Chapter 19: A debt server pretending to be a healing server (2)

“Pay off your debt in the Forest of Debt…”

• LOLLLLL
• Hahaha, this is too much.
• Baby Warrior, hurry up and start earning money!
• Born into debt the moment they entered the world, lol.
• Pay it off, pay it off!
• At least they gave you a basic starter set… that’s something.

Is it really something to be thankful for? My mood just hit rock bottom.

With a gloomy expression, I shoved the ledger into a random corner of my inventory.

Why do I have to repay debt in a healing server?

Märchen has become completely ruthless.

“Okay… I’ve entered the server. What should I do first?”

• Mining time!
• First, find a cave!
• It’s best to grab some wood and food before heading out.
• Look, Onuri just walked by, lol.
• You left the town hall, right? Now hurry up and run to the seniors and bow down immediately!
• LOL
• Let’s get to mining.
• Look at the Playground chat. Everyone’s looking for Yuwol, LOL.

While I stood outside the town hall, taking in the viewers’ advice, people started gathering.

Or more accurately—the entire Märchen VTuber lineup.

“Uh… something’s coming my way?”

• RUN!
• What do you mean something? It’s the seniors, lol.
• Flee!
• The moment Yuwol entered the server, everyone stopped chopping trees and started running toward them, lol.
• Why are Chopa and Baekdoolgi coming too, lol?
• Is this… the power of being the youngest?
• Yuwol looking flustered is way too cute.

Honestly, I was flustered.

How could I not be?

A stampede of over ten square-headed figures was rushing straight at me.

My instincts kicked in—I bolted from the oncoming seniors swarming the town hall.

[Akira: Where do you think you’re going?!?!?!?!?!]

[Onuri: Wait, wait! Yuwol, stop for a second!]

[Imari: Junior, where are you running off to?]

[Anna: Hey, hey. A first-gen senior is personally coming to greet you!]

[Akira: STOP RUNNING!!!!!!!!!]

[Baekdoolgi: Where are you going, O brave warrior?]

[Tsupi: LOLOLOLOL]

[Lee Eunhye: My stomach hurts from laughing, LOL.]

[Akira: Hey, hey, Yuwol, wait a second!]

[Anna: Wow, this youngest one, really…]

[Yoruna: Stop right there!]

[Tsupi: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA]

[Yutongman: I want to see them too! Where are they?]

Ignoring the never-ending messages flooding the chat, I kept running for my life.

And before I knew it…

“…I got lost.”

• LOLLLLLL
• The seniors gave up and turned back, hahaha.
• I mean, it must’ve been overwhelming for Yuwol.
• The seniors should be a little more considerate, lol.
• This is hilarious, I can’t.
• My hunger bar just disappeared from laughing too much.

I was now stranded in the middle of a dense forest.

Where even was this?

[Wolilove has donated 10,000 won!]

• If you press M, you can open the map and see where you’ve been!

“M? Oh—oh wow. Thank you!”

• 100
• 700
• Ohhh~
• LOLLLLLL
• How far did you even run off to, LOL.

• How did your X-coordinate change by a thousand, LOL?
• 700

Just as the donation message suggested, I pressed the M key, and the mini-map that had been sitting in the top-right corner expanded.

Looking at the enlarged mini-map, I realized just how far I had wandered.

It was going to take forever to get back.

“Hmm. Should I start from here? Didn’t someone say to start chopping trees?”

• TË TË TË TË TË TË TË –
• Yes!
• TE TE –
• Chop about 30 logs first, then go find food.
• Thankfully, there are plenty of trees around.
• || ||
• You need to find food too, or else you’ll start losing health from hunger.

“Alright, I’ll start with the trees—wait, no. My hunger bar is completely empty.”

• 0 0;;
• Gasp! Only half a hunger bar left!
• EMERGENCY!!!!!
• There are no animals nearby, what do we do?
• Manager, help!
• How is this such a struggle right from the start, LOL?

I had planned to start chopping trees, but with only half a hunger bar left, I needed to find food first—fast.

“…This really doesn’t feel like a healing server.”

• LOL
• Healing Content (Highly Toxic Material)
• This isn’t healing—it’s killing every second!

And to make things worse, the sun was already setting.

I hadn’t even done anything yet, but night was falling.

Monsters were going to spawn soon—what the hell was I supposed to do now?

Just as I was panicking over the situation—

[ProtectTheWarrior has donated 10,000 won!]

• Quick, check your gift box!

A hero had arrived to save the Baby Warrior.

Come to think of it, the Playground server had donation-based item rewards.

[5,000 won: 5 Märchen Bread]
[10,000 won: 10 Märchen Bread]
[30,000 won: Random Outfit Skin Draw]
[50,000 won: Summon 3 Random Mobs (Excluding Bosses)]
[100,000 won: Decoration Key]
[300,000 won: Random Weapon Skin Draw]
[500,000 won: Special Random Draw]
[1,000,000 won: Instant Death]

That’s how the system worked.

In fact, there was even a chart displaying these rewards in the corner of my stream.

‘I must really be an idiot.’

People kept calling me dumb, and now I was starting to believe it.

First things first—the gift box.

I needed to refill my hunger bar immediately.

Gift box…

I typed the command in the Mark chat, and a custom inventory window popped up.

The designers must have worked so hard on this.

I took a moment of silence for them, then quickly transferred the Märchen Bread into my inventory.

“In that short time, I already lost three hearts…”

• IT IT IT IT IT IT IT IIII
• TTTT
• We should have warned you earlier.
• TTTT
• Tragic…
• At least you managed to eat in time. Good save.
• ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ You already lost three hearts…

Now that my hunger bar was full, I finally felt relieved.

Mark… This game is hard.

With my hunger problem solved, I started gathering wood and exploring the area.

I encountered a few monsters along the way, but come on—who was I?

• Wow…
• As expected of the Warrior…
• Awesome…
• Gasp!
• Throw away the rotten flesh! It’s gross!

“Hmph. This much is expected of a Warrior.”

Since the starter stone set included a stone sword, fighting the monsters wasn’t too difficult.

Though I did end up getting a lot of arrows stuck in me.

After wandering around for a while, overcoming various struggles—

“Wait… isn’t that a name tag?”

• Oh, it’s a person!
• How did they even get that far, LOL?
• Huh?
• A comrade!
• How did they even see that name tag in the dark…?

Off in the distance, a tiny name tag was visible.

Checking the mini-map, I saw another player nearby—besides me.

And that person was none other than a fellow KR Märchen VTuber.

Cohort 9’s Akira-senpai.

Suddenly, I remembered the frantic chat from earlier, trying desperately to capture me.

Maybe I should just quietly pass by… If I get spotted—

[Akira: Found Yuwol!]

[Anna: What?!]

[Tsupi: LOLLLLL]

[Baekdoolgi: Where? Where? Drop the coordinates, now!]

[Akira: It’s marked on the mini-map, LOL. Yuwol, stay right there.]

Ah.

The ups and downs of a Warrior’s life.

Nothing ever goes my way.

Still, since it was just one person, I didn’t feel the need to run.

Besides, avoiding them now wouldn’t change anything—I’d have to meet them eventually.

Might as well take this chance to introduce myself.

Watching the mini-map and the approaching name tag felt eerily similar to a horror movie.

But a Warrior doesn’t get scared by things like this.

…At least, Warrior Yuwol doesn’t.

[Woo~ Warrior Yuwol!]

A pixelated figure hopped towards me enthusiastically, and I instinctively took a step back—only to realize there was a tree right behind me.

“Hello, Akira-senpai.”

[Yesss~! Nice to meet you, nice to meet you! You’re so cute! I thought that even during your debut stream—your voice is so charming too!]

“Uh… thank you?”

• LOLLLLL
• The ultimate introvert meets the ultimate extrovert.
• I can feel the secondhand awkwardness, oh my god.
• Yuwol, you really seem like the little sibling here…

[So? What were you doing? Chopping trees?]

“Yes, my viewers told me to gather wood and then find a cave. What about you, Akira-senpai?”

[I was chopping trees too! But hey, ‘senpai’ feels way too formal… Just call me Akira! And you can drop the honorifics too!]

If I had known that three minutes of conversation would be this exhausting, I would have just run away.

Waiting was a mistake.

[Akira: Seriously, LOL. How can you be this cute? LOLLLLL]

[Anna: Stop hogging them! Let me see too!]

• Ugh, LOL.
• Real-time senior cohort NTR moment.
• LOLLLLL
• When are they actually going to find a cave…?
• Donations are going crazy. Yuwol’s gift box is going to be packed at this rate, LOL.

[Oh right! You were going to a cave, weren’t you? Can I come too? If not, that’s okay…]

“No, it’s fine. Akira-senpai, let’s go together. I’d probably get bored if I went alone anyway.”

•  GASP
• Did they just unintentionally flirt???
• Alpha female Warrior Yuwol…
• Baby Warrior isn’t ready for this yet…
• Oh wow.
• Whoa.
• But honestly, we’re totally okay with this, LOL.

And just like that, the two of us started searching for a cave.

Day 1 was already way more eventful than I expected.