The Celebration Banquet and the Beginning of an Affair (5)

What a strange experience, dreaming inside a dream.

And it wasn’t as if the dream I’d just had was any ordinary dream, either.

It was so vivid I couldn’t just write it off as some stupid dream. I was a versatile guy with the heart of a humanities student and the brain of a STEM major, but this was the first time I’d ever had a dream like that.

And I’d dreamed of being a woman! It’s not like I have any desire to change genders, so why would my subconscious make me dream that shit? Fuck, I don’t even want to think about it.

So that wasn’t an ordinary dream. That was the hypothesis I settled on.

“You were asleep for quite a while. Did you have a pleasant dream?”

“No, I dreamed I was a crazy mage.”

“Hehe. Aren’t you already a crazy mage?”

For some reason, my words amused the Bicorn, and she laughed while saying something ridiculous. I don’t know how she could say that when there were so few perfectly normal people like me around.

The Bicorn laughed for a while, then said...