I Have a Reason to Hate Streamers

Chapter 22

As soon as I heard about Luce, I opened my friend list.

[Friend List] [Friend Requests] [Blocked List]

[System: You have 1,182 unread friend requests.]

It hasn’t been that long since I last cleaned it up, and yet here it is again, piled up like this.

A daunting number over a thousand. That’s why I usually ignore friend requests.

No matter how many I delete, they keep coming in. The only option is to look the other way.@@@@

Recently, I’ve been a topic of conversation quite often.

There was that video incident... And today, I killed a lot of streamers just to blow off steam.

Some people might be upset that their favorite streamer got killed.

Sure, there are plenty who enjoy it, but not everyone.

But well, what can I do?

Field PK is a calculated risk on my part.

There’s a reason even top-tier guilds prefer war over PK.

That’s why they take things so seriously, even running their own grief squads while still needing someone like me.

Sometimes that comes back to bite me, but...

I’ve managed so far.

[Eldorin from Strange Forest has sent you a friend request. Y/N]

[Request declined.]

[Eldorinsuho...]

[Declined...]

[Dongtanmi...]

[Declined...]

I decided to clear out all the useless friend requests while I was at it.

After a short session of mechanically pressing the decline button, I noticed a familiar name.

[MountainBird has sent you a friend request. Y/N]

[Request accepted.]

A halfling bard I met during a party hunt.

If I remember correctly, they were the self-proclaimed "Number 1 Fan" from a passive guild.

So they sent me a request, huh? It would’ve been nice if they had said something.

No, maybe they couldn’t even if they wanted to.

I haven’t seen them since they died back then.

Only a few can face me in the field, but anyone can send a friend request.

Maybe it’s out of curiosity.

Or maybe it’s shallow revenge.

Naturally, this goes for whispers too.

If I don’t have them blocked, I can’t even use the whisper feature, so I’ve made it so that only party members or friends can send me messages.

"Next time, I’ll just hunt them down if it gets too annoying."

Up until now, it’s been fine.

Any necessary friend additions happen when I know they’re coming.

All I needed to do was accept the most recent requests.

But now that this has happened, I can’t just leave it alone.

Maybe if I hunt a few of them down, things will calm down?

And if not, well, I’ll deal with it.

WowWowWowYou actually accepted!Do you have a moment to talk?I’ll be quick.Super quick.It won’t take long, I swear.I was just gathering materials by myself!If I do gathering on stream, people flood in and it gets too hard.Oh, and this one time...Oh, I don’t mind! It’s totally fine!It wasn’t my first time dying, and for some reason, I didn’t even feel bad :)Actually, I got curious about you after that, which is why I sent the friend request.By the way, the stream replay is...Anyway! The arena phase changes tomorrow, right?From tomorrow, spectators will be allowed. Could I stream your matches?I’ll bring in the best player I can find to co-stream.They probably won’t be as good as you, though.

But it’s impossible to schedule matches for over a thousand players manually.

So, matches are randomized between players with the same number of wins.

If matchmaking can’t handle the load, the developers step in to schedule the games.

In the end, you have to win five consecutive matches to qualify for the main event.

Spectating is allowed, but it’s impossible to know when and how many matches will happen.

Unless pre-arranged, streaming a specific player’s match is practically impossible.

So Eldorin’s request was basically asking me to tell her when I would play.

She wasn’t exactly a big-time streamer, but she wasn’t so small that no one cared either.

For someone like me, who can’t stream, this was actually a helpful offer.

"Thanks for the offer. I appreciate it, but I’m not sure if it’s a good idea."

However, there was a reason I couldn’t accept so easily.

I can’t stream.

But that doesn’t mean I can’t appear on other people’s streams.

I had thought about trying that once... but I never followed through.

The reason was that I had too many enemies.

Oh, did someone else already offer to stream it?

"No, you’re the first to ask."Then is it that you’re uncomfortable with being on stream?

"It’s not that either. Anyone can spectate, so it’s not like you need my permission."

To take me down, people need to bring high-spec players with them.

I’m just one person, so if they keep pushing, the guilds will have to bear the losses.

But not everyone connected to me can do that.

That’s why I don’t belong to any guilds.

If they can’t get to me, they’ll target the people around me.

And since I can’t stop working, I have no choice but to keep going solo.

Even if I joined forces with a powerful guild or streamer, it wouldn’t change anything.

Those people are always tied to certain factions.

That means they wouldn’t be able to take jobs from the opposing side.

In the end, the drawbacks outweigh the benefits.

"Honestly, you’d be the one in danger, not me. You know I’ve made a lot of enemies. If they can’t kill me, they might come for you."

Now that I said it, the irony wasn’t lost on me.

I was the one who killed Eldorin most recently, after all.

Who’s worried about whom here?

But I don’t like lying to people.

That kind of fake honesty – “I didn’t technically lie” – just isn’t my style.

Oh, that’s not a problem.

"Huh? Wait, really?"I’ll just stay in town.Or I could just stay inside my house.

Eldorin’s response left me stunned.

I’m mainly focused on lifestyle and housing, anyway.Maybe I’ll redecorate my house while I’m at it. It’s been three months since I last did an update.If I’m okay with it, can I get your permission?

Now that I thought about it, she was right.

In this game, players who focus on lifestyle content—especially housing—hardly overlap with PvP players.

For PvP players, things like decorating are just a complete waste of time.

If she couldn’t go out into the field, she just wouldn’t.

If she couldn’t level up, she could just spend time decorating.

And she could still stream my matches. Eldorin was like the missing puzzle piece.

"Uh... sure, I guess?"

Great! So that’s a yes, right?I’ll contact you again soon!