Superstar From Age 0

Chapter 8

Seo-jun opened his eyes with a flash.

He had slept very well without dreaming.

Lying in his crib surrounded by walls, seo-jun looked at the colorful mobile dolls and stretched his arms and legs.

Then he bit on the pacifier that was connected to his chubby wrist by a string, a gift from his mom.

Suck-suck-

Other babies would have cried as soon as they woke up, but Seo-jun was different.

He enjoyed his pacifier leisurely.

[Basic Breathing of Elves]

The presence of light makes mana exist.

It does not conflict with other breathing methods.

(Except for darkness)

It harmonizes the body of the holder.

Seo-jun breathed.

He inhaled and exhaled.

This world had little mana, but not none.

Seo-jun had learned [Basic Breathing of Elves] since he started to think.

There were two things he never forgot when he was reborn.

He made sure to remember [Basic Breathing of Elves] and [Basic Breathing of Mine]. [Basic Breathing of Mine] had a similar effect to [Basic Breathing of Elves], but it helped the beings of darkness.

Seo-jun chose one of the two attributes and learned the basic breathing method when he had some understanding of his new ‘body’.

Seo-jun’s breathing gradually calmed down.

As he repeated inhaling and exhaling, very small manas seeped into his body.

He had chosen these two breathing methods as his first abilities in many lives for one reason.

The biggest advantage of [Basic Breathing of Elves] and [Basic Breathing of Mine] was…

“Oh, you’re already awake?”

Dad popped his head over the crib.

Seo-jun smiled at him.

…safety.

They could be safely finished even if someone touched them or they suddenly stopped breathing during the process.

It was especially useful, when he was born as a weak monster that could not relax for a moment.

“Is Seo-jun awake?”

“Yeah. But why are there so many Bananatoks?”

It was Sunday morning.

Dad, who didn’t have to go to work, came out to the living room with Seo-jun in his arms.

Mom was looking at her laptop and smartphone on the living room table.

She must have set an alarm, because it kept ringing Bananatok-Bananatok-.

“Dadadada.”

“Seo-jun is noisy too.”

“I know, I know. I’ll turn it off soon.”

Seo-eunhye hurriedly turned off the alarm.

Lee Min-jun sat next to Seo-eunhye.

Seo-jun leaned on dad’s stomach and sat on his lap.

“But what’s going on? Why are there so many Bananatoks?”

“Well, first of all, Mina’s mom and So-young unni… It seems like everyone Seo-jun knows is sending them.”

Seo Eunhye said with annoyance.

The BananaTalk messages kept pouring in during the conversation.

Seo-jun pondered.

He was hungry.

Should he cry? Or not?

“Mina’s mom told me to go to YouTube. She said it’s a total mess.”

Seo-eunhye barely read the message and logged in to YouTube. Lee Min-jun also looked at the laptop screen.

Seo-jun decided to wait for now and looked at the screen.

YouTube was where Seo-jun’s parents had uploaded two videos of him using [Fairy Sparkle] before.

YouTube.

A site where people from all over the world upload their own videos.

Dad sometimes watched the news that explained the past, present, and future of YouTubers.

He didn’t know much about it, but Seo-jun knew that there were people who became stars through YouTube, not celebrities.

“Wow… What is this…”

“Wow… This is scary…”

Seo Eun-hye and Lee Min-jun were shocked by the huge number of views and comments.

Lee Seo-jun also saw the numbers on the screen.

‘This is amazing, right?’

He had hoped that many people would watch it, but he didn’t expect it to be this many.

And it hadn’t even been 24 hours yet.

As the three of them were marveling, a phone call came in.

It was from a senior YouTuber, Mina’s mom.

Seo Eun-hye quickly answered the phone.

She was not happy, but rather scared by the unbelievable number of views and comments that she saw on her screen.

“Hey, unnie! What is this? What happened?!”

“Did you see?! Amazing! You’re awesome!”

“No, really, is this real?”

“Yes! You’re a total star! Oh, no. No. I mean, seo-jun! Seo-jun is a total star!”

Mina’s mom’s excited voice filled the living room.

Lee Min-jun and Seo Eun-hye couldn’t take their eyes off the screen even as they heard Mina’s mom’s voice.

Mina’s mom quickly added.

“Hurry up and apply for monetization!”

“Mo-monetization?”

“Wait a minute, honey.”

Lee Min-jun took the phone from Seo Eun-hye, who was flustered, and switched it to speaker mode.

“Hello, Mina’s mom. I’m Seo-jun’s dad. But isn’t there a requirement for that?”

He tried to sound calm, but he was also surprised by the situation.

“You have to be famous to achieve that in a day or two, right?”

He had heard Kim Hee-sang talk about the requirements for monetization when he uploaded videos of making dolls for him on YouTube.

“No, it’s okay! Seo-jun’s channel already met and exceeded the requirements by a lot!”

“Really?”

“Yes! I checked the watch time and the number of subscribers, and Seo-jun’s channel passed them yesterday evening!”

Seo Eun-hye pointed at the number of subscribers on the screen with a stunned expression.

Lee Min-jun, who was on the phone with Mina’s mom, looked in that direction.

Subscribers: 200,000.

Lee Min-jun’s mouth also dropped open.

Lee Seo-jun was conflicted.

He was hungry. Should he cry? Or not? But his mom and dad looked too shocked to cry.

“200,000! 200,000! And it’s still going up!”

Mina’s mom’s voice continued.

Seo Eun-hye and Lee Min-jun didn’t show any signs of changing their expressions.

Feeling like his stomach was sticking to his back, Lee Seo-jun decided to cry.

“Waaah! Waaah!”

“…!”

“…Wow!”

Seo Eun-hye and Lee Min-jun snapped out of their trance at Lee Seo-jun’s cry.

Lee Min-jun picked up Lee Seo-jun and rushed to the kitchen.

“R-right. Let’s eat. Our son. You need to eat!”

“Uh… uh… I’ll talk to Mina’s mom for a bit!”

Seo Eun-hye applied for monetization of channel[JUN] while talking to Mina’s mom.

Lee Min-jun poured warm water into a bottle and added formula.

Lee Seo-jun, who had stopped crying quickly, waited for the formula in Lee Min-jun’s arms.

“Wow… really… what’s going on?”

Dad muttered to himself in a daze, but he made the formula very naturally.

He was a father after all!

He checked the temperature of the formula and put the nipple into Lee Seo-jun’s mouth.

Slurp slurp!

Lee Min-jun quickly took Lee Seo-jun back to the living room.

Seo Eun-hye had hung up the phone and was reading the comments on Lee Seo-jun’s video.

“Did you apply?”

“Yeah. They’ll put ads on it as soon as it’s approved.”

“But what happened?”

Seo Eun-hye, a teacher at an academy that teaches Korean to foreign students, slowly read the comments.

There were many languages, but she read the ones in English and Korean.

“Everyone… My kids wouldn’t eat, but they could after watching this video. If I feed them five times a day, three of those times take about 30 minutes of coaxing, but they really eat right away when they watch Seo-jun’s video…”

Lee Min-jun leaned over to look at the screen, making Lee Seo-jun, who was enjoying his formula, uncomfortable.

He couldn’t make a sound with the nipple in his mouth, so he slapped Lee Min-jun’s arm with one hand.

“Ah, sorry sorry.”

Lee Min-jun adjusted his posture and looked at the screen again.

Lee Seo-jun also glanced at the screen.

He could read some Korean because he watched TV with his dad and read picture books and fairy tales, but… there were more comments in English and other languages.

He tried to read the occasional Korean comments, but his mom and dad read them too fast.

As the comments scrolled down,

‘Ah, my eyes hurt.’

Lee Seo-jun blinked his eyes a few times and decided to focus on his formula.

Slurp slurp!

Lee Min-jun and Seo Eun-hye were engrossed in reading the comments.

There were comments thanking them and saying that they recommended it to their friends.

Tok! Tok!

It was Seo Eun-hye’s phone.

The message was from the twin’s mom.

Seo Eun-hye read the message while Lee Seo-jun finished his formula and dropped the bottle on the floor as if he was done with it.

The bottle was heavy.

“Ouch.”

Dad, who had just gotten out of the comment hell, quickly grabbed the bottle.

“Hey. You should call dad if you’re done!”

‘Dad dad!’

“That’s right. You should call me like that! What if you drop it?”

“What do you expect from an 8-month-old baby?”

Seo Eun-hye said as if she was incredulous at Lee Min-jun’s words.

Lee Min-jun smiled and patted Lee Seo-jun’s back.

Burp.

“Our Seo-jun is a genius, so he understands everything.”

“Every parent thinks their child is a genius.”

“Our Seo-jun is really a genius.”

“Yes. Yes.”

Seo Eun-hye let her husband’s words go in one ear and out the other as she opened the link that the twin’s mom sent her.

It was an article.

It was a small online article, but it was clearly an article.

“…”

Lee Min-jun also saw the article.

They both couldn’t say anything.

They barely uttered some words.

“Wow. I thought my heart stopped.”

“What happened overnight…”

After that, links to articles or posts about Seo-jun’s video were sent to Seo Eun-hye and Lee Min-jun’s BananaTalk from everyone who knew Seo-jun.

-Hey! Isn’t this the video of Seo-jun you showed me before?!

-Crazy! Wow! Really!!!

Even Kim Hee-sang, who wasn’t even married, contacted them after watching Seo-jun’s video.

[Title: I recommend this! It’s a direct hit for babies who don’t eat!]

[Content: I’ll tell you the channel name first.

It’s YouTube [JUN]! Go watch it now!

If you show it to your babies, they’ll eat right away!]

There were a lot of comments on the three-line post on Mom Cafe.

At first, there were many comments wondering what kind of post it was, but soon, there were praises for the video.

Comments (1,293)

…

-Wow! My daughter ate everything!

-It really works! What’s the principle?

-Wow. I’m feeding her for the third time while watching this video, and she really eats without any fuss! Seo-jun is awesome!!!

…

-Ah, my son doesn’t work. He doesn’t eat.

-I saw some people like that. It doesn’t work for some people…

-My son is 4 years old. It doesn’t work.

-My daughter is 3 years old. No effect!

There were more posts and articles after that.

At first, it was a video that moms watched among themselves, but now even couples without children or unmarried people started looking for the video.

[Title: Let’s do some statistics!]

[Content: If you write your baby’s age and whether it works or not, I’ll do some statistics!]

-That’s a good idea!

-23 months, no effect.

-5 years old, no effect.

-10 months, effective.

…

The parents’ solidarity was amazing.

They soon started a movement to find out the range of the video’s effect.

Someone analyzed and did some statistics.

And the result came out.

On sites that had nothing to do with babies, posts titled [A mysterious baby eating show that works up to 20 months!] started to appear.

There were screenshots of Seo-jun’s video, comments from Mom Cafe, and pictures of babies eating while looking at their smartphones, which were proof shots.

-Wow. Does he really eat?

-Lol it’s amazing lol

-They say it doesn’t work from 21 months, 26-month-old baby mom criesㅠㅠㅠ

-No, really, does it stop working exactly from 21 months?

-Yep, it doesn’t work. My daughter is 21 monthsㅜㅜㅜ She doesn’t eatㅠㅠㅠ

-Why is that?

-I think it’s more amazing that he eats lol

Before long, [JUN] appeared on the real-time search terms.

It was a low rank, but everyone clicked on it once.

And there was one person here.

Someone who was looking at the posts with a serious expression.