Chapter 1

In a distant future where technology became highly advanced that anyone could switch their genders at an instant. However, this came at a price. The medical magnate called Vixen Pharmaceuticals established its control over the government after the board chairman’s daughter, Kazumi Homura got elected as prime minister of the state. She gave a state of the nation address on live television after the inauguration.

She talked about a new law that has been passed in court. It was to abolish the male gender and all their rights are stripped away to be reduced into a cattle for breeding. The opposition, majority leaders and cabinet members opposed her decision as it was too radical and inhumane.

Kazumi dismissed their concern and had them captured, beaten and transformed into the first batch of breeding cattle on live television. A few days later, she once again gave an announcement. This time, she gave the male populace a choice. To be a cattle or to be reborn as a woman.

A huge fraction of males chose to be reborn as it was the better choice than being used as a tool and disregarded once broken but the remaining males chose to rebel and with the aid of sympathizers. A huge war broke out between the rebels called the free imperium and the government led by vixen group. It spanned for a few years until the rebel army was reduced to a small speck and hid underground, building a colony of their own.

As such things happen, there was a boy who was born underground. His mother was a beautiful woman who worked at the foundry as a iron smelter and his father was a drunkard.

Everyday, he had to witness his parents argue about their expenses, money and their way of life after coming home from the community school. One day, his mother suddenly vanished but left a note and a locket for him that said.

“To my dearest boy, Rei.

I am very sorry that I left you behind with your father. I couldn’t stomach the pain and suffering that I endured for so many years. I want you to live my boy. Be strong and always remember that I am always with you.”

With his mother gone, his father diverted his rage onto him and his violent outbursts sometimes got them into trouble with the local militia.

Rei cried himself to sleep every night as he was terrified and often hid in his room after his father arrives home.

Many years later, Rei now in his early teens. Worked at the foundry as a coal miner after graduating from school. He was now living in the foundry’s dorms after being fed up with his father’s behavior.

He awoke from the pain that he accumulated from swinging his pickaxe for hours. He stood up and went down the communal kitchen for a glass of water.

After heading back to his room, he picked up his bag and took out his wallet, it contained a few colony bills that can last him until the end of the week. Necessities like food and water were scarce and it was sold at a high price.

He still hasn’t forgotten about his own mother as he wished to see her. If only it was that easy to go to the surface.

The following day

While working at the mines, he heard gun fire shots and screams coming from the outside. Curious, he went outside and saw a large fleet of armored trucks and women clad in black armor that looked similar to the ones that the local militia wear.

At a distance, he saw a familiar figure. His eyes widened and tears began to fall as he couldn’t believe who it was. That long straightened red hair, those red colored eyes and that voluptuous body. Meant only one thing.

Her mother.

Rei was overjoyed that he could see her again after so many years. He wanted to hug so much but he couldn’t. She was so close yet so far.

It was now or never, he thought.

He tossed his pickaxe away and slid down the slope. Amid the destruction and bloodshed going on, he hid in one of the corners of the building.

Rei peeked around the corner and it was littered with corpses of the militia and men who fought back. Their wives were taken into custody and loaded inside the van.

He saw a long line of children like him beside a truck and they were cowering in fear. Beside them were a two women soldiers and another woman who had something like a clipboard was talking to them.

“Oi, you there!”

He turned around to see who it was and saw a trio of soldiers approach him.