Streamer Karahyang.
With 300,000 subscribers, she was popular for her lively looks and, in contrast to that appearance, her outstanding physical ability.
Whenever she turned on her stream, she averaged around two thousand viewers.
Now that broadcasts were enjoying a boom after the advent of virtual reality games, it was a bit ambiguous to call her a top-tier streamer, but even so, she was among the more prominent mid-sized creators.
The content she had been putting the most effort into lately was none other than the training simulation.
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[Fried Ramyeon donated 1,000 won.]
Don’t tell me it’s the training simulation again today?
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“Fried Ramyeon, thank you for the 1,000-won donation! Yep~ We’ve gotta run it again today~!”
- How far does this training simulation hell go...
- Please just kill me!!
- This damn white room shows up in my dreams now...
- letmeoutletmeoutletmeoutletmeoutletmeoutletmeoutletmeout
Karahyang smiled and swept her eyes over the chat.
“You guys know how it goes. I only run it at the start, then we go straight to other content. Just wait a little~.”
- If not for that, we’d all be dead
- Wake me up in an hour...
- letmeoutletmeoutletmeoutletmeoutletmeout
“Spamming is... a ban!”
- Farewell
- One down
- letmeoutletmeoutletmeoutletmeout(This message has been blocked.)
“It’s just a ten-minute ban, so go calm down a bit.”
- Angel streamer
- But you really have been doing too much training sim
- fr lol
The spam had been stopped, but the sentiment remained.
The mood wasn’t particularly bad.
But she could still feel the chat’s desire to see different content coming through from beyond the screen.
Karahyang quietly scanned the chat, lightly rubbing her chin as she assessed the situation.
Her instincts as a broadcaster were telling her something.
‘If I leave it like this, all the viewers are going to leave.’
In the end, she had no choice but to take drastic measures.
“Mm... I have been doing it a lot lately. Then should we just do a light thirty minutes today?”
- Good
- Seriously, please...
- Thankyouthankyouthankyou
- I am simply grateful
- Nice!!
“Then I’ll warm up first.”
Seeing the reaction in the chat soften, Karahyang let out a sigh of relief and rolled her shoulders.
At this rate, public opinion should have recovered somewhat.
She lightly shook out her wrists and looked over the ranking board hanging on the wall.
Kang Daehan still held the unshakable number one spot.
And as she lowered her gaze, she saw her own name at 457th place.
457th ILikeCheonhyehyang
It was a rank that was hard to call high, but not low either.
457th out of millions.
In reality, it was a number close to the top 0.01%.
Of course, since the rankings reset every quarter, it was hard to call it an exact measure.
Regardless, everyone knew that her physical ability was absolutely not ordinary.
Then why was someone with such a rank working harder than anyone else on the training simulation right now?
There was one reason.
‘The second quarter is ending soon. Before that, I want to get into the top 400 if possible.’
457th was the highest rank she had ever achieved.
The feeling that she might make it into the top 400 with just a little more effort was the reason she made time during her broadcast to run the training simulation like this.
“Then I’ll run it quickly for just thirty minutes.”
- Let’s gooo
- Break into the top 400 this time!!!
- Fighting
Karahyang pressed the start button beside her and crouched as she watched the ball flying toward her.
“Let’s do this!!”
***
“Hehe.”
Karahyang, no, Lee Semin, was rolling around on her bed in sheer happiness, letting out a foolish laugh.
“399th...”
The time she had set for herself today had been thirty minutes.
At best, it was only enough time to run the training simulation about twice.
So she hadn’t expected her rank to go up at all.
But from the very start, her body felt lighter than usual, and her reactions followed more smoothly, and in the end, she had unexpectedly achieved a new personal best.
399th.
It was the highest record she had ever set.
Thanks to that, she had also succeeded in the mission to enter the top 400 and received a lot of donations, but as someone confident in her own physical ability, what pleased her most was still the fact that she had achieved a personal best.
‘Once the quarter reaches its final stretch, the top rankers will start letting go a bit, so maybe this rank will stay as it is?’
And even if someone new started now...
‘It’s not like getting into the top 400 is easy.’
There was no way her rank would drop.
“Uhehe.”
After burying her head in her pillow and rolling around this way and that, she closed her eyes with a foolish laugh, as though satisfied with herself.
‘I should move straight on to another game tomorrow.’
The viewers were slowly getting tired of the repetitive training simulation.
Today was the perfect time to wrap it up.
As she planned tomorrow’s broadcast like that, Lee Semin slowly fell asleep.
“Pahaa~”
Turning on her stream right on time today as well, Karahyang stretched refreshingly.
Perhaps because she had slept so well, she was in top condition.
- Kaha
- hi hi
- You came right on time
- You’re done with the training sim-again, right?
- Her voice energy is insane today
“I got 399th yesterday, you know~ So today, we’re going straight! Into a newly released game!”
- What, is the occupation finally over?
- Finally!!!
- Karahyang is pure light
- Damn it, Karahyang, I like you!!
- What are you gonna play?
- ba-dump ba-dump ba-dump ba-dump
The viewers were delighted by her words that she would be going straight into a game today.
Watching their reaction, Karahyang deliberately cut herself off.
Now was the time to raise the anticipation as much as possible.
“Well? What could it be?”
- Tell us already!!
- Streamer, if you don’t tell us at once, there will be bloodshed!!
- Honestly, as long as it’s not the training sim again, I like anything
Good. This much was enough.
She smiled brightly and raised one finger.
“There’s one famous game that came out recently, right? Wilds Hunter. Today, I’m going to try that—”
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[Fried Ramyeon donated 1,000 won.]
Did you check the training simulation rankings?
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At that moment, the sudden donation message cut her off.
“Fried Ramyeon, thank you for the 1,000-won donation. The training simulation rankings? I haven’t checked them.”
Why were they suddenly talking about the rankings?
When she checked the name of the viewer who had sent the donation, it was a familiar one.
Fried Ramyeon.
It was the same viewer who, until just yesterday, had been complaining about her doing the training simulation again.
But when that viewer suddenly mentioned the rankings, she felt puzzled.
The viewer’s reaction was incomprehensible.
Karahyang tilted her head.
- Ah, is it that?
- ?
- That looked like hacking
- How would there be hacks in a capsule? Did they stick steroids in their brain or something?
- If not, it doesn’t make sense
- Why, what is it?
- Don’t just talk among yourselves, tell us!!!
- Everyone’s slow on the news
Then the chat began to surge as though some of them knew something.
“Huh...? What is this? Why’s the mood like this?”
Karahyang scratched the back of her neck for no reason.
Even the manager, who would usually ban anything unrelated to the broadcast without hesitation, was now quietly watching the chat scroll by.
That meant there was something important she didn’t know.
“Why are you all talking without me? If you do that, I’ll feel left out. Don’t keep it to yourselves. Tell me what it is too.”
- You probably won’t believe it unless you see it yourself lololol
- fr lol
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[Fried Ramyeon donated 1,000 won.]
If you haven’t checked, go in now and check
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- Check it ㄱㄱ
- I am curious about her reaction
- lololol true
She couldn’t ignore this reaction.
Normally, if something like this happened, she would ignore it and start the other game as planned, but right now, something about the situation felt different.
Even if she continued the broadcast while ignoring it, the chat would keep bringing up only this topic.
Then even the viewers who genuinely wanted to focus on the game would have their flow interrupted.
If that happened, the entire broadcast would become chaotic.
“Mm...”
Karahyang placed a finger against her lips and thought for a moment.
- No, I’m telling you to hurry up and look lololololol
- You really have to see this, Karaㅠㅠ
In the end, she nodded at the outpouring of support from the viewers in the chat.
“Since everyone seems to want me to check, should we take a look right now?”
- ㄱㄱ
- ba-dump ba-dump ba-dump ba-dump
- I should get ready to clip this lolol
She moved her finger and clicked on the Training Simulation written on the interface, and the familiar white room greeted Karahyang as usual.
“Then should we check the ranking board everyone’s so curious about first?”
The ranking board was easy to check.
After all, the developers had plastered it in large letters on one wall, as if telling people to always feel like they were competing.
‘What are they telling me to check?’
If the viewers were going this far, there was definitely something there, but she had no idea what it was.
Her own rank should be 399th anyway.
Still unable to resolve her doubts, Karahyang turned her head and checked the ranking board.
And then, she understood why the viewers had been making such a fuss.
Her own rank had dropped to 400th.
And at the very top of the ranking board, she could see the person responsible for dropping the rank she had worked so hard to raise in less than a day.
Rank Reflexes Agility Accuracy Evasion Rate Concentration Total Score
1st Haerang 100 /100 /100 /100 /100 /500
With an absurd score, no less.
In the end, Karahyang broke down. Her mouth fell open, and she could only let out a stupid sound.
“Uweh...?”
- Hell yeah, got the clip lololol
The fact that this moment would be clipped and torment Karahyang for quite some time was something she could not yet know.
At that moment, it was no coincidence that a certain message in the chat entered Karahyang’s eyes as she stood there blankly.
- Wow, Haerang started streaming
- Where?
- Search on Pajijik and it comes up
- Is it that Haerang?
- Dunno
“Haerang started streaming? Where is that?”
She felt like she would go crazy if she didn’t check right this instant.
And it wasn’t only this broadcast that was going up in flames.
----- Training Simulation Gallery ------
Title) That bastard Haerang started streaming.
They’re streaming on Pajijik
(link)
Everyone, check the link here
: Haerang, you’re mine
: What is this, streaming right after taking 1st place? lololol
: Their sense for broadcasting is insane
: fr lol
: Hacking bastard
: ㄴ I told you there are no hacks in virtual reality, dumbass
: ㄴ Maybe they put in some basic implant or something
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Meanwhile.
Kim Yeonwoo had expected the viewer count to be low since it was his first broadcast.
It would be nice if viewers came, and it didn’t matter if they didn’t.
After all, it was obvious that viewers would gather later once some time passed.
So today, he had only intended to take it lightly, like a warm-up, and get a feel for things.
5 viewers.
49 viewers.
700 viewers.
The viewer count kept climbing.
And in the end, only five minutes after he had turned on the stream.
2,458 viewers.
Looking at that absurd number, Kim Yeonwoo had no choice but to tilt his head.
“...Did I have more talent for drawing aggro than I thought?”
Faced with the ridiculous situation, all he could do was let out a hollow laugh.