What Happened While I Was Asleep?
I woke up to chaos. The tense atmosphere only eased after everyone confirmed that Manguls was still alive. For the record, the unconscious Manguls was carried away by Recovery Team 1.
As time passed, people started crowding around me, showering me with praise.
It took quite a while before I could finally escape the crowd of people wanting to talk.
“Phew. This is actually more exhausting.”
That was when Crodel approached me quietly.
“Thank you for your hard work, Haerang.”
“Ah, Crodel. I don’t really feel like I worked that hard.”
“Is that so?”
He gave a small smile and bowed his head slightly at my words.
“I apologize for showing you such an unsightly scene.”
“No, you really don’t need to apologize.”
“It puts my mind at ease this way.”
Crodel lifted his head and pulled something from his pocket.
“Here is your quest reward.”
It was a small, leaf-shaped token with a greenish glow.
“What’s this?”
I turned the leaf-shaped token over in my hands, examining it from every angle. I didn’t remember anything like this being listed in the reward details.
When I looked at Crodel with a puzzled expression, he began to explain slowly.
“This is a special reward I prepared personally for you, Haerang, in addition to the top-grade compensation and for what happened earlier. If you ever need rare materials or ingredients, simply show this token at our Bio Research Lab. The staff there will provide you with whatever you require.”
“Is this good?” I asked the viewers casually.
Hmm. So that’s what it does.
I carefully tucked the token Crodel had given me into my inventory.
“Thank you. I’ll make sure to use it when I really need it.”
“You may use it anytime. The rest of your reward will be prepared by staff in front of the building. Now, if you’ll excuse me.”
With that, Crodel left.
“He’s cooler than I expected.”
“He’s always been like that-nyang!!”
The one who answered was Patricia. She was already munching on jerky again—who knows when she’d pulled it out.
“Is that any good?”
“Want one-nyang?”
I nodded and held out my hand. She placed a piece of jerky in my palm.
Chew chew.
It’s… salty…
The jerky she gave me was saltier than I’d expected. How much salt did she put on this?
“How is it-nyang? It’s my special recipe-nyang.”
She looked up at me with sparkling eyes. Seeing those bright, expectant eyes, I felt like I had to say it tasted good.
“It’s delicious.”
“I knew you had good taste-nyang!! All the other humans say it’s too salty-nyang!! …They must have broken tongues-nyang!!”
Hmm. Maybe I should’ve said it was salty too. Watching her hand me another piece, I couldn’t help but think that.
I slipped the extra jerky into my pocket and asked her something that had been on my mind.
“Earlier you said they haven’t changed since they were kids. Have you known them for a long time?”
“That’s right-nyang!! I’ve known those brats since they were little-nyang!! Back then they were way cuter than they are now-nyang!!”
Since they were little, huh. Crodel and Manguls looked like they were in their thirties. So just how old was Patricia?
“Then… how old are you right now…?”
“Nyanya-nyat!!”
Before I could even finish the sentence, Patricia’s fist slammed into my shin.
“You don’t ask a lady her age-nyang!!”
Her tail stood straight up as she glared at me with a pouty expression.
I raised both hands in surrender.
“My bad.”
Only then did she lower her bristled tail.
“Nyanya-nyang. What a ridiculous person-nyang.”
She shook her head slowly before looking up at me again.
“Still, thanks to you I got to watch something really fun-nyang!! If you ever need anything, come to Recovery Team 8-nyang!!”
“I will.”
With that, Patricia rounded up her team and left.
Right then, Reina walked over and gave my back a light pat.
“So, what are you going to do now?”
“Hmm…”
Thanks to Manguls, my plan to take it easy today had already gone out the window. Checking the time, it was already the usual early morning hours. I needed to think about ending the stream soon.
“I’m thinking of taking a break for now.”
“Yeah, that sounds best. You worked hard today.”
Reina pointed at the hammer beside me. It was Manguls’s hammer that I’d taken as the wager.
“What are you going to do with that? Are you going to use it?”
“Of course I am. It looks like it’s in great condition.”
Hammers had their own unique charm, after all. Manguls had left me with something pretty nice.
“Alright. Then I’ll take it back to your quarters for you. And—”
“Yeah?”
Reina pulled out a bottle of water and handed it to me.
“You ate the jerky Patricia gave you earlier, right? Rinse your mouth with this. That stuff is insanely salty.”
“You knew?”
“I’ve tried it before.”
Reina shook her head with a look of pure disgust as if remembering the taste.
“My mouth tasted salty all day because of it.”
“Thanks.”
I nodded as I drank the water she gave me. After chatting with Reina for a while longer, I finally returned to my quarters.
“That’s it for today’s stream, everyone.”
The viewers tried to stop me from ending the stream as usual.
“Tomorrow I’ll be installing the mod and doing a bunch of other stuff, so I’m taking a real break. See you later.”
I just dropped an even bigger bomb on them.
“Paba.”
Streaming has ended.
“Phew…”
I climbed out of the capsule, washed up roughly, and collapsed straight into bed. Normally I would have checked the gallery for any new posts about me, but…
I’m too lazy today.
Since I didn’t really do much today anyway, there probably wouldn’t be anything interesting.
“Nyua?!”
I scooped up Nyua who had been floating nearby and immediately fell asleep.
—— WarHaven Gallery ——
These days the gallery’s been flooded with Haerang posts, but it looks like today was quiet. Did she finally run out of tricks? Lol
Three-line summary please
One-line summary is fine
Go ahead
“It’s all Haerang again…”
Shin Yoon-jae scrolled through the gallery posts with his finger like always. But every single post was about Haerang. The old WarHaven gallery that used to be filled with random chatter was gone.
Shin Yoon-jae didn’t like it one bit.
“It’s all Haerang, Haerang, Haerang. Aren’t you guys sick of it yet?”
He couldn’t believe the gallery owner was now Haerang. How could it change so suddenly? This wasn’t the WarHaven gallery he knew anymore.
“If it were the Haerang Gallery, maybe…”
Even as he said it, the absurdity made him let out a dry laugh.
“Why do people even watch female streamers…”
He’d seen the flood of Haerang posts, but he had never actually watched any of them. It was obvious a girl wouldn’t be any good at the game anyway.
Even if she’d unlocked a new route, so what? It was probably just because she was pretty. Of course, when the abs photo had been posted, he had clicked on it.
Well… that’s just something every guy would do…
Then a title caught his eye.
“Is there even anything in WarHaven worth making a mad movie out of?”
Since it took so long to kill a single monster, strategy videos made sense, but he had never once seen anything that could be called a mad movie.
Curious, Shin Yoon-jae clicked on the post.
The MadMat channel just uploaded a Haerang mad movie. Did they have some kind of connection? They went all out on the editing (link). Go watch it.
“MadMat?”
Shin Yoon-jae was genuinely surprised by the name. MadMat was a channel famous for its lightning-fast editing and heavy BGM that left viewers breathless. Thanks to its popularity, the YouTuber had reached 300,000 subscribers. And that was just the subscriber count—most videos easily racked up millions of views.
It was also one of Shin Yoon-jae’s favorite channels.
He hadn’t planned on watching the video, but hearing that it was on MadMat, he clicked the link and entered the channel.
Just as the poster said, there it was—a Haerang mad movie, prominently displayed. Shin Yoon-jae clicked on it as if possessed.
And in the end…
OP: GodAsh Fuck I watched the Haerang mad movie and it’s crazy. I’ve already watched it like ten times (link) (link) I posted the link twice so everyone go watch it at least twice. I’m gonna watch it again right after posting this. See ya.
In the end, even Shin Yoon-jae couldn’t help but become a fan of Haerang.
Ding.
I woke up feeling refreshed in the morning and was eating breakfast when my phone alarm went off. The sender was Lee Se-min. Wondering why he was contacting me so early, I opened the message.
Yeonu!! Check the MadMat channel!! If you haven’t seen it yet, go look right now!!
Hmm. What happened while I was sleeping this time?