[By: Straw Hat]
[Title: Yesterday’s Captain Highlights]
(Picture of the Captain freezing a monster whole)
(Picture of a monster getting electrocuted with a stabbed head)
(Picture of the Captain dominating with a huge fist)
Everything’s a highlight no matter what you snap LOL
Falling asleep during battle and thinking “Did I doze off?” despite being stabbed in the head LOL
Shocking? It’s lightning.
LOL it’s so damn cool.
Sorry for being too strong!!!
-Is this the ability of the Form-Form Fruit…?
-No, isn’t shape-shifting super overpowered?
-It’s not; it’s actually a trash skill.
-Why?
-For starters, the Captain hardly uses magic. It’s practically nonexistent.
-For real LOL A wizard with just one spell.
-Pretty much poured everything into shape-shifting.
-On top of that, you could suffer body loss or be unable to return to your original form.
-No wonder this skill has the highest wizard death rate LOL
-Looks like a cheat for evasion, but misuse it and you’re toast LOL
-90% of wizards missing limbs blame shape-shifting.
-Captain~ Thanks to you, all aspiring wizards are doomed~
-I don’t know how, but the Captain seems to have overcome their only weakness.
-It’s called Fruit Awakening!
-Shape-shifting can envelop… right?
-Bwahahaha!!! Only a few wizards, of course!
[By: Shinpachi]
[Title: Update on the First Generation Members]
The Chinese martial artist girl and the German artist.
Dominated by the “Red Pill Dragon.”
Let’s see how Joseph Khan is doing nowadays.
Great at singing, gaming, gentle, sweet, with a motherly vibe.
Truly adept at VTuber broadcasting.
(Lowest view count among the first-generation members)
But as you can see, not popular.
Everyone watching Wakamou Corporation is a dopamine addict.
They don’t need any motherly warmth.
(Video of Mei doing an epic mukbang)
(Video of Adolf yelling while selling her paintings)
Opening a new era of VR mukbang by scouting models with giant budgets.
And just a madwoman from Germany, Adolf Lucia.
Buried by the two, the youngest of the first generation was personally buried by the 0th-generation Captain yesterday.
From today, this lady is now “Glasses,” who has horns, a tail, and is a real dragon.
-The moment you see glasses, the only thing memorable is the glasses.
-Wakamou is working hard to help, but this is unwinnable….
-Plain existence sandwiched between disasters.
-Thought the Red Pill was a white dragon and lost it.
-The real mad one was somewhere else LOL
-How do you beat a German artist LOL
-Meanwhile, Mei goes out of her mind bringing in the Chinese Premier Liu Wei for skits LOL
-There’s no VTuber stream with the Chinese President!
-A woman who spares no means for a successful broadcast….
-The South Korean and Japanese Association Presidents and King of Authority will appear too.
-There’s even a video where she learned a move from sparring with the King of Authority LOL
-Is this really a VTuber? Well, yes it is LOL
“Wahhhhh….”
“Don’t cry, Olga”
“Adelheid….”
“Your glasses are fogging up.”
“Sob…!!”
Olga Romanova sobbing as if the world had forsaken her.
Sadako, who couldn’t give up her spot in the Complete Strategy Layer, handed her a glass, telling her not to feel too sad.
“Thank you─ Pfft!! It’s alcohol!!”
“Huh? Isn’t it water?”
“Not every Russian only drinks vodka!!”
“No, it’s just that I gave you the wrong one. I gave you what I drink.”
“What…?”
Sadako chugged the vodka from a water bottle as she handed over more water.
Feeling the fear of not being the same human kind, Olga hiccuped while drinking cold water to calm herself.
Honestly speaking… her broadcast was just starting to bloom.
Gradually gathering fans, doing song streams, and planning to release an album, she was slowly growing into an idol VTuber.
While admiring zombie girl VTubers, she had romantic and passionate dreams of producing an album with her pirate-themed VTuber persona, but since Pirate hit it big, she felt demoralized by the inevitable future where she’d constantly be compared.
To cheer her up, Mei likened her to idols who chase dreams even without many subscribers or song views, unlike her peers, as she consoled the virtual live commander with her.
Even Wakamou wanted to console her, but hearing “Please don’t fire me” trembling and sobbing, Mei stood in for him.
She didn’t want to know how incompetent soldiers were handled in Russia, but she began praying more after each broadcast.
“Lord, please protect me!”
“The heavens won’t hear…” “Sounds like you’re lacking sincerity.”
“Probably reaches till where the boss is.”
“Both out!!!”
Whether they understood Olga’s feelings or not…. The world was exceedingly harsh to a young woman who had always persevered with the help of adults, faith in God, and her aspiration to become a VTuber….
It wasn’t that Olga lacked talent or was just average or deficient.
The problem was Adolf Lucia and Mare Pirate.
They teamed up to make her laugh, but it only had the opposite effect.
“Let’s watch some TV”
“[This month’s top music chart! [Blue Bubbles]!!]”
“Let’s not watch it”
Everywhere from TV, YouTube, to the city played the Pirate’s song, making Olga Romanova even more sorrowful, sprawled on the floor. She feared she’d forever be struggling in the shadow of senior Pirate…. Asuka then handed her a folding fan, saying that the only way for a glasses character to survive is by being a tsukkomi (the straight man in a comedy duo).
Wakamou hadn’t been smacking Asuka on the head with a fan for screwing up or doing silly things lately, which was sorely missed.
If there’s a boke (fool) in a skit, there must be a tsukkomi.
Thus, it was suggested that the second-generation Wakamou be Olga Romanova…none other than Joseph Khan, according to Asuka.
Sadly though, she was at a level of hopeless lack of sociability.
“The only thing I can do…is talk about VTubers with President Wakamou all day!!”
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“Get out.”
“Whoa, calm down Liu Ying. She’s a comrade.”
“I can’t not sleep with the president!!!!”
Liu Ying, with bloodshot eyes, pulled out her guns and furiously fumed, while Manager Wanda Haye tried to calm her down.
Sleeping in Wakamou’s embrace like a child was Liu Ying’s joy and life’s delight!!
Since Olga is well-informed about VTubers and often looking down, Wakamou visited her frequently, leaving Liu Ying to sleep alone on a wide bed.
People like Jiang Yeoul, or Asuka, and Sadako would sometimes come by saying they’d sleep together if she couldn’t sleep alone—but she found Sadako’s alcohol smell revolting.
“When you grow up, let’s go drink!”
“No thanks!!!”
“What?! Just wait three years! I’ve even made homemade ume liquor under the name Hajime Ichigo. It’s 40 degrees.”
“How am I supposed to drink that!!!!”
“Yeah, let your anger out, Liu Ying….. Your pronunciation is getting better… Anger will make you articulate your words!!”
Bang! Bang! Bang!
“Bwahahaha─!! You can fire all you want?”
“So annoying I could die!!!”
Nobody teased her for looking for her mom at that age because they knew of Liu Ying’s circumstances.
Still, the way she clung to Wakamou, asking to take a bath together at 18, or sitting on his lap when not broadcasting… If Wakamou didn’t have three bodies, he wouldn’t be able to get anything done due to Liu Ying’s excessive clinging. It was like a koala or kangaroo sticking to their parent?
Wakamou, who had brought her, doted on her because she was cute, but seeing such obsessive behavior sometimes made him realize how important parents are.
“Thinking about it, Sadako is the only one here with intact parents.”
Orphans from dead parents, abandoned parents, and those without parents… nothing resembled a proper family.
“I’m your family!!”
“Daddy!!!”
Catching Sadako who ran over, Wakamou played airplane with her.
Liu Ying, lining up behind her with sparkling eyes, was also gently lifted up.
As Asuka, and then Adelheid, lined up, and even Anxious Olga crept over showcasing it wasn’t just a joke, Wakamou sighed…. seeing it was a more severe issue than expected….
“Manager, what are you doing there?”
“Do that to me too!! It looks fun!!”
The manager got airplane rides too.
Anyhow─ While killing time with VTuber broadcasts and preparing for the first anniversary broadcast.
At this rate, Joseph Khan indeed risked being buried. If the glasses meme got locked onto her character, it wouldn’t be easily broken.
“First, let’s climb to the 53rd floor right?”
On the 52nd floor, it was confirmed that Joseph Khan could receive normal rewards. Platinum level rewards, no less!!
It also came with the explanation that if they climbed Incheon Tower, they’d skip the 52nd floor.
That meant she climbed the tower floors in sequence, but simultaneously climbed the intermediate sections.
There were concerns about an increase in difficulty─ but surprisingly there wasn’t!!
Joseph Khan did not suffer the most critical penalty that occurs when climbing the tower as a group.
That’s right, [Idol (VTuber)] is, according to the training guide, a 100% non-combat Legendary Class!!
Specialized for climber development and positioned far from combat classes!!
Due to Wakamou twisting himself to the utmost, [VTuber] skills were given as rewards, inadvertently making her a serious irregular.
Since it was changing the [race] itself, arguably the 【Climber closest to God】.
Calling her 【Human who became divine posthumously】 would be appropriate.
The class was improvised and the conditions too messy and hard to meet, but the only person who fulfilled those conditions unfortunately turned out to be her, unforeseen by the tower.
Originally, she wouldn’t have acquired [VTuber Skills] if not for idols, allowing [Shape-shifting Wizard] to completely overcome its weakness, becoming a flawless climber.
Of course, that doesn’t equate to being invincible climbing the tower.
The tower contains more than monsters, including terrain and countless gimmicks.
With the 52nd floor rewards and utilizing points, Wakamou resolved to ensure Joseph Khan showcased herself on the 53rd floor, no matter what.
※※※
“Konwakamou~ Catch phrase is 500KG grip strength! Squeeeeze~ crush it~”
-It’s actually more than that.
-Already on the 53rd floor.
-Is it for real that coming up took less than a year?
-So no 100th-floor strategies yet?
-Yeah, none. It’s supposedly ridiculously hard.
-How crazy must it be…
-Isn’t the leader worse?
“What’s to worry about! Climb then regret it after!!”
-Truly a national pride of Korea.
-One who probably existed during the Gojoseon era…
-Might’ve been caught between a bear and a tiger…
-Just a good fox deity VTuber…
-What comes after the arena?
-Show more of Captain’s Form-Form Fruit ability?
“Today, no matter what, Joseph’s going out!”
“Resolve opens the way, people.”
-Glasses, come on.
-The Red Pill Dragon only to be overshadowed.
-Cheerleaders in the back are hilarious LOL
-Solo shots during a group climb LOL
-Do something, Joseph!!
-Can’t fail like this. Bring out Soviet maxims.
-Show us an even more crimson spirit than the Red Wakamou!
“Need a hammer and sickle?”
“Don’t need those!! Maybe a crucifix!”
-Why are you recommending that LOL
-Why are you holding them LOL
-For artistic purposes.
-Ah! So artists also slaughter!
-You do need to know how to handle tools LOL
“Joseph!! The Great Time has struck!! Hurry and deliver the final blow to the enemy and fulfill the mission entrusted by Comrade Wakamou!! Fight to end the fascist scum within the tower and raise the victory flag skyward over Incheon Tower!! To punish the German fascist trash!!”
“When broadcasting, there’s only victory…..”
-Whoa, stop it. Knock it off.
-Enough with the gaslighting…
-Don’t awaken the Orthodox Joseph LOL
-Why is the German fascist the target all of a sudden?
-Whenever possible, a woman wishing for Germany’s downfall.
-Considered a potential terrorist by the German government.
-Seen as the fall of an artist from some angles.
-Mostly concludes with Germany being bad LOL
-Only engineers get screwed over… Who would’ve thought this maniac existed.
Adolf, whispering to keep winning, caught fire in Joseph’s fighting spirit. She didn’t have any special [skills] for persuasion, but the passive German speech made its virtue known.
During Wakamou Corporation’s identity climbing broadcast featuring every member but Joseph Khan emphasizing just her.
There’s no way Olga Romanova, a soldier and not simply Joseph, wouldn’t grasp the gravity of the situation.
“Lord, please give me strength…”
“Uh….[Idol’s Blessing]”
With cautious buffing, Wakamou provided guidance, as Joseph softly clasped her hands in prayer.
Even though Joseph hadn’t been praying to Wakamou specifically, the buff was meant as a gesture to not get hurt as they climbed the lower floors, but the timing was quite serendipitous.
It was just providing a buff, but the timing was simply ironic.
“Even without begging so earnestly, I’m right here.”
“Prayer is all about the procedure.”
“Isn’t idol worship banned by the Orthodox Church?”
“Can’t we just say God outsourced it?”
“Then doesn’t that make our dear Fox Deity even more heretical?”
“Saying they’ll become Satan, LOL!”
“I was just buffing the allies, you fools! Don’t make it a big deal!”
“But I can’t stand the slander, LOL.”
“Fact) Worship of Wakamou has been banned by his own request to the state.”
“A Fox Deity who doesn’t want to be worshiped as an idol.”
“He just doesn’t want to get hurt.”
“But then shouldn’t we make fun of this?”
“Maybe not…”
“Right…”
“Asuka! I didn’t tease them!”
“Oh, crap.”
“Congrats, you’re on the blacklist, idiots, LOL.”
Seeing the believers teasing an Orthodox Church worshipper after they cast a buff, Wakamou let out a deep sigh as if the ground would sink. Mei, who was with him, also curious, cast the buff again, but disappointingly, it didn’t seem to stack. If it had, it would indeed be a Legendary Class.
“They’re coming.”
The first to react was Ichigo.
The place was the same as the arena before, but now it was devoid of spectators, and the dilapidated and abandoned coliseum had a silence that surrounded it.
“The reason people are defeated… is because of ‘shame.’ People die because of ‘shame.’ It’s the ‘shame’ of regretting past actions or wondering why they did them that weakens and defeats people. Not appearing consecutively on the broadcast isn’t just a mistake… It is a trial… All that needs to be done is to change it for victory…!!”
“Did I cheer too much?”
“Joseph is broken!”
Mumbling, she boldly stepped forward as if trying to shake off her anxiety.
And the figure appearing with the footsteps from the opposite side was unmistakably in military uniform.
“Stop, Joseph!!”
[Currently climbing the Incheon Tower, 53rd floor World]
– The challenges suitable for the strong Climbers are issued
– The difficulty will rise according to the achievements of [Wakamou Inarizushi], the Climber!
– Overcome the challenge with your companions!
– Overcome the [Heroic Spirit]!
– Defeat the [Jiangshi of Ink Revenger]
[Platinum Achievement Conditions]
– No companion should die (0/1)
Despite Wakamou’s urgent shout, Joseph’s steps only quickened. Like Pirates, the Jiangshi with pitch-black skin as if the entire body was made of metal had long sleeves that covered its hands but was holding two poisoned swords.
Furthermore, from the waist began the bladed ornaments, and sharp knives were dangling from its braided hair.
It wasn’t just a martial arts user; it was a Jiangshi weapon master.
“The path to happiness… Those prepared are happy…!! While you might think that knowing bad things will happen is despair… It’s the opposite! Even if the broadcast doesn’t work out, having resolve will make you happy…. Because ‘resolve’ will blow away ‘despair’! This is the VTuber Heaven I pursue…!!”
“[Die─!!]”
Uttering a short kanji character, countless knives hidden in the sleeve appeared in an instant, flying towards Joseph.
Seeing the poor-quality trick, Wakamou deduced that this Jiangshi was weaker than the one Mei Xiao Long Bao faced.
With a click of his glasses and drawing a weapon from his waist, Joseph deflected all the swords flying at him.
Slash─!!
Hitting the ground forcefully, what wrapped around her hand again─was a pure white whip.
A Jiangshi threw knives again with its sleeves, targeting her, but Joseph used the whip to skillfully deflect them.
Even though the stats were lost, the experience was not.
A shadow of a sword surged from the shadow of the knives for an unexpected ambush, but using the empty hand, he drew an axe from his belt and cleaved the shadow sword, roaring.
“Kwoaaaaaaa──!!!!”
The roar of the dragon, known as [Dragon Fear]!! Wakamou whistled at the intense stiffening effect affecting even allies.
The power was so great that even the mentally strong Pirate grimaced and staggered.
“Return that life to the Lord!!”
The whip writhing and wriggling as if alive shot and slashed like a sword, and the Jiangshi received the blows with metallic sleeves while occasionally throwing sharp needles.
Every attack had deadly poison, causing lethal damage with mere contact.
Ichigo, immune to poison, wore a gas mask, and even just picking up a sword from the ground turned her palm purple.
Though there was no significant damage… If Ichigo was this affected, even a single splash on Asuka would’ve been instantly fatal, and Adolf would be at risk of melting.
Hence, Mei and Wakamou moved forward to protect them like shields.
“You’re fighting way better than I thought!!”
Even in the midst of battle, deflecting flying needles with an axe, and swinging the whip fiercely to tear apart the Jiangshi, Joseph was astounding.
Seizing the moment when both arms were bound by the thrown hidden weapons, the Jiangshi attempted an ambush, but instead of panicking, he twisted his body, shooting and penetrating its waist with his tail like a spear.
There was no flaw or excess in the fight, it was perfect.
Eventually, when the sleeves were torn, the black hand of the Jiangshi became visible, and as Mana was infused, a purple aura wrapped around the surroundings, corroding and melting the surroundings by its influence.
In the unforeseen display of the poison user’s power, without time to be dismayed, the Mana of poisonous nature flew towards Joseph like a slash.
Crushing it with two crosses infused with blue Mana, but as if it was a deception from the beginning.
The slash swelled greatly and exploded, with purple poison covering Joseph’s body.
Ssssss─ The sound of smoke rising paired with Joseph’s kneeling.
“Watch out!”
The Jiangshi immediately swung down its capital aiming at her nape.
“[!!]”
As though waiting, as she looked up and saw the poison flowing down her cheek, Joseph realized it was a trap and chased it without stopping.
Piiiiing─
“Grand Cross!”
Just before the attack landed, blue flames burst forth from Joseph, spreading in all directions.
And the erupting pillar of blue light.
Only for a moment to admire and be amazed by realizing all of it was the dragon’s Mana.
At that moment, changing form into a cross, the dragon’s blue flame wildly and fiercely burned, swallowing the Jiangshi that voluntarily entered the range.
However, as if undeterred, the tattered upper garment inflated and exploded, emitting poison gas everywhere.
Immediately [Idol’s Storm] was invoked by Wakamou, creating a barrier of wind to fend off the poison gas, but─the gas mixed with the blue flame became even more fierce and deadly, spreading.
Soon, the unbelievable poison demonstrated its potential to dissolve the flame itself with poison, overwhelmingly overpowered it. Observing this against the poison path-faring Ichigo, she could only express awe at the master’s abilities far beyond herself.
“…Is it dead?”
After hesitating for a moment, Asuka spoke, leading Pirate to slap her on the back of the head.
If it were dead, everyone would have known immediately.
Though the poison mist was thick, the internal scene was invisible…a giant shadow began rising.
Straightening its slouched form, spreading its wings and roaring, the cold wind caused everything around to freeze.
A white dragon with blue eyes soared above the arena, revealing its beautiful jewel-like form as if to show off.
The blend of blue scales traveling up its sapphire-like tail, balanced with its white body was like that of a jewel dragon.
The Jiangshi, unfazed, leaped and dashed forward.
Joseph vanished into the air, turning transparent.
-????
-It’s gone transparent??
-A dragon? Transparent???
-LOL
-Joseph Khan is utterly powerful!!!!
-Oh, that’s why the dragon wasn’t visible!!
-What kind of stealth can’t be noticed by allies!!
-Well, because we’re not the Red Team.
“Kralalalalak!”
The whole level seemed to resonate. The physical sensation was indescribable.
-The strongest transparent dragon among dragons roared.
-The strongest of all dragons is now also transparent, LOL.
-It’s even invisible, LOL.
-Really? That’s how you develop it?
“Go, Blue-Eyes White Dragon!! The thunder that heralds destruction!!”
With Adolf’s cheer, a light appeared in the empty air.
The Jiangshi merely discovered Joseph was positioned on the completely opposite side, reacting belatedly, while Wakamou slashed with a sword, Ichigo shot bullets, Asuka and Pirate cast spells and charms simultaneously, and Adolf’s carving knife pierced the Jiangshi right between the eyes.
“Kyaaaaa──!!!!!”
With a storm-like breath of the furious dragon threatening to engulf the whole arena!!
From within, the Jiangshi struggled and flailed before its movements gradually froze, shattering into pieces and disappearing beyond the light.
Boom.
Majestically descending upon the arena and raising its head, as the white dragon emitted light!
-Cool, LOL
-The pride of Korea, the transparent dragon has arrived?
-Fighting a lot better than I expected, LOL.
-Isn’t this higher than Mei?
-Mei falls back and calls the shadow.
-Coward…. Can you still call yourself a martial artist!!!
-More of a VTuber.
-LOL
“I did it! I, Joseph Khan, finally─!!”
Delighted, crying, and jumping for joy over her great broadcast performance, Joseph made the viewers smile affectionately.
Though it wasn’t something to be overly burdened with, this focus on achievements seemed reminiscent of the desperate original 0th generation.
However─as Joseph Khan conquered the floor, notifications appeared across the whole tower and the world.
[【”Man-eater” Amelia Shear Mason】has conquered the New York 100th-floor Tower]
[A festival is held for the Climbers,『Legendary Class』, who first conquered the 100-floor towers!]
[Representatives from each country will participate, hear first the updates and changes to enhance future climbing!]
[Only [Idol] out of the Legendary Classes is available in the Korean Tower!!]
“Huh?”
Just because you were climbing the Korean Tower doesn’t mean you’re a Legendary Class native to the Korean Tower?
Then is our Adelheid assigned to German Tower with an Engineer on her team? Seems like a murder case waiting to happen…?
[Invitation is sent to 50 Legendary Classes across the world!]
[We will also announce the ranking based on the strength classification of the jobs!]
Wakamou thought just how far they would take it with all this.
Even though Joseph Khan attempted the floor, all her fuss seemed long buried.
No one remarkably paid any attention to her.
Wakamou could view the rankings directly and checked from a window.
Legendary Class Combat Power Ranking.
※ The ranking is based on the strength of the class, not the climber.
1. Sacred Swordmaster.
2. Mujon (武尊)
3. Second-Generation Man-eater
4. Seventh-Generation Lapuesselle (Saint)
5. Sage (Wiseman)
6. Berserk
7. Second-Generation Satyr
8. Third-Generation Sparta
9. Executioner (Beheader).
10. Werebeast.
A kind explanation was attached that it was the strength ranking of the class, not the individual climber’s ability.
….Yet, number 7 Satyr? Why is a goat demon this strong?
If one traded their shame for strength, it made sense. It was also impressive to note how many generations were specified.
Then, how did a Saint change seven times over ten years…?
So, Wakamou searched for his position, scrolling down the list.
…
….
45. Doctor.
46. Postgraduate
47. Mime Master.
48. Artist
49. Artist
50. Idol
“No, seriously, what the heck”
Idol is listed below artist?
What was more irritating was that a Postgraduate existed in the Legendary Classes.
What on earth must one do to be eternally branded as a Postgraduate?
Wakamou had no interest in finding out.
What on earth is a Mime Master…?
“Phew….”
It was the first time Wakamou lagged behind in community acknowledgment.
With a sigh, Wakamou grabbed the invitation that flew over naturally meant for Wakamou.
He had given Joseph even [Skill] training trying to save her, but this was the result…
“…..No, am I seriously the only one aligned with Korea? Really?”
Rather, the fact that Wakamou was about to face a collective beatdown made him slap his forehead.
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