1st Place In The Ranking Is A Villager

Chapter 86

1st place in the ranking is the villager

– Volume 4 Episode 12

12. A pioneering hindrance infant? (1)

“We’ll say hello here and finish it. Then see you next week, Kkook~!”

“Kkook~!”

When Kim Kookmin, one of Initium Star’s fixed MCs, gave his closing remarks, all the cast members waved towards the screen.

As usual, this should have ended with this.

However, Kim Kookmin’s closing remarks came out when there were still about 15 minutes of airtime left.

After the broadcast was over, a black screen appeared, but the color quickly recovered, and the BGM that always played at the beginning of a broadcast came out from the speaker.

“Hello, I’m Kang Gura from Initium Star.”

In line with the flowing BGM, the camera was moving along and filming Kang Gura, another fixed MC of Initium Star, who was descending the low stairs.

He was wearing a black suit that he doesn’t usually wear, but even at a glance, I could feel that the scene was a parody of ‘I want to know about the incident’.

Goo Ra, who was walking down the low stairs slowly, sat down on his chair and spoke.

“Our Initium star is a talk show. Nevertheless, a writer from our production team gave us an interview with a person who was the subject of a broadcast on our program, which is a talk show. Eventually, for the first time since Intium Star aired! Breaking the mold of a talk show, we had no choice but to broadcast it.”

Kang Gu-ra stopped his words and took a breather.

“It was too luscious fruit to reject because it was a talk show. And now, we’re going to reveal that luscious fruit.”

As soon as Gura Kang finished speaking, the screen changed and Hoya’s video, which had been released in various forms, was beautifully edited and played.

When the video ended, a screen similar to the trailer was displayed.

“First, please introduce yourself.”

“Are you talking about yourself…?”

“Yes, please.”

“Uh… Hi, my name is Hoya.”

“……End?”

“Yes, it’s over.”

Three black dots appeared on the screen, one at a time, and a crow sound was heard.

The video moved quickly in the brief silence.

Seeing Hoya intermittently nodding her head in the fast-forwarding video, she seemed to be listening to something.

Below the fast-playing video, there was a caption explaining that the situation was not properly prepared because it was a sudden request.

As the fast-forwarding video regained its original speed, we saw his appearance, which was first released through the trailer.

“Hello, Initium Star viewers. My name is Hoya, a professional villager. …Can I do this?”

The words attached to it were not in the trailer, though.

The beginning was a bit daunting, but after that, the interview went well.A woman named Lee Mo, who only appeared in the voice, was quite skillfully controlling the intensity of the questions and the speed of the interview.

And Ho-young, who was watching her broadcast while being caught by her Lee Ye-sook, felt that her face was burning.

“My son is cute~. Hohohoho.”

“Son! Show me those cute kids later!”

“Oh my, my, my, my!”

It was okay for Lee Ye-sook to poke Hoya in the side while inserting her chuimsae throughout the broadcast.

But it wasn’t okay for her to rebuild.

“Is Hoyoung good at talking?”

“Hoyoung-ah, Hoyoung-ah, your face got a little red over there. Uh, is it red here too?”

Jaegeon was the only one who knew that Hoyoung was Hoya except for Lee Yesuk.

So, Jae-gun came to their house in time for the broadcast to watch Ho-young’s interview together.

And after that, she kept making fun of Hoyoung.

Ho-young asked Lee Ye-sook for help with her eyes, but Lee Ye-sook said that she liked the look of the two of them, so she just smiled.

As Jaegeon kept making Hoyoung’s face red, the broadcast was nearing the end.

“Thank you so much for agreeing to the interview.”

“No. It was my first experience, so it was fun.”

“Would you like to appear as a guest on our program next time?”

“Yes?”

At that scene, the screen just stopped, and the studio with Gura Kang was shown again.

There was a meaningful expression on his face.

“We were able to get an affirmative answer from him. Will he be able to keep his word? So, let’s say hello here and we’ll really finish this time. See you next week, kook!”

The last ‘yes’ that Hoya uttered was a counter-question with a definite question mark attached to the back.

However, Kang Gu-ra spoke as if it was literally the meaning of the word, except for the question mark.

In fact, this was the bait that the production team of Initium Star threw to the viewers in order to keep the ratings of this time even a little bit in the future.

It was fishing for the audience.

Excessive fishing had the potential to come back to them later, but I wasn’t lying and I made it sound like a joke, so even if the headwind blows, it’ll be a breeze.

Rather, if the story comes and goes like a joke through the mouths of the viewers, it will also serve as a publicity for the program.

Because their talk show was never weak.

* * *

“…what, what’s the mood?”

The three visited the pioneer camp in the dark forest to procure potions and snacks for badu, and read the strange atmosphere of the pioneer camp.

As they entered the frontier camp, people looked at them and whispered, and their glances were full of hostility and suspicion.

“Yeah…….”

“Anyone who has done something wrong without anyone else’s knowledge? If you confess now, I’ll defend you.”

Doban and Hoya shook their heads at the infant’s question.

No matter how much he looked through his head, he couldn’t figure out anything.

“Hello, Hoya-sama!”

“Uh, hello.”

As the three of them were puzzled, Seha, who was still doing business at the pioneering camp, approached them.

Then he silenced his voice and began to speak cautiously.

“Hoya-sama, have you heard the rumors going around the camp…?”

“Rumors?”

It was the first time all three of them heard from Seha today that rumors were circulating because they were the three of them who stopped by the pioneering camp.

“That’s it. It looks like someone is interfering with the pioneering.”

It is said that strange rumors are circulating among players who are currently exploring the dark forest.

When trying to pioneer in a certain area, a black man appeared, interrupted those who were hunting, and stunned them, and when they came to their senses, they were moved to another place.

Seeing that the techniques they use are slightly different each time a suspicious person is found, it seems that they are not the only ones.

“There aren’t that many people who have been harmed yet. And among those who have actually been harmed, there are those who say that they don’t even know what happened because it was so instantaneous…,”

Seha gently glanced at the infant.

“Some say they were attacked by a shadow manipulator.”

“Wait, wait, wait! Why are you talking to me about that?”

“People now think of you as one of the people who got in your way.”

“me?”

When the toddler pointed at himself with his finger and asked with a puzzled expression, Seha nodded his head and continued the story.

The common word of the victims was that ‘the subject’s information did not appear’.

If it was a monster that was interfering with them, the battle was decided at the time they first attacked, and their name and level should appear.

However, if it didn’t appear, it meant that the opponent was an NPC or… a player.

When a player bets PK, there are two cases in which the system message is not displayed to the player receiving PK.

Very rarely, PK is forced in the course of the quest and the system message is not displayed for the protection of the person performing the quest.

The other case was to purchase an item by paying large amounts of money to NPCs, such as people of the assassination gang or illegal trades in back alleys.

There are still only a handful of NPCs whose existence was only recently discovered and whose sales have been confirmed.

It is a one-time item with a time limit for use, and the price is not too high.

Also, in order to purchase, you had to have an unreasonably high affinity with the selling NPC.

It is an item with many restrictions, but it has been confirmed that some of the PK criminals have already used it.

Frontier players wondered if even a toddler might have used it to disturb them.

YooA’s skills were widely known through his girlfriend’s streaming service, which started a while ago.And his skills known to people and the skills used by the black man who was said to have interfered with pioneering were very similar.

There was no reason for the infant to disturb them, but they had enough reason to suspect that they had already developed a fever.

“Not me!”

But for a toddler, it was just an absurd name.

“Isn’t it really?”

“Can you prove it?”

“Even if it’s a single digit ranking, I don’t think it would be fun if you did something like that.”

“If not, prove it. What have you been doing over the past week?”

Those who were watching the infant approached him with the signal of the infant’s voice and demanded an explanation.

They are asking for an explanation because they are so talkative, but they have completely confirmed and driven the infant as the criminal.

“We’ll prove it. YooA was always with us when he logged in.”

“right.”

Doban and Hoya, unable to keep an eye on the situation, stood in front of Yoo Ah and defended him.

YooA was slightly moved by the two of them.

And with Doban and Hoya’s dignified actions, the momentum of those who were facing hostility toward YooA was slightly dampened.

However, it was only slightly bent, but not completely gone.

“Then what are you going to prove?”

“Do you have any video?”

“The testimony of the original acquaintance has no effect at all.”

People did not accept the infant’s innocence, saying it was unbelievable.

No matter what I said, it came back to the starting point.

From the perspective of the three of them, people’s attitudes like that were frustrating and they went crazy.

He seemed to keep his ears completely shut while demanding explanations and proofs.

Maybe they just needed a seemingly justifiable target to relieve the irritation caused by being interrupted by hunting.

And the position that they were a group rather than an individual supported them mentally.

“Stop it all.”

As people’s skeptical gazes continued, the lyricist dug into them and said:

After confirming that people’s eyes were focused on him, Ae-seo continued.

“We just received that our guild member was the obstruction you are talking about. Is this proof?”

The Guild Master of Akahane, the No. 1 player, and the apex of the players, spoke firmly, and those who had suffered damage and were asking for an explanation from Yua kept their mouths shut.

Unlike infants, who are individuals who do not have a guild, it was because they thought that the risk was greater than that of infants because they were a group of love writers.

“Well, how are you going to prove it?”

But among them there were braves.