24-Hour Stream (3)
"Hello? Can you hear me?"
She soon entered the Discord voice chat.
"Hello, you've been in a collab for two days straight."
"Yeah, but why? You've been streaming for so long."
"It's just personal reasons. I've been wanting to stream for a while."
"I see... Then I'll join the game."
She and I exchanged a few words and immediately prepared for the game.
"Code... is ready."
She immediately logged into the game.
"Let's start!"
"Yep."
I immediately pressed the start button.
"You know the rules, right?"
"I watched it on stream."
"Then I'll proceed without explanations. If you get stuck, let me know."
I solved the puzzle with my somewhat familiar controls.
"Ah, Yo-ona, you need to solve the red side there for this to open."
"Ah... yes!"
It seemed like collaboration was key because it was hard mode.
"Yes, that one..."
"Ah."
Her character couldn't jump over a simple platform and fell.
Right, she wasn't particularly good at games.
I started to feel a bit uneasy.
"...Should I switch to easy mode?"
"No."
"Okay."
She tried jumping again.
And fell again.
...Hmm, this might take a while.
"I can do it! I can!"
"Done!!"
After about two hours of playing with her, we finally cleared the game.
Playing with Yo-ona was definitely the best way to shorten the time.
Of course, I had to handle everything in between.
"Hah... I don't want to see this game anymore, really."
She immediately left the game.
I turned off the game like her.
"Did you have fun?"
"Fun...? Yeah, I did."
After that, I chatted briefly with her and left the voice chat.
"Short... but a thick collab. It was fun."
"Thick? This is a bit much."
"Get out."
"Okay, now recommend what to do next."
Now, the game was starting to feel boring.
19 hours out of 24 had passed.
Now only about 5 hours left. In the old me, I would have sighed at the thought of it being long, but I was different now.
"...Can you give me some content? There's nothing left to squeeze out."
Playing a 24-hour stream definitely gave a different sense of experience than streaming one hour a day for 24 days.
One of them was this shamelessness.
With nothing to squeeze, I could just be shameless.
"Squeeze out? That's a bit lewd."
"Whether I can or not is up to me. Deal with it!"
"Shall I do it one more time?"
Of course, it didn't give any return.
Just being shameless.
"Hah... what now..."
Controlling games or puzzle games that require thinking were boring now.
Just without using your brain and no hand strain...
Suddenly, something came to mind.
"...Should I try a visual novel?"
I rejected it because it was 19+ on the recommendation board.
It didn't seem bad.
I entered the game recommendation board and searched for visual novels.
About 2-3 pages of games came up.
The problem was that more than half were 19+.
"...Let's do it with something wholesome."
In this world, 19+ would just make male exposure increase.
I filtered out 19+ VNs and browsed through somewhat wholesome-looking games.
First, the most common was "Childhood Friend" visual novels.
From viewers' explanations:
Like the childhood friend who was a boy but turned out to be a girl, or the childhood friend who was ignored but actually only looking at the protagonist.
Second, the most common was the one where you accidentally enter a boys' school, with a small reverse harem.
Additional explanation: Most guys have been going to boys' schools since they were very young.
It was like a kind gal version for otakus, but there was no such thing.
The kind gal for otakus is derived from the actual "gal".
But in this world's schools, since there are almost no men, there are no "gals" in this world.
I got a somewhat meaningless realization.
And third, the most common was -per-
Just like everywhere, there are those who are suspiciously rich.
"Well... then from these..."
Filter out the pervy ones, and boys' school is out, so choose from childhood friends.
"Ultimately, the visual novel where the childhood friend is connected, the childhood friend who was thought to be a boy turns out to be a girl... childhood friend x childhood friend x childhood friend"
"Why are all the titles like this... No, I can't expect much, as expected."
It was the post title, not the game title, so I couldn't understand, but...
I roughly picked one that seemed somewhat sweet from among them.
"The childhood friend who was thought to be a boy turns out to be a girl... this one."
The game's title was just "Childhood Friend ☆ Crossdressing", different from the post title.
It was a very unsettling title, but since the rest seemed fine, I decided on it.
"The title and introduction are both unremarkable... Shall I play it once?"
I downloaded the game.
And as expected, the starting screen was full of male characters.
In the original world, it wouldn't have been a visual novel no matter how you looked.
I escaped there and immediately pressed the start button.
The protagonist... is a girl.
The opening was just ordinary.
I lived an ordinary life... with ordinary looks and ordinary grades... but my childhood friend was a boy who was superior in looks, studies, and sports.
And today was the first day of high school, and it was a bit happy that I was assigned to the same school as my childhood friend.
Looking at it, it seemed like a childhood friend manga where the childhood friend became a gal.
The protagonist left home to go to school with the childhood friend.
Then I met the crossdressed childhood friend.
"Ah, a choice appeared: 'Who are you?' 'You, you...?' 'Are you too pretty to go to school together?'"
"Ah, it's me, Baek Yuhyeon, your childhood friend!"
"Oh, that's good?"
"A woman giving a man-like dubbing as a woman-like man, delicious."
"? It's a man giving man dubbing, what's the problem?"
It was a reaction I had fully expected.
After that, I went to school with only the story that there was a 'situation' with the childhood friend.
Up to here, it was pretty normal.
But what was unexpected was that the crossdressed childhood friend was really pretty.
Viewers' reactions were also normal.
Continuing like this, the childhood friend becomes popular in a different way during high school, and the protagonist and childhood friend get closer.
During this, various choices appeared.
"What kind of relationship do I have with you...? Ah, choice: 'Childhood friends' 'Just friends' 'I'm stepping on you'"
I chose the troll choice naturally.
When there was a serious situation or something that could be chosen seriously, I chose that, but when there was nothing, I left it to the viewers, and they were unanimous.
So, the protagonist and the childhood friend gradually got closer, and the childhood friend wore a frill dress and ran 100m in 12 seconds, or the protagonist fell over a friend, or they watched a movie together for club activities, etc.
After various twists, the story gradually reached the end.
That happened because the protagonist and the childhood friend ended up playing together for various reasons.
"Is this a date...?"
"Well, if it's a date, we can call it a date. Then where should we go?"
"Another choice: 'Shall we go watch a movie?' 'Shall we go to a cafe?' 'Hotel?'"
"No need, last choice."
I pressed the last choice without hesitation.
Since the first and second choices weren't very fun, it was better to just press the last one without listening.
"What? You were going to do it anyway"
I found the viewers' reactions a bit unbelievable.
"The next choice popped up immediately: 'Ahahaha, I'm joking' 'Scared?' This is a joke, right?"
"You should have done that earlier."
I immediately chose "Scared?"
So, the protagonist and the childhood friend went to the hotel.
And there was no way two minors could enter the hotel, so they ended up walking in an awkward state on the way back at night.
After that, the conversation was normal.
It was fun today, how do you feel about me, etc., and they started to seem like they were going to confess...
Puff.
Eh?
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"What the hell?"
So, the first girl I saw poked the protagonist's childhood friend.
The girl shouted that it wasn't her and left, and the protagonist immediately reported to 119.
The scene shifted a few days later, and she went to visit the childhood friend in the hospital.
The protagonist and the childhood friend had a strange atmosphere in ordinary conversation and jokes, then returned to a serious atmosphere.
"Who was that person?"
"I don't know, just bad luck..."
"You, you acted like you knew her."
So, silence continued, and a cut scene changed, and the childhood friend spoke.
The childhood friend explained that she was his mother, and talked about the abuse he received.
Also about why he crossdressed.
So, he finally confessed to the protagonist.
The childhood friend accepted it, and the game ended.
"...Wow, that's amazing."
"Wow..."
I and the viewers were momentarily lost in the aftertaste.
And I stretched for a bit.
"25 hours... The last visual novel was fun too. Now I'm done."
After streaming for over 24 hours, the viewers sent well.
I pressed the end broadcast button.
It was fun, kind of.