Can’t Control Be Bought With Money? 20

Chapter 20

[wodyd13731] S1nu Ash Palace I’ll tell you nothing but the truth

(Screenshot 1 of Sinu and Girmu walking together)

(Screenshot 2 of Sinu and Girmu walking together)

After S1nu returned, he was spotted hanging out with some newbie

It’s that same newbie who made SltySlt from their guild write a reflection letter not long ago

(Link to SaltySalt’s reflection letter posted on the free board)

Looking at the rankings, nothing shows up, so seems like a real noob newbie, not someone’s alt. Thanks to Sinu’s power, they seem to hang out with that guild’s people sometimes

And here comes the important part lolololol

(Screenshot of Girmu waiting in front of Ashen Palace)

(Screenshot of Sinu and Girmu sitting around a campfire in front of Ashen Palace)

This newbie has been going to Ash Palace lately. Newbie’s class? DragonSlayer

Conclusion = Why would Sinu suddenly upload an Ash Palace guide video from a DragonSlayer’s perspective? It can only be for this newbie. So there’s nothing in Ash Palace worth seeing

(Screenshot of early Girmu falling to death on the Sky Bridge map)

For reference, this newbie is terrible at control. Just saying he didn’t make and upload a video for nothing lololol But do people normally go this far when giving guides to acquaintances? Lol I had some expectations when S1nu came back but lol no words

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Comments(99+)

SodaFlavoredPie: wow, upvote first

└ LoveRPG: g4y upvote

└ vjdvjd: gay upvote~♥

└ HolopZap: sh1t lolololololololololololololololol

└ BuangBuwang: lololololololololololololol are they g4y

Putin: what is this;

AllExposed: wow;;;

Chess: The way you ended with such heavy implications at the end is dog funny lolololololololololololol Why can’t you just say they’re in an online relationship lol

└ BigBroJuGeo: (ONLINE RELATIONSHIP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

CaughtBellHoppersGetBanned: lololololololololololol he’s in an online relationship with a noob and wasted all this time tlqkf

└ ChiDonPiDon: Yeah, our views were used for his online relationship~ lolololololololololololololololololol

└ Loyalty77: I was shooting so much in the morning running public parties with useless players lolololololololololololol

└ HongMan: lololololol while you were struggling in Ash Palace, S1nu was making money from MiTube views to go on dates lololololololololololol true story

└ SexyWords: How do you date in an online relationship lololololololololololololol

└ TheFlagWaving: They’d walk down the main street in Ore village I guess lolololololololololololol

Hushimin: But how did you take the screenshots? Did you follow them with an invisible cloak?

└ Fresh: 222222 seems right…

Empathy: The comment section is a mess. So what were you trying to say?? Proud of stalking with an invisible cloak?? Is that what you wanted to brag about??????????

└ eotrmf1236: damn lolololololololololololololol so sensitive lololololol they’re just letting you know to stop being used lolololololololol

└ WindyWind: But I’m really curious, what did SN do to deserve all this hate?? Wasn’t it just you all getting excited and running public parties on your own? So why are you saying you were used? Did you all get brainwashed somewhere?

└ rkqkrka: Yeah, welcome Sinu~lololololol

└ Empathy: Don’t split off from my comment you b1tch

WorldSupremeChampion: Sinu, brother, I believed in you…

└ eotrmf1236: for real lolol

CameAlone: All those guild members are the same lololol We supported them once and they don’t know their limits. They just saw us as their 1dclt f0llowers trying to get views

└ Chocho: Yeah SN just casually dropped a link, but you all rushed in like a pack of dogs and started panting at nothing? You jumped on without knowing what it was, tried to get easy rewards, and when it didn’t work out, you’re now showing off with your pants down? If I were SN, I’d be so dumbfounded I’d drum on your chin in a fast jangdan rhythm

CheckCheck: But why is no one talking about the last screenshot?? Isn’t that a screenshot from when the newbie was a real newbie???? Look at the weapon, it’s a level 60 weapon given after completing the DragonSlayer essential quest;

└ Putin: Whoa, that’s right, how did they get that screenshot;; super creepy

└ SummerNightSea: Maybe the poster is an acquaintance of the newbie; There’s a high possibility;

└ ChocoBuMeok: Is getting a whole investigation and having your past exposed what happens when you hang out with a cr4zy ranker???

└ rkqkrka: If they’re a newbie’s acquaintance, that’s despicable lololololololololololol Looking at how quickly they were exposed, their usual behavior must be well-known lololololololol

└ Empathy: The guy in the comment above is working hard here too, keep your brain speculations in your diary you cr4zy guy

Chocho: Does that newbie have to get bashed on the message board for knowing a famous player lololol The SOG world is so scary. Instead of going “online relationship online relationship” about other people’s game lives, please live your real lives first, I beg ㅠㅠ!

└ RandomMatch: True that’s right, poster should stop stalking with invisible cloaks and investigating others and live their real life;

AnchorStar: The way the poster is subtly framing things is wild ㅇ_ㅇ They could be real-life acquaintances, but your first thought is an online relationship? That’s wild, right? Is that all your brain can think of? Making all kinds of fantasies just because someone shared a guide, barking like dogs without even being grateful

└ eotrmf1236: It’s a guide that came out a long time ago, what are you talking about lololololol

└ AnchorStar: I just reported your comment above for profanity~^^

## Chapter 7: What’s So Great About Socializing

The post Shin Wooseok checked was outrageous. The author, as if harboring some grudge against him or Girmu, was pretending to be neutral while subtly bashing them and showing animosity. And the comments… they were even more outrageous.

[Guild] SaltySalt: I think they really did use an invisible cloak to follow them around

[Guild] Sinu: They did, since I confirmed there was only Girmu and me on the map

[Guild] Youngglory: Hmm…

After forcing himself to swallow his anger while responding, Shin Wooseok irritably touched his forehead.

The issue of stalking other users with invisible cloaks had been a continuous controversy. Whenever public disputes between users arose with posts, there would always be screenshots taken while stalking with invisible cloaks.

Every time, opinions were divided. One side argued that since the item had restricted areas of use and was created for this purpose, what was the problem? The other side questioned what was so great about stalking other users without any sense of ethics.

Shin Wooseok had seen the same repertoire of arguments repeated to the point of exhaustion each time the two sides formed. In other words, stalking using invisible cloaks was a topic with high fatigue among users due to its repeated occurrences.

This meant that the comments pointing out this issue in the problematic post would soon be pushed aside by illogical voices. And once those disappeared, the barking comments would dominate.

[Guild] Sinu: This is pissing me off

The atmosphere in the guild chat was nothing like the laughing and chatting from earlier. After Shin Wooseok’s words, it became as quiet as if a mouse had died.

[Guild] SaltySalt: It’s been a while since I’ve seen Sinu hyung genuinely angry… whoever wrote this is going to get beaten up by Sinu hyung soon ㅇㅅㅇ

[Guild] Sinu: Like you?

[Guild] SaltySalt: Yeah…haha;

[Guild] Youngglory: Boat, did you check who the author is?

[Guild] BoatToBottle: Yeah but nothing comes up, might be an alt. I’m also asking around in the server chat rooms

[Guild] SaltySalt: But to me, it looks like it was written by an acquaintance of Girmu

[Guild] Goyounghee: ??

Shin Wooseok saw SaltySalt’s chat and slowly scrolled through the problematic post again. While doing so, he captured the entire post and saved each attached screenshot one by one.

As Shin Wooseok was examining the screenshots and feeling something was off, SaltySalt seemed to have discovered something and posted a long chat message.

[Guild] SaltySalt: The last screenshot has chat removed using photoshop

[Guild] SaltySalt: If you look at Girmu’s head background with a magnifying glass, it’s off by a few pixels ㅇㅅㅇ! They probably went to the same map, took a screenshot, and photoshopped out Girmu’s speech bubble, but positioned it slightly wrong? lolol

[Guild] Shotgun: But why would they remove the newbie’s speech bubble?

[Guild] SaltySalt: Look at the chat window below the screenshot, Shotgun ㅇㅅㅇ^ It’s on the guild tab, right?

[Guild] Shotgun: Yeah, are you saying they removed chat there too with photoshop? Isn’t that just to hide their own identity?

[Guild] SaltySalt: Yeah, but based on the misaligned pixel range and Girmu’s speech bubble size, there’s only room for about two characters

[Guild] SaltySalt: And if you look at the chat window below, there’s another slightly misaligned spot, right?

While SaltySalt was explaining to Shotgun, Shin Wooseok also checked the chat window below with a magnifying glass. And he found slightly misaligned pixels and a blue dot that hadn’t been properly erased. It was the color of guild chat.

[Guild] SaltySalt: But there’s also a blue dot in the bottom right? When I calculate the length to where the dot is, including Girmu’s nickname, two-character chat, spacing, etc., that’s exactly how much would need to be photoshopped to remove it

[Guild] SaltySalt: Our author friend had their chat window on the guild tab and removed some guild member’s chat, and somehow it’s exactly the same number of characters as what Girmu would have typed! What an amazing coincidence, right? And the screenshots were taken before Girmu and Sinu hyung met?

[Guild] SaltySalt: Well well~ Isn’t this enough for some king-level logical speculation? ㅇㅅㅇ

Coincidentally, Shin Wooseok’s thoughts aligned with SaltySalt’s.

“This bastard…”

[Guild] SaltySalt: Totally amateur work ㅇㅅaㅇ

[Guild] Youngglory: I can’t tell even after looking…

[Guild] SaltySalt: That’s right, hyung… If it were me, I would’ve #!$! and &^$#$% and not uploaded something so sloppy haha Conclusion=stupid!

[Guild] Goyounghee: What’s with the self-censorship lololololololololololololol

[Guild] Parody: lololol It looks like blood splattered on the chat window and won’t wipe off no matter how hard I try;;

The guild members were either sticking out their tongues at SaltySalt’s sharpness(?) or silently resolving never to cross him.

[Guild] Fxxa: So what are you going to do, Sinu?

[Guild] RoyalFamily: Shouldn’t we first ask them to take down the post?

[Guild] Dodam: Should I comment??? “Student, take down the post^^”

[Guild] Sinu: No

Author: Hyacinthus B

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