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 - 3

Chapter 3: I Understand, Let’s Talk

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After taking a short break, I stood up to get back to work. 

“Alright, let’s get started.”

I gathered the magic stones stored in my magic bag into one spot and…

“〈Shock Blast〉.”

I crushed them all at once with my skill. I also destroyed the drop items in the same way. Though drop items and magic stones would eventually be absorbed back into the dungeon if left untouched, it would look really suspicious to the viewers if I didn’t collect them. They would think I was a really crazy explorer who killed monsters purely for pleasure, instead of a somewhat rational one doing it for money. 

I didn’t want that. Nope. I still wanted to be seen as a normal person. More or less.

“But still, I wonder why crushing magic stones makes me feel a bit energized.”

I didn’t really understand it, but somehow breaking magic stones actually energized me a little. Maybe it helped in relieving pent-up stress?

Next, I gathered the other drop items I had picked up into one place. 

“Let’s see… This is a goblin horn… This is an ogre liver… Yeah, nothing but junk.”

I could sell these outside the dungeon, but unfortunately for me, I couldn’t take them out. And so, I decided to dispose of these useless items in the same way I dealt with the magic stones. 

“〈Shock Blast〉.”

After blowing all the drop items with my skill, I felt a gaze from behind me. The gaze was too calm to be a monster. It didn’t have any killing intent either. No doubt about it. It was the gaze of another human. I acted like I hadn’t noticed anything, keeping calm as I drew my sword. While pretending to remain oblivious, I checked the reflection in the blade to see what was behind me. I could see the light brown brick wall and then… There it was. It was undoubtedly a camera drone. A camera drone was peeking out from around the corner. 

This is bad. This is really bad. 

If they caught footage of me blowing away the drop items… I would be in deep trouble. People might get the wrong idea. They might accuse me as a really dangerous person who killed monsters for the thrill of it since I didn’t even need the drop items. I really wanted to avoid that misunderstanding. After all, once I reached a legal age, I wanted to make a name as a respectable dungeon streamer. In order to do that, I would need to politely ask whoever was filming it to delete the footage and of course, maybe I needed to have a little chat to make sure this didn’t happen again. 

And so, I spun around at full speed and raised my hand towards the air behind me. 

“〈Shock Blastttttt〉!!!”

Shock Blast. It was basically a skill where I shot a mass of super-compressed wind. By firing it backward, I could propel myself forward at a high speed. However, there was one major drawback. I couldn’t stop myself mid-air.

However, I couldn’t care less about that, especially in an emergency like this. In less than 0.1 seconds, I moved in front of the camera at near-sonic speed and then…

“I GOT ITTTTTT!!”

I snatched the flying object faster than anyone could expect. The host from a certain survival island program would be shocked at me. Then, I immediately turned off the camera. 

BAMM!!

But then, I crashed into the wall with great force. Crap. I barely managed to shoot another Shock Blast toward the wall to reduce the speed, but the impact of my crash was so great that my consciousness started to fade. 

“Huhhhhhhhhh?? Wha-What’s happening..?”

Those were the  last words I heard before losing consciousness.

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“Thi-This… Is this the… Surface?”

Did I die? I could faintly hear the voice of a woman coming from above me. 

“…-pillow? ….-not my fault though…”

Gradually, my consciousness returned to me. 

“-wo-won’t forgive me? But Mother said men like it when you do this for them.”

As my consciousness returned, so did my senses. Then, I realized something. I quickly opened my eyes. 

“Oh! You’re awake?! I’m so glad!”

“ISN’T THIS A LAP PILLOW?!”

I looked up and saw a beautiful girl with long black hair peering down at my face. Much to my surprise, I had graduated from being a lap pillow virgin at the age of 16.

“I-I knew it. I-It’s weird to use someone’s lap as a pillow, huh? I’m sorry, I will get away from you right now!”

“Huh? No. I’m actually really happy.”

The girl blushed as she placed my head back on the ground and slowly scooted back while still sitting on her heels. Who told her lap pillows were strange?! Even though I finally got to experience a lap pillow for the first time in my life…

Wait, that’s not the point!!!

I remembered. She had filmed my secret with the camera.

“Um, you recorded me with that camera, right? I’d like to have a little chat with you about that…”

“No, wait, aren’t you being a bit too honest?!”

Crap.

“Putting the lap pillow aside, could you delete that recording? I would get in deep trouble if that footage gets spread…”

“We-Well, umm…”

“If you won’t comply, I’m afraid I will need to resort to some extreme measures…”

In the worst-case scenario, I’d have to punch her out and break the camera while she was unconscious. Although the Dungeon Law didn’t prohibit filming in secret, but I didn’t have any other choice. My future was at stake here. 

“So… What will it be?”

I asked her that and…

“I’m so sorry!!! I really am!”

She bowed deeply from her seiza position, going so far as to prostrate herself before me. 

“It’s… Live. I already livestreamed it.”

Livestream…?

At that moment, I felt like I suddenly lost the ability to speak Japanese. 

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T/N: This girl is not Ruri.