My throat hurt.
Because I’d screamed too much.
YOU DIED
“Uwoooh!!! Kkack!! You surprised me!! Wait, wait, uwaaa!!”
YOU DIED
“Sto!! Stop!! I told you to stop!! I definitely said it!! Kyaaaack!!”
-Fighting with your mouth lololol
-Is she actually getting hit in real life?
-This streamer’s screams are delicious lololol
-Instead of screaming, just hit the thing…
YOU DIED
“What the hell!! It’s not even a kick!! It’s throwing one-two punches with its hooves!! Aack!! What even is that attached!! What’s with this DoT!!”
-Ah lol sharp eye for long-term content potential
-Content creation ability lolol
YOU DIED
“One hit! One hit! One!! Uwack, stamina!!”
-Jaw-dropped lolol
-All talk no swing lol
-“One hit!!” (Swings three times and gets bodied)
“Jump pattern!! Roll one! Roll two!! Rol…! Huh? Why… hitstun?! Hitstun in the tutorial?!”
-A field boss with phase 2 that uses hitstun in the tutorial lololol
-These Asgard bastards lololol
-That’s what zero conscience looks like.
-From the Gatekeeper’s perspective, he’s just persuading her to get a refund.
-Sensei is just worried about the users’ mental health ;_;
“Die!!…Huh? I took damage? Why is this bastard backstepping?”
-It even kites lol
-It’s got a whopping “six” legs.
-Technology!!
-Fully equipped with sudden stops and acceleration in all directions.
-Northern European mount technology ddd
In just a few hours, her KDA became 0/100/0, and she couldn’t come to her senses. Her fingers ached with numbness, and her eyes were dry.
Truthfully, her condition wasn’t very important. The more serious issue was that the viewers’ reactions were gradually cooling down.
At first, the viewers had been thrilled to see the streamer suffering, flooding the chat at high speeds, but now they seemed bored; the chat speed had slowed noticeably.
Honestly, she hadn’t expected it to take this long. With her noob hands, finishing last was a given, but the other two were what people commonly called “gods at gaming.”
Naturally, she had pictured a scenario where the two cleared it first and she finished last, wrapping things up… but there was still no word from them.
“Block! Roll! I’ll hit you again, you bastard!!”
YOU DIED
“Aoo…!! Did you really hit me just because I said that, you bastard!!”
-lol?
-?
-Gleipnir: You told me to hit you…
“You guys try hitting a person!! Try it!! Would you really do it just because they say so?!”
-xxx donated 10,000 won.
[Gleipnir: But I’m saying it though~]
“It has six legs!! Suddenly it’s bipedal and throwing punches!! It has hooks on its hooves that inflict bleed damaaage…!! Where the hell is this written!!”
-It’s in Norse mythology.
-Hoof punch! Hoof punch!
-Get a refund, you little… ah, it’s already been 2 hours lol.
No, seriously.
This boss had no conscience whatsoever.
-xxx donated 1,000 won.
[But does it walk around like that in Norse mythology too? Does it just walk on two legs and do the Dempsey Roll with four legs in the myths?]
-As if lololol
-What legendary mount in the world would throw one-two punches with its hooves?
-If it did, Sleipnir would probably be riding Odin instead.
“Roll! Dodge! Can’t!! Ack! Why are you hitting me!! I’m still knocked down, why are you stomping!! Stop stomping!! I’m already dead, you bastard!!!”
YOU DIED
“Roll! Stab! Wait and roll!! I’ve realized it!! I’ve really realized it, haven’t I!?”
YOU DIED
“I guess not, dammit!!”
[Wallet Gatekeeper: Kill within 4 hours – 0 hours 2 min 23 sec / 1,310,000 won]
“…”
-113th try gggg
-Safe assets stacking up lol
-I came to make a deposit; is this the right place?
-xx donated 10,000 won.
[What? I went to work and came back; why are you still here?]
-lololollol
-Sp… strange.
-I think I saw this place earlier this afternoon.
-So is that the final boss?
-More importantly, Hanami-nim. I think you have something to say.
“…Shall we, shall we try a little harder together?”
-ooo donated 1,000 won.
[Hmm… you seem a bit lacking in desperation?]
-lolol
-2 minutes 9 seconds… 8 seconds…
“Hah, one more time!! Just give me one more chance!!”
***
“…Roll!! Stab!! Rol—can’t, got hit!!”
-You should do even half of what you say.
-Let’s just move past phase 1.
-The more you talk, the worse you get at the game lol.
“Eek… but… you guys have been watching the same thing for 6 hours now… if the audio too, hng, goes empty… hic….”
-Juice lol
-lolol
-Mmm~delicious.
“Shiiing… why is it so haaard… hiiing… my fingers hurt…”
-lololol starting to feel bad for her.
-Let’s stop, Namiya…
-Honestly, you’ve done enough.
-Humbly lie down and pass by in stealth.
-I don’t think that thing is meant to be beaten right now;
“It’s right there!! It’s standing there blocking the way!!”
-There are a lot of streamers who ran away…
-Let’s just count the bet as lost.
-You can just pass by. Who’s threatening you with a knife telling you to beat it?
“You guys threatened me with money!!”
-Ah lol right.
-Is it our fault again? Oh, right?
-Fr lol.
[Mission Failed!]
“Aack!! My million won!!”
-Why is that your million won. It’s our million won.
-Bank performance confirmed lol.
-Wow!! Content creation ddd.
-I acknowledge you, Hanami!! You are a streamer sent from heaven!!
-There’s no Bloomy who didn’t invest in safe assets lololol.
“That’s not a compliment…!!! Shut up!! I said shut up!!”
-Can’t even play the game herself and yet…
-Why is she getting angry?
-She was born with shit hands, totally her own fault.
-So where did the dogeza go? What about your crown?
“Shiiing… I… hic… admit defeat…!! Sniff. I’ll show you my crown!!”
She adjusted the angle of the avatar on screen.
Raising the camera to make the character look like it was lying tilted, the viewers started bantering among themselves.
Watching that, Hanami secretly let out a sigh of relief. Fortunately, there didn’t seem to be any resistance to her abandoning the mission.
Truthfully, the viewers had only threatened her to keep her promise with words; they were probably more excited that the boring boss run was ending.
See. As proof, the chat was speeding up again.
“…Did anyone clear it?”
-As if anyone did lol.
-Hmm lolol.
-That thing lolol.
-At least the CEO saw phase 2.
“So it wasn’t just me who couldn’t clear it!!”
-The CEO is currently doing penance lololol.
-lololol.
-The no-modern rule was apparently too much.
-Shall we go and come back?
“Yes. Cuckoo departure.”
To break the flow for a moment, she said she was going to the bathroom and turned off the mic.
She got up and stretched out. Rotating her neck, loosening her shoulders. It was a habit from streaming for so long.
When she rubbed her fingers, the tip of her thumb throbbed with a numb pain.
After trying nonstop for 4 hours, she was certain. She couldn’t clear this today.
That much was within expected range, but she hadn’t expected the CEO of Leo Le Diamond to struggle as well. If things had gone according to plan, he should have cleared it long ago and come to tease her over voice chat.
The plan got twisted and she was floundering alone, so the stream had become sluggish too. For her, this was more excruciating than her thumb.
When she returned from the bathroom, the situation had more or less settled.
-The CEO said it’s over!!
-Now let’s comfortably ride the rainbow.
“The rainbow…?”
-Bifrost gg.
-That thing Thor and Loki ride around on in that M*vie.
-It’s like a support request.
[xx donated 10,000 won. HP and damage go up if you go multiplayer.]
“Really? Then should I call someone hardcore?”
-This is the tutorial zone though?
-Can you even come back to the tutorial map…?
“…Even if I call a newbie, it would be better than doing it alone.”
Rainbow colors flickered here and there near the boss map.
Moving the character close, a shimmering rainbow heat haze displayed a system message.
[Would you like to request support via Bifrost?]
Without hesitation, she pressed yes. A message saying the signal was sent appeared, and shortly after, a human silhouette flashed past inside the enlarged heat haze.
…Wait.
Is that a person?
“…Guys? Did you see that?”
-?
-Something just passed by.
-???
-What was it?
“Right? I didn’t see wrong, did I?”
-What is it?
-What is it.
-I'm scared.
-So was that the boss just now?
…That’s not a monster?
That customization belongs to a real player? That twisted monstrosity?
[LetMeSeeYourBack has entered the world.]
Seeing the message pop up, it seemed it wasn’t a monster, but…
While Hanami was bantering with the viewers, the world switched to multiplayer.
Looking around for the user who had joined the multiplayer, that new frame was dropping. Seeing this, the multiplayer optimization probably still had a long way to go.
“…Why is the nickname like that, too.”
Seeing the nickname “LetMeSeeYourBack,” it seemed unlikely to be a proper person.
Hanami continued speaking while suppressing her anxiety. Her professionalism as a broadcaster—knowing she couldn’t leave the audio empty—stood out.
As she was making small talk with the viewers, something began to come into view.
-Clack-clack-clack.
It held broken straight swords in both hands.
A purple monster rapidly running while sitting and standing at high speed.
-Clack-clack-clack-clack-clack-clack.
“Uwaaack!!!”
A tearing scream traveled through the lens and assaulted the eardrums of five thousand viewers.
This time, it wasn’t an intentional sound to fill the audio.
It was a primal scream bursting from deep inside her gut.
-My ears!!
-My ears hurt!!
-More importantly, what is that.
-Shivers.
-Holy shit what the hell;;
-Look at that free-spirited face…
-Pure discomfort GOAT lololol.
The chat scrolled rapidly, voicing the thoughts of the speechless girl.
In that time, the unidentified character came running with a clack-clacking motion—how the hell does it even run?—and stopped right in front of her.
“P-p-person?”
Up close, it was an even more spectacular sight.
Jutting cheekbones. A brow ridge protruding like horns. Pitted skin twisted into something resembling a smile. A massive jaw stretching far to the left and right in a trapezoid.
Clad only in underwear, holding a broken sword, its purplish skin was virtually naked, with a glossy sheen flowing over it.
The character, looking closer to a monster than a player, glanced around and walked right up to her nose, spreading both arms and raising them high to the sky.
-/[+]/
-/[+]/
-/[+]/… is this right?
-That’s not a monster?
“Uh… uhh… are you a viewer?”
There was hardly any reaction even to the broadcast mic.
What? Not a viewer?
Then is it an ordinary Odin Dotty user?
Something like this?
“Are all Odin Dotty users… like this?”
-That shouldn’t be the case…
“Something seems wrong.”
-We don’t know either…
“…I won’t get banned for this, right?”
-We told you we don’t know…
The monster… no, the user just stood there looking at her.
Even checking the chat window, it said nothing. It was just watching her.
There were mentions of footwork and feints, of broken sword dashes, but she didn’t understand any of it.
Thinking about it, the speed at which it had run in that bizarre posture seemed faster than her running speed too.
‘What the hell is this, really?’
Hanami didn’t bother hiding her distaste. The opponent’s visuals were too shocking to worry about saving face.
She wondered if she should trust this, but since no other users joined even after waiting, she moved toward the field boss with a “let’s just try it” mindset.
“???”
And so, Hanami witnessed it.
The purple fiend performing a Cossack dance while chopping off all the horse hooves.