The Martial God who Regressed Back to Level 2 Novel

Chapter 11

Personnel Department, Division 3, of the Sung Guild.

"Hmph, hahaha. So Im Ga-young asked for my number, huh? What? She doesn't know her own number?"

Division Chief Lee Ha-yeon burst into laughter as she watched the video brought by Im Ga-young.

"...It's understandable since she doesn't look as beautiful as a lady and has a masculine appearance."

Im Ga-young replied sternly with an expressionless face.

With her short hair, tall stature, and muscular build, she did give off a boyish vibe.

But that was a separate issue from looking "masculine."

"Really... She doesn't even know how popular she is in the guild."

Ha-yeon chuckled and clapped her hands at her.

"Ga-young, don't say things like that elsewhere. You'll get in trouble."

"No, I know this very well. Even in high school, only girls liked me."

"That's because it was an all-girls school."

"Well, that's true, but..."

Clap!

Ha-yeon clapped her hands.

"Enough. That guy is just weird. Let's end this issue here."

"...Even though the lady laughed at me first."

"What?"

"It's nothing."

Tap, tap.

Ha-yeon, who had been smiling, vigorously typed on the keyboard.

"More importantly, Sung JiHan, this person. After seeing the data you brought, I thought we must recruit them."

"Even if they're a support player?"

"Yes. With this level of skill, we should have them on our team. Before other guilds start eyeing them. And I remember who this person is."

"You remember?"

Ha-yeon gestured to Ga-young and pointed at the monitor.

"Look at this."

"This is..."

What caught Ga-young's eye was a video channel.

-BattleNet Match Prediction, Channel of Sung JiHan

"...You still watch this kind of broadcast, miss?"

Ga-young looked at Ha-yeon with a cold gaze.

She was from a wealthy family, so why was she subscribing to such a gambling-filled channel?

Ha-yeon quickly clapped her hands.

"This person is quite accurate. It's because the broadcasts are sporadic, but if they did it properly, they would have become famous in the match prediction community."

"The match prediction community? Isn't that an illegal betting site?"

"No. It's not betting. BattleNet match prediction collects data and makes judgments... Anyway, it's a sophisticated analysis platform!"

"Sigh... So what? What's the relationship between this gambler and Sung JiHan?"

"Look at this, look!"

She quickly moved the mouse.

Then, the playlist of the channel 'Sung' scrolled up.

"In the 7th video here, this person's face appeared briefly. I thought they looked cleaner than I expected and moved on, but they looked like Sung JiHan."

"W-Wait a minute, miss."

Ga-young urgently stopped Ha-yeon, who was about to scroll down with the mouse wheel.

"Huh? Why?"

"The, the live broadcast at the very top! Look at the title!"

"Uh, this person is doing a broadcast for what reason? It's been a while... Huh?"

Ha-yeon casually raised her head and then widened her eyes.

The title of the live video.

It contained content that she couldn't even imagine.

[The Daughter of the Sword King and the Brother-in-law. We will share our position by revealing the conversation with the Sword King regarding this incident.]

"The Sword King's brother-in-law...?"

* * *

Yoon Se-jin's penthouse living room.

Sung JiHan, dressed in black, was setting up the camera.

"Whew, it was tough to convince them."

The building in Gangnam that was inherited from her father.

To donate this massive building to the country.

-Uncle... Are you still not sober?

It was only natural for Yoon Se-ah to say that.

Even though she couldn't say anything in such a situation, it felt admirable that it ended at that level, even if she cursed at her.

"I couldn't say that I came from the future."

While telling her about the worst situations that would happen in the future.

-Isn't that too exaggerated?

Yoon Se-ah asked in response, saying that even if she couldn't pay the gift tax, it would become serious if I really had a premonition, etc...

After saying all sorts of nonsense, the persuasion ended.

-...Alright. Well, since you're now my only family, I'll believe you.

-Really?

-Yes. Sigh. I'd rather ask them to give me half of the building. Donating it to the country, huh.

Yoon Se-ah grumbled, but still delegated full authority to Sung JiHan.

In this way, Sung JiHan was able to carry out the plan she had planned while returning to the past.

"Oh. It's not showing on my phone. Why isn't it working...?"

It seemed that she wasn't familiar with setting up the camera.

Sung JiHan tilted her head while looking at her phone screen and the camera.

"This camera. It worked fine on BattleTube last time..."

BattleTube.

A streaming system and video platform that exists independently on BattleNet.

It has a hyper-technology that allows videos to be played even without a computer or smartphone connected to the internet.

BattleTube was overshadowing all the video platforms on Earth and boasted a dominant market share.

And on the other side of the camera.

Yoon Se-ah, dressed in black like Sung JiHan, stood with her arms crossed, watching her uncle's appearance as if it was absurd.

"When did my uncle become such a good actor?"

The BattleTube window displayed on Yoon Se-ah's smartphone.

It was clearly streaming with Sung JiHan complaining that the screen wasn't showing.

-What the hell is he doing?

-It's so frustrating.

-Isn't this just for attention?

-But the house is the King's house, right?

-Right. I saw it on the King's special program.

And the chat window kept scrolling.

People were cursing at Sung JiHan, who was struggling, in a frenzy.

It would have been fine if it was just the title that didn't come out, but they were complaining about why it wasn't showing.

If it wasn't for that unbearable title, she would have left immediately.

[We are the daughter and son-in-law of the King. We will share our position by telling you the content of the conversation with the King regarding this incident.]

The title on BattleTube was too long to see at a glance.

But the daughter and son-in-law of the King.

Because of this title, people who were angry about the King's interview started to enter the streaming room one by one.

-Oh... It really looks like the King's living room?

-I thought it was just for attention, but it's not?

As word quickly spread among the people, viewers began to gather.

[10,000 simultaneous viewers have gathered.]

[Achievement, 'Gather Viewers (1)' has been cleared.]

[Obtained 1,000 achievement points as a reward.]

And in Sung JiHan's eyes, who was acting to the fullest, an achievement point collection notification appeared.

"As expected."

BattleTube is also part of BattleNet.

There was a way to earn achievement points here as well.

The number of viewers and subscribers.

Likes, dislikes, total views, and so on for a video.

The amount of achievement points that could be obtained from BattleTube was limitless.

"It's difficult to break the dislike achievement. I have to receive a lot this time."

Videos with too many dislikes would result in losses when settling with GP on BattleTube, but Sung JiHan didn't care much.

Achievement points were more important than GP.

Especially when he was only a bronze, he had to break achievements as much as possible through major issues.

"Besides, my face is going to sell anyway."

Even if he didn't make a statement, it was going to spread enough for the whole nation to know after a week.

Instead of asking the media to do only good things, he had to earn achievements.

And when two hours passed since Sung JiHan complained.

[30,000 simultaneous viewers have gathered.]

[Normal achievement, 'Recruit Viewers (2)' has been cleared.]

[Obtained 3,000 achievement points as a reward.]

[Collected 10,000 dislikes.]

[Normal achievement, 'Even if the world hates you (1)' has been cleared.]

[Obtained 1,000 achievement points as a reward.]

He was able to break both the simultaneous viewers achievement and the dislikes achievement.

When he came to watch after making his position clear, it was only natural for viewers to dislike the video if the screen didn't show up for two hours.

If it weren't for the hostage situation related to the King of Swords, 99% of the viewers would have already left.

"If there are 30,000 people, they should dislike it more."

Meanwhile, Sung JiHan was rather disappointed that he couldn't break the dislikes achievement (2).

However, now was the time to end the broadcast.

When he pressed his smartphone here and there, the screen finally showed up.

"Oh... It's on! It's on!"

Sung JiHan rejoiced as if he wanted to jump.

Then he widened his eyes and watched the screen.

"What, what is this? Why are there so many people?"

A genuinely surprised expression.

Yoon SeA, who was watching behind the camera, admired Sung JiHan's amazing expression acting once again.

"It would have been better to go into acting rather than wearing a mask...."

In line with that, the chat exploded with mixed curses.

- Ha. That bastard is finally going to broadcast.

- Wow. I waited for 18... 118 minutes.

- I pressed report and left unless it was really about the King of Swords.

- Hurry up, you traitor.

- Be careful with your words, calling someone a traitor. The King of Swords played a fake to deceive Japan.

- Yes, next is a pro-Japanese collaborator~

"Ha. Haha. You waited a long time, didn't you? I'm really sorry."

Sung JiHan bowed his head towards the camera.

With a frustrated expression, he sat down at the desk and chair that he had set up in advance.

"Now then. Me, Sung JiHan, who is the brother-in-law of the King of Swords."

Snap.

At Sung JiHan's gesture, Yoon SeA walked towards him with a gloomy face.

Even she, who admired her uncle's expression management, had great acting skills once she started acting.

"The daughter of the King of Swords. I will explain Yoon SeA's position."

* * *

This streaming video, where everyone's attention was focused.

When Sung JiHan introduced himself, several comments appeared in the chat.

-Sung JiHan?

-He's the number one tutorial in Gangnam!

Guild officials who were looking around the Bronze League were nervous when they saw Sung JiHan.

Regular people were different.

- Sung JiHan, the first place in the tutorial, was being arrogant...

- Well, even if he's the first place, isn't he just a bronze? At least he should be gold.

No matter how much he's from Gangnam 1, bronze is still bronze.

This is different from the perception of ordinary people compared to the scouts.

The Battle.net players they know are at least those who play in the Gold League or higher.

Looking below that is only done by industry insiders or hardcore league fans.

- Well, what's important now is not someone like bronze.

Unlike the excitement of the scouts.

The general viewers were not curious at all about Sung JiHan achieving first place.

What they were curious about was information about the Sword King.

The pride of South Korea, ranked third in the world.

Did the Sword King Yoon Se-jin really abandon his own country and go to Japan?

That was important.

"First... I will tell you everything about the conversation between my brother-in-law and my niece."

Sung JiHan looked at Yoon Se-ah with a stern face.

Then, Yoon Se-ah, who was biting her lips, cautiously placed her phone on the desk.

There, the recorded conversation between Yoon Se-jin and Yoon Se-ah was revealed without any editing.

[Se-ah.]

[Dad!? Is it really dad? What was that interview earlier? Going to Japan without saying anything to me!?]

[I'm sorry. Dad... fell in love.]

[...What? Love?]

-Huh. Love?

-Wow. 18... Crazy...

-Is, is it really the voice of the Sword King?

-That's right. I can vouch for being a member of the Sword King's family.

The reason the Sword King went to Japan was because of love?

With this absurd content, the viewers collectively stared in disbelief and did not stop criticizing the Sword King.

[...Is this a joke? Love?]

[A Japanese woman. More beautiful than anyone in the world.]

Yoon Se-jin's voice was brighter than ever.

In contrast, Yoon Se-ah's voice was gloomy.

[Dad... please... no, right?]

[...]

[Well, well. Remarriage! You can remarry. Mom... well. She became a statue. She, she died... So dad must be lonely. Okay. The new mom is a Japanese woman? It's okay...]

Gulp.

Is it gathering one's resolve?

In the recorded voice, Yoon Se-ah briefly swallowed her saliva.

Her voice became even more gloomy.

[It's okay, no matter what. Even if you remarry... Okay. I'll agree. But... but... do we really need to go to Japan?]

[That's her condition for accepting my proposal.]

[W-What...!?]

[And.]

Yoon Se-jin paused for a moment.

Then, as if he had made up his mind, he continued with a firm voice.

[She has one more condition. Leave the daughter in Korea and come back.]

[...Me?]