Chapter 111
Chapter 111
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Translator: MadScientist
Chapter: 111
Chapter Title: Mafia Game (5)
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“Everyone, run! Myth is the alien! No one has the knife job?!”
“No one! They all seem dead already! Uwaaa, run!!”
Yeona-unnie and Eris were sprinting like mad through the dark alleyway. The survivors were just Yeona-unnie, Myth, Eris, and Maki—four in total.
Hm. Better not type in the chat anymore. I kept quiet.
I'd wondered why the game kept going even when the number of survivors matched the killers in a regular mafia game. Turns out it had this twist.
“So then, Maki and Myth must be the culprits now, right?”
“Yeah, seems like it, Yeona-nim.”
As the two caught their breath in the alley, Maki came running from the opposite direction.
“Hey, you guys! Run for it! Myth's the alien!”
Maki was sprinting from far off. Chasing after him with a grin was Myth, transformed into an alien.
Yeona-unnie caught on immediately. Her eyes twitched as she whipped her head around.
“...Eris?”
“Ahh. Busted already. I wanted to have a little more fun.”
Eris's body began to warp grotesquely.
And with a sickening puuk—a hole punched straight through Yeona-unnie's heart.
“Still, it was fun. Playing friends with you, Yeona-nim.”
“Hey, you brat—that's not the line for a moment like this—”
“NICE! Great combo, Myth-nim!”
“Nice one, Eris. You nailed that double kill.”
“AHAHA! Even so, I'm one of the top players who've grinded AI Human the most on Dreamlive.”
“Wuu… Eris-sunbae, you're too much… I trusted you, I trusted you...!”
“Trust, my foot—you were just swinging at thin air, Pony.”
The first round's aliens were Myth and Eris. They wiped out every human cleanly, ending the game with an alien victory.
“Aah~ I wanted to do some real detective work, but I died way too early for any proper deductions. Isn't three kills before the first body discovery a bit overkill?”
“Pony and Sette are newbies, so they went down easy.”
“Exactly. Tentacle attacks are slow enough to dodge, but Pony ran in a straight line so honestly, super easy to land.”
“What?! So you ignored me and fired that at me?”
“To be honest... yeah. I figured Pony would eat it.”
“Wow, that's cold...!”
The VTubers burst into lively chatter.
Hm, this kind of vibe really wasn't my scene. Butting in first among seven girls took serious guts, broadcast aside.
That's when a private message popped up from Myth.
It kinda sounded like a quit offer, but when would I get to play something like this again? I wasn't focused on streaming, but broadcasting alongside these mega VTubers was a precious experience.
“Alright. Next round?”
Yeona-unnie, the eldest, reined in the noisy stream, and the next round began.
“Oh, human again.”
This time, we spawned in a swimming pool. Each round changed the map, huh.
“I don't like it when people say stuff like that while wandering around. This game has tons of jobs—one careless word can get you killed.”
“Huh?”
A voice from behind. I turned to find Mika standing there.
“So, you're human?”
“Yeah.”
“Good. Me too.”
Mika said it so matter-of-factly. No rise or fall in her tone—just plain conversation—yet it started making me uneasy.
“...Uh, nice to meet you?”
“Yeah. First time.”
An awkward silence hung between us. It probably felt extra weird since the swimsuit incident at the pool party wasn't that long ago.
Mika quietly slipped into the pool. Water sloshed around, and she fixed me with a silent stare.
A chilling dread crawled up my neck. Mika's streams were usually pretty upbeat, or so I'd heard. This wasn't me being awkward—she was deliberately keeping up the eerie vibe.
“Anyway, should we do that mission?”
“...The pool has one too. Kinda gross—remove the hair clogged in the sewer drain at the bottom. Didn't it pop up for you?”
I pulled up the map and checked the mission window. Sure enough, right in the center of the pool, glowing.
To complete it, I'd have to get in. Something felt off, super creepy.
But I couldn't skip a mission right in front of me. Worst case, use my job ability to check her and bolt. I gingerly stepped into the pool.
The moment I got close enough, my Observer ability ticked over, revealing Mika's job.
Celebrity. I knew that one.
Definitely a solid human job—one that alerts every human when its user dies.
Jackpot—Mika was human. I let my guard down completely and stuck by her side.
“Observer, huh.”
“Yeah. Lucky for us—Mika, you're Celebrity.”
Humans were safe with each other, right? Mika's low-energy vibe was still spooky as hell, but I dove in first to handle the mission.
Bubbles rose around me underwater. Sure enough, far off in the sewer drain—hair all clogged up.
The second I moved to clear it, someone grabbed my nape and shoved me down hard.
“?!?!?!?!”
“Good thing you're a newbie. You know AI Human lets citizens kill citizens too?”
Drop a chandelier, start a fire, crush under a rollercoaster, topple a statue—or in this case, drown someone who's submerged.
But why Mika?
That was the only question flooding my mind.
Observer ability had confirmed we were both citizens. No reason for her to kill me.
“Saw Myth-unnie's new avatar. Impressive. Legend managing all that with just the 'love' spice.”
“Glub! Glub!”
“Copied my new avatar—one Dreamlive dumped four years of resources into—in just a week? Hm, sure, that's the biz. That's the world. Thanks for letting me live that week, though. I was happy.”
The oxygen bar representing breath ticked down. HP draining faster by the second, visible even underwater.
“Glad I ran into you this round. Tried hunting you down last one too, but you died too quick—such a hassle.”
“Gluuub!!”
If Mika didn't let go soon, I'd drown for real. In reality, maybe I'd fight it—but equal-strength characters? No escaping this gimmick.
“If it weren't for you, I'd be at the top of the world.”
“Glub….”
“Aha, ahahahahaha!!!”
Mika cackled like a witch. That was my second death.
And shockingly, Mika's indiscriminate killing spree didn't stop there.
“Die!!!”
“Wait a sec?! Isn't this a mafia game?!”
“Don't care!”
“Then that's don't care!”
Third round. Mika's bumper car flattened me.
“Spare me!”
“Diiiie!!!!”
Fourth round. Got knifed by alien Mika chasing me down.
“Phew. Looks like she's not chasing this round—gah.”
Fifth round. Walking along, crushed by a falling chandelier. Obviously dropped by Mika.
“Phew… phew. Heard you're invincible on the rollercoaster.”
“Too bad. There's a job that plants bombs on the tracks.”
“Why'd it spawn right there?!”
Sixth round. Let my guard down on the coaster—boom, dead.
“Hahaha! I'm the alien this time!”
“...Uh. Saying it out loud.”
Seventh round. Got too hyped and yelled—Sara clocked me, voted out immediately.
Seven rounds total.
I'd died before the first vote every single time. People started getting worried.
“Stooop...! Stop killing him! QWER's too pitiful…!”
“Mika. Let our Sette live a little.”
Pone and my girlfriend Myth led the charge.
“Ahaha! Thanks, QWER. Never seen Mika lose her cool like this mid-stream before.”
“I'm fine as long as it's fun~. Personally, Mika chasing fleeing Legend-oppa cracks me up.”
Most of the others were just cracking up at the chaos.
Of course, the viewers were part of that laughing crowd too. My constant first-round deaths didn't matter—they loved watching Mika relentlessly hunt her nemesis: me.
Anyway, maybe Pone and Myth's pleas worked—Mika backed off a step.
“...Fine. Next round, I'll kill you in round two.”
“Sounds good. Let's do that.”
“No, can you just... not kill me at all…?”
“Then the game's no fun. Alright, it's getting late—final round!”
And with that, the last round of AI Human began.