Gender Reboot
0008. Delinquent Landlady

"Ugh…!"

Did I make too much noise?

Well, I was screaming!

Memories flashed before my eyes.

[This is your landlord. We’ve had several noise complaints, like yelling at night and loud singing. Multi-unit buildings aren’t soundproof, so please be considerate of your neighbors.^^]

"Ugh, ugh, ah… ugh…!"

The natural-born loser in me, who was just moments before screaming in fury, deflated like a popped balloon.

I didn't know who the footsteps belonged to, but the second I realized the person was coming to my door… my mind went white. I was, after all, a keyboard warrior.

*Knock, knock, knock.*

"Excuse me."

A sharp, slightly irritated female voice called from outside.

Oh, I was fucked. Fucked. Really fucked. This was a hard-won, conveniently located, affordable apartment, and I absolutely couldn't afford to piss off the landlord!

"Excuse me. I heard you screaming just now, so please open the door."

I held my breath.

Pretending I wasn't home… wasn't going to work…!

"Excuse me! Can you hear me?"

Without any excuse prepared, I opened the door.  The woman standing there seemed slightly surprised, her eyes widening.

'Ah. I remember.'

The memory of meeting the landlady, whom I'd barely interacted with, surfaced.

I'd briefly seen her in the winter when I first went to sign the lease with the real estate agent.

It was years ago, but the memory was vivid.

The landlady, bundled in a thick coat, had looked at me with a displeased expression. The contract discussion seemed to be going smoothly, but then she took the agent aside and talked for a long time, leaving me standing there.

I couldn't hear everything, but it was clear she didn't approve of me as a tenant.

A normal person might have confronted her about her rudeness, but I just stood there frozen like a loser in front of a scary delinquent girl, head bowed.

I couldn't even make eye contact, so I barely remembered what she looked like.

All I remembered was a strong, intimidating landlady, someone I should never meet again, with a sharp, scary voice…

"Um, well, uh, I'm sorry…  I was being loud."

I apologized first.

The owner of the Se-gyeong apartment was a slender and attractive woman.

My eyes widened. Unlike before, she was wearing a so-called "Dongtan dress," a form-fitting outfit that revealed her figure.

…Amazing breasts.  They reminded me of my lost Genatia-chan!

She had a sharp gaze and a pretty face, the kind that probably kicked a lot of losers in school.

Her long hair, pulled back from her forehead, reached her waist.

She stood with her arms crossed, looking ready for a confrontation. She looked down at me, but she didn't seem intimidated at all.

"…A man."

She muttered to herself.

…'A man.'

Didn't she know? That I was a man?  She hadn't seen me since we signed the contract either…

She looked me up and down, then spoke in a slightly calmer tone.

"I've received a lot of complaints. From the next-door neighbor and the downstairs neighbor.  I heard you screaming just now, too."

"I'm sorry…"

"..."

She was scrutinizing me even more intensely than I had scrutinized her.  The landlady seemed displeased.

"Yesterday, I also heard what sounded like a woman moaning…"

Moaning? Was that Ji-min…?

How bad was the soundproofing?!

I tried to be careful, but sometimes, I couldn't help my outbursts…

"…I came here wondering what kind of woman it was. But it was a man."

"Huh?"

"It was a man."

"Y-Yes, that's right."

As you can see, I'm a man.

"Well… since you're a man.  I'll let it slide."

"Huh?"

Was I mishearing things because I was a socially inept loser?

She'd let it slide because I was a man?  What did that even mean?

"You couldn't help it because your sexual frustration built up, right?  *Chuckle*."

???

What?

I was taken aback by her seemingly playful sexual harassment.

A normal reaction would be to ignore me.

Women didn't talk about sex with men they weren't interested in.

Even if they were interested, they wouldn't do it upon first meeting.

"Does it get hard all the time?"

"…Uh?  Huh?"

"Why? Are you uncomfortable? Hmm…"

"What are you talking about…?"

"Your dick.  Your dick."

…I reacted.

It was hard not to when a woman like this was giggling and talking about dicks in front of me.

This was like something out of an ero-manga.

"Well.  I'll leave before I actually report you. Be careful next time."

"Oh, okay…"

"Oh, and…"

She smoothly approached me, placed her hand on the door chain, and looked at me.

"You should be careful.  Since you're a man."

"???"

"Everyone else in this building is a woman.  You never know when a strange man might barge in."

Was she worried about me because I was a man…?

"See you."

I couldn't tell if she was kind or malicious.

She left as suddenly as she'd arrived.

She even flaunted her large buttocks as she walked up the stairs.

"Phew…"

I closed the door and took a deep breath. The more I thought about what I'd just seen and the situation I was in, the more aroused I became.

Back in the comfort of my own space, my dick hardened uncontrollably.

'Hmm…'

Where was the lease agreement…?

I looked at the contract with the landlady's name on it.

'Name: Ryu Ha-rin.'

Even her name was pretty…

My dick was twitching even after being denied like that.

And those breasts…

It was enough to soothe my wounded heart.

I couldn't speak in front of intimidating, delinquent-type women, but it was such a stimulating experience for a loser like me.

They inevitably became the subject of my fantasies.

Should I go see Ryu Ha-rin?

I'd burst through her door and yell, "Spread your legs, bitch!"

…Seriously?

Typical loser fantasy.

As if she'd give it up so easily.

Even if the world had gone crazy, that was a bit much.

After my gacha game characters were all sex-changed, I did some research online.

Now I understood why the algorithm was messed up yesterday.

Currently, men and women's perceptions of chastity were reversed.

Actually, that wasn't the only thing that had changed.

Considering Ji-min's irrational behavior and the landlady's bold sexual harassment…

…Men's sexual value had skyrocketed.

Even an ugly man like me.

So how advantageous was it for handsome men?

Apparently, not that much.

"Men" themselves had become incredibly rare.

For some unknown reason, there had been a change in male hormones.  Most newborn males were now born with androgynous, almost feminine features, and their reproductive abilities were significantly weakened.

They'd been massively nerfed.

On the other hand, women had become more feminine, with more developed breasts, longer fertility periods, and the ability to maintain a youthful appearance well into their twenties.

The explosive increase in women's libido seemed to stem from this singularity.

The reversed chastity norms of society also played a role.

The value of men, or more accurately, the value of "dicks," had become ridiculously high. The uglier the man, the higher the expectations for his "dick's function," making them more desirable to women.

Hmm.  I didn't quite get it, but that was the theory.

In short…

The world had become a chastity-reversed world where effeminate, impotent men made up the majority of the population…