Chapter 49
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That evening, on the day Geum Taeyang made his debut broadcast.
President Lina of Baekun State stood before a gathering of reporters.
"To the citizens. This is President Lina. The broadcast by Mr. Geum Taeyang that was airing on AsiaTV today was a real broadcast.
Mr. Geum Taeyang thanked viewers for donations saying that their uteruses were trembling without any external pressure or coercion, and said that he hoped they would continue to support him.
I apologize for confusing the citizens."
Geum Taeyang's broadcast caused such a tremendous stir that the president had to apologize to the nation and explain the situation.
"As expected of Mr. Geum Taeyang."
"He truly lives up to the title of man-slut."
The Eternal Elders of Im-pu watched the broadcast with pleased smiles.
"Ahh... another woman's husband... Please wait just a little longer."
Someone else merely licked her lips with a dazed expression.
*
In a dark back alley.
A terrifying place beyond the reach of the authorities.
The back alleys were the darkest part of the country—so dark that people said there was no way to know what horrific crimes were being committed there.
-It's a child my husband had stored at the sperm repository for me.
-Don't get cocky. You're merely an outside wife who earns money for us.
-Yes! Thank you!
In such a back alley.
Ninave was watching a movie with her subordinates.
Being criminals didn't mean they couldn't enjoy cultural activities.
"Ha... What a truly garbage movie. It has absolutely no realism."
"Y-yes, that's right."
Her subordinates had found it quite entertaining, but they had no choice but to agree with Ninave.
After all, in the underworld, power was everything.
If they pointlessly contradicted Ninave, they had no idea what might happen to them.
"So this is... an investigation into that man named Geum Taeyang?"
"Yes!!"
Recently, she had been gathering information about Geum Taeyang.
Because she was so annoyed. What kind of man was he that Park Hana had interrogated her so relentlessly without a single piece of evidence?
"Huh... He certainly isn't a normal man. He works part-time at a gym?"
Ninave was dumbfounded by the information her subordinates had gathered.
A man working of his own accord?
Weren't men beings who could do nothing on their own and would merely starve to death without women?
There were occasionally men who worked as broadcasters or entertainers, but women were always helping them nearby, too.
"Well, the man probably just has his picture put up while his other wives do all the work."
"That's not true!!"
One of her subordinates shouted loudly at Ninave's words, which treated Geum Taeyang like every other man.
Ninave's eyebrows twitched. How dare a mere low-ranking member shout and contradict her...?
"What do you mean, it isn't?"
"W-well... Mr. Geum Taeyang stands at the counter himself, greeting even women like me with a smile. Hehehe... And the more expensive an elixir we buy, the longer he talks with us..."
Ninave was certainly a frightening person. But the subordinate rambled on about what kind of person Geum Taeyang was as if none of that mattered.
'How amusing. A body forged by God and a voice descended from heaven... What a trite expression.'
What man wouldn't be praised as having a body forged by God and a voice descended from heaven?
To cunts, every man looked as though he had a body forged by God and sounded as though his voice had descended from heaven, regardless of what he actually looked or sounded like.
Even so, that subordinate had never once shouted when Ninave disparaged men.
Could this man named Geum Taeyang really be different?
"And he recently started streaming. Apparently, he even allows sexually harassing remarks for donations of only 100,000 won."
"Sexual harassment?"
Ninave closed her eyes and thought back.
To the countless men she had met on blind dates.
What was the name of the most recent man she'd met...?
She couldn't even remember. He had been that unremarkable.
"Won't you pour me some water?"
"Pour it yourself. Can't you even do that?"
"What...? A woman is supposed to do this...!!"
"I don't do that."
"G-grr...!!"
Pouring water for a man on a blind date was basic etiquette.
But Ninave remembered the man who, when she hadn't done so, had grown furious as though offended, yet could do nothing about it.
He had been angry as though he wasn't used to such treatment after living a life pampered by women.
And yet she remembered him pouring water with trembling hands, too frightened of Ninave right in front of him to become any angrier.
"Wait... If Geum Taeyang is broadcasting, then he must have received his ID card by now."
Ninave had an amusing idea.
What kind of expression would Park Hana's face take if Ninave invited the very Geum Taeyang over whom she had interrogated Ninave so relentlessly on a blind date?
Ninave became curious.
She couldn't bear how curious she was to see Geum Taeyang trembling before her like all the other men.
*
Day 2 of streaming.
Before turning on his broadcast, Geum Taeyang appointed the enforcers as his managers.
The managers assigned by AsiaTV seemed as though they would moderate far too strictly, so he thought it would be better to simply receive the enforcers' help.
"Only ban excessive profanity or extremely vulgar remarks. And ask me first before banning anything, understood?"
"Yes. Understood."
After thoroughly training them to prevent a repeat of yesterday's events, Geum Taeyang turned on his broadcast again.
-Is this a broadcast where sexual harassment is allowed?
-Sex-woohoo!!
-Your big sis could treat you really well~
Perhaps because word of yesterday's broadcast had spread.
Thanks to viewers flocking in from all over the world, the number of people watching Geum Taeyang's broadcast was already surpassing 300,000.
It was an insane number.
"All right, hello, everyone. It's Geum Taeyang. Shall we set the chat rules first?"
As other male streamers did, Geum Taeyang casually spoke informally and immediately began by setting the chat rules.
"First, those sexual remarks that caused controversy yesterday will require a donation of at least 100,000 won."
-????
-Ooh-ya
-Is this what a real man is...?
-Didn't you see on the news this morning that the division commander who went there yesterday was stripped of her uniform? lol
-She entered a house with a gun because there was a man inside, and getting dishonorably discharged was already extremely lenient
[ManLover donated 100,000 won!]
-Hehehe. I want to have sex with you, Mr. Geum Taeyang.
The moment Geum Taeyang gave his permission, ManLover, who had reported Geum Taeyang yesterday, immediately sent a donation.
ManLover began expressing their desire like a pressure valve bursting.
"You want to have sex with me? Do you have a lot of money?"
[ManLover donated 1,000,000 won!!]
-I-I have lots of money!!
"Ah... So you have money. But I care about faces and figures, too. Sorry, but I don't think you're my type."
Geum Taeyang delivered a cutting remark to a one-million-won donation without batting an eye.
-LOL
-What could a bitch watching an internet broadcast at this hour possibly have to look at?
-For real lol
[I Want to Be Eaten donated 100,000 won!]
-Please eat me.
After that, more sexual donations flew toward Geum Taeyang.
"You want to be eaten? Then send more."
Geum Taeyang gave them measured responses.
"It's fine for everyone to send donations, but please don't send too many."
After cutting off the flood of donations at a reasonable point, he launched the game he had planned to make the main feature of his broadcast.
A game that had lost some of its momentum but was still highly popular.
Legendary Battlefield.
Excited at the thought of finally being able to play a game that wouldn't run on Park Hana's computer, Geum Taeyang entered his ID.
He had created the ID in advance, so once the game screen appeared, Geum Taeyang immediately pressed the Start Game button.
Legendary Battlefield was an AOS game played in a 5v5 format.
He knew the basics of how to play, so Geum Taeyang immediately chose mid.
{Mr. Male has joined the game}
Once loading finished and the game began, huge letters appeared on the screen.
"What the...?"
The character, who should have started at level 1, was already max level, and his account was packed with enough money to buy every item.
:Mr. Male, good luck!
:Wow... Mr. Male! Please kill me!!
Once the opposing team learned that Geum Taeyang was playing mid, they huddled there and stood still, taking his attacks as though waiting for him to hit them.
{Pentakill!! As expected of Mr. Male!!}
Geum Taeyang didn't know how many men played this game, but after listening to a voice specially recorded for men, he shut the game off.
This wasn't a game.
What fun could there be in an unfair fight?
It felt as though he were playing with cheats.
Things barely hovering around human level might enjoy an unfair fight... but Geum Taeyang did not.
The other games were the same.
Whether it was an RPG or a puzzle game... the moment he logged in with a male account, they showered him with every possible advantage.
With the game no longer fun, Geum Taeyang immediately shut it off.
"This isn't a game...!!"
-I thought it was fun...
-It's genuinely fun just watching a man play a game...
Geum Taeyang hadn't enjoyed himself at all, but the viewers felt differently.
Just watching a man play a game was enough to make smiles spread across their faces...!!
Having never seen a broadcast where he couldn't actually play the game, Geum Taeyang began to worry about what he should do from now on.
He had already received 30 million won in donations today alone... but most of it was thanks to allowing sexually harassing remarks.
There had even been an oblivious viewer who sent sexually harassing donations completely unrelated to the game while he was playing....
This was far removed from the kind of broadcast Geum Taeyang had envisioned.
Realizing that he had underestimated the sexual desire women had been suppressing all this time, Geum Taeyang took drastic action.
"But starting tomorrow, I'll block sexual remarks even if they're attached to donations."
-What...!!
-Ha... You fucking bitches, use your common sense, for fuck's sake.
-You sent nothing but that kind of donation even while he was playing a game. Of course he'd get angry.
-ㅠㅠㅠ
This broadcast couldn't go on like this.
"Let's set a separate schedule for sexual harassment and designate specific days when it will be allowed."
This wasn't some kind of cyber brothel.
After allowing it once, they had gone insane with the sexual harassment, nearly driving him out of his mind.
"That's all for today's broadcast."
-Three hours is about how long it takes men to have heart attacks.
-Wow, he streamed for three hours... Isn't that the top 0.01%?
-After streaming for three hours, he should already be panting, but I couldn't hear a single breath. What a shame...
-Are you streaming tomorrow?
"I'll think about it tomorrow."
It had only been his second broadcast.
Geum Taeyang shook his head as though fed up with the stranger-than-expected broadcast and ended the stream.
The viewers might have enjoyed themselves, but he hadn't enjoyed it at all...!!
"Should I try becoming an entertainer?"
Geum Taeyang took out Chae Mei's business card.
Wouldn't it be better to turn on the broadcast only once in a great while and become an entertainer, performing or acting instead?
That thought occurred to him.
[Ninave has requested a blind date with Geum Taeyang. Accept?]
As Geum Taeyang was about to contact Chae Mei, a government text arranging a blind date had arrived on his phone.
"Ah... Let's use this for tomorrow's broadcast."
Seeing the text, Geum Taeyang thought of some good content.