Chapter 257: Jealousy
"The Vaelira show is resuming at long last now that the wonder boy and his ladies have licked their wounds enough," Vaelira’s voice rang out as the mana camera began whirring behind her.
"..." Kaiden didn’t respond to her words. He knew she was trying to ride their fame to boost her own numbers, and what better way to do that than to stir drama with stars?
Well, of course, the option of becoming their trusted ally could be much more beneficial in the long term than trying to fish a few reactions from them by spouting nonsense all the time, but such a thing never even occurred in the woman’s head.
Vaelira was a rather short-sighted woman, or if one wanted to be generous, she could be described as someone who tried to achieve her goals by deliberately playing on nightmare mode instead of normal.
But the woman herself didn’t seem to be aware that she was doing that, evidenced by her growing hostile feelings toward the group. She felt jealous, incredibly so.
At the beginning of the desert dungeon, she was only stirring drama for the sake of it, using the fact that Kaiden confessed to her in high school to make her stream more engaging for the drama-starved viewers.
But now, she was feeling so damned inadequate. She was here, as an A-tier awakened while he was a supposed F-rank. But that was only the start. While she was still just a rookie guild member of Nova Circuit, Kaiden somehow gamed the system by being willing to work as a mercenary in extremely dangerous situations and charging an arm and a leg for his services.
If that wasn’t enough, he was pulling in many, many times her numbers because he dicked down a freaking monster girl and gave her such an awesome time—or whatever—that she willingly submitted to him.
Now, he has four women on his side who are not only loyal to a fault but also are such lookers that they constantly make her feel things she isn’t ready to confront.
And Kaiden gained all this in less than two months. Vaelira simply couldn’t wrap her mind around all the discrepancies between his rate of progress and hers, hence her growing negative feelings.
When she used her mind to check on Valhalla’s Sinners’ awakened media page and saw that they were already having over 20k viewers even though the stream only went live 5 seconds ago... That didn’t help one bit.
Diaz’s hand lifted with a silent gesture.