Chapter 98: Notice of closure

“Please don’t acknowledge me if we happen to meet outside. I have social phobia.”

[Of course, of course]

[Legend, I’m watching you!!]

[Yes, your highness!]

[With that face, a hikikomori gaming genius with a silver spoon and social phobia? How many attributes does she have?]

[Ah, the face of a ‘protagonist’.]

[Maegirlforever has donated ₩10,000.]

– “Ah, so that’s why you like Venus so much, you felt a sense of kinship because you look like her ㅋㅋ.”

Thunk.

A blade deeply piercing my conscience.

But I’d already committed too much, and there was no way I could just suddenly say, “Tada! It was all just a cosplay!” and end it.

“Ha, ha, ha.”

I laughed it off like a toy that makes noise when you press a button and continued the broadcast.

I just needed to fill the 4-hour broadcast time adequately before ending.

The double broadcast time event would last until I hit first place.

The viewership, which had hit 70,000 when the mask cam was revealed, briefly increased to 80,000 after the accident, but dropped back down to 50,000 as I continued broadcasting with the jellyfish model.

It’s 20,000 more viewers than usual, but how many people will come back for the next broadcast?

Thinking that, I took a shower, and I felt warmer than usual.

Was it because I still wasn’t calmed down from the earlier incident?

Anyway, I have a double wall of disguise + the internet, so nothing should change for me.

I hope it doesn’t.

…The next morning, I realized it was the flu.

No wonder my body felt so hot.

Ah.

It hurts.

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[Author: ㅇㅇ] [How can such a pretty girl have no trace on social media?]

[She must have been famous, how can there be nothing??

This doesn’t make sense]

The internet time billionaires who always do what they’re told not to do.

They took that one photo and began searching every corner of the internet.

But Seol-A’s photos from her three years abroad couldn’t be found on the Korean sites they were diligently searching.

Even if they had found it by chance, they wouldn’t have recognized her because of the disguise.

And the next day’s broadcast time arrived.

Some viewers had certain expectations.

Now that her face was revealed, wouldn’t she turn on the cam and broadcast?

There were many precedents of broadcasters who still stuck to no-cam even after their faces were plastered on the internet, so they couldn’t have high hopes.

Still, her nationally treasured looks were too good to hide.

Not showing it continuously would be a great loss to all of humanity!

[Author: Jeonjeonseol] [Notice of Absence]

[Resting because I’m sick with the flu]

The human body has a very close relationship with the mind.

You often hear stories of people diagnosed with a terminal illness living longer than expected to keep a promise.

This case wasn’t that extreme, but Jeonjeonseol had been pushing her body with a grueling broadcast schedule to reach first place.

As soon as the tension was released, the bill came due all at once.

Some people might think that doing computer work for 8 hours a day isn’t enough to make someone bedridden.

But in mind sports like Go and chess, and computer games, the biggest reason why women struggle to surpass men and take the top spot is the issue of stamina in long matches.

And Seol-A, who didn’t exercise at all and had a hikikomori lifestyle with no real daily life, had even weaker stamina than the average woman.

“Cough! Cough!”

Being sick and alone made me suddenly feel so sad that tears welled up.

Or was I just crying because I was sick?

Seol-A squeezed out the little energy she had with her throbbing head to contact her manager and post a broadcast notice.

Manager Jeong Min-Hee – [Have you been to the hospital?]

Jeonseol-A – [No]

Manager Jeong Min-Hee – [Is it hard for you to go alone?]

Manager Jeong Min-Hee – [Should I go and take you?]

The kindness was appreciated, but to do that, I would have to reveal my lies first.

That the blonde hair wasn’t dyed, that my height was faked with height-increasing insoles, and that my chest was a cosplay suit.

In Seol-A’s mind, people were divided into several categories.

People I can show my true self to, and people I can’t.

People I can show even a disguised self to, and people I can’t.

Besides family, the only people I could show my true self to were Victory and Wild.

The editor and manager were people I could only show the disguised self to.

More than it seemed on the surface, Seol-A cherished Victory and Jun.

The reason Seol-A had told Victory such ridiculous lies was,

Because she was afraid that if she were confessed to and turned down, they would drift apart,

She didn’t want to lose them.

Please don’t confess.

Just stay by my side.

Even if that was a bad thing called ‘managing the fish’ in the world.

Even if the lies caused discord between Victory and Jun.

Even if it was a contradictory act of stabbing someone she liked with a knife.

If all of that was an act that should never be done.

Would Seol-A have to be alone forever?

It suddenly felt unfair.

If they had just remained as men, she wouldn’t have had to do such things…

It’s all because they became women.

It’s all because they became too pretty.

Jeonseol-A – [It’s okay]

Jeonseol-A – [My younger sibling is coming]

This was also a lie.

I hadn’t contacted Seol-Yoon yet.

But I didn’t want to be treated like a foolish person who hated going to the hospital when sick.

I didn’t want to show my manager that I had a secret to hide.

Doom, doong.

Just then, footsteps echoed in the hallway.

Who could it be?

Could it be Dad?

Seol-Yoon should still be at school.

Knock, knock.

“Who is it…….”

My hoarse voice wasn’t loud and only became a quiet echo lingering around my mouth.

“It’s me. I’m coming in.”

Thankfully, the other person heard me well.

It was Seol-Yoon.

Seol-Yoon immediately came over and put her hand on Seol-A’s forehead.

“You should have contacted me first. Why are you taking care of viewers first? You’re totally a broadcaster.”

She saw the broadcast notice and came?

This quickly?

As if she was looking at that bulletin board all day long.

No, she probably just found it by chance at the right time.

“Come on, sis. Stretch out your arm.”

As if taking care of her own daughter, Seol-Yoon helped me put on my clothes one by one, then lifted Seol-A into her arms in a princess carry and headed to the parking lot.

How light was Seol-A, and how strong was Seol-Yoon?

Seol-Yoon carefully seated Seol-A in the passenger seat and buckled her seatbelt.

The way she took care of everything from start to finish was like the image of a mother on TV.

Seol-A quietly cried.

Seol-Yoon, who was sitting in the driver’s seat, asked.

“Are you hurting a lot? Should we go to the emergency room?”

Dori dori, Seol-A shook her head.

I’m not crying because I’m sick.

Because I’m happy.

I’m happy, but I’m sad.

When you’re sick, your mom always did this for you, huh.

That familiar image looks like you learned it from someone.

Modern medicine hasn’t yet conquered the common cold.

There’s no perfect cure, so Seol-A received some prescriptions to alleviate the symptoms and came home.

“I’ll go buy some ingredients for porridge.”

Don’t go.

I didn’t open my mouth, but Seol-A grabbed her sleeve and wouldn’t let go.

“Then I’ll order delivery.”

Seol-Yoon brought a chair next to the bed and sat down, holding Seol-A’s hand.

“Colds are contagious…….”

After telling her not to go herself.

This time, Seol-A, who was worried that she was too close again, was truly an unpredictable person.

“I’m strong, so it’s okay.”

“Thank you.”

The next day, and the day after that.

Seol-Yoon took care of Seol-A almost continuously.

Meanwhile, the notice [Resting because I’m sick with the flu] was not updated at all.

Viewers fell into all sorts of fantasies.

[Author: ㅇㅇ] [Who is the son of a b*tch who wished on a monkey’s paw???]

[You granted Legend’s face reveal and retired her from broadcasting ㅅㅂ]

─[It’s only been 3 days of absence, why the fuss ㅋㅋ]

└[3 days becomes 7 days, and 7 days becomes 1 year]

└[Ugh! My head!]

└[Who dumped you so badly ㄷㄷ]

─[(Wish granted con)]

─[But she was awfully pretty]

└[ㅇㅈ]

└[Now all that’s left is for her to come back ㅋㅋ]

└[Ah….]

[Author: ㅇㅇ] [Isn’t she not coming back because of those f*cking bastards who keep trying to dox her when she tells them not to?]

[(Extremely harsh insults)

(Very harsh insults)

(A mix of familicide and s*x insults that would immediately result in a guilty verdict)]

─[This person is really angry]

─[There are so many b*stards who don’t think of other people’s lives easily because they’re not broadcasters themselves, seriously]

└[That’s Joseon for you]

└[factos) Internet broadcasting addicts exist not only in Korea but all over the world]

└[Don’t you know that mukbang and internet broadcasting are Korean Wave culture?]

└[Is this real?]

─[I hope all the b*stards who keep looking for red pills and making a fuss die]

[Author: ㅇㅇ] [Looking for someone to terrorize the VTuber red pill archived blog]

[If no one else does it, I’ll do it alone

(link) ]

─[Isn’t this guy secretly promoting the red pill?]

└[Legend noona is a blue pill, so it’s okay]

└[Why do almost all VTubers look normal?? Then why do they do VTubing?]

└[It’s not like only ugly people do VTubing like you guys think, the desire to hide your identity is really natural]

└[Oh… I really didn’t know]

People who had turned violent due to the continued absence began to terrorize the red pill archive sites.

Just block them, just close the comment section, right?

If it was that easy, why would people die because of malicious comments?

In the end, the red pill archive sites were terrorized continuously, and three of them exploded.

All because of the butterfly effect of Jeonjeonseol’s absence.