Chapter 54
Chapter 54
Translator: MadScientist
Chapter: 54
Chapter Title: Pristine, Why Are Your Eyes So Wide?
One day, a post that shocked everyone appeared on the Spirits' Playground.
📰 Notice
[Pristine] [Notice - As of today, 'My Pet Human is Obsessed with Me' will no longer be serialized.]
💬 Comments
— LumiNyang♡Thunder
What???
— Strongest凸Reaper
.....
— Spirit123
What????
— Flame Ruler
Spirit author, what is this?
— Aggroa
?
The serialization of 'My Pet Human is Obsessed with Me'—which had been explosively popular on the Spirits' Playground—came to an abrupt halt without even reaching its conclusion.
📰 Notice
[Pristine] [Sorry.]
Following that, derivative works written by Pristine also began posting notices one after another, announcing they too would halt serialization.
📰 On Hiatus
[Spirit123] [Banned Spirit Gets Obsessed Over - On Hiatus Notice]
📰 Short Conclusion
[Strongest凸Reaper] [Taming My Pet Human - Short Conclusion Notice]
📰 Notice
[Spirit.Child.A] [Sorry... 'Currently Being Kept by My Pet Human' is...]
— Aggroa
?
The reasons for halting serialization included financial hardships, difficulties with side jobs, physical exhaustion, and more.
But the biggest reason above all was that they "have never actually been obsessed over by a human."
This led to a depletion of material, making it impossible to continue writing.
— Anonymous
I need to see more of Yi Chrog rolling around...
— Anonymous
At least you should finish the story...
— Anonymous
Is everyone just gonna bail like this? ㅠㅠ
— Anonymous
If you start it, take responsibility!!! See it through to the end!!!
The spirits, shocked at the fact they could no longer read the next chapter...
— Anonymous
No choice. Guess I'll have to write it myself.
...began writing their own novels, unleashing their creativity.
📰 New Serial
[Became an Extra in a Spirit Academy Novel] [2]
📰 New Serial
[Martial World Spirit] [1]
📰 New Serial
[Healing with Spirit Farming] [0]
However, the spirits who had become utterly addicted to the #Regret #Angst #Obsession tags could no longer be satisfied with ordinary dopamine hits.
A few spirits, unable to hold back, tried writing their own regret-angst-obsession stories...
📰 New Attempt
[Aggroa] [The Pet Humans Who Abandoned Me Are Now Obsessed with Me]
In the end, they too hit the wall of "material depletion" just like their predecessors and halted serialization.
📰 Notice
[Aggroa] [Sorry. I've never been obsessed over by a human, so I'm hitting the limits of my writing.]
With even the last spirit author they trusted halting serialization...
All they could do now was wait for a new superhuman to appear.
— Anonymous
Waiting for the white-horse superhuman... Day 3...
— Anonymous
Is there really no spirit who's been obsessed over by a human?
— Anonymous
Can't someone just imagine and write it? ㅠ
— Reply
Not that easy.
— Anonymous
Waiting for the white-horse superhuman... Day 8...
— Anonymous
Waiting for the white-horse superhuman... Day 12...
— Anonymous
Waiting for the white-horse superhuman... Day 17...
The users of the Spirits' Playground endured an endless wait for what felt like an eternity.
— Anonymous
Should we... just give up now...?
— Anonymous
This might just be in the realm of the impossible...
— Anonymous
I'm about to give up waiting.
Just as everyone was about to abandon hope...
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📰 SOS
[PleaseHelp] [Being Obsessed Over by a Human...]
Finally, a superhuman appeared on the Spirits' Playground.
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📰 SOS
[PleaseHelp] [Being Obsessed Over by a Human...] The post I wrote last time asking for someone to save me got on the hot list, but not sure if you all remember. Anyway, I successfully escaped safely. But the problem came after that... I felt sorry for the human who let me go and was holed up in the basement crying every day... So I visited a few times to comfort him and tell him not to cry... That seems to have been the mistake ㅠㅠ Now he's acting like he'll never come again, and suddenly he's clinging to me... 'I regret my past wrong actions so much-', 'I didn't know any better-', 'Just give me a chance and I'll do anything for you-'... He's constantly being all clingy like that... What should I do with this human? Ignoring him is hard because he's not eating and crying in the basement. But going to comfort him feels weird since he used to torment me. My head is a mess. Wise spirits, please give me some advice.
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#Regret #Angst #Obsession themes perfectly executed.
A concise, condensed narrative.
A story without any fluff.
Realism that hits right under the skin.
— Spirit123
?? No way this is a real experience?
— PleaseHelp
Yes...
It was even nonfiction.
...Perhaps this spirit who wrote it could be the one to finish a novel on the theme of '#Regret #Angst #Obsession' all the way through.
No, only this spirit could do it.
— Anonymous
It's a superhuman.
⭐ Top Comment
— Anonymous
The superhuman has appeared.
The spirits, parched for dopamine, flooded the comments like travelers finding an oasis in the desert.
— Anonymous
No wonder the writing density felt different... It was nonfiction?
— Anonymous
I've been waiting for a spirit like you for so long.
— Anonymous
Now, use this experience to write a novel that satisfies us all...
'......?'
'Fallen Spirit' Luna carefully read through the comments on her post.
She scowled as hard as she could and closed the community window.
'Does this look like I'm joking...?'
Asking her to write a novel based on her painful experience.
Wasn't that too rude?
'......'
But for some reason...
Her mood felt strange.
— Anonymous
You have to be the one, you have to be the one, you have to be the one...
— Anonymous
The superhuman I've been searching for so long is you. The superhuman I've been searching for so long is you...
Seeing everyone united in their fervor toward her... it wasn't that bad.
At that moment, when she felt this inexplicable strange sensation...
Ding-
A one-on-one whisper message arrived from Groa—the operator of the Spirits' Playground and the idol of all spirits, the ancient spirit.
— Groa
Hello, author!
— Reply: Luna
Oh, hello! Groa...!
For some reason, she was being called an author.
— Groa
I was wondering if you could write a novel to liven up the board^^ You show talent^^
— Groa
If you finish it, I'll give you thirteen sets of the number one item in the spirit shop, 'Mana Chur'^^
'Mana Chur? What's that?'
She didn't know exactly what the reward 'Mana Chur' was.
But as an elemental spirit, she couldn't refuse a request from an ancient spirit.
Moreover, impressing an ancient spirit might give her a chance to advance to a nature spirit.
'If that happens... I could...'
Recalling her friends Pristine and Lily, who monopolized all the spirits' attention at every headquarters festival, Luna...
nodded with a stiff expression.
— Reply: Luna
I'll give it a try.
She'd never written a novel before, so she worried if she could do it well.
But referencing the comments on her advice post, she started writing lightly in a daily routine format and posting.
And every time she posted...
📰 New Chapter
[Currently Being Obsessed Over by My Pet Human (1)] [107]
📰 New Chapter
[Currently Being Obsessed Over by My Pet Human (2)] [136]
The reactions were always explosive.
Not only that.
It was standard for her posts to be pinned as hot notices, sometimes even dominating the main screen and captivating all the spirits' attention.
From a pitiful spirit imprisoned in a basement dungeon... she was reborn in an instant as a 'star spirit author'!
📰 Off-Topic
[PleaseHelp] [Hungry] [42]
📰 Off-Topic
[PleaseHelp] [Bored] [67]
Even her nonsense posts drew floods of attention from the spirits...
'Hehe...'
It felt just like being one of the spirits' celebrities, Pristine or Lily.
Luna, who had envied their popularity and coveted their position...
was immensely proud of herself now as the star author.
On top of that, the meetings with the human—which she had forced herself into for novel material—no longer felt like a chore like before.
"I turned the whole building into a meadow for Luna today! What do you think?"
"I didn't know what food spirits like, so I set up a buffet!"
"You're leaving already...? You'll come again, right...? I'll be waiting, believing in you...?"
- Beep...
Seeing the human always trying his best to please her...
Her frozen heart had apparently begun to thaw without her realizing it.
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"Boss! Look at this! I, I've been chosen by a spirit!"
One of the customers who carried a Pristine doll around proudly showed off the spirit perched on her shoulder.
"...Chosen?"
"Yes! Finally, I'm a spirit owner too-! Hehehe."
Chosen?
Spirits choosing and hanging around with people?
'Is that possible?'
She herself could win spirits' favor thanks to her unique ability 'Plant Lover'...
But how had other people won over spirits who were hostile to humans?
Forgetting to take orders, she stood there blankly, blinking.
'Then maybe the spirit talk on the community...'
wasn't about a game?
Come to think of it, for the past few days, spirit-related posts had been popping up frequently on the Awakener community.
[What do I feed spirit folks?]
[My spirit keeps fluttering its wings—what does that mean?]
[My spirit that was fine suddenly ran away... Help ㅅㅂ]
She had seen plenty of scenes where spirits were hostile to humans and humans feared spirits.
So she naturally assumed they were talking about games themed around spirits.
Apparently not.
'Hmm...'
It was definitely a good thing that people were no longer afraid of spirits.
She had wanted everyone to know that spirits were actually pretty, cute, and kind.
'That's why I themed the cafe around spirits in the first place.'
So why did a corner of her heart feel unsettled?
Why did this inexplicable sense of discomfort keep creeping up?
Once things quiet down a bit, I should check out the spirits' community- she thought, resuming her backed-up orders.
"Uwaaa- So busy, so busy-!"
After bustling alone for a while, she glanced over.
At the end of the counter, in the dark corner.
Pristine stood there motionless, watching her.
"Pristine? What are you doing there?"
- Beep...
But in Pristine's eyes as she gazed at her...
there lingered an aura different from usual.