Chapter 44: Sub-account (1)

The moment I opened the front door, what I saw was a surprisingly clean living room.

“Excuse me. Wow. It’s much cleaner than I thought?”

“……”

I came inside and slowly examined the interior.

First of all, the house was quite spacious.

Was it a 15-pyeong (532 square feet (ft²)) two-room apartment?

The kitchen and living room alone were incredibly spacious compared to the cramped studio apartment where I lived.

While I was looking around in wonder, a tightly closed door caught my eye.

“Where does this lead? Is it the bathroom?”

“Ah, th-there…! I haven’t-!”

I turned the doorknob without much thought.

The door opened smoothly, revealing the interior with a creak.

The dark room, with the lights off and even blackout curtains drawn, made it difficult to see the inside without turning on the lights, but when I focused mana into my eyes, my vision became as clear as if I were walking on a bright street.

The first thing I saw was three bags full of trash right next to the door.

On the desk, decorated with dual monitors and speakers, there were at least dozens of empty cup ramen containers piled up.

On the floor, empty snack bags and drink cans were scattered around.

On the bed, which occupied half of the room, the sheets and blankets were half-pulled off and thrown around carelessly.

It seemed like she just took off her clothes and threw them in the corner, as shirts and dolphin shorts were mixed together.

I averted my eyes because there were even panties and bras mixed in.

I looked back at Yu Ayeon without a word, and she was covering her embarrassed face with both hands.

“…”

“… This… I… still… haven’t… cleaned it all up…”

It was understandable why she didn’t want to open the door so much.

No, she should’ve told me sooner…

“… Shall we clean up together? I’ll help you.”

“… Ah, no! I’ll clean it up later…”

“Hey. It’ll be faster and better if we clean it together. Let’s do it together.”

“… Ah, no… But…”

“I’m good at cleaning. I’ve been a porter for a long time, so I’m good at housework, you know?”

“… Th-Then… J-Just… a little…”

Yu Ayeon finally accepted my offer to help her clean.

So we cleaned the room for a while.

We opened the windows wide to ventilate.

We separated the cup ramen containers, plastic bags, and cans for recycling.

“Ayeon-ssi. Did you only eat ramen again?”

“……”

“Haa… I’ve told you over and over again. It’s not good for your health if you only eat ramen.”

Food is the basis and driving force for leading a happy and enjoyable life.

Neglecting such food is a serious matter.

“I’ll make you a delicious dinner tonight. Think about what you want to eat.”

“Yes…”

After clearing away all the trash lying on the floor, I picked up the clothes piled up in the corner and smelled them.

Instead of a musty smell, Yu Ayeon’s clothes had a strangely pleasant scent that seemed to gently relax my whole body.

Could this be the fabled female pheromone…? It was such an addictive scent that I kept sniffing without realizing it, and I buried my face in Yu Ayeon’s bra, which was so large that the cloth covering one breast could cover my entire face, and smelled it.

… Wait. Yu Ayeon’s bra?

I took my nose away from it for a moment and looked at myself from an objective perspective.

In my right hand, a bra, in my left hand, panties.

… Hoeee… How did these end up in my hands…

“Th-That, Su, Suhyeon-ssi…? M-My, m-my, m-my, m-my, s-smell… Wh-Why…”

At that timing, Yu Ayeon looked at me with a bright red face.

It’s okay. Han Suhyeon. Be calm. This is a gender-reversed world. There must be a way out… Even if it’s a gender-reversed world, it’s impossible to pass this off casually, but if it’s Yu Ayeon, maybe.

I decided to just be confident (shameless).

In front of Yu Ayeon, I buried my nose and mouth in the cloth of the bra she had worn and inhaled deeply.

Sssuuuuuuuuh… Huuuuuuuuuuu…

Sniff, sniff… Phew… Sniff, sniff… Phew…

Yu Ayeon’s female pheromones filled my head.

Every time I inhaled and exhaled, Yu Ayeon’s face became redder and redder.

I smelled Yu Ayeon’s underwear and said my thoughts while maintaining my composure as much as possible.

“Ayeon-ssi. This doesn’t really smell strange, you know? Rather, it has a very pleasant scent that makes me want to keep smelling it… Sniff… But it’s good to wash your clothes as soon as you take them off.”

“………… Yes…”

I handed Yu Ayeon’s clothes back to her with an indifferent expression.

Yu Ayeon didn’t say anything, and with her face bright red, she took the clothes I handed her and went into the bathroom.

She probably went to put the laundry in the laundry basket.

It was a relief that I somehow got over the situation.

While Yu Ayeon was in the bathroom, I tidied up the bed.

“… What? It’s all wet?”

Not just a part of it was slightly wet, but more than half of the bed sheet and blanket were soaked.

It’s not like a bucket of water was spilled…

I folded the blanket and sheet so that the wet part was on the outside to dry it, and I felt something strange.

‘It’s strangely slippery.’

The liquid that soaked the bed didn’t seem to be completely water, and it was slightly slippery.

I put a little on my hand and brought it to my nose, and there was no particular smell, but there was a strange scent that made me want to keep smelling it.

Maybe because it was on my hand, the smell disappeared in an instant.

My curiosity piqued, I brought my nose close to the sheet and started to smell it.

Sniff, sniff.

Once I inhaled through my nose, a scent similar to the one I smelled from Yu Ayeon’s bra a little while ago rose.

No, this is…

It was a much, incomparably richer and more concentrated scent.

A strange smell that made my body relax and feel strangely, vaguely sensual every time I smelled it.

I was so immersed in that addictive and pleasant scent that I buried my nose in it and was smelling it when-

“Kyaaaagh…! Su, Suhyeon-ssiiiiiiii…!”

The loudest scream I had ever heard from Yu Ayeon rang out.

Yu Ayeon, who is usually slow in her actions, ran at the fastest speed I had ever seen and snatched the blanket and sheet.

“This! This! I, I…! I! Will clean it up…!”

“…? Yes. Well. But what did you spill on this? It smells strangely similar to the smell I smelled earlier, but it’s much more… How should I put it. Pleasant? Addictive? It felt like that.”

I wiped the mysterious liquid that had gotten on my nose with my hand and licked that finger slightly as I answered.

Yu Ayeon, whose face was so red that it couldn’t get any redder, shouted, “It’s nothing…!!” and ran to the laundry room again.

I mean… Why is she doing that?

I turned on the vacuum cleaner, thinking about Yu Ayeon’s strangely unusual behavior today.

“It doesn’t look like the same house.”

“… That’s right… Cleaning… It really feels good…”

After about two hours of cleaning, Yu Ayeon’s room was incredibly clean compared to before.

After brushing off the dust from outside, we sat facing each other on the bed and started a full-fledged conversation.

First, we talked about the house I was going to move into.

But in conclusion, this matter was put on hold.

“Um… About houses… I… don’t know much either…”

Yu Ayeon didn’t know much about houses either.

Naturally, we looked for the next topic.

I opened the inventory and took out the artifact I had extorted from Yeonseong Guild.

“… This is… a laptop… right…?”

Yu Ayeon looked at the laptop that suddenly appeared and questioned.

“Yes. It looks like an ordinary laptop on the outside, right?”

“… Yes… Th-Then… Is the inside different…?”

“No. The inside is the same as other laptops, but the difference is not that.”

According to Yeon-daepyo, this laptop was a laptop that could be used normally even inside a gate.

It was recognized for its uniqueness to the point that a mere laptop was classified as an A-rank artifact.

“Th-This laptop… is A-rank…?! Hieek…!”

Yu Ayeon, who was holding and examining the laptop, dropped the laptop in surprise.

It wasn’t strange for Yu Ayeon to be surprised.

The D-rank artifact that Park Hyena was holding was 80 million won, so how much would an A-rank artifact be?

I don’t know, but I’m sure it’s an amount that ordinary people can’t buy even if they save their whole lives.

Fortunately, it was on the bed, so the laptop didn’t suffer any impact.

I thought of a possibility when I saw this laptop.

The vast majority of gate-related videos uploaded to iTube currently have very poor video and audio quality.

This was due to the intuitive reason of the limitations of technology, so scholars concluded that it would take several decades of technological development to capture clear images inside the gate.

It would take even longer to use electronic devices such as laptops and cell phones, rather than cameras.

But I had Yu Ayeon.

An amazing talent with an overwhelming filming skill that makes you feel the reality of making you feel like it’s real, even though it’s a video with overwhelming image and sound quality, and she has a considerable sense of video herself.

Besides, if Yu Ayeon’s [Filming] skill, which connects to electronic devices, and an A-rank artifact laptop are used together…

“Maybe, we can do live streaming even inside the gate?”

Internet broadcasting and hunter iTuber.

These two occupations were already a red ocean, with so many people challenging them.

But what about combining the two…? Due to technological limitations, no one has properly tried it, and there are no success stories.

It was embarrassing to call it a blue ocean because there were no competitors.

Moreover, Yu Ayeon and I had already proven ourselves in the red ocean market with just two videos.

What if we join forces and head to the undeveloped blue ocean…?

Presumably, a super hit bigger than now will come out.

Yu Ayeon, who was silently listening to me, met my eyes.

Yu Ayeon’s eyes were engulfed in a strange excitement, perhaps imagining what we would achieve from now on.

“… It seems… possible… No, it’s possible…!”