Speedmaster couldn't help but sigh.

“Ugh, I have to be doing this right now.”

Hahahaha
Did you make a wrong promise and now you can't even touch it?
Is the Silent Swordmaster not showing any signs of dying yet?
Is Banyogok not happening by the end of this year?
No girlfriend yet?
“Girlfriend? You’re banned, you little punk.”

Actual defamation, hahaha.
That’s some heavy stuff^^
The virgin period must also be pretty heavyㅠㅠ
“Why are you all like this today? Did a bunch of suicide bombers join us? You guys are virgins too!”

Not true.
I hit a home run yesterday.
The home run was when the last batter hit a home run in the 9th inning.
I was in a foreign car with a guy I know yesterday.
You don’t have a guy you know. If you think you were in a foreign car with a guy you know, get out of that car immediately.
Hahahahahahaha
Hahahahaha
Your guy doesn’t have a foreign car. It’s a rental, and your guy’s precious part-time wages just evaporated.
That’s a little too sad.
So tragicㅜㅜㅜ
A new field and new events.
With new quests and new Yokai appearing,
the Silent Swordmaster’s stream.
If only I could catch up once it starts,
Speedmaster felt confident, but instead of showing off a cool performance,
he was left mentally exhausted by the suicidal terrorists
from the evil Su-Gwi-ja-Pok-byung (Suicide Bombers).

‘If I play the game, I can make a mad movie, and those evil ones will calm down.’

Still, he couldn't afford to miss the Silent Swordmaster's stream, which only came once a month like a monthly event.

‘Talent is talent, after all.’

The road to the Yokai King’s palace.
Unlike the fields in In-Gye (the human world) where common half-Yokai like blood-gui (Blood Ghost), Su-Gwi, and Yeok-Gwi (Reverse Ghosts) appeared with uniform patterns,
the mobs in the Yokai field were
completely different in appearance and attack patterns, with all kinds of half-Yokai and Yokai popping up.

Which field did Yokai just appear in like that?
The final field.
For real.
But they weren’t mummies, right?
“Then can you fight one-on-one with an ogre that hasn’t eaten for a week?”

Ah, I totally get it now.
That’s a solid first-rate teacher for you.
The monsters, like the thin, bony, and gaunt creatures with visible bones, were relatively weaker, but
compared to the Blood Ghosts, Su-Gwi, and Yeok-Gwi,
there was no doubt they were much stronger.

“Last time, she showed off a bunny hop, but now she’s showing off some weird aggro management skills.”

Aggro??
Was she using that?
She’s talking about things only she knows.
Let us know too, Ms. Speedmaster.
The pace is too fast, Sensei.
“You know what aggro is, right? Aggro. The level of provocation or threat. If the aggro is high, mobs start rushing like crazy and using stronger skills.”

Okay, okay.
Got it, done.
“Usually, if you hit a basic attack, a critical hits, or even just make yourself visible, aggro increases, right?”

Eh.
Yep.
Got it.
“But if you don’t hit a basic attack, don’t land a critical, and disappear from the line of sight, what happens? The aggro that went up will go back down, right?”

Eh.
And?
We can’t even land a basic attack, so why does aggro always go through the roof and we get hit all the time?
“Yeah, that’s because you’re bad at the game. When you see a mosquito, even if it doesn’t bite you, you still get mad and aggro it, right? We’re like that mosquito to the monsters.”

Ahahaha
For real, Sensei is the real deal.
This explanation is so clear.
As expected, Sensei.
First-rate teachers really are different.
Speedmaster, adjusting his explanation to the viewers' level,
now shifted to the main point.

“But Silent Swordmaster is managing that aggro incredibly tightly. Even if something dies right next to her, the monsters don’t know. They don’t even realize what’s happening.”

?
How could they not know?
How could they not know when their own kind is dying next to them?
“Let’s watch that scene again. How about we play it in slow motion for a second?”

Speedmaster immediately turned on the section replay, showing the scene of Silent Swordmaster cutting through several Yokai in slow motion.

Silent Swordmaster slid into the attack of a long-armed Yokai, and with a wave of her sword, she swiftly chopped off its arm, striking its neck with precision.

“Here, when she retrieves the sword, blood appears. You see how the blade lightly touches the arm, covering the wound? Because of that, blood didn’t splatter everywhere.”

Wow.
Did she calculate that in such a short time?
Incredible.
“Here, instead of immediately slashing the nearby Yokai with the sword, she places several small stones between her fingers and throws them, right? Look at how the aggro from the monsters drops.”

They all turn toward the stones.
The aggro completely disappears.
The exposure of weakness happening simultaneously is crazy.
“Yeah, exposing weakness. You guys watch my streams a lot, so you’ve really leveled up, huh? You all want to land a critical hit right on that perfect spot.”

If you didn’t know, you’d be relentlessly teased, but how could you not know? Hahaha.
Forced learning knowledge.
This is K-style education, haha.
Speedmaster chuckled at the viewers who were becoming smarter.

“Eh, you guys are still far off. Even though that’s a weakness, do you see the blood vessels popping out? The blood will spurt out like a fountain. If you didn’t know that, you’re just barely out of beginner level.”

Sensei, I never signed up for intermediate class.
For real, before, they used to say you were good just for passing the beginner’s course.
Why is the amount of learning increasing like a personal trainer now??
“Once you’ve passed the basics, you’ve got to develop your practical skills. Watch carefully. There were five vulnerable points that could have been easily stabbed, but she passed them all and then shoved the blade into the monster’s back.”

The Yokai, who had been pushed back and stumbling, collided with another Yokai next to it, slamming into the wall. In that instant, both Yokai were simultaneously stabbed.

By being backed into a corner and attacked simultaneously while facing the wall,
there was no blood splattering, and the nearby monster’s aggro wasn’t pulled either.
A truly clean kill.
At that moment,
the first Yokai’s body tilted and fell to the ground,
and Ha Eun-eung’s foot striking the ground blended with the sound of its body hitting the floor.

“Here, by using the corpse to minimize the noise, and at the timing when the monsters, whose awareness has increased, are about to turn their heads to decide which one to aggro, she takes a strike.”

From the decapitated Yokai’s neck, blood poured along the sword’s path,
and all five of the remaining Yokai’s eyes were hit with the blood,
shutting all their eyes and closing their sight.

“The controlled bleeding direction here is now reversed, making it burst out even bigger, blocking their sight, then boom, one-two-three. The surrounding muscles split, the guard’s broken, and it’s finished.”

How do you think of all this while fighting?
Wah, I want to just hit things.
This is how you do it. But I can’t follow.
“The aggro management is insane, right? In just one battle, there were four instances of aggro management. It was as natural as breathing, happening in the right situations. More refined than some of the seasoned half-Yokai experts.”

There was no denying it.
Anyone could see that the Silent Swordmaster was fighting incredibly well.
If it wasn’t for Speedmaster,
he wouldn’t even have recognized how advanced the combat was.

Doesn’t this sound like a baseball commentary?
Haha, for real.
I thought she was just good, but after the explanation, it’s even crazier.
Most of the viewers either admired or praised Speedmaster’s analysis,
but Speedmaster himself fell into deeper thought.

‘Can such practical combat sense just be called talent? No matter how I look at it, it’s a skill honed from facing real monsters from another dimension.’

If his guess was right,
Silent Swordmaster would be an active Awakener with real battle experience
fighting against Gate monsters, almost like real-world Yokai.
But for that kind of experience,
at least ten years of experience would be required.

‘Even though I don’t know her exact age, looking at her appearance, she’s definitely in her mid-twenties or younger. To have gained ten years of experience from that age...’

No matter how late, it would have been mid-teens.
That would mean she’d been hunting monsters from then on.

‘According to the Awakener Association’s rules, minors shouldn’t be active as Awakener.’

If he mentioned this to the viewers,
they’d definitely become curious,
but Speedmaster kept it to himself,
because considering her experience and age,
it would bring up a hypothesis that couldn’t possibly be true.

‘She must’ve lied about her age or traveled from a different country where they didn’t have strict Awakener regulations.’

Even though they were practically gangsters,
at least the K-Awakener Guild and the Association
kept their territories safe,
while other countries were overwhelmed with monsters due to vast territories and had to rely on Awakener children to fight.

‘Could she be a former soldier from one of those countries, fighting against those monsters?’

Suddenly, the stream chat caught his attention.

But now that I think about it, this girl is really beautiful.
She’s top star level beautiful, right?
Doesn’t she look really sexy when she runs, pressing a straw hat with one hand?
I think it’s even sexier when she wipes the blood off her sword and puts it back in the sheath.
She looks like a mixed-race beauty, doesn’t she?
She looks like a blend of Western and Eastern beauty.
She really does look like a mixed-race beauty.
Eastern and Western blood, a mixed-race beauty.
Suddenly, Speedmaster recalled the recent news about
the Eastern European alliance’s successful Gate campaign.

[Success of Belarus Gate Expedition]
[They advanced over 20 km]
[Is the dream of restoring Eastern European territories becoming a reality?]

The overseas news reported a major victory in the Eastern European front,
which made Speedmaster wonder. What if Silent Swordmaster came from that region?

‘...That’s such a sad story. I really need to treat her better.’

The past where he’d doubted her for not streaming on purpose
seemed even more shameful now.
Next time, if they ever do a joint stream, he promised to take better care of her.
Speedmaster made that resolution,
and sent a formal joint stream invitation to Silent Swordmaster’s streaming account.

But he didn’t know yet.

That Silent Swordmaster’s inbox was already full of 999 unread emails.
Emails from fanclub presidents asking her to take the position,
chat manager applications,
V-Tuber editor applications,
and joint stream requests from other streamers like I Hae-chan, 2-Dahye, and Eom Gil-dong.

And so, today again,
Silent Swordmaster’s inbox grew with yet another sad email
that would never be read.