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Chapter 14: Seongwon
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Han Seongwon.
His surname was Han, and his given name used seong, meaning “star,” and won, meaning “root.”
He was a man in his mid-to-late twenties with a rather grand name, telling him to become the foundation of this planet.
Sadly, he’d lost his parents as a child. To support himself and his younger siblings, he’d started working part-time in his mid-to-late teens, then moved into construction work in his early twenties.
Still, he’d made good use of government assistance, and he was healthy enough that he never ended up bedridden. They hadn’t lived in crushing poverty.
Thanks to that, he’d also had a fair amount of time for gaming, his one and only hobby.
‘We get to leave once we finish the job today, right?’
His favorite thing was finishing the day’s assigned work, heading straight home, and gaming all day.
On those days, not even his siblings could stop him.
Looking back now, it had been foolish.
I should’ve spent some time with them.
Still, the oldest of my younger siblings had found a job before I died from overwork, so the family probably hadn’t fallen apart.
Well, anyway, it was a shame he’d died from overwork.
And now I was the only person in the world who remembered him.
After being reincarnated, I’d looked up my old school and a few other things, but they weren’t there.
More importantly, some celebrities and historical figures were different, so I’d figured this must be another world.
That also meant I couldn’t make easy money from crypto.
Anyway, the reason I was bringing this up was...
-Seongwon UP!! Seongwon UP!!
-Lord Seongwon lmaooo
-Now this is what I’m talking about
The late Seongwon lived on as a meme on our stream.
“Damn, Seongwon the Great.”
As for how that had happened... it all began last summer.
While I was gaming, an old save file with a character named Han Seongwon had appeared on stream.
Before I started streaming, I’d always named my male characters Han Seongwon. Unfortunately, evidence of that had made it onto the broadcast.
It wasn’t a mistake I’d make now that I was experienced, but back then, I’d been a baby VTuber barely six months into streaming.
-Who the fuuuck is Seongwon
-So who the hell is Han Seongwon???
-Seongwon?? Seongwon???
At the time, I’d really thought the dead Seongwon was going to be the death of the living Ahyeon.
But after I showed them my old Pukimon account and dug up some other evidence, they finally believed me.
Anyway, things had turned into a cage match for a while, but I’d cleared it up with proof.
After that, whenever I needed a male name on stream, I proudly used Han Seongwon.
Nobody else remembered him, so I should at least keep using his name.
By now, it was a name the viewers knew too.
“Wow, Seongwon actually won that?”
For the record, Seongwon had just hunted a bear.
I’d given the meaningful, deeply significant name Han Seongwon to the pawn in charge of combat at our settlement.
And our Seongwon was quite the fighter.
-Those trait rolls were god-tier
-Strong as fuck lmao
-Can you put some proper armor on him??
“Seongwon’s tough, if nothing else. He’ll be fine.”
I’d been physically tough back then too.
Looking back, I’d worked myself so hard that it was strange I hadn’t developed any chronic problems.
Well, I supposed those memories were what had made me such a mentally resilient adult.
Anyway, now that we had some meat, should we butcher it?
“All right, let’s go.”
For the record, Seongwon handled cooking as well as combat.
With so few people at the start, everyone had to do several jobs.
-Fighting AND cooking, damn lmaooo
-Sanji has entered the chat lol
-Now that’s someone you bring home
“I’m actually a pretty good cook too.”
-??
-Who asked?
“You fuckers.”
Why were they so nice to Seongwon and so mean to me?
“Phew.”
It was unfair, but the living Ahyeon decided to be understanding.
-You need to build your house out of stone btw
-Wood makes me nervous as hell
-Isn’t your tech progress way too slow?
“Tech? Well, we can take our time. We don’t even have enough food.”
I brushed off the viewers’ backseating.
We’d only just started. Why would I build a stone house already?
The guide had said wood was fine, and I didn’t have the spare time to process stone blocks.
Because... well, Seongwon handled that too.
Seongwon was in charge of combat, cooking, hauling, and processing materials. There wasn’t a free moment.
-One fire and you’ll need a new world
-I bet my points on this
-Please just survive today
“I’ll play it safe. We’re making traps right now, see?”
For the record, the prediction was whether I’d survive until the end of today’s stream.
Even with a guide, beating it in one sitting seemed impossible. I planned to play as safely as possible while learning the game.
Once I got the hang of it, I could play again if it was fun. If it was a little underwhelming, I’d never touch it again.
-So how’s the game??
-Is this game fun??
Of course, based on what I’d played so far...
“Hmm, it’s pretty decent.”
Yeah, the game was decent.
Time seemed to fly by.
More than anything, I liked that there wasn’t a fixed story.
Games should be about making your own way.
Where was the fun in just doing what the developers told you to?
“How about building the base like this? A square on the outside, with three big paths through it, then smaller sections filling the rest...”
Now that we’d hunted a bear and secured some food, I slowed the game down for a moment and planned out the settlement.
First, I arranged the walls in a square to make dividing up the space easier, leaving the outer edges clear for patrols and easy movement.
Then, if I ran paths diagonally through it to simplify the routes...
-That’s the fucking Rift
-Wow this fucker really is a Lel addict
-You have an addiction
“Huh?”
Ta-da. I’d made the Rift.
“Is this convergent evolution...?”
-???
-Convergent evolution my ass lmaooo
-Get the Lel out of your brain
-It actually looks kinda good though
“Right? It’s kind of pretty too.”
I could lay out the paths just like the Rift, then put things like dining rooms and living spaces between them.
After all, Leore’s map was one of the layouts these viewers knew best.
How could something based on it look bad?
-Why does this look good...?
-A little inefficient but it’s got charm
-Should we make a kill zone in the middle?
“Oh, a kill zone. We should make one.”
Invaders regularly came to settlements in Pawnworld.
A kill zone was a place where you deliberately left a way into the settlement open to lure enemies in.
Normally, I would’ve asked what we needed a kill zone for and just given my units better weapons.
“This was where the tower went, right?”
But since I’d built the place around a Rift theme, I started putting together a nice-looking kill zone.
“How about leaving the opposite side open so they come through here?”
It would look good if I made it so the enemy ran straight down from the red team’s side.
-Ooh lolol
-Not bad
-It HAS to be stone
-Stop chopping fucking wood already
“Yeah, yeah.”
Well, that meant I really did have to gather chunks of rock and process them into stone blocks now.
Fortunately, our Seongwon was also a hauling specialist.
More than combat or processing materials, this was where Seongwon’s true worth shone.
How many bricks had I carried over the years?
Watching Seongwon carry chunks of rock on his back brought those old memories flooding back.
“Wow, look at him go.”
-Seongfather’s shirt and pants are soaked 😭
-What are the others doing?? lmaooo
-Wayo you fucker do some work
“No, Wayo needs to research.”
For the record, there was also a pawn named Wayo.
That pawn specialized in research and medicine, so Wayo stayed holed up in a room doing research all day.
-What a fucking cushy job
-Is that fucker playing Lel in there instead of researching?
-Seongwon’s hauling rocks in the blazing sun ffs
-Why’s tech taking so long when research is all Wayo does??
“That’s because our Wayo has room to grow.”
While Seongwon had high base stats and traits that paid off right away, I’d made Wayo a late bloomer.
Maybe that was why the viewers were giving Wayo so much shit.
How stingy. Couldn’t I leech a little?
“Just wait. This is the talent that’ll support our whole settlement.”
-What talent, there’s a mental illness trait;
-Calling it now Wayo’s gonna ruin the settlement yep
“Lalala, can’t hear you~”
For the record, Wayo had the Eccentric Genius trait.
It increased learning speed, but also raised the chance of mental illness.
That just meant I had to take good care of Wayo...
“Come on, Seongwon! You can do it!”
In the end, Seongwon would have to carry the team for now.
-Seongfather 😭
-Can we donate to Seongwon??
“If you give it to me, I’ll make sure it reaches him.”
-🖕🖕🖕
-Absolutely fucking not lmaooo
-Greedy-ass bitch...
...Honestly, these Seongwon stans.
I wasn’t sure when it had started, but as you could see, there was a group that blindly praised Seongwon.
And in contrast, Wayo got unfairly trashed.
Honestly, I didn’t mind.
Seongwon had once been my name.
Wasn’t Wayo just a nickname I’d used for a year?
Go ahead. Insult Wayo all you wanted.
Heh heh.
I couldn’t help laughing at the viewers who had no idea.
-???
-Why are you laughing like a creep??
“It’s nothing. Anyway, I should start by replacing the outer walls with stone, right?”
-Yep
-Get Nguyen over there to do it
“Yep.”
You started Pawnworld with three units in total.
Seongwon handled combat, cooking, processing materials, and hauling, while Wayo handled research and medicine.
That left one pawn in charge of mining, construction, growing crops, and chopping wood.
His name was Nguyen, and he was really good at his job.
Wasn’t he the real unsung MVP?
-This guy’s a great worker lmaooo
-Let’s marry Nguyen off to Wayo??
“Fuck off, pretty please.”
That didn’t mean I wanted to marry him.
Our Wayo was going to stay in that room playing Lel... I mean, doing research.
-???
-What the fuck is wrong with Nguyen you asshole
-Tsk tsk a man like that’s a real catch
Anyway, I was watching Seongwon and Nguyen work with the game sped up when...
[Danger!]
A warning message appeared in red at the bottom right of the screen.
“Huh? Where are they coming from?”
That message meant invaders had arrived, so I took a quick look.
Markers appeared on the map showing where the enemies had arrived.
They hadn’t been all that dangerous when I fought them earlier.
I could just kite them with Seongwon and kill them...
“...Why are there so many?”
When I moved the camera over, I was briefly lost for words.
Because...
-Emergency lmaooo
-Wow we’re fucked huh?
-All right next world let’s go lolol
At the edge of the map, where I’d moved the camera to look...
A group was charging toward us, carrying all kinds of firearms.
Footnotes:
Sanji is the Straw Hat Pirates’ cook in One Piece and a powerful fighter.
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