[TS] Formula One Streamer - Chapter 8

“Go ahead first. I have some tasks to finish.”

I sent Jihyun Lee ahead of me.

Ultimately, I had to wash up, so I couldn’t avoid the vivid scene of women bustling around, but I couldn’t bring myself to see Jihyun Lee’s bare body in the same room.

That doesn’t mean I preferred to see a stranger’s n*ked body…

Anyway, I waited until she arrived to avoid running into Jihyun and headed to the shower room.

But, exposing my own body was harder than seeing someone else’s.

I have a female body but a male mindset, and it felt quite tough to expose myself as a man.

Still, when I closed my eyes and took a shower, my mind felt at ease.

Really.

The weekend came, as it always does, to the academy.

Weekends were, of course, free time. However, hardly anyone invested it purely in rest.

Everyone was busy practicing in their own ways, whether it was a ranking match or practice driving on For One.

The only time they came out of their capsules was during meal times.

Watching them, I could recognize that, whether or not they had skills, they had passion.

“Should I go in too?”

Today, I had something to do in For One.

Create a new account.

Why create a new account?

To run ranking matches without revealing my personal information.

The account provided by the academy was from For One and couldn’t be kept private or have its nickname changed.

If I ran ranking matches with that, my name, Yooihyun, would quickly appear on the rankings, be it F1 or F2.

If that happened, my plan to keep my personal details private until I established myself as a streamer would go awry.

So, the method I found was to create a new account.

I found information online that said I could set my appearance to private.

By changing the nickname and setting the appearance to private, I could perfectly sanitize my identity from Yooihyun to a mysterious figure!

You might think this was a pointless task, but consider it for a moment.

First, the top-ranking players are all under public scrutiny, and most of their identities are revealed.

Second, a newly created private account rapidly climbs the rankings.

Third, the owner of that private account starts streaming.

Fourth, it turns out the owner is a blossoming 19-year-old high school girl!

In essence, being a streamer requires attracting attention and creating buzz to succeed.

F1, being a sport, has nearly no female rankers, and now a mysterious genius has appeared, only to be a high school girl ranker?

Where else would there be such a hot topic?

Since I decided to be a streamer, I might as well make a big splash.

[User Yooihyun has one account, Formula One Academy Seoul Branch. Do you want to access it?]

“No. I’ll create a new account.”

[The maximum number of accounts you can create in For One is two. You can create one more account. Would you like to create it?]

“I’ll create it.”

[Please set your nickname.]

“King. Make it in letters.”

I didn’t even need to think about the nickname.

It was the alias I used in F1 that suited me best and what I was most often called.

KING.

Having never missed a victory since my debut, what more descriptor would I need?

[Nickname is KING. Please set your appearance.]

“My appearance stays the same, but turn all information private except for the nickname.”

The reflection in the mirror showed me as a shadow. It would be easy to understand if I said I looked like a criminal from Conan.

[All settings except for the nickname have been made private. You can change the visibility later in the settings. Additionally…]

“Skip.”

I was eager to start the ranking match, but there was too much talking.

[Welcome to For One. Awaken your beastly nature.]

Sorry, but my beastly nature has already been awakened.

“No way, are you kidding me? Kiwich people. If that isn’t a smurf account, what is?”

*Viewers who stay in Kiwich for 24 hours.

An average viewership of 10,000.

With a witty banter style that successfully combined streams for fun and educational content, the Kiwich streamer known as ‘Speed Racer’ was complaining after being wiped out by a mysterious genius who suddenly appeared in the F5 ranking matches.

[Race Finished.]

Name / Time

① KING 1:11:547

② Sre 1:19:333 +7.786

③ hjs0910 1:45:740 +34.193

No matter how many times he challenged, the incredible gap of 7 seconds was impossible to close.

Even though it was the Italian Monza Circuit, the one he was most confident on, he faced despair each time.

“Mission failed? That’s invalid! Look at that guy’s record! The official shortest lap time for Monza Circuit is 1:10:680, and he’s not even a second behind that!”

The streamer Speed Racer, also known as Kim Woo-hyuk, was a top-ranking player who oscillated between F2 and F3 with his main account.

The gap between F5 and his highest rank of F2 was so immense that it felt like the difference between space and the ground.

So he confidently set conditions for an undefeated victory and conducted a stream focused on educational content that matched the viewers’ level.

He was getting beaten by a monster user named KING, who casually recorded F1-level times in F5.

[ㅋㅋ How many times have you met him and still can’t win a single match?]

[Sre garbage garbage garbage garbage]

[As expected, the garbage girl came down to F5 to smurf, and instead of smurfing, got wrecked?]

[But that KING person is really good, though? 1:11 is no joke;;;]

[That looks like a top F1 or F2 user’s smurf account, right? Otherwise, how could those records come out?]

[I just looked it up, and everything is private except for the nickname, so I have no idea who it is.]

The viewers’ reactions were severely polarized.

There were malicious ones mindlessly criticizing, while normal viewers couldn’t hide their pure admiration for the user named KING.

Though he had failed his mission, it was undeniably a situation where one could hardly dispute the incredible record set by the mysterious user.

“But really, getting wrecked like this, I actually don’t feel wronged at all, right?”

Kim Woo-hyuk, being a fan of For One before being a streamer, naturally became curious about KING’s identity.

He searched through the ranking charts to find KING’s history.

There were countless users with the same nickname, but sorting by win rate made it easy to find the user he had encountered.

[KING#16007 – F5]

Name: Private.

Age: Private.

Appearance: Private.

Race record.

Normal Race Count: 0 – 1st: 0. 2nd: 0. 3rd: 0.

Ranking Race Count: 27 – 1st: 27. 2nd: 0. 3rd: 0.

“Wow, d*mn… 27 races and all of them are 1st place, not even a second or third.”

An incredible record of never missing first place in all 27 races.

In F5, where smurf accounts and players who exploit the game run rampant, KING’s record meant one thing.

He obliterated them all.

No matter how much skill differences exist, as long as the gap isn’t massive, a crash makes it hard to hold onto 1st place in F1.

When an accident occurs, you usually get a 10-second penalty, and in the Celestial Realm, where ranks are divided by decimal points rather than whole numbers, recovery is nearly impossible.

Considering there must have been at least one crash across 27 races…

“This person must be in F1, right? What do you think, guys? To me, it’s definitely F1.”

Kim Woo-hyuk’s intuition spoke.

KING, he truly is a king.

His declaration ignited a fire in the chat room.

[I think so too. Both lap times and records confirm it. No doubt.]

[Shut up. A 1:11 on Monza Circuit against some trash is just bullshit.]

[Is the intelligence level of the top chat real? Talking about racing against others just because of the shortest record and decimal difference?]

[KINGKINGKINGKINGKINGKINGKING]

[Something about the driving style also feels aggressive like a free racer, right?]

[Seems like a free racer. I heard he recently got his ranking up to 3rd.]

[Don’t know who he is, but it’s for sure he’s d*mn good.]

[Try adding him as a friend. Just send a whisper or something.]

Friend add, whisper!

For One had such a good feature.

“I’ll try sending a whisper.”

He hurriedly tried to whisper KING before the next game started.

Sre: Hello. I’m called Speed Racer. Do you have a moment to chat?

KING: Who?

Sre: Uh… You don’t know Speed Racer…?

[ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ idiotㅋㅋㅋㅋ]

[Hey~ You don’t know Speed Racer?]

[ㅋㅋㅋ Getting treated like trash with 10,000 viewersㅋㅋ]

“Malicious viewers, one more word and I’m banning you right away. But you don’t know me. Do you not watch streams?”

Despite the embarrassment, he continued to send whispers.

Sre: I’m a streamer broadcasting in Kiwich, can I ask what your main account nickname is?

KING: …

The moment his identity was about to be revealed, even the noisy chat room fell silent.

KING: This is my main account.

Sre: Huh? That’s your main account?

KING: And so? Is there a problem?

Sre: No, it just doesn’t logically make sense.

KING’s shocking statement that this was his main account stirred a wave of disbelief among Kim Woo-hyuk and the viewers.

Saying something like that with such skills and records made it seem like he was shamelessly lying just to draw attention.

Sre: Sir, let’s not lie. We all know who we are…

[You have been blocked by the other party.]

Sre: Sir?

[You have been blocked by the other party.]

“This guy is really thoroughly malicious. I’m going to find out who he is.”

Sre and his viewers started to dive deep into unveiling KING’s identity.

[Sre has been blocked.]

“Why are you being such a nuisance? It’s so annoying.”

At that moment, Jin Hyun-woo, no, Yooihyun, was just casually waiting for the next cue.