Chapter 55: A Surprise Guest and an Unexpected Offer.

This was the second time I was appearing on Yu Sieun’s broadcast. My first experience was during the 100,000 Subscriber Q&A last time. I hadn’t been on the broadcast since then.

This broadcast had a high probability of becoming a rather unique memory even among my few experiences.

The character of this time was quite different from the previous case.

If my appearance during the last 100,000 Subscriber Q&A had been as the editor of Yu Sieun’s YouTube channel, then this time I had been invited with Legacy of Legend as the topic, with little relation to that position as editor.

“Hello~”

Yu Sieun’s greeting at the start of the broadcast had been changing little by little with each broadcast for the past few months. It had a bright color in the flow where she was riding a winning streak, and it had a somewhat darker color when she was experiencing a score plunge.

If I had to classify it now, it was a flow of repeated losses, but in today’s case her voice was very clear, perhaps because she had a guest next to her.

But even if you were a viewer who was well-versed in Yu Sieun – EunSiyu’s broadcasts, that level of difference wasn’t something you could distinguish.

Even if someone felt it through some tremendous sense, they would probably just think that she was in a good mood, and wouldn’t think that someone was sitting next to her.

That was the background that allowed me to successfully pull off the prank that Yu Sieun and I had consulted about before the broadcast started.

About three seconds after Yu Sieun’s greeting to the viewers had ended, I spoke the exact same greeting as Yu Sieun into the microphone.

“…Hello~”

• ?????

• Who is that?

• ???

• ?? Who

• ????

Chaos reigned in the chat window for a while.

Seen from my perspective, it was a chaos that was fluctuating in a quite funny way.

If I gathered all the hook-shaped question marks that had come up in the chat window just now, I could have easily caught hundreds of fish.

Yu Sieun, who had been laughing next to me, parted her lips again when the storm of question marks that had been lashing in the chat window had subsided a little.

“Everyone, were you surprised?”

The reason I had given a proper greeting instead of the prank from earlier was after Yu Sieun, who had started the story again, had introduced me.

“Well then, today we’ve invited a surprise guest. It’s Soleun-nim, who’s in charge of our YouTube editing and broadcast chat manager~!”

“Hello, as Unni just said, I’m Soleun, who’s in charge of YouTube editing.”

“You had appeared on the broadcast once a few months ago, but I think there are also people who don’t know Eunsol since it was quite a long time ago. Eunsol-ah, would you like to introduce yourself once?”

“…I just said everything, though?”

“Since you’re here as a special teacher today, you also have to introduce yourself with regard to LoL.”

“Ah, that’s right. Huum huum.”

An introduction in a different field.

It was a part I had forgotten since there weren’t many opportunities to explain my career in some game in front of other people.

“To add a little to my introduction… I’m a Challenger ranged dealer, and I use EunSiyu as my nickname.”

Whether the reason was to prevent stream sniping or to save time, Yu Sieun was in a state where she was secretly queuing up since around the time I was introducing myself to the viewers.

The number of active players in the upper brackets increases when the end of the season approaches. As such, the matching times, which usually felt excessive, had also decreased significantly recently.

Under those circumstances, Yu Sieun and I were able to immediately enter the game when we finished introducing ourselves.

There is one fact that is common in all fields regarding teacher-student relationships.

The more the student’s level rises to the top ranks, the more important the teacher’s capabilities become, but conversely, the amount of influence that can be exerted on the student gradually decreases.

The story of a private tutor who goes to tutor and just solves practice exams together with the student before coming back, but the student gets 100 points and they get 96 points, can easily be found on the internet.

Yu Sieun, who has her account EunSiYuSiEun in upper Master, is currently a player who can comfortably enter the top 0.1%.

To compare it to the college entrance exam, it was the situation of teaching a student who’s in the top 100 out of 100,000 students nationwide.

It was, in a way, only natural that there wouldn’t be much for me to do, even though I had come as a private tutor.

I did bring up things that could be said on the spot when Yu Sieun’s champion died or when she was in a situation where she had to concentrate, but the amount was extremely small.

In front of a student who did well on her own and almost never made mistakes, my main task was mental care, as expected.

And even that was something I didn’t have much to do for in today’s case.

The upper tiers are a zone that has the subtle property that you can’t blame your teammates the most, but you also end up doing it the most.

If possible, all ten people who are caught in a match do basic or better-than-basic play. So it’s easy to equip the mindset that ‘I can win if I just do well’ and play.

My role, mental care, mainly existed for the opposite case, when there were holes that were beyond imagination, but quite surprisingly, games like that didn’t happen until several hours had passed.

It was a phenomenon that could only be explained as it being that kind of day.

The flow wasn’t broken, and by the time it was 6 PM, the time for me to go home, Yu Sieun had six consecutive wins in her hand.

It was an achievement that sharply contrasted with the point drops she had been doing repeatedly for the past few days.

“Haa….”

Yu Sieun, who had just finished the last game with a victory, stretched out with a long groan.

Since she wasn’t queuing up for a match right away, it seemed she was thinking of wrapping up the broadcast with me around now, as planned.

Yu Sieun, after lowering the arms she had stretched out, turned to me.

Yu Sieun’s gaze, a 420 point ADC who had suddenly won a streak, was similar to that of someone looking at a lovable pet.

To tell the truth, it was almost entirely not thanks to me, but I didn’t say anything since Yu Sieun seemed to be feeling very good. It was also time to say goodbye.

People who use public transit have a time they have to go home, like Cinderella. It was now the last line that Yu Sieun had set for me that would allow for a safe return.

Yu Sieun began to tell the viewers words that felt like she was wrapping up the broadcast, and I, following Yu Sieun’s guidance as well, gave a farewell greeting.

“Unni told me to go home before it got dark, so I think I’ll have to go now. It’s rewarding since Unni has won a lot. It does seem like I didn’t do much, though.”

“Well then everyone, I’m also going to send Eunsol home and come back. I’ll turn it on again around 7 o’clock! Bye~”

-Bye bye

-Thank you for your efforts

-Have a good night

-Bye bye bye bye

Yu Sieun also turned off the broadcast for a little while, saying that she would come to see me off. Judging from the length of time she had taken, I wondered if she was planning to have dinner too.

I didn’t have any intention of taking away Yu Sieun’s rest time for long, so I got up and started packing my things when the broadcast turned off without dragging things out.

Putting my belongings into my pockets, I could feel the fact that this enjoyable time was now over, and that the wall called the commute was blocking my way again.

Even though it wasn’t the metropolitan area [TL Note: the Seoul Metropolitan Area], the moving environment probably wouldn’t be as good as before if I took into account that it was now a time when the rush hour was gradually approaching.

It was quite a despairing fact.

“Um….”

Yu Sieun opened her mouth while looking at me; it was then.

“Eunsol-ah. But isn’t it hard to come and go from home…? When I searched it up before, it took quite a while. There are also a lot of transfers.”

“It’s not pleasant, but I’m fine with doing it for about a week.”

“…There is another way, though.”

“Yes?”

“It seems hard for you to come and go. How about you just live here for a little while…?”

Perhaps it was because my expression right before leaving was worse than I had thought, Yu Sieun was presenting me, with the happiness of a worker who lives near the company, so to speak.

But realistically, it was a suggestion that had disqualifying factors in very many parts.

You might not know it from today’s momentum, but I would probably have to spend several days at Yu Sieun’s house if the period became long.

Even if they were close friends, it would be a little much to live in one room for several days, and above all, I hadn’t brought anything to prepare to live in someone else’s house at all. There was the aspect that it would be difficult to edit videos without a desktop with decent specs, too.

Yu Sieun was probably be aware of these hardships, so I seemed to look very pitiful to her.

I started to list those problems one by one in order to refuse Yu Sieun’s suggestion.

“I’m thankful that you said that, but well, it would be a little uncomfortable for Unni if I lived in Unni’s room for several days…”

“It’s okay since there’s another room. Over there.”

“……Didn’t you say it was a storage room?”

“There’s nothing much inside, so I’ll be able to use it if I just clean it for one day. There’s also a bed.”

“Even so, it doesn’t seem like it would work since I haven’t brought anything at all….”

“You’d have to go home today anyway, but can’t you pack enough luggage to stay for a few days? You can use my stuff too. Come by taxi with your luggage tomorrow. I’ll send you the money.”

“If I’m going to edit videos, I need a computer….”

“There’s one in the storage room. There’s also a monitor.”

“…Yes?”

Yu Sieun, while having the appearance of someone who had something they were pricked about every time I brought up a problem, pushed back, saying there was no problem.

No, why do you even have a bed and a computer in the first place?

I could only look at Yu Sieun with large question marks floating in my expression, like those viewers from earlier.

It was a good thing for me, but it was something that couldn’t be understood well in terms of common sense.

Yu Sieun, perhaps feeling that my gaze was burdensome, subtly avoided my eyes.