Chapter 106 – Episode 99 the Covered Lunch Box and a Thousand Needles

Three people came out to the bench in front of the bathroom.

Heeju, her face as red as a tomato, sat far away from Woomi and Joohyuk and growled.

“Transformation… Pervert couple…”

“… Excuse me…”

“You were doing something like that in a university bathroom, obsessed with lust… Sex mama♡ Animal kingdom♡ Horny monkey♡”

“Uuuuu… Joe, please be quiet.”

She somehow sneaked around and got caught like this.

Seeing Hee-ju talking loudly, Woo-mi couldn’t hide her anxious expression as she looked around to see if anyone else was listening.

It was Joo-hyuk’s first time showing his dick to another woman, so he didn’t know what to do.

While picking up the sausages in the lunch box, Hee-ju saw an object that overlapped with what she had just seen.

Ahhh…
Her eyes fluttered, and her open mouth pouted.

“Ah, seeing that in the middle of a meal made her lose her appetite. King sausage♡”

“A king sausage?!”

“You can show such atrocious things to others and still remain calm, pervert♡”

Joo-hyuk looked at Hee-joo with a puzzled expression, but still felt recognized, so he straightened his shoulders and asked Woo-mi.

“Is this little girl the fifth magical girl?”

“Kid? Who says I’m a kid♡”

Heeju said that and looked at the two with a disapproving expression.

“How can you be so quick to judge others based on first impressions? Then should I call you this too? Horse cock♡ Tornado potato♡ Anaconda♡”

“Why… “It feels good somehow?”

“What are you grinning at?”

Looking at Woo-mi stabbing Joo-hyuk’s waist with her elbow, Hee-joo rested her chin and asked.

“So, did you open up to your boyfriend about magical girls?”

“Me… Boyfriend?! “You’re not my boyfriend?”

“He wasn’t even your boyfriend, and he was doing something like that in the bathroom? Wow♡ There really is no other animal kingdom♡”

Hearing Heeju’s words, Umi said, “Puha” And let out a sigh.

Covering her throbbing head, Woo-mi glanced at Joo-hyuk and then turned her head towards Hee-ju.

“… It’s a long explanation, but Heeju, you were talking with other magical girls yesterday… “Did you think of it?”

“I just remembered… Ah? That…”

Hee-joo turned her eyes to a distant place for a moment, looked blankly at the sky, and then slowly opened her mouth.

“… Thanks.”

“… “If it’s not rude, may I ask what happened?”

“Well, it doesn’t matter… Would you like to watch this first?”

Heeju said and took out her smartphone from her pocket and showed it to her.

When I clicked on the app at the top, what appeared was a famous video platform.

It is a well-rated site that allows you to effectively find the videos you want through algorithms or subscriptions, and Umi was familiar with it as she visits it several times a day to relieve her boredom.

When I entered the main screen, dozens of videos appeared with the name [Heeju Channel].

“… “This?”

“I told you about my video channel♡. I’m a mukbang YouTuber♡”

“Mukbang YouTuber?”

As Joo-hyuk approached, Hee-joo blushed and handed him the smartphone.

When I looked at the screen, a subtle numerical value caught my eye beneath the ornate title logo.

[Subscribers: 1.44 thousand]

Considering that many famous broadcasters have tens of thousands of subscribers, it was by no means a high figure.

“Something… “You keep it vague.”

“…”

“Furthermore, the fact that there are over a thousand subscribers but only 100 to 200 views…”

“Ugh…”

Heeju seemed angry and took her cell phone away and cried out.

“Numbers, numbers are not that important!!”

“Mi… “I’m sorry.”

“… So what does this video channel of yours that I just showed you have to do with anything?”

Woo-mi asked Hee-ju while making Joo-hyuk bow his head after making a mistake.

“… “This channel was everything to me during my high school days.”

A lonely expression appeared on Heeju’s face as she said that.

“Even if it was a gray day with no one receiving attention… “Within this video platform, I was able to become a more glamorous protagonist than anyone else.”

At first there was only one video.

Hee-ju, who unintentionally hurts others when communicating with them, chose… A path to another world.

Even though it was a small channel that wouldn’t have been discovered even by an algorithm,

However, the reason she continued to upload her videos was because there was someone who always paid attention to her.

“At first, the concept didn’t even exist. “All I did was record the online games I’ve been enjoying for a long time, or take pictures of various small talk.”

[Alchemic Fantasy]

Even the name is old-fashioned… A standard fantasy-oriented online game.

One of Heeju’s pleasures was sitting in a dark room and uploading video of the game she played all night long.

[Alchemic Fantasy] Is not famous, but it was a game with its own fan base.

In addition to the comments starting to come in one by one, the channel operation began to become more active…

It was from then on that she started having loyal viewers who regularly watched her channel.

“He regularly takes care of my videos… Even on the live broadcast, there was one person who came in every time and cheered us on.”

Hee-ju, who is not good at games but plays with affection, is taught things like how to access the boss room,

How to choose a weapon enchantment appropriate for your level and job tree, etc… It is said that they gave us a lot of information and supported us.

“It was he who gave me the attribute ‘mesgaki’ when I didn’t have any strengths compared to other streamers.”

[It’s cute.]

[The tone is angry, but I don’t feel bad.]

[I think the character Mesugaki suits me… How about trying this concept… ?]

Heeju’s heart also tilted like a scale at the request of the person she had been communicating with through her channel.

‘Search for Mesugaki speaking method… Uh… What should I say? Poor? Poor♡’

This obnoxious yet angry tone… Someone likes it.

Hehe.

Then, it was last month that I switched to mukbang YouTube.

The reason was trivial.

As I began to focus on studying, which I had neglected due to going to college, the time I spent playing games naturally decreased.

That’s why Heeju instead of game content… I continued to run the channel by uploading small videos of making and eating food from time to time.

Was one of those videos affected by the algorithm?

A video of a person crying out loud while eating spicy ramen, crying out for heo-jeop, heo-jeop.

Thanks to that video, which received an overwhelming number of views unlike any before,

The number of subscribers that stayed close to 100-200 for two years…

Close to 1000 people… It increased explosively.

“Nonsense… !”

Heejoo’s heart slowly hardened due to the heartbreakingly passionate response, and the number of times she uploaded game videos like before decreased significantly.

Instead, videos with a new concept called Mukbang Mesugaki YouTuber took up most of the channel’s uploads.

Even though I didn’t get the explosive number of views I had when I first decided to become a mukbang YouTuber.

New relationships with new people were both daunting and exciting for Heeju.

[Aren’t you uploading game videos these days?]

[Alchemic Fantasy. I was having fun watching it.]

[Sir…]

However, the loyal viewers who have been following her videos for a long time… It seems she didn’t look at it favorably.

Maybe he doesn’t even know his face… Perhaps she was enjoying the one-sided exchange of growing Heeju’s channel and creating her own valuable streamer.

The once pure favor suddenly changed… I never thought it would lead to extreme destruction,

Even at that time, Heeju did not expect it.

Women who are revived as magical girls have memories of death for each body part… Heeju is also like that.

The memory of her death that Heeju came up with while talking with other magical girls,

From last Friday afternoon.

Unlike her high school days, life at university, where there was no class concept, may have been a breathing environment for Heeju.

The stress of peer relationships that we always encounter in the same class and have to worry about. At least the university lecture hall was not a space where such relationships took place one-sidedly.

Even so, the habit of eating alone in the bathroom did not change. I can’t help but feel comfortable eating in the bathroom.

That day, Heeju finished the afternoon class without any problems and returned home.

‘What is it?’

Heeju tilted her head when she saw the unfamiliar delivery left in front of the front door.

It was wrapped in an envelope as if it had been sent from a delivery company… Food as warm as if it had just arrived.

Heeju was startled by the message written on a post-it note saying, “I’m always watching the broadcast,” So she took it inside the envelope and brought it in.

“Uhihihi… Pan… A fan gave me a gift… ♡”

How could she have found her home address and delivered her food without even suspecting it?

Heeju peeled off the bag and looked at the food in question.

A red-colored soup with a spicy aroma.

She said that she decided to do mukbang for the first time… It was the food in the video that received the most response.

“Hehe~♡ I’ll prepare for filming right away… “

After she sat down and prepared the camera for a video of her gratitude, Heeju scooped up the hot soup with a spoon and put it in her mouth.

“Huh?  It tastes a little weird… “

Then she quickly noticed a subtle sensation, and she realized that if she had spit out the food… Could fate have been different?

Not long after the broth travels down the esophagus and into the stomach…

Heeju’s stomach began to boil like crazy.

“… ?!?!”

A huge pain followed, as if a thousand needles were flying around in my stomach… She falls from where she was sitting, and her whole body starts shaking.

“Kuuuuu… Ugh… Argh…”

It was not easy for her to even breathe due to the pain that seemed to twist her internal organs like a rag,

She stretched out her finger and lifted the post-it note attached to her container.

The ID written on the back of that post-it note is… It was a very familiar combination of alphabets.

“… Why… ?”

Tears welled up at the corners of her eyes.

It’s a feeling of joy and betrayal. Which one is closer?

Even that was covered with an unacceptable acridness, leaving an extremely spicy aftertaste.

Yes, I want to spit it all out.

All these emotions and hot soup.

At the end, with painful words about a life that only longed for affection and a love that went against the grain… I really had many thoughts.

At the end of those emotions, Heeju…
She thought she wanted to live.

“Just like that… ?”

After hearing the whole story, Umi had a look of embarrassment on her face.

“Like that… Thinking about killing someone else… ?”

“What… “It actually happened, so there’s nothing I can do about it if you ask me, right?”

It is said that the motive for murder in reality always exceeds imagination,

Heeju, who shrugged as if she were someone else, scratched out some of the videos she had uploaded before and showed them to her.

“After I regained my memories. She looked through his comments on previously uploaded videos, but… Maybe he deleted all comments and went into hiding… I couldn’t see a thing. She’s such a mess ♡ I didn’t even think she was alive. I guess I was scared.”

“… That… Maybe…”

The people who drove the magical girl to death are erased from existence as if they never existed…

Haven’t we heard yet about something that appears as a monster?

At Woomi’s silence, Heeju looked down at the food left in the lunch box and said,

“Huh. As expected, I have no appetite♡”

With a bitter expression, I gently closed the plastic lid.