10. The Jangsan Tiger Gives Real Education
The endless stream of rising viewer chats.
Donations pouring in at a rate that made counting them pointless.
To me, who had long grown accustomed to receiving screams of terror and waves of fear, this was an entirely new sensation.
So many people sending me goodwill.
“It seems you made the right choice joining the VIP seat. And if you’re free, would it be okay if I promoted your Wetube channel?”
“My Wetube channel? Of course it’s possible!”
Recently I’ve been too busy to upload videos to my channel, but I could try snagging some sponsorships with this opportunity.
“The channel name is Sanbeom’s Voice Mimicry Channel… but I only have a few thousand subscribers so far.”
“A few thousand?”
Dodohan asked with a puzzled voice.
Was she praising me for having fewer subscribers than my abilities deserved?
“I just checked and you’ve already surpassed ten thousand.”
“……Really?”
“Yes.”
Wait, ten thousand? That sounds like a human joke.
I immediately opened my Wetube channel on my smartphone.
Notification: 99+
Notifications only go up to 99, and anything beyond that is shown with a +. I learned something new today.
……That means.
“I can’t possibly reach ten thousand subscribers… no way!”
- lol
- lol
- As expected, the voice actor who voiced a yuri dub for her first stream is a natural at trolling.
- lol
- The entire chat is going to switch to you, host?
- real
“Eh… this is dangerous! Are you all abandoning me?”
- yeah
- beep, switching.
- Sanbeom-nim, are you going to do a live broadcast?
- Host, you’re being abandoned!
“Since it’s come to this, there’s only one way…!”
Just as I was feeling guilty about stealing someone else’s viewers, Dodohan seemed to have come up with a solution.
It felt like a no-win situation, but Dodohan, who could still think of a way out even in such a predicament, was truly a professional broadcaster…
“Sanbeom-nim! Please date me!”
“Kyaaah! W-what did you just say?!”
Was she not a professional broadcaster but a professional succubus? No, this isn’t even succubus behavior… what is this? Suddenly confessing feelings? To me?
- hahaha
- If you can’t break it, you’ll just take it.
- I’m all for this yuri pairing!
- Vote!
- It’s here! Dodohan-style virtual marriage proposal.
- Sanbeom looking flustered lol
“Is this… a virtual marriage proposal? It is, right?”
“Of course it is.”
Dodohan is a streamer who doesn’t reveal her face.
That said, she’s not particularly good at jokes or trolling, and her singing skills aren’t great either.
Yet the reason she could reach this point was her unbelievable antics.
- But the host is currently in a virtual marriage with a streamer, right?
- yeah
- What a windfall!
“Ehehe! I don’t have a husband’s seat, but I still have an empty wife’s seat…!”
Dodohan’s reply solved the chat’s confusion but only set the chat on fire even more.
- Is this what the chat is like when you first join the room?
- I can’t deny it.
- hrmph……
- The weak cannot survive!
“Eh… virtual marriage… um, it’s already late today, so I’m getting sleepy. I’ll answer later. Thank you for today.”
Have I ever actually slept? I don’t know. But right now, I need to sleep. Anyway.
“Ah. You left.”
- Ran away.
- Ran away.
- Yuri trash!
- Don’t run! Fight back!
- Dodohan wins!
“Well, there’s nothing I can do. Since I haven’t heard an answer to the virtual marriage proposal yet, there’s still hope, right?”
Click.
Originally, using your own electronic devices activates the sympathetic nervous system and suppresses melatonin secretion.
For the sake of sleep quality, I should turn off the computer.
There was nothing at today’s VIP seat.
Absolutely nothing.
(I had so many things happen… it was really tough.)
Ring.
At that moment, my smartphone rang.
7,000,000 won has been deposited into Sanbeom's account!
Che, seven hundred? That was supposed to be a few hours of work, right?
Using the convenience store salary calculation method, the money I should have earned after working more than half a year was earned in one go.
I should do this a few more times… or maybe it would be better if I just broadcast myself?
The equipment is already all set up.
Even the computer was bought by Baekho-hyung from the start as a very high-spec model.
Using this just for watching Wetube videos and looking for mines is like using a meat cleaver to catch a chicken.
“Starting tomorrow~! Right now, just rest.”
Laozi said to not force anything but let it flow naturally.
This isn’t about delaying work; it’s just that the work naturally got delayed.
“That’s right? Laozhi?”
(The beast cub is speaking like a beast.)
Originally beasts speak beast language, so this means I spoke the correct words!
(Aigoo, Duya!)
Since I wasn’t going to sleep at night anyway, I quickly got bored and turned the computer back on.
The type of game I wanted to try was one called FPS.
I decided to try it because I got interested after watching Wetube videos.
“The game name was definitely ‘Handrant,’ right?”
It was divided into two sides: one side planting bombs, the other defusing them.
I entered the Truet Games website and downloaded the game.
When the tutorial started, the screen showed me holding a gun in first-person.
The gun only let me dodge or get hit; I had never shot one before, so my heart was racing.
One hour later.
[Hit the target dead center 30 times in a row. 0/30]
“You bastard! Let’s play the game! It’s been fifty minutes here alone!!”
The mission required controlling the gun’s recoil to empty an entire magazine into the target’s center.
To succeed, I had to carefully lower the mouse, but since I had never actually shot before, I was failing at this part for the fiftieth time.
“Fine, the Wetube sages will teach me the method.”
When I looked up the method, it took less than a minute for the answer to appear.
Just restart the game.
Then I could skip the tutorial.
“Give me back my one hour!!”
When I restarted the game, I shouted furiously at the starting screen that appeared, but nothing came back.
It was solved. But… why did I feel like I had been cheated?
One hour, at minimum wage that would be ten thousand won stolen.
Utterly clear loss.
Even Buddhism says that attachment to something brings suffering, so I should stop obsessing and just enjoy the game.
[Game found.]
The character selection window appeared.
Five characters were given by default.
I naturally chose the attack-type character that charged forward like a wild beast…
It was taken.
Someone else had picked it first.
Reluctantly, I chose the character that placed walls and restored health from behind.
- Hello.
- hiya
- hiya
The teammates’ atmosphere was lively.
Since everyone was beginners, they cheered at each other before the game started.
I also typed hiya in chat.
The wall separating the two teams disappeared and the real game began.
……I died?
I walked around without any caution, got too close to the wall, and was ambushed by the enemy, dying instantly.
Since I would respawn in the next round anyway, I felt nothing but a little annoyed.
- Bro, your mom died? Why are you going around with a bomb alone?
“What…?”
When I checked the ID, it was the guy who had taken the character I was about to pick.
He was fast at picking characters, but he was fastest at insulting me.
- What?
- Your mom died!
By the way, this match wasn’t a ranked game; it was a general round for beginners only.
Of course, my teammates also made similar mistakes.
Every time, that guy spewed unspeakable curses in chat.
“Please stop!”
Finally, one teammate turned on voice chat and spoke.
Since voice chat was on, if the guy had a clear mind he should have been scared at this point…
- Who do you think you are telling me to stop? You don’t even have skill.
The opponent wasn’t a clear-minded person. And… it was annoying.
The voice sounded like a buzzing mosquito.
Continuously saying his parents were gone, it seemed he was using his biggest deficiency as curses.
As the round progressed, his insults became increasingly over the line.
Moreover, he was now cursing without stopping via voice chat.
I had reached my limit. The score was already 3 to 11.
The game was about to end.
Before that, if I didn’t make this bastard eat shit, I would live with regret forever.
-[Whisper] Please lower the speaker volume for a moment.
I sent whispers to the other teammates.
Since I had warned them in advance, the ones who didn’t listen were on their own.
And I turned on the mic.
I could produce any sound in the world.
Among them, what was the most lethal to humans?
A close person’s voice? A beast’s howl? Or nature’s sound?
None of those.
The most lethal sound to humans was one that resonated with the eardrum.
By matching the resonance frequency, you could shatter a glass, but I could tear a human’s eardrum with it.
Even if the power weakened when transmitted through the mic, it would take at least three days to recover.
“A, a. !%@!%#$@^#^@”
“Eh… what? What the hell? Your ears aren’t working! Tinnitus, damn it!”
[Defeat]
But I won. (laughs)