The Rice-Eating Hero’s Capitalist Streaming - Chapter 92

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The Capitalist Streaming of a Freeloading Hero

Episode 92

Constellation’s Game [Lyka]

I sat in an awkward position and waved my hand toward my roommate.

“You’re back… huh?”

But the moment I was about to greet her.

I reflexively shut my mouth.

Because Chloe Kang’s condition as she entered was far from normal.

Her face, which was always cool and composed to the point of being chilly, was now pale as paper.

Cold sweat was beading on her forehead, and her breathing was rough.

This couldn’t be…

“Um, Sohee?”

I reflexively got up. But she didn’t even look at me.

No, like someone who couldn’t even recognize my existence at all, she staggered across the living room.

Thud. Rustle.

She threw off the jacket she was wearing as she walked. As if she couldn’t stand the heat, her movements were rough and urgent.

“…!”

Thanks to that, I was startled and my pupils shook.

‘Th-this is really not good.’

This was the most dangerous situation in my Hunter career.

Alarm bells started ringing in my head.

‘Wait, the camera! There’s a camera rolling up there!’

This was beyond a broadcast accident – it could be a major scandal that would bury my Hunter career socially.

“So, Sohee! Wait a minute! Calm down! Don’t you see the lens up there?!”

Just as I was about to turn my head while shouting urgently.

Her back view was burned into my sight. Her slender nape was flushed red, and her whole body was trembling slightly.

‘…Damn it.’

Those symptoms… I couldn’t not recognize them.

Precursory symptoms of mana backflow.

‘It doesn’t seem like it’s about to explode yet.’

As I expected, she wasn’t undressing simply because she was hot.

It was a struggle for survival, gasping because she couldn’t endure the heat boiling up from inside her body.

Fortunately though.

Bang.

Before my speculation ended, she came to her senses and went into the bathroom, closing the door.

Soon after, the rough sound of rushing water could be heard.

She was probably dousing herself with cold water.

“…Ha.”

Only then did I relax and let out a sigh of relief.

Fortunately, I had avoided a major broadcast accident.

What remained was just me standing there blankly and the jacket thrown on the floor.

“…No, but I should pick that up…”

I got down from the bed and picked up the white jacket rolling around on the floor.

I didn’t know the brand, but the texture I felt in my hands was extraordinary.

A softness on a completely different level from the rough clothes sold at market stalls. You could tell at a glance it was expensive fabric.

Probably even if I combined all the clothes I’d wear for a month, they wouldn’t be cheaper than this… that kind of level.

Tap-

I shook out the clothes and hung them on a hanger.

Seeing her throw such an expensive thing crumpled on the floor, she must have been in quite a bit of pain.

Hmm… come to think of it, maybe expensive clothes weren’t really expensive for Chloe Kang…

└ What’s this; is she having mana backflow again?

While I was thinking about that, it seemed one of the Constellations had also noticed Chloe’s symptoms.

Well.

For anyone with some knowledge about mages, what just happened was suspicious enough.

-It does seem like that, doesn’t it?

But something was definitely strange.

Mana backflow is absolutely not a symptom that appears this frequently.

Well, she did seem to use quite a lot of mana during the 【Position Determination】 matches.

‘Hmm.’

I stared at the bathroom direction for a moment and scratched the back of my head.

I wanted to ask something, but then I wondered if I was being nosy.

‘Come to think of it, that woman also seemed to suffer from mana backflow quite often compared to typical mages… Could it be a characteristic of the Venom Blood class?’

Briefly recalling that crazy NPC, I sat back down on the bed with an uneasy feeling.

The sound of water hitting my ears was somehow bothering me, so I probably couldn’t lie back down easily.

While I was thinking about that.

Creak-!

Suddenly the bathroom door opened and Chloe’s voice could be heard.

“Geonyul.”

“Oh, yes?”

“That patch from before…”

Was she talking about the one I made at the convenience store?

“Could you… make that again?”

Making it wouldn’t be difficult, but unlike before, there are no materials here…

“If you open the front compartment of my suitcase, they’re in there. Please take them out and… I’d appreciate it.”

When I saw it at the security check, it was full of all kinds of medicines… It seems she remembered and brought the medicines I used when making the patch.

Uh…

Even to prevent disaster, I had to do at least this much.

Zip-

When I opened the zipper, the necessary medicines were inside as she said, and there were enough materials to make a cooling patch.

Taking those out, I busily started making a cooling patch.

But… to make it like before, wouldn’t I also need cooling water pipes?

Whooom-!

Fortunately, that wasn’t an irreplaceable material.

Creating a simple ice chunk was easily possible through visualizing magical formulas.

└ What the;; why is he using magic again;;

└ What; scary;;

└ I think this is the second time seeing him use magic?

└ Huh? He used it before?

└ Yeah, I saw someone use that during job change quests. I thought they were literally insane.

└ Then if this guy had used magic earlier too, he could have scored higher than 2000?

└ I don’t know about that. Probably didn’t have enough time to mess with that?

The Constellations were chattering among themselves, but I didn’t pay attention and focused on making the patch.

And a little later, when Chloe came out fully dressed.

“Here you go.”

Chloe, who received the patch I handed her, looked quite apologetic.

“Thank… you.”

But a moment later.

The very moment Chloe put the patch inside her clothes and attached it…

“…!”

Something quite surprising happened.

* * *

Whoooosh—!

Ice-cold water poured down over her head.

The water temperature was low enough to sting her skin, but Chloe Kang had no time to feel the cold.

Rather, the heat boiling up from deep within her bones made even this cold water feel lukewarm.

‘Grind…’

She pressed against the tiled wall and bit her lips tightly.

It was a terrible heat.

The price for recklessly using mana during the [Position Determination] was finally catching up to her.

She had already taken medicine, but even so, it wasn’t subsiding easily.

She should have controlled it a bit… but she couldn’t.

She didn’t quite understand why she had done that herself.

“Huu…”

Chloe Kang let out a big breath between the flowing streams of water and briefly reflected on what had happened today.

‘…I don’t know.’

Was it because of the pain that seemed to squeeze her heart?

The clue she still hadn’t found felt regrettably elusive.

[You’re not uncomfortable, are you?]

[Then let’s sit together for a moment. The scenery over there looks nice.]

Despite being as close to him as possible…

That sensation from Frozen Seoul that she couldn’t feel again.

[May I sit next to you?]

Especially when riding the carriage, even though she was completely next to him, she couldn’t properly feel…

That refreshing and clear scent from her memory.

‘Certainly… I did feel something strange.’

Even though Chloe Kang had stayed quite close to Geon-ryul today, she couldn’t feel even once that head-clearing refreshment she had experienced in Frozen Seoul.

But that didn’t mean she felt nothing at all.

Certainly, when she was in a close position to him, she did feel like the stuffiness that squeezed her heart became very slightly lighter.

Like a very small window opening in a completely blocked room, that kind of subtle sense of liberation?

But she thought this might just be a placebo effect.

‘Was it simply just my imagination?’

So Dr. Choi’s cold diagnosis echoed in her ears.

[This is why I remain skeptical. That was probably just due to the dungeon’s special environment.]

Perhaps uncle’s words might be right.

Even that day’s feeling might have been an illusion created by desperation.

And compared to that sensation she couldn’t be sure of…

“Urgh…!”

The pain that was striking her even now was far too vivid.

“Huff, huff.”

Her heart felt like it was burning in fire.

There was no sign of it calming down even with cold water.

If she stayed like this, she might really collapse and be carried away by 119.

Then Hunters School and everything else, forced withdrawal would be as clear as day.

‘I need… help.’

While feeling sorry, the first person she thought of was Geonyul who would be outside.

After all, there was no more effective treatment than the cooling patch he had made last time.

Chloe Kang turned off the faucet with trembling hands, roughly dried her wet body, and put on a robe.

Then she opened the bathroom door with staggering steps.

“Geonyul-nim.”

“Oh, yes?”

Chloe Kang forcibly opened her burning esophagus and spoke with difficulty.

“Could you possibly make that… patch from before?”

“…”

“Could you make it again?”

“If you open the front compartment of my carrier, it’s in there. Please take it out… I’d like to ask a favor.”

“Sure, of course.”

That was a relief.

If he had refused, it would have been a really dangerous situation.

While he was mixing the medicine, she went back into the bathroom to change clothes.

Water droplets dripped from her wet hair, but she had no time to care.

Only the thought of cooling this heat that was squeezing her heart.

When she came back outside like that.

He had already completed the patch.

“Here you go.”

White cold air was rising from the bundle of gauze he handed her.

Chloe Kang received it and spoke with sincerity.

“Thank… you.”

Then she put her hand between the shirt buttons and pushed the patch into her left chest that was burning with heat.

But…

The moment the cold gauze touched her skin.

“…!”

Chloe Kang’s eyes opened wide as if they would tear.

‘What… is this?’

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