At that time, because he had always lived in the primitive forest, he hadn't really taken care of his hair, sometimes cutting it short with a dagger when it got too long. As a result, his hair, though not particularly styled, was always neatly cut at neck length—it was no wonder that Gem Atkinson and Humphrey Tower thought he was a woman.
But when he was in the bathhouse, looking at the many people who had the same physique as him but were referred to as 'women', it's imaginable what kind of nightmare he went through that day in the women's bathhouse.
He also had a simple way of keeping time in the forest, the most rudimentary method of marking knife cuts on trees—he knew he should have been there for about five or six years, more or less.
However, just in five or six years, how had everything in the world changed?
Could men now be called women?
Then, could women now be called men?
