It's a Gender-Reversed World, But I Don't Go Out Anyway - Chapter 40

Chapter 40: Gacha

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“Ah… there’s a gacha rate-up event this time…”

While checking the promotional emails, I finally understood the advertiser’s intentions.

With the rates increased like this, even if someone with notoriously bad luck like me manages to pull decently with the rate-up, people would react like ‘Even that streamer pulled this well?’

And going further, they might think ‘If even he can pull that well, maybe I can too.’

The advertiser must be sincerely hoping I pull well this time.

I want to live up to those expectations.

Sincerely.

“…I should probably play the game a bit?”

The game I hadn’t touched since then still hadn’t even reached level 10. I originally didn’t prefer mobile games, and honestly, I never thought there’d come a day when I’d play this game again. Still, since I agreed to do an advertisement broadcast, I figured I should diligently level up.

“Huh? Was this game always like this?”

My face scrunched up as soon as I saw the loading screen.

I saw a delicate pretty boy with suspiciously glossy skin doing a victory pose with his arms spread wide, and while trying to appear normal, there was something… something not normal about it. The red flush on his cheeks that caused discomfort, just by looking at it made me feel unpleasant.

It’s just a picture of guys swimming together, so why is there a male character blushing?

And what appeared to be swimming trunks were positioned slightly lower than usual, revealing the pubic bone, and I never thought I’d see such a scene in a fantasy-style game in my life. Not just that one character, but centered around that pretty boy, various male characters in swimsuits that emphasized their individual features were showing off their bodies in a circle.

Was this game always like this?

Wasn’t it just that kind of normal fantasy game?

I don’t know what happened during this short time, but the game had completely changed.

Unlike me, the users who had been playing this game seemed to welcome this change positively. When I checked the game’s official cafe to see people’s reactions, they were excited about the male characters in swimsuits, saying that now it’s finally worth pulling.

I silently decided to just focus on leveling up my character.

***

[Hey guys, think I’m doing an ad broadcast today, how’s that?]

Not great?

[Comments]

– Will you not do it if we say it’s not great?

ㄴ Like he wouldn’t do it lol. This guy always camps the board but doesn’t care about public opinion

– Everything except underwear ads is not great though

ㄴ What kind of ad do you think it’ll be?

ㄴ Probably a game, who else would give him ads?

– Instead of wasting time checking public opinion with weird posts, if you just start streaming we’ll naturally like it, you’re so clueless

ㄴ We should nurture our baby streamer while letting him know about broadcasts

***

After roughly checking public opinion, I started the stream.

“Hi everyone, nice to meet you~”

[Today’s greeting is 20 times more cringe than usual]

[Department head’s way of talking is super gross]

[Is there a streamer who gets cursed at for just giving a cheerful greeting once?]

[Yeah, there is]

The viewers hated the forced high tension I put on for the advertisement. Though it might have been the way of speaking rather than the high tension that they disliked.

On my screen was the mobile game I had seen before, and my character was now level 30. The story difficulty was lower than expected, and thanks to buying a good package last time, I continued leveling up by brute forcing through.

Actually, this wasn’t really a high level either, but it looked much better than my low-level self from earlier.

[??? They gave you another ad here?]

[The advertiser must be… maybe they’re stupid…?]

[They make shitty games because they do stuff like this, damn]

[Here to see Lord Bankruptcy^^]

[Oh my, such a humble person in such an esteemed place…]

“With today’s update, there’s guild battles! And they’re doing a gacha rate-up event, so I turned it on again.”

[Translation: Got another ad from these guys lol]

[Whatever, just do the gacha quickly lol]

[The world’s worst guild about to be born]

[Guild battles updated with our streamer? This is se*x.]

[I keep telling you that’s not what se*x is, yet you keep doing this…]

“Come on everyone… this is an ad broadcast, so let’s take it easy.”

[This is already taking it easy]

[For real, don’t you appreciate our effort?]

[Keep acting like this and we might flip this ad broadcast upside down?]

ㄴ [Has been forcibly removed.]

[I didn’t say anything!]

After toning down the chat’s spiciness once, I continued.

Even for chat messages that I would normally just laugh off, I gave warnings since it was an ad broadcast. Though I’ve become somewhat desensitized to it, our viewers’ chat level could be startling to people who don’t watch my broadcasts.

First, I decided to create a guild before trying out the guild battles as requested in the advertisement.

Since I didn’t think I’d continue playing this game beyond just trying it out, I decided to name the guild casually.

“I’ll name the guild ‘DaejuKingChamp'”

[Oh fu*k no]

[I think I’ll be too embarrassed to join]

[Daeju’s broadcast is the most embarrassing thing but you’re making excuses]

[Your naming sense seems to be stuck in 2002…]

[For real… enjoying the 2002 World Cup all by yourself][1]

Despite saying that, guild join requests were flooding in as soon as I created it.

I skipped accounts that were too low level or had obviously trolling IDs. Even after ignoring those IDs, there were plenty of people applying, so reaching the guild’s maximum capacity of 30 members was easy.

“Now, how do I do guild battles?”

[???]

[Didn’t you receive the ad instructions?]

[Advertiser crying right now]

[Go to guild and there’s guild battle written in bottom right]

“Ah,”

When I checked after seeing the chat, it really was there, flashing as a huge icon.

In a position that would have been impossible to miss if I had checked even once beforehand.

“Ah~ I knew that, why did you tell me~”

[?]

[Insert harsh words]

[Insert ‘don’t piss me off, you bastard’]

[That seems harsh enough without the ‘insert’ part]

I opened guild battles and checked how it worked, but while it was called guild battles, it was essentially a guild raid where guild members work together to defeat designated boss monsters. Of course, the boss monsters would be strong enough to handle even 30 guild members attacking. I confidently challenged it but.

“This is made wrong?”

[This is an ad broadcast, you know]

[It’s your character that’s wrong lol, what do you expect with just one 5-star]

[How can a human beat a dragon lol]

When I entered the raid called guild battles, some huge dragon wiped out my party in just two hits.

If I had died to a flashy breath attack or a tail swing, I wouldn’t even complain, but my party was shattered by some short foreleg swipe. Well, I agree my party isn’t good, but it still felt a bit anticlimactic.

“Well, this is when we do gacha”

Going to the gacha screen, I could see the men in swimsuits from the loading screen in even more varied poses. Even though summer was almost over, their shameless outfits seemed to have adopted swimsuits purely for the sake of exposure.

“Ugh…”

While I made a somewhat disgusted expression at that sight, the chat’s reaction was different.

[Super love super love woohoo woohoo woohoo]

[Look at that one gorilla that escaped lol]

[This level of exposure is what makes it 6-star worthy]

[For real lol who fights in armor these days? So sweaty lol]

[Pull our 6-star swimsuit Yubin for us♡]

[No nak*ed female characters?]

[Why are you looking for that]

While everyone’s reactions varied, most seemed to like it.

Personally, since all the 6-stars were male characters in swimsuits this time, I actually wanted to pull the unique 5-star female character with heterochromia and short hair.

Since they said the pull rates were greatly increased, maybe even I could pull it.

“Here we go!”

Without hesitation, I clicked right away, and a box in a color I’d never seen before appeared.

Not the usual blue, purple, or even the yellow color of 5-stars, but an ethereally and softly glowing rainbow-colored beautiful box appeared from the very first gacha.

“Huh? Huh? Is this right? Is this a 6-star?!”

Not expecting it to appear right from the start, I shouted in excitement and looked at the chat—

[Rigged rigged rigged]

[This can’t be happening wtf]

[Who are you? You’re not our streamer, our streamer can’t pull stuff like this!]

[Congra…congratulations… speaking of congrats, Tottenham for football!][2]

Judging by the reactions, this really must be a 6-star.

Now all I could desperately pray for in my heart was please don’t let it be that swimsuit guy from the loading screen

When I clicked the box, a flashy effect appeared along with dialogue.

5-stars didn’t have this kind of production, as expected 6-stars were different in every way.

(Diving into your heart!)

“F*ck”

[Excuse me?]

[Lololololol he actually cursed for real]

[Is the line that bad?]

[For real? Isn’t that fine?]

[If that looks fine to you, you’ve lived your life wrong]

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(End of Chapter)

T/N:

1. The “2002” references refer to the 2002 FIFA World Cup co-hosted by Korea and Japan

4. The Tottenham reference in the chat is a non-sequitur joke, common in Korean internet culture where people randomly bring up Tottenham Hotspur Football Club