The tower wasn’t really at fault.
Wakamou’s abilities were changed due to the ‘Legendary Class’. If he were an ordinary climber, he would have had stats.
Maybe he could have been ten times stronger than he is now. Being a proper job, after all.
However, Wakamou’s job is a unique class determined by the achievements he accumulated during his life.
And it was Wakamou who chose the skills, and the tower was just unfortunate.
The Japanese Tower simply continued its routine by checking tickets and providing climbers with [Skills].
Wakamou was the one who chose them─ but if there was a problem.
No matter what he chose, he wouldn’t have enough stats to use it.
Because skills usually require stats!!
Such is the great disadvantage of the Legendary Class.
The tower wondered if it should subtly suggest a change of job, but.
Seeing that this guy would rather die than change, it left him alone.
※※※
Ding─
The message announcing the start of Wakamou’s broadcast prompted Korean viewers to all tune in at once.
The title was intriguing: [Climbing Kyoto Tower]!
Some who were late with information, oblivious, or simply wanted to stir trouble entered, feeling disappointment or betrayal, exclaiming if he abandoned Korea for Japan, and asking believers if it was real.
Unconcerned, the normally well-adjusted believers ignored the meaningless echoes from newcomers and troublemakers.
Our leader’s broadcast has always been a mess, not just for a day or two.
They had already heard Ichigo talk about Wakamou while enjoying delicious food at a hotel in the morning, so there was no worry.
To experiment with the first-ever one-of-a-kind item, [Tower Climbing Ticket], in Japan. The reason being it was easier to travel to Japan via the tower. It seemed ridiculous, but it had been a long time since they gave up on questioning it, figuring it was just another ploy to buy VTuber merchandise.
There were also community users raising concerns about whether allowing climbers from other countries to freely go to Japan wasn’t a major issue and if government approval was needed for such an arrangement.
But, given that the association president’s power was stronger than the government’s in both Japan and Korea, and they were friends, they brushed it off as such a blatant circumstance.
Of course, the biggest truth was……
Just, it seemed like it would be fun.
Whatever happened, it was bound to become a hot topic in the community!!
For those seeking dopamine on the internet, any amusing news was all that mattered!!
“Ddu-da U-da-da….”
Excited to see what their leader would show in Japan, viewers swarmed in. The viewer count reached an all-time high with newcomers flooding in through links shared in Japanese communities.
The scene shown was that of a giant woman sitting helplessly on the floor babbling.
New viewers asked why this was happening, if she was normally like this, and what was going on─ amid a flurry of questions, it was utter chaos.
The disorder was such that even a few managers couldn’t remedy it, but Wakamou was just babbling.
-Why is the leader like this?
-Get up leader…sleeping here will make your face twist…
-Why so downcast??
“Woow…Ttudai…Wakamou…wants to go back to Korea…”
Even her believers started worrying a little seeing Wakamou, known for his professional demeanor during broadcasts, shattered mentally.
What exactly happened in Japan that turned their leader into such a mess of a bear?
“Wakamou wants…more candy…but the tower gives only a little….”
-Looks like dementia?
-To be fair, it’s understandable at this age…
-I’ll take care of it, everyone else please leave.
-This is the fifth time asking why this person is acting like this.
Unable to bring herself to say she couldn’t use [Attack Skills] due to insufficient intelligence, Wakamou was just talking nonsense.
Specters wandered around, but Wakamou, who was just a lump of lifeless mana, didn’t even recognize them, and they just wandered.
Seeing her sit on the floor while monsters didn’t attack but wandered around, newly arrived viewers poured in chats asking what was going on, but Wakamou stayed depressed, not even greeting.
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-It’s broken, isn’t it?
-We’ve used it for a thousand years, it had a good run…
-So this is what our leader looks like once they wear out…
-No, what on earth happened in Japan???
-According to breaking news, the leader was attacked as a monster they say?
-LOL? What?
-They must have treated you as an intelligent monster from the tower.
-Well, one does look like that…
-There are no monsters chosen as climbers from the tower lol
-This is legit lol are we idiots or what~
It was basic, trivial common sense.
Even with the collapse of the tower, bringing out all sorts of intelligent monsters, there were no monsters, no matter how intelligent, ever chosen as climbers. There are even climbers whose race itself changes. Some viewers initially thought Wakamou belonged to such a category.
Monsters climbing the tower was simply unfeasible. If that were the case, their name would appear on the tower, making it impossible not to know.
Likewise, they only express it as “intelligent monsters.”
It might have been unknowable ten years ago, but in this era of monsters wandering everywhere due to the collapse of the tower, no one in Korea treated Wakamou as a monster…
Because she’s a climber recognized by the tower, with records of living in the community from before the tower’s collapse, her reputation is widely known on the Internet!!
-She finally figured it out…
-Reading her internet posts, our leader seems to have a fondness for boobs.
-The polar bear sheds tears today again.
-Being a hardcore otaku does hit hard…
-Our otaku leader went to Japan and got… caught up in something?
-Leader! Snap out of it, I’ve uploaded the drawing you did 10 years ago to the cafe to cheer you up!
-I’ve uploaded that erotic manga you said you loved to the archive!!!
-I’ve released that thesis on the aesthetics of the triangle between thighs that the leader talked about freaking liking…
-Just kill me now hahahahaha
If anything, this was the tragedy of being a famous person… seeing believers actively striving to destroy a distinctly different part of Wakamou, the manager closed his eyes tightly to the horrific spectacle.
The record of the Fox Deity blowing off steam in modern society with her fake human identity.
Teasing from her believers about how she adapted quickly and with flair soon after being unsealed.
There was no issue since nothing that could reveal her personal information had leaked, but since what Wakamou uploaded wasn’t going away, this was indeed tragic.
There’s no longer any worry about their fake identity being revealed, thanks to government erasing data.
Nothings Wakamou posted ever disappears, though!!
Be it saying rounded hips are a turn-on, how the triangle between thighs is the pinnacle of eroticism, or the disproportioned drawings from when her drawing skills were lacking, nothing disappears!!
Viewers joked about whether it was the right time to end it all while reading the chat, making the life of a broadcaster exceedingly harsh.
Of course, there were also those who came to like her more for such humanizing traits. Some deemed today’s meal settled thanks to the leader’s curated selection of erotic picks…
Thanks to this, more damage ensued compared to having 0 intelligence at the tower, prompting Wakamou to regain composure.
“Oh, feeling refreshed. Truly nothing hits like dark history crushing one’s mentality….I am not at fault!! What’s wrong with living honestly as a beast when you’re born a beast!!”
-This person went to Japan to buy VTuber doujins?
-This person doesn’t buy unless it’s drawn by the VTuber themselves.
-In this room, only VTuber sexual jokes are forbidden.
-Why though damn lol
-I’ve posted the leader’s recommended collection of erotic pictures!!
-Why not the leader’s own erotic collection?
-You’re demoted from being a believer.
This didn’t hit me emotionally whatsoever. It’s just… a bit embarrassing?
As long as my red pill isn’t discovered, exposing my preferences publicly holds no shame.
The courage to say something is arousing.
That’s what you might call the heart capable of loving a VTuber.
“God Miiong…please grant me the strength to ascend the tower!!”
Having received encouragement and interest(?) from the viewers, I squeezed out the energy to climb the unfair tower.
And then, I seemed to see the maman of Virtualive’s Miiong from afar waving and saying something to me.
[“Uchi~ Uchi, it’s Okami, you know?”]
I am not a fox but a wolf.
Ah, right. It was just too adorable to stop.
It’s the backroom fox and maman wolf…!!
I told the tourism office they were both foxes. But maman…looks more fox-like than wolf…anyways!!
“Wakamou, revived!!!”
-Clicking ‘Like’ on pictures posted ten years ago out of pity, the steel mentality.
-No shame from having erotic manga reveal your sensual preferences…
-What’s wrong with living like a beast when you’re a beast lol
-No but why is a fox looking for a wolf lol
-God Miiong is recognized at least right lol
-No, so what happened?
Alright, sharpen up, let’s climb the tower.
“Konban Mio~on! Here’s Wakamou Inarizushi!”
Looking back with a clear mind, the broadcasting state seemed overwhelming, with Japanese viewers also swarming in, mixing Japanese and Korean in chats. Even though I couldn’t use [Attack Skills], you have days like that.
“So what happened was. A ninja tried to ambush and kill me, failed, didn’t even greet. The shaman association tried to kill me, saying I’m a great yokai, you know? I get nothing but bad memories every time I come to Japan.”
-When was the last visit haha
-The leader wrote about getting provoked once.
-As expected from the land of ijime. The home culture is different.
-The leader tried to tour but nearly got exorcised.
-Under Kyotoish communication, this implies they were being shown the door.
-This is right.
-Failing an ambush and not offering greetings!! The rudeness in formal discourse!!
-You must have been treated with ochazuke surely?
-Kyotoish discourse indicates to hurry up and leave.
-Failing to adhere to the complex Edo era’s way results in village ostracism!!
-“If it were the Edo period, they would have killed each other”
“A karate academy wouldn’t have tried to attack me otherwise. But they came in and attacked.”
-? Did they really attack?
-“When attempting to kill, one must do so properly.”
-No but why did you learn karate lol
-? Isn’t it common knowledge for VTubers to learn karate?
-VTuber no karatedo, no VTuber.
-Show your karate!!
-VTuber utilizes karate. Recorded even in Japan’s Kojiki.
-No but leader…why didn’t you kill the attackers? Isn’t this frustrating?
-Who’s this crazy one up there haha
-A cider pass obsessed with cider….
“Why didn’t I kill them? Both killing and saving are my choices!! If one dares to attack Wakamou who does VTuber, they pay the price!! Besides, even among climbers, killing is illegal these days.”
-“In the Edo period, they would’ve been killed”
-Was just here to see Inari shrine but feel sorry…
-What’s the synopsis now?
-Came to revisit old memories of Inari shrine across the sea, but there are no believers, no true shrine maidens, it saddens. On top of that, attacked with an intent to kill, understandable mental collapse ㅇㅇ….
-Fox deity comes to fox shrine, but is this right?
-When was the last time she got provoked? Tenpyō Shōhō period?
-Muromachi period maybe?
-Going all the way back into history lol
“Well, I’ve also set small-sized shrines at dojos. I’m heading back to Korea after this. Nothing beats home.”
-Leader, disclose Korea is your home.
-Inari… I’ll also set a shrine here….
-A drama unfolds loll
-No but where does a fox deity go if Japan repulses them?
-Don’t you know? All eight million deities have been expelled, they say.
-That explains the earthquakes…
-Returning deities being denied proper reception.
-Can’t it be she got sick of killing ninjas and shamans being repetitive?
-Oh, that side?
Taking a light stretch side to side while interacting with viewers, it seemed the rumor of having built a shrine in Kyoto spread, and they worried if perhaps I wasn’t returning to Korea.
Instead, by saying that I was disgusted with the attacks and was heading back, some misunderstanding snowballed, but seeing that it amused them, I left it be and assumed a stance.
Words weren’t necessary. Those who’d seen enough knew that assuming a stance meant preparing for a fight.
And the atmosphere in the chatroom shifted in a moment, signaling even new arrivals that something was about to happen.
“[Kuzunoha Style Sorcery]!!”
With the casting of a skill, glimmering sparkles enveloped Wakamou’s entire body.
Believers were shocked to see that a [Skill] was in use.
Was Wakamou’s job [Shaman] after all? Watching the broadcast, even the Japanese association president widened his eyes, witnessing the use of [Skill] unobtainable unless registered with the [Kuzunoha Family] sorcerer companions.
[Insufficient intelligence.]
Though the skill effect was visible, only Wakamou could see the message indicating the failure.
Although it was just a diary, the message indicating failure was visible only to Wakamou.
“Wasn’t the casting a fail?”
Amidst a smart viewer who seemed to know a bit trying to argue, Wakamou loudly drew the attention of the wandering spirits.
“Void Splitter─!!!”
A kick known as the Somersault Kick! The believers seemed puzzled by the sight of him flipping his body while delivering a kick mid-air, but soon, the wandering spirits at a distance were sliced in half.
The invisible slash erupted through the collaboration of [Mana Manipulation] and [Idol’s Body]..!!
He sharpened and modified the tips of his toes like blades, and infused them with a ton of magical power.
[Stats]
Magic: 572,312 -> 72,312.
A reckless strike exploiting the fact that magic is restored upon climbing floors! It’s a life-consuming skill one can’t even think to use outside the tower. Since it consumes double the magic used for attack and its recoil, it’s an overpowered massacre move that can only be showcased in the tower.
– That’s not a Complete Strategy, is it?
– Well, maybe not, hahaha
-“Why should I go all out for Japan?”
– Haha, exactly
– The Japanese Association President expecting Complete Strategy Layer must be rattled.
– Absolutely rattled, haha
– Isn’t that Void Splitter?
-“I’ll show this to modern Japanese Shamans.”
– What’s this? Seriously?
“…..”
Despite the believers enjoying the start of the festival after witnessing Wakamou’s “magic(?),” he almost lost his smile.
It was Wakamou’s first time attempting a regular strategy instead of a Complete Strategy Layer, hence he was at a loss for words when he saw the reward he received.
[No usable class gear exists]
[3 additional stat points are granted to the Climber.]
[You have obtained 1 【Broadcast Point】. Current: 543]
[Tower rewards are accumulating.]
‘Damn….!!’
Additional stats meant nothing to Wakamou.
No, to begin with, conventional Climbers increase their intelligence stats to gain magic power, but Wakamou lacks even that intelligence stat.
A structure where even with additional stats, you cannot increase your stats!!
Moreover, failing to achieve Complete Strategy Layer significantly reduces the rewards you could obtain due to the merit of being able to see the method.
He realized that just now.
This job—is a complete mess beyond imagination!!
Damn it!! The tower hates VTubers, doesn’t it!!!
With a hopeful heart, he tried to allocate stats.
[No assignable stats exist]
Say no more….
Without a word, Wakamou immediately started walking toward the 2nd floor.
[Ascending Kyoto Tower 2nd Floor World]
-Climber, test and prove your martial prowess.
[Platinum Achievement Conditions]
-Defeat 3 demons with [Attack Skill] ─
“[Kuzunoha Style Magic]!!”
Grabbing and compressing his hidden arm with all his might after quaffing the [Crispy Elastic Potion] the moment he arrived. Pressing continuously with all his strength ─
“Mach Punch!!”
With a delayed explosion and roaring sound, three demons with huge mouths exploded into a mist of blood simultaneously. More of a shockwave than a punch… Wielding 400,000 magic in a strike that injured Wakamou with a 100,000 recoil magic, he hid his exploded arm within his sleeve.
He just stood confidently, always showing an elegant composure!!
[No usable class gear exists]
[3 additional stat points are granted to the Climber.]
[You have obtained 1 【Broadcast Point】. Current: 544]
[Tower rewards are accumulating.]
[No assignable stats exist]
Immediately continuing to the 3rd floor.
The believers were astonished at such continuous ascents for the first time. New viewers unfamiliar with Wakamou displayed monster-like martial prowess that left them shocked. Meanwhile, unexpectedly, [Kuzunoha Style Magic] was being promoted.
[Ascending Kyoto Tower 3rd Floor World]
-Climber, test and prove your martial prowess.
[Platinum Achievement Conditions]
-Defeat 1 Ushirogami with [Attack Skill] ─
Upon entry, from Wakamou’s rear emerged a Ushirogami, a female-like monster with an eye on the back of its head. A sneak attack tier monstrosity occasionally present in the tower, but Wakamou elegantly flipped while ascending without even turning back.
“[Kuzunoha Style Magic]!!”
Curling the leg sharply and kicking towards the monster.
“Five Million Ton Press!!!”
Exploding [Faith’s Weight] by pouring magic out!!
The unfortunate 3rd-floor monster couldn’t do anything and was directly squashed, split, and crushed, buried in the ground that shook as much as a meteor drop, far beyond mere demise.
Standing heroically at the center of an impact zone as if a meteor fell, Wakamou, using blood-stained legs, promptly headed to the next floor.
[Ascending Kyoto Tower 4th Floor World]
-Climber, test and prove your martial prowess.
[Platinum Achievement Conditions]
-Defeat 1 Katawaguruma with [Attack Skill] ─
A super-speed conquest that doesn’t need a Complete Strategy Layer!! The breakthrough speed makes one wonder if he is even choosing rewards!!
As soon as he ascended, a twisted monster rapidly spinning a fiery wheel screeched at Wakamou. An intense and fierce rotation that seemed to strip human skin away easily!!
Moreover, how about the blazing heat?
Even when crashing into the wheel with clattering sounds, Wakamou was blazing but was smiling alluringly within that flame, and lightly grasped Katawaguruma’s cheek with closed, half-open eyes.
“[Kuzunoha Style Magic]”
No need for description. Starting from where Wakamou’s hand touched, Katawaguruma gradually turned white! Panicked, struggled to live, but not releasing, Wakamou embraced like a Yeti from myth, instantly turning it into an ice sculpture.
The effect of [Mellow Milk Potion] made by Liu Ying! Though it freezes the entire body, Wakamou cares not! The touched side also just freezes!!
On the 5th floor, a Rokurokubi with an elongating neck stretched its head to coil like a snake, but immediately perished due to Wakamou’s [Kuzunoha Style Magic] [Explosion]. Grabbing a [Sweet Flame Throwing Bottle] and striking with a punch to create a dazzling explosion!
On the 6th floor, a Karakasa Kozou, with eyes and a tongue on an umbrella, boisterously tried to engage in an aerial battle, but utilizing [Kuzunoha Style Magic]─ [Mana Manipulation], pounded the ground and rocketed up, splitting it with a kick.
On the 7th floor, a gigantic woman the size of Wakamou, a Yamahime wearing a straw coat, demanded blood and bit into Wakamou. But, blood not even coming out, teeth not even embedding, Yamahime was cast away by Wakamou’s [Kuzunoha Style Magic].
“Baekdu Mountain Drop!!!!”
Blasting Ley-kick(?) spirit of Taekwondo!! Displayed an extravagant impact before using [Faith’s Weight] to shatter the earth beneath.
Continuing, on the 8th floor─ a cannibalistic Yamamba in the form of an old witch charged with a cleaver. [Kuzunoha Style Magic].
“Fire Style!!!”
Breathing a flame like a dragon’s breath to engulf the witch. Exhibiting martial might that makes it unclear who the monster is, and reducing the witch to ashes with the effect of [Sweet Flame Potion].
Finally arriving at the 9th floor─ The monster named [Monster Fox], a fox about the size of a human, leaped up and agilely followed with somersaults.
[Kuzunoha Style Magic]─[Idol’s Form]!!
Transforming into a giant fox and swallowing it whole!! Obscuring the screen with that illusion, beating the fox to death inside jovially!!
A swan always only shows its noble visage!
Concealing the corpse skillfully with [Idol’s Form] to appear as landscape, Wakamou stepped toward the 10th floor.
[Ascending Kyoto Tower 10th Floor World]
-Climber, fight to survive and triumph.
[Platinum Achievement Conditions]
-Do not retreat against [Wandering Ghost Samurai] (0/1)
-Defeat within 3 trades against [Wandering Ghost Samurai] (0/1)
-Be unharmed (0/1)
-Defeat within a 1-minute time limit (0:01)
A Samurai grasping a seemingly brittle katana with broken and bent arrows lodged in its armor stood there.
Seeming to have revived out of battle resentment, the Samurai raised its head toward Wakamou, and empty orbits lit up.
It was the first time with a time limit attached. Time was ticking from 1 second onward.
“Hello, I’m Wakamou Inarizushi.”
He greeted with a formal bow.
“If a samurai challenges with a sword─ we shall also employ swords… Behold the supreme art of [Kuzunoha Style Magic]…!!”
The supreme art? Even the believers stopped chatting and focused on the screen. Never had Wakamou brought this topic before. Was he about to show an ultimate move Climbers occasionally possess?
The viewers, in high anticipation, began chatting, speculating what might come forth.
Is a familiar coming? Would he bring down a meteor from the sky? If not, could it be a world-splitting strike? Perhaps domain expansion, since it’s magic?
But as always─ Wakamou displayed something that transcended the viewers’ imagination.
An array of radiant lights bursting like colors from between his chest, and red plum blossoms like blood bursting forth.
Wakamou, dramatically bending his head back as his long hair traced a crescent moon, artistically portrayed it, raising a hand above his chest slowly.
“[Kuzunoha Style Magic]”
Then─
A lavishly decorated katana emerged.
─ As the tower had lavishly and aesthetically modified the sword purely for Wakamou, the scene coupled with render, surpassed sacred to grandeur, leaving viewers in awe, momentarily halting all chats.
Gripping the hilt, the blade slowly unveiled from the hidden sheath in his chest, held firmly in Wakamou’s hand.
Utilizing [VTuber Asset] to overlay a red glow as if crafting an artistic semblance of a sword aura.
Magic check!
[Stats]
Magic: 583,402
“Kusanagi’s Sword”
So insane was the rendering; Wakamou thought it effortlessly cool. The feeling of rapture was such that being a nerd, he had always yearned to do something like this. It was his best pretentious act yet, savoring the delightful thrill, standing stupidly still.
The splendid sword, akin to rippling waves, and the Fox Deity clutching it formed a picturesque scene. Being still enhanced the portrayal and rendered magnificently, although standing may have seemed daft.
50,000 magic blessed the sword and his arm, swinging horizontally.
So rapid, his arm briefly vanished, appearing from the opposite side. Even with merely a swing, the recoil damage was 50,000, but the effect was outstanding.
Even without a sharp edge, it’s still a sword.
The overwhelmingly accelerated slash, impossibly swift.
Oblivious to its slash, the Samurai staggered a step, the katana dropping with a thunk─
And shortly, the Samurai, armor and all, fell forward, crumbling.
The enemy oblivious to its own severance toppling… A scenario only imaginable in anime manifested in reality.
The chatroom was akin to a frozen page, unmoving. The tower announced uninterrupted by the realization.
[Kyoto Tower 10th Floor Platinum Achieved. Announce the Climber’s Honor and Glory]
With the booming victory fanfare─ the sword was elegantly resheathed into the chest-bound scabbard, Wakamou turned toward the viewers’ perspective, smiling.
“Did you witness? The magic of this body. It would be appreciated if you hailed it beautiful.”
With a warm smile, Wakamou displayed casual grace although actually nervous due to dwindling magic power, waving as he turned off the stream.
Viewers, still benumbed seated before the blackened screen, only realized the stream had ended belatedly and rushed to the community.
Countless gifs were already flooding in, excited Koreans were abuzz, debate over whether the unsheathed sword was genuine brewed─
And amidst it, an article titled “Shaman Association reportedly shut down” made it to the best-ranked posts.
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