Chapter 100 – 100Th Episode – The Journey Of Extraction (3)
The food at the Western-style restaurant Delia chose was quite to my liking.
Perhaps because it was inside the airport, the prices felt higher than at regular restaurants.
But seeing Delia happily munching on her pasta with a blissful expression, I couldn’t help but think that the price didn’t matter at all.
Besides, the food was better because it was more expensive.
“Hey, we have a lot of time left, should we go inside ahead of time?”
“Yeah, let’s do that.”
Although there were still almost two hours left before our flight, we went through security and entered the gate area.
We had already exchanged $1,000 each in advance and given the cash to Sujeong and Delia.
It might be a bit short, but since we could pay with Mastercard overseas anyway, we wouldn’t need much cash.
Sujeong already had a Mastercard, and Delia was able to get a bank account and card in her name as soon as she got her ID.
I deposited 5 million won into Delia’s account.
Once the cafe interior is finished and we officially open, and I hire Delia as my secretary, I can start paying her a good salary.
Though, she’ll probably be more for eye candy and sex than actual secretary work…
“Jinhyeon, if there’s anything you want, I’ll buy it for you. Pick something. Should I buy something for Delia too? How about this?”
Sujeong dragged me and Delia around the various duty-free shops, going into shopping mode.
Delia followed Sujeong around, sharing her opinions on what was good and what wasn’t.
“I’ll just sit at the gate.”
“Whyyy~ let’s look around together.”
“Shopping is boring…”
“Hmph.”
Sujeong pouted, then said she’d go with Delia, and the two of them wandered around the airport duty-free shops.
Well, they showed up about 20 minutes later, saying there wasn’t much to buy, and stuck themselves right next to me.
Sujeong and Delia were glued to me, each looking at their phones.
It was quite a sight, two stunning beauties leaning their heads on a man’s shoulders, and people nearby kept glancing at us.
I was browsing web novels when I turned my head at the sound of Sujeong giggling beside me.
“What are you watching?”
I tapped Sujeong with my finger, and she took out one of her earphones, smiling.
“Huh? Oh. Mytube.”
Sujeong turned her phone slightly to show me the screen.
On the screen, a female streamer was playing an FPS game with a crazed expression.
“Do you want to watch, Jinhyeon?”
I instinctively nodded.
Sujeong gently put one of her earphones in my ear.
[Okay~ Cut! Hahaha! You bugs~! Die, all of you~~!! Ahahahaha! So~ Easy~ It’s so easy~ Games are the easiest thing in the world~~]
‘Wow.’
As soon as I put in the earphone, a high-pitched voice yelled out. The crazed expression wasn’t the only thing.
‘She’s really pretty though.’
Her pink hair went down to her shoulders, and her bangs were quite full.
You could say it was the lighting and editing.
But even without that, her features were very distinct.
Her beautiful nose and lovely yet sharp eyes were enough to stir any man’s heart.
Her voice is nice too… what’s with that crazed concept?
Sujeong giggled, seeing my confused expression.
“She’s the one.”
“The one? Who?”
“The person you were jealous of before.”
The person I was jealous of?
I tilted my head, and Sujeong poked my side.
“You know, before~ when we went to Namsan Tower for a date, at the PC cafe.”
“At the PC cafe? Ahh…! The one who said you were bad at the game in the chat?”
“…I’m good, okay.”
“Yeah, yeah. Anyway, that person. The Banpo-dong church oppa?”
The nickname was so intense that I remembered it, and Sujeong nodded.
“Yeah. She’s doing really well. She’s almost at 1 million subscribers?”
“Wow. That’s 20 times more than you, Sujeong.”
“Yeah. But she works really hard on her broadcasts. She’s pretty too, so it’s understandable.”
Indeed, this pink-haired streamer had a very high energy throughout her Mytube videos. The video editing was also very funny and clean.
As I watched the video, engrossed, five minutes quickly passed and the video ended.
“Oh. She replies to comments too?”
“Yeah. She leaves comments on my videos all the time.”
Sujeong left a comment and then looked for other videos to watch. Since we had a long time before our flight, I kept watching Sujeong’s phone.
Then, a video caught my eye.
“Wait a minute. What’s this?”
“Huh? What?”
“This, this one.”
The thumbnail was crazy.
A woman with a sexy figure was standing next to a grand piano, wearing some kind of cosplay outfit.
It wasn’t a revealing outfit, but the woman’s figure was so good that it had a strange allure that no man could resist clicking on.
“Oh. She’s a Mytuber who covers anime and movie OSTs, and she always plays in cosplay.”
“Let’s watch.”
“Huh?”
“Let’s watch.”
“……”
Sujeong looked at me with narrowed eyes, then clicked on the video.
The woman in the video was literally just playing the piano in cosplay.
Her piano skills were so amazing, even to my amateur ears, that Sujeong and I were captivated by the music.
“She’s really good.”
“Yeah. She’s a total rising star. She’s only been uploading videos for less than a year, and she already has over 500,000 subscribers. The cosplay makes her views really high, but I think it’s also because she’s so good at piano.”
“But she doesn’t show her face?”
She has a great figure and is good at piano.
The only downside is that she wears a mask. So we can’t see her face.
“Yeah. She always wears a mask. She plays not only piano but also violin, flute, and clarinet, but she’s never shown her face.”
In videos where she only plays the piano, she wears a mask that covers her entire face, and in videos where she uses her mouth, like with the flute or clarinet, she only shows her mouth and wears a mask that covers above her nose.
Even just from her jawline and mouth, you could tell she was quite beautiful.
Let’s see, the channel name is…
‘EJ Music?’
She has 620,000 subscribers.
It’s only been less than a year since she started, and that’s a truly remarkable number of subscribers.
I should subscribe later.
With that thought, I gave the earphones back to Sujeong.
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“Boarding for flight OZ271 from Incheon Airport to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport is now beginning~!”
A female flight attendant called out, and people who had been sitting down began to gather.
“We’re taking this one, right?”
“Yeah. It’s a one-stop flight, so we’ll go through Seattle and then to Boston.”
The trip that Sujeong and Delia chose was a trip to the United States.
When I told them not to hesitate and choose a destination, they really didn’t hesitate at all and chose the most expensive destination.
‘Is it really true that the plane tickets alone cost over 10 million won…?’
Even though it wasn’t first class but business class, the price of three tickets far exceeded my imagination.
I wanted to book first class since we were going to spend a lot of money anyway, but it was fully booked, so I had no choice but to choose business class as the next best option.
“Wow. The seats are really nice. This isn’t even first class? How much are the plane tickets?”
“You’d faint if you heard.”
In fact, even business class was much better and wider than economy class seats.
Even without first class, we could enjoy the trip comfortably.
I had only ever flown economy class before, so the business class seats felt like a new world to me.
“Jinhyeon, let’s take a picture together.”
“Ah, okay.”
Click.
Sujeong was excited and took selfies with her phone or took pictures together.
These days, whether we’re dating or cooking.
It has become a habit to take pictures with me whenever we do something. Thanks to that, I, who was a natural loner, have become quite used to camera flashes.
