Chapter 23
The next day.
Although quite a lot happened yesterday, my daily routine doesn't change.
I get up early and go outside.
I go for a morning run along the light walking trail near my house rather than at Choi Taesu's training center.
I run through the cold air and hazy fog of the early morning.
Except for the occasional person commuting early in the morning, it's a time when I can be alone without feeling anyone else's gaze.
It's a time when I can empty my head, feel only myself, and let my spirits soar.
“Hoo... hoo...”
Lightly, but quickly.
This activity doesn't help improve my stats all that much. But the important things are always those you can't see in numbers.
When my opponent swings a sword in one breath, if I can swing mine in half a breath—then that's victory.
An ability that doesn't appear in the status window, but definitely exists.
Cardiorespiratory endurance, muscular endurance, and depth of stamina.
Every high-level Awakener knows. These minute differences determine life or death.
That's why I run today, too.
To become stronger.
So I can make even one more sword stroke—or one more thrust of a spear.
About two hours later.
The fog gradually clears, and the sun rises.
“Haa... haa...”
My breathing reaches its limit.
Sweat pours from my entire body like rain, soaking even my underwear, while my large breasts rise and fall heavily.
‘That's enough for today...’
The gazes of the people gradually heading to work are a little burdensome, but people who exercise dressed like me are fairly common in this neighborhood, so no one is particularly surprised or rude.
Once I get home, I take a shower in cool water and eat breakfast.
Breakfast is always healthy food.
Usually, my breakfast is a protein-heavy healthy meal and fresh salad delivered at dawn after ordering online.
It's absolutely not a diet meal.
Once you become an Awakener, except for mages, the amount of food you need to consume increases to an athlete's level, so even I need to eat about three times as much as an ordinary person to feel energetic.
A large basin piled roughly with vegetables and fruit, eggs, and ham toast is my breakfast.
After eating and cleaning up, I sit at the computer and go online.
Games or online communities? No, I quit those 15 years ago when I was forcibly dragged into the Tower.
It wasn't because they were boring.
I quit them to climb the Tower and survive.
I spend about an hour searching and researching various information, such as Awakener-related news, global Tower strategy trends, and whether any new information has come into the Korean Awakener Association.
And when I have time, I read publicly available strategy reports.
At present, there are only about 47 known planets that appear as settings for trials manifested in the Tower.
It sounds like a huge number, but in fact, it's extremely small.
So I know the names of almost all the empires that brought those planets to their most brilliant heyday.
In other worlds too, there are naturally vast imperial nations like Mongolia, Persia, and Rome on Earth.
For example, the Arcadia Empire founded by Airen is also a fairly famous empire.
You remember the serial rape incident I experienced on the third floor? The country containing that village is the Kingdom of Luminous, and the Arcadia Empire borders it to the west.
If I were to abandon the mission and head to the empire, I might even get lucky and meet the living Airen of the past.
That's why studying the history of each planet is useful.
It may seem useless now, but starting from the 11th floor, long-term trials begin, with each floor taking a long time. This can help me determine an opponent's military strength or status, and even help me formulate strategies.
So what I'm looking at right now is information about the ancient Arcadia Empire.
‘If I get an episode related to it, I'll put a hole in that bitch Airen's womb...’
I don't let debts go unpaid. Not get revenge? Embrace it? Forgive?
Bullshit.
Once you become strong, you can do anything.
That's why I'll become strong. I'll become strong enough to crush all six major guilds that hold sway over Korea and still have strength to spare!
Then, the first thing I need to do.
Before I know it, it's a little after ten.
“Ah, it's time to stream.”
[Lee Do-hee: I'm training today too!!]
For me, streaming, which earns me money and popularity, is training too, and training itself is streaming.
And honestly, the element of ‘fun’ helps me turn on my stream early and broadcast for a long time every day more than I expected.
Of course, I don't do pseudo-celebrity stuff to milk viewers like simps.
I already have my own content, and I know how rare and uniquely valuable a female streamer who climbs the Tower is, so I have no intention of dancing for reactions or doing some weird mwah-kiss~ or whatever.
I couldn't do that even if I wanted to in the first place.
‘How could I do something that embarrassing?’
I, who was once the strongest man in the world, would dance a courtship dance and act cute to win men's favor?
I'd rather die than do that. I absolutely can't.
Mm-hm... Absolutely not!
- Doha~
- Hehehehe... I like today's outfit too.
- Hi, Do-hee.
- You're turning it on early again today.
- I dropped out of school so I could watch Do-hee's stream!
- Do-hee, sleep well last night? I did too, thanks to you.
- Go to school;;
- Doha
“Yes, hello, everyone~ But what do you mean, ‘sleep well’?”
When I read out the occasional weird chat message, I usually get a good response, but...
- You watched the entire VOD yesterday, right...
- After doing it three times, I really slept like a babyㅋㅋㅋ
- Ackㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
- I can't tell whether Do-hee has a bad memory or a strong mentalityㅋㅋㅋㅋ
- She says she'll ‘endure’ and keep moving forward, so let's support her.
- For real, I jerked off like crazy and slept like a baby.
“……”
Of course, unexpected reactions like this happen too.
And I still don't know what to do when I get reactions like these.
I had definitely thought I'd just become a professional streamer, but I still have no idea how to handle these ambiguously lewd sexual-harassment chats.
‘And every last one of them is a subscriber... Fuck.’
If I kicked all those people out and banned them, I'd starve to death.
My core viewers have already settled into perverted men who are serious about the Tower and sexual harassment.
And the casual viewers only hear about it and swarm in to sexually harass me whenever a lewd scene appears.
If I'd streamed normally from the beginning, it could have become a stream enjoyed by people of all ages and genders, but it's already too late for that.
Of course, I can change it.
If I ran the kind of cutesy, fawning stream I mentioned earlier to squeeze money out of simps, I'd make good money.
So I have to choose.
Whether to occasionally take a sexual-harassment punch to the face, or run a stream where I coquettishly act like a woman.
And naturally, I chose the former.
Even while I'm being bombarded with sexual harassment,
I still think, ‘It's better than forcing myself to act cute...’
I even think that if I had to act cute, I'd rather just have sex.
It would raise my stats, and at least it would feel goo...
“Ahem, all right~ Enough with the weird talk. We couldn't do what we planned yesterday because things got out of hand, right? We'll take a light tour of my cafe, then go train~”
- Look how red her face isㅋㅋㅋㅋ
- Hehehehe
- Guys, the cafe is fine too.
- For real, the cafe might be even better?
- Looks like Do-hee never visited her own cafe yesterday?
Normally, viewers who want to sexually harass me more would be throwing a fit in a situation like this, so why are they listening so obediently for once?
‘Why do I have a bad feeling...’
Anyway, I can't exactly back out after coming this far.
I confidently enter my cafe.
“Oh, 100,000 members...? 2,000 posts? Looks like a lot of people have written posts?”
- 100,000 members in one day, legendaryㅋㅋ
- The reason is...
- There is a reason there are so many members.
“What is it? Why do you guys keep talking about something only you know?”
[Tilimn donated 10,000 won]
There are lots of pretty pictures of you, so everyone came to take a look!
“Aha~”
Yeah, honestly, it is a little narcissistic, but with this face. This figure.
Sometimes even I lose myself staring at how beautiful I am in the bathroom.
Naturally, any man would instinctively be drawn to someone like me.
And it's instinctive to feel good when you're praised, too.
“Hehehe, then shall we take a look~?”
- ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
- Look how happy this bitch gotㅋㅋ
- I like how her expression is always so transparentㅋㅋㅋ
- All right~ Let's go~
- Photo board, go go
- Sorry, Do-hee.
- The photo board is seriously hot.
“The photo board? Let's see... huh?”
When I enter the photo board, everything visible in the previews is skin-colored.
Pornographic material has been scattered all over my photo board.
“Eeh...? Wait, this is definitely my photo board...?”
I sort by popularity and, with a sinking feeling, click the top post.
What I see is.
Animated GIFs.
“Hup...!”
GIFs of me pinned beneath a huge man while being mercilessly bred and creampie-fucked are displayed vividly.
It's violent.
It's painfully clear how he uses his weight to pound down on my pussy from above, smack, smack! Even the way I twitch and spurt fluid, like juice bursting from fruit...
It's so obscene that it's violent enough to make my head explode.
'I did that...?'
A GIF with even my expression at the time shown in the lower right.
It looks like it was composited, but my expression changes with every thrust, twitching at precisely the right timing, so it looks real.
“Uh... ugh... ah!”
By the time I press the back button, my face has turned red without me realizing it.
'There's no way I could calm down after seeing something like this...'
I instantly understand why the viewers say they jerked off three or five times. If I were still a man...
- ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
- Her reaction is delicious~
- Is it for real that she can't hide a single thing in her expression?
- You were embarrassed but turned on, right? You were so fucking turned on, right?
- Hyah, hyah, pound, pound!!
- Ah, what a shame there's no audio.
- Touch down there. Isn't it wet?
- Want to watch the VOD again?
Yeah, honestly, it's so fucking lewd that even I get turned on. But that is... me...
“Ugh... Who told you to post something like this on my photo board!!”
I naturally thought there'd be pretty idol-like close-ups or mildly suggestive photos...
‘What kind of porn is this...’
“Haa... You guys can handle that place yourselves... I don't know anything about it.”
With my face flushed, I flee to another board.
- ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
- It's your cafe, you bitchㅋㅋㅋㅋ
- Enjoy yourselves and splatter to your heart's content (paraphrased)
- Upvote if you're Lee Do-hee and regret opening the photo boardㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
“All right... L-let's move on to another place~”
[Lee Do-hee Growth Research Board]
13 posts.
“What? Why are there so few posts here?”
- That place feels like it's only for true experts...
- You'll understand if you go there.
- How should I put it? I feel afraid to post nonsense there...
I click the most popular post and find a table organizing the prices of elixirs that are most efficient when consumed early, divided by their stats and ordered by efficiency.
It even helpfully marks with X's the ones I've already consumed or can't consume according to my stats, and removes everything costing more than my entire fortune of 300 million won.
“Oh?”
- Isn't that basically an administrator at a major guild?
- For real, they're probably someone from one of the major guildsㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
- They're genuinely at an expert level.
This is amazing.
The Awakener Market has been around for a long time, but it isn't a place that kindly explains every item like this.
It merely sorts them by category to some extent and lets people trade freely; it doesn't support some function like ‘sort by price per stat.’
“Wow... Thank you. So I can just buy things according to this?”
When I open the organized spreadsheet, the quantities available and lowest prices change automatically, as though it's even linked to the market in real time.
- Wow... What a capable person.
- That's why nobody can postㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
- For real, everyone gives up after seeing thatㅋㅋㅋ
- One capable person crushing all the people with too much time on their hands...
- Do-hee, read the username.
“Wow... Thank you!! The username is... huh?”
[Author]: Dottaemeok
“Huh...?”
It was a viewer who said he was conducting independent research on goblin poison darts before I went to the second floor.
I remember he got flamed horribly and banned for trolling then...
- Surprisingly, he watches your stream a lotㅋㅋㅋㅋ
- You can't resist Dottaemeok.
- He really does seem to be some kind of scholar or capable person, right?
- A suspiciously good sexual-harassment specialistㅋㅋ
“Uh... Thank you. Um... And I'm sorry for swearing at you and treating you like a troll back then...”
Yeah, it wasn't exactly that I'd done something wrong, but in the end, I was wrong and he was right. You have to acknowledge what you can and move on to see what's ahead.
At that moment, perhaps Dottaemeok had been watching my stream, because he appears.
[Dottaemeok donated 50,000 won]
Thanks to you, my research paper was published, and I've masturbated dozens of times while watching it. Could I receive your thanks with your pussy?
Wh... what did he say?
I reread it once because I couldn't believe it, but that was definitely what it said.
“No! You fucking lunatic!!!"
‘Should I just ban him...?’
- I like how consistent he is.
- ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
- Now I understand why his username is Dottaemeokㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
- Ah, he really wants to fuck herㅋㅋㅋ
- He genuinely just wants to fuck herㅋㅋ
The rest of the posts were high quality too, not just that person's.
Some people had even organized skill books by weapon type, as though they were written by people who had really climbed the Tower.
Recommended manuals to learn when using a sword.
<Lagrange's Swordsmanship Manual> 200 million won
<Advanced Swordsmanship of Elquitania> 500 million won
<Secret Swordsmanship of the Spartizan> 3.6 billion won
This is the order in which you should learn them!
The first manual teaches the most stable basic combat stance against both monsters and humans, the second is swordsmanship you can learn once you can use aura. The last, third one, is the swordsmanship commonly said to work at the true upper levels! Based on what I've tried, I'm recommending only the most efficient and cost-effective options.
As for spearmanship rather than swordsmanship, here's what my acquaintance says...
…
..
.
Posts that were practically at the level of academic papers like these had been uploaded to Lee Do-hee's cafe.
“Wow... I can really feel how serious everyone is, and I'm truly grateful. This would be good for individual Awakeners climbing the Tower alone as well, not just me.”
After finishing my tour of the cafe and doing a little chat stream while eating the spicy marinated crab the landlady had brought yesterday, I head to Choi Taesu's training room.
From there on, it's a nonstop sequence of truly hellish conditioning.
“Kraaaaaaagh!!!”
“Harder, squeeze!! That's it!!! More! More!!”
After enthusiastically rolling around with sweaty middle-aged men, I arrive home at 8 p.m.
Then by the time I've showered and eaten, it's already 9.
The day still isn't over.
I chat with viewers I couldn't keep up with while exercising, then have in-depth discussions about which elixirs to buy and which skills to learn on the Awakener Market, and around 11, I end the stream and lie down in bed.
Once the day ends like that, I wake up again at 5 a.m.
Then I get ready quickly, go out, and exercise in the morning.
This day repeats.
***
And three days passed as I repeated that routine.
When are you going to the fourth floor, you ask?
"Tomorrow, right?"
Tomorrow, exactly.