Learning About the Gender-Reversed World
After eating lunch with Hyeji, I was about to say goodbye, promising to treat her to dinner next time. But when I saw Hyeji's expression, it looked like she was reluctant to part ways with me.
"Then let's see each other again tomorrow."
But since the semester started, a day has already passed. That means I'll be back at school tomorrow, and since we're in the same year and taking the same major classes, Hyeji and I are bound to meet again tomorrow.
"Ah, yes! Senior Minho, please be careful~!"
Hyeji, realizing the fact, waved her hand shyly towards me with a bright smile. I waved back and left the school grounds.
Hmph! It was really hard to handle the gaze while eating with Hyeji.
Because my eyes kept drifting to the bouncing chest in front of me, I was getting more and more embarrassed. I guess Hyeji, the person involved, must have felt it too...
Thankfully, in this world, the value of women's breasts is low, I suppose. More precisely, the value of large breasts is very low.
Honestly, I'm not stupid, so if I asked Hyeji if I could touch her breasts once, she'd probably happily agree. Or maybe she'd ask me if I'd feel bad touching her pig-like breasts.
I'd welcome the chance to touch breasts in this reality, but in this world, it feels like I'm taking advantage of the position of being a man. Should I say it makes me feel guilty?
I'm not some pervert driven by lust, and as someone who still has common sense from the original world, I don't want to cross the line. If I were to cross it, I would have gone out on weekends and hooked up with a woman I liked for one night. Or I would have lived the life of a playboy.
In novels set in the gender-reversed world that I've read a few times, the protagonist often acts in this way, but I don't want to act like them and want to live an ordinary life.
After leaving the school, I boarded the subway heading home. The subway was less crowded than the morning rush, so I sat in an empty seat and started researching the gender-reversed world on my phone.
First, what I've confirmed so far from my experiences:
1. The sexual desires of men and women are reversed. Men have a greatly reduced desire for sex, while women are always ready to have sex with men at any time. Maybe some people get excited just by seeing men...
2. Even without sexual desire, when men choose women, the most important thing they look at is women's breasts. Hyeji I met today is a good example. She has a normal attractive appearance that would rank among the top in general looks, but she's called a pig just because her breasts are extremely large. It makes me suspect there's an inexplicable hatred for large breasts.
3. In the opposite of the original world, isn't it that men are strong in liberal arts and women in science? In the original world, going to engineering would make you a rare female in the class, but today when I entered the lecture hall, there were fewer than five men including me, and the professor was also female. I was really surprised. I think my guess is correct.
These are about three things, but there might be more if I look it up.
1 was immediately known, so now I'm just going with it. 2 was confusing at first. I quickly scrolled through photos of female idol appearances on my phone in the subway, and there was not even one woman who looked like she had at least B-cup breasts.
It was all flat, and there was no one with a glamorous impression. Looking at people cast in current popular dramas, there were no large breasts.
At this point, it seems like the hatred for being called large-breasted is justified. I wonder if breast reduction surgery is more popular than plastic surgery.
I also quickly searched about 3 on my phone, but it wasn't completely accurate. It's true that women prefer science over men, but it doesn't mean men hate science classes. It seems like just today's class had a higher female ratio.
Other than that, in sports, women's sports seem to be more popular than men's. Usually, soccer, baseball, basketball, which are widely watched, show games played by women, and it seems they show men's games equally.
While researching various things about sports, I discovered an odd photo that was completely different from my common sense. What is this?
What caught my eye was a male swimsuit.
If I were to imagine male swimsuits based on the standards of my original world, most would think of short pants that cling to the legs. But in this world, the swimsuits men wear when swimming are a bit different.
First, there are people wearing full-body swimsuits that cover the skin, and I didn't have much discomfort with that. Such swimsuits didn't exist in my world either.
But there was a man wearing what I thought were swim trunks, but on his upper body, he was wearing a swimsuit as if he was wearing a bra. Like, not showing his chest at all.
Other than the shape being slightly different, the common feature of male swimsuits was not only covering the important parts but also covering the breasts so they wouldn't be visible.
When I thought about why they cover men's breasts, the answer came quickly.
This world is a gender-reversed world.
That is, one of the points women are picky about regarding men seems to be men's breasts. So, they cover men's breasts completely so they aren't visible.
I'm glad I didn't confirm this earlier...
Since I didn't have much aversion to seeing the upper body, if I took off my shirt because it was hot, I might have been rumored to be a pervert. Or I might have been harassed by crazy women who got excited by my appearance.
I don't know if there's that much demand for me, though.
Even if I skimmed internet communities about men's bodies, I saw that women are crazy about men's breasts. In a post with a warning label, there was a photo of men's breasts exposed, and the comments were:
Okay, I think I got a good idea of the women's state.
As I checked on my phone, I arrived near home, got off the subway. There might be more to check, so let's check at home.
Since I'm out, let's buy some dinner.
Went into the nearby mart, picked up cooking ingredients that don't take much time, like eggs, spam, kimchi from the mart, and while putting in the basket and walking, I felt a sense of incongruity.
Huh? What's this? Something strange...
Ah! I realized what the incongruity was.
It was that most of the people shopping in the mart were men.
Thinking from the original world standard, at this time, the person shopping would usually be the mother who is a full-time housewife. But now, overwhelmingly, the people I see are men. Or men and women shopping together.
Just in case, I searched, and sure enough, full-time housewives are mostly men. Since I haven't met my parents in this gender-reversed world, I didn't know this part either.
Rather, if the world had changed when I was at my hometown house, I could have known this to some extent from the different roles of my parents, but since I live alone, I didn't expect it at all.
From my perspective that I can't return to the original world, maybe the scenes I see now are my future.
I quickly grabbed the items and left the mart. Then at home, I put the items from the mart in the fridge and looked for anything I missed, but nothing more came out.
"For now, I get it. Ugh... I woke up early this morning, so I'm a bit sleepy, but let's take a short nap and wake up."
I changed into comfortable clothes and lay on the bed for a short nap.
"Puhaha! What is this? Hahaha!"
I came home, took a short nap, turned on today's broadcast, and was laughing with the viewers while browsing the humor board. It was surprisingly funny, and laughter came out naturally.
While watching the viewers enjoying it, I felt satisfied. Donations came in quite a lot more than usual.
"Ah, I've seen today's humor board. Now, shall we move on to the next content..."
Then, the event that happened today came to mind.
It was that the Minho who saved me from the groper was actually a student at the same university as me, the same age.
It would be really good to tell this as a story, but I hesitated to speak.
If Minho didn't watch internet broadcasts at all, I could say it without hesitation, but since he said he watched my broadcast, if I blabber here, I might reveal my identity.
I did a no-cam broadcast, but it wouldn't cause a big stir even if my face was exposed. If a man does a no-cam broadcast, he'd be spread all over the internet as a red pill, but I'm a woman.
What I was worried about wasn't the broadcast elements, but how Minho would think about me.
We've exchanged numbers, and honestly, I wanted to meet him again. We met in an unbelievable fate.
It was like a series of events that would appear in comics or movies.
But if Minho knew I was a streamer, he might not like me, but since he said he enjoyed watching my broadcast, maybe it's okay.
I was lost in thought, and when I emptied the audio and stayed quiet, question marks flew up in the chat, asking what was going on.
Hey, let's just throw it out!
After all, I'm going to live as a streamer, so if I hate it, it's someone who doesn't match me, whatever. And watching internet broadcasts isn't necessarily hating the broadcasting woman, right?
"Ah, sorry, sorry everyone. It's just that today's event came to mind. You know, I told the groper story yesterday? But today~~"
I told the story of my meeting with Minho as fun as possible. I didn't mention Minho's name or the university, but if Minho hears this story, he'll know it's about himself immediately.
I wonder if he's watching my broadcast now. Or if not, if we meet again, I have to tell him myself.
When the topic of men came up, the chat started burning again. As expected, women can't help but react to men's stories. Well, I'm one of those women too. I talked for about an hour and a half with this story.
Since I completely deviated from the original plan, I just decided to play the game.
"Today, I'm definitely going for silver."
While looking at the chat of bad viewers and trying to play rank game, I recalled the Gosu Unnya I met last time and checked, and Gosu Unnya was online.
I quickly sent a whisper to Gosu Unnya.
"My dream is to escape the mines: Gosu Unnya hi hi, is duo possible today too?"
"WlrTkqjflrlrhtn: Yeah, possible. I'm in the middle of a game now, so wait a bit."
Aish! I have to duo today and take the bus.