Chapter 19 : Making pa and ka at the same time

Minder.

In the globally popular game, Soul Frame, if you were to pick a universally acknowledged trash-tier hero, a RIP-marked deader, this guy would always be in the top three.

High performance that makes you wonder what the game company was thinking when they designed and released such an OP character.

Despite having such overpowered abilities, the difficulty of operation and control is hellish, to the point where using a single skill is described as a ‘hurdle’.

A character that even ‘trash-tasting’ YouTubers, who’d try any trash-tier character at least once, spit out saying, ‘Ah, f*ck, this is actual trash.’ That’s Minder.

Nobody uses Minder.

To be precise, if anyone has even the slightest intention of playing the game properly, they would never, ever pick Minder.

But, there’s someone who’s been using only Minder since the first day of the rank, climbing vertically to near-ranker rating?

It would be stranger not to attract people’s attention.

Especially after having a match with the recently popular live streamer, ‘Fist King Girl’.

-Crunch!

“Hmm…”

Fist King Girl, real name ‘Ha Subin’, felt her muscles tense as she watched the moment of her death in the replay.

It’s always hard to watch yourself die.

And not just dying, but getting crumpled so haphazardly. Ugh, it’s like watching a shock video.

Perhaps it was because of the chilling fear, Ha Subin’s arm, thick like a pillar of the Parthenon, flexed, her forearm and biceps twitching and twisting.

She was just scared and tense as usual, watching the terrible replay, but the chat, as always, interpreted it in its own way and started chattering noisily.

[The muscle’s throbbing vow of revengeㄷㄷㄷㄷㄷㄷㄷㄷㄷ]

[Her gaze is crazyㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ]

[‘I will find and kill you’]

[I mean, she got T-bagged, of course she’d want revenge ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ]

[But how the hell did he do that? Is it a hack?]

[There are no hacks in virtual;;;; Use some common senseㅋㅋ]

[HackㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋTry using it live and see what happensㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋLet’s see what happens to your headㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ]

[Brain electrocution, cheaper than a tire!]

[Dude;;;;]

At times like this, he had a set line.

“He was a somewhat skilled one. However, to dare humiliate me. He lacks the qualifications of a man. Your sin, I will redeem it with your worthless life.”

An anachronistic, hot-blooded line. Wait, is this even hot-blooded?

Ha Subin still had no idea if the lines she was saying were properly sticking to the concept.

While cleaning out a drawer at her grandfather’s house, she stumbled upon an old webtoon… or was it called a comic book back then? Anyway, it was a broadcast concept inspired by that comic, but it was still a concept she, in her purity, couldn’t understand.

“…But, his skill is certainly worth acknowledging.”

[Lmao, but seriously, how the hell did he do that? How can you carry with that garbage waste Minder!!!!!!]

[I guess cognitive acceleration control is possible? It looks like he’s cramming all his skills into cognitive acceleration.]

[Isn’t he just using external equipment?]

[She gave us a clean line~ Whether he used equipment or not, it helped the streamer, so it’s all good~]

[That guy is streaming too, you know?]

[‘Ah, a fellow kind’]

It’s not just a line she said for the viewers to enjoy.

What Ha Subin just said was sincere.

Ha Subin was a man hanging on the edge of the ranker tier.

To be precise, he was a man with the physical prowess to reach high-ranker if he gave up Magicals for the broadcast concept and chose another hero.

Of course, he lacked a bit, just a tiiiny bit! of expertise in the brain department, so his score fluctuated… but anyway, in terms of control ability, he was in the semi-pro realm.

And from Ha Subin’s perspective.

That Minder’s control was in the realm of divine skill.

‘At least The Hundred. At the very least, a top-tier high-ranker. Otherwise, he couldn’t possibly do this.’

She’s not talking about that ridiculous cognitive acceleration skill usage. Just the basic distance control, brain, physical, etc., are all a step above her own.

Perhaps even if the opponent had picked a different hero, Ha Subin would have lost. …Of course, it’s true that it was more dramatic because it was Minder.

[Editor Lee Kiyoung: Bro, if you edit the YouTube video this time, it’s gonna be huge. For real. Trust me]

[Editor Lee Kiyoung: Don’t say anything weird, you know?]

Watching the texts from her editor and cousin, Ha Subin shuddered. The thought of being ground down again with him to find those editing points made her head throb.

[Unbearable rageㄷㄷㄷㄷㄷㄷㄷㄷㄷㄷ]

[Well, she got ‘You are already dead’ed ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ]

[Gotta catch him next time and give it back exactly the same way ㄱ]

When will this ridiculous concept end and she can live comfortably? That was also one of the causes of Ha Subin’s headaches.

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Fist King Girl is the type of broadcaster whose YouTube subscriber count and live streaming viewer count are similarly high.

To be precise, she has only recently started video editing, so compared to her sizable broadcast scale, her YouTube subscribers are still low.

With a large number of live streaming viewers, there were plenty of users who watched Fist King Girl’s broadcast and diligently spread the ‘story of the mysterious Minder user’ on the community.

▣ Did you see Fist King Girl’s live stream?

What is this Minder? Why is this possible?

─Where did you learn to speak by cutting off the beginning and end?

└If you’re salty, you should have watched the live stream? You didn’t watch it, did you?

─I watched the replay, here, ‘2:37:33′ is this it? Starting from blocking Megumin’s ultimate with a shield?

└Yup. From there on. Probably watched the replay for a while after that, so it’s just that related content

└???? How did he do this?

└I dunno

▣ If this is possible with Minder, why do we even play our Doctor? Why play Bling, who just shouts warp all day?

Why play other space-type heroes when one-turn kills are possible with cognitive acceleration? Isn’t it a broken hero that makes all others useless? Why play anything else? f*cking broken Minder, obviously needs to be nerfed, right?

─Yeah, go play your Minder veeeery diligently

└No, but it’s broken, what else is it if not broken?

─Yeah, so its pick rate is 1.3% and win rate is 0.0002%, right?

└Why is this f*cking guy’s pick rate so high

└’Traditional troll pick’

└I’m going crazy, really

▣ I’m holding my breath until Minder gets nerfed, huff

[Lenin’s Mausoleum picture]

“…That’s what it says?”

─You’re posting a picture of a commie that went down a long time ago ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

└But it’s the only remaining commie mummy in the world… The Kims and Pooh were posthumously executed…

└Well, posting that pyramid mummy picture is too old. Update it a bit.

─Speaking of that, I remember the video of them being dragged out of Seupmyeongryo Square. YouTube took down the replay now.

└Coordinates

└?

▣ No, but broken or not, this Minder guy needs a buff, not a nerf, looking at his pick rate and win rate

[Picture of a boiled crab]

That crab is already dead.

─ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

└But seriously, cognitive acceleration needs some compensation patch or the character needs to be reworked;;; A passive that prevents you from using skills, does that make sense?

└I saw the video, he was using it just fine?

└That’s because that guy is a monster

─The hero design is shittyㅇㅇ They made a character that nobody can use to show off their skills, that’s what it is.

└But someone is using it just fine, right?

└It’s just that you guys can’t?

└Because of that f*cking concept streamer, our Minder Love Association is being unfairly attacked again;;; He’ll probably just ditch Minder and move to a broken hero anyway;;;

└?? The victim mentality is strong;;;;;;;;;;;;

▣ So what’s the link to that Minder stream?

He seems to be streaming? I watched Fist King Girl’s broadcast and he was promoting his stream all day in chat.

Give me the address.

─Type Sno.1 in Pachichik. He’s offline now

└How do you know that?

└Could it be…?

└This is the Minder gallery, get lost to the Streamer gallery

└Ah, I know because I got T-bagged too

─That guy is crazy, he stuns you all day and then sits in front of you to advertise his stream;;;; If you do viral marketing like that, the advertiser will slap you back and forth

└It’s funny to watch the stream though. He turns on cognitive acceleration for the chat and uses psychokinesis to bring up a virtual keyboard to type

└How do you know that? You can’t see what he’s doing on real-time stream even with acceleration on?

└He explained it himself

└’He explained it himself’ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

▣ Stop talking about that stupid streamer

This is the Soul gallery!!!!!!!!!!!!

Stupid topic meme

─No? Our Minder Love Association sees this situation quite positively, so this topic is good[Deleted comment]

└What was this comment

└Minder Love something Association something

─Stop the f*cking viral marketing, it’s obvious you’re using Tor and spamming with alts

└Yeah, suspiciously attracting aggro all of a sudden

└It’s the age of self-PR, you have to roll the topic and create the topic yourself ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

─There’s so much viral marketing for a small streamer who doesn’t show his face or talk, is it because it’s Minder?

└Honestly, it’s a bit strange

└True

└Are the two above alts too? This guy is working hard;;

Perhaps it was because countless top-tier viewers brought and threw information, the community was instantly flooded with Minder-related posts.

The aggro topic about Minder, and Seongwon’s stream, continued to surge and breathe.

“Well, to be precise, Fist King Girl’s stream is the justification.”

Manager Cha said that and chuckled.

Behind him, numerous members of the Ego Searching team were using multiple computers to spread the topic here and there on internet communities, clicking recommendations.

“It’s like, a justification that won’t get us caught even if we act like this. For a normal entertainment-related issue, internet users would immediately notice the public opinion control, but it’s too large-scale for a single broadcaster to do.”

“So, you’re saying you’re manipulating public opinion.”

“Ah, saying it like that makes it sound a bit strange.”

Manager Cha shrugged.

“But right now, the Ego Searching team is only working to the extent that it’s hard to call it manipulation. If the best post cut line is 10, should we say that we’re pushing it up to 7 with our work? The remaining 3 are clicked by regular people. Then it’s not us who pushed it up.”

Manager Cha, answering like that, genuinely seemed to believe that his actions weren’t wrong. He giggled.

“Strictly speaking, what our team did was just lower the cut line for the best post to 3. It’s just, um… like a rural quota. It’s not a bad thing, is it?”

Seongwon was silent at those words.

She didn’t know if Manager Cha’s actions were evil or good, but at least one thing was certain.

‘Manager Cha. Minus 10 points.’

Manager Cha, unaware that he had been deducted 10 points, let out a mad scientist-like cackle.

“Now, you’ll be able to experience the effect in the next broadcast. I guarantee it. At least 100. You’ll start with 100 viewers from the beginning. Hahaha!”

At those words, Seongwon felt a bit uneasy.

Well, can I trust this?

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[Let’s go~~~Let’s go~~~~]

[Is this the famous monster spammer’s stream? Is this the famous monster spammer’s stream? Is this the famous monster spammer’s stream?]

[Hey, shouldn’t a new streamer at least turn on the mic? Hurry up and turn on the mic, put strength in your belly, and greet us]

[Wow, why is the chat like this?]

[Streamer, what’s this? The chat is messed up;;;;;;]

The next day. As soon as Seongwon turned on the stream at the pre-announced time, her chat exploded.