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I had the same determination to do my best as usual.

My condition was also the same as always—perfectly ordinary.

However, this time with the Sears bed advertisement,

The advertising budget was absolutely enormous, and

‘Hmm, it seems like a queen size bed would be sufficient for Haeun’s parents. What size do you prefer for your bed, Haeun?’

‘Excuse me? Why my bed?’

‘You, too, should use our bed! Who would buy a bed that the model doesn’t use?’

‘Ah…. thank you.’

As a result, I accidentally ended up receiving sponsorship for Haeun’s bed as well.

If I didn’t do this properly, I’d end up being a bad person.

The heavy responsibility of the enormous sponsorship and unexpected goodwill from Sears weighed on my shoulders.

That’s why I showcased a performance that was a bit more intense than my usual acting.

Finally, throughout the filming of the bed advertisement that began, I acted with a seductive quality as advised by Dayeon from my past.

The noble atmosphere of the aria empress that Haeun had been intensely practicing also mingled into the performance.

Perhaps thanks to that, the feedback I received from the director, Bae Ho-yeon, was nothing but praise, from beginning to end.

Even though we wrapped up the scheduled shoots without any major issues, I was asked for additional takes.

“This one… every shot has been coming out so well, I can’t help but be greedy. Can we do just one more take?”

“Yes, that’s fine.”

And so, I heard Ho-yeon’s cue sign once again.

Almost simultaneously, a soft aura began to flow anew.

Haeun, half-covered by a pure white blanket, was captured beautifully by the cameras set up all around.

As she shifted her gaze towards the camera in the center, a languid smile was formed.

Right after that, Haeun’s eyelids slowly closed as the camera began to zoom out.

Finally, with a slow movement, Haeun turned comfortably onto her side, ending with a cut.

“Oh, that’s wonderful! Haeun, you acted so well!”

A satisfied expression.

A bright voice.

The stiff demeanor I had noticed just a few hours prior when I first met Haeun was nowhere to be found.

Most of the filming staff, aside from Ho-yeon, were also showing favorable expressions.

After the day’s shooting schedule was completely over, I went around the set thanking everyone for their hard work.

Seeing Haeun, so polite from start to finish during the ad shoot, most of the staff thought,

“Wow… there really are people like this.”

“She already has a great personality.”

“She didn’t get famous for no reason. As expected, it’s as expected?”

They changed their evaluations of Haeun massively.

Everyone felt a sense of affection for the virtuous celebrity they hadn’t seen in a while.

Even until Haeun completely left the ad studio, I didn’t come across any unfavorable gazes directed at her.

It was involuntary, but a sigh of relief escaped my lips.

“Thank goodness…”

I wondered just how long it had been since I was this tense.

Thoughts of the countless zeros written in the advertising contract kept creeping back into my mind during the shoot, so I couldn’t shake off the nervousness until the very end.

Well, still.

In the end, it had all turned out well.

I felt it would be fine to think that the worst-case scenario of the bed advertisement contract being canceled wouldn’t happen.

So, like any other day, I got into Joo Jeong-yoon’s van and headed home.

However.

“The mattress is super soft. It feels like my back is healing on its own!”

[So jealous! You raised a good daughter and are living the good life.]

“Yeah. She’s the perfect dutiful daughter.”

The voice of Nayeon, who was lying on the new bed that Haeun had gifted her, tickled my ears.

After listening in silence, I only greeted her once the call ended.

Soon, Nayeon, noticing Haeun’s presence, returned with a warm voice.

Then, just a few seconds later, she was snuggling tight and rubbing against me.

“How did you think of gifting Mom and Dad a bed?”

“Well, I thought you might need it.”

“Hehe. I really did a good job raising my child~.”

Then I heard that she would slice some fruit as thanks for the bed gift.

Nodding, I quickly received the many fruits she sliced and headed towards Haeun’s room.

More precisely,

Click.

[Bring it on☆(Battle Island)]

I headed into the soundproof booth, starting the broadcast a little earlier than scheduled.

With my good mood today, it felt like I could broadcast longer than usual.

– Dia!

– Another Battle Island? Are you confident?

– After being targeted like that, you still haven’t come to your senses, huh, Diadia?

– Gotta give you a real lesson, right?

– Let’s go, let’s go, let’s go, let’s go, let’s go, let’s go, let’s go!

– You’re not going to self-destruct again, are you?

“I won’t self-destruct~☆ Today, winning is the goal!”

The screen of Dia’s broadcast turned briefly dark just after that.

As expected, countless question marks flooded the chat.

Before long, the announcing sound of a match in Battle Island echoed.

– Did you just cover the screen?

– Our Dia is finally using her brain.

– It’s true that the last time was too much of a target.

Either way, Battle Island is a game where targeting streamers is relatively easy.

The first couple of times you get targeted can be fun, but if it keeps happening and normal gameplay can’t proceed, it’s bound to irritate viewers.

Dia hiding the broadcast screen from her viewers while matching in Battle Island was for that reason.

If the viewers couldn’t figure out when she started matching, the difficulty of targeting would unwittingly rise, making it an effective strategy.

Of course, despite these efforts, there already existed malicious players targeting her in Battle Island.

Haeun knew very well this fact.

Therefore, she came up with a few more strategies to avoid those malicious players.

One of which was precisely.

[ 很高兴见到你~ ]

– ?

– Why suddenly Mandarin?

– Wait, what? This is the Asia server?

It was matching in a different server from the one she connected to during the last Battle Island broadcast.

“Let’s see you try to target me now─☆ If we change servers, it’s over─☆”

If the server she matches in is different from the one where those malicious players are, they wouldn’t be able to meet at all.

As a result, the viewers expecting to see Dia’s reactions—specifically her reactions when she gets eliminated—felt as if they had just been dealt a heavy blow to the back of their heads.

– Now you’re going to resort to sneaky tactics?

– Wait, who taught you that!!!

– Yeah~ I already anticipated that and switched to the Asia server~ See you later~

– Sorry, but for us, targeting isn’t a one-two combo.

Just then, when some malefactors’ nonchalant provocations filled the chat,

Click.

Click-click.

“You all get out─!!”

Dia, unable to allow such a blatant declaration of targeting against her, started expanding her broadcast blacklist list rapidly.

Thus, the chat atmosphere changed in a heartbeat.

– Aaaahhh!

– Please, save me! Please, save me! Please, please!

– Someone died!!!!!!

– I didn’t say anything, Dia, please save me!

– Domhuangcha!!!!!!!!

– Who on earth did you learn that knife dance from?

The chat was in utter chaos, experiencing an unprecedented situation that had never happened before.

Thanks to that, the brave malicious players declaring their intent to target Dia were nowhere to be seen for a while.

After taking hold of the broadcast environment, they returned to looting as if nothing happened.

Then, just a few seconds later,

Thud thud.

[<LUX>Diah>>>☠ililllllilllil]

“Goodbye~☆”

Perhaps due to the more pleasant environment compared to the first Battle Island broadcast that took place days ago,

Dia’s FPS skills, which are well above average, began to show proper results.

– Wow!

– I felt this last time; are you perhaps a former pro?

– That was perfectly executed for a half-beat!

– Very neat!

– Dia, have you thought about participating in a tournament?

– Was the M249 this strong?

After that, no matter who she encountered, she wiped them out with her accurate aim.

Reacting calmly to sudden ambushes and hitting headshots added to the liveliness in the chat once more.

As expected, the outcome of the smoothly flowing first game was no different—victory.

Technically, since it was a normal game rather than a ranked game, the difficulty of winning was relatively low.

Nonetheless, regardless, winning isn’t something that just anyone can achieve easily.

– Ding.

[RubikCube has donated 100,000 won!]

: To Dia, the King of Kings!

[Sapenku has donated 50,000 won!]

: ㅊㅊㅊㅊㅊㅊ

The donations from viewers congratulating Dia on her victory poured in for a while.

“Thank you─☆”

Thus, after taking about ten minutes to read through countless donation messages and responding to the last one,

I started matching in Battle Island again, turning the broadcast screen black.

In the meantime, viewers who were waiting to target Dia were like,

– Is targeting now a gacha?

– So where’s the server this time?

– Please don’t tell me it’s not the South American server.

– Phew, looks like I need to bring my laptop and match simultaneously.

Literally, they mobilized every possible method to target Dia.

What commenced was a psychological battle between the malicious players and Dia.

However, since they connected to different servers, the number of malicious players shrank, and even when they managed to encounter Dia, they couldn’t handle her perfectly.

As a result, the broadcast was filled with Dia’s cheerful smile as she dealt with only a small number of malicious players instead of her breaking down in tears under relentless attacks.

Bang bang!

[<LUX>Diah>>>☠Dia hates pineapple pizza]

“Malicious players are so bad at this game─☆”

– What?!

– Hey, play fair and host a private room!!!!

– As expected, the legendary tea-bagging GOAT!

– Somebody bring in a pro player, please!