Chapter 23
Chapter 23
6. Unpaid Slave (2)
A while ago, the entire gallery was burning brightly because of news related to manager recruitment for my channel.
Well, to speak more accurately, it was probably because of the Earth-made foods I decided to pay to the manager rather than the simple recruitment.
Honestly, even I think I would have been tempted if someone offered cup noodles, cola, and potato chips that can absolutely never be obtained in the other world.
Was it thanks to that?
Much more people applied for this manager recruitment than I expected.
'Even so, 791 applicants is a bit over the top though.'
Well, a significant number of them must be just pranks or merely applied due to curiosity about Earth-made food.
And it was practically decided from the beginning whom I would hire as a manager.
[Delivering notice related to manager selection.]
- 1st Manager Recruitment Announcement Result
Final Successful Applicant: ‘BestSpeciesInTheUniverseElf’
I would like to express my sincere gratitude to many people for participating in this manager recruitment announcement.
If there is a chance next time, I hope to meet you with a better connection.
Like this, explosive support congratulating the Elf's inauguration as manager continued endlessly.
Even so, I didn't regret taking the Elf as a manager.
‘Traditionally, a person who has tried trolling usually is the one who grasps the psychology of trolls accurately.’
Decisively, the Elf... that is, Elena is in a state deeply fallen for various Earth-made snacks I supply.
The sight of her jumping up and down on the spot when I sent her a box of Mont Blanc a while ago is still fresh in my eyes.
So well, there will be no need to worry.
At least as long as all hypermarkets and convenience stores existing on Earth don't disappear, the Elf was an existence I could control as much as I wanted.
Like that, the manager-related issue was also settled, so at the moment I was about to start broadcasting in earnest again—
[Dimensional Video Call Service has been applied.]
“Please. Please make me Jin-nim's unpaid slave.”
“...Yes?”
Along with those words, a beautiful woman I see for the first time in my life kneels towards me and makes a request.
...No, what kind of situation is this again?
To be honest, when I heard the word Machine Civilization, I thought people living there would look like something similar to a Terminator.
If not that, perhaps steel robots whose bodies are made of swords... no, whose bones are made of iron.
Well, it might be my simple prejudice, but if you are a person who watched Sci-Fi movies in your youth, you couldn't help but think like that.
However.
'It was a human woman?'
Also, a black-haired woman looking young and youthful as if she just entered university judging by appearance.
Of course, only the visible appearance is like that, actually she might have implanted basic implants somewhere in her body, but anyway the appearance is like that.
...Well, appearance is not an important story right now so pass for now.
First of all, I started inquiring about the reason she contacted me in this way.
And.
“So to speak from the conclusion... You are ‘CloseRangeAxeCombatHoneyJam’ who used to upload all kinds of shit games... no, somewhat experimental works on this site?”
Nod nod.
“And you were greatly impressed playing 「My Creation」 I uploaded this time, and want to research Earth-made games by my side?”
“Yes. While playing 「My Creation」, I felt destiny. So I don't need money or anything. Please... let me stay by your side.”
A proposal with destructive power enough that someone who knows nothing might think it's a confession.
But listening to Yurika's words, I ended up thinking this inside.
‘Why me?’
Looking at the savory feast of shit games currently uploaded on the site, the probability is very low though.
If by any chance Yurika researches Earth-made games carefully and grows into a game creator of a similar level to Todd Howard, a master of the JRPG industry, it cannot be helped but be a very big trouble for me.
Why?
Because it would mean a powerful rival appears in the game industry of the Dimensional Gallery which I thought was All Blue where no competitors exist.
Of course, the probability that the competitiveness of Earth-made games lowers just because Yurika produces a few playable games is extremely slim though.
Isn't there also no reason for me to raise a tiger cub with my own hands?
‘Then we are enemies right?’
Just when I was about to refuse Yurika's proposal with nice words like that.
“If you accept me... I will give this to Jin-nim as a gift.”
Saying so, Yurika transmitted several files to me using the system.
The identity of the files she sent me was none other than—
“...Mods?”
Exactly, various mods of 「My Creation」 that Yurika created herself.
Mod.
A word referring to secondary creation that modifies existing game data to add new functions or options fitting users' tastes.
Simply looking, it might feel like a bad act where users manipulate game data as they please.
Traditionally, appropriate modding was something that extends the game's life expectancy much longer.
Because just adding very slight convenience or functions to the game could make it a completely different unique game from the existing one and bring 'freshness' to users.
In the first place, one of the reasons the game called 「My Creation」 became popular worldwide was the point that one can produce their own game through mods, so what more needs to be said?
...Well, if modding is done excessively, unfortunate events where not even a trace of the original remains might occur like games such as 「I Reincarnated in Another World but Actually I am a Legendary Dragon Slayer?! Starting Musou from Now On!」.
Even so, no one could deny the point that the benefits modding brings are too great.
‘So I was also thinking of releasing about a few mods related to 「My Creation」 sooner or later though....’
If there is one problem, it was the point that regular server updates or patches are needed for people to enjoy the multiplayer mode of 「My Creation」.
Naturally, because I had to broadcast, I couldn't cling only to tasks related to the multi-server of 「My Creation」.
So I was agonizing over what on earth I should do here—
'There was a good method here?'
If the woman in front of my eyes comes under me in a graduate student position, not a potential future competitor, the story changes somewhat.
Isn't she a woman who came to find me on her own feet saying she would become an unpaid slave without me even needing to persuade her painfully!
Meanwhile, as I stayed quiet without saying anything, Yurika opens her mouth in a somewhat urgent tone, perhaps becoming anxious.
“O-Of course, a few crude mods like this aren't the only gifts I give to Jin-nim. If you pick me as an unpaid slave, I have confidence to faithfully perform menial tasks like multi-server management of 「My Creation」-”
“Passed.”
“...Yes?”
“I am not a bad person enough to refuse a proposal stubbornly even after hearing such a heartbreaking story. So... let's do well from now on.”
“J... Jin-nim!”
At my words, Yurika opens her two eyes wide and makes an expression of being moved.
“T-This can't be.... I thought I would have nothing to say even if Jin-nim threw me out calling me a potential future competitor.... Do all Earthlings perhaps possess a benevolent personality like Jin-nim? Truly the dimension called Earth is amazing!”
“....”
Even so, wouldn't you refrain a bit from speaking in that way?
Because you say so, I seem like a really bad person....
Thus, I came to have the Main Manager and Deputy Manager... no, two managers by my side.
Especially the point that I am virtually employing them as unpaid slaves was making me pleased.
Like that, as a commemoration of selecting unpaid slaves, I summoned them through the Dimensional Video Call Service and decided to hold an idea meeting for the next broadcast.
[Starting Dimensional Video Call Service.]
Well, although there wasn't much to it even calling it an idea meeting.
I just wanted to listen to the managers' opinions on what topic would be better to turn on the broadcast with.
“Well.... Would a god really need my insignificant opinion? I think it would be sufficient for You to do as You please.”
“....”
Let's count Elena's remark as abstention and pass for now.
And Yurika—
“...Excuse me, Jin-nim. Could you perhaps make the next work a game with Machine Civilization as the background?”
“Yes?”
She made a somewhat preposterous request to me.
“...I know too. How Machine Civilization is being treated in the Dimensional Gallery. And if rumors spread that someone like me entered as Jin-nim's manager, what people would whisper to Jin-nim.”
“....”
“So if a game with the theme of Machine Civilization is released, I think it can change such perception of people. Just like the perception of games itself changed due to the release of 「My Creation」 this time.”
“So... would it not be possible?”
At Yurika's words, I agonized over something and opened my mouth quietly towards her.
“I'm sorry but I think that would be difficult.”
Actually, one game that can perfectly fulfill Yurika's wish exists on Earth.
「Dystopia 9999」.
A game depicting what kind of lives humans encroached by machines live with a Cyberpunk worldview as the background.
Probably, if this game is released, it is clear that the users of the Dimensional Gallery will be turned upside down once again.
But I had no intention of releasing this game for the time being at least.
Because I had the goal of introducing as diverse Earth cultures as possible to the users of Trans-Dimensional Streaming.
Since I released the game called 「My Creation」 a while ago, I wanted to avoid releasing another game for the time being.
However.
“It should be fine if it's a field other than games.”
“Yes?”
“Surprisingly, a prequel-like spin-off exists for the game called 「Dystopia 9999」 you know?”
Although it started as a work serving as a spin-off of the main game.
A legendary work that aroused tremendous sensation with amazing artistic quality after airing.
「Dystopia Outlaw」!
It seems the time has come to present a new Earth culture following movies and games.