Chapter 1 Samurai Hearts – Tutorial (1)

Numbers began counting down on the hologram in front of me.

10······ 9······ 8······.

The moment the rapidly decreasing numbers reached 0, my closed eyes snapped open.

A signal that the broadcast had begun.

Seung-yeon, who had been taking deep breaths, immediately smiled brightly and said,

“Hello! This is Victoria, always aiming to make you grind your teeth!”

‘Victoria’ was the broadcast name Seung-yeon was using.

It was a feminine twist on ‘Victory,’ taken from the character in her name, meaning ‘to win,’ and also the name of the Roman goddess of victory.

Of course, her broadcast, as she introduced it, was one that made viewers grind their teeth, so it was far from a victory.

-Oh, already started broadcasting?

-Victoria Hi~ (Meaning Victoria Hello ㅎ)

-Not late today

Perhaps because it was a fairly popular broadcast.

It wasn’t long after the broadcast started that the number of viewers began to rise rapidly.

Of course, this was largely thanks to the pre-announced broadcast time and the broadcast start alarm.

A smile spread across Seung-yeon’s face as she checked the rapidly increasing number of viewers through the viewer chat window and numbers displayed in front of her.

“Everyone came quickly today too! But it’s only going to hurt your teeth even more. Hehehe.”

Chat flooded in response to Seung-yeon’s words.

-Don’t worry, I’m wearing a mouthguard

-Is there still anyone watching Victoria’s broadcast who hasn’t bought a mouthguard?

-I’m wearing two mouthguards at the same time. My mouth won’t close. Ask me anything.

There was a reason for the viewers’ reactions.

Seung-yeon, or Victoria, like most personal broadcasters, used VR games as her main content.

The problem was that she was very, very, truly, extremely! bad at games.

To the extent that.

It made people wonder, ‘Why can’t she do that?’

And so frustrating that they couldn’t stand it without grinding their teeth and giving advice, lest they get sick from frustration.

The ‘broadcast that makes you grind your teeth’ that Seung-yeon said when she first started broadcasting had that meaning.

Of course, she wasn’t talentless at all games, and she wasn’t bad at everything.

She was a fairly skilled gamer in games that used her brain.

Even viewers had admired her brainpower, which had been honed through various games, several times.

-Judging by the comments, it’s a physical game today

-Goddess of the Dentist mode ON!

However, the opposite.

The problem was that she was terribly bad at physical games that used her body.

Therefore, those who watched her broadcast called her ‘Goddess of Victory’ mode when playing brain games, and ‘Goddess of the Dentist’ mode when playing physical games.

The reason for ‘Goddess of the Dentist’?

It was a nickname given because after seeing the spicy taste of Victoria’s broadcast, they grinded their teeth so much that they had to go to the dentist.

‘Godtoria’ donated ‘1000 won’!

[What game?]

“Thank you for the 1000 won donation, Godtoria! The game for today is······ that hot game these days! ‘Samurai Hearts’!”

-Oh my god······

-I guessed it when the title was Warrior Training!

-‘That game’

-Will two mouthguards be enough?

-Considering the last Bloody Horn, it’s not enough. At least three.

The viewers of the broadcast were shocked and stirred by Seung-yeon’s words.

That’s how shocking the game Seung-yeon was about to play was to them.

‘Samurai Hearts’.

A hot new game that had been released not long ago, and a very hot content for personal broadcasters.

As you can guess from the title, it’s a game where the player becomes a samurai and progresses.

And usually in media, samurai are portrayed as warriors who use swords.

The player becomes a warrior and uses a sword······.

That meant that the player’s own physicality was required!

But if only a normal level of physicality was required, Victoria’s viewers─usually called ‘Seungpaedan’─wouldn’t have reacted so shockingly.

Samurai Hearts is, in vulgar terms, a game called ‘physicality-fucked game’.

It meant that the game was at a level where you couldn’t even progress properly if your physicality was lacking.

In other words, it was an unprecedentedly extreme physical game!

‘It’s a game that’s like poison to me.’

That also meant that it had the worst compatibility for Seung-yeon, who had a devastating level of physicality.

Nevertheless, the reason Seung-yeon chose this game was because she thought it was better to get it over with quickly.

Since the release of Samurai Hearts, she had been plagued by countless requests.

The Seungpaedan, who enjoyed seeing her struggle in physical games, kept asking, ‘When are you going to do Samurai Hearts?’ all the time!

She couldn’t just ignore it, because Samurai Hearts was currently the hottest content.

It boasted a hardcore difficulty that was called an extreme physical game, but that became a popular element among people, causing a sensation.

Personal broadcasters couldn’t just pass over such hot content.

Even for the sake of broadcasting.

That’s why she was thinking of playing Samurai Hearts at the right time.

And finally, the opportunity came.

‘Because I have reinforcements today.’

Seung-yeon thought of her secret weapon, her younger brother Lee Do-hyun, whom she hadn’t told the viewers about yet.

Of course, she knew that Do-hyun had never played a VR game before.

However, she thought that he could show a decent performance because his basic athletic sense was quite good.

In addition, she also judged that he would look like a skilled player if he did even a moderate level of performance as a contrasting effect to her poor performance.

“Everyone is already worried about their teeth. I’m proud that I seem to be taking care of your dental health today.”

-No, you devil!

-Did you have to destroy everything to feel better!

-This is hell······.

The Seungpaedan screamed, but the number of viewers didn’t decrease, but rather increased.

The viewers who came to Victoria’s broadcast knew that it was a spicy broadcast from the beginning, and they came to enjoy it.

Even if they said they didn’t like it, their bodies were honest.

Knowing that, Seung-yeon smiled behind the screaming Seungpaedan.

Regardless of the viewers’ intentions, viewers who wanted to see it were rapidly flowing in thanks to choosing the hottest content these days.

‘Not bad. Then slowly······.’

Now it was time for her prepared secret weapon to appear.

At the same time as saying the prepared lines, she quickly changed her broadcast title.

To ‘Warrior Training Feat. Brother’.

“Today’s broadcast is a simultaneous content! You all know, right? Family VR Exploration! This time, a new member has appeared.”

-New member? Who is it?

-Parents have already appeared.

-Didn’t Victoria say she had a younger brother?

-That’s right. The title changed. It’s her brother.

Sharp-eyed viewers listed the family members who appeared.

Seung-yeon, shaking her head as if she couldn’t beat their expectations, called her younger brother.

“I scouted him by giving him a whopping 100,000 won allowance! My younger brother, Kratos! Please welcome him with applause!”

-Clap clap clap!

-Wow!

-Clap clap clap!

Do-hyun, realizing that it was his turn, went to Seung-yeon’s side.

Kratos was the title Do-hyun would use instead of his name in this broadcast.

The reason for using a pseudonym was simple.

Since Seung-yeon also used a pseudonym in her personal broadcast, he didn’t think he needed to reveal his real name.

However, it was Seung-yeon’s claim that this pseudonym became ‘Kratos’, not Do-hyun’s.

Seung-yeon’s pseudonym ‘Victoria’ had the same goddess of victory, Nike, and she said that she chose it because this goddess had a younger brother named Kratos.

As a side note, the pseudonyms of the parents when they appeared on Seung-yeon’s broadcast were ‘Pallas’ and ‘Styx’, respectively.

These were also taken from the names of the gods who were Nike’s parents in mythology.

“Nice to meet you. I’m Victoria’s younger brother, Kratos. This is my first time on such a broadcast, so please understand if I’m clumsy.”

Do-hyun said in a low tone.

Having already heard from Seung-yeon about the points to be careful about in the broadcast, he roughly guessed how to act.

Be moderately polite and don’t show off.

Above all, it would be okay if he didn’t get caught up in the viewers’ aggro.

Anyway, since he was appearing for a large sum of 100,000 won plus alpha, he was going to do his best.

-Kratos Hi! (Meaning Kratos Hello ㅎ)

-I guessed it from seeing Victoria and her parents, but he’s handsome

-He’s really handsome. He looks like a popular person

The Seungpaedan’s reaction was generally not bad.

Well, they were people who gathered because they liked the personal broadcaster Victoria in the first place.

It was a natural reaction that they wouldn’t suddenly swear at the younger brother of their favorite broadcaster.

Seung-yeon, who glanced at the chat window reaction, smiled and added.

“I have one thing to tell you here! My younger brother is a ‘natural monument’ who has never played a VR game before!”

-???

-Is that possible?

-? What?

-?

The chat window was covered with numerous question marks at Seung-yeon’s words.

The fact that he had never played a VR game in his life was that shocking.

What era is it these days?

Wasn’t it a VR era where even schools were introducing virtual reality?

To have never played a VR game while living in such an era.

The Seungpaedan thought that Seung-yeon’s words were a lie with some exaggeration.

“It sounds like a lie, right? Proof coming up! Kratos!”

“Uh. Why.”

“Say ‘Reveal game history’.”

Do-hyun obediently followed Seung-yeon’s words.

As he muttered, “Reveal game history,” a blue hologram appeared in front of him.

“You see it, right?”

Seung-yeon zoomed in on the camera to enlarge the hologram content.

The content written on the hologram was simple.

‘No data’.

This was proof that Do-hyun had never played a VR game in his life.

All VR games are required by law to keep a record of play.

This is called game history, and the history that Do-hyun just revealed was clean with only one line, ‘No data’.

Usually, you could only have such a history at the age of 15, when you can start playing VR games.

It meant that only someone who was about to experience VR games for the first time could have it.

In other words, it really meant that Do-hyun had never played a VR game in his life.

Naturally, the viewers who saw it were turned upside down.

-Really? Really?

-You really haven’t played VR games?

-Wow. Crazy. I acknowledge him as a natural monument

“I was right, wasn’t I?”

Seung-yeon, who was puffed up with some kind of pride, continued in a somewhat serious tone.

“Anyway, therefore, my younger brother is the ultimate beginner in VR games. You may grind your teeth even more than me. But please understand. Okay? You can’t say too harsh words!”

-More teeth grinding than the Goddess of Teeth?

-There’s no hope anymore······.

-I just ordered additional mouthpieces lol haha sorry;

Seung-yeon skillfully proceeded with the broadcast.

Even Do-hyun, who didn’t know much about broadcasting, thought that she was quite skilled, even getting Do-hyun, who was just standing there blankly, to join in and have a few words of conversation.

The humor that came out from time to time was fun, and there was an overflowing energy that made people happy even when they were just talking.

Do-hyun’s thought of ‘My sister’s broadcast is popular? Are people crazy?’ was about to change to ‘If it’s this fun, it’s understandable.’

Until an alarm rang.