Popular NPC in a Gender-Reversed Game – Chapter 5

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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: FusionX
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‘…What the…?’

Yoo Chae-rin pondered.

How did things end up like this?

To figure that out, we need to rewind a few dozen minutes.

Back then, she was being extremely cautious.

As expected of a high-level zone, the monster levels were beyond imagination even halfway through.

Most of them were too much to handle alone, forcing her to keep her Stealth skill activated at all times.

While exploring the Forbidden Forest like that, she stumbled upon a strangely deep cave.

“Oh, what’s that?”

Her initial reaction was, naturally, curiosity.

As someone who was mapping out the area, she couldn’t help but be interested in such a cave.

Moreover, her viewers were also expressing the same curiosity.

[Oh, there’s something like that too]

[What is it?]

[Could it be a hidden boss room or a place where rare mobs live?]

[Or maybe there’s some special item?]

All sorts of speculations about the cave were thrown around.

In such a situation, there was only one conclusion she could reach.

“Should we go in?”

[Yes]

[Go go go]

[Go go go go go go go]

And so, without hesitation, Chae-rin entered the cave.

The silence and eerie atmosphere unique to caves greeted her.

“Wow, this is pretty deep…”

She and her viewers made many guesses as they went deeper.

A monster’s lair, hidden pieces, a secret treasure room, even the forest’s boss monster.

However, “human” wasn’t something she had anticipated.

After all, this was a high-level zone where humans couldn’t possibly survive.

Therefore, everyone was surprised when a human silhouette suddenly appeared deep inside the cave.

[?????]

[What the??]

[Is that a person? What are they doing here??]

[NPC or player?]

They saw it.

In the distance, a figure clad in fur was sitting.

Perhaps they were working on something, because a creepy, dragging sound, swoosh-swoosh, continuously echoed through the air.

It was a rather terrifying atmosphere, but not enough to overcome the collective curiosity of the group.

[Let’s approach]

[Hurry up and get closer, damn it]

[Let’s try talking to them]

“Ah, hold on, everyone…”

She activated the chat window and continued.

[Chaerin: I’ll talk through the chat window from now on. We might be caught if I speak out loud]

[Just go talk to them]

[Our streamer’s too shy, it won’t work~]

And so, she cautiously approached the figure.

The closer she got, the clearer the figure’s appearance became.

A person wearing a thick fur coat made of bear hide was sharpening a blade.

Scattered around them were tools smeared with blood, further amplifying the already menacing atmosphere.

What was that? Why were there so many sharp objects?

What on earth had they been cutting to have so much blood caked onto the blades?

[…I don’t think I can talk to them]

[It feels like we’ll die if we talk…]

[Isn’t that a humanoid monster instead of a person?]

[No, they’re definitely human, look at how they’re sharpening the blade]

[Yikes]

Yoo Chae-rin stopped about 15 meters away from the figure.

As the chat had said, she was too scared to go any closer.

The eerie atmosphere of the cave, the bloodstained tools, the creepy sound of metal grinding…

Humans naturally feared the unknown.

Because the unknown was full of potential danger.

Ominous thoughts flooded her mind.

What if they were discovered?

Even though her synchronization rate was lowered, she would still feel pain.

A considerable amount, at that.

She didn’t particularly want to be stabbed.

[Is it a woman or a man?]

[The fur coat’s too thick to tell]

[Streamer, get closer, we can’t see]

Despite the cries to get closer, she had her reasons for hesitating.

[Chaerin: No way, you guys come here; The atmosphere is super creepy;;]

[We get it, but let’s just get closer]

[From the shape, it looks like a man..]

[Maybe it’s just the thick fur coat?]

[Or maybe it really is that ghost story?]

[Whoa, that could be it lol]

[TibetanFox has donated 100,000 won!]

Please go closer.

In the end, it was only after being bombarded with money that she started to approach again.

She couldn’t ignore being hit with money like that.

If she disregarded such a large donation, her viewers’ sentiment would plummet.

She sighed inwardly.

‘Haa…’

[Chaerin: Thank you so much for the 100,000 won donation, TibetanFox…]

[Hahaha]

[Of course she should be grateful hahaha]

[Is she really grateful though lol]

[Kya lol This money-grubber lol This is what you wanted all along lol]

She approached the figure once more.

From behind, she circled around to their side.

In the middle, she even kicked a pebble on the ground to briefly draw their attention.

“…?”

The figure looked around for a moment before lowering their head and focusing on their work again.

She let out a sigh of relief.

‘Whew…’

[Scary lol It’s like we’re playing a horror game]

Now, the distance between her and the figure was about 7 meters.

However, she couldn’t bring herself to go any closer.

Shhhck-!

The moment she took another step forward, a dagger flew towards her.

Although it seemed a bit dull with all the dried blood, it still looked sharp enough to easily kill a person.

Naturally, she screamed.

“Kyaaaak?!”

And following closely behind was the opponent’s sharp spear.

Fortunately, neither weapon pierced Chae-rin, but it was enough to freeze her in place.

…Well, actually, there was another reason why she froze.

As the figure thrust their spear, their face, which had been hidden beneath the fur coat, was finally revealed.

It was a man.

Black hair that looked soft enough to touch and amber eyes with a hint of mischief in them.

A handsome man with sharp, defined features and a captivatingly rugged aura.

His striking appearance, a stark contrast to the menacing atmosphere they had felt up until that point, sent the chat into a frenzy.

Well, it was only natural that they would go wild, considering they were all perverts obsessed with “men.”

[Wow]

[He’s so handsome]

[It’s a man!!! It’s a man!!! It’s a man!!! It’s a man!!! It’s a man!!! It’s a man!!! It’s a man!!! It’s a man!!! It’s a man!!! It’s a man!!! It’s a man!!! It’s a man!!! It’s a man!!! It’s a man!!! It’s a man!!!]

[Look at him cussing… So sexy… Oppa…]

[Why is there a man here??]

Normally, she might have been stunned into speechless admiration as well.

“Hey, who the hell are you? Are you mute? Can’t you talk? Want me to pierce your throat with this?”

…If it weren’t for the fact that her life was being threatened in real-time.

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I pulled the spear tip out of the wall and pointed it towards the woman’s throat.

I was taken aback by the unexpected visitor, but what popped into my head was this,

‘Should I kill her?’

If it were a monster, I would have killed it without hesitation.

Just because it turned out to be a human didn’t change the fact that she had trespassed into my home.

However, she was still a fellow human being, so I couldn’t help but hesitate.

‘Ugh, I heard you get bad dreams if you kill a person.’

It couldn’t be helped, I had killed before.

There were countless people who were hostile towards me, and in the past, there were even bounty hunters who came this deep into the forest looking for me.

Some of them were even worse, trying to kill and violate me.

After all, this was a remote forest with no social norms or laws.

I wouldn’t hesitate to kill those kinds of people.

“Eek! No, please! I’m sorry! I just saw the cave and wondered what it was, so I came in…”

But this time was different.

It didn’t seem like she was hostile towards me.

It seemed like she really had stumbled upon me by accident.

It was true that she trespassed, but even that didn’t seem intentional.

In that case, should I let her live…?

But that brought up another concern.

The danger posed by my existence itself.

What would happen if she went back to the city and spread rumors about a man living in the forest?

If I wasn’t careful, I could end up with trackers on my tail again, just like in the past.

Then what should I do…?

“Ah.”

As I continued to ponder, a thought suddenly crossed my mind.

What if she was an otherworlder?

Even if I killed her, she would just resurrect in three days like Jesus.

In that case, killing her would be meaningless.

So, I decided to test out my skill and confirm whether she was an otherworlder at the same time.

I activated ‘Player’s Eye.’

It seemed like she was indeed an otherworlder.

Various system windows popped up in front of me.

[An unnamed NPC is hostile towards you!]

A strange message that seemed to be referring to me, and…

[Chaerin’s scaredy-cat side is showing lol]

[Reminds me of my school days…]

[Her way of speaking is quite… colorful? lol]

[It’s okay, he’s handsome, all is forgiven lol]

[Sex]

[This is actually pissing me off, how dare a man threaten a woman with a weapon?]

[Right lol Chae-rin, teach him a lesson, show him your feminine superiority]

[Subdue him and! Take him! ]

[Removed by the manager.]

[It looks like she’s the one about to be taught a lesson…?]

[Are you guys blind? Did you not see the speed of that spear thrust? Even the streamer, who’s pretty high level, couldn’t react]

[S]

[That’s only because the streamer sucks at physical combat and isn’t wearing any gear?]

[Even the casually thrown dagger embedded itself into the stone wall…? You think you could do that?]

[Forget everything else, just take off that fur coat, I’m about to have a heart attack from all that fluff…]

[Removed by the manager.]

[Sex]

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I couldn’t help but be bewildered after seeing the chat window that wouldn’t stop scrolling.

“…Uh?”

What the hell was that?

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[Chat be wildin 0_0]