Streamer Crazy About Slaughter - Chapter 135
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The time of communication that followed was…
For Serin, the very fact that she was going to broadcast for the first time felt painfully overwhelming.
Normally, she wouldn’t even feel how time passes, and suddenly it would be time to end the broadcast, but now, every minute felt slow, as if she could feel each second ticking away.
“I’ve temporarily stopped accepting donations. I don’t think I can properly thank those who support me.”
Still, her voice no longer trembled. The heat in her face and the feeling of being mentally floating had improved compared to the beginning.
The emotions she felt now were like a small regret, akin to the faint embers left after a massive fire has died down.
However, regretting that spilled water won’t change anything.
[What does it feel like to gather money like Lin?]
[There’s money copying in real-time, and you’re stopping donations?]
[Wow, refusing money copying.]
[For real lol]
[I can’t believe 50,000 won in donations doesn’t stop lol]
[Is there really this many rich people in the world?]
[Everyone but me is rich lol]
[I rarely see someone donating in Plea’s room anymore.]
[Last time in Plea’s room, Lin donated a huge amount, right?]
As time passed, the reactions in the chat seemed a bit subdued.
There were so many people who had donated; sorting by donation amount, the names that appeared were all somehow familiar to her.
“Eunha has donated a whopping 3 million won… and Plea has donated 1.5 million won…”
She spoke blankly, wondering how she was supposed to accept this.
‘Why on earth are they donating?’
She couldn’t understand why people would donate such large sums of money.
Even if she sent a message on Bar Talk, she would respond to all of them, so what reaction were they looking for by doing this?
There must be a reason for the donations, but she couldn’t imagine their intentions.
Besides, 3 million won was…
No matter how you looked at it, it was an amount that she couldn’t just brush off with a simple “thank you.”
Thinking about how to accept it didn’t yield any proper answers, so she blurted out the first thing that came to mind.
“For the amazing donation today… If I meet Eunha later in-game, I’ll give you the reaction you want.”
When she checked the donation history, she realized she had received a total of 10 million won just from Eunha today, and it felt like her grasp on money was a bit skewed.
Even receiving a large sum of money, the unit of that amount made it feel less real.
And her gratitude for the donations would be to ask Eunha directly in-game what she wanted and then do it for her.
“…I don’t think I’ve ever said that to Plea. But if you want, I’ll say a word when we meet in real life.”
…
After a long, long time of thanking donors that felt eternal, the broadcast finally came to an end.
Since the amounts Eunha and Sua donated were so large from the start, she had somewhat glossed over expressing gratitude for the other donations.
Even for her biggest donors, since she didn’t react much, there were surprisingly few pushbacks in the chat.
As she lifted her body from the chair, she slumped down blankly.
—Soft.
She surrendered her body to the gentle embrace of the bed.
Although she was becoming lazier, it didn’t feel bad.
“People should… be a bit lazy.”
Every day she had trained, moving her body and doing the same skills thousands of times, or worrying about surprise attacks even while sleeping, she was no longer that person.
Her body had weakened, and her mind had started to dull.
However, in a way, that was a feeling of adapting to this world.
In a world where a person could casually break rocks or create forces like natural disasters, that felt strange.
“Oh. I need to work out.”
But that thought unconsciously crossed her mind.
The daily quota she had to fulfill.
She couldn’t afford to take a day off.
If she fell asleep again, she would sleep for over ten hours.
Those thoughts continuously consumed her, but her body wouldn’t move.
She truly… didn’t want to do anything.
—Bar Talk!
At the sound of Bar Talk ringing nearby, she closed her eyes for no reason.
She knew she should check the message but couldn’t bring herself to do it.
—Bar Talk!
Hearing it ring again, she slowly opened her eyes.
But her hands still wouldn’t move.
“Ugh…”
—Bar Talk!
As another message chimed, she let out a small sigh and raised her body.
“……”
It seemed like it could keep ringing annoyingly if she didn’t check it.
Ding.
Picking up her phone and unlocking it, Serin’s eyes widened at the immediate sight of a message from Seoyoon.
“Ah?”
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A small-framed woman with black bobbed hair was flailing slightly.
—Han Seoyoon.
Seoyoon was lying on her bed looking at her phone in her dorm room.
The exam period had ended, and she was finally taking a break, but surprisingly, Seoyoon’s hobbies and relaxation were quite mundane.
Doing nothing on the bed.
During the exam period, she had hardly slept for hours and had been pushing herself in many ways, and even juggling part-time work didn’t give her proper rest. So, she appreciated the time spent like this on her bed.
And right now, she was watching a video.
A video uploaded on a channel called Lin Tube.
—Lin Tube Open!
It was a hugely successful video that surpassed 2 million views, and she had clicked on it without thinking.
As expected, it was a video about Another World.
Just as she was about to hit rewind, she paused when a silver-haired female character appeared.
“Now that I think about it… I didn’t check with my sister back then.”
The reason she even visited her sister last time was because of the game video Chaerin had shown her. The way her sister looked when they met felt so strange compared to her memories that she quickly wrote it off.
The shock of her sister not recognizing her was so impactful that it still lingered in her thoughts.
How much had she suffered emotionally for things to turn out like that?… It made her more concerned about her sister lately.
The video that was playing was beautifully edited, making it enjoyable to watch even for someone like Seoyoon who didn’t know much about games.
[So. What I’m saying is, let’s do this without any handicaps.]
The silver-haired woman confidently spoke while looking at a blonde princess-like character.
This gave Seoyoon a slightly ambiguous feeling.
“…It seems a bit different from Serin.”
Still, the character unveiled in front of her bore a striking resemblance to her sister.
Pure white silver hair.
Glamorous features.
She was incredibly beautiful the more she looked.
But should she say the expression was different? There was a slightly different vibe compared to her sister’s impression.
[That was fun.]
The characters showcased in this ongoing video fought in a manner that looked like a scene from a movie, attracting her gaze involuntarily.
Every fight was visually stunning, enriching the aesthetics of the video.
Plus, listening more closely, she felt that the voice also resembled her sister’s. However, unlike the sister she knew, the silver-haired woman’s tone seemed much higher, exuding confidence that felt different.
‘…Now that I think of it, my sister seemed pretty relaxed in her speech when we met back then.’
Could a person really change so drastically in a short time? Her mannerisms, attitude, and expressions were all feeling a bit different.
The more she thought, the more uncertain Seoyoon felt.
So, she paused the video and opened Bar Talk.
Han Seoyoon.
(Link attached)
[Seon, do you know this video?]
She sent a message along with the link to the recently watched video.
About a minute passed.
Still… no response.
Seoyoon frowned.
Han Seoyoon.
[Seon, it’s already 8 PM… If you’re sleeping and can’t see this until tomorrow morning, I’ll be calling you all day for it, so figure things out.]
After sending that, another minute passed, and still no answer.
She felt her patience withering away.
“…Is my sister testing my patience these days, or something?”
These days, her sister had been acting coy, often not checking messages and then casually saying sorry in the morning.
This was really too much.
Wondering what to text next.
Suddenly, an answer came.
Seon.
[I know the link you sent but…]
Seeing Seon’s reply, Seoyoon frowned.
The reply lacked sincerity. She clearly hadn’t responded like this in the past.
“Is this really how you’re going to respond?”
Han Seoyoon.
[How do you know? That character in the video looks way too much like you. Please explain it properly.]
Not knowing much about the game, she felt like the character was related to her sister, but was confused about how it genuinely connected.
The character might look like her sister, but if she looked closely, there were plenty of little differences, raising her doubts.
Han Serin.
[Seoyoon, do you know about internet broadcasting… ?]