Chapter 8: Real Man TV's First Broadcast
I thought about it seriously.
A man who doesn't like bathing with a pretty girl like Mina probably doesn't have any misogyny, unless there's something else.
I was a man, and now I'm a woman, but I don't hate bathing with Mina at all.
It was just embarrassing.
“I was a man until now, and you're not embarrassed?”
“Why? I really like you, Jiyoung. And now you're a woman.”
“But bathing together still seems early.”
“You'll go to women's baths someday, right? Swimming pools or jjimjilbangs? You've never gone because of the stares. How about getting used to a woman's body this time?”
“Are you really okay with this, Mina?”
“I always will. From now on, Jiyoung will live as a woman, so you have to get used to it.”
Mina's words were not wrong.
Because of the people around me who saw me as a woman, I couldn't go to men's baths, women's baths, or swimming pools.
If I went to the men's bath, the stares would be too much, and if to the women's, there was the risk of revealing I was a man, and I felt sorry for the women, so I couldn't go.
But now that I'm definitely a woman, I can go to the jjimjilbang or swimming pool that I couldn't before.
I really wanted to go to the swimming pool or jjimjilbang, and this summer was something I was looking forward to.
“Then let's go to the bath right now.”
“Alright.”
I had bathed together until elementary school, but I never imagined I'd be doing it together as high school students.
This is all because I became a woman.
I quietly looked at my chest.
No matter how I looked, compared to Mina, it was clearly inferior.
Mina was almost melon-sized, while I was terribly small.
I'm a high school student now, so will I stop growing like this?
As a man, living like this was the most comfortable, but...
After bathing, Jiyoung and Mina left the bathroom.
Every time I came to Mina's house to play, after bathing, Mina gave me clothes that fit perfectly.
So, without worrying about clothes, I could broadcast in that state.
Now I had to start internet broadcasting, and when it came to actually starting, I was extremely nervous.
Would someone come to watch a broadcast from a talentless person like me?
I couldn't even play games well.
“I'll set it up for you. Wait a sec.”
Before Mina finished speaking, she brought the broadcasting equipment and set it up.
Seeing that everything was already prepared, did Mina plan to make me stream on the internet from before?
She prepared extremely thoroughly even for her first broadcast.
She must have been researching broadcasting properly before.
“Now it's done. Jiyoung, come here.”
“Got it.”
WeTV internet broadcasting was introduced to me by Mina before.
It was directly linked to WeTube, and it's currently the most popular platform in South Korea.
Because many streamers and viewers gather here, there was no other choice.
“What should the title be? They say the title is important.”
“Usually, broadcasters have their own concept, right? How about making a concept?”
“Concept? What concept?”
“Yeah. Even though you're a woman now, you wear male school uniforms. To show a manly appearance, viewers will get hooked on your cuteness with a unique concept.”
Why plan so specifically?
Anyway, even though I'm a woman now, if I act as I did when I was a man, that could be my concept?
Since I just need to maintain the actions I've done so far, it was a very easy method for me.
“Hmm, can I do it well?”
“This kind of broadcast can only be done by you. There will definitely be a lot of demand. How about the 'real man' concept instead of just 'man'?”
“But I'm not a real man.”
“Just saying 'man' doesn't have enough impact, so it might be okay even if you don't look like a real man. It's the 'real man' concept.”
“Is that so?”
With that, I was convinced.
Even if I hadn't become a woman, Mina probably would have recommended me to stream.
Acting as I did when I was a man, or now as a woman doing the same actions, wouldn't look that different from the outside.
Why did Mina want to make me stream so much?
“Let's do this for the title. The first broadcast is simple mukbang while chatting with viewers.”
Broadcast title: (First Broadcast) Real Man TV Tteokbokki Mukbang
When I was a man, I tried to act like men by playing soccer or basketball with them somehow.
In the end, there was almost no success, but I kept trying to do manly actions.
Actually, I didn't know much about 'real man', but wouldn't acting like a woman be okay?
After Mina left the room, she brought the tteokbokki made by the auntie.
“Today, Dad came home late after eating dinner, so I told Mom I was eating in the room.”
“Does mukbang suit me? I can't eat much anyway.”
“Eating a normal amount is a red ocean. But eating cutely like you, a super cute girl like a real man, has demand. Anyway, since mukbang isn't the main content, and the first broadcast is planned to end simply, I planned it as mukbang.”
“Alright. I'll try once.”
“It will definitely work out. You eat in a super cute way too. I'll send a text for a moment.”
I pressed the start broadcast button, and the first broadcast began.
After the broadcast started, something surprising happened.
For some reason, in just one minute, 20 viewers entered.
How did this happen?
I heard that even starting the first broadcast, it would be hard to fill 10 people.
Although I've heard people say I'm cute a lot, but to gather quickly, they need to know about me.
It didn't make sense that on the first broadcast, without any rumors, it gathered so quickly.
“Anyway, thanks for the donations. You guys probably don't have much allowance, so don't give more than that.”
“??? Will keep donating?”
“No way. lol”
“No?”
“Don't donate. What money do students have?”
“Already found out? Actually, I told my class friends that I'd make you stream somehow today.”
“So that's why 20 people are watching?”
“Now it's 100 people?”
What? Already 100?
Just a moment ago it was 20, and now suddenly 5 times more.
If 20 are classmates, the remaining 80 could be other viewers.
Or students from other classes.
“Some might be school friends, but probably curiosity brought them in because the number of viewers increased a lot on the first broadcast.”
“Anyway, from now on, the serious mukbang will start. Or rather, will start.”
“It's natural.”
Wow, suddenly 100,000 won came in.
An otaku viewer who said he was an otaku donated a large amount.
Is it okay to donate this much on the first broadcast?
“Thanks, 100,000 won.”
As Mina said, the first broadcast seemed to start successfully.
The viewers' reactions were positive towards me.
Now, let's slowly start the first broadcast content, mukbang?