Chapter 3 - Chapter 1: Episode 1 - Possessed by an Eroge World
There's an eroge that's been making waves among the wankers lately.
It is a gender-reversed hunter eroge called 'Hero Hunter in a Gender-Reversed World'.
This eroge mixes two distinct flavors.
It's a perfect bibimbap of a gender-reversed world and the hunter genre.
The reviews are glowing.
People say it's as well-blended as world-famous Jeonju bibimbap.
So, I decided to play it too.
'Hmm. Installation complete. Start.'
I finished creating my character and hit the start button.
Suddenly, a flash of light struck my house, and my entire body felt like it was burning.
'Lightning?'
I lost consciousness.
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When I opened my eyes, I was in a new world.
I was flustered at first, waking up in a bed in a room I'd never seen before.
But after calmly observing my surroundings and gathering information,
I realized I'd been transported into the gender-reversed hunter eroge world I'd just started playing.
I was in a tidy room in the Hunter Academy's single-occupancy dormitory.
The room size (23 pyeong) and facilities weren't bad.
I guess that's thanks to massive government support.
"Wow. Jackpot."
My age had gone from 40 down to 20; I'd just turned an adult today.
A world with the fascinating premise of a gender-reversed hunter genre.
Above all, there was infinite potential for future growth through stat adjustments.
"It's a shame about the 80 million won I had in savings, but other than that, it's a total jackpot."
My parents are dead, I have no siblings, no wife, no lover, and naturally, no children.
My close friends all died in accidents.
I didn't have a shred of attachment to my original world.
If I had one lingering regret, it was the assets I'd saved in my bank account.
As a commoner, I lived without flexing or splurging, trying to save every penny.
But if I'd known it would end like this, I would've spent it all.
Still, it's not a huge waste.
Money can be earned again, but
being 20 years old is something money can't buy back.
I organized my thoughts and looked at my current stat window.
[ Character ]
Strength : F-
Agility : F-
Stamina : F-
Mana : F-
Insight : F-
Spirit : F-
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Charm : C
Height : C
Physique : C
Appearance : C
Penis : C
Virility : C
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Bonus Stat Points : 0
Before starting the game, I'd invested all 60 of my bonus points into sexual areas.
In other words, I invested them into what are called the 'back stats' in this game: Charm, Height, Physique, Appearance, Penis, and Virility.
So, the six basic abilities that represent hunter-like capabilities—the 'front stats'—were pathetic.
Even though I'm an Awakened and a student admitted to the Hunter Academy, my stats were lower than an ordinary person's.
For reference, the ordinary people (gender-reversed women) of this world have an average front stat of about F.
If someone's exercised a bit, they'd be around F+, and someone who's received professional combat or martial arts training would be around E-.
'But who invests in stats like that in an eroge? Unless you're a veteran player with nothing better to do.'
This was a god-tier game with plenty of hunter-genre elements and excellent content, but
its essence was strictly an eroge.
That's why I didn't invest in basic stats at all.
Even now that I've entered the game world, I don't particularly regret it.
'Even if I'd distributed them evenly, I could only have put 5 points into each back stat.
If that happened, they would've all been E+ grade.
Except for Penis and Virility, the general average for back stats is C.
The average for front stats is F for ordinary people, but
back stats are commonly applied to both hunters and ordinary people, so whether you're a hunter or an ordinary person, the average is C, excluding Penis and Virility.
But if they were E+ grade, my appearance and height would be below average...
It's an eroge, I can't have that. At least it should be average.'
Of course, if I had known I would enter the game world, I might have thought about it a little more.
But I didn't know that.
And even if I thought about it again, I think I would have gone all-in on the back stats.
'This game has no levels.
Instead, you have to raise stat points and rely on luck to obtain traits, skills, and items.
There are 2 main ways to get stat points.
Fighting as a hunter, or, as befitting an eroge, mating.
Which route am I going to choose between the two?
Obviously, it's storm-fucking breeding.'
I'd entered a hunter world, but I had no intention of doing hard labor like monster hunting or villain tracking.
Since it's a gender-reversed world, there are plenty of women in heat who want to eat my dick just by me spreading my legs, so why bother...?
I opened the quest window.
Both routes of this game were explicitly laid out here.
[ Quest ]
1. Select Main Weapon (Reward : Stat Points)
2. Attend the first class of Hunter Academy (Reward : Stat Points)
3. Train using the Academy's training facility for 1 hour (Reward : Stat Points)
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1. Talk to the opposite sex (Reward : Stat Points)
2. Talk to the opposite sex for over 10 minutes (Reward : Stat Points)
3. Hold hands with the opposite sex (Reward : Stat Points)
The top ones are clearly the hunter route.
The bottom ones are clearly the mating route.
Both are still tutorial-style quests, so they're easy and feel like a build-up.
'For now, the ones above are easy too, so I should do them a little bit as well.'
Having completely organized my thoughts, I decided to attend the Hunter Academy entrance ceremony tomorrow.
I fell asleep looking forward to the next day.
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The next morning.
I had a wet dream for the first time in a long while.
Maybe because my body is young at 20, my penis is very lively.
Of course, my underwear was damp, so it felt gross.
'Ah, fuck. It's a pain to wash by hand. I'll just collect it with my other laundry and drop it off at the dormitory laundry room.'
The dormitory here offers various benefits to the academy students.
One of them is that they operate a laundry service so students can focus on classes and training.
Students can use the personal washing machine in their room if they want, but
if it's a hassle, they can just drop it off at the laundry center.
Then the laundry assistants will wash it and deliver it to the room.
I decided to just drop it off.
If there's such a good system, I should use it.
Why would I do laundry myself when it's a hassle?
The men in this world say they wash their own clothes because they're embarrassed, especially their underwear.
I'm just going to drop it off.
They say they're experts and even do the ironing well.
I took off my underwear, threw it in the corner of the room, and took a shower.
There was no one to see, so I had no qualms.
Today's entrance ceremony is scheduled for 10 AM, and since it's 8 AM now, I washed up leisurely.
After finishing my refreshing shower, I went to the academy cafeteria to eat breakfast.
The cafeteria was, naturally, a high-end buffet.
'The shower facilities were amazing, too. They really splashed money on this place. They must have a lot of funding.'
According to the world setting, the Hunter Academy receives full support from the government and corporations.
Because hunters are the shield and sword of humanity, protecting mankind from monsters and villains.
'Wow. Lobster, lamb chops, and even Korean beef charcoal-grilled short ribs. They said the number of items is 1/3 of the usual because it's breakfast. This is 1/3?'
There was a notice posted in front of the cafeteria saying that since it's breakfast, they only put out 1/3 of the usual buffet items.
For reference, they put out 2/3 for lunch, and for dinner, they have a full set-up like a banquet.
Looking at other students' trays, it was extremely rare for kids to be eating lobster or lamb chops in the morning.
It was an atmosphere where most people had a light meal based on soup or broth.
There didn't seem to be anyone like me who went crazy seeing the food.
Especially among the men, there was no one.
'These male bastards are all just pecking at salads or something...
Ugh... they eat as demurely as women, it's gay.
It looks like shit. I'll show them what a real man is.'
I didn't go to the corner of the cafeteria where the men were gathered in groups of three or five.
I just sat right in the middle of the cafeteria and started tearing into the lobster and meat comfortably.
Then, people's gazes turned toward me.
'Maybe because there are few men, I stand out even more...'
The gender ratio at the nation's only National Hunter Academy was a bit extreme.
If there are 20 women, there's about 1 man?
It couldn't be helped.
That's because in this world, mana is the exclusive property of women.
The blessed ratio for awakening mana is about 1 man for every 20 women.
And the difference in skill is extreme, too.
Not only does the unique energy source called mana settle well in the uterus,
but it acts as a very bad toxin throughout the body for men.
In particular, it atrophies the testicles and makes the male organ small and limp.
In other words, most men suffer from erectile dysfunction, decreased ejaculation power, and a rapid decrease in male hormones; anyway, their sex drive is also greatly reduced.
Conversely, it acts very positively for women, increasing their strength and mana control ability.
If there's a slight side effect, it's that women's sex drive becomes very strong?
To put it simply, the positions of men and women have just been reversed. Completely.
That's why the game setting itself was 'gender-reversed'.
'so the president is a woman, the prime minister is a woman, most of the members of the National Assembly are women;
anyway, most of the social leaders are women,
surnames follow the mother's surname, and all the social status that men used to occupy is now women's.
Conversely, most sex crimes are committed by women.
Most violent criminals are women. Women go to the military. Women pay for most things when dating.
Anyway, it's a world where the positions of men and women are completely reversed.'
According to the game company's explanation, they have also appropriately allocated the risks and burden of pain according to the gender reversal.
A representative example is the risk of pregnancy.
This world is truly messed up.
In the world I originally lived in, women usually bore the risk of pregnancy.
But this world is different.
Here, men bear the risk.
It's not that men get pregnant themselves, but
when a woman gets pregnant, the pain, discomfort, and side effects are felt by the man who impregnated her instead.
The reason for this is that the moment pregnancy occurs, a link is created between the man and woman due to mana.
So, the discomfort or pain the woman would feel is taken by the man instead due to the Pregnancy Mana Link.
Even the pain and danger of miscarriage or childbirth must be borne by the man instead.
Even for an SSS-rank Awakened, this is like a truth of the world, so it cannot be avoided.
So most men are extremely reluctant to impregnate women.
Conversely, women don't have any qualms about getting pregnant because it's not their problem.
Maybe it's the effect of mana, but paternal love has become stronger than maternal love.
Also, it is said that when a child is born, men are responsible for raising the child according to general social and cultural perceptions, so that's another reason.
Of course, these days, co-parenting or women raising children is increasing, though.
'But the protagonist, who is the player character, is a special existence, so he was exempt from such laws....
He doesn't share the pain. But it's not like the woman bears it either.
Anyway, it feels like that discomfort and risk burden are just floating in the air?'
Pleasure without responsibility.
It's one of the privileges the game developer gave to the player character.
Honestly, who would play an eroge where men have to suffer pain and discomfort when they get a woman pregnant?
It's a jackpot that the protagonist is specially exempt from that law.
Anyway, I was tearing into the Korean beef charcoal-grilled short ribs while thinking about this and that.
'Oh, delicious.
The cafeteria menu board said all meat grades were 1++ or Prime-grade, the highest quality.
It's really delicious. The soy sauce marinade soaked into the meat is also fantastic.'
I was already emptying my tray for the third time.
The female students right near me kept looking at me with curious eyes.
Now they are looking openly.
'Korean beef charcoal-grilled short ribs are so damn good...'