Chapter 10: The Star of the Magpie (10)

Since I started a new thread, the clickbait title attracted a surge in views, and soon, comments started pouring in. Wow, so many comments, are these otaku crazy? The first comment was, of course, from that guy.

I Thought You Were A Fat Loser But You’re A Pretty Girl;; I admit defeat. You usually sound like a middle-aged man, so where did you learn to make a female voice???

YunaRin: Um, I’m a high school girl;; Isn’t it natural for a girl to make a female voice? lol

I’m a person who can’t lie. Well, they probably wouldn’t dream of the person behind the screen actually being a high school girl. A pseudo-high school girl, but a genuine one with a v*gina.

I replied and checked the other comments.

BigGreenOnionF*rt: Dedet? Narin-san was a real girl decha?

[TL Note: Narin-san = respectful way to refer to someone (like Ms. Narin).

Decha = cute way of speaking, often used by anime girls.]

This guy is a hardcore scat enthusiast who played MapleStory 2 for almost half a year. Judging by his comment, he must have eaten nothing but sh*t to have his mental state reduced to that of a Sheltered. Typical of a Berserker main.

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BlueNius: Are you a Love Liver?? Please do a Love Arrow Shoot for us.

MeatStickCamel: Wow, no hint of a male voice at all. Super hot, best quality.

PropaneGaller: Heh, a cuteness that rivals even mine.

NoRPGsLeft: Narin, you usually talk like an insult-spewing machine, was that with this voice? Wow, crazy.

Seawolf: Please check your gallery logs. Short 8, Long 15, best quality. I’ll pay extra. My wife gained so much belly fat recently that I just can’t…

KimRikka: ? Isn’t this just a girl? Doesn’t seem like a guy. I’m into traps, so I know a thing or two about this. A guy can’t usually maintain a female voice while screaming and changing pitch like that. The way the voice changed right after the Love Live line gave it away. No pause at all. It didn’t sound like acting from the beginning, just like a natural voice.

Noob: This definitely isn’t a pre-pubescent elementary school kid’s voice. Searching the username shows they’re not in elementary or middle school either. Were they born without an Adam’s apple or something? Or are they actually a girl?

Muchi: So what if she’s a girl? Look at all the simps showing up; It just seems like good voice acting. Great voice. Ask her to do some anime lines, just leave her alone.

Anonymous: Didn’t you see how the League of Legends gallery got ruined by simps, you idiot? Showing you’re a girl on a male-dominated site is problematic in the first place;;

Anonymous2: The people in our gallery always say they’re middle school girls, isn’t that problematic too;; Attention whores.

Anonymous3: It could be her younger sister or older sister, why are you guys fighting over this? I played League with this person, they’re a guy. Someone who introduces themselves as a pretty idol and charges mid with Yasuo or Master Yi can’t be a real girl lol.

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Look at these guys fighting again. The pattern never changes. The anonymous users and drive-by posters appearing… it’s so clichéd it’s boring.

YunaRin: I’m a girl, a pretty high school girl;; Give it up~~

After I left my comment, they seemed to lose their will to fight, and the comments stopped. The thread got buried due to the high posting rate. Searching my username, I found a few people asking me to say lines from their favorite characters. But a writer from the gallery caused a huge controversy, so everyone’s attention shifted to that. I knew this guy would cause something big someday! Right, Umi-chan, Rin-chan?

The Nesoberi Umi-chan and Rin-chan lying on my bed seemed to nod in agreement.

I glanced at the clock. It was 4 AM. Ah, sh*t, I lost sleep because of that flame war. All these creators have such inflated egos. So many of them are clueless about how to behave. Even considering that everyone’s different, there are a lot of strange people in the subculture scene.

When I asked otaku on DC Inside why they go to Comic World, which isn’t even that interesting, many of them said they go for the people-watching. That means otaku are entertaining to observe. Since there are a lot of people who have lived repressed lives or are currently living repressed lives, they tend to explode at the slightest provocation.

Countless types of otaku from various sites, queen bees, cosplayers, booth vendors… There are bound to be incidents wherever people gather, but Seo-Com (Seoul Comic World) was said to be the center of all kinds of incidents.

Cosplaying in traditional Japanese clothing on Liberation Day, cosplayers engaging in lewd acts near the venue, booth artists getting into physical fights with people they fought online, the organizers causing controversies due to rule issues, warriors armed with blades, happi coats, sashes, and Nesoberi charging in unison with their blades lit up…

A place where countless otaku, illustrators, manga artists, cosplayers, or just subculture fans, divided into factions, raise their banners and engage in ideological warfare. That was my perception of Comic World. It made me never want to go. Well, it’s all hearsay, so it might be exaggerated. It probably is. Hmm.

Something occurred to me. I had been TS’d into a beautiful girl. It was 4 AM, and my family was asleep. There was only one thing I could do. I hadn’t properly faced my body yet. It’s the body I’ll have to use for the rest of my life, whether I like it or not. There hasn’t been a single case of a TS Disorder patient reverting back to their original form. It’s a fantasy, but the result is cold, hard reality. It’s embarrassing, but it’s something I have to face eventually. Avoiding it won’t solve the problem.

I gulped. I retrieved the mirror I had stashed in the corner and hung it up. Hmm, first, let’s get undressed. I grabbed the hem of my shirt and bent down. I took off my top and pulled down my pants. My naked body was reflected in the mirror. I could feel my pulse pounding. My face flushed.

I took out a tracksuit from my closet. The Otonokizaka tracksuit I bought through mail order! Hehe. I have to try it on. Since Otonokizaka is an all-girls school, the uniform is naturally a girl’s uniform. So, while I don’t have the actual uniform, I do have the standard Otonokizaka tracksuit. The one Nico, Rin, and Hanayo are wearing on the album cover. Even the real-life μ’s wore it during a live performance. “Listen to my heart!!” and “after school NAVIGATORS” are both god-tier songs.

Ah! Now I’m a girl, just like the members of μ’s! Ah, I want to enroll in Otonokizaka Academy as a first-year! If only that were possible, I wouldn’t worry about my changed body or my life at all. Every day would be a blissful dream. Because the most beautiful world is there, obviously. The principles of the universe will flow through me, I’ll become the shining star of the nightjar, at the center of truth, at the highest point of the heavens. My Avalon, my Valhalla, beyond the hills of Zion, I shall go there!

“Ugh, I got too excited…”

I felt a little dizzy. I must have gotten a head rush from excitement. My reflection in the mirror was the Otonokizaka student I’d always dreamed of being. Although I’m about Nico’s size. Is this the fun of cosplay?

[TL Note: Nico’s size: Refers to Yazawa Nico, a petite (short and small-built) character from Love Live!, an idol anime. The speaker is saying they have a similar small body type.

Cosplay: Short for “costume play”.]

No, you need a decent base appearance like mine to enjoy this… It’s a form of self-expression. It’s a precious hobby, a source of joy for some, so let’s respect it. Scoffing at ugly people is enough to do internally.

I picked up Nesoberi Rin-chan. This is picture-perfect. Nesoberi are cute plushies on their own. The problem is the fat, ugly otaku who carry them around.

“Rin-chan~!”

I lay down on my bed and bent Rinsoberi’s (Rin + Nesoberi) arms. The so-called “nyan nyan nyan” pose. Ah, so cute. I hugged her and rubbed my face against hers.

“V! A! A! O!”

I looked in the mirror, holding Rinsoberi to my side. I stealthily made a V-sign with my left hand. Hmm, uh, this is difficult. Making an ahegao face is harder than I thought. Embarrassed, I put my left hand down and stood up. Then, I looked in the mirror.

[TL Notes: Ahegao is an exaggerated “pleasure face” from adult anime, often used jokingly in cosplay or memes.]

Ah, so pretty. A cuteness befitting an Otonokizaka first-year. Smiling makes me even more charming. If I were a man, this would be a typical creepy otaku smile. Fat otaku giggling while being obsessed with something is truly disgusting.

“Nico Puri! Yeah! Pretty Girl!”

I put my hands in the niconiconi pose and jumped. Creak, the faint sound of the door opening reached my ears. That’s why I noticed even later. It wasn’t the sound of a closed door opening, but the sound of a door that hadn’t been properly closed, opening further. My mind went blank. There are definitely no gods, no Buddha, no miracles, no magic in this world.