Demonic Pornstar System novel Chapter 871

Chapter 871: Different Approach

The Chairman extended a hand toward Kaiden, and Kaiden shook it the same way he’d shaken Lazarus’s bloody one a few seconds ago.

Apparently this was a handshake kind of day. "Chairman."

"Kaiden Grey. Guild Leader of Eclipse." The Chairman held the grip a beat longer than courtesy required, his eyes doing a scan that had nothing to do with politeness and everything to do with intelligence assessment, then released.

"On behalf of the Awakened Association and the people of the United States, I want to say that what you and your allies accomplished in there was extraordinary. You faced a threat that had every military planner on this continent drafting contingencies, and you handled it on your own terms." He paused, letting the weight of it land. "This country owes you and Eclipse a debt of gratitude."

Grace merely smiled at Kaiden slyly, offering nothing as the Chairman continued. "That said, I’ll be direct about what comes next. What I have to discuss with you is not fit for millions of pairs of ears. I’m asking if you’d be willing to end your stream for the time being."

The stream was rolling, the chat was a living organism of memes and all-caps demands for more Pebble content, and a mere month ago the idea of turning it off voluntarily would’ve felt like unplugging from the thing that made him him.

Valhalla’s Sinners.

The quirky adult streamer with abilities nobody could explain and the harem everybody wanted to dissect.

That brand had carried him from a no-name F-tier with the nearly useless Pornstar class to a hundred million concurrent viewers on a legendary combat stream, and he loved every second of it.

But he was the Guild Leader of Eclipse now too, and the Chairman of the Awakened Association was standing in front of him asking for a closed-door conversation while world leaders milled around the staging plain with his guild’s name a few hours old in their mouths.

He could keep the stream rolling. He could decline to play along, grin and wave and stay the cocky young man rising rapidly and doing things no one can predict.

But for once, the smart play was turning the lights off, sitting down with the adults, and proving that the guy behind the brand could handle a room without a chat window cheering him on.

He opened his interface and tapped the stream. "We’re going to cut it here for now."

The chat exploded into a wall of crying emojis so dense the text became a single quivering block of grief, and he laughed at it. "I know, I know. I’m suddenly a bore and a traitor."

A few fangirls tried to insist they weren’t disappointed, but the overwhelming majority of the chat seemed more than happy to agree with him.

Kaiden chuckled at that. "We’ll do a proper after-stream when the dust settles. For now, we have some boring grown-up stuff to handle."

He read the chat scroll for one more second, found a message that said KAIDEN GREY IF YOU END STREAM I WILL FIND YOU, and that got a bigger laugh. "Thank you for all the support. Seriously. You guys are far too amazing. We’ll be back."

He cut the feed.

Grace exhaled, her shoulders dropping a centimeter as days of crisis management left her body in one quiet shift.

Vespera inclined her head toward Kaiden, the approval slight enough that only someone watching for it would’ve caught it.

Her son had just made a great political decision without being nudged by her.

"We’ll set up in the command tent," Grace said, already turning. "I’ll have it cleared."

Kaiden turned to his girls. "Let’s go."

Aria smiled softly, shook her head, rose on her toes, pressed her lips to his cheek, and lingered there a beat longer than necessary because letting him walk away without marking him first was physically impossible for her.

"No."

"No?"

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