Chapter 45
Chapter 45
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Translator: penny
Chapter: 45
Chapter Title: Clarification Broadcast
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“...”
I was stunned for a moment, not expecting to hear something like that right to my face.
I tried a feeble rebuttal.
“Maybe he just didn’t... Why? There are days when you don’t feel like it.”
“If that were the case, he would’ve at least chatted.”
It wasn’t that he couldn’t slay the dragon and thus didn’t advise... he deliberately held back...
Why won’t you understand my feelings?
“What are you two talking about?”
Seo-ah cut in between us, interrupting the conversation.
...Let’s head home first for now.
The Academy’s elementary division had gone home long ago.
But the middle and high school divisions were just finishing lunch and starting their break time.
As soon as Yura finished eating, she pulled out her phone and opened Mitube.
‘The reactions to today’s video should be good, right?’
It was to check the scheduled upload.
Then, a notification came in.
Bzzz.
Looking closely, it had been sent in the early hours of yesterday morning.
She’d stayed up late gaming, overslept, rushed to the Academy to avoid being late, and missed it entirely.
Yura sent a reply.
Video settings mistake? Had she messed up the title or something?
A reply came back almost immediately, as if they’d been working on it.
Yura immediately logged into Mitube and checked her video list.
The one that should’ve been scheduled was already public.
That’s why they’d messaged at dawn.
‘My algorithm exposure...’
She’d set it for the perfect prime time slot, but now the algorithm pattern she’d built up over months was ruined.
This could lead straight to lower revenue, leaving capitalist Yura feeling glum.
It had only been a few minutes since upload.
No—even less than an hour, and she could’ve posted a notice and taken it down, but the golden window had long passed.
Realizing there was no fixing it, Yura decided to just check the reactions and nervously opened the comments.
This was the most tense—and fun—time for any Mituber.
You could see reactions intuitively.
The comments section was Pandora’s box.
The moment you opened it, all sorts of negativity could spill out.
Or maybe only positives.
Usually a mix of both, though.
She knew malicious comments would be there, but she was always excited before opening.
That’s why comments were poison.
‘Poison you know is poison, but can’t help drinking anyway.’
One hate comment tanked her mood; one positive lifted it.
She couldn’t help getting emotional over every single one.
So Yura checked views and likes alongside the comments.
‘This is pretty decent.’
If hates piled up, she’d glance at her bank balance to steady her nerves.
Capitalist Yura even had a mental fortification perk.
And so, she opened Pandora’s box.
Inside...
The comments were packed with tributes to the Advice Throne—that is, Third Life.
“What the...?”
Yura momentarily wondered if she’d opened the wrong video.
But no.
There were video-related comments too.
It just looked that way sorted by oldest; recent or popular showed mostly video comments.
Looking at the proportions, video discussion comments were far more numerous.
About 70%?
The problem was the remaining 30% were almost entirely unrelated memorials to Third Life.
She could roughly guess what happened.
Probably from yesterday’s stream.
To get a clear picture, Yura logged into the community.
From experience, she knew most issues like this stemmed from there.
The community was ablaze with other hot topics.
Ignoring the new bait, she checked early morning posts from yesterday.
And Yura could let out a sigh of relief.
As expected, not a huge problem.
Considering they’d pinned the location, this had resolved pretty amicably.
No need to touch the comments.
A few muddy ones aside, they were buried below.
The visible ones were all video-related.
The more comments, the better.
Boosted the algorithm and revenue—this was the positive side of Third Life aggro.
Checking the time, there was still plenty of lunch break left.
Yura continued browsing the community from last night.
Communities were fun to browse without overthinking.
As Yura read through the posts on autopilot...
A broadcast alert popped up.
Third Life’s stream.
What’s he streaming this time...
Another advice takedown? Or just a casual chat?
His streams were so outlandish, no clue what today would be.
But seeing the title, Yura instantly knew.
Direct content counter-snipe.
“...”
So that’s why he skipped advice yesterday?
I parted ways with Sung-chan and Seo-ah where our paths home diverged.
On the way home.
I opened the internet.
Sung-chan had a point.
But the community would think differently, right?
So I checked...
The community wasn’t exactly like Sung-chan, but their takes were similar enough.
Pretty substantial.
Hmm...
I see.
“Perfect timing—I’ve been wanting to try Exploration Mode anyway.”
I meant it.
I’d thought about trying Exploration Mode after watching Yura’s.
Logged in for verification.
And witnesses were an indispensable part of any verification.
Could upload to Mitube or community, but streaming had more impact.
Plus, writing and posting was a hassle.
Viewers now swarmed the moment I went live, no matter what.
With them watching, I selected Exploration Mode.
A mode I’d never touched before, but settings weren’t tricky.
I’d seen it once on Yura’s stream, after all.
Unlike her full random setup, I configured it as close to hers as possible.
League of Worlds added irregularity with random quests to make fun more varied.
Some quests were the same, but getting the exact same one at the same moment was rare.
But with similar settings...
...the odds of getting similar quests went way up.
Suddenly, an NPC approached and spoke while I stood still.
If luck was on my side, I could get the exact same quest as Yura.
This... was the Dragon Hunter quest.
Jackpot right from the start.
I accepted, of course.
No reason to refuse.
Quest snipe, huh.
What’s that supposed to mean?
This was clarification.
On the unfair rumor that I couldn’t hunt dragons.
Ah.
I set the stream title.
Typed into the still-blank title field.
The chat filled with question marks.