Chapter 172
Chapter 172
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Translator: penny
Chapter: 172
Chapter Title: Black Company Collab Chaos
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"Why doesn't it die even if I jump on it? Isn't that how it usually works? That's what happens in Super Plumber!!"
-You can tell Lucia's a total noob at games.
-That's a stereotype!!
-Info) Lucia only plays god-tier games.
-So the White Dragon finally feeds her coworker shit.
-Can't die together, huh?
As Lucia started her second run, dashing frantically inside the planet, she yelled out.
Chased by a grotesque creature crawling on all fours, she refused to drop any items despite her speed slowing from the weight, tanking hits to keep going.
"As long as I can hold out with all my limbs intact!! Health issues can wait till I'm older!! Gotta make money while I can!! You never know when it'll all go to hell!!"
-Game trauma hitting hard.
-There was a time even black companies wouldn't hire her.
-This is just coworker bullying, right???
-lmao
-White Dragon... are you really an idol?
-Think she's pivoting to variety shows.
Even as she got pummeled, Lucia stubbornly pushed on to earn that cash and reached the exit.
She escaped through the door, but bleeding profusely, she collapsed after just a few steps.
"Everyone... sometimes in life, dying feels easier than living."
-lmao
-Why's she philosophizing here?
-Young folks dying on the job at black companies... this is art.
-The aesthetic of modern life everyone gets...
-Sob sob... Adolf-sensei!!
-Don't call her reincarnated Adolf, you lunatics lmao
"Mamma mia!"
Thud.
As she uttered her final words and logged off, Asuka collected her body.
Had to load the corpse onto the spaceship or they'd lose money.
"Ugh... docking pay if you don't meticulously grab the dead bodies... that's just ruthless."
-Ruthless?
-The place is crawling with monsters inside because of Brutal Mode.
-Not like you can talk, miss cause of all this.
"But if we don't, our Master won't scream for us."
-My faith's gotten pretty solid too lol
-Asuka's the only one who truly loves Master.
-But Mei doesn't scream much?
-Make us happy!
-Scream! More desperately!!
"I installed Done Mode on the sly instead of Horror Mode—Horror makes the trolling too obvious and brings the cops. No biggie, though. Done Mode triggers events."
-lmao
-Straight to it lmao
-Exactly!!
-But does Mei not get Done?
-She won't last long anyway, no issue.
-No lmao
"I can take trolling Asuka as a bald troll, but calling our Master a trash-tier Iron noob scaredy-cat creepy otaku? I won't stand for it!!"
-Usually it's the opposite lmao
-Aww Asuka lmao
Asuka had secretly installed Surprise Mode without telling anyone.
The oblivious other three were flashlights in hand, searching the building.
Mami grumbled that even so, how could they enter a place like this with just a single shovel as a weapon.
As Iosif led the way, telling her to work instead of complaining, a roulette spun up on her screen.
"Hey, friends sent money and the roulette's spinning. Anyone know what this is? In-game feature?"
"Oh, mine too. Thanks for the cash, cuties."
"Oh god, we're all dead!! I'm not taking Done, so I'm fine!! This is insane, I'm outta here!!"
Unlike clueless Iosif and Mami, Mei caught on immediately.
A bug dropped with a thud right on her head as she bolted forward without looking back, clutching her stuff.
"Mmph! Mmph!!!"
The vicious bug that'd choke her out if a teammate didn't smack it off blinded Mei as she spun around.
A turret at the corner detected movement, aimed, and unleashed machine-gun fire.
"Ughmph!!! Uuuughmph!!!"
Mei, turning into Swiss cheese from bullets, screamed and flopped like a fresh fish yanked from water.
Instinctively rounding the corner, a crushing trap slammed down, flattening her.
"Man, dying like that's gotta be tough."
-lmaoooooooo
-WTF is this comedy??
-The sequence is too perfect, hilarious.
-Hard to even manipulate that.
-This is straight-up suppression play.
-Bug drop, turret, crusher ending lmao
"Iosif, what'd you get?"
In the blink of an eye she'd looked away, Iosif Khan—neck snapped for instant death—was being dragged off by a monster.
"Normally, you'd try talking to aliens, right? No clue why it snaps necks since they don't speak. From Hood?"
-Hood lmao
-Ex-special forces racism...
-What did black people ever do to you!
-Wouldn't just shoot and then say it's black.
-Try talking at least?
-lmao body language negotiation?
"Terrorists don't get negotiations."
-So firm.
-Not entirely wrong.
-Then what's Jackson from the flesh monsters?
"Kidnapped slave like me by that fox? Never thought virtual slavery would boom in the 21st century. Even whites got no cotton-picking jobs these days. Gotta find a good Master like I did, cuties."
-"Same rights"
-Wakamo treats everyone equal under her lmao
-Russia's got jobs tho.
-Jackson's the boss, but Mami's a VTuber.
-Boss would save the VTuber if they both fell in water ㅇㅇ
-Or yell at them for being in water?
"More like starting with paraplegic crawling on arms, then neck-braced mannequin African native wandering around. Games like this are trending...? PC okay with this?"
-Stop with the crazy talk lmao
-Cute voice spouting insanity lmao
-But is that gun in your inventory now?
-Roulette gave shotgun?
"Oh, shotgun. Great for talks. One shot, one opportunity. With this, I'm Eminem."
-Eminem go!!!
-Shh, pretty words.
-Maminem go!
-Not Mamihand?
-These guys are just having fun lmao
"...But can a white chick shoot a black with a gun? That's the real worry."
-WTF are you actually seeing her as black lmao
-Not a cop or spec ops anymore, just shoot.
-No witnesses, should be fine.
-Says that but you ain't shooting?
Creak—
No need to pace with gun in hand; glowing eyes flashed from the dark.
Mami aimed at the monster dragging the body to its nest after breaking its neck.
Instead of firing on sight, she calmly lined up the shot, waiting for it to get closer—then Asuka popped out beside her.
"What the hell are you doing not coming, Mami?"
Bang—!
Shotgun blast echoed as a body flew back.
"No need for thanks."
"Thanks."
-Thanks Mami!
-Police are the real law and order.
-Spec ops skills?
-Didn't even need two shots.
-Did you install that mode too?
"What mode?"
-Voice mimicry mountain witch mode"
"Oh, that explains it."
"Thanks" in Mei's voice, and the alien hightailed it.
Mami looked down at Asuka's cold corpse on the floor and fired again.
"Confirming the kill properly."
-lmaoooooooo
-lmaoooooooo
A gentleman's revenge is never too late, even after ten years.
Mami collected the scrap alone, survived, boarded the ship, and sailed off leisurely.
"What the fuck, human?"
Revived Asuka was baffled, but Mami was shameless.
Cigarette in mouth, lighting up, she stared with big innocent eyes like what’s the problem?
Asuka met her unblinking madwoman's glare in a stare-down, refusing to yield.
"If you two don't 'an' fight, off to the gallery you go?"
And meanwhile, a lunatic egged them on to actually fight.
"Fighting's bad."
"Humans are all friends."
-Got chills.
-Napolitan gallery users' must-visit.
-Rule horror (real)
-Monsters (real)
-Heard you gotta go at night for the real deal.
-Why Wakamo's 3rd floor prison's so popular.
-Climbers get no human rights?
"But we finally collected scrap without a wipe! Keep gathering while uncovering company secrets till the ending!!"
"Ugh, really don't wanna."
"Mami, did you mix up thoughts and words?"
"Whoops, slip!! This one's gotta have no friends, right?"
-lmaoooooooo
-What's the difference lmao
-White Dragon pouting lmao
-And Lucia's got the shotgun all sneaky.
-Don't fall for Adolf's whispers, Lucia!
-But no ammo?
-Spawning now.
-Aha!
"Got shotgun! Got shovel! Don't die this time, Mei!"
"I'm not dying on purpose."
"Why'm I on flashlight duty?"
To Mami's complaint, Lucia's face said you're asking when you know?
Shotgun-toting her, shovel-wielding Mei, and darkness-illuminating Mami re-entered the building.
Planets galore to visit, plus giants, sound-hunting dogs sans eyes, baby-crying robots—endless freakish monsters spawning hilarious moments.
Meanwhile, Asuka laughs and quietly trailing Mei gets eaten.
Bought teleport, Mei warps in unluckily and falls to death.
Jetpack? "Laora!! Chatiniga!!" Mei blasts off and explodes.
Screaming about ghosts no one sees, bugged-out Mei falls through the map flailing.
"Mamma mia catchphrase ain't bad, right?"
"My mom's alive."
"Not what I meant, Mami."
With Mei's miraculous 0% survival rate so far, all four stuck together to keep her alive.
["Uh, can you hear? Mami. Enemy ahead."]
Asuka, operating from the ship as comms operator, radioed Mei.
"I got bad trauma from radio chats. Old job had neuro issues... Why no mic click at end?"
["Roger that."]
At pro correction, Asuka responded properly; Mami nagged good.
Not just flashlight, she had radio too, scouting monster types for Lucia and Mei.
Shovel-killable type.
Seemed fine, so she told Mei to wait by door for signal.
"How far?"
Even crappy gamer Mei could adapt somewhat.
Confident she'd smash its head, Mami calculated briefly.
"Roughly 5 feet?"
"5 feet!—5 feet?"
Mei froze calculating distance; door-busting monster smacked her off a ledge.
Bang—!!
"Mamma mia!!"
Mami sent Adolf after plummeting Mei.
["Uh, two stopped moving suddenly. What happened?"]
"But I said yards and feet!!"
["That's unavoidable."]
-Can't be helped.
-Adolf leading human purification.
-Yards and feet... you shouldn't exist.
-No hesitation, instant shot lmao
-Honestly couldn't hold back lmao
-Monster fleeing meanwhile is hilarious.
"Huh? Lucia? Where's Mami?"
"Mamma mia."
"I see."
-Why you getting it lmao
-Doesn't even look for Mei.
-If not visible, probably dead.
-"No expectations"
-Meet and meat.
-What to do with our Mei?
-Means her mom's gone.
-Mami's the only one with a mom.
-Crazy bastards.
Then the first-gen collab devolved into mad viewer reactions and first-gens.
"Latte drank the Est and showed the empty bottle before fighting!! Why no potion bottle chug pose!!"
-Asuka... different game genre lmao
-No potions in this game to begin with!!
-Why fight with a shovel anyway.
-5 credits short of quota.
Black company game. Miss quota? Instant firing, game over!!
One step from ending...!! Fierce civil war to pick who sells as corpse.
Mami and Iosif battled fiercely over already-dead Mei and Lucia's bodies.
"Goddamn, who brings a game like this!!!"
"Team spirit!! Camaraderie!! How many times I gotta say!! Beats bringing military boot camp game!!"
"Honestly, Asuka thinks this game's no fun."
""Whose fault is that!!""
Secret modes galore without warning made it pure agony.
Teammates' voices mimicking, viewer Dones summoning monsters/mines, monsters escaping buildings—already brutal for noobs, jacked difficulty had Iosif and Mami snap at Asuka.
Thinking back, first-gen collab with Asuka there was the problem!!
Turning, they gawked at distant ascending spaceship.
"Bye everyone! I'm breaking free from all worldly chains to chase my happiness! Be happy too~~!"
Asuka waved cheekily smiling away, game over in sight.
Barely to ending, but roguelike—fired meant restart.
"Momless bitch."
"Shh, pretty words."
"Mamma mia."
"Right on."
-lmao
-lmao
-Lucia's trend caught on!
-Yeah, needs a catchphrase.
-First-gens unite in Asuka hate.
-Humans need a villain to cooperate.
While first-gen collab somehow rolled on, Wakamo busied about with manager.
Streams fine, concerts fine, but merch opinions clashed into arguments.
Finally Wakamo Corp going all-in on merch beyond trickle?
"So kits go SD, HG, RG, MG, PG, then FG, AG, EG, SG, etc.—plamos are varied!!"
"No, manager, they all look the same to me?"
"This is Getter Dragon from OVA and Getter Robo Arc!! This TV anime Getter Robo G!! This figure's the shit Getter from PS1 Getter Robo Daikessen debut, this Metal Beast Dragon from OVA World’s End Day!! Shoulder guards, cape-wings, face decor distinguish Getter Dragon vs True Getter Dragon? Noobs can't hack it!!"
"Wanna go home, manager..."
"Selling Getter 50th anniversary plamo and figures!! Folks who don't get mecha romance..."
"Hng...."
Sadly, trapped shopping with mecha-obsessed Oh Da-hye manager.
Gotta see these to release plamos and figures, she bought three each, deftly carrying.
Convinced for serious VTuber biz need diverse merch scouting, but felt totally scammed.
"So figures: mini, trading, statue, action, resin cast, cold cast, gashapon, pinky street, food toys, super alloy, etc.—so many types!!"
"No, Wakamo, still look the same to me?"
"This Tokino V1, this new Tokino model! This 7th anniversary, this Super Tokino from 0th gen Virtual Live fest!! Look close, pupil colors differ? Brown for non-concert, blue lenses for concert concept?!"
"Wanna go home, Wakamo..."
"7th anniversary reprint tying Virtual Live history!! Folks who don't know VTuber history..."
"Hng...."
Gotta see these for recruiting newbie VTubers and figures, Wakamo bought three each, deftly carrying.
For serious VTuber biz... wait, same as before.
Anyway, duo lugged piles like hyenas prowling stores.
"Our fame's drawing more cosplayers."
"What's with the creepy SD mascot head?"
"[Wakamo-daniye]. Virtual Live parody!!"
"Why all Wakamo cosplays trash?"
VTuber outfit + black wig + fox ears = Wakamo cosplay done!!
Wakamo strutted shamelessly claiming Wakamo cosplay.
Doubt two 2m giant fox-eared women existed, but Wakamo felt no shame.
"Wow! Orca x Witch yuri doujin! Gimme one."
"Captain x Ichigo yuri here too."
"World's gone mad!! Don't bag that Musashi x Benkei doujin in someone else's paper bag?"
"No space."
For now, just two otakus out playing.
Oh Da-hye tried keeping dignity but stress-venting plus fame exposing privacy led to letting loose, enjoying life.
No bag space? Turned bear, pulled cartload of loot—surreal sight.
As they happily debated this or that haha ho ho—Inari Fox God blocked Wakamo.
"Manager, this cosplay's spot-on."
"Cuz it's the real deal. What's up?"
"No—told you quit VTubing, not climbing! What're you doing here?!"
"But Wakamo's an otaku."
"...Sigh... please consider your status. Instead of this, prep for Italy's [Colosseum] World’s Best Climber Duel Tourney?"
"Fighting people? Barbaric."
Inari warned ahead, but Wakamo ignored.
Hates fighting most in world—shamelessly spouting ear-doubting lines.
Just wanna hole up chatting figures with otaku pal watching VTuber streams, she confessed honestly.
"But check rewards? Got the list."
[Tower]-sponsored mega-event, jaw-dropping prizes, but Wakamo indifferent.
Even shown prizes, few usable for her.
Still, appreciated effort, scanned list—stopped at one.
[Heavenly Harmony], mic-shaped item boosting [Music] skills.
Plus major [Singing] boost/correction.
For VTuber: auto-mixing!! Wakamo's must-have!!
Plus [Idol] exclusive gear!!
"Huh?"
Double-checked: Idol exclusive.
Item from [Japan Tower], Wakamo turned—Inari cast [Skill].
"Where you going?"
"Prepping to Italy with you...!"
"Solo port?"
"Uwagyaaa!!!"
Airborne Inari crumpled like wrung towel.
Screaming desperately, rapid-fire excuses.
"I'm innocent!! Made after Kyoto Tower, item from then... China Tower didn't give!!"
"Then why gift useless bear?"
"All China Tower!! Innocent!!"
"What's this dividend on Wakamo?"
"Hehe, cuz cute, forgi—"
Inari flopped upside-down impaled in ground.
Unenthused, but worth fighting climbers for.
Plus [Appearance] to [Illusion Magic] item—perfect for VTuber streams(?).
Wakamo/Illusionist fine, but item easier.
Tons of 【Tower Coins】 insufficient; Russia Tower's 【Partner Custom Creation】 swayed Oh Da-hye.
Coins drained on items, couldn't even buy 【Partner】—poverty.
Plus arena of world's top climbers.
After lawless footage, how many voiced anxiety over next Association Chair?
Chance to awe, so manager steeled resolve.
Totally not cuz badass mecha armor among items.
"Next meet, enemies!!"
"Don't think VTuber affiliation saves you!!"
Vowing to snag items, they departed.
Wakamo atop massive crimson-black bear [Nati], grandly arrived Italy.
Climbers shuddered in awe at riding stripped manager.
"Rumor's perv group different..."(?)
Beside, bear-riding bear appeared.
"Korea's all lunatics?"
"Not entirely wrong."
Sadako, already there boozing, answered amid mind-blowing sight.
It begins...
Battle Royale for strongest climber...!!
"...Feels like forgetting something."
"Just nerves."
Some alchemist couldn't even register!!
"Thought of fun idea, whaddya think?"
Plus idol's lion gone wild lately.
Korea's all lunatics.
Not—entirely wrong!