“Doctor, did you know… I’m actually a pervert.”
Su Tang’s hand paused halfway through filling out the consultation report.
He raised his head and looked at the young girl sitting in front of him.
She was nervously twisting the hem of her shirt in her hands.
Her eyes were ringed by heavy dark circles, as if she had not slept properly for several nights.
Su Tang frowned slightly and wrote the words “suspected avoidant personality disorder” in the medical record.
As he wrote, he sighed inwardly.
Valmont had been right after all.
There really were a lot of people with mental health issues in Tokyo.
He had taken Valmont’s advice and opened a private clinic here, and on the very first day of business, his first patient had already arrived.
He had to handle this case properly.
If he messed it up, then with Valmont’s money-grubbing personality, getting living expenses from him in the future would become a serious problem.
With that in mind, Su Tang set down his pen, picked up the kettle on his desk, and poured the girl a cup of hot water.
He pushed the cup toward her and spoke in a gentle voice.
“Did something happen?
Why do you think that about yourself?”
People who called themselves perverts generally fell into two categories.
The first were true, genuine perverts who no longer cared about society’s opinions, morals, or restraints.
Some of them might even feel pleased when others called them perverts.
The second type were fake perverts.
Among fake perverts, some knew perfectly well that they were normal and only called themselves perverts as a joke to lighten the mood.
Others, however, fell into self-doubt and self-torment because of psychological issues, personal experiences, or various other reasons.
Those people were often the ones who suffered the most, and they were also the most likely to develop mental illness.
At times like these, a counselor needed to guide them slowly and carefully.
Perhaps the cup of hot water had an effect.
After taking a small sip, the girl seemed to gather her courage and whispered, “I… I have a thing for legs.”
After saying that, she shyly lowered her head.
“Hm?”
Su Tang, who had been waiting for her to continue, froze.
That was it?
She thought she was a pervert just because she had a thing for legs?
Su Tang’s lips curved in amusement, and he said, “It’s only a preference for legs.
That’s perfectly normal.
Why would you think that makes you a pervert?”
“Huh…”
Hearing his words, the girl lifted her head in disbelief, her expression tinged with surprise and joy.
Looking into her expectant eyes, Su Tang smiled and said, “To be honest, I also appreciate beautiful legs.
Everyone has an appreciation for beauty, don’t they?”
“But… whenever I tell people I like legs, they all look disgusted and call me a pervert…”
“At the very least, I didn’t, did I?”
Su Tang interrupted her, shook his head, and said softly, “Sometimes, we don’t need to care too much about what other people say.
Living that way is exhausting.
Besides, isn’t it possible that they’re the ones with the prejudice?”
“For example, if we like someone, there has to be a reason we like them, right?
But if you say you like their personality, someone will call you fake.
If you say you like their face, someone will call you shallow.
If you say you like their figure, someone will call you a shameless lecher.”
“In my opinion, liking legs isn’t fundamentally different from liking anything else.
In the end, it’s just that everyone’s sense of beauty is different.
So there’s no need to doubt yourself because of it.
You’re normal.
You’re healthy.
Don’t worry.”
When Su Tang finished speaking, the girl’s eyes lit up.
She seemed to have set down a thousand-pound burden.
Letting out a long breath, she bowed to Su Tang.
“Thank you.”
Hearing her sincere gratitude, Su Tang smiled faintly.
Saving someone who had lost their way felt pretty good.
“Oh, right, Doctor… did you just say you also like legs?”
“I do appreciate them,” Su Tang admitted openly.
After all, he could not exactly finish counseling a patient on this matter and then act ashamed of the very same preference himself.
That would only have the opposite effect.
“That’s wonderful!” the girl said excitedly.
She took two steps back and asked, “Then, Doctor, what do you think of my legs?”
Was she still seeking approval?
Su Tang chuckled softly and cooperatively looked at the girl’s legs.
She was probably somewhere around a meter and a half tall, so naturally her legs were not particularly long.
Even so, they were very fair and smooth, standing elegantly beneath her short school uniform skirt, delicate and jewel-like.
To be honest, Su Tang rarely saw legs like that in real life.
He had seen plenty like them in the anime he watched in his previous life, but they were almost too exquisite to seem real.
“They’re beautiful.”
He told the truth and was not stingy with his praise.
The girl was delighted and replied excitedly, “Thank you!
Doctor, your legs are beautiful too!”
Uh…
Su Tang’s expression turned a little strange.
Although saying something like that to a man sounded odd, it was… probably meant as a compliment.
So he kept smiling and thanked her.
He treated it as simple politeness.
After all, he was currently wearing a loose white coat and casual pants.
There was no way for the lines of his legs to be visible.
But the girl immediately added, “No, I mean it.
Doctor, your legs are the most beautiful I’ve ever seen on a boy.
Especially when set off by those blue shorts…”
Hm?!
Blue shorts?
A trace of astonishment appeared on Su Tang’s face.
What blue shorts?
Today was his first day of business, so to look formal, he was clearly wearing long pants…
Wait!
Yesterday!
Yesterday, the clinic had not opened yet, and since he lived alone, he had casually thrown on a pair of shorts.
But… that had been upstairs, in his home on the second floor!
How did this girl know?
Had she guessed?
Was she just saying it randomly?
Before Su Tang could process it, he saw the girl bow to him again.
“Doctor, let’s exchange legs!”
The cup of hot water on the table was still steaming.
Su Tang stared blankly at the girl, not quite understanding what she meant.
“What do you mean… exchange legs?”
“It’s very simple!” The girl tilted her head and said with a cheerful smile, “Doctor, you like legs, and I like legs too.
You have a pair of beautiful legs, and I have a pair of beautiful legs.
If we exchange them, then won’t we both have two pairs of beautiful legs?”
“Wait.
Wait.”
For a moment, Su Tang did not even have time to correct the error in her arithmetic.
He frowned and asked, “What I mean is, how can legs be exchanged?”
“Of course they can.
You just do this.”
The girl smiled as she spoke.
As she spoke, she drew a knife from her sleeve.
Then she swung it down at her own leg!
Warm blood instantly splattered across Su Tang’s face, then slid down his chin and dripped thickly onto the desk.
Then he saw the girl lift her head, holding the bloodstained knife as though she were smiling.
“Doctor, it’s your turn.”