In a World Where Chastity Is Reversed, I Kept Provoking Girls Until Things Went Too Far

Chapter 19: Net Trap

The instant Kouta removed his VR goggles, he returned to his real bedroom.

He glanced at the clock; it was already past one in the morning. –He’d done it again.

The new VR chat he’d started a few days earlier had begun half as a lark, but before he knew it, he was logging in every night.

“No, but… it’s just so fun.”

Kouta tumbled onto his bed and murmured softly.

At school, he got along well enough with his classmates, but it felt like they interacted with him not as an individual but as a rare boy. Of course, there were exceptions.

But in VR, things differed.

He had chosen a male avatar, yet the other players somehow mistook him for “one of their femboy comrades.”

“Your voice modulation is spot on.” “That character setup cracks me up!” “Let’s hang out together!”

–Hearing that kind of praise pulled him naturally into the group’s center.

If someone cracked a joke in the chat room, he fired back a retort right away, and he tossed in half-joking provocations too. Then the girls would respond with laughter, saying, “This guy’s hilarious!” “Tell us more!”

They saw him without rose-colored glasses, treating him like a true friend…

It was treatment he could never get in the real world.

That realization drew him deeper into the VR chat world.

Before he knew it, he lost track of time, logging in with excitement over “which room will everyone be in tonight?”

And the next night too–.

“Oh, Kouta’s here!”

“You were late today~ . Did the tests end?”

“Hilarious–Kouta studying? Doesn’t suit you at all!”

The avatars lined up on the screen were all male. Yet the edges of their voices carried an unmistakable “femininity.”

“No, sorry to keep you waiting. Now that I’m here, things are bound to heat up, right?”

“Here he goes, spouting cocky lines again!”

“You’re really committing to the guy act today~!”

When Kouta bantered lightly, they laughed with evident delight for some reason.

In the real world, he’d get an eye-roll and “there he goes with the weird stuff again,” but here it differed.

A silly quip transformed into “proof of popularity.”

“Kouta, do yesterday’s imitation!”

“…Yesterday’s? Oh, the ‘flirting with big sis’ routine?”

“That’s the one!”

“That had me dying~!”

When Kouta got carried away and cooed sweet nothings at a female avatar, hamming up the seduction act on purpose, the others played along with gusto, and the chat room dissolved into gales of laughter.

“I’d only ever seen something like that in anime!”

“Bet you pull that off cross-dressed in real life too, huh?”

“N-no way…”

Compared to the beginning, he had grown much closer to everyone.

In VR, they played games together or stayed up late trading silly stories.

Sometimes, even talk veering toward “romance gossip” cropped up.

“In real life, being a girl is tough, right~?”

“Yeah, tell me about it. That’s why playing with male avatars is such a blast.”

“You too, right, Kouta?”

“…Y-yeah. Sure.”

At moments like that, he could only laugh vaguely and dodge.

Afterward, the VR chat room brimmed with laughter.

They bantered over trivial topics, and as a final capstone, one suggestion flew out.

“Hey, how about an offline meetup soon?”

“…Offline meetup?”

Kouta froze without thinking.

Beyond the screen, his comrades erupted all at once.

“Sounds great! Meeting in real life would be hilarious!”

“Kouta, what’s your real self like? Super curious~!”

His heart thudded hard. No, this was going too far.

After all, they were all femboy girls.

If they learned he was a “real boy”…

“Uh, no… I’m not so sure…”

“Why not~? Scared we won’t like your looks or something?”

“Relax! No one’s gonna care–we’re all girls!”

“…Well, that’s true, but…”

Kouta fumbled for excuses in a mumble.

Just then, the apparent leader avatar grinned.

“Then how about this, Kouta: come cross-dressed.”

“…Huh?”

“You know, extend the VR vibe and show up cross-dressed in real life–it’ll ease right in!”

“You’d totally pull it off! Right?”

“Yeah, yeah–now I’m actually looking forward to picturing it!”

The excited voices overlapped in a clamor, leaving him no escape at all.

“…H-hey, you’re serious…?”

But on the other side of the screen, they pressed on with mischievous grins.

“Come on! It won’t be the same without you!”

“Yeah, it’ll be a total blast!”

“We’ll all be waiting!”

Meeting in real life would expose him as a boy… but if he went as is, or dressed as a boy, maybe it wouldn’t come out?

Talking with this group was fun, and he felt curious about offline meetups too…

“…Sigh. Fine. I’ll go, happy?”

The words slipped out, and the chat room filled with cheers.

“Yes!!”

“Kouta’s a god~!”

“Promise, okay!”

–Cross-dressing, huh. He was a guy to begin with anyway. With a little effort, he could pass… right?

Kouta had no inkling then that he was being far too optimistic about this world.

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That night, after Kouta logged out.

The remaining avatars exchanged silent glances for a moment.

“…Hehe, he took the bait after all.”

“Yeah, just like we thought.”

“Kouta’s terrible at hiding it.”

They laughed together in hushed tones. At first, they’d thought, “Another femboy comrade joins.” But after a few chats, they quickly sensed something off.

–The voice quality was unmistakably male.

–The reactions and word choices differed from a girl’s “femboy play.”

“Hey, that’s gotta be a real guy, right?”

“Totally. Wonder how he thinks he hasn’t been busted.”

And so they shared their “certainty.”

“…Let’s lure him to an offline meetup.” Such a proposal felt entirely natural to women in this world.

“Finally getting to meet him–sounds fun!”

“Wonder what face he’ll make in real life?”

“I mean, in a world like this, a real boy–let alone a fresh-faced high schooler… right?”

Giggles spread through the group. Everyone harbored the same desire. Doing this and that with a boy…

They wouldn’t stop at just looking, of course.

“But we gotta be gentle so he doesn’t get suspicious… at first, anyway.”