The rest of the day went by as usual. I did the usual things: practiced my Krav Maga, did the drawing to earn my daily $100, worked out with Ethan and Olivia.
After all that, my skills changed a bit.
[Krav Maga Mastery Lv 9 -> Lv 10]
With Krav Maga at Lv 10, I was already much more confident in using my martial arts. The difference from Lv 9 to Lv 10 was that before it was like I had trained for a year with insecurity as a practicing amateur, but now I was similar to someone who had trained for a year with a lot of gained martial arts experience. Even though level 10 is supposed to be as if I've trained for only a few more months, it's as if the quality of those training sessions had been improved and the quality of my fighting and overall training had been completely improved.
Of course, I was still at level 10; it was not like I'm a professional fighter, but I was already at a point where I could safely defend myself on the street.
[Teaching Lv 16 -> Lv 17]
Since I was also helping Ethan and Olivia with their training, my Teaching skill increased by one level, which was very useful because I could better help my family with the things I knew. This made it much more useful for me to learn things faster, because with the system I could continue to learn things faster, and with the Teaching skill, I could teach my family the things I knew easier and faster as well.
[Bodybuilding Lv 16 -> Lv 18].
The advantage of studying strength training with the lessons on the Internet was that the speed at which the skill improved was much faster than the walking skill, and on a daily basis I could see the difference in the ease with which I could lift weights that had previously seemed too difficult for me.
As I was lying on the grass in the backyard looking up at the sky, I was surprised to see Olivia running up to me.
"Noah, did you see that there's a talent show on a MeTube stream?" she asked excitedly as she showed me the stream.
Looking at her phone, I was surprised to see that on a call-in show like Discord there was actually a host with two other judges watching a performance in front of an audience of 3,000 people. It wasn't a very large audience, but considering they were doing an open talent show like this and the people participating probably didn't have any talent, it was understandable. The stream was apparently based on the judges making fun of the performers.
"That's nice," I said as I handed her her phone back and went back to looking at the sky.
"You're not interested in participating?" She asked, confused.
"I don't know. I'm not sure if I could get a place on it. There must be a lot of people applying, right?" I asked, looking back at her.
"Let me see..." she said as she fiddled with her phone.
In a few seconds she got her answer. "They have a queue room on their discord. There are only 20 people left in the queue, so there's still time for you to join!"
When I heard that, I thought for a moment.
"The prize is a $2,000 microphone." She then said something important.
Hearing that, I quickly got up from the grass and went to take a shower. "I'm going to shower. Send me the link to this server and the stream; I'll join!"
"Okay!" she said excitedly as she sent me the links.
As I ran to the bathroom, thankful that Ethan had already finished his shower, I tried to mentally ask the System a question. 'System, if I sing another otherworldly song at this talent show, will it count as my second published song?' I asked worriedly, not knowing if a sad song would go over well on a stream where they made jokes.
I think I'd look more like an Edge Kid trying to look cool if I sang a sad, serious song at this talent show. The best thing to do would be if I also sang a funny song to fit in.
[After analysis, the system will not consider the song sung at this event as the second song released].
Seeing this, I was satisfied and sped up my shower.
[Ding, new mission!]
[Win the Talent Show with a stellar performance!
Reward: +1 CHA, +1 Singing, +1 Guitar].
[Accept?]
Of course! With a mission that gave me free rewards, how could I not accept?!
My shower lasted only five minutes, and I was already tuning my guitar while waiting in line for my turn to perform. From what I could see, the host of this talent show was a streamer from a game like CraftMine from my previous world, but because he was bored with his friends, he decided to host the show in-game. Each contestant logged into the Discord server and waited for their turn. When it was their turn, the server admins would send them the link to the world the streamers were in so they could introduce themselves and use their characters as avatars.
Luckily, old Noah already had an account in that game, so I didn't have to buy another one. The only problem was the nickname and the account skin. I didn't have time to make another skin for my character, and the anime girl skin with the maid outfit wasn't my style, so I just changed the account skin back to the default skin and changed the account nickname to BlackVelvet.
When I'd finished setting everything up, I got a message from one of the server admins with a link to the server they were on. As I entered the server, I found myself in a waiting room with another player who was probably next in line to perform. I had everything ready, so while I was practicing how to play this song on my guitar, I watched the stream.
"Hey Quacktus, his impression of you looks pretty good!" one of the judges said with a laugh.
"Don't joke about that! It has nothing to do with me!" Quacktus laughed as he pressed a red button, eliminating the contestant.
"I liked his Guapo impersonation. He gets a yes from me!" Another streamer laughed as he pressed the green button, leaving it up to the last streamer.
"Wait, can I tell a joke to get your vote?" the contestant asked desperately.
"Hmm... you can try it!" The last streamer saw that this would generate more content and didn't refuse.
"Ehh... I'm not sure if my girlfriend is happy with my body... but... a small part of me says yes." he said nervously.
"Pfftt... hahaha!" Hearing this twist at the end, the streamer broke down and started laughing hard while pressing the green button.
"Congratulations, that joke got you a spot in the voting phase," the third streamer said laughing. "Now let's move on to our next contestant."
As soon as he said that, the other player in the waiting room came in and surprisingly sang a song relatively well. If I had to put a level on his singing skill, I'd say he was at level 11 - not a bad level, but far from impressing the judges. The worst thing was that he sang with such confidence that people enjoyed his singing, but I read the comments and felt embarrassed.
[OMG, why is he straining his voice so much?]
[Is he trying to look hot singing this song?]
[Someone get this guy off the stage, this is too cringey!!!]
[CRYING]
[I kind of liked him singing...]
[How did you like that?!]
[Doesn't this guy know he's out of tune? It sounds like he's torturing the notes instead of singing them!]
Some of the comments were exaggerated, since the boy who sang wasn't that out of tune, but it seems that the boy was trying so hard to look hot while singing that it had the opposite effect and embarrassed people.
Even the streamers couldn't take it anymore and quickly pressed the red button.
"I can't take it anymore! Please call the next contestant!" Quacktus shouted as he kept pressing the red button.
While he was doing that, I entered the stage with my avatar and an admin put me on the Discord call they were on.
"Hello candidate, who are you?" Quacktus asked.
"I'm BlackVelvet, or BV for short," I replied calmly.
"Okay BV, what are you going to do today? Don't tell me you're going to sing..." Guapo asked dramatically.
"I'm sorry to inform you, but I really came to sing..." I said, also exaggerating a bit.
[Noooo!!!]
[Please don't let him sing!!!]
[I can't take it anymore!!!!!!!]
This reaction of the audience was mirrored by the streamers, I could see on their face cam that they didn't want to hear anyone else sing either, but to keep the decorum they let me sing.
"Okay BV, we'll give you a chance. But if your music is bad, we'll kick you out, okay?" Quacktus asked.
"No fuss," I replied, relaxed.
"Okay, what song are you going to sing?" Guapo asked.
"I'm going to sing an original song that I wrote when I was very lazy. The name of the song is 'The Lazy Song'," I said.
"The Lazy Song? That sounds interesting," Quacktus said excitedly as he sat back in his chair and prepared to listen.
Just by hearing the name of the song, you could at least imagine that this wasn't going to be a song where this contestant was trying to look hot, right?
"Go ahead, BV!" the third streamer, Phill, said, feigning excitement.
Before I started singing, I started playing my guitar to the rhythm of the original song from my other world.
Since this rhythm was lively and a bit comical, I could see on camera that they were really into it; even the audience started sending more interested emojis instead of the vomit emojis they were sending before.
(I recommend listening to The Lazy Song on YouTube while reading this chapter, even though the lyrics aren't exactly the same).
🎼🎶🎤
"Today, I'm feeling quite lazy, it's true…
Just wanna stay cozy in my room…"
🎼🎶🎤
[The beginning of the song is okay, but the fact that he doesn't try to make his voice sexy is a yes!]
[This song sounds a bit relaxing...]
🎼🎶🎤
"No desire to grab my phone, no buzz or ring…
So just leave a message, let it ding…
'Cause today, I promise, I won't do a thing…"
🎼🎶🎤
"Haha, I like this song!" Quacktus used a dancing emote on his character as he danced slightly to the camera.
"The rhythm of that song is really cool!" Phill laughed while also using a dance emote.
[This song is really good lmao!]
[I want to post this on my Stories on Saturday, "Cause today, I promise, I won't do anything... lol!"]
[DancingEmoji.GIF DancingEmoji.GIF DancingEmoji.GIF DancingEmoji.GIF]
🎼🎶🎤
"Yeah, gonna prop my feet up, gaze at the ceiling fan…
Flip on the TV, hands in my pants, man…
Ain't nobody gonna tell me I can't…
Lounging on the sofa, Snuggie clad, feeling grand…
Switching to JTV, to learn how to dougie…
In my own domain, feeling like the king bee…"
🎼🎶🎤
"Hands in my pants?! LOL, did he really put that in the song?!" Guapo started to laugh when he heard that part.
"Bro, this song makes me want to relax like this..." Phill said as he leaned back in his chair, smiling.
[This is my song lol, I want to learn how to sing this!]
[Bro, this BV is definitely like me, I do it every Sunday when my parents leave the house lol!]
[There's no better feeling than having your hands in your pants when it's cold...]
🎼🎶🎤
"Oh-oh, yes I said it, I said it, I'm saying it loud and clear… Sing with me!
Today, I'm feeling quite lazy, it's true…
Just wanna stay cozy in my room…
No desire to grab my phone, no buzz or ring…
So just leave a message, let it ding…
'Cause today, I promise, I won't do a thing…"
🎼🎶🎤
Surprisingly, when I asked them to sing the chorus with me, I thought maybe only one of them would sing, but all three of them started singing together!
Watching the chat, the emoticons changed from the initial vomit emoticons to dancing or singing emoticons as I sang the chorus.
That reaction from the live audience was really cool. It'll be truly exciting when I get to do a real show...
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