Momo wasn’t deeply involved in today’sntent.
After all, whether it was sniping orunter-sniping, this was ultimately Magia’s area of expertise. She didn’t want to interfere and risk dulling Magia’s sharp wit and playful energy.
In a way, it was similar to why Magia didn’t ddle too much in the other mbers’ or Momo’s streams.
Battle Colosseum, sniping—
When it ca to these things, Cheon Do-hee was just a step behind Magia. So, she decided to respect Magia’s judgnt as much as possible.
That’s why, just like during the illegal duet event, the plan was primarily drafted by Magia and supported by Team Leader Ra Seung-hyun.
When Momo saw the final version, sheuldn’t help but laugh at the absurd promotional strategy that had been added.
Covering the screen with character outfit illustrations to prevent stream sniping?
Even though the primary goal was to show through the karaoke stream that Magia and Contestant F were different people, it also ant that she wasn’t willing to lose so easily.
Even if she had to lose, she’d put up a fight.
If you want to see lose, then you’d better be prepared to pay the price—sothing like that?
‘No wonder she accepted the suggestion so smoothly.’
Normally, when mbers submitted antent plan, there’d be multiple revisions after discussions with Team Leader Ra Seung-hyun. But it seed like that wasn’t really the case with Magia.
The planning team’s role was to carefully review and filter out any elents thatuld potentially causentroversy. They were usually ticulous about it.
[Planning Team Leader: I did make a few tweaks, but the initial draft was already solid, so it didn’t take long.]
[Planning Team Leader: Ofurse, there’s always a chance it turns into a UFC match, so please make sure to steer it toward WWE, CEO.]
[Planning Team Leader: There might be so talk about the donation-based password unlock system.]
[: I was already thinking about that.]
[: Thanks for the cross-check.]
Magia’s streaming style had always been anstant tightrope walk, even back in her troll days.
She needed soone watching over her.
As Ra Seung-hyun pointed out, thingsuld spiral out ofntrol at any mont, or even spark a massive wildfire.
Attracting attention was important in streaming, but managing to wrap things up with minimalntroversy was even more crucial.
This ti, Momo would bevering for Magia, but that wasn’t a sustainable solution.
At so point, Magia needed to learn the full A-to-Z of streaming.
Originally, Momo had planned to teach her after she debuted.
But at this rate, it looked like Magia wouldntinue streaming indefinitely without an official debut.
There was no harm in teaching her in advance.
‘The snd-gen recruitnt will wrap up this week...’
Once that was done, Momould invite Magia to the uming training sessions, particularly the ones focused on stream hosting.
As for the "Handling Trolls 101" lesson that Momo personally valued—
Sheuld probably skip that part.
Because...
"Hey, what are you typing so much on TalkCord while playing? Do you really have the ti for that mid-ga?"
"I'm stirring up chaos in the voice chat of the stream snipers who ca to hunt down. That’s why Ivered the screen and set up a password."
"...What? How did you even get in there?"
"That’s an industry secret, so I can’t really tell you."
Had she set up so kind of trap?
She’d created a situation that lured stream snipers in, only to toy with them from above.
What was the point of teaching her how to handle trolls?
If anything, Magia should be the one teaching that class, not Momo.
Momo hadn’t suggested it before since Magia seed to be avoiding the other mbers, but...
Maybe it was worth proposing that she be a guest lecturer for the snd-gen training.
***
But no matter how well Magia played with trolls, she stilluldn’tmpletely ove sheer numbers.
The first and snd rounds played out in a similar pattern.
Thanks to the ban on grenades and molotovs, the balance was fairly well-maintained.
However, once viewers started breaking the password through donation bombardnts, Magia’s location would be exposed.
From that point on, it turned into a defense match—she’d hold out as long as possible, but ultimately, she’d getrnered by players camping outside the safe zone and end up roasted along with them.
Even though Magia knew stream snipers better than anyone, the mont they started focusing entirely on her instead of Momo,untering them beca a lot harder.
As they prepared for the third round, Momo turned on her mic and spoke loudly enough for the audience to hear.
"With grenades banned except for smoke, I thought you’d have the upper hand, but I guess it’s not that easy, huh?"
— "Uhuhuhu, here!"
— "Co at !"
— "Karaoke stream is too good~"
— "Lmao, gotta lose, right?"
— "Even Signal Rounds aren’t enough to snipe Magia easily, huh?"
— "So, Magia, how does it feel to be on the receiving end of stream sniping?"
Momo was laying the groundwork, pretending as if they had genuinely planned this event to win.
"We put together thisntent because we wanted to win for real, but... Our viewers’ordination and firepower are ❀ Nоvеlігht ❀ (Don’tpy, read here) just too strong. It’s tough,"—that kind of whining.
Fortunately, Magia imdiately caught on to Momo’s intent and fired back.
"Maybe it’s because the CEO isn’t cheering for ."
“...?”
"Co on, give a buff. I don’t want to work overti."
At the ntion of "overti," chat exploded.
They were calling her out for pretending tomplain when she’d be stuck at the office all night anyway.
— "Oh, so we’re just bugs who won’t let her leave work, huh?"
— "Hey, hey, hey!"
— "Lmao, as if you don’t run the operations room late into the night anyway!"
— "Wait, that’s true."
— "So tragicㅠㅠㅠ can’t even go hoㅠㅠㅠ"
— "DON’T FALL FOR IT!!"
— "There she goes again, lying through her teeth!"
Most of them were just worried she’d find a way to weasel out of her punishnt again.
She’d gotten away with it too many tis, to the point where Magia had practically b the boy who cried wolf.
"So, what kind of buff?"
"I’ll buy you a Ddeodeu Burger."
"Ah. No. Not doing it."
"Ugh... I can’t do the karaoke stream... I don’t have the energy...."
— "? "
— "Momo?"
— "Momo, are you betraying us right now?"
— "???"
This translation is the intellectual property of Novelight.
Even while trolling, she made sure to shift the chat’smplaints onto Momo.
This was peak Magia—pulling every trick in the book to force Momo into doing aegyo.
"Dde... Dde... Ddeodeu...."
"Everyone, even if I lose today, I will not be doing the karaoke stream."
— "YAAAAAHHHHH!!"
— "MOMO, WHAT ARE YOU DOING??"
— "HURRY UP!!"
— "Kraaaah!!"
— "If this is a lie again, I’m really hitting that donation button!"
— "A mysterious truck appears in front of Parallel’s HQ..."
Honestly, Magia’s requests weren’t even that outrageous.
After years of bickering with chat, Momo’s instinct was to push back and joke about monetization first.
But even while ssing with her, Magia did so much for Momo and Parallel.
So, for soone as notoriously mischievous as Magia, aegyo was a small price to pay.
"Nya, Dde... Ddeodeu Burger want, Gia! Buy Ddeodeu Burger...!"
— "LMAO"
— "LOOOOL"
— "Perfection"
— "She’s been doing aegyo more often lately."
— "Her blood circulation’s been fixed ever since the Wicker server incident."
— "Dae. Ji. A."
— "This too is Magia’s divine blessing..."
*
However, Cheon Do-hee never imagined that her aegyo would b Chapter 2 of Magia’s Stream Sniper Slaughter.
Clips of Momo’s aegyo, instantly created by fans, started playing in the TalkCord channel where the stream snipers were gathered.
And they weren’t just playing normally.
Soone was deliberately toggling the mic on and off, timing the aegyo clips to play precisely when soone was about to speak.
[Magia’s heading dow—]
[Buy a Ddeodeu Burger...!]
[Location is—]
[I want to eat a Ddeodeu Burger, Gia!]
[Damn it, who keeps—]
[Ddeodeu Burger!!]
With this, propermmunication beca impossible.
And since the voice activation indicator kept flickering on and off, identifying the culprit wasn’t easy.
So stream snipers were still stuck in briefing and monitoring mode, so they tried adjusting the individual sound volus to track down the saboteur, but...
[Magia005: Magia835 is causing chaos, please kick him out.]
[Magia369: Copy that.]
As soon as they kicked one out, another Ddeodeu Burger ghost appeared.
[Magia’s moving—]
[Ddeodeu Burger!!]
[Oh, for f***’s sake, again—]
[I want to eat a Ddeodeu Burger, Gia!]
[This is driving cra—]
[Buy a Ddeodeu Burger!]
Kim, who had gathered these people to make sure Magia got her punishnt, was now visibly flustered.
[👑Magia404: How many have we banned so far?]
[Magia369: Thirteen.]
[Magia369: Actually, now that I think about it...]
[Magia369: Isn’t this all Magia’s doing?]
[👑Magia404: You’ve got to be kidding .]
Kick one, another appears.
Kick another, and yet another pops up.
They started with 63 people.
After kicking out five false briefers and eight aegyo clip spamrs, only 50 remained.
And with the custom ga player slots slowly filling up, thenstant disruptions were exhausting the stream snipers.
anwhile, Magia inched closer and closer to victory.
11th place in the first round.
10th in the snd.
But starting from the third round, when the Ddeodeu Burger aegyo barrage flooded the TalkCord, her ranking skyrocketed.
By the sixth round, she finished in 5th place.
At this rate, she was only four matches away from winning and dodging the karaoke punishnt entirely.
[👑Magia404: 369, keep dealing with the saboteurs.]
[👑Magia404: We’ll figure sothing out.]
[Magia369: Got it.]
[Magia369: We have to make Magia sing.]
[Magia369: Let’s do this.]
But whatuld they do?
Even though they were successfully tracking down and kicking the saboteurs, the impact of stream sniping was undeniable.
No matter how well Magia fought using smokever, if they simply kept their distance and pressured her from all sides without engaging in closembat, even sheuldn’t escape.
If she had been surrounded by regular viewers, sheuld have broken through at a single weak point and fled.
But she knew exactly what kind of skill level the snipers had.
And at this mont, Chapter 3 of Magia’s Stream Sniper Slaughter began.
Right in the middle of the encirclent.
Hidden within the smoke, Magia started speaking.
[Everyone, listen closely. I’m about to reveal a secret about our CEO.]
A secret that only she knew.
— ?
— Huh?
— What?
— Wait, what??
Cheon Do-hee’s eyes widened in shock.
[What?! What the hell are you about to say?!]
[Our CEO is actually...]
Since nearly half of the snipers were forr Momo Cultists, everyone imdiately went silent, focusing on her words.
And then—
[I want to eat a Ddeodeu Burger!! I want to eat a Ddeodeu Burger!! I want to eat a Ddeodeu Burger!!]
Suddenly, a deafeningly loud loop of Momo’s aegyo started blasting through the voice channel.
The people who wanted toncentrate on the juicy gossip instinctively muted the TalkCord audio—
And at that very mont, a smoke grenade landed.
Not in the sniper group’s position, but in the middle of the regular viewers.
Kim, startled, tried to give a situation report, but half the team had already muted their voice chat because of the ear-piercing spam.
Giving a briefing was pointless.
Magia192 has been removed from the server by an administrator.[Magia369: Saboteur down.]
[👑Magia404: Everyone, get back in the voice channel.]
[👑Magia404: Quickly.]
Luckily, 369 had kicked the spamr out.
But TalkCord remained eerily silent.
The snipers weren’t checking the chat—
They were all too busy running toward the newly deployed smoke.
Kim, about to yell at them to regroup, suddenly froze.
“...Huh?”
Magia hadn’t run away after throwing the smoke.
She had caused thenfusion but stayed perfectly still inside the smoke cloud.
And the mont people, who had muted voice chat, rushed toward the smoke...
They unknowingly ran straight through the smoke where Magia was still waiting.
BANG, BANG!
{{Human Signal Flare Kim Fireworks >> (Headshot) (Knocked) iiIIIIliIili}}
With the thunderous blast of a double-barrel shotgun, the battlefield erupted into chaos.
Like a single gunshot setting off an all-out war, the area instantly turned into a disaster zone.
{{iiIiIIIIIIIII >> (Knocked) I Love You}}
{{What Are You Doing >> (Knocked) ShortLegsPaddapadak}}
It wasn’t just Magia taking out enemies—
The horrible visibility caused by the smoke led players to shoot anything that moved.
If it’s near , just shoot first—
If it’s wearing a Santa hat, well... tough luck.
Thanks to Magia’s gleeful overuse of smoke grenades, the entire battlefield was blanketed in fog.
The gunfire was so loud that pinpointing her location beca nearly impossible.
Kim desperately tried shouting through the in-ga mic.
"EVERYONE! CALM DOWN! STOP SHOOTING! IF YOU KEEP THIS UP, MAGIA’S JUST GONNA GO WILD!!"
But no matter how much he yelled—
The chaos wouldn’t stop.
"AH! FOR GOD’S SAKE, STOP SHOOTING!!"
Through the smoke, a figure suddenly appeared in front of Kim.
It was Magia—
riding the speed boost panel straight toward him.
BANG! BANG!!
{{Human Signal Flare Kim Fireworks >> (Kill) Sing Already}}
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