Chapter 114: The Spell

[Luka-tan, I’m cold…]

[we thought we were going to freeze to death…]

[The once stopped clock has started to move again.]

Someone once told me…

That becoming an adult meant you wouldn’t get any vacations.

It was back when I couldn’t even imagine a world without vacations.

But now, I understood… The reason why Dad looked so happy during his days off.

「Ah~ Everyone~ Luhai luhai~ Have you been behaving yourselves~?」

I greeted the Pink Army with a high-pitched voice.

Right now, I felt more recharged than last time.

The flood of chat messages made me feel elated, meanwhile the numerous Pink Army emojis energized me with their cuteness.

[Luka-tan! Tell us what you did during your vacation!]

After taking a week off my three times a week stream schedule, it felt like I had a lot to talk about, it felt so good!

If only I could get more vacations…

Anyway, I buried my regrets deep inside me, then I tried to recall the memories of the past week.

「Hmm… I think the memorable part of this vacation was me going to the ski resort…」

I vaguely mentioned that I was going with a friend before sharing my impression of visiting that ski resort for the first time.

「Oh yeah, my friend was so~ bad~ at skiing~」

Were you watching me, Oppa?

Well, even if you did, what would you do, hm?

I mean, I was just stating the truth. The TRUTH.

「They kept falling over and rolling around! On the beginner’s course even! Also, at the end, we tried to go to the intermediate course, but can you believe what happened?」

「It took them forty minutes! Forty whole minutes!」

As I clapped my hands in disbelief, the Pink Army started to share their own experience on a ski resort.

[Why didn’t you try the advanced course…?]

[No no no for safety intermediate is right for beginner!]

[luka-tan, go skiing with me!!]

[so cute…]

「Anyway, that’s the best part of my vacation this time! Also, the best food I ate was malatang!」

After that, I talked about malatang for around thirty minutes. Then, I just scrolled down while thinking about what game to play.

「Chat, it’s been a while since I streamed, so what game should I play? Gimme recommendations!」

When I asked that, the one game that appeared the most in the chat was League of Legends.

「Ah, wait. I’m gonna ask Murin if she wants to duo with me.」

I could play solo, but duo would be doubling our team synergy!

Also, we could clear the chat’s missions easily in duo.

「One sec, Murin…is streaming… Ah, she’s in VC.」

So, I went to her stream and called out to her.

「Murin~ Wanna duo with unnie~?」

「Wowww! Luka unnieeee!」

Murin’s avatar nodded enthusiastically, expressing her agreement.

「Alright, everyone! I’m gonna duo with Luka unnie~」

Her actions might seem childish, but I knew…

Her appearance was anything but.

Also, her face with that piercing in the middle of her lip kept flashing in my mind…

「Murin, what should we play today?」

「Do you have something in mind, unnie?」

「Me…? Um…」

When I hesitated for a moment, a donation with a mission popped up.

[Wow! SongdodongSeaofBlood! 100,000 won for 2 ws on bot duo?]

「Alright, I’ll be your foot washer, unnie!」

As expected of the quick-witted Murin, she immediately set her role to support.

Meanwhile, the Pink Army chuckled among themselves for the ‘foot washer’ comment.

Murin’s chat didn’t show that kind of reaction though. It seemed like her chat was cleaner than mine…

「Murin, we’re idols…! We can’t use words like that…!」

As I shook my head while saying that, Murin questioned my words, seemingly confused.

「Huh? What?」

「Can’t you see how much the Pink Army loves hearing those words?」

「Hm? Isn’t it good, then?」

Fumurin! Why were you adding fuel to the fire?! It was already hard enough to calm these guys down!

See? Those guys were hailing her as if she was an independence activist!

[Yes, yes! She has pride for being a foot washer, Luka-tan!]

[Luka-tan, give us your feet as a reward!]

[show feet! show feet!]

Ugh, seriously…

Sure, I had gotten used to this by this point, but it was still annoying!

「You want to suck my toes? Muted.」

I immediately muted those guys before letting out a deep sigh.

「What about my calves? What about getting your head checked! Muted!」

I thought I’d get one other person muted as an example, but when I saw this guy’s username, my brows started to furrow.

Haa… Han Taemin…!

This Lucario-tan…! Seriously, what did you want me to do to you, huh…?!

I gripped the mouse tightly as it became increasingly difficult to control my expression.

Why did you do this even, Han Taemin?!

Sure, it was nice that he liked Luka so much, but his perverted chat showed no signs of stopping!

Also, the scary thing was that he might actually try to suck my calves…!

…No, wait! W-What was I even thinking right now?!

「Hm? Unnie? The queue popped up already, why aren’t you accepting?」

Because I was debating whether to mute Oppa or not, I missed the accept button. I quickly apologized and started the game the next time the button appeared and…

「Ah! This support diffff!」

Murin, please! Just play the champ you were used to!

Stop trying out new champs in rank!

「Sorry… Hehe…」

Murin ended up choosing a champ she had never played before, wasting our chances to get the 100,000 won. We begged and pleaded for a second chance, but…

「M-Murin! I’m dying, I’m dying! Peel for meee…!」

「I’m coming now! Unnie!」

She said that, but she used her ult in the opposite direction…

…I swear, I’ll never play with you again…

If I got another mission, I’d ask for Clover unnie instead!

In the end, our duo ended with a big losing streak.

As soon as Murin left the voice chat, I immediately started ranting about her plays.

「No, seriously…! If you’re going to play like that, why did you even brag about being in silver?!」

She told me that I only needed to listen to her, and yet…

Looking back, Lucario-ssi seemed like an angel.

After that, I continued to play more games until dawn came to fill up the remaining stream time. Only after it hit 2 AM did I press the end stream button.

I stretched my sore back—because I’ve been sitting for so long—then, took out my phone to call Oppa.

「Hello?」

「Yeah, Doah?」

「Can you come pick me up?」

Oppa didn’t always come to the studio.

He used to come only when he said he could, but nowadays, it was almost mandatory.

「Now?」

「You saw my stream just ended, right?」

「Yeah, but I haven’t washed my hair…」

「It’s fine! Just come here!」

I mean, it wasn’t like I was in full makeup or anything.

Him not washing his hair wasn’t enough of an excuse.

「Alright. Give me ten minutes.」

I sat on the single-person sofa while finishing my banana milk. When I heard the knocking sound on the door, I immediately got up.

“Let’s go.”

Behind the door was Oppa, heavily armed with a padded jacket.

I pulled his arm from its inward forcefully.

“What’s wrong?”

Lucario looked at me with a genuine confusion in his face.

Wow, this guy… How could he be so shameless…?

“Listen here, Lucario-ssi.”

“Yes?”

“Do you think I didn’t see your chat?”

Only then did he finally understand what I was trying to say. He scratched his head, trying to avert his gaze.

“C’mon… You know how I am, Doah…”

“What do you mean I know how you are?!”

Don’t you dare try to gloss this matter over!

Other people sending me pervy chats was one thing, but my boyfriend should never do that!

I puffed up my cheeks as I stared at him. Seeing my expression, he sent me an apologetic kiss on my cheek.

Smooch.

That cute sound echoed inside the studio.

It felt like the tense air I had been holding in escaped like an untied balloon.

“…So, do you still want to touch my calves?”

Still feeling a bit resentful, I slightly raised my leg, and Oppa made an odd expression.

“…Can I?”

“Of course not! What are you, a pervert?! Seriously, what’s wrong with you?!”

The fact that he seemed serious made me hate this even more!

I swear he wasn’t like this before!

Thinking back, I had been worried about him not giving me enough physical affection but look at him now!

Did he even know the meaning of the word moderate? I swear, my head was going to burst!

“You were the one who said I could touch them! Why are you treating me like this?”

“Seriously, Oppa! How can you become a celebrity if you’re like this? Just wait, if I become one, I’ll tell everyone that you have a calf fetish!”

Instead of answering, he held out his hand, and I could feel his warm touch as we left the studio.

“Oppa, tomorrow’s your first shoot, right?”

“…Yeah.”

“Are you sure it’s okay if you don’t sleep early? Well, I guess it’s too late to ask that, huh…?”

“It starts at 2 PM, so it should be okay…”

I glanced at Oppa, who had flipped his hood over his head.

I had never thought to keep Oppa’s face to myself, but thinking about it spreading through famous media made me feel a little…

Ugh, you know, it was that kind of feeling!

“Are you prepared, mentally?”

“There’s nothing to prepare for, really. They just told me to show up…”

“Really?”

Even though he said that, I knew that he was nervous.

Also, knowing how hard he had cheered for me during my CLOSER audition, I wanted to do the same for him.

I wanted to be helpful to him.

Of course, I couldn’t say something like ‘I’ll do your assignments for you’ like he did back then, but I still wanted to help him somehow.

“Can we stop here for a moment?”

When we arrived in front of the house…

I stopped him and looked him straight in the eyes.

“What is it all of a sudden?”

When I stared at him intently, Oppa made an embarrassed laugh.

I stood on my tiptoes and wrapped my hands around the back of his neck.

“You’ll do amazing. I believe in you.”

I tried to spell each word with sincerity.

“This is a spell I’m casting on you, Oppa.”

This was something that came up on my stream once before.

One of the viewers asked me if I could give them a good luck kiss for their college entrance exam.

At the time, I told them I couldn’t do that and told them to leave, but Oppa was my boyfriend.

He was my man.

-Smooch

“If you do well, I’ll give you something even better than this.”

I didn’t expect the spell to work this well.