

"Wait, I'm not planning to fight you today."

Alex was a little surprised by Sarah's answer, but he didn't question it as she teleported him back into the familiar-looking house.

"I know you have a trip tomorrow... I just have a simple question before you can go for today."

"What is it?" Alex curiously asked.

"Can you help me list the games you used to play? Just any kind of games."

"Huh..?"

Sarah's question caught Alex a little off guard, as he barely could remember that kind of memory.

"Just any kind of video game. I remember you have it in your memories."

"Can you give me a few seconds? I need some time to think back to it."

"Sure... And can you actually think back to it while holding this crystal ball? It will just help put your memories into pictures."

Alex nodded as he hovered his hand over the crystal ball, closing his eyes as he tried to dig into his memories.

Pictures began to appear on the crystal balls, with various characters popping up before a computer appeared.

Within seconds, a computer suddenly appeared on the table, with pictures of what Alex had in mind right on the screen.

From a person rapidly turning the steering wheel in a car to a soldier shooting a gun, everything was clearly being recorded.

After hundreds of different images went by, Alex finally moved his hands away from the crystal ball as he opened his eyes.

To his surprise, he was somehow back in the middle of the empty field, sitting on a chair.

"Thank you for your help... I'm not going to be a party pooper and disrupt you, so enjoy your spring break!"

Before Alex could say anything back, everything around him faded to black as his consciousness vanished.

---

When Alex woke up again, he was back in bed with the clock pointing at three o'clock.

"I should just go back to sleep... Fuck I can't."

After a short break in the bathroom, Alex began walking back into the hallway to return to his bedroom.

However, the sound of the back entrance door being opened made him stop for a second.

With Katherine's voice seemingly coming from the storage room and another woman's voice, Alex got a little curious.

With some careful maneuvering, he carefully avoided the dining table and the chairs in the living room before stopping near the storage room.

Not risking to peek through his head through the open doorway, he leaned onto the wall with his ear against it.

---

"What do you want, Amelia?" Katherine asked as she stood in the storage room with a cloaked figure before her.

"Kate, I have to give it to you. You hid Alex's secret really well." Amelia murmured as she lowered her cloak.

"What secret?"

"Alex isn't really a boy... That's the reason why the guardian didn't have him as the successor, wasn't it?"

"I don't know what you're talking about."

"Come on, we're sisters. You don't have to hide things away from me."

As Amelia tried to move closer, Katherine quickly took a step back away from her.

"Alex is always a boy in my eyes. That's what matters to me." Katherine stated.

"Yeah, sure. A boy that has periods... Ahem, anyway, I just want to ask you more about it.

If you give me all the details you have on Alex, I can maybe develop a potion that can fix everything."

Katherine hesitated for a second, but she eventually gave in after remembering how much Alex wanted to be a 'man.'

"Fine, I'll tell you about it. But I don't want you to tell this to anyone else."

"I swear I will keep this only to myself... Now, can you tell me about Alex's exact condition?"

"He's a Hermaphrodite... At least that's what the midwife told me before she left."

"A hermaphrodite... Why does it feel like I heard this before?"

"Because the mage goddess has the same issue... I only figured that out after I searched it up at the library myself."

"No wonder... Shit, that's going to make the issue much harder to solve if the goddess herself can't fix it."

"Yeah. But I heard that she never bothered fixing it... Amelia, I'm sure you can do it with your generational talent in alchemy."

"Hey, don't put that much pressure on me. I don't even know where to begin."

"If you need me to help you, just tell me, okay? I can throw as much money at it as possible."

Amelia rolled her eyes as she looked to the side, not rejecting Katherine's offer outright.

"Of course, you're going to pay for this. I can barely afford food at this point."

"How? Didn't I already give you a few thousand just last week?"

"Burnt it all in my experiment. You can ask your son if you want to know details about it.

Anyway, I'm going to go back home now. See you later, you silly goose."

"You're a silly goose!"

As Amelia vanished, Katherine turned off the light before heading towards the living room.

But before she stepped foot in the living room, she suddenly heard the sound of a door being closed.

"Who's up this late...?"