chapter01 · 019-ep19
Episode 19: The Fist-Fuck Ojou-sama!
Karin's fist shattered the dungeon-wall floor.
The blow shook the floating camera's image even harder than the serpent's earthquake had.
【WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT!?!?!?】
【EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEH!?】
【The ground exploded!? Did Karin ojou-sama get caught in it!?】
【No, wait, ojou-sama... punched the dungeon wall... and shattered it...?】
【FWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!?!?!?! LMAOOOO】
【Wait!? Huh!? IS THAT POSSIBLE!?】
【Oh... wow... There really is a crater in the floor...】
【Wasn't it the snake's doing!?】
【Ojou-sama's unharmed and the snake's torn to shreds. If the snake did it, it'd be a complete idiot!? ...How IS ojou-sama unharmed!?】
【W-what IS this ridiculous sight...?】
Astonished comments rolled in at the force of Karin's punch. So many viewers were lost for words that, paradoxically, the comments had slowed down.
【What is this!? I came because I heard it was live, but is this a fake? Did I fall for it!?】
【It's not fa... not... supposed to be...】
【Even the longtime viewers are losing confidence lmao】
【What is this... What IS this... Am I dreaming...?】
【Wait, can you even break dungeon walls!?】
【They're minerals hardened by the dense mana making up the dungeon, so theoretically they CAN break. Blast stones might do it, maybe...】
【This self-proclaimed ojou-sama is BAREHANDED!?!?!?】
【She's basically saying 'I AM the blast stone'!】
【...Hey, I've been thinking this all stream... Even if she held back against a human, Kagerou survived several of this girl's punches. Is he actually pretty strong?】
【👺】
【Of course he is, desu wa】
【People who don't know dungeons love mocking Lord Vomit for retreating from the deep layers after ten minutes, but he's strong enough to stream solo in the lower layers...】
【Everything but his personality is genuinely top-tier】
【That's why Karin ojou-sama insta-killing him went viral...】
【Puke getting reevaluated NOW lmao】
【Hey, guys, stay focused! What are you talking about!?】
【B-but...】
【If a monster that hides in walls fights a monster that BREAKS walls, the result is...】
【Sure, but it's still a deep-layer monster!】
【Let your guard down and even a genuine top-ranker could die!】
Some commenters warned that the danger hadn't passed. And as if to prove them right, the fight was still on.
"GARUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-GUAAAAAAAAH!!"
The serpent had regenerated its shredded body after the dungeon wall exploded and was attacking Karin again. Her normal blows couldn't inflict a fatal wound, and the battle of attrition threatened to begin anew.
【That's right, she still doesn't have a way to finish it!】
【Looks like she's stopped the earthquake for now, but what next!?】
【It was torn up all over by that blast and it can heal THAT too!?】
【What about its core? Where's its core!?】
【This thing is WAY too troublesome!】
The wall-breaking punch required preparation and couldn't be fired repeatedly.
She might try grabbing the serpent to hold it still and punching it so it couldn't absorb the impact, but the smooth scales covering its body offered nowhere to take hold.
Even after shutting down its earthquake attack, there seemed to be no path to victory.
But such common sense was no obstacle for the ojou-sama.
"No, everything is fine now, desu wa."
Karin dispelled chat's fears.
"The shaking interfered before, but now I have read all this one's movements and found its weakness. Which means I have won, desu wa!"
"SHAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"
As if in protest, the serpent roared. Karin dodged its next strike with her usual ease.
Then she gathered mana into her hand—a different kind from the power she'd used to break the dungeon wall.
Concentrating mana honed to a razor edge, Karin rolled up the sleeve of her dress.
In an instant—DTHUD!
"KH—!?"
Karin's slender arm was driven deep into the serpent's body.
This was no ordinary punch.
She had activated several skills at once, focusing them solely on piercing a single point rather than sending the monster flying.
"It was a fine battle, desu wa."
Karin seized the pulsing regeneration core in her fist.
"And now, farewell."
Without a shred of mercy, she tore it out.
"GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!?"
A tremendous death cry echoed from the serpent's blood-red mouth.
Its body, over forty meters long, collapsed instead of melting into the floor. The impact shook the ground.
It never rose again. Certain silence returned to the vast boss room.
"Phew. I managed to win Elegantly without dirtying my dress, desu wa."
Karin spoke with energy to spare.
【Wait... she won...?】
【She beat it...?】
【It's not playing dead... right...?】
The quiet stream screen drew a trickle of stunned comments. Everyone seemed frozen in front of their screens, taking time to accept what they had seen.
Then the serpent's body began to crumble, confirming its defeat. In an instant, the silence turned to volcanic excitement.
【WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!?】
【SHE ACTUALLY DID ITTTTTTTTTTTTT!?】
【THIS IS INSAAAAAAAANE!】
【ARE YOU SERIOUUUUUUUUUUUUS!?】
【A sixteen-year-old girl REALLY soloed a deep-layer irregularity!?】
【Holy crap... I actually screamed and fist-pumped in front of my screen...】
【WHOOOOOO! I've got goosebumps all over! That was incredible!】
【Too incredible... I'm completely in love...】
【Who cares about monetization? I HAVE to clip this and share it! Let all humanity see Karin ojou-sama's triumph, desu waaaaa!】
【Legend legend ojou-sama!】
【Invincible, strongest ojou-sama!】
Chat erupted. Tens of thousands seemed to be commenting at once; there were so many messages that almost none could be read. Yet even without reading them, their exhilaration seemed to burst through the screen.
(!? Th-those are an incredible number of comments, desu wa!?)
Karin herself was startled by just how many people had been watching. But as a streamer, she had to respond. She was about to declare the monster defeated when she stopped short.
(Wait. Could this be... the perfect chance to do that thing I've dreamed about for so long!?)
One of the most Elegant situations imaginable:
'After defeating a mighty foe, announce the name of the finishing move along with your victory cry!'
Now that she'd thought of it, there was no way she could pass up the chance.
And so—
"That irregular monster from the deep layers was certainly a worthy foe, desu wa."
Karin raised the serpent's core she'd torn out like a victory banner and turned to the floating camera. Her dress, still without a scratch after that fierce battle, swayed gracefully.
"But all its strength was powerless before one of my finishing moves: a strike that pierces a monster-sama's body to dispatch it without needless destruction—<Fist Fuck>!!"
Nailed it...!
Revealing the name of her finishing move in a victory cry after defeating an unexpected foe, before an audience of so many people.
Karin had finally unveiled the move name she'd been saving for the day she could show it to a crowd—and in the most perfect situation she could imagine. She was certain of it, excitement coursing through her.
(The unfortunate image of me as a thug ojou-sama had stuck, but an Elegant finish like that will surely set the record straight!)
She looked smugly at her viewers' reactions.
And found—
【!?】
【!?】
【LMAOOOOOO】
【LMFAOOOOOOOOOOO】
【Lmao】
【lol】
【Karin ojou-sama!?】
【What did you just SAY!?】
【'Fist f●ck' does NOT mean piercing with a fist!?】
【Well, technically it does, but lmao】
【The first thing she says after surviving a top-class irregularity, a deep-layer monster (possibly enhanced), is THAT lmao】
【Karin ojou-sama's smug face is so cute (coping)】
【She definitely has no idea what it means lmao】
【Someone stop the camera!】
【Karin ojou-sama's the one we need to stop first】
【Who COULD stop this runaway-train ojou-sama...?】
【I can't lmao. Despair at the deep-layer monster followed by 'Fist Fuck' has destroyed my emotions. I'm crying lmao】
【With a smug face like that, we HAVE to clip it!】
【Karin-sama must've been dying to show off this finishing move! I'll share it everywhere!】
【I'll help too, desu wa!】
【Spread it! That'll guarantee our victory!】
【Stop it lmao You'll ruin Karin ojou-sama's public image lol】
【T O O L A T E】
【W H A T E L S E I S N E W】
【For now, all we can do is thank Karin ojou-sama for teaching us the danger of ignorance through personal sacrifice...】
【Oh, she's at 200k concurrents】
【Fwah!? 200k!?】
【That's amazing and I want to congratulate her, but under these circumstances it's complicated...】
"? Chat's reacting rather strangely, desu wa."
Karin tilted her head at the comments flying by.
When she'd rewatched episode 25 of Dungeon Alive on an anime streaming site, she'd seen someone comment 'Fist Fuck!' on a scene where a fist pierced an enemy. She'd liked how cool it sounded and borrowed it... Had she used it wrong, or was the name lacking somehow?
(I'm curious... But there is so much laughter, and the comments and viewer count are climbing almost frighteningly fast, so surely it wasn't bad!)
Karin let the matter drop, distracted by the viewer count, a number big enough to make her eyes pop out.
Amid peak excitement, she returned from the dungeon and ended her first post-viral stream, which ultimately recorded an astonishing two hundred and twenty thousand concurrent viewers.
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—Afterward.
The moment Karin left the dungeon, Mafuyu called her over and over.
"It's way too late now, but I'm telling you so you never make the same mistake again. That finishing move of yours means—"
"Ehh!?"
Upon learning of her mistake from her best friend Mafuyu, Karin turned red as a boiled octopus.
A dreadful premonition sent her scrambling to check social media.
#1 trending: Fist-Fuck Ojou-sama 150,000 posts
Related terms: Karin Yamada, deep-layer irregularity
"OGYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!?"
Her scream was even louder than the one she'd let out when Thug Ojou-sama hit number one trending two days before.
—Later still.
'I didn't mean it like that, desu no! You've misunderstood, desu no! I'm not the Fist-Fuck Ojou-sama, desu no! I was deceived by the internet! This is a conspiracy, desu no!'
Karin's excuse on social media received forty thousand reposts and a hundred thousand likes—and, naturally, only encouraged the internet to have more fun with it.
Countless messages of 'lmao' and 'lol' filled the replies. 'Fist-Fuck Ojou-sama' stayed trending until the following day. Alongside 'crazy' and 'Elegant,' 'Fist Fuck' appeared among the search suggestions for 'Karin Yamada,' and her screams continued for days.
But as a result, her channel passed 1.2 million subscribers by the morning after the stream, and her social-media following topped one million.
Far from merely holding onto her new subscribers, their number had exploded. Karin's position as a dungeon streamer was now unshakable—though not quite in the way she'd imagined.
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And that's the dungeon-conquest arc wrapped up for now.
Next, after a forum-thread episode and the like, we'll move into the arc where Karin ojou-sama's unique skill is revealed (is it an arc?).
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