Chapter 21 Samurai Hearts – For Revenge (7)

Although it was originally a two-player game, events typically progressed simultaneously, but this particular case seemed to be handled separately.

Once again, the event progression selection appeared.

It was only natural that the viewers went wild once more in front of it.

-?

-You’re a streamer, right? Then you have to do it, right?

-Are you trying to sneak in like this?

-They’re giving you an opportunity lololololol

‘SheIsGoing’ donated ‘10,000 won’!

[Hey, trash! I’ll show you the spicy taste of a VR streamer! Victoria, the spicy taste specialist, is going in!]

With donations flying in, an atmosphere was formed where choosing option 2 was absolutely impossible.

Seung-yeon made a tearful face.

“No, everyone. You just saw it. They’re sword masters, sword masters. They’re right below the Sword Saint. It’s only because it’s Kratos that he caught them without swordsmanship. There’s no way I can win.”

The swordsmanship skills of the sword masters were incredible, something you could tell just by watching the fight with Kratos from the side.

Even at a glance, they were absolutely not opponents that Seung-yeon, who had very weak physical abilities, could win against.

Of course, there was no way the viewers didn’t know that.

-So what? kekekeke

-That’s so king

-Let’s go challenge spirit

They just didn’t care in the slightest.

Those who were especially delighted and typing in chat were viewers who had been watching Seung-yeon’s streams for a long time, the so-called Seung-pae-dan.

They, who loved tormenting Seung-yeon more than anyone, had stepped forward.

The other viewers couldn’t find any reason to stop her, so they just responded appropriately.

“Hmm… Since Kratos already defeated them, isn’t there really no need to proceed again? Doing the same event again…”

‘Godtoria’ donated ‘1,000 won’!

[Option 1]

“Thank you for the one thousand won donation, Godtoria-nim. No, you know me, everyone. I’m Victoria, the spicy taste specialist streamer. There’s no need to verify my physical abilities again…”

‘Godtoria’ donated ‘5,000 won’!

[Option 1]

“Ah, thank you so much for the five thousand won donation, Godtoria-nim. Anyway, how about reconsidering? Rather, let’s proceed quickly and find out what the Sword God Style is…”

‘Godtoria’ donated ‘10,000 won’!

[Option 1]

“Okay… I’ll do it. I’ll just do it… Stop donating…”

‘Godtoria’ donated ‘50,000 won’!

[Sa─tisfied]

-Ehkkkkkkkkkkk

-Pea─ce

-The neutral country donation is insane lolololol

-It was too much money to refuse with ‘no’

-Hitting with money is so funny kekekekek

Seung-yeon couldn’t overcome the viewers who had gained a new opportunity and were going wild.

If she stubbornly refused, she could have not done it, but if she had, she wouldn’t be able to call herself a streamer.

Seung-yeon, having yielded to the viewers’ will, chose the first option with a tearful face.

But her inner thoughts were different.

Rather, she was welcoming the current situation where she could proceed with the event.

‘I never thought they’d give me an opportunity too… What a relief.’

This was the same Seung-yeon who had been one-second-cut against the Sword Saint, to the point where it was embarrassing to even call it a fight.

Since she fell without even being able to make a proper sword strike, she thought she wouldn’t be able to proceed with the event, but who would have thought they’d give her an opportunity like this?

Of course, it goes without saying that she wasn’t thinking of winning against the sword masters.

From the start, she didn’t even have the thought of trying to compete.

Nevertheless, the reason she was happy was because this was an opportunity to capture broadcast entertainment value.

The back-and-forth struggle like the one just now was like that, and also because she could get a contrast effect with Dohyun when she was defeated.

She was a streamer before she was a gamer.

“Why are you so reluctant? Can’t I just help you?”

Dohyun, who had slipped in, asked.

The sight of his hand resting on the sword at his waist, looking like he would slice up the three sword masters immediately if she asked for help, was reassuring, but Seung-yeon shook her head with a sigh.

“The event occurring separately means it’s a personal event. You probably can’t intervene.”

“Ah, really? Then do your best~”

At Dohyun’s carefree tone, Seung-yeon felt a surge of anger, but soon composed herself.

Since she was about to enter a battle she couldn’t win, she didn’t want to waste mental energy unnecessarily.

‘I can’t win, but I still shouldn’t lose on purpose.’

If she did something like that, there’s no way the sharp-eyed viewers wouldn’t notice.

It meant she had to do her best even if she lost!

Swoosh─

Seung-yeon took a deep breath and drew the sword from her waist.

The moment she chose the option to accept, Kanbei drew his sword and widened his eyes.

“It seems I can see once more the sword that defeated the Sword Saint. Yatsugyu Kanbei, here I come!”

“Victoria, going in!”

The clash between Kanbei and Seung-yeon!

….

And a little while later.

To be precise, after about 1 minute had passed.

Seung-yeon, who had slumped down in a corner of the clearing, muttered pitifully.

“Yes… You’re right. I’m trash… I’m the stupid idiot who gets one-second-cut even by a sword master… I want to be alone… Please don’t talk to me…”

-This is Victoria! Despair Edition!

-5252 I believed in you!

-But is the one-second-cut for real? lololol

-I acknowledge the physical abilities worthy of the spicy taste

‘TwinkleTwinkle’ donated ‘1,000 won’!

[Annyeonghasalbeop!]

“Thank you for the one thousand won donation, TwinkleTwinkle-nim, but please don’t do that. It makes me cry, I’m telling you. Sigh. Should I really learn the Annyeonghasalbeop counter…”

Seung-yeon, who let out a deep sigh, got up.

The three sword masters’ test event was over.

In just 1 second.

She had been defeated without being able to block Yatsugyu Kanbei’s sword even once.

No matter how weak she was, she thought she could block it at least once, but the fact that she couldn’t even do that was quite a shock to her as well.

While Sword Saint Kato was originally a notoriously infamous boss, the three sword masters weren’t like that.

Moreover, above all, Dohyun had defeated them all without much difficulty.

‘I didn’t lose anything, but I feel like I did.’

Even if it was an opportunity gained as a bonus, a one-second-cut was too much.

What made her even angrier was the NPCs’ reactions shown immediately after the event ended.

“No! I mean! I could be bad at games! Yeah! I could not win! Yeah! For an NPC to just insult me like that! How cruel!”

-Oh my, startled;;

-Sudden acceleration;;

-Oh dear, oh dear, is our Victoria feeling hurt? Is that it?

“With that kind of skill, you defeated the Sword Saint? Even a passing dog would laugh! Haha! Your sword is trash, wench!” was the feedback from Kanbei, who had fought her directly.

It was hurtful enough to be one-second-cut and made fun of by the viewers, but she also got thoroughly insulted by the NPC.

It wasn’t unreasonable for Seung-yeon to bury herself in a corner and feel frustrated.

Just because she’s a spicy taste specialist streamer doesn’t mean she’d feel good about being insulted by an NPC.

‘Honestly, in my heart, I’d like to keep trying until I succeed…’

The problem was Dohyun, who was leading this broadcast, and the viewers who came to see him.

Those who had been watching Seung-yeon’s streams from the beginning would enjoy it as ‘spicy taste’ whether she did one attempt or two hundred attempts.

But what about the viewers who came to see Dohyun?

And what about Dohyun, who should just be watching quietly from the side?

‘If it were Dohyun trying again, that might be one thing. But me doing it is unreasonable.’

That ultimately meant she had to accept the results here as they were.

It was unfair and sad, but what could she do.

About her lack of skill.

Dohyun, unaware of Seung-yeon’s feelings, teased Seung-yeon with a giggle.

“I learned from the viewers. They said your nickname is Guan Yu? Because you pour tea and get game over before it even cools down.”

“No, it’s not. It’s Guan Yu because I play games while sweeping everything away like Guan Yu.”

“That’s different from what I heard.”

“The viewers lied. They’re just mouth-open lies. Mouth-open lies.”

“Mouth-open lies? Ah, lies as soon as they open their mouths?”

-?

-?

-Slander-;

-Are you pushing it like this?

-No, how can this be!

“The viewers seem to think differently, noona?”

“Be quiet!”

Whack-!

Seung-yeon struck Dohyun’s back, who was giggling, with a satisfying smack.

Of course, since it was virtual reality with limited pain sensation, it didn’t hurt.

It only made Dohyun’s laughter burst out even louder.

Although Dohyun was an obedient and good younger brother, fundamentally, they were siblings.

Who tried to devour each other whenever they got the chance.

“Stop laughing, you bad guy! Quickly check the Sword God Style you obtained! And see what the Sword Soul is too!”

“Okay, okay.”

Perhaps because the prepared event was over, the three sword masters had returned to their positions.

Ignoring Tengu, who was just blankly watching without even saying to go to the next location, Dohyun stood in the center of the clearing.

‘Let’s see. They said to check the sword forms first, right?’

Remembering Seung-yeon’s words, Dohyun called up his swordsmanship information in front of him.

Originally, the swordsmanship in Samurai Hearts could be largely divided into two categories.

Inherent effects and sword forms were precisely that.

If inherent effects referred to the effects that occurred when using that swordsmanship, sword forms literally referred to the forms of the sword, the methods of using the swordsmanship.

How to swing the sword.

There was almost no complicated method.

Because people playing VR games for fun had no reason to arduously train swordsmanship.

Therefore, sword forms consisted of very basic and fundamental compositions like downward slash, upward slash, horizontal slash, high guard, and so on.

Each swordsmanship had ten sword forms, and they used to distinguish swordsmanship based on whether these sword forms were mostly offensive or defensive.

That’s why Seung-yeon told Dohyun to check the sword forms first.

Because by looking at the sword forms, you could roughly get a sense of what kind of swordsmanship it was.

‘None?’

The problem was that the sword form information he had gone to the trouble of checking only had the two words ‘None’ written.

Dohyun tilted his head.

“Noona, it says there are no sword forms here?”

“No sword forms? Then how are you supposed to get the swordsmanship effects and bonuses? Is there nothing else written?”

“There is. Let me see.”

Dohyun read the sentence written in the Sword God Style information exactly as it was.

“Sword Soul. When activated, all abilities greatly increase. Can be strengthened with Yul obtained by defeating enemies. That’s it.”

“That’s all that’s written?”

“Yeah. Why? Is it bad?”

“Hmm… Well. I’m not sure either. Try using it once. You’ll know if you try it yourself.”

Dohyun nodded and drew his sword.

Dohyun, who had taken a stance with a serious expression.

But soon, with an awkward smile, he turned to look at Seung-yeon.

“How do you use this?”

“It said ‘when activated’, right? Then you should probably think something like ‘Sword Soul activation’ in your mind. You can say it out loud too.”

“Okay.”

Dohyun muttered ‘Sword Soul activation’ in his mind.

Vooom-!

Simultaneously, an intangible energy began to emanate from his body.

The cloak he wore fluttered roughly.

A fierce wind instantly blew through the area where Dohyun was standing.

But that wasn’t the end of the changes.

Dohyun blinked at the heavy power welling up from deep within his body.

Because the increase in all abilities was clearly palpable to the point of being felt.

‘If it’s to this extent…’

Swish-!

A look of surprise appeared on Dohyun’s face as he lightly flicked his sword in the air.

Because even though he swung it with relaxed strength, it produced the speed of when he had swung with all his strength before.

Then what if he swung with all his strength?

Suddenly feeling curious, Dohyun gritted his teeth and stepped forward, and with a crack! the ground of the clearing was slightly dented.

A single sword strike carrying that momentum!

Whoosh─!

The sword blade that cleanly cut through the air contained fearsome power.

A heavy wind followed from the pressure of the swung sword.

Even Dohyun himself, who had swung the sword, was surprised by the clearly enhanced power.

“Is that the state with Sword Soul activated?”

“Yeah. Right.”

“So the basic state is like this, and if you collect Yul, you can grow.”

Seung-yeon said while stroking her chin.

“I still don’t know whether No Soul is better or Sword Soul is better. Since the swordsmanship itself is all-in on physical ability enhancement, that part seems like it would be better though…”

-If it’s physical ability enhancement, wouldn’t that be even better for Kratos-sama?

-Yeah, seems so. It’s a pity you can’t use sword forms, but, well…

-But it doesn’t seem like creating a school is particularly good. Seeing that there are restrictions attached.

Seung-yeon, who was checking the viewer chats, nodded in agreement.

She thought that since it was swordsmanship school creation, maybe you could just randomly create incredibly good swordsmanship, but that wasn’t the case.

In exchange for being able to use special swordsmanship effects, there were restrictions that existing schools didn’t have, starting from that.

Should she say it felt like content made for the so-called old-timers?

‘Well, it is the route that caused such a fuss from the tutorial, so it makes sense.’

She didn’t know how this route would progress, but she had a premonition that it would be a rather harsh path for her, who lacked physical ability.

Therefore, she decided to bring out one method she had thought of in advance.

“Little brother.”

“What?”

“Let’s add one broadcast content starting today. Don’t you remember what I said before?”

“What you said before? Ah, that?”-What more are you trying to do? -Adding content again?”

-Let’s just do what we were doing;

-If you do more, even a yellow dog would hesitate;

-For real;

Dohyun, who remembered what Seung-yeon had told him beforehand, looked at his noona with an expression that said, ‘Are you really going to do that?’

Because even though he had listened to the explanation thinking, ‘She might do something like this~’, he never actually thought she would.

But Seung-yeon’s expression was resolute.

Because she had already made up her mind.

Clenching her fist, she spoke as if chewing each word.

“Yes. I’m going to execute the ‘Making a Person Victoria’ project. Little brother. No, Master! Please bestow your teachings upon me!”

-No way lololol here, this???

-Sibling reversal world lolololololol

-This isn’t a broadcast of this world lololololol

-I acknowledge the honey-fun content lolololololol