Chapter 19: Choi Yu-jin (6)

“How long was I asleep?”

Hiro, now awake, rubbed his eyes and asked for the time.

“Nah~ It hasn’t even been 10 minutes, don’t worry~”

“Are you really that weak with alcohol?”

Hiro complained that two bottles of soju and two bottles of beer should be enough.

As someone who doesn’t drink often, Hiro had really put in the effort, but it paled in comparison to the others who were downing six or ten bottles each.

Seeing the two of them looking fine even after drinking so much, while he had passed out after four bottles, Hiro vowed never to drink with them again.

“Here, baby, drink this.”

“…It’s just that you unnies are weird, it’s not that I can’t drink!”

Hyun-a poured cider for Hiro instead of more alcohol, and Hiro grumbled but took the glass and drank.

Seeing Hiro let out an “ahhh” of satisfaction, Hyun-a thought he seemed a bit like an old man, but figured there were people like that.

Hiro, not paying much attention to Hyun-a, asked a question.

“But how do Hyun-a unnie and Yu-jin unnie know each other?”

“How? We know each other because we went to university together.”

Hiro stared at Hyun-a, not seeming satisfied with the answer.

Seeing that she seemed to want to say something but couldn’t, Hyun-a noticed something and beckoned Hiro over.

“Su-yeong-ah?”

“Yes?”

“Come here.”

“…Yes?”

“I said come here, you little sh*t.”

Hyun-a was smiling.

But she was emitting an aura of killing intent so strong that even someone not very perceptive could notice it.

Hiro also felt the killing intent, and stiffened like prey in front of a predator, carefully speaking.

“Wh-why, why are you doing this, Hyun-a unnie.”

“Three.”

“No, th-that’s, I’m scared unnie, just a moment.”

“Two.”

“Okay! I get it! Just a moment!!”

With the countdown relentlessly ticking down, Hiro quickly leaned towards Hyun-a.

“Ah, ouch ouch ouch just a moment unnie it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts!”

Hyun-a pulled on Hiro’s ear as if telling her to come closer.

Whether Hiro writhed in pain or not, Hyun-a smiled and said to Hiro.

“So, what you want to ask is, ‘There seems to be a considerable age gap between Yu-jin and me, so how did we go to university together?’ right?”

“No, that’s not it, unnie my ear is falling off unnie unnie!!”

“The hell it isn’t, you little minx, there is an age gap.

I took two years off to earn tuition, so we ended up in the same year, you sly thing.”

“Ouch ouch ouch ouch ouch, so the age difference is only two years… Aaaah!! I’m sorry unnie!!!”

“Oh yeah, let’s cause some trouble today.”

Yu-jin intervened, as Hiro’s screams were getting too loud.

Hyun-a didn’t want to cause a big scene either, so she let go of Hiro’s ear, and Yu-jin stroked Hiro’s head as she held her ear.

“Ugh… so you two went to school together for two years?”

“Yeah, I was her senior at first, but after taking a break, we ended up in the same grade, which was a bit weird.”

Hyun-a smiled as she recalled the old days.

The times when Yu-jin and Hyun-a did assignments together, the times when they helped each other with their graduation projects.

The story of how Yu-jin took her to Dongdaemun when she decided to go into business, and introduced her to the owners of clothing stores.

It was a very ordinary but good story.

A smile bloomed on Hiro’s face as she listened to the two of them.

“Thanks to Yu-jin, it was easy to get clothes when I first opened the store.

But these days, I’m dying because there are no customers because of that damn pandemic.”

“Why don’t you make an online shopping mall, unnie?

Everyone orders online, so you’ll have to do it someday.”

Watching the two of them chat away, Hiro turned her gaze to her phone for a moment.

There were many unread notifications on the phone, which had been muted.

“Huh?”

Hiro felt something was wrong.

It wasn’t just one or two personal messages on SNS.

There were over dozens of messages.

Even when the broadcasting account was suspended, there were only five or six, but dozens?

Moreover, most of the messages were from unknown accounts.

Feeling something was amiss, Hiro unlocked her phone and saw another anomaly.

A missed call.

It was from the broadcasting manager.

A normal broadcasting manager wouldn’t be strange to call, but Hiro’s manager was a rather unique person, so this situation was very unusual.

Something was seriously wrong.

It wasn’t just a suspension of the broadcasting account, but something more.

Thinking that, Hiro got up from her seat.

“Unnie, can I go make a phone call for a moment?”

“Ung~? Yeah, yeah, go get some fresh air~”

“Don’t fall on your face.”

Hiro moved her feet, relying on her hand on the wall with her staggering legs.

A certain villa in Songnam-gu, Seoul.

An exhausted 8th-grade civil servant returned home.

“Ah, home sweet home… I’m tired…”

Although it was a villa, it was a proper 24-pyeong house, not a studio apartment.

There was no family living with him, so it was more than enough for him to live alone.

As soon as the civil servant returned home, he threw off his clothes and sat down in front of the computer.

A tiresome daily life, repetitive work.

He had been hired as a 9th-grade civil servant as soon as he graduated from university with hard work in his school days, but…

The job was not fun at all.

He never thought about retiring, but not having fun was not having fun.

That’s not to say that his school days, university life, and civil service exam preparation period were fun.

But back then, he was so busy living fiercely that he didn’t even know it was boring.

A stable job he had won as a reward for living so fiercely.

Not to the point of being called an elite, but a life where he wouldn’t be looked down on anywhere.

But there was no joy in it.

He just lived every day, repeating it over and over.

The civil servant was not good at getting used to boredom or being satisfied with small interactions with people around him, so he went looking for it.

The fun things he had lost in his fierce life, the things he couldn’t do back then.

Watching YouTube or watching Switch streaming was also part of that.

It was the joy of life to feel vicarious satisfaction by watching those who lived dynamically every day, unlike his ordinary life.

The civil servant
envied the internet broadcasters who lived dynamic lives, but he didn’t sincerely envy them.

A dynamic life
meant that there was also a fall on the opposite side of the splendid high point.

A fcking splendid life and a not fcked up ordinary life.

Watching the splendid life, the civil servant was able to feel grateful for his ordinary life.

Because the broadcast he usually watched was suspended, the civil servant, who had nothing to watch, found an article while surfing the Internet.

It was an article related to the streamer of the Internet broadcast he was watching.

“…What is this.”

The civil servant frowned as he checked the contents of the article.

The streamer had clearly taken down the video as soon as the broadcast ended, and the account was even suspended, so he thought he wouldn’t be able to save it, but the video was uploaded.

[It’s done, it’s done… It’s done!! Is she turning it on now?? Is she turning it on now?!!??]

[…Huh?]

The streamer’s bewildered appearance caught his eye.

She was wearing only a dress shirt without underwear, exposing herself to the camera.

Fortunately, all the important parts were covered, but wasn’t she suspended from broadcasting because of that broadcast in the first place?

For a normal woman, having a video spread like this could be an unforgettable wound.

The bigger problem was
that the article with the video attached was not the only one.

[I’m going to sleep if I like Jjalnyeo]

[[ㅇㅎ] A composition that people secretly like]

[The level of female cams on Switch these days lol]

[The third older sister who wants to eat life with a knife.gif]

[Smiling with indirect intention]

This was just a quick search on one site.

There were even many people in the comments who were looking for who the streamer in the video was, and people who found out who she was and shared the information.

Maybe there will be a lot more if I look at other sites?

When he searched other sites with that thought, articles poured out.

The civil servant thought.

Will this help the streamer?

Generally speaking, it was a big deal because the data that should not have been leaked was leaked.

But for a broadcaster, especially a small-time broadcaster with only a little bit of recognition, it might be an opportunity.

Anyway, it’s more advantageous for broadcasters to receive attention in any way than to receive indifference.

The problem is
how the streamer herself will accept this.

She’s been trying so hard to hide her appearance and information until now.

Can such a person really accept this situation gladly?

No, putting aside accepting it gladly,
can she accept this situation itself?

He thought about it, but the civil servant’s good head couldn’t come to a conclusion either, because it was not a problem with a correct answer.

But he thought it was something that couldn’t be hidden or shouldn’t be hidden.

At least, it would be better to know as soon as possible.

With that in mind, the civil servant made a phone call.

To a certain streamer that he was in charge of as a manager of the broadcast.

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Ra Hyun-a (clothing store owner, has a boyfriend / 31 => 29) is a concept rough.