The vacation is over.
Originally, I planned to visit the tourist spots of the Net Canyon and travel to several other places, but surprisingly, I was attacked.
“I had a thought right before the trip, you know?”
“What is it?”
At my question, White Autumn raised both hands as if it were chilling.
“No, I just had this feeling that something strange would happen if I went on a trip, and it seems that wherever the boss goes, there are always incidents…”
“Is it my fault?”
“Oh, no, not exactly, um, sorry…”
“Just kidding.”
I chuckled lightly at White Autumn, who lowered her head.
Well, technically, it wasn’t entirely incorrect.
A lot happened during the 4 months since my return.
Of course, compared to the past, this wouldn’t even be considered an ‘incident.’
“Still, I’m glad it ended well. In the end, your sister rescued everyone, and didn’t we take over Kiki Island?”
“Taking over isn’t quite the right way to put it; we just cleared the dungeon.”
Although unintentionally I did conquer Kiki Island, I didn’t acquire the operational rights or any authority over it.
To be precise, I could have, but just chose not to.
‘Alice.’
She, who longed for dreams that could not come true like my past self.
It wasn’t exactly a good meeting, but I still wanted to fulfill that wish.
‘Even if it’s fake.’
Even if the world claims to be fake, if one is truly here, it becomes real.
It probably wouldn’t change as long as Alice remains something transcendent and does not come to realize the truth.
Personally, I hope her dream doesn’t shatter like mine did.
“But are you really going to do that?”
“Yes.”
I nodded while pressing the broadcast start button in response to Joah’s question.
[The Truth of Kiki Island]
“If you’ve touched my people, be prepared.”
The cost is not yet paid.
■
Kiki Island has been conquered.
This news reached the ears of the majority of the people in Deoen, including those on Kiki Island.
What kind of place is Kiki Island?
It is one of the three major tourist attractions of Deoen, equipped with a special growth system that generates thousands of gold coins every day—a very famous place.
And everyone knew that it was a dungeon.
In Deoen, dungeons are places that ‘anyone’ can conquer, but Kiki Island was an exception.
To be precise, it was one of the places prohibited from being conquered by ‘unwritten’ rules.
The owner of the island, Kler, was earning a fortune from the tourism business and doing things like donating part of that money or giving it back to Deoen, essentially engaging in ‘advertising.’
Moreover, Kiki Island had the insane characteristic that merely enjoying a vacation would increase stats, making it a protected area for various guilds and treating it as a ‘cultural heritage.’
[Isn’t this absurd?]
Isn’t this just ridiculous?
But.
That Kiki Island just got wrecked.
[Lily, even you might have crossed the line a bit here]
[Fr fr]
And that Lily, who just recently took down the World Boss and clinched the title of ‘Most Influential User #1’ decided to stir things up right after arriving at Kiki Island.
At first, Lily claimed she was just traveling, but people were skeptical.
‘Isn’t she just trying to clear a dungeon? LOL.’
‘Come on, no matter how wild she gets, she knows where to draw the line.’
‘Could such a person really make the World Boss wait for three weeks?’
‘Whoa.’
‘LOL.’
‘She probably just came to chill.’
The vacation was obviously a cover, and she probably came to clear the dungeon designated as a ‘protected area’ instead.
There were many doubts, but seeing her casually streaming while cooking and having fun made those speculations naturally fade away.
‘No way she would do that.’
Right?
[Kiki Island – Kiki Beach Resort has been cleared.]
[The dungeon is being erased!]
And as the dungeon vanished, those speculations were reignited explosively.
[This is not okay.]
[Is Lily really losing it? LOL, she’s touching the protected area.]
[Wow.]
[That’s our big Lily.]
[LOLOLOLOLOL.]
[I trusted Lily, haha.]
[But seriously, isn’t this really a problem? Even for Lily, this seems wrong.]
[This is absurd.]
[It’s a dungeon, so what’s the big deal about clearing it? LOL, Lily didn’t even get paid for it.]
[But seriously, how can you destroy a tourist spot like that?]
[For real.]
[Yeah, it’s not true that Lily is in the right~]
[Do you think Lily, who even attacked the Empire, cares about some protected area? LOL?]
[It’s an unspoken agreement among users, though; isn’t she making too many enemies?]
If she had just declared from the start that she was tackling the dungeon, it wouldn’t have spiraled this far.
After all, Kiki Island is just a dungeon, and it wasn’t blocked by Deoen’s side.
But Lily cleared the dungeon under the pretense of ‘traveling’.
The clash between her supporters and those thinking ‘well, this isn’t right’ continued.
Currently, Lily’s status is soaring, with subscribers on the brink of hitting 5 million.
Her average live viewer count has exceeded 300,000, making her one of the top streamers in the country.
With more fans comes more anti-fans, which is only natural.
Particularly, after the Sugarado incident, some viewers with a grudge against Lily began to tear her down with this happening as fuel.
Two hours since this internet war broke out.
[The Truth of Kiki Island]
Lily turned on her stream.
[?]
[Lilha]
[I]
[Epic]
[Lock]
[Clarification needed]
[Lily did nothing wrong ㅠㅠㅠ]
[Clarification]
[Extreme]
[I]
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[Lock]
[No, why is Lady Lily going to clear dungeons while traveling? This is ridiculous, seriously.]
[What’s the broadcast title?]
[Lirarlirarlira]
[What’s with the clearing under the guise of a trip? ;;]
[Manager, can you manage? There’s a lot of trolls.]
[Yeah, it’s heaven! Get lost, haters!]
[Hahahahahaha]
[Hellhellhellhellhellhell]
[Lily didn’t do anything wrong, get lost!]
The moment the broadcast turned on, 100,000 people entered in the blink of an eye.
Even now, they keep coming in with lively chit-chat.
Lily, captured on screen, sits on a beach chair with cool waves rolling in, neither angry nor apologetic but just gazing at the camera with a strange smile.
As if waiting for the right moment.
[?]
[I]
[But why is Lily so confident?]
[Huh?]
[Quickly clarify, I’m getting dizzy!]
[Lily, this can’t be true, right? You’re being falsely accused, right?]
[Look at how confident she is.]
[No, Lily really did nothing wrong, seriously! Haha!]
[What’s going on?]
[??]
[Maybe Kler caused all this chaos after all?]
[What’s this about?]
For ten minutes, without saying a word or managing the chat window, Lily simply waited and then glanced aside.
‘510,000.’
A new record.
Sugarado’s last raid had 410,000, but now there’s a whopping 100,000 more!
It seems everyone’s attention is focused on this ‘Lily’ causing trouble.
Moreover, Lily once bowed her head in apology for not reading donations on her first broadcast for a trivial reason.
Now that she has truly caused an issue, everyone’s curious about what sort of apology she’ll make.
“Now that we’ve gathered, let’s get started.”
For the first time in ten minutes, her clear voice rang out.
Lily quickly scanned the increasingly heated chat window before playing the recorded video.
[Oh]
[?]
[Whoa]
[?]
[Who is this?]
[Iron cage?]
[???]
The first thing shown was the editor and manager trapped in an iron cage.
After breaking down the cage and freeing them, Lily looks up at the shattered sky.
─She’s surprisingly warm-hearted, huh?
It was Kler.
Kler looked down at Lily, glowing radiantly.
His arrogant voice spread to 510,000 viewers watching Lily’s broadcast—no, it had increased to 530,000.
─I don’t understand why you devised a plan to delay. You could have just kept the cage there.
Kler sacrificed his left hand to open the altar.
And like a villain, he boasted about his plan.
─Ah… you sure do speak your mind, don’t you?
─Here, you’ll lose your blessing and can’t say a word about me.
I can’t say anything about myself since I lost my blessing.
Every word that came out caused the chat window to go completely berserk.
If there were about 4 chats criticizing Lily and 6 defending her before,
now the ratio had shrunk to almost 1 to 99.
The public opinion changed as easily as flipping a hand.
And then, like driving a nail in, Kler said with a smirk.
─ This is the spiritual world where you move with mental power, not physical abilities. No matter how amazing you are, you won’t be able to use that incredible strength.
─ Aren’t I in the same situation? True, but behind me are four races with exceptional mental power and great ranks.
[Is this guy crazy?]
[Wow, LOL!]
[Is Kler out of his mind?]
[As expected of Lily~ I knew I could count on her~ I always believed in Lily~]
[What’s this guy doing?]
[Wait, was all of that just nonsense?]
[Isn’t the manager actually kidnapping customers? Is he sane?]
[Wow, that’s crossing the line!]
[Is he challenging Lily? LOL! Isn’t he throwing rocks?]
[Just look at Lily.]
[What happens next?]
[So, did Lily just get attacked?]
I ended the video.
The next part is just for slander.
“As you can see, Kler kidnapped my editor and manager to obtain the blessing I received as luck. He probably thought he could lure me in using them as bait, but he failed.”
There were other stories about meeting Alice or smashing the great race and wishing for something, but I didn’t mention them.
Sigh.
I bitterly hugged my knees and mumbled.
“Really… I came here purely for fun. Suddenly getting kidnapped and attacked… Now my remaining vacation schedule is canceled, and I’m feeling pretty bad.”
[OMG]
[ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ]
[I seriously want to tear Kler apart.]
[I just reported with 50 different IDs.]
[Which faction does Kler belong to? I’m going in now.]
[Are you touching Lily??????]
[Where are the haters? Why is everyone quiet? LOL!]
[The haters are in the hole, LOL!]
[Sorry about that.]
[My bad, my bad, my bad.]
[For doubting the Great Lily…]
[As expected of Lily!]
[LOL!]
[Don’t cry, Lily.]
[In the meantime, didn’t the so-called great races get torn apart by Lily anyway? LOL!]
[Wow.]
[LOL!]
[This is Lily!]
Right now, those words resonate better than anything else.
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