Chapter 112

The robot only had three hearts, which meant three lives.

And now, all three hearts had turned gray.

This meant that the tutorial would end as long as they put the robot into that incinerator.

Was it really a tutorial?

Originally, a tutorial was a guide to learn something.

Therefore, it had to be detailed, kind, and the barrier to entry could not be high.

It had to show the future direction and make the player feel the fun.

However, when the guy you were playing the game with set it to a difficulty defined by a hideous word like Nightmare because he thought it would be fun, you had no choice but to accept it.

Even more so if the viewers had set a mission.

It was an unavoidable thing like a streamer’s fate.

Upon inspection, they said it was possible to adjust the difficulty in the middle, and that seemed like a good thing.

But that was only for other users, that was.

He had no intention of changing it from Nightmare difficulty.

“Let’s drive it over that way first.”

“Sure.”

Seo-jun watched the robot while moving toward the incinerator.

The robot, which was so destroyed that even a toy repair center would wave their hands and refuse it, was currently looking down at ‘what used to be the scraper’.

He wondered if it was actually going to cry at this rate.

-Ack ㅋㅋㅋㅋ we are sorry

-Hurry up and blacken to protect my money!

-I hope phase 2 is seriously fucking hard!

The mission fee had risen to two million won at present.

Was it because it was one million won per head?

“Are you going to look at the pattern first this time too?”

“Yeah, let’s play it safe.”

“This is the way.”

“Everyone, shall I make it easy to hook it like earlier?”

If Seo-jun jumped over the enemy, hooked it, and pulled, the enemy’s body would inevitably turn.

In that case, Tae-woo only had to throw it a bit more safely without any interference.

Of course, earlier the arms were integrated and could only move back and forth, which played a part in allowing a hook without interference, so Phase 2 could be a little different.

Though it would work out if they kept doing it.

-Just how far are you going to spoon-feed him!

-Excessive protection is bad for a child’s independence…

-You have to make him independent in advance so that when the kid experiences real big frustration and despair later, he can get back up…

-Has everyone lost their minds because it looks like they’ll succeed in the mission! ㅋㅋㅋㅋ

Seo-jun ignored the chat and examined the robot.

The guy, as if having composed his emotions and entered anger mode again, glared with eyes wide open.

Now it seemed like it would roll in quickly.

Seo-jun walked forward in advance to meet it.

The biggest difference in Phase 2 was the arms and hands, which could no longer scrape trash easily but were capable of much freer attacks.

Whirrrr.

The robot, rolling its wheels and rushing quickly toward Seo-jun, immediately swung its arm.

Seo-jun dodged by jumping lightly.

The guy had laid the sword too low to duck.

It was not an attack that could be dodged to the side, and the range was too long to back away.

The robot drew a diagonal line with its opposite arm. In its path was Seo-jun, who had floated into the air.

Indeed, Nightmare difficulty.

Since he had just jumped out of habit, if he had also double-jumped, it was clear he would have been helpless in mid-air and caught without a choice.

Seo-jun stepped on the air backward.

“Kya!”

This was why one saved their moves as much as possible by using only the minimum movement.

As soon as he landed, the robot executed the next attack.

The timing to dodge was designed so tightly that if one hadn’t mastered the patterns, they would have been hit while going ‘uh, uh’.

And it was his first time facing an enemy this huge.

Of course, naturally,

there was no problem.

-Oh ㅋㅋㅋㅋxx

-His movements are crazy

-That guy is really your high school classmate? What on earth did you do instead of learning from him?

As Seo-jun dodged the attacks of the giant enemy as if performing acrobatics using double jumps, Tae-woo’s viewers who were seeing Seo-jun for the first time found it amazing.

The way he evaded like that with improvisation every time was truly the limit of physical ability.

And Seo-jun’s chat window was business as usual.

Because other than not holding a sword, Seo-jun’s appearance was not much different from before.

If there was something different,

-Ah, I really want a sword

-Someone hand him one

-If he had a sword, he would have finished it by parrying 150 times already ㅋㅋㅋㅋ

-It’s nice to see the host unable to counterattack!

There was no way to do something that didn’t exist in the system.

It was time to finish it.

The enemy plunged its arm vertically, and Seo-jun dodged by moving just a little, then jumped while signaling Tae-woo.

Naturally, the opposite sword approached to block Seo-jun.

Because the enemy’s attack came from the front, it looked difficult to leap over the enemy by double-jumping here, but Seo-jun kicked off once more.

By applying force to his feet differently than before, he slowly rotated his body, and thanks to that, Seo-jun was able to dodge diagonally exactly when the blade passed by.

Next, he exerted strength in his abdomen, rolled his body forward, and threw the grappling hook.

Now it was time to finish it.

After all, even if it was Phase 2, it wasn’t as if its lives had increased again.

Clank.

The grappling hook went in precisely, and Seo-jun pulled with all his might to turn the robot’s body.

While adding a word.

“If it were me, I would have cut the rope with a sword.”

-That was clean

-It’s hard to move like that in mid-air

-ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ Cutting the rope with a sword is cheating

-Let’s fight by the rules, by the rules

1 second.

2 seconds.

The robot’s body turned, and Tae-woo, who had received the signal, ran over just in time.

“Take this!”

Clank.

Nightmare difficulty is nothing special.

Seo-jun said, as if gently soothing the robot.

“Now, shall we go?”

While slowly heading toward the incinerator.

-Fucking terrifying

-Robot, hang in there! Get up! Cut the rope or do whatever, hurry!

-Phase 3, Phase 3 is needed

Although it was a pity for the grateful viewers who had set the mission, it was not Phase 3 that welcomed them.

***

As Seo-jun and Tae-woo dragged it all the way to the incinerator, their bodies moved automatically.

Seo-jun and Tae-woo widened the distance to both sides and pulled the rope, pushing it in all at once.

Whether their strength did not match or it was intentional, he didn’t know, but the robot’s body spun as it went inside the incinerator.

The inside of the incinerator was a sharply bent downhill path where a cliff suddenly appeared, and it did not look like there was any way to climb back up if the robot fell just like that.

Most fortunately, even in the midst of getting dizzy while spinning, the robot hung its sword on the door frame (it couldn’t grab it since it didn’t have hands) and held out without falling.

For a mere toy, its survival instinct was incredible.

“It survived thanks to us.”

Seo-jun left a short comment after seeing that sight.

And Tae-woo understood this perfectly.

“Exactly. If we hadn’t helped and its arms remained integrated, just think. It wouldn’t even be able to grab the door frame and would have fallen straight into the fiery pit.”

-ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

-Crazy psycho duo ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

-Why did that guy fall in the first place! ㅋㅋㅋ

-So shameless

It looked like the robot would be able to climb up by its own power if not for the interference of Seo-jun and Tae-woo.

Freedom returned to their bodies.

So, just when they thought they should push that robot now, Tae-woo’s character said.

[Hmm. Shall we push it?]

(＼ ／)

The robot’s expression, which had been so full of anger, had turned pitiful before they knew it.

(ㅠ△ㅠ)

The toy shook its head, dripping a liquid that was hard to identify as either tears or oil, and Seo-jun’s character said.

[Oh. It’s kind of cute?]

[Are you crazy?]

It was indeed cute.

[It’s a guy that suddenly rushed at us as soon as it saw us.]

[That’s because this world is like that. A world where you have to live only as decided, as made. Catching us was its duty, so it must have rushed in right away. Hmm. Shall we save it?]

[You’ve really gone mad.]

[We just need to get a promise that it won’t attack.]

[Sigh. Fine, do as you say.]

[Hey, should we let you off once?]

The robot nodded its head.

Seo-jun was quietly listening to the narration, and Tae-woo was roaming around here and there.

“Seo-jun. I think we need to back away a little?”

Tae-woo judged that because the person who had pushed it in was standing right in front of it as it grunted and struggled to survive, the robot seemed unable to properly exert force and come out.

Seo-jun said.

“Then if we keep staying here, will that guy fall?”

“The game probably won’t proceed.”

“Ah.”

-‘Ah’ lol ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

-ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

-Clear-cut

-Right, the host must be beaten like this.

“No, I have something to say too. As far as I can see, the main characters of this game seem to have quite devilish personalities, you know? So my character might have said this to give it hope and then take it away. I had that kind of intention…”

[‘Hyung-nim’ donated 30,000 won!]

[Do not make excuses]

“Yes, sir.”

Seo-jun shut his mouth and backed away.

-Beating him with money isn’t bad either ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

-The only thing we can win against this streamer in

-How does a Travel viewer who has no money beat him? ㅠㅠ

The robot climbed up with grunts.

Then, approaching them, it spread its arms and waved them to express its gratitude with a smile.

(^ ^)

The boss battle ended.

It ends with a reconciliation like this?

Well, synthesizing the narration from earlier, it wasn’t that it made no sense.

Did they say they do as they are ordered?

What kind of world was it?

“Then, let’s go to the place where the mark appeared on that wall.”

A green mark appeared on the lower part next to the entrance where the compacting robot had entered, and Seo-jun and Tae-woo headed there along the circular wall.

Behind them, the compacting robot followed along.

It did not attack.

He wondered if it was okay for its attitude to change like this just because they saved it,

but originally, fighting, unleashing one’s full power, stopping the fight because one was in danger of dying, saving them, and becoming friends was close to a classic cliché.

As they arrived at the mark, the compacting robot quickly passed them and went ahead.

Art said.

[Don’t go through the front gate? Your friends are asleep?]

The robot nodded its head.

[What is it? Did you obtain some kind of ability??]

[No. I just read the room and said it. Well, since it says there are friends… where do we go out?]

[Hmm. The protagonist went out straight through that outlet using a rope, but it didn’t reach for us. Is it probably because it was split into two?]

[Try combining it into one then.]

[But, there’s something I want to test first. I know a secret passage. I had envisioned it for an Easter egg later.]

[Envisioned? Then would that even exist?]

[Yeah. Even this compactor was something we had only thought of as a setting and didn’t actually make a game file for, but it’s here. In that case, a secret passage might exist too.]

[Ha. What do you mean ‘we’, it must have been you alone. Anyway, try looking for it.]

Seo-jun placed his hand on the wall with the green mark.

Then, the wall moved like a sophisticated mechanical device, and a small opening appeared.

Seeing this, the compacting robot clapped from the side.

Clang! Clang!

Sparks flew.

“We’re going!”

Tae-woo greeted the robot first and then went inside the opening, and Seo-jun followed him inside.

The secret passage was narrow and so low that they couldn’t lift their heels.

After walking like that for a bit, the end of the passage came into view, and Tae-woo, who was leading the way, suddenly came to a stop.

Seo-jun went to his side and asked, and he was immediately able to know the reason.

“Why?”

“Whoa. I was spacing out and almost fell.”

This was because a precipice was welcoming them.

“It probably means we should ride this?”

“Yeah.”

Tae-woo pointed to the bar hanging from the rope in front of them.

There were hooks on both sides where ropes could be hung, and these parts were glowing green.

Seo-jun and Tae-woo threw their grappling hooks, hung them there, and pressed something like a button on the wall.

Whirrrr.

With the sound of a pulley turning, they went up at a high speed, and at the place they arrived at:

Tae-woo shouted.

“Uaaack!”

Squeak?

There was a rat?

-???

-Why are you shouting?

-It’s just a common rat though? ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

-What is it ㅋㅋㅋ

And Seo-jun, who was watching that scene, grinned.

No wonder he seemed to have become less talkative for a while now.