072. Beneath the Scarlet Ceiling Light, the Kitchen
072. Beneath the Scarlet Ceiling Light, the Kitchen
Taking the viewers' opinions into account, we decided to play the finger-folding game as our drinking game.
The rules were simple.
The participants took turns proposing a category of "people who do X," and anyone who fit that category folded one finger.
‘I thought it was going to be something like the Image Game, but it was a completely different game.’
Normally, the first person to fold all five fingers had to drink as a penalty, but we changed the rule so that the last survivor, the winner, had to drink.
And one more thing.
We decided that the viewers watching the broadcast would be the ones to propose the categories, not the participants themselves.
We had changed the rules so that everyone could join in.
If only the people at the table enjoyed the game, the viewers on the other side of the screen might feel left out.
"I'll put the order up in the chat."
Before the game started,
I posted a message in the chat from my phone.
【★Hun's World】─(1)RetardGuburi (2)YohoKkumung (3)Hottie (4)Min-ji (5)Se-hun Pursuit Team (6)Ppaguri (7)BigGirl (8)ReverseRape (9)Bubblegum/Gyejipsa (10)Drift
【★Hun's World】─The order doesn't have any special meaning, so don't ask about it. If you ask, you'll be banned immediately.
【Reformed Guburi】─Oh. First spot, jackpot lol
【Yoho】─Why didn't you include me in the order?
【Hottie Licker】─You're in spot 2, YohoKkumung you bitch. Lick.
【Se-hun Defense Force】─Pursuit Team? What the hell? It's been ages since I changed my nickname...
【Qkrnfl892】─Get my nickname right, you fuck.
【BigGirl】─I think Eight-Nine-Two's is written correctly though.
【Bubblegum Collector】─Wakyapya! Why'd you bundle me and Gyejipsa together?
【Gyejipsa】─Bundled!
"You two are always together. Just think of yourselves as a single unit."
【Bubblegum Collector】─Warkyarpya! Being a single unit is good!
【Gyejipsa】─Good!
After the order was set,
Catgirl, who had just gone to fetch more alcohol, returned to the table.
"Brother. Is this the alcohol you told me to bring?"
"Yes. You brought the right one."
Catgirl carefully set a bottle of liquor down on the dining table.
It was a premium spirit, worth about ten million won per bottle.
‘Might as well finish that off now.’
I had bought that alcohol a while back, during a brief phase of indulgence, then tasted a single sip and left it abandoned.
I had completely forgotten about it until it popped into my head just now, so I sent Catgirl to bring it.
"What kind of alcohol is this? Wine? I can't tell what it is since there's no label."
Plum Blossom asked, inspecting the bottle closely.
Unfortunately, I couldn't remember either.
I'd just picked it at random because I was curious what expensive alcohol tasted like.
"I don't know. Probably some kind of grape liquor, whatever. The label was annoying so I tore it off as soon as I bought it."
"Really? But this bottle is huge. How many liters is it?"
"I don't remember that either, but it's at least six liters. I bought the biggest one so it would last a long time. Anyway, let's start the drinking game now. Guburi, post something in the chat, quick."
【Reformed Guburi】─Sure. Sex.
And so the drinking game began.
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【Reformed Guburi】─People with dicks, fold.
"You fucking bitch."
【Reformed Guburi】─lol I'm not letting our Gye Bastard-hun drink~ What if you got drunk? That'd be dangerous~
【Yoho】─Well done. Heh.
【Reformed Guburi】─I didn't do it for your praise so shut the fuck up.
【Yoho】─K
Out of the four people sitting around the table,
I was the only one who folded a finger.
Since I was the only one with something dangling down below.
【Yoho】─Is it my turn now?
【Reformed Guburi】─Who else would it be, you fuck. Are you a fucking goldfish?
【Yoho】─Heh.
【Yoho】─People who've been single since birth, fold.
【Hottie Licker】─lol These bastards are sniping Se-hun. Lick.
【BigGirl】─Looks like only Se-hun will fold again...
【Bubblegum Collector】─Wakyapya. Only Se-hunie is a lifelong single. T.T
【Gyejipsa】─Oh So-ri. T_T
"You crazy bitches, stop deliberately targeting just one person. It's boring. And Plum Blossom is a lifelong single too."
I cursed as I folded another finger.
Then I looked around at the others.
Plum Blossom and Dick Lover had both impassively folded one finger as well.
"What? Dick, you're a lifelong single too?"
I already knew that Plum Blossom had no experience with men.
Catgirl had exposed that on the way here.
But I hadn't expected even Dick Lover to be a lifelong single.
Judging just by looks alone,
her appearance was high-tier enough that she could easily take her pick of men.
Even in a world with such a messed-up gender ratio, Dick Lover being a lifelong single was a little surprising.
"Yeah. None of the men ever caught my eye. I'm pretty picky."
When Dick Lover answered that,
the viewers started mocking her.
【Reformed Guburi】─Lol stop bullshitting. Before I ram a knee-kick right into your cunt.
【Min-ji】─That's an ugly excuse. Hehe.
【Qkrnfl892】─Saying you're picky sounds like crap. Isn't it more like your personality's so shitty you couldn't get a guy?
【Reverse-Rape Maniac】─For real. Being a lifelong single with that face is definitely a personality problem.
【Bubblegum Collector】─Wakyapya! Dick is nice, don't slander her!
【Gyejipsa】─Wakyapya!
Just as Bubblegum said,
Dick Lover's personality didn't have any glaring rough edges.
I'd only met her for the first time today, but I could tell that much.
Still, that didn't mean I was going to take her side.
I didn't like the arrogant way she talked and the look on her face.
"Dick. You could've just said you're a lifelong single and left it at that. Why add a dumbass afterword and eat shit for it?"
"I was just stating a fact..."
"Shut it. Next is Hottie's turn."
I cut off Dick Lover mid-sentence and called on Hottie.
As if she'd been waiting, Hottie quickly posted in the chat.
【Hottie Licker】─Kk. People who've watched porn, fold! Lick!
This was practically a global attack.
This was the Gender-Reversed World.
Any woman would have watched porn at least once.
And since I was a man from a normal world, I had of course watched porn.
‘The me who lived in this world never did... but I watched it in my previous world, so I should fold honestly.’
I casually folded my middle finger.
Then I looked around.
Plum Blossom and Catgirl had folded their fingers.
However, Dick Lover was confidently keeping her finger outstretched.
"Dick, you fuck. Fold it, quick."
"Huh? Why should I? I've never watched stuff like porn."
I wasn't the only one suspicious of Dick.
Plum Blossom and Catgirl also took a jab at her.
"Where in the world is there a woman who hasn't watched porn? Stop talking nonsense and fold."
"That's right! I get that you want to look good in front of Se-hun brother, but you still have to play the game honestly!"
"I'm telling you, I really haven't watched it. Do you think I'm a perverted freak like you guys...?"
Dick Lover answered as if she found it absurd.
Because of her nickname, she wasn't remotely credible.
‘She was gonna get flamed by the viewers again.’
With that thought, I looked at the chat window.
But the viewers weren't interested in whether Dick Lover folded her finger or not.
They were entirely focused on the fact that I had watched porn before.
【Reformed Guburi】─No! Dick isn't the important thing right now, you dipshits!
【Reformed Guburi】─The important thing is that Gye Bastard-hun watched porn too. -.-
【Yoho】─Gasp?
"Oh? Now that you mention it, Se-hun brother folded his finger too?"
"...What the. Se-hunie, you've watched porn too?"
Only then did Catgirl and Plum Blossom also look my way.
Apparently, Dick Lover's lie had completely fallen off their radar now.
【Hottie Licker】─Se-hunie watches porn too? D-D Same as me. Lick.
【Qkrnfl892】─You lecherous fiend! Wanna watch together sometime when you're free? lol
【Min-ji】─So men watch porn too, huh...
【BigGirl】─Men are human too, so of course they'd watch it.
【Reverse-Rape Maniac】─Wow lol Se-hun, what genre do you watch? My mom's asking.
【Se-hun Defense Force】─Don't ask stuff like that, you dipshit.
【Reverse-Rape Maniac】─T.T
【Bubblegum Collector】─Wakyapya! I can't picture Se-hunie watching porn!
【Gyejipsa】─Can't picture!
"Don't make a fuss. All men watch it, naturally."
【Reformed Guburi】─For real?
【Hottie Licker】─True, men would have libido too, it'd be weird if they didn't watch. lol Lick! Smooch! Schluuurp!
【Min-ji】─Aren't guys who watch porn an extreme minority?
【BigGirl】─They just don't talk about it. They probably all watch it in secret.
【Se-hun Defense Force】─Se-hunie's honest so he just admitted it openly. lol He doesn't lie much and he's easygoing.
【Qkrnfl892】─I feel like he actually lies pretty often.
【Bubblegum Collector】─Wakyapya! Se-hunie really watches porn! His computer is loaded with fucking porn!
【Gyejipsa】─Wakyapya!
【Bubblegum Collector】─Fuck! Se-hunie was a fucking zoophile!!!
【Yoho】─Gasp! Really?
【Reverse-Rape Maniac】─D-D?
【Reformed Guburi】─I see. I have decided to become a beast starting today. Don't try to stop me.
【Hottie Licker】─Not stopping you. Lick.
It seemed Bubblegum had searched my computer and found the porn.
But that porn wasn't something I had downloaded to watch.
"Ah. That's something Gyejipsa downloaded. I don't watch animals doing it."
【Gyejipsa】─Wakyapya...
【Gyejipsa】─Bubblegum hit my head. T.T
"Anyway. Stop talking about porn and let's move on to the next. At this rate, no one's going to get a single drink."
Even after that, viewers occasionally popped up bringing up the topic of porn, but I hit them with a Chat Mute each time and preemptively shut down the bait.
The drinking game proceeded smoothly like that,
and in the end, the last survivor and winner was Dick Lover.
***
After the drinking game had finished two rounds,
Dick Lover pushed back her chair, got up from her seat, and looked at Gye Se-hun as she spoke.
"Se-hun. I'm going to step outside and get some air for a bit."
"All of a sudden? Are you feeling dizzy? Should I get you some Tylenol?"
"...I'm fine. It's not bad enough that I need medicine."
"Yeah? Alright. There's a miniature garden if you go out back. Get some air there and then come back in."
"Thanks."
"Senior. That person must be a real lightweight. Getting dizzy after just two drinks. Pfft."
"Surprising. She looks like the type who could down a shot of vodka."
Ignoring what Catgirl and Plum Blossom said,
Dick Lover walked straight out into the yard and moved to the miniature garden.
There, as she strolled across the arched bridge, she looked down at her phone.
Several text messages had arrived from a hacker called Mengyao.
『Meong Meong』
-Told them the bio-experiment lab sweep request is on hold for now.
-Said I'll first receive the detailed request and then decide whether to accept it.
-The client just sent over a detailed summary of the request.
-The researchers all have to be killed, but the test subjects don't necessarily have to be killed if you're not confident. Instead, they've assigned individual bounties for each test subject.
-So the researchers are the base option. The test subjects are like an extra option.
-Here's the brief info you asked for on the test subjects.
「Test Subject A-33」
Age: Estimated 30
Abilities: <Super Regeneration> <Blood Control>
Danger Level: S
●Bounty: $3,300,000
●Request Notes
[This subject's weakness has yet to be identified. Killing it is near-impossible. It is requested that the body be dismembered into small pieces, placed into multiple bags, and captured alive.]
As Dick Lover silently scanned the information, a micro-drone glided through the night sky above her head, monitoring her.
Bzzzzz.
The sound of the micro-drone flying was so faint that an ordinary person would never be able to detect it.
However.
Dick Lover's hearing was not at the level of an ordinary person.
"..."
Dick Lover immediately reacted to the faint sound reaching her ears, drew her gun, and fired at the drone.
Bang!
It was a clean and precise shot.
The micro-drone, shot down by the bullet, fell limply to the ground.
［Bzzt- I've been... bzzt-!］
A stream of incomprehensible audio leaked out before it soon lost all function.