I Was a Crazy, Berserker-Type Dungeon Streamer, but When I Helped a Beautiful Dungeon Streamer and Treated Her Politely, It Was Revealed That I Was Actually a Normal Person - 19

Chapter 19: Which One Is It?!

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“…The owner… What kind of person is the owner?’

By the time I realized it, that question already slipped out of my mouth.

After my disastrous livestream, I looked at the archives of my livestream. I found the URL to a clip of my past livestream when I first started using 〈Madness〉skill in the comment section. The clip was taken from my livestream back when I only had one or two viewers. Since I had two viewers, I couldn’t exactly say the owner must be the culprit, but the possibility was high. That being said, if the owner was indeed the culprit, then I would have to politely decline the invitation to join this clan. In fact, I wanted to confront the owner about it!

“The owner? It’s Hino-san. He’s one of the 9 S-rank explorers in Japan.”

Huh? The owner is an S-rank explorer!?

Even though there was only one rank difference between S-rank and A-rank explorer, but the gap was practically endless. You could become an A-rank explorer as long as you could hunt one A-rank monster in a party, but you couldn’t become an S-rank explorer even after you managed to hunt an S-rank monster. The Dungeon Association viewed S-rank as the pinnacle of explorers and they had strict conditions to achieve this rank. One of those conditions was to defeat three S-rank monsters at the same time in a party or defeat a unique monster. A unique monster was one of a kind entity in this world and it possessed power beyond that of an S-rank monster. In other words, it was practically impossible for me to beat this person up. 

Darn it… For a clan full of dungeon streamers… The owner is unnecessarily too strong!

“Well then, I need to get going. The folks at ‘Luminous’ asked me to help them with something. See you around, Hiiragi-kun!”

“Okay! Wait, what?”

Oota-san hurried off, jogging away from us. 

Luminous…? Even I know that name. It’s the name of an incredibly famous clan. Wait, does that mean Oota-san isn’t part of Haisu, but he’s actually part of Luminous?

“As expected from Hiiragi-san! I didn’t know Hino-san, the owner of the super famous ‘Luminous’, actually knows you…!”

“I-I see… Luminous, huh…”

The possibility that the owner of the clan I was about to join was the culprit had been eliminated. However, now I had a suspicion that the owner of this country’s top clan was one of my oldest fans. That person might be the culprit behind my disastrous livestream. 

No, but?? The owner of Luminous was also known as the ‘Red Dragon’, right? One of the top ten most powerful people in the world!?

Wha-What should I do… I can’t even dream about confronting him head on. 

“By the way, that Oota-san? The one we just spoke to? He’s an A-rank explorer, but he recently managed to defeat an S-rank monster recently. He’s rumored to become the 12th S-rank explorer in Japan soon.”

“Se-Seriously…?”

The person I just talked to turned out to be that amazing? Also, there were only 9 S-rank explorers in Japan, but Hiiro-san said Oota-san was going to become the 12th because 10 years ago, a party of three S-rank explorers suddenly went missing. None of them ever returned from the dungeon. Most of the details related to that incident were shrouded in mystery, so honestly? I didn’t know much about it either.

“Well, Hiiragi-san is really strong too. I’m sure you will be promoted to S-rank in no time.”

“I’d be happy if it’s true…”

I mean, I was struggling so much against just one S-rank monster and that monster ended up escaping in the end. On top of that, Black Fenrir was one of the weaker S-rank monsters. If it had been the infamous Black Dragon, I’d have been dead for sure. After all, Black Dragon was said to be the strongest S-rank monster. 

We soon arrived at what I assumed to be the clan’s entrance. The automatic doors opened and we walked inside. 

“Oh! Here you are!”

Looking at the direction of the voice, I saw a middle-aged man sitting on a sofa. He placed the coffee he had been drinking on the table so he could stand up and walked over to us. 

“Nice to meet you. I’m Hiroto Shirono, the owner of Haisu.”

“Nice to meet you. I’m Yukito Hiiragi. I look forward to working with you.”

I greeted him with a bow. 

“Hello! Is Fath- I mean, is Owner around?”

But then, a girl entered through a different door from the entrance we just got in. She was about to call for someone, but when she saw the sight of us, she looked a bit panicked. Her face practically said,”Oops!” She quickly turned around to leave the room in a hurry. 

“Ah! So-Sorry! I will come back lat-… Huh? You’re that guy from that time!”

She pointed at me. Her face practically lit up as she approached me. 

“You’re the one who I gave a lap pillow to!”

“Please don’t immediately say that to someone who you finally meet again….”

Of course, I hadn’t forgotten about her either. Six months ago, she accidentally filmed me while I was in my most vulnerable state.  I went unconscious after trying to retrieve her camera drone and then, she gave me a lap pillow. She… She was the devil who turned me into a lap pillow enthusiast!

Wait, what’s her name again? I think one of the viewers mentioned her name before… 

CRASHHH!!

But suddenly, the coffee cup on the table shattered. 

Huh? How weird. No one touched it, so why did it break all of a sudden? Also, it seemed the temperature in the room suddenly dropped significantly?

“Hey, you… My daughter… She gave you a lap pillow?”

“Hii…!”

Along with those words, I suddenly felt an intense bloodlust unlike anything I had ever experienced before. Trembling, I cautiously turned around toward the direction of the bloodlust and…

“Oi! Did she give you a lap pillow or did she not?! Which one is it?!”

There stood Hiroto-san, looking like the incarnation of the devil himself. His face was twisted in rage. I instinctively bowed on the floor in a proper dogeza, moving far faster than when I punched the Black Fenrir.

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