Streamer Crazy About Slaughter - Chapter 58

Serin, after finishing her evening meal and exchanging messages with the viewers, quietly opened the Twitty site as it passed 7 PM.

It was time for hosting, and she felt she had communicated enough with the viewers, so she thought about wrapping things up and hosting Sua.

It seemed that the viewers were starting to catch on to the idea of the hosting, as she had mentioned earlier that she would watch Pela’s broadcast.

—Hosting.

This meant that a Twitty streamer was transferring their viewers to another streamer who was currently broadcasting.

Typically, larger corporate streamers would host smaller streamers they were friendly with or help those who had a smaller audience.

Alternatively, similar-sized streamers would host each other to lend a hand.

There were other scenarios, but they were generally rare. It was embarrassing for both the streamer hosting to pass on fewer viewers than they had to the recipient.

In metaphorical terms, it was akin to someone who was not well-off giving a donation to someone richer.

Therefore, hosting fundamentally meant sending viewers to help another streamer.

However, Serin, a ‘newbie’ streamer, was trying to host Sua, a ‘corporate’ streamer.

It was ironic, but reality was what it was.

Currently, both Serin and Sua had similar audience sizes of 10,000 viewers.

“Now, I will be hosting to watch Pela’s broadcast. See you in tomorrow’s broadcast at 4 PM.”

As she made her closing remarks, she announced her intention to host.

[Ga ga ga]

[But 3 hours of broadcasting time is really too short]

[Right? Can you do a little more in Another World?]

[Is a 2nd-day newbie streamer really hosting a corporate streamer?]

[Lol, how could a newbie match up to a corporate streamer’s audience size?]

[I just got off work and now I’m here, but I didn’t even get to see Another World]

[Then watch the replay]

[For real, today’s arena was fun]

[Are you going to chat in Pela’s broadcast?]

“No, I won’t be chatting.”

With that said, she changed the hosting target in the streamer settings to Sua and pressed the button to end the broadcast.

Soon, the familiar broadcast ending phrase appeared, and her channel’s screen shifted to Sua’s broadcast channel.

—It’s said that Rin has hosted 11,000 viewers… Ah! Thank you so much! To be honest, everyone? I watched Rin’s broadcast today. She was broadcasting much more naturally than I expected.”

“…You were watching my broadcast?”

She was surprised that Sua had been watching her broadcast. Then it occurred to her that it made sense. She had helped set up Sua’s stream the day before. If someone she knew had just started broadcasting, she would probably be interested too.

On the screen, Sua looked quite glamorous. It was a 180-degree turn from what she looked like at home yesterday.

Her glamorous appearance seemed to draw attention in itself. She had transformed her long straight hair into wavy locks, and her simple yet elegant features had changed into a haughty cat-like impression that was surprising to see.

“I wouldn’t even recognize her if I ran into her in real life.”

Honestly, even now, Sua’s appearance on the screen felt unfamiliar.

—You know, Rin, using a great sword, wasn’t she amazing today? I was surprised while watching Rin.

Her tone seemed to have become more high-pitched, and her voice sounded somewhat different too.

—While crushing Archer users, Rin’s silver hair flowing at the end was breathtaking; I couldn’t help but admire her.

As Serin continued to listen, something felt odd about what Sua was saying.

Why does it seem like my name keeps coming up at the end of her sentences?

—No, before Rin’s promotion to Platinum, it felt like the opponent was a bit too easy…

It seemed that more than ten minutes had passed since the hosting began, yet Sua was still mentioning her name.

“Has she watched my entire broadcast or something? How does she know all the arena content?”

She muttered blankly, feeling puzzled. It felt like she was receiving compliments that were all too flattering, making her heart flutter persistently.

It felt surreal, as if she were being told, “You’re amazing,” “You’re pretty,” “You did well,” and “You’re beautiful” in front of her.

[Stop talking about me already. If I set the hosting, and you only talk about me, what does that mean?]

So, she finally whispered to Sua to stop talking about her.

She thought it was a bit odd that after hosting and giving her viewers, Sua was only talking about her in front of nearly 20,000 viewers; what was the point of that?

—Ah! Rin is saying she’s embarrassed now and wants us to stop talking about her. Isn’t Rin just so cute to think that way?

Sua kept mentioning various things, saying Rin was cute and the like.

“…Is this some kind of way of lifting me up?”

At that moment, she even started to think that way.

As if it weren’t enough to just give her a compliment, it felt like they were shoving a straw into her mouth and forcing her to drink.

While Serin had all sorts of thoughts muddling through her mind, Sua suddenly changed her attitude.

—Ah, then let’s wrap up this chatting session here and enter Another World right away. I have content scheduled.

[Don’t you dare cut the Cam stream just yet]

[I don’t want to waste my makeup]

[Lol, are you going to only talk about Rin and then instantly go into the game?]

[Today, the chat just admired Rin and ended]

[Plea really wants to get close to Rin, huh? Lol]

[Who are you collaborating with today?]

[Lolololol]

[Her homebody self was so excited about visiting others’ houses yesterday, yet she lacks common sense, lol]

[For real, just accept it already, lolololol]

[What content?]

Seeing the chat reactions, Serin felt they really wanted to get close to her, but she was curious about what content they were referring to.

—Oh, I’m already close with Rin. The fact that a newbie streamer has just begun broadcasting and is hosting me is cute, so I just mentioned her a bit.

—And for today’s Another World content, I’m planning to chat a bit about ‘Gosu’ and the currently hot topic ‘Pro League.’

‘Pro League?’

Serin became a bit more intrigued by the unexpected mention of the Pro League. While she didn’t know who Gosu was, the fact that there was a Pro League in the game Another World implied there were people who played exceptionally well.

[Oooooo!!!]

[No way, are you really doing that?]

[Which pro team in Pro League??]

[You usually ignore requests, but you’re doing this?]

[What a crazy content, lol]

[Gosu isn’t even streaming right now, is he collaborating?]

[That guy usually just plays for fun and rarely streams, lol]

As she continued, it seemed that Sua was about to connect to Another World on her end.

Soon, a message showing it was connecting to Another World appeared on the broadcast screen for a few minutes, and then the screen changed.

—Another World.

A truly virtual reality game. It had been praised as the leader and the culmination of the virtual reality industry.

Several games claiming to be virtual reality had existed years before Another World was released.

Under the genre of VR (Virtual Reality) games.

However, the actual quality and completeness of the VR games that were released failed to satisfy gamers of that era.

Therefore, the only people buying VR games back then were those particularly interested in VR or streamers who bought them as a showpiece to play on their broadcasts.

But gradually, even those gamers and streamers became disappointed in the quality of VR games and stopped purchasing them.

In that time when VR games received neither mainstream success nor user interest and were treated like a half-hearted accessory, Another World was suddenly released, changing the game completely.

Even though sensations like pain and taste were severely limited to merely partial perception, it was a groundbreaking virtual reality system.

It seemed like the game had implemented the very system that all gamers had dreamed of—all before its time, Another World was a game that ushered in a new era.

Just like when smartphones first appeared, gamers began to rave about Another World.

Initially priced around 4 million won, the Another World connection device sold like hotcakes, and even after three years, when mass production brought the price down to 3 million won, more people began to buy it.

No matter how much the inflationary economy and the contraction of consumer spending might have affected things, it was still a time when income was rising, and prices were slowly climbing.

While the capsule’s cost could be considered expensive, it was not at a point where they couldn’t buy it at all.

The highly polished virtual reality game Another World, released domestically, garnered a phenomenal popularity, and it didn’t take long to achieve the number one market share in the domestic gaming market, even considering the connection device’s high price.

Once gamers experienced the capsule-shaped connecting device, they lost significant interest in PC games and even ordinary people, who were unfamiliar with gaming, became curious about the concept of virtual reality.

Thus, three years after Another World’s release, it had firmly established itself as the undisputed number one game.

With this surge in popularity, a ‘Pro League’ naturally emerged.

Following the release of Another World, the Pro League had recorded explosive growth since the year before last due to its popularity, and more individuals were daily challenging to become professionals, with the viewer count for the specialized ‘ACK’ pro league also steadily increasing.

In a game that transcended being just a game, with overwhelming graphics.

It had a vividness brought by virtual reality.

That, in itself, had a cinematic quality, providing more enjoyment than ordinary animations or video materials.

With rules for battles existing from personal matches to 5:5 team matches in a colosseum setting, as each player aimed their weapons at one another, there were even viewers who watched the ‘ACK’ Pro League without even having played Another World.

—ACK.

It was a league name that attached the abbreviation AW for Another World with the Championship Korea (AW Champions Korea).

And overseas services began last year, with various pro leagues launching in other regions this year.

The names for regional leagues varied; the domestic league was called ACK, while APL (AW Pro League) was for China, ACS (AW Championship Series) for the U.S., and AEC (AW European Championship) for Europe, among others.

With mutual benefits from various regions hosting pro leagues, a remarkable growth rate was noted, although the domestic league ACK still had the largest scale.

And in the first half of this year, there is a plan for the ‘AW World Championship’, where the top pro teams from each region will compete against each other in the largest competition in the world.

The user known by the nickname ‘Gosu’ was, in fact, one of the professional gamers participating in the Another World Pro League ‘ACK.’

Though he streamed on Twitty occasionally with irregular login times, he didn’t have a fixed broadcasting schedule and seldom streamed.

In fact, it was a ‘sub’ ID used for pro gaming, and thus he deliberately did not log in or stream frequently.

…

As a light beam formed on one side of the colosseum, a male character wielding a great sword nodded.

The user known as ‘Gosu’ in Another World, current professional gamer Kang Hyuk, spoke dully.

“You’re here.”

Following that, a female character appeared as the light beam disappeared.

With a princess-like appearance and as the 8th ranked player in Another World, ‘Plea’ Yoon Sua frowned as she looked at Kang Hyuk.

“Hey, why aren’t you streaming?”

“Too lazy.”

Placing a sigh at Gosu’s disinterested answer, Plea shook her head as if to say not to talk.

“I’ll say this in advance; I’m not splitting the donations I receive. Same goes for Newtube.”

At Plea’s remark, Gosu smirked and looked at her.

“Forget it. I have plenty of money.”

“How much can you possibly have… Anyway, I’ll start streaming now, so act accordingly.”

Ignoring Gosu’s attitude, Sua reconnected to the broadcast.