Master Swordsman’s Stream - Chapter 293

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Chapter 293

[So basically]
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Kael’s dealing with that old incident right now hahahahaha
No hahahaha
So because the cardinal used to sell him as a slave back in the day, Kael eventually succumbs to the temptation of power, accepts it, and becomes a public enemy of the world?
That’s how the story goes?
Right?
Honestly.

It’s so absurd but somehow it works hahahahahahahahahahahahaha
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-It’s because Bang Ju, this absolute lunatic, killed the hidden boss thinking he was a grunt and caused all this chaos lol
└The AI must’ve been shocked too
└I’d get a system error if it were me
-Insane development hahahaha
-Why’s a quest even showing up for Bang Ju hahahaha
-Real-time recruitment is crazy!!

[Bang Ju immediately succumbing to the temptation of power hahahaha]
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He knew everything would go wrong if he gave in to the temptation of power, yet he just goes ahead lol
And then someone asks who to kill first hahahaha, isn’t that psychotic?
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-Let’s kill Yon first
└That asshole
└But you know what? Yon’s been giving Bang Ju everything until now, and Bang Ju ends up on the other team
└Poor guy lol

[???: So who’s the hidden boss now?]
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The greatest name in the History Book.
Future Foresight incarnate.
Bang Ju is truly the GOAT of the Bang Ju Unit.
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-lol facts
-The Bang Ju Unit had no clue he’d kill the hidden boss and steal his position
└His very existence is the hidden boss anyway, so nothing weird about it
└Riven is now truly ruled by Bang Ju
└And he’s been ruling for a while lol

[So how did he even know?]

“Ahhhh! I’m the one who saw the future! Bang Ju of the Bang Ju Unit!”
Pangea’s Nostradamus who saw the future.
The greatest family name in the History Book.
A man now continuously mentioned overseas.
“Bang Ju! Bang Ju! Bang Ju! Bang Ju!”
That was Bang Ju at this moment.

-Wow Bang Ju’s got swagger
-Bang Ju of the Bang Ju Unit’s swagger is insane
-So who’s the hidden boss now? So who’s the hidden boss now? So who’s the hidden boss now? So who’s the hidden boss now?
-But this guy just keeps shouting Bang Ju while streaming lol doesn’t he analyze anything?

Broadcasting?
“Analysis? Why would I? That stuff? Bang Ju’s just winning, isn’t he? Didn’t you see? You don’t trust me?”

-Bang Ju went berserk lol
-Sir, why have you become a zealot
-He’s not a heretic though, let’s have a drink
-Ah, I worship him

Something that had never happened once in the entire History Book occurred.
The replacement of the hidden boss.
“Well, that was a joke, but if we’re going to talk business, something’s happened! Yes! Something that’s never happened! Honestly, it was unprecedented for the hidden boss to get cut off at the start, right?”
The hidden boss must ensure such a thing never happens, so only the very best among the best are recruited.
Isn’t it strange to keep the hidden boss alive and revive them when they couldn’t do anything, got defeated, and died?
“We said that the users’ actions and results are reflected directly, but such forceful intervention would get criticized.”

-lol facts
-They’re done for
-So what does that mean?

“That’s why the hidden boss has always been the best players in the world! If they’re just given a slight advantage, they can’t lose!”
Even at the top tier, if they meet another top tier, they could lose.
There could be several other top-level players in the History Book.
But that’s only if the situation were equal—the starting conditions are always adjusted in the hidden boss’s favor.
“The advantageous element given to the hidden boss in this History Book was Concealment! They basically can’t lose.”
But what happened?
“The Concealment was exposed! How did our all-purpose Bang Ju figure it out and beat them!”

-lol the all-purpose Bang Ju hahahaha
-There’s nothing he can’t do
-He’s literally the god of the game hahahaha
-Reality too… don’t forget the swimming and the punch machine
-Ugh, genius-tier

“I had my doubts, but he pulled them out perfectly with a trap! The one-on-one that started that way, he won very easily, but I’m not sure how he won! The result is!”

-The History Book’s first hidden boss replacement lol
-Is this how it’s going?
-We need to see the connected quests
-So who’s the assailant’s identity
-lol their face was all rotted so we can’t tell

“The assailant’s identity? Hmm… I’m not sure, but could it be that person…?”
Bang Ju said no more than that.
Would he really reveal the identity?

* * *

“What will you do?”
After opening his eyes in the Capsule, Climax sat quietly for a long time before coming back to his senses as the Chinese Team Leader who had found him in his lodgings spoke.
“…….”
“Even if the Participant chooses not to reveal their identity, we will respect that choice and do our best to ensure the identity doesn’t come to light.”
“…….”
Climax slowly closed his eyes.
His head throbbed.
Losing was disorienting enough, but he’d been toyed with as well.
With words.
Who asked who the hidden boss was? What kind of amateur question is that?
‘Was that jest, or was he serious?’
Anyway.
He couldn’t comprehend how he’d lost.
It wasn’t a trick. There was no spec advantage.
‘It doesn’t make sense.’
That aside.
He opened his slowly-closing eyes and stood, turning his head.
The Seoul skyline came into view.
“Will you keep it hidden?”
If all those people in the city, and people in his homeland, were to find out?
“What if I said I would?”
“People will only speculate, and no matter how much they ask us, we won’t tell them.”
This level of consideration is given to any Participant who takes the hidden boss role.
Only, recruitment usually doesn’t involve people who need this much consideration—but this time was an exception.
Team Leader Wang sighed inwardly.
“What if I do reveal it?”
“We’ll post a message of thanks to you through SNS and naturally convey the information.”
“Well, that’s….”
They both had the same thought at once.
How terrible.
“Let me think about it a bit more.”
The worst hidden boss in history in a different sense.
Should he reveal his identity, or should he play dumb no matter what speculation emerged?
Obviously, complete deniability.
They wouldn’t be able to guess his identity easily anyway.
Climax had made his decision.
He just appeared to be deliberating.
“Yes. We can reveal it after the History Book is completely over. That way it’ll naturally get buried under talk about the History Book’s ending anyway.”
“I see. But wasn’t it already over?”
“No. Look at this.”
“?”

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“Listen up.”
Peto.
The world’s third-greatest analyst and the commentary expert whose analysis of ability was at its peak, a streamer, was flustered and composing himself.
Normally he wouldn’t explain things he already knew beforehand, but this time he’d offered his view.
‘This madman Climax. What are you doing?’
He’d spotted a minor habit of the assailant early on and even predicted their identity.
Knowing that identity, no matter how instinctively he felt the Korean streamer would win, he’d still predicted the assailant would win.
Given the ambush and the lack of information about the Concealment—a favorable position.
“I said fifty-fifty first.”
Even though Seo Jun said it’d be Climax, after all.

-Hahahaha Peto’s washed up
-Just a has-been
-Geomsin is a god!
-Koreans have special game DNA. Even the Korean commentator said that Korean streamer would win. They have different DNA for watching too

“Not washed up.”

-Isn’t it because he only has 2,000 viewers hahahaha

“You’re banned. Good work. I mean, I said fifty-fifty.”

-That wasn’t fifty-fifty
-Technically it was a one-sided massacre
-Isn’t it just a disaster?
-Geomsin is a god!

“What, you guys? Want me to explain why that result happened?

-Don’t explain, just reveal the assailant’s identity
-We need to go curse them out
-So who is the assailant anyway?
-If you don’t want to be called washed up, tell us the identity quick

He was in a bind.
His analysis had been right almost every time.
His predictions based on that analysis had also been right almost every time.
His prediction was wrong?
Fine.
But his analysis becomes almost a given fact.
‘I’m usually careful with my words.’
If he blurts out the identity here?
He’s sure it was Climax.
“Enough.”
But he should still protect him.

-I was curious how amazing they had to be for you to call it fifty-fifty
-This guy just got dumb
-Has-been
-2k viewer scrub

“Ugh!”
Even as he spoke, the broadcast continued flowing.
Seo Jun, who had declared himself the hidden boss to the AI, sat quietly, with all the cameras focused on him.
Seo Jun opened his mouth.

[Well then, how about we communicate a bit?]

As if he knew the whole world was watching him.

[You’re curious how I found out the hidden boss’s identity, right? That’s a trade secret. But I did notice and move accordingly from the start.]

-Wow, this Korean’s impressive
-He answers what we’re curious about. Is this some corporate streamer?
-See, Peto the has-been is impressive after all

[And you’re curious how I overwhelmed that assailant like that? They just weren’t good enough. How desperate must I have been to think the hidden boss wasn’t the one?]

-Hahahaha
-What a spectacle
-Peto, getting such an easy fight wrong, is a legend
-Who did you mistake them for!

[Just joking. I wasn’t familiar with them, so there were plenty of openings. With a different familiar weapon, it would’ve been easy anyway. Seemed about pro-level?]

-Pro hahahaha level hahahaha!
-Pro-level’s even. Say that again?
-This guy just lost his touch
-It did look easy
-lol reveal the identity now why don’t you

Damn.
The more the streamer talked, the worse public opinion got.
Peto gave a hollow laugh, then grew serious.
“You guys! I’m not washed up! The opponent was Climax! If it was Climax, isn’t fifty-fifty and even acceptable! Huh? Isn’t it?”
And he finally said the person he had analyzed and predicted.
Now this would spread in an instant, and people would start attacking whether it was justified or not.
‘Climax. I’m sorry.’
But there was no deep friendship between them, was there.
Seo Jun had inadvertently killed Climax once more.

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After that, Seo Jun conducted a one-way communication for fifty minutes, then waited for people to leave, received materials from Yon, and completed the quest.
And the three of them—including Rachel—had another conversation.
It seemed the quest was almost finished.
“Your rank’s not going to flip, Seo Jun. There’s got to be a special reward?”
“There should be. If not, hyung…. If not….”
Yon glanced at Seo Jun warily.
“What.”
“Nothing.”
Since they were now enemies, Yon wouldn’t get anything from this.
It was an unfortunate turn of events.
“So Seo Jun will stay safe here then. Yon and I will be back. Though I’m wondering if the viewers are still around after something so boring. Won’t this be the most tedious and uneventful History Book…?”
Seo Jun could say with certainty.
According to the viewers’ comments, they were making legendary moments in real-time, so there was no need to worry about that.
“Go on, then.”
Now the problem that loomed was this.
A Participant had to die. Without anyone knowing.
‘Hmm.’
He didn’t have the ability to disguise himself as an NPC. He was Kael itself.
It was bound to be a problem.
Assassination, and an escape.
Or.
“Ah.”
“Why, hyung?”
“Come with me.”
“Huh?”
“I need to do some work.”
“…….”
Yon looked at Seo Jun with anxious eyes, but he didn’t care and moved to the Other Realm with the two of them.
And then.
“Hey, Kael. Got a minute to talk?”
As Seo Jun had predicted exactly, someone at the starting point approached.
“What for?”
“Quest.”
“Is it a good one?”
“Depends on how our conversation goes after this. Hehe.”
There was no need to necessarily assassinate.
If there was just a pretext.
Seo Jun spoke softly.
“Yeah. Let’s go somewhere quiet.”
“Good thinking.”

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Ten minutes later.
Yon saw something strange happen in the sky where Seo Jun had suddenly approached the person and disappeared together, sighed, and pressed his palms together.
“Guess his nature got triggered.”

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