A Tournament Invitation
Would you like to go to the tournament with me?
I felt like I had been suffering from a hangover all day on Sunday. According to my sister, I hadn't even drunk half a bottle of soju, but at some point, my condition started to feel off.
No matter how bad my alcohol tolerance was, I didn't think I had ever gotten drunk that quickly...
Why was that? It was fortunate that I hadn't caused any trouble, but...
Since I knew something had gone wrong, I just had to be careful from now on. Maybe I should refrain from drinking as much as possible in the future.
Even though I hadn't drunk much, I got drunk in an instant.
I lay in bed, unable to play the games I did every day, and thought about why I had gotten drunk so quickly.
The conclusion I came to was simple.
That my current body was not completely the same as my body from the original world. Up until now, I had thought it was almost the same, but it seemed not.
Thinking about it, my body was almost the same as my original body but with slight differences. When I casually looked closely at my handwriting at school, it was a bit different from the handwriting I knew. And when I went to a coin karaoke with Seoyeon, I sang much better than in the original world.
Considering this time's blackout incident as well, it seemed that my original body and this world's body were not completely the same.
I had thought they were the same, but I didn't expect there would be such differences...
I really couldn't have imagined it. After all, coming to this gender-reversed world itself was an unbelievable situation.
I had to be careful about these differences as they came up.
And so, Monday came, and I arrived at school as usual.
When I arrived at school, Hyeji, who had been waiting in front of the entrance as if she had been waiting for me to come, ran towards me and greeted me. Then, upon seeing my face, she was startled and looked at me with worried eyes and asked.
"Hello, Minho-senpai~ Uh, senpai... Is there somewhere not feeling well?"
"Hello, Hyeji. It's because my body condition isn't great..."
"What?! Did you catch a cold? You shouldn't do that, you should go to the hospital right away!"
Hyeji, who was fussing about me being sick and saying I should go to the hospital, was a little grateful. It meant she was worried about me that much.
"Ah, it's not a cold, it's because of a hangover, a hangover."
"Hangover... huh?"
"I had plans on the weekend, remember? I drank a bit with the person I met that time, but I didn't know my own limit well and drank too much. That's why the hangover is still there and my head hurts a bit."
Hmm? When I mentioned that I drank on the weekend, Hyeji's eyes, which had been looking at me with concern, changed to a somewhat cold feeling.
"Senpai... You said the person you met on the weekend was a woman, right?"
"Uh... that's right...?"
Hyeji, upon hearing my words, was silent for a moment and seemed lost in thought. It was a bit surprising that she suddenly came out like this.
"... I guess I have no choice, I have to make it a fait accompli..."
And I heard Hyeji muttering in a small voice.
Fait accompli?
What is this? It might be a bit scary.
"Senpai, then is your schedule free this weekend this week? If it's okay... would you like to go out somewhere with me?"
"Me? I don't have any plans this week... Ah!"
I was about to tell Hyeji that I didn't have plans on the weekend, but I had forgotten.
"Sorry, Hyeji. I have a plan this weekend too. I got caught yesterday."
"Is that so... That's a bit unfortunate... If I had known this, I would have made plans last week."
"It's not like we're going to play, we can play next time. Or we can play for a bit on a weekday."
Hyeji and I see each other every day because of school, and since Friday is a day off, we don't need to meet on the weekend separately; we can go out after classes on Thursday.
"Then, senpai, let's go out together on Thursday! I'll prepare something that senpai would like!"
"Eh? We can decide what to do together..."
"No! I'll decide. I learned that it's the woman's job to decide and make the man enjoy it!"
The fire in Hyeji's eyes made me unable to refuse. Since she was the one who liked it, and I had no reason to refuse, I might as well try Hyeji's course once?
"If you say so... Okay. Please take care."
"Yes, senpai!"
Hyeji and I walked together to the first general education class.
So, going out with Hyeji on Thursday... and on the weekend, I'll meet Seoyeon?
The plan I told Hyeji was made because I received a call from Seoyeon yesterday.
@ Kang Seoyeon
While I was taking a day off on Sunday and resting, I received a Discord call from my colleague streamer Diyu.
"What? It's a tournament where a normal person joins the team with one person?"
"That's right? Do you want to participate too?"
"Um... but I don't really have anyone to participate with..."
What Diyu introduced to me wasn't about the streamer tournament. It seemed like it was about participating in the streamer tournament. Sometimes Twitch hosts various game tournaments with sponsors, and this seemed to be one of those cases.
In addition, this time, not only streamers but also normal people who don't broadcast were participating in the tournament?
Since I had some career as a game streamer, I had participated in tournaments before, but this way of holding a tournament was new to me.
"Usually, you pick one from the viewers watching the broadcast and go. After all, it's not like you're trying to win the tournament no matter what? For us, as long as we bring in viewers by going to the tournament, it's more than breaking even."
"That's true, but..."
Winning the tournament and taking the prize money would be good, but to do that, it would take a lot of time and effort for the tournament, and since I was already doing personal broadcasting, focusing only on the tournament was a bit burdensome.
"It might be okay if you join the team with me. What do you think? You and I have some experience playing such tournaments."
"That's true, but..."
If I were to go to the tournament alone, I could have gone anyway. But the fact that I was going with a viewer was bothering me.
I would definitely select well, but the fact that I couldn't know what impulsive actions the viewer going with me would take was bothering me. It would be better to go with someone I know.
The problem was that there were almost no normal people around me who knew I was a streamer. Since becoming a streamer, my contact with friends had decreased a lot, and it wasn't something to ask family for...
Since there were no acquaintances, it would be good to politely refuse...
Hmm?
Thinking about it, there was one.
Although there was no guarantee that they would fulfill my request, there was one person who was worth asking at least.
"What, if you don't want to go, then there's no choice. Then I'll assume you won't be going..."
"Wait, hold on!"
"Eh? What suddenly?"
When I showed my intention to refuse, I immediately grabbed Diyu who was about to leave the Discord.
"When do I have to apply for that? Is it to be done today?"
"Ah, it's not today, you can apply by next Wednesday. But why? Did you suddenly get the urge to go?"
As Diyu said, I immediately got the urge to go.
"Uh, so wait a little. I'll contact the person I want to go with."
I immediately called... Lee Minho.
"Hello? Seoyeon, I called."
"Ah, Minho!"
The one I called was Minho.
"What's up on the weekend suddenly?"
"That's what I mean... Want to go to the tournament with me?"
I explained the current situation to Minho.
"Ah, so you're trying to select one from the viewers to go to the tournament with the streamer, and you want to ask me to do it?"
"Yes, this isn't something you have to win first place at, so you don't have to worry too much. Just think of it as a fun experience. You'll have fun going to the tournament with me too. If you do well and take the prize money, it's a win-win."
I desperately persuaded him in case he might refuse.
This opportunity could serve as a reason to be with Minho.
I heard somewhere that if a woman is too pushy with a man she's interested in, the man gets a backlash. So, instead of approaching too closely, approach like this, with some reason to be together.
Honestly, whether I did well or not in this tournament wasn't important to me. Even if I came last in the tournament and got roasted by the viewers, it didn't matter.
As long as I could go with Minho, I had to overcome any adversity!
By approaching Minho naturally with such special things and increasing the number of meetings, Minho might develop feelings for me?
In addition, if I decide to go to the tournament, I could naturally invite Minho to my broadcast under the name of practice.
On the day Minho appeared as a guest, it would be several dozen times the money I usually earned, so this is also financially beneficial.
So, I was earnestly hoping that Minho would accept my proposal,
"Um... I have to see what game it is, but I'll go with it for now. Let's see the detailed content tomorrow evening."
Yes! When Minho said he would go to the tournament with me, I jumped up and down in my room.
"Okay. Then I'll assume we'll be going to the tournament~ Let's meet at the Starbucks cafe we went to last time. Same time! And maybe leave the weekend time open? We'll have to practice together while doing it."
Minho hung up the phone with the words okay.
Good... I had set up the angle to do this with Minho.
I am really a genius?
The disappointing part was that it wasn't just Minho and me playing the game, but a total of 4 people, so the team would be me, Minho, Diyu, and the normal person Diyu brought, 4 people.
I had to make sure Diyu or the woman Diyu brought didn't hit on Minho...