Whoa... This Is Undeniable?
"......It worked out perfectly."
"What do you mean?"
But despite her words, the boss's expression wasn't particularly bright.
It didn't seem like things had truly worked out well. It was closer to the face someone makes when they're forcing self-consolation to offset the losses they'd already suffered.
In four common letters, it boiled down to 'mental victory.'
"Being on my own must have made your life really inconvenient, Yeon-woo. I didn't have enough time to look after you properly."
"No, hing......"
"......"
The sharp look in her eyes made me immediately lower my head.
"......Yes! It was actually really inconvenient."
"......"
"......"
Now what was wrong......
Oh, right. Saying it was too inconvenient was probably rude to the boss.
"Um, overall it was fine, but there were a few inconveniences due to the lack of staff."
"......"
"......"
The boss, who had been staring at me intently, let out a light sigh.
Sigh. Office life is hard.
"......With three people, you should be able to take turns covering breaks or anything else. Even if two get dragged into company matters, one should still have time."
"Whoa! Then can I go down from the third floor too!"
Since there would always be someone watching me?
"No, that won't work."
"Eh......?"
Why not?!
"We don't know who might suddenly come to the house. How could I let someone as eye-catching as you out of here?"
"Still...... with three more people, we should be able to handle it somehow......"
"You think so? With that face?"
"Hing......"
Aning, it's not like I wanted to end up in this body......
"......"
"?"
The boss suddenly turned her head, avoiding my gaze.
Her cheeks looked strangely red.
What was that? Did she catch a cold from me or something?
"Anyway, for the time being, Eos and Rina will stay on the second floor and bring your meals up."
"Wouldn't that be too much of a bother? Wouldn't it be better to just add more to the delivery tip and have it sent straight to the third floor?"
Considering the money Eos and Rina brought in, an extra ten-thousand-won delivery tip was cheap.
If they streamed during that time, they'd easily earn tens of thousands more between the company, the platform, and themselves.
"You can discuss that with the two of them and decide."
"......"
But why did I have this uneasy feeling that they'd refuse me outright if I brought it up with them?
"I've already processed the leave you submitted before, so for the next week, don't think about anything and just rest properly."
"Hmm...... Now that you're actually telling me to rest, I don't know what to do."
I'd finally gotten used to the intense company work, and now I had to take a full week off.
It wasn't like I was the only one getting a holiday break.
"Don't you usually play games or something? Or browse communities?"
"Should I pick up a gacha game?"
"That's not a bad idea. Your mind must be quite shaken after your body changed like this. Take this chance to rest thoroughly and sort everything out."
"Dyu......"
The 'dyu......' that had become a verbal tic slipped out on its own.
As for what 'dyu' meant......
......I didn't even know myself.
Dyu......
"Who knows? Once your troubled heart calms down, maybe that ttyuttya state your head falls into will return to normal too?"
"I...... don't think that's going to happen......"
If my ttyuttya power was even average, I wouldn't be thinking that.
This brain of mine that hits a guardrail with the slightest thought really has no hope. Boss!
"Oh, and if the others send messages asking for help with planning, or saying you don't have to manage chat and just stay in the chat window."
"......Yes?"
What was this? Weren't these requests I'd heard a lot somewhere before?
"Even if you get messages like that, just ignore them all and rest properly."
"But if they say it's urgent......"
"Just ignore them."
"......All of them?"
When the entire group was right downstairs?
But the boss's attitude was extremely firm.
"Those guys aren't new debutants. They're the kind who can run their streams just fine without you."
"But still......"
The second generation hadn't even been debuted for a few months yet......
"Don't you trust them?"
"Uh......"
......If I answered wrong here, I'd end up as the employee who didn't trust the kids?
"......I trust them?"
That was the only choice I had.
If I said I didn't trust them and the boss told the kids, my life would become difficult.
Especially with the second generation, which was full of nothing but troublemakers.
"That's enough."
Pat pat!
"?"
Satisfied, the boss patted my chest a couple times before turning toward the door.
Right before the door closed.
She turned her head toward me and gave a bright smile.
"If I catch you working during your vacation, you know you'll be in serious trouble, right?"
"Uh......"
That was actually a very reasonable statement.
Boss.
"......Why did you touch my chest?"
"......"
Thud!
The door slammed shut as if she hadn't heard me.
"Aning......"
......I felt extremely wronged.
I was sexually harassed......
"Hmm......"
Everyone has those kinds of delusions sometimes, right?
The delusion that I'm such an important person in this company that everything would fall apart if I disappeared.
"......It really was meaningless."
Of course, that was usually nothing but a delusion.
Why else would employees be called cogs in a machine?
If one breaks, you just replace it with another employee. That's why they're cogs.
There were occasionally irreplaceable cogs, but usually that wasn't me.
"That's right! Can't debut them!"
Right now I was monitoring eleven different streams across my computer and phone.
All eleven people, including the Star 1s and the boss, had their streams on, but surprisingly, not a single channel had any problems.
Stream planning. Sponsorship collection. Chat management.
Everything was running perfectly.
The positions that Ha Yeon-woo should have filled had been taken by other staff.
And it looked like the personal staff each of them had hired were perfectly covering chat management.
Hing......
"I really am a surplus resource......"
Watching any more of the streams would probably make me depressed, so I turned them all off.
It was true that depending on one person like Ha Yeon-woo wasn't good for the company on a structural level, but......
Everyone usually asked me to help with this and that, so......
I could...... misunderstand a little, right......?
Just a little......
"Hing hing......"
A few tears came out.
It seemed like a side effect of my ttyuttya brain.
Lying face-down on the bed, I set out on an expedition to find a new continent.
"Should I watch some YouTube that I haven't seen in a while?"
I scrolled through YouTube for a bit.
I surrendered my body to the algorithm's guidance.
"......My algorithm is completely fucked."
It was a collection of highlights I usually watched to help the kids with their streams.
The so-called 'kirinuki' channels. After analyzing them, the algorithm had filled up entirely with videos related to our kids.
No matter where I looked.
There wasn't a single video whose thumbnail wasn't plastered with our kids.
Watching that to plan the kids' streams......
"Ah, no way!"
I almost unconsciously started writing a proposal again.
It seemed YouTube wasn't a place where Ha Yeon-woo could rest in peace.
"In that case......"
I completely changed locations.
To an internet broadcast platform where our kids probably wouldn't be.
Even though it had been renamed through rebranding, it was still more often called by its old name.
"America TV"!
"Phew......"
Fortunately, America TV didn't have our kids──
"Uwaaaaaang!!"
Why can't I have any alone time!
I hurriedly clicked on a category.
Since there were traps in the general chat, I headed for the traditional stronghold of League of Legends solo queue legends.
"What kind of streams are......"
The first was just a smurf stomping stream.
The second was called log lifting but was actually duo boosting.
The third was also essentially a duo carrying a queen bee with logs.
"This side seems better at least."
Among them, what caught my eye was......
"Are there still hacks in LoL?"
The game company for League of Legends had once nearly died because of hacks.
Perhaps because of that, recently they were forcing people to install an absurd program to catch hacks.
A program that demanded the highest level of authority on the computer under the justification of catching hacks.
In some ways it was more dangerous than hacks themselves, and it was the root cause that made me seriously consider banning and deleting LoL from all our kids' computers.
"Vanguard."
It didn't make sense that hacks still existed even though they used such an absurd program.
If our kids happened to run into it while playing solo queue.
It wouldn't hurt to check once and watch, just in case.
So I could deal with similar people immediately if I saw them later.
Click!
The moment I entered, a Blitzcrank grab shot out.
Grab!
And just like that, the Nami was pulled in.
Pow! Thud! Whack! Smack! Pow! Pow!
The Nami that died instantly despite the terrible combo from Vayne and Blitzcrank.
"Undeniable?"
Did that mean Blitzcrank used a hack to pull the Nami?
With that thought, I recalled the scene from a moment ago.
But no matter how I thought about it, the grab was incredibly bad.
Rather, the Nami that got hit was the strange one.
The chat's opinions didn't seem that different from mine.
That was a hack that broke through Vanguard?
They must be cr──
"?"
Nami?
The Nami that died to that pathetic grab?
The BJ rewound the replay.
He went back to the moment the Blitzcrank used the grab, paused it, and then.
Click! Click!
Carefully advanced it frame by frame.
Despite the burning chat sentiment, the BJ stubbornly stopped advancing the frames on one particular scene.
He showed the previous frame.
Then the next frame.
The BJ, who had pressed the play bar, now showed another grab scene.
The BJ alternated between showing the frame before and after Blitzcrank used the grab.
The BJ let out a hollow laugh as if dumbfounded, then slowly turned the scenes into GIFs, placed them in the background, and continued his explanation.
"Whoa...... what eyes. That's insane."
Should I send a donation with the boss's card?
As I rummaged through my pocket for a moment.
"For real! Just reveal the hacker's name and publicly execute them."
I nodded and was about to link the card the boss gave me to my account when──
The BJ who had opened settings with ESC changed the champion name display from 'Champion Name' to 'ID'.
"EOYUSI"
"Employee000"
"......Huh?"
The strangely familiar IDs made me rub my eyes.
What was this? Had someone recently started impersonating our Eos and me since LoL allowed duplicate IDs?
And as a duo?
"19990909?"
A familiar ID I'd seen recently.
The moment I stared at the screen with a sinking feeling.
It seemed the BJ, who was an America TV broadcaster and didn't know much about Star Live.
Eventually a fan who took one for the team delivered the shocking truth.
"......We're screwed."
It looked like the repercussions...... were going to get a bit big.
