Never Taking a Mission Like This Again
"So that's why I had to go offline yesterday, huh."
-You think that makes any sense?
I'm spilling the tea on why I went dark yesterday without any announcement, but these porters won't believe a word I say.
"No, for real. HERA broke down right then, so I couldn't take pics... Argh! This is frustrating!"
I was so pissed I smacked my chest.
"Come on, believe me!"
Wrong. These guys weren't buying my honest plea no matter what. I decided to drop trying to explain to the porters.
"Fine! I took a break 'cause I wanted to. Happy now?!"
My fans are always like this. They love screwing with me, Ju Ae-ri.
"So today's stream's just gonna be a filler."
> [ACEExec sponsored ₩500,000 for a mission.]
> Mission: Switch to 19+ and do outdoor exposure GO GO
Huh? Is it 'cause of yesterday's shit? Am I hallucinating?
I rubbed my eyes and checked the mission again. Rubbed again. Checked. Rubbed again. Checked.
No mistake—it was the same.
"Eh?"
> [ACEExec sponsored ₩100,000.]
> Message: Checked it out, it's fine apparently
Right, ACEExec—aka Chairman Porter—is the big donor who's been showering me with cash, averaging 200-300k per stream. Gold whale status unknown, but yeah.
'It's a mission, so I could refuse, but turning it down means losing the chairman I just hooked... Plus, I bought packs to upgrade HERA recently, so I'm short on funds.'
Not a single voice saying no. Everyone wants me flashing outdoors.
'Fine, just close my eyes and do it once. If shit hits the fan, Duk-cheol's got my back.'
I squeezed my eyes shut and hit accept.
No backing out now. My outdoor exposure was set.
"If this gets me banned, I'm suing for real."
I'd brought Duk-cheol as insurance, but only after stepping out did I remember he'd gone down to Busan on Lee Jung-woo's orders.
But no choice—arrow's already loosed. I headed to the most deserted spot possible.
I checked the chat logs and viewer gender split: 66% male, 34% female. Thought it'd be all dudes, but surprisingly lots of women too.
"S-so... how long do I gotta do this?"
> [ACEExec sponsored ₩100,000.]
> Message: About 1 hour and mission complete
One hour... long if long, short if short—but that's long!
Ae-ri, didn't know you had tastes like this in human mode.
'Shut up, HERA. This is all your fault.'
What did I do? I was just sitting here.
Don't even.
After that, ACEExec's donation saying "don't stay put" forced me to move.
"What'd the doc say?"
"Fuck, hit a really bad spot—says I'm impotent now."
"You too? Same here. I yelled at the doc that I'm a eunuch! If that bitch shows her face, she's dead."
Walking the alley, I heard familiar voices. Familiar, but thinner, more reedy than I remembered.
'Hide!'
Seemed like they were coming this way. I tried to duck quick—
But they spotted me first.
"Huh?"
"Th-that bitch?!"
"H-hey there?"
It was the Baekseong Church beggars who'd raped me yesterday. The duo I'd personally sent to eunuch town, storming toward me with pissed faces.
"Porters! It's them! The Baekseong Church beggars!"
I pointed and yelled. They flinched, realizing I was streaming.
"Y-you damn bitch was streaming buck naked? You a whore?!"
"Thought you were crazy, didn't know you were a perv."
"Who're you calling whore, crazy, perv?! You rapist fuckers!"
Anyone else, maybe—but hearing it from them just pissed me off.
"Doesn't matter. You got lucky. You cut off my family line!"
"I was the last heir too—now my line's done 'cause of you!"
What, you rape someone first then whine? That right?
> [ACEExec sponsored ₩100,000.]
> Message: KO those beggars and outdoor mission's done
Chairman issued the order. KO the beggars, end this damn exposure.
"HERA, upgrade done, right?"
Yes, that's why you went human mode, no?
"Then I can use it? Martial arts pack."
HERA System: 018
The so-called martial arts pack—a system that lets you wield any untrained martial art like a master.
I begged the creator, shelled out big bucks for the upgrade pack, and added it.
Affirmative. Pre-downloaded. Which martial art?
"Korean? Taekwondo. Roundhouse to the nuts incoming."
Decompressing Taekwondo from martial arts pack.
HERA unpacked Taekwondo fast—basic knowledge flooded my head, plus advanced stuff.
My original training was grappling like jiu-jitsu or judo, no strikes, so Taekwondo was a gap this pack filled.
Decompression complete. Ae-ri now wields national team-level Taekwondo.
I hopped in place, stance set.
Thud-! Thud-!
"What the fuck's the bitch doing?"
"She's nuts. Hey! Beat her quick and sell her to a brothel!"
"Yeah! Gotta make money if we're drinking!"
The impotent beggars (goji for short) charged with gleaming eyes.
Right now, as HERA said, national team level against a frontal assault? Suicide.
1440-degree spinning roundhouse. Life's about practice, you impotent mutts!
Crack-!
I fed the first one a spinning roundhouse to the jaw. He flipped backward without a scream. I stomped and leaped again.
Crack-!
Same way—like "friends to Gangnam"—180-degree'd the last one's jaw.
"Kyah!"
Oh, karate noise.
Porters witnessed legend. Me, hero Ju Ae-ri.
Right, hit mission success.
Click-!
ACEExec said KO means success, so I double-tapped and hit complete. 500k mine now.
Heh heh heh!
"Part 1 ends here. Part 2 late night, see ya."
I announced part 1 end to porters and killed the stream.
And... a C-Tube message that night meant no part 2.
ACEExec... that fucker said it was fine, but "egregious guidelines violation"—one-month ban.