032. Spooky Abandoned House Exploration
032. Spooky Abandoned House Exploration
Ten viewers entered quickly.
All familiar nicknames.
‘But why were they rushing in so frantically?’
I couldn't understand.
They could've taken their time.
Bubblegum and Reverse-Rape I got, but the other viewers all had entry codes.
‘Maybe they were trying to block other viewers from getting in?’
Or maybe they just wanted to watch the stream early.
Could be they saw the notification and entered without thinking.
Well, whatever the reason, it didn't matter.
It wasn't something worth caring about.
‘Couldn't be helped that new viewers couldn't get in. They just lost the entry race.’
With those thoughts, I scanned the chat window.
As expected, the viewers' complaints were pouring in.
【Reformed Guburi】─If you've got a mouth, at least make some excuses, you fuck!
【Yoho】─Did something come up?
【Hottie Licker】─I'm gonna make something come. *lick*
【Min-ji】─What's with everyone... He must've been busy. T_T
【Se-hun Defense Force】─This fucker's unemployed, fuck.
【Dick Lover】─Se-hun. You seriously wanna get in trouble? If you're taking a day off, at least post a notice.
【Plum Tree】─Run an explanation stream.
【BigGirl】─Why didn't you turn on your stream for a week?
【Reverse-Rape Maniac】─hi hi!
【Bubblegum Collector】─Wakyapya! A first-come-first-served viewer stream is honestly more brilliant the more I think about it!
"I was just a bit busy. Sorry for that."
【Reformed Guburi】─?? That's how you apologize? Wanna die?
"I only apologize once."
【Reformed Guburi】─ok...
Guburi had gotten pretty sharp.
She quickly tucked her tail in right before I was about to impose a chat restriction.
The other viewers went without saying.
If Guburi had quieted down, it was only natural the rest would too.
There couldn't possibly be a viewer more clueless than her.
【Reverse-Rape Maniac】─That's really it for the apology? No explanation stream?
...There was one worse bastard.
『User 'Reverse-Rape Maniac' has been chat-restricted. Time remaining 00:01:00』
I immediately moved to punishment.
This young bitch had zero awareness.
"I'll post occasional notices from now on. So stop talking about the hiatus."
【Hottie Licker】─ok ok. *lick*
【Yoho】─Yes hehe.
【Se-hun Defense Force】─lol...
【Min-ji】─haha...
With that, the apology was cleanly wrapped up.
Afterward, I explained today's stream schedule.
About the abandoned house exploration content.
***
The explanation was brief.
Take the truck to an abandoned house near the village.
Go mess around for a bit, then come back.
That was all.
There wasn't really anything else to explain.
The viewers' reactions split into two camps.
【Reformed Guburi】─Oh. This is gonna be hella fun lol. Gonna get to see Gye Bastard-hun scared shitless.
【Min-ji】─Sounds fun!
【BigGirl】─Not bad.
【Reverse-Rape Maniac】─Holy fuck how'd you know I just watched a porno yesterday about getting reverse-raped in an abandoned house!
【Bubblegum Collector】─Wakyapya! Horror content! Let's gooo!
The type interested in the content I'd proposed.
【Yoho】─Gasp. Isn't it dangerous for a man to go to an abandoned house alone?
【Hottie Licker】─Why even go to an abandoned house?
【Dick Lover】─I thought you were joking last time but you're actually going. Just do a drinking stream.
【Plum Tree】─Hmm...
【Se-hun Defense Force】─Abandoned houses are dangerous.
The type showing negative reactions.
"Why, not into it?"
I spoke to the viewers who were lukewarm.
"I thought there hadn't been any standout content so far, so I went out of my way to bring fresh content, and the response is pretty underwhelming? And it's not like I'm doing this for me. I'm going so you guys can have fun."
【Hottie Licker】─Is this fresh?
【Dick Lover】─Is this fun?
【Se-hun Defense Force】─Since when did you care about our fun? lol
"Well, whatever... If you don't like it, can't be helped. Go find a more fun and fresher stream."
【Hottie Licker】─nono now that I think about it again it seems fresh!
【Yoho】─I think so too!
【Dick Lover】─There's no stream more fun than this one.
【Se-hun Defense Force】─Well, there won't be any undead. Just go for now. Run if it gets dangerous.
【Reformed Guburi】─Undead, what kinda bullshit lol. Stop watching anime, you weeb fuck.
Maybe because they were on the verge of being banned.
The viewers' attitudes changed abruptly.
"Sure. If you're begging me to go that much, I guess I have no choice."
【Reformed Guburi】─?
【Yoho】─??
【Se-hun Defense Force】─What's with this fucker?
"I was gonna not go if there was even one dissenting opinion, but since you all want it, I'll make a special trip. Honestly, I did want to check out a place like a haunted house at least once anyway."
【Hottie Licker】─So you just wanted to go yourself.
【Dick Lover】─If Se-hun wants to go, he should go.
【Yoho】─Then let's go to a real haunted house together later too. heh.
【Reformed Guburi】─Yoho. Don't cross the line.
The majority expressed positive opinions.
Seemed like the abandoned house exploration was to their liking.
But there was one viewer who still maintained a negative attitude.
【Plum Tree】─Hmm...
"Plum Blossom, what's up? Not feeling the content?"
I said while fiddling with my phone.
To ban her.
【Plum Tree】─nono I'm into it. But can you tell me the address of the abandoned house?
"Huh? Why the address?"
【Plum Tree】─Something dangerous could happen.
"You worry a lot. Well, whatever... I'll post the address in chat for now."
Letting them know the address was fine.
It wasn't my home address, just an abandoned house address.
【Plum Tree】─Thanks.
And so, in the end, all the viewers agreed to my content.
***
Before departing.
I lifted Qkrnfl892's blacklist.
I'd forgotten about it until just now when it popped into my head.
And as soon as I lifted the blacklist, Qkrnfl892 swiftly entered the room.
She'd apparently been waiting.
『User 'Qkrnfl892' has entered.』
【Qkrnfl892】─No seriously fuck -_- a week-long blacklist is way too fucking harsh.
【Se-hun Defense Force】─You didn't turn on the stream for a week anyway.
【Qkrnfl892】─Still. -_-
"I meant to lift it the very next day, but I got busy and forgot. Want an apology?"
【Qkrnfl892】─nono feels like you'll just ban me again after apologizing. Don't bother.
"You know me too well."
【Qkrnfl892】─lol your behavior pattern is obvious now.
【Bubblegum Collector】─Wakyapya? What's up with her? How'd she break in? Is it some kinda fucking wall breaker?
【Reverse-Rape Maniac】─?? How'd that person get in?
Two viewers expressed confusion.
These were viewers who didn't know about the entry code.
Just as I was about to explain.
Guburi talked about the code in chat first.
【Reformed Guburi】─Everyone here except you two has an entry code lol. You can enter even when the viewer count is full. Jealous? If you're jealous, go masturbate in defeat. lol
【Bubblegum Collector】─Wakyapya... Can't you give me an entry code too?
【Reverse-Rape Maniac】─What's this? Give it to me too! Why only them? -_-
I had absolutely no intention of giving out codes.
If I told every new viewer the code, the point of the viewer limit would eventually disappear.
I hit those two with chat restrictions and left the house.
***
I took the truck and arrived in front of the abandoned house near the village.
It was a fairly grand mansion.
Although still smaller than my house.
【Bubblegum Collector】─Wakyapya! A guy came alone to a seriously dangerous place!
【Se-hun Defense Force】─For real.
【Hottie Licker】─This place is scary damn.
【Qkrnfl892】─Is this a haunted mansion? lol
【Yoho】─Isn't a place like this too dangerous?
"Not that dangerous. For me."
【Se-hun Defense Force】─For me, what kinda bullshit. You lack a sense of safety?
"What do you mean lack a sense of safety..."
That honestly stung a bit.
I could not claim that I was sufficiently mindful of danger.
I was usually careful about safety, but when my emotions ran high, I sometimes became blind to everything around me.
Like when I barged into the loan sharks' office.
‘Technically speaking, it was more accurate to say I had severe sudden outbursts rather than lacking a sense of safety.’
I was fully aware of that.
I had also been trying not to let my emotions control me.
‘I needed to be more careful. Even after getting stabbed once, I had failed to learn and repeated the same mistake... I had gone because I was confident I would win, but people were unpredictable, so I should restrain my temper as much as possible. One wrong move and I could die.’
I did not want to die either.
Was there anyone in this world who wanted to die?
At least, that was what I thought.
Not wanting to live and wanting to die were two entirely different things.
Well, anyway.
The sudden outbursts could be gradually improved.
‘Still, I had gotten a lot better compared to before.’
I had improved a lot from the past.
I quit smoking because I didn't want to get lung cancer, I'd left a place first to avoid confrontations coming my way, and I hadn't carelessly touched a dangerous-looking poison mushroom.
‘At the loan shark office too, I picked a fight after seeing they didn't have knives.’
I could've won even if they'd pulled a knife.
Even so, I stayed thoroughly cautious.
I had even considered avoiding the fight if they were armed.
I could definitely feel that I'd changed from my old self.
‘...Honestly, it was more that I was cautious because I hated pain rather than because I didn't want to die.’
Still, I placed significance on the very fact that I'd been cautious.
Since I'd paid attention to safety even in a state of sudden outburst.
I'd also thought about my life.
‘I was gradually improving, so I should not take it too seriously. If I kept getting better, I would be fine.’
My thoughts had grown heavy in a short time.
This was all because of the dream I'd had today.
Hearing the words "lack of safety sense" had made that dream come to mind.
It was a dream where the organizations I'd dismantled in the past raided my house and shot me to death with guns.
‘It was really vivid, though.’
It was a dream as clear as reality.
But it probably wasn't a prophetic dream.
Those bastards were bad karma from the previous world.
In this world, there's no connection at all.
They might not even have been born here in the first place.
For reference, the version of me I saw in the dream looked like the other me who was born and raised in this world.
But the world had been the original one.
Just as I'd taken over this world's body.
I suspected the guy who'd lived in this world had taken over my original world's body.
Of course, it was just a dream.
‘But there was no way what actually happened in the world I used to live in showed up in my dream...’
If the fate of death I was supposed to meet had been met by another me in my place because our souls got swapped...
‘...Forget it. I'd just hope it was not true. It was probably just a bullshit dream.’
Dwelling on it only made me feel worse.
I decided to just forget all of it.
Hoping that the me in the parallel world would also escape his lethargy and live happily.
***
The truck was parked in a suitable spot.
Getting out of the vehicle, I slowly moved toward the mansion's entrance.
While checking the chat window.
【Yoho】─It's a really eerie place.
【Bubblegum Collector】─Wakyapya. Our country had a place like this?
【Min-ji】─The area Se-hun lives in looks more and more like a different country. Is it really Gyeonggi-do?
【BigGirl】─Probably not Gyeonggi-do.
【Hottie Licker】─Damn damn it really looks like ghosts are gonna come out.
【Yoho】─Right?
【Reformed Guburi】─Where in the world are there ghosts, fuck lol. Are you guys a bunch of scaredy-cats?
【Reverse-Rape Maniac】─We're not kids, what do you mean ghosts.
【Bubblegum Collector】─Wakyapya. You believe in ghosts at your age? lol lol there are no ghosts!
【Plum Tree】─They exist.
【Se-hun Defense Force】─Yeah they exist.
【Qkrnfl892】─I've actually seen a ghost.
【Reformed Guburi】─Cut the bullshit.
The chat window was currently unfolding a debate on the existence of ghosts.
As expected, opinions were divided.
【Plum Tree】─Guburi. There are many things in this world you don't know about.
【Se-hun Defense Force】─For real lol. Broaden your horizons a bit. Don't just stay in your corner of the room. Evil spirits are real. You just assume they aren't because you've never seen them yourself.
【Reformed Guburi】─You morons lol lol of course I don't believe in them since I haven't seen them. Evil spirits my ass. As expected of a bunch of weebs. Why not just say there's another world and assassins too then?
【Dick Lover】─?
【Se-hun Defense Force】─Yeah, there's another world too.
【Reverse-Rape Maniac】─lol lol lol
【Bubblegum Collector】─Wakyapya. Did you just come from watching anime?
【Reformed Guburi】─Gye Bastard-hun. The weeb stench here is overwhelming. Can't you chat-mute these fuckers? They keep talking bullshit about ghosts existing.
"...I don't know about other things, but ghosts might actually exist."
【Reformed Guburi】─You're on the believes-in-ghosts side too? Fuck, hopeless.
I used to think they didn't exist.
I didn't believe in the existence of souls either.
But now my thoughts had changed.
If souls didn't exist, there was no way I could've crossed over to this world.
‘Another world sounds like too much anime, but... when you thought about it, the parallel world I lived in counts as another world in the broad sense.’
Well, you never know about anything until you actually see it.
I could not definitively conclude that they did not exist.
As Plum Tree had said, the world was probably full of mysteries ordinary people knew nothing about.
【Qkrnfl892】─Ghosts are seriously real. I saw them a few times while on night duty.
【Reformed Guburi】─Cut the crap.
【Dick Lover】─Assassins exist too lol. Actually, I'm a hitwoman.
【Reformed Guburi】─Hitwoman lol lol if you're a hitwoman, I'm a sexwoman, you fucking idiot. lol
【Hottie Licker】─lol lol hitwoman what kinda bullshit
【Se-hun Defense Force】─I'm actually a wizard too.
【Reformed Guburi】─Did you hit level 30 without having sex? What are you bragging about that for, you virgin bitch.
Maybe they found teasing Guburi fun.
The viewers were gradually starting to go overboard with the jokes.
Well, Guburi did have a satisfying reaction to hits.
I decided to subtly join in as well.
"Guburi. What they're saying could all be true."
【Reformed Guburi】─Huh?
"The world is full of hard-to-believe things. I once fought 1 versus 70 and won, and that's hard to believe too if you just hear about it, right?"
【Reformed Guburi】─Enough with that shit, fuck.
【Hottie Licker】─Guess Se-hun was on the side of the seventy. lol *lick*
【Reverse-Rape Maniac】─What's this? A bragging-about-achievements contest? I jerked off 200 times in one day!
【Bubblegum Collector】─Wakyapya! I've got 100 boxes of condoms in my room!
【Hottie Licker】─I lick the screen every time I watch Se-hun's stream. *lick*
【Reformed Guburi】─Fuck, you crazy bitches, shut up. Just one verse.
The atmosphere was harmonious.
Except for just Guburi.
Just as the chat was reaching a lively peak.
Bzzzt.
The broadcast screen glitched.
A mysterious mechanical noise, like metal being scratched, could even be heard.
"What the?"
As soon as I voiced my confusion, the mechanical noise cut off abruptly.
At the same time, the screen glitch vanished.
And a change occurred in the viewer list.
『User 'Drift AI' has entered.』
【Reformed Guburi】─?
【Hottie Licker】─??
【Plum Tree】─Huh?
【Min-ji】─?
【Yoho】─???
【Se-hun Defense Force】─?
【Drift AI】─I speak. I say hello.
Drift AI, who didn't even have a code, naturally entered my stream despite the viewer count being full.