Gwanjongcheonma’s Game Broadcast - Chapter 136

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Chapter 136

“It wasn’t luck or anything like that, he just crushed it with pure skill.”

“Honestly, watching from the side, he’s really good.”

“I met him once in Survival Ground, and even then he was extraordinary.”

“They call it an overall rating, but he performed the best in every stage. You’d be even more surprised if they released the records.”

“He was doing Leap while riding on a Mammoth Trunk… Wow, Gonau Soft really needs to release that scene.”

“If we could somehow get him on our side… No, never mind. Anyway, he’s really an amazing gamer.”

“Conqueror will climb back up soon enough, but even if I meet Gwanjong Cheonma again, I’m not sure if I could win…”

Click.

Ma Hyeon-bin’s interview that was posted online.

The video playing on the large TV suddenly turned off without warning.

Ma Hyeon-bin stood in front of the TV in a rigid posture.

Like a student who had been running in the corridor and got dragged to the faculty office.

Several Singularities sat on the sofa surrounding Ma Hyeon-bin.

Kim Si-hwan, who had his legs crossed, leaned his upper body forward and asked.

“Hyeon-bin. That interview, did you really do that? It’s not an AI-generated video, is it?”

“…”

“Brother just can’t understand this. You know the atmosphere at Singularity is completely messed up right now, so how could you praise Gwanjong Cheonma like that?”

“I just… only said what was true.”

“True? What’s true about it?”

Kim Si-hwan got up from his seat and circled around Ma Hyeon-bin.

“He just had a brief moment of success with an incomplete game that isn’t even fully made yet. That’s what the truth is, Hyeon-bin.”

“But still…”

Calling it incomplete was unreasonable.

The development team had clearly said so.

Except for the difficulty balance, this game was practically at completion stage.

Otherwise, how could they proceed with testing after investing over a billion won?

However, Ma Hyeon-bin, crushed by an invisible weight, could no longer open his mouth.

“I understand how you feel, Hyeon-bin.”

“What?”

“Since you lost once in the promotion match, that guy seems even more impressive now. Right?”

“….”

“Don’t do interviews about Gwanjong Cheonma anymore. The older brothers and sisters are very angry right now. No, let’s just not do interviews for a while. Don’t play PUBG ranked games when Gwanjong Cheonma is around either. Since you’ve already dropped from Conqueror to Challenger, you might as well quit while you’re at it.”

“Brother…!”

Ma Hyeon-bin’s eyes were filled with disappointment.

He had just given an honest interview.

He hadn’t even said that it would be good if he came to Singularity.

It would be better not to bring up that topic,

because of Cheon Hae-rang’s advice.

‘Even Hae-rang, who I’ve only known for less than a month, cares about me…’

If the interview wasn’t satisfactory, he could just speak more carefully in the future,

and if he dropped to Challenger, he could climb back up to Conqueror.

But Kim Si-hwan advised Ma Hyeon-bin to do nothing at all.

‘It’s the same.’

Instead of telling him to work hard and overcome it, he just told him to quit.

Since there are plenty of games anyway.

It felt like an invisible sword was cutting off his arms and legs.

The one wielding that sword was Kim Si-hwan in front of him.

The man who had recruited him to Singularity.

-You’re really good at the game ^^ Could we talk for a moment?

When he received contact from Singularity, he felt like he was flying in the sky.

They were like idols to streamers.

But during the two years since joining Singularity,

Ma Hyeon-bin’s skills hadn’t improved at all.

When he should have been increasing his training time, it was stolen away by advertisements and events.

When things get tough, look at your bank account balance.

This is all being done for your sake.

The hyungs’ answers were always like that.

Every time the Capsule Cup ended, he would muster up courage to suggest.

That they should increase training time to improve their skills.

What came back each time was only cold cynicism.

-Why should I? I’m already a National Representative.

-Hyeon-bin. How naive you are. The government’s blind money is the most delicious money in this world.

-We didn’t do anything wrong. The problem is other gamers who can’t beat us even when we practice half-heartedly like this.

-Instead of whining like this, shooting one more commercial would be better for you.

-You were grinning happily when you received money too, so why are you pretending to complain now?

Ma Hyeon-bin, who joined Singularity before even entering society.

He was always swayed by his hyungs and noonas’ clever rhetoric.

He thought it was right to follow what the hyungs said since he was young and didn’t know much.

However,

‘Wrong is wrong.’

A change occurred in Ma Hyeon-bin’s heart.

From when he stayed at the airport and had a conversation with Hae-rang.

No, perhaps the change had started from when he faced him in Survival Ground.

“If it doesn’t work, you should think about overcoming it…”

“What?”

“Because you always try to do only comfortable things like that, you get crushed in competitions.”

“Ma Hyeon-bin!”

A sharp gleam flashes between Kim Si-hwan’s narrow eyes.

The Singularities sitting beside him raise their eyes with ‘look at this guy?’ expressions.

“Stop it.”

A sharp voice comes from one side.

The expression being made is even sharper than the voice.

The person who suddenly appeared was ‘Blade Queen’ Ye Da-hong.

“You… weren’t you supposed to have gone home?”

At Kim Si-hwan’s words, Ye Da-hong snorted.

“Hmph. I thought the atmosphere seemed suspicious. Are you really ganging up on one kid right now? Aren’t you ashamed?”

“Ganging up on what. We’re just….”

“Bullshit. You pathetic bastards.”

“!”

Ye Da-hong seemed angrier than what was visible on the surface.

Even though she had a prickly attitude, she was someone who knew how to keep boundaries.

But now she acted like she wouldn’t care if a fight broke out openly.

“Let’s go, Hyeon-bin. There’s no reason for you to be among these guys.”

“Noona….”

As Ma Hyeon-bin hesitated while reading the room,

Ye Da-hong grabbed his hand firmly and left the on-site location.

Bang!

Ye Da-hong slammed the door shut roughly as she left.

“Hah….”

Kim Si-hwan rubbed his eyelids with his palm for a long while.

After doing so for a moment.

The entrance door quietly opened again.

Kim Si-hwan turned his head with delight.

Had Hyeon-bin come back?

However, Kim Si-hwan’s face contorted once more.

Because the person who appeared at this timing was Jo Sang-jin.

“The household is running quite well.”

As if he roughly understood what had happened inside.

Jo Sang-jin whistled and walked in with a rhythmic step.

“Jo Sang-jin. Why did you come back again?”

“Those guys. Are you going to leave them in that state?”

“What?”

“They’re completely arrogant. That thunder-naked bastard who embarrasses Singularity with interviews, that troublemaker who’s always acting rebellious. Do you think you can properly lead with guys like that?”

It was a cunning way of speaking.

Kim Si-hwan subtly praised him as a leader while unhesitatingly criticizing the members who had just been in conflict.

However, Kim Si-hwan wasn’t an easy person to deal with either.

“Right. It would be really convenient to lead if I only had transparent friends like you.”

“What? Transparent?”

“You want those two expelled, right? Since you hit rock bottom in this test, it’s understandable you’d feel threatened. If those two are gone like you say, how easy would it be to keep your position?”

As if he’d been hit right on target.

Jo Sang-jin’s voice trembled thinly.

“That’s not what I meant…”

“Sorry, but that won’t happen. Conflicts can be resolved, and Singularity won’t crumble over such trivial matters. So worry about yourself instead of the group.”

“Worry about myself…?”

“If you can’t get out of the bottom 10% in this evaluation battle, the next ‘expulsion’ vote will be for you.”

“You bastard…!”

Words he really didn’t want to hear burst out from Kim Si-hwan’s mouth.

Jo Sang-jin clenched both fists tightly but made no further movement.

He felt the gazes of the other Singularities standing beside Kim Si-hwan.

“The household is running smoothly. Just like you said.”

After saying that, Kim Si-hwan coldly turned his back.

* * *

“Whew.”

Hae-rang took a deep breath before turning on the broadcast.

A moderate tension swept through his entire body.

A week of tester schedule.

Considering flight time and maintenance, it was nearly ten days since his return to broadcasting.

For streamers, taking a ‘break from broadcasting’ is the most dangerous thing.

What would happen if Giga Coffee, which you used to visit every morning before work, suddenly didn’t open?

There would be far more customers looking for Compass Coffee right next door than people waiting longingly for Giga Coffee.

If that’s what happens after just one day off, after taking ten days off, the number of viewers was unpredictable.

‘How many did I lose?’

Attention and praise.

Since Hae-rang lived off of those things, he felt anxious.

But Hae-rang soon pulled himself together.

If he broadcast diligently as he had been doing,

he had faith that the viewers who left would return.

“Ah…!”

As it turned out, Hae-rang’s nervousness was meaningless.

【Current Viewer Count: 22,187】

Over twenty thousand viewers had come to find Hae-rang’s broadcast.

Excluding the one-time event of ‘face reveal,’

far from decreasing, the viewer count had actually increased.

-He’s hereeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

-Welcome back! Gwanjong Cheonma!

-I missed you, attention-seeking oppa ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ

-Oh my, who is this! Isn’t this the ‘best tester’ recognized by GoNow Software!

-Those were the longest ten days of my life ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ

-Why were you so late? Why were you so late? Why were you so late?

-Thursday disappeared from my calendar ㄷㄷ My neck is sore from waiting so long for that attention seeker

└Seeing this kind of nonsense being posted really makes me realize the attention seeker is back lol

-I realized when you weren’t here;; how important Gwanjong-i’s broadcast was in my life

-For real, once an attention seeker gets a taste of that dopamine rush, other streams just won’t cut it anymore lmaooo

-We’ve already become addicted to your stimulation! Take responsibility!

He hadn’t even turned on the heater.

Hae-rang felt his earlobes getting hot.

The fact that someone had waited for his broadcast like this made his heart swell with emotion.

“Thank you for waiting. I’ve finished my schedule in America and returned.”

-I read the article well, Gwanjong-nim! You made a lot of money

-It kind of has that triumphant return feeling too lol

-Did you really beat all the Singularities?

“Yes. I came back after taking 1st place in the test performance.”

-Wow! This is it!

-Whoa…you really beat the Singularities?

-Even hearing it directly, it doesn’t feel real;;

-Ugh please release the footage Gonau Soft you damn bastards

A game still in the testing phase before release.

So it was impossible for viewers to watch Hae-rang’s performance.

“The game was really fun when I played it. Those who’ve played the Assassin Series should look forward to the new title.”

-Oh. That sense of promoting the game he tested.

-Gwanjong-i has become a pro streamer lol

-I saw that article! What’s this important project?

-Yeah yeah yeah Survival Ground is what you normally play, what are you announcing?

At the chat window’s question, Hae-rang thought of one person.

Reporter Eun Min-seop from GameSpot.

The person who handled Hae-rang’s interviews when coming and going from Incheon Airport.

Perhaps grateful for that, the article Eun Min-seop wrote was very favorable to Hae-rang while also building anticipation.

Thanks to that article, Gwanjong Cheonma’s name appeared in Shotgun’s popular posts.

‘The fact that my viewers didn’t decrease is partly thanks to the reporter too.’

The relationship between streamers and reporters.

It could be symbiotic.

Sometimes it could become adversarial.

Now Hae-rang had gained a reliable ally in Eun Min-seop.

“I did testing in America, and in my spare time I trained a bit with the high-end capsule.”

-Oh…you went all the way there to train?

-So lucky lol when would you ever get to use a high-end capsule freely

-Don’t listen to them, Gwanjong-i’s capsule at home you’re not at fault

-What game did you play? Survival Ground? Or a different game?

-You already have Conqueror rank in PUBG, so why bother?

“Yes. I played a new game that I haven’t done on stream.”

-A new game? Shivering with anticipation

-Gwanjong Cheonma’s new challenge!

-What is it? What is it? What is it? What is it?

“The new game I’m preparing is Iron Fist Nine.”

-Whoa

-What was bound to come has come ㄷㄷㄷㄷㄷ

-Better than starting a completely new series, I think?

-Yeah, he has experience playing Seven before

-I heard the system changed a lot with the new series, will that be okay?

-Is this the major project mentioned in the article?

“Yes. It’s related.”

Question marks flooded the chat window.

Not “yes” but “it’s related.”

Does that mean there’s more to mention regarding Iron Fist Nine?

The true identity of the ‘project’ Hae-rang mentioned was,

“The upcoming National Team selection tournament. I’ll challenge it with Iron Fist Nine.”

It was Hae-rang’s declaration of war toward the National Team.

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