I Became the Eldest Daughter of 10 Siblings - Chapter 118

Son Yena spoke passionately as if pouring it out:

"Oppa, you're too indecisive!"

"...Huh, what?"

"Like unnie said, it seems like you're deliberately turning a blind eye and pretending not to see even though you know there's a culprit!"

"I... I guess that's how I looked..."

Then she turned her head and looked up at me this time.

Her face looked just like an angry capybara.

"Unnie too!"

"...Huh?"

"Your words were too harsh!"

Her fiery voice pierced my ears.

"Even if that oppa is, huh? Frustrating, huh? Foolish, huh? Slow like a snail, huh? You shouldn't say hurtful things!"

"So-sorry..."

"Don't apologize to me, apologize to oppa!"

I looked at Hyun Junho with a sour expression.

Hyun Junho was moving his lips awkwardly while scratching his cheek.

"Ugh..."

As I hesitated to apologize while rubbing my arm, Son Yena lightly pinched my forearm.

"Hurry!"

I know. I know.

"I'm sor..."

I should apologize.

I should say it was a slip of the tongue.

But the words "I'm sorry" wouldn't come out.

"I'm sor... ry..."

It's impossible.

"..."

This is strange.

Why can't I say it?

No, why do I dislike doing it so much?

...Looking back, it's like this.

I'm doing all I can to support the team, but he's the one who poured cold water on it and added insult to injury!

And it wasn't particularly wrong either.

This all came from worrying about him, so why should I apologize?

If there was a black box for conversations like in car dashcams, his share of the fault would be bigger.

It's irritating. I don't want to do it. I won't do it.

"Hmph."

I put on a brazen expression and made an excuse nonchalantly:

"I didn't say anything wrong, so."

"...Huh?"

Son Yena blinked in disbelief at my words.

"This unnie is being really stubborn today."

Then after thinking for a moment, she suddenly asked me:

"Is it that time of the month?"

What, what is this kid saying...!

"Why are you bringing that up now?!"

"You're being extra prickly today."

"I-I'm the same as usual!"

Son Yena shook her head firmly.

"No. Seeing how unusually cold you're being to that oppa today, it's very strange. Unnie, what's going on?"

"Nothing's going on!"

"Then apologize!"

"No matter what you say, I'm not going to apologize."

"...That's how it is, oppa. This unnie is sensitive today, so just think of it as stepping in dog poop and let it go."

Hyun Junho smiled awkwardly.

"It's okay, I don't need an apology..."

Then he awkwardly spoke while holding up the dessert box he was carrying:

"Shall we eat the dessert before it gets cold?"

"Oh, sounds good!"

Hearing that, I shook my head with a blank expression.

"...I'll pass."

"Why?"

Hyun Junho tilted his head.

"Yujin-ssi, you love sweet things more than anything in the world. I barely bought this after waiting in line at a good place."

"That's right. Everyone in the country knows unnie is a bread addict, so why are you being like this all of a sudden?"

"Ah, geez! I'm not eating it!"

Because it feels like I'll lose if I just accept and eat that right now.

Plus, my molar that had been throbbing since morning hurt even more.

"Then Yena will eat, right?"

Hyun Junho smiled brightly at Son Yena and said.

"Of course! I've already emptied my stomach!"

This little traitor...

I puffed out my cheeks and grabbed Son Yena's collar.

"Yena. Don't eat it."

"Huh? Why not?"

"If you eat food brought by a humanist, you'll become stupid too."

"This unnie is acting up again."

"Anyway, no. Don't eat it."

"But it's hard to resist dessert..."

Then, Hyun Junho, who had been quietly listening, waved his hand like a barker and tempted Son Yena:

"Yena. This is really amazing. Especially the bagel is delicious. Black olives with cheese lightly sprinkled."

Son Yena licked her lips.

"Black olives with cheese lightly sprinkled...?"

"Can you resist this?"

"Aaah, I can't resist!"

"Then, then. You need to eat to have energy, and to catch the culprit too! Right?"

Son Yena nodded.

"That's right, that's right. Then I should eat."

Hyun Junho, hearing the answer, flashed a victorious smile. While making eye contact with me.

This isn't even teasing anyone...

"Yena."

"Ah, what now."

I cleared my throat and counterattacked.

"Should you follow a strange ajusshi just because he bought you something delicious?"

"I shouldn't."

"Right? You shouldn't follow a strange ajusshi who's tempting you. Let's go out and eat something even more delicious. Unnie will buy it for you."

"Eh... really?! Ah, what should I do."

Son Yena stood between me and Hyun Junho, wavering.

She looked just like a child pondering whether to follow mom or dad.

"Yena. I can hear the dessert getting cold. It's delicious when it's warm."

"Son Yena, you... After telling me to go all the way this morning, if you dare go eat dessert after being tempted first..."

"Can you give up the mentaiko baguette? Sweet and salty. It's so delicious."

"Don't fall for that person's sweet talk."

"Yena?"

"Yena?"

"Eat it and come."

"Don't eat it."

"Eat it and come!"

"Don't eat it!"

My words and Hyun Junho's words went back and forth sharply like a rally in table tennis.

"Ah, I'm really going to get neurosis!"

Son Yena covered her ears and shouted.

"Quickly either reconcile or divorce! I'm not a shrimp between whales, my legs are really going to split!"

"..."

"..."

The noisy hallway became solemn.

"Um..."

Hyun Junho, who had been glancing at me, stammered:

"Yujin-ssi, are you really not going to eat?"

"Hmph."

I laughed through my nose and turned my head coldly.

As if anyone would fall for such a trick.

"What are you saying. I'd rather starve than eat dessert you brought."

"...It's macarons though?"

Ma-macarons...?

"There's blueberry flavor, chocolate flavor, and strawberry flavor."

"...Ahem."

No! Don't waver!

This is a fool's temptation!

"They're even chubby macarons, so they're big."

"...Heh."

I can't resist chubby macarons.

"Unnie!"

Son Yena slapped my back.

"...Huh?"

Oops! That was close!

When I came to my senses, I was following behind Hyun Junho like a child following the Pied Piper.

"Oppa, no, Dessert-nim. I'm sorry."

Son Yena apologized while looking at the dessert box, rubbing her hands together.

"I'll follow this stupid unnie."

Mine and Hyun Junho's expressions were polar opposites.

I smiled and said:

"...Th-that's right! People should have loyalty! Our Yena is the best!"

"You'll regret it later..."

"You go play house while eating your dessert. Shoo shoo."

"...Yena, take care."

Hyun Junho clicked his tongue and entered the practice room.

"Unnie."

"...Yes?"

Son Yena looked up at me with a prim face.

"You know, right? I gave up that dessert and chose you."

"Of course I know!"

"So take responsibility for me."

"...Huh?"

"Take responsibility."

"...Uh..."

Of course I'll take responsibility...

But when you say that while rubbing your lower belly.

The picture looks a bit, strange, doesn't it.

I came to a conclusion.

Let's try a different approach.

If I can't approach the build leaker, let's make it so the build leaker can't help but approach me.

To catch a mouse hiding in a mouse hole, you need a mousetrap with delicious bait.

So I came.

To a PC bang.

"Geez."

Son Yena glared at me.

"I gave up dessert and followed you, but it's just a PC bang? This isn't marriage fraud, it's dessert fraud!"

"This isn't just any PC bang."

"What, is there an underground city if we dig?"

"It's famous for jjagaechi. They even have couple rooms."

Hearing my words, Son Yena shook her head.

"They say there's no one to trust in this world. If I had followed that oppa, I could have at least tasted expensive dessert!"

After grumbling like that, she looked around and asked:

"So why did we come here? We don't have time to spare to catch the culprit."

"What else? We came to catch the culprit."

"...You came to catch them?"

"Yes."

We entered a couple room.

As soon as Son Yena sat down and turned on the computer, she checked the menu first.

"I'll have jjagaechi, iced tea, bulgogi hot dog, sundae, flat dumplings, and cheese rose tteokbokki."

"...Is it okay to overeat like that?"

"What can I do when my appetite is surging from the stress you caused me, unnie."

She's completely lost it.

Anyone who saw this would think this was a 5-person room, not a 2-person room.

I knew she had a good appetite, but it seems she can eat even more than I thought.

"What about you, unnie?"

"I'm not eating."

"Why? Are you on a diet?"

"No. My tooth hurts."

"Why does your tooth hurt?"

"I don't know. Maybe a cavity."

Son Yena, who had been blinking, laughed "Pfft."

"It's not a cavity, it's your wisdom tooth, right?"

"No way... it's not a wisdom tooth."

"If it's in the molar area, it's probably a wisdom tooth."

...As if.

I didn't even get wisdom teeth when I was a man.

Son Yena nudged my waist with her elbow and asked subtly:

"Unnie, you've found someone you like, right? Right?"

"I don't cultivate things like that."

"Don't tell me unnie... because of me?"

Stop getting excited. Let's just not talk.

Wait a moment, the PC bang part-timer came with a tray of food.

She looked quite surprised to see two women with their faces completely covered by masks and hats in a 2-person room.

Looking at the order slip, she probably imagined two burly men like Cha Eunwoo were here, so she must be bewildered that it's completely different from her expectations.

"Are you really not going to eat?"

"I'm not eating."

"Just don't ask for a bite later."

As soon as she opened the wooden chopsticks, Son Yena's mukbang parade began.

Watching her inhale the richly set meal like the wind blowing away a crab's eyes, well.

She's like a baby hippo.

"Unnie."

Son Yena said while chewing her food.

"Now tell me clearly. Why on earth did we come to a PC bang?"

I pondered for a moment on how to start, then opened my mouth.

"We're going to make replays now. About twenty of them."

"...What? That many?"

"Yes. We'll make replays that are exactly the same as real matches, from the game content to the results. I roughly wrote down the flow of the games, so you just need to play according to what's written."

To get a bite, the bait needs to be good too.

The most coveted item for the build leaker would be my replay files.

Han Yujin replay files that can't be bought or sold on the black market site because there's no supply, and they're worth whatever price is named.

So I was planning to deliberately release my replays to lure out the build leaker.

We need to try to see if that guy under the surface will bite the fishing rod or not.

"Unnie. 20 replays would take 3 hours and 20 minutes even if each match is only 10 minutes."

"If it takes 3 hours and 20 minutes of effort to catch the leaker, that's getting off easy."

"Still, I don't really understand. What exactly are you planning to do by making so many replays?"

I wiped the sauce off Son Yena's lips with a tissue and said:

"Don't just ask, think for yourself."

"Hmm..."

While waiting for Son Yena to finish eating, I logged into the fan cafe after a long time.

As soon as I entered, there was a notice post that caught my attention. It had tons of comments too.

[Title: Because there were so many requests...]

[Author: Han Sejun]

There were too many people requesting photos or videos of our noona when she was young, so after discussing with the family, we'll release just a few.

I'm warning you before uploading.

I saw them first, and this noona had quite a temper since she was young, so it makes me want to beat her up. Elderly, pregnant women, and those with high blood pressure, please be cautious when viewing.

This, this punk...

How dare he sell out his heaven-sent eldest sister?!

While pondering how to thoroughly scold this kid when I get home.

I was also secretly curious.

What Han Yujin was like before I became a woman... that is, before turning 20.

The title of another post written by Han Sejun caught my eye.

[Title: Noona's high school graduation photo]

[Author: Han Sejun]

If it's a high school graduation photo...

It would be around March last year, right?

Since I suddenly became a woman this March, it would be a graduation photo taken completely without my consent.

I'm curious. How I would have looked.

I pressed on the post while suppressing my pounding heartbeat.

Then,

There's one crazy girl.

Me, wearing a flower crown made of wildflowers on my head, with a cherry blossom tucked behind my ear, neatly dressed in a school uniform.

...It's light-years away, light-years.

Still, I can accept this much as the whim of a flowering 19-year-old high school girl.

But what's really outrageous is...

The me in the graduation photo was holding a white sketchbook.

And on that sketchbook,

[Your wife's peak era]

...was written.

As soon as I saw that, vulgar curses automatically burst out of my mouth.

"Are you crazy, you total psycho!"

"Wow, unnie, you're so pretty!"

Pretty my ass! At this level, it's not a peak era but a self-made dark history!

I touched my flushed cheeks and carefully checked the comments.

-Oh

-Emergency alert crazy girl spotted in Jamsil lol

-Omgomgomgreallyunbelievabletoosuperduper beautiful I'm gonna die from cuteness she's the prettiest Korean I've ever seen unnie I love you...

-Hehehe wife come here!

-Wow

-So good so good HOLY

-GOAT

-Can I get the info on the blusher, lip, and lens...??

-From now on I hope they use this unnie's photo for eye exams legally

└I have minus vision but if they use Han Yujin's photo for the exam I think I'd get 2.0 vision...

└Lol that's so cheesy but funny

-My wife is so fcking pretty ;

-I clicked on the post in a trance as soon as I saw the thumbnail because she's so pretty...

-Directly confronting plastic surgery rumors lol

-Your husband confirmed

-She's so fcking pretty damn

-She was a total insider fck

-Ah she's so pretty,,, I feel like she'd run around the playground like a rabbit after lunch,,,

-Is it an insider template to take graduation photos with a cherry blossom tucked behind your ear?

-Gasp

-Too pretty,,, Could you please upload a high quality version so I can use it as my iPhone profile pic...? (shrinking)

└I gave you the link

└Fck why is it a grandma photo --

-In all my life this is the first time I've seen someone take a graduation photo wearing a flower crown on their head lol

-Flower head lol

-Natural beauty agreed

-Roman emperors wear laurel wreaths, Jesus wears a crown of thorns, HaYoo wears a daisy crown.

-(Youth is such a good thing...)

-Honey!

-She looks so fresh..

-Somehow she seems more lively than now

└Because it's before she became a wife..ㅠ

-Top tier unrequited love target

-(She's ripened well..)

-Honestly if we were in the same high school I probably couldn't have said a word to her...ㅠㅠ

-Her face is exactly... the face of someone who would cutely borrow 100 won in front of the school store...

└PTSD suddenly hits

└For real lol she has a face that looks like she'd be good at mooching;;

└She actually is good at mooching with her collection skills

Oh, the reactions aren't bad...?

Still, I clicked on the next post half in doubt.

[Title: Mini HaYoo asking to remove watermelon seeds]

[Author: Han Sejun]

This time it was a video.

The video date is written in the bottom right corner.

15 years ago from now.

So when I was five years old, the same age as the quadruplets.

When I pressed the play button, I heard a nostalgic voice I hadn't heard in a long time.

[Yu-jin! Let's eat watermelon!]

A young mom's voice.

...I miss mom.

[Mmm...?]

The young me in the video is wearing dirty pajamas and rubbing my eyes.

With a small body like a lark and puffy cheeks, I have to admit it's cute even to me.

But my lips are sticking out like a duck's bill as if there's something I don't like.

[Yujin, what's wrong?]

[Seeds...]

[Hm?]

[Watermelon seeds...]

[What about the watermelon seeds?]

[Watermelon seeds... take out.]

[This kid, really! Look at Sejun next to you!]

4-year-old Han Sejun is eating watermelon while diligently chewing with his mouth.

The mom in the video shouted loudly:

[Sejun removes the watermelon seeds well too, but is it okay for the eldest daughter to be like this?]

[But, Yuji doesn't like hard things.]

[...Sigh, this kid really.]

The video ended with the sound of mom's sigh.

Son Yena held her stomach and burst out laughing.

"Pfft! It's exactly the same as what Bom does, exactly! Even how you look is the same."

Ugh... I'm really upset but I can't deny it.

Enough! Next post!

[Title: 10-year-old HaYoo meeting player Kang Yohan]

[Author: Han Sejun]

This is an old video too.

10 years ago.

It looks like a stadium, judging by how noisy it is.

[Player Kang Yohan!]

A husky voice with a subtle dialect mixed in.

This time it was dad's voice.

[Our daughter is a devoted fan of Pro Kang. She can't take her eyes off the TV when Player Kang Yohan is playing.]

[Really? I'm so touched!]

[Please give us one autograph.]

[Oh, of course!]

...Oh?

It's a young Kang Yohan player. Since it's 10 years ago, he must be 20 years old, the same age as me now.

But it's really strange.

Of course I was originally a man, and it's common for men to admire athletes or pro gamers.

But I didn't know that even as a woman, I was a devoted fan of player Kang Yohan.

To even bring a uniform and go to an off-season game means I was a really devoted fan...

[Hello?]

His characteristic friendly and cheerful laugh.

Kang Yohan discovered me and waved with a big smile.

[Your daughter is so prettily beautiful. What's her name?]

Then I blushed and hid behind dad's legs while quietly answering.

[Han Yujin...]

[Yujin! Your name is as pretty as your face. Where should I sign?]

The me in the video fidgeted and held out the uniform.

Kang Yohan received the uniform with a smile on his face and signed it carefully.

[There, is that okay?]

[Please sign here too...]

[...Huh?]

I tucked my hair behind my ear and held out one cheek.

[Ch-cheek? You want me to sign your cheek?]

[Yes!]

[...Father?]

The young Kang Yohan in the video is sending desperate eye signals to dad.

Asking if it's okay to sign here.

Dad sighed and said:

[Yujin is the most peculiar and stubborn in our house, so you can just do it.]

[...Father, I'm holding a permanent marker so it'll be hard to erase.]

[Yujin. He says it won't erase?]

At dad's question, I gave a thumbs up.

[I like it better if it doesn't erase!]

[That's what she says?]

[...]

Kang Yohan looked back and forth between dad and me in bewilderment, then finally signed my cheek.

[Is, is that okay...?]

[Mmm....]

I looked around unsatisfied, as if it wasn't enough, with my finger in my mouth.

Then, I lifted up the t-shirt I was wearing and showed my belly button.

[Here too!]

[...Wh-what?!]

Kang Yohan's eyes shook.

Dad who was filming hurriedly tried to stop me.

[Ki-kid, why are you acting like this today?! Oh my, I'm so sorry Pro Kang. She tends to go overboard sometimes, please understand generously.]

[Ahaha... she's quite unique.]

Dad spoke to Kang Yohan in a heavily accented tone, as if complaining:

[Yujin says she's going to become a pro gamer following Player Kang Yohan, it's causing an uproar, an uproar.]

[Gasp, really?]

[Please scold her firmly.]

[No, why would I scold her?]

Kang Yohan bent down to meet my eye level and smiled brightly.

[Yujin.]

[Yes?]

He held out his pinky finger.

[Then let's meet at the stadium as player vs player next time. Promise.]

[...]

After hesitating for a moment, I hooked my finger and smiled brightly.

[Okay! Promise!]

The video ended like that.

"..."

So this happened.

How should I put it. I felt a strange feeling.

An indescribable, mysterious feeling.

I checked the comments again.

-Is this some kind of grooming story?

└No no it could be reverse grooming too...

-The signing looks like signing a slave contract lol

-Belly button signature ㅗㅜㅑ

-The killing point of this video is HaYoo's father being so fed up with Han Yujin's antics that he's just like whatever lol

└Kang Yohan's expression watching this problematic father-daughter pair is so funny too lolololol

-The girl who was like this is now...

└Has become my wife...

└Stop that BS

└Has become a tool to help me win...

└Lololololol

-Wow I'm so moved,,,

-This is such a harmless video

-There was this kind of backstory?????

-The player she was a fan of since childhood is now treated as a has-been. So I have to make that player win myself.

└Wow wow wow epic story wow

└For real if HaYoo makes the Emperor win GSL it would be a legendary story

-Even pure love isn't this pure,,,

-Where does Kang Yohan go for skincare? This guy doesn't age at all...

└But his skills are washed up right? He's aged right?

└Hey lol he made it to GSL round of 8 so he's not washed up

-This girl really has a different vibe in how she plays with men from the start

I was reading the comments carefully when Son Yena, who had been drinking iced tea, smiled warmly and said:

"By the way, it seems your family has a taste for pure country boy types?"

"What are you suddenly talking about..."

"You were a fan of senior Kang Yohan, and Bom likes senior Hyun Junho. The sisters like similar looking handsome guys in pairs."

"It's not like that..."

The words coming out of my mouth stopped abruptly.

Now even I was starting to get confused.

Is, is it really like that...?

Was that my taste...?

...Aaah, no!

Get a hold of yourself, Han Yujin!

There's no romance in this life.

Even if there is, absolutely not with a man!

Goosebumps rose on my forearm.

Ugh, it's creepy...

I hurriedly changed the topic of conversation while sprinkling the salt that came with the sundae on my body.

"Yena. Are you done eating?"

"Yes. I cleaned up even the sauce."

"Are you ready?"

"Yes, no problem."

"Okay, come in."

I lightly rotated my wrists after interlocking my fingers.

Well then...

Shall we try to catch the culprit now?