Chapter 100
Chapter 100
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Translator: penny
Chapter: 100
Chapter Title: Seo-hyun's Streaming Debut!
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Seo-hyun appeared on an internet broadcast!
This news spread through the community in the blink of an eye.
[Holy shit, the Director showed up on a stream ㄷㄷㄷㄷㄷ]
(Clip of Seo-hyun appearing on Yoo Jin's broadcast)
No way, I was just watching a streamer I enjoy lately because she turned on her cam, so I tuned in with high expectations;;
Then she said there was a guest?
Turned out it was the Director and Ha-rin popping up out of nowhere;;
-Viral this shit hard lol
-Fake, right?
└You lunatic, watch the clip;; What do I gain from faking that?
-?? For real? FML lololol
-No but why the hell is she on a stream...?
[Fuck, Ha-kko Broadcaster's connections and specs are insane lololol]
How is Yoo Ha-rin her cousin and the Director her department senior?
Fuck, life is so goddamn unfair.
-Even her fixed viewers hitting around 100 came from when the corporate bigshot Yi Hwa-rin (Ha-kko) did exploration content with her zero-viewer ass lololol
-Luck af fml;
[But isn't she kinda pretty?]
Just good genes?
No but if she's the Director's junior, she's at Korea University too?
Why does it feel like Korea U is everywhere...? Why's the average streamer education level so high?
-Yoo Ha-rin pre-mutation looks don't lose to anyone lololol
-Turns out there are secretly a lot of high-education streamers;;
[It was clearly just supposed to be Ha-kko Broadcaster turning on her cam for a stream]
Scale exploded outta nowhere.
I was just watching her streams for pure fun value, which is insane.
Didn't expect this;;
-Director took over the film industry last time, now conquering streams too?
-Suddenly this ecosystem-disrupting species shows up and I'm just baffled lololol
-But is this Yoo Jin girl actually fun?
-Hilarious in-game lololol How can a person suck at games THAT bad?
-Fr?
-Yup, fr. Watching her play goes beyond frustratingly bad straight into massive hilarious mountain territory lololol
[Info) Yoo Jin only turned on her cam because she rage-quit a nightmare game even elementary kids beat]
It's a super easy horror game, not even that scary, but she couldn't beat it so she turned on cam.
Some dude said earlier, her skill level is on another dimension...
Worst streamer I've ever seen in my life.
-lololololol what's that easy horror game title?
-Nightmare House.
-...Isn't that barely qualifying as a horror game?
-Tell me about it lololol
* * *
Hee-jin wondered if what she was seeing was reality.
Her viewers, hovering between 100 and 150, were now on the verge of hitting ten thousand.
The massive viewer tsunami sparked by a clip someone posted in the community had her mind in a fog.
"Wow, so many people flooded in... This might blow up the stream?"
"...Yeah."
Seo-hyun nodded at Ha-rin's words. The two glanced at Hee-jin.
Sure enough, she was completely out of it.
The pair had plenty of experience in front of crowds, so their nerves held steady, but Hee-jin had been just an ordinary college freshman until recently.
"Ex-excuse me, Yoo Jin? Snap out of it?"
Ha-rin lightly thwacked Hee-jin's head.
"Ow! Why hit me outta nowhere?"
"Gonna space out forever? No content?"
"Ah, s-sorry! First time this many people... No, where'd they all even come from!"
-lolololololol
-Yeah right
-So what's next?
"Uh, hold on, my prep... Where is it... Ah, here!"
With that, Hee-jin pulled out today's schedule.
And on that schedule? Nothing but games.
-More games today?
"Yeah, doing games was Seo-hyun unnie's idea. She said she wanted to play some after a while..."
-Fr?
-Wtf??
"Yeah, for real. No magic or mutant powers today—just pure gaming."
"But unnie, you good at games?"
"Better than you."
-lolololololololololol
-Anyone who's seen her play even once gets it right away lololol
"...But unnie, you said you suck at games too."
"I like games, but I'm not good at 'em? But I watched one of your streams... Hm, yeah. Gave me this unfounded confidence surge?"
"I-it's not THAT bad!?"
"It is."
"Then try this one!"
Hee-jin fired up a game from her library right away.
It was a hardcore action RPG released fairly recently.
A game where you calmly read boss patterns and strike steadily.
But pure defense won't cut it—you gotta push hard when you can to take it down.
And above all, the difficulty was mind-blowingly insane—even hardcore action RPG vets struggled at first.
Seo-hyun, curious what she'd picked, had question marks all over her face.
Sin Executioner? What's that?
"What's this game? Been too busy lately to game, no clue."
"Hardcore action RPG. I bought it just in case, but they say it's brutally hard."
"...And you want ME to do that?"
"No, unnie said when prepping content, might as well go for something disgustingly hard?"
"Th-that's true."
Seo-hyun's confidence visibly drained away.
She'd expected something moderate, but out came a nightmare from the jump.
And Seo-hyun had good reason to think that.
The viewers' reactions were exploding insanely.
-lololololololololololololololololol
-Didn't even vets die dozens of times before getting used to that one?
-Yup, production team got flamed hard lolol for thoughtless difficulty
-No wonder the reviews are so mixed? Devs always got pure praise before, there's a reason for that lololol
Just from those reactions, Seo-hyun sensed something was off.
* * *
I grabbed the mouse and keyboard Hee-jin handed me.
The chat was flooding with excited messages.
How many tries to clear the first boss?
Hell, Hee-jin was even betting on it.
Nearly ten thousand viewers seeing my pretty shitty gameplay wasn't pure fun, but I decided to roll with it.
I'd picked games knowing this would happen anyway.
Hee-jin was the star of this stream.
If I used magic, the focus would stick to me the whole time.
But games? If I showed my mediocre skills?
People would get curious.
Just how bad is Hee-jin's gaming that it's worse than mine?
Mastering basic controls was quick.
Even if I'm not great at games, as someone who's played plenty, I pick up mechanics fast.
Of course, knowing controls doesn't mean you're good.
Even in my hardcore gaming phase holed up in my room, everyone always said I sucked.
Han-gyeol and Tae-hoon, who gamed with me constantly and got frustrated, vouch for it.
I was undeniably bottom-tier, below-average gamer.
No way I'd breeze through the first boss.
But...
??
-She's good?
What? The game felt way too smooth. I knew the basics of these games.
Focus on boss movement, study patterns, figure out dodges and parries.
But theory and execution have a gap... or so I thought.
My fingers moved exactly as I pictured.
Dodge heavy attacks, poke during pre- and post-delay...
And slam a big move into their big windups.
Rinse and repeat, and I cleared the first boss on try one.
Hee-jin's face next to me turned grim.
-Cleared first try??
-She's 100% practiced lololol
"Unnie... You said you sucked..."
"N-no, I really did! Mutation must've made my fingers move as I think... I definitely wasn't like this before?"
-lololo Director flailing in panic first time seeing it
-But does mutation boost gaming skill?
-Physical stats skyrocket, so maybe? Looks like she games a ton, knew exactly what to do.
-Fr, definitely a gamer lololol
"Liar."
"No, ask my classmates! Hold on."
I called Tae-hoon right away.
-...Hello?
"Hey, Tae-hwa?"
Sleepy just-woke-up voice. No, what was he doing up now? It's evening.
-Why call me by stage name outta nowhere...
"Ah, I'm on a stream right now... But you were sleeping?"
-Uh... Yeah, but what's with the stream, you again.
"Ah, Ha-rin and I had a joint appearance thing."
-On stream and suddenly why call me.
"No, people here doubt my gaming skills?"
-...? What bullshit? You straight-up suck at games.
"Exactly. I one-shot the new game's first boss..."
-New game? Sin Executioner?
"Yeah..."
- Don't bullshit me. You one-shot the first boss? Took me ten tries.
"For real."
-...No way, impossible. Me worse than Yoon Seo-hyun at games? Hey, this a dream? Tell me I ain't awake.
"Not a dream, dumbass."
Ah, my usual habit slipped out.
Viewers hearing our banter had question marks again.
???
-Tae-hwa? That Han Tae-hwa?
-Director friend's gotta be her.
-Fuck lololol what else we seeing on Ha-kko stream today;;
Today, I'm seriously raking in the hooks galore.