NOVEL NEXT Chapter 17 - A Broadcast with Sweet, Bitter, Salty, and Spicy Flavors (3)
How will you live?
This was the title of a famous Japanese animation set to be released in the near future.
Let’s think about the answer to this question.
Perhaps Han Yujin from the previous life, who had no clear dream, would have hesitated and been unable to answer.
On the other hand, Han Yujin of the current life would answer like this for the nine baby birds chirping with their small beaks open:
I will live chasing money.
Because I’m the eldest of ten siblings.
Now, from a different perspective, how would this irritable woman, Lilme, visible on my phone, answer?
I, who watched her broadcasts quite a bit in my previous life, could answer on her behalf:
I will live chasing broadcasts.
Because I’m a completely crazy bitch.
She was truly pure madness.
A crazy bitch who would throw away everything she had and jump right in for the sake of broadcasting.
That was Lilme.
At this point, notice her fingernails. Every finger is bitten and torn. What about her wrists? There are three lines of scars on her left arm and four on her right.
These were traces left by her obsessive devotion.
Her life consists of three things:
Viewer count, attention, and ranking.
So what’s my conclusion?
This woman has no ill will towards me at all.
Her mind is filled only with attention-seeking and broadcasting, attention-seeking and broadcasting.
Even targeting me is all a calculated move for her broadcast.
Fortunately, knowing this, I could calmly assess the situation.
For me right now, this situation was clearly,
A kind of viewer increase event.
─I’ll smoke a cigarette first before we start.
Lilme put a cigarette in her mouth and lit it. The self-harm scars on her arm resting on the desk were clearly visible.
=According to HaYoo) Lilme is an ahjumma
=Lilahjumma lololol
=Add one more nickname lol
=This girl is really a ripened one
─What ahjumma, f*ck. I’m not an ahjumma. I’m still twenty-five.
=Scratch
=Scratch?
=I’m not an ahjumma~ lol
=What can you do, you bitch lol
=You’re starting to reach the age where you won’t sell well
Maybe because Asia TV pursues pure fun, the chat level is higher than Twimer.
Lilme, not minding, stood up and started briefing the situation.
─First, I’ll explain what’s going on here, oppas.
Moon Jaehyun, who was editor number one, quit and notified that he’s going to another streamer. And that streamer is me.
At first glance, she seemed angry, mixing in curses as she ranted, but inside, she was surely grinning at the rapidly increasing viewer count.
─Does this make any sense? Huh?
Lilme gulped down an Americano and expressed her indignation.
─I mean, no matter how lacking in fundamentals the internet broadcasting industry is, shouldn’t we at least keep basic business ethics? Right? Isn’t that right, oppas.
Then, a star balloon burst.
‘Big Hand’ gifted 10,000 star balloons!
-Lilme, let’s give the coffee to your skin.
─Kyaaaaaaaa-! Ah, our Big Hand oppa gave 10,000 star balloons to cheer Lilme on! Ah, I’ll give it to my skin right away.
She pours the Americano right over her head mid-sentence. Ice and all.
…Her reaction is quite crazy.
=Lolololololololololololol
=She’s crazy lolololol
=Crazy bitch lolololol
=This is real fanservice lolololol
=Dopamine rush lolololol
=You like that, you bitch? lolololol
Lilme licked the dripping Americano and said,
─Hey, HaYoo-ssi. You’re watching the broadcast now, right? Come into Discord. Let’s settle this between players today.
I sent Yeoreum out and entered the Discord address shown on the screen.
“Hi.”
─Hey, skip the greetings.
“Okay, go ahead.”
─Even if we’ve never met, this is a bit much, isn’t it?
“Wasn’t it already settled?”
─You selfish bitch. It’s only settled for you.
“Then what do you want to do?”
─Well, HaYoo-ssi. Let me make a proposal.
What Lilme brought out was a
─Well, I heard that you’re Barcode, right? So I want to beat you in Galaxy War. Oppas, as the president of Asia, I’m going to properly deal with this bastard and the Twimer bastards today.
=Beating up the meat juice bugs is the best lol
=Twimer viewers are fucking losers lololol
=The kumchoks pretending to be clean are really disgusting
=Let’s put a lock on those glasses!
Though not quite at a professional level, Lilme had decent skills, enough to reach Ladder A. After all, she started as a female Galaxy War broadcaster.
Still, challenging me is a bit…
“It’s great for me, though? One match with the editor on the line?”
─No. It’s best of three, and you should give me a handicap.
“Why should I give you a handicap?”
─Come on, you conscience-less bitch. You’re Barcode who beat Hyun Junho and Joo Sehun, how can I beat you without a handicap?
“Okay. How much handicap do you want?”
Lilme answered my question.
─Turn on vision and remove two workers.
I tapped the desk and pondered.
Sharing vision with the opponent and starting with two fewer workers…
Lilme’s race is Insect, and I’ll choose Alien.
I’m already at a disadvantage in terms of race matchup, and now I have to give two handicaps.
If my vision is visible to the opponent, I obviously can’t use Dark Knights, and Corsairs would require extreme control to be used even passively.
─Ah, where did the person answering go? Are you scared?
A handicap that makes victory uncertain.
But…
Shouldn’t a skilled broadcaster be able to win even with this?
“Yes. Let’s do that.”
─It’s Seon Gwang Jin Cho. Come in.
“Okay.”
Seon Gwang Jin Cho means starting with the Wilderness map, and the loser chooses the next map.
Then, Lilme clicked her tongue as if still unsatisfied.
─Let’s bet something more than just the editor.
I held back my laughter and said to that proposal,
“…What kind of thing?”
─You’re the eldest of ten siblings, right?
She’s a real professional broadcaster.
She already knew all the information about me, as if she had looked at a wiki.
─You need money, right? If I lose, I’ll give you five million won. But…
But?
─Shave your eyebrows.
“Eyebrows? Shave my eyebrows?”
─Yes. Are you chickening out? If you’re chickening out, forget it.
This condition far surpassed the dogeza I had demanded from Joo Sehun.
I unfroze the chat and checked the viewers’ reactions.
-Don’t do it
-No
-No
-Leave that out
-That’s too much
-How can you win with two handicaps lol
-What if you lose
-Sigh, the level of these Asia bastards…
-This crazy bitch is so extreme lol
-Level of these ching chong bastards
-So vulgarwwwww
-They get criticized because they can only do such provocative things tsk tsk
This was Lilme’s challenge to me.
Whether to accept this immature challenge or not.
But do I have any reason to refuse?
I’ve challenged pro gamer Joo Sehun before, so if I curl my tail and back down here, can I be proud of myself?
I now understand how Joo Sehun felt when he accepted my challenge.
So this is how it feels.
But you know what, Lilme-nim?
I’m an even crazier bitch than you.
“Ah, this is really funny.”
─What are you mumbling about? Just answer quickly.
I said,
“Is eyebrows enough?”
─No, then you f*cking bitch. What are you going to bet?
“Let’s double down. Bet ten million won instead of five million. I’ll bet my eyebrows and hair. If you need more…”
I could even bet my wrist.
[Lilme vs Barcode 3/2 Eyebrows, Hair + 10 Million Won Hell Deathmatch START]
[158,414 viewers]
[BJ Lilme]
As the countdown ended, the first game started.
I was so happy I couldn’t swallow my laughter. The game had just started, but the viewer count had already surpassed 150,000.
At this rate, it seemed like it would easily exceed 200,000 by the end.
Lilme was convinced that today’s broadcast would become a legend in the history of internet broadcasting.
‘By the way, this bitch, f*ck, she’s a psycho.’
Other BJs or pro gamers were quick to run away from her extreme conditions.
But HaYoo was different.
Lilme felt a strange attraction and sense of kinship towards HaYoo, who met her gaze head-on and responded as an equal.
Both as a broadcaster and as a human.
Lilme typed in the chat:
s6e9x[4u]: HaYoo-nim lol
I1li1lI1lil1i: Yes
s6e9x[4u]: I’ll be honest
s6e9x[4u]: Ditch Twimer
s6e9x[4u]: Come to Asia
I1li1lI1lil1i: ?
s6e9x[4u]: Come play under me
I1li1lI1lil1i: Lol
I1li1lI1lil1i: How can a human
I1li1lI1lil1i: Go under a dog
s6e9x[4u]: ?
s6e9x[4u]: You f*cking bitch
“Oppas, I’m going to beat this bastard to the depths of hell today.”
Even as she said that, the corners of Lilme’s mouth were lifted to her ears.
She provoked again through chat.
s6e9x[4u]: If I had my way
s6e9x[4u]: I’d like to do this fair and square without handicaps lol
I1li1lI1lil1i: Really?
I1li1lI1lil1i: Then I’ll turn off vision
I1li1lI1lil1i: And add back two workers lol
HaYoo’s brightly lit territory was once again covered in pitch-black darkness.
“What are you doing, you f*cking bitch- Turn it on! Turn it on!”
s6e9x[4u]: Ah f*ck
s6e9x[4u]: Turn vision back on
s6e9x[4u]: The viewers say don’t turn it off ㅠ
I1li1lI1lil1i: Lol
I1li1lI1lil1i: Ok
=Lolololololololol
=Lololololol
=Idiot bitch lolololol
=Can’t win a single power struggle lol
=Asia side is selling everything lol
=This is Asia’s representative, f*ck lol
The chat reaction is good.
‘What if I shave off HaYoo… Barcode’s eyebrows and hair here?’
It would be the best situation, killing two birds with one stone.
So the build order Lilme chose was ‘No Spawning 3 Hatchery’.
It was a build that skipped the Spawning Pool, which allows for producing attack units, and built two Hatcheries to mine minerals to the extreme, extreme, extreme limit.
A cheesy build that guarantees defeat if it fails, victory if it succeeds.
From Lilme’s perspective, with HaYoo’s movements clearly visible, there was no reason not to use this sure-win card.
HaYoo’s worker arrived at Lilme’s main base.
I1li1lI1lil1i: This bitch
I1li1lI1lil1i: Doesn’t deviate from expectations lol
I1li1lI1lil1i: No Spawning 3 Hatchery lololol
I1li1lI1lil1i: Where’s your conscience?
s6e9x[4u]: So what can you do about it lol
HaYoo’s scouting worker annoyed the drone by hitting it.
Like an annoying fly wandering around, it put Lilme on edge.
s6e9x[4u]: Get lost you f*cking bitch
I1li1lI1lil1i: Lol
Crunch!
One of Lilme’s drones died, spewing blood.
“Ah, f*ck.”
I1li1lI1lil1i: You have no conscience
I1li1lI1lil1i: Twimer’s Führer HaYoo
I1li1lI1lil1i: Will teach you a lesson lol
Then she hid a worker behind the minerals at the natural expansion and started building two pylons.
“Ah, this crazy bitch is doing a cannon rush. How much of a sucker does she think I am.”
Lilme hurriedly sent 3 drones to the natural.
I1li1lI1lil1i: Do you know how to pass workers?
s6e9x[4u]: Yeah f*cker
Lilme’s drones overlapped and slowly, sluggishly passed behind the minerals.
I1li1lI1lil1i: Lol how cheeky
I1li1lI1lil1i: But…
“But what, you f*cking bitch.”
I1li1lI1lil1i: What if one more comes?
Without noticing, one of HaYoo’s workers had already come to the natural and started building a cannon.
Surprised, Lilme quickly built a Sunken Colony for defense, but the cannon’s construction speed was faster.
I1li1lI1lil1i: This bastard
I1li1lI1lil1i: Can’t even block with vision on
She barely managed to block it with 6 hastily produced Zerglings and drones.
But with the natural Hatchery destroyed, the handicap became meaningless.
This time, HaYoo attacked Lilme’s third base with speed-upgraded Zealots.
In
After all, what could overwhelm Lilme, who was just an amateur, was not build orders or quantity, but micro-control.
HaYoo exploited this point and kept inducing battles between small numbers of units, steadily scoring points.
And the second method of breaking through: multi-tasking.
I1li1lI1lil1i: What are you doing?
On the ground, Zealots,
In the air, Corsairs,
For harassment, Reavers.
She infiltrated from three directions, continuously eroding Lilme’s concentration.
Finally,
s6e9x[4u]: First game manner
s6e9x[4u]: I let you off gg
I1li1lI1lil1i: gg
s6e9x[4u] has left the game.
“Ah, f*ck, this is really shitty.”
This time, Lilme created the room.
Solar is a 2-player map where the main base and natural have a lot of gas, and the third base only has mineral fields, making it very advantageous for Insect.
However, if there’s something that makes this map exceptionally favorable for Lilme…
“Everyone be quiet.”
=F*ck off lolololol
=This is hilarious lolololol
=Everyone shush
=I didn’t see anything
=We should all pray that Barcode’s eyebrows get shaved and turned into a Mona Lisa
It’s that it’s a cheating map.