The Rice-Eating Hero’s Capitalist Streaming - Chapter 2

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The Capitalist Streaming of a Freeloading Hero

Episode 2

The Constellation’s Game [Lyka]

About a week had passed.

During that time, I barely left my room.

“Siyul.”

“Yeah?”

“Your brother isn’t sick or anything, is he?”

“Hmm… I don’t think he’s sick.”

“Then?”

“I’m just curious how someone can do absolutely nothing to that extent.”

But I hadn’t really done nothing at all.

You could say the past week was like a ‘rehabilitation period’ for a returned hero.

I spent every spare moment looking into how the world had changed over the past 10 years, contacted my few remaining friends, and made my own efforts to regain the social skills I had lost.

“What? You’re saying both you and Dongsu… neither of you are married yet?”

[Hey man, what do you mean ‘yet’! We’re still young!]

“You’re thirty-six though?”

[Excuse me.]

“Yeah?”

[As of 2035, the average age for first marriage in Seoul is 40, you know?]

“The country’s doomed, isn’t it?”

And as a result.

I also learned that Gyeongjun, one of my closest friends, had already been working as a hero (Hunter) for 8 years.

Gyeongjun was even a friend who used to live next door.

Though I didn’t know if he still lived next door.

“By the way, Gyeongjun is a hero?”

[Hey, calling him a hero sounds kind of weird. Call him a Hunter.]

“If he’s worked for 8 years, he must be quite the veteran?”

[You could say that, I guess?]

“Anyway, Gyeongjun can’t be reached, right?”

[Right. If you want to contact him, you’d have to find him inside Lyka. Once he goes in, he doesn’t come out for at least a month.]

“Okay. Thanks anyway, Jeongmin.”

[Let’s meet up soon then!]

“Ugh- tea.”

Anyway, thinking that my rehabilitation(?) was somewhat complete, I finally decided to leave the house.

Click-

“Son, where are you going?”

My mother’s expression became half worried, half relieved seeing her son leaving the house.

I reassured my mother and tied my shoelaces tightly.

“I’ve been cooped up at home, so I’m feeling stuffy.”

“R-right. That would be stuffy.”

“I’ll go for a walk!”

I really was planning to go for a walk.

‘Today I really… should just get a taste and come back.’

To Seoul Forest.

More precisely, to Lyka’s ‘Starting Village’ that could be reached through the Seoul Forest Gate.

* * *

Actually, I had no choice.

Having returned after 10 years, my bank account balance was naturally zero, but I couldn’t exactly ask my parents for allowance money.

Even if I was a trash-tier hero, my character wasn’t trash-tier too.

‘If I’m going to freeload at thirty-six… I should at least earn my keep.’

So attending some academy under the pretense of preparing for guild or public institution employment was an even more impossible option.

Therefore, choosing the Seoul Forest Gate was a perfectly natural train of thought.

‘Let’s just earn enough for lunch.’

My only concern was whether I could enter the gate without any problems…

“Oh ho.”

When I arrived in front of the gate, I couldn’t see any particular access restrictions.

Actually, it was natural.

Only ‘Awakened’ could enter the gate anyway.

I found out later that on Earth, the moment you awaken, you have to receive all kinds of awakened education while simultaneously signing a pledge.

And that pledge apparently included scary(?) content acknowledging that you could die at any time inside the gate.

Of course, right now I was worried about something else.

‘I’m not… not an awakened on Earth, am I?’

A moment of slight anxiety arose, but I shook my head vigorously.

Of course, I had never separately confirmed a ‘You have awakened’ System Message like typical Hunters.

But I can bring up system windows, right?

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<Player Information>

[Information]

Name: Dave

(Dave#GARQW)

Race: Human

Age: 26

Level: Unknown

Class: None

Title: None

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According to information I confirmed by lurking on various awakened communities, only awakened individuals could voluntarily bring up system windows before their eyes.

So it would definitely work.

Unlike when I played the beta version, instead of my real name, an unfamiliar player name ‘Dave’ and a strange tag appeared…

This didn’t seem like it would be an obstacle.

Looking at the communities, there were actually no cases where the player name was someone’s real name.

Whooooom-!!

With those thoughts, I stepped toward the gate.

Soon, a very familiar sensation began to envelop my entire body.

[Attempting to connect to ‘Lyka-Laika’.]

[Server: Earth]

[Connection Route: Seoul – Korea]

The system notification sound I had heard so often I was sick of it.

And the message.

[First-time user detected.]

Of course, there were also unfamiliar message contents I hadn’t seen during the beta…

[Synchronizing player data.]

[1%…24%…27%…98%]

[Data synchronization complete!]

That was a very minor issue.

Anyway, the connection itself succeeded without any problems.

[Connection Location: Starting Village – Bereshit]

[‘Dave’ welcome to the world of ‘Lyka-Laika’.]

Then a very familiar landscape unfolded before my eyes.

“Phew. That’s done.”

A sigh of relief escaped naturally.

Until I returned to Earth, I never thought I’d feel happy to see this damn message.

Indeed, you never know what life will bring.

‘Now a Quest should appear, right?’

From the scenery to the sensations, the all-too-familiar landscape of Bereshit.

The moment I took a step while looking around.

Ding-!

A Quest that I’d probably done about twelve hundred times appeared before my eyes.

[A Tutorial Quest has occurred.]

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Starting Village – Bereshit

Category: Tutorial Quest

Difficulty: F

You have begun your journey to become an adventurer.

Find the village chief ‘Mordini’ of the primordial village ‘Bereshit’ and announce that a new adventurer has been born!

Reward: Apprentice Adventurer’s Equipment Box

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* * *

Fairy Selia, who belonged to the personnel management team at ‘Laika Corporation’, was working hard as usual today.

“Ugh, why are there so few real talents?”

Selia’s most important task was to find beings with the talent to become ‘Heroes’ among the countless dimensional realms her team managed!

But finding a promising hero worthy of sending a ‘truck’ to was as difficult as plucking stars from the sky.

So today too, Selia was going through the mountain of databases one by one.

“This… might be worth trying once?”

“No. This level isn’t enough!”

“If I half-ass it, I might suffer terribly again!”

Moreover, Selia had recently paid dearly for her wrong choice.

She had brought someone thinking they had decent talent, only to suffer for over ten thousand years!

Of course, those ten thousand years weren’t actual years on the real timeline.

Anyway, that time could be called a painful period that was hard to endure even as a manager fairy.

‘So this time. I absolutely must find a truly reliable talent.’

But no matter how much she searched through data and reviewed it repeatedly, finding a better prospect than ‘Geon-ryul Lee’ wasn’t easy.

“Sigh.”

She couldn’t understand why.

Clearly ‘Geon-ryul Lee’ was a hero candidate with mediocre talent in all aspects.

He definitely was…

‘Why is it so hard to find even that level?’

Even searching thoroughly, she couldn’t find hero candidates that reached even a similar level to Geon-ryul, let alone surpass him.

‘No, if I keep looking, I’ll definitely find someone. It’s just bad luck.’

Though she felt something was strange, Selia thought she just lacked ‘effort’.

So today too, she was working harder than any other fairy.

That is, until just a moment ago.

Before she confirmed the shocking System Message.

Ding-!

[Data for hero of interest ‘Geon-ryul Lee’ has been synchronized.]

[Would you like to check?]

“…?”

When the message first appeared, she thought it was some kind of system error.

“What the… hell?”

Geon-ryul was clearly a hero candidate who had played the beta version with her countless times.

For such ‘Geon-ryul’s’ data to still not be synchronized with the system…

It was something that couldn’t and shouldn’t happen.

“W-wait a minute.”

But feeling something was wrong, fairy Selia checked all the ‘system logs’ and had no choice but to slump into her chair shortly after.

“It… it really was never synchronized?”

Surprisingly, during the over 1200 rounds of beta play, hero ‘Geon-ryul Lee’s’ data had never once been synchronized with the system.

“Cra… crazy?”

Playing without system synchronization meant playing without receiving any ‘system correction’.

So for a ‘human’ race to defeat the ‘Demon King’ without ‘system correction’ was impossible from the start.

No.

Most ‘humans’ across dimensions… couldn’t even face an ogre without considerable talent, naturally.

That is, if the premise of no system assistance was applied.

“Th-then Geon-ryul… defeated Death Knights without system correction?”

Understanding the situation, fairy Selia unconsciously began chattering her teeth.

“There’s no way such an absurd human could exist?”

Even the ‘7th Floor’ rankers at the top of the hero ranking charts would find it hard to guarantee defeating Death Knights without system correction.

Of course, if it was the ‘beta’ version made for talent identification, the possibility would be a bit higher but…

“Wh-what have I done?”

At this point, at least one fact was absolutely certain.

“Kyaaaaaaah!!!”

Probably no matter which hero candidate Selia had brought… there wouldn’t be a better hero than Geon-ryul.

“This isn’t the time for this. R-right. Official player name! I need to find out at least that.”

So Selia had no choice but to despair even more.

[‘Earth’ is a server where ‘official release’ has already been completed.]

[Administrator access is impossible.]

[Cannot access ‘Earth’ server’s DB.]

“Huuuung-“

Actually, Selia knew too.

For a ‘data synchronization’ message to appear even now meant that hero Geon-ryul had reconnected to ‘Lyka’ through some route.

There was only one possibility for that.

Only when Lyka had been ‘officially released’ on Earth.

“Stupid fairy bastard… huuuung huuuung!”

So now there was only one way for Selia to approach Geon-ryul again.

When the first main episode of the ‘Earth server’ ended and the ‘major update’ first began.

The only way was to make an ‘official offer’ when the ‘Earth server’ connected to the main server.

Fortunately, the major update for the Earth server wasn’t that far away.

However, if ‘Geon-ryul’ was a ‘high ranker’ on the Earth server by then, Selia would never get a chance.

So Selia decided to pray.

‘Please let The Hero slack off…’

The gaslighting Selia had done countless times over the past thousand years.

She hoped that because of ‘you have no talent’, Geon-ryul wouldn’t be interested in growing as a hero.

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