The Rice-Eating Hero’s Capitalist Streaming - Chapter 58
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The Capitalist Streaming of a Freeloading Hero
Episode 58
Constellation’s Game [Lyka]
Siyul Lee was in an exceptionally good mood today.
It wasn’t because it was the weekend.
For a job seeker, nothing was more meaningless than weekends.
A job seeker’s weekend was like… AirPods without battery.
So what made Siru happy was just a single LMS message.
Ding-
[Web sender]
8291****152
Geon-ryul Lee – Main account transfer
Deposit
1,000,000
Balance 1,037,055
I never even imagined such a day would come…
Out of nowhere, a huge sum of 1 million won had been deposited from my Family Register Mate.
[Me: What’s this about?]
[Family Register Mate: Use it wisely.]
[Me: What? You’re really giving this to me?]
[Family Register Mate: Yeah]
I heard he’s been diligently working part-time jobs lately…
[Me: Holy]
[Me: Crazy;]
[Me: Older Brother;;]
[Me: No, dear brother..]
[Me: ♥]
[Family Register Mate: What;;;]
He must have finally matured after 30 years.
[Me: Are you currently in the east or west?]
[Me: I’ll bow once in that direction, big brother (-ω-ゞ]
[Me: Loyalty, loyalty (-ω-ゞ)]
[Family Register Mate: Get lost;]
[Me: Yes, thank you^^ Have a peaceful night^^]
So Siru was in such a good mood that he decided to leave the study hall early.
With his wallet situation this flush and the weather so warm and sunny…
He couldn’t resist having a bowl of malatang.
[Me: Hey, Minjeong Im.]
[MJ: Yeah?]
[Me: Want to go to Don’t Hold Back for dinner?]
[MJ: Try to hold back for at least a week;; You’ll get a hole in your stomach at this rate?]
[Me: I really didn’t eat it last week!]
[MJ: Bullshit no]
[Me: Come out by 5.]
[MJ: Sigh… okay]
After calling his best friend who loved malatang (he’d never seen her refuse once) but always played hard to get.
Siru went home to get ready for going out, casually threw his bag on the bed, and left the house again.
“Daughter, where are you going?”
“Meeting someone!”
“Who are you meeting? Minjeong?”
“Yeah.”
“Don’t be late!”
“I’ll buy pig’s feet!”
“Be a little late!”
“Okay mommy!”
With his wallet full for the first time in a while, Siru felt like vitality was flowing through his entire body.
‘Ah, this is life.’
Unable to contain his excitement, Siru even high-fived a telephone pole, then awkwardly stuffed his stinging hand into his padding pocket and hummed while crossing the crosswalk.
And 5 minutes later, when he arrived at [Don’t Hold Back].
He could see the back of his best friend who had already arrived and was holding tongs and a basket.
“Minjeong, can’t you clear out all the meatball skewers?”
“You scared me, why are you here so fast?”
“…? Aren’t you the one who got here before me?”
“Well, my house is right in front.”
Boldly choosing spice level 2.5, Siru plopped down at the window seat Minjeong had secured in advance.
Then, after exchanging a few more trivial words as usual, he placed his smartphone from his pocket on the table.
But the next moment.
“Wait. Minjeong. Stop moving.”
“What?”
Siru’s hands started trembling.
“You… flip your phone over. Slowly. Very carefully.”
“Huh? Why?”
“Ah!!!!!! Crazy girl!!! I said flip it gently!!!!”
“Ah, you scared me! Why are you yelling?”
By chance, his gaze fell on the inside of Minjeong’s phone case… where he discovered a ‘legendary 100,000 won unreleased photocard’ containing his bias.
“You… what’s that? That thing in your case, isn’t that our older brother’s unreleased photo?”
“Oh this? A friend bought an album last time and got a duplicate so she gave it to me.”
KTG, currently South Korea’s top boy group and the idol Siru had been stanning for 5 years now.
Among them, an unreleased photocard of his bias was in his friend’s hands, so Siru couldn’t help but get excited.
“Hey… do you know how much that’s worth right now? That’s five whole chickens. But you trapped that precious person in that cramped case without even a sleeve? Will you take responsibility if older brother’s face gets scratched?!”
“What’s the big deal with one piece of paper… I just put it in because it was pretty.”
Moreover, Siru’s bank account currently had enough ammunition to rescue his bias.
This too could be called fate.
“Shut up. Take off your phone case. Right now.”
“I don’t want to? It’s annoying to remove.”
“Today I’ll treat you to the full course – malatang with sweet and sour pork, and tanghulu for dessert. Hand it over. This isn’t negotiation, it’s blackmail.”
“Customer, would you like this packaged?”
“Give it here.”
Of course, if the person who provided that ammunition had seen this… it would have been an infuriating sight.
“Sigh… older brother… you must have suffered in such a shabby place…”
Siru snatched the photocard from his friend’s hand and carefully began wiping it with a microfiber lens cloth.
Of course, Minjeong was shaking her head in dismay at Siru’s behavior.
“Why do you even do idol fangirling?”
Siru looked incredulous at Minjeong’s reaction.
Since Minjeong was the very person who first led him into the world of fangirling, it was natural for Siru to be dumbfounded.
“I don’t think you’re one to talk…”
Watching Siru treat the photocard like a sacred object, Minjeong quietly pulled out her smartphone from her pocket.
Actually, all that talk about idol fangirling was buildup for this moment!
Tap-
Finding the photo she had prepared, Minjeong subtly pushed her full phone screen in front of Siru.
“Hey, put that paper boyfriend aside for a moment and look at this.”
Of course, Siru clutched the photocard tightly in both hands and didn’t even glance over…
“Ah what, I’m purifying my eyes right now. You go away.”
Minjeong didn’t care and started her sales pitch.
“If your Older Brother is a refreshing ion drink… this person here is aged whiskey. The genre is completely different to begin with.”
“What, what is it.”
“Look at this jawline. Doesn’t it look sharp enough to cut? If you slide down from here, you’d go straight to Busan, I’m telling you.”
Siru, who became slightly interested in Minjeong’s sales pitch, glanced sideways at her friend’s phone screen while putting the photocard in her pocket.
It meant she was ready to be pitched to a bit more seriously.
“Who… is it? A rookie actor?”
“Not an actor, a Hunter.”
“A Hunter?”
“I also got hit by him suddenly not long ago, but he’s not appearing anywhere right now. His name is Seong-hwan Lee.”
“He does look pretty good.”
“Just pretty good? Look at those Pacific Ocean shoulders.”
“Hmm.”
When Siru’s eyes showed no intention of leaving the screen, Minjeong smiled contentedly and continued in a more subtle voice.
“You said you fan idols for the fun of raising them, right?”
“…That’s right?”
“If you’re done raising kids, now you need to find a man to marry.”
“Th-that’s also true.”
“If you’ve taken care of one son, isn’t finding a husband the natural rule now?”
Siru, who had been nodding continuously as if enchanted by something, suddenly turned her head as if realizing she’d been had.
“Hey, Minjeong. Did your mouth suddenly open up? Were you always this good at talking?”
But Minjeong’s offensive didn’t end there.
She had already sneakily picked up her phone and displayed a poster she had downloaded in advance on the screen.
“Plus, you won’t have to starve for a while. There was a teaser last week.”
“What? Do Hunters have separate teasers too? Are they making self-content or something?”
At Siru’s question, Minjeong shook her head and continued.
“【Hunters School 3】 is starting soon. You’re not going to tell me you don’t know about this, right?”
“For real? Crazy…”
Even Siru, who had no particular interest in Hunters, couldn’t not know about 【Hunters School】.
Among all variety shows in the past 5 years, 【Hunters School】 was the most successful series.
Especially Season 2, which achieved legendary ratings, was something even Siru watched every episode live.
However, perhaps because the scale was so large, there were long gaps between series, so Siru had forgotten about it.
“So is this person the production team’s top pick for this season?”
“Probably has to be, right?”
“Why?”
“His specs are legendary too.”
Excited Minjeong poured out information like a machine gun.
“You remember Yun Gimyeong from Season 2, right?”
“Of course. I even voted for him.”
“He was level 47.”
“Yeah, right. He was way higher level than everyone else.”
“This person is supposedly level 49. That’s an insane level.”
Siru, whose gaze was fixed on Minjeong’s phone screen, unconsciously swallowed her saliva.
When she made eye contact with the handsome man in the pure white uniform, her heart started acting up on its own.
“Wow, that outfit is insane.”
“Agreed…”
“Isn’t that knight order uniform really amazing? It’s not even a concept, it’s actual combat gear. And he’s supposedly Silver Knights Royal Family.”
Facing this type of handsome face for the first time, she felt her heartbeat getting faster.
“Crazy. What’s his name, no… what’s his honorable name?”
Minjeong, confident that her friend had completely fallen, had the corners of her mouth slightly curled up.
“Let’s eat malatang first, Siru. After we eat, let’s go to a cafe and I’ll give you another briefing.”
* * *
Before long, the filming day for 【Hunters School 3】 was approaching.
And as the filming day approached… one worry I had been putting off was gradually surfacing.
“Sigh.”
Was it because I wasn’t confident I’d do well?
That wasn’t it.
Well, it would be a bit disappointing if I got eliminated too quickly…
But even so, there was nothing to lose and I could just return to daily life.
This couldn’t really be called a worry.
However, my concern was exactly this.
‘How do I tell Father and Mother.’
It was time to gradually open up to my family about my main job.
I had been building up to it little by little whenever I had the chance.
“Mother. Working at Jeongmin’s place, Gates don’t seem that dangerous?”
“No nonsense, eldest son.”
Even so, when I stood in front of my parents, my mouth just wouldn’t open easily.
“Ugh, I wish I had talent too.”
“What kind of random talk is that?”
“Hunters, I mean. They really make good money, Father.”
“Son.”
“Yes?”
“Don’t worry about money. We’re managing to earn and pay it back little by little even now.”
So I thought this.
Wouldn’t it be fastest to just do it first and ask for forgiveness later…
That kind of thinking.
‘Once the first episode airs and they find out, if I give them a hefty sum of the money I’ve saved up, wouldn’t that be okay.’
If I exchanged about half of my saved LP and scraped together the appearance fee too.
I could probably pay off all the third-tier financial loans worth about 300-400 million won.
Of course, giving them plenty of money wouldn’t make their worry for their son disappear…
There’s a famous saying that when something can’t be solved with money, consider whether you didn’t have enough.
‘Then I really have no choice but to run for first place.’
After my appearance was confirmed, I thought about it a bit more seriously.
And the more I thought about it, the more I concluded that first place in this 【Hunters School】 would solve many of the realistic problems I had.
First, the most important thing was obviously the prize money.
When I first received the application suggestion from Jeongmin, most of the money I earned was being sucked into ‘Night Stalker’…
Now that I have The Hero as a shield, I can use the prize money to pay off my family’s debt first.
In that sense, second.
If I really take first place here, then my parents won’t have any justification to oppose it.
By paying off all the family debt with this, I would simultaneously ‘prove’ my skills among talented Hunters.
So I should give it my all once.
It’s not like I have to compete among real rankers.
When I think about it, isn’t it just a matter of beating some mediocre kids?
I tossed and turned with such worries and fell asleep a bit late.
Ring ring ring- Ring ring ring-!
With a loud alarm, the morning of the first filming day for 【Hunters School 3】 finally dawned.
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