Gender Reboot
0009. Reboot World

'This is complicated.'

Let's just call it the 'Reboot World.'

Judging by the fact that the envelope of money was still there, it didn't seem like I'd been transported to another world.

The elements of the original world had simply changed.

That could only be explained as a reboot.

"Ahh, so it's been normalized…"

Wasn't this my victory, the one who'd waited for the Reboot World?!

I quietly clenched my fist.

Good thing I didn't bother working!

From now on, I'd be like those popular guys, picking up women and having sex parties 365 days a year!

"Sex party!"

I cheerfully raised my arms and shouted, then looked around my quiet room.

"..."

Sex parties like a popular guy?

Me?  The guy who could barely hold a conversation outside his own apartment?

"As if…"

I slumped down and looked at my mobile game accounts, the culmination of my labor—300 hours of rerolling—and money.

Edelwyn: "Eek, my balls… they're not that big…!  Don't stare at them!"

"…I'll sell my accounts."

I was quitting these games.

Most popular games had switched from male-oriented to female-oriented.  My little sanctuary within my phone was gone.

This was the moment mobile games, which I thought I could never quit, disappeared from my life.

I listed my accounts on a trading site and pondered while scratching my feet.

"So what do I do now?"

Hmm.

Nothing really changed.

I understood that it had become the Reboot World… but so what?

It wasn't like 10 billion won had fallen into my lap. My life hadn't really changed.

Actively going out and picking up women was impossible.

Just having Ji-min was enough…

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

I remembered Ha-rin's mocking laughter and felt a tingling sensation.

I didn't want to go out.

I didn't want to actively pursue relationships.

I hadn't suddenly changed as a person.

But the events of the Reboot World were stirring something within me.

"I'm really going to suck it? Really, really suck it?"

Ji-min's sweet voice, her pleading tone…

It was awakening the frustrated desires within me.

It would be nice to play with pretty, busty women…

I used to shake my head at such thoughts, thinking they were beyond me.

'But this is the Reboot World…'

Wasn't it okay to have such thoughts?

"Should I play a game of LoL?"

League of Legends.  LoL.

You picked one of hundreds of champions, chose a position—top, mid, jungle, bottom—dominated your lane…

And destroyed the enemy Nexus to win.

Fortunately, in games like LoL, the characters' genders were the same as I remembered.

Everything else…

[Game Start]

[PregnancyMachineOfDoyanggu: There's a man on our team lol]

[EasyLayMan: lol Yujin, wanna give me your dick? Should Noona come over?]

[HugeClitoris: DICKCOCKDICKCOCKDICKCOCK]

What was with these nicknames?

Most of the players were women, and they were serious about sexually harassing men.

It used to be the other way around, with women being harassed in games like this.

'Wait?  Did I just… feel offended?'

Well, it was natural to be offended by idiots.

It was a bit disconcerting because it was an unfamiliar atmosphere.

'The enemy team's nicknames are normal, though.  Fuck.'

Just as I thought this game was a lost cause, I felt a strange sense of dissonance.

[PregnancyMachineOfDoyanggu: Yujin, spread your balls so I can see them, or I'm not ganking.]

[SoloKillMachineYujin: I'll show you my balls, come get 'em.]

[Double Kill!]

"No, fuck!!  You're supposed to wait for me to engage! Now I'm dead!"

[Triple Kill!]

[An enemy is on a rampage!]

"Wow, why are there so many people top?"

They never came top even when I asked them to… Now both teams were teleporting top like crazy.

Were they all on drugs?

[Everyone'sGirlfriend: lol Yujin, thanks for the dick♡]

[HotGuyWhatsTheProblem: Did you cum inside a lot?  Give me some~]

[WhyIsOurTeamLikeThis: lol Yujin's a total cum dumpster lol  My womb is full.]

I frowned at the barrage of messages from the enemy team after the game ended.

How many verses of unfunny sex jokes were they going to make?

Four out of the ten players sent me friend requests.

'Seriously…?'

Could all of this be because my nickname had a male name in it?

Because I responded to one sexual joke in team chat?

'Huh?'

[MintBee sent you a friend request.]

[Accept Y/N]

One of the enemy players sent me a friend request too.

Honestly, she was incredibly good, almost intimidatingly so.  She played AD Carry.

No deaths, 18 kills, 12 assists.

Was this a smurf account?  This was a normal game, but her skill level was way beyond what I'd normally encounter in ranked.

"Well…"

Her nickname seemed normal enough.

I'd accept.

[MintBee: Hi]

[SoloKillMachineYujin: Hey]

[MintBee: Are you really a man?]

Wait, was she here to hit on me too?

[SoloKillMachineYujin: I'm a man]

I replied curtly, feeling annoyed.

[MintBee: Wanna duo? lol]

Hmm… Duo?

Play together? She was way better than me.

[MintBee: I'll boost your ranked tier too.  We'll hit Master in no time if we play bottom together.]

That was a tempting offer.

My peak rating was Gold, and Master was… uh, Platinum, Emerald, Diamond…  That was a three-tier jump.

[SoloKillMachineYujin: I'm not a support main, is that okay?]

[MintBee: It's fine lol  Just play Min-jun support.]

"?"

Min-jun support?

I looked it up on Namuwiki and learned it was the Reboot World's equivalent of a "Hye-ji support" (a derogatory term for a female support player who relies on their male ADC to carry them).

"Should I get carried?"

At first, we lost a few games, but once we got on a roll, we started an incredible winning streak.  I started to think she was actually a Grandmaster or higher tier ADC main.

'I was skeptical at first.'

A female Grandmaster++ ADC main…?

The very fact that a Grandmaster-level ADC player was a woman was so fascinating that I kept playing with her.

Of course, there was a chance she was a man.

[MintBee: Yujin, is your dick big? lol]

…

If this was some gay guy messing with me, I would have punched him.

In this Reboot World, I should probably consider this to be the average female behavior…

[MintBee: Is it small? It's okay even if it's small.]

My pride flared.  Why did she assume it was small?

[SoloKillMachineYujin: It's over 30cm.]

[MintBee: lol  Don't lie.]

Having a big dick was one of my few bragging points.

In the pre-Reboot World, it was just a pee stick, nothing more, nothing less.

[MintBee: If we win this game, can you show me your dick?]

Hmm…

Well, I didn't have a reason not to show her…

But this whole situation felt like a creepy, gender-swapped version of those thirsty guys in games trying to get laid, and the fact that I was the target was quite unsettling.

'Even in games, there are so many people desperate for sex…'

I wasn't like that.  I didn't send dick pics through Instagram DMs or try to pick up girls in games.

I couldn't even if I tried…

"Fine."

It wasn't like it would shrink from being seen.

I was also curious about her reaction to my huge dick, so after exchanging numbers with her…

We started a video call.