Chapter 112: Without opening your mouth

The world is going crazy.

Even though it’s winter, it’s almost -20 degrees Celsius. I don’t know if I’m living in Korea or far away in Russia.

Among the things that viewers said, Russia isn’t even this cold. Half of what the viewers say is nonsense, so I can’t figure out whether it’s true or not.

I opened the window for a moment to ventilate the room, and the wind was blowing fiercely.

The cold wind blew like a knife, seemingly trying to cut me, so I closed the window again and returned to my room.

Yeah, you shouldn’t go outside on days like this. The warm room is the best.

That’s what I thought, and I knew it was cold, so I turned on the boiler and slept warmly.

Why did I catch a cold?

-Ah…

A sharply cracked voice flowed out along with the stinging pain in my throat.

It’s not serious, just a simple sore throat.

Unlike when I had a cold before, I don’t have a headache and my body doesn’t feel limp.

I thought about it while drinking ginger tea.

I wanted to broadcast today, but my throat is like this.

I wonder if there’s a good way.

After thinking for a while, I turned on the broadcast for now.

Anyway, I’m broadcasting with the camera on these days, so it shouldn’t matter if I don’t have a microphone, right?

Why do people use body language, even using gestures and facial expressions, when they go on a trip abroad and can’t communicate?

People can communicate even if they don’t speak.

That’s what I was thinking.

[Why is this person doing this?]

[The streamer suddenly went crazy;]

[She’s been strangely diligent lately, and now she’s gone mad]

[If you’re sick, say something…]

[It’s the same broadcast as usual ㅇㅇ]

[Why is she waving her arms around and making strange faces?]

[It’s nice to see her finding her roots after a long time]

[Cute]

[It would be better if she turned on the lights and did that, but she’s doing that alone in the dark, so she looks like a real crazy woman]

Today, too, Mollru’s broadcast was on.

As if the days of broadcasting once a week were long gone, Mollru’s broadcast frequency during her break has reached the point of broadcasting 3 times a week, even 5 times a week.

Viewers watched the broadcast with satisfied faces and waited for her broadcast as usual.

But today’s Mollru was different.

Of course, she was a broadcaster who didn’t do the same broadcast every day, but always did the broadcast she wanted to do at the time, but today it was to the point where I couldn’t understand the concept.

[I feel like I’m watching a silent movie]

That’s right. Unlike usual, the microphone wasn’t turned on.

No sound was coming out, and only Mollru’s camera screen was explaining the current situation.

But the explanation was a little hard to understand.

Mollru raised her hand and put it on her throat and kept drawing it horizontally.

[What is she saying]

[Is she going to cut her throat?]

[Gasp]

[Crazy psycho killer Mollru ㄷㄷ]

[I’m scared ㅠㅠ]

[I was wrong]

[It’s funny because she’s doing that with a serious face]

It was an expression that her throat was sore, but perhaps because her expression was lacking, people didn’t understand.

Mollru, who looked frustrated, suddenly got up from her seat.

[What is she going to do again ㅋㅋㅋㅋ]

[Oh oh where are you going]

[I can’t see you]

[Bed?]

[Gasp;]

[Is it a lying broadcast]

The place she went to was the bed.

Mollru, who adjusted the camera to show the bed in the back, lifted the blanket and took a posture of leaning on the bed.

Suddenly, she was strangling herself.

The viewers couldn’t help but be embarrassed because she was making such a realistic expression of being choked and struggling.

[???]

[Self-strangulation]

[Isn’t the streamer really not feeling well? Why is she doing that]

[Did she drink alcohol]

[No no, you can tell right away if she drinks alcohol]

[Is this charades?]

[Correct! Mollru, who choked on sweet potatoes!]

Mollru, who got up from the bed again and headed to the computer, checked the chat room and shook her head again.

She shook her head as if the answer was wrong, then pointed to her throat again and this time took a motion of coughing.

[Correct! Corona!]

[She caught a cold?]

[Is she saying her throat hurts?]

Nod nod-

As if that was correct, she pointed at the screen and then gave a thumbs up.

[No ㅋㅋㅋ Was it really charades]

[Emergency content F*ck lol]

[Content monster;]

<JustMollHwang donated 30000 won!>

-Wouldn’t it have been easier to open a notepad from the beginning?

[Ah ㅋㅋㅋ Do you think the streamer didn’t know that]

[It wouldn’t be fun then]

[You’re deliberately trying to get YouTube angles, you’re being so insensitive]

It was a donation that could be said to have made the atmosphere chilly.

A donation that suggests a simple solution to the shenanigans that Mollru had done so far, with a nuance like ‘Wouldn’t it have been okay to do this?’

However, unlike the sharp reaction of the viewers, Mollru made an expression of realization, as if she really didn’t know, and opened a notepad as is.

-I guess so, there was a notepad

[Did you really not know?]

[Legend of innocent beauty;]

[The streamer is 허술 when you see her like this]

[Are you very sick?]

-No no, just my throat hurts. I’m okay otherwise

[She’s sick but she’s diligently turning on the broadcast… She’s being compared to other streamers who rest when they do anything]

[Info) The streamer used to broadcast once a week until a month ago]

[It’s because it’s cold, it’s also dry]

-I think I should get a humidifier. I woke up and my throat was gone

[You need a humidifier ㅇㅇ]

[So what are we doing today]

[It’s going to be hard to chat because your throat is like this]

[No mic hard game ㄱ?]

-Why can’t I chat? I have a notepad

Mollru, who was communicating with the viewers through the notepad, tapped on the keyboard as if she had thought of something.

How many times had Mollru tapped the keyboard? Some kind of mechanical sound was coming out of the broadcast.

*Hello. I’m Mollru.

Text to speech. It was a voice synthesizer program also called Electronic Girl on Switch.

*Let’s have a fun broadcast together today too!

When I typed on the keyboard and the Electronic Girl uttered a voice, I moved my lips and did lip sync in real time.

As if she was speaking now.

[Oh my, her throat is very bad…]

[That’s a voice I’ve heard a lot before]

[Where did Mollru’s clear and pure voice go, and why is there this mechanical sound?]

*Today is a short broadcast ^^ I’ve been broadcasting diligently these days, so I can go early for a day, right?

[No no no no no no]

[There’s no such thing as a flexible work system, ah ㅋㅋ]

[Just don’t take a break ㅇㅇ]

[A day off for me is murder…]

[Taking a break should be killing]

*휴뱅 murderer, that’s a little scary.

Mollru took out the Electronic Girl tts, and the broadcast had long leaned towards a calm chat.

The viewers didn’t particularly force the game, perhaps because they were considering Mollru’s condition.

It was a time to visit the fan cafe that was conducted like that, looking at the accumulated posts from three days at the shortest to a week at the longest.

-Streamer’s legendary photos from public broadcasts. Can you please stop uploading things like this? I’m a little uncomfortable looking at it. If it’s a fan cafe, it can’t be helped? Hmm, yeah…

On the page that Mollru entered, there were pictures of her doing broadcast makeup and commentating at the league.

The article was a collection of only well-taken photos with her makeup on, with the appearance that would originally turn heads, and the comments were all praises.

The article at the top of the fan cafe, where articles were sorted by recommendation order, clearly showed the power of Mollru’s appearance.

Mollru continued to communicate, switching back and forth between using the Electronic Girl and the notepad.

-Memes that are popular among MZ these days… How to get to Hongdae- New Jeans Hype Boy? Kids these days play like this…

[The streamer, who is a representative of MZ, doesn’t know this?]

[Teacher, you’re a kid these days]

[How old is Mollru?]

[Mollru is the same age as Ryu A, born in 2000]

[Mollru, are you okay even though you’re sick?]

[Ryu A came because you talked about Ryu A]

[Ryu A entered ㅋㅋㅋㅋ]

Ryu A, who said that she was a close friend of the same age, revealed her relationship with Mollru.

As if to prove it, Ryu A, who heard somewhere that Mollru was sick, was asking on the broadcast.

Instead of answering, Mollru turned on the notepad and explained the current situation.

-But how did she know? Is Ryu A broadcasting now?

It was clear that the viewers had given a cuckoo.

Mollru, who became curious, clicked on Ryu A’s broadcast on the Switch follower list.

[Ad entered]

[There aren’t many ads these days, it’s really uncomfortable to see]

[Hate ads ㅡㅡ]

[If you subscribe, you won’t see them. Subscribe]

[But the streamer doesn’t subscribe to Ryu A?]

[Ryu A has been subscribing for months…]

[??? : Mollru? We got close after the tournament last time. We’re the same age, and we see each other at dinners and keep in touch. We’re almost best friends. Best friends]

[Ryu A Ryu A ya…]

[This is going to be controversial]

[Ah ㅋㅋ Mollru doesn’t think of her as a best friend]

Amid the sudden Mollru-Ryu A discord theory that surfaced, Mollru thought for a moment and then explained it like this.

-It’s not that, I’m trying to give Ryu A money. Ryu A gets money if you watch this ad. You guys don’t know, but this is a source of income for streamers?

[Moll voice on]

[Why does it sound like I can hear the tone even though it’s a notepad?]

[Subscribing will cost money too…]

Of course, no one believed those words.