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After previewing the movie at the screening, my schedule continued on.

Well, there’s still no news yet.

That was a screening meant only for insiders, and there’s still some time until the public release.

So today, I was hosting my broadcast as usual.

“Ah, hello?”

These days, with Hyeon-su’s concert approaching and a new song recording in progress, I was also dedicated to practicing my singing.

Usually, I’d practice at home with Mrs. Jang giving me a bit of a hard time, and I often turned on karaoke broadcasts.

Thanks to that, if there were any unintended side effects—

– “Hey, have you come to Miro?”

– “So, shall we shake our support sticks today?”

– “Thanks for coming again today, goat…”

The viewer sentiment was at an all-time high.

I mean, I was just practicing songs for the concert.

From the viewers’ perspective, I hardly ever did singing broadcasts before, so they were thrilled.

“Alright everyone, I have something special today.”

Anyway, since public sentiment was soaring, I brought something out before my broadcast was ruined by the movie’s release.

– “???”

– “Can’t we sing?”

– “Please sing a special song.”

“Ah, well, it is related to singing.”

And I couldn’t just keep chattering and singing every day, could I?

I was feeling a bit bored, and if I did too many singing broadcasts, it could get stale.

“So, I’m posting an announcement in the café.”

– “??”

– “What’s that?”

– “It’s not useless, right??”

“Don’t worry, just take a look, everyone.”

So I showed the announcement I posted in the café to the broadcast viewers.

– “What the??”

– “A competition?”

– “Only the popular crowd will participate again.”

What I brought was a competition.

It was fun when I did it last time.

The difference this time is that whereas the last one was a guitar competition, this time it’s a singing competition.

“Unlike during the turning point, this time there are no strict restrictions, so hurry and join.”

– “Hmm..”

– “I’m getting hooked on competitions.”

– “What’s the prize this time?”

“The prize? Well, there are plenty.”

I said that as I laid out a list of potential prizes.

Nothing is set in stone yet, but I plan to finalize the candidates with the viewers.

“First of all, there will be multiple prizes, and for the grand prize, we must give something substantial, right?”

– “For real, haha.”

– “Honest comment) The previous grand prize was low-value.”

Well… that’s true.

Compared to other prizes, it didn’t hold much value.

“This time will be different.”

Still, I’m confident about the prizes I’ve thought of this time.

After all, they’re my fans, aren’t they?

I prepared something very tempting.

“Take a look here.”

So I held up my notepad to reveal the grand prize.

[1 Day Miro Vocal Teacher Ticket]

“This grants you the opportunity to be taught by me.”

If you’re the winner, you’re likely someone who sings well, right?

So, I’m offering a modest prize along with the chance to be taught by Miro.

And it’s a one-on-one session.

“Wow, where can you find such a prize? I’m worried it’s too generous.”

– “The prize is eating itself, haha.”

– “This is a bit too much, oh my gosh.”

– “Isn’t it just good for you?”

– “Getting taught in person??”

“How can we meet in person? You all are in reality and I’m in this virtual space.”

– “???”

– “?”

– “Wait, you’re that person?”

– “This is odd… I saw you on YouTube…”

“Ah, anyway, we’ll meet on Discord.”

If we meet in reality for vocal lessons, what would you even say?

You always flip the script.

“Now, I’ll be hanging around the café for a bit, so hurry up and join.”

I decided to set the limit to about a week.

I hope some people will sign up right away, right?

Unlike the guitar competition, which only had the sheet music from the turning point, this singing competition is completely open.

I was expecting more people to participate.

So, I checked the popular posts in the fan café to see how the other members were doing, as there hadn’t been much news lately.

Since the Celestial Realm shares fans to some extent, highlights from other members also appear in my fan café.

…Seeing this is a bit strange; it was like an isolated island when I first made the fan café.

I thought I had now integrated enough, and I scrolled down to read updates on both the first-generation members and the second-generation members.

Well, there wasn’t anything particularly significant.

Just collaborations or someone doing something, while another member did this or that.

Excluding myself, merging the first and second generations made for a total of 11 members, so just looking at this made time fly by.

I could spend all day just refreshing the café when more members join later.

Anyway, after successfully melting a few hours away, I turned my gaze back to the competition bulletin board.

“Shall we take a look now?”

– “Come on, come on.”

– “Aren’t you going to check the café anymore?”

– “Honest comment) Just looking at popular posts is fun, haha.”

– “A lot of people are joining the competition.”

“Really?”

Having many participants is a good sign.

With a bit of anticipation, I entered the bulletin board and changed the filter to show posts by popularity.

Then, this came up….

[(Competition Entry) Turning Point Cover]

[(Competition Entry) I tried a turning point cover!]

[(Competition Entry) Turning Point Cover]

[(Competition Entry) Tur…]

[….]

[..]

“Hmm, did I mistakenly look at the guitar competition bulletin board?”

– “Hahaha.”

– “No way, right? Haha.”

– “Oh, you know the Turning Point, huh? Haha.”

– “That song is good after all.”

What the…

Is there only the Turning Point?

And at least if you’re going to cover my song, there’s a calm lake, you know.

The Turning Point is tough.

So….

I clicked on one post to play it.

Typically, most of my viewers are male.

So if a female singer tries to cover the somewhat difficult Turning Point—

– “Oh come on, haha.”

– “Hmm… she’s doing well, but…”

– “Can’t even match half of the original singer’s skill.”

Right, this kind of harsh critique is bound to follow.

It must be really hard to keep up unless you’re an exceptional talent.

Yet, because it’s the Turning Point, recommending that post means… hey, judging is going to be tough.

“Everyone, you need to do well with your popular posts. You may not realize it, but we all need to listen to these together, you know?”

I’m a judge.

I have the duty to listen to all the posts in the popular section and judge them.

And the viewers?

They’re also judges.

If they post songs at a level that’s difficult to listen to and vote them up, they’re the ones who’ll be struggling too.

– “Ah, haha.”

– “I’ll be back in 30 minutes.”

– “Yeah, just mute it for now.”

…Wait a minute.

Thinking back, they have no obligations or responsibilities.

Oh well, who cares.

“I’ll raise the popularity cut off.”

I just need to raise the cutoff.

I see that mindlessly voting up popular posts doesn’t lead to overwhelming numbers compared to other posts.

So, with a raised cutoff, I filtered out the mediocre stuff and busily judged the songs that were being updated in the first 24 hours.

Suddenly, a wave of new popular posts flooded in.

What’s this?

Typically, it’s normal for one post to appear at a time, but with several piling up all at once, the other posts get pushed aside and become very noticeable.

What’s going on here? I read the top updated popular post and saw….

[(Competition Entry) Haeil! Time to strike!]

“Haeil? Wait a minute.”

Looking below, there were a flurry of other names of second-generation members under Haeil’s.

“Are all the kids participating?”

Did they drop coordinates in the group chat?

– “Oh my gosh.”

– “Hahaha.”

– “Everyone got in on this, haha.”

[User, thank you for the donation of 1,000 won!]

“Why are the younger students here to entertain a worn-out, sickly senior?”

“Ah, well, that’s nice.”

Sure, it’s admirable that they gathered together to participate to boost their senior’s content.

But… um… should I say it’s slightly skewed from the picture I had in mind?

Of course, I’m happy, but…

“Um, should we give it a listen?”

– “Oh, are you perhaps displeased?”

– “<< Why the surprise??"

- "Miro/Controversy."

"Oh my, these people, don’t you see how happy they are right now?"

- "I don’t see it??"

- "Oh no, I'm going to lose all the prizes."

- "How the heck can normal people win any of this?"

- "But if you want to hear it quickly, just upvote it, haha."

- "Alright, just play the video."

Oh well, whatever.

For now, since everyone joined, I clicked on the post at the top and listened to the song.

"Wow."

- "Haha, awesome!"

- "Let’s quickly move on to the next one?"

- "You can definitely tell they’re different, for sure…"

- "<< They sing better than you do."

- "Going from regular folks to this was indeed a leap."

Starting from Haeil and all the way to the last person.

Naturally, since these second-generation members made it through those tough auditions, there was no lack of talent in their song covers.

Each one could easily grab any prize.

However….

"Alright, we’ve heard our juniors sing, so now it’s time to wrap up the broadcast."

- "??"

- "Me."

- "Rock."

- "Sing us a song before you go."

- "Why are you ending it so soon?"

"We had a longer broadcast today than usual."

Since we’ve been on longer than normal, wrapping it up now is perfectly fine.

The viewers know this but are just being a bit stubborn.

Anyway, after shutting down the broadcast.

I prepared my recording as previously planned.

…They wouldn’t hear I participated just to knock the juniors down, right?

Originally, I intended to participate honestly.

If the grand prize is my one-on-one vocal class, then naturally, the winner should be someone who can beat me, right?

It was a bit surprising that the second-generation kids participated as a group, but…

"Cough, cough."

Well.

I’m confident.

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That night, shortly after Miro’s broadcast ended, just as expected, a post appeared.

[(Competition Entry) Future Grand Winner is joining....]

A guitarist who once had anonymity stepped forward proudly this time without hiding.

 

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