The Rice-Eating Hero’s Capitalist Streaming - Chapter 36
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The Capitalist Streaming of a Freeloading Hero
Episode 36
The Game of Constellations [Lyka]
I’m angry.
Kwang-!!
This damn system bastard….
[You have dealt critical damage to the ‘Draco’ monster.]
Even a worn-out veteran like me got momentarily excited… such an advanced deception tactic.
[‘Flame Explosion’ casting has been completed.]
Peobeobung-!!
So after learning the secret(?) of level 105, I did about three hours of furious grinding.
[You have successfully defeated the ‘Draco’ monster.]
[Alchemy Target: Understanding of Draco increases by 0.1%.]
Whatever the case with this damn gimmick that keeps getting harder….
Since it started from the 60s level range, the combat itself wouldn’t be difficult for a while.
[Alchemy Target: Draco – Current Understanding: 27.0%]
[Conditions have been met.]
[To achieve higher understanding, ‘Raphael’s Memory’ is being modified.]
[The dungeon’s difficulty level has been increased by 1 level.]
Honestly, I shouldn’t struggle until the same level appears, right?
If I want to salvage even 1 SP, it looks like I’ll have to hunt at least level 120 Dracos.
[Draco – Lv89]
└ Wow, you’ve already caught 270 of them?
└ No; it should be getting tough now… why isn’t Room Owner’s hunting speed dropping?;;
└ That’s because he’s ‘the’ Eve.
└ More importantly, it seems like he’s farmed quite a bit of gear while hunting.
I did act tough earlier.
But the Constellations were somewhat right.
Since I massacred so many Dracos, I was able to farm quite a few tier 2-3 equipment pieces….
Thanks to that, even though the field level rose by nearly 30, the hunting difficulty remained the same.
It’s only natural that there would be a combat power difference when you go from holding just one worn wooden staff to equipping tier 2 gear.
[You have successfully defeated the ‘Draco’ monster.]
[You have obtained the ‘Draco Bone Staff’ item.]
Moreover, this Draco Bone Staff I’m holding now is a tier 4 unique grade staff.
More powerful than the Wol-yeong sword I used to wield… a truly precious item.
Pepeong-!
[You have successfully defeated the ‘Draco’ monster.]
[You have obtained the ‘Dragon Scale’ item.]
But if I farmed this well, wouldn’t it be okay to have been tricked by the Quest?
“Phew.”
The biggest problem was right here.
Rather, the more good equipment dropped, the more my sense of injustice intensified.
How could that be possible….
[The ‘Dragon Scale’ item cannot be registered at the Trade Exchange.]
All items farmed here disappear when the Quest ends.
[All items obtained during the ‘Raphael’s Memory’ Quest will be destroyed when the Quest ends.]
Even miscellaneous items like Dragon Scales are worth at least 200LP each….
Converting it, the value of gear I farmed for 3 hours approaches nearly 1000LP….
Thinking that it would soon disappear like a mirage made my heart ache beyond pain.
└ Room Owner, you wouldn’t have gotten that much drop in a regular field anyway?
└ Yeah, the drop rate is high because it’s a Quest-exclusive field, and you’re complaining about that lol
Quiet! Quiet!
Anyway, unfair is unfair.
Even if you bring up such facts, it doesn’t change the fact that I ended up working unpaid for three whole hours, right?
Ugh.
This is truly… the most deplorable thing for a freeloading Hunter.
└ Ah lol then give up the SP and quit the Quest~lol
└ Did someone threaten you with a knife? heh
Phewww….
The cowardly Constellations’ continued fact attacks make my heart ache even more.
But to take meaningful damage from just this level of mental attack, I’ve rotted in the Beta Server for far too many years.
Ttiring-!
[Alchemy Target: Draco – Current Understanding: 30.0%]
So… after finishing my furious grinding and steadily achieving my target number, I decided to start preparing to clock out.
Come to think of it, I feel like I overworked on a Friday night.
-Alright, we’ve cleanly achieved our primary goal, bros.
And our Constellation bastards were quite quick on the uptake.
└ Is this a clocking-out buildup?
└ Ah this bastard, I thought he wasn’t watching the time!! Damn;;
└ Stop!
But clocking-out time can’t be helped, right?
I’m definitely not running away because the Quest hurt my feelings.
-Anyway, since we filled 30%… I’ll stop here for today!
└ Where are you going!!
└ No bro;; I just got here?;;;
-It’s clocking-out time.
-And… I worked hard today.
-Acknowledge?
└ What????
└ No acknowledgment damn it!!
The Constellations who used to have fits every time I clocked out until just recently seem to have adapted and are finally accepting it.
The resistance wasn’t that intense.
└ Still, you worked 30 minutes overtime today lol
└ Good work Room Owner lol see you tomorrow lol
So if it had ended here, today could have definitely ended in a rather heartwarming atmosphere.
The only problem was… I couldn’t immediately respond to the Constellations’ “see you tomorrow” greeting.
Why?
“….”
Because today is Friday.
South Korea in 2035… has a 5-day work week.
-But bros. You all know that tomorrow… is the weekend, right?
└◝₍ᴑ̑ДO͝₎◞???
└ No Eve;; what are you talking about now;;;
I really made up my mind and decided to declare ‘weekend holidays’ to the Constellations.
I realized something while living a regular Hunter life.
When you rest, you need to rest properly, so Lyka flows better too.
Besides, I have plans this weekend….
-The place I live called South Korea has a time concept called a week, bros.
└ There’s a week here too ㅡㅡ
└ So what about it.
-South Korea’s labor law advocates for a five-day work week, you know? So someone like me who lives without laws…
└ Shit, how the hell would we know if Korea has a five-day week?!! This is the Alterion Continent!!
└ No way lol then are all the other players streaming tomorrow criminals? Fuck lol
Anyway, the Constellations were in an uproar, but well, it was a reaction I had fully expected.
-So I’m going to recharge over the weekend and come back!
└ Crazy lol this is seriously the first time I’ve seen a five-day work week player lol
└ No, this is totally over the top for real!!!
But to be a little more honest…
Mrs. Kim Juyeon’s nagging was a bit more scary than me being tired.
Honestly, I want to hustle a little more and earn even one more penny.
But if I work even on weekends and get caught going in and out of the Gate…
This good source of income getting cut off would probably be a matter of time.
So I shouldn’t cut open the belly of the goose that lays golden eggs right now.
[Constellation, ‘The Golden Master’ makes a very surprised expression.]
[Constellation, ‘The Golden Master’ thinks there was no need to rest that much.]
I think I just saw a System Message that felt somewhat familiar…
I’ll pretend I didn’t see it and put on the performance of my life.
Ding-!
[Logout Location: Asterion South – Dragon Vein Region]
[‘Dave’ has ended their session.]
After briefly recalling Mrs. Kim Juyeon’s angry face and steeling my wavering heart, I hurriedly escaped the Gate.
[ON Air: ☺ 576]
[Ending stream.]
By the way, the viewer count exceeded 500 at the end of the broadcast.
Wow-
Next week might be worth challenging four digits?
* * *
Jeongmin Lee, who turned thirty-six this year, was an ordinary office worker.
To be more specific… should I say he was living the life of a ‘moderately successful office worker’?
His workplace was the variety department of HBC, one of the current top three broadcasting stations…
And his position there was PD.
So Jeongmin had thought his life was going moderately well.
After the Gate incident, his family hadn’t gotten caught up in any accidents.
And he was lucky enough to get a decent job.
“I have an appointment, so I’ll go out for a bit, Mother.”
“Are you going to meet your girlfriend?”
“Ah… yes, well. Something like that. Anyway, I’ll be back!”
In that sense, whenever Jeongmin thought of ‘Geon-ryul Lee’, his closest friend since school days, his heart always ached.
That guy was on that very day ten years ago when the Gate incident broke out.
He was the closest acquaintance who got caught up in the incident first.
Of course, it wouldn’t have been as much as his family, but it was quite mentally painful for a while.
So Jeongmin couldn’t believe it.
The fact that the guy had returned alive and well.
‘To think I’d see Geonyul again. It’s been roughly ten years?’
So even while heading to the meeting place, Jeongmin was in such a good mood that he was humming.
It would be accurate to say he was excited at the thought of catching up with his best friend he’d meet after so long.
[Jeongpyeon (Hyung): Hey, you don’t have a girlfriend or anything, right? What kind of appointment is it?]
[Me: Why are you picking a fight?]
[Jeongpyeon (Hyung): Not picking a fight, Siwoo wants to play with his uncle.]
[Me: Siwoo? Are you bringing him today? Is sister-in-law coming too?]
[Jeongpyeon (Hyung): Yeah.]
[Me: I’ll buy chicken and come home in the evening. Probably around 8.]
For some reason, his friend also said he had to go home before 8, so in the evening he could play with his cute nephew.
With that thought, Jeongmin opened the cafe door and went in.
Ding-!
Upon entering the cafe, Jeongmin naturally turned his gaze to the corner.
Since it was a cafe that had always been used as a meeting place ten years ago, even the seats were fixed.
“…!”
When Jeongmin spotted a familiar silhouette sitting in that spot absorbed in a smartphone, he unconsciously shouted loudly.
“Hey, you fucking brother!”
Fortunately, there was no one else in the cafe.
* * *
I wasn’t the type to have many friends.
It’s not because I returned after 10 years.
Then and now, I only have three friends.
And this guy who has the talent to make things embarrassing the moment we make eye contact… was one of those three.
“Hey, you fucking brother!”
How is it that this bastard hasn’t changed at all even after 10 years?
I don’t mean it in a bad way.
I just think it’s amazing and fortunate that nothing has changed.
We’re… thirty-six, right?
No.
Come to think of it, I’m twenty-six though…
“President Jeong, were you alive?”
“Of course I was alive. What am I, you? Would I get sucked into something like a Gate?”
“But you lived, right?”
“Yeah. Then that’s enough, right? Let’s have a drink.”
After exchanging nonsense with a light hug, we giggled for a moment then sat down.
Two iced americanos were already ordered on the table, and he naturally started sipping one as if it was obvious.
By the way, it’s winter right now.
This also hasn’t changed one bit from 10 years ago.
“Well, I already heard you were roughly dragged to another world and came back… so that’s fine.”
“You believe that story just like that?”
“Gates opened too, so other worlds and such. Wouldn’t it be stranger if they didn’t exist?”
“That’s true.”
So we really could… exchange stories with silly jokes without even the slightest sense of awkwardness.
And though I didn’t know it ten years ago, the fact that I had a friend I could giggle with like this felt like a real blessing.
“Now let’s hear about President Jeong’s story.”
“Me?”
“Yeah. I heard you’re a broadcasting station PD.”
“Who told you?”
“Who else, I heard from Dongsu. Gyeongjun hasn’t come out of the Gate yet.”
“Ah, Dongsu said he couldn’t come today?”
“He’s in the countryside for work, said let’s meet next month?”
So I suddenly had this thought.
If such ordinary daily life could continue day by day.
If the four of us could gather again soon and giggle like before.
If we could age normally like that… and die of old age when we’re around 100.
‘Wouldn’t there be no life happier than that?’
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