A spacious room in reality where Deoen has not yet been raised.
The man, captured on the camera installed above the monitor, was turning his gaze between two screens.
One is the chat window.
The other is a video of a woman who has recently become a hot topic.
One video shows her capturing the Goblin King, while the other shows her teaching a lesson to the Banded who attacked her.
“I see why you all recommended this.”
[O.O]
[R.L.]
[Lately, Lady Lily is insane]
[She’s way too pretty and her skills are pro-level]
[R.L.L.O.L.]
“So why did Lily bail on her sponsorship…?”
[L.O.L.L.L.L.L.L.L.L.L.L.]
[In many ways, she’s a legend, hahaha]
[Her bailing on sponsorship is cute.]
[? That head is seriously broken.]
[Let’s go take down the guild.]
[Honestly, she’s just an alternate character, but I really have no idea who she is, hahaha.]
[Isn’t the Siege War coming soon?]
“Well… it’s really good. Just when we were also short on people for the Siege War.”
Not bad at all.
Black, the Guild Master of the top 10 guild Black Moon and a popular streamer with 40,000 followers, couldn’t hide his admiration while watching the video.
Her strange movements and speed of evasion and countering, the technique and strength in wielding her weapon.
And finally, her ability to block the attack of ‘Hit Mid.’
Her stats are at a level of 40-50, positioned in the middle tier among guild members, but her skills are competitive with the very best.
If she fought in a balanced state, she could have a good match against the elites.
[That person seems to be with Miss Yena.]
[R.L.O.L.]
[Is Yena washed up?]
[Don’t insult Tas.]
[R.L.O.L. You shouldn’t call someone washed up even if they are.]
[Whoa there.]
[Don’t cross the line.]
[Isn’t she only doing content with Miss Yena? I saw her saying she wouldn’t stream, but she was streaming.]
[O.O The guild is an exception, right?]
[Yena seems to be aiming for it too.]
Yena.
A name well-known.
No, anyone who played Deoen in the early days cannot be unaware of the nickname Yena.
“Back then, she wasn’t shy about targeting the top ten guilds.”
Of course, as time passed and so many skilled and professional players emerged, her rank naturally dropped, but her skill remained unchanged.
If we were to give an honest assessment, if she had managed the guild well, she would still maintain a high rank, but perhaps due to her lack of ambition, she operated with a very small elite group, causing the guild’s rank to drop consistently.
“Insulting Tas will get you banned. For now, Lady Lily is also doing content with Miss Yena, so I won’t be intruding.”
[For now?]
“Are we giving up on this?”
“Are we really doing this?”
“If the content ends, I’m going to rub it in like a dog, lol.”
“Oh, the content and the guild membership are separate, lol.”
“Yena’s blood tears, lol. Is this guild member NTR…?”
“Honestly, from Lady Lily’s perspective, Black joining the guild is more beneficial.”
“Right? The support is solid.”
“Laughing so hard, lol.”
“This is too much, lol.”
“Oh, lol. I don’t know about the ten million won~”
“Still, since thoughts can solidify after the content ends, how about doing it now?”
“Exactly, as feelings build up, it can become more complicated.”
“Better to just go for it now, lol.”
“I’ll do it as long as the two of you aren’t negatively affected. We can’t disturb other streamers.”
Black naturally moved on from the conversation.
Of course, even if he said this, he would find a way to secure a spot.
Even now, there must be other guilds or professional scenes desperately trying to make offers to Lady Lily.
■
People need to sleep.
If you don’t sleep, fatigue builds up; if fatigue builds up, energy decreases; and if energy decreases, strength is lost.
And when strength is lost, everything feels tiring and you become reluctant to move.
That’s right. I don’t want to move.
“Huh… Have I now become a human leaning towards the celestial race…?”
7 AM.
I wake up at the same time every day.
What time did I sleep?
“I turned it on around 2… turned it off around 8… and fell asleep right after.”
Hmm, I slept for 11 hours.
I get up.
For an ordinary person, this would be “Wow, that’s like way too much sleep,” but for me, who has maintained the same pattern for 30 years, it feels like an immense amount of time wasted.
Normally, I’d either sleep for 5 hours at most or not sleep at all.
To begin with, celestial race humans hardly need sleep.
The reason celestial beings sleep is purely for wasting time as a pastime or to recover from very serious injuries.
Of course, I didn’t sleep for leisure; I used sleep to reboot my computer.
People need to sleep to clear their minds.
“Huh… that was chaotic.”
I turned on the stream for the first time.
The first feeling I experienced was fun.
People’s reactions were amusing, and rather than hoping for something, it felt like just watching an enjoyable video.
No expectations or desires.
Those emotions felt so different to me, and that probably made things more enjoyable.
But I feel like I’ve forgotten something since earlier.
Feels like I missed something.
What did I not do?
The collaboration with Yena? That’s tomorrow.
I look at my phone.
I had quite a few KakaoTalk messages and missed calls.
? No way, was today the collaboration?
There’s only one person coming, so just as I was about to read the whopping 57 KakaoTalks from that one person, my extremely pricey phone vibrated with a loud buzz.
It was Yena.
“Hello?”
─ Lady Lily?
“Yes. What’s going on?”
I casually tossed the bread I bought earlier into the frying pan while asking.
Ah, I didn’t buy butter.
─…Uh, did you seriously forget? Really?
“Hmm? What did I forget?”
What? The broadcast?
Right. I told Yena I wouldn’t do a broadcast, but I went and did it anyway.
As Yena was preparing various content, it turned out I had shown her some of what she was supposed to present during her broadcast.
Naturally, that brings down the impact and quality of the content Yena was supposed to have.
Hmm, I messed up.
Of course, Yena had asked me multiple times if I wanted to try broadcasting, but it’s a different story when she was going to do it on her own and when I did it without permission.
I recognized my mistake as I carelessly cut the bread into four pieces.
“I’m sorry. I went ahead with the broadcast without permission. I was catching about 500 of those things and got bored, so I thought I’d try it out for a bit, and it just escalated.”
─ No, that’s not it.
“I’ll refund the money I received. This is the content fee, and since I ran it on my own, it’s only fair.”
Money is precious, but it can’t be helped.
The Celestial Race demands vengeance and compensation, but that’s their story.
As the ‘Saintess’ of the small village, I have a duty to repay kindness as well.
Of course, I might be a former saintess, but there are still things I must uphold as a person.
─ Huh…
There’s silence on the other end of the call.
Hmm, was it that shocking?
I guess I really shouldn’t have broadcast.
Suddenly, Yena bursts out laughing, “Hahaha!”
For a moment, her laughter faded away, but after taking a breath, she grabbed the phone again.
─ No, no. I actually don’t mind that you broadcasted. I hoped you would, and I checked it out, and you did really well.
“…Really?”
Then what’s the matter?
As I pondered, Yena spoke in a hushed tone as if revealing a huge secret.
─ It’s about sponsorship.
Thud.
The piece of bread in my mouth drops.
Ah.
─ You didn’t read the messages and just left, did you?
“She really went, huh?”
“Ah.”
“Honestly didn’t think you really forgot.”
“Oh no.”
■
“Huuh…”
“Are you okay?”
“Maybe not.”
8 PM. The time when people start clocking out and the most connections are made.
I logged into Deoen and met Yena. I was about to go live for a clarification broadcast.
Originally, I thought of just going straight to it, but Yena said that this timing allows the most sponsors to watch.
“Do you think they’re really mad?”
“Umm… not sure.”
“……”
The greater the expectation, the bigger the disappointment.
As the former Saintess, I lived under many people’s expectations. The folks in Somau Village liked me so much that they could overlook falling short, but those from outside didn’t have the same grace.
The disappointed gazes when I didn’t meet the ‘Celestial Race’ standards. The feeling of powerlessness when you see the real Saintess.
It’s been 30 years since I gave up being a Saintess, and 20 years since then, but I still remember that day’s emotions.
Yena gently massaged my somewhat tense shoulders.
“Geez, I can’t even make a joke.”
“…A joke?”
“Yeah.”
Yena chuckled.
“There are so many people who like Lady Lily. A small mistake like this, they can laugh it off.”
“Really?”
“Of course.”
Can they really?
With a slightly calmer mindset, I started the stream.
In an instant, numerous people rushed into the broadcast.
[?]
[Not standing out]
[ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ]
[Me]
[Lock]
[Me]
[Lock]
[Lock]
[Extreme]
[Don’t say anything to Lily! Don’t say anything to Lily! Don’t say anything to Lily! Don’t say anything to Lily! Don’t say anything to Lily! Don’t say anything to Lily! Don’t say anything to Lily! Don’t say anything to Lily!]
[Me]
[ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ]
[Me]
[I thought I was gonna freeze to death… I thought I was gonna freeze to death… I thought I was gonna freeze to death… I thought I was gonna freeze to death…]
[My money!]
[I’m good at keeping promises (closing the stream without reading donations)]
Uh… that doesn’t seem right.
They’re mad.
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