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After refusing to join the work dinner, I returned home.

I quickly had a meal and stepped into the Soundproof Booth to start my broadcast.

[Today’s Miro Broadcast]

“Ah, hello?”

– Hii hii

– You’re here

– Nice to see you

As soon as I went live, viewers poured in as expected.

Lately, it feels like they’re coming in faster than ever.

Thanks to the ant-scratching, the overall viewer count hasn’t really increased, though.

“Well, I’m happy to see you too. How was your day, everyone?”

– Just the same as yesterday

– How about you?

– It sucked

“Oh dear, I didn’t have a bad day.”

– What did you do?

– You’re never really having a bad day

– Probably better than ours

“Well, I met some people today.”

– ???

– No way

– You’re a total social butterfly

*Sigh*

I mentioned meeting people, and of course, the chat started buzzing.

Yeah, I get you guys— but you’re here right now, aren’t you?

“You all should go out and meet some people too.”

– I have no friends

– Who’s going to meet me?

“Ah.”

If you don’t have friends, there’s not much to be done… oh, wait, I have an idea.

“Well, if that’s the case, let’s all be friends in this room. Wow, everyone has thousands of friends? Are you cool or what?”

– What the hell

– Wow, that’s amazing

– Eh? You have that many friends…?

– Are you friends too?

“Oh me? With you, it’s business, heh…”

– Damn it

– Figured as much

“Just kidding! Don’t be mad. We can be friends, right?”

At this point, I feel that everyone here has at least some minimal level of intimacy.

I can’t coldly cut them off with “it’s just business” like before.

– You made me angry, you jerk

– Don’t make me mad

– I might flip out

– So we’re friends now?

“Yes, let’s be friends. If you see me outside, feel free to talk to me.”

– For real??

– Is this true?

“Try talking to me if you can.”

Only those obsessed with numbers would approach me outside.

It wouldn’t be easy for regular viewers to do that.

To begin with, it would be hard to recognize me, right?

And if someone did recognize and approach me….

Well, I can just think about it when it happens.

– You say that, huh?

– Good luck

– I’m going to find you from today

“Yeah~ Do as you please. Now, let’s proceed with today’s content.”

If things get rough, I can just brush it off or warmly welcome the fan.

Lee Hyun-jun would quickly sign for fans when they asked, right?

As someone working in a similar industry, I need to learn from that aspect.

– Content??

– What’s on for today?

– Something big is coming

“So today’s content.”

I said that as I entered the fan café.

“We will be doing content recommended by the viewers.”

– ???

– Oh

– You want to fight?

– You’re skimping again

“Skimping? Not at all.”

Sometimes, people misunderstand.

They think I’m too lazy to plan content, so I’m tricking the viewers to make it easy for myself.

But… I’m a broadcaster, not someone who comes up with the content, right?

From an entertaining perspective, group intelligence is usually better and all that… whatever.

And look, everyone seems to like it.

Even now, see? The chat is flooding with new messages.

After a moment, I read through the top recommended ones.

“Hmm… horror game? This keeps coming up, isn’t it getting dull?”

– Just do it once only

– I’m not asking for a lot

– Is it really that hard to do?

What’s so fun about horror games…?

Sure, it might be fun for those watching.

But what about me?

I don’t want to suffer for fun.

And I’m the type who can’t even watch horror movies properly.

How could I manage to play a horror game?

“I’ll pass on that one.”

– Damn…

– How depressing…

– I’m begging you here

“Next up is… ideal type World Cup? Isn’t that getting old?”

– Aren’t you the one to say that??

– It’s always new

– It’s just a bowl of soup anyway

Let’s see… domestic band music World Cup?

What the hell, am I some sort of assassin?

The faces of those I just saw flash through my mind.

And I can roughly guess what they’ll say.

“Kim Soo-hyun, are we having a World Cup with our music? Didn’t something like that happen?”

“Ah, I dropped out in the semifinals? Wow, just like 2002 World Cup?”

“Bro, I only made it to the Round of 16. Should I consider that an honor?”

“Kim Soo-hyun judging us, huh? Last time we judged, but it’s reversed now? You’ve come a long way, heh.”

Of course, those people wouldn’t know I’m a VTuber, but who knows?

…Honestly, there’s quite a lot of World Cups to remember now….

Hyun-jun’s group, Beasts, has also had their songs featured in a few World Cups.

Anyway… I’ll pass on this for now.

“Second-generation D-Watch? Why are you bringing this as content?”

– lol

– For real

– They’re treating broadcasting as a joke

“By the way, aren’t you all live right now?”

– Yup, yup

– Everyone is

Really? Everyone’s live?

Just to check, I entered Dwitch and saw that indeed everyone was broadcasting.

“Everyone is live?”

– Yup yup

– Working hard

– First-generation folks better step up

“We? We had our moments too.”

Nowadays, I care more about my vocal health, and let’s be honest, out of laziness and other things like that, my frequency has dropped a bit, but there was a time I used to broadcast often.

“It was great back then, huh…”

– Those were the days

– Find your original spirit again

“But it hasn’t even been a year, you know? No need to make such a fuss, and I’ve been maintaining my original spirit, right?”

From what I see, Miro hasn’t drastically changed.

Didn’t I just have an original spirit-finding broadcast not too long ago?

– Crazy…

– You’d be better off without your original spirit

– You should change a bit

“What’s that supposed to mean? Swinging back and forth here.”

*Sigh*, changing the subject.

Well, chat is made up of different people typing one by one, so it’s natural that the conversation changes rapidly.

[Anonymous donates 1,000 won! Thank you!]

But seeing the second generation, those girls are looking quite shabby lmao.

“What do you mean?”

– For real lmao

– Seeing those makes it hit hard

– The second generation looks good, though

– Let’s remake them, yeah?

These guys….

I can’t possibly say that I’m in the process of making a new avatar.

“Are you comparing me with some other girl?”

Plus, how dare they critique my appearance during my broadcast?

– Yup

– Woah

– Don’t say things like that because it’s cringey

– Buy some clothes!!

– Calling a junior “girl”???

Oh no, it was a bit harsh to call a junior that, wasn’t it?

But I didn’t mean it seriously; it was just in a playful tone.

“It’s just broadcast allowance, you know.”

– Still, ‘girl’ is a bit…

– Sigh, that’s just Miro

– Miro / Controversy

Here they go again.

Don’t these people learn anything?

I know full well that this kind of stuff won’t work on me.

“I understand. If any junior feels uncomfortable with my comments, I’ll apologize for it.”

– Whoa

– Miro: Come at me if you dare

– Now that you’re a senior, you’re really going off

“Everyone, there’s a saying that goes, ‘There’s order between the young and the old.’”

The phrase “There’s order between the young and the old” means that there should be a hierarchy and order between seniors and juniors.

– Are you an old fart?

– Aren’t you young?

– Young geezer, wow

“Let’s go! Know your Confucianism!”

These people respect Confucianism in the Confucian country of Korea.

“Is Confucius’ words amusing?”

– No, you’re the funny one…

– Sigh, here we go again

– Have you ever read the Analects?

The Analects?

Of course, I haven’t read it. How many people in this modern age have read it?

“Ah, anyway, why are you all in such a frenzy?”

– You didn’t read it? lmao

– We’re just voicing out for you, you know?

…When did I start caring about the second generation?

Well, if this keeps going, I have a way to deal with it.

“Okay, let’s find out.”

Saying that, I clicked on a broadcast from one of the juniors at the top of Dwitch.

It was Seolha.

A cute junior with a character who has snow-white hair.

– ????

– No way

– lmao

“Welcome to Miro’s service!”

I immediately typed in the chat.

(Miro) – Seolha!

After sending the chat, a moment later.

[Eh? Senior?]

A response came right away.

Hearing “senior” makes me feel a bit strange.

What’s more, my manager said we can’t collab… but this should be fine, right?

Glancing at her, it didn’t seem like Seolha was actively doing anything.

Great, I won’t be bothering her.

(Miro) – By the way…

[Oh, yes! What’s up…?]

It’s fun getting a response just from typing a chat.

But for now, let’s set the fun aside and get back to the main topic.

(Miro) – I accidentally used some profanity towards the second generation,

[Eh? Profanity?]

– lmao

– Crazy girl

– Don’t bully the junior

Oh come on, bullying the junior?

This is important for the policies to come.

If I made someone uncomfortable with my curse, should I apologize?

Though it wasn’t on purpose.

(Miro) – I really just slipped up, so I thought I should apologize. What do you think?

[Um, um… If it was a mistake, isn’t it okay?]

Seolha responded diligently, albeit flustered.

What a good junior.

“See? If it’s the second generation, if I push them more, I’ll have to… enforce some pressure.”

– Crazy… girl…

– This one…

– She’s going this far lmao

– Arghh

“Am I really bullying you?”

Typing in the chat again.

(Miro) – Junior, are you okay?

[Yes, yes?]

As I typed, a response came out immediately.

…This is surprisingly fun.

(Miro) – Am I bothering you right now?

[Ah, no?]

“It says no!”

– What the hell lmao

– We are sorry…

– Stop harassing the junior already…

This is more like it.

The viewers are finally starting to acknowledge my innocence.

But what’s Seolha up to anyway?

I notice that her broadcast title seems to have no real meaning.

If I’m curious, I might as well just ask.

(Miro) – By the way, what were you trying to do? I’m not interrupting, right?

[Yes, no! I’m trying to do the ideal type World Cup!]

A World Cup?

That sounds intriguing.

(Miro) – Oh, really? Then go ahead!

[Oh… Yes, got it. Then take care, see you later!]

“Take care” now, what does that mean?

What on earth does that signify?

(Miro) – Hehe

“Are you leaving?”

(Miro) – Hehe

– lmao

– lmao

– Let’s hop on the D-watch~~

– This is it lmao

Ideal type World Cup… very interesting, but can’t I stay just a bit longer? Hmm… yeah, I think this is an observation.

It’s my duty as a senior to watch over my junior, whether she does well or not.

(Miro) – Let’s go!

[Um, really?]

(Miro) – Don’t worry about me.

I’ll be helping her out.

When someone does their first ideal type World Cup, how much flak do they get from the viewers?

I can’t just let my junior get tossed around!

[Are you ready to start?]

Seolha seemed a bit nervous, her voice trembling slightly as she was about to begin the World Cup, knowing that her senior was watching.

This was Miro’s first regular content.

The start of stroking my junior’s head.

 

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