Chapter 20: With Yu Ayeon at home…(1)

[Missed call – Yu Ayeon 68 calls]
[Missed call – Park Hyena 7 calls]

“What the f*ck.”

When I checked my phone, there was a huge number of missed calls.

“… Was there something urgent? Why so many…”
“The video, the video…! We… uploaded to iTube… Gasp!“

Yu Ayeon, who was speaking normally, suddenly looked around.

“I-I don’t think I should say it in a place like this… Ah, anyway…! Something huge happened…!”
“Ah. Is that so?”
“Wh-Why are you… so calm…!”
“No, I wasn’t surprised in the first place, so calm down first. Phew. Haa. Follow me. Phew. Haa.”
“Phew, phew… Haa… Phew… Haa…”

Every time Yu Ayeon breathed evenly, her large, soft breasts shook like pudding.

Every time I saw her shaking breasts, my chest felt magnificent.

“Yes. Yes. That’s how you do it. Phew. Haa.”
“Phew… Haa… Phew… Ah… I think I’m feeling a little better now…”
“That’s good. Hmm. I don’t know what happened, but if it’s something that’s a bit difficult to talk about here, then just…”

I couldn’t finish my sentence, “…let’s talk at a cafe…”

Because my gaze went to Yu Ayeon’s shopping basket.

Packet ramen, cup ramen, ramen to be crushed and eaten, etc.

It was all ramen, ramen, and ramen.

“… Ayeon-ssi. Is that all ramen?”
“Uh… Yes…”
“… Do you only eat ramen at other times too?”
“Uh… Mostly…?”

Seeing Yu Ayeon’s expression as if asking what was wrong, I held my forehead.

Meals are the basics of life. You can only live a satisfying life if you eat properly.

Food was one of the important factors that make life happy.

You need to eat three hearty meals a day to have the energy to spend the day vigorously.

In addition, there are also foods that greatly increase the satisfaction of the day, such as a cold beer after work or ramen cooked at night.

Depending on what you ate that day, your mood can fluctuate, so food was one of the very important factors in living a happy and enjoyable life.

And, if you fill your three meals a day with only ramen, that’s a bit of a problem.

Of course, if you like ramen so much that you say Ack! I love ramen so much, sir!, then I’ll just assume you eat it because you like ramen.

However.

“Hmm…”

Does Yu Ayeon really only eat ramen because she loves it so much?

This is my guess, but based on what I’ve seen of Yu Ayeon so far…

“Eh, eueu… Wh-Why are you looking at me like that…?”

There is a very high probability that she simply can’t cook.

“Ayeon-ssi. Do you want to eat at my place?”
“Eh…? Yes…?!”
“You’ll probably just eat ramen anyway. Come to my place, eat, and we can have the conversation we were going to have earlier.”
“Ah, n-nooo…! I-I think it would be too much trouble if someone like me went…!”
“Hey. Why would Ayeon-ssi be a bother? I think it would be great if Ayeon-ssi came.”
“G-Great…?! If I, I go…?!”
“Yes! It’s great!”

I looked at Yu Ayeon and smiled brightly.

“Do you happen to like kimchi stew?”

I bought a lot of groceries and left the supermarket with Yu Ayeon.

“P-Please…! I’ll carry it…!”
“Ah, it’s okay. I’ll carry it.”
“Ah, no, no! I’m indebted to you…! Please let me carry it…!”

I was planning to put it in the inventory because the amount of groceries I bought was quite large, but Yu Ayeon lifted the shopping bag.

Unlike her fragile appearance, Yu Ayeon was quite strong.

‘She lifted me with one hand on the subway.’

The power and innate strength that came from her height of over 190 were not at the level of an ordinary person.

On the outside, she doesn’t look particularly muscular and looks soft.

Yu Ayeon and I took the bus and headed to my house.

“Ah, we’re almost there.”

As we walked side by side down the alley to my house, Yu Ayeon’s gait became increasingly strange.

She walked normally, then walked stiffly like a toy soldier, and then walked with the same hand and foot forward.

Her eyes were spinning, and she seemed to be in a very confused state.

For a moment, I wondered why she was acting like that.

‘… Come to think of it, it’s understandable?’

That’s because, if you think about the current situation based on the standards of the original world…

A boy suddenly encountered at the supermarket.

She had filmed a suggestive sec-sy pose with that boy in the hospital room yesterday.

The next day, the boy invites her to his house.

The pretext is to cook for her, who only eats instant food.

But it’s unknown what else he might do.

‘… Isn’t this the early story of a complete adult game?’

I thought to myself.

It was understandable that Yu Ayeon was so confused.

And especially Yu Ayeon, who seems to be well-versed in 2D.

She would have imagined more than other people, not less.

I calmly opened the front door.

“There’s nothing special. Come in.”
“Th-Then… E-Excuse meee…”

Yu Ayeon looked around the desolate house as if she was curious about something.

“Wow… This is a man’s house…”
“The bathroom is in that corner, wash your hands. I’ll get you something to drink.”
“Huit?! Yes, yes…!”
“Is there anything you want to drink?”
“Uh, I, um… Do you… um… Doctor… No, never mind. W-Water is enough…!”

Doctor?

Could it be, that Doctor I’m thinking of?

For a moment, I couldn’t hide my joy and asked back.

“Ayeon-ssi. Do you perhaps drink Dr. Pepper?”
“Ah, no! No…! I’m not a person who drinks such strange things…!”
“… Ah. I see… Yes. I’ll get you water.”

For a moment, I was genuinely happy because I thought I had met a comrade who likes Dr. Pepper like me, but I guess not.

But strange? I wondered if Dr. Pepper’s social perception was that bad, no matter how bad it was.

While Yu Ayeon was washing her hands, I started organizing the groceries I bought and preparing to make kimchi stew.

“Is there anything I can help you with…?”
“No. I invited you, so Ayeon-ssi, rest comfortably. Ah… There’s no proper place. Would you like to sit on the bed for now?”
“Ah, I, I’m… fine sitting on the floor…”
“Hey. But this is much more comfortable. Rest here.”

I sat Yu Ayeon on the bed and returned to the kitchen.

First, I washed my hands thoroughly and put on an apron.

I took out a deep, wide pan and turned on the heat.

I took out the pork belly for boiling and the well-ripened supermarket kimchi and put them in whole.

I mixed water, soy sauce, red pepper powder, soybean paste, and chicken stock to make a broth, and poured it into the pan until the kimchi and meat were completely submerged.

Then, I added vegetables such as Cheongyang chili peppers, onions, green onions, and garlic and simmered it.

For a little over an hour. Until the broth thickens.

Now all that’s left is to wait for time.

I took off my apron and looked back at Yu Ayeon.

“… Ayeon-ssi? Why are you doing that?”
“Ah, it’s nothing…!”

Yu Ayeon was sitting with her knees pulled up to her chest and covered with a blanket.

I don’t know what she was imagining, but she was desperately covering her bright red face with both hands.

I really wonder why she’s doing that.

“Um… First of all, the preparation for the kimchi stew is all done. It will take some time to boil.”
“Yes, yes…”
“So let’s have a constructive conversation in the meantime.”
“Constructive…?”

I sat down on the bed and faced Yu Ayeon.

“You were going to talk about something at the supermarket earlier.”
“Ah, r-right… Th-That…! The video… that Suhyeon-ssi and I uploaded to iTube…!”

There was only one thing that Yu Ayeon could say was a video that she uploaded with me.

When the A-rank monster Ogre attacked the shelter, I engaged the Ogre and Yu Ayeon filmed it with her skill.

After being defeated like a dog, I uploaded the video that Yu Ayeon filmed with her skill to iTube without much thought.

“Yes. What about that video?”
“Th-That video…!”

Yu Ayeon was talking, but then she seemed to have trouble breathing and pounded her chest.

Then she rummaged through her phone and thrust the video in question in front of my eyes.

Let’s see.

The title was the date and time of the battle with the Ogre, as if it were a CCTV video.

The thumbnail was the face of the Ogre rushing with a ferocious appearance.

Ah, it’s that scene. When it lost its right arm and was running on three limbs.

Finally, I turned my eyes to the number of views.

One, ten, hundred, thousand, ten thousand… hundred thousand… million… seven million…

“… Huh?”

Something, something was strange about the numbers.

Again. Let’s count again. My eyes might be wrong.

One, ten, hundred, thousand, ten thousand… hundred thousand… million… seven million… seven million seven hundred thousand……

… Eh?

“Wh-What… is this…?”
“I-I-I… don’t know either… Something, something is happening…”

What I witnessed was an explosion of overwhelming views.

Why did this video get almost 8 million views in just one day after it was uploaded?

I thought, but the people who commented seemed to have different thoughts.

• Wow, who is this? Was there a male hunter of this level in Korea?

• It’s hard for even a decent A-rank to fight 1v1 with an Ogre… I can only express it as truly amazing.

• Thank you so much for saving my child. I want to repay you somehow, can you tell me your email?

• What’s really great about this person. I heard that some of the hunters protecting the shelter ran away as soon as the Ogre appeared.

• The video quality is really crazy… This is the first time I’ve watched with such immersion Wow;

• No, but apart from being strong, he’s really handsome… There’s light coming from the screen…

In addition to this, there were praises for the video and various mentions of me.

In addition, the number of subscribers to the account that uploaded the video was already close to 50,000.

“Hmm… I looked it up a little… It was also an issue in a place called Hunter Gallery… It was linked to an iTuber named Park Hyena…”
“Why Park Hyena-ssi?”
“There’s speculation that the male hunter in the video uploaded on her channel… is the man in the video we uploaded… that is, Suhyeon-ssi.”

Yu Ayeon said so and showed me some community site.

There were many speculation posts related to me on the community called Hunter Gallery.

There were also many other eye-rolling posts.

This is why Park Hyena had missed calls.

“The man in Park Hyena’s video is me.”
“Euhung. I thought so…?”
“? You thought so?”
“Ehehe… Well… I watched the video yesterday… No matter how much I looked, he looked exactly like Suhyeon-ssi… Hehe… I expected it…”
“Uh…? Really…?”

She immediately recognized that the man in the video with that poor quality was me?

Ehehe, Yu Ayeon laughed foolishly, embarrassed.

Her eyes were completely focused on me through her gently folded eyes.

When I faced those sticky eyes, I felt a strange tingling sensation in my lower body, so I quickly changed the subject.

“Hmm… But well. It’s good.”

I was momentarily taken aback by the record-breaking number of views, but I soon continued calmly.

I saved people, I could see my current level of strength, and the video I uploaded without much thought also did well.

As a result, this Ogre incident all came back as a profit.

The biggest benefit above all else is.

“One… ten… hundred… thousand… ten thousand… hundred thousand… million… eight million…”
“… Hieek…!”

A huge amount of video revenue worth about 8 million won.

Without any advertising revenue attached to iTube, it earned a huge amount of money just from views alone.

When I faced the huge amount of money, my head started spinning.

I, who had become a money-grubber mode, looked at Yu Ayeon, who was also surprised by the video revenue, and said.

“Ayeon-ssi. Shall we do iTube properly?”