Streamer Crazy About Slaughter - Chapter 93
A few days of overexertion had left Serin unable to shake off her fatigue. As she lay in bed, thrashing about, she soon fell into a deep sleep as if it were a lie.
The next morning.
“…”
— August 5th, 6 a.m.
Serin picked up her phone to check the time and sighed blankly.
‘Let’s just accept it.’
Instead of trying to reduce her sleep or force her body to adapt, she decided to gradually shift her mindset towards recovery.
The more she pushed herself, the more this body seemed to reveal just how much of a mess it was.
With half a resignation, I straightened myself up and raised my body from the bed. At that moment, the PC and food from yesterday that she hadn’t cleaned up came into view.
At least the air conditioner was on, so it wasn’t too hot. She tidied up, putting the food that had been left out for half a day into the refrigerator.
It looked like today’s meal would just be reheating the leftover braised short ribs and shrimp tempura.
After finishing up, she hesitated about shutting down the still-running PC, but then decided to check her emails.
There were several emails starting with advertising inquiries, but one in particular stood out the most.
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[This is Coach Han Si-woo, affiliated with ACK Pro League G1.]
— Hello, I’m Coach Han Si-woo of the G1 professional team. After a thorough internal discussion regarding your proposal, we have decided to accept it… However, I would like to request your understanding that a thorough review will be conducted on the uploaded videos…
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Then she confirmed the schedule for a scrim with the professional team G1.
It was the same professional team that had sent her an email suggesting to do a scrim before. While she was pleased with the conditions they suggested, she felt it was awkward to accept, so she replied with an additional condition asking if she could create a video for her NewTube channel.
The professional team had gladly accepted that condition.
“…What’s so good about me?”
She muttered blankly, feeling a bit strange.
No matter how famous she became, was it really to the extent that a top-tier professional team would be so eager?
Honestly, after sending the email, she had anticipated that the G1 professional team would decline. Her message was sort of an additional condition, asking, “Do you still want to scrim with me?”
If they accepted, it would be good for her as she would gain more, and if they declined, it would have been disappointing, but it was originally a scrim she never expected, so she wouldn’t have felt regret.
In short, it would be like she was boldly saying to a famous pro team, “Give me more,” and the team willingly agreed to give her more.
‘Well, I’m happy about it…’
Right now, the professional team was offering her quite a lot.
From the legendary Crescent Moon Blade, which was not available for purchase at all, to the amount she would receive for just scrimming over two days, it was quite significant. Moreover, there were various benefits related to ACK, but the most crucial aspect was the videos she would be able to upload to her NewTube channel.
When she sent the email, she didn’t find a lot of significance in posting videos to her NewTube channel. But now that the channel was created, the reality of it felt more tangible.
“Ha-yoon and So-yul will be really happy if they find out about this, right?”
Without realizing it, thoughts of the two editors came to her mind.
It wasn’t just any team, but a well-known pro team with a massive fanbase, set to scrim.
It was hard to believe that this wouldn’t be a hot topic.
So, she opened the app immediately to inform the two of them.
— Bard Talk
The most popular SNS app of the time.
While there were other messaging platforms, Bard Talk was the app almost everyone used for communication.
It was often shortened to “Batok.”
As soon as she opened Batok, there were hundreds of notifications.
Among various spam ads, she found the two people she had saved separately.
She soon realized that while she was sleeping, both of them had sent her many messages on Batok.
Kim Ha-yoon.
[I’m in charge of the first video for the Lin Tube channel. I’ll do my best to make a good video.]
Me.
[Yes. I’m looking forward to it.]
Park So-yul.
[I just finished all the work for the Lin Tube channel. Please check the channel once and share your thoughts or feelings. If you find anything lacking or if the style doesn’t suit you, please let me know right away.]
Me.
[I’ll check it now.]
“Wow, they’re really busy living life…”
While she delayed checking Batok notifications and responding, it was evident from their messages that both editors were genuinely engaged in their work.
Ha-yoon had been involved in creating the first video to be uploaded on Lin Tube since finishing a short stream the day before, while So-yul had just recently informed her that she had already completed the beautification work for the NewTube channel.
Given that it was now around 7 a.m., it seemed like they had both been working through the night.
‘…If I tell them, they might work even harder.’
Seeing this, she felt it might be better to inform them about the scrim with G1 at a later time, as it seemed they already had plenty on their plates.
Then, she saved the contact details of the G1 coach from the open email and sent him a greeting as well as a message.
[This is streamer Lin. I’ve confirmed your email. Please contact me if there are changes to the schedule or any news you want to share.]
Coach.
[Ah, yes. Thank you. I’ll inform you immediately of detailed matters regarding the scrim schedule, and I’ll let you know of any news.]
Less than a minute later, she received a response and decided to check NewTube as So-yul had informed her.
“Let’s check it right away.”
She opened a new tab.
Tap tap tap.
As she accessed NewTube and went to her channel.
“Wait. Did they really finish all this in just one day?”
The moment she saw it, she couldn’t help but be amazed.
With a neat and beautiful font alongside a red-themed channel art, her figure holding the Crescent Moon Blade in Another World was edited seamlessly into the background, creating an elegant-looking backdrop without being too extravagant.
Moreover, there was also a cute silver-haired character that seemed to be based on her as her icon, which she liked.
Then, her eyes caught the words written in the center of the NewTube channel art.
— Lin Tube!
“Lin Tube…”
Even as she pronounced the name of her NewTube channel, she felt oddly fascinated.
After that, she started checking each item within the Lin Tube channel one by one.
Character icon, channel background art, channel banner, channel introduction text, business email, and so on.
Since she was just starting out on NewTube, there were many little details she needed to pay attention to, but it was So-yul who volunteered to take charge of all of it.
Despite her experience as an editor for a big company, it seemed hard to believe that So-yul managed to complete everything in just a little over a day.
As she clicked on the silver-haired character icon to marvel at the design, a wave of nostalgia washed over her.
‘I’m really a NewTuber now.’
It seemed like only a few days ago she had just started streaming, and now here she was, running a NewTube channel.
Moreover, it was with the help of two editors from the very beginning.
And it made her happy that both editors suited her preferences.
“Life truly is unpredictable.”
In fact, she had never expected things to escalate to this extent.
After that, she sent compliments to So-yul about the background art for Lin Tube, the channel introduction, and the icon character design, saying how great everything was.
Park So-yul.
[If you say that much… then I might just expect some bonus!]
So-yul’s playful remark about expecting a bonus felt charming.
After all, even though So-yul was a 1 million subscriber NewTube editor, she was only 24 years old. It felt like a joking comment, but there was a sense she was looking forward to a future bonus. So, Serin decided to give her a satisfying response.
Me.
[You can definitely look forward to a bonus!]
Even while sending that message, she felt the weight of the position of having to pay someone.
“That might not be so bad…”
She felt a sense of relief that she still had 2.7 billion won sitting in her bank account.
The fact that she had considerable financial leeway was supporting her much more than she expected.
When entering into any undertaking or thought, not having to be bound by money was giving her a sense of freedom beyond anything else.
She had matched the salaries of the two editors long ago to the industry average that Sua had informed her about.
However, considering it was a newly started channel, Sua had suggested a reasonable amount, which was not too burdensome for her at this time.
“I wonder how much I should give for a bonus.”
She pondered about how much of the salary would be suitable for a bonus.
Since it was the first bonus, she thought she should give a large amount.
With a gentle smile, Serin headed toward the washroom.
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G1 pro team’s lodging.
Professional players usually began their schedules relatively late compared to the general public.
— August 5th, 11 a.m.
By the time it was almost lunchtime, the players started to rise one by one and show themselves in the living room of the lodging.
Even on a match day, the professional players took their time getting up.
“Ah, I feel like my head is going to split!”
“Come on, you fool! Didn’t I tell you to drink in moderation?”
“No, but if Hyuk-hyung entered the challenger’s top 30, how could I not drink?”
“Min-seong, it seems like personal ranking is more important to you than the league results?”
“Eh… it’s because Hyuk-hyung is in the top 20. Do you even know how important it is for my nickname to appear on the first page of the ranking?”
Finding each other in their messy hair after just waking up, the two people who began playfully bickering were G1 pro gamers Kang Hyuk and Bae Min-seong.
Meanwhile, waiting in the living room for the players to come out was the coach.
Han Si-woo smiled as he spoke up.
“Hyuk, the thing you wanted has finally been realized.”
Knowing the players had overexerted themselves the night before with the evening scrim schedule and personal practice, he had deliberately waited without waking them up.
“…What do you mean by what I wanted?”
Hyuk, still sleepy, looked at Si-woo as if he didn’t understand what he was saying.
Si-woo curled the corner of his mouth up slightly.
“Lin. We’ve finalized the scrim schedule with that person. Oh man, you have no idea how hard I negotiated with the front office.”
“Ah, Si-woo-hyung! I really believed in you! So when is it!? When are we scrimming?”
Surprised by the unexpected good news, Hyuk’s eyes grew wide as he kept asking.
The impression of Lin when they had clashed swords was that he seemed unlikely to agree easily, so although he had asked Si-woo to handle it, he thought it would be difficult, but Si-woo had truly made it happen.
“The scrim period is set for the 16th and 17th. We’ve got it scheduled for those two days.”
“Umm… Excuse me, Si-woo-hyung. Are you talking about the ‘Lin’ that we’re familiar with?”
Min-seong, who was next to him, asked, dumbfounded by the unexpected news.
Lin was someone who had garnered much discussion among the top players for defeating Plea, who held the 8th ranking.
Everyone wanted to try their hand against him, but with no real connections, it was difficult to get in touch.
“Yeah. That Lin.”
“Wow, that’s insane… Does that mean we’ll actually get to see Lin in person??”
And Bae Min-seong was a fan of Lin, in fact.
After watching Lin’s stream a few times out of curiosity, he found not only Lin’s skill in Another World impressive but was also captivated by Lin’s approachable voice.
Si-woo shook his head and laughed.
“No, it’s going to be online; he said he would accept the scrim.”
“…Aww, that’s too unfortunate.”
Looking at Min-seong, who was sulking, Hyuk spoke as if he was dumbfounded.
“What do you mean? You’ve got a girlfriend, you brat.”
“No, I was just curious as a fan. Hyuk-hyung, aren’t you also curious about what Lin is like in reality?”