Chapter 0: I Will Never Date You!

SHIBA Syndrome [Prologue]

Among the extremely recently discovered rare diseases, there is one such disease.

Sudden Hormonal Inversion Body Alteration Syndrome.

In short, SHIBA syndrome. Translated, it would be something like 'Acute Hormonal Inversion Accompanied by Body Alteration Syndrome.'

It is a rare genetic disease that was recently discovered, and the number of cases is not that high, with just over a million patients worldwide. A million people may seem like a lot, but when you calculate the incidence rate based on the total population, it's 0.0125 percent. It is truly a disease that deserves the title of 'rare disease.'

Most of the patients are of African descent, followed by European and Asian descent, but the difference in proportions is not that significant. For reference, the number of patients in Korea is 3,972, which is somewhat lower than the world average.

The symptoms of the disease are exactly the same as the name.

Patients who develop the disease first experience extreme hormonal problems. Pimples appear all over the body, turning into blisters, and their mood fluctuates rapidly, feeling extremely good and then bad, to the point where they are suspected of having bipolar disorder. Of course, it is impossible to 'feel good' while blisters are appearing all over the body, so they generally remain in a bad mood.

The body's senses are also severely damaged, so they may feel hot in the middle of winter or cold in the middle of summer. It is literally a breakdown of the senses, and there is no way to deal with it except for the individual to endure it. Even if they turn on the air conditioner and heater, they still feel hot or cold.

But the worst part of this disease is the 'body alteration' that occurs simultaneously with the hormonal inversion phenomenon.

There have been no reports of brain and nervous system deformation yet, but everything else changes. The skeleton melts and hardens anew, and all the organs inside the body are recreated. One doctor compared the process to a chrysalis. It is not wrong to say that the organs are recreated while only the nervous system remains intact under the skin that is maintained.

Ah, of course, the skin itself is also recreated. What remains under those enormous blisters is not a smallpox-like scar, but smooth skin as if newly born.

After a period of 6 months to 2 years, the patient's appearance generally becomes what can be described as 'beautiful' from a general point of view. Whether it's a man or a woman.

It has been reported that about 9 percent of patients with SHIBA syndrome have experienced an increase in height of more than 10 percent after skeletal changes.

In addition, about 40 percent of patients with this syndrome maintained their original gender.

…….

And I was not in the 9 percent or the 40 percent.

My gender did not remain the same, and my height of 159 centimeters did not change at all.

I think everyone can understand why I muttered a curse similar to the name of the syndrome the day before I was discharged from the hospital.

(T/N: "Shibal/Sibal/씨발", roughly the english equivalent of "fuck")

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