Let's Go Sing at the Coin Karaoke
When I asked Seoyeon what she was going to do after eating, she showed an extremely flustered expression. Why was she acting like this?
"Why?"
"Ah, that's because I was planning to just eat and go our separate ways."
"Ah, so Seoyeon had asked me to eat with her to take photos with me and a friend, right?"
"Really? Then shall we eat and part ways? I saw some arcades nearby, so I was thinking of going there to play a bit. But thinking about it, you have to start work tomorrow, so it might be better to go home and rest."
I didn't know what kind of job Seoyeon had, but if it was Monday, she'd probably start work, so she should rest on the weekend. It wouldn't be right to disturb her sweet weekend rest.
"Arcades? Minho, do you go to arcades?"
"Well... I did go to arcades when I was little, right?"
When I suggested going to an arcade, Seoyeon looked at me in surprise, as if she had discovered a legendary creature that only exists in imagination.
Did I say something strange again? Could it be that men in this world never went to arcades when they were little?
No way. That's impossible.
"Or we can go somewhere else. Do you have anything you want to do?"
"Me? If I had something I wanted to do..."
When Seoyeon heard my answer, she stared at my face intently. She stared at my face without saying a word for about five seconds, then suddenly jumped in shock and shook her head left and right.
Why was she doing that? What was she thinking that made her face slightly red?
"Ah, ahaha... so... coin karaoke is good too. The arcades around here don't have great facilities. Rather, let's go to the coin karaoke and sing to relieve some stress."
Coin karaoke... It's been a while since I last went to one.
I hadn't gone to karaoke rooms much in the past. I guess I should say it's embarrassing to go alone. But if I go with others, my singing skills aren't great, so I'd be embarrassed.
But the way Seoyeon looked at me seemed full of the desire to go.
So, she wanted to go with me?
It would be a shame to disappoint that expectation.
"Then let's go to the coin karaoke. But I don't sing well, so don't laugh when you hear it?"
"No way. We're not singers or anything. We can just sing loudly to relieve stress?"
Lee Minho and Seoyeon finished eating the dakgalbi quickly while chatting. It was definitely a restaurant worth recommending. The price wasn't expensive, and the portions were large, so it was a must-visit.
If I ever went to eat with someone else later, I could remember this place.
Seoyeon calculated the lunch bill as I had mentioned earlier. Originally, I had thought of going to a cafe, but I changed it to the coin karaoke right away.
Instead of buying coffee, I decided to buy singing time at the coin karaoke with my own money.
"This is something I can pay for too..."
"If you just take it, I'll feel bad."
"But... usually in these situations, the woman pays the bill. Think about my pride too~"
Ah, this is the gender-reversed world. Thinking about it, in the opposite situation now, if I were the woman...
Now I understand why Seoyeon said she would pay. In the original world, men usually paid for everything.
Even if I were the woman, a university student, and Seoyeon a working male, the working male would usually spend more.
But... this is between two people who are not yet lovers, right? Minho and Seoyeon aren't at that stage yet.
"Hmm... still, taking advantage too much is a bit burdensome for me too. We are... just friends, right?"
"Y, yeah... th, that's right... friends... ahaha..."
Seoyeon smiled awkwardly after hearing my words and walked away.
Hmm... why was she acting like that?
"Anyway! The facilities here at the coin karaoke are great. Let's go in."
I followed Seoyeon into the coin karaoke store she guided me to. This new place seemed definitely clean.
Ah, but thinking about it, I hadn't properly listened to songs in this gender-reversed world.
Why was this important? Because there was a possibility that the songs I knew were completely different in this world. In that case, there would be no songs to sing here.
Since nothing was confirmed yet, I should go in and check once.
After entering a random empty room at the coin karaoke, we put in the money for one hour and checked what each of us would sing.
First, I looked for songs I knew.
Let me see... among the songs, the ones I usually sang... ah, there it is. The song title and artist name match exactly.
I checked other songs one by one besides that. It might be a coincidence if only one matched, so I had to check all.
"Seoyeon, what song do you want to sing first? You choose."
When Seoyeon heard me, she picked a song first and stood up to grab the microphone.
While she did that, I quickly checked other songs and confirmed that the song title and artist name all matched.
Good, it seems all the songs I know exist in this world.
But there's one more problem.
The melody could be completely different even if the title and lyrics are the same. In that case, I'd be in trouble.
So, let's try it out.
I chose a ballad song from the ones I knew. It was one of the songs I always sang at karaoke, so if the melody changed, I'd immediately notice.
When I entered the number and pressed start, the melody started playing...
Ah, good. It was the exact melody I knew.
So, I didn't have to worry about singing the song.
I stood up and sang along to the flowing intro as enthusiastically as I could.
Wait, but it felt different from usual. Normally, in the highlight part, the note wouldn't rise to a certain level, but now it rose naturally.
It was as if I was singing freely. I was surprised even at myself while singing.
Why was this happening? Could it be... that my body from the original world and my body from this world have different singing abilities?
I thought both bodies were the same, but apparently not...
I sang the song cleanly to the end. When my song ended, Seoyeon, who was looking for what to sing next, stared at me blankly, then smiled brightly with applause.
"Wow... Minho, if you sing like that, what can't you sing? I thought you were a singer!"
"No, it's not like that... you're overpraising me too much. I messed up the lyrics in the middle too."
After confirming the song title, artist name, and melody, I thought the song would be exactly the same as I knew, but when it started, there were some parts that were a bit different.
For example, if it was a song about a man promising to protect a woman, in this gender-reversed world, the lyrics changed to the man promising to protect the woman, so I had to adjust in the middle.
"Still, you sang really well. I was really surprised."
After that, the two of us happily sang at the coin karaoke and parted ways.
@ Kang Seoyeon
Wow... really amazing...
Today is a day where I wonder if I can enjoy this kind of blessing.
It was because of the mission, but I was able to eat with Minho and take selfies while sticking close to him...
On top of that, we went to the coin karaoke and sang together. When I had a boyfriend in the past, my wish was to go to the coin karaoke with him and sing duet songs...
Even though I said at first that I couldn't sing well, when the song started, I sang as if I were a singer.
The pitch and rhythm matched perfectly, and my vocal ability was so good that I forgot to reserve the next song and just watched Minho sing quietly.
I didn't imagine that my wish would come true like this, even though he wasn't my boyfriend.
Yeah, he wasn't my boyfriend, though.
Still...
When I said it was for friends, it was a bit bitter.
Minho seems like a really peculiar man. I guess I should say his behavior patterns are completely different from what I heard in the community about men...
So, I guess I was feeling a bit thrilled.
He was quite good-looking too, and being with him made him look even more handsome.
Honestly, if my heart was the same, I wanted to play with Minho more and go somewhere, but I had to edit videos at home, so I had no choice.
However, since he promised to play with me again next time, I felt good.
If we meet like this once in a while, later...
Hehehe! Just imagining it makes me feel happy!
When I arrived home, before editing the video, I went into the Together community to check people's reactions. I check people's reactions every day, otherwise my popularity would drop.
It seemed like a really tough job.
Then, I noticed one post.
- Boss! Did you see this? It seems like we need to check it quickly.
Hmm... is this a fishing post? It seems like it's trying to lure me into the post with this title...
But when I saw the number of comments attached to this post, it was several times more than other posts, which was unusual, so I quickly entered.
The post content was roughly like this.
It was a community where streamers like me discuss streamer-related topics, and they were debating about one of the videos I posted.
What video was it... this one?
It was the video I posted recently with the high-tier player Eon-ya...
When I saw the content of the post that was criticizing this video, it was like this.
[Criticizing the streamer trying to climb tiers by duoing with the hacker and the high-tier player]
When you watch the video, the owner of this video is duoing in bronze tier and the skill seems a bit off.
Before meeting Seoyeon, looking at the records, it was just below bug level, but after meeting her, suddenly the skill improved a lot.
It's not just a slight improvement, the skill difference seems like a proxy is doing it lol
Check the records below and the video.
The post had the link to my video and a screenshot of the high-tier player Eon-ya's records. It was true that Eon-ya was really good, but it didn't seem like hacking...
There were various comments: one saying it's not hacking with a shield, one saying it's proxy hacking, one saying it doesn't seem like hacking but looks like a proxy, etc.
Normally, videos like this controversial one would be quickly cut. This time too, I was about to do the same, but one idea came to mind and I stopped.
Wait a minute, if I do it well, maybe the views will come in nicely?
All of these things now are because of the high-tier player Eon-ya. Then... shouldn't I make and upload a video saying that it's not hacking or proxying?