The Cuckoo's Invitation
I downloaded the Cuckoo Club app. Netorare, or NTR, refers to a genre where someone steals another person’s lover. And if you go out of your way to mock the lover while doing the stealing, that’s the absolute cherry on top... It’s a genre that twists infidelity purely for the sake of arousal, satisfying a masochistic instinct by turning the victim into a complete idiot who can do nothing but watch. Of course, this is something that wouldn't happen in reality. There’s no way something like that could actually be real, right? But apparently, it wasn't entirely non-existent either.
"This can't be real, can it?" I let out a dry laugh, staring at the app in front of me. An app called the Cuckoo Club—it was a kind of... matching app that would find a partner for you if you uploaded your name and a photo of your face. Netorase, that is... how should I put this? It’s a genre where a boyfriend asks his own girlfriend to be held by someone else, and he uses the sight of it as material for masturbation...? Even saying it out loud made my head spin. Well, there’s no way this is a true story, so it’s probably just a scam. There’s no way it could be real. Besides, in this country, personal information has long since become public property, so nothing bad would happen anyway. Thinking vaguely along those lines, I casually took out my resident registration card and took a picture of it. The ID scanning feature, which was surprisingly well-made, scanned my photo without a hitch. As I stared blankly at the screen, a notification sound—ding!—signaled that the verification was complete.
[Welcome to the Cuckoo Club.]
[Lee Suhyuk, your rank is A-Grade.]
[You can raise your rank by receiving good evaluations from masochistic females. Please enjoy the females to your heart's content~]
"..." What the hell? Is this some kind of adult game? No, no, an adult game wouldn't ask for my resident registration number. Dumbfounded, I tilted my head and kept staring at the phone. How much time passed? The app finally finished loading and displayed a rather... strange window.
> Searching for females in the vicinity...
> Estimated time: 1 minute...
There are enough people using this app nearby that it only takes a minute? No way, that can't be right. Is it a scam? I kept watching, wondering if anything would actually happen, when another notification window popped up with a ding!
[Female found!]
[Accept][Decline]
No, no, what kind of game is this? Why is there a time limit? If I decline here, does it just crash or something? This is ridiculous. Suddenly, I became curious about what would happen if I pressed 'Accept'. I tapped the button, and a window popped up with a rather cheerful sound.
[Sex accepted]
Pfft— It’s only natural that I’d burst out laughing at such an abruptly dry message. I watched to see what would happen next, and the screen changed. And what popped up was, well...
[Lee Haneul is nearby.]
Along with a map, it showed a cafe nearby. "...They aren't going to harvest my organs, are they?" But no matter how crazy things are, they wouldn't just harvest organs in a cafe, right? Should I go check it out? But Lee Haneul? I’ve heard that name somewhere... where was it? Ah. That’s right. That’s the name of the newlywed woman who lives next door with her husband. Holy shit—