Not like the other girls

Luke always knew that he wasn’t going to become like one of the other girls. And as long as he wasn’t a girl, he felt satisfied with the state of things. But unfortunately for him, genders were cancelled while he was attending his last year of high school, and so he needed to do something drastic. “Well, all the other ~~girls~~ MoSes (Members of Society, new accepted term for a person) are going to college. So I’m going to do something else.” – Luke thought.

No matter what his friends and family told him, he wouldn’t stray from his newly discovered path. After barely graduating, he realized something – education may be key, but who holds the key to education? The school janitor. And so that’s who he became.

After only a couple of days at his new job, Luke realized that his logic was complete bullshit. His life became a sad cycle of sweeping the floors, wiping the toilets, and crying when nobody was around. It continued on this way until one day, while he was looking for a secluded corner in which to weep, he found a door he hadn’t noticed before. It turned out that the school had a second, forgotten basement, to which only he had the key. He checked if the doors and the bars on the window were sturdy, and smiled. As a Genshin player, he instinctively knew what he needed to do.

When the school’s younger students started disappearing, Luke successfully evaded notice. He did need to stop wearing his usual sweatshirt though, as the color red had a reputation for being suspicious. After 5 or 6 kids vanished, the school was forced to suspend its classes. With that, the only person who still worked there was Luke, and so he expanded his operation. He became a millionaire in barely a couple months, while the other MoSes were struggling to get through college. He moved out of his parents‘ basement into an old bar, which he then converted into his evil lair. And he began wearing Sunglasses of Speed +2, as he knew quite well that time was money.

Everything was going swimmingly well until one day when he was so happy (he just dropped the latest Genshin character after spending only 2137$) that he forgot to lock the doors to the school. After having come so far as a humble janitor, he has forgotten what his primary duties were – and this led to his downfall.

As he was scrolling through r/GenshinImpact the following day, a notification appeared on his phone which attracted his attention – it had his description and was offering a sizable reward for information leading to his capture. Thankfully, he had purchased the bar under the fake name of Stanisław Wokulski, which must’ve kept him from getting captured so far. But he knew that the horny police would eventually find his hideout, and so he decided to disguise himself and get the hell out.

He called one of his most frequent clients – a MoS who he knew owned a fleet of private jets. She picked up and told him to fuck off, as she currently needed the planes to ship her collection of “merchandise” to a safe location. And with that, Luke was left completely to his own devices. As he scoured his brains for ideas, he began hearing the police sirens in the distance. Abandoning all thought, he panicked and ran into the nearby forest. He didn’t know that this was exactly what they wanted him to do.

Leaves and sticks crunching beneath his shoes, he sprinted through the woods. He couldn’t hear the sirens anymore, he was getting away, he could go – his train of thought was interrupted by a small MoS throwing himself at him and tripping him. “I’m not part of your game, young MoS!”  - he scolded it. It wasn’t until the kid stood up that he realized who it was. Looking frantically around him, he began noticing more and more recognizable faces in the bush. “NO, NO NO NO NO! You don’t understand! I was making you different from the other MoSes!” – he pleaded desparately. The kids just smiled. And as he backed up against a tree, he felt a katana up against his throat.

As Luke fought to cling to his life, he realized a terrible thing  – by dying, he was becoming just like all the other MoSes. And with that bitter thought on his mind, his neck was sliced open by the katana and he passed away.

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**The End.**