Chapter 27: Who Threatens Me with a Sword to Act Like a Villain? (Part 1)

“……?”

It was a word I’d never heard in my life.

For a moment, I couldn’t understand what the other person had said.

It took a little while for me to realize the meaning of the words.

Immediately, a sense of bewilderment washed over me.

I guess that’s what it was.

“…….”

But I wasn’t very angry.

If I’d been insulted, I should have been furious.

I guess it was because I was so unexpectedly cursed at that it didn’t feel real at all.

It’s a novel feeling.

But why?

‘Is this enough to just start cursing out of the blue?’

I looked at the other person in confusion, and they frowned.

It’s an expression that says they’re very annoyed.

“Ah, sh*t. This is going to f*ck up my score again. Why am I so unlucky today?”

The opponent looks at me with narrowed eyes.

“This is why women shouldn’t be allowed to play games. Don’t you agree?”

And then they looked at a spot in the air and twisted the corner of their mouth.

Seeing that, I realized that the other person was currently streaming.

The way the opponent rolled their eyes was very similar to when Kim Ji-eun was looking at her stream chat.

“Hehehe. Right, right. They all shouldn’t be allowed to play games, right? Ah, thank you for the five dollars, brother. What? You say it could be a man with a customized appearance? Should I ask?”

And, as I expected, the opponent seemed to be streaming.

‘What kind of person is this…?’

Is it okay to just casually say such rude things on stream?

I wasn’t the only one who was uncomfortable, as another user also frowned.

“Hey.”

Another user said, frowning.

“Even so, I think that’s a bit much.”

It wasn’t to defend me, but it seemed they were just annoyed at hearing such unpleasant words.

Other users also nodded in agreement with that statement.

A normal person would shut their mouth in this situation.

“Ah, shut up, you Silvers. Who gave you permission to speak, you Silver scrub?”

But the opponent was a crazy person.

‘Wow.’

A truly crazy person.

“What, what did you say?”

The user who had spoken up, probably never imagining they would be cursed at, turned bright red.

Well, who would have imagined that someone would just start cursing at them in this situation?

“If you’re a bug who doesn’t even know how to swing a sword, just shut up and get carried, why are you talking back? Anyway, it’s not like the game being f*cked is going to change because that b*tch is here. I’m just going to troll.”

Saying that, the opponent throws their weapon to the ground.

I let out a hollow laugh at the sight.

‘…Wow. It’s really been a while, hasn’t it?’

Being openly targeted and insulted like this was something I only experienced in the early days of ‘that world’, and to experience it again after returning to the modern world.

It felt somewhat strange.

‘That aside, what do I do now?’

I thought, scratching the back of my neck.

It seems I got a troll right from the first match.

‘Troll problems were serious even when I played PC games in the past.’

Does this game have weak sanctions against trolling?

Otherwise, there’s no way they’d declare they’re trolling so openly.

Of course, in Arfellium, you get points based on your performance regardless of whether you win or lose the game.

So, as long as I do my part, my rating won’t drop significantly.

But it goes without saying that victory is better than defeat.

But I wasn’t feeling very good about having to lose for such a ridiculous reason.

No, I was a little annoyed.

“…….”

My face naturally hardened.

I glared at the guy with a cold gaze.

The guy shivered at my gaze, then burst out in anger.

“What, what are you looking at? You f*cking….”

At that moment.

“Oh, f*ck it. I’m dodging.”

The world changed with someone’s lament.

When I came to my senses, I was standing in an empty waiting room.

It seems someone dodged, so the team matching is restarting.

Soon, new users started entering the waiting room one by one.

“Hmm.”

I looked at the faces of the newly arrived users.

It seems the matching has completely restarted, as none of the users I saw in the first waiting room were matched in this game.

‘Well, it’s a good thing I avoided the crazy guy.’

Of course, someone will be matched with that guy and suffer terribly, but it can’t be helped.

I prayed for the well-being of the users who were matched with that crazy guy.

-Chakang!

At that moment, the map for this multi-player match was designated in front of me.

[Annihilation]

“Oh.”

Annihilation.

When I first started playing multi-player, the map was also an Annihilation map.

And surprisingly, the map is also the same ‘Large Duel Arena’ as back then.

To play the map I played with when I first started the game on my first ranked match.

I felt a strange connection.

‘I have a feeling something good will happen?’

But what good thing?

There’s no way it’s winning this match.

Maybe it means the new dagger I ordered will be delivered quickly?

“That would be nice.”

I muttered to myself and chose the two-handed sword with a pounding heart.

I should go out and check the front door after this match.

“Then I should finish it quickly.”

I left my team behind and immediately ran down the passage.

I thought I heard someone shouting something from behind at my sudden action, but I didn’t think I needed to listen.

‘Because I’m enough on my own anyway.’

Bright light pours from the end of the corridor.

I kicked off the ground and entered the arena.

The opponent hasn’t arrived yet.

“That’s good for me.”

I ran straight to the opponent’s entrance.

I was planning to kill the person as soon as they came out.

And, right on cue, someone popped out of the opponent’s entrance.

I swung my sword.

I aimed for the opponent’s neck.

I was going to blow their head off in one go.

“Huh? Wh, what!”

But surprisingly, the opponent reacted.

Because the opponent twisted their body, my sword tip pierced their left shoulder instead of their neck.

‘Raise it up and.’

The aim was off, but I don’t panic.

I put strength into the sword tip and cut upwards.

At the same time, the opponent’s left arm flew through the air.

“You f*cking b*tch!”

The opponent immediately pulled back.

Their judgment was quite good.

If they hadn’t pulled back, I would have blown their head off.

Only then did I check the opponent’s face.

“Huh?”

At the same time, I couldn’t help but be surprised.

Because that opponent was…….

“Y, you f*cking b*tch!”

It was the crazy guy who cursed at me earlier.

“Huh.”

A hollow laugh escaped me.

There could be such a coincidence in the world.

It’s amazing.

But at the same time.

The corner of my mouth slowly rose.

“Wow, you’re in trouble. You.”

“Wh, what?”

“No, goodbye.”

I turn the body and used a horizontal slash.

The opponent, perhaps not expecting to die like that, had a blank face as their head flew off.

It seemed they didn’t know the range of a two-handed sword, as there are few users who use them.

Leaving the headless corpse that collapsed behind, I briefly swept my lips and pondered.

‘Should I just keep killing that guy?’

Anyway, Annihilation is won by getting 50 kills.

It doesn’t matter who gets those 50 kills, right?

‘One person can die 50 times, I guess.’

I grinned and readjusted my grip on the sword.

First, I should buy some time until the guy respawns.

[Being treated like meat by a girl]
[Isn’t that a reward with that face? ]

[Showing off with an alt account and getting a lesson from a ‘real’ player?]

[But they’re really good, seriously]

[Different from some Diamond player living somewhere]

The chat keeps scrolling up.

Every single one of them is a chat mocking me.

“Sh*t, sh*t, sh*t!”

Streamer Hong Chunseok gnashed his teeth and cursed.

Fortunately, the microphone was turned off, so the viewers didn’t hear the curse, but everyone probably knew what Hong Chunseok was doing anyway.

It wasn’t the first time this had happened.

Hong Chunseok bit his nails and rolled his eyes.

‘How did it come to this?’

Was it a problem that I had a concept of criticizing female users?

Or was it a problem that I cursed at an unbelievably skilled player?

“No, f*ck, even so, this isn’t right.”

17 times.

That was the number of times Hong Chunseok had died in this match.

And all of them were killed by ‘that user’.

The way they kill is also terrible.

Cutting off limbs and humiliating them, then cutting off their head.

I’m not some pork, why do I have to be slaughtered throughout the game?

No, even so, is it right to chop someone up like this just because they cursed a few times?

‘That f*cking b*tch, really.’

It was so unfair.

“More than that, what kind of b*tch is she?”

Hong Chunseok’s skills are quite high.

He’s in the upper Diamond ranks.

He hasn’t reached it yet this season, but he occasionally reaches Master tier.

But to be chopped up like a carrot by such a person?

And a woman at that?

There’s no way.

Hong Chunseok shook his head.

No matter what, there’s no way he’d be beaten by a female user.

The opponent must be an alt account of a high-tier male user with a lot of customization.

The voice… well, they’re probably using advanced voice software.

‘…There’s no way it’s a real woman.’

Something seemed to pop up in his head, but Hong Chunseok shook his head.

No. It can’t be.

At that moment.

The opposing team’s score reached 50.

The 50 kills were over.

“F, finally it’s over?”

The corners of Hong Chunseok’s mouth rose.

Yeah, such unlucky things can happen in life.

It’s just one match, isn’t it?

If I just say that I was actually throwing the game, the viewers who are going crazy right now will probably calm down.

After suppressing the burning chat, Hong Chunseok started the next game.

The nightmare of the previous match, which made his limbs tremble just thinking about it, could be healed and forgotten with this match.

And.

“……We meet again?”

“F*ck.”

Round 2 began.