Chapter 3: Daily Life After the Return (2)

I calmed down Cutie♡Angel, put it in the inventory, and sat in front of the computer.

Yesterday, I was so tired that I fell asleep, but today, I plan to learn a little about this world.

And set some goals for the future.

To do that, first, is this world really a gender-reversed world?

Right after returning, I thought it was a gender-reversed world based on the behavior of the women around me and the reaction of the convenience store worker.

But now my thoughts have changed a bit.

It’s a bit embarrassing to say this myself.

‘Because I’m so handsome…’

After coming home and checking my face, I thought that maybe they were just being kind or sexually appealing to a handsome man.

I turned on the computer after a long time to find information.

– Woooong.

The nostalgic boot sound I haven’t heard in 10 years.

I feel the reality of returning to modern times in such small details.

‘Let’s see… Ah. There was that place.’

I went online and checked the novel site I used to frequent before being transferred to Grandia.

[2022 Novelpia Adult Web Novel Contest]
[♡Masterpiece♡]

‘Oh, an adult contest?’

If my memory serves me right, this platform had a suspicious number of writers who were really passionate about character illustrations.

Since most of the readers were men, there were especially many female character illustrations.

It made my eyes happy.

‘I’m already looking forward to it.’

If it’s an adult contest, they would probably start by choosing a cover with a sexy female character.

There would be so many f*cking hot novels and sexy characters.

With high expectations, I clicked on “View Works”.

‘Ugh, f*ck.’

The place was full of illustrations of naked male characters.

‘No. This can’t be.’

This place was definitely a paradise.

It should have been a new continent for oppressed men.

– TS) The BL movement of today’s Nasakso was amazing, LOL
– TS) An*l BL male corruption is so hot, right?
– There’s a serious drought of female-male reversed novels in Nopia. When will the female reverse superhuman come?

‘This is hell.’

Ignoring reality, I entered a platform with a blue background and an M-shaped logo.

[Divorced and hit the jackpot with coins]
[Surviving after being cuckolded]
[A son-loving fool is good at doing the dishes]

All the titles are miserable.

Still, the semi-realistic illustrations of fairly decent female characters were pleasing to the eye.

There were a suspicious number of illustrations of sexy office ladies, but it was rather good.

Finally, a platform called JAR.

‘Oh, ohhhh…’

Illustrations of flesh color that fully captured the dark and sensual side of humans.

There were countless half-naked female characters.

Without any censorship.

The highlight of the site was the banner.

[♡You and I are gel-gel relationship♡]
[GL Screening Room open for only 3 weeks♡]

‘Oh, ohhhh! This is heaven…’

– Hamchi King: The chemistry between Seohyun and Haneul is crazyㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ (crying emoji in Korean)  heart is breaking, the earth is breakingㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ
– Korean Husband: Isn’t our Seohyun too sweet? ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ
– Hyedeong: Isn’t that author?nim a woman? Why are they here? ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ

Hoo.

‘I guess I won’t be reading web novels in this life.’

I sighed and closed the site after looking at the illustrations of innocent characters.

‘It really is a gender-reversed world.’

Looking at the news and other communities, that thought became even firmer.

[Male sexual assault victims in virtual reality are on the rise. We must root it out…]
[Meminist group. Demanding a male quota for the world’s 6th-ranked, domestic 1st-ranked Yeonseong Guild…]
[99% of s*x crimes in the last 5 years were committed by women… Virtually potential perpetrators.]
[‘Can I go home safely today…?’ The sympathy of many men…]

[NSFW) The hottest male BJ lately… .JPG]
[Singing and laughing about the wet dream cycle of men ARABOJA]
[NSFW) Today’s BJ Hooni’s swimsuit legend… .GIF]

(Photo of male BJ Hooni shaking his hips in a swimsuit)

– Wow, this is crazy.
– His abs are faintly visible, it’s so sexy LOL.This kid is truly legendary.
ㄴ Hooni viral.
ㄴ Every time a small-time BJ rises, is it legendary? LOL
– It’s obvious that he’s had his face completely fixed, why are you watching this kid?
ㄴ Memi caught.
ㄴ Memi cut!
– Every time his face moves, space-time is distorted? LOL
ㄴ LOL, but his body is good, so it’s worth watching as a warm-up.

‘Meminist? Memi?’

I searched for the word Meminist because I didn’t know what it meant.

In this world where the common sense of men and women is reversed, Meminist seemed to play a similar role to feminists.

It seemed that Meminist was shortened to Memi.

The difference is that this is also a man, not a woman.

And.

‘Male quota for the top domestic guild… Sigh.’

Feminists who were strong in the original world, and Meminists in the gender-reversed world, have become something that has reached a really special point.

‘It’s dizzying…’

A world where most things, from the social status of men and women to sexual concepts, are reversed.

Seeing how the world is going, I really felt that I had come to a gender-reversed world.

This world was a gender-reversed world.

Then what should I do now?

‘Nothing really changes.’

Enjoy this world as much as I can.

Live a happy and enjoyable life in this world.

That’s my number one goal.

That thought was like compensation for the lost 10 years.

‘…It’s a bit awkward to say it’s lost.’

Although my strength was sealed, the experience I gained while rolling around on the battlefield in Grandia for 10 years did not disappear.

My age also returned to 20, the age I was when I was summoned to Grandia.

Anyway.

I will enjoy a happy life while keeping a reasonable line.

‘But I still need to regain my strength.’

Living my life, I realized that the people who could say what they wanted when they wanted were always the people who had power.

Money? If you don’t have money, you can rob it.

Power? If you don’t have power, you can become so strong that power can’t suppress you.

But you can’t be without strength.

Because strength is the law of the world.

Just thinking about the old days, when I didn’t have strength, I had to be held captive by my master and train while my muscles burst.

But after I gained strength, even my master treated me like a human….

‘…Did he…?’

For some reason, I only remember being beaten up. Fcking barbarian bstard. Even that guy is a master.

I suddenly got angry and opened the window and flipped off the place where my master’s grave might be.

Anyway, that’s what I wanted to say.

If you don’t have strength, you have to bow down even in f*cked up situations.

‘I will become strong.’

My immediate goal is roughly… to the extent that I can smash the head of someone I don’t like without any major problems.

‘Would an A-rank hunter be enough?’

That would be enough to enjoy life and live leisurely without any problems.

The goddess said that the more I grow in this world, the more the seal will be released.

‘Shall I check it out?’

I sat cross-legged on the floor and closed my eyes.

I slowly inhale and exhale as if meditating.

I feel the mana dissolved in the air and inhale.

If I focus on the process of accepting mana into my body through breathing, the mana eventually flows through my airways and reaches my heart.

When I feel the sensation of blood circulating through the blood vessels, I can see that my body is full of unrefined mana.

Since mana is dissolved in everything in the world, it is inevitable that it will naturally accumulate in the body while living everyday life.

If such unrefined, impure mana continues to accumulate, it is inevitable that unnecessary waste will occur in operating mana.

‘The power of sword aura and magic also weakens.’

If you create sword aura with unrefined mana, it will easily crumble, and the power of magic will weaken.

To solve this problem, a core must be created in the heart.

The core is the key to physical combat, which helps mana strengthen the body and weapons more efficiently.

‘It’s like a water purifier.’

I circulate the unrefined mana through the blood vessels while rotating the core.

The series of actions that purify the turbid mana is the water purifier filter.

Such refined pure mana is stored in the heart and used whenever needed.

It was really like a water purifier.

I condense the mana gathered in my heart into one point.

Eventually, the condensed mana became a core.

‘…It’s small.’

The newly created core was small.

Until a few days ago, I felt a core that had a huge presence like the sun.

Compared to that core, the core I made now was as small as a speck of dust in the vast universe.

Nevertheless, it was much larger than the core I first made in Grandia.

‘Did my past experience help?’

Because I had the experience of operating the core countless times for 10 years.

Even in a completely initialized state, I was able to create a core on my own.

‘I’ll gradually increase the total amount of mana and the size of the core through training…’

The problem is, the heart.

I was so focused on circulating mana that I couldn’t see the important guy.

The heart that surrounds the core.

Surrounding the heart, Four rings.

I thought it was a circle, also called a mage’s core, like the core used by warriors, but I quickly shook my head because it felt fundamentally different.

If my guess is correct, this is probably…

‘A seal.’

It was a lock that sealed my power.