Stubborn People Are Indeed Hard to Manage!
24: Chapter 24: Why Did You Provoke the System?!
Stubborn People Are Indeed Hard to Manage!
Ei: “What a truly terrifying Live Stream Room.
It actually possesses the absolute authority to change someone’s gender in an instant.” Nahida: “I completely cannot analyze how that system operates.” Arataki Itto: “Phew…
thank goodness I didn’t manage to get the turn to answer earlier.
Otherwise, I would have definitely been turned into a girl!” Kamisato Ayato: “Phew…
thank goodness I didn’t manage to get the turn to answer earlier.
Otherwise, I would have definitely been turned into a girl!” Tartaglia: “Phew…
thank goodness I didn’t manage to get the turn to answer earlier.
Otherwise, I would have definitely been turned into a girl!” Gorou: “Phew…
thank goodness I didn’t manage to get the turn to answer earlier.
Otherwise, I would have definitely been turned into a girl!” Thoma: “Phew…
thank goodness I didn’t manage to get the turn to answer earlier.
Otherwise, I would have definitely been turned into a girl!” Kaeya: “Phew…
thank goodness I didn’t manage to get the turn to answer earlier.
Otherwise, I would have definitely been turned into a girl.
Ehe~” Miss Xingqiu: “Ahhhhh!
You guys are seriously so annoying!” Hu Tao: “You are so pretty~~” Miss Xingqiu: “Hu Tao, enough!
If you say one more word, I’ll really get mad!” Hu Tao: “I’ll really get mad~~” Miss Xingqiu: “Just you wait for my revenge, Hu Tao!” Xiangling: “Why do I feel like the way Xingqiu scolds people looks so cute now?” Chongyun: “It’s okay, Xingqiu…
I will always support you!” Miss Xingqiu: “Don’t call my name with that tone of voice!!!” Chongyun: “Kawaii…
you truly are so kawaii!!!” Miss Xingqiu: “Don’t get any weird ideas!
Ah…
I remember I have some iced black tea stored at home.
Later, you should come over to my place and drink that iced tea to cool off your heated brain.” Chongyun: “N-No thanks.
Why does your invitation sound so dangerous right now?” Nahida: “I didn’t expect the ‘Combat Priestess’ guess to be wrong.” Zhongli: “Fascinating.
It seems we have all been misled by the brutal scenes in the video just now.” Albedo: “Since the Combat Priestess option has been proven wrong, let’s focus on the three remaining choices.” Diluc: “Nun, Mondstadt’s Idol, and The True Monarch of Physical Curse Removal.
Among those three options, Nun and Mondstadt’s Idol are the most logical.” Sucrose: “I also agree with those two options.
Besides, the last option truly sounds absolutely ridiculous.
I’ve never even heard of it.” Jean: “I think the answer is ‘Mondstadt’s Idol’.
After all, Barbara’s popularity as an Idol is far more widely known than her status as a Nun at the church.” Amber: “o(〃▽〃)o That is indeed true.” Nahida: “╰(▽)╯ I also feel that option is the most reliable one right now.” Ei: “How do you guys type out those facial emotion symbols?” Nahida: “(=ω=) There is a special emoji panel in the bottom right corner of the Live Stream Room interface.” Ei: “(⊙_⊙) Oh, so there is such a feature.” Klee: “Is the answer really Mondstadt’s Idol?!
In that case, Klee wants to answer too!” Diona: “Hmph, this time Diona will definitely secure the turn!” Qiqi: “Qiqi…
Qiqi also wants…
to answer.” Sayu: “I want to win the prize too.
I hope this live stream system can give me a special ability to sleep soundly anywhere and anytime, so I can grow tall quickly.” Dori: “Eh?
If that’s the case, why don’t you just wish for this system to help you grow tall instantly?” Sayu: “w(ﾟДﾟ)w Ah!
I almost forgot there was such a convenient method!” [The thinking time is over!] [The scramble to answer begins!] Everyone in the Live Stream Room started mashing their buttons ferociously.
[The scramble session has ended!] [Congratulations to participant Scaramouche for successfully securing the turn!] [Participant, please provide your answer!] Scaramouche scoffed coldly with a condescending expression.
“It’s just a silly Q&A session like this that gets you all so riled up?” “Too easy.” To be honest, Scaramouche didn’t even know who Barbara was, let alone know any details about the girl.
To him, choosing an answer seriously or picking one at random made no difference; it was merely a matter of statistical probability.
Because of that, the Sixth Harbinger was too lazy to rack his brain.
He immediately called out arrogantly, “I choose B!
Even though I don’t even know what answer B is.” [Incorrect Answer!] [Punishment: The participant must go to Sumeru and shout his own name in the middle of crowded streets every day, for one full month!] Scaramouche: “???” The screen in the Live Stream Room instantly displayed Scaramouche’s figure visually.
Brimming with anger and overflowing arrogance, the Harbinger glared straight at the screen and hurled his open challenge at the system.
“Hmph!
Who do you think you are, huh?!
Just a silly floating screen system, and you think you can force me to do something so stupid?!” “Listen closely!
There is not a single entity in this world that can force me to do what I do not want to do!” “You are absolutely not worthy to order me around!” Scaramouche intended to resist the forced punishment with absolute violence.
He immediately unleashed his full Electro elemental power to its absolute limit.
He created a giant lightning barrier dome around himself, intending to hide inside it to ward off any intervention from the system.
The barrier dome radiated an incredibly terrifying and lethal Electro elemental energy.
Witnessing that impressive display of power, the viewers in the Live Stream Room couldn’t help but feel a little intimidated.
They completely didn’t expect that the foul-mouthed brat possessed such extraordinary power.
However, the scene that unfolded next successfully froze everyone in sheer horror.
That incredibly lethal lightning barrier dome…
vanished instantly!
It melted away like a candle drenched in boiling water without even getting a chance to put up the slightest resistance.
The next second, Scaramouche suddenly choked.
He looked as if his neck was being brutally strangled by invisible hands.
His body was forcefully lifted slowly into the air.
Scaramouche’s face turned beet red from lack of oxygen.
He thrashed around like a madman, but no matter how hard he struggled, his body absolutely refused to move according to his commands.
He had lost control over himself, completely dominated by the Live Stream Room system.
Then, in the blink of an eye…
SWOOOOOSH!
Scaramouche’s body was suddenly launched at supersonic speed!
He smashed through the walls of the room, was launched far into the Snezhnayan sky, and streaked at an insane speed across the Teyvat atmosphere.
The destination of his forced flight was: Sumeru!
He had to fly across several national territories in just a matter of seconds.
Still in the position of having his neck strangled by invisible hands, Scaramouche had to endure this agonizingly brief journey.
Because the system only cared about moving him as quickly as possible without giving a damn about the obstacles ahead…
His body smashed into an ice glacier!
CRASH!
His body slammed into a rocky mountain peak!
BOOM!
His body pierced through a giant tree trunk!
CRACK!
His body burst through the roof of a tall building!
BAM!
In the end, he crashed down onto the streets of Sumeru City with a deafening thud.
Fresh blood poured profusely from all over the Harbinger’s body.
There were so many broken bones in his arms and legs due to the brutal high-speed collisions earlier.
However, even with his physical condition completely pulverized like that…
his body continued to move automatically.
He stiffly stood up in the middle of the Sumeru streets.
With a blank stare and whatever remaining strength he had left, Scaramouche shouted loudly in a mechanical tone, “Everyone, look at me!
My name is Scaramouche!” Right after completing his daily task, Scaramouche finally passed out and collapsed to the ground with a loud thud.
He lay there helplessly, unknown whether he was still alive or already dead.
Witnessing that brutal punishment execution process, everyone in the Live Stream Room felt a chill run down their spines.
They absolutely didn’t expect that this live stream system could dish out such a cruel and destructive punishment.
If an ordinary human had experienced consecutive collisions like that, they would have definitely been smashed into minced meat.
However, after thinking about it logically again…
If the Live Stream Room had intended to kill Scaramouche from the start, why would the system set a one-month time limit for his punishment?
Couldn’t it have just killed him directly?
Furthermore, the punishments given to other people previously basically had clear time limits and conditions.
As long as the participant was obedient and served their punishment honestly, no fatal issues would occur.
In a way, the punishment was actually quite lenient.
Scaramouche’s initial punishment was simply ‘Shouting his name in Sumeru once a day for a month’.
It was a very simple humiliation punishment.
The system probably just planned to teleport him gently to Sumeru and start his punishment there.
However, Scaramouche’s actions of acting arrogant and trying to forcibly resist his punishment with elemental power…
proved to have offended the existence of the Live Stream Room system itself.
The result?
The system decided to give him a ‘free ride’ to Sumeru at supersonic speed, plowing mercilessly through every obstacle in the way.
Seeing Scaramouche’s tragic condition, some viewers felt a little pity for him.
However, far more people felt that the arrogant brat deserved a fitting retribution for his own hubris.
Yet, across the entire continent of Teyvat, the person who was most worried about Scaramouche’s condition right now wasn’t Ei, the goddess who created him.
Nor was it Dottore, the mad doctor who always made him a test subject.
The person who was most worried right now…
was actually the Traveler, Aether!
Aether stared at the screen with a pitiful expression, as if looking at a foolish child who had failed to be educated.
He was truly given a massive headache.
Holy Barbatos…
I haven’t even made it out of the Mondstadt beginner area!
Why is the Future Sumeru Boss already crippled?!
He had absolutely no idea if Scaramouche would still be capable of causing a ruckus in Sumeru after his body was pulverized like that.
If that brat couldn’t get back up, then what would happen to the Invincible Domain reward promised by the system if he completed the Seven Nations’ storyline?!
Aether rubbed his face in frustration.
You idiot.
You just had to accept that embarrassing punishment gracefully.
Why on earth did you have to provoke a live stream system entity whose power lies far beyond the logic of the gods?!