LIGHTNOVELONLINE Chapter 10
ㅡㅡㅡㅡ!!!! ㅡ!!!! ㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡ!!!!
“Looks like someone is enraged.”
– I’d be furious too.
That was true. But Galecus wasn’t a viewer or Parang. I decided to not care.
“I think I’ve shown everything I can show to Galecus. Have you all thoroughly checked the nest?”
– Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes!
– Completely understood!
– I don’t think you need to go back in!!
The viewers, who already suffered several times while scraping the eggs, didn’t want any explanations about the nest.
“I’d love to take it slow and explain, but if that’s how it is, then I can’t help it.”
Parang watched Galecus, who was frantically searching the sea for her from afar.
– Is it okay to leave it like that?
“Of course not. It’s fine while Jigeum is blinded by rage, but once he regains his senses, he’ll find me right away.”
As Parang finished her sentence, she opened the cartridge on her left arm and pulled something out.
“Yuna, can we switch the broadcast to cam three?”
‘Three?’
Yuna tilted her head but switched the broadcast to cam three.
It was the camera that Parang had pulled from the cartridge.
As she placed it at the entrance of the nest, a vacuum suction cup activated, fixing the camera in place.
Suddenly, the screen that had shown Parang’s perspective switched to illuminate the area in front of the nest entrance.
Now Parang’s face, which had been squished against the camera to check if it was fixed, filled the screen.
It was the so-called “face shot.”
– She’s pretty even from this angle.
– Wow…
– But why the sudden screen change?
“The upcoming battle will be too dizzying in first-person view, so keep your eyes peeled from here.”
After confirming the camera was secured, Parang backed away and spotted Galecus still swimming around madly in the distance.
“I’ll be right back. Oh, to help you watch comfortably, I’ve added a feature to my suit this time.”
Parang tapped her left shoulder on the suit.
Wham-
The entire suit glowed bright blue, resembling a human light source.
“Now you’ll be able to see my movements clearly, right?”
As Parang spoke, her eyes began to glow blue.
“Well then, see you later.”
Swish-!!
The blue line she drew instantly reached Galecus.
“By the way, the mic is still connected.”
In an instant, the broadcast screen changed to a distant view of Parang and Galecus’s fight.
‘She was thinking this from the beginning…!’
Yuna was astonished.
But no matter what, Parang was too busy thinking about how to deal with Galecus.
“I’ll have to grab its attention first; a surprise attack wouldn’t be any fun.”
– A surprise attack isn’t fun (while avoiding detection).
– Teacher, I don’t think it’s about fun.
“Galecus has a keen ability to sense water vibrations and sounds. Just creating a minor explosion nearby will instantly reveal my position.”
Parang activated her skill and generated a water droplet. It felt awkward using her left hand to create it while holding an egg in her right.
Still, she conjured up a soccer ball-sized water droplet, which eventually popped.
Suddenly, Galecus, who had been swimming wildly, suddenly froze and jerked its head towards Parang.
Parang popped the other egg.
And then smiled brightly.
“Gotcha.”
ㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡ!!!!!
The battle began.
Galecus darted towards Parang, shaking its head angrily. Parang watched with interest.
Having only launched surprise attacks from the side before, seeing inside Galecus’s mouth was a first.
“Oh, no jaw.”
Parang retrieved the harpoon she had left in the nest.
Given it was a knife fish, she thought it would have a jaw, but surprisingly, it had a round throat like a moray eel, with spiraled teeth embedded in it.
Each tooth was about the same size as Parang. It was akin to a fly attempting to tackle a human.
But Parang could swim at an incredible speed while throwing harpoons and creating explosions.
Basically, she was a super ultra fly.
“I won’t drag this out too long.”
It could come at her, but she swallowed the rest of that thought.
Parang swiftly moved sideways, avoiding Galecus’s trajectory.
Then, as if stepping on an invisible wall, she stopped without any recoil and dashed towards Galecus.
She had no intention of giving the fish any chance to take the lead.
“Anchoring.”
Immediately, a water current connected her to Galecus’s gills.
Boom!!
The harpoon flew at terrifying speed. From casting to throwing was a mere 0.5 seconds.
Plop—
Parang shot forth, overtaking her own harpoon.
Then, she swiftly moved around to Galecus’s opposite side, swimming alongside its left eye.
‘Recovery…!’
She stretched out her hand to reclaim the harpoon she had thrown; it sped right back to her at the same velocity.
Swoosh-!
And it penetrated from the opposite side of its head, sliding through its gills, piercing its brain and eye, landing back into Parang’s grasp.
ㅡㅡㅡㅡ!!!!ㅡㅡㅡㅡ!!!ㅡ!!!
– What’s with the suit’s lights? It’s genuinely pretty.
Due to the underwater environment, there was a 2-3 second chat delay in Parang’s stream.
Parang smiled at her impressive speed and swam far ahead of Galecus, who had slowed down considerably.
With important organs damaged, Galecus could no longer keep up with Parang.
Well, it wasn’t going to catch up anyway.
As Galecus charged with its mouth wide open, by the time it reached where Parang had been, she had already darted away, swimming alongside its gills at the same speed.
What Galecus had bitten was four bomb-like water bubbles.
Creating them in a row at 20m intervals, it gladly swallowed them like coins in Mario.
Confirming the bubbles were indeed inside, Parang quickly drew a blue line to penetrate Galecus’s back end, middle, and front sections— each hitting the brain, heart, and central tail muscle.
This caused massive explosions from each penetration spot. She had punctured its scales and burst the bubbles inside its body.
Having sustained critical damage to three vital organs in an instant, Galecus looked like it was threaded onto a string because of the blue lines Parang drew in the water.
– Why is it voluntarily swimming toward it?
Speed, excellent.
ㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡ………
Soon enough, Galecus, unable to swim, came to a halt, barely breathing underwater.
Now it was time to finish the job. Parang gripped the harpoon tightly, pointing it forward like a gun.
She dashed straight at it.
Zzzzzzzz-!!
The harpoon smashed into Galecus’s flesh, leaving a deep red mark.
Parang paused.
She had initially intended to kill it in a standard way.
However, something felt missing.
She thought of a more performance-driven, artistic way, something a bit more… unique.
And then it struck her. A scene from a novel she read in her past life popped into her mind.
As a conclusion to her performance, it didn’t seem so bad, right?
The camera was definitely pointing over there.
Parang gazed at the 70m canvas that filled her view.
Zzzz- zzzzzzzz! Zzzz! Drrrr!!
– What on earth is she doing?
– Wait, is it what I think it is?
– Seems that way.
Underwater Monster Hunting Special Broadcast
She scribbled red letters on Galecus’s body. Thanks to her deliberately guiding it closer to the camera, it was particularly visible.
“Hello, I’m Yu Parang, a B-grade underwater hunter. I look forward to working with you.”
– What?
– Huh?
– Excuse me?
Suddenly, she thrust the harpoon beside her writing.
Underwater Monster Hunting Special Broadcast.
At the same time, the fourth bubble, punctured by the harpoon, exploded.
That was where the egg was located.
ㅡ…ㅡ…
And simultaneously, Galecus didn’t dissolve in light.
Unlike the ground or superstar Bellua, Galecus was an “Earth creature” affected by the gate.
After all, it had hatched from an egg. Things that emerge from the gate cannot reproduce.
Thus, all that remained after capturing Galecus was its corpse.
No matter how confident Parang was, she couldn’t drag a 70m monster fish back to shore. She could attract other monsters along the way, and there was no point in doing so in the first place.
“There’s nothing valuable to salvage from Galecus… It’s basically worthless.”
In summary, it was a fish with no value.
So why catch it?
Parang could confidently answer.
Because there was a monster fish there.
With such things floating around in the sea, ignoring them wasn’t an option.
So she killed them whenever she saw them.
Well, that was that.
Galecus’s subjugation, a resounding success.
The chat was igniting with the fastest speed since the broadcast began.
However.
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Thud.
“I took too long.”
“Well, I’ll end the broadcast here. See you all next time.”
Thud.
– Wait, here?
– Wait a second, no…
– Huh?
– Teacher?
Thud.
Parang hurriedly turned off all the lights on her suit and sent a signal to Yuna by operating the cartridge.
An emergency broadcast termination signal.
Thud.
In any case, when this signal sounded, they had agreed to end the broadcast.
Fortunately, Yuna must have handled it properly since the notification sound of the broadcast ending rang out.
Thud.
– Is this really a B-grade…?
This message marked the end of the chat, which no longer showed any further responses.
Thud.
Once she verified that, Parang quickly grabbed her belongings and hid inside Galecus’s nest.
She couldn’t go too deep. She concealed herself in the joint between the narrow entrance of the nest and the wide passage.
Thud.
It was like hiding behind a door.
Thud.
Thud.
Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud.
Parang pressed herself tightly against the wall, not even breathing.
Thud.
Before long, something filled the gap in the tube where she was hiding.
Eyes.
It was staring inside.
” ”
It was ■■.
………
Thud.
Thud.
Thud.
Thud.
Thud.
Thud…
Before long, it vanished into the distance.
Parang cautiously peeked out of the tube’s gap.
In the distance, through the mist, something stood.
A person.
Or rather, something shaped like a person.
It was so large that even from afar, its shape was distinctly recognizable.
Parang knew what it was.
A statue. Like the Statue of David or Venus.
A colossal statue shaped like a person.
But it was definitely not just a statue.
Something pretending to be a statue was walking underwater.
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Parang entered her house that day and immediately fell asleep without doing anything.
The extreme tension dissipated in an instant, and fatigue washed over her.
The presence of Galecus was far from her mind.
Thus, it was not until she woke up the next morning that Parang would learn of the world being turned upside down due to her single broadcast.
And,
Rustle- rustle-
Zzzkt-
“This is Head. Beta Team, report in.”
“Beta Team has arrived at the operation area. We’ll enter with Alpha and Gamma, what the— who are you guys… cough!!”
Plop.
“Do we die?”
“Why are you asking such an obvious question?”
“Ugh!! Hic!! Sob!!!!”
“That’s nine now.”
“Is that all?”
“Yes.”
“S-grade, nine of them. Must’ve been quite urgent then.”
Grind!
“Throw them into the sea.”
Splash.
Zzzkt-
“This is Head. Beta Team, respond! Beta Team! Damn it, Supervisor!!!”
“What should we do with the radio?”
“Break it.”
Crack.
“Do we throw that into the sea too?”
“No, that one we take back.”
“Understood.”
In the dark night, the nine S-grade hunters who revealed themselves at her front door were immediately ambushed and thrown into the sea, unbeknownst to Parang.
She enjoyed a well-deserved deep sleep.