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◈ I Stream as a Hobby ◈
Chapter 6: Younger Sibling
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I have one younger brother.
Honestly, I think I practically raised him myself.
As a kid, I’d been just as mature as I was now. Even though I’d still been a little kid myself, how could I not adore my baby brother, who was even younger?
I’d changed his diapers, played with him, and taught him Korean and English. After practically raising him myself, I’d developed a certain ambition.
To turn him into an alpha male.
Around then, I’d looked in the mirror and realized my looks were something special. I’d figured my brother would turn out much the same. I’d given up on it now, but back then, I’d desperately wanted to be an alpha male. So I’d decided to turn him into one and live through him.
“Sis, can’t I go to taekwondo?”
“No. See those older boys over there? That’s where you’re going.”
And so, instead of letting him attend a taekwondo school that mostly served as a daycare, I’d sent him to a jiu-jitsu gym.
“I want to take the after-school puzzle class...”
“If a genius is someone who can achieve things without trying, then I’m afraid you’re not a genius, Aseong.”
“Huh? I’m not a genius?”
“But if a genius is someone who can achieve something through hard work, then you can become a genius, Aseong.”
“Sis, what does that...”
“Join the baseball team and become Suzuki Achiro!”
In elementary school, I’d pushed him off the cliff called the baseball team.
Our elementary school’s baseball team had been so famous that kids transferred from other schools to join it.
My brother Aseong had a build like mine. And I, Ahyeon, had been a successful child model who would take the Korean modeling industry by storm a few years later. He’d fit right into that team and done well.
The jiu-jitsu gym he’d attended since his early elementary school years had probably helped.
Then, after plenty of things had happened over the next few years...
He’d quit baseball because, although he’d settled in, he hadn’t been especially talented. Then an idol agency had scouted him, only for him to run away after three months as a trainee.
After that, he’d completely bombed his college entrance exam and gone to a boarding cram school in another region, saying he’d focus on nothing but studying.
And now that brother of mine... was sitting right in front of me.
“So you’re saying you stream?”
“Yeah. But why the hell did you come in without knocking?”
Kim Aseong, who was kneeling under my glare, frowned.
“But this was my room.”
“...”
“I heard someone using the computer inside, so I just came in.”
Well, I couldn’t really argue with that.
The moment he’d left for a cram school to study for another shot at the exam, I’d turned his empty room into my streaming room.
-??
-This was your brother’s room?
-Lmaooooooo
-Guess he really is her brother lol
For the record, I’d just left the microphone on.
I’d told him not to say my name, and now I was talking to him while clearing things up for the viewers.
After all, once a man’s voice had come through, wouldn’t muting the mic and going silent for ages just lead to weird misunderstandings?
“Ahem, hmm. Anyway, when did you get back?”
“Me? Today.”
“You should’ve told me you were coming. Tsk...”
“But I messaged you...”
“...”
-???
-Pretty sure this is your fault?
-This must fucking suck for him lmao
Oh, had he?
Sigh. Honestly, I must not have checked my phone because I’d been streaming.
“Ahem... You should’ve come for Christmas if you were coming back. So, are you just visiting? How’s studying going?”
“...? I don’t go to that school anymore.”
“?”
I gave him a puzzled look.
He didn’t go there anymore? Why?
For a moment, I remembered his trainee days.
He’d taken one look at the other trainees’ faces, decided he had no chance of debuting, and run off after three months.
The little shit... He couldn’t even stick it out.
For the record, Aseong had a great build like mine, but unfortunately, his facial features were a little different.
That little bit he lacked had put an idol career out of reach.
“Did you run away again...?”
Anyway, that memory had prompted the question, and my brother’s face twisted.
“What are you talking about? Didn’t you hear I did well on the entrance exam?”
“Huh?”
“That’s why I quit the cram school and came home.”
He stared at me as if asking whether I’d seriously forgotten that... and I ended up looking away.
“Ahem, hmm...”
-?
-??
-Lmaooooooo
-This fucker, seriously...
“Wow...”
“No, I did hear.”
Now I remembered.
Mom had definitely mentioned in passing that Aseong had done well on his exam.
But it wasn’t as if I’d been sitting around doing nothing. I’d been busy, hadn’t I?
I’d even just returned from a business trip yesterday.
And most importantly...
“You didn’t come home right after doing well on the exam. That’s why I forgot...”
The new year was almost here.
Wasn’t it his fault I’d forgotten, since he hadn’t come home after supposedly doing so well?
“Wow... So that’s why my room looks like this?”
His mouth hanging open, Aseong gestured around the room.
Since I’d made it into my streaming room, soundproofing pads covered the walls, and an enormous desk held my main PC and streaming PC.
Behind me were the yoga mat I used now and then, along with all kinds of game and comic merchandise.
“Where am I supposed to sleep?”
Seeing what had become of the bedroom he’d spent his school years in, Aseong asked with a hollow look.
I was starting to feel a little awkward myself when I suddenly remembered something our wise mother had said.
‘Aseong’s room? Hmm, we can just clear out the storage room and give him that.’
“Oh! The storage room!”
“Huh?”
“We cleared out the storage room and put your furniture in there.”
“What?”
-???
-How many rooms do you have?
-A proper fucking lady...
It bore repeating that the house our family lived in was a detached house I, Ahyeon, had bought with the money I’d steadily saved since my child-model days.
It wasn’t in Seoul, but in a city in Gyeonggi Province with good transport links. A cozy, pure-white, two-story house.
There were four rooms on the first floor, and three rooms and a terrace on the second. We’d had plenty of rooms to spare, including the storage room and my dressing room.
I remembered now that we’d turned the storage room into my brother’s room.
“Why didn’t you stream from the storage room instead...?”
-Exactly lmaoooo
-Seriously, why??
-Lmaoooo
-What a personality;;
...Well.
This was the second-largest room on the second floor, and it was right next to my bedroom.
Most importantly, the view from the window was fantastic.
In the mornings, office workers passed along the road outside our house on their way to work.
The feeling of looking down at people going to work after I’d spent all night gaming...
“A-anyway, weren’t you asking about a present?”
Of course, I couldn’t tell him that, so I quietly changed the subject.
“A present?”
“Yeah. You think your big sister wouldn’t bring you a present?”
“Wh-what is it?”
At that, Aseong instantly stopped trembling with rage.
The little shit... So materialistic.
-Holy shit
-What’s the present??
-Ooh, what could it be
“All right, first... That clears things up, right, everyone? I’m muting for a second.”
With that, I turned off the microphone.
At this point, nobody would doubt that he was my brother.
-??
-?
-???
-Oh
“What kind of present is it...?”
My brother didn’t care whether the mic was on or off.
He had no interest in livestreaming and didn’t know much about it, either. He just stared straight at me, his eyes full of anticipation.
Unfortunately...
“Sorry. I didn’t actually get you anything.”
“?”
Would I really have bought anything on a business trip where all I could think about was going home?
Roselia seemed to have bought all sorts of things, but unfortunately, I hadn’t brought anything back.
“Wow. Wow. Ha!”
Apparently thinking he’d been tricked, Aseong looked utterly defeated.
He was furious, but I’d been such an untouchable figure to him since we were kids that he couldn’t even get angry with me.
“You can leave now.”
Feeling rather proud of that, I waved him away.
After all, how many of this brat’s diapers had I changed?
“But...”
“Oh, take a watch from my display shelf. It’s a present for doing well on your exam.”
Still, I ought to give him something for that. He was at the age where he cared a lot about his appearance, so he’d get plenty of use out of a watch.
“...Yes, honored sister. Your unworthy little brother will take his leave.”
And so my newly polite brother disappeared, even closing the door quietly behind him.
Tap, tap.
“Ah, can you hear me?”
I turned the microphone back on to resume the stream.
-What was that??
-What present did you give him??
“A present? I didn’t give him anything.”
-??
-?
-? Didn’t you say you would?
“I was lying.”
-Lmaooooooo
-Lmaoooo
-You little shit...
-You’d better give my brother-in-law some pocket money
“Who’s your brother-in-law? Anyway, shall we get back to the game? The dodge penalty’s over.”
There’d been a minor issue, but it was all sorted out now, so I queued up again.
* * *
A few days had passed since my brother came home.
Our household had gone from three people to four, but not much had changed.
He’d lived here before leaving for just a year, and I usually stayed in my room anyway.
Still, if I had to name a difference, life had gotten a little more convenient.
“You’re here?”
“What did you call me for?”
“Go get me coffee. A low-sugar latte.”
I held my card out to Aseong.
The cafe right outside our house made great coffee, but they didn’t deliver.
-Lmaoooooo
-This fucker’s always sending her brother on errands
-Is your brother your lackey??
“Ugh, no. Last time, too...”
“Stop by the convenience store on your way back and get yourself whatever you want.”
“Yes, ma’am. Would you like some low-sugar cake, too?”
“Yes, please.”
-So fucking jealous of the young master...
-An actually rich big sister, holy shit
-Oh lol, fair enough if he gets a cut
“Oh, by the way, why didn’t you come straight home?”
As I handed over the card, something occurred to me.
“Huh? What do you mean?”
“Mom said you left the cram school right after the exam.”
Aseong had been preparing to retake the college entrance exam at a boarding cram school in another region.
Apparently, he’d moved out as soon as he’d taken the exam.
So why hadn’t he come home until late December? When I asked...
“Oh, I broke up with my girlfriend.”
“Huh?”
“I’d been staying with an older girl I met at the cram school... But she kicked me out when we broke up.”
-??
-?
-You wanna die, brother-in-law?
-Fucking lmao
This little fucking...
“Give it back, you little shit.”
“Huh?”
I snatched back the card I’d given him.
This bastard had been living the easy life thanks to having me for an older sister...
I never should’ve started that ten-year master plan to turn him into an alpha male.
Footnotes:
“Suzuki Achiro” echoes the name of Japanese baseball star Ichiro Suzuki, with the first sound of “Ichiro” changed.
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