100. A Birthday Gift from Drift
100. A Birthday Gift from Drift
After I came inside and moved to the living room.
I sat on the sofa and carefully opened the birthday gift from Drift.
‘...The hell were these?’
Six small, round, pink plastic cases.
An object that looked like wireless earbuds.
And a ring, a bracelet, even a necklace.
They were all things with no connection whatsoever to streaming gear.
‘Maybe the earbuds were a little related?’
I set all the contents out on the table.
Then I aimed the camera at them and asked Drift.
"You said this was streaming gear?"
【Drift AI】─I speak. I state that it is.
【Reformed Guburi】─What kind of special streaming gear is that, you fucking bitch.
【Mengyao】─That thing in the middle looks like an earbud.
【Yoho】─We can tell that much too.
【Bubblegum Collector】─Wakyapya! Sending stuff you picked up at some roadside market and pretending you ambitiously invented it, seriously!
【Min-ji】─Se-hun, was today your birthday?
【Plum Tree】─What the hell. Why didn't you say anything.
【Hottie Licker】─These bastards slip in like So-ri-less ninjas. Lick.
【Qkrnfl892】─Lmao Se-hun looks kinda disappointed.
【Drift AI】─I state that the instruction manual should be inside the delivery box.
I read Drift's chat.
When I turned the delivery box upside down, a single white sheet of paper fluttered down.
This must be the instruction manual.
I picked up the manual and slowly read through it.
《AR Lens》
┗Equipment linked to the bracelet.
┗When worn, allows real-time viewing of the chat window.
《Wireless Earbuds》
┗Equipment linked to the bracelet.
┗Battery life 50 years.
《Ring》
┗Simply recommended for wear.
《Bracelet》
┗Core equipment.
┗Projects a hologram and can connect to the internet.
┗Can connect to the platform, log in, and broadcast a stream.
┗Stream settings can be adjusted.
┗Viewer list can be checked.
┗Bans and chat restrictions possible.
┗By changing settings, can be used not via hologram but through the AR Lens's augmented reality.
《Necklace》
┗Equipment linked to the bracelet.
┗Special camera.
┗After wearing, when the on button is pressed, the wearer's appearance is broadcast on the stream in real time.
┗Can switch between first-person and third-person.
Had I read that correctly?
I rubbed my eyes and checked the manual once more.
‘...Yeah, I read it right.’
At a glance, they looked like ordinary objects.
However, reading the manual revealed they were all equipment loaded with highly advanced scientific technology.
Hard as it was to believe.
‘Come to think of it, Drift said she was a Digital Lifeform...’
The credibility of that statement was climbing even higher.
Since an ordinary human could never have produced objects like these.
‘But if she could make this kind of stuff, wasn't she basically an alien?’
The other items were amazing too.
But the necklace's function was especially astounding.
Just by wearing it, the necklace serves as a camera?
What the hell was the principle?
I couldn't grasp it at all.
There was no lens pointed at me, so I had absolutely no clue how it could broadcast to a stream.
"Drift. Is the stuff written in this manual real? How did you make something like this?"
I held the manual up to the camera.
At that, the viewers, just like me, unanimously reacted with disbelief.
【Reformed Guburi】─Drift you fucking bitch lmao you've got a pathological lying disorder.
【Min-ji】─This is fun. Haha.
【Qkrnfl892】─Retard. Lmao.
【Mengyao】─Oh...
【Plum Tree】─Hm.
【Hottie Licker】─Was Drift a mental case too? Or did she send this to mess with Se-hun? Lick.
【BigGirl】─Hello.
【Se-hun Defense Force】─I just got here, what's that manual?
【Reverse-Rape Maniac】─Looks like an instruction manual for a birthday present.
【Se-hun Defense Force】─It's Se-hun's birthday?
【BigGirl】─Is it Se-hun's birthday?
【Reverse-Rape Maniac】─I just got here too, so I don't really know.
【Yoho】─Gasp. How on earth did you make the necklace camera? Even we don't have that kind of technology...
【Bubblegum Collector】─Wakyapya! Pretending you're an inventor, seriously!
【Drift AI】─I speak. Not exactly an invention, but I state that what's written in the manual is not false.
"Okay, well... I'll find out once I try them."
I decided to put them on first.
To check the equipment's performance.
***
I slipped the ring onto my right index finger.
Hung the necklace around my neck, then strapped the bracelet onto my wrist.
Finally, I put the earbuds in my ears.
Full equipment complete, except for the lenses.
‘Should check the bracelet first.’
Along with that thought.
The moment I operated the bracelet, a rectangular hologram popped out.
【Hottie Licker】─Whoa what the fuck?
【Reformed Guburi】─What the fuck? The Drift bastard wasn't a hacker, she was a scientist?
【Mengyao】─It's a Cyber Wraith.
"That's seriously amazing."
Afterwards.
I connected to the platform through the hologram and finished logging in.
Having linked the stream like that.
I took the lenses out of the pink case and put them in my eyes.
And at that moment.
【Hottie Licker】─Churrp! Lick!
【Reformed Guburi】─Sex sex~
The chat window appeared, floating before my eyes.
It was exactly as stated in the manual.
‘...This actually works.’
I swiped my hand through the chat window a few times.
As expected, it wasn't tangible.
‘So it really was augmented reality.’
It was seriously convenient equipment.
Because I could check the chat in real time without having to inconveniently stare at my phone.
There was no need to worry about it obstructing my view either.
I could adjust the chat window brightness, so it wasn't too obtrusive.
‘Then next was...’
I disconnected the camera and pressed the necklace's on button, and the view I was seeing was broadcast onto the stream screen.
【Reformed Guburi】─Fuck?
【Hottie Licker】─That's insane.
【Qkrnfl892】─This seriously works?
【Mengyao】─Oh. Lol.
【Bubblegum Collector】─Wakyapya! A whole new world!
【Min-ji】─Oh wow. The first-person is seriously insane? It feels like I've become Se-hun.
【Yoho】─Third-person is nicer. You can touch the screen and see the streamer from various angles too.
【Se-hun Defense Force】─How do you view it in third-person?
【Plum Tree】─Doesn't Se-hun have to change it?
"For third-person, I'd have to operate the necklace to switch it, wouldn't I?"
【Se-hun Defense Force】─Then how did Yoho see it?
【Yoho】─When I double-clicked the screen, it changed to third-person? It seems like the streamer doesn't have to change it himself.
【BigGirl】─It really does work.
【Reverse-Rape Maniac】─Fucking amazing. Lol.
【Bubblegum Collector】─Wakyapya! Did Drift even hack the platform?
【Hottie Licker】─Now I can lick you from various angles. Lick.
【Min-ji】─Drift is the best!
【Reformed Guburi】─Best my fucking ass. Wanna fight?
"Ah. You guys can change it yourselves too? Then why is there a switch function on the necklace? Is it there just so I can set which viewpoint to broadcast when someone first enters the stream?"
【Drift AI】─I state that it is so. And I state that you can also fix it so that viewers cannot change the viewpoint.
【Reformed Guburi】─But how did Gye Bastard-hun read our chat just now?
【Min-ji】─Yeah? Right now you're just staring at empty air.
"I'm wearing the AR Lenses right now. The chat window is displayed through augmented reality, so I can see everything."
【Yoho】─Ooh.
【Reformed Guburi】─I'm watching in first-person right now, why can't I see the chat window?
【Hottie Licker】─You're not wearing the lenses. Lick.
【Plum Tree】─Looks like only Se-hun can see it.
【Drift AI】─I speak. I state that just by changing the settings, viewers can also check the AR Chat Window in first-person.
I decided to leave the settings alone.
Since viewers didn't really need an AR Chat Window.
Anyway.
All the important equipment worked perfectly without any issues.
Now there were two pieces of equipment left.
The earbuds and the ring.
‘The earbuds were probably just earbuds.’
I decided to skip the earbuds.
Since it didn't seem like I needed to check them specifically.
That left only one piece of equipment.
Just the ring, which had no proper description written for it.
"Drift. There was no explanation for the ring, what function does this have?"
【Drift AI】─I speak. I simply recommend that you keep it on.
She apparently didn't want to explain.
Or maybe it was just an ordinary ring with no function at all.
There was no way she'd send me something harmful, so I decided to just keep wearing it as Drift had recommended.
Treating it kind of like a talisman.
【Drift AI】─I speak. I state that you should not wear it on your right index finger but on your left ring finger.
After I moved the ring as Drift instructed.
I conveyed my thanks once more.
"...Yeah, anyway, I really mean it, thanks. Thanks to you, I won't have to carry a camera around when I do Outdoor Streams from now on."
【Drift AI】─I speak. I state that you must praise me.
【Yoho】─Left ring finger...
【Hottie Licker】─Isn't it a couple ring by any chance? Lick.
【Plum Tree】─If she sent a couple ring, she's a crazy bitch.
【Bubblegum Collector】─Wakyapya. Hella suspicious!
【Qkrnfl892】─No way she's that creepily underhanded. Lmao.
【Se-hun Defense Force】─Fr lmao.
【Reformed Guburi】─Gye Bastard-hun. So is Gye-slave fired from the manager position now?
"Huh? You're asking if Gyejipsa is fired? All of a sudden?"
The moment I reread Guburi's chat and asked back.
A small, trembling voice was heard from nearby.
［F, fired?］
I turned my head in the direction the voice had come from.
Gyejipsa was looking up at me with an expression full of anxiety.