Chapter 18
"Phew.... It doesn't seem to have gotten much bigger, but somehow it feels slightly uncomfortable?
Even clothes that used to fit perfectly feel a little tight now, and although there hasn't been much visible change, I can definitely feel that I've gotten heavier.
- Show us properly
- Allow me to examine you. Pull your clothes down a little further.
- These bastards are trying to get her to strip even moreㅋㅋㅋㅋ
- It's all about the boobs! That's more like it.
- Boobiiiiiiies~~
- They're nice and firm.
- She'll probably raise a healthy babyㅋㅋㅋ
- Looks like they've grown a cup or two.
- Booby Do-hee is back.
"That's all for today. I'll go home. I'll end the stream once I'm home."
Ending the stream at home had now become an unspoken rule on Lee Do-hee's broadcasts.
- Whoosh~
For a moment, my body was enveloped in a sensation of floating before being transported to the Tower's central plaza.
When I exited the Tower, countless people were waiting to welcome me, just as I'd expected.
"Excuse me, coming through."
I tried to speak calmly, but the people who saw me were anything but calm.
"Waaaaaaaaah!!!"
"She looks even hotter in person...."
- Click click!!
Flashes went off from somewhere, and before I knew it, I was caught in the middle of a crowd rushing toward me.
“Kyaaah!! Wait a moment!!!”
The first people to rush over were reporters.
“Ms. Lee Do-hee, what exactly is the secret behind becoming the world's first SS-rank?”
“Have you decided which guild you're going to join?”
“Is it true that you're pregnant with a goblin's child?”
“Is it true that you used your SS reward just to increase your breast size?”
"Are you aware that your behavior is having a negative impact on children's emotional development?"
Apparently, getting the world's first SS rank on Floor 3 had made me a huge sensation among Awakeners, more so than among ordinary people.
But why were there so many false rumors?
If they'd watched my stream, they couldn't possibly have said such things....
And what did they mean about children's emotional development? Tower Streaming automatically activates adult mode whenever the administrators determine that 19+ activity is taking place.
“No, let me through first~! I'll explain everything slowly on tomorrow's stream!!”
“Wait!! Just give us one comment!!”
Next came my fans(?).
- Squish!
“Kyaaah! Where do you think you're touching?!”
"Lee Do-hee's tits are the real deal!!"
"She's really touching them....?"
"You fucking lunatic...."
“Guys, this is real life! Everyone, stop!!”
"Hehehe, look at that plump ass...."
"Your faces are all showing up on the stream...."
Thanks to several people who had regained their senses and tried to restrain the others, I barely managed to escape the dizzying Tower plaza.
Someone even slipped a hand between my breasts, while another furtively touched my butt, but I was too flustered to do anything except focus on getting out of there.
“Wait, who is this?”
On the way home, I felt something in my cleavage and pulled it out, only to find a fifty-thousand-won bill.
- ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
- Looks like someone made a real-life donationㅋㅋㅋ
- Which bastard was it?
- Was it the guy who touched her breasts earlier?
- But it all showed up on the stream, so he's ridiculously boldㅋㅋ
- All those people there are Awakeners in their own rightㅋㅋㅋ
- This is the level of Korean Awakenersㅋㅋㅋ
- Can I pay fifty thousand won to touch her breasts too?
“Are you insane? The culprit who touched my breasts had better donate one million won tomorrow, or I'm reporting him. Do what you want!”
- Only one million won?
- Hmm.... At that price....
- Could I touch your breasts if I gave you one million won?
- Officers, there are some potential sex offenders here!
Even after being sexually harassed in real life, I somehow made it home.
The guards looking at me seemed a little strange, but there was nothing I could do. The story had become such a huge sensation that even if they didn't want to know, they would inevitably hear about it.
“Phew.... What a tiring day. You all worked hard too. Thank you to everyone who woke me with the alarm, donated, and watched. Get plenty of rest today, and I'll be back around this time tomorrow. Bye-bye~”
- Dobah~
- Get plenty of rest.
- Good work.
- You thief who stole my weekend!
- That really was a legendary streamㅋㅋㅋㅋ
- Dobah~
- Dobah
Lee Do-hee's stream ended after running for two days.
***
Meanwhile, as she became famous, people's curiosity about her naturally grew....
[Tower-Climbing Support Gallery]
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[Title] : Does anyone know Lee Do-hee's past?
[Content] : The way she fights makes no sense.
I'm on Floor 12 right now, and even though my stats are twice as high as hers, I absolutely can't fight like that.
Seriously, there's something strange about that bitch.
[Comments] :
- Maybe she learned martial arts somewhere?
- Lee Do-hee already said it was a difference in 'talent'ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
- Isn't the world fucking unfair?
└ On the other hand, she got fucked senseless by goblins....
└ Ah....ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
└ We just have to watch and enjoy.
- No jealousy allowed.
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[Title] : I think Lee Do-hee's past was probably something like this.
[Content] : First of all, Lee Do-hee's mysterious benefactor has to be one of two things.
Someone like a father who raised her when she was young, or her actual father.
He was probably a high-floor Awakener who raised Lee Do-hee by teaching her all kinds of martial arts from a young age.
But at some point, that man either died or disappeared while climbing the Tower.
And Lee Do-hee entered the Tower to find him.
Surprisingly, quite a lot of people enter the Tower after family members die there.
Why? Because they don't know whether their family member died or survived inside the Tower.
Apparently, someone really did return from Floor 3 after five years, and another person even happened to meet someone who had gone missing years ago inside the Tower.
So there are quite a few people who climb the Tower while clinging to that thread of hope....
[Comments] :
- If that's true, it's kind of sad.
- Come to think of it, I heard the house Lee Do-hee lives in is government-supported?
└ Doesn't it say what kind of place it is?
└ It only says it's run by the Support Center for Victims of Serious Sex Crimes.
└ Hmm? Then what does that mean?
└ Was she actually attacked in the past?
└ With that body, she might really have been....
- You're writing a fantasy novel.
- Considering how suspiciously skilled she is with weapons, that mysterious benefactor definitely taught her.
- What bullshit are you spouting? Maybe she was raped in the past, built up her strength, and is trying to take revenge herself.
└ This is more plausible, but the mysterious benefactor probably was a real person too.
└ Fuck, now I understand even less.
- Go write a novel, idiot.
---
A lot of people were curious about her past, but naturally, Lee Do-hee had no past to uncover.
At most, she'd once wandered around the streets naked, but since Lee Do-hee had already filmed a raunchy sex video with goblins, a mere nude photo couldn't attract much attention and was quickly buried.
*
Meanwhile, at that very moment, Lee Do-hee was....
"Right, there's no need to make a spectacle of myself in front of the viewers."
<Airen's Women's Training Secret Manual>
"Come forth!"
A bound secret manual could be summoned into the air at any time like this.
"Hmm.... Shall I take a look...?"
When I opened the first page, I saw a portrait of a woman with brilliant golden hair and blue eyes.
"Ooh...."
She was beautiful.
Her eyes were slightly sharp and catlike, but overall, she was extremely beautiful.
Beside it was a full-body picture of her in uniform, and her figure was excellent as well.
"Ooh.... Is this the Empress...?"
She was noble.
And yet, there was something strangely lewd about her.
It was as if I wanted to soak that haughty, arrogant face in pleasure again and again....
Anyway, after admiring every inch of her appearance, I turned to the next page, expecting the actual training instructions to begin....
"Huh.... Why is there no content...."
There was nothing about how to train or what I was supposed to do.
The only thing visible on the first page was a lewd illustration.
It showed Airen energetically going at it with some man while maintaining a proper posture.
The proud Empress's face, which I'd imagined only moments ago, was visibly drenched in genuine pleasure.
"No, I like it, but.... Isn't there an explanation of how to do it?"
<Airen's Women's Training Secret Manual>
Progress: 0%
"What the hell? How am I supposed to do this?"
Even when I flipped through the pages, they were filled with nothing but lewd illustrations. There were various positions, of course, as well as multiple races.
"Oh.... Um.... Oh my...."
It contained not only humanoid races such as orcs and goblins, but also giant spiders, tentacles, centaurs, giant bees, and every creature in the world with a penis—or rather, even plants.
The longer I looked, the more I felt a strange stimulation slowly rising in my lower abdomen.
"No, I'm here to train...."
Then, when I happened to touch an illustration with my hand,
[Airen-style (式) Form No. 36: How to Train While Having an Orgy with Orcs]
Would you like to train this technique? Upon acceptance, you will automatically be transported to subspace.
Please note that time in subspace passes at the same rate as in reality.
"......"
So this was what it was.
It was a slightly different kind of secret manual.
Naturally, an ordinary secret manual contains both written instructions on how to train the technique and illustrations showing the training positions, just as we know them.
Of course, simply training with a secret manual is useless if you haven't acquired it as a trait. That's because an Earthling's body isn't capable of using such things.
To explain what I mean, let's use the most famous secret manual, the Heavenly Demon Divine Art, as an example.
Suppose we obtained a copy rather than the original Heavenly Demon Divine Art, then read and memorized all of it. We still couldn't do anything.
Even if we had internal energy, we couldn't use it.
A human body could never perform something like the Heavenly Demon's Sovereign Step.
That's because the human body doesn't have the organs needed to use that martial art.
The so-called 'Heavenly Martial Constitution' and 'Nine Yin Severed Meridians' exist only in the humans of novels or parallel universes, not in real human beings.
In other words, even if we had internal energy, our bodies simply wouldn't be structured in a way that allowed us to use martial arts.
That's why the Tower's rewards—the Awakener status window—are necessary.
When we register a secret manual or learn a skill, the status window automatically modifies our bodies to make using that skill possible.
Ultimately, the reason we can only use techniques registered in the status window is that the status window creates only the structures inside our bodies needed to use those techniques.
But even if something is in the status window, that doesn't mean we can use it automatically. The status window only creates the organ needed to manifest the technique; learning the form and refining the skill are entirely up to the user.
Likewise, even if I knew how to cast Magic Missile in my previous life—even if both my mind and body remembered the knowledge and I had mana—I still couldn't use it.
The reason is the same.
My body doesn't have the organ needed to manifest Magic Missile.
Telling me to use the magic I cast in my previous life would be no different from telling someone reincarnated with a bird's memories, 'You were a bird in your past life, so fly.'
Of course, there are rare exceptions that can overturn this rule, but the most accurate view is that you can't use anything you haven't learned through a Tower reward.
Anyway, this is generally how Awakeners learn and train magic.
But this secret manual is a little different.
A subspace experience format.... No wonder it's an S-rank secret manual.
How exactly was I supposed to train with it?
Since that secret manual had been applied to me, I should now be able to use its ability....
‘I have absolutely no idea how this works.’
But what if I entered subspace intending to train and got forcibly used over and over? I didn't have the courage to try it recklessly.
And how much abuse would my viewers hurl at me if they found out I'd trained with this alone?
'Right, if I'm going to train despite the embarrassment, I might as well make some money.'
A battle between shame and money.
Naturally, the latter would win by a landslide....?
'Wait, would it really win that easily? My brain hasn't gotten weird, has it?'
The goblin incident had been embarrassing, of course, but I'd also felt great because of the enormous donations.
'Right, having sex is the same either way, isn't it?'
Maybe I wouldn't have thought so before, but ten million people had already seen me. Was this really such a big deal?
I honestly didn't know.
But one thing was certain: if I learned this in secret, I'd get showered with abuse. And if all I got was abuse, that would be lucky—a genuine riot would break out.
'Right, I'll just turn on the stream and do it....'
After that, since it was a rare day off, I simply rested at home.
While resting, I mostly explored other streamers' broadcasts. I watched female streamers for the first time in a while, along with VTubers, gaming streams, and Awakener streams.
As I explored other broadcasts, I wrote down anything that seemed worth learning.
'Right, honestly, I have been training a little too much....'
The things a streamer ought to do.
Create a MuTube channel, make a fan café, develop reactions, hire an editor, and so on....
'I have a lot to do....'
Somehow, I'd said I was going to rest, but I naturally ended up working instead.
'Is this what being a workaholic feels like?'
It felt like the habits from my previous life had carried over intact.
So I spent the entire day watching internet broadcasts, studying and thinking about my own stream, then ate the piping-hot tuna kimchi stew the landlady had brought over and went to bed early.
***
The next morning, at 10 a.m.
[Lee Do-hee has started streaming: Let's Train with Lee Do-hee!!]
I started streaming from home a little earlier than usual.
Honestly, I had nothing to do when I wasn't streaming. And training with the viewers somehow felt more fun than training alone.
- Doha~
- Did you rest well?
- Do-hee, there are so many fucking false rumors about you right nowㅋㅋㅋㅋ
- Doha doha
- Did you turn it on the moment you woke up?
- Doha
- Damn trash reporters, look at them writing articles based on garbage community postsㅋㅋㅋㅋ
"Hello~~"
The chat was hot right from the start. Since my identity was shrouded in mystery, it seemed that fabricated rumors were spreading everywhere.
Of course, I'd expected this to some extent. And I'd already thought of a rough solution.
"Everyone, first of all, I'm going to create a fan café. I'll make a separate board for fabricated articles, so please upload the fake news there."
The fan café was also integrated with PantheonTV. Since it offered better readability and looser censorship than the fan cafés of the old green company, people had been migrating there in droves lately.
- She's finally making oneㅋㅋㅋㅋ
- Seriously, I was wondering when she'd make it.
- Those trash reporters are all fucked now.
The fan café would use the same general format as the famous VTuber's fan café I'd seen yesterday.
I put together the basic layout with essential sections such as a fan art board, animated GIF collection, and general discussion board.
'Benchmarking successful examples is common sense, right?'
And then there was the most important reason I'd created the fan café.
"Now, fake news is one thing, but this is the most important part! Everyone, pay attention!"
[Lee Do-hee Growth Research Board]
- ???
- What's that?
- What kind of board is it?
- I have absolutely no idea what this isㅋㅋㅋㅋ
Even I didn't know everything. Besides, a lot had changed over the past five years, and plenty of new information had emerged.
Of course, I could find it all if I searched, but that would take a long time.
Right, doing everything alone was too inefficient.
"This is where you make recommendations. Recommend effective, cost-efficient elixirs for me to take right now, along with various secret manuals, skill books, and things like that."
I might make the wrong decision on my own, and there might be better options available. So I wanted to take other people's opinions into consideration too.
Besides, training would be more profitable than spending my time searching for information.
I wouldn't have made something like this if all my viewers were perverts, but more of them had high-quality information than I'd expected.
And this was good content for me as a streamer too.
"I'll take what you recommend, learn the skills you recommend, and you will be the ones who raise me. I will become an Awakener who grows together with all of you!!"
That was the power of immersion.
Rather than simply watching, viewers could immerse themselves in the pride and satisfaction of feeling that they were the ones raising me.
After watching a VTuber's stream yesterday, I'd realized that there were many VTubers who grew together with their viewers like that.
"The Lee Do-hee you create will one day stand at the top of the Tower!"
- Kyaa
- Flap~
- An Awakener I'm creating....?
- Wow.... I can't pass this up.
- That rush would be incredible.
- Even our unemployed viewers have something to do now....
- Starting today, I'm browsing the Awakener market 24 hours a day.
- You and I growing together.... I didn't know this was so cool.
It wasn't over yet.
"So first, I'll keep my promise to all of you. Airen's S-rank secret manual. I'm going to train with it right now!!"