Chapter 458: Black Mage's Cliché 3
The suicide goblins - nicknamed "huggers" or "mutant goblins" by viewers - stretched their long arms to grab my waist.
Despite growing bigger with longer limbs, their faces had only gotten uglier. One flashed its crooked teeth in a creepy grin. While other knights pushed them away before they could get close, I let myself get grabbed right away, which must have looked pretty stupid.
Their goblin intelligence couldn't comprehend that I'd let them grab me rather than being caught. Finding their simple-mindedness both nostalgic and familiar, I firmly gripped the ugly head clinging to my waist.
'Back then, didn't I throw a goblin when Han Se-ah asked me to show her something?'
That was on the plains floor - not floor 51, but floor 1. I'd caught a goblin and given it a tour of Seoul.
With a "kyaaak!" it had soared so high it vanished from the camera's view. That gif became the first viral meme from Han Se-ah's stream. Before that she was just a lucky broadcaster, but after the goblin throw, viewers saw her as someone who made isekai power fantasy content.
Remembering that, I gripped the goblin head clinging to me and whirled-!
This time instead of throwing it skyward, I hurled it toward its companions waiting in the barracks for a chance to self-destruct. Its face, which had been smugly grinning despite completely wrapping around my waist with interlocked fingers, twisted in bewilderment at being so easily removed.
"Watch out for the exploding goblin!"