Chapter 57
Chapter 57
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Translator: MadScientist
Chapter: 57
Chapter Title: Attacks on Venus Are Considered Attacks on Me (Revised)
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'It was just one of those inevitable run-ins.'
After getting home and looking it up, I found that Victory's pro team, Ascend, had their headquarters in Gangnam.
The dorm where he lived was right inside the building.
And it wasn't far from Jeonseol Apartment at all.
In other words, our daily lives overlapped quite a bit.
'Staying cooped up at home really is the right call. Anything beyond the blanket is dangerous!'
It only reinforced the conviction I'd held for so long.
I realized our encounter wasn't some massive coincidence.
The opening day of the Magical Girls Chronicle movie.
An event no true otaku could miss.
He'd just gone to the theater right by his dorm.
Meanwhile, I'd watched four showings back-to-back starting from the crack of dawn.
Yeah, it made sense we'd cross paths.
'If I jazz it up a little, no one will catch on.'
Of course, the surefire way to protect your personal info and face is to never talk about your daily life on stream.
But asking an otaku to hold back on that shared spark of passion is like telling a human to stop breathing.
Otaku die without it.
How can I not gush about watching the Magical Girls Chronicle movie!?
"Venus is a goddess! I scored the Venus photocard on the first try as a bonus!"
Stuff like seeing four screenings in a single day right from opening dawn, pulling Knox three times in a row from the bonus photocards, griping at the staff about whether they were even shuffled properly, trading with Victory who'd drawn a Venus card, sitting in the same row as him for the movie...
All those juicy episodes had to be sealed away, and I couldn't even prove my die-hard fandom!
But still, I'm happy.
Why?
Because the movie was freaking incredible!
Mixing in a few white lies is just for protecting my privacy, so please understand.
💬 Comments — Vitik ㄷㄷ — Viewer I pulled Venus, but is this actually good? — Viewer Venus really is a goddess — Viewer Did you know? In Greece, Aphrodite was nicknamed the Lewd Aphrodite — Viewer ㅗㅜㅑㅗㅜㅑ — Viewer She's too lewd... — Viewer That was exactly the info I wanted. Thanks! — Viewer Slut! — Viewer Yeah, Ve/nus "Permanent ban for hardcore spoilers. This is your final warning."
For now, I slapped a 30-minute ban on them to make them reflect long and hard.
🚫 SPOILERS = PERMANENT BAN 🚫 Ve/nus—the awful nickname stuck to Venus after she got devoured by that monster, leaving only her lower half dangling, her upper body gone.
A spoiler in its own right, fatally so.
— Viewer Spoiling a has-been anime from 10 years ago? — Viewer Who doesn't know that already? — Viewer Oh, I was gonna watch it, but now it's spoiled. Can't anymore. "Shut it."
— Viewer ㅎㄷㄷㄷㄷ — Viewer Get down! — Viewer Whoa, first time seeing room mod mad — Viewer Means she's dead serious about it — Viewer Why of all things that outdated anime — Viewer How old even is this girl? — Viewer If she saw it in school lunch days, she'd be just adult age now lol — Viewer Life anime hits best during school lunch era, that's the rule ⭐ Superchat — ㅇㅇ donated 1,000 won "What's so great about Venus? The puffy heart?" "It's not that I like her because she's busty. She just happens to be busty because I like her."
— Viewer What kinda logic is that — Viewer ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ — Viewer Don't girls usually hate big-boobed characters? — Viewer Venus is pretty tho! — Viewer Goddess of beauty Why do I like Venus?
It's a bit tricky to explain on stream.
It's complicated.
But if I had to boil it down to one thing...
"Because she looks like me?"
— Viewer ? — Viewer Jeonseol, aren't you ugly? — Viewer What? Finally confessing you're a cute girl? — Viewer Don't lie, we all know you're flat as a board — Viewer Goddess of beauty Jeon Jeonseol ㄷㄷ "No, not looks. Well, not exactly alike either. More like... I want to be like her? Admire her? Aspire to her?"
— Viewer Aha, you wanna grow some too — Viewer Flatty wants to get busty ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ — Viewer ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ — Viewer She's most fun when talking Magikro — Viewer Suspiciously hardcore weeb girl — Viewer Her clear pronunciation—practiced for voice acting? — Viewer VTuber who's ex-voice actress aspirant? Nailed the evolution path — Viewer Do you count jellyfish as VTubers too? — Viewer Motion capture and virtual model—what else is a VTuber? It's not about wanting her body type or anything.
Eh, no point getting heated over something inexplicable.
I just like Venus, that's all.
◇◇◇◆◇◇◇ My sister had always been a stranger to me, for the longest time.
I was always stuck in the hospital, so we hardly ever crossed paths.
Back then, she was still my brother.
I'd had serious health issues since I was little, teetering on death's door multiple times.
I even thought it'd be better to just die than keep suffering like this.
But life doesn't snuff out that easily.
I'd be on the brink, yet somehow I'd cling on every time.
If I'm gonna drag it out, might as well get fully cured, right?
What a shitty world.
Dad and Mom were always by my side outside of work hours.
It felt like that game where you wait for the flower to bloom.
Like if they took their eyes off me for a second, I'd suddenly drop dead.
Like my life was hanging by a thread.
One day, the thought hit me out of nowhere.
If Mom and Dad are always here, then who is brother living with?
Curious, I asked Mom, and she said brother was strong enough to be fine on his own.
I doubted it.
Dad's weak, Mom's weak, I'm weak—the whole world is full of weaklings.
You learn that in the hospital.
I'd seen it enough to be sick of it.
People getting sick, breaking down, dying.
The world overrun by the frail.
I learned that lesson every day.
Even with Mom and Dad always there, I felt lonely.
Miserable.
No way someone alone could be okay.
Impossible.
So Mom's words had to be a lie—it was obvious.
But no guilt over monopolizing my parents or anything.
I didn't want to be sick either.
Didn't want to live in a hospital.
Didn't even want to be alive.
None of it was what I wanted.
I barely even felt like we were family.
We never did anything together, hardly ever talked.
Us both turning into girls at almost the same time—was it because we were siblings? Some twist of fate?
Adapting was a breeze for me.
My body was already steeped in illness and meds every day; change and loss were old hat.
Living only in hospitals meant no friends.
Never played a man's role in society.
My naturally scrawny frame didn't feel much different.
I've shot up a ton now, but the growth came slow and steady, day by day.
Right after the change, I was just a bit taller than my sister is now.
But she struggled hard to adapt.
Her school, her friends—all ripped away.
A completely flipped script in society's role-play.
The endless gazes dripping with desire.
Her stunning new looks and clumsy demeanor turning other women against her.
Unable to do things she took for granted, or getting swept up in stuff she'd never imagined.
The shooting was the final blow.
Thankfully no one died.
But the gunshots, the gunpowder stench, blood splattering in front of her eyes, the shooter's smile...
Sister holed up in her room after that.
See, Mom?
No one can be that strong after all.
Humans are all weaklings.
I felt sorry for her.
Sorry, but that was it.
Family ties still felt so distant back then.
To me, she was still a guy.
A stranger.
Of course—the world divides into self and others, right?
What's family even mean?
No one can fully understand another, or hurt in their place.
That's why they're others.
The holed-up sister seemed to loop the same anime over and over.
She was a stranger, but living in the same house, I felt a twinge of concern.
Curious what she was watching so obsessively, I checked it out myself.
Once I did, I couldn't stop snickering.
Poor thing.
Magical Girl Venus, Amachi Ai, is Amachi Tsukuyo's big sister.
Tsukuyo is always sick and stuck in the hospital, while their mom only ever worries about her frail daughter.
Talk about a setup that hits way too close to home.
Laughter suppression level 999.
Ai gets lured in by promises of wishes coming true and becomes Magical Girl Venus to fight monsters.
Collecting energy from defeated monsters to wish for their mom's love.
But as the story unfolds, little sister Tsukuyo becomes Magical Girl Saturn too.
Tsukuyo's wish: to be cured and healthy.
Having grabbed that longed-for health even temporarily as a magical girl, Tsukuyo starts enjoying the fights and looks down on her timid big sis.
But when Tsukuyo faces real death, who saves her? Big sis.
No sooner does Ai get touched by that unexpected family bond than she exits stage left—via death.
Devoured from the waist up by a monster, leaving just her lower half in a shocking scene.
What must sister have thought, looping that story endlessly from her room corner?
Kind of get it... or maybe not.
But if she hated Venus's fate, or disapproved of her choices,
she wouldn't have become such a passionate fan.
So sister must like Venus too.
And the sister who loves a Venus like that...
How could I not love her?
So heartbreaking.
So lovable.
I felt this urge to cherish her.
Poor, pitiful sister of mine.