Ch.354[Episode 354] Event: Epilogue

“That was a close call.”

Sir Dominic said as he popped a freshly baked king octopus bread into his mouth.

It was still hot, but Sir Dominic endured the heat with his high resistance.

“Indeed.”

Sir Dominica said, taking one of Sir Dominic’s king octopus breads.

“Who would have thought a steam engine would be the Kraken’s weakness?”

Sir Dominic and Sir Dominica chuckled as they recalled the moment.

…

After Sir Dominic had launched himself as a human projectile, he and the locomotive crashed directly into the Kraken’s main body.

Just before the collision between the Kraken and the locomotive, Sir Dominic felt time slowing down.

So much so that he could make eye contact with Unryu Hime, who was frantically stabbing the weak points with her kunai nearby.

And at the moment when the Kraken and the locomotive made contact—

Time flowed quickly again.

With a hissing sound, a large hole opened in the Kraken’s body.

[Critical hit!]

[Since ancient times, octopuses were best caught with steam engines.]

[Well, I’m not sure why. But I do know they don’t die, just get banished.]

[You’ve dealt massive fixed damage to the Kraken!]

[The accumulated damage to the Kraken is sufficient for banishment!]

With these system windows appearing, the Kraken instantly vanished as if being dragged underground.

As if it had never existed in the first place.

Everything proceeded smoothly afterward.

A response committee had already been established, and even the compensation plan was already in place.

Sir Dominic received the MVP award for this emergency raid.

The reasons were that he had delivered the final blow and inflicted the most damage.

As a result, Sir Dominic received four Kraken-shaped statues.

Made of platinum, gold, silver, and bronze.

…

After everything was over, Sir Dominic went to find Mountain Bridge Marsh to offer compensation for borrowing the locomotive.

Since Sir Dominic was quite wealthy to begin with, Mountain Bridge Marsh received more than four times his initial investment, which seemed to satisfy him quite well.

“I think I’ll be able to reach tier 2 soon. With this money, I can make a video for myself.”

Currently, Mountain Bridge Marsh had nothing going for him except the gimmick of being Sir Dominic’s rival.

However, due to this incident, he had accumulated sufficient achievements and capital, so becoming tier 2 didn’t seem to be a problem.

Of course, the same applied to Malley.

As long as Mountain Bridge Marsh and Malley didn’t get involved in any strange incidents, they would be able to reach tier 2.

…

“It seems whoever created GachaLand has a strong fondness for steampunk.”

Sir Dominic popped one of the last two remaining king octopus breads into his mouth.

“For a first event, it was unexpectedly chaotic.”

Sir Dominica picked up the last remaining one.

…

The event ended rather anticlimactically.

Not only was it originally scheduled for a limited time, but the sudden incident in the middle caused an uproar among the commanders.

According to Captain Elang, the first page created for GachaLand on a site called Wiki was about incidents/accidents, which showed just how messy this event had been.

“But there’s something exciting about it, you know? Like, it’s a complete mess, but you wonder what kind of chaos will happen next?”

Captain Elang naturally loved chaos.

If she had been a normal person to begin with, there would have been no reason for her to restart 1,000 times.

“But they’ll do better next time. It’s just a beta test after all.”

Captain Elang said, her cheeks flushing red.

…

After cleaning up the remains of the king octopus bread, Sir Dominic sat down with a newspaper.

Sir Dominica had gone inside the café to get drinks while Sir Dominic disposed of the trash.

Sir Dominic looked at the first page of the newspaper.

There was a commander being taken away while struggling.

A commander with blonde, flowing bob-cut hair who somehow resembled a goblin.

The headline read: [Is GachaLand Really Okay Like This?]

Just looking at the headline, one might think the commander was being treated unfairly, but the actual content was full of criticism toward the goblin-like commander.

[On the 8th, an incident occurred during the event race. The person identified as the perpetrator is ○○ (32), who is suspected of having planted a backdoor in GachaLand to distribute hacks and bugs in the past.]

[Although ○○ was on GachaLand’s blacklist, he exploited the fact that only he personally was specified on the blacklist and accessed GachaLand by borrowing his parents’ account.]

“What are you looking at so intently?”

“Ah, thank you.”

Sir Dominica handed a caramel macchiato to Sir Dominic, who was staring intently at the newspaper.

Sir Dominic thanked her, took the coffee, and took a sip.

“Nothing special. Just says they caught the culprit behind the incident that happened before.”

“Oh. Is that so?”

Sir Dominica immediately lost interest in Sir Dominic’s answer.

It wasn’t a particularly intriguing story.

Sir Dominic took another sip of coffee and opened the newspaper again.

[The Executive branch of GachaLand has expressed deep regret over this incident and announced that they will hold a double resources event starting next week.]

[System Industries Job Posting]

[Star I’m Not Little achieves 100 million views with penalty dance… the pride of GachaLand Stars.]

The newspaper contents were mostly trivial, but Sir Dominic soon found an article that caught his interest.

[GachaLand announces plans to expand entertainment in various directions.]

[Game company GachaVision, acquired by Black Company, begins distribution of FPS ‘Call of Honor’ on the 11th.]

[Game company Coldstorm, acquired by Black Company, develops AOS ‘Heroes of the Secret’. Expected to surpass the dominance of AOS-ville.]

It was an article about the emergence of new game modes that might breathe new life into GachaLand.

…

Star I’m Not Little started her broadcast today as well.

However, unlike usual… or perhaps not so different from usual, the attitude of the viewers caught her attention.

-Wow! 100 million views! Wow! #1 on trending videos!

-Hello. I’m Yu-ip. 1st try.

-What’s that guy above saying? If you come to GachaLand, speak GachaLand language.

-Idiot. He’s saying “newcomer.”

The viewers’ enthusiastic cheers for I’m Not Little!

Normally, I’m Not Little would have brushed it off, saying the broadcast atmosphere was fine, but this time she couldn’t contain her embarrassment.

She knew exactly where this enthusiastic atmosphere was coming from.

“Seriously, why would anyone watch a video of me doing that creaky, gloomy dance 100 million times? There are so many other cam broadcasts out there!”

-Hey, if you put yourself down like that, what does that make us fans;;;

-It’s like, what, a school performance? A cute little show?

-LOL lol That’s exactly it.

“Ugh, really!”

I’m Not Little vented her frustration at the viewers.

The viewer count was at an all-time high, but I’m Not Little wasn’t happy about this number.

Most of the viewers gathered here were newcomers who had come to make fun of her dance video.

Finally, I’m Not Little took drastic measures.

“Whatever, I’m just going to start with Part 1 gaming. Part 1 will be FTS (Faster Than Sound).”

-No, host! Put that away right now!

-Giving people sleeping pills from Part 1;;

-Ant-shaking mode ON!

The viewers began to react strongly to I’m Not Little’s announcement.

FTS was known as a sleeping pill because it was such a calm and drowsy game.

It was so quiet and subtle that the sound of someone snoring while sleeping would be louder.

Starting with such a game from Part 1 could only be seen as I’m Not Little deliberately trying to shake off viewers who were clinging like ants.

Which, of course, was true.

-Please, can’t you play something else? I have a condition where I pass out whenever I see FTS;;

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-nds

The chat was already in chaos.

But since this was what I’m Not Little wanted, she deliberately ignored the viewers’ outcries and silently played FTS.

Until the number of viewers dropped to one-third.

…

“Ah, yes. The crepes there are really delicious. You have good taste.”

Finally, the chat was cleared of trolls.

I’m Not Little, now satisfied, conducted a calm talk broadcast.

As she exchanged trivial jokes and small talk with the remaining viewers, I’m Not Little suddenly exclaimed as if something had occurred to her.

“Oh, right. I just remembered I’ll be working on a project soon.”

-A project?

-Interesting. Don’t know what it is, but let’s see it happen.

-Is it a collaboration?

-It must be We Got Marr[Message deleted]

“The ‘We Got Married’ parrot gets banned. It’s nothing special. You know how Call of Honor and Heroes of the Secret are coming out soon, right? It’s related to that.”

-?

-Is it really a collaboration?

“Anyway, don’t get your hopes up too much. Just think of it as ‘oh, there’s something like that’ and move on.”

-How can we not get excited when you say it like that;;;

-Wow, making us excited and then telling us not to be.

-I know this one. It’s like “don’t think about elephants,” right?

I’m Not Little saw the viewers’ reactions and secretly smiled.

“Alright! Then to crush your expectations, shall we move on to Part 2? Part 2 is Long Long Dark!”

-?

-Come on;;;

-A sleeping pill for Part 1 and another for Part 2 is a bit much;;

-Ah, overdosing on sleeping pills.

I’m Not Little was having a good time with her viewers today as well.

And for today at least, it seemed I’m Not Little had the upper hand in the damage exchange.