54. Do You Have a Moment to Talk?
54. Do You Have a Moment to Talk?
***
After sending a whisper to the viewer who had donated a large sum, Serin was about to show the content she had prepared.
Though calling it content felt a little ambiguous.
But since the topic was so closely tied to her, she figured it wouldn't hurt to bring it up.
—Part 1: Checking the community.
She slowly composed herself and opened her mouth.
"There's a site called Another Level. Do any of you viewers know it?"
She set the community site to display separately on the broadcast screen.
'Another Level'—a site for Another World veteran players. She had gone through yesterday's trending posts, selected a few in advance, and brought one of them up on stream.
[Doesn't every user know it?]
[Trending post?]
[Oh what's this]
[Rin checks the community too?]
[What kind of content is this]
[????]
Since the donor had already said through another donation that she didn’t need to do a reaction, the chat settled down more easily than expected.
On top of that, most viewers seemed to know the site.
"Actually, I check the community too. I found this site while looking up Another World info, and there are a lot of fun posts, so I've been visiting it often lately. If any of you don't know it, you can just think of it as a community for Another World guides or just general chatter."
Even as she gave that not-quite-explanation, Serin wondered if what she was thinking was right.
There were strange trending posts dripping with emotion, and among the trending posts, she often saw ones that seemed a bit too intense.
So for the stream, she was only thinking about the trending posts she had checked yesterday.
[Isn't that a really sanitized way of putting it?]
[On pro match days it's pure chaos]
[There have been a lot of trending posts about Rin lately]
[lololol wait, Rin saw all those trending posts?]
[That's insane lolol]
[Going to write on Another Level right now lolol]
"Ah, just to say in advance, I'm only going to show a few of the posts I saw yesterday. I have no intention of looking at posts that go up in real time."
She said it first to tell them not to go waste their time on the Another Level site.
There were already far more than one or two posts about her on the site every day. She didn’t want the viewers watching her stream right now going over there to write even more.
[too bad]
[lolol troll blocked instantly]
[Why is Rin so thorough?]
[a rookie streamer should get a little flustered, for real]
[ah, I posted a lewd pic. too bad]
[lolol the person who posted the lewd pic got banned from the site right away]
She had experience browsing game-related communities, so she knew roughly how the site worked.
No matter how times changed, people didn't change that easily—if anything, it felt surprisingly similar.
So the first trending post she brought up on stream was.
[Is Greatsword Dancer Actually Good? I Tried It Myself]
That was the trending post.
Yesterday, my duel with a user named Gosu on Sua's stream had once again taken over an entire trending post, just as expected.
And the controversy that inevitably followed.
—Greatsword Dancer.
"Ah. If you watched Plea's stream yesterday, you probably saw me too, but I brought this post today to explain a little more."
And to be precise.
She had also brought it to say once again: don't play Greatsword Dancer.
Before turning on the stream, she had briefly checked the site, and it was burning hot with controversies about Greatsword Dancer.
To be precise, rather than controversy, there were a lot of posts saying they'd been half-scammed by me.
That crazy bitch sold us snake oil, you can't even lift a greatsword as a Dancer, greatsword market manipulation, and so on.
There were a lot of absurd posts, but among them, this trending post was the one causing the biggest controversy.
————
— [Is Greatsword Dancer Actually Good? I Tried It Myself]
Author: Anonymous
(In-game gameplay video)
- I'm a Dancer class user who uses a spear, Diamond 3. After watching Rin fight Gosu yesterday, I got tempted and set up a whole new build with a greatsword just to test it.
It's absolute dogshit......
The stamina gauge management......
One-line summary: Greatsword Dancer is absolute dogshit, don't do it. I resold my gear too, this isn't worth doing.
————
"I clearly said yesterday not to do it, but I saw quite a lot of people in the community trying Greatsword Dancer. I said it wasn't good. I said that."
[no, I thought it was just reverse psychology]
[lololololol]
[If you're a Dancer user, honestly you can't help but be tempted]
[For real, she beat Gosu with a greatsword, who would think it's bad]
[How does Rin even use a greatsword? When I tried it, just swinging it was so hard]
[I can't handle the stamina bottoming out after just a few swings]
There were various opinions in the chat too, as if a lot of people had tried it.
"Let me get to the core of it. When I beat that user named Gosu yesterday, I didn’t face him head-on the whole time. And it wasn’t a system-registered skill either. To put it more simply, it’s a kind of technique you use when you can’t meet an opponent’s attack head-on. In other words, it’s called redirecting or deflecting, but..."
I didn't think the viewers would understand what I was saying right now.
Honestly, it didn't matter if they found it difficult. She hadn't said it expecting them to understand in the first place.
And it was precisely because it was that difficult that she had started speaking—to tell them not to do it.
[??????]
[What does that mean]
[Deflecting?]
[Well, Rin did look like she was being pushed back head-on]
[I feel like I understand but also don't]
[I don't understand any of this, am I the only one?]
[Suddenly thinking of Plea lololol]
The chat was exactly as expected.
She cleared her throat and opened her mouth again.
"I couldn’t explain in detail yesterday, but for Greatsword Dancer to be good, there are a few prerequisites. First, you have to be able to parry the opponent’s attacks. Next, you have to be able to use techniques like redirecting or deflecting attacks."
She began explaining the prerequisites for playing Greatsword Dancer one by one.
You can't use Buster Sword-type greatswords at all.
You need a greatsword of Claymore weight or lower, plus a Weight Reduction option.
If the opponent is ranged, there's naturally great difficulty in judging distance and closing in.
The weight of the greatsword restricts your movement, and so on.
Serin's clear voice continued explaining Greatsword Dancer.
And naturally, almost none of the viewers understood what she was saying.
**
"Seriously, what kind of person is she?"
But Sua, who was watching Serin's stream, understood everything Serin said and felt goosebumps without realizing it. Wrapping her arms around herself, Sua stared blankly at the screen.
—Ah, so when you use a greatsword and use a skill, the center of gravity at the moment you lower your upper body is also really important, so what you need to do is...
She was explaining everything piece by piece like she was giving a lecture. It was so thorough it was almost fascinating.
Normally people hide or conceal tips they alone know or the advantages of their techniques. But she was explaining everything openly, like a tree giving away everything it had.
Even Sua, who didn’t use greatswords, could understand the basic concepts to some degree.
Then Sua found it absurd all over again that Serin had calculated all of that and used a greatsword.
No, more than that.
She wondered if it was really right for her to be doing a stream like this.
"...Serin, what kind of stream even is this?"
She thought typing in chat would just draw attention to herself, so she only watched. But she genuinely wondered what kind of stream this was.
It was too advanced to be an educational stream, so almost none of the viewers understood it.
And because of that, the chat was already in chaos.
[snoring...snoring...]
[Please stop explaining]
[No why? I like it, Rin talks a lot so she's cute lolol]
[I didn't want to say this but is Rin seriously an explainer?]
[Another World rankers are all weird in their own way, Rin seems exactly like that]
[I'm losing my mind! I'm losing my mind! I'm losing my mind!]
[Her voice is nice so I just listen to it like radio lololol]
[for real lolol]
From the usual lying-down emoticons to the "I'm losing my mind" chats.
Sua had experienced it a few times herself, so she knew this chat atmosphere.
She wondered if she should stop this, but then she watched a little longer and noticed the chat atmosphere was a bit different.
"Is it because her voice is unreal?"
Amid all that, there were people saying her voice was nice to listen to so it was fine. Ironically, there were quite a few people who simply liked that she talked a lot.
**
There was a strangely captivating charm.
Eunha had that thought without realizing it while watching Serin's stream.
—I talked a bit too long, didn't I...? But I felt I needed to properly explain before more people started playing Greatsword Dancer for no reason.
The content itself was one thing, but maybe because Rin's voice was pleasant, it wasn't bad to listen to.
Moreover, there were more than a few points that seemed useful if you could understand them. In the way she carefully explained each detail, you could feel a kind of sincerity.
She found herself newly curious what it would feel like to face her directly in Another World.
"But... I should still approach her after the stream ends."
She was looking forward to Rin logging into Another World later, but at the same time, she worried that if she approached too casually, it might feel burdensome.
On top of that, she was nominally resting mid-season because she was sick. It wouldn't be appropriate to show herself on stream for no reason.
So Eunha organized her thoughts.
She would approach when Serin's stream ended.
***
"Then I'll go get some coffee, so please listen to some music for a moment."
With that, Serin cut herself off, muted the mic, and put on music.
She got up from her seat and checked the time—it was already past 5 o'clock.
"Ah. Ah."
She tested her voice quietly and felt a slight sting in her throat, probably from talking more than usual.
She had tried to reduce her volume and put less strain on her throat, but talking continuously turned out to be harder than expected.
She stretched a little, walked to the kitchen, and filled the coffee pot with water.
Bubble bubble.
After a moment, the coffee pot began to make the sound of boiling water.
As she tore open an instant coffee packet and made her coffee.
Serin muttered blankly.
"At this point, nobody will do it."
She had deliberately rambled on about the downsides of Greatsword Dancer, and she wondered if anyone would still try it.
She picked up her coffee cup and returned to her room.
『Han Siwoo donated 100,000 won!』
<This is Han Siwoo, coach for the ACK pro team G1. Do you have a moment to talk?>
A sudden donation message appeared on the screen.
"...?"