Chapter 29
[Posted by : ㅇㅇ]
[Title : I Got Chills—No One Missed the Live Broadcast, Right?]
(GIF of the Rhino ramming in and dying)
(GIF of Wakamo dodging the flying chains in midair)
(GIF of Wakamo mowing them down amid scattering plum blossoms)
Why watch moviesㅋㅋㅋㅋ
Fuck, this is a movie!!!
Climbers do occasionally record videos, though.
This is one of our homegrown Climbers.
Korea's proud VTuber Climber!!
-I was pretty shocked when monsters that weren't supposed to appear showed up.
-Isn't the host's response legendary?
ㄴA Climber always risks their life.
ㄴA pro turns even a broadcast accident into an opportunity.
-A pro stages her own crisis and then neatly turns the tables, giving the audience catharsis! This is Wakamo's broadcast!
ㄴWakamo's broadcast has to be entertainment!
ㄴWakamo isn't someone who would lose to something this minor!!
-People actually fought wars a thousand years ago, so they must have had martial arts and trained their bodies. What on earth were they like?
-No idea... all we have are records of who won and lost... Maybe Cheok Jung-gyeong is representative?
-Burning books and burying scholars, the Cultural Revolution... China lost so much.
-Huh? What are you talking about? Plum Blossom Swordsmanship is a Korean martial art.
ㄴThe orthodox lineage of plum blossoms is right here, ahㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
ㄴThe plum blossoms blooming from the fan's tip are proof!
ㄴSo this is how the identity of the Mount Hua Sect's founder comes to light.
-But isn't this Wakamo's red pill...?
[Posted by : Wakyapyahyeoknongnjukmallang]
[Title : Why Are You Only Showing Us This Now!!!!]
Damn huge breasts, damn huge frame.
I've suffered in silence in this community where the big-breast brigade runs wild.
(Little Wakamo wearing round sunglasses)
What is this? What the hell is this?
You said, "I didn't want to show this to the believers~"?
This was the real her!! This was the real thing!!!
This is the real loli baba we've wanted so badly!
Why did you hide her? Why did you hide her? Why did you hide her? Why did you hide her?
You abandoned us loli-loving believers!!
I was content with Ichigo!
I was terrified watching Ichigo grow up.
All I could do was helplessly watch her breasts grow.
I thought this was hell.
Why was this hidden in hell?!
Eternal fox god, loli baba!!
-I've never heard a single word this bastard uses...
-Um.... Could you... hang yourself and die?
-Sorry, but could you hold your breath for just ten minutes?
-Fuck, just look at the state of this community...
-I'm telling you, isn't the host the one who should be held responsible?
-So this is how harmful internet broadcasting is....
-Let's burn away the evils of VTuber otaku culture.
ㄴYou mean we should start a Cultural Revolution against the lolicons, right?
ㄴLet's go burn and bury the lolicons~
ㄴThe loli-loving faction must be exterminated.
[Posted by : Fox God Worshipper]
[Title : Shocking Red Pill Reveal! Come Quickly—the Fox God's Identity Has Been Revealed.]
Can you see this smile she shows us?
I heard plum blossoms bloom on Mount Hua....
A female knight-errant of the martial world. A hidden ultimate technique....
Behold the founder of the Mount Hua Sect and the Plum Blossom Sword.
They said it wasn't clear exactly who she was, but now it's been revealed.
The host's red pill was precisely what we'd long wished for.
She was a loli baba....
We pay our respects to the founder of the Mount Hua Sect and our ancestor...
-Wasn't she just made younger as a backlash from weakening?
ㄴIt's the Black Tower's conspiracyㅋㅋㅋ
-She has the Imperial Seal and makes plum blossoms bloom, so anyone can see she's from China.
ㄴThey say Ichigo came from China too.
ㄴSign here, Chinaman. Wuxia is Korean culture from now on.
-Mount Hua belongs to Korea nowㅋㅋㅋ
-Do Chinese people not even know that the Mount Hua Sect is located on Baekdu Mountain?
ㄴYou mean that Mount Huaㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-The red petals were really beautiful....
-"Ah, I didn't want to show you, so don't tell anyone else where you saw it!!!"
-Where did the host learn martial arts?
ㄴThe Smiling, Proud Wanderer.
ㄴThen it's legitㅋㅋㅋㅋ
ㄴAh, so that's the oneㅋㅋㅋㅋ
The community was heated in all sorts of ways.
Some people got annoyed and tried to chase others out, saying they should stop talking about otaku stuff like VTubers and stop making a fuss. Meanwhile, people pretending to be fans, along with fans who had crossed the line, were feverishly spreading it everywhere, like pigeons taking flight with messages clutched in their beaks.....
Within a single day, the rumor had spread so widely that wherever one looked, from the community to YouTube, one could see stories about Wakamo.
For quite some time, there had been many opinions about 『What is Wakamo Inarizushi's occupation?』
Some answers said, "Isn't she just a VTuber?" but of course, they were talking about her occupation as a Climber.
She had said in her own words that she couldn't use sorcery and that her strength had greatly weakened after entering the Tower. Yet when she showed herself as a martial god, an embodiment of invincibility, believers could only wonder whether she had really weakened.
Moreover, the only things she ever displayed among her possessions were genuine relic-grade artifacts certified by the Tower, so Wakamo's identity aroused endless curiosity.
Believers could only speculate whether the Tower had given her the relics or whether the things she possessed had become relic-grade in exchange for her weakening.
In this broadcast, her identity had been revealed, if only a little, so reactions were even hotter.
She had been ambushed after entering the Tower and turning on the broadcast, right as she was giving her greeting.
Believers were awed by Wakamo, who showed yet another sight beyond imagination by taking the charge head-on without being pushed back even one step, despite it looking like the charge of a giant rhino rocket.
Even though she had been attacked, her composure—standing there blankly and saying, "Isn't this a broadcast accident~"—made it hard to guess just how strong she was.
One YouTuber calculated the impact and said the host would be fine even if hit head-on by a KTX, and could withstand modern weaponry—in other words, even a tank shell. She accidentally acquired the title of South Korea's strongest Climber on the lowest floors.
But that wasn't the part believers were busy spreading to other YouTubers and communities.
Wakamo had merely admired all the professional VTubers who always did their best and skillfully handled even mistakes, so she had squeezed every last bit of wit from her brain and played every card in her hand to overcome it.
Due to [Idol's Body], unless Wakamo deliberately created wounds, even her clothes wouldn't tear. And since not a single drop of blood flowed even when she was injured, she had been forced to prepare fake blood in advance.
Thus, to viewers, it looked like nothing more than the fight of a master who dominated and toyed with her opponents without even a tear in her clothes or a single wound amid that violent battle.
A crisis, plain for all to see.
A life-or-death scene that made it seem as though the Tower was trying to kill Wakamo!
For some reason, the chains that were supposed to be her weakness could not be destroyed. One YouTuber-Climber noted that they looked different and compared them to [Elite Monsters], judging Wakamo's battle to have taken place under virtually every disadvantage.
That was why she revealed her 『true form』.
Honestly revealing her current form(?) rather than her prime, she unfurled the golden fan, covered her mouth, and smiled leisurely.
Believers were shocked to realize she had been walking around without opening her eyes all this time; they had thought the eyes behind the sunglasses were merely narrow slits, but now saw eyes gleaming inside them. Many opinions arose about why, but speculation emerged that her eyes must possess some special ability(?) since she still deliberately wore sunglasses.
The hypothesis that something like a fox's bewitchment, capable of enchanting people merely by being seen, came from her eyes was fairly convincing.
Since she could never evade the flying chains, she drew out the 『full power』 she had kept hidden, and crimson plum blossoms began to scatter.
It was the sort of dramatic effect that belonged in a broadcast—or rather, a movie.
But all of it was genuinely real, with substance.
Climbers explained that it was all made of [Mana]. If so, could her occupation be related to the martial arts of wuxia novels? Some countered that if the sorcery she could originally use was unrelated to her occupation, then perhaps martial arts worked the same way.
Either way, there was still no way to know her occupation.
Amid the scattering plum blossoms, she clearly showed believers what the real Thousand-Kilogram Drop, previously seen only in writing, was.
The sight of a girl small enough to lift easily crushing the earth was astonishing.
As if that weren't enough, what about her leaping up and running through thin air?
Believers made a fuss calling it genuine "walking on air," but fans of wuxia judged it closer to Soaring Step or Treading on Water, since if one looked closely, Wakamo was stepping on a falling petal and using it as a foothold.
It wasn't some staged effect achieved with CG and wires.
It was even more dazzling than the action sequences martial artists in the 1980s used to perform with their own bodies.
That was only natural, since what they were watching was a vivid live performance happening in reality, with no manipulation whatsoever!!!
The video wasn't even very long.
Immediately after being surrounded, bound, and attacked by six Chain Devils, she returned to her original form, used all the internal energy(?) maintaining her gigantic body to perform martial arts for defeating her enemies, and displayed dazzling movements and astonishing martial arts.
The delicacy of catching the Hellfire-wreathed chains in plum blossoms before batting them away with her fan, the boldness of diving between the chains, and her astonishing agility.
Not stopping there, she drank liquor from the gourd at her waist and even performed a fire-breathing act.
Even the ambush hidden from sight behind the flames was knocked away to the very end, culminating in Wakamo's dazzling fan-throwing performance.
The two flames of different colors devoured each other, while the fox god stood haughtily atop the nearly pulverized battlefield, adjusted her sunglasses, looked toward the viewers, and ended the broadcast with a farewell greeting.
It felt like watching a movie, specifically only its highlight reel, and believers went wild from the overflowing dopamine and the breathless, heart-pounding thrill of that dazzling battle.
The loli-loving faction and the voluptuous faction argued over whether she was too ripe, underripe, mature, fully mature, immature, furry(?)—wasn't she furry originally(?).
Meanwhile, the furry faction cautiously raised their heads, eagerly asking whether she would show her fox form too, and began drawing and posting pictures of Wakamo's fox form.
If this had been before, they would have rejected them, saying furries should piss off—but now perhaps it was time to accept everything, and illustrations by the master artists(?) gathering at the cafe began to overflow.
There was talk of the revival of wuxia brought by the founder of Mount Hua, who had reincarnated in the present day after crossing a thousand years of history.
Should we reopen the Mount Hua Sect on Baekdu Mountain? Where do I apply to join the sect? Can old people join?
With the Imperial Seal and Mount Hua martial arts, isn't Korea, not China with no legitimacy, the true Great Middle Kingdom(?).
While all sorts of nonsense set the community ablaze, the government and the Climber Association were in an uproar. They had thought she was merely a fox god, but now the situation had reached the point where they wondered whether the martial world had really existed.
China had conveniently burned all its culture, leaving no evidence, making it even harder to know. Some argued it was simply fiction... but some professors said there really was a fox god and that the Mount Hua Sect's training hall stood on Seoak...... Ultimately, the conclusion was that if Wakamo herself didn't tell them, there was no way to know.
Apart from that, the Association president had read quite a lot of wuxia novels, so he cautiously asked Manager Won Da-hye if she could discreetly get him some inside information.
She couldn't refuse a request from her superior, especially someone practically the president, so Manager Won Da-hye was on tenterhooks.
"I want to go to Kyoto!! Okinawa sounds nice too. Did you know Okinawa has an official VTuber? They often do VTuber collabs in Kyoto too... and there's a Tower!!"
".....Uh...um.... So the Tower gave you a [Tower Climbing Pass] as a reward?"
"That's right. Buuut... of course I don't intend to climb it. It could become a diplomatic issue. I'll just enter it and park on Floor 1, then use it when I go to Japan!"
Wouldn't rumors spread that the Fox God could teleport? Though she claimed confidence she wouldn't be caught, Manager Won Da-hye was worried in many ways. But the Fox God said she wanted to visit Inari Shrine in Kyoto....
Isn't that her own shrine, when you think about it...?
Even if the Japanese and Korean governments had bad relations, relations between the Climber Associations weren't that bad.
In fact, when Manager Won Da-hye contacted them to obtain permission at Wakamo's request, the Association president only told her to pass along his regards to the friend who would be there and buy lots of Korean seaweed when she left. He liked soju too, so she should bring some if she had the chance.
"Boss... If you entew, won't youw name show up...? Even if you pawk on Fwoor One, it'll show...?"
"Ah."
Yu Ying looked at Wakamo with pity, as if thinking, Our boss really is a fox, so she must not be very bright.
After all, your name appears when you enter the Tower, even if it's only Floor 1!!
How could there be two people in the whole world named Wakamo Inarizushi!!
Manager Won Da-hye knew that, which was why she had asked the Association president. They were allowed to use it on the grounds that they were testing an item that had never appeared before. When Wakamo said she wanted to visit Inari Shrine, the Association president instead countered, "Isn't the Fox God just going to her own shrine? What's the problem?" leaving only Manager Won Da-hye feeling as though she was going to die.
'Mr. Association President...!! This is about vested interests, and it's political....!!'
He coolly laughed and said that if something like a 『Complete-Clear Floor』 appeared, they could give it to the president of the Japanese Climber Association as a gift. But what if she decided to settle down after suddenly returning to her homeland(?)...?
Can things really proceed this thoughtlessly...? Is this right...?
What if the Japanese government detained her, thinking they had brought a Climber over to commit a crime..? Is the Japanese Association president influential too..? What if the Japanese government used this opportunity to offer support? Korea's president was wary of Wakamo and wouldn't help either...?
She didn't even want to imagine how great the loss would be if Wakamo really went to Japan.
They had almost had a floor stolen by China, and now what if Wakamo changed her mind and decided to give it to Japan...?
"Uhhh.... uuuuuugh...."
As both manager and the next president of the Korean Climber Association, Won Da-hye clutched and pulled at her hair in anguish.
Even if she tried to stop Wakamo from going, it would be over if Wakamo simply swam to Japan.
She agonized over Wakamo's request for two whole days. She needn't worry that the Association president would dump it on her, retiring with a "I've done all I can, so work hard," because he wasn't that kind of person.
Even if he was best friends and colleagues with the Japanese president—even if they were comrades who had fought back-to-back to defeat monsters during a Tower collapse!!
This was an international political issue....!!
"Aaaaah...."
Wakamo, wholly unaware of her manager's burden, hummed happily as she planned which stores to visit in Japan to buy figures, what order to follow for her pilgrimage, and how to sightsee in Japan with Yu Ying.
Wakamo was delighted with an innocent smile, saying she had even gotten a new passport, and happened to be in child form again, so Manager Won Da-hye couldn't bring herself to ask, "Could you please not go...?" and lowered her head.
In the end, the announcement went up that day.
"Everyone! Wakamo is going to Tokyo!!"
She was going to see VTubers, as well as get permission from the Japanese Association to use a new item she had acquired.
Believers were dumbfounded by such a transparently honest reason.
Asking whether she would turn on a broadcast from Japan was all they could do.
To be honest, there was only one reason she was going to Japan.
I want to know VTubers.....