Master Swordsman’s Stream - Chapter 262

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Episode 262

10 a.m.
Not early, not late.
Working hours when most office workers were active. The same went for Japan and China.
That’s why.
Goto, the team leader of The League’s History Book development division, Wang Tian from China, and Lee Team Leader from Korea were all watching two streams simultaneously.
Well, Goto was watching three, including Yamada Yasuo.
And the moment the conclusion reached them, all three had the same reaction.
They called a meeting immediately.
But their intentions differed.
Wang Tian from China spoke first.

[That user isn’t really using hacks, is he?]

The Chinese team leader couldn’t believe it.
Who was this streamer called Shin-geom?
Truly, when it came to the sword and Kael, he was a genius among geniuses—the very pinnacle among over a billion people in China.
If he was at that level, shouldn’t he not be toyed with so easily by the best player of a small nation with only fifty million people?
Of course, if there really was someone who could just observe a pattern and read it—that would make them among the best of all humankind, all seven billion people.
But that seemed impossible, which planted seeds of suspicion.

[It’s not hacks, I told you. Want me to send the play data files so you can check if anything looks off?]

Lee Team Leader’s brow furrowed.
It wasn’t even her job to determine if it was hacking, but it was still a dismissive remark toward them.

[There’s no need to go that far.]

Goto, the Japanese team leader, interjected to calm things down.

[But then, how exactly is that streamer doing it? Do you have any theories in Korea?]

Goto’s goal was information gathering.
He trusted Yamada Yasuo, but for now, Kael had slipped through their grasp.
The opponent’s ability was real.
But where did that ability come from?
He couldn’t help but wonder.
And Lee Team Leader answered.

[That streamer appeared completely out of nowhere.]

Lee Team Leader didn’t mention that Seo Jun had played the game in the past.
After all, they had no right to know customer information or Capsule identification codes.
The only evidence connecting the past person to the present one was his ability to predict patterns.

[And ever since appearing, he streams while clearing every difficult game difficulty level, just as you all saw. And during that process, victims emerge—like what happened just now.]

Goto had to suppress his laughter at that moment.
It was funny seeing that arrogant, constantly boastful Chinese Shin-geom get thoroughly played.
Yamada Yasuo had also heard disrespectful remarks from Shin-geom before.
So he’d been upset, but to see him thoroughly toyed with like that today…
All the way to the end.

[It looks like almost the entire world will be watching again. Now that he’s reappeared at the top of the Kael ranking, he’ll definitely get attention.]
[That’s right. In Korea, they say never to provoke that person, but China didn’t know that yet, so a victim appeared.]
[Well, uh, wasn’t there something more important we should be discussing right now?]

Wang Tian quickly changed the subject.
If he continued, he’d only be ridiculed.
Originally, any user from that nation becomes one with their team leader.
That’s how Rios Development Team operated.
And now, bringing up that story would only make China a laughingstock.

[For my part, I think we need to reconsider Kael.]

Goto said this.
He meant they should develop countermeasures.

[Why?]
[Because he’s too good, Lee Team Leader.]
[Even before we changed the pattern, it was fifty seconds and we heard the same concerns, but we concluded it was fine back then. What’s different now?]

Goto couldn’t say that back then he’d actually opposed removing Kael because he’d already been thinking about changing the pattern anyway.
But given how things had gone, this gamer was dangerous.
He could become the balance-breaker of the History Book and its protagonist.
Kael wasn’t a bad role.
Most champions were simply what users made of them.
But with that level of skill, with the vision to quickly recognize patterns just from watching them, this user was—
The world’s true greatest talent.
A monster. That was inevitable and natural.

[What do you think, Wang Team Leader?]
[Hmm, I’d need all the other team leaders present too, but I have to admit I’m a bit concerned as well.]

Lee Team Leader scoffed.
Her thoughts were painfully obvious.

[Ha. But we can’t remove him now anyway, can we?]

Now that it was public, they absolutely couldn’t make the targeting decision to remove Kael on their own.
The other team leaders would all oppose it.
It wasn’t as if there was a development team in Italy.

[So then, do you have anything else to say?]
[Yes.]

Lee Team Leader had one goal.
She spoke with grim resolve.

[From now on, we need to prepare for how we should handle the cleanup afterward.]
[Cleanup? What do you mean by cleanup?]

The cleanup after touching his sensitive nerves.
She didn’t express this thought directly.

[Look, did you all see the donation that Seo Jun sent to Shin-geom just before getting blocked at the end?]

When Shin-geom’s name came up again, Wang Team Leader showed obvious discomfort, but Goto replied with a laugh.

[Yes. Ha ha ha. It was quite heartwarming, wasn’t it?]
[After beating him senseless, to finish it off so heartwarming… How arrogant…]

Right.
Lee Team Leader thought it was unavoidable that her fellow team leaders didn’t understand yet, since the translation hadn’t been properly conveyed.
It was a usage of Korean that only Koreans could properly comprehend.

[That’s absolutely not heartwarming.]
[Pardon?]
[Is it because of the Korean character at the end?]
[No. If I translate the untranslated part, it simply means “If You Can.” And given Seo Jun’s personality, this is a declaration of war…]

Shin-geom was skilled enough that he could likely aim for first place with most sword-related champions.
Of course, to achieve first place and the highest score, he couldn’t foolishly aim for multiple champions simultaneously and had to focus on just one champion at a time, but Shin-geom still had many options left.
Seo Jun knew this too.
So what did “If You Can” really mean?

[He’s openly saying he’ll interfere.]

Wang Team Leader swallowed hard.
If he couldn’t manage a pro contract, then China’s top sword user might not make it into the History Book at all.

[No, that’s not the real problem.]
[Then what is the problem?]
[Ah.]

Team Leader Goto caught on.

[For the first time…]
[Yes. A single person could become the champion of multiple champions.]
[Ah… For the first time. How did the manual go? We definitely had rules set up at the beginning…]

They had to prepare.
For what would happen next.
There was no guarantee Seo Jun wouldn’t claim first place in another champion.
This was an emergency.

* * *

‘That crazy bastard. Shiba shiba shiba shiba.’
Xiao-shiba.
A word combining Xiao, which disparages nations smaller than their own, and a Korean curse.
The Korean curse had become popular in China because it was said to have a satisfying bite to it.
And especially on the internet-sensitive Trabol China, shiba had become an official curse word.
Shin-geom asked his audience about the Korean person who had toyed with him until the very end.
“What was that Korean at the end? Why didn’t it translate?”
No one answered.
Even people who could somewhat read Korean couldn’t understand it.
There was no way Shin-geom would know this.
“Ha, ha ha. Yeah. I guess I have to give up on Kael for now.”
He pretended to be cool about it and moved on.
“Friends, I’ll end the stream here for today.”
There were many sympathetic messages in the chat.
There were also messages about avenging themselves in the History Book, like the Korean guy’s final donation suggested.
But the fact that he seemed to finish things warmly actually made Shin-geom angrier.
He wasn’t satisfied yet.
‘Shiba. That crazy bastard—if I meet him in the History Book, I’ll definitely interfere.’
If such a narrative had accumulated, viewers would enjoy seeing him interfere with that Shin-geom in the History Book, regardless of the in-game story or relationships.
The game company would reflect real-world events and even add background story details to the game.
The History Book was that kind of content.
Even if someone made a completely unpredictable move that didn’t fit their faction or relationships, that became recorded in history, and the game company created a reason for it.
And if a narrative like this existed in reality, it fit even better.
‘Haa… You’re finished.’
Now he could draw good reactions while interfering with his opponent. Openly, maliciously even.
He imagined the revenge to come and settled his mind, contemplating which champion to try next.
Immediately.

* * *

[KKKKKKKKKK Chinese guy KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK quit streaming KKKK]
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The Abbot seriously messed up
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-Seriously a demon bastard
-Professor the pace is way too fast KKKKKKKKKKKK
-So it wasn’t for nothing he was the Heavenly Demon
-He’s just a lunatic KKKKKKKKKKKK

[But he started the confrontation first, right?]
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The Abbot doesn’t hold back
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-Can’t hold back and beats them like he has anger issues KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK
-Gets stripped clean
-Ah… at least now no overseas Kael users will ever provoke the Abbot KKKK
-Might already be one with him?

[The Abbot]
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Since he cleared Kael and Shin-geom quit streaming without hesitation, this guy definitely just came through with it KKKKKKKKKK
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-History Book’s confirmed now
└No Kael ban?
└Can’t
└Banning here would cause a riot
└Nerfing for balance?
└OK the History Book isn’t just a brawl. If you fight well that’s it, right?
└But if you fight REALLY well?
└The Abbot’s kinda scary KKKKKKKKKK

[Shin-geom’s up!]
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Desert Wanderer Bedouin on the ranking! Looks like he’s going for it. The way he’s preparing right now, his pride is definitely hurt KKKKKK

#2 – Toma (France) – 523 crystals

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-KKKKKKKK Guess he wanted to make the History Book
-Gotta get revenge
-But the Abbot said “If You Can” didn’t he. Shin-geom could do any champion if he really tried, no?

└Then what does it mean?
└Just wait KKKKKKKKKK you’ll find out soon?
└ㄹㅇKKKK Ah why did he quit TTTT

And after ten minutes passed.
Korean community users could only laugh.
Because they could only laugh.

[KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK]
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#1 – Geomsin (Korea) – 542 crystals

#3 – Toma (France) – 523 crystals

One crystal difference you lunatic KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK
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-Abbot turn on the stream right now!!!!

└Why would you open your mouth like that KKKK to that guy especially KKKK

└Has to be ㄹㅇ KKKKKKKKKK
-Never ever provoke him!
└ㄹㅇKKK
└ㄹㅇKKK
└ㄹㅇKKK

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