Gender Swap: The Introvert’s Broadcast

I never imagined that Harin would suddenly appear on the stream.
The Harin I know doesn’t often show up on others’ streams.
Of course, when I stream, she does show up often… but when it’s a collaboration with someone else, she typically doesn’t appear unless it’s really necessary.

‘She did mention something like this when we were drinking last time.’
Thinking it was strange, I greeted her.
"Hey, what’s up. Harin, hi."

[🗡️All-powerful Cthulhu: Huh, haha]
[Harin entered the chat, shocked]
[Mangming, you’re done for now, haha]
["‘Real wife’ enters the chat, shocked.]
[Mangming, you’re in trouble for impersonating, goodbye now.]
[Now that Harin is here after drinking together, goodbye, haha.]
[This is Kang Hu-min: These guys are so annoying.]
[LOL]
After our excited greeting, a moment passed.
[Harin donated 10,000 won!]
-By the way, where are you going?

Harin asked.
"We're going to Busan. Anyway, why donate? Just text me, don’t waste money."
It’s not like she didn’t have my phone number.
What was the point of wasting money like this?
While I was thinking that,

[Harin: It’s like paying royalties for being on the streams all this time.]
[Harin: Don’t refuse.]
[? So, you haven’t given anything all this time?]
[Seems like it, haha.]
[As expected, Harin is heartless, haha.]
[Harin: Hey, don’t misunderstand.]
[Harin: I’m talking about when Jiwoo wasn’t that famous before…]
[Ah, I almost misunderstood. I should speak more clearly, tsk tsk.]
[This is Kang Hu-min: Who cares, I’m gonna curse.]
[Temporarily banned!]
[🗡️All-powerful Cthulhu: Damn, this tone...]
Harin gave an unexpected response.
‘I really didn’t think she would have such thoughts.’

I guessed she wanted to watch the broadcast from the viewer’s perspective.
Otherwise, there would be no reason to donate to watch a stream.
[Harin: Why go to Busan? Just hang out in Seoul.]
[Harin: Just go to Busan and rent a room and do whatever...]
[Oh ho.]
[Please, no weird stuff, no no no.]
[Please, no talk about DaMa and Mangming becoming one.]
[🗡️All-powerful Cthulhu: We should go to Busan and have some sashimi.]
[Sashimi is delicious.]
[Let’s do something fun there.]
By the way, I hadn’t really decided what exactly we would do in Busan.
I left all the planning to Mangming.
The success of today’s and tomorrow’s streams depended entirely on Mangming.

‘It’s gonna be fun.’
I wondered what would happen.
There was also a possibility the stream could fail.
I knew that Mangming wasn’t great at planning content.
‘I hope it’s fun.’

Since Mangming had plenty of time to come up with content, I thought it would be nice if the stream was interesting, and I spoke up.
"I’m curious what content you’ve prepared. I don’t usually go to other regions, but you invited me all the way to Busan."
I was really curious.
Then—
"Well, don’t expect too much…"
Mangming seemed quite down.

[🗡️All-powerful Cthulhu: Mangming, what’s with the attitude?]
[🗡️All-powerful Cthulhu: Why are you so down?]
[Be confident!]
[Are you going to lose to Harin? Are you going to lose to Harin?]
[This is Kang Hu-min: Mangming is preparing some super fun content.]
[This is Kang Hu-min: He’s itching to tell us, haha. I’m really looking forward to it.]
[Oh ho.]
[Let’s not expect too much...]
[Right now, Mangming is sweating like crazy.]
We chatted like this as we rode the train to Busan.
 
"...Long time no see?"
"Ah, yeah. Mangming said he was coming here."
"That explains it."

Mangming wasn’t the type to suddenly suggest a trip to Busan, but after thinking about it, I remembered that his editor lived in Busan.
And it was in quite an expensive area.
It seemed like he was trying to make fun content with help from his editor.
‘But really, it was just his editor.’
It was so Mangming-like that I couldn’t help but laugh.
How could someone think of something so trivial?

[🗡️All-powerful Cthulhu: Damn, Mangming, really...]
[🗡️All-powerful Cthulhu: Are you calling for Jipjaemong?]
[Stop joking around, stop joking around.]
[This is Kang Hu-min: No way, Mangming’s broadcast can’t be this bad, haha. Don’t say weird stuff.]
[Jipjaemong, help us~ Jipjaemong, help us~]
[Ugh, Mangming, always mentioning Jipjaemong.]
[Hwanhee: The editor’s skills are really impressive.]
Looking at the chat, it seemed like Mangming had been getting a lot of help from his editor.
Otherwise, such chaotic comments wouldn’t be flooding the chat.
‘But he’s trying hard to ignore the chat.’

He must have been predicting what kind of comments would come up.
If he was going to get cursed, he could have just ignored it.
With a thought of how trivial it all was, I entered the editor’s car.
"Mm."
Mangming sat next to me, seemingly nervous.
I wondered how he managed to do streams with such a personality.

"Let’s stop by the editor’s place first and drop off our bags. He said he’d lend us his house today."
"Oh... but where will the editor sleep?"
This was the question I had.
If he was lending us his house, he’d need a place to sleep too.
"I’ll sleep at my own house. There are plenty of rooms at my place."
"Ah."

I felt a bit awkward.
I hadn’t thought about it, but it made sense that a house that size wouldn’t only have one room.
I ended up comparing it to my own room, and that’s how this situation came about.
[🗡️All-powerful Cthulhu: Damn, DaMa...]
[DaMa messed up while thinking about his own house, haha.]
[As expected, cuteness is the dolphin, haha.]
[Aw, so cute~~~~~~~~~ Ahhh!!!!]
[Temporarily banned!]
[🗡️All-powerful Cthulhu: Damn annoying tone.]
[This is Kang Hu-min: Those comments are annoying.]
After driving for a while,

"Ah, here we are again."
A familiar apartment appeared.
A very expensive apartment near Haeundae.
‘I might want to live in an apartment like this once I start making money.’

I thought that with a little hope and went into the editor’s house to drop off my stuff.
Well, there wasn’t really much to drop off.
Anyway, after unloading, we waited for a moment—
"Let’s head out now."
Mangming appeared with a completely done-up look.
He looked like he was even more put together than before.
How much does he care about the broadcast?

‘I hope it’s fun.’
I followed Mangming with that thought.
"It’s pretty cold today."
"It’s almost winter."
"Oh, right..."

As we moved, Mangming seemed to be trying to talk, but the questions were awkward and unfocused.
Maybe that’s why the conversation didn’t go smoothly compared to when we were on the train.
[🗡️All-powerful Cthulhu: Damn, Mangming, what’s up?]
[🗡️All-powerful Cthulhu: Pull yourself together.]
[Why are you so nervous, haha.]
[Looks like he’s really tense.]
[It’s probably because of the karma built up, haha.]
[Don’t be so nervous.]
[This is Kang Hu-min: If the broadcast is a fail, I’ll upvote it, haha.]
[Upvote, haha.]
[Upvote that.]
[It’s looking like it’s failing.]
Already, the talk of the broadcast failing was popping up.
Though in contrast, the viewers were doing great.

[Viewer count: 16,918.]
‘I never thought I’d get this many viewers before.’
Thinking about how much things had changed, I began speaking up as much as I could.
I didn’t want to see the broadcast fail while I was part of it.
I had to save it somehow.

"Let’s go swimming in Haeundae next time we have time. Sounds fun."
"U-uh, should we?"
But Mangming seemed more nervous than before, unable to speak properly.
I couldn’t understand why he was so nervous.
He talked just fine when we met normally.
With those thoughts,
"Ah... we’ve arrived!"

Mangming shouted with a bright smile.
It seemed like he had been waiting for the store to show up.
‘This is funny.’
I thought it was funny as I looked at the name of the store.

[Sea, Youth.]
It seemed like something interesting would happen.
...I hoped so too.