Chapter 32: Life is screwed up

[Author: Protect Our Champion Hyung]
[Title: Wow, Legend Pulls It Off Again]

Incredible. After overcoming all the targeted attacks and unfair criticism, achieving a perfect winning streak and max level.

Who called the game a luck-based trash game depending on team comps?

-[Did they actually succeed?]

4[0]

-[Did you stop hyping Victory and switch to Legend instead?]

[Just keeping an eye on how someone my hyung acknowledged is doing.]

L[My lord, my shine, and my salt: Victory.]

[What nonsense.]

-[If that type is on your team, you win, and if they’re on the enemy team, you lose. Of course, it’s a luck-based trash game.]

[True, true, lol.]

[Author: OO] [Title: Legend’s Voice is Ridiculously Cute]

[Even the whining about hawks is cute, makes me want to buy them candy.

Their slightly excited voice after achieving the perfect streak is absolutely adorable.

Am I the only one who feels this way?]

-[Voice Reply: (Do I look like I’d give in that easily?)]

[Oooh yeah, ooh yeah!]

[Watch some “red pill” content and snap out of it, lol.]

[I did, but I keep overlaying memories. This is weird.]

[Is this guy crazy, LOL.]

[I also keep imagining Nox’s face with that voice.]

[“Nox,” seriously? Lol, filthy weeb.]

-[The voice is top-tier, but not the face.]

-[Instead of candy, it looks like they’d down five skewers of tanghulu every day…]

-[If you hit them on the head with a hammer and erase their memories of the “red pill,” they’d be a top-tier Dullahan.]

[No lie, if they joined the VTuber scene, they’d blow up.]

[Author: OO] [Title: Could Legend Win It All at Proud?]

[Watching their collab with Wild, I realized Victory didn’t acknowledge them for nothing.

Their physical skills are beyond human levels, absolutely insane, lol.

Their synergy with Wild is amazing.

It’s like they’re soulmates or something.]

-[Maybe they just look like a good match because they’re both skilled?]

[At this level, they could even make it in the pros.]

[What’s truly scary is their specialties: strategy and map reading.]

[Insane.]

[Seriously, how was a monster like this hidden away until now?]

[Apparently, they were sealed in a game called Magical Fight.]

[A monster so strong they confined themselves to a trash game, lol.]

-[Will they make it to Proje League?]

[It’d be tough for a woman to go pro. Adding a woman to the pro scene isn’t an easy decision either.]

[Judging by their appearance, no one would treat them as a woman anyway, lol.]

[Agreed, completely agreed.]

[Would love to see them face Victory in a pro match, lol.]

No matter how plain-looking (allegedly), Legend’s stream was brimming with charm.

Their unique ability to dominate games with terrifying skill.

The title of being a gamer recognized by Victory.

With such high recognition, all they needed was to showcase their skills, and they’d easily attract an audience.

If only they hadn’t been stuck playing obscure, trash-tier games like Magical Fight.

Legend began to regain attention after collaborating with Wild in Teamfight Arena streams and achieving an unprecedented accomplishment.

But, as with any positive attention, negative attention followed.

[Author: OO] [Title: Legend Can’t Go Pro Because She’s a Woman?]

[Wouldn’t neutering solve the problem? It’s not like she’d reproduce anyway, so zero risk.]

-[Too far, dude.]

-[Are you insane?]

[Is this guy for real, LOL.]

[Now you know how neutered stray cats must feel, lol.]

-[You’d better brace yourself if a lawsuit comes your way.]

[“Facts can be offensive,” crime?]

[LOOOOL.]

[Author: OO] [Title: What’s So Great About a Perfect Streak in Casual Games?]

[Who takes casual games seriously here?

Everyone’s just messing around, but they’re the only one playing tryhard and still think a perfect streak is impressive, lol.]

No meaning, no idea why I even did it, and it wasn’t fun at all.

Are the people hyping this up brainless or what, lol.

-[Why is this person angry now…?]

-[So who else has managed to get a perfect streak and max level?]

-[Try it yourself if it’s not impressive.]

[Author: OO] [Title: Aren’t Legend Fans Embarrassed? LOL]

(Fake red pill)
(Fake red pill)
(Fake red pill)
(Fake red pill)
(Fake red pill)

Do you snap out of it when you see your master’s face?

Please, feel some shame, lol.

-[How starved are you to hype up such a monster, lol?]

-[They’re good at games, why bring up their face again? Are you hyping Victory because you want to date him too?]

[I’d love to date Tori-hyung, for real.]

[Gay much…?]

[Seriously, dude.]

[Honestly, it’s just makeup covering it. Pretty average for a Korean woman.]

[Sure.]

[If that’s average, we should rename the country to Orc Empire.]

[LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL.]

[Author: OO] [Title: If You Think Covering with a Bag Makes Everyone Look the Same, Thumbs Up]

[Starting with me, lololol.]

[Judging by the body, no way it’s the same.]

-[Forget a bag, you’d need a sack to cover that up.]

[You disgusting freaks, please just die already.]

It was the same gallery as always.

Cheering for Legend’s insane gaming skills, mocking them with red pill jokes, and occasionally, some weirdo throwing a tantrum for no reason.

Just an ordinary gallery.

But then.

A post unlike any other appeared, turning the entire forum’s tone on its head.

[Author: OO] [Title: Yo, Isn’t This Legend????]

**[I was looking for porn to jack off to, and this looks exactly like Legend.

(Link)

Turn on a VPN, delete the link, and check it out.]**

[???]

-[WTF, why the hell would I want to see that woman naked, lol.]

[Wow, she looks monstrous, for real.]

[A destructive force equal to or greater than a tactical nuke.]

-[I just took a quick look at her face and left. Pretty sure it’s her, though.]

-[Even someone like that managed to film porn, seriously.]

[Amazingly, there are people who get off only to ugly women.]

[The world is vast and full of bullshit, apparently.]

-[So even a woman like that can have s*x, huh.]

[The guy who called for neutering takes a massive L, lol.]

[s*x and reproduction are different issues, though.]

-[I closed my eyes and listened, but her moans were not what I expected, LMAO.]

[Damn it, VTuber cringe.]

[How the hell do you even find this kind of crap?]

[OP, are you insane? This is definitely grounds for a lawsuit and counts as a s*x crime.]

[But you used a VPN, lol.]

[Cheap or free VPNs still get tracked, idiot.]

[How is it a s*x crime if she posted her own porn? (Seriously doesn’t know.)]

The rumor that “Legend” (fake) had filmed and uploaded adult content spread like wildfire through the gallery and quickly beyond to the wider internet.

“Unnie, are you seriously not coming home for Lunar New Year?”

“Why would I, when I just moved in a few days ago?”

“But Seol-yoon wants to spend the holiday with family!”

“Ugh!!”

Hugging me tightly from behind in a back hug, Seol-yoon keeps attacking me with her upper-body “mass weapons” pressed against my back.

If you think I’ll fall for that so easily, you’re mistaken!

“Alright, I’ll go. Just let go of me.”

Being hugged like that makes me want to lean into her maternal affection and act spoiled, which is dangerous.

Even though it’s natural for Seol-yoon to look like the older one and me the younger one on the outside, it shouldn’t be the same on the inside.

Come on, me—who was once an adult man—get a grip!

“Unnie, do you not like it when Seol-yoon hugs you? That makes me sad.”

‘It’s not that I don’t like it—it’s that I like it way too much.’

It’s to the point where I’d want to hold her forever, like a child with their favorite plushie.

Please, try to understand this older sibling’s heart that doesn’t want to show such weakness.

“I thought, maybe, the stream might do well.”

“Really!?”

The truth is, 8,000 people watched it, and I received over 1 million won in donations.

I can’t tell Seol-yoon those specific numbers, though.

When I contacted Wild about giving him 500,000 won as the agreed mission fee, his response was, “Just buy some beef with it.”

Sending 500,000 won just like that can’t be easy—he must really be making crazy money as a pro.

If I had a job like that, would I be able to feel more confident in front of Seol-yoon?

That’s a pointless “what if” for someone like me, who can’t even function in society.

“Still, I’m embarrassed, so if you look it up without permission, I’ll get mad.”

“Unnie, you’re the best!”

I barely escaped her hug attack, but now she’s switched from a back hug to a frontal position and tackled me!

I get that you’re tall, but why are you trying to bury my face in your chest?

Are you messing with me, you little brat?!

“Ugh!”

“I’m so happy to have such a cool unnie!”

Stop it!

Don’t say lines that sound like they came out of a textbook or a children’s program!

You’re making my cynical, pessimistic self feel utterly pathetic!

Don’t shine your sunlight on me!

But as I was being hugged like that, a question suddenly came to mind.

“Seol-yoon, have you grown taller again?”

“Hehe, my growth spurt should be over, but I’ve been growing a bit more for some reason.”

Seol-yoon is nineteen.

A bit old for more growth spurts.

Is it because she was originally a guy?

‘Once she enters college, the world won’t leave her alone!’

Seol-yoon is already so beautiful that she could outshine top-tier actresses and stunning enough to make people question her ethnicity.

When she goes to college, how will people just leave her alone?

“Drugs are trending these days, so be careful. Never take anything from strangers. Don’t drink alcohol, don’t go to strange gatherings, and never walk around late at night. Avoid deserted places entirely.”

I barely held back from saying, “Just stay here and live with me forever. I can’t send you out there; it’s too dangerous!”

“Haha, I’ll be careful.”

“Just being careful isn’t enough!”

“Unnie, what kind of country do you think we live in?”

“You can’t let your guard down! You’re not like regular people; you have to be extra careful!”

“Okay, okay. I’ll be super careful.”

‘No matter how much I think about it, I’m still anxious.’

Right, they say you should learn to drink from adults.

Before her college events officially start, I should check Seol-yoon’s alcohol tolerance.

And her drinking habits too.

If I bring up drinking out of the blue, she’ll probably suspect me of being an alcoholic again.

…Alright. I’ll team up with Dad and arrange a drinking session during the holidays.

Yes, alcohol should be learned from adults.

At that moment, I still didn’t know.

That while I was busy taking care of my “real life,” my “internet life” was falling apart.