Chapter 10: A YouTuber and a Past Betrayal

Regardless.

[Ban-yeStorage ♡ Ah-ang]

We were married. Now, we were legally married in Chaos Online.

No matter how much Ban-ye denied it, it had already been over a week since we got married. Every time we logged in, a message saying [Your lovely spouse has logged in] would appear, and when we partied together, an announcement [Marriage special buff is stacked] would also pop up.

And Ban-ye, obsessed with stats, would relentlessly try to maintain the party with me because they received a 20% movement speed and 2% critical hit chance buff from being married to me. I quite liked that part of Ban-ye.

[Your lovely spouse has logged in.]

[Friend][Ah-ang] Ah-ang, what are you doing? Party up.

[Friend][Ban-yeStorage] Yes, honey ♡

[Friend][Ah-ang] Ha…

[‘Ah-ang’ has invited you to a party.]

[Marriage special buff is stacked.]

And honestly, I found it a bit amusing how Ban-ye got slightly disgusted whenever I acted cute or clingy.

Should I say it was cute how they lacked immunity to this kind of thing? Hehe…

“Ban-ye, you young thing.”

Besides, I recently found out from the guild members that Ban-ye was only twenty years old.

Two years younger than me…

After that, no matter how much Ban-ye nagged, I couldn’t help but think of them as a kid. Should I say they were easy to read? Their bluntness also seemed like a desperate attempt to appear more mature.

“Ban-ye, you’ve already been figured out.”

I chuckled to myself.

Ban-ye, unaware of my thoughts, proudly nagged me in the game, but it didn’t affect me at all anymore.

Today, I received the usual, harmless nagging from Ban-ye.

[Friend][Ban-yeStorage] Ban-ye, why aren’t you wearing the clothes I crafted for you?

[Friend][Ah-ang] I like black.

[Friend][Ban-yeStorage] ㅠㅠ The ones I gave you are a couple outfit!

[Friend][Ah-ang] You wear black then.

[Friend][Ban-yeStorage] ! A change in perspective! Is my honey a genius?

[Friend][Ah-ang] Why are you always picking a fight?

[Friend][Ban-yeStorage] ㅜㅜ? LOL

At first, Ban-ye would ignore me and reply only occasionally, but now they responded consistently… Moreover, the quality of their responses had improved, and sometimes my heart would swell. We’ve become this close.

While I was enjoying the game, HugMeRaiseMe posted a link on the guild Discord.

And they tagged me.

[HugMeRaiseMe] YouTube link
[HugMeRaiseMe] @Ah-ang
[HugMeRaiseMe] Watch this and learn.

I used the tone I had just learned.

[Ah-ang] Why are you always picking a fight?

[HugMeRaiseMe] lol If you don’t like it, get stronger.

[Hwang Hyun-joong] Why are you copying me?

[Ah-ang] LOL

I clicked on the link HugMeRaiseMe had posted…

“Today, I’ll show you how to clear the May/June dungeon, Chill Wind, with two people.”

“Huh?”

A familiar voice sounded.

Suspecting something, I checked the channel name and clenched my fists.

[Sisi’s Easy Chaos Online Guide]

“Sisi… Kwon Da-jung, what the hell is this bastard doing now?”

How dare a shady bastard like him make YouTube videos?

Grind.

My teeth gnashed involuntarily.

Sisi.

Or rather, Kwon Da-jung, was the main reason I transferred servers and the guild master of the #1 guild on my previous server.

He acted incredibly nice in public, and I fell for it completely… I gave him everything, acting like a fool.

“Ah, I’m so f*cking pissed…”

I usually don’t care much about wasting money on strange things, but the money I spent on that bastard Kwon Da-jung still makes me jump out of bed in the middle of the night.

Ugh, seriously. But, that son of a b*tch dares to make YouTube videos?

I screamed when I saw the subscriber count.

“…What? 15,000 subscribers? What kind of crazy people, 15,000 of them, are watching this bastard’s videos?!”

Moreover, every video had over 1,000 likes and about 100 comments.

Most of the comments were like [Sisi’s explanations are easy to understand, I like it], [Sisi seems like a god of control], and it pissed me off.

I felt nauseous seeing Kwon Da-jung, who had treated me like sh*t, doing so well. I replayed the video I had paused due to his disgusting voice, and honestly, far from being a god of control, his explanation was yawn-inducing.

The editing was just roughly cut and pasted! What’s so detailed about it? Is it just slapping subtitles on every sentence?

“Ban-ye is way better, what the hell are you talking about, you f*cker!”

Jealous of the bastard’s blind subscribers and ardent fans, I started leaving dislikes and comments.

[han: Lol, you call this skill? Lol Ban-ye is way better.]

I disliked the next video too and replied to someone else’s comment, harshly criticizing them. Their comment was just too ridiculous.

[db: Wow, I want to get carried by Sisi ㅠㅠ I’m one of those who can never get a spot because it fills up in 1 second ㅠㅠ
└han: Are you kidding me? There are tons of people better than Sisi. What do you mean it fills up in 1 second? When he plays late at night and no one comes, he keeps whining to his guildmates to use megaphones to recruit lol. Stop kissing his *ss.]

I could say this because I had experienced it myself. Sisi’s carry parties weren’t that popular.

In fact, back when I was on that server, Sisi was the guild master of the #1 guild, but he wasn’t a ranker. He was in the top 100, and there were many guild members who were stronger and better than him.

So, his carry parties weren’t as overwhelmingly popular as the comments suggested, definitely not filling up in one second.

Besides, Sisi would be nice to the stronger guild members but would sometimes gossip about them to me.

At the time, I thought those guild members were genuinely bad people bullying the nice Sisi, and I felt bad for him… But it turned out that Sisi was just a two-faced bstard who talked sht about everyone.

Just looking at what he did to me, who had been the most devoted to him, he was a piece of trash who should quit gaming and drown himself.

After venting some anger in the YouTube comments, my rage shifted towards HugMeRaiseMe, who had told me to learn from Sisi’s videos.

[Ah-ang] Are you a noob, HugMeRaiseMe?

[HugMeRaiseMe] ? Picking a fight all of a sudden?

[Ah-ang] Why are you watching such noob videos?

[HugMeRaiseMe] You call this noob?

[HugMeRaiseMe] You, Ah-ang?

HugMeRaiseMe’s words, dripping with the meaning ‘How dare you?’, infuriated me even more.

But even if I wanted to retaliate, it was true that my control was worse than Sisi’s… so I had nothing to say.

[Hwang Hyun-joong] You’re already bad. Why would you watch this and learn to be even worse?

Then, unexpectedly, Ban-ye came to my rescue.

Of course, HugMeRaiseMe was dumbfounded.

[HugMeRaiseMe] ?

I eagerly joined in.

[Ah-ang] I’m not buying these noob videos.

[Ah-ang] Ptooey.

[Ah-ang] Ban-ye is way better.

[HugMeRaiseMe] Well, yeah, but

[HugMeRaiseMe] Isn’t it easier for noobs to follow along because he’s moderately bad?

[HugMeRaiseMe] How can you follow Ban-ye?

“Ugh…”

Every word they said was true, and it stung.

Eventually, I gave up on rational persuasion.

[Ah-ang] Are you a Sisi fanboy?

[HugMeRaiseMe] ? Suddenly?

[Ah-ang] If you like him, just say you like him.

[Ah-ang] Love isn’t something to be ashamed of.

[Ah-ang] Right, Ban-ye?

[Hwang Hyun-joong] Disgusting.

[HugMeRaiseMe] LOL

Fortunately, HugMeRaiseMe didn’t seem to be a Sisi fanboy and just frowned and moved on… But the thought of Sisi promoting himself and being praised like this somewhere in Chaos Online made me furious.

Then, I received a private message from Ban-ye.

[Hwang Hyun-joong] You know Sisi, right?

[Ah-ang] What?

[Ah-ang] What are you talking about?

[Hwang Hyun-joong] Didn’t you know him before transferring servers?

I typed and deleted [No, I didn’t] about three times.

I didn’t know how Ban-ye knew I knew Sisi, but just the fact that Ban-ye knew of Sisi’s existence sent a cold sweat down my back.

Moreover, Ban-ye had even recognized the hate comments I left.

[Hwang Hyun-joong] The ‘han’ who just left comments on all of Sisi’s videos is you, right?

[Ah-ang] No.

[Ah-ang] No, it’s not.

[Hwang Hyun-joong] Why are you lying?

[Hwang Hyun-joong] kdj0313

[Hwang Hyun-joong] Isn’t this Sisi?

I was creeped out that Ban-ye knew Sisi’s ID.

While I was frozen speechless, Ban-ye continued typing.

[Hwang Hyun-joong] I keep getting messages.

[Ah-ang] What? Where are you getting messages from?

[Hwang Hyun-joong] Check your inbox on the official website. There are messages asking why you blocked him.

[Hwang Hyun-joong] It’s been less frequent lately.

I finally understood why Ban-ye knew Sisi’s ID. They had seen the messages Sisi sent me.

It was the first time I regretted letting Ban-ye pilot my account.