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◈ The Seven-Time Hero Goes Live ◈
Chapter 23: Pam's Gift (2)
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A cheat item?
Jun-il found it hard to imagine.
He had never received anything like that through all seven runs.
‘I’ve found plenty of good items, though.’
He had found plenty of items allowed within the setting itself.
Thanks to the Protagonist Buff, his luck had been exceptional. Nearly every chest he opened in a dungeon had contained a good item.
But would it be something that a Story Fairy who controlled the entire Story setting would call a cheat?
‘What is it?’
Jun-il would not have been surprised if Doraemon popped out of Ham’s pouch.
“Anything, Anytime Shop!”
Poof?
Ham waved her wand, but nothing much appeared.
“...A shop?”
“You can use a shop that sells anything, anytime!”
Jun-il had thought he would not be surprised by anything.
That had been in a positive sense.
This was surprising in a different way.
“You said Pam gave you more money.”
“Yes.”
“And you spent it on this?”
“Yes.”
She had spent money to establish a way to spend money.
“Are you nuts?”
“Yes!”
“?”
“Ah, no! I’m not nuts! It just came out! But why are you insulting me without even hearing the explanation?!”
“It just came out for me too.”
After all, after playing Hero for seven runs, he could not have had nothing but good feelings toward Story Fairies.
Pam was the one who had him hit by trucks and killed all the time, after all.
“Ahem. Anyway, this shop is much more useful than it seems. The Constellations are watching you, Sir Yulian. Just from that, currency accumulates for you.”
“Currency?”
“Yes. This currency accumulates whenever the Constellations’ emotions are stirred. Feeling (FL), Heart (HT)... There’s also Afterglow, but you only need to know that much for now. Afterglow can only be produced when a story ends.”
“Hmm...”
“Anyway, you’ll receive this currency, Sir Yulian. You can use it to purchase whatever you want from this shop.”
Snap!
Ham snapped her fingers, and a window appeared.
Ding.
[Anytime Shop]
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Cool BGM: 10
Creepy BGM: 10
Exciting BGM: 10
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“This shop is normally only available to Story Fairies. So when you press this button, Sir Yulian, I receive a signal, take the money, and make the purchase for you.”
“How much do you skim off the top?”
“Skim? I don’t make anything!”
Ham shouted as though she had been wronged.
“You said the shop has everything, so why is it full of music files?”
Even when he kept scrolling, most of it was BGM.
“Do you know how important BGM is in Storyboard 3.0?! It can make a cool scene ridiculous! And a ridiculous scene cool!”
That was true.
But the cheat item she had brought him was just BGM?
“If you play one, the BGM changes within several kilometers of you. It really is a cheat code. It’s perfect for interfering with the protagonist, isn’t it?!”
Sometimes BGM really was a cheat code in short videos.
Even a scene of Ma Dong-seok beating someone up would look like a joke if it had Shin-chan music playing over it.
It would certainly be useful for interfering with a protagonist.
If Kang Hae-il was striking a pose and someone played Epaksa’s ppongjjak music, there would be no coming back from that.
Still...
“Hmm... Is that really enough to call it a cheat...?”
Jun-il could not think of it as a cheat code yet.
“I know what you’re thinking. There aren’t many things unlocked yet because the Constellations aren’t interested enough in you. You can upgrade it later.”
“Sure. I guess.”
His expression made it clear that he did not really believe her.
“I knew you’d make that face, so I bought you one expensive thing.”
“...Huh? Really?”
That was something he liked hearing for once.
“You can buy this with Hearts, so it probably hasn’t been unlocked for you yet, Sir Yulian, but...!”
Poof.
[Convenient Setting Inventory]
[2 Heart (HT)]
“Convenient Setting Inventory! Just like the name says, you can put anything anywhere into it whenever it’s convenient! Of course, nothing too, too big! The standard is... how much influence it has on the Story setting!”
“That is a very convenient setting.”
“Yes!”
In short, he could not put something in it if doing so would wreck the entire story system.
‘Still, this is pretty impressive.’
He had complained, but he liked it quite a bit.
“Try using it now.”
When Jun-il pictured the inventory in his mind, it appeared in exactly the right place.
‘It really is convenient.’
It was positioned perfectly for putting things away, as if it had read his mind.
He tried putting something in it.
First, the headset in his home.
Whoosh.
It disappeared in an instant.
“What do you think? To take something out, just put your hand inside and think of it.”
It was true.
When he put his hand inside and thought of it, the headset naturally came into his hand.
“This is good.”
“Right? Hehe... Eek?!”
Ham suddenly jumped in surprise.
Jun-il had grabbed her around the middle and put her into the inventory.
Ham vanished for a moment.
Then the inventory wriggled before suddenly spitting her out with a Ptooey!
Poof!
“Aah! What is wrong with you?!”
Pfft.
Jun-il burst out laughing for the first time in a while when he saw Ham’s expression.
She certainly had a different charm from Pam.
“So it really doesn’t work.”
“What doesn’t work, doesn’t work. That’s the Convenient Setting Inventory.”
Ham checked the time for a moment.
“Ah. I don’t have any time left. Anyway... thank you for agreeing to save Lady Pam. And for interfering with the protagonist in advance...”
Bow.
Ham bowed to Jun-il.
“...”
That had not been his intention.
Jun-il felt awkward, but he did not bother telling her the truth.
For some reason, he felt that telling Ham would only make her suffer more.
“Please interfere with the protagonist even more from now on! And once you have more Constellations following you than the protagonist does, the mission will be complete!”
“Wait.”
“...Yes?”
“What about the upfront payment?”
“Oh, right! We can’t give you an upfront payment for this contract. If 1 billion won suddenly gets deposited into your account, the Constellations will find it strange.”
That was true.
Before, the dimension receiving the deposit had not interested the Constellations, so it did not matter.
Now, however, the Constellations were watching everywhere.
A billion won suddenly deposited into the account of a college student named Moon Jun-il?
That would be extremely strange.
“Instead, the contract is in your inventory! Check it out. The Constellations cannot see the writing, so do not stare at it for too long.”
“Got it. Then how do I call you?”
“Me?”
“I’ll probably need help.”
“Then shout this in your head.”
Ham spun around and chanted a spell.
“Jjaruru, jjaruru, jjapaguri!”
Poof!
With those words, Ham disappeared.
‘What was that?’
-?
-There’s a little buffering here.
-Does this place lag or something?
-What kind of tiny stream has lag? Tsk tsk.
The Constellations had not seen Ham visit and simply recognized it as a brief interruption.
The problem was that Ham’s gifts would still remain.
‘How will the Constellations interpret this?’
How would they take it when an inventory appeared after the buffering?
But an unexpectedly simple solution was put into action.
-Ohhh.
-Another Big Spender?
-What, a donation???
-Wow, did the donation cause the lag? LOL
-An inventory, damn. That’s expensive.
-He’s L4GS, of course a Big Spender would back him.
-Wow, item donations too LOL.
‘They see it as a donation.’
Ham must have pulled some strings behind the scenes.
“Oh. What’s this?”
Jun-il used the inventory with an innocent expression and acted pleased.
“Wow. Something like this just suddenly showed up?”
-You’re popular.
-Is he really F-rank?
-Wow LOL, this is kind of unfair.
-Does he have something? The Big Spenders like him.
-Unboxing, go go.
“Should I open it up?”
First, Jun-il looked for the contract Ham had said she put inside.
It was the first thing that needed to be handled for this job.
‘Contract.’
Slide.
Jun-il naturally pulled the contract from the inventory.
‘Hmm.’
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I, Story Fairy Pam, will pay 2 billion won if Hero Yulian receives more attention than the protagonist in Story Fairy Ram’s Storyboard 3.0 setting and destroys the story.
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It was clearly written in Pam’s crude handwriting.
There was even a seal on it.
‘Well... as always, I have to trust her.’
It was unfortunate that there was no upfront payment, but Pam had never broken a promise, so he trusted her.
“Hmm. Interesting. This inventory is very nice...”
Jun-il casually shared his impressions aloud, then opened the most important window.
‘Quest.’
Ding.
[Main Quest #1]
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Reach Lv. 10 within 72 hours!
On failure: Awakening Revoked
On success: Random item provided
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[Time Remaining: 21:01:14]
Hardly any time had passed while Ham was visiting.
Still, it was tight.
“I need to reach level 10...”
Interfering with the protagonist was important, but he first needed to maintain his status as an Awakener to do anything at all.
Jun-il had only just entered level 9.
Reaching level 10 as an F-rank would take a lot of effort.
‘It’ll probably take a while if I only hunt goblins.’
For now, he sat in front of the computer.
Tap tap tap tap.
He searched.
‘Has there been any news about other monsters appearing somewhere?’
Nothing came up in the news.
As expected, the Gaksalbeop community was faster with Awakener-related information.
‘This is the place.’
[How to Live as an Awakener]
This time too, he looked for posts from people requesting rescue.
‘Should I start with the popular posts?’
But then he came across an unexpected post.
“Huh? What the hell.”
This post was sitting at number one.
1) Was the Myeonmok-dong rescue requester’s killer L4GS?.jpg
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Someone at the scene told me.
They said that person died to a masked guy, yeah.
This is a photo from the scene.
(Photo)
And this is a screenshot of the article where the masked guy was interviewed. He says he’s L4GS.
(Photo)
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It was a screenshot of the masked man’s interview from an article written by reporter Do Ju-hye.
The masked man had asked to be called L4GS.
-Huh.
-Is this real???
-Why would L4GS wear a mask like that?
-Shouldn’t this bastard be caught? Isn’t he impersonating him?
A community-style smear campaign unlike anything he had experienced during his seven runs as a Hero.
“That bastard was a Dark Mage!”
How many times did he have to explain this?
Jun-il felt wronged.
-LOL holy shit.
-Crazy LOL.
-They won’t get it no matter how many times you explain it LOL.
-He became the culprit.
-Ah LOL.
-LOL what are you going to do?
-He’s getting completely framed, isn’t he???
-Hmm? This?
Fortunately, Jun-il’s Constellations knew the truth.
‘Still...’
It would be troublesome if this image became fixed in people’s minds.
Constellations who did not know him would misunderstand.
Tap tap tap tap.
Jun-il started leaving a comment.
-Hey, read the whole article instead of just the screenshot. (Link) LOL. That guy was a Dark Mage, and L4GS rescued the kids he kidnapped. They conveniently cut out that part?
Once he attached a link to the full article, the misunderstanding began to clear up.
└Wow, he rescued all the kids. ㅠㅠ
└Yeah, I saw it at the scene too. He didn’t seem like a bad person.
└The bastard who posted the screenshot was seriously malicious.
└Holy... a Dark Mage, what the hell.
└You again... L4GS. ㅠㅠ
└There are Dark Mages?
└Why wouldn’t there be? There are all kinds of Classes.
└Fuck, even Awakeners are dangerous.
└└Honestly, more dangerous than goblins LOL.
“Phew.”
The controversy seemed to have settled down for now.
But as was always the case with internet communities, some people could not accept it.
-I honestly can’t trust L4GS.
└You still can’t trust him after seeing that? He rescued all the kids.
└That’s just his claim. The Dark Mage stuff is ridiculous too.
└???
└This is a fresh new kind of idiot.
└But I’m a little suspicious too. It’s hard to believe a hero exists in times like these LOL. Feels like viral marketing.
The argument continued.
‘If only I had the Protagonist Buff...’
The reason Jun-il kept getting treated unfairly was that the Story setting was centered around the protagonist.
In other words, as long as Kang Hae-il was suspicious of him, such suspicions would keep arising.
‘What a filthy world. L4GS coughing up blood.’
It was the fate of an Extra.
If he did not like it, he needed to get stronger.
He would reach level 10 and survive.
‘Is there any kind of incident going on somewhere?’
Just then, as he scrolled down, he saw a post.
‘Huh?’
7) Hyungs! Please help! Fuck, a giant goblin appeared!
The post read as follows.
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I’m at Bukhansan. There was something like a goblin den dungeon, and I went in because I got cocky and thought it was interesting. Then something terrifying came out. ㅠㅠㅠ I ran like hell and barely managed to hide. Fuck.
(Photo)
(Photo)
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-A dungeon???
-Holy.
-A dungeon? What an idiot LOL.
└No, it really is a dungeon. It literally says Dungeon! (Photo)
└Huh? LOL, it really does.
└Why is this real?
-Fuck, is that a goblin? A troll?
-What is that Ma Dong-seok goblin? Damn.
‘That’s a Champion Goblin.’
The image quality was poor, but he could recognize it.
That was a Champion Goblin.
But it seemed he was not the only one who recognized it.
-Oh, I should go.
-I’m going.
-Me too, me too.
Several brave Awakeners eager to level up left comments.
‘You’re coming too.’
Kang Hae-il was there as well.
Everyone was anonymous, so how did he know which one was Kang Hae-il?
Because he had written this kind of thing.
-Is L4GS coming too? If I see you this time, I’m really going to kill you.
└?
└What is this? LOL.
└This person’s IP is the same as the one who suspected L4GS earlier.
└What the hell is this? LOL.
└Do they have schizophrenia?
There was no one else who would say they were going to kill him if they met.
More importantly, the Constellations recognized him.
-That’s Kang Hae-il LOL.
-Ah LOL, Hae-il has it out for you. ㅠㅠ
-Thank you for loving L4GS until now.
-L4GS really got on his bad side.
-Huh, he said he’ll kill you. Are you okay? You’re an Extra.
-Hae-il is nice, so why does he only get mad at this guy? LOL.
Some Constellations were worried that he might die.
‘As if.’
Kang Hae-il might have this world’s favor and be covered in every kind of buff.
‘You’re only on your first run.’
It was absurd.
Who was going to kill whom?
Sheesh.
‘It feels like I’m looking at myself.’
Jun-il was somehow reminded of his former self.
Perhaps that was why the words slipped out without him meaning to.
“Dumbass.”
-?
-??
-LOLLLLLL.
-Did he say that to Hae-il? LOL.
-Nice.
-Ah LOL.
-Sudden savage roast LOL.
-Is he going to meet him?
After checking the location on a map, Jun-il left to hunt the Champion Goblin.
‘What could he do if I wore a mask and stole it?’
He had no intention of letting Kang Hae-il kill the Champion Goblin.
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