It’s an Academic Fact That Rankers Are Model Students – Chapter 119

Chapter 119: BlackChef VS Kyung-joon (1)

[Unique skill 『Last Hurrah (Lv.1)』 ]

[A Minstrel of Cuteness, on the verge of death, exerts their last ounce of life force to bestow the greatest buff upon a single target.]

BJMiguning, having witnessed Kyung-joon’s battle, made up her mind.

If she was going to die anyway, she wouldn’t go down without a fight.

Rather than accepting defeat, she would entrust everything to this promising man before her.

This man, who effortlessly obliterated the named monster in this defense mission and swiftly swept aside the surrounding mobs, he could surely handle BlackChef……!

However, much to BJMiguning’s dismay, her fervent hope failed to reach Kyung-joon.

[Unique skill 『Sylph Fly – Shadow Step (Lv.1)』 ]

Fwoosh!

The moment Kyung-joon saw the glow emanating from BJMiguning’s fingertips, he immediately activated Shadow Step to evade.

Wheeew!

The buff orb launched from BJMiguning’s hand missed Kyung-joon, instead colliding with his afterimage.

[Target not found.]

[Unique skill 『Last Hurrah』 has been canceled.]

And so,

Her heartfelt, final buff vanished along with the afterimage.

“W, Why did you dodge my buffffff! You crazy b@stard!!”

“Huh? Buff? I thought you were attacking me.”

“Ughhhh@%&@^!!!”

BJMiguning screamed in despair.

━lolololololol

━Buff evaporated GG^^

━Holy crap, he dodged that? lololol

━Bbooshing beep boop! There’s someone who dodges even when offered a buff?

━Damn it kkkk How did he even dodge that? lololol

━Seriously, how did he dodge that? lololol

━??: Where are you trying to apply the buff? That’s just my afterimage, you know?

━Lololol This is freaking awesome

━What? You think you can just buff me? Not a chance!

Meanwhile, the viewers burst into laughter.

🔷🔷🔷🔷🔷🔷

━Wow, but who the hell is that guy?

━I can’t see anything because of the mosaic.

━He must be a ranker, right?

━100% a ranker.

━Anyone have a guess who it might be?

[『BJMiguning (Player)』 is currently live.]

[The identity protection system is currently active.]

[You can change the settings.]

During the broadcast, all players will have their entire bodies mosaicked and their voices modulated unless permission is granted by the person concerned.

If you don’t even want this, you can set it to refuse filming altogether.

Then you will appear as an invisible person, as if you were not there.

Kyung-joon left the settings unchanged.

After the Luxemb Defense event was over, he was going to appear in a game promotional video with his entire body mosaicked anyway.

“Cough, cough……!”

Kyung-joon said, looking at BJMiguning, who was vomiting blood.

“You look like you’re going to heaven soon. Are you okay?”

“Does this…… cough……! Look okay……?”

BJMiguning raised her hand again and pointed it at Kyung-joon.

“This time…… Don’t avoid it…… And I’ll be sure to repay you later…… That precious cook bastard…… Cough!”

BJMiguning looked like she was going to die in less than a minute if left alone.

“Cook? You mean BlackChef?”

“Yeah…… Kill that bastard…… I’ll repay you…… And take over the broadcast too……. “

Ding!

As BJMiguning manipulated the status window, a status window popped up in front of Kyung-joon as well.

[Player Special Skill 『Broadcast Transfer』 ]

[『BJMiguning』 has requested a broadcast transfer to you.]

▶Current Viewers: 18,472

[Will you take over the broadcast?]

▶Setting 1: Freedom to set identity protection system

▶Setting 2: 50% transfer of donations

▶Setting 3: 50% of the profits from future video uploads will be paid in liyan

▶Setting 4: All donations and video revenue will be paid upon killing BlackChef

[This contract is strictly managed under the in-game escrow system.]

“What? You want me to take over the broadcast too?”

“This…… This is YouTube material…… I can’t die without filming it…… Cough, cough……!”

Kyung-joon was troubled.

It would be one thing if she just asked him to kill BlackChef for her, but to ask him to do the broadcast too?

It was ridiculous to ask someone who had never done a broadcast before to take over the broadcast, even if they were going to be compensated.

‘The broadcast settings in the status window say that 50% of the donations will be paid in liyan…… But how much will that be?’

Besides, the follow-up process seemed like it would be a hassle.

He was going to make a lot of money anyway when the mass-produced bread he had entrusted to World’s Best was sold, so there was no need to go through the trouble.

Kyung-joon thought so and immediately refused…….

“What……? WalletSoldier, you’re putting up a 1 billion liyan donation mission……? If he succeeds in killing BlackChef……? Cough, cough!”

……It was too large a sum to refuse.

‘1 billion liyan is almost 5 months’ salary for all 107 of my villagers……!’

Besides the money.

Taking over the broadcast of a fairly well-known ranker.

This was a huge opportunity.

BJMiguning was a professional streamer.

Making a connection with her through this could be a big help to his business later on.

For example, promoting his bread through her YouTube channel.

Of course, he had no intention of selling his identity to the world through the broadcast.

This was not a problem.

His entire body would be mosaicked by the identity protection system, and his voice would be modulated.

“Okay. I’ll take over the broadcast.”

The moment Kyung-joon said that to BJMiguning.

Whirr, crack!

“Huh?”

A familiar Chinese cleaver flew in and lodged itself right in the middle of BJMiguning’s head.

Her HP went to 0 and soon she disappeared from the World with a bang!

She had been forcibly logged out.

“I’ve been looking for you.”

Thump, thump.

BlackChef was slowly walking towards them from afar.

“Our chef, you’re much calmer than when you were cooking before.”

“Cooking is my job, and this is my hobby. Hehehe.”

BlackChef flashed a silver light as he deftly handled his sashimi knife.

At the same time, a status window popped up in front of Kyung-joon.

[Broadcast transfer accepted.]

[Broadcast chat window will be created.]

━Wow, the broadcast is back on.

━Huh? It’s not Twitch, it’s World?

━What the?

━I thought Miguning died and it was over?

The viewers were confused as the broadcast suddenly resumed after a brief interruption.

As Kyung-joon waved his hand at the floating camera, the reaction changed.

━Oh? It’s the afterimage guy from earlier.

━Afterimage guy lololol.

━Don’t tell me he took over the broadcast?

━I thought he died right before.

“Yes. I took over the broadcast right before BJMiguning died.”

━Wow lololol.

━So you accepted in the end.

━What a sense!

━So Miguning died to BlackChef in the end?

“Yes. Her head was smashed in. It was really quick, split in half.”

━Her head lololol.

━Died by being split in half.

━Split in half lololol

━Poor Miguningㅠㅠ

[『EarthenPot』 has donated 10,000 liyan.]

▶So now BlackChef is going to switch targets and kill Afterimage guy?

Kyung-joon, seeing the donation window, turned his gaze forward.

BlackChef had already reached the spot where BJMiguning had been.

He picked up the Chinese cleaver from the floor, flicked it, and shook off Miguning’s blood.

Then, he took out a kitchen towel from his inventory and began to wipe the remaining blood off the blade as if to show off.

“This knife is all messed up…… I can’t kill you cleanly, can I?”

BlackChef gave Kyung-joon a creepy grin.

━Holy shit lol lolololololol.

━Wow, that’s creepy;;;

━He’s a real psycho.

━So BlackChef declared PK on Afterimage guy……

━He got caught up because of Miguning.

━Sorry, sorry, sorry, our bad Miguning is sorry.

━Ugh, troublesome Miguningㅉㅉ

“It’s okay. That chef was after me anyway.”

The truth was that it wasn’t Kyung-joon who got caught up, it was BJMiguning.

BlackChef was just chasing Kyung-joon to cook him, and unfortunately BJMiguning happened to be in the way.

Kyung-joon said to BlackChef.

“What am I going to do? The more delicious bread I’m working on isn’t finished yet.”

The promise BlackChef made to Kyung-joon after treating him to the Ogopogo sashimi.

He had promised to treat Kyung-joon to something even more delicious after calling his bread not tasty.

But the research on the flavor wasn’t complete yet.

At Kyung-joon’s question, BlackChef shook his head.

“I’m curious about the bread, but…… I’m not here to see you as a guest today.”

“Is that so?”

Fortunately, it seemed that he could postpone showing BlackChef the real delicious bread for a while longer.

━???

━What, do you know BlackChef?

━Lololol Something seems fishy between them?

━To have a cooking appointment with BlackChef;;

━Who the hell is Afterimage guy?

The viewers were shocked to see Kyung-joon conversing with BlackChef.

And one of them, seeing Kyung-joon like that, gave him a mission.

[『WalletSoldier』 has donated 200,000,000 liyan.]

▶Please,,,~~!! That,,, flesh-eating b@stard,,,!! Please,,,!!! I’ll give you 1 billion as a mission,,,~~!! If you catch him,,,, I’ll give you the other 800 million,,,~~!!

In internet broadcasting, a mission is simply a challenge.

If the BJ completes what the viewer said, they have to donate the money they put up for the mission.

That’s the unspoken rule between streamers and viewers.

“Okay. I’ll accept the mission.”

Kyung-joon decided to kill BlackChef.

He was after him anyway.

Then there was no need to hesitate!

[Unique Skill 『Sylph Fly – Shadow Step (Lv.1)』 ]

Whoosh!

As soon as Kyung-joon said he would accept the mission, he dashed forward.

[Unique Skill 『Ultrasonic Vibration Mana Dagger (Lv.3)』 ]

[A blade of mana that vibrates 40,000 times per second.]

He slashes the gleaming mana dagger towards BlackChef.

BlackChef raises his Chinese cleaver to block.

But it’s no use.

This thing can even cut through steel.

“……?!”

Clang!

The Chinese cleaver is sliced like a loaf of bread.

And the mana blade continues straight ahead.

Straight for BlackChef’s neck!

The moment Kyung-joon and BlackChef cross paths.

Slash!

Blood splattered.

Thud.

BlackChef and Kyung-joon faced each other.

<◎_◎!>

<Master. Are you alright?>

“……Oh. Just a scratch.”

Blood welled up on Kyung-joon’s right forearm.

It was a minor cut.

On the other hand, BlackChef’s white chef’s uniform was soaked in blood.

Drip, drip.

Blood flowed endlessly from his right arm.

[Right arm severed.]

[You will suffer continuous bleeding if you do not stop the bleeding.]

[HP will decrease by 0.1% per second, and the rate will increase over time.]

BlackChef had lost his right arm.

On the other hand, Kyung-joon only had a minor cut.

However, Kyung-joon furrowed his brow.

“……I aimed for the neck.”

He didn’t expect him to dodge that.

It was as if he had anticipated the Shadow Step.

‘He must have seen it during the qualification exam.’

Kyung-joon’s guess was correct.

BlackChef had infiltrated the Guard Mole exam site after taking care of Miguning’s guards and Heukgil-dong.

To get a head start on Kyung-joon, the ‘cooking ingredient’ he had his eye on.

He had seen Kyung-joon use Shadow Step once there, so he was able to avoid losing his head and only lose an arm.

‘And to think he would even think of attacking in that situation. What kind of reflexes……’

The moment the mana blade passed through the Chinese cleaver, BlackChef immediately gave up on defense and went on the offensive.

He had aimed for the neck with the sashimi knife in his other hand.

Of course, it was an improvisation, so it only grazed him.

If BlackChef had also seen the 『Ultrasonic Vibration Mana Dagger』 during the qualification exam, it might have been Kyung-joon, not BlackChef, who would have lost an arm.

“You’re a wizard…… but you use a sword too?”

BlackChef regained his stance.

Blood dripped from his severed arm.

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