My Horn Hurts So Much
Anna has started touching Labyrinthos balls
- But you still love her, right..?
ㄴ (OP) Fuck off
- Why is she touching balls when she can't even play properly?
- The cancer cell mass-production stream I've been looking for is right here
- Tell her to turn on ASMR already
- This is straight-up demonic
ㄴ (OP) Of course not
- Can't even support but goes DPS? lmao
- She's really doing whatever she wants;;
- Is she playing Magic Engineer because she's a 'demon'?
ㄴ (OP) Please stop telling our Anna to care about RP
ㄴ For real, she probably doesn't even remember she's supposed to be a demon anymore
ㄴ She was never a demon to begin with
- I checked it out once and she's playing some kind of escape artist with Magic Engineer;;
ㄴ Magic Engineer escape artist lol then of course lololololol
ㄴ What..
ㄴ Our Anna is a virgin, you know?
ㄴ (OP) Anna's boyfriend is in my bed right now? Anna is definitely a virgin ㅇㅇ
ㄴ I gave birth to Anna and she says she doesn't have a boyfriend!
ㄴ Anna's breasts haven't started producing milk yet
ㄴ Just say "I see" when the lawsuit flies your way..
- Magic Engineer escape artists have always had fast hunting speed
- Fast hunting speed but that's all she knows how to do
ㄴ (OP) Isn't an escape artist supposed to just have fast growth speed?
ㄴ The character's overall weight class is so low that it almost always loses in a 1v1 against enemy escape artists
ㄴ (OP) You can just use the bow to dodge well and run away
ㄴ That's still a waste of the bow
ㄴ Fact) Without the bow it's no different from a Mai without Q
ㄴ No CC either so using it as an escape artist is just trash
- Watching gives you armor penetration, you know~
- What exactly were you expecting from a Bronze scrub, human
- Looks like she only learned the farming route lololol
- This person didn't come to play the game, she came for a walk
- Mom.. don't abandon me mom.. I'll be a good kid from now on...
ㄴ (OP) Yup~ Get lost~ We can just make another kid~
ㄴ Don't slander Anna..
ㄴ (OP) Yup~ She already has a boyfriend~ We're gonna make another kid with her boyfriend~
ㄴ Anna doesn't have a boyfriend!!!!
ㄴ (OP) Anna hard-carried the teamfight
ㄴ ?? Does that even make sense?
ㄴ (OP) I don't understand what you're saying
ㄴ Just watch the VOD
ㄴ (OP) That bitch Anna blocked VOD replay!!!!
ㄴ lololololololol
- At first when she was just watching she was the ultimate troll but this is insane lolololol
- The back-turn play was really good
- You have to watch the bow usage at the front together with this
- Where's the Anna getting fucked from behind like a dog ㅇㄷ?
- Why did Anna suddenly get so good? (Genuinely don't know)
ㄴ It must all be her boyfriend's work
ㄴ Saying it's slander but she suddenly got way too good so it sounds plausible
Back in the day Magic Engineer escape artist was researched a bit, but it was too weak in 1v1s against enemy escape artists and its ability to disrupt the enemy main force was too poor so it eventually stopped being used.
So Anna uses her fast hunting speed to fill her bow gauge and uses it immediately (bow activation gif)
After activating the bow she quickly grasps the enemy positions, ally positions, and enemy escape artist position then moves to the predicted teamfight engagement area and camps. Looks like she planned the back-turn play from the beginning (Anna teamfight 1st person gif)
Once the teamfight starts she completely ignores whether her allies die or not, waits until all the enemy skills are used up, then activates optical camouflage, goes behind the enemies, and just blasts them. She took out three and won.
- But doesn't Magic Engineer have no damage skills? How is it that strong?
ㄴ (OP) She farmed neutral mobs for attack power increase + back attack bonus + headshot bonus + deliberately only killed enemies with low defense
ㄴ It's a character that's always had insanely strong basic attacks
ㄴ Isn't it way too strong? Shouldn't it get nerfed?
ㄴ (OP) The bow isn't even a damage skill so the basic attacks have to be strong at least..
ㄴ Instead it has no mobility, no survival skills, no CC, nothing
- You only won one round you crazy bastard lolololol
The voice of Anna echoed throughout the entire space.
A screen so enormous it felt like a movie theater. On it, Anna was pointing at the damage dealt section of the game results window.
[Look, right here. First in damage dealt. This part right here. Here.]
- Mod why is she so good now??? Did she actually go to the military or something?
- I get it so please stop..
- Sis you're getting ugly...
[So what if they made fun of me? See? I can do this much at least. I really practiced a lot, you know?]
Anna's live 2D model made a confident expression. It was just a drawing, yet the change in expression was so clear it felt quite fascinating.
[While I'm at it, I'll watch the replay too. Hm? You don't want me to? Too bad, I want to.]
[They say review and preview are important if you want to get good. So just bear with it. If you don't like it, you can be the mod instead.]
On screen, Anna started the replay. Having gotten bored, I casually reached out into empty air. A cup of black tea popped into existence with a poof. When I snapped my fingers, scones and macarons appeared as well. Then I half-lounged on the recliner. It was quite a sloppy posture. It definitely didn't look like something a noble young lady would do. But I didn't particularly care. No one was watching, and no one would come to this place anyway. This was a space just for me alone.
"At this rate I won't need to go to the movie theater anymore."
Muttering those words, I pressed the refresh button floating in the air. A few more relay posts had been uploaded to the gallery, so I clicked on them one by one.
Right now I was connected to VR, and this was a virtual space I had created. The food I was eating was also essentially just data clusters wearing the skin of macarons. For once I was using the VR device for something other than gaming. It was to watch a broadcast.
To watch a Labyrinthos game broadcast in real time, even the viewers had to use the VR time acceleration system. Of course you could watch it on a phone or PC in reality, but that felt almost like eating cold archive footage. I didn't particularly want to turn on 5x speed playback, but watching at normal speed also felt somehow boring. I wanted to watch Anna's broadcast live.
'After all, she sent me the friend fee yesterday.'
She had deposited one million won under the name "friend fee." Anna probably didn't even know I was subscribed to her channel. After all, she had only ever introduced herself as a streamer and had never once revealed that she was Shiroki Anna. So I wouldn't have had to watch her streams, but since I'd received something from her, I couldn't just ignore it.
"Hmm… but how long do I have to keep hiding like this?"
I figured I'd keep watching her broadcasts at least until she made it into the tournament. While I could review her play through replays and such, watching the live broadcast would give me more information. Especially her emotional state. Even pro gamers sometimes get criticized for "emotional play." That was only natural. No matter how calmly you try to judge, humans can't become machines. And Anna especially was the type to get swept up by her emotions. So understanding Anna was necessary. How to overcome her fear and what to fill that space with was the biggest challenge.
In that sense, watching her broadcasts was something I needed to do. But this structure where we were both deceiving each other felt somehow inefficient.
"Still, I don't think I need to be the one to reveal it."
Tap tap. I fiddled with the settings and changed the macaron into a roll cake. Eating the same snack all the time was getting a bit boring.
"Even if I revealed Anna's identity, it probably wouldn't be that fun anyway."
I put the zero-calorie roll cake in my mouth. A soft cream flavor spread through my mouth. The taste and texture weren't much different from the real thing.
It had been about a week since I started teaching Anna. If there was one thing I'd learned during this week, it was that Anna was an extremely indifferent person toward her surroundings. She didn't seem to care much about how the world worked. She didn't pay much attention to other people's circumstances either. She was even indifferent toward herself. On the other hand, she was extremely passionate about the things she liked.
Anyway, Anna definitely wouldn't care about other people's gazes. She wouldn't feel particularly embarrassed about being a VTuber, so she wouldn't try to hide it either. Therefore, even if I coolly told her, "I know your identity. You're the VTuber Shiroki Anna!" Anna would probably just say something like, "Oh, you knew? Since you know, please subscribe, like, turn on notifications, and follow my SNS while you're at it." She was a girl who wasn't even fun to tease.
'But the reason Anna is keeping it a secret is probably because of Leon, right?'
That seemed like the natural assumption. When I checked, Leon had been doing VTuber activities for about two years. The reason she hadn't said anything to me all this time was probably because she was terribly embarrassed about getting caught adding "nya" to the end of her sentences. Then she should've come up with a better concept. She always made fun of me for being concept-obsessed.
"What should I do?"
As all sorts of thoughts swirled through my head, Anna's voice suddenly rang out particularly loudly.
- Where did she learn that gun shooting posture?
- Did you marry a military veteran or something?
- Did her boyfriend teach her??
- Explain explain
[What boyfriend…. And what do you mean marriage.]
- Uuu.. I'm a baby unicorn.. My horn hurts so much...
- Animal rights organization here, please protect the unicorn's human rights
- What human rights for animals, it's animal rights you morons
- Boyfriend? Or is it boy-stab?
- Gasp, boy-stab
[I told you it's not a boyfriend…. I have a teacher who's teaching me these days. And it's a girl.]
- Stop talking nonsense
- Where in the world is there a woman who teaches Labyrinthos balls
- Today isn't April Fool's
- Your nose will grow
- If you lie Santa won't give you presents, do you understand???
- Anna, did you deceive Dad?
[Have these people only ever been deceived? Alright. Just wait a moment. Manager? Manager, are you watching the stream right now? If you're watching, give me a Discord call. …Hmm, looks like she's not watching. Even better.]
Anna nodded.
[I'll do a collab stream with the teacher who's teaching me…… There, is that good enough?]
"…Huh?"
I opened my eyes wide. Anna, what are you saying?