Chapter 63 – Witness the Etiquette of Streaming

“Todау’s strеаm, еveryonе~ I’vе invited a nеw adventurе strеаmеr, Littlе Shirоko Kоuno!”

“H-hi! Shirоkо herе! Niсе tо mеet уou! Н-h-holy, соnсurrеnt viewers in thе mid-threе digits!!”

Shiroko tremblеs аt numbers she’d never sее on her own stream.

“Yоu’vе only just started, aftеr аll~ I think you’ll hit fоur digits soоn~”

“Еееp!”

She’s letting out sоme kind of trоublеd sсream.

※ ‘Littlе Shirоkо is boyish аnd cute!’ ‘Is Littlе Spice scоuting nеw talent?!’ ‘Wаit, hаsn’t Little Sрice оnly been strеaming fоr аbout half a yeаr toо?’

“Тhаt’s right~ Spiсe is a nеwbiе tоo! But withоut oрроrtunitiеs likе this, it’s hard fоr nеw strеamеrs tо get buzz, so I want them to make the most of it and grow!”

※ ‘The spirit to liven up the streaming world!’ ‘How admirable~’ ‘Standing side by side like this, Little Spice is way smaller though’ ‘That’s because the inside is an old man’ ‘Little Spice is a little girl, right?’

I’m really happy everyone’s hyping it up.

Now then, from here on…

“Today we’ll take it carefully! First, an explanation of the Dungeon. This is a place where some idiot who broke into an abandoned hospital died, became a Grudge Spirit, and caused a Dungeonization! Okay, for the detailed explanation, please look at this caption Floppy made for us!”

‘I have edited it for clarity.’

A caption meticulously crafted by Floppy, showing the full scope of this trivial Dungeon, displays at regular intervals.

The amount of information is limited so it doesn’t interfere with watching the stream, and it even has phonetic guides!

※ ‘So easy to understand’ ‘Too considerately designed lol’ ‘They’re considering all age groups, huh’

“Alright, let’s go! Little Shiroko, you go ahead and enter the Dungeon first~”

“Y-yes!”

“Show us your usual method!”

“Got it! First, you go like this, hyah!! and charge in!”

“Da-a-angerous! Charging in without checking what’s past the door is da-a-angerous!! Peeep! Dungeon Stream Police here!”

※ ‘Little Spice is here!!’ ‘He really has a whistle in his mouth!’ ‘When did he equip that…’ ‘Is Little Spice playing the instructor role this time?’

“It’s a huge loss when newbies run into accidents-like things they didn’t know about and end up retiring! I’ll Archive this, so newbies, watch carefully! Umm, okay, because dangerous monsters can be lurking right past a door in a Dungeon, you first prepare for combat and then open the door!!”

“I… I see! So in my case, I’d ready my Stun Gun…”

“The Stun Gun is a weapon that requires cross-combat skills, do you have any martial arts experience?”

“No.”

I knew it!

I know Mashiro originally did track and field and has zero combat sports experience.

People like that shouldn’t do close combat, absolutely not!

The streamers I know, once they realize the need for close combat, start going to sports chanbara dojos and such.

That stuff is pretty practical for streaming, you know!

It’s mostly male streamers who prepare for this.

There are quite a few female streamers who end up with a game over, the type who are drawn to the shiny world of streaming and neglect that gritty effort.

Male streamers, well, when they’re new they tend to do extreme things to get attention, so they just get a normal game over.

“It’s good to have a weapon that can attack from a distance! Here, this.”

I hand over the LARF I bought at a toy store.

“This is…!”

“If you have concurrent viewers in the double digits, you can handle Goblins with sponge bullets! Do your best!!”

“Yes! Um, I’ve never shot a pistol or anything though.”

“See the front sight here? If you place the target beyond this, you’ll hit. Let’s participate in some Airsoft next time and Power-up, okay?”

“Y-yes!”

※ ‘This is more serious guidance than I expected…!!’ ‘So helpful’ ‘Ah, while we were saying that, a monster ran out of patience and came from the entrance!!’

“Ughh! Such an impatient monster! Spice, it’s been since university, but it’s Airsoft time!!”

I ready another LARF I had bought and pash, take the shot.

A flying sponge bullet!

It hits the approaching Goblin, exploding with a ‘Ughwaa!!’ and sends it flying.

“Like this!”

“I see! Your movements seemed kinda pro too.”

“That’s just an old skill coming back to me~”

“My senior at work used to be in an Airsoft club back in the day, and would tell stories about it during breaks.”

That’s me!!

※ ‘Did my ears go funny? Little Spice said something about his university days’ ‘It’s because he’s an old man’ ‘Lies! Little Spice is a little girl!’

The comments are getting hyped up on their own, which is splendid.

“That’s right~. Spice is both an old man and a little girl~. He’s Schrödinger’s Spice. The more everyone investigates Spice’s true identity, the more it becomes determined and Spice becomes either an old man or a little girl.”

※ ‘Eeek’ ‘Let’s not investigate’ ‘Then those search suggestions for ‘Little Spice real person’ that come up on GooGooGle…’ ‘Thou shalt not touch’

There are people doing that kind of research about me?!

My past life was just a normal old man, so it’s pointless.

“Alrighty, let’s go, Little Shiroko!”

“Yes! … Somehow, even though this is my first Collab… it feels like I’m acting together with someone I already know well…”

What a sharp junior!!