Episode 3: Chapter 15 - Contract (4) is the fifteenth chapter of Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint.
Summary[]
Kim Dokja continues to hang on to the stomach wall of the ichthyosaur. The constellations sponsor him coins for his tenacity. As he waits, he grows hungry; he drinks fluid from the stone hog's thorn. He sleeps fitfully in the next few hours, resting and waking with the ebb and flow of the river water and ichthyosaur's digestive fluids. Eventually, the ichthyosaur succumbs to the thorns and dies. Bihyung appears and commends Kim Dokja on his creativity.
After the exchange, Kim Dokja receives the reward for completing the hidden scenario, earning 10,000 coins (plus 500 coins from the constellations' sponsorship). Bihyung directs the constellations to watch an ad and takes advantage of the break to speak to Kim Dokja privately, informing him that 4 days have passed. He's pleased at his success, having defeated a high-grade monster with the skills of an ordinary human and the knowledge of a once-useless novel. Bihyung points out that he's talking to himself, a trait picked up in order to appease the constellations, but Kim Dokja tells him to shut up and open the Dokkaebi Bag again, stating that he plans to sell instead of buy.
Kim Dokja uses the remaining thorn and breaks through the ichthyosaur's stomach wall until he locates the Ichthyosaur's Core. He has Bihyung put it up on the dokkaebi auction, requesting that the exchange item be Broken Faith. Bihyung offers Kim Dokja a draft of their stream contract. The contract requires Kim Dokja to not choose a sponsor, to only appear on Bihyung's channel, to split any revenue with Bihyung, and a number of other conditions, placing both parties subject to destruction should they break any of the contract requirements.
Kim Dokja is surprised but not upset at being assigned the 'gap' (larger contractor) in the contract. He argues with Bihyung about the pay ratio, eventually whittling him down to a 10:0 arrangement where Kim Dokja receives the entirety of his sponsored coins and Bihyung only receives the commission fee. He also bullies a 5,000 coin down payment out of the dokkaebi, which a thoroughly-frustrated Bihyung pays without argument. A pleased Kim Dokja pats him on the shoulder and begins planning how to leave.[1]
Features[]
Characters[]
- Kim Dokja
- Sea commander ichthyosaur
- Demon-like Judge of Fire (indirect)
- Bihyung
- Yoo Joonghyuk (mentioned)
- Kim Dokja's mother (mentioned)
Objects[]
Locations[]
- Han River, inside the ichthyosaur's stomach
Scenarios[]
Trivia[]
- Though not explicitly mentioned until later, this is the first of multiple chapters in which Kim Dokja's clothes are somehow destroyed or lost, leaving him partially or fully naked while the channel is live.
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