Chapter 50: An Unexpected Invitation: A Night at Yu Sieun’s Place.

The time was 6:34 PM, now that the broadcast was over.

Since Yu Sieun and I had started the broadcast at 4 PM, that meant that it had taken about two and a half hours to finish the Q&A content.

‘Haa….’

Compared to Q&As that other streamers do, it was quite a long one, but it wasn’t time that was lacking in substance.

But there were quite a few people in the world who valued the amount of food more than the taste.

If you think about the fact that it was proceeded with as a Q&A content, Yu Sieun’s broadcast had proceeded enjoyably for quite a long time.

But, if you thought about the fact that Yu Sieun usually turned on the broadcast around 7 PM and proceeded until the early morning, the amount of time was less than usual.

Perhaps the words that Yu Sieun had said before turning off the broadcast, ‘I’ll write the schedule for future broadcasts as an announcement on Treech’, were considering this point.

While I was looking at the monitor screen and feeling the lingering sensation that the experience until now had brought, Yu Sieun finished tidying up the equipment and programs.

“Eunsol-ah, how was doing the broadcast today? Was it alright?”

While pressing the button to turn off the microphone as the last process, Yu Sieun threw a question at me.

Since she was asking with a smile instead of making a serious expression, it seemed Yu Sieun already knew the answer that would come out of my mouth.

“It was fun. I think it also felt somewhat special since it was an experience I thought I wouldn’t have. Of course, it was also because I was doing it with Unni, and it was because I appeared as a guest, so I think it was like this. It would definitely be impossible alone.”

Yu Sieun, after hearing my answer, laughed “hu hu,” and then began to give me praise.

To roughly summarize, it was that I had been like a broadcaster.

Yu Sieun was even attaching the words that I had the qualities of a broadcaster to that.

I wondered if she had the thought that she would proceed with similar things again if the reaction to this broadcast and video was good.

Perhaps she was thinking of instilling good memories and motivation in me right now.

As if my thoughts were right, Yu Sieun, at the end of the praise, told me that the reaction today had been good, and she wondered if it would be good for me to appear on the broadcast on a cycle of every few months.

I gave Yu Sieun a simple answer.

“I’ll think about it if you give me special pay.”

It was an acceptance that had been said indirectly.

Words I could say because I hadn’t felt repulsed by the experience of today.

When you show yourself in front of many people, the pain comes when the people who have looked at you don’t show a good reaction.

If it was a time where you were only hearing good reactions, like the experience until now, then that was, conversely, a task that excessively charged the human’s instinctual parts.

I couldn’t deny the fact that I had felt some enjoyment added to the nervousness in today’s experience. So that’s why I hadn’t said clear words of refusal.

Hearing my words that came out with that meaning, Yu Sieun smiled brightly along with a “puhah” laughter sound.

It seemed it was the answer she had wanted.

“What are you thinking of doing now, Eunsol? I think I probably won’t turn on the broadcast again until after eating dinner….”

Yu Sieun was asking me about my plans after this.

Since it was a topic I hadn’t thought about, I roughly calculated, connecting the current time, which was approaching 7 o’clock, and the conditions I had, and then opened my mouth.

“I’ll probably go back home for now? I don’t have anything prepared to eat at home, so I’m thinking of just buying a pack of banana milk and drinking it.”

But that roughly calculated plan was immediately intervened by Yu Sieun’s pointing out.

“You skipped breakfast too, right? Then you’re just going to eat one hamburger all day? Your stomach won’t feel good.”

“Hmm….”

Listening to what she was saying, it seemed Yu Sieun was the owner of the thought that if you’re Korean, your stomach won’t feel good if you don’t eat rice at least once during the day.

I could easily predict the words I would hear if I said in front of Yu Sieun now that milk was also a meal, so I was eating two meals a day.

That was the reason I chose to just shut my mouth.

As I stayed quiet like that, Yu Sieun went through some thoughts for a moment and then parted her lips.

“Or, would you like to eat a simple meal at my house? It’s not today’s special pay, but I’ll treat you specially.”

I looked at Yu Sieun, surprised by the words I had just heard.

It wasn’t like Yu Sieun had an image of someone who made food and ate it herself while living alone.

“…Do you even have rice cooked at your house, Unni?”

“No. It’s Hetbahn [TL Note: pre-cooked packaged rice].”

“Ah. I guess so. Since you live alone… Then shall we eat together?”

It was after I had thrown out a weird question and heard the story about 햇반.

Since it felt a little awkward to just say I was going home, I just accepted Yu Sieun’s suggestion.

‘Hmm…’

I reconstructed my plans, including the decision that I would eat dinner with Yu Sieun.

“Then I’ll have to go back home after eating dinner. It’ll probably be around 8 o’clock at the latest, so wouldn’t it be a perfect fit if Unni turned on the broadcast and I watched from home?”

I had said it thinking it was a clear plan, but Yu Sieun’s reaction to my words was a little different from what I had expected.

I didn’t get the answer, ‘That would be nice,’ from Yu Sieun.

Instead of a clear affirmation, I could see the hesitation of someone who had something she wanted to say from Yu Sieun.

“Would it…? But then you’re going to miss a little of the broadcast, aren’t you? You said before that you had to watch all of my broadcasts.”

“It’s okay since I can watch it while taking the bus. I always bring my earphones with me too.”

“It’s dangerous to be out late at night. It’s also not good to walk around while looking at your phone….”

Yu Sieun was saying strange things to me while maintaining her hesitant attitude.

‘…?’

Not being able to be out late at night because 8 o’clock was a late night.

That was a remark that students who finish their after-school lessons and walk home at past midnight, getting hit by the light of the streetlights, would cry if they heard.

Walking around while looking at your phone wasn’t good was obviously true, but I was planning to take the bus.

It would be a little bit of a problem if the bus driver looked at their phone, but it didn’t matter if I, the passenger, did it.

I conveyed those words in summary to Yu Sieun.

I was telling her this since she seemed worried, but it was a pretty strange feeling since I wasn’t sure if Yu Sieun even didn’t know that what I was saying was only the truth.

Yu Sieun, after hearing all my words, paused for a moment and then turned her head a little to the side before opening her mouth.

“…What do you say, you just stay the night today? It’s not like it’s been a long time since we saw each other since we saw each other a few days ago, but we only get a chance to see each other every few months if it’s not a special day… and there are stories that we can only say when we’re seeing each other in person, right? What we did at the hotel that day was a little lacking…?”

Did she mean that I should stay the night?

I had the thought that she should have just said it like that from the start. I’m not very good at understanding this kind of thing.

It was a suggestion that I obviously had no reason to refuse.

Since I could immediately picture in my head that I would be able to have an extremely enjoyable time.

However, I paused for a moment to think before nodding my head.

‘Hmm….’

The bed in Yu Sieun’s house, when I had seen it earlier, was a little larger than mine.

Unlike when we had slept together at my house before, I didn’t have the effects of alcohol on me today, so a little more space would probably be needed, but we had slept well together even in my house, so it would probably be alright even now.

A judgement of no problem came out.

“Then shall we do that? Hehe.”

Yu Sieun, after hearing my words, smiled brightly, erasing her hesitation.

After settling dinner with simple side dishes and Hetbahn, Yu Sieun and I started preparing in different ways.

Yu Sieun was writing down a notice that she would turn on the broadcast at exactly 8 o’clock, in a little over 40 minutes, and in my case, I was preparing to shower first, based on Yu Sieun’s guidance.

After going through the simplified Ha Eunsol washing process, I was able to become fresh and clean before Yu Sieun turned on the broadcast at 8 o’clock.

Having changed into something like pajamas that Yu Sieun had given me, I sat on Yu Sieun’s bed and watched the process of Yu Sieun starting her broadcast that I had seen earlier once again.

Although the history of the work of internet broadcasting wasn’t long, you could find anecdotes when you were wandering around the internet that made you think ‘How did this kind of thing happen?’

For example, things like the figure of a boyfriend being very subtly reflected in the mirror in the house of a cam girl broadcaster being discovered. It was an anecdote that made you wonder if the person who found it had some kind of superpower dwelling in their horns.

Perhaps what I was doing now was similar.

However, Yu Sieun’s broadcast didn’t use a camera, and the microphone also had a strong noise canceling function, so the sounds of me rustling a little on the bed probably wouldn’t be heard, so there was nothing to be caught for.

Above all, since there was no risk if I was caught, there was no exhilaration either.

After turning on Yu Sieun’s broadcast with my phone, I spent my time having yet another extremely novel experience of hearing Yu Sieun’s voice directly and watching the broadcast while having it muted.

Yu Sieun, who had been seriously playing solo ranked games as she had declared in the Q&A earlier, finished the broadcast about two hours earlier than usual.

11 PM.

Yu Sieun, unlike earlier, completely turned off the computer and then got up from the chair.

Yu Sieun, stretching out and walking to me, plopped down next to me, and I, smiling at that Yu Sieun, gave her one word.

Saying that she should go wear pajamas too.

Yu Sieun, after going into the bathroom, turned into Pajamas Yu Sieun and came back after an hour had passed.