Chapter 25 : Complete captivity

So-eun seemed to think of me as her pet dog. She started trying to control me.

“Don’t broadcast late into the night anymore. I don’t care when you start, but I won’t let you broadcast past midnight. And I’ll make sure you’re in bed before 1 AM.”

It was the morning after I was kidnapped.

Thanks to being put to bed early again, I was once again awake in the morning, which was rare.

Being told that she would put me to bed before 1 AM like I was a middle schooler, I protested a little.

“But, So-eun, you’re a night owl too.”

The time of the legends.

The time when people outside of the mainstream society, who wake up around the time the members of the normal mainstream society finish work and return home, are most active on the internet while they sleep, and go to sleep around the time they wake up and start their new day.

The time of people who live outside the mainstream society with a very strangely twisted sense of time.

Although there are rare cases like So-eun, a freelance illustrator who works entirely from home, it was mostly hikikomori and unemployed people who lived like that.

My pattern was precisely aligned with that.

That’s why I broadcast from 5 PM to 5 AM.

“I work quietly alone. Your broadcasts are very loud, and you know about noise between floors, right? If you’re loud all night, someone might come knocking.”

“Ugh, unfair, landlord.”

The excuse was noise between floors, but she was probably worried about my health since I was staying up until dawn every day.

I’ve only lived here for a day, but this nice apartment was well-constructed, so it was very quiet and nice.

‘A woman who controls and restricts, not bad.’

I could feel the affection hidden in the control and restriction, so it was embarrassing and made me blush, but I felt good about that control.

Maybe I want her to restrain me a little more?

“Now, quickly post a notice on the community board and let me check it.”

“Do I have to?”

Unable to withstand the landlord’s pressure, I took out my phone and started writing a notice on the community board.

[Author: Ruffian]

[Title: I’m changing my broadcast time….]

[Content: Due to noise issues between floors in the apartment, I’m going to start and end my broadcasts a little earlier. Yes, that’s how it is.]

I wrote up to that point, but I was 고민ed. If I end at 12, then when should I start?

“Then should I start broadcasting at noon?”

“Oh, and also reduce your broadcast time to under 8 hours. You’re overdoing it with your poor stamina, you might get sick.”

“Well, that’s, but.”

I thought it would be good to maintain the 12-hour broadcast time, but I had no confidence to broadcast from noon to midnight.

What’s the difference between broadcasting from 5 PM to 5 AM?

There are some things that only legends can understand! You guys wouldn’t understand anyway…………

[From now on, I will start broadcasting at 4 PM and end at 12 AM. Thank you.]

“I-is this okay?”

“Yes! Good job.”

Good job is good job, but why are you patting my head.

The touch felt so good, but being patted by a girl 7 years younger than me makes me feel like something inside me as a human being is breaking!

Not long after I posted the notice, a few comments were posted.

-Economics101: Casill! Don’t take her from us! Casill! Don’t take her from us! Casill! Don’t take her from us!

-DiehardRuffianFan: You’ve decided to become…. human……

-StoleAPamphletFromMuseumRuffian: Why is it reduced by 4 hours??? You lost your initial determination after raking in the money

-tnt0431: What are we supposed to watch at dawn now?????

The viewers were distressed by the sudden change in broadcast time.

What’s with that malicious nickname in the middle? Why would anyone steal a pamphlet from a museum?

“By the way, where does the nickname Casill come from?”

Seeing people call So-eun Casill felt a bit unfamiliar, and I was curious why it was Casill, so I asked. Doesn’t it sound a bit like a guy’s name?

“Because it’s So-eun, it’s CowSilver, and as people shortened it, I just started using Casill.”

Cow because it’s So? Shouldn’t it be ‘Small’ instead of ‘Moo’? Like MiniSilver or something.

“Are you looking at my chest right now, unnie?”

“No. It’s a misunderstanding.”

Did she read my thoughts and my gaze? Shin So-eun, this scary child.

I didn’t think about them being small that often.

Only about ten times a day.

“And unnie, starting today, you’re going to exercise with me. The apartment gym is really well-equipped. Let’s go there together. I’ll teach you everything.”

“No! Starting today is too sudden. I think I need to buy some workout clothes first, so let’s start tomorrow.”

“There’s no tomorrow. That’s the same as saying you won’t do it. So let’s go buy clothes right now.”

“Ehek?”

This crazy 추진력 is so scary! I can’t possibly win against such a bold person!

So-eun dragged me, forced me to change into outdoor clothes, and then dragged me to the parking lot.

After being kidnapped to the department store and having a bunch of sportswear thrust upon me, I returned to the apartment and was transported to the gym.

“This is too tight, it’s constricting, I want to take it off.”

“I wish I had boobs that were constricting.”

Even a regular bra is suffocatingly tight, but the sports bra, which strongly holds the breasts in place, was so suffocatingly tight that it was painful to complain about it.

I felt like So-eun was making a sad face, so I couldn’t whine anymore.

“Oh.”

I thought it would be a small space with just a few pieces of equipment since it’s an apartment gym, but because it’s an expensive new apartment, there was a large space and various equipment, just like a real gym.

I’ve never been to a real gym myself, so this is just a comparison based on what I’ve seen in videos.

Because it was during weekday lunchtime, there was no one there, so it was very quiet and felt like we had the whole place to ourselves, so I was a little excited.

“It’s spacious.”

“Then shall we start with a light warm-up by running?”

So-eun got on the treadmill and started running, increasing the speed quickly.

I tried to follow her, but I got tired after just a little bit of running.

“Unnie, you’re tired after just 20 seconds of running?”

“……”

My stamina is worse than trash.

“I guess not. Unnie, just do fast walking.”

I’ve lived a shameful life. My stamina is almost at the level of disqualification as a human. It’s about the level of a pill bug.

So I did fast walking, and So-eun ran for about 15 minutes.

“Haa, haa…”

I’m going to die!

“Unnie, you’re really in bad shape. How can you not even handle fast walking?”

The look of disdainful contempt felt a little rewarding, so my heart was pounding, no, that’s not it, my heart was pounding because I was tired from fast walking.

“Ughh! Ahh!”

It’s not like I wanted to be this way! I wasn’t in great shape before, but it wasn’t this bad! Anyway, it’s not my fault.

I cried out with such resentment.

So-eun brought a mat and sat me down, then went off to do her own workout.

I felt sad that she left me alone without paying attention to me, but I was also grateful that she wasn’t forcing me to exercise anymore…

“Ruffian?”

Suddenly, a stranger spoke to me.

And, f*ck, he called me by my Switch nickname!

I looked up in surprise, and what the f*ck, what kind of monster is standing there!

“Wh, who are you?”

It was too big to be called a human.

Even compared to my memories when I was a man, he was much taller, with a physique that seemed twice as large.

The fact that it was all muscle, not fat, made me feel a threat to my life just by facing him!

“Uh, well.”

Why is he suddenly crouching down? I felt even more anxious because I couldn’t understand his intentions.

When he lowered his face like that, I felt like I’d seen him somewhere before.

Since I’m a shut-in, there’s no way I would have seen a person somewhere, so he must be a streamer.

If it was a female streamer, I would have quickly remembered her broadcast nickname, but it was a man’s face, so I couldn’t recall it easily.

“A, are you a streamer?”

“Ah! I’m Health Boy, who broadcasts League of Legends on Switch.”

Why are you smiling so brightly, it’s scary.

“We have quite a deep connection, don’t we?”

When he said that, I suddenly broke out in a cold sweat on my back.

Come to think of it, Health Boy, that’s him.

The person I swore at and trolled in the game.

Thanks to him, I got a lot of malicious viewers who came to 욕 me, which was the catalyst for my broadcast to grow, but that’s my business, and this person must be very angry at me!

Is that smile also a sign that he’s going to mess me up, so I should be nervous?

With those big hands and burly arm muscles, it seems like it wouldn’t even take a second to fold me in half and throw me in the trash!

I tried to apologize quickly, but my jaw was trembling so much that I started to stutter.

“I, I, I, I, I’m, s, s, s, sorry about that. I, I, I, I’m really sorry. A, a, at that time, then I’ll be going.”

I have to live. I have to run. My survival instinct kept ringing the alarm, so I tried to leave quickly.

My legs, tired from fast walking, were trembling and felt like they were pulling me down to the ground, preventing me from running away quickly, but anyway, I have to run away.

“Ruffian, I’m SilentMeditation.”

As I was trying to escape, Health Boy shouted from behind me.

SilentMeditation? The chairman? The person who put up the 15 million won mission for reaching Master?

“I used a secondary nickname because I’m a broadcaster. I’m that much of a fan.”

I suppressed my urge to run away and turned around. I can’t ignore 15 million won. I have to manage my customers.

“Oh, chairman?”

“Yes, I’m SilentMeditation, the one who put up that mission.”

But that chairman was the streamer Health Boy? The person I swore at and trolled?

But why would he spend so much money on me? Could he be a masochistic pervert who enjoys being bullied? So he fell in love with me because I bullied him?

“Oh? Oh? Oh? Oh? Really?”

But he’s not impersonating, is he? If he’s trying to lure me in and then fold me in half, no, if that’s his intention, he wouldn’t need to deceive me, he could just rush at me, and I wouldn’t be able to run away for even a second.

Anyway, you can’t trust men easily.

“Yes, look at this.”

But Health Boy, as if understanding my doubts, immediately authenticated his account on the Switch app on his phone.

‘Escape from a life-threatening situation vs. Gain favor with the big shot who put up a 15 million won mission.’

It can’t be helped. It’s the latter.

I can’t resist capitalism!

I put on a customer service smile.