I Was Kidnapped By The Strongest Guild
Chapter 336: Dynamic Visual Acuity

"What is this?!"

Kwon Arin's hands trembled as she gripped her smartphone.

Her expression was like someone who'd seen a ghost.

"It says we're suspended."

"But I spent so much money on this game!"

Aargh!

Kwon Arin sat on the bench, kicking her legs wildly in frustration.

The movement made her clothes flutter in the breeze.

'Was it really because of me?'

We did pull golden cards consecutively, but we only used the system provided by the game.

Uncertain if it was my fault, I carefully watched Kwon Arin's reaction.

"It says here we did abnormal play."

"Well... we did do abnormal play."

"W-we did...? But that's really bad..."

I could hardly believe that Kwon Arin, who took gaming so seriously, would engage in abnormal play.

It felt similar to seeing our children misbehave.

"No, we did abnormal play but it wasn't bad."

"How can it be abnormal but not bad?"

"Because you didn't do anything wrong, Gyeoul."

"Ah..."

From Kwon Arin's matter-of-fact tone, I realized.

It really was my fault we got suspended.

Feeling guilty, I tapped the smartphone screen.

"But they showed all the card shuffling..."

"Only you can follow that speed, Gyeoul. The developers probably never expected anyone could track it. That's why they made the shuffling so obvious."

"Hmm..."

I suppose that's true.

I could see flying bullets move like snails when I concentrated.

To track the rapidly shuffling golden card, you'd need to be able to split a second into dozens or hundreds of parts.

'But can't other guild members see this too?'

Master and Jeffrey definitely could - he could definitely see it.

Maybe those at Han Yeoreum's level could too.

For reference, those at Han Yeoreum's level were Choi Jinhyuk, Encia, and Argo.

Jung Yu-na was excluded since she wasn't physically oriented.

"Hmm..."

Here I was evaluating guild members' abilities.

Though it might seem arrogant, I was at least an expert when it came to eyesight.

"Haah... what should I do?"

"How about contacting the game company?"

At my suggestion, Kwon Arin rubbed her chin.

After pondering for a while, she suddenly jumped up from her seat.

"I have a good idea."

"A good idea?"

"Yeah. Want to stream together?"

Kwon Arin showed a scheming smile.

Did she have some kind of plan?

It was much better than her dejected look from earlier.

"Yes, let's stream together."

"Okay. Want to come to my room this afternoon? I have some preparations to make in the morning."

"Sure."

I wondered how Kwon Arin planned to get the suspension lifted.

I looked forward to the afternoon with excitement.

**

I went to Kwon Arin's room at 3 PM.

This time the children came along too.

Knock knock-

Saebyeok knocked on the door as our representative.

Kwon Arin must have been waiting, as she opened the door right away.

"You're here? Come in."

Kwon Arin waved us in from inside, her pronunciation strange because she was brushing her teeth.

"Brush brush."

Gaeul pointed at Kwon Arin brushing her teeth and laughed.

Finding her innocent reaction cute, Kwon Arin also burst out laughing.

"Just a minute."

Kwon Arin went to the bathroom and came back looking neat and tidy.

She checked her face in the mirror like a professional streamer.

"Do you wash up before streaming?"

"Yeah. A popular streamer once got immortalized for having red pepper flakes stuck in their teeth."

"Ah..."

Immortalized.

As always, internet people were scary.

Seeing my surprised reaction, Levinas poked my shoulder repeatedly.

"King, what does immortalized mean? Levinas doesn't understand."

"Hmm... it's like when an embarrassing moment gets recorded and people make fun of it forever..."

"Oh!"

Levinas opened her horned rabbit eyes wide and ran to the full-length mirror in the corner.

Then she started grooming her ears with her hands.

"Are you grooming?"

"Yeah! Levinas will look pretty and not get immortalized!"

"Trying to get even prettier?"

"Yeah! Levinas will be as pretty as King!"

As pretty as me?

That's somehow embarrassing.

I scratched my cheek before grabbing a brush to help with Levinas's hair.

"Master too."

"Okay. I'll do Gaeul too."

After brushing Levinas's hair, I approached Gaeul with the brush.

I stood behind Gaeul to brush her hair, but she bent over making it impossible.

"Gaeul?"

I can't brush your hair like this.

Looking at Gaeul in confusion, I realized.

Her tail was pointing toward me.

"Want me to brush your tail?"

"Yeah."

I see.

For beast-kin, the tail was more important than hair.

Gaeul's behavior wasn't particularly strange.

So I brushed Gaeul's tail, then brushed Saebyeok's hair when she silently approached.

Meanwhile Levinas, Gaeul and Saebyeok all groomed me.

It was grooming by licking, but it was quite effective at making my fur glossy.

"Is everyone ready?"

"Yes!"

"Yeah!"

Once we were all seated, Kwon Arin set up the stream.

Holding her mouse, she turned to look at us just before going live.

"The mood might be bad at first. But it'll be resolved quickly, so don't get too scared."

"What?"

What did she mean by bad mood?

Before I could ask why, the stream started.

[Down]

[Down]

[Down]

[Down]

[Down]

[Down]

Countless "down" messages filled the chat.

The reason could be seen in the messages between them.

[Is this the stream that uses bugs to cheat?]

[How did they pull golden cards fifty times in a row]

[It's legendary how they posted about being unfairly suspended after pulling golden cards fifty times straight.]

[Arin, I'm really disappointed this time.]

Just reading the chat made the situation clear.

We'd pulled a golden card with a one-in-twenty chance fifty times in a row.

It could only be seen as abnormal play.

"Ah! I'm really being treated unfairly!"

Though Kwon Arin was protesting the unfairness, she seemed somehow happy.

If she had a tail, it would probably be wagging.

[What's unfair about it? The probability makes no sense.]

[Pulling golden cards 50 times in a row is about the same odds as winning the powerball 7 times.]

Wasn't powerball that American lottery with prizes in the hundreds of billions?

Winning that seven times - the probability really was impossible when you looked at it that way.

[I'm really bothered that they brought kids too.]

[Did they put kids there on purpose so people couldn't say harsh things?]

"Ugh, that's not it."

Tsk.

Clicking her tongue, Kwon Arin sat me on her lap.

She patted my head while opening the game's card drawing screen.

"I'll show you how we pulled them consecutively. Gyeoul, are you ready?"

"Yes, I'm ready."

When I nodded, the card drawing began.

The cards shuffled at incredible speed, but I could see everything.

"Which one?"

"This one."

Kwon Arin clicked the card I pointed to and flipped it.

Another golden card appeared.

[?]

[What's this?]

[How did they get it?]

[Did Gyeoul use a bug?]

[???]

The stream viewers expressed their doubts.

Seeing them, Kwon Arin showed a meaningful smile.

"Want to know how we did it?"

[Tell us.]

[How did you do it?]

"It's nothing special. You just track the golden card with your eyes while it's being shuffled."

[What?]

[??]

[Was it actually being shuffled? Not just a shuffling effect?]

[You're saying you can track this speed with your eyes?]

"Yeah. Gyeoul has really good eyes. I can't do it myself."

[??]

[The cards look like they're teleporting to me]

[I only see afterimages.]

The chat moved quickly at first, then gradually calmed down.

The viewers started discussing among themselves to verify if it was true.

[I just watched at 0.25x speed and it was still too fast to see]

[Need like 0.01x speed lol]

Lies.

Truth.

As the viewers split into two factions, someone sent a donation.

It included a video.

[I converted it to 0.01x speed.]

The cards in the video shuffled at a reasonably fast pace.

With the flipped golden card shuffling around, quite a few people could track it now.

[Wait, it was actually being shuffled for real?]

[How is this possible?]

"I told you I was being treated unfairly. Gyeoul tracked it and we got suspended?"

[How can anyone...?]

[What's with Gyeoul's motion vision?]

[Show Gyeoul's eyes at 0.01x speed too]

Another donation video came in response to someone's message.

It showed my eyes moving around tracking the golden card.

Even at 0.01x speed, my eyeballs moved quickly.

Left right up down.

I was even checking the chat while tracking the cards.

[Look at how Gyeoul's eyeballs move wtf]

[lol they were even checking chat while watching the cards shuffle lol]

[So Gyeoul was a monster all along;;]

[I can sort of accept tracking the cards, but checking chat too is truly amazing]

Many people in chat expressed awe at my abilities.

Blood rushed to my face from embarrassment.