NOVEL NEXT Chapter 203
No one I knew could take the final victory.
The problem was that it got harder to filter people out as we progressed, and not everyone could answer the questions.
The title of Super Molbu wasn’t something you got for free. Only those with true talent, literally superhumans, could earn the honor of being called that.
Thus, the one selected as the winner could genuinely be called superhuman.
[How did you get that right? LOL]
[How did you do that, you f*ing Ryeon?]
[I recognize you as the Super Molbu, Goat…]
[You threw out a YouTube question, I only watch the live broadcast so I don’t know!]
[Please love MolTube a lot ^^]
[It’s all stuff we’ve seen before in the live broadcast, why watch YouTube? LOL]
[For real, LOL]
The one chosen as Super Molbu wasn’t particularly memorable to me.
Looking at the subscription months, they were practically a founding member who had been watching my broadcast since the beginning, but since the nickname was unfamiliar, they didn’t seem like the type to actively chat.
Just because someone chats doesn’t mean I can remember every nickname, but still.
I approached the newly selected Super Molbu for an interview.
“Congratulations, the final survivor ‘MolluDoesNotKnowAnything.’ How do you feel about being recognized as Super Molbu?”
“Um, honestly, I didn’t expect to win. I didn’t think it would end this quickly.”
End this quickly? What does that even mean?
“They said the test creator prepared a total of 30 questions, and now, after 13 questions, everyone, except me, has been eliminated.”
“Right?”
“I at least thought I’d get to around 20 questions.”
What is this guy talking about? As I stared at Super Molbu, he calmly continued.
“While the questions were tough, for true fans of Mollu, they were questions that could be answered. Even without solely relying on memory, if you had re-read MolWiki and MolTube three times before participating in the content, your survival rate would have increased significantly.”
“Oh… I see.”
[Normally, nobody would do that, Super Molbu…]
[What are we, studying for a test? LOL]
[So this is what it takes to be a Super Molbu, huh?]
[Looks like the Bangjang has run out of things to say, LOL]
[What the heck, this isn’t an interview with a perfect score student.]
[I studied mainly from MolTube and MolWiki~]
“So, because you’ve prepared in advance about me for the content, you studied?”
“Yes, that’s correct. I thought everyone would prepare like I did…”
“So you were a model student.”
Super Molbu was highlighting the lack of effort from the other participants. Over there, Si-young’s character was nodding as if she was satisfied.
That look seemed to say my questions weren’t difficult, it’s just that you guys couldn’t answer them.
“Anyway, congratulations. I will name you the first Super Molbu.”
“If I’m the first, is there going to be a second?”
“Who knows what the future holds.”
Imagining a structure where someone who wants the title of second Super Molbu challenges the current one… If they win, that person would inherit the title of Super Molbu.
“And if you leave me a whisper, Super Molbu, I’ll send you a Chicken Gifticon as a prize.”
[?]
[Mol-chicken, whoa!]
[Wait, are you giving chicken?]
[You never said anything about that, did you?]
[What the hell!]
[So delicious!]
[Out of the blue, chicken!]
[Wow, Mollu gives chicken!]
[That sounds freaking delicious, yes…]
[Mollu, sprinkle some chicken!]
Even in the midst of that, Super Molbu showed a Super Molbu-like demeanor.
“Chicken… I’ll pass it down as a treasured family heirloom…”
“What do you mean by that?”
It’ll probably be returned after the expiration date. I shook my head, unsure if this was the concept or for real. sigh
*
After the content ended, I didn’t immediately turn off the broadcast.
These days, the flow of a broadcast mostly went like this. After doing the main content, I would gently chat with the viewers to wrap up the broadcast.
Today, I was wandering the café with my brain turned off, having trivial conversations with viewers.
“Cute Neoguri moment… really is cute.”
Maybe it had a habit of washing its food in water; when I handed it cotton candy, it just dumped it into the stream.
After dipping it, it seemed like it was going to eat it, but cotton candy doesn’t last in water. The Neoguri’s bewildered expression at the suddenly vanished cotton candy was surprisingly cute.
[Neoguri got wrecked, LOL]
[Does it wash everything it’s given in water?]
[Very hygienic, huh?]
[Cleaner than the dirty smelly Molbus, for sure, LOL]
[Seriously, the Neoguri that washes food is much cleaner than those filthy Molbus.]
It was then that a donation flew in.
[NeoguriIsNotARaccoon donated 10,000 won!]
– Neoguri and raccoons are different animals, please don’t misunderstand!
“Wait, is Neoguri not a raccoon? Isn’t Neoguri the English word for raccoon?”
I didn’t know before. It seemed most viewers in the chat were just as confused.
“So what’s Neoguri in English?”
Korean raccoon, Nongshim, a bunch of answers flew in, but none really seemed right.
“How about we take this opportunity to learn about Neoguri and raccoons?”
I searched “Neoguri” on the wiki I had used last time.
“What the… this is not the Neoguri I know?”
[Is this a joke?]
[Neoguri is not Neoguri? LOL]
[Wow, this is truly shocking.]
Turns out, what people generally understood as Neoguri wasn’t Neoguri at all; it was a raccoon. Despite being misunderstood, Neoguri and raccoons aren’t actually related.
The Neoguri I had seen in the meme of “Neoguri washing cotton candy” was also a raccoon and not a Neoguri.
“The raccoon has a long tail, unlike Neoguri, which has a short one, and its tail is striped…”
Looking at the picture of the raccoon displayed as an example, I was convinced. The one I felt familiar with was indeed the raccoon.
“Was Neoguriman also a raccoon? So would that make it Raccoon-man? Oh my.”
[This is truly shocking, LOL]
[Raccoon-man, LOL]
[Neoguri-man has a nice ring to it.]
[Raccoon-man took care of it!]
A Neoguri, I mean, a raccoon, with dark eyes and two ears, holding up its front paws and staring straight at the camera.
To find out that the hero Neoguri-man, often referred to as a beacon of justice in the community, was actually Raccoon-man.
We had mistakenly directed our gratitude towards the wrong being and found cuteness in the wrong subject.
“I can’t believe this…”
The shocking truth kept coming.
The raccoon character from a famous children’s animation was also a raccoon, not Neoguri. Even the name was designed to sound close to Neoguri, but it turned out to be a raccoon.
After reading through the documents on raccoons for a while, I finally came out.
– Why we could only think of raccoons as Neoguri
Another post from a viewer. As I entered it, a familiar brand greeted me.
“Wait, is that… Neoguri…”
A famous ramen brand that any Korean would know was also named Neoguri. But the character drawn on it was an adorable raccoon.
[It’s not the chewy, delicious Neoguri, it was a raccoon, LOL]
[The horror of miseducation from childhood…]
[This is the tyranny of big corporations.]
[From now on, let’s say we’re having Raccoon instead of Neoguri~]
“This is something that regular people would not have known.”
I was one of those regular people.
“It was shocking, but it was also surprisingly useful information. I feel like I’ve gained some knowledge. Don’t you all?”
At this point, it was somewhat interesting while delivering a new, unfamiliar piece of knowledge that felt familiar to us.
[Knowledge has increased.]
[LOL From now on, I guess I should call it raccoon.]
[If anyone calls a raccoon Neoguri, let’s kindly inform them.]
[But honestly, people probably don’t care about these kinds of stories…]
[What difference does it make if it’s Neoguri or Raccoon? It doesn’t matter in life.]
[That’s true.]
“People will probably not care whether they call a raccoon a Neoguri or not? True enough, knowing that doesn’t impact their life at all.”
That’s how trivia generally was. Since they didn’t have any influence on people, most didn’t take much interest. Honestly, what’s the benefit of knowing that anyway?
But perhaps this gathered indifference from us was causing raccoons to be mistakenly called Neoguri, and those raccoons being forced to rename themselves, accumulating tears one by one. We mustn’t let that happen for the cute raccoons’ sake.
[So that’s the conclusion?]
[This person is talking nonsense again.]
[Mollu the Raccoon enthusiast, whoa!]
[You seem tired, let’s get some sleep, haha.]
[You’ve been streaming for a long time.]
[Moll-ba.]
Nonsense? That’s too much. That was my thoughtfully delivered ending statement.