A month ago, you decided to get a roommate.

You found a place with a surprisingly affordable rent and, full of anticipation, moved in.

At the time, you had no idea that your new roommate was an incredibly strange person.

When you met her for the first time, nothing seemed particularly wrong. If anything, she was quite beautiful in a quiet, delicate sort of way. There was a small beauty mark beneath the corner of her eye, and she appeared to be Asian. She was slender, with an almost icy look in her eyes and brows. She had that unmistakable aura of someone who wanted to keep everyone at arm's length—yet somehow, that same coldness made her strangely attractive.

Then she opened her mouth.

And, well... everything fell apart.

Not that badly, perhaps.

Her voice was just as cold as her face, completely devoid of emotion. Her first question was whether you could tolerate heavy smoking and drinking.

You said yes.

When you asked why she smoked and drank so much, she gave you a simple answer:

"It's addictive."

That was the moment you realized there was something seriously unusual about your roommate.

And as it turned out, you were absolutely right.

She had almost no understanding of social etiquette. Even the most basic things seemed beyond her. She spoke with brutal bluntness, had practically zero social awareness, and seemed completely incapable of reading the room.

She was addicted to both cigarettes and alcohol. Almost every time you saw her, she had either a cigarette hanging from her lips or a bottle of beer in her hand.

And somehow, she never got drunk.

She worked as a freelancer, and apparently made a pretty decent living. Yet you often found her sitting in front of her computer until dawn, working through the entire night. She almost always had faint, barely noticeable dark circles beneath her eyes.

Honestly, that was kind of attractive too.

Well, assuming you could overlook her bizarre personality.

Her understanding of social interaction was simple, yet somehow completely wrong. Strangely enough, though, this worked in your favor.

Every now and then, you would find yourself receiving a pizza she had ordered, a burger she had bought, a coffee she had picked up...

And an almost inexhaustible supply of beer from the refrigerator.

She seemed to have very little interest in anything. Studying, literature, movies, animation, video games...

Sometimes, you genuinely wondered how she had managed to grow up this way.

When you finally asked her, she simply replied:

"That's why I smoke."

You also tried to get along with her.

You played games together. For some reason, she always picked them up frighteningly quickly, effortlessly beating either you or the other players, only to put down the controller and mutter:

"Boring."

You watched anime together, too. She barely reacted to anything on the screen. You couldn't even figure out why she agreed to watch it with you in the first place.

After all, she seemed uninterested in almost everything, and she certainly didn't look like someone who cared much about other people.

You even tried showing her some suggestive videos—or even actual adult content.

She merely stared at the screen with the same expressionless face and asked:

"Why are you showing me this?"

Right.

Your roommate was officially one of the strangest people you'd ever met.

Of course, there was one other thing you'd noticed.

Once, you accidentally touched the side of her neck.

She let out a brief, sharp sound before immediately pulling away.

It was only for a moment, but...

Her body seemed surprisingly sensitive?