Chapter 19: A Premonition and an Unexpected Visit.

There are times when you get a strange feeling.

To be a little more specific, there are times when you feel a premonition that things are not going well.

I think everyone has had this feeling at least once.

To give a fictional example, you go to visit your newly made girlfriend’s house and the room is plastered with pictures of you.

As for the everyday one, it’s about the memory of an elementary school student watching an adult who stops quietly and tries to cool down their emotions after seeing an action that crosses their line.

‘Why isn’t there a reply?’

I was feeling something similar now.

The experience of the last month has allowed me to know one of Yu Sieun’s characteristics.

Yu Sieun replies very quickly.

It slows down when you send a message that requires an important decision or needs to be thought about deeply, but at least it sends a message that it is reading and thinking.

But for the suggestion I sent now, “How about coming to my house for a celebration party?” there was not even such a reaction.

‘Did I make a mistake..?’

Since Yu Sieun was so silent, I wondered if she had any trauma about being invited to someone’s house.

It’s a fictional story on par with the girlfriend’s room full of pictures I mentioned earlier, but to me, Yu Sieun not replying to this extent felt similar.

It was about 2 minutes after I felt the strangeness that Yu Sieun sent a message.

[Yu Sieun: Then can I go now? Can you tell me the address?]

‘…?’

I was able to realize one more fact after reading that message.

The strangeness I felt in this silence seemed to have come not from Yu Sieun’s inner story that I had imagined, but from hearing this strange sound.

I changed the words “What the f*ck are you talking about?” into a polite form for a beloved employer and sent it.

I added that if it was uncomfortable to come late at night, it would be a good idea to turn on the broadcast a little earlier and finish it early.

Yu Sieun sent a message saying she understood, and then asked for my home address.

I wondered if it would be better to tell her when the broadcast was turned off later, but I just sent the address of the studio apartment I was living in via message.

5 minutes later, a notification rang on my phone.

EunSiyu wrote and uploaded a notice on her Treech community.

It contained a declaration that she would start the broadcast one hour earlier than usual for one day only, and end it a little earlier.

Just because the regular broadcast time is changed at will from time to time, nothing terribly big happens.

If something big happened because of this, some broadcasters who have a broadcasting record full of surprise breaks and lateness would already have been rolled off a cliff by viewers.

Rather, the percentage of broadcasts that set a broadcast start time is rather small.

Even if the framework of broadcasting n times a week is set, there are quite a few broadcasters who only divide the time of broadcasting into morning and afternoon.

Therefore, viewers generally did not wonder why EunSiyu suddenly started the broadcast an hour earlier.

There were only a few people who asked why she made the decision to start the broadcast early only today when the broadcast started.

EunSiyu answered this simply and cheerfully.

[I’m going to hang out with the editor at the editor’s house tonight!]

It was a statement that if I were an unidentified editor, one or two of EunSiyu’s names would have been posted in a community that deals with streamers with a star next to the title.

Fortunately, my gender was revealed a month ago when EunSiyu talked about the time she met me in reality.

The animal unit with horns on their foreheads seemed to smile at this cheerful sentence and disperse back into the crowd.

I watched the chat window for a while, but I didn’t see anyone trying to cause trouble, so I just leaned back in my chair and started watching the broadcast again.

EunSiyu’s solo rank broadcast, which seemed to be in a very good mood, had its own charm.

While running around the canyon, EunSiyu did not lose the cheerfulness in her voice even in situations where she would normally frown.

She was exuding the cuteness that the person herself possessed.

I had a pleasant impression that if I cut and edited one or two good games according to the flow, a high-quality video would come out in a snap.

EunSiyu’s broadcast ended approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes earlier than usual.

The time written on the computer was 23:33.

Public transportation is almost at the level of discussing the last train, but I wouldn’t expect her to come by bus.

Since I told her the exact address, she will come by taxi.

I roughly estimated the time it would take for EunSiyu to get here.

‘Hmm….?’

She will have to prepare to come here after finishing the broadcast, and including the time it takes to catch a taxi and move, I thought it would take about 30 minutes.

That would be enough time to go outside and get supplies for the first time in a while. Since I’m just going to the front of the house.

I gathered my clothes and prepared to head to the convenience store, which was a minute away from my house.

If I buy some drinks and fill the refrigerator, and clean the house roughly, I thought the guest would arrive.

I had to hesitate for a moment at the convenience store I arrived at.

How much should I buy?

Looking at the fact that she called me the day before her day off, not just wanting to see me on her day off, it seems that Yu Sieun wants to share her joy to the fullest.

In that case, it’s better to have more than less.

I brought up the last remnants of the macho way of thinking that I never had but has now completely disappeared, and put cans and bottles in the basket to the extent that my arm muscles allowed.

As I headed to the checkout counter, I felt an ardent gaze that could not be easily observed from the convenience store night part-time worker fixed on my face.

I thought for a moment that I was finally out and about and experiencing the situation in the novel I had read someday, but I realized one fact for myself about 3 seconds later.

I took out my ID card from my pocket and held it out.

The eyes of the part-time worker, which had contained fierce momentum, curved with laughter and changed to kindness.

After putting the things I bought in the refrigerator and cupboard, I started to make the house look confident enough to show to others.

It didn’t take long because I usually live cleanly.

A message from Yu Sieun arrived just as I had completely cleaned the room.

‘I have to go down.’

The message said that she would arrive soon.

While watching a taxi approaching from over there, I smiled.

It wasn’t a business smile, but just a natural smile that came out according to my mood.

Meeting Yu Sieun, EunSiyu, in reality was purely pleasant and joyful for me after the experience a month ago.

Yu Sieun, who got out of the taxi, stood on the side of the road and looked around, and then waved her hand as if she had found me approaching her.

“Why were you out here…! It’s still chilly at night even if it’s spring. I even told you the intercom.”

When the distance was completely narrowed at the end of walking towards each other, Yu Sieun took one of my hands and said something that seemed to be scolding me.

“You are my heavenly employer, so I have to serve you.”

“Were you out here for a long time?”

“It wasn’t because it was night. I came out after seeing the text you sent saying you would arrive soon. Let’s go in quickly.”

I took Yu Sieun, who had let go of my hand, and returned to the house.

“…Wow. Eunsol, you live so neatly.”

The first thing Yu Sieun said when she came into my room was out of my expectations.

“Isn’t it the average for Korean women?”

“…I don’t think so. I think you’re in the top 5%.”

“I don’t know because I’ve never been to other people’s rooms.”

While exchanging words with Yu Sieun appropriately, I began to unfold several items that matched the purpose of today’s meeting in the room.

I unfolded one leg of a simple desk and placed it on the floor, put two cushions next to it, and took out two bags of the snacks I bought earlier and some of the alcohol and added them.

When I returned with a few cups, Yu Sieun was sitting on the cushion after cleaning up the things I had laid out around her.

It was a smooth progress that I couldn’t help but like as a video editor.

“I didn’t know you’d prepared it. I was originally going to order it by delivery.”

“I’ll eat anything well if you buy it for me.”

“Do you like spicy food?”

“…Probably?”

“What kind of answer is ‘probably’…. Eunsol, did you have dinner?”

“I had lunch.”

“Hmm… Do you like chicken feet?”

When Eun Sieun’s pick for the 3rd best snack from my memory came out of Yu Sieun’s mouth, I nodded.

“I eat them well.”

“That’s good. Then let’s order a little bit… Shall we discuss something briefly before the delivery comes?”