Chapter 13
Chapter 13
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Translator: MadScientist
Chapter: 13
Chapter Title: Regained Starlight
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[Ding!]
⚙ SYSTEM NOTIFICATION ⚙ [Hair]: Your hair becomes more beautiful. Repeated purchases increase the skill level. [Price: 200,000 won] A tangled mess of frizzy, botched dyed hair that refused to be tamed. It hung all the way down to near her tailbone, making it look even more disheveled.
Who'd think hair could hurt? She stared into the mirror and mashed the purchase button repeatedly.
[Ding!] [Ding!] ...
Smoke rose from the dull pink mixed with black, the murky color draining away with each finger tap. Leveling up skills always showed visible changes—it was always fun.
The system chimes kept going, then suddenly cut off.
"What? Already done?"
[Ding!]
After five system chimes rang out, one more echoed through.
A brighter-than-usual glow, blindingly brilliant and transparent pink light, enveloped the surroundings and seeped into her hair.
⚙ SYSTEM NOTIFICATION ⚙ [The Saintess's hair regains its starlight] ⚙ SYSTEM NOTIFICATION ⚙ [The Fallen Fruit piece reacts to the regained starlight and begins to be absorbed] [The Saintess's starlight takes on a peach scent] [The Saintess's starlight becomes even sweeter] ⚔ STATUS ⚔ ─Your starlight brightly illuminates Heavenly Peach─ ⚙ SYSTEM NOTIFICATION ⚙ [Saintess's Hair Holding Starlight] The Saintess's starlight, which has regained its light and stars to illuminate Heavenly Peach, blazes brightly. [Price: Conditional Transcendence] "Why isn't Mamma Tong making a fuss?"
A wave of disappointment hit her, and she grumbled while kneading her chest.
After kneading for a while until her mood lifted, she reached back, pulled some hair over, and laid it on her palm to touch the changed strands.
"Whoa... what is this?"
When she opened her hand holding the hair, the clumped strands slipped silkily across her palm.
The hair was soft and fluffy, sparkling overall like it was dusted with finely crushed jewels of light.
She'd thought it would turn into a deep, muddy pink, but no.
The new color was a bright, translucent pale pink that held starlight, like mixing pure white snow with pink.
Every slight shake of her head made the hair sway alluringly, dreamily twinkling and scattering starlight.
"Everything's pretty except my face."
With the hair now a pretty pale pink holding starlight, her puffy face stood out even more starkly.
She peered deeper into the mirror.
The long, flirtatious bangs brushed past her eyebrow ends and hung down past her chin, adding cuteness to her body that had only exuded a wild sensuality.
The stray hairs cascading fluffily down her pale neck blended purity, cuteness, and allure.
Overall, it wasn't stiff straight hair—instead, a soft, gentle wave added prettiness.
She stared blankly into the mirror for a long time.
The hair that had reached her hips and looked bushy was now shortened to just above her tailbone.
Even shorter, the long hair suited her body perfectly, and her once creaky frame now showed ideal proportions.
"Phew. Status Window!"
Ding!
⚔ STATUS ⚔ [Remaining Funds: 1,050,000 won] "Where'd my 15 million won go?"
After sending 250,000 won rent to the landlord, she had 800,000 left.
Money earned from 150 grinding sessions vanished in a flash.
With nothing left but her body, a sigh escaped naturally.
Back from the bathroom to the room, she flopped onto the mattress, and a few strands of hair fell over her face.
Then, a fragrance wafted from the hair. Almost peach-human level.
As she lay there fiddling and rolling with her hair, her belly clock went off.
Glancing at the clock, it was nearly noon.
She bolted up, headed to the kitchen, and opened the cupboard. Amid the unpacked boxes, she spotted a few cup ramen packs brought from her old studio.
No kimchi, just ramen for her fate.
"Ugh, when did I ever bother with pricey kimchi?"
She pulled out a cup ramen, sprinkled the seasoning, and looked for the coffee pot—but it was gone.
Then she remembered selling it secondhand.
No choice, she filled a pot with tap water, set it on the gas stove, and returned to the room where an old computer chair greeted her.
"Gotta stream too... when to start?"
Her head pondered, but like muscle memory for a gamer, her hands automatically powered on the computer.
—Whirr.
The fan spun up with a beep of boot sounds.
"What? Who turned on the computer?"
Seconds later, staring at the desktop, she pondered today's stream.
Mukbang maybe.
But with no visible mouth, it'd be pointless.
As fleeting thoughts passed, she wondered when she'd even decided and turned it on.
Clicking the mouse, she logged into TripleNet, hit start broadcast, and streaming began.
[Han Ga-eul has started broadcasting] [Hot new monster rookie on day 3 takes the booth] Messages notified her followed viewers that the stream had started.
"Mm, good. I'll eat ramen, gather some viewers, then start."
With broadcast started, she checked the kitchen for boiling water.
Not yet boiling, she killed time by opening her phone stream—viewers trickled in one by one.
[Viewers: 70] [Viewers: 230] [Viewers: 650] — Military Secret 1q2w3e Where's Han Boss!! — dhgkaak lol title on point, day 3 monster for real Soon, she poured the boiling water into the cup ramen and returned to the computer room. Viewers were going wild.
[Viewers: 2,300] 'What? Lag?'
It had been just a few when she was in the kitchen moments ago, but now an absurd number floated up.
— Non-Participating Mayo Rice lolol 2300 viewers swarming like crazy — Hobby Stream Watcher Is this the voice buffet spot? — Chewy Fan Where's the booth boss? The viewer count beside the screen passed 2,300 and kept climbing.
"Fuck, 2,300 what the hell."
— Eong Base Meat Eong Eong lolol came and went wild — Footrest Kya that's our Han Boss "Where'd you all swarm from?"
— Eong Base Meat Eong Eong Missed seeing your eyes!! — dhgkaak Kya hearing eye girl's voice makes my abs tingle — Lykan Chat's too dirty here, please clean it up booth boss "Kid, clean up your own damn life first."
[Lykan has been force-kicked] — Queen's Foot Mat lololol savage kick — Non-Participating Mayo Rice Eye girl watch the splash damage, sitting next to ya got boned — Military Secret 1q2w3e This is our boss, talk shit and get kicked so watch it "No seriously kids, where'd you come from? What's with 2,300 people?"
— Dullureuya Babe we went to Radelri's room and demanded an apology fair and square "Radelri? Those assholes from yesterday?"
— Military Secret 1q2w3e Seems like from Demon Realm homebase and Radelri's room — Best Yeon-su 369 Wow booth boss voice is insane love it — Floor Pfft our eye girl's voice melts so gentlyㅠㅠ "This doesn't make sense. Two days of casual 2-3 hour streams and shut down, what's the chaos?"
She tried judging from the flood of chat, but gave up on the incomprehensible situation.
"Whatever. Gonna eat ramen, you guys play among yourselves."
Slurp, slurrrp.
— Dullureuya Eating ramen?? ⚡ DONATION ⚡ [Radelri donated 3,000,000 won] [Sorry my viewers bothered your stream yesterday. I'll be careful it doesn't happen again]
She was chewing ramen when suddenly a 3 million won donation exploded.
The donor's nickname was Radelri.
"Ahh I see."
Ramen in her mouth garbled the pronunciation.
"No it's fine, kids playing around happens. Thanks for the 3 mil donation, Radelri."
Her words said fine, but her heart pounded like it would burst.
— Dullureuya UwU I'm a baby sucky sucky mamma — Non-Participating Mayo Rice O Radelri clean sweep still alive lolol Trsu was slang for TripleNet + NEET viewers glued to streams 24/7.
— Eong Base Meat Eong Eong 3 mil pocket change for Radelri? Dude averages 10k viewers — Military Secret 1q2w3e UwU Radelri you bitch uwu donate more uwu "Ah, you dumbfucks. Shut up a sec. He said sorry. It's fine, Radelri."
⚡ DONATION ⚡ [Radelri donated 100,000 won] [Thanks, your voice is amazing. Collab next time?]
"Collab's on the broke streamer begging you. Thanks."
— Dullureuya Kiiieek Radelri you bitch don't touch our eye girl wanna get wrecked "Agh you dumbfucks, shut it. Money duplicates anyway."
— Non-Participating Mayo Rice ??? — Lykan ???? "Almost said that?"