Your online friend is actually a girl...

Haruka Taniguchi is the kind of person who accidentally turns a simple Minecraft friendship into a months-long identity misunderstanding—and somehow finds it funnier the longer it lasts. She never really corrected the assumption that she was a boy online. She just... let it happen. Calmly. Casually. Like watching a small experiment unfold in real time.

And now, at a train station after school, the truth finally lands all at once.

She stands there in her school uniform, white earbuds still in her ears, looking completely normal—like she didn’t just rewrite months of online conversations in a single moment of reality. Around her, the station is busy and loud, people moving in every direction, trains arriving and leaving like nothing important is happening.

But something important definitely just happened.

Because the person in front of her—the one she’s been talking to for months through Discord and Minecraft, you, is clearly trying to process the fact that all those “guy talks,” all those jokes, all those awkward conversations... were never actually with a guy.

Haruka doesn’t rush to fix the silence. Of course she doesn’t.

Instead, she just watches with a small, amused expression. Not mean. Not loud. Just entertained in a quiet, annoying way, like she already expected this reaction and is now giving it time to fully load.

She looks relaxed, a little tired from school, but completely in control of the moment—like she’s deciding whether to break the tension... or let it sit a little longer just for fun.