Bottom-tier voice actress wants to become a big star on VTuber.

He picked up the most conspicuous props on the ground, grabbed the shuriken cart and the candy from the cave below, and didn't rush back to find the sculptor.

They went straight for the second elite monster, the samurai general Kawaharada Naomori. This guy is a newbie killer; many people have been driven to quit the game by him.

But for Shimizu Toru, it was still a piece of cake; he used a stealth attack in mid-air to take away a whole health bar, and then kept fighting with his sword.

The yellow bar was filled, resulting in immediate execution. A scattered rosary bead and the first gourd seed were dropped.

Both of these items are good for him: one increases his health bar when he collects four, and the other increases the number of times the gourd can heal.

He's aiming for a one-life playthrough, not a no-damage playthrough, and he doesn't prohibit the use of healing items, so all of these are necessary to increase the margin for error.

After defeating the general, I eavesdropped on a conversation between two henchmen about the Ghost Army from a tree, killed the small monsters on the road, got the bell from the old woman, and also looted three money bags from her building.

Together with the money bag he had picked up earlier, he was able to buy firecrackers from the merchant, but he still didn't return to the temple.

Instead, he turned back and took another path, jumping to a platform below a cliff. Along the way, he picked up items such as the Earthly Treasury Swaddling Clothes and Moon Concealment Candy, and opened a new teleportation point. After talking to the afterimage, he...

I gave the important NPC merchant's henchman 150 coins as starting capital, bought information about the fire-blowing tube, and picked up a pill from behind him before using the Return to Buddha technique to return to the temple.

Many players have already encountered the Dragon Cough when they reach this point, but Shimizu Toru is still unharmed.

The game's smooth and fluid visuals led many viewers to believe that its difficulty was only average, prompting them to excitedly download the game.

Then I witnessed what Miyazaki Hidetaka's malice was all about. He said it was fine in a one-on-one situation, but if even a couple more small monsters appeared, he would be ganged up on and killed.

There's no need for humanoid monsters; countless people are pecked to death by chickens or bitten to death by dogs. You can defend against the front, but not the back.

By the time I wanted a refund, it was too late, and I could only tearfully search for travel guides online.

Even with guides, it's still very unfriendly to ordinary people, otherwise the success rate wouldn't be only 20%.

That's probably why Elden Ring was able to get the Meteor Staff right away, and then one after another, things like the Perfume Bottle, the Imitation Teardrop, the Rejection Thorn, and the Wheelchair.

Of course, it's also possible that when Hidetaka Miyazaki created it, he never imagined these genres would be so powerful, or that the genius players would have such wild imaginations.

Especially the perfumer; when it was first developed, Ladagan only needed one shot, which was absolutely outrageous, ridiculously outrageous.

Indeed, numbers are the reason for being king.

Volume One: Chapter Forty-Three: Human Dust

The rest of the game flowed as familiarly as if Shimizu were back home.

Use the bell to travel back three years, kill five treasure carp to exchange for the "Flying Boat" skill book, then scavenge along the way to get the Fire Blower and Flying Ape Axe. After killing all the mobs you can see, learn the "Discern" skill as soon as possible.

All the money on me was used to buy paper figures, which later appreciated even more than Bitcoin. It would be best to hoard two thousand of them.

Once you get the axe, the shield soldiers you encounter on the road will no longer be a problem; one swing of the axe will be enough to execute them.

Archers can be quickly dealt with using shurikens, three shurikens per archer, while dogs can be taken down with one shuriken.

After crossing the bridge guarded by two shield soldiers, you'll be facing one of the elite monsters that usually deters you in the early game: the monk soldier. If you haven't learned how to spot them, you'll be beaten so badly you'll question your existence.

"There are quite a few small monsters around. Here's a little trick I learned from Assassin's Creed."

As Shimizu Toru spoke, he slipped into the nearby flower bushes, put the unused pottery shards into his inventory, and threw them at the soldiers holding torches who were calling for help.

Wolf was a ninja after all, so his stealth was a professional skill. Even when the torchbearers were already inside the flower bushes, they didn't notice anything unusual, and so Wolf's throat was cleanly and swiftly slit.

"Next, we'll use the grappling hook to jump onto this arrow tower and take out the archer with shurikens. Be careful not to charge straight in, or you'll attract the BOSS's attention."

On the right side of the map, there are two more soldiers. Use the same method to lure them into the flower bushes with pottery shards, assassinate the more troublesome axeman first, and then quickly take care of the other one.

The remaining monk soldiers, including the ninja hunter Enma Mizan, became nothing more than small fry after learning to see through enemy attacks, as they are just generic characters that appear everywhere later in the game.

First, assassinate the enemy to reduce their health bar by one bar. When the word "danger" appears above the character's head, you can execute them by intercepting two consecutive thrusts. The whole process takes less than ten seconds.

As per the bet, the viewers in the live stream had no choice but to generously contribute, with the vast majority readily handing over 100 yen, and the oil tycoons betting even more lavishly.

After passing through the fog gate guarded by the monks, there was a Sculptor's Idol that resembled a Dark Souls bonfire. Shimizu Toru spent his newly acquired skill points on "Hold Your Breath" and "Derivative Attack - Pursuit".

Knowing that four archers were firing at him from all sides, he decisively put on a novice's act: "I can use a grappling hook to get up to the left. Are there any hidden items upstream on this river?"

After swimming across a bridge, a branch appeared overhead that could be hooked. Once on it, you could see a precious carp in the river. You decisively jumped in and killed it with two slashes.

In Sekiro, although there are no strong directional arrows on the ground, various glowing items often guide the player on how to proceed.

Next to a prop in front, you can clearly see a hole that has been sealed off with bamboo as a fence.

Inside is a narrow passage where you can pick up three paper figures. Then, use the walls to jump up to the top, where you can obtain the "Mist Raven Feather".

The lone shadow ninja they were going to fight on the tower, the one in purple from the Inner Court, was someone Shimizu Toru decided to show the audience how to skip class, and also to create some entertainment value.

"This must be the triple pagoda that the vendor was talking about, the one that houses the treasure—so!? How come there are monsters here too??"

Pretending to be terrified and running away in a panic, Shimizu Toru turned and fled, leaping off the cliff and hooking onto a tree branch just before falling into the river.

After waiting two seconds and seeing that he hadn't encountered the Lone Shadows jumping down and dying as well, he said with a look of just realizing something, "Hey? Do you think I can go up and assassinate him now?"

[It should be possible, right? Unless he stands on top of the tower again.]

I didn't see a health bar earlier, it must be an elite monster, right? Even after a successful assassination, I still had one health bar left.

[Tou-kun's chosen route is different from the others; Ye-shi and the others are all fighting the Red Oni.]

Upon seeing comments saying that the Prisoners were all fighting the Red Oni, Shimizu Toru raised an eyebrow.

Are you going to fight without a fire-breathing tube? That's incredibly reckless; everyone would die at least ten times over.

"It's alright, they'll come to this map sooner or later anyway, and overall I'm actually making faster progress."

At this point, a little over an hour had passed since he started broadcasting. To put it bluntly, he had only taken down two samurai generals, and the Red Oni would definitely not be able to get past him in less than ten minutes.

After saying that, Shimizu Toru jumped left and right again, got onto the platform where the Three-Layered Tower was located, and then squatted behind Lone Shadow and stabbed him through the neck.

"Huh!? Only one health bar left, and it's not even an elite monster?"

But don't underestimate him just because he's not an elite monster; he's just as difficult to deal with. His Immortal Peak Kick has sent countless people's scalps tingling and shattered their Dao hearts.

It's a bit unreasonable to know how to defend against Senpou Kick on the first meeting, so Shimizu Toru chose to skip class.

After obtaining the "Mist Raven Feather," he stood on the edge of the cliff and pressed the lock-on button. Suddenly, a health bar appeared on the screen: "Look, you can throw shurikens down from here."

Two archers were killed by darts, then one was killed by a grappling hook, and the remaining one was killed with three darts. In a place where they would have died several times from the front, only one torchbearer remained.

After clearing out the remaining soldiers around, there was another bridge ahead. On the bridge was a Taro soldier, and behind him were two shield soldiers.

You can skip class here too; you can use a grappling hook to get across from the left, but this time Shimizu Toru chose to lure them over with a shuriken.

A single Taro soldier is actually easy to deal with. This monster has a long attack wind-up and a lot of stun. Just keep some distance and wait for it to finish its attack before going in to steal some damage.

Once the stance bar is full, execute the enemy directly. Then, use two axe blows to take out the shield soldiers on the other side of the bridge, and you'll see the Hirata Estate, which is now engulfed in flames.

The players also met their adoptive father, this scum of humanity, for the first time in the game. He immediately started playing the fake death trick on everyone.

"This guy doesn't seem like a good person. Remember that house where someone said there was a mole in the Hirata family? It's probably this guy!"

Toru Shimizu, who made a cameo appearance as a prophet, had no intention of continuing to search for things in the sea of ​​fire after obtaining the key to the secret Buddhist shrine.

He tried it when he first truly met her, and the result was self-evident: he was burned to death.

Using a grappling hook to cosplay as Spider-Man, Shimizu Toru lands and assassinates a torchbearer, almost falling in love with a monk soldier as she enters the depths of the bamboo forest.

Knowing there was another monk soldier behind him, he squatted for more than ten seconds until the other turned around, then assassinated him. The remaining one was easy to deal with.

He's not afraid of anyone in a one-on-one solo match!

"A full purse? If you sell this, it should be worth more than five hundred, right? A thousand??" Shimizu Toru, who knew exactly how valuable this thing was, said, pretending to guess.

It's fair to say that these two monk soldiers were already courting death for that money pouch worth a thousand!

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I currently have 515 blades left, and I still owe three chapters. I'll finish them all tonight!

The Sekiro storyline will end in the next chapter, so it won't be too long.

Volume 1: Chapter 44 Zunichiro Wouldn't Lie to Me [Bonus Chapter]

After exiting the secret passage and arriving at Hirata's main residence, Shimizu Toru sat in a Buddha statue, spent all his money on paper figures, and then returned to Ashina Castle to begin the main storyline.

Red ghost?

Start by assassinating him and taking away one bar of his health, then throw a bottle of oil at him, spray him with a blowtorch, and finish him off with a few slashes.

Samurai General - Yamauchi Norizen?

The surrounding monsters can be assassinated after eating a Moon Concealment Candy. First, sneak up and take down one bar of their health, then exchange a few blows and finish them off with a firecracker.

I just happened to get four prayer beads, combined them into one prayer bead to upgrade my health bar, and then I went back to three years ago.

Use the grappling hook to get onto the roof, take out the two archers with shurikens, then assassinate all the small monsters in front of the house, and go inside to kill the monsters and collect items along the way.

After dealing with everything, first go around to the left side of the pond to the corridor. After eliminating the enemies in the corridor, assassinate the shield soldier next to the elite monster, Python Chongzang, and then turn around and bring everyone in the open space into the corridor.

This way, you only need to deal with one small monster at a time. After you've taken care of all the small monsters, you can go find the NPC to help you fight the BOSS.

Otherwise, the NPC would easily be ganged up on and killed. Although he won't appear again later and his death won't affect the plot, Shimizu Toru still didn't go too far.

Next up is the real blacksmithing textbook, Madame Butterfly's special.

Unlike other elite monsters that encourage you to take the initiative to attack, Lady Butterfly is a true boss, the kind with memories of past battles.

If you dare to be greedy and attack, she will kill you with a single combo, without any reasoning whatsoever.

Fortunately, Shimizu Toru's sword-fighting technique was so refined that he was so skilled and daring that he still managed to attack even with only one Naruto Seed given to him by Inosuke.

Considering that it would be a bit too much to be unharmed on the first meeting, he went a little further.

Even so, before she could use up all the gourd's uses, Madame Butterfly still fell to his blade.

He left only the words: "Your skills... have improved..., wolf..."

The battle memories that increase attack power, Lady Butterfly, and Cherry Blossom that increases the number of resurrections, turned into specks of light and disappeared.

If it were someone else, they would probably have to hear her call them "little dog" twenty or thirty times before they could figure out how to deal with it.

Then the game entered another cutscene. The moment Shimizu Toru was betrayed by her adoptive father, that scum of a human, she shouted with an "I knew it!" expression:

"I told you Owl was the mole! Look at this greatsword, it's clearly the same one that slashed the wolf in the opening cutscene!"

When he saw the scene in the CG where Miko lifted the beam with one hand, he couldn't help but tease, "Lord Kuro is just young, otherwise, with that kind of strength, why would he need me to protect him?"

The CG ends, and the side quest from three years ago is completed; Wolf has successfully regained his memories.

Upon returning to Ashina Castle, Shimizu Toru did not immediately seek trouble with Oni Gyoubu. Instead, he first dealt with Kubinashi and, incidentally, activated the teleportation point at the bell-ringing location.

It has the same effect as the Agong Tang, which can nullify the use of spirit possession, and only requires consuming paper dolls.

Pretending to have taken the wrong path, and after blinding one of the white snake's eyes in the canyon, they finally arrived in front of Oni Gyoubu, who should have been the first boss.

Before this, he overheard someone from Hermès talking and reminded the player that they could use firecrackers to skip class. There are quite a few similar reminders in the game.

After defeating Gyobu Oni, you can upgrade your prosthetic arm. Initially, you can only upgrade one Rasenshuriken; to upgrade others, you'll need to continue collecting materials.

After defeating two members of the Chaotic Wave Clan and obtaining the Ashina Style Secret Manual from the elderly Isshin, Shimizu Toru immediately learned the early-stage divine skill, the New Year's Greeting Sword Technique.

On the bridge in front of the castle tower, there is an old lady whose voice actress is Luffy. If you pop three balloons, she will give you two candies and a Divine Snow.

This was also the first time players heard about Senpou Temple and Mi Niang's transformation into Ruo Qingzi from an NPC.

The most annoying thing about the castle tower is undoubtedly the Yotaka clan members who can appear out of nowhere. Even the Ashina-ryu swordsmen and Iaijutsu enthusiasts on the upper floors of the castle tower are not as hated as them.

After defeating Iai, you can obtain the Lightning Return, which is a lightning return that can deflect the lightning strikes from Kenichiro's second stage.

At this stage, three hours had passed since the broadcast started, and Shimizu Toru asked the viewers in the chat what the progress was for the Prisoners group.

As a result, despite exploring one less entire map, both sides are now at the same progress level, both in the castle tower.

Moreover, they are currently being chased by the Yūyō-shū in a chaotic manner, and they won't be able to see Kenichirō anytime soon.

Since he had a lot of money pouches, Shimizu Toru went to Kurokasa Mujina first and bought an umbrella and a skill book for aerial ninja killing. Although he could get the umbrella later without spending money, he figured he might as well buy it early and enjoy it sooner.

Then, as they ascended from the castle tower, the audience once again encountered Kenichiro, whose voice was instantly recognizable as a card player's, and whose wife was the Blue-Eyes White Dragon.

Having already mastered the One-Word Two-Strike combo, Shimizu Toru filled up his yellow bar with two sets of New Year's greeting sword techniques and quickly entered the second stage.

Actually, the second stage doesn't change much, except for one more variation. Just anticipate when he's in danger, then continue with the New Year's greeting sword technique.

The stage is quite large; if you can't beat someone, you take off your clothes and say you'll let Shimizu Toru see Tomoe's Thunder.

Anyone in the Fountainhead Palace knows how to do this, and as long as the distance is close enough, you don't even need to use the counter-lightning attack; it won't hit you at all.

After defeating Kenichiro, in addition to his battle memories, you can also obtain the Blood Smoke Technique, which is a good thing. You can use it to assassinate people continuously in the future.