Chapter 14: Second month of broadcasting-5

Maybe they noticed how dejected I was.

A viewer sent a pretty long donation message.

[Bung-i donated 1,000 won]

– What’s the fun in watching someone beat on a simple pattern and high HP monster for hours? You have to start over if you make a mistake. Are you crazy?

Oh…

– It would be fun to watch if the pattern was flashy or complicated, but that’s just boring.
– Just play normally.
– LOL
– If you’re confident you can keep it entertaining for 4 hours without getting boring, then go ahead.

I didn’t pay attention to the viewers…!

Especially the last part hurt.

I was still immature.

I had more to learn than I had already learned.

I didn’t know how to keep viewers entertained while repeating the same thing for four hours.

If I knew how to do that, I wouldn’t be a small streamer in the first place.

“Sigh…”

It’s a shame, but there’s nothing I can do…

Then I’ll just record that later and upload it to YouTube.

I wasn’t giving up.

I thought it was possible.

It would be a shame to just let go of something possible.

Besides, it was a time when YouTube needed to be activated.

The chaotic comment section seemed to be calming down.

I needed new firepower.

Recently, all I had uploaded were Isaac and full replays.

It wasn’t enough to keep viewers.

“Sigh…”

Okay, let’s decide on that for now.

I took a sip of water and glanced at the chat.

“Um! But wasn’t I really good just now?”

The pattern was simple, but I avoided it pretty well!

I wiggled my lips and puffed out my shoulders.

“Is this talent?”

I heard Skull Soul was difficult, but it wasn’t that bad, was it?

I petted the cat sleeping on my lap.

Don’t you think so too?

Meow- The cat cried weakly and went back to sleep.

It was as if it was answering my words.

“Hehe…”

– Shut the fck up
– Yeah, your trait is quickness
– It’s a broken trait, and if you can’t do it with that, then, well, yeah
– You haven’t even started yet LOL
– I can’t say anything because I don’t have fcking money
– 10 minutes until Liera cries.

I objected to the chat that said I would cry.

“I don’t cry anymore!”

Garam said I looked really ugly when I cried.

I was scared to think how ugly I must look for the kind Garam to say that, and I shuddered.

My looks must be worse than I imagined.

“Yeah, I’ll never cry!”

– LOL Are you sure you won’t cry?

That was when it happened.

=Dark Spirit ‘illilllll’ has invaded.=

Dark red letters appeared in the top center.

“Huh?”

– ?
– ??
– What
– ?

“Was I online?”

– Why are you asking us that?
– ???

A Dark Spirit, another player, had invaded.

I hadn’t even beaten the first boss yet!

I forgot to play offline.

“What should I do?”

– What do you mean what should you do, fight.

Yeah, I asked a stupid question.

Fight!

I didn’t think I would lose.

I just realized my talent in the losing event!

My condition was at its peak!

“I can win!”

– Fact) It hasn’t even been an hour since you started playing.

What did playtime matter?

I was doing well right now!

Surely a user wouldn’t be more difficult than a boss?

I could already think of dozens of titles.

‘Newbie takes on a veteran!’, ‘Skull Soul talented streamer!’ and other delusions.

Skull Soul would surely light a fire on my YouTube channel.

“Hehe…”

– Creepy;
– 20

My happy imagination was short-lived.

It ended.

The Dark Spirit appeared.

A shocking appearance.

Purple skin, a bizarre and unpleasant proportion, and eyes that maximized fear.

I couldn’t confirm if it was real or fake because of the barcode nickname, but it was a very famous person.

The person who cleared all bosses in the previous game and the one before that with no-hit, bare-handed, with the same customization.

Person?

Was it a person?

It was closer to a specter or a demon than a person.

– Why did you go quiet?

[WhitePants donated 1,000 won]

– 10,000 won if you win.

“This…?”

– Where did your confidence go?
– Come on, show off LOL
– Scared?

“Th-that person can’t be real, right?”

Because they were so famous, there were many people who imitated them.

The Dark Spirit that invaded now must be the same.

There was no reason to be afraid already, was there?

The opponent was a person.

There was no need to look at the pattern, it was more of a game of wits.

“Kya!”

With a strange shout, I swung my claws.

The barcode-nicknamed Dark Spirit, aka Blue Oni, easily avoided my claws by taking a step to the side.

Was it a coincidence?

I attacked again, but it dodged by taking a step back without using a roll.

How was this possible?!

I attacked until my stamina was depleted, but I couldn’t land a single hit.

– Look at that spacing
– It might be real?
– Or she’s just bad

Even though my character was out of stamina and couldn’t move, it didn’t attack.

It just circled around me, as if it was toying with me.

“Are you watching my stream…?”

Otherwise, there was no reason for it to do this.

“If you’re watching, I’ll give you 5,000 won if you die once!”

It was a bold offer, but maybe it wasn’t watching my stream, or maybe it was ignoring me even though it was watching. It just kept toying with me without showing any particular reaction.

If it had just overwhelmed me, I would have just thought, ‘They’re really good!’

“Ugh…!”

– LOL
– LOL

I got annoyed at being deliberately toyed with and rushed in as soon as my stamina recovered.

I tried to use my head to block the predicted path and pushed it to the wall.

But as expected.

Blue Oni easily avoided without taking a single hit.

“Ugh…!”

4 minutes.

“Don’t bully newbies…!”

7 minutes.

“Why are you doing this to me!”

9 minutes.

“J-just kill me already!”

After 13 minutes of fighting, my hand holding the mouse trembled.

The chat was having fun, but I was a mess.

How could I not land a single hit?

Was that person good?

Or was I bad?

There wasn’t a trace of my earlier arrogance.

Self-deprecation replaced the overflowing confidence, and my voice became teary.

I slapped my cheeks to hold back the tears.

Oh, no.

I’ll look ugly if I cry!

But my face was already not that good looking, so did it matter?

I shook my head to shake off the stray thought, looked at the chat, and spoke in the most pathetic voice I could muster.

“Sh-should I… Force quit…?”

– NOOO
– Pathetic
– LOL Just try to win
– Have some confidence! Don’t run! Fight!

“H-how am I supposed to win against that…”

Sniff…

A tearful cry.

How was I supposed to win against that?

Continuing to fight would only make me more mentally exhausted.

One of the things I learned in my short life was that there were two types of things in the world.

Things that had even a 1% chance of happening and things that had no chance at all.

And this situation clearly belonged to the latter.

If I attacked, it dodged. If I ran, it chased.

What was I supposed to do!

– She’s crying LOL
– Didn’t you say you wouldn’t cry LOL
– LOL

“I’m not crying, okay…?”

I felt like crying, but I wasn’t.

So, I was still okay.

“…Geez.”

I threw the trash I picked up earlier.

Of course, it dodged.

“Can’t you just get hit by this….!”

As if telling me not to dream of hitting it, it easily dodged.

“That’s too much!”

I shouted with resentment.

Blue Oni didn’t seem to pity me and just circled around me. I don’t know if it’s just my personality, but it made me furious.

If you’re not going to kill me, just die…

No, now that I think about it, I’d be mad if it let me win now, too……

Ah, I don’t know.

I rubbed my face on the keyboard.

The character moved to a strange place because of the randomly pressed keys.

“No, wait… Wait a minute?”

– ???

I took my face off the keyboard and looked at Blue Oni.

A sudden thought.

It wasn’t attacking me.

I couldn’t kill it.

There were two ways to solve this situation.

1. I could just throw myself off a cliff and commit suicide.

The Dark Spirit would win and disappear.

But I was worried about the viewers’ reaction.

1. Force quit and start again offline.

I could play the game comfortably.

But the viewers wouldn’t like this either.

Then.

“There’s no need to kill it, right?”

– ?
– ???

It was a perfect answer, even to me.

My gloomy mood lifted.

The more I thought about it, the more I liked it.

I’m smart!

I barely resisted the urge to raise my hand and pat my own head.

That would be a little weird.

Anyway.

“It doesn’t seem like it wants to kill me, so I’ll just keep playing….

If it gets bored, it’ll kill me or leave on its own.

When you can’t choose even if you choose, not choosing is also a choice.

“Then I’ll continue the game!”

From now on, you’re my pet, Blue Oni.