Chapter 43: Yoon Sol (12)

“Hmm….”

Several days had passed since Yoon Sol’s recruitment.

Today was the same.

No different from yesterday, the day before, or the entire past week.

The usually spacious living room felt even larger today.

Yoon Taesoo was competent.

Too competent, in fact.

The company named ‘Xelnaga Entertainment’ ran itself without me needing to give any specific instructions.

Employee recruitment proceeded smoothly, and now, whenever I went to the company, numerous employees would greet me.

Ajung and Rinne were breaking their highest viewership records day after day.

They were still riding the wave of controversy that I had started.

With quickly released cover songs and dance covers using the motion capture studio, Ajung and Rinne were gaining more popularity with each passing day.

The problem was me.

Because of all this, I had nothing to do.

It was like when I hit my target amount in the crypto market.

Or a different kind of boredom than when I was looking for the next target after bringing in Ajung and Rinne.

On a perfectly set stage, I, the one behind the scenes, felt like I had regressed into a shut-in.

[Rinne]: Boss! I saw Sol eating lunch earlier, and she’s still just picking at her food. I nagged her a bit about it!

[Rinne]: Still, the three of us, including Ajung, talked for a bit, and she seems to have opened up more than before!

[Rinne]: Oh, and Sol told me I’m like a real older sister to her (❁´▽`❁)

[Rinne]: As expected of my charm!

Messages chimed on the tablet I glanced at.

The process of Jungyeon winning over, no, caring for Yoon Sol was being broadcast in real time.

Jungyeon had gone through a lot cleaning up the huge mess I had made.

Yoon Sol still looked fragile, but at least not like she would break at any moment, as she did when I first saw her.

Jungyeon had brought her to her own home, which was the apartment right below mine, and started living with her, taking meticulous care of her.

Though, judging by how she flinched and avoided eye contact whenever we met in the elevator, it still seemed difficult for us to have a proper conversation alone.

Ajung, I heard, had moved into a new office I got for her near the company and was doing well.

These days, it seemed the three of them, Jungyeon, Yoon Sol, and Ajung, hung out quite often, as Jungyeon occasionally sent pictures showing Yoon Sol smiling, albeit awkwardly.

It was a strange thing.

That these girls, who seemed incapable of doing anything on their own, were now banding together and achieving things.

“Hmm….”

Another sigh escaped me.

How should I alleviate this boredom?

My fingers moved habitually.

[Ggizzik VTuber Gallery]

It was always the best source of dopamine when I was bored.

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[Solar officially joining Starlight, for real ㄷㄷㄷㄷㄷㄷ]

[Wow, Ajung and Rinne were great, but with Solar, the vocal pick lineup is complete lolol]

[But is Solar’s mentality okay? lololol]

[Honestly, if Solar hadn’t joined Starlight, she would have been a bottom-tier streamer for life, for real lol]

[Naga-hyung succeeded in the end lolololololol]

As expected, the screen was filled with talk about ‘Solar joining.’

Yesterday, Jungyeon had carefully posted an announcement on Yoon Sol’s own fan cafe on her behalf.

The reaction, as expected, was explosive.

Congratulations and expectations abounded, but at the same time, there was no shortage of concerns and ridicule.

Especially mentions of me.

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Title: Naga-hyung’s Solar manager incident is still f*cking hilarious to rewatch lololol

After he dropped ten million won and made that dumb joke, Solar freaked out and ran away. He came to apologize and then suddenly took on the manager role and started moderating the chat lololol
Ever since then, he’d show up every time Solar streamed, voluntarily acting as manager and even donating, and now he really brought her to his company lololol

– Ah, Zel-ssaem lololol

– Seriously, where does that bstard need to get beaten up to come to his senses?

– Rinne probably already beat him up. Last time, he was whining about getting an earful because of you guys or something lol

– But seriously, even after pulling that sht, the fact that he recruited Solar means you have to acknowledge Naga-hyung’s abilities lololol

ㄴ Show me the money

ㄴ That’s a cheat key…

ㄴ Naga-hyung uses cheats in real life.

– But seriously, that guy really needs to be re-educated. His way of talking is f*cking disgusting to anyone who doesn’t know him.

ㄴ FR lolololol

ㄴ He’s the monster you guys created.

“These f*cking b*stards…”

I seethed with anger.

Reading the comments brought back the dizziness of that moment.

Yoon Sol’s extreme fear, palpable even through the screen.

Cold sweat trickled down my spine.

I don’t know how much Jungyeon nagged me back then.

‘Bossssss! Please stop using that vulgar language! Please?!’

Jungyeon’s nagging voice seemed to echo like an auditory hallucination.

‘But whose fault was all that?’

It was precisely these guys’ fault.

They were the ones who instilled strange internet broadcasting culture in me, and lied that this was how people joke around and have fun these days.

Anger surged.

I shot up and sat down in front of my computer.

My fingers trembled with rage.

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Title: Hey, you f*cking diots, do you know how much of a fcking hard time I had because of you?

■Zelnaga

I went through so much f*cking trouble to recruit Solar.

I tried to approach her in a friendly way like you guys told me, using those jokes, and almost couldn’t recruit her, you f*cking *diots.

I told Rinne about it and just got a f*cking earful. No lie, I thought I was going to get hit back then.

You guys taught me weird memes and said if I talk like this, using internet slang, she’d like it.

But what is this?? Suddenly I’m a f*cking sexual harasser, and I’m the boss, but I’m getting cussed out by my employee. You crazy b*stards are trying to f*ck me over.

If you keep teaching me f*cked up sh*t and lying, I’m just going to come and smash your heads in.

If I hadn’t been able to contract Solar this time, I would have blown up this gallery.

P.S. Anyway, thanks for Solar~ Because the gallery told me, I was able to contract our Solar~ Please give Starlight lots of support in the future~

– Huh???

– lololololololololololololololololololololol

– Ah, Zel-ssaem’s at it again lololololol

– Seriously, there’s someone who actually believes that sh*t??? lololololol

– Hey, you *diot lololololololololololololololol

– When did we say that was normal language? We just said if you talk like that, the chat window would laugh too lololololol

– Who told you to use that in real life, you crazy *diot lololololol

– Isn’t it your fault for believing what’s said in a gallery?

– Wow, he really was a pure diot lololololol

– Serves him right for getting scolded by Rinne. He was always making fcking sexual compliments on Rinne’s stream.

– But he really did well recruiting Solar.

– If we told you to die here, would you die? Don’t talk such nonsense lololol

– Ah, I don’t care about that lol. When are you giving out burgers today???

– Give burgers, give burgers, give burgers, give burgers, give burgers.

“Heh. What a bunch of jokers.”

I was so dumbfounded I couldn’t speak.

They definitely said it back then.

– These days, internet broadcasting and communities are inseparable.

ㄴ This is true, for real. Streamers use community jokes all the time.

ㄴ Almost all jokes originate from communities lololol.

It was absurd.

I just did as they said, and now they were blaming me for believing it.

The comment section was already full of posts mocking me.

There were even shameless b*stards who, after cussing me out, were demanding burgers.

“Burgers? You’re talking about burgers?”

I scoffed coldly and started typing on the keyboard again.

This was unbearable.

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Title: Announcement.

■Zelnaga

Effective today, all forms of ‘Burger’ and ‘Chicken’ distribution to the Ggizzik VTuber Gallery will be suspended indefinitely.

You brought this upon yourselves.

That is all.

P.S. A dog that bites its master is no longer useful.

– ???

– ???

– Huh?

– (Dumbfounded emoticon)

– Bro, why are you suddenly doing this?

– I was wrong, it was all my fault, bro, please ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ

– Hey, you fcker, are you trying to starve us to death??

– Hey, you son of a btch, at least give us the burgers before you go.

– This isn’t right, threatening us with burgers really isn’t right.

– I was wrong, please, just don’t confiscate the burgers ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ

– Erasers, delete this guy’s post and pretend it never happened.

– Ah, Zel-ssaem’s sulking lolololol

– All the burger bggars are gathered here lolololol

ㄴ You don’t eat them?

ㄴ Ah, of course I eat them lololol

– But for real, if we can’t get burgers, what’s the fun in being on the VTuber gallery? I’m out.

– Give me back my burgers, you fcking diots! I didn’t say anything, why am I being victimized????????

– Ah, those motherless fcking losers got Zelnaga riled up again, f*ck.

It was gratifying.

Look at those screams echoing in the comment section.

They were shrieking as if they were convicts being dragged to the execution ground.

I closed the community window with a satisfied smile.

Indeed, beasts sometimes need to feel the rod to listen well.

They weren’t human.

Those who bite the hand that feeds them are not people, but beasts.

Hmm.

Now I finally feel a bit refreshed.

I stood up again and stretched.

What should I do now?

It was about time I had a deep conversation with Yoon Sol.

I’ve waited long enough.

I needed to talk to her, create her avatar, and also think about her debut method.

I planned to face Yoon Sol, who always hid behind Jungyeon and avoided my gaze, and listen to her secrets.