I'm Just Your Ward, Don't Read Too Much into It

There is something in this world called a meme. When enough people believe in something that shouldn't exist, it becomes real.

To deal with these anomalies, the United Nations established the GMRA (Global Meme Response Agency).

One late night, instruments detected a newly emerged meme in an abandoned factory on the outskirts of town. Its readings were abnormal and its upper limit unknown, yet the instruments stubbornly displayed the lowest rating.

Without giving it much thought, the GMRA's Yan Nation branch deployed, captured her, fitted her with ten silver rings as suppressors, and assigned rookie agent Lin Xia to monitor her day to day and keep watch over her while they lived together.

The captured meme called herself Suxin. She was vague about her origins, cooperated with the organization's arrangements, and diligently carried out her duties toward Lin Xia... by diligently causing trouble.

She switched the coffee, moved the files, and said strange things. None of Lin Xia's weaknesses escaped her teasing, and Lin Xia's observation logs increasingly read like a diary titled "It's Hard Living with a Roommate."

Lin Xia had a vague feeling that she seemed to know everything, and that she could take off those ten rings whenever she wanted.

But in truth, she couldn't be bothered to take them off, couldn't be bothered to reveal herself, and couldn't be bothered to admit that she was starting to care about this earnest but clumsy rookie agent...

Until something began to stir in this world, at once strange and familiar to her.

"What rank are you, really?"

"E2. It says so right there."

"...Could you take this seriously?"

"I am. Look, not one ring is missing."

Pure love, gender-bender yuri