Chapter 7 : Han Ye-eun II

Attending university didn’t dramatically change her life.

In fact, she had to live a more intense life than ever before.

In high school, all she had to do was wear her school uniform with neat hair, but university was different.

Everyone dressed in fresh, stylish, and pretty clothes.

Seeing them, Han Ye-eun felt like she had to try something too.

She believed that a woman’s weapon was her face.

If she didn’t want to be looked down on, she had to dress up.

But cosmetics were expensive.

They were ridiculously expensive, and the quantities were small—nothing could be bought with just a few bucks.

So she bought as many inexpensive, large-quantity products as possible.

Low-cost. What people called “value for money” products.

Although the bank account her brother had given her still had a decent amount of money left, she didn’t want to spend it recklessly.

So, aside from her first tuition fee, she didn’t touch it at all.

Instead, she worked as a tutor to make up for the lack of money.

Her title as a prestigious university student allowed her to earn quite a bit at her age.

With the money she earned, she bought clothes, cosmetics, and books.

Any leftover money was saved.

For the day when she could buy a house to live in with her brother.

Time passed quickly, and a year went by. During that time, Jeong-ho went to the military.

She saved up quite a bit of money in the year.

But it still wasn’t enough.

So she started working part-time.

Naturally, Jeong-ho, who was in the military, didn’t know about this.

When there were no classes, she tutored, and at night, she worked at a convenience store.

There were many difficult customers at the convenience store.

Customers who spilled food and left without cleaning up, customers who suddenly used informal language or even hit her.

Sometimes, there were drunk customers who threatened her.

Had her brother been doing these kinds of things since he was young?

It was at that moment that she deeply felt the weight of his hard work.

And then, one day, while she was in the middle of these busy days, something happened.

That day, after finishing her part-time job as usual, she was on her way home.

While walking down the street, suddenly, a scream echoed from somewhere.

Han Ye-eun ran towards the source of the sound without even realizing it.

The place she arrived at was a place where a young woman and a large man were physically assaulting such a woman.

With a rough hand grabbing the woman’s hair while spitting out swear words, the woman was helplessly thrown to the floor.

People began to gather one by one at the sound of the sudden commotion.

Some covered their mouths and paced around anxiously, while others held out their cell phones and took pictures.

There were also people who reported it to the police, but among so many people, no one directly came forward to help.

It was strange.

It felt like the world was alien, as if she was isolated alone.

The burly man clenched his fist.

It was right then that her body bounced out.

“What, what is this!”

Using the jujitsu she learned as a child, she twisted the burly man’s wrist joint.

She tripped the burly man, who was startled and stepped back, by placing her foot between his legs, and firmly pressed down on his ankle to prevent him from moving.

The burly man let out a shrill scream.

She made the man aware of the warning that if she applied more force here, he would not be able to avoid a life of crutches.

When she twisted the joint of the burly man, who was resisting like an angry bull, half more, he belatedly nodded his head.

That’s how she subdued the man until the police who received the report arrived.

She finished a simple investigation and went home.

Fortunately, she was able to avoid trouble because the victim woman defended her.

She thought of what happened at that time as a brief happening.

Even after that, she lived the same three-beat life of school, tutoring, and part-time work, and her daily life did not change much from usual.

It was just a coincidence that she saw a video around the time when it was slowly being forgotten from her memory.

She used to take the bus because the house of a student she was tutoring was quite far away, and it was a video she happened to find while watching YouTube because she had nothing to do at that time.

[Jujitsu Girl Teaches a Bulky Man a Lesson]

“Jujitsu?”

In the video that she clicked on as if possessed, there was a woman who looked quite familiar.

“…That’s me?”

It was herself. At first, she even thought about whether this was a violation of her portrait rights, but as the video progressed, other emotions took precedence. The process of knocking down and subduing a man with a huge physique with her splendid techniques looked quite cool when she saw it like this. The video was short and simple, but the number of views was enormous.

1.2 million.

There were even a whopping 2,000 comments.

Wow, who is this?

Amazing

I thought I was watching a movie

This is real girl crush

It’s on a different level from some AUTO-K

We really need to recruit someone like this as a policewoman

Among the numerous comments, her face turned hot and red with the content praising herself.

Her posture is completely natural, is this person an athlete? Do you perhaps do broadcasts or anything?

The quality is bad so you can’t see her face well, but she’s pretty in the pixel art

What do you mean pretty in pixel art

Yeah, I’ll definitely watch if you do a broadcast

Broadcast?

[The Jujitsu Girl of Rumors]

At first, it was curiosity. People came to the broadcast that she started as if possessed without even realizing it.

Of course, there weren’t that many. At most, about 10 people. Of course, even 10 people was an incredibly large number for her at the time.

As is usual for broadcasting beginners, while she was flustered, not knowing what to say, a barrage of questions from viewers poured out.

“Are you really that Jujitsu Girl from YouTube?”

“What kind of exercise did you do?”

“How old are you?”

“Do you happen to have a boyfriend?”

“…?”

There were some odd questions mixed in here and there, but she was able to communicate with them nonetheless.

From the reason she started jujitsu to the process of subduing the bulky man.

When she told the whole story as one anecdote, everyone enjoyed it.

There was even a question asking if she wasn’t scared of the bulky man, to which she confidently replied that she wasn’t scared at all.

At the part where she explained that the reason she learned jujitsu was to give a taste of humble pie to the girl who badmouthed her brother and confessed to him, some people burst into laughter. Chatting and laughing with the viewers was quite fun. From that day on, she always turned on her broadcast whenever she had free time.

Gradually, she gained regular fans who came to see her, and before long, she even received her first sponsorship.

One day, a female viewer left a question like this: “hey, your skin is so smooth, what cosmetics do you use?

Is there anything you can recommend?

I’m a college student, so I can’t buy expensive things, waah ” Han Ye-eun didn’t know which cosmetics were good.

However, based on her experiences during her impoverished freshman days, she knew good value-for-money cosmetics well.

She knew which product caused fewer skin troubles, and which product had a color that wasn’t much different from a product that cost dozens of times more.

In addition to that, she shared quite a few tips she had learned from experience, and every time she did, the response was good.

A large number of female viewers flowed in. Since there were limitations to explaining with just a phone camera, she also prepared a webcam.

She directly demonstrated the products and even left a video of her makeup techniques that she had honed over time.

It became a broadcast where female viewers were the majority, but then, by a chance, it was once again revealed that she was the Jujitsu Girl from before, and this time, a large number of male viewers flowed in again.

She did various things to meet the needs of her viewers.

Sometimes it was a beauty broadcast, and other times it was a talk show where she told stories well.

Then one day, she even received an offer from a large YouTuber whose main content was exercise to do a collaboration.

The content was to simply demonstrate jujitsu with a concept like a hidden master.

The opponent was a health YouTuber who had been recruited in advance, and their body sizes were almost twice as different.

David and Goliath.

That’s exactly what the viewers’ evaluations were at the time.

But just like David eventually defeated Goliath, Han Ye-eun knocked down the muscular man with familiar moves.

Everyone was shocked by the sight of the muscular man being subdued in the blink of an eye.

That video became a huge hit, and once again, the number of subscribers increased significantly.

Beauty, talk, exercise.

Now she was doing so many different activities that she didn’t even know what her channel’s identity was.

There were many twists and turns in the process, but she also made quite a bit of money.

Thanks to that, she was able to secure a deposit for a new house, which was her goal.

After that, she spent a hectic day, and then belatedly heard the news that her brother had been discharged from the military.

She was too busy to even know the date of his discharge.

Feeling embarrassed about that, and also disappointed in her brother who hadn’t contacted her even after being discharged, Han Ye-eun postponed all the schedules she had and went to her brother’s house.

Of course.

The reunion with her brother, whom she met again, was the worst.

“Yeah~ Whatever TV~”

“Ah, when was ‘Whatever TV’ a thing, it’s so cheesy.”

“Yeah~ Kukurubbingppong~ Are you angry now? Are you super annoyed? Yeah~ You can’t kill me, right? Oh~ You’re angry again? Oh, you can’t do anything… Kyaaaaak!! My arm!! My arm is breaking! Tap!! Taaaaap!!!”

The reliable brother from her childhood is no longer there.

There’s only one cheesy older sister left…

That fact made Han Ye-eun’s heart uneasy, but still, this much is a pretty happy daily life in its own way.

“Ah, my right arm? I left it behind in the new era.” “What are you talking about, nerd?”

Han Ye-eun slightly turned her head at the sight of her brother waving one arm around. He used to be able to endure an armbar for a few seconds.

Now his body was like a soft, flimsy reed. It was the kind of fragility you’d only feel from girls who were completely out of shape.

She wondered if it would have snapped with just a little more force. Thinking that, a small, dry cough escaped her lips.

Of course, Jung-ho, who had no idea about this, smiled brightly and made a joke. If she said he’d become a weakling, he would definitely be hurt.

Since her brother had a higher-than-anyone sense of pride in his physical strength, she didn’t say anything that would touch his self-esteem.

…From now on, I need to be a little more careful with my strength.