Chapter 132. People Who Lack Nothing
Chapter 132. People Who Lack Nothing
"Sssip... Hang in there..."
[ Overflowing Holy-Power Pouch has donated 10,000 Watts! ]
- Don't apologize, that only makes it more miserable...
This was a viewer who often made me laugh.
But right now, I couldn't laugh.
I could feel his sincerity through the words...
"Ah, anyway, I have some incredible news for everyone."
Anyone with a shred of intuition would figure it out.
[No way?]
[Don't fucking mess around lol]
"Hair loss. It can now be treated."
At those words, the chat paused for a moment, then soon erupted as if exploding.
The overwhelming reaction flooding in was 'impossible.'
Yet opinions like 'But if it's Unknown Hunter, maybe?' appeared often enough.
"Serenia."
I turned my gaze silently and spoke.
At my call, Serenia walked over and carefully sat between me and Laila.
She smiled toward the camera and gave a slight nod.
"Hello. I am Serenia."
As expected, when a beautiful person appeared, everyone softened up.
"Serenia has brought some food. If you eat it, hair loss can be treated. There aren't any side effects either."
[Mocking bald people once is enough, damn it...]
[I said stop pushing it!!!]
[Even 21st-century modern medicine says it's impossible T_T]
At that moment, Serenia quietly opened her mouth.
"It is an extremely rare food even in the kingdom. It is such a precious delicacy that even royalty have difficulty tasting it except on special occasions."
I was nodding quietly at her explanation.
"There is one drawback, however... it causes body hair to grow."
With that single sentence, countless people exploded.
[A drawback??????]
[How the hell is that a drawback you fuck]
[I'll give you all my body hair, just please give me head hair]
Serenia smiled brightly and took out the sea anemone she had brought.
A brilliantly colored sea anemone inside a magnificent case.
[Ugh...]
[That visual though;;]
[I can eat that all day, just please save my hair...]
Countless questions followed—where to buy it, how much it cost.
"But... there's one problem."
The chat window fell silent.
The viewers were holding their breath and watching to see what words would come out of my mouth.
"That food hasn't been precisely tested."
[?]
[What do you mean]
"Serenia says it causes body hair to grow... but that's by their people's standards. We don't know for sure, right?"
[What does that matter wtf]
[It makes your head hair grow!!!]
[I don't care if I die, I just want to die with a full head of hair]
I stared blankly at the chat window, at the reaction 'I didn’t care if I die.'
And soon a hollow laugh escaped me.
"No, seriously... what if horns grow, or fins sprout as a side effect? What are you going to do then?"
[You bitch, if horns grow that's cool and awesome]
[If fins sprout, I'll swim well]
[Bro, I'm 20 and my hair's already falling out, please save me just once]
I pressed my forehead.
A genuine sigh came out on its own.
'Well, when I ate it, there were no problems at all...'
My body was far too different from an ordinary person's.
Even deadly poison had no effect on my body.
Even poison that seemed like it would really kill me—Laila neutralized it.
'Huh...? The side effects aren't really a problem after all, were they?'
I stared intently at Laila.
If there's any sign of strange side effects appearing, we could just neutralize them beforehand.
"Laila."
When I called her, she smiled as if she already knew everything I wanted to say.
"It's not as if side effects have already occurred. Blocking them before they appear is entirely possible."
[She says the Saintess can actually do it wtf]
[Please bro, give me a chance]
Right.
Now the side effect problem was solved too.
This was... truly an opportunity.
A perfect opportunity.
So, to whom shall I give this miraculous opportunity?
My thoughts tangled in brief complexity, but soon my gaze turned to the screen.
Before my eyes was the chat window, still endlessly flooding with messages.
[Bro please, my crown started thinning back in high school]
[When I wash my hair, it piles up thick in my hand, please...]
[It's a three-generation genetic thing T_T]
A chuckle escaped me.
In the end, my viewers—the ones who heard this news first, and reacted first. Was there really any reason to give this opportunity to other people?
"Please send stories to my email explaining why you absolutely must receive this! A photo of your bare scalp is fine, and you can move me to tears with your words too. I will personally select a few people from among them."
And I added one more thing.
"...Of course, this only applies to viewers of our stream."
The moment those words dropped, the chat window exploded.
Viewers who had been watching the stream steadily from the beginning cheered, while viewers who had flooded in from the 'hair loss' news were disappointed.
"Anyway, I'll accept entries until exactly midnight tonight, and then I'll pick people from among them!"
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A few hours after Song Hoon ended the stream, various communities and portal sites were in an uproar.
[ "Hair Loss Treatment Possible?" Unknown Food Revealed During Stream ]
[ Could Be a Turning Point of Fate for the Global Hair Loss Population ]
[ The Next Miracle Item After the Hongyeom Fruit? ]
But it wasn't all positive posts.
[ Writer: Anonymous ]
[ Title: Fuck, Isn't Song Hoon a Piece of Shit? ]
[ Content: (Photo of a balding crown) I even thought about suicide, so why is he only giving that chance to his viewers?? ]
↳ You fucking idiot lololol
↳ OP: Don't laugh, you bitch
↳ The streamer's just doing an event for his viewers, isn't it only natural to give the chance to his viewers?
↳ OP: What, was he some computer god or something, was it right to only give this to his viewers?
↳ If you're salty, you should've watched the stream, dumbass lol
↳ Looking at this bastard's old posts, he's written a fuckton of stuff hating on Song Hoon because he's jealous?
The community posts calling it unfair were one thing, but the internet news article comments were fierce too.
"No, seriously, why only his viewers?"
"Isn't that obvious? He's the one who obtained it."
"I've never watched the stream once, but there are so many people who honestly want to cry because of their hair... The opportunity should be for everyone."
Even the news covered this incident.
Experts appeared and began listing the scale of the hair loss market one by one.
"The global hair loss population exceeds two billion people. This market is worth thirty trillion won annually and is growing every year."
"Even billionaires cannot escape hair loss. In reality, there are many cases where the top 1% of wealthy people invest tens of millions of won per month on hair loss management."
"If this food introduced by Unknown Hunter truly has effects without any side effects, and if mass production is possible... the existing hair loss treatment market could be, literally, devastated."
And a social affairs reporter asked them a question, as if joking.
"Could it be... that hair loss treatment companies might go bankrupt en masse?"
A question thrown out with a smile, to lighten the mood.
But the expressions of the experts who received that question were boundlessly serious.
That day, this news was broadcast, and the number one real-time search term on portal sites was 'Hair Loss Sea Anemone.'
Number two was 'Participation in Song Hoon's Viewer Event.'
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Planes flocked in from all over the world.
Not for delegations, not for arms negotiations, not for national summit meetings.
For one simple, desperate reason: Hair.
They were no ordinary visitors.
Middle Eastern royalty, European chaebol families, Southeast Asian telecom tycoons, Silicon Valley entrepreneurs from the United States...
Each bearing their own story, each unable to hide their desperation, they set foot on Korean soil.
"A hotel... I'm not staying for just a day or two, how could I stay in such a place..."
They did not stay in hotels.
The method they chose was purchasing real estate in the area.
"How much is this house? The thing is, the person I serve is..."
"Ah, this neighborhood has no listings either..."
"I'll pay double. If you can vacate and move out within three days, I'll pay triple."
The real estate agent just blinked.
They bought up luxury homes in Seocho-gu, Hannam-dong, Cheongdam-dong, even the outskirts of Yongsan...
Just to get close to Song Hoon, they purchased high-end residences one by one.
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"Two billion? I'll just consider it buying a vacation home in Korea."
And those who had long served as strategists or secretaries by their sides all tried to dissuade them.
"Your Majesty... nothing has been verified yet."
"...I wish to cling even to that small straw."
"But Your Majesty's authority...!"
"...How long have you been with me?"
"I believe it has been twenty years..."
"Then you must know well how much I invest in hair loss research every year."
"..."
And on another continent.
Inside an airplane.
"Chairman! You currently have seven schedules! The meeting with the prime minister, the state-owned enterprise acquisition, the conglomerate merger announcement...!"
At the secretary's cry, the chairman, reclining in his airplane seat, gazed out the window and murmured.
"Anyway... aren't they all just formal meetings? The results are already decided..."
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In front of the luxury villa complex where Song Hoon lived, a multitude of high-end cars lined up.
But they were tremendous luxury cars that ordinary foreign cars wouldn't even dare to glance at.
"Th-that person is definitely..."
"Again this time...?"
"This is insane..."
The security team there was already in a state of emergency.
Before their eyes, faces that were far too familiar had gathered to meet Song Hoon.
A famous crown prince.
The chairman of the continent's largest steel company.
One of Asia's top ten richest people.
As one... people who lacked nothing...
"I wish to meet Unknown Hunter, Song Hoon."
Yet the answer that came back was one.
"...We apologize. He is currently refusing meetings. He won't be home right now either."
The same words, repeated like a parrot every time.
Even so, they stood their ground and waited there.
People who held everything—wealth, power, honor.
Those people paced anxiously in front of a luxury villa.
To seize the miracle they saw before their eyes...