I Won!!!
“……Wow. This is crazy.”
A tiny one-room apartment.
All the lights off, curled up under a blanket with her phone open to a live stream.
Han Chaeyeon muttered that to herself, her eyes wide open.
Right before bed she had peeked at the community for just a moment, and because it was so noisy she went in for a bit.
The live stream of Cloudy Sky.
She had planned to casually glance at it for a few minutes and then leave.
But her eyes had gotten stuck and she had been watching for over an hour now.
That was only natural.
In Celt of Heroes it was extremely rare for Lord’s appearance.
And then there was the play that was almost artistic.
Anyone who could still turn off the screen after seeing this was probably only a handful of people.
And the way Lord had caught Cloudy Sky’s Cartia.
Lord had deliberately allowed hits to pull him deeper into the center, then suddenly pounced like a tarantula and swallowed him whole.
Han Chaeyeon’s whole body was covered in goosebumps.
‘What, there are people like that?’
She wasn’t a fan of Cloudy Sky, but she had watched a lot of his plays.
If she was asked why she watched so many plays when she wasn’t even a fan…
it was simply because she loved video editing.
Han Chaeyeon absolutely loved video editing.
To what extent?
She had dropped out of college just because she wanted to edit videos.
She had come straight back to Korea without even a second thought.
She had devoted herself to video editing all day long and couldn’t maintain a proper college life, so she had decided she would just keep editing videos while living in Korea.
Of course her parents had no choice but to accept that.
They had threatened to cut off all support the moment she returned to America.
But Han Chaeyeon had stubbornly refused to give in.
Instead she had proudly declared that she didn’t need any support and simply left home.
That was how it had been for three months now, shivering with cold in this tiny one-room apartment where she could barely even pay the rent on time.
So all of a sudden Han Chaeyeon had become
a high-school graduate.
unemployed.
a NEET.
a collection of all the words she had never thought she would ever relate to herself.
Um…
well.
anyway.
Han Chaeyeon had a small but well-known YouTube account.
‘Celt of Heroes Highlight Archive.’
1.5 million subscribers.
It was a modest number, not too many but not too few either.
She had edited and uploaded plays by both famous people and nameless pros under that name.
mostly mad movies packed with super plays.
with appropriate music and all the fluff, she had beautifully cooked those raw scenes and plated them in a pretty dish for the audience to enjoy.
thanks to her channel was growing slowly but steadily day by day. (though it was so slow she was worried she would end up homeless on the streets soon, but that was a story for later).
among all those videos the one that took up the highest percentage was of course streamer Cloudy Sky’s play videos.
partly because of her outstanding skill, but more importantly because of the view count.
thanks to the size of her fandom, every time she uploaded a Cloudy Sky video the view count would pump up three or four times like a waterfall.
even the first time it had surpassed ten million views had been because of her masked mage highlight.
that was why even though she didn’t have any real fan loyalty to Cloudy Sky, Han Chaeyeon had no choice but to constantly check his play videos.
every time she woke up she would replay his replays.
even while she was looking at replays by other Lord and famous players she was editing and re-editing Cloudy Sky’s videos.
that was why she couldn’t help but get goosebumps when she saw Cartia fall so pathetically to that Lord.
Cloudy Sky, who had always shown overwhelming skill, had fallen so easily.
she couldn’t believe it even after seeing it with her own eyes.
maybe she was just dreaming because she was too sleepy?
‘Yeah, if I just keep watching this I’ll be able to sleep, right? but it’s already been an hour and a half, maybe I really have fallen asleep.’
she had to make sure whether the space she was in right now was a dream or real.
Han Chaeyeon pinched her cheek.
—swooosh.
“Ouch…”
yeah, it was real.
and a wave of self-loathing crashed over her.
doing the kind of things you see in anime in real life was not easy.
anyway, if this wasn’t a dream, was it really true that Cloudy Sky had lost so helplessly?
then how monstrous was that person?
the moment she thought that, Han Chaeyeon’s interest in the person called Barrel Slayer skyrocketed.
a completely nonsensical nickname name soaked in hatred in the community.
but the soft, sweet voice like honey castella that was completely the opposite of that image.
a reaction speed that was beyond ridiculous.
and plays that even overwhelmed Cloudy Sky.
‘…what is this? why didn’t I know this kind of person until now?’
“…maybe I unconsciously caught the nickname because of the screen name.”
who on earth was this person?
she couldn’t stand the curiosity.
Han Chaeyeon, who had just decided to go to bed after watching that, slowly got up with her heavy body.
her body and head were completely worn out with exhaustion, but it wasn’t heavy enough to suppress her desire.
she was burning with desire like she hadn’t in a very long time.
her heart was pounding.
huge video structures and editing points were swirling around in her head.
she felt like she had found an untouchable gem that she couldn’t help but touch.
her video editing desire, which was several steps stronger than her sleepiness, had activated.
she immediately connected to Celt of Heroes and searched for Barrel Slayer.
red and blue text mixed chaotically in the records.
Han Chaeyeon took a sip of the cold coffee she had poured from her tumbler.
and started the first game’s replay.
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