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9,251 viewers.
This was the number of viewers currently in Yujin's stream, watching a session titled "Dark Zone Co-op with Harmony"—a simple yet effective title. The viewer count was almost five digits, indicating a substantial audience gathered under the banner of Yujin. These viewers formed a loosely connected collective community, a kind of large-scale intelligence—but, of course, that didn’t necessarily mean they were useful. Regardless, they had come together to watch her broadcast.
In essence, this meant that these viewers had a certain direction or purpose, although the loose nature of their gathering implied that there were exceptions. And here was one such example.
"...What should I do in this situation?"
Explosions and shouts were erupting all around, more than enough to catch any viewer’s attention, yet for one of the 9,000 viewers—a viewer who had just been hired yesterday as Yujin’s new YourSpace editor—it didn’t really resonate.
The reason was simple: he was quite busy. Despite having run the Fanspace channel for less than two weeks, its subscribers and view counts had skyrocketed. Naturally, as he would now be working officially as an editor, there was a need to organize Fanspace.
‘There is a channel merge feature, but…’
The problem was that to use it, he would need to hold a subscriber vote to confirm whether they were for or against the merge. After that, the results would have to be submitted to YourSpace as evidence. Even after the channel merge was approved, both channel managers would have to agree on the layout, decide which videos to keep or delete, and so on... This was something to worry about later, but it wasn’t something he could ignore entirely at the moment.
With that in mind, after being confirmed as Yujin’s official editor and having discussed various matters, he posted a notice about this on the Fanspace community.
That was the first issue.
The second issue was the need to quit his current part-time job. Having become one of the few people to exchange numbers with Yujin, and soon to be the first editor managing her channel, which was bound to grow rapidly, he wouldn’t have time to focus on anything else.
If he didn’t keep his head on straight, the worst-case scenario could see the channel falling into a bad situation. A fan ruining a star’s YourSpace channel—that would be a history-making embarrassment, one for the ages on TreeWiki.
Therefore, after receiving the offer, he spent the entire day brainstorming ways to grow the channel, thinking about how to manage it efficiently if it suddenly exploded in popularity.
It might not have been his area of responsibility, but thoughts like these were hard to shake off once they appeared.
That was the second issue.
And the third issue?
-Tap, tap, tap.
-[TailEditor: Yujin…?]
-[TailEditor: How should I edit the video when collaborating with other streamers?]
It wasn’t that he hadn’t watched Harmony’s broadcasts before.
In fact, he’d been a viewer even before Yujin started streaming... But now, from fonts to editing style, cut distribution, and segment length—of course, Yujin’s segments would take priority since it was her YourSpace—he had to consider everything, even revenue sharing.
He sank deep into his chair and sighed as he entered Harmony’s channel.
Making money was indeed difficult, and the obstacles and challenges were endless.
It was his first day as an editor.
<Rubenstein donated 1,000 won!>
-[No way, Ruben. If I'm going through this, shouldn’t you all suffer too?]
Meanwhile,
Of course, Harmony’s editor was dealing with similar struggles.
Though their direction differed from Yujin’s side—specifically, Harmony’s editors always tensed up when she played Dark Zone.
Harmony, with her adamantium mental fortitude honed through various trash games, faced off against Yujin, who could overwhelm anyone with her sheer physical prowess and who would flood you with enough intense instructions to make you want to quit.
The chemistry between the two created such a wild reaction that it turned into a dense video, making it hard to decide what to edit.
Whether it was talk or action.
When the original footage was excessively entertaining, editors naturally tensed up. After all, they could catch the fallout if anything went wrong.
[Waaaaah! Teacher! Drones and enemies shooting from all directions are flying at me!]
[It’s okay, they don’t hurt because your defense is low!]
[How can getting shot not hurt!?]
Anyway, the broadcast wasn’t even close to being over—it hadn’t even really started.
What happens later can be dealt with later, and for now, the best he could do was keep the clipping and note-taking features on—just marking particularly funny moments that absolutely needed to be included in the video.
However, Harmony’s goofy charm had little to offer compared to Yujin’s pure physicality, especially—
—Boom!
[What did you just do? Wow!]
[A quadruped sniper turret is turning toward us on the other side, and it shoots rounds strong enough to knock you back, so be careful.]
[Oh my, they weren’t kidding when they called this a weapon testing ground...!]
Taking advantage of a drone flying near her, Yujin grabbed it, smashed it against the wall, breaking its propellers, and then threw it at another approaching drone.
The latter drone, struck and destabilized, crashed. Yujin, meanwhile, kept firing rounds of Lapua Magnum at $2.2 per shot, literally crippling the quadruped turret.
The only sound breaking through the explosions was the mechanical noise of the Icarus device, keeping the atmosphere tense.
“…Wow.”
What could he say? Watching Yujin play was never boring. That’s why her viewers didn’t drop off easily, even when she invested countless hours in Dark Zone.
Harmony’s editors, Ruben, Waltz, and Luddite, were also old users who had cleared the main missions of Dark Zone long ago, and even started new characters to play through the main missions several times.
Most of the audience, who numbered close to 20,000 when combining Harmony and Yujin’s viewers, were likely the same.
Yet, not only was the banter between them enjoyable, but Yujin constantly created bizarre situations in places that viewers thought they’d thoroughly explored long ago.
Moreover, Yujin seemed to be a natural at real-world tactical maneuvers and small-unit tactics, giving the impression of an actual battlefield by using hand signals, silence, and various terrain features, instead of just spraying bullets like other players.
Harmony was also doing a great job following her lead.
For this reason, Yujin and Harmony’s broadcasts had recently become one of the most avidly watched by AP pro gamers.
‘…I’m seeing some familiar names.’
Tricky had a few features that allowed users to identify who they were.
For instance, the font style or the form of a nickname might differ slightly, or more noticeably, some nicknames had various emojis or effects attached to them.
Some of these were, of course, quite rare—though they didn’t show up in donations and were invisible to streamers, only other viewers could see them—yet some indicated a user’s background or group affiliation.
Today, as an editor and a viewer, he started noticing a few familiar things in the chat.
-[Veritas//Grizzly]: Throwing drones around LOL
Or,
-[BlankK1KERS//ASDF]: That shooting skill, whoa….
With the start of the prelim rank matches, all pro gamers active on Tricky—whether streamers or viewers—were required to use effects and nicknames that revealed their affiliations.
In short, this was a way to prevent people from hiding behind anonymity.
Even well-known names in the AP community were chatting, but there were likely many more pros watching without saying a word.
Meanwhile, Yujin and Harmony didn’t stop.
They tore through the underground facility, scattering pure violence as they went. Despite this, they showed no signs of stopping, pushing further into the facility.
However, this mission unfortunately didn’t have a happy ending. The PMC members of Artemis, desperate to ensure their survival, had sold off the company’s weapons and access rights to China and Russia. The operators had no choice but to extract the data from the server and destroy everything.
As time went on, the truth became more apparent, and the two finally faced it head-on.
-[Alert: Residual network log detected. Evidence of large-scale data transmission found.]
-[…What does that mean?]
-[It means the information has already been leaked. We were too late.]
Harmony visibly deflated, while Yujin, as always, calmly checked her equipment without much expression.
The story unfolded in a somewhat scripted manner. In-game, the FOV provided the narrative. The message was simple: the information had already been leaked, and the automated defense system had been activated upon detecting their presence.
The goal was to temporarily disable the heavily armored enemies and the various murderous robots pouring in with the pre-installed EMP bombs and then escape without looking back.
That was the rough storyline. At least, for an average player.
As the EMP went off, everything went dark for a moment, and with a loud ripping sound, the viewers' eardrums were briefly assaulted.
Wham!
An unpleasant sound filled the air, and not long after, the emergency power kicked in, illuminating the space.
A rather significant disaster unfolded before their eyes.
-[Another one of the teacher’s masterpieces.]
-[I noticed something fidgeting nearby, so I reacted instinctively.]
In summary, what could be said?
The fact that even a state-of-the-art bulletproof helmet couldn’t stop a tactical hammer?
-Shudder shudder shudder;;; -Broke a head that doesn’t even crack when shot, with just a hammer…?????? -Newbies are so cute when they’re surprised by Yujin LOL LOL LOL -When someone who can bench over 700 pounds hits you on the head, this is what happens LOL -[LegioInvicta//Aristo: What in the world;;;;]
The newcomers to the broadcast kept rubbing their eyes, wondering if they really saw what they just did. Meanwhile, those who had watched this chemistry unfold for a longer time—or even from the start—just laughed and enjoyed the show.
Naturally, Ruben, Waltz, and Luddite were among the latter group.
Thus, only one comment appeared in their engram chat room.
-[Luddite: Just got a clip we absolutely have to include LOL]
Even those who had seen this many times before were still surprised, so how must the newer viewers—or those just here to watch some gameplay—feel?
As always, Yujin was raising the bar for her viewers.
It was early September, and the broadcast still had a long way to go before it ended.