It's a Gender-Reversed World, But I Don't Go Out Anyway - Chapter 7

Chapter 7: Ice Cream

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I thought I was quite shy around strangers, but Yeonhee was on another level.

It wasn’t just that she couldn’t speak – there was this firm determination in her as if she’d never open her mouth unless I spoke first. Rather than her disliking me specifically, it felt more like she was just that shy around new people.

In hindsight, I wondered how she even managed to suggest doing a collab stream.

Or maybe she was the type to act first and regret later?

The fortunate thing was that seeing someone even more reserved than me somehow made me feel this meaningless sense of responsibility to take the lead, if only for the sake of the stream.

Though technically speaking, she probably had more experience and better broadcasting sense than me.

But anyway.

“Um, since you’ve already started streaming, should we warm up with some normal games?”

“Ah! That sounds good!”

[Why is she suddenly yelling?]

[She’s just excited because a guy is taking the lead]

[LOL why is a newbie streamer who’s been streaming for less than a week taking charge]

“Uh, today we won’t be playing with viewers even if you donate.”

“Pardon?”

“Ah, no, I’m sorry~ Some troublemakers in my chat were talking about donations…”

Her sudden comment confused me, so I checked the chat.

[Daeju looks so confused lol]

[That girl always takes money to play normal games with viewers]

[It’s not scamming, it’s ‘investment’ lol]

“Oh… that’s not bad.”

“See! Daeju-nim likes it too! You should try it next time!”

[???]

[Please… don’t get corrupted by her…]

[Maybe it’s not corruption but his true nature showing]

[But wouldn’t it feel better to get scammed by a guy anyway?]

[Come to think of it, you’re right]

[These idiots seem like they got shot in half their brain lol]

“Ah, I’m just kidding. But you know, it’s so hot these days and I need to buy an air conditioner…”

[MaedoHaeJwo has donated 20,000 won.]

Just as I spoke, a donation came in.

A whole 20,000 won. I was half-joking when I said it, but I didn’t expect to receive such a large amount right away. Like last time, there wasn’t any special reaction, so I was about to say thank you, but then I noticed the username.

A username asking to be “maedo” (Insulted0).

Speaking of maedo, what should I do?

“Um… This ‘maedo,’ it couldn’t be the stock market ‘maedo’ (selling), right?”

[LOL playing dumb again]

[Ah lol asking to take profit~]

[Getting 20k won and brushing off the reaction like this?]

Even though I had my Discord mic muted, I could hear Yeonhee snickering. She must have been watching my stream.

Of course, she might have been laughing at something else, but the timing was too perfect for that to be the case.

“No, I’ll give a reaction. For maedo, I just need to curse, right?”

[Isn’t that just straight-up cursing rather than maedo?]

[Who pays money to get cursed at?]

[There’s someone getting paid to curse too!]

[LOL just do whatever~]

The chat’s reactions were hard to explain, but they were clearly indicating this was different somehow.

But what could I do? I’d already received the money so I had to do something, and the normal game was about to start, so I decided to quickly give a reaction.

“Um… thanks for the 20k won, you idiot~”

[Isn’t this just plain cursing? lol]

[LOL what did we expect from our Daeju]

[This is fine in its own way.]

[Shortest maedo ever lol]

Anyway, after finishing the reaction, our normal game matched.

The problem was—

“These all look like stream snipers.”

“I’m so sorry… Daeju-nim…”

The usernames were obviously all stream snipers.

[Yeonhee’s Left Hand]

[Yeonhee’s Big Mouth]

[Yeonhee’s Right Breast]

“These usernames are something else.”

“I’m really sorry…”

[Is this Exodia?]

[This is straight-up horror lol]

[Hands, mouth, and breast. Aren’t these all masturbation tools?]

ㄴ [User has been kicked.]

[What a twisted mind lol]

Unlike Yeonhee who kept apologizing, I wasn’t too concerned right now.

What really worried me was whether we’d get many stream snipers during ranked games. Silver and Gold, for better or worse, were where most people resided, and while I was doing well with 100 viewers, Yeonhee was a major corporation with 3,000 current viewers.

If many viewers decided to stream snipe, some of them would likely succeed.

Even now in normal game, three of them had managed to snipe into the same team.

“Should we duo bot lane?”

“Then I’ll play support.”

“Thank you~”

[Does Yeonhee usually play support?]

[She plays everything]

[But she’s not good at anything lol]

[All-rounder (bad at everything)]

Naturally, the snipers took jungle, mid, and top, but since these were popular positions anyway, they accepted without complaint.

Or rather, they were surprisingly quiet despite being snipers. They were obviously sniping but quietly picking their champions as if they had nothing to do with it.

Were they unaware of their own usernames?

And when the game started—

“There’s nothing for us to do?”

“What’s with these guys?”

The game was blown wide open before even 5 minutes.

Our team’s overwhelming victory was apparent.

The snipers’ skills were far beyond what I’d expected.

[Yeonhee’s Right Breast] playing Master Yi… was slaughtering the enemy jungler while monopolizing both teams’ jungle camps, the mid Galio was pushing lane and constantly ganking bot and top where Yeonhee and I were, getting kills constantly.

Top lane was just stubbornly hitting towers, took all the tower gold, and was now hitting the second tower.

By 14 minutes, they were hitting the inhibitor tower.

Around 15 minutes, surrender vote passed.

In conclusion, we didn’t even get proper practice.

“…Well, it was just warm-up anyway.”

“True… Ah, Daeju-nim, just in case, let’s hide our LoL screen to prevent stream sniping.”

“Oh, should we?”

“And please check Discord.”

[What’s this]

[Why are these two getting friendly?]

[Because they’re both toxic]

[Why do toxic people call others toxic? Self-hatred?]

After one game, Yeonhee seemed much more comfortable.

Either I had become more comfortable or she was now talking more, and I started seeing glimpses of the Yeonhee I’d seen in her broadcasts.

Checking Discord, there was an image for covering the map.

[Yeonhee: Try applying this~]

Without thinking, I applied the image.

[What was that image just now lol]

[LOL did she give that to cover the map?]

[She’s telling him to cover the map with her picture lol]

[Real-time Yeonhee is muting her mic and beating her chair for giving the wrong image lol]

“Ah, well, I’ll make good use of it.”

“Ah, no! Could I give you something else?”

“No, this is fine~”

[LOL you devil]

[You’re good at streaming lol]

While Yeonhee was suffering from her real-time creation of dark history, the viewers’ reactions were good, so I decided to keep using it.

Ding dong.

Meanwhile, the doorbell rang.

“Oh wait, my ice cream’s here. I’ll go get it real quick.”

Along with the doorbell, my phone showed a delivery completion message. The ice cream I’d ordered and completely forgotten about had finally arrived.

Since the room was getting quite hot from streaming hard, this seemed like perfect timing, so I excused myself to Yeonhee and the viewers and ran out.

[It’s ice cream! Us, who are faithfully watching the stream! Us or the ice cream, pick one!]

[He already ran out]

[Such a bad guy… that’s why he’s more attractive…]

[Attractive X Arousing O]

I excitedly flung open the front door, but thinking about it now, I was probably too hasty. I’d forgotten how little time had passed since the bell rang and opened the door too quickly. I made eye contact with the delivery person who’d come to deliver the ice cream.

Up to here wasn’t a problem, but my current attire was a bit of an issue. Because of the sweltering heat and the fact that this was my private apartment, I was wearing comfortable shorts and for the top— well, nothing.

Plus, the delivery person was a woman.

We stared at each other in awkwardness. But thinking about it, maybe there was no need to be awkward? I mean, a man’s bare chest appears often in dramas and movies, and I hadn’t shown it intentionally. The problem was that those dramas and movies were from the previous world, not this reversed world, which was the real issue.

“S-s-s… Sorry!”

Suddenly, the female delivery person bowed deeply and left. Unexpectedly, she was the one who apologized. Thank goodness for this reversed world.

Not particularly concerned, I picked up the bag containing the ice cream. The order was correct, everything was there.

[What did Daeju do for a woman’s apology to be heard all the way here]

[But if the woman apologized, wouldn’t that mean she did something wrong?]

[I don’t know, Daeju must have done something wrong~]

[Maybe the delivery went to the wrong place?]

[I want to go to Daeju’s place by mistake too.]

“Ah, I left the mic on, well, doesn’t matter.”

“These things happen.”

“Can I eat some ice cream while the queue is running?”

“Oh of course! Go ahead~”

Even my collab partner said it was fine.

[Explain about the delivery person’s apology]

[Ex]

[plain]

[Ex]

[Sex]

[plain]

[Ex?]

Ignoring the fired-up viewers, I took out one Heat Hunter ice cream, split it in half, and ate it. My body had been hot enough to feel feverish, but just eating some ice cream quickly brought my temperature down. How did I survive this hot summer without ice cream until now?

Getting absorbed in the hot weather while eating, I forgot about the stream and just kept eating mindlessly.

When I suddenly came to my senses—

“Whew…”

[Oh…]

[This is…]

[Hey everyone, type in chat!]

[Kind of busy…]

[The ice cream eating sounds are, whew…]

The noticeably slower chat compared to before bothered me, but I decided to leave it be. Since there wasn’t much to talk about while queuing, the chat naturally slowed down, right? What was more curious was how Yeonhee, who had started talking more, suddenly went quiet again.

“Yeonhee-nim, are you okay? You’ve gone quiet.”

“…Huh? Ah, y-yes, I’m just very shy around new people.”

[LOL LOL LOL LOL]

[Let’s just say that’s why…]

[Yeonhee was focusing too]

The game matched and I shoved the remaining ice cream into my mouth. My teeth felt sensitive for a moment, but after breathing hot air a few times, it quickly felt better. As the bot duo set out, I had no idea that somewhere on the internet, a video containing the sound of me eating ice cream was starting to spread.

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(End of Chapter)

T/N:
Reverse ASMR lol.
From now on if it’s a small T/N I will put it in the same sentence. Do tell me if it becomes too disruptive.