Reaction and Timeline

[Yuito's POV]

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"What in the glory hole is this?" I mumbled in disbelief as I scrolled through the many viral posts and videos of me.

It is my third day in Korea and on this fine morning, I was woken up early by a phone call from my mother. It was there that I learned the videos of my training yesterday had gone viral.

My mother had called to ask me if I knew about it and also because she missed me badly from watching those videos. We talked for a short while before I received another call so I ended it early and picked up the next call.

It was Marin this time and the same thing with my mother happened as she talked about how much she missed me and how cool I was in some of my videos.

And tik tok was starting to gain huge momentum in popularity, already being equal to big social media like Facebook and YouTube, so short edits of my video had also gone viral there as well.

After 20 minutes, I ended the call with Marin and immediately surfed the Internet to check out for myself what was really happening overnight.

An hour later, my face was that of astonishment as I watched my viral videos and read the comments.

"This is..."

"This is...." I smiled widely, "Incredible!!"

I laughed aloud in joy as I watched the view counts of the videos. All surpassing 3 million views which was no fucking joke.

"I think I'm famous." I never really aimed to be famous or anything but when it happened so suddenly, it was a nice surprise.

I clicked on one of the more popular videos and watched it. It started off with a shaky black-and-white video of people, fighters, talking shit about Japan.

'I think Japan might be the country with the worst fighters haha. I don't know, they tried hard so kudos at least.'

'My thoughts on the next fight? hahaha. Just look up my opponent and you will see a white with red dot in his nationality.'

'It's not that Japan literally has the worst fighters. But many come out from there with a lotta hype and they end up as, you know, nothing.'

Then music hits and it shows different videos of me knocking out my opponents and submissions. I had plenty recorded so it was easy to find highlights.

And then the scene cut to where I stood in front of a fallen Yeonwoo Ji in my latest Karate tournament.

It was the typical cliche badass edit. Nothing too spectacular but such fire edit was still not common during the end of 2017.

And like I expected, the one who posted it was a Japanese guy. It seems there is a lot of pressure on me.

{Not gonna lie that was cool.} The author said, {But the way it is edited and the format is really advanced for the internet in 2017}

I hummed, maybe it was? I didn't know. I have been living here for 16 years so I couldn't tell much difference.

{It is. I think TikTok and short edits like that were still not mainstream. Heck I think Tiktok was still called Musical.ly.}

I nodded, acknowledging it. I was not that surprised since we already established that this world was ever so slightly different from my previous world.

"Streaming is popular it seems, especially here in Korea." I commented as I looked at the many popular live streams I came across.

{Yeah, definitely more advanced.}

I read the comments under my viral videos and noticed two sides. One side was hyped up and another was mocking me, saying that I was just like every other fake fighter who got clout from Japan.

'Well, they will find out soon.'

Then I also looked up a few things like Viral hot YouTube channel to know exactly where in the timeline I was.

It was there that I found out that he had three videos. He had already done the trick 'How to get hit without getting hurt.'

I watched the video and it was entertaining to say the least.

A loser getting the upper hand on a bully? That was always nice to see.

But the fight between Hobin and his to-be cameraman had me cringed though. It was embarrassing.

{That's the GOAT right there, we all start somewhere.} The author said while laughing his ass off.

I put my phone away and stretched on the bed. It was already around 7 so I needed to get up.

I finally got up from my bed and took a shower to clean myself. I contemplated what I was going to do for the rest of the day.

I decided to go the the city park in my disguise and just have fun for the day. I would train during the night when there are fewer people in the hotel gym.

After doing the necessities to clean myself and freshen up, I went out of the bathroom and when I walked past my phone which was on the bed, I noticed a missed call from Komi.

I picked it up and read the details, "Rang for 2 seconds. Pft haha. That shy girl."

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