It's a Gender-Reversed World, But I Don't Go Out Anyway - Chapter 31
Chapter 31: On the Way to Apologize
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“100,000 views? What’s going on?”
When I checked YouTube after a while, the view counts on my videos were higher than expected. Among them, the one with the highest views was the completely failed advertisement video.
[The one who has now become a unit of measurement…]
“What’s this nonsense?”
When I heard that I had suddenly become a unit of measurement, I found that I had become a unit for explaining how badly gacha pulls went in this new game’s gallery. What I mean is—
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[Got one Daeju in a 10-pull]
Is this considered good?
[Comments]
– Well, it’s not bad
– Getting one 5-star in 10 pulls means you pulled 20 times better than Daeju;
– Daeju wins again today
ã„´ Stop winning~
***
Like this post, I was becoming a unit of measurement for determining gacha success and failure.
“Am I supposed to like this?”
Pushing aside my somewhat bitter feelings, I returned to my Tgether and posted something.
[No stream today]
Today I decided to take another break from streaming. As always, I never take breaks without a reason.
As much as I hate it, it seemed I needed to go out for once. The whole situation stemmed from controversies caused by the Big Package Squad.
Due to the mindless donations from Big Package Squad and various incidents, I found myself in a position where I had to apologize on behalf of Big Package Squad, even though it wasn’t my fault. After yesterday’s True Wiki broadcast, I apologized through Discord, which I had learned about during my collab stream with Yeonhee.
Yeonhee said that since excessive fans are common in internet broadcasting, the apology wasn’t necessary, and asked if I would like to join a collab stream. At first, I readily agreed thinking it would be online, but the problem was that this was an in-person collab.
Since I was originally in a position to apologize, refusing this collab offer was too difficult, and moreover, since Yeonhee’s side knew that I don’t turn on my camera, they even offered to accommodate by adjusting the camera to show only my hands, making it even harder to refuse.
The collab content was a cooking competition.
They said it would be simple, just eating and evaluating the taste, but for me, going outside itself wasn’t easy.
“Ah, I don’t want to go…”
Oblivious to my feelings, the message board was on fire.
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[If Daeju doesn’t stream today I’m going to find his house and pounce on him]
You jerk
How long have I been waiting for the stream and you’re taking a break?
You f***ing bastard I’m gonna find your house and f*** you hard
[Comments]
– If someone like you is waiting, I’d also take a break and run away lolol
ã„´ This is true
– Are we allowed to write this spicily?
ㄴ Since he’s on break, if we get banned he’ll just complain about banning instead of streaming
ã„´ That’s high-level thinking…
ã„´ This isn’t even spicy?
– Sigh lolololol while you guys are doing this, Daeju is probably under some blonde tanned delinquent girl shaking his hips lololol
ã„´ F*** take down this comment
ã„´ So Daeju falls for bad girls too?
ã„´ If bad girls are trending, we’re worse than Geum Taeyang lololol
ã„´ True lololol
***
“There are more comments than usual”
They were directing their arrows at me, not knowing that I was going through this trouble because of them.
Of course, I was the one who didn’t tell them.
I couldn’t tell them because I was worried that if I did, the Big Package Squad would show up in Yeonhee’s chat and cause trouble again.
Actually, they might show up anyway even if I don’t tell them, but at least this would affect how quickly they gather.
I carefully looked over my clothes.
“Ah, what should I do?”
Actually, I had met quite a few people recently. Several times with my fans, and once or twice with delivery people. However, since those were all chance encounters, I hadn’t given much thought to clothes.
But now the situation was different.
This wasn’t a chance encounter but a 100% guaranteed meeting, and it was my first time meeting another streamer in person, so the pressure was different.
“If I wear clothes like this…”
I picked up the hoodie I always wore. The hoodie fell limply to the floor as if telling me not to even dream about it. Yeah, I was actually thinking this might not be appropriate. How dressed up would other streamers be? If everyone else comes nicely dressed and I’m the only one in a hoodie and baggy shorts, would that be weird?
“Ah, let me check the location first?”
Since clothes that match the location would be half the battle, I decided to search for the place. Although I had received the address through Discord, it was a road name address so I wasn’t sure exactly where it was, so I checked the map.
Naturally, it was an unfamiliar place.
But seeing that it was an apartment, it seemed to be someone’s apartment among the participants. Fortunately, it wasn’t too far, it was an apartment located around Gimpo, about 40 minutes away from here. Although it was quite a distance, at least it wasn’t Seoul.
Living in Incheon, Gimpo was a very grateful location.
It was also a location I could reach with a single subway ride from the station in front of my house without transfers.
“Since the location is an apartment…”
Then I could probably get away with wearing casual shoes, though I didn’t have any fancy shoes to wear anyway.
After much deliberation, I finally chose a hoodie.
A somewhat pretty hoodie, though still just a hoodie, but since the location was an apartment… it should be a relatively okay place to dress casually… right?
And for pants, I chose 7/8 length, neither long nor short. Not knowing which would be better, I chose an ambiguous length.
Current time was 10:00, meeting time was 10:30, it was already late, but I was deliberately going slow. Being in silence with strangers was awkward, and I had a demanding personality where I was very shy but couldn’t stand quietness, making me a troublesome person who needed things to be noisy even though I wouldn’t actively talk.
So even if I got scolded for being late, I preferred when many people had gathered and it was bustling. That way I could naturally blend into the atmosphere while speaking less.
Since I shouldn’t be too late, I finished preparing and headed out.
“Ah, bus card”
I found the bus card that seemed like I would never use after starting streaming and slipped it between my phone case. I heard there are apps for this nowadays, but I had never used them because it was bothersome.
“Need to charge it”
After gathering all the necessities, I went outside.
Although the weather had become relatively cool again recently, the midday temperature still made me sweat a little just from walking.
I immediately entered the convenience store in front of my house and asked the part-timer to charge 5,000 won.
And then I remembered something I had forgotten.
“Uh…? Daeju-nim?”
“Ah…”
Come to think of it, there was a fan of mine here too.
I had said I would never come to this convenience store again, but I had forgotten in the situation. And the bigger problem was that I was officially on break but was charging my bus card while dressed up to go somewhere.
This wasn’t good.
If I remember correctly, this part-timer was a hardcore Big Package Squad who wrote posts on the message board right after meeting me last time…
“No, that’s not…”
“Are you going somewhere fun?”
Though smiling while speaking, each word could be preserved as a post so I needed to speak carefully.
Whether I was shy or not wasn’t an important state anymore.
Taking a deep breath, I carefully explained the reason. I explained everything from taking a break and appearing as a guest on Yeonhee’s stream, to charging transportation fees for that, to the reason for appearing as a guest being because of the Big Package Squad controversy written on True Wiki and having to apologize.
I didn’t know why I had to explain myself to a convenience store part-timer, but it felt like I should.
Fortunately, there were no other customers besides me at this time.
“Ah… I’ll explain it well on the message board.”
The part-timer who understood the situation made an expression saying to trust only her, but that made me more anxious. Because “explaining well” and the atmosphere of my Tgether message board were completely different.
A message board where normal people were ostracized. That was sadly my message board.
After the explanation, I got 5,000 won charged on my transportation card and left the convenience store.
Still, I felt somewhat relieved. She said she would explain the series of events to viewers on my behalf. After all, she was taking over what I should have done.
After boarding the subway, I checked the message board on my phone.
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[Breaking news) Daeju taking break today and appearing on Yeonhee’s stream
Not clickbait, you’ll see when you check later but he’s scheduled to appear in Yeonhee’s cooking? poisoning? content at 10:30, but Daeju will probably join later due to being late
Why would an antisocial bastard who’s taking a break purposely appear on another stream with lots of people?
To apologize for the disgusting Big Package Squad’s wrongdoings lololol
Therefore, today’s break is something you guys brought upon yourselves lol
[Comments]
– So he’s still streaming even though it’s on another channel?
ã„´ But he’ll probably not say a word the whole stream and just eat the food and emotionlessly go “Ah… it’s delicious…” and end it
ã„´ A bastard who turns into a sunfish[1] as soon as he leaves his room.
– You’re saying he’s apologizing because of us? Ah this makes mindless sexual harassment feel a bit wrong lolol
ã„´ You shouldn’t do sexual harassment in the first place regardless of that;
ã„´ Shut up do you know the feelings of someone who does sexual harassment?
ã„´ Why is this person so confident
– Our fault? I don’t know, Daeju’s the one who didn’t stream but why blame us I’m getting mad Daeju you f***ing bastard I’m gonna~
ã„´ Their thought process is different from ours…
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This seems written fairly well.
Most people seemed to accept it as inevitable since they had read about their own controversy yesterday.
Although I was a bit anxious that the collab with Yeonhee was revealed earlier than intended, surely they wouldn’t cause chaos on someone else’s stream, not my own, surely not when I’m going through all this trouble because of that very reason.
Surely…
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(End of chapter)
T/N:
1. “Sunfish” (개복치): Refers to someone who becomes helpless or useless in certain situations
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