[TS] Starting the Broadcast

It’s hectic from the morning.
In fact, I had nothing to prepare.
I left everything to ‘professionals’ for a perfect ‘debut’.
From styling to hair and makeup.
It cost a lot, but I boldly invested for a ‘perfect’ first step.
However, if there was one minor problem, it’s that next month’s rent became tight because of this.
‘How many water balloon-related missions should I cancel? Now that the appearance modification is done, there’s no urgent need for points, right?’
It was a reasonable thought.
I need money to live on right now to maintain my lifestyle, and based on that stability, I can focus more on earning points later.
“Which agency are you with? Before starting a project?”
“No, I’m just an ordinary person.”
“What? Really? Oh my! I’m not just saying this, but I’ve supported quite a few celebrities, and you’re among the top among them, unnie.”
“Nah, that’s not true.”
“It is, I tell you! Not just your face, but what about this body? This is on par with Western model unnies.”
“You don’t have to gild the lily, I’ll come again next time.”
“No, I’m telling you I’m not one for empty words. Ah! I can’t turn myself inside out to show you…”
I made a reservation at a shop specializing in hair and makeup ten days ago.
Because I’ve been in the news lately and attracted a lot of attention, I arrived at the shop by taxi wearing a large hoodie, hat, sunglasses, and mask, but the director’s reaction was no joke.
She asked various questions with sparkling eyes, and when she found out I was an ordinary person, she even asked if she should connect me with an agency she’s close with.
As time was passing while this was happening, I politely declined and entrusted my whole body to the hands of professionals.
“You said you’re 24? Oh my, how can your skin be like this! It’s like a baby’s, a baby.”
“It’s just ordinary, really.”
“You’ll get stoned if you say that anywhere else. Oh my! I thought it was just firm, but look how soft it is!”

She’s exclaiming so much that it’s like crusts are forming on my ears.
Still, I didn’t feel bad because I felt ‘sincerity’ and ‘goodwill’ in the director’s actions.
She even pushed aside the pre-booked stylist and took charge of me herself, telling me to just call her directly two days in advance if I want to use the shop in the future, even giving me her direct number.
“See you next time, our beauty!”
“Yes, unnie!”
She must have really liked me, as she even gave me half off today’s cost.
So from today, she’s ‘Mio unnie’.
In a capitalist society, a half-price discount is always right.
“Please go to Insadong.”
“… Oh, alright.”
I took off my mask in case the makeup would smudge, and the hat is the same because of the hair.
My true appearance barely hidden by sunglasses.
Perhaps catching a glimpse of it, even the elderly taxi driver loses his composure and keeps glancing at the back seat.
“We’ve arrived.”
“Thank you for your work, have a good day.”
I pay and get out of the taxi.
As expected of Insadong with its high foot traffic, the surroundings were full of people.
Naturally, the gazes of those around focus on me.
The OST from ‘Is Beauty Suffering’ plays in my head once again.
A man whose white of the eyes grows larger as our eyes meet.
A man who, while walking arm in arm with his girlfriend, has his head completely fixed in my direction and gets his foot stepped on by his girlfriend.
A man who, while walking and talking on the phone, sees me and repeats what he was saying into the phone as if his cognitive abilities have malfunctioned.
It was really varied.
Except for the one commonality that they were all captivated by me.
“Ex, excuse me!”
“A, are you alone…”
As I was walking, a comical situation unfolded where two men approached me to talk at the same time.
I barely shook off the clingy men and arrived at the pre-booked shop.
The place I visited this time was a place that coordinates outfits to match images or concepts and sells or rents them out.
“Oh my!”
This shop had the same reaction.
But the proposal I received was a bit different.
They asked if I would be interested in modeling for their online shopping mall.
It was a good opportunity to earn living expenses, but I swallowed my regret and declined because it would take away time I could focus on broadcasting.
Money is tight right now, but if my YouTube channel keeps growing like this, it’ll be ‘End of worries! Start of happiness!’
“That’s a shame. If you just modeled, it would be a sure bet for sales growth right away.”
“Ha, ha, ha.”
Enduring the shop owner unnie’s greedy gaze, I decided to rent a total of two sets of clothes.
One is what I’ll wear from now, and the other I planned to change into during break time while doing the joint broadcast.
‘Mia, I’m sorry. It’s your birthday, but I don’t think I can give you the main character spot.’
Still, I can make it up to her by doing a few more joint broadcasts.
Surely after today, I’ll become a BJ with a level of influence surpassing Mia or Lark.
This wasn’t a prediction but a certainty.
My current appearance had that level of destructive power.
“Just wear them prettily and return them within this week. And if you change your mind about the modeling, contact me anytime.”
“Yes, thank you for your hard work!”
As I leave the shop, the gazes of those around focus on me once again.
Good-looking food tastes good too, as they say.
I’m not sure if it’s an appropriate analogy for the current situation, but when the excellent contents were upgraded with fancy packaging, men’s eyes sparkle and women glare.
‘Time… it’s already past 3 o’clock.’
I left home at 9 in the morning.
Excluding travel time, about 5 hours were spent on various preparations.
The effort to increase femininity is really incredible.
If I were a man, it would have been just roughly washing up, applying skin toner and lotion, and styling hair with wax.
Even if I took time choosing clothes, everything would have been done within an hour.
‘Let’s go there early.’
There was nothing more to do anyway.
Mia’s house was in Eunpyeong-gu, so if I take a taxi from here, it will take about 30-40 minutes.
The broadcast start time was 5 PM, so I had about an hour to spare.
‘Come to think of it, this is the first time I’m meeting Mia in person. Hehe, I’m a little excited.’
Having grown up as an only child, I had a slight longing for a sibling.
And Mia was a sister who fulfilled that longing with her cute and adorable actions.
‘I wonder if she’ll like the birthday present?’
I’m looking forward to it.
The reactions to my ‘appearance’ that will be fully revealed in today’s broadcast… and the sight of Mia being happy receiving the gift.
“Please go towards Yeonsinnae Station.”
“Alright… Huh!”
Leaving behind the taxi driver’s reaction that seemed familiar from somewhere, I start moving.
It’s a really good day for broadcasting.

Mia clutched her pounding heart from the morning.
At first, it was so intense that she worried if it might be a ‘disease’.
A hot and strong movement.
But as time passed, she became certain.
This is no disease.
Anticipation… emotions for someone she will soon meet.
For today’s joint broadcast, not only Lark and Clearmumu, but also Waka, with whom she became close after the recent blame game competition, agreed to participate.
Wagyu would have already passed the supplement unit and entered the recruit training unit by now, so he was naturally passed!
Led by the diligent Lark, the promised members started arriving one by one.
With an hour left before the broadcast start, even Clearmumu and Waka arrived!
Now the only remaining person was Hani.
‘Unnie…’
Thinking of Hani, complex emotions that couldn’t be clearly defined stirred her heart.
Her heart pounds.
It wasn’t like this from the beginning.
No, rather, it was a bad start.
She even came to hate Hani, misunderstanding that Hani had sniped her when her mental state was precarious due to harassment from malicious viewers.
‘It was all a misunderstanding. Unnie is not that kind of person at all, but back then I acted foolishly without knowing anything.’
She faced critical public opinion after being overwhelmingly defeated in the 1:1 match she rashly requested.
It could have been a crisis in her broadcasting life with anti-fans who had been there before also piling on.
In such a crisis, Hani extended a helping hand.
Not only that, but she even gave warm comfort.
She had always been plagued by jealousy and envy since starting broadcasting.
Competitors were upset at the sight of her debuting as a BJ at a young age and making great strides, and there were even BJs like Yumi who directly came forward to gossip and harass her.
So she was always lonely.
Although there were Lark and Clearmumu, there are emotions that only the same gender can fill that the opposite sex cannot.
Hani fulfilled that.
At first by comforting her loneliness… but it didn’t end there.
She proved her ability as a game BJ by reaching Diamond tier, and in the miracle joint broadcast, she showed off her brilliant talent with unexpected mimicry skills.
That shone even more in the hidden camera broadcast targeting Lark afterwards.
‘Unnie is really the best.’
When she started YouTube, she boldly faced the malicious attacks from feminist groups.
She conducted legendary joint broadcasts with famous former pro broadcasters including Soldier, a World Series champion, and then appeared on the news a few days ago.
They say she magnificently saved a woman in crisis by beating up a violent criminal with her bare hands like a prince on a white horse.
A perfect protagonist that seems to appear only in novels or comic books!
To sum it up in one word, she was truly an object of ‘admiration’.
“Oh, Hani got off at the station. Should I go out to greet her? She might get confused about the way.”
“Oppa, clean up that room over there! Don’t worry about anything else.”
“Huh? This isn’t even our house… Ah, alright.”
At one sharp glance attack, Clearmumu bows his head and starts cleaning the room.
He mutters to himself, ‘I’ll let it slide since it’s her birthday,’ picking up the fallen pride of the eldest.
‘How dare you! I’ll be the first to meet unnie.’
The information that she had already conducted real-life joint broadcasts with Clearmumu and Lark had already been deleted from her mind.
Or maybe she was achieving mental victory with the final bastion of ‘mask’.
‘Unnie…’
She slightly pokes her head out the window to look towards the subway station direction.
The warm September sunlight brushing the window.
She waits for ‘her’ with a pounding heart.