Master Swordsman’s Stream - Chapter 186

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Episode 186

Just before a certain American pro, returning to the world where he belonged after weeks of lengthy vacation, marveled at Korea’s dazzling pool of promising talent and its youth system (understanding absolutely nothing about it).
Seo Jun checked the Id Trial ranking and felt somewhat flustered to find himself at first place.
“Mm…….”
The kind of moment where words momentarily escape you?

#1 – Geomsin (Korea) – 360
#2 – Rachel (USA) – 356
#3 – Bernard (USA) – 344

True, the gap between first and second was only four points—half a cycle—but he’d never actually aimed for first place.
Still, he concluded there was no real problem.
Now that he understood Sound Play would be applied, that second-place finisher would surely be able to break his record.
Third, fourth, and fifth place could break it too.
‘Probably will, anyway.’
In this moment, Seo Jun was somewhat overestimating the concentration of people—overestimating Rankers.
But it couldn’t be helped.
He didn’t know that while someone could use four Orbs at once and achieve higher peaks, actually pulling off all forty-four attempts was a record that had occurred only once in several years—and that was 356 points, a record he himself had now surpassed.
He’d merely watched some Ranker videos and made rough estimates against his own performance.
Seo Jun, who had no need to measure down to precise seconds or think too deeply, quickly collected himself and spoke:
“That was easy enough.”
‘I’ll get that record back soon anyway.’

-ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-The room master stretches toward the world lol rip
-Chief! Drop a shot!
-Rachel’s a pro, right? This might get controversial.
-How does everything become a controversy with you lol you internet people are the ones creating them
-For real, stop making it controversial. Don’t we need to show Westerners the spicy taste of kimchi?

Kimchi, he’d admit, was fair.
Seo Jun nodded and cleanly requested the bill.
“Well then, you see?”
Smiles bloomed everywhere.
Of course, not on Seo Jun’s face, but on his teammates’ as they came rushing over the moment the trial ended.
“We believed in you!”
Ha Yun-ho grinned widely. The broadcast was thriving, so Ha Yun-ho was simply in good spirits.

-Always believed
-You all should believe too
-We believed in you as a safe asset……
-Laugh a moment ago then suddenly gloomy ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-My money…

Wind Sword also gave a thumbs up and added his word.
“Did you really pull it off? Do you know how shocked I was watching from behind?”
Shocked that he didn’t mess up, wasn’t it?
Seo Jun smiled faintly and asked one more thing.
“How about when I did the Kael vital spot?”
“That’s when I was even more shocked.”
Wind Sword answered without much hesitation.

-The guy’s consistent lol ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-Just Kael one-trick ㅋㅋㅋ
-Though he got second to the room master and went for top, his heart remains a Kael fanatic…

The teammates who’d come this far were just these two. The rest were waiting at the starting point.
Of course, since it wasn’t far, they could hear everything.
Fifty paces away.
“Hyung. Do you know who Rachel is?”
As Seo Jun walked in that direction, Lee Dong-su scratched his head and spoke.
This time it seemed like he didn’t pull aggro as much?
“Who?”
“There’s this person called the American Shin Ha-yeon…… Anyway, you’re busy now, hyung. Things might get a little annoying?”
“Why?”

-So why?
-Because you broke the ranking, so now duel requests come, that’s common sense
-For real, common sense
-Rachel’s famous too!
-First of all, she’s insanely pretty
-If we did Rachel vs Shin Ha-yeon appearance battle who’d win?
-The magical girl room master wins
-ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅇㅈ
-Talking about magical girls when you’ve never even seen one lol

‘These bastards…….’
Have they lost their minds?
“Whoever said magical girl gets a 10-minute ban. Reflect on yourselves.”

-Oh no
-Chat’s going up!
-Run!
-Moo
-Moo
-Bing
-Moo
-Bing
-Moo

Seo Jun scrolled through the chat, found some of the culprits, and handed out 10-minute bans.
And while Seo Jun was rooting out the offenders, Ha Yun-ho figured out what had happened.
“Huh? What was that. Oh, so they asked who was prettier between Rachel and Shin Ha-yeon, and they said Seo Jun with magical girl makeup was prettier? Hah. But Seo Jun, have you ever actually done a magical girl cosplay?”
“Oh. I want to see too.”
“Alpaca, why do you—”
“Heh heh. Coach. You don’t want to see?”
“Hmm……. I don’t particularly want to see it, but I’d like to have that photo.”
“Why?”
“I’d skip training tomorrow for sure.”
“Ah! So that’s what being a pro is like?”
“Wow. But I’ve never done a magical girl cosplay myself, so Seo Jun did one?”
It was then that Seo Jun, having dealt with all the troublemakers, answered.
“Rumi. I haven’t done one either. Please don’t misunderstand.”

-Eventually he fell in the line of duty…
-A 10-minute ban! That’s oppression!
-The room master should stop the oppression right now and hit the mission fail button!
-Ah…
-Mission… my money my bonds my stocks my real estate…

“Haha. Then should I press success now? Everyone, from next time please preview some Korean language. If you don’t study, you lose money like this. What is Sound Play?”
“What is it?”
Ha Yun-ho, Rumi, and Wind Sword had no idea what he was talking about.
But Lee Dong-su and Alpaca were, all things considered, early-era viewers!
“It’s literature, guys.”

-Wait lol how does Lee Dong-su know this? lol
-Was he a room master fan?
-So that’s where it came from lol
-Since you know, become a literature teacher! Just give us one break!
-Synesthesia is crazy, room master, how can hearing tell you? Does that make sense?! Come to think of it, this is fraud! A bug!
-I get you lost money and are sad but lol please refrain from raging
-I’m a KPAO…
-KPAO isn’t that though?
-Korean grades average D in high school lol visual representation of hearing, what’s that?
-Makes sense to mistake it for a safe asset lol I didn’t fall for it

Joy and sorrow intertwine.
All manner of human types gather, laugh, and chatter.
‘A place where money and memories are lost.’
That is Trabel.
“But you know, everyone.”
As he was about to press success, Seo Jun felt a slight pang of regret.

-Why again
-Are you really going to squeeze us more here?

He was.

[Rank in Top 10 of Id Trial Ranking — Mission Reward: 9,760,000 Won]

“Couldn’t you add just 240,000 more won?”

-So he’s trying to make it exactly 10 million won lol
-ㄷㄷㄷ
-Add bonus to a failed betting mission, this crazy guy lol

“Wow.”
“This is a bit much.”
“Trying to drain us to the marrow……. Didn’t you already know about Sound Play?”
His teammates misunderstand. They send looks of reproach.
But compared to the prize pool at stake, 240,000 won is just a pittance.
Besides.
“Would I just make it up off the top of my head?”

-Huh?
-Ask and go double or nothing?
-One more time??
-240,000 won for one more shot is actually huge for us
-Even if we can’t eat, might as well bet the house
-We’re ready to fundraise lol

“If you all add 240,000 more won…….”
“Add more?”
“Ooh!”
“What are you trying to do now……”
“I’ll change the betting terms to rank 1st in the Kael Trial Ranking.”
Seo Jun spoke confidently.
It was reasonably fair, in a way. A mere 240,000 won. Not top 10 of the trial ranking, but first place.
But the reaction was explosive.
In a very bad way.

-Damn
-Scum
-At this point, isn’t it the viewers’ fault for expecting this guy’s character?
-For real, the room master is trash-talking after winning the bet
-Viewers being humiliated lol ah I didn’t put money on it~

Why would that be.
“Seo Jun. But do you know what the Kael Trial’s content is?”
“Yeah.”
Of course he does.
He saw it in the chat.
“Wow…….”
“You’re relentless, truly relentless.”
It was a complaint from Rumi, with whom a certain level of internal rapport had now built up, and Seo Jun merely smiled wryly.
“Go ahead and watch.”
For reference, the Kael Trial’s content is cutting 100 vital spots on a Heretic as fast as you can.
Though they call it a Heretic, it’s really just something like a scarecrow that doesn’t counterattack.
Regardless, no matter how much anyone protests or what methods they try, first place is.
“Out of 10 million won, 240,000 won, right?”
Seo Jun’s.

-Damn lol
-Okay let’s see, but we want one thing
-Money monster
-At this point, isn’t capitalism to blame?
-What kind of monster did capitalism create……
-Oh capitalism lol

[
+Prize 240,000 Won Added]
[Ptui!]

With the prize addition came a message that had all the streamers bursting into laughter.
Seo Jun laughed along.
“Thank you. Then I’ll go do Kael quickly and be right back, so please watch in the meantime.”
“Got it.”

* * *

Lee Dong-su watched Wind Sword struggling to create Orbs properly while concentrating hard on keeping his steps steady, and he clapped.
‘Yeah, this is normal. Normal. Three? This time he missed one.’
Looking at the Id Trial, ninety percent of the time it should come out like this.
Who would mechanically and smoothly walk one step per second, and the moment an Orb disappears, summon it again and fling it at a target?
Who on earth.
On the first try or when unfamiliar with it!
‘I know that guy’s an exception, but still!’
Wind Sword was currently struggling even to properly summon Orbs.
Even though he could ordinarily summon four of them with ease.
He evaluated this too as a matter of Continuous Action Fundamentals. After all, that’s what he’d done the trial to see.
‘His Synchronization Rate was 78, right?’
Compared to that, he seems quite lacking.
The fundamentals also seem a bit short.
‘First, training the body’s automation here would be good.’
When playing piano, pieces with some difficulty require jumping far between keys, unlike beginner pieces.
But pieces with some difficulty aren’t played by skilled players. Beginners play them.
When beginners play, they struggle to press keys that are far apart.
What you teach them then is creating memory in the muscles.
The method is simple.
You divide the act of moving the hand and pressing a key into several steps and have them repeat each step over and over. Let the body remember.
What Lee Dong-su wants to teach through training here isn’t the action the body gains by remembering, but the knack of remembering itself—the body’s own technique.
The reason is
‘That guy who somehow pocketed the full 10 million won will probably inject Wind Sword with a ton of fundamental motions…… ‘.
Becoming more familiar with the knack of remembering itself in the body will help Seo Jun’s training.
In other words, Lee Dong-su is synchronizing his steps with Seo Jun’s.
If Seo Jun had read Lee Dong-su’s thoughts just then, he would have clapped and praised him as an excellent coach.
Not without reason was Lee Dong-su, despite his high school age, showing exceptional insight in games and movements alike.
‘Anyway, why isn’t he coming…… ‘.
Kael Trial is cutting 100 vital spots on a scarecrow.
It’s not a simple scarecrow, though. Well, scarecrow is just a metaphor.
Precisely, it’s a tumbler.
A tumbler that moves when you hit it, sways, gets knocked down, and stands back up.
Of course.
‘It should be over by now, shouldn’t it?’
That’s not really the important part.
It’s just that Seo Jun cutting 100 times takes no more than a minute at most.
And now over 2 minutes have passed.
‘Did he take a different route?’
Like, say, Eric or Eric or Eric.
Or maybe Zen or Zen or Zen.

* * *

Fortunately, that wasn’t the case.
He’d just been chatting and started late.
And now the result had come out.
“Thank you. I’ll gladly take the 10 million won.”

-Seriously crazy lol
-Wow he cuts twice per second lol the speed even if I just waved at empty air would be slower than that
-Why does the Kael Trial take the same time as the Id Trial lol
-Yeah just take the 10 million won lol
-The room master is really ㅈㄴ different somehow
-Ah lol god of Kael lol that’s why they nerfed Sniping
-Isn’t this way too much though lol

[Kael Trial Ranking]

#1 – Geomsin (Korea) – 50 seconds
#2 – PineapplePizzaDies (Italy) – 266 seconds

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And so time passed, and it became 9 PM.

[Fuck. Just got off late shift, where was the fun part of today’s broadcast?]

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