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Chapter 28
[ Breaking News))))) Yoo Parang's stream has started ]
[ Author: Anon ]
(Parang's stream capture screen. A concise title catches the eye: 'Day 1 of Exploring the East Sea'.)
It's real, yep.
- Is she exploring the East Sea Hive today?
- Who is this girl?
└ (T-Tube link. It's a channel that edits and uploads Parang's stream highlights.)
└ Wow, holy shit, what is this?
- Is the East Sea the East Sea I know??
└ What else would the East Sea be other than the one you know?
"......."
Parang turned on the stream and zoned out for a moment. She was waiting for the viewers to fill in.
Not all viewers enter the moment a stream starts, so it was a necessary process.
Considering her first two streams where she just started talking blindly, it was a massive improvement.
Thanks to this, the viewers could also enjoy unexpected underwater ASMR.
Fortunately, it was real ASMR this time.
Eventually, a clatter sounded from the screen that was showing the blue void and the undulating pillars of light cast beneath the surface of the water.
"Ah, ah. Ah. Can you hear me well?"
- yep
- What's with her voice.......
- Wait, what's with the video quality? Why is it so clear?
- What's up with the screen, crazy
- ???????
It was a situation where countless viewers were expressing their admiration and questions.
It was to be expected. The stream screen they were watching was the culmination of the very essence of human technology.
Cylo's 'support' wasn't just empty words. They truly gave Parang the highest level of treatment.
One of those things was the broadcasting equipment.
The video quality was as clear as seeing it with your own eyes, and the sound quality made it feel like you were really there.
But what surprised the viewers the most was the screen.
It was the usual first-person screen, but the viewers could press a 'Switch' button in the left corner.
And lo and behold, the viewpoint of the screen changed to third-person, creating a composition that watched Parang from afar!
For this, Cylo Corporation had added a stream-exclusive UI solely for Yoo Parang onto their site.
It wasn't really a problem. It belonged to Cylo in the first place.
This was also the reason why Parang hadn't ultimately been banned from streaming.
Underwater, Parang was wearing a bodysuit with her long blue hair flowing down.
- No fucking way, how did they do this?
Parang didn't know about that either. How could she, when she was an arts and physical education student in both her past and present lives?
"I decided to cooperate with Cylo Corporation this time. This is the broadcasting equipment they made for me."
Humanity's greatest intellect, Cylo Corporation, had succeeded in reconstructing a third-person screen in real-time by combining the footage from the cameras attached to her entire body.
Plus, ta-da!
- What is this, why is it spinning?
- Crazy, this actually works?
Her first-person and third-person cameras could also be rotated 360 degrees, like controlling a game screen.
Of course, zooming in was disabled to protect Parang's privacy.
Zooming out, however, was allowed. To show the massive size of the Monster Fish, the viewpoint could be zoomed out up to 100 meters away from Parang.
This was possible because, past a certain point, seamless 3D modeling was displayed instead of live-action footage.
Therefore, the Viewers could now see the full appearance of almost any Monster Fish.
This was because Cylo Corporation had created 3D models of the Monster Fish, the Objets, and the Hive based on the various drawings Parang had done.
The number of them reached a staggering 300.
Parang had received this while talking with the Cylo man and leaving the building.
She didn't know how long it took, but it meant they had been preparing it well in advance.
It was a little unsettling, but oh well. After all, it was to save the world. She decided to just accept it for now.
Because of that, the Broadcasting Equipment Yuna made for her had become useless baggage.
Parang, inwardly worried that this might hurt Yuna's feelings, had asked for her opinion on it too.
'No? It's totally fine!!'
But she said she was fine with it. It felt like she had received something from Cylo, but Parang hadn't gotten around to asking what it was.
'Should I ask her once today's stream is over?'
Parang added that matter to the notepad in her mind.
- Anon donated 1,000 won! -
[ What are you doing today, teacher? ]
Parang smoothly took the question.
"I'm going to explore the Hive that exists in the East Sea. For your information, this is long-term content, so we decided to do it over *sa-heul*."
- Wait, how big is it that it takes 4 days at the Streamer's speed?
- It's not 4 days, *sa-heul* means three days, you idiot.
- Doesn't 'sa' mean 4, so isn't it 4 days?
The Chat Window became embroiled in an unexpected 3 days vs. 4 days debate. In the past, Parang would have just ignored it and moved on, but she was different now.
She had figured out how to handle her Viewers.
From what she had gathered, these people called Viewers oddly enjoyed it when Parang abused them.
And wasn't it true? In just the two streams she had done, Parang had messed with her Viewers in ways even she thought were quite novel.
Yet, far from getting sick of it or leaving, weren't they continuing to watch her stream while screaming their heads off?
The number of Viewers was even continuously increasing!
Compared to her first stream, the Viewers for her second stream had nearly doubled, and now, the Viewers had tripled compared to the second stream.
At this rate, it wouldn't be an exaggeration to call her the knight-in-shining-armor Superhuman of the internet streaming world.
So, it also meant that the Viewers were somewhat responsible for Parang's streaming environment becoming this twisted.
Tap, tap.
As she operated her Cellphone, a 1-on-1 chat mode with a viewer was activated.
The person who appeared in the Chat Window was a viewer with the nickname Nightglow Monster. The martyr who had first argued the *sa-heul* = 4 days theory.
She tap-tapped on her Cellphone again, soon revealing the permanent ban button for Nightglow Monster on the broadcast screen.
[ Would you like to permanently ban this user? ]
[ Confirm / Cancel ]
Parang, her hand hovering over the brightly glowing green confirm button, quietly asked the 4-day martyr a question.
"How many days is sa-heul?"
- It's 3 days, teacher. Isn't that obvious?
"Good job."
With that, the incident was settled.
- Did anyone clip that good job voice just now? It's really urgent, please upload it, I'll pay handsomely.
A temporary ban for this guy.
- I clipped it, offer first.
A temporary ban for this one, too.
- 50k.
'What is this....'
Actually, there had always been followers of Parang's voice since her first stream.
To the point where there were even videos on YouTube like 'Yoo Parang voice one hour asmr'.
The view counts were even quite high.
In fact, the Viewers did have a tendency to obsess over her voice a bit.
This was because the stream mostly proceeded from a first-person Screen, meaning the Viewers rarely got to see Parang's face.
But was Parang's voice over-glorified? Not exactly.
Because Parang's voice was genuinely really good.
It was soft and pleasant to hear, her tone was gentle, and her diction was incredibly precise. (When she was underwater, of course.)
Her voice was so good that beyond simple praises like 'her voice is nice' or 'it makes me feel good', there were even comments like 'it's addicting' or 'listening to it makes me happy'.
And for one thing, broadly speaking, it was an act of getting excited over Parang.
She felt a slight aversion to it as well.
The mindset of a man still firmly rooted in a corner of her heart played a part in this aversion, but even setting that aside, didn't this feel like people were trading Photos of her body?
No matter how used she got to handling the Viewers, it was true that she felt a considerable amount of repulsion.
And besides, she was still a rookie Broadcaster with only two streams under her belt, so her inner thoughts slipped out unintentionally.
"That's gross...."
It was a voice so quiet it was barely audible. If Cylo hadn't swapped out her Broadcasting Equipment, it wouldn't have even been transmitted on the stream.
Of course, it wasn't intentional. No matter what, how could she say such a thing to her precious Viewers?
Flustered, she covered her mouth with a gasp.
However, the moment Parang quickly tried to apologize.
- Wow, what was that just now?
- Crazy, teacher, just one more time.
- anyoneclipitanyoneclipitanyoneclipitanyoneclipit
- Offer first.
- 150k.
The reaction was... a bit explosive.
Even the Viewers who used to look poorly upon those making a fuss over Parang's voice had joined in.
'Wait, what? Why do they like it?'
It would be quite some time into the future before Parang realized what they were so enthusiastic about.
- Anon donated 30,000 won! -
[ Please do that one more time, I'm begging you. ]
A large donation popped up before she even had time to gather her flustered feelings.
With Parang's income, the donation amount didn't really matter, but a large sum still exerted some sort of invisible power.
A loud ta-da sound effect played, and the visual effects became flashy.
Besides, since it was a request made with 30,000 won, Parang felt reluctant to just eat the money and do nothing.
It felt a bit like being a thief, after all.
Crucially, she cared for her fans too. She only used extreme measures like Lassus ASMR because they shouldn't enter the Deep Sea; it broke her heart whenever she had to unavoidably abuse the viewers like that. (It didn't.)
So, what was the conclusion? She did it one more time.
"That's gross.... Is this how I do it? But why are you asking me to do this?"
- thank you thank you
- Kya, holy shit, I clipped it
- Something urgent just came up, I'll be right back
- Me too
"Hmm......."
Parang pondered.
Judging by the mood, it was a massive hit, but she couldn't understand why they liked it.
She recalled something Hunter Shin Yuna had told her once.
'The scariest thing in engineering isn't a malfunction. It's a normal operation where you don't know the cause.'
She hadn't understood what that meant when she first heard it, but now that she was in a similar situation, she kind of got the gist of it.
Well, it was operating normally for now, anyway. The viewers liked it this much, too.......
'I should do it sometimes from now on.'
Parang thought.
It was around this time that a mysterious new demographic of viewers appeared in her stream.
They were suspiciously wealthy, suspiciously polite, and suspiciously courteous.
Anyway.
That was that, and she still had to do what she came to do.
After bickering with the viewers a bit longer, Parang announced her departure and quickly dove into the sea.
Just like her dive during the first stream, the surrounding scenery rapidly whipped by.
Riding this Yoo Parang-brand handmade rollercoaster, she entered the Monster Fish Zone, which was now familiar to the viewers as well.
After a little time passed like that,
"We've arrived."
- Fuck, what is that?
- That's seriously bizarre.
- I've got goosebumps.
"It's the East Sea Hive, the Train."
The East Sea Hive, which had been shrouded in mystery, finally revealed its appearance.