Chapter 2: Ordinary Daily Life

So, with that landmine buried, I entered the soundproof booth.

“It’s amazing that I even bought a soundproof booth in this situation. I’m pathetic.”

Considering I had debt, I felt strangely proud that I had purchased such an expensive thing.

Someone might say that if I had the money to buy such an expensive thing, I should pay off my debt first, but these are all business tools and necessary items.

You could say it’s an investment to pay off debt and earn money.

Oh, why did I get such a high-spec computer?

Hey, the computer has to be good to do the broadcast!

And originally, buying the best computer and using it for a long time is the most cost-effective way.

Isn’t that chair really expensive?

It’s a job where you sit in a chair all day, so of course you have to use an expensive one.

It might be okay to use a cheap one now, but as you get older, your body will scream.

I’m already in my late 20s, so I need to take care of my body now to make a living for a long time.

Oh, do I exercise?

“Ehem, ehem…”

Anyway.

So far, I’ve talked about soundproof booths, computers, and chairs, but still, the most important business tool is my body, especially my voice.

I carefully sat down so that the expensive chair wouldn’t break, and I cleared my throat.

“Ahㅡ, ahㅡ…”

A man’s voice echoes inside the soundproof booth.

But slowly.

Surely.

The man’s voice was gradually rising.

The voice paused to catch its breath and then climbed the stairs again.

Finally, when the voice reached the end of the stairs.

There was no trace of a man left there.

“Ah~ Ah~~ One two three, one two three? Good!”

Originally, my voice was very high-pitched for a man, but now my voice was unmistakably a woman’s voice.

And there was a terrible sense of alienation from my face reflected in the monitor that I looked at absentmindedly.

“Aish…”

Unable to bear the alienation, I turned on the monitor.

The logo of the monitor manufacturer appeared, erasing my appearance.

I’ve been broadcasting with this voice for quite a long time, but I’m still not used to the fact that this voice is my voice.

“Sigh…”

The exam studies and major studies that I worked so hard on became empty shells that didn’t help my life at all.

Rather, the female voice that I learned for the purpose of deceiving people and playing tricks on the internet became the lifeline that feeds me…

Life is truly unpredictable.

I prepared to broadcast, chewing over my twisted fate.

【Your heroine Hiro, here she comes!】

First, I changed the broadcast title.

“Ah, ah.

Another day with your heroine Hiro! Welcome, everyone~”

I rehearsed the opening remarks towards the broadcast screen where no one was there yet.

“Aah~ Ah… Kyaaaaack!!!”

I checked to see if my voice would return to a man’s voice when I screamed.

“Aang♥ You’re all so mean“

I also practiced acting cute to the viewers….

“Ugh… waek!”

Sh*t.

Do I really have to do this to make a living?

At the same time, a voice came along.

Wouldn’t you have to if you want to pay your loan interest on time?

That’s right, I have to work hard and pay off my debt.

Damn it.

I barely managed to recover the heart that was about to be broken by the wave of disillusionment and closed my eyes.

And I repeated the spell in my heart.

‘I am a woman, especially a woman who likes to act cute to men, a woman who is happy when men praise her…’

I immerse myself in the role, imagining myself as a woman, a lump of men’s fantasies that I created myself.

The spell continued until I felt like a woman.

After a while, I

No, Hiro slowly opened her eyes.

Hiro said cheerfully with a bright smile.

“I have to have a fun broadcast with our viewers today!”

I make exaggerated gestures with my hands tightly clenched and say things to myself that no one will listen to.

Since I’m not turning on the camera, I don’t need to match my expressions or gestures to the role, but each of these things creates detail.

And since I sometimes show my hands, shouldn’t I practice these gestures?

Go Su-yeong, who is standing back and watching Hiro, continued to give reasons and meanings to his actions.

Otherwise, if this is an act without any reason or meaning, it means that all these gestures came out naturally.

That can’t be.

It mustn’t be.

Even if it was natural for Hiro, I, as Go Su-yeong, couldn’t accept it.

Even though I’m broadcasting while pretending to be a woman, I won’t lose myself as a man.

The broadcast time was approaching.

Hiro pushed up the volume of the audio interface.

I quickly scanned the broadcast settings for the last time, but there didn’t seem to be any problems, and I checked the time.

1 minute before 7 o’clock.

Considering the delay of the program, there were only about 50 seconds left.

30 seconds

20 seconds

10 seconds

Now.

I press the transmission button on the broadcast program to start the broadcast.

The program froze for a moment and then.

【Broadcast key has expired. Please set it again.】

What the fu*k?

For some reason, the connection between the broadcast program and the account seemed to have been lost.

I quickly tried to reset it, but it was a process that required mobile phone authentication, so it was inevitable that it would take time.

“94…5885… Done.”

It took about a minute to receive and enter the 6-digit authentication code.

It’s only about 1 minute late, so it’s not really a time to be considered late, so it’ll be okay.

Hiro pressed the transmission button to start the broadcast again.

Soon, the broadcast was activated and the chat window began to be activated.

[You’re late, Hiro-nim.]
[Explain the lateness.]
[You’re always late.]
[Hae]
[Hmh]
[Myeong]
[Hae]
[Myeong]
[Hae]
[Didn’t you come on time today either? Being late is a habit, isn’t it?]
[Myeong]
[Hae]
[As an apology, do some aegyo.]
[Hae]
[Ae]
[Gyo]
[Hae]
[Ae]
[Gyo]
[Hae]

In fact, the chat window had been activated even before the broadcast started.

It’s a fu*king mess again today, seriously.

I often wonder if it’s a traditional culture of this internet broadcasting scene to gang up on you as soon as they get an excuse.

“Ehe… I’m sorry everyone! Hiro was a little late, right?”

[A little?]
[Wow, she said a little late.]
[Na]
[It may be 1 minute for Hiro-nim, but it’s 1 minute taken away from the viewers waiting here, so it’s actually 1 hour late.]
[Rak]
[Na]
[Rak]

What kind of dog-like logic is that?

“Then Hiro was 1 hour late, so…”

Hiro put her index finger on her lips and pondered.

She didn’t forget to make a “woong~” sound while pondering.

After pondering for a while, Hiro smiled and said, as if she had come up with a dog-like method to quell the dissatisfaction.

“Then Hiro did wrong for 1 hour, so~”
“For 1 hour…”
“Bbo.

Bbo.”
“Chu~”

Is that right, really?

The fact that those people are burning up with just 1 minute of lateness is frustrating, but the fact that Hiro is doing that “bbo bbo chu” to quell it is also frustrating to Go Su-yeong.

But the most frustrating part is

[Ooh]
[If it’s bbo bbo chu, it can’t be helped.]
[Hi Hiro to Hiro-nim~]

That it works.

Obvious stubbornness and absurd response.

This was the current state of my, no, Hiro’s broadcast, which is a small-time streamer.

I wonder if that’s why the broadcast can’t grow, but the fact that I can’t make a living right away if I don’t do this is a sad reality.

Go Su-yeong’s worries deepened, but Hiro just smiled brightly and communicated with the viewers.

“Hi Hiro Hi Hiro~ Your heroine Hiro is here!”

[Hi Hiro]
[Hhr]
[Hhr]
[You’re cute again today.]
[Hhr]

“Hiro is happy that you think I’m cute again today!”

Even streamers who are real women don’t usually call themselves in the third person.

Because it’s embarrassing.

Nevertheless, the reason why Hiro calls herself in the third person is because it works and because she doesn’t want to recognize Hiro as herself.

“How did everyone spend today? Hiro went out for the first time in a long time today~”

[Oh, what’s up with the homebody?]
[What made you go out?]

“I guess it’s hard to see friends because I’m broadcasting~ So I met up with my friends after a long time and talked!”

[Then did you have a meal with your friend?]
[Did you eat something delicious~?]
[Your friend is a woman, right ㅎㅎ?]

“Yes, yes, I met my girlfriend~ The time was ambiguous, so I didn’t have a meal, just coffee?”

[Girlfriend ooh]
[It’s yuri, it’s yuri.]
[Noonaaaaa I’m dyinggggg]

These people get serious when I say I met a man, but they try to link me when I say I met a woman.

Why are they doing this?

Hiro must have felt that it wasn’t right, so she strongly denied it.

“Not that girlfriend! Just a female friend, friend!”

[Ooh…]
[A strong denial is a strong affirmation.]
[Hiro-nim, then you turned on the broadcast without having a meal?]
[It’s okay noona, we like it even more.]

“I’m really not!!”

[Hiro-nim, did you have a meal?]
[Hhr]
[Hey, we can all understand.]
[lol true]

No matter how much Hiro denied it, people had no intention of listening in the first place.

Hiro knew that too, so she eventually gave up and proceeded with the communication step by step from the top.

“Egh… Oh, a meal? I bought something to eat on the way home~”

[Ooh, what did you buy?]

“I wanted waffles today, so I bought 2 waffles~”

[Oh my, you don’t take care of yourself with a proper meal.]
[Can’t resist waffles lol]
[What kind of waffles are they? I want to try them too ㅎㅎ]
[Hhr 2nd try]
[I saw on YouTube that they put all sorts of things in waffle machines lol]

As a side note, the person who just asked what kind of waffles they are is a person to watch out for.

There are often people who try to specify where I live in that way.

“I just bought it from a local waffle shop. I go there to eat when I want waffles!”

[There aren’t that many waffle shops.]
[Hhr 3rd try]
[You must make sure to have a proper meal after the broadcast.]
[What’s the name of the waffle shop?]
[Hiro noonaaaaa make waffles with noona’s breast pads in the waffle machine later]

“What are you talking about!! I don’t use pads like that in the first place?!”

Unlike the mainstream, so-called big company broadcasts in the internet broadcasting scene, people who say crazy things like that are often seen in small-time broadcasts like mine.

But if I kick out all those people when I’m short on viewers, there won’t be anyone left on the broadcast.

[Hiro noonaaaaa make waffles with noona’s breast pads in the waffle machine later]
【Deleted message.】
[ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ]
[Hhr 4th try, I’ll do it until you accept my greeting.]
[Goodbye bye bye lol]
[You’re overdoing it lol]

But if I don’t kick out those people, other normal viewers will leave.

In the end, if someone has to leave my broadcast, it’s better for a crazy person to leave, anyway.

So, today’s broadcast seemed to be flowing as usual, just like any other day.