The Return Of The Genius Ranker Of All Times [EN]: Chapter 216

216.

On NewTube, they often send small gifts to NewTubers who have reached a certain number of subscribers, and the most well-known of these is the button.

Buttons range from Silver to Gold to Diamond.

Among them, Do-hyun received the Gold Button.

‘A congratulatory gift for reaching 1 million subscribers…….’

A monumental yet not-so-distant number compared to the Silver Button, which is given for reaching 100,000 subscribers.

Because of this, many NewTubers aim for the Gold Button.

Do-hyun had thought that he would feel proud when the day came that he would get a Gold Button, but…….

‘No, why already? I didn’t even apply for it?’

Experiencing it in reality, he only felt bewildered.

He had heard that they sometimes send it without application in the case of famous celebrities or when subscribers increase abnormally, but he never thought it would be him.

No, that’s fine, but why does the timing have to be like this!

“……Crazy. Oppa [term of endearment used by a younger female to an older male], were you Kaiser?”

“Uh……. It’s not that. Um.”

Zhiiiing-

Do-hyun had no choice but to choose his words carefully at Hyun-ah’s question, her eyebrows twitching, ignoring the call from Soo-yeon, whom he was supposed to meet.

He has to choose his words carefully here. But he shouldn’t answer too late either.

“Well, um. Actually, I used to play Demonic World Online, right? So I was a fan of Kaiser…….”

“Oppa, don’t tell me you’re going to say something that even a dog wouldn’t believe, like you’re in charge of editing or you know Kaiser?”

“…….”

Do-hyun, who quickly made a judgment, tried to make the best excuse he could, but it didn’t work at all.

Well, GuX is not some neighborhood market, but a large corporation.

There’s no way they would send a Gold Button to an editor or a fan who isn’t the real person, so there’s no way she’d believe him.

‘……This is screwed.’

Do-hyun sighed deeply, unable to think of any words to get through this situation, no matter how hard he tried.

He didn’t expect to be caught so easily, but there was nothing he could do.

He was already afraid of Hyun-ah’s reaction, but now that it has come to this, there is no choice but to face it head-on.

Do-hyun decided to be confident instead.

“Yeah. Actually, I’m Kaiser.”

“……Crazy.”

Hyun-ah, deeply impressed by his confident confession, responded with a cool curse.

Hyun-ah looked very bewildered and troubled.

“Oppa is Kaiser……? My oppa? That gamer is that Kaiser? Crazy, is this real? Maybe it’s a dream.”

No, it seemed more accurate to say that she was out of touch with reality rather than troubled.

Do-hyun scratched his head at her appearance, as if she had never imagined that her brother would be Kaiser, and her soul seemed to have left her body.

‘Um. Is it that much……?’

The time when Kaiser disappeared overlaps with the time when he went to the army, and the time when he reappeared overlaps with the time when he started playing the game.

Besides, he had the skills to earn a lot of money as soon as he started playing the game.

In many ways, he thought he hadn’t been able to hide it perfectly, but he felt uneasy when she reacted like that.

“Didn’t you notice at all?”

“……Can you be quiet for a second? I’m upset.”

“Ah, okay.”

Do-hyun shut his mouth as he watched Hyun-ah hold out her palm to stop him.

If she was saying that, it meant she was pretty serious. Like Do-hyun thought, Hyun-ah had a very serious face right now.

‘What did I just hear? So, Oppa is Kaiser? That Kaiser who took on the Hero Guild alone?’

Not only that.

Kaiser was so popular that he was in the top 10 of the God of Savior player popularity rankings.

It was a recent change.

Until recently, there weren’t that many people who could be called fans other than hardcore fans like the Kaiser Church, but after this incident, he was receiving a lot of attention.

At the same time, the achievements and actions he had accumulated in the past burst out all at once, like a dam collapsing.

Because of this, whenever she went into her friends’ group chat or talked about God of Savior, it was always full of Kaiser talk.

‘I became more of a fan because of this…….’

Even her friends were completely immersed in Kaiser’s charm…….

That Kaiser is her brother?

You couldn’t pour cold water on it like this.

‘When I think about it, it was strange. Even though he played Demonic World Online so much, he never told me his nickname even when I asked, and the time he went to the army overlapped…….’

Even Kaiser came back as soon as he returned from the army.

Thinking about it this way, it was strange why she didn’t know until now.

She was reasonably suspicious that the sibling DNA imprinted on Hyun-ah instinctively rejected it.

‘……Wa, wait a minute.’

Numerous memories flashed through her mind.

The memories of approaching Kaiser, who was catching a field boss in Fratell, to ask for an autograph, and clinging to Do-hyun and praising Kaiser, flashed by like a panorama.

‘So, I praised Oppa so much in front of Oppa?’

She even praised him until just now, saying that Kaiser was cool and that she had fallen for him……?

When she got to that point, she heard the sound of a string supporting something in her head breaking.

“Aaaaaaack!!”

At the same time, a high-pitched shout echoed through the living room.

Do-hyun was also flustered and shouted.

“Wh, what’s wrong all of a sudden? Are you crazy?”

No, she was serious on her own, but why is she suddenly grabbing her hair and screaming like a crazy woman?

“Oh, I’m crazy! I feel like I’m going crazy! Aaaah! Ugh, puke!”

“No, why is this girl suddenly like this? If you’re going to throw up, go to the bathroom, you crazy girl! Uh? What, are you really going? Hey, that’s not the bathroom, it’s your room!”

“Aah! Please don’t talk to me right now!”

Kwaang!

Hyun-ah, who hurriedly entered the room, collapsed and grabbed her hair.

‘What is going on? Oppa is Kaiser…….’

Oppa is Kaiser?

That’s okay.

A little shocking…… No, it was a bit shocking, but it was something she could accept.

Rather, it was something to be proud of over time.

She thought her brother was a gaming-crazed, reclusive hikikomori [a Japanese term for people who withdraw from society], but it was shocking that he was Kaiser, who was hotter than celebrities these days, but it wasn’t bad.

‘What? He must be handsome? You have to have ambition like Kaiser to be a man? Aah! Why did you say that, you crazy girl!’

But this is not it.

She never dreamed that her brother would be Kaiser, and she praised him so much to his face.

There was no such thing as humiliation play.

‘I didn’t hear it wrong back then…….’

Suddenly, she remembered the first time she saw Kaiser in Fratell.

She thought she heard 씨X [a Korean curse word, similar to “shit” or “fuck”], but it was so sudden that she thought she was mistaken.

Why Kaiser cursed, and why Oppa shielded him when she said this.

Suddenly, the puzzle pieces fell into place.

She felt so ashamed that she wanted to die when she thought about what he must have been thinking while looking at her shyly asking for an autograph.

Tuk, tadak.

Hyun-ah, whose body was hot and her face felt like it was going to explode, turned on her phone to shake off her thoughts.

It was because she thought she would feel a little better if she focused on something else.

But that was the wrong choice.

-The guy standing last is the strong one. That’s why I play this game.

Seogeok-

As Hyun-ah’s trembling hand turned on the phone, the voice of Kaiser…… No, Oppa’s voice flowed out from NewTube.

It was because she was watching the video at the end.

-Ah, the omnipotent words of the Kaisin are increasing.

-The one standing until the end is a strong person……. -Kaisin’s words, Article 23-

-Great saying, kya~.

-The dating sim gay got properly taught a lesson, right?

-The Hero Guild already has a lot of hate, but if the guild disappears, what will happen now, lol.

-There will be a competition to recruit them. They’re promising players in their own way. The guild members are fine. Verze is now screwed.

Hyun-ah ran a dry wash over her face as she looked at the comments full of praise for Kaiser.

She remembered that she had been looking at those comments until just now, saying, “That’s right, that’s right!” and spreading them to her friends.

In fact, she even joined the Kaisin Church…….

“Haa…….”

Hyun-ah covered her face with her hands and muttered softly.

“How can I look at Oppa’s face now.”

The celebrity I like is actually my brother?

The deep sigh of a 22-year-old girl who experienced a soap opera-like development that wouldn’t even appear in a novel was lingering in the room.

* * *

[You have connected to God of Savior.]

[Welcome to the paradise of adventure.]

-Welcome, Master.

-Lizariliza!

-Have you come, my lord.

And the next day, morning.

Do-hyun, who logged into the game as soon as he woke up as usual, sighed.

-Huh? You don’t seem to be in good spirits today? What’s wrong, Master?

-Liza? Lizariliza?

-To make my lord feel uneasy! Just tell this lowly sword who the impious person is. I will cut off his head and present it at any time…….

As Jihad tilted his head at Do-hyun’s reaction, Eliza jumped onto his head and asked worriedly.

Charlie was about to pull out his sword as if he was making a fuss.

[Guardian Eliza’s loyalty is at its maximum.]

[Guardian First Sword Charlie’s loyalty is at its maximum.]

[Guardian ‘Jihad Black’ has high loyalty.]

[Loyalty 80 / 100]

Those two were already at max loyalty, so there’s no comparison.

Looking at Jihad’s loyalty, he could feel that he had become close to those guys.

When he first met them, he wondered if there was such a low-level guardian.

As expected, time was the cure for everything.

‘……Yeah. Time will be the cure, right?’

Do-hyun, recalling what happened yesterday, scratched his head.

Since yesterday, Hyun-ah has been screaming and running away whenever she makes eye contact with him.

They weren’t on good terms with each other in the first place, but they weren’t on terms where they ran away as if they had seen a cockroach.

It seemed that the fact that he was Kaiser was quite shocking.

‘……Or rather, should I be glad that she’s like that?’

To be honest, considering her personality, it wouldn’t be strange if she used this as a weakness to threaten him, saying she would tell her friends or something.

That’s why he thought he shouldn’t get caught even more.

In that sense, it might be better to react like this now. Because he didn’t get caught by his friends.

Of course, that would be a problem if that continued…….

‘Well, she’ll stop eventually.’

Do-hyun, who decided to think about the future later, turned his gaze.

There was a message floating there.

[Astro: You bastard, you’re finally logging in. I’ve been waiting for you to log in.]

[Astro: Come to my office right now.]

[Astro: How the hell did you do that? The more I watch the video, the less I understand. I have more than one or two questions right now.]

[Astro: I’m getting dizzy, so come right now, right now!]

[Astro: I have something to say, so don’t go anywhere else.]

As soon as he logged in, Astro’s whispers kept coming in as if he had been waiting.

‘Old man, you must have been very curious.’

Well, he, who was famous for having no strengthening luck, had everything covered in +12, and even pulled out one more legendary skill, so he used two and even used the power of the Black Dragon…….

‘I wouldn’t be able to stand it either.’

He must have had a mountain of questions.

Do-hyun chuckled and was about to send a whisper saying he would go now when.

“Um…….”

“Um?”