Chapter 4 Part 2: TS Inbangtari’s Mahjong Restoration Broadcast

“Are you playing tomorrow too? I was going to apply for tomorrow.”

“Well, I turned it on for fun, but I don’t know if I should kill it or not. If I feel like killing it, I’ll write on the gallery. I’ll collect it.”

After playing about five rounds of the revenge game, the broadcast ended.

A Mahjong Banjangjeon (a format where you play countries. 1 country-1 round) is usually about 20 minutes or 40 minutes, but since I played about 30-40 minutes per revenge game, it was longer than one round of the Banjangjeon.

It was almost like a from 1-hit instructor, so did my skills improve?

Honestly, I don’t expect much.

The first broadcast… To be exact, I can’t say it was a success.

It was just a trial in the first place.

If you turn on the broadcast because you’re lonely and want to play mahjong and chat, then you could say that this kind of broadcast is successful, but as the beginning of a full-time broadcaster, it didn’t seem like much.

Still, wasn’t the broadcast interesting?

They responded well to my words, and at times, as many as thirty people came in.

Considering it was a trial run, I guess it was a success.

“What should I do now?”

I muttered to myself, but there was no answer.

Perhaps the broadcast was surprisingly fun, and I was getting used to the chat window’s responses though I had only been on for a few hours.

Maybe it was my calling.

Well, if I had been someone who didn’t suit this kind of thing in the first place, I don’t think I would have stayed in the gallery for years.

I leaned back in my chair and looked at the ceiling.

The same gray ceiling greeted me.

I like gray.

Gray can turn black or white.

Let’s stop thinking about random things and think about our future plans since we’ve already done a broadcast.

The reality is that nothing has changed except for my gender and appearance.

First of all, I think that getting a job is out of the question.

If my resident registration number is 1 and the person who shows up is a woman, they’ll treat me like a crazy bitch and not hire me.

What I mean is, until I go through the gender correction procedure and get my gender corrected to number 2, I can’t get a job where my identity is revealed.

And because of this physical characteristic that I come out where I should and go in where I should, I can’t even pretend to be a man.

I could say I’m a transgender and just go around like I am, but I don’t really want to do that.

Even I, who actually changed my gender, feel some kind of inexplicable aversion to transgender people, so how much more so would other people?

I’m lucky if I don’t get pointed at behind my back.

Regardless of whether it’s right or wrong, it’s just that people have a hard time accepting it.

When I looked up the gender correction procedure, I found out that I have to go to court and go to a mental hospital.

And there are people who waited up to 6 months after filing all the documents, so if I start the gender correction procedure now, it’ll probably take about a year, and I won’t be able to make any money during that time.

It’s not impossible because I have insurance.

So the goal and deadline are set in the end.

The goal is to be a full-time internet broadcaster.

The deadline is 1 year.

The budget is, if you pay rent and do this and that, it will probably be around 20 million won.

Food costs are ramen, home-cooked meals, and you can just squeeze in, but if you do a broadcast, you have to buy equipment and other things, right?

And you have to go back and forth to the hospital and court.

That should be about it, but the problem is the plan.

There isn’t anything, it won’t be of any use if you do it like you just did.

Let’s say the kids who come to play mahjong are a little crazy and pay 10,000 won per piece of tile to apply for a tile recovery.

Then you have to catch 10 people a day to make a living.

But will that happen?

Even if it does, will it be that many?

There are so many people who are less skilled than me but who play tile recovery for free just to show off their skills.

And these days, technology has advanced so much that there are even mahjong-specific AIs that will recover 100 tiles for 20,000 won a month.

In the end, you can’t make money just by playing mahjong.

In order to gather people, my strength of being good at mahjong won’t do.

If you’re good at mahjong and funny, or good at mahjong and pretty, that’s how the show will go.

If you’re just good at mahjong, what’s the difference between that and the neighborhood horse racing owner?

The horse racing owner might be more fun.

Plus, the neighborhood horse racing owner earns money somewhere else, so he can buy me food.

I just take money from other people.

If you look at it that way, isn’t the best incentive probably looks?

I didn’t even think about it when it first changed, but thinking back, I didn’t even put on makeup, but I’m afraid of how much this look would level up if I put on makeup.

If I were to broadcast with this look, I could just show my face and take money.

Thinking about acting cute makes me sick, but maybe I could take 10,000 to 100,000 won for one act of cuteness?

Is this the creative economy or something?

Stop being annoying.

TS beauties are said to copy money through broadcasts.

But I don’t want to do that right now.

As a former military service member in my 20s, I feel aversion to acting cute and selling my looks.

I also feel that the moment I reveal my looks, I feel like I will never be able to go back to being a normal person.

It’s not like I’m just uploading vlogs to video sites or doing TikTok or something.

I used to think of it lightly, but after looking into it yesterday and today, I think that criticizing your looks isn’t something to be taken lightly.

The prettier you are, the more serious it gets.

In that relationship, unless it was definitely a full-time job or a full-time income, I didn’t want to reveal my appearance.

But is there a broadcaster who has succeeded in a short period of time like a year by just talking without revealing their appearance?

I don’t think there are.

You can’t reveal their face.

You can guess.

Ultimately, if you don’t reveal their face, it’s impossible to identify someone with their body and voice.

The only thing that works is doujinshi.

But I’ll hold off for now.

Showing your body means you’re trying to make an appeal to others, and to be honest, I don’t want to make money by showing my body to men.

So what’s left is your voice?

If it’s a broadcast that only relies on your voice… a virtual YouTuber?

Fortunately, I know about virtual YouTubers.

That’s because there’s an Internet mahjong league that features virtual YouTubers.

Since it was a team battle with 4 people and professional songwriters as directors, I started watching it and since then, I watched some Japanese tubers and some Korean and American tubers.

I didn’t really watch it because it didn’t really suit my taste…

Among tubers, the ones that are doing well are always ranked on YouTube Super Chat.

I guess they do the same there.

It’s no different.

But wouldn’t it be positive in that it increases the incentive for broadcasting?

There’s no reason not to try.

With that in mind, I logged onto the tuber gallery and escaped after a few minutes by pressing the back button.

I thought I’d been using the gallery for a long time.

If I’ve been doing it for over ten years, that’s a lot, right?

But I suddenly felt like a tank had attacked me while I was playing in a remote mahjong gallery.

It’s hard, it’s hard.

Those who uploaded a meme.

Vtuber dressed as a woman to a concept post and got a lot of compliments and said, “This is it today.”

And those who run around and do part-time jobs and goro-shit that send it to Silbe.

But here, the fact that it was just an ordinary concept article was truly wild itself.

The articles written at dawn seemed to go beyond wildness and see the abyss.

Why was I the only one who got infiltrated?

You want to kill those who tell you not to belong to the gallery?

What the fuck, lol.

There are even articles that adjust the brightness of a YouTuber’s 3D modeling and say, “There’s something there.”

Why on earth do these articles exist?

Why are you so obsessed with 3D modeling dancing?

Of course, as someone who has also been a fan, I understand that you are obsessed with such things.

But isn’t that a bit much?

Why on earth are you so obsessed with 3D modeling dancing?

But if I were a YouTuber, I would have to deal with these people, so shouldn’t I understand them a little?

Hmm… It’s hard…

Well, there are other galleries and places where people hang out quietly, but if the biggest place is like this, I feel like I know something.

YouTube.

Should I stop? Isn’t this too hard for me?

Domestic Hakko Virtual Gallery?

What is this?

Why on earth am I collecting Hakken?

The lower the level, the more I become afraid of this Internet broadcast.

They say that the more you look into the abyss, the more the abyss looks into you, and this is exactly what it looks like.

My underwear finally arrived.

Actually, I ordered it the day before yesterday and it arrived this morning, so it came quickly, but it doesn’t feel that fast.

That’s because it hurt so much every time I moved.

I have to minimize my movements so as not to get shocked.

It was really hard.

It just hurts at home, but when I have to go out to buy cigarettes or smoke, it’s the most painful.

I already get annoyed because people keep staring at me whenever I go outside, but since I’m not wearing underwear, I become conscious of my movements because I move around freely every time I change directions.

As I became aware, my movement became strange, and people around me started to stare.

After going through this crazy vicious cycle a couple of times, I didn’t have the courage to go out braless.

Instead of smoking, I thought about buying an e-cigarette and rolling it out, but I thought it would be better not to smoke since I had to go out to buy one.

After that, I just waited for my underwear.

Now I can say goodbye to that shameful past and move around confidently.

Walk confidently anywhere!

Well, I should buy a cam while I’m out.

I decided last night that I should try anything, no matter how deep it is.

Well, you can buy a cam online, but it’s not bad to buy one while I’m out.

I got ready to leave the house.

I was going to tie my hair up because it was in the way, but there was a way to tie it up, so I fought for 10 minutes watching X-Tube videos.

Wearing a slightly tight bra and panties, Adidas sweatpants, a gray sweatshirt, a black mask, and black Converse.

Why is everything in my house black?

I go into a famous electronics shopping complex looking for a suitable store.

Since I originally hated being solicited, I go to a clean place with as little solicitation as possible.

I don’t answer the question, “What are you looking for, lady?”

I heard that if you answer that kind of question, you’ll get dragged in.

The store I opened the door to and went into was just ordinary.

There were products you can see anywhere, that’s all?

The part-timer who greeted me with a drawn-out voice, “Welcome,” had his back turned and was working on his computer.

The customer service attitude was just…

I go to the counter and look at the clerk who got up from her seat.

The clerk looked startled for some reason.

Dude, when you serve customers, you have to look them in the eye and talk to them.

It’s basic manners that I know even after working part-time at a convenience store for 3 months.

It’s not about talking with your eyes down.

“I’m thinking of buying a webcam.”

“What are you looking for?”

“Well, basically, I’m going to listen to lectures and film videos.”

I gesture here and there with my hands.

The part-timer seems to understand and takes out a camera from behind the counter and puts it on the counter.

It’s a simple, ordinary webcam.

Since it’s for YouTubers, I hope it tracks well, but would the part-timer know if I asked him about that?

Would he laugh at me because I thought he was trying to be a swindler?

It’s a bit much to ask.

“This product is selling well these days. Would you like to try it out?”

The computer the part-timer pointed to had several webcams installed.

The part-timer smiled awkwardly, saying, “There are a lot of people coming in to buy webcams these days.”

There’s definitely a lot of talk about the contactless or something.

The installed program says webcam 1, 2, 3.

And come to think of it, they are numbered.

“Are they different?”

I quickly turned to the part-timer and asked.

The guy coughed awkwardly for some reason.

No, I’m telling you to answer.

I tilted my head slightly to the side and looked at the part-timer’s face, and only then did the part-timer explain.

No. 1 costs 30,000 won, No. 2 costs 50,000 won, No. 3 costs 100,000 won, etc.

They even told me the product names, but I didn’t really understand.

“Are there any functional differences?”

“I think there’s a difference in image quality, and it captures objects better, and things like that.”

Hmm.

When I run the webcam 1 program, my face is reflected.

I’m wearing a mask and can’t really tell.

When I take off my mask, put it in my pocket, and look at the cam, my face is reflected.

Hmm… I definitely think I’m pretty.

I think that every time I look at my face.

It’s okay if you become a pretty TS, but how much harder would it be if you became ugly?

But is it better because you’re a woman?

An ugly woman or an ugly man, who has a harder time living?

It’s a difficult problem for the entire planet.

I turn on the 50,000 won cam.

What’s the difference?

It’s the same whether it’s 30,000 won or 50,000 won, so it’s natural that it doesn’t seem different.

What about a 100,000 won cam?

Oh, I don’t know.

I’ve never been good with computers.

I’m the type of person who thinks that if it runs on a 10000, small X, has good internet, and uses Tor, that’s enough.

“What’s the difference?”

I turn my head to the part-time again and ask, and the part-timer makes a somewhat dumbfounded expression.

This guy’s a little weird, isn’t he?

“Excuse me.”

“Huh?”

“Looking at this, it doesn’t seem like there’s much difference between a 100,000 won or a 50,000 won cam. What’s the difference?”

“Oh. Yes.”

It was weird before, but now it’s gone.

I give up on asking the part-timer and turn my head back to the webcam screen.

There’s a 180,000 won one, and it definitely looks like the picture quality is better.

But 100,000 won is really expensive.

Should I just buy the 30,000 won one?

My face won’t show anyway and I’m just going to be a YouTuber, so why do I really need the picture quality?

I was thinking in front of the computer with my arms crossed when I suddenly felt eyes on me.

I glanced over and saw that the part-timer was looking at me.

He didn’t look too well.

I wondered if he was looking at my face, but to be exact, he wasn’t even looking at my face.

I looked where his gaze was, and he was looking at my chest.

“Over there.”

“Huh?”

Even in the midst of all this, he didn’t take his eyes off me.

I thought I’d be stared at like this, but this is the first time someone has stared at me so blatantly.

Come to think of it, he’d been looking at somewhere other than my face since he first came in.

Oh…

I uncrossed my arms and glared at the part-timer.

As I continued to stare, the part-timer suddenly woke up as if he had shuddered and couldn’t look anywhere before making a face as if he realized I was staring at him.

“That.”

Before I could even say anything, his expression changed here and there and he suddenly started talking nonsense.

“No, teacher, it wasn’t me. No, teacher, are you looking for a webcam? This product here is really good. These days, people broadcast and video lecture with webcams and such, so we have this product, so wouldn’t it be great if you could use it?”

“Huh?”

“Teacher, I’ll pay for it for you! No, just take it! I’ll pay for it! Just take it! No, just take it without any pressure. I’m giving it to you as a gift because you’re really pretty. Feel free to take it without thinking about it. Thank you so much. No, I’m really sorry. I’ve wrapped it for you. Please.”