080. Bustling Seoul Outdoor Stream
080. Bustling Seoul Outdoor Stream
The moment the punch bag burst, the surroundings grew chaotic.
"What the hell!"
"What was that sound just now? Did a bomb go off?"
"I think the punch machine bag burst?"
"Why would that suddenly explode?"
"It burst because that guy standing over there hit it."
"Excuse me? Say something that makes sense."
"He really did burst it. I was watching the whole time."
"Was the bag defective...?"
People were glancing back and forth between me and the punch machine, murmuring.
They seemed pretty startled.
For the record, I was startled too.
I hadn't expected the bag to burst from a single punch.
‘Why was the punch bag's durability so weak?’
This wasn't my first time using a punch machine.
I'd tried it a few times back in my school days.
But this was the first time I'd ever seen the bag burst in one go like that.
‘Had I gotten stronger? This was another first, bursting it in one hit.’
Maybe it had already been on the verge of tearing.
The punch machine wasn't something only I used.
Well, whatever the reason.
Right then, dealing with this situation came first.
I couldn't exactly pull a hit-and-run without paying for the damages.
‘I should probably contact the arcade owner first...’
I was checking to see if a phone number might be written on the machine.
Just then, a woman who looked like the arcade owner came running over, out of breath.
"Boss! Over here!"
"Wh-what the! It really burst?"
From what she said,
she must have already heard about the situation and rushed over.
‘Obviously I had to pay for it, and I should apologize first before that.’
It was the moment I was about to bow my head to offer a polite apology for the unintended property damage.
"Oh my, I'm so sorry!"
For some reason, the owner apologized to me first.
Then she fidgeted nervously and quickly looked me over.
"Are you hurt anywhere?"
"Huh? No, I'm not hurt, but..."
"Phew... Thank goodness you're not injured... Anyway, I sincerely apologize once again!"
The owner let out a sigh of relief and apologized again.
This time she even bent at the waist a full ninety degrees.
‘What the hell, why did she keep apologizing?’
I couldn't understand it at all.
Why had our roles reversed?
Wasn't I the one who should be apologizing?
Just as I was questioning the strange turn of events.
"I just replaced the punch bag with a new one yesterday, but I never imagined it might have been defective..."
After hearing the owner's next words,
I could understand what was going on.
‘Ah. She was misunderstanding and thought it burst because it was just a defective product.’
She seemed to have ruled out the possibility that I burst it from the very start.
Well, that made perfect sense.
This was the gender-reversed world.
A place where men's strength was abnormally weak.
Once the surrounding onlookers heard the word "defective," they began nodding one by one in acceptance.
"Oh, what? It burst because it was defective?"
"Thought so. There's no way a guy could burst that."
"Even a woman couldn't burst that."
"Anyway, it's a relief the guy didn't get hurt."
If anything, this was a good thing.
Since I'd now avoided getting sued for property damage.
‘...Still, my conscience told me I should pay for it.’
For now, I would shamelessly accept her apology.
Later, I would anonymously send her two punching machines.
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After wrapping up the situation one way or another,
I picked up the camera I'd set down nearby and checked the chat on my phone.
【Reformed Guburi】─Gye Bastard-hun. I'm sorry for messing with you all this time.
【Hottie Licker】─Me too... lick.
【Se-hun Defense Force】─lolol Se-hun is fucking strong.
【Plum Tree】─Good thing you held back. If you'd thrown a serious punch, the building behind it would've been destroyed too.
【Reverse-Rape Maniac】─fr?
【Drift AI】─I will speak. I say that if Gye Se-hun had thrown his fist with full force, the world would have been annihilated.
【Reverse-Rape Maniac】─fr???
【Dick Lover】─It's not that much, you crazy bitches. Tone down the exaggeration. That reverse-rape bastard is dumb enough to actually believe it.
【BigGirl】─Se-hun is handsome, strong, and a good fighter... The more I see, the more attractive you are.
【Reverse-Rape Maniac】─You like strong guys too?
【Qkrnfl892】─A strong man... warped sexual desire...
【Min-ji】─Didn't they just say the machine was defective?
【Yoho】─Min-ji. Read the room. Just hype up the streamer. Why bring that up? -.-
【Min-ji】─k
【Plum Tree】─Even if it really was defective, you couldn't burst it if you were weak.
【Min-ji】─Ah. That's true. But Se-hun is a guy, why is he so strong? Do you have a special constitution?
【Yoho】─None of your business.
【Min-ji】─f u
【Bubblegum Collector】─Wakyapya! More importantly, what was your punch score?
【Gyejipsa】─Wakyapya! What was the score!
"Score? The score didn't pop up."
【Reformed Guburi】─daebak. Gye Bastard-hun's punch power is something even the machine can't measure...
"Oh and, Guburi. If I ever meet you in person, be prepared to get a free hit."
【Reformed Guburi】─?? Why suddenly, the fuck.
"You said you were curious about my punch score, right? Couldn't measure it today, so you just take a hit yourself and rate it."
【Reformed Guburi】─Are you fucking insane? Fuck off, you bastard!
【Bubblegum Collector】─Wakyapya! A human measuring device!
【Gyejipsa】─A Guburi measuring device!
【Qkrnfl892】─lolol Guburi, does this remind you of your school trauma?
【Se-hun Defense Force】─fr lol. That bitch was probably a human punching bag.
【Hottie Licker】─agreed. If Guburi had been my student, I would've used them as a human punching bag. lick.
【Yoho】─?? Is that something a morals teacher should say?
【Reverse-Rape Maniac】─How the hell did she even become a teacher.
【Min-ji】─Where's this person's school? I need to report this.
【Hottie Licker】─Just joking. I hate school violence the most. I'm at the level of detesting it.
【Reformed Guburi】─I never got beat up, you morons. And anyway, there's no way I'll ever meet Gye Bastard-hun. seeya
"I could just come find you myself. I ought to set aside a day sometime to go beat up Guburi."
【Reformed Guburi】─Don't come find me. tf
【Drift AI】─I will speak. I say that I will track down Reformed Guburi's home address.
"Thanks, Drift. Just email me the address."
【Drift AI】─I will speak. I say understood.
【Reformed Guburi】─Morons.
After exchanging jokes like this,
I walked through the downtown streets again and continued interacting with my viewers.
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This time, I stopped by a place called a coin karaoke.
The viewers were curious about my singing ability, and I also wanted to warm up my vocal cords for the first time in a while.
And fortunately,
a song I used to enjoy singing in my previous world also existed in this world.
Though the singer's gender was reversed.
Anyway, the rap I was passionately performing at that moment was a famous song called 'Let's Go Die.'
"The coffin's ready, let's go die!"
"Hoisted onto the grim reaper's back!"
"I'll give your shit-filled head an enema!"
"Slit the throat of that fucking dyke bastard! Rip open the gut!"
After I finished singing the song,
I checked the viewers' reactions, full of anticipation.
【Reformed Guburi】─Fucking kill me.
【Dick Lover】─Please stop singing. We were wrong.
【Plum Tree】─Ah, this is a bit...
【Se-hun Defense Force】─You suck so fucking bad at singing. lolol
【Hottie Licker】─lolol Guess God is fair after all. lick.
【Drift AI】─I will speak. I say that your humanity is overflowing.
【Reverse-Rape Maniac】─It's the first time I've seen someone worse at singing than me.
【BigGirl】─Se-hun, please don't ever sing again.
【Qkrnfl892】─If it were any other guy, I'd have instantly lost interest. Why does Se-hun look cute? lol
【Yoho】─It's okay for the streamer to be bad at singing.
【Min-ji】─Being tone-deaf is a kind of charm too.
【Bubblegum Collector】─Wakyapya! The eokppas are popping up again!
【Gyejipsa】─Wakyapya! Eokppa!
【Qkrnfl892】─I'm not an eokppa. Honestly, it was cute though.
"...What's with these reactions? Was it bad? Not a single bitch complimenting me."
【Reformed Guburi】─Fuck, record yourself and listen to it.
【Dick Lover】─yeah. You suck fucking balls.
【Qkrnfl892】─Was it bad? wtf are you saying lol
【Plum Tree】─You sang like that and expected compliments? Where's your conscience?
【Hottie Licker】─But where did you even find a song like that? lolol lick.
【Reverse-Rape Maniac】─Seriously. It's my first time hearing a song with so much swearing.
【BigGirl】─That's a pretty famous song.
【Yoho】─Don't be discouraged, streamer! I enjoyed listening to it!
【Min-ji】─Cheer up!
Apparently.
My singing clearly divided opinion.
The viewers seemed to hate it,
but my old military superiors used to praise me lavishly, saying I sang well.
"Hm... Maybe it's because I did rap? I'll do a ballad this time, so evaluate me again."
【Yoho】─Gasp.
【Reformed Guburi】─I said don't sing, you crazy bastard!
【Dick Lover】─Gonna mute this.
【Plum Tree】─Stop singing and let's go somewhere else.
"I've still got two songs left. It'd be a waste to just leave. I'm pretty good at ballads, so just give it a listen."
【Min-ji】─Ah.
【Bubblegum Collector】─Warkyarpya! Sound terrorist!
【Gyejipsa】─Warkyarpya...
【BigGirl】─Don't do it. I'm warning you.
【Se-hun Defense Force】─If they say don't sing, then don't. ffuck
【Reverse-Rape Maniac】─We're sorry.
Ignoring the viewers' earnest pleas,
I sang the remaining two songs, and then, because I was spiteful about their reactions, I sang six more for good measure.
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After coming out of the coin karaoke,
I walked around the downtown streets aimlessly again for a while.
Then I had dinner a bit early, and finally decided to go rest at the hotel I had booked.
Just so you know,
the hotel I booked this time wasn't your ordinary lodging.
Of course, checking in, entering a room, and staying the night was the same as any regular hotel.
But unlike other hotels,
it was a concept hotel with a very special and fun event prepared in the morning.
The event's sequence went like this:
You would stay on the hotel's top floor.
You would wake up in the morning and follow the hotel staff's instructions.
You would break through various obstacles, overcome difficulties, and come down to the first floor to check out.
The first person to escape received a special reward.
That was the sequence.
In short, you could consider this a hotel that combined a haunted house with an escape room café.
I explained all this step by step to the viewers.
【Reformed Guburi】─Oh shit, that's gonna be fucking hilarious. lol
【Hottie Licker】─daebak. Since when did you prepare proper content like this, Se-hun? lick.
【Reverse-Rape Maniac】─Guess the sun will rise in the west tomorrow.
【Drift AI】─I will speak. I say that the sun originally rises in the east.
【Min-ji】─There are hotels like that? That's novel.
【Yoho】─I didn't know there was a hotel like that in my neighborhood.
【BigGirl】─I didn't know either.
【Dick Lover】─What's that called. It's not one of those yokai hotels, right?
【Plum Tree】─No stupid yokai runs a hotel in the middle of Seoul. Even if there were, it'd be exorcised immediately.
【Qkrnfl892】─Wow. Our Se-hun has grown up a lot. Looking up novel hotels for content.
【Se-hun Defense Force】─fr lol. I'm feeling proud myself. You've grown, Gye Se-hun!
【Bubblegum Collector】─Wakyapya! Se-hun is a pro broadcaster!
【Gyejipsa】─Wakyapya! Porno!
The viewers' reactions were better than I expected.
They seemed to quite like the content I had prepared.
Anyway,
by the time I finished explaining the content, I had already arrived in front of the booked hotel.
A shabby ten-story hotel.
This was the 'Escape from Hell Hotel' I had booked for tonight.
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As I entered through the hotel's main entrance, a staff member standing alone in the lobby welcomed me.
"Welcome."
A round, red nose.
Long, slit, thick lips.
Eyes curved into crescents, as if smiling.
It was a staff member wearing a typical clown mask.
"Do you have a reservation?"
"Yes."
"Name?"
"Gye Se-hun."
"...Yes. Confirmed. Welcome to our Escape from Hell Hotel."
I had a feeling it was going to be fun.