Master Swordsman’s Stream - Chapter 117

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Chapter 117

For thirty minutes, Seo Jun and Tae-woo moved forward methodically, solving the puzzles the game developers had created.
The puzzles were clever and well-designed, and the viewers were enjoying it.
Some chat messages asked him to show the Dang Family Secret Dark Technique again, but he didn’t oblige.
It was a dangerous art that had to stay sealed during broadcasts, after all.
If he didn’t handle it properly, the sponsorship deal could be cut in half.
“Ugh.”
Scratch, scratch, scratch!
A dark silhouette crawled up the wall from below, revealing itself for a moment before vanishing.
As if watching them.
There hadn’t been any sudden jump scares yet, but these subtle details created an atmosphere of dread in the game.
Only for Tae-woo, though.
“I hate this! I hate it!”

-ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-He’s scared every time
-But it really is scary

“This is the last room.”
“Really?”
After solving the final puzzle, they arrived at the room they’d reached earlier through their combined efforts.

-How did you know that?
-Did you play through it before?
-Whoa, please don’t spoil us
-ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ Everyone’s crazy

Beyond the door, a broad staircase stretched out in a straight line, and as they climbed, an ordinary interior space opened before them.
“I just need to find the protagonist.”
Seo Jun decided that this was the end of this chapter.
This was the same room where the protagonist had looked for a way out through the gaps in the Ventilation Duct.
So he had a hunch they should head toward the empty box he’d seen earlier, and that’s where he went.
“Follow me.”
“Ugh. The toys all feel like they’re watching us.”
The Cardboard Boxes arranged on both sides displayed their contents neatly at a glance.
Seo Jun found the spot he’d remembered earlier and headed toward that box.
“This is it.”
“Look carefully. There’s a Note inside.”

[If you want to find me, you’ll have to do what I’m supposed to do.]

What am I supposed to do?
He could guess.
It must mean to deal with that thing that’s been crawling on the walls this whole time.

-ㄷㄷㄷ
-What are they asking us to do
-But why is the protagonist such a brat? They’re the parents
-ㄹㅇㅋㅋ

What he’d come to understand while playing the Game Within Game was that its genre was Action, and this world was a Toy World.
And parts the developers didn’t finish properly had been filled in oddly.
Which meant.
Bang!
Something suddenly fell from the ceiling.
He saw the head of the doll he’d seen earlier. Its hair was sparse and wispy.
Below the head was a cylindrical body attached directly underneath.
Claw-like arms, and spider-like legs dangling below.
The grotesque doll began slowly approaching them.
Its teeth, like a shark’s, bared wide open.
Clearly it had turned out like this because the developers didn’t construct it properly.
“Ugh. Wow… I really hate this.”
Tae-woo seemed to be panicking.

[Run!]

Running is the objective this time.
Does difficulty matter?
Seo Jun immediately dashed toward the entrance.
“My movement speed is restricted.”
When he tried to run, his feet wouldn’t lift properly. Small steps were his maximum speed.

-ㄷㄷㄷ
-That thing looks terrifying
-Chase sequence? ㄷㄷ

Click.
The entrance door was locked.
Seo Jun came back up the stairs.
He looked around.
“There’s an opening over there.”
Seo Jun pointed to the Conveyor Belt entrance that was clearly open, inviting them in, on the wall.
“Hey, come here.”
He called to Tae-woo, who was desperately avoiding the doll with small, quick steps.
Seo Jun waited for Tae-woo, then they both entered the Conveyor Belt together.
“I don’t think we should stop.”
“What?”
“Keep moving, Tae-woo.”
Thump, thump, thump, thump!
That sound of movement was bothering him.
Fortunately, the corridor wasn’t large enough for the doll to enter, but it was short.
The corridor ended, and they arrived in the vast space they’d passed through before.
The Conveyor Belt that had been above them as they solved puzzles on their way up was now the path they were escaping on.
Thump, thump, thump!
Some kind of sound kept echoing, and Tae-woo turned to look back and screamed.
“Ahhhhhhh! It’s coming! Hey, it’s coming! It’s coming!”
Seo Jun moved forward while glancing back slightly.
Heh.
Behind them was the doll, grinning and narrowing the distance with oppressive speed.

-Ah, I flinched
-This is so scary
-ㄷㄷ
-I got scared

Fortunately, a passage to the next room appeared just before the doll caught them, and they rushed through it.
Thump, thump, thump!
But they couldn’t relax yet.
The sound of the doll’s movement continued, tense and urgent.
And that decision was the right one.
“Maybe it can’t follow us here? What if we just stay here and wait?”
“That might work.”
Thump, thump!
Seo Jun chuckled and pointed back.
Tae-woo turned to look and screamed.
“Ahhhhhhh!”
The doll, its head twisted ninety degrees, was jammed inside the corridor, approaching them.
And then.
“The exit’s blocked! What do we do! Ahhhhh!”
Tae-woo placed his hands on the wall ahead and pushed with all his might, his head craned backward.
He applied more force to his arms as the doll drew closer.
Not that the door would open from pushing.

-ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-His reactions are so good ㅋㅋㅋ
-His reactions are genuinely delicious ㅋㅋㅋ
-Right now Tae-woo can’t see anything except the dollㅋㅋㅋ

Because what Tae-woo was pushing wasn’t a door—it was a wall.
“Left turn, Tae-woo.”
The viewers loved watching him panic.
As Seo Jun went left without waiting for Tae-woo, his survival instinct kicked in and he followed.
The corridor ended and they entered the next room.
The doll squeezed out of the corridor and began approaching them again at high speed.
This was definitely a chase sequence.
Thump, thump, thump, thump—the sound echoed, and Seo Jun felt the doll’s speed was incredibly fast.
Fast enough that it should have caught them long ago.
Tae-woo looked back and voiced his confusion.
“It’s gone?”
“Hey, look ahead.”
“Ahhhhhhh!”
The doll had moved beneath the Conveyor Belt, caught up with them, and appeared on the belt in front of them.
True to its nature, constantly creeping along the dark walls and making its presence known.
Tae-woo froze, his mouth hanging open at the doll’s sudden appearance.
The doll laughed hideously and lunged forward.
Seo Jun grabbed the back of Tae-woo’s neck—whose life signs had momentarily stopped—and bolted down an exit to the right and below.

-ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ This is really hilarious ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-Every time the channel owner and the doll lock eyes I jump, but watching Tae-woo just breaks the tension ㅋㅋㅋ
-How can he be scared of something that much ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-Haha so good ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

Tae-woo’s survival instinct worked perfectly this time too.
After being pulled by Seo Jun, he somehow kept his balance and resumed running with small, quick steps.
After passing through this corridor, another room appeared.
Seo Jun made a quick judgment and shouted.
“Left first!”
Behind them, the doll was trying to exit the corridor but seemed slightly stuck and wasn’t coming out immediately.
The entrance ahead was closed. There was no side passage either.
If that’s the case, then something to open that entrance was needed, and the only suspicious thing was Barrier Panels hanging in the air at a distance, blocking their view.
Tae-woo’s help was necessary.
With trembling hands, Tae-woo immediately activated the Air Gun and the Barrier Panel rose from the wind’s force.
Seo Jun, having loaded the Nail Gun, hit all four Control Panels—two on each side—while moving, and the door ahead opened.
The final room’s door was also closed.
This time, Tae-woo would have to go first and alter the trajectory in a puzzle.
Just like the very first time they solved a problem.
But.
“This is my specialty.”
In this urgent situation where they had to finish before the doll escaped the narrow corridor, Seo Jun knew a faster way to end it.

-Ah, we were hoping he wouldn’t use it
-Said he wouldn’t use it and used it within 30 minutes ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-Using shortcuts again ㅋㅋㅋ

Rather than having Tae-woo move first, it was done the moment Seo Jun loaded the gun.
They entered the final corridor with ease, exited it, and arrived in some kind of interior space.
Was the chase over?
“Wow, Seo Jun, thank you so much. Really. I’m so grateful.”
Tae-woo relaxed.

-The channel owner hard-carried ㅋㅋㅋ
-ㄹㅇㅋㅋ
-Carried his friend because he felt bad
-Is it over?
-But man, that was scary ㄷㄷㄷ

It certainly had been tense.
For those running away, the footsteps made them aware they were being pursued, and the terror of seeing a grotesque doll approaching when they looked back must have been considerable.
Tae-woo jumped and screamed almost every time he looked.
But was this really the end?
Just then.
Thump, thump, thump, thump.

-Wait?
-??
-ㄷㄷㄷ That’s not supposed to happen?

“Please, no.”
Contrary to Tae-woo’s hopes, the doll burst out of the corridor they’d come from in an instant, shoving its face at them.

* * *

They were dead.
They were reborn in the place where toys were stacked.
Tae-woo despaired at this fact.
“Do we have to do this again? No way. I can’t. I really can’t! I can’t do it! This is so scary, really.”
Meanwhile, Seo Jun thought about what had gone wrong and realized it.
He should have closed the door beside the corridor.
There must have been a Control Panel there, or something.
In truth, he knew all along, but because Tae-woo was so frightened, he deliberately left it open to do it again.
‘The impact wasn’t strong enough.’
The fear and tension had been conveyed adequately enough.
It would have generated some buzz just from this.
Tae-woo always reacted so well, and Seo Jun had occasionally looked back to scare the viewers.
But still.
‘It feels like it’s not quite enough.’
His instinct was telling him so.
That even with some promotion, it wouldn’t reach a certain threshold of buzz.
It was just a well-made chase sequence.
That’s why he did it again.
Because one way to create buzz had occurred to him.
“Come on, let’s do this once more and finish.”
“Ugh… Yeah, let’s go. Ah. I really hate this.”
They went back to the protagonist’s box to start the chase sequence again.
Bang!
The doll fell from above and Tae-woo flinched slightly, but now he had enough composure to take a deep breath and walk slowly toward the Conveyor Belt.
But when he glanced to the side, his friend was doing something strange.
“Seo Jun, what are you doing?”
Seo Jun was standing in the opposite direction, walking backwards.
Which meant, to explain it, he was facing the doll.
“Ah. The viewers got too scared, so I thought I’d try running while facing it the whole time. The speed seems manageable.”
So right now.
He was saying he’d turn around and run while facing backward?
“The route?”
“I’ve memorized it.”
“The gimmick?”
“Same thing.”
Seo Jun grinned confidently.
“Why. You want to try?”
“You’re really… insane.”

* * *

Shortly after.

-Only what skilled players would do, and you manage it on the first try? Yeah, it works ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-Running backwards is insane ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-Why is he firing nails when there’s no damage ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-It suddenly turned from horror to comedy ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-The more you just stare at it face to face… Maybe the doll is cute?

Thump, thump, thump, thump!
“Tae-woo. Didn’t I tell you not to look back?”
“I can’t help it!”
Slip.
“Ahhhhh!”
Tae-woo kept voluntarily turning to look back and screaming and flinching, while.
Seo Jun walked backward, making eye contact with the doll and even greeting it, occasionally firing nails into its head when he had the chance, and simultaneously completing the gimmick—the contrast between the two became.
Posted on the community under the title “Veteran vs. Newbie: A Game Released Less Than 3 Hours Ago,” the video became far bigger buzz than Seo Jun had anticipated.

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