It Feels Like I've Arrived in a World Where Genders Are Reversed
It feels like I've come to a world where genders are reversed.
@ Lee Minho
Today is a happy Saturday.
I'm lying quietly on the bed in my room, watching YouTube on my phone.
Lying on the bed while receiving the gentle sunlight that soothes me is about as happy as it gets. There's nothing better than staying here forever without any interruptions.
With my body relaxed on the bed, I fiddle with my phone, swiping through various videos.
As I scroll, I come across baseball videos where a female player swings her bat and hits a home run...
In music videos, a male idol in a revealing outfit dances sexily and sings...
In variety shows, female celebrities mischievously smear dirt on each other's faces.
Even a movie summary video titled 'Sexy Male Three Musketeers' appears. Curious, I tap it open, and it's a film with three male protagonists taking down enemies with flashy action. The problem is that every time the men's chests or crotches are shown, it's in slow motion with a close-up. I immediately close the video at that part.
Then I try a news video.
"... Today's news is that a group that sexually exploited a group of runaway male middle and high school students has been arrested. It seems they lured the runaway underage male students to their hideout with money, forced them into illegal sex work, and used that as a pretext to blackmail them so they couldn't escape. The police are investigating the actions of multiple women who used sex work as a means..."
Heh heh, fuck.
It was male middle and high school students being sex trafficked. In my memory, such acts were mostly the opposite gender doing it.
But that's not even the case. It says women were doing it to male students. Well, it could happen, but I've never seen it so openly.
Is that all? Of course not. Yesterday's news also reported on an investigation into a female teacher who sexually assaulted a male elementary school student. The comments are full of words like "shota con girl."
It's really strange. According to the common sense I knew.
That's right.
In this world, male and female sexual desires have been reversed.
In my memory, women didn't show their sexual desires much, but they weren't absent. Here, the men seem to respond negatively to sex in general. After roaming the internet for a day since arriving in this world, I guess I should say that men despise the act of sex itself... thinking that inserting their penis, which is part of their own body, into a woman's vagina is dirty.
Conversely, the women seem to have strong sexual desires and want to release their urges.
Why did this happen?
Just yesterday, I was living an ordinary life. Then suddenly my head started throbbing with pain, and when I came to, I found myself in this world. I realized the world had changed while browsing the internet last night.
My body hadn't changed much. My name, where I live, family, everything the same. Since there were no relationships calling me, maybe I didn't notice the changes.
The first time I felt like I was living in a completely different world from the one I knew was after wandering through internet galleries and feeling a sense of incongruity.
Normally, in sex discussions, men would talk a lot about women, but here the opposite was true—there were many sex discussions about men. From there, something felt off, and what really confirmed it was the "rear view" posts.
In posts titled 'Rear View)', there are plenty of photos of women with chests and figures exposed. Because those posts are mostly visited by men.
But after my headache, the first rear view post I saw had many photos of men almost exposing their skin. Wearing tight clothes showing off muscular bodies, posing in clothes that only cover the chest, or close-ups of the male crotch area with things protruding.
My eyes were about to melt, and I expected the comments to be full of curses.
But when I looked at the comments...
Instead, there were overflowing comments of encouragement. From this point on, I truly felt the dissonance.
I couldn't believe such internet posts, so I went out and took the subway, where I saw two female high school students openly exchanging lewd jokes and was shocked. Even though there were people around, they were looking at their phones and laughing, saying they wanted to fuck the guy?
Even in a crowded subway, I got molested. By a woman, mind you.
She sneakily grabbed a handful of my ass hard and left, I don't know who did it. It wasn't unpleasant, but it was a bit odd. Wanting to molest a man with a sturdy build is surprising.
But it's not a completely different world from the one I lived in. It's not a world with magic from comics or novels, or a world war with guns and battles, or a world with gates where monsters pour out and hunters fight them.
It's just a very peaceful world. For someone with no abilities, that's fortunate.
The only change is that male and female sexual desires are reversed from my original world. Well, after checking the internet briefly, some historical figures' genders changed a bit, but the overall flow is almost the same.
The date is the same, and after discharge from the military, I was planning to enroll in this semester's classes.
My body hasn't changed much either. In novels, there's a setting where the body improves and the face becomes handsome, but why don't I have that?
It's not that I'm particularly disappointed. I'm not some sex maniac.
The protagonists in the gender-reversed novels I read used the changed world to bully women... I don't want to do that.
My motto is 'Live an ordinary life.'
Ordinary is the best. Well, what's going to happen?
Anyway, since it's a place where people live, I have to obediently live an ordinary life. Even if I struggle, I can't return to the original world.
But lying in bed makes my stomach empty.
Looking at the time, it's already 7 PM. So, is it hunger?
I force myself to sit up from under the blanket on the bed.
My head is messy from lying down, and washing my hair is troublesome. Anyway, when I get back to the room, I'll just get under the blanket again.
But when I look at my appearance in the bathroom mirror, I couldn't not wash it. My disheveled hair and dirty face and body looked bad even to me.
Ugh... troublesome...
I dragged my hungry body and started a quick shower, washed roughly, dried my hair, and prepared to go out.
Let's see... changing clothes is also troublesome.
I'm wearing a thin white T-shirt and shorts for comfort inside the house. Changing clothes to go out and then changing back to this? That's too troublesome.
Moreover, going to the convenience store nearby, changing clothes too? That's too much.
At times like this, the perfect thing is a long padding jacket. So, I just put on the long padding over my current state and zip it up.
Then I quickly walk to the convenience store.
"Welcome~"
As I enter, a female part-timer greets me lightly, and I nod slightly in response and pick up the cup ramen and zero cola I wanted to buy, heading to the counter.
The part-timer scans the barcode and tells me the price, and I reach for my wallet in my pocket to take out my card.
"Eh? Where did my wallet go."
I thought I put it in the long padding pocket, but when I search in my pocket, nothing is there.
This can't be... I definitely put my wallet away... Ah! Now that I think about it, I put only the card in the shorts pocket, not the padding pocket?
Remembering where the card is, I quickly unzip the padding and reach into the shorts pocket to take out the card.
- Bang!
Suddenly, a sound of something falling, I jump in surprise and look up, and there is the part-timer holding the barcode scanner that I dropped, her face turning bright red as she stares at me.
Huh? Why is she like that all of a sudden? I quickly take out the card and hand it to the part-timer, zipping up the padding.
Then the part-timer, looking embarrassed, carefully takes my card and calculates, then hands it back. Watching the part-timer who couldn't lift her face while I left with my purchases, I ponder if I did something wrong, but...
I have no idea.
Well, no need to worry about it? Anyway, let's go home and eat cup ramen.
While I'm spending such boring time, a man enters the store.
"Welcome~"
I naturally greet the customer. The person who came in is a man, and although he didn't respond to my greeting, he nods his head.
These days, men don't even glance at greetings, but this man is rare. Moreover, the man's face I glanced at isn't handsome enough to call flower-like handsome, but it's quite okay. Maybe today will be a good mood?
The man looks around the convenience store, picks up the cup ramen and zero cola, and comes to the counter. This is usual, so no thought, but...
"Eh? Where did my wallet go."
The man puts his hand in the long padding pocket and searches, muttering to himself. It seems he left his wallet at home. Since such people exist occasionally, I thought it was a common occurrence, but...
At that moment, the man suddenly lowers his long padding zipper in front of me!
Moreover, he's wearing a short outfit that shows all the skin of his limbs, and because of the white T-shirt with the neck stretched, his collarbone is clearly exposed. Upon closer look, since it's a white T-shirt, there's a slight see-through effect.
Shocked by the sight, I accidentally drop the barcode scanner I'm holding.
- Bang!
Hearing the sound of my barcode scanner dropping, the man takes out his shorts card with a surprised expression and stares at me.
Ah, fuck... Is this man going to show off like this and then complain why I'm staring? I've seen such stories on the internet where the guy shows it to you and then freaks out...
But luckily, the man doesn't mind and zips up again, handing me the card. I take the card, calculate, and hand it back to the man, who then leaves as if nothing happened.
O... I got to feast my eyes today.
I have to tell this story later on the internet~