Private Finished Looking a Little Down

Konpeitō wanted to ask Serena if she bet he couldn't take on her species, but not only would that be disrespectful, he had passed that phase. When he first got his species-shifting powers, he loved going through every species he could think of. The fun of that had quickly worn off.

Also, Konpeitō mostly wanted to ask what made him seem bisexual. After a somber nod to acknowledge Serena's late mother, he kept with the flow of the conversation. "I wish I could control that and open myself up to more options. I tried to see if I swung both ways, but that left me... It was uncomfortable. I'm firmly into men with a specific disposition." He let out a little laugh. "This is more proof that you'll find an S.O. before me."

"Aah, I can't imagine how that is at all. The LGBT community was already known when I was made and has been making strides in being accepted since. That's not to say everything is perfect. Things are still... limited in Japan. So much so I'm not sure if I'd like to go back, even if I could." Konpeitō's nose automatically wrinkled at all the research he did to stay accurate to how his human persona would handle being transgender. It was kind of awful, to say the least.

"I hear all about how people wish they were born in the past. I can't relate. If anything, I'd like to be born in the future in the hope that things are better."

"Oooh, I'm sure it'll be a taboo in many places for a long time. Racism hasn't become a complete taboo yet, so why would homophobia, transphobia, and other types of bigotry? And don't get me started on the bigotry and hatred in the LGBT community. Granted, it's hard to be openly bigoted nowadays, but that depends on where you live. If I went to Japan now using my human form, my dark skin and vitiligo would make me an other. I've already had several people here, Japanese and not, be surprised I'm Japanese despite my accent and features."

Okay. He rambled. A lot. Letting out an awkward laugh, he rubbed the back of his neck and shrugged. "Ah, but time moves a lot slower for me. I imagine things go by quicker when you have more experience, huh?"

"I know the grass is always greener on the other side, but I want that. I've only been alive for six years. Everything goes so... slowly. At the youngest, I'm nineteen. At the oldest, I'm 25. It doesn't help that I can't sleep. Compared to other adults, I feel like I'm moving through life at a snail's pace."

He ran a hand through his hair and sighed with an airy laugh. "I swear I'm not an otaku, I just lived with one, but I once wanted to put myself into something like Dragon Ball's Hyperbolic Time Chamber so my physical age would match my mental age. Preferably with a virtual reality system so I'm not doing... you know, nothing for a dozen years."

He wanted to argue against that. He desperately did. But then he failed to find an argument. Moving slowly through life was awful. Going to sleep and waking up to see most of your friends aged ten years was worse.

Okay, maybe it wasn't that bad for Serena or most long-lived immortals, but it still must have felt terrifyingly quick. He's heard of adults telling kids that they grow up so fast. What must an immortal feel towards aging mortals?

"That's an expensive method of experiencing the story," he replied with a laugh. "The private sessions are a lot, and I don't know if they adapted one of the books into a game for anyone to play. It's a bit hard for me to imagine there aren't other murder mysteries out there in the universe to adapt or be inspired by. Although, they did do a public murder mystery game. I think before I came here?"