Don't Monopolize!
I didn't want to be monopolized! The boss had told me to stay quiet in the room, so I lay down on the bed and spent a little while browsing the gallery.
“No way, how did they figure that out?!”
Yet I was caught immediately. Was it because my brain had gone full ttyuttya? I couldn’t even come up with an excuse.
Knock knock knock!
“The beat’s nice.”
I was bouncing along to the rhythm coming through the door when—
Bang!
“Huh?”
The door flew open like it had exploded. A familiar face burst inside.
“Yeon-woo!!”
The light honey-colored eyes that entered the room stared straight at me.
“......”
“......”
She rubbed her eyes as if she’d seen something impossible.
“Yeon-woo...?”
Step. Step.
Then she walked right up to me.
“Th-that is...”
Before I could force my ttyuttya brain to spit out an excuse, Eos leaned in close and stared intently at my face.
Then—
She thrust her hand straight into my pants—no, into my panties.
“W-wait!”
Grab!
...She touched it.
“Kyaa?!”
It was incredibly humiliating.
“......I’ll go deal with the other kids for a bit. You three talk among yourselves.”
“Boss...!”
The boss I had trusted abandoned me and left the room. It felt like she was giving them the green light. In an instant, the small room that had been my private space turned into a prison containing two intruders.
“For real, this is Yeon-woo?!”
Rina’s disbelieving gaze flew at me right away.
“It’s certain. This is Yeon-woo.”
Eos cut her off with a single decisive phrase from the side.
“That...”
Seeing her so confident made me genuinely curious.
“Eos? How on earth did you know? My identity?”
Clearly the current me and the old Ha Yeon-woo looked completely different. At the very least, we didn’t look similar enough for anyone to recognize us at a glance.
But the moment Eos entered the room, after staring at me for just a second, she had realized I was Ha Yeon-woo. It was as if she were looking at my very essence—
“Because the phone was exactly Yeon-woo’s phone.”
“...Huh?”
“The case, the model, even the way you hold the phone—anyone would know it was Yeon-woo.”
“Um...”
I looked down at the Apple phone in my hand. That damn outsider again? He really never did me any favors. Maybe I should ask the boss to buy me the latest flagship.
“And given the circumstances, there’s no one else the boss would hide in that room but you.”
“That... is true, I guess?”
It was an answer that left me speechless in every way. At this point, denying it would just be ridiculous.
“So what happened to that body?”
“Th-that is...”
I repeated the same explanation I had given the boss before. I left out the part about leaving a malicious comment while browsing and simply said that when I woke up, my body had become like this.
“......Stop lying.”
“I-it really is the truth?”
While I was desperately dodging Eos’s interrogation—
“Can I touch it once?”
Rina immediately grabbed me and placed her hand on my chest.
Squeeze!
“Kyaaaang!”
I hadn’t given permission for kneading yet...!
“Wow... the texture is insane...”
Rina stared blankly at her own hand, as if she couldn’t believe it even after touching it herself.
“Hey! Why is only Rina touching?!”
“W-wait—!”
Squeeze!
Right after, Eos kneaded the other breast.
This wasn’t about maintaining chest balance or anything!
“Wow... fuck.”
“Insane... I lost to Yeon-woo.”
“S-stop...!”
A strange sense of immorality washed over me. Rather than feeling excited by the touching, the thought that this was something that should never be done made me swing my hands to push them away.
Swat!
...As if. My wrists were caught instead.
“Hehe...?”
“Is this the end of your resistance?”
“Uh...”
No matter how I moved my hands, they wouldn’t budge.
...It seemed my ttyuttya body had far worse specs than it appeared from the outside.
“This means you want more, right?”
“Seems like it, seems like it!”
“Ah, no...!”
And so with the two of them...
“......Just kidding.”
“There’s no way we’d actually rape Yeon-woo.”
...we didn’t. In the end, the two of them still respected the final line.
“Is this why you stopped coming to the company?”
Rina sat down beside me on the bed after releasing me and asked carefully.
“Y-yes...”
“Still, couldn’t you have at least told us?”
“That’s...”
How was I supposed to explain it... the fact that my body had changed into a woman’s and my entire identity had vanished along with it...
“It must have been hard to say. For you too, Yeon-woo.”
Eos, sitting on the opposite side, gently placed her hand over mine.
“Eos...”
“In the adult webtoons I’ve read, the world’s laws usually rewrite everything so the person was always a woman in that timeline. But looking at our situation, that doesn’t seem to be the case.”
“Huh?”
...Eos? Did you really need to brag about your toilet paper collection at a time like this?
“Which means your identity stayed the same while only your body changed. If this gets out, men would just thrust straight into you.”
“Oh...? That’s true.”
Hey, Rina, don’t nod along with that? Aren’t you two supposed to be idols? Our company is officially an idol entertainment agency, you know?
“So I understand why you’re hiding at the boss’s house. ...However!”
Eos lifted my hand and stared straight into my eyes.
“I want you to trust me as much as you trust the boss. I may not have money like she does, but I can return the favor for all the help you’ve given me until now!”
“That...”
It was a touching line, but...
“...You always tell me to repay the debt every time we meet because you hired me.”
The person who always taps my shoulder and thanks me for getting hired shouldn’t be saying that!
“That was a joke! Yeonu-yeonu!”
“Eek?!”
Whoosh! I was thrown back onto the bed.
“Uh...”
“......”
Was it just my imagination, or did Eos’s gaze as she looked down at me seem a little dangerous?
“So you’re going to keep staying at the boss’s house and not come to the company?”
“Eek!”
Thanks to Rina’s perfectly timed interruption, Eos hurriedly stood up.
“Probably... if my body doesn’t go back to normal, it looks like I’ll have to...”
“......”
“......”
Their stares felt heavy, so I quickly added.
“Ah! But once my submitted leave ends, the boss said it’s fine for me to work from home. Probably starting next week...”
Before I could finish, the two exchanged glances.
“......Eos.”
“......What is it, Rina.”
“Let’s talk for a second.”
Nod!
“?”
As if I wasn’t supposed to hear, Rina grabbed Eos’s arm and headed for the bathroom.
“......”
“......”
“......”
“......”
“The soundproofing is insane. Damn.”
After a short period of whispering from inside, they came back out.
“Yeon-woo.”
“Yes?”
Rina and Eos stood in front of me with determined expressions.
“Honestly, the boss’s method is a little coercive, but I don’t think it’s bad.”
“Pardon? Yes, well...”
The kidnapping-and-confinement format was a bit much, but it was the best way to protect someone without an identity.
“That said, staying only here does come with some inconveniences, doesn’t it?”
“Not really? I can go anywhere on the third-floor lobby, so there’s no inconvenience?”
“......”
“......”
“Plus delivery food comes straight up to the third floor...”
“......”
“......”
“Um...”
...Why are you two raising your hands? What’s with those weird gestures that look like you’ll pounce the moment I say the wrong thing?
“......Actually, it is a little inconvenient.”
The moment I surrendered to their silent pressure—
“Then, Yeon-woo.”
“Yeon-woo.”
“Y-yes?!”
The two of them pressed their faces close to mine and held out their hands as if they had rehearsed it.
“From now on, Eos will help too!”
“From now on, Rina will help too!”
“Uh...”
...Help with what, exactly?
“Sigh...”
It had been an intense battle.
‘Where is Yeon-woo!!’
‘Just because she’s the boss, she gets to do whatever she wants?!’
‘Take this! Chup chup chup chup chup!’
‘Hepta Pascal Kick!’
The second generation came rushing in from every direction.
‘Yeon-woo! Where are you, Yeon-woo!’
‘My senses say it’s the basement!’
‘Isn’t the basement where the third generation trainees are?’
‘Open the third-floor door!!’
Hera and the first generation were searching for me in their own chaotic ways. Even without the two most vicious ones, we barely managed to hold the line. Of course, the only thing we successfully defended was the final line.
“I’m sleeping here tonight.”
“Me too.”
“Is it okay if I use one of the computers while I’m here?”
“I’ll do today’s stream from here.”
“Thank you, boss.”
“You crazy girls. I haven’t given permission yet.”
They boldly claimed rooms one by one right in front of the homeowner. They even split up the members to search from basement level two all the way to the second floor in their hunt for me.
During all that, the two worst offenders finally came downstairs.
“Oh, did you find her?”
“No. Couldn’t find her.”
“She wasn’t on the third floor either?”
“......”
Eos and Rina lied without a shred of shame even though they had already seen me. As expected, their goal was obvious. I still didn’t know what kind of VTubers they were, but they were perfect villains.
“Where the hell did she go? Yeon-woo?”
“There must be more places left to search! Comb the place!”
“I’ll check the yard!”
While the members who still hadn’t caught on continued searching the house—
“Boss. Let’s talk privately.”
“Me too.”
“......”
Eos and Rina pulled her into a corner. Since refusing would only make things worse, she quietly followed them.
“Honestly, you don’t want this getting out any more than we do, right?”
“You can’t hide it forever.”
“......So? What’s your point?”
She didn’t like beating around the bush, so she asked directly.
Eos immediately held up one finger.
“Rina and I will stay on the second floor.”
That much was within expectations.
“......Is that all?”
“No, that can’t be the end, right?”
With a wicked smile, Rina held up one finger as well.
“......Give us access to the third floor. Only to the two of us.”
“......”
“Then when you explain things to the rest of the members, we’ll back you up.”
“Me too.”
In other words, this was...
“Don’t monopolize!”
“Don’t monopolize!”
“......Damn bastards.”
It was a deal offered by those who had learned the truth: the three of them would not be allowed to monopolize me.
“Sigh...”
Rule Nickname 19990909. As a typical top-lane male player living in this era, he stared intently at the monitor.
『19990909』
「Silver 4 : 52 points」
“...I couldn’t raise it today either.”
He liked League of Legends. More precisely, he wanted to be good at it. But whether it was because he had no talent or because the game itself was broken, he had never once crossed the threshold into Gold.
“Things to give feedback on...”
So he had asked his friends who were good at the game. How could he get as good as them?
The answer they gave was simple.
‘If you just dive in without thinking, you’ll never climb.’
‘After the game ends, watch the replay, figure out what you did wrong, and fix it.’
“It’s not easy...”
Fortunately his friends helped with feedback when they had time, but climbing tiers was still difficult.
Still, he wanted to reach Gold, so today he turned on a replay for feedback again.
“This part...”
For sections that were hard for him to judge, he took clips to ask his friend.
“Here I should have dodged the opponent’s ultimate. I was too complacent.”
For the parts that were clearly his own fault, he coldly noted them on sticky notes through self-feedback.
While reviewing replay after replay like that—
<Defeat!>
<5:31>
“...Do I even need to review something like this?”
A game lost without being able to do anything because of the support player Hyeji. A match that wasn’t even worth reviewing caught his eye.
“Fine... let’s watch it. What the hell happened?”
How could anyone die that many times in a row?
Since he had been focused on his own 1v1 in top lane, he hadn’t seen much of the situation, so he played the replay.
And then—
Whiiiish—!
Grab!
“Ugh...”
Pulled.
Pulled again.
And pulled yet again.
Watching Nami get hooked over and over, he simply stopped thinking.
“Idiot. She gets hooked every single time she goes in.”
But the intense sense of discomfort he felt every time he watched.
His head slowly tilted at the strange sensation that pricked his chest.
“What the hell is this?”
With that unpleasant feeling of incongruity, he clipped those scenes and sent them to the friend who helped with his feedback.
And a short while later, his friend’s reply arrived.
After their conversation, the friend’s final suggestion made his eyes sparkle at the mention of a gift card.
It looked like next week he would have a reason to stop by the hamburger shop.