I Was the Supporter of a Popular Dungeon Streamer, but the Power Harassment Was Too Much, so I Quit. I’m Useless Anyway, so It Shouldn’t Be a Problem, Right? Huh? The Views Are Dropping Like Crazy? - 21

Chapter 21: Mia Naruse’s Suffering

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“Why!?”

Naruse slammed her desk with a loud bang as she stared at her channel’s dwindling view count.

“Why are my views dropping so much!? Even though I’m already dressed so sexy!”

She ranted and raved in her room. Her expression twisted into something unfit for public view.

Could it be that Hamura is spreading bad rumors about me out of spite? Yeah, that must be it. Those hate comments could even be his doing… No, they have to be his doing!

Stress clouded her judgment.

Naruse, incapable of blaming herself, needed someone else to take responsibility just to stay sane. If she failed, it had to be someone else’s fault, otherwise, she wouldn’t be able to take it in. She refused to accept her downfall was her own doing. And so, her misplaced resentment turned toward Hamura. The decline in her videos had started right after he left. The increase in hate comments, the drop in engagement, it was all because of him. Even though the real cause was her own actions… But of course, she would never accept the truth.

“Huh?”

Her phone chimed with a notification. A message. The sender was Iizuka Atsushi.

《I have something important to discuss. Come to the Master’s room at the guild headquarters.》

“Ugh, at a time like this… How annoying!”

She wanted to ignore it, but there was no way she could refuse an invitation from the guild master of the guild she belonged to. Grumbling, Naruse begrudgingly got dressed. She dressed more formally than usual and left her room.

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Fenrir Headquarters – Master’s Room.

The first floor of Fenrir’s headquarters housed a tavern, the second floor had meeting rooms, and the third floor was where the Master’s Room was located. This room was reserved exclusively for Iizuka and served as his workspace. However, for some reason, it also contained a double bed and a shower. Naruse and Iizuka sat across from each other on the sofa in that very Master’s Room.

“So? What do you need, Atsushi-kun?”

Despite her overwhelming frustration, she maintained her usual fawning smile. She was trying to keep her real emotions hidden. Iizuka clasped his hands together and spoke.

“…That bastard. Your former supporter, that one-armed guy! Looks like he joined S-Rank Seeker, Abisu Yuiga’s guild.”

“Hah?”

Naruse’s voice rose involuntarily, even though she was in front of Iizuka. A vein bulged on her forehead.

“What do you mean?”

“The day I went missing, that bastard was with Yuiga. That got me curious, so I looked into it. Turns out, he’s now registered with Odd Cat!”

That idiot… He joined a better guild than me!?

A fiery rage ignited in Naruse’s heart.

“And on top of that, the bastard got himself some kind of weird mechanical arm! Hey, Mia! What the hell is up with him!? Wasn’t he just some weakling!? How the hell did trash like that get into an S-Rank guild!?”

That’s what I want to know!!

To Naruse, Hamura was someone who needed to stay beneath her. The fact that her own guild ranked lower than Hamura’s was unacceptable. Determined to drag him back down, she put on an act.

“…I’m sure Yuiga fell victim to his venomous fangs too. Just like I did…”

With tears welling in her eyes, Naruse said so dramatically, intent to incite Iizuka’s compassion. Iizuka leaned forward. 

“What do you mean!?”

“That guy… He used magic to take secret photos and steal things. He didn’t have any hint of remorse. Yuiga was probably blackmailed into letting him join the guild. He probably had taken Yuiga’s secret photos like he did with mine. I was forced to pair up with him too after he took pictures of me changing… And even when I was taking a bath…”

“What! That bastard—!! I knew it was weird for you to be stuck with someone like that! Blackmail? That’s seriously scum behavior!!!”

Fueled by righteous indignation, Iizuka clenched his fists. Naruse secretly curled the corners of her lips into a smirk.

“But don’t be too hard on him! The reason he turned out this way is partly because of me, his childhood friend… So let’s bring him back into our guild! This time, I’ll properly reform him to the right path as his childhood friend!”

“Mia… You’re so kind! Alright, I got it! We’ll figure something out!”

“A-Are you sure, Atsushi-kun? I don’t want you to get caught up in our mess…”

“It’s fine! Leave it to me! Now that I’ve decided on bringing him back, we need a plan to lure him into our guild… And we’ve gotta confiscate those photos he has of you and Yuiga too…”

While Iizuka burned with enthusiasm, Mia let out a small sigh.

Well, this will do for now. This idiot will stir things up for me. I don’t know why Hamura is in Odd Cat, but there’s no way Abisu Yuiga would go out of his way to protect a weakling like him. If we keep pressuring her, they’ll drop him soon enough.

Iizuka wore a nasty grin too. He was probably imagining the secret photos of Abisu and Naruse that supposedly existed in Hamura’s possession. Reading his thoughts, Naruse felt a shudder run down her spine.

As if any secret photos of me even exist. What an absolute fool he is.

The more she thought about it, the more she realized just how low-level her own guild was and this only caused her anger to grow.

Tch! I’ll make him regret this. That useless nobody…!

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