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Chapter 66
Translator: Enuma ID
The moment Park Ji-hun woke up, he reached for his phone out of habit.
As always, the lock screen was buried under a pile of notifications from the Fan Cafe and comments on YouTube.
“......Maybe I should turn the alerts off.”
Muttering to himself, he opened the YouTube app first.
Е̂ n̄ ü m̄ а . i̊d̀
He went into the channel management screen, and the subscriber count that caught his eye looked wrong.
[487,121 subscribers]
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Park Ji-hun narrowed his brow.
“......Huh?”
The subscribers had been climbing fast lately, but not like this.
The pace kept accelerating.
Еnum а̇
Nearly 300,000 had joined overnight alone.
The most recent clip to go up was a piece of yesterday's broadcast.
[The reason he told a foreign viewer to "go back to your mother"? (ENG SUB)]
The editor seemed to have added English subtitles too.
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The comment section had a fair number of English comments mixed in among the Korean ones.
-what does it mean that he came to observe?
Ẃ.е̂ b nōvè l Еn̈ u m а̂
-I don't get it. Why did the guy leave?
-that foreigner definitely understood korean right?
-editor wyd upload the full version already
-Is this staged?
-wonder if the foreigner will post a review too lol
Scrolling through the comments, Park Ji-hun let out a dry laugh.
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“Might hit a million subscribers before the Silver Button even gets here.”
That was how steep the growth curve had gotten.
The mood over on the Fan Cafe wasn't much different.
[Already almost 500,000 subscribers, damn]
[so when's the full version dropping?]
[Any broadcast on Christmas?]
Е̌num̀а
[If he takes Christmas off I'm mailing him fried dumplings]
Park Ji-hun was skimming the posts on the Fan Cafe when it happened.
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A call came in.
It was Mom.
“Honey, you up?”
“Yeah, just now. How about you, Mom?”
W ē bn оv еl̀ E n̆ úm̈å
“I'm at Seoul Station right now.”
Park Ji-hun asked in a dazed voice.
“Seoul Station?”
“Mm. The girls said we should go to Gangneung for Christmas Eve, so I came to catch a train.”
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“Oh, really? When are you coming back?”
“Just an overnight trip. Are you broadcasting today too, honey?”
W e b ǹ о̆ v̆ е́l̆ Е̇ n̈ŭm̃á
“No. I'm taking the day off.”
“Anyone you're seeing?”
“......Have a safe trip.”
Only after he hung up with his mom did it hit Park Ji-hun that today was Christmas Eve.
He opened a delivery app, ordered a pizza, and put on the shows he'd fallen behind on.
Christmas Eve or not, a pizza eaten alone didn't taste all that different.
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“Mm, not bad.”
That was when it happened.
His phone rang.
[Kim Woo-sik]
Park Ji-hun hit the call button.
“What's up?”
Ën̂ um̌ а̇ .і̊d̄
“What are you doing today?”
“Me? Eating pizza right now.”
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“By yourself?”
“Yeah. Who else would I be eating with.”
Kim Woo-sik said,
“You've got the evening off, right? If you've got nothing going on, come over to my place.”
Èn ü m а́
“Your place? You're not seeing your girlfriend?”
“Hee-yeon went to Japan with her family. So I'm Solo Christmas too.” [TL Note: "Solo Christmas" is Korean internet slang for spending Christmas single or alone.]
Park Ji-hun snorted.
“Guess we're both Solo Christmas.”
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“Nope. I'm involuntary Solo Christmas. You're voluntary Solo Christmas.”
“Shut up.”
Еn um̌ а .ї d
“So are you coming or not? There's a guest, you know.”
“A guest?”
Park Ji-hun's ears perked up.
He asked, slyly.
“Is she pretty?”
***
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Outside, it was fully Christmas.
Park Ji-hun bought a cake from the neighborhood bakery and headed to Woo-sik's place.
Stepping inside, he stopped short at the sight of the person sitting in the living room.
“Wait, what? Editor-nim's here too?”
It was Lee Min-hyuk.
Lee Min-hyuk looked flustered too.
E n u m̄ӓ . і̊ d
“Ah, I just got here as well.”
Just then Kim Woo-sik came out of the back room and said,
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“Oh, you're here? What'd you buy?”
“It's Christmas. I brought a cake, obviously.”
“Yeah? Nice.”
“More to the point, where's the guest?”
Е̊ n̈u.m a
Woo-sik shrugged and pointed at Lee Min-hyuk.
“The guest's right there.”
“.......”
Park Ji-hun sighed and sat down.
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“Ugh, I knew I shouldn't have trusted you.”
Lee Min-hyuk asked with an awkward look.
Е̊ ň um a
“Did I do something wrong?”
Kim Woo-sik waved his hand right away.
“It's nothing like that. This idiot just got the wrong idea on his own. Anyway, what should we eat? My treat.”
“Let's order the most expensive thing. Editor-nim, how about sashimi?”
“Come on, sashimi in the dead of winter?”
“You said you're paying.”
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“Just order chicken.”
The two bickered as they placed the order.
Christmas Eve or not, there was nothing special about it.
Just three men gathered together, eating delivery food.
Kim Woo-sik cracked open a can of beer and asked,
“So how many subscribers you at right now?”
Е̂ núm̂å. і̃ d
“Little over 480,000 when I checked this morning.”
“Insane. Already? I'm only at 300,000.”
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Lee Min-hyuk opened his laptop and said,
“It's probably higher now.”
They went into the channel management screen, and the number had already changed.
[499,992 subscribers]
W̆ е bn̊ о̆ v̌ е l Е̃ nŭ m̌ a
Kim Woo-sik froze with the beer can in his hand.
“Huh? It's almost 500,000?”
“It is.”
He refreshed the page, and the number changed.
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[499,998 subscribers]
“It's about to break half a million.”
Е n̆um а̇ . і̌d
Lee Min-hyuk refreshed once more.
[500,000 subscribers]
Kim Woo-sik let out a dry laugh.
“No way, wasn't it just the other day you said you were applying for the Silver Button? It went up this much in a single day?”
Lee Min-hyuk answered.
“The influx of overseas viewers was huge. And they're still coming in steadily from abroad.”
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Kim Woo-sik raised his beer can.
“Congrats on becoming a 500,000-sub YouTuber.”
“Congratulations, Ji-hun-nim.”
As Lee Min-hyuk raised his can too, Park Ji-hun smiled and clinked his own against theirs.
“Thank you.”
Clink.
Ӗ ñǔ m̈а̊.iď.
They kept talking for a good while after that.
Then Kim Woo-sik looked at Lee Min-hyuk and asked, casually,
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“Min-hyuk-ssi, isn't it about time you dropped the formalities with us? From now on just call us hyung. Ji-hun-hyung, Woo-sik-hyung. Clean and simple.”
Lee Min-hyuk paused for a moment, then answered.
“No, thank you. I'm comfortable the way things are.”
“Aw, come on, it's fine.......”
Ѐñ ǔ m̊а̃
“It's not that. It's so I can work here for a long time.”
Park Ji-hun laughed.
“Ignore that guy and do whatever's comfortable.”
“Yes, I'll keep things as they are, then.”
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Just then Kim Woo-sik asked, as if it had suddenly occurred to him,
“Come to think of it, Min-hyuk-ssi, you never get a Spirit Reading from Ji-hun?”
W̄ е̃b́ n о v́ е̂ l̊ Е̊_ňúḿ a
Lee Min-hyuk shook his head right away.
“I'm fine.”
“Why not? You're the editor, so ask him for a private one sometime.”
“Wouldn't a free one feel more unsettling, actually?”
Kim Woo-sik set his beer can down and muttered,
“Fair. A Free Spirit Reading is the scariest kind.”
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A short laugh passed between them.
A little later, Lee Min-hyuk looked at Park Ji-hun and asked,
“By the way, is tomorrow an off day for you too?”
Park Ji-hun sank into thought.
He'd originally planned to rest tomorrow as well.
The truth was, he'd been running himself ragged these past few days.
Ĕ nǔ m̄ а. і̆ d́
But he'd just crossed 500,000 subscribers.
That nagged at him.
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Woo-sik said,
“You've gotta go live to celebrate hitting 500,000. Right?”
“I think that would be good too.”
Park Ji-hun looked at the laptop screen again.
Wëb̆ ń о́vе̊ l Е̌ n u̇ m̆ â
The subscriber count had already reached 504,187.
“Guess I'll go live.”
He wrote up an announcement then and there and posted it to the Fan Cafe.
[Thank you for 500,000 subscribers. I'll go live tomorrow.]
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The comments started rolling in immediately.
-Ertel : whoa, Christmas broadcast confirmed
Ẃ e̊ḃn o̊vе ĺ E numa
-LegendDrumBarrel : 500k celebration stream, damn
-Kkoka : isn't he only streaming bc it's Solo Christmas?
-BongcheonFireFist : the Broadcaster was on our side after all
-SsomyeonMaster : I hereby withdraw the fried dumplings
-GonggiriZ : if you catch a free one, even Santa's gotta run
The response was red-hot.
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And the next evening.
Christmas Day itself.
Park Ji-hun went live as promised.
[PerpetualJobSeeker-nim's broadcast has started.]
***
The moment the broadcast went live, the chat started scrolling fast.
W е̂b̌nō v е l̃ Е n̄ ǔ m̆ӑ
-Ertel : Merry Christmas
-LegendDrumBarrel : the 500,000-sub YouTuber's here lolol
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-Kkoka : clocking in for Solo Christmas, gj gj gj
-Mercury_91 : Merry Christmas!
-BongcheonFireFist : so the Broadcaster had nothing to do on Christmas after all
-GonggiriZ : congrats on 500,000 subscribers
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Park Ji-hun looked at the chat and said,
“Merry Christmas, everyone. And thank you all for celebrating 500,000 subscribers with me.”
Then Park Ji-hun pulled up the request screen.
Off to one side of the screen sat a window he'd never seen before.
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A big Christmas tree.
The tree didn't have a single ornament on it yet.
Wѐb n оv̄еl Е ñum̆ а
Instead, a newly changed notice was displayed at the bottom of the screen.
[Press the request button and your nickname will be turned into an ornament and hung on the tree.]
[The owner of each ornament stays hidden until it's clicked.]
Park Ji-hun looked at the chat and said,
“The new patch added a Christmas skin. Let me give it a try.”
Park Ji-hun activated the request button.
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[Requests are now open.]
With that, the viewers began sending in requests one by one.
Each time, an ornament was hung on the tree. Before even a few minutes had passed, the tree was packed full. Every nickname was hidden.
Watching it, Park Ji-hun moved his mouse.
“All right, let me open one.”
He clicked an ornament hanging near the middle of the tree.
Е̃ nŭm̀_а
Jingle.
A little sound effect rang out, like a small bell.
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The ornament sparkled briefly, and a nickname surfaced above it.
[Yurehil]
A familiar nickname.
The chat reacted at once.
W̆ёb̆ n̂ oṽе̌ľ E n um̀ а́
-Ertel : oh it's that person from before
-LegendDrumBarrel : the one who said they were working over Christmas, right?
-Kkoka : the one he told to do the mascot costume instead of the popup, yeah
A moment later, the Discord call connected.
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“Ha, hi there.”
A sigh came through the second it connected.
Еnū m̌ а̌ . іd
Park Ji-hun said,
“Looks like you went for the mascot costume job. It's Royal Land, right?”
“Yes, that's right. It's just as rough over here, honestly. But I never thought I'd get picked again!”
His Divine Sight had already opened.
A hazy scene overlaid his vision.
Flashing lights.
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An amusement park packed with people.
The laughter of children chattering away.
A big mascot costume set down in one corner of a break room.
And a clear liquid spreading across the floor.
“Before you put the costume on, check the floor of the corridor first.”
“Why's that?”
W е̇b n̂o v̆е̊ ľ Е̌ň_ũ m̈ а
“It's wet there. Go out like that and you'll slip and break your arm.”
“......Hold on. Let me check right now.”
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A moment later Yurehil came back and said,
“Wow, it really is wet.”
“Yeah. Wipe it up so you don't slip.”
Yurehil answered,
Е ǹùmа
“I almost took a spill and snapped my arm for nothing. Thank you.”
“Anything you want to ask?”
“I graduate next year, so I'm wondering if I'll be able to land a job.”
Park Ji-hun cut in sharply.
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“It won't happen on the first try.”
Yurehil's voice went small.
Е̂ ñu m а
“You mean I'll get rejected?”
Park Ji-hun opened his mouth.
“See it through. As long as you don't give up partway, you'll get in before the year's out.”
“Thank you. That really means a lot!”
“And don't buy the sweet potato kind for your father's birthday cake.”
“Got it!”
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Once the Discord call dropped, Park Ji-hun went on.
“Next.”
***
Park Ji-hun moved his mouse back toward the tree.
The Christmas tree, packed full of ornaments, glittered off to one side of the screen.
That was when it happened.
W̄ е̂ ḃǹо̆v̂ el̂ Е ǹ.um̆а̌
The Discord DM window he'd left up on his secondary monitor flashed.
[I'm at a department store right now and a child has gone missing. Could you take a quick look.]
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The one who sent the DM was Detective Park Dong-hyun.
Park Ji-hun narrowed his brow.
He scanned the viewer list.
[NightWalk]
Е númа. і́ d̈
Park Dong-hyun was already in the chat.
Park Ji-hun spoke into the mic.
“Hold on.”
The flow of the chat shifted.
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-Ertel : what's going on
-LegendDrumBarrel : something happen?
Ẽň ů m а
-BongcheonFireFist : what is it all of a sudden
-GonggiriZ : this smells like a Free Spirit Reading
Park Ji-hun immediately called Park Dong-hyun over on Discord.
A moment later, the call connected.
“May I go ahead?”
Park Dong-hyun's voice was pitched lower than usual.
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Park Ji-hun ran his eyes over the chat once, then said, curt.
“Keep it short.”
“I'm off duty today and I'm at a department store. There's been an announcement about a missing child playing over and over.”
The chat stirred.
-Kkoka : a kid?
-LegendDrumBarrel : what, a lost child?
Ěn̂ú m̂.а́
-SsomyeonMaster : a department store on Christmas is gonna be packed as hell
-GonggiriZ : didn't they just wander off?
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Park Dong-hyun pressed on quickly.
“At first I figured they'd find the kid right away, but the mood's off. The staff are running around, and the police are moving too.”
In that instant, Park Ji-hun's gaze wavered.
Bright lights.
Ẃ_ě b̄ n о v̀è l̀ Ѐ n̆ u̇ m̊а
Christmas carols.
A crowded event floor.
Red clothes and a white beard.
A closed door.
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A wet floor.
And hair scattering across the floor.
É n ü m a . î d̄
Park Ji-hun's expression went hard.
The chat didn't miss the change either.
-Ertel : his face changed
-LegendDrumBarrel : looks like he saw something
-BongcheonFireFist : ah shit this suddenly feels off
Park Ji-hun parted his lips.
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“That child isn't there.”
The other end of the Discord went quiet for a moment.
Then Park Dong-hyun asked,
“What do you mean?”
“Search the way the announcement says and you won't find the kid.”
Park Ji-hun wasn't looking at the chat.
Ё n_umа̄
His gaze was already fixed on somewhere else entirely.
“Go to the fourth floor.”
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“The fourth floor?”
“Go to the family restroom.”
The chat started scrolling like crazy.
-Kkoka : the family restroom?
Wё b n̂о̂ vel̈ Е ñ ù m̀ӑ
-GonggiriZ : this is dangerous, right
-SsomyeonMaster : hurry, Detective-nim
Park Dong-hyun didn't ask anything more.
“Understood. I'm heading there now.”
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The rough scuffle of footsteps mixed in over Discord as he seemed to move.
Park Ji-hun kept his mouth shut for a beat.
W е̃_bn о̇v е̄l̆ E̊ǹuma
Then he spoke again.
“That woman.”
Park Dong-hyun asked back,
“A woman took the child?”
Park Ji-hun narrowed his eyes.
Inside the closed door.
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A terrified child.
Hair scattering across the wet floor.
A pink coat being hurriedly folded up.
A black coat and a hat.
The words came out of Park Ji-hun's mouth before anything else.
“That little girl, her hair's been cut off.”
Ěn u̇mа̂
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