Chapter 62
“You damn Heavenly Demon villain bastard.”
White Tiger flicked up his arm, releasing a dagger.
So he made a new account and chose the Tang Clan this time?
“Looks like you finally escaped the beginner zone you were trapped in for years. Congratulations.”
“Hah. Your trash talk is seriously annoying. Yeah, I came here to kill you!”
Raising his voice, White Tiger violently swung his arm.
The dagger left his fingertips, tracing a wide arc through the air as it aimed for Seo-jun’s temple.
One characteristic of Tang Clan attacks was that each technique gave the dagger a different trajectory.
Another famous aspect was the game’s built-in aim correction.
With correction active, attacks always converged perfectly toward the center of a vital point, which ironically made them easier to block and prevented precise throwing, so高手 rarely used it.
Tang!
Seo-jun lightly lowered his sword and intercepted the dagger midair.
“You still knock them away well. Crazy Heavenly Demon villain bastard.”
Seo-jun had no idea why he kept being called a villain.
-Isn’t the guy who remade his account just to stream snipe also a villain?
-He was already a newbie-stomping villain from the start though.
-From his perspective, “Heavenly Demon Villain” fits perfectly lol
-He kept shouting “I am the Heavenly Demon.” That’s villain-level behavior.
-Even from our point of view, the streamer’s definitely villain-tier.
-Isn’t the guy who remade his account just to stream snipe also a villain?
-He was already a newbie-stomping villain from the start though.
-From his perspective, “Heavenly Demon Villain” fits perfectly lol
-He kept shouting “I am the Heavenly Demon.” That’s villain-level behavior.
-Even from our point of view, the streamer’s definitely villain-tier.
While the chat shared deep philosophical discussions about villains, White Tiger drew more daggers with both hands and hurled them.
“Then try blocking these too!”
The daggers flew in strange trajectories once more.
Seo-jun twisted his body while reading their paths and swung his sword.
Tang.
The dagger lost its force and fell to the ground.
“How about this one too!”
As he dodged the two daggers, another flew straight toward his line of sight.
Watching White Tiger’s meaningful expression beyond the dagger, Seo-jun felt uneasy.
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When he was suddenly kicked back to the lobby, the first emotion he felt was unmistakably disbelief.
“Did the game bug out?”
It hadn’t.
“You ignored this until now, and suddenly you’re banning me over some nobody streamer? Does that even make sense?”
How many years had he spent in the beginner zone?
“Fine. Let’s see what excuse they used for the ban. It’s not like I intentionally threw matches or trolled.”
One week earlier, the player whose in-game nickname was White Tiger, real name Lee Sang-cheol, had his account for For the Sake of Chivalry deleted after years of playing.
When he got kicked back to the lobby, the first emotion he felt was unmistakably disbelief.
“Did the game bug out?”
It hadn’t.
“You ignored this until now, and suddenly you’re banning me over some nobody streamer? Does that even make sense?”
How many years had he spent in the beginner zone?
“Fine. Let’s see what excuse they used for the ban. It’s not like I intentionally threw matches or trolled.”
Match-throwing meant deliberately losing games.
Through trolling, refusing to participate, leaving matches, and so on.
Naturally, the game company prohibited such behavior and treated it as bannable offenses.
But.
All he had done was play the game seriously.
“If this was a problem, then they should’ve designed the damn system to make players leave the beginner zone faster!”
He entered the website and checked the disciplinary policy.
After looking through it, there was nothing about continuously remaining in the beginner zone.
“Right. This isn’t fair!”
He immediately wrote a post on the community forum.
[Exposing Movie Soft for Punishing Users Without Standards]
ニ ==
Hello, fellow For the Sake of Chivalry players.
Movie Soft punished me simply for playing in the beginner zone.
I can confidently say that I committed none of the actions listed as bannable offenses.
I’m merely a casual player who occasionally enjoys For the Sake of Chivalry. I felt my skills were lacking, and honestly, I was afraid to leave the beginner zone, so I simply stayed there and kept playing.
The company never considered this a problem, and I continued playing casually like that.
But while I was playing as usual, my account was suddenly terminated.
I’ve submitted an inquiry asking for the reason behind the punishment, but I truly cannot understand it.
If my behavior was actually problematic, then why did Movie Soft leave me alone until now?
And why was whatever I supposedly did severe enough to warrant immediate account deletion without even a single warning?
He thought the post was written pretty well.
He’d never written this kind of post before, but he believed he had explained both his situation and Movie Soft’s outrageous actions quite clearly.
“Now then, let’s see the reactions.”
After posting, sending multiple inquiries, and even calling customer support, he returned to find dozens of comments already attached to the post.
The very first comment read:
L What happened?
L That bastard got banned.
-Is that White Tiger?
-What exactly were you expecting when you wrote this? lol
-This guy’s got no conscience lololol
L What happened?
L That bastard got banned.
-Is that White Tiger?
-What exactly were you expecting when you wrote this? lol
-This guy’s got no conscience lololol
“What the hell? How do they know?”
The community members seemed to know him quite well.
White Tiger had never really visited the forums before and usually didn’t care much about them, so he hadn’t known, but within For the Sake of Chivalry, he was actually fairly infamous.
And the board where he posted was the Incidents & Accidents Board.
Maybe things would’ve been different on the Free Board, but the Incidents & Accidents Board was where the most hardcore veterans of the already ultra-hardcore game gathered, and there was no way they wouldn’t know who White Tiger was.
-You deserved the ban.
L Did you seriously think you’d be safe after bullying our cute and precious newbies?!
L Ugh.
-As a disciple of Mount Hua, I could not tolerate conduct so disgraceful that even street thugs would avoid it. At last, Yeonghwa Soft is finally doing its job.
L It’s not that “Yeonghwa” in Chinese characters, idiot. And why didn’t you translate “Soft”? Can’t you stay in character properly?
L Rebuking shout!
-Come to the Demonic Cult if you make another account. The Demonic Cult may be able to embrace you.
L Why is a member of the Unorthodox Faction trying to recruit that bastard into the Demonic Cult?
The thread was complete chaos.
What he wanted was at least some sympathy—and maybe some outrage on his behalf.
But the commenters, too busy entertaining themselves, didn’t seem remotely interested in reacting the way he wanted them to.
“What is this?”
That was just what the For the Sake of Chivalry community was like.
Though there were some comments actually focused on the content.
-What are you even recruiting him for?
-If he had that kind of conscience, do you think he would’ve been farming newbies there?
-White Tiger—well, not even White Tiger anymore since you lost the nickname lololol. Just go join the Demonic Cult. Even if your account gets deleted, you can remake it once. But if you get banned again, it’s a permanent suspension, so be careful.
L Stop dragging the Demonic Cult into this already 人Ⅱ
-It literally says that unsportsmanlike behavior in-game can be punished at any time, so what’s this bastard talking about saying he “didn’t commit any bannable offenses”?
As he read the comments, his eyes gradually began trembling, and he shouted:
“Ah right, my nickname!”
Rare nicknames like that weren’t common.
In the end, he deleted the post—which didn’t just have bad public opinion, but practically no public support at all.
Hooo.
Then, taking a deep breath, he thought calmly.
“Yeah. Honestly, I always expected I’d get punished someday.”
He had written the post by minimizing certain flaws “just a little,” but even he knew that what he’d done was abnormal and bad manners.
So he couldn’t really complain about being banned.
The game had just been something to kill time anyway.
But then—
Why was he so angry?
Why?
As he calmly dug into his own emotions, he finally realized it.
What truly infuriated him wasn’t the punishment itself, but the fact that he had been completely toyed with.
That irritating face and voice came back to mind.
[Surely the developers won’t just leave a toxic player like this alone, right?]
He immediately opened Travel and entered that streamer’s VOD.
He wanted to know why—what kind of grudge the streamer had against him to mock him so thoroughly and even encourage the game admins to ban him.
[“Wow, this newbie farmer guy really sucks” donated 10,000 won, thank you.]
[“The title Newbie Butcher is wasted on you” donated 10,000 won, thank you.]
At those words, the chat flooded with “lololol.”
And the most important fact—
Those donations never actually happened.
“You Heavenly Demon villain motherfucker! Aaaargh! Fuck! Even that was fake?!”
He had been completely mocked.
Thinking about how the streamer had turned him into a laughingstock from beginning to end while thousands of viewers watched and laughed at him made his chest feel tight.
The irritation surged upward.
Why did a game he played to relieve stress end up stressing him out even more?
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The next day, he came to a conclusion.
“I need revenge.”
That was right.
Unless he paid him back somehow, he wouldn’t be able to sleep.
“First, let’s admit it. I can’t beat him with skill.”
The previous night, he had been unable to sleep, repeatedly researching Jin Seo-jun, lying down, then researching him again until dawn.
That was the conclusion he reached.
He couldn’t win through skill.
So what should he do?
He needed to understand his enemy and prepare a way to meet him.
['Jin Seo-jun' has started streaming.]
Watching the stream the next day, he found a way to get revenge!
He entered For the Sake of Chivalry.
A game where you started from scratch.
“Ah, shit.”
[This nickname is already in use.]
[Would you like to use ‘WhiteTiger3’?]
[Would you like to use ‘WhiteTiger4’?]
[This nickname is already in use.]
“Who the hell is using all these damn nicknames?”
[Would you like to use ‘WhiteTiger5’?]
[This nickname is already in use.]
“They took this one too? Goddammit!”
For a moment, he considered using a completely different nickname.
But if he wanted revenge, using a similar nickname would make for a better scene.
It wasn’t like he planned to hide while taking revenge.
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“This is my chance.”
After joining the Tang Clan of the Unorthodox Faction, he waited for an opportunity.
And eventually, that opportunity came.
The perfect opportunity, at that.
He believed he only needed to hand that bastard a single defeat.
After all, rank 16 on the individual leaderboard was fiercely competitive.
“Stream-sniping is doable.”
Other viewers had succeeded too. He still had three chances left.
“And this game mode is perfect too.”
In Escort mode, even if he didn’t win the fight itself, he could still force Seo-jun into defeat.
If not today, he might never get another chance for revenge again.
Watching the stream, he waited for the timing before entering matchmaking.
“Did it work? Did it? Please! You’re dead!”
Once the game started, the stream cut off—but there were known methods around that.
He immediately began running.
The teammates left behind whispered among themselves as they followed him.
“What’s with that lunatic?”
“Let’s hurry too.”
“Okay.”
It didn’t matter if people thought he was weird. He just needed to move fast.
Because if the stream snipe failed, he needed to end this round quickly to try again later.
Thankfully, a game message soon arrived and calmed him down.
[Judging by the timing, I think you matched with him.]
[The crate is the cargo.]
[Thanks.]
It was from the friend he’d asked for help.
If you couldn’t watch the stream in-game, then someone who could just had to relay the information.
Only the most important detail.
[There’s a large brown crate in the center of the wagon. The smaller box to its left, based on the wagon’s direction, is the cargo.]
[Thanks.]
A defeat caused by the cargo being destroyed would hit Seo-jun in the most absurd and empty way possible.
This was what real stream-sniping was!
He slowed his pace and let his teammates move ahead first.
He needed to confirm the cargo’s position exactly and calculate the perfect trajectory to hit it.
‘Got it.’
He derived the trajectory and stepped forward.
“You missed me, didn’t you, bastard?”
“Who are you?”
“Huh... what?”
“Hm.... I think this is my first time seeing that ID.”
“You bastard.”
For a moment, he nearly lost control of himself, but endured it.
‘Keep acting proud and shameless while you still can.’
The Heavenly Demon villain casually knocked away the dagger he threw.
Yeah. Of course he did.
“Then try blocking these too!”
He hurled two daggers at once while preparing the most important strike.
At the moment, the Heavenly Demon villain was positioned diagonally away from the wagon.
So the trajectory would initially look like it was flying straight toward the Heavenly Demon villain—
Then bend midway and precisely strike the cargo.
The game would end instantly.
“How about this one too!”
You’re dead.