6. Write Down the Toxic Viewer's ID. Go On, Write It.
6. Write Down the Toxic Viewer's ID. Go On, Write It.
***
BOOM!
Under the overwhelming force of the greatsword striking Hana, Hana's character was sent hurtling into one wall of the Colosseum.
Thwack!
The elf character slammed into the wall with a brutal sound, and her HP gauge dropped so sharply it was plainly visible.
"...This is actually unreal."
Feeling a faint tapping sensation against her back, Hana immediately pushed herself upright. A little dust rose and obscured her view, but through the hazy outline she could see that rather than following up with another attack, her opponent was waiting for her to get back to her feet.
Glancing at her status window off to one side, she saw that her HP bar had somehow already dropped to only about 20 percent.
Then she glanced over at the chat window.
[Tulia's still better though]
[fr no matter how good Hana is she can never beat Tulia]
[Is this really the best everyone's got?]
[lmaooo if you look at the donations Tulia gets, isn't it just donating for the fun of beating up Hana?]
The chat was scrolling faster than usual, and she almost laughed in spite of herself.
But there was always at least one irritating comment.
'What? Is this really the best everyone's got?'
It was always the people who couldn't even verify their tier who ran their mouths in chat or put down streamers. Maybe with so many viewers today, that tendency was worse. Those comments kept catching her eye.
Hana's expression hardened slightly, and she straightened up and gripped her twin swords again.
Tulia. As expected of a user in the Arena Diamond Tier, she felt genuinely outmatched.
Iron, Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, Diamond, Master, Grandmaster, Challenger.
In Another World's Arena tier system, which spanned a full nine tiers, Diamond Tier was a rank belonging to the top one percent—a true expert.
Considering that she herself was stuck in the upper ranks of Platinum, maybe losing to a viewer like Tulia was only natural.
Yeah. She knew that.
But still. She was frustrated.
She knew she was outclassed in skill and gear alike. And yet, the more she clashed blades and felt that gap, the more an emotion like rage filled her chest.
"Guardian of the Forest."
The moment Hana quietly invoked the awakening skill, a deep blue-green aura began to envelop her.
It was the skill with the longest cooldown of everything she had—a kind of awakening skill.
It could only be used once every six hours, and it carried the same cooldown in the PVP Arena.
Which meant she wouldn't be able to use it against anyone else afterward.
'So I'm just supposed to accept losing quietly?'
If that were the case, why play the game at all?
Hana let out a short laugh and raised her twin swords.
Light carrying a vivid green hue began to seep into the blades, slowly sharpening their edge.
"...You're not going to win."
Right in front of her, the viewer was still looking at her while speaking in that same arrogant tone.
A muscular man radiating masculinity. The sight of him hoisting a greatsword as tall as he was looked utterly conceited to her.
"Let's see how long you can keep smiling."
Muttering, she focused on her now-featherlight body and kicked off the ground.
At once, objects seemed to drift past her in slow motion.
It was a phenomenon caused by her accelerated body perceiving time as slower.
In that sensation, as if she had become something transcendent, Hana began swinging her twin swords in a trance.
CLANG! CLANGCLANGCLANG!!
In an instant, Hana hammered at the greatsword and pressed forward, green light continuously painting the air.
"Huh...?"
Tulia, who had been blankly holding his greatsword while being pushed back, muttered in apparent confusion at Hana's onslaught. Then Hana hurled her shortsword into the air with all her strength and, at the same moment, kicked off the ground and launched herself into the air above the Colosseum.
All of it was nothing more than the setup for a single skill.
The twin swords that had left Hana’s hands began scattering massive blue-green streaks of light as though splitting apart, filling the air.
At the same time, suspended in the air above the Colosseum, Hana began hurling the splitting twin swords indiscriminately.
Ranger Class. It was "Spirit's Delight," one of the skills usable in the awakened state granted by the awakening skill "Guardian of the Forest."
Swish-swish-swish-swish-swish-swish!
"W-Wait, this is a bit—"
Ignoring Tulia's flustered words, the twin swords continued pouring down on the user like a rainstorm.
Beneath the endless downpour of shortswords onto his greatsword, Tulia's HP began to plummet.
[Whoa, Hana's setup was perfect though]
[Isn't that almost ranker level?]
[Holy shit is Hana actually winning this?]
[No but if you throw daggers like that there's no force behind them]
[Can we ban that troll already?]
[don’t feed the troll, they’re obviously some bottom-rank scrub]
[lmaooo everyone was ignoring him on purpose and now you're giving him attention]
Hana was leisurely savoring her momentum and enjoying the chat praising her when she spotted yet another irritating comment.
With over 20,000 viewers and follower restrictions lifted so anyone could chat, the chat was once again on fire with trolls and bait.
'What the hell is the manager doing? They should’ve weeded out trolls like that already.'
Just as Hana frowned slightly.
A powerful red aura suddenly erupted from below.
"Huh?"
The moment she blankly turned her head from the chat, she felt a massive red beam of light surging toward her.
"Emergency Evasion!!!"
As Hana shouted the skill name aloud, her body turned semi-transparent, and the enormous beam of light that seemed ready to crush her passed straight through her.
"No... you actually used that?"
At the sight, the user called Tulia moved his lips as if in disbelief, then simply let out a hollow laugh.
Seeing Hana use an evasion skill that could only be used once per day in Another World during a PVP match against him, Tulia raised his hands as if surrendering completely.
The user called Tulia had already used Emergency Evasion earlier while playing Arena ranked matches.
Tulia. A user belonging to the Warrior Class, and the skill he had just fired—that massive beam of light—had consumed most of his stamina, making it practically a gamble.
And the moment it failed, he had no stamina left to block his opponent's attacks, so it was as good as a loss.
"Tch."
Tulia, staring at the dagger lodged in his throat, looked at Hana smiling in front of him and shook his head slightly.
At the same time, his body dissolved into light, and the user called Tulia began to vanish from the Colosseum.
"...I won!!!"
Hana raised her twin swords high in triumph.
But while Hana, in her elf appearance, was grinning ear to ear with joy, the chat's reaction was cold.
[lmaooo so Hana's not doing Arena after this?]
[Thanks for the grimy win~]
[Tulia didn't even use his awakening skill or Emergency Evasion, seriously]
[Filthy victory! Hana wins!]
"Oh, what's with those reactions, everyone? A win's a win, and I gave it everything I had, so what's the problem? And I'm Platinum, so my gear's worse too—if I want to beat a Diamond, that's what I have to do!"
As Hana grumbled as if sulking, chat opinion flipped again, and messages praising her victory began pouring in.
Though Hana herself knew those weren't sincere congratulations—they were the kind of chat that sucked up to streamers, commonly called "yes-men."
"Ugh, enough, enough! From now on I can't use any of that, so I'll be doing Arena fair and square, so everyone stop. Now, my next opponent is..."
As she spoke and scanned the chat, Hana suddenly frowned at one comment that caught her eye.
[Both of you are seriously trash with your weapons, is this supposed to be fun?]
The viewer who had been getting on her nerves throughout the Arena match. The one she'd assumed was just a troll was still chatting.
"Manager!! Are you not moderating the chat!?"
Hana, who had been about to call for her next opponent, stopped mid-sentence and snapped in a sharp voice.
No matter how much harder the chat was to moderate than usual with this much activity, this was a toxic viewer who had already caught her eye with irritating comments several times.
—[Manager: Hana, there are so many chats today that it's not easy to ban them one by one.]
The manager's message appeared separately like a whisper, delivering the notification.
"Ugh, I get it, but... even so, does it make sense that someone keeps chatting like that and still hasn't been banned? Ha, no, never mind, manager, wait a second. Viewers, please wait a moment too."
Manipulating the holographic chat window, Hana began searching for the person who had sent the toxic comments.
Just because there were 20,000 viewers didn't mean all 20,000 were chatting.
Some listened while doing other things, and some simply left her stream playing like a radio.
Moreover, since this was a stream where she'd drawn attention by trying to verify with her brother whether the cheater video was real, the current 20,000 viewer count was definitely inflated.
Hana kept dragging through the endlessly scrolling chat until it seemed to stop, then separated one window from the chat and created it in front of her eyes like a hologram.
And within it, she scrolled up and began searching for the one viewer who had been especially grating on her nerves.
After scrolling for a while, Hana finally found them.
"Found you."
Hana spoke with a cold smile.
Nickname: "Rin (rinhh)"
Among the streamer-only buttons next to the ID, she clicked on chat history, and the chat log unfolded before her eyes.
—Chat History
[Is this really worth being impressed over? Is this seriously worth 20,000 people watching?]
[If you're gonna swing twin swords like that, just quit, seriously]
[That greatsword swing is absolute trash lmaooo can't even control the center of gravity, are those muscles just for show]
[Is this really the best everyone's got?]
[No but if you throw daggers like that there's no force behind them]
'Just from the ID, they're clearly some weeb piece of shit.'
Every single chat was disgusting too.
Not content with putting her down, they'd even mocked the viewer who'd been doing Arena with her. It was beyond absurd.
Gripping her twin swords so hard they might break, Hana began speaking with a sharp glare.
"Rin. Rin. Rin. There's a viewer named Rin here, right? You've been getting on my nerves with your chat ever since the Arena started. How about giving me your Another World ID so I can see that oh-so-impressive skill of yours?"
Hana, who had repeated the nickname over and over, looked at the chat as she spoke.
[Hana's locked in lmaooooooo]
[fr maybe don't chat like that, if you go in with no brakes you're gonna get caught]
[lmaooooo she's really set on a public execution]
[If they don't show up when she's talking like that, it's a permanent IP ban, so they won't even be able to watch Hana's stream anymore lmaooo]
"If you don't come forward, I'll permanently IP-ban you from my stream and report you to tweetie HQ as a toxic viewer so you won't even be able to watch other streams properly. I'm telling you in advance. If you don't write your Another World ID in chat within the next two minutes, you'd better brace yourself."
Hana's cold, low voice, combined with her beautiful elf appearance and lovely voice, was enough to send a chill through the viewers watching the stream.
At the same time, the unseparated chat window began scrolling so fast it seemed about to burst.
[Did that Rin kid pussy out?]
[No seriously everyone stop chatting lmaooo Hana can't even find it in the chat]
[How long has it been since a public execution lmaooo no but it's been forever since I've seen Hana this mad]
[They're just a dumbass lmaooo no but you should only poke so much, I saw that Rin bastard's chat too and it was just unbelievable]
[What what, someone tell me too]
Hana watched the endlessly scrolling chat with cold, sunken eyes.
Even as she felt annoyed, part of her knew that thanks to this display, chat activity was up and she was drawing attention, so her viewer count was rising in real time.
As a broadcast, it certainly wasn't a bad choice.
But still, she didn't want to show herself getting angry at viewers. Who would find it fun to watch someone genuinely angry?
It was one of the things Hana had told herself never to do while watching other streamers' broadcasts, and she'd tried to avoid showing this side of herself.
'...But I do need to discipline the toxic ones sometimes.'
Occasionally, she needed to show this side.
"Thirty seconds left, Rin. If you don't give me your Another World nickname, I'll permanently IP-ban you from my stream and report you as a malicious viewer. I'm a streamer with some pull, so I won't let this slide that easily, okay?"
She steadied herself and spoke slowly.
The two minutes she had given were now down to just ten seconds.
Beside the chat history, Hana's hand was slowly moving toward the permanent IP ban option for the character called Rin when—
A chat suddenly appeared.
—[Rin: My character ID is Rin (rinhh), so send the invite.]