006. Content is Outdoor Streaming
006. Content is Outdoor Streaming
As the soldiers marching ahead came into view, the viewers' chat started rolling in.
Since I was driving at low speed, I glanced sideways to check the chat.
【Reformed Guburi】─Gubarbari~ Guess there's a military base nearby. Could you roll down the window and yell "do a hundred laps"?
【Yoho】─Reformed, your character is rotten to the core. To the soldiers defending the country, what kind of...
【Reformed Guburi】─I've been through it too -_- a discharged senior drove all the way back just to pull that shit
【Yoho】─It's different from the broadcaster's situation.
【Reformed Guburi】─So what? I'm not calling them smelly like other men do. Isn't it fine if it's just a joke? Right?
I didn't agree with Guburi.
This was a gender-reversed world.
A world where men did not serve in the military.
Even if you dressed it up as a joke, a man who hadn't completed military service mocking soldiers was still problematic behavior.
‘In this world, I never served.’
Of course, even in my previous world where I had served, I would have avoided it.
As a citizen, you were supposed to hold respect and gratitude for the service members carrying out their duty of national defense. Insulting and mocking people who sacrificed and struggled for security was morally wrong.
‘If they were juniors I knew by face, maybe, but telling total strangers to run laps was crossing the line.’
Their status as soldiers aside.
You couldn't just pick a fight out of nowhere with complete strangers either. I only did that sort of thing very occasionally.
Well, if they'd been close juniors, I probably would've cursed them out and messed with them right away.
"Even if my character is trash, I don't pull stunts like that."
【Reformed Guburi】─lol so he knows his personality is wrecked. Figured our Gye Bastard-hun would deliver, too bad~
"You get chat restriction for thirty minutes, starting when we reach the mart, you fuck."
【Reformed Guburi】─Gasp. Sorry, sorry!
"If you're gonna apologize, don't fuck up in the first place, dumbass. Actually, before that—Guburi, you served? Just from your chat I would've guessed you got a psychiatric exemption."
【Reformed Guburi】─You're saying some seriously harsh shit. I was a Special-Class Warrior -_-
【Yoho】─Must've been a Fake Special-Class Warrior.
【Reformed Guburi】─Shut it, you bitch. Anyway, I was Special-Class Warrior lol
"Special-Class Warrior isn't a billet."
【Reformed Guburi】─Oh? How'd you know?
How'd I know.
I knew because I'd served too.
The fact that she emphasized being a Special-Class Warrior suggested she hadn't held a hard billet. I mean, what military job isn't tough... but it was an undeniable fact that some billets were relatively easy.
Still, there was something endearing about it.
She probably wanted to look a little cool.
Too bad, but I was a veteran too.
"There are ways everyone knows. I know people challenge for Special-Class Warrior to get leave, and I know some units measure sloppily and hand Special-Class Warrior out like candy."
Even my unit was like that.
During push-ups, people would lower only their hips without bending their arms, or during sit-ups, they'd bob their heads like woodpeckers... even when they cut corners like that, the count would still get marked plenty of the time.
And people who earned Special-Class Warrior that way got called "Fake Special-Class Warriors."
Not saying every unit was like that.
But at the very least, Guburi was definitely a Fake.
I had no proof.
It was just a gut feeling.
【Reformed Guburi】─What? How the hell do you know so much, you fuck! Are you some male high school kid who went through it or something?
【Yoho】─The broadcaster must be really interested in the military!
【Reformed Guburi】─Haah. Yoho, please turn off your serious-mode for once. You're making the chat boring as hell. He just heard it from his female friends, what "interested," dumbass.
"Huh? I don't have any female friends. What's this nonsense about female friends when I don't have any women around me?"
【Reformed Guburi】─Don't bullshit lol where's a guy with no women around him?
【Yoho】─That part is true. It's probably that there aren't any women he likes...
【Reformed Guburi】─For real lol and we literally have no men.
【Yoho】─Don't lump us together. That's unpleasant.
【Reformed Guburi】─Yeah~ your pussy's got super-strength cobwebs~
"No, I mean literally none?"
It wasn't a lie.
Women made me uncomfortable, you see.
Part of it was having gone to a boys' high school, but mainly because in my original world, I couldn't comfortably hurl profanity at women. Any relationship where I couldn't swear was just uncomfortable.
‘Weirdly, most women I cursed at broke down crying on the spot. Maybe it was because I swore at them before we ever got close... But then, did that mean women would become easier to deal with and men more uncomfortable?’
It was possible.
The viewers I was communicating with now, I was treating them like they were the same sex, but in reality, they were all women.
Or maybe both could become comfortable.
Men wouldn't burst into tears just because another man cursed at them.
"Anyway, there really isn't a single one, so quit suspecting me, you bitches."
I answered again.
Because the chat kept demanding proof.
Guburi was still typing like she couldn't believe it.
【Reformed Guburi】─lol not a single one. What about your mom, isn't she a woman? Look at him just throwing stuff out to pretend~
Well, it didn't really matter whether she believed me or not.
Still, since she seemed likely to cling on with pointless expectations, I decided to use a cheat code to shut her up.
"My parents passed away not long ago, actually?"
For a moment, no chat came in.
Then all at once, chat exploded.
【Reformed Guburi】─I'm sorry!
【Reformed Guburi】─I'm sorry!
【Reformed Guburi】─I'm sorry!
【Reformed Guburi】─I'm sorry!
【Reformed Guburi】─I'm sorry!
"Stop spamming, you bitch. Before I ban you."
【Yoho】─Broadcaster. I think Reformed crossed a line this time. Perhaps you should consider a ban...
【Reformed Guburi】─I'm sorry! I didn't know! I wasn't trying to make a parent joke T_T
The reaction was bigger than I expected.
She had to be seriously flustered to even use formal speech.
At this point, she probably wouldn't run her mouth demanding proof again.
I obviously had no intention of banning her, so I decided to forgive her here.
"Ah. Don't worry about it. They were the garbage parents who abandoned me... no, who constantly committed domestic violence."
【Yoho】─Ah...
【Reformed Guburi】─Auuuugh...
The mood in chat turned grim.
I didn't welcome this kind of atmosphere, so I quickly changed the subject.
And to get some air, I also rolled down the driver's side window.
Just as I was resting my left arm lightly on the window frame.
I came face to face with the head of the soldier column.
I pressed the brake and slowed my driving speed.
The soldier who appeared to be the commander barked an order at the troops in a booming voice.
"Close right!"
"Close right, aye!"
"Close right, aye!"
I pulled my car tight to the right as well.
It was a narrow country road with no lanes, so mutual yielding was necessary.
I reduced my speed even more.
Naturally, I wasn't touching the accelerator.
My foot was resting only on the brake. Because an accident couldn't happen.
‘...Did I roll down the window for nothing? That was a little shortsighted.’
Before I knew it, the gazes of every soldier, starting with the cadre at the front, had converged on me.
Maybe it was because a ton of eyes suddenly locked on me.
Instinctively, I almost let out a "what're you looking at, you baldy bastards." Of course, I grabbed the reins of reason and barely suppressed the impulse. I respected soldiers, after all.
‘Anyway... getting this much attention was really nerve-wracking.’
For some reason, they had even stopped marching and were just standing there, dumbstruck, staring at me.
With their mouths shut in dead silence.
‘I should just not make eye contact.’
I was about to suitably ignore them and pass by—then.
‘...Hold on. But were they really bald? I felt like I saw a bit of hair.’
I suddenly got curious.
About whether they were bald or not.
My counterpart in this world had no interest in soldiers, so it was information I lacked.
‘Even for female soldiers, the odds were high that they had buzz cuts. This was a gender-reversed world, after all.’
I awkwardly snuck glances at the soldiers.
And as a result of my inspection.
They were not bald.
I could see hair poking out from under their ballistic helmets.
Probably short cuts.
As I kept stealing glances like that, I ultimately ended up meeting eyes with one of the cadres.
"..."
"..."
Even though I was in a car.
Because my driving speed was so slow, our gazes stayed locked.
Um...
Wouldn't it be polite to at least greet her?
Our eyes had already met, after all.
Since they were suffering for the country, wouldn't it be right to offer a word of encouragement?
With that thought, I gave a slight nod of my head in greeting.
"You're working hard with the training."
"Huh? Ah! Th-th-thank you!"
"Thank you too, for yielding the road. Well then, don't get hurt and do your best at training."
"Yes! Loyalty!"
The cadre stiffened and saluted.
"Stay strong, everyone else too."
I lightly waved my left hand at the other soldiers in greeting.
And the ripple effect of this action was bigger than I'd thought.
"Thank you!"
"Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!"
The soldiers started expressing excessive gratitude.
Wearing an awkward smile, I tried to roll the window up, but the situation was escalating to the point where I couldn't.
"Waaaaaahhh!"
"Uwaaaahhh!!!"
"What is it, what's going on? Why are those shits up front yelling?"
"They said a morale show arrived!"
"For real? Do those even come during a march normally?"
"I guess so! From what they're saying up front, it's an event where a super-handsome man drives a truck and tells you to stay strong during training!"
"Ooooh! They're buffing us just when we were about to run out of steam?!"
"Waaaaah!!!"
"You're handsome!!!"
"Sex!"
"Who's the piece of shit that yelled sex! You want military detention?!"
"Please just one handshake!"
"Kim Ji-hye! Don't break from the column! And don't stick out your dirty hand either!"
"Waaaaaaahhh!"
The soldiers' cheers echoed endlessly.
That was how an entirely unscheduled morale show of sorts began.