Of course, my character didn’t enter the boss room, but since Banye was right next to me, I could watch the gameplay directly.
And Banye spoke as if sniping the guild members who were sarcastically calling him a cheerleader.
“I’m not a cheerleader—you’re supposed to enter with the minimum number of people here. The number of summoned creatures spawns according to the number of party members who enter.”
Saying that, Banye killed the summoned monster in the boss room where only one had spawned.
Of course, even if you killed the summoned monsters in the boss room, they endlessly kept appearing. However, if only one summoned monster spawned due to their nature, killing them was relatively easy.
The role of summoned monsters was to bind the player’s feet, deal DoT damage, and make things troublesome for the player so they couldn’t dodge the boss monster’s attacks or could die from just grazing the boss monster’s attacks.
However, if Banye entered the boss room alone and only one spawned, the number binding Banye’s ankles decreased, and proportionally, the DoT damage also dropped to a manageable level.
Especially when the boss grabbed the summoned monster by the ankle and shouted [Marionette!] while lowering strings from the ceiling to use an area-wide attack, he could dodge it, so until now Banye hadn’t died and could still face the boss.
Of course, there was also the fact that Banye dodged nimbly and well, but it meant he was almost never hit by the unreasonable combo attacks from the summoned monsters and boss.
Moreover, Banye knew various functions inside and out that even I, whose main character was Lilith, didn’t know.
[Haeyam] Why does Lilith get out in 1 second when caught in a trap-yam?
[Aki] Right, that’s cheating
“If you rapidly press Lilith’s Kiss with Lilith, it registers as a movement skill, so you get the effect of pressing a movement skill twice in a row. I don’t know if it’s a bug, but when caught in a holding skill like this, it can be used quite usefully. Try using it before it gets patched.”
[asdqw] Crazy……
[Suckeot Leader] Switching my main
[bg] shaking shaking
Lilith’s various functions were so good that everyone became admiring spectators in observer mode.
The number of people praising Banye, saying they couldn’t do this much with their own Lilith despite his exquisite movements, kept increasing.
[nonsmoking] Wait, I’m also Lilith but it feels like he’s using skills about two faster than me?
[real real] real real
[BetterKnight] Those of you raising Lilith, does your damage normally come out like that?
[Fan1tom] no no I don’t know how many percent he put into other defense penetration, but hundred-million damage keeps breaking through on the boss, fuck shaking shaking…… I’m max level too
“I put 99 percent into other defense penetration.”
[Fan1tom] Wow fuck shaking shaking how’d you do it
[Fan1tom] It never went up from 98
[Daramjwi] Theoretically to get 99 percent you need to collect max level title+achievement+other defense penetration codex+other defense penetration jewels all?
“I collected them all.”
[BetterKnight] crazy person!
‘If they’re cursing while asking how I did it, the game’s over……’
I felt my chest swell with pride watching the broadcast chat filled with lavish praise. Moreover, the character receiving praise right now is my real owner Aang account.
A smile naturally formed on my lips. Banye glanced at me with my shoulders rising in pride and made a ‘what’s with him?’ expression, but still didn’t openly embarrass me in public.
“Banyecredit-nim, please come in.”
And when the boss’s HP fell below 10 percent, Banye called me. I quickly entered and worked hard at dealing damage, however feebly.
[Kyaaaaaaak―!]
And so Banye died exactly once (dying only once when he practically soloed it was practically a miracle) and killed the boss.
And around the time he killed the boss, he hit peak viewers—as many as 337 people watched simultaneously. For a first broadcast, this was practically a miracle.
“I’ll end the broadcast here.”
[Aki] bye
[Haeyam] Bye-yam
[Suckeot Leader] thanks for the work
[bg] bye2
[Fan1tom] Aang-nim, good work-yom
Banye ended the broadcast curtly to the end, but the people watching almost didn’t leave. The dropout rate also came out to less than 20 percent.
After the broadcast completely ended and I confirmed the recording had stopped, I patted Banye’s back while saying:
“Wow, this is really amazing! Banye! It was a complete success!”
“……Is that so?”
Banye spoke doubtfully, but it really was successful. Usually it’s hard for a broadcast to go this well from the first day.
How nervous was I when no one came in for 7 minutes after starting the broadcast! The beginning was humble, but it ended grandly.
I got excited and started talking rapidly to Banye.
“Yeah yeah! Now we’ll edit and upload today’s broadcast……! Then this week’s mission will all be finished too. Wow, but how did you do it without being nervous at all? I was completely nervous……”
Banye answered my words indifferently.
“There wasn’t really anything to be nervous about, was there.”
“Still…… so many people were watching! I couldn’t even speak……”
“……”
“Banye, you must be cut out to be a streamer!”
Banye didn’t agree with my words, but he didn’t particularly deny it either.
Excitedly, I grabbed Banye’s arm and shook it.
“You didn’t make a single mistake either…… You were really cool. I wonder if I messed it up by asking weird questions at first? Even if you did it alone, you do this well……”
“That’s enough……”
Banye said that and stood up from his seat. Then he firmly gripped my shoulder and said:
“Let’s eat. I’m hungry.”
“Should we?!”
Of course, Banye did the cooking. Today it was kimchi stew.
* * *
That day, the video Banye edited and uploaded was selected as a Card of Fantasy Best Clip.
For a whole week, it was featured as the first video on the Card of Fantasy official homepage main page with the title [Raise Lilith Like This!]. Thanks to that, Banye’s NewTube subscribers also increased tremendously, already approaching 3,000 subscribers.
Already dreaming big, I followed Banye around from morning, talking about future hopes.
“Banye, at this rate, won’t you really get contacted by a famous NewTuber agency? Wow fuck…… What if you really make hundreds of millions per month?”
“It’s been a week since I started.”
“No, but you’re really good at games…… Card of Fantasy is a pretty popular game too! And do you happen to be good at other games too? Like Battle× or something.”
“I can play it……”
“Amazing! You should do those little by little too and expand your territory. Then subscribers will increase like ten thousand per day…… Hah…… I’ll be your manager.”
“……”
Banye had an expression that wasn’t very willing, but I thought it was Banye’s characteristic shyness. Because Banye does well when told to do something, but when starting something, he has a tendency to need someone to push his back.
Is he modest? Anyway, I developed this strange confidence that Banye would listen to me this time too.
So I kept following the annoyed Banye around, continuing to talk about my thoughts.
“But Banye, don’t you have any thoughts about revealing your face?”
“What?”
“If you reveal your face, you’ll really hit 300,000 subscribers in one day…… You’re incredibly handsome. You’re tall too. Now that I think about it, how tall are you?”
“……”
Banye didn’t answer my question. And he stopped his steps that were about to enter his room for a moment and looked down at me.
At his strange expression, I unknowingly closed my mouth with a snap.
‘……Did I, did I upset him somehow?’
A gaze difficult to gauge passed over me. Banye looked down at me, who had obediently closed my mouth after sensing the strange atmosphere, and tilted his head obliquely.
“If I were really handsome, I would’ve already become a celebrity and changed my fate.”
“……Huh?”
“Only hyung says I’m handsome.”
I widened my eyes at Banye’s words.
No, that can’t be……! If I look at the place where Banye always smokes, women and men alike always glance at Banye at least once. Especially women stare for a really long time.
Even when shopping at the mart, how many people did I see passing by while glancing at Banye leaning obliquely against the shopping cart!
“No! You’re really handsome! I’ve been to the airport a lot, and you’re better-looking in person than the male celebrities I saw there!”
“Hah…… I guess hyung just has unique tastes.”
“What?”
I thought Banye was strange as I listened to the continuing words.
However, at the same time, I wondered if I was really the only person who thought Banye was perfect.
‘Wa, wait a minute…… perfect?’
I was slightly shocked by the thought I conjured up myself. But Banye didn’t give me time to sort out my head and delivered a direct hit.
“There’s probably no one else who likes me like hyung does.”
“……!”
At those words, I froze stiff. Then I staggered back…… and unfortunately my back was against the door again, so my heels touched the door.
In other words, it meant there was nowhere further to retreat. Moreover, since this was in front of my room…… I needed to get away from Banye before it got more awkward…….
‘You shouldn’t block the door, you idiot!’
I hurriedly tried to step aside.
However, before I could do so, Banye reached out his hand to me. I couldn’t move an inch and had to blankly watch Banye cup the back of my head with his hand.
Thud.
Banye indifferently cupped my head with his hand so it wouldn’t bump, and looked down at me with an utterly cold and dry gaze.
“Be more careful, will you?”
“……”
An expression with no other emotions whatsoever, only finding me pathetic…….
The hand that was quickly removed grasped the doorknob and opened the door. Banye strode past me like that and went straight into his room.
And I remained there alone, then closed the door and sat on the bed. Then I silently tore at my hair.
‘What does that even mean!’
But I didn’t have the courage to ask Banye either…… In the end, I spent the night wide awake.
