Chapter 28: Still Living

The streets were filled with a Christmas atmosphere.

It was a rather deserted street, but the shops were still preparing for Christmas.

Carol songs echoed through the street.

…No, they didn’t echo, they just subtly reached my ears.

There were many shops that had closed down here and there, and there were also shops with signs saying ‘For Rent’.

It wasn’t a big deal for me, who doesn’t go out much, but
I had lived here for quite a while, so my heart felt strangely cold.

“Welcome.”

When I entered the convenience store near my house, the employee gave a mechanical greeting.

I picked up a basket without saying much and walked to the beverage corner.

I had run out of bottled water, and I also picked up a few drinks.

Huh?

What, why is the company that makes flour making beer?

I was strangely amazed, so I grabbed a can of beer, and I grabbed a beef jerky as a snack and went to the counter.

As I took out the items in the basket one by one, the employee calculated them one by one.

Then, looking at the beer, he spoke to me.

“Please show me your ID.”

I was wearing a hat pulled down low, and I was wearing a mask.

So it must have been because he couldn’t guess my age, so he asked me for my ID, but

“Yes, here’s my ID.”

I still felt strangely good.

I guess I’m getting old too.

“Yes, I’ve checked it. Please insert your card.”

I finished the calculation and came out with a bag full of drinks.

As I walked through the familiar food street thinking that I should have a quiet drink at home today, I was suddenly home.

I had only gone out to the neighborhood for a while, so the room was still warm.

“It’s cold~”

I took off my coat and hung it roughly on the chair and sat in front of the computer.

Is sitting in front of the computer, whether I have something to do or not, an occupational disease as a streamer, or am I just addicted to computers?

Since I’ll just lie down and play with my cell phone if I don’t sit in front of the computer anyway, wouldn’t it be better to sit down and use the computer?

Thinking such pointless thoughts, I turned on the internet.

Since it was a day off from broadcasting, I wanted to watch webtoons, web novels, and YouTube videos that I hadn’t been able to watch, and…

Anyway, there were many things I wanted to do.

When I turned on the internet and went to the portal site, I saw articles about real estate and policies, but I wasn’t very interested.

It’s a story that has nothing to do with me, who lives in a monthly rent anyway.

As I was taking out a drink from the bag and surfing the internet, I suddenly had that thought.

I’ve gotten used to it somehow, that thought.

I had become a woman, but nothing had really changed in my life.

If I had to point out something, it was that I paid a little more attention to my appearance, but it seems that switching to a cam broadcast had a bigger impact on that.

The things I was worried about didn’t really happen either.

No one came to find me, and no one recognized me.

I began to think that the things I was worried about in the past were too much of a concern.

Well, even YouTubers with more than 1 million subscribers say that.

They say that there aren’t that many people who recognize them as they thought.

In the end, wasn’t all the things I was afraid of and worried about a delusion because I had something to be ashamed of myself?

That’s how it felt now.

“…This is amazing.”

I suddenly thought of it and held the new ID that the old man gave me and looked at it here and there.

It was a Korean resident registration card no matter how you looked at it.

The name Go Su-yeong was engraved on it, and the date of issue matched my memory.

Even the fingerprints on the back were exactly as I remembered, but there were only two things that were different.

One was that the last digit of the resident registration number changed from 1 to 2, and
The other was that the picture part had been changed to a picture that I had never taken.

My appearance as a woman smiling brightly.

I wondered if I had ever smiled so brightly.

It was perfect in many ways, but it was my ID as a woman that couldn’t exist.

The first thought that came to my mind when I accepted this ID was that.

Has my life as a man completely disappeared?

“Wait a minute, old man!”

“Did I completely become a woman??”

“Has the past been completely changed too?”

I shouted, knowing that he wasn’t there anymore.

Has Go Su-yeong, who was a man, disappeared forever?

But there was no answer.

After a long time, I thought of it and looked through the photo album and message records of my cell phone.

And there, the traces of Go Su-yeong, who was a man, remained intact.

Go Su-yeong’s life as a man had not disappeared.

So I picked up my cell phone and made a call.

[~♪♬]

[What’s wrong, son, calling me.]

Hearing my mother’s words, I felt relief and sorrow and

“…I don’t have to have something wrong to call my parents, do I?”

I continued the call with my mother’s son’s voice, which was no longer mine.

Pointless story.

A story about how I’m living these days.

I’m just working at the company.

It’s hard because my boss is bothering me.

He keeps making me drink too.

But I have to work hard.

Hey, why are you introducing me to someone? I’ll take care of dating.

Yes.

Okay, I’ll hang up, Mom.

I’ll call you again.

…

That’s how I was able to confirm that the past had not been changed.

After that, I checked the problems related to the resident registration number one by one, but it seemed that the old man had taken

measures and gone, as everything had been neatly resolved.

“…Keu-ha.”

I took a sip of beer.
Since it was made by a flour company, I wondered what it would taste like, but it was surprisingly a good, plain beer flavor.

“I should start thinking about moving.”

Even though I said that there were no problems such as someone coming to find me or being stalked, you never know what the future holds.
There was no need to leave foreseeable problems unattended, and it was also subtly stressful to avoid walking around near the neighborhood waffle shop, so I decided to move.
The reason I lived here in the first place was because of my business, but my partner ran away with the debt, so there was no reason to stay in this expensive neighborhood.

Honestly, I also had a desire to go to a bigger house.
If I get out of Seoul, wouldn’t I be able to live in a bigger house~
It was that kind of lighthearted thought.

It’ll be okay, right?

It’ll be okay.
Now that I’ve become a streamer with a decent scale, even if it’s not a large corporation, I’ll be able to slowly pay off the jeonse loan while paying off my debts.
Crisis is an opportunity, and thanks to quite a few of the people who came from the gallery during the invasion staying as viewers, the broadcast was able to grow significantly.
…Even though the broadcast atmosphere has changed a lot?

“I’ll know when I go to the bank for a consultation tomorrow!”

Feeling tipsy, I raised my glass high and toasted alone.

“A streamer? Not a YouTuber?”
“Uh… yes. I have a YouTube channel too… but… I haven’t been able to monetize it yet…”

“No, even if streamers make money, they don’t recognize it as a job, what the!!!”

[lololololololololololol]
[Noona is pissed lololololol]
[Unemployed Hiro lololololol]
[Don’t call us ‘Susoo’ anymore, you’re also unemployed lololol]

“No, really, no… everyone, really, look at this.”
“They take all the taxes from the money streamers make like ghosts, but it seems like there isn’t even a streamer in the job category!”
“No, there are YouTubers, but why aren’t there streamers? I make money too! I make money too, but why can’t I get a loan!”

[Isn’t it because streamers’ income isn’t stable?]
[Yeah~ you’re still unemployed no matter how angry you get~]
[Noona, let’s just get married]
[Let’s just get married to the Soosoos]

“If I marry you guys, it’s an unemployed person marrying an unemployed person, so the family will be doing great.”

[ㅗㅜㅑㅗㅜㅑ Degradation…]

[Heuung… degrade me more]

“You’re receiving this as degradation…?”

I told the viewers about what I had experienced at the bank, but no one understood my pain.
The number of viewers increased from 50 to 500, but how can the number of people on my side decrease even more?

[Noona, let’s just get a Hope Loan, you can get a loan as long as you’re a young person, even if you’re unemployed.]

“I know, but I don’t want to… I make money, but why do I have to get a loan as an unemployed person!!”

[Hiro Noona is not a young person, she’s a virgin]

[Virgin? Unicorn? That bastard?]

[Kick out the unicorn]

[Kick out the unicorn]

[Kick out the unicorn]

[Unicorn virgin]

[Kick out the unicorn]

[?]

[?]

[?]

[Spy!!]

“…You’re playing well, is the chat window a mess again today?”

[Degradation is so good…]

[Reward ㅗㅜㅑ ㅗㅜㅑ]

[These are the viewers you chose, endure with evil and grit!]

[Yeah~ Whatever TV~ So Whatever TV~ Whatever Lamborghini~]

[Heuung… I want to be Noona’s foot licker…]

“Crazy crazy crazy bastards…”

Being with these crazy bastards, I just threw away my mask and everything.

It’s more beneficial for my mental health to swear at them since they like it when I get angry, calling it a reward.

It’s my broadcast where many things have changed
…But I’m still broadcasting with fun.

[Hiro who swears at Baek Seung-min donated 1,000 won!!]

[I have to give 1,000 won to Hiro who can’t even get a loan because she’s unemployed]

“No, I’m not unemployed, I’m a streamer!!”
“I’m really, so upset!”
“I’ll say I’m a YouTuber, that great YouTuber!”
“Yaball!!”

[Editor/Thumbnail Designer Wanted]

[We are looking for family members to run a YouTube channel with Hiro!]

[We hope it’s someone who will work hard and be with us for a long time!]

[Hiro pays for all the programs, copyright licenses, and equipment costs needed for videos and thumbnails!]

[Let’s talk about the pay when we meet in person!]