Chapter 137: Pressed It But It Didn’t Register
"Fuuuh! …Cleared Castle Four!"
Top Chat: Hey hey hey
Top Chat: This is your first run back and…
Top Chat: No way, is it happening…?
"Happening?"
"They mean a record update. Right now, Castle Four—ah, that’s about seventy percent through the whole game—you’re still nearly five seconds ahead of the world record. Impressive, isn’t it?"
The booze-loving little girl downs a bottle of tea in one gulp.
"Is that impressive?"
Top Chat: Honestly, I wanted to ask that too
Top Chat: Same here
Top Chat: Me too, me too
Top Chat: That’s a lot of us
Top Chat: A lot of Elf-san’s viewers probably haven’t seen an RTA before
Top Chat: True enough
Top Chat: In this category, the top records are all in the 19:50 range
Top Chat: The top six are within just eight seconds of each other
Top Chat: Whoa, that’s packed
Top Chat: If you include different runs from the same runner, there are 13 times within the 10 seconds starting from 19:50
Top Chat: So being almost five seconds ahead at Castle Four means a potential huge record
Top Chat: This is really different from the RTAs I know…
"That’s because it’s short. For RTAs with lots of runners, if it’s under an hour, they’re battling for records down to the second."
Top Chat: For games under 10 minutes, they even fight over milliseconds—RTA world is brutal
Top Chat: That’s insane
Top Chat: Sounds like a racing game… then again, racing games are exactly the type of game you’d RTA
Top Chat: Actually, racing game RTAs do exist
Top Chat: RNG items can cancel out mistakes, so it’s pretty fun
"There’s a lot out there, huh."
Top Chat: Elf-san, if you ever feel like it, come crash the leaderboards too
Top Chat: Don’t assume she’ll come just to crash them lol
"Alright, in five minutes I’ll be back on top of the world!"
Top Chat: Cleared 5-1!
Top Chat: Here’s where the real game begins
Top Chat: You got this, you got this
"…Tsk! I dodged that, didn’t I!?"
"You didn’t."
"You don’t have to comment on that part!"
Top Chat: Elf-san lol
Top Chat: The little girl raging because her inputs are too slow
Top Chat: That’s the work of the RTA youkai ‘Pressed It But It Didn’t Register’
Top Chat: Yeah, but that thing appears even outside RTA runs
Top Chat: How bad is the time loss?
Top Chat: At least four seconds gone
Top Chat: Pretty much erased her lead
Top Chat: So that means… she has to go for it?
"Hmph! I was planning to challenge it anyway!"
"Challenge what?"
"The evil Switch Bug!"
The booze-loving little girl takes a sip of tea, and the stage starts right away.
Top Chat: Poor Switch Bug-kun, branded as evil
Top Chat: To be fair, that one deserves it
Top Chat: Even I hate it
"Why?"
Top Chat: Remember the story about how the little girl used to hold the world record?
"Mm."
Top Chat: Right after she set that record, someone discovered a major shortcut using the Switch Bug, and her run instantly became outdated
Top Chat: Didn’t even last a whole day, not even half
Top Chat: It was the first sub-20 run ever
Top Chat: And since then, she’s never reclaimed the world record
Top Chat: The booze-loving little girl is the unluckiest RTA runner in this game
Top Chat: If only she were good at the Switch Bug route, things would’ve been different—but she’s super bad at it
"I’m not bad at it! My success rate is just a little low, that’s all!"
Top Chat: That’s what ‘bad at it’ means
Top Chat: Never take a drunkard’s words at face value
Top Chat: You sure you’re sober?
Top Chat: Everyone blaming the alcohol, lol
"I haven’t had a drink today! Now, watch closely as I show you my brilliant Switch Bug!"
Stage 5-2 is a volcanic zone. With echoing BGM in the background, the jet-equipped little girl weaves through flying enemies and eruptions of lava.
"Now… onward!"
Near the midpoint, she doubles the switches by going in and out of a door, then stomps both at the same time.
Top Chat: The real challenge starts here
Top Chat: Ahhh, so tense…
"What happens?"
"There’s a section ahead where you’re supposed to ride a warp item and auto-move. That path is blocked by a wall and switch-activated coin blocks."
"I see."
"And thanks to the Switch Bug, the switch effect lasts forever."
Top Chat: So basically, instead of letting the demo auto-skip it, you’re running through yourself?
Top Chat: Exactly
Top Chat: The demo normally plows through enemies and terrain, which is why it saves time
Top Chat: Sounds simple enough
Top Chat: Yeah, the explanation is simple… the execution isn’t
Top Chat: Whoa
Top Chat: What’s with all these enemies!?
Top Chat: Since players weren’t meant to be here, the difficulty is insane
Top Chat: Ah, she fell
"Nuoaahhh!? I pressed it! I pressed it, didn’t I!?"
"You didn’t."
"Stop pointing that out already!"
Top Chat: She’s summoning the youkai again
Top Chat: Youkai ‘Strict-Judgment Elf’
Top Chat: No, not that one
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