The World’s Only Max-Level Lazy Introvert Accidentally Goes Viral After Helping a Famous Streamer Who Forgot to Turn off Her Dungeon Stream - 13

Chapter 13 : The Lazy Introvert, Wins, for Now

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“Huh…?”

The person who was most surprised to see Shiro here was, of course, Aoi Onizuka. He had called her ‘my Yuria’ before, so he must be an avid fan of Yuria. 

“Wh-Why is Yuria-chan here…?”

Still laying on the ground, Onizuka blinked rapidly in confusion while Shiori smiled warmly.

“Oh, please don’t mind. I’m her because of my promise with him.”

So she said as she winked at me. A promise. At first, I didn’t understand what she meant, but after a moment, I finally remembered the words she had spoken to me yesterday. 

——”I’m going to make sure that everyone who’s been bullying my precious Ren-kun will get their divine retribution.”——

“Don’t tell me… You…”

“Yep! That’s right~♪”

Seeing how bright the smile on Shiori’s face as she said so, I couldn’t help but sigh. I had sensed several other presences besides Onizuka’s, but it turned out Shiori had been keeping track of him too. Why? It must be to give Onizuka his ‘divine retribution’, so to say. This woman… She was truly outrageous. Not only did she boldly appear in the middle of a fight, but Onizuka’s body was bigger than her. Following someone like Onizuka was not something an ordinary girl would do. Moreover, she was holding her smartphone in her right hand. She must had been recording the whole spectacle. 

“A promise…?”

Of course Onizuka didn’t know what was happening. He just continued to blink in confusion at Shiori’s cryptic words. In response, Shiori only smiled at him. 

“Onizuka-san, right? I believe you said something interesting earlier… That you would be able to defeat Ren-kun if you were to fight him in a dungeon?”

“Huh…? Oh! Ye-Yeah! Of course! After all, I’m already level 30! I’ve got a rare weapon from Corias too! I can turn someone like him into cinders in an instant if we’re in a dungeon!!”

“Fufu~ What an amazing enthusiasm. Good, good…”

For some reason, Shiori had a daring smile on her face. 

“In that case, please allow me to use my channel to broadcast the duel between you and Ren-kun to the whole world. In this way, everyone will know who is stronger between you two.”

“What…?!”

Onizuka’s eyes immediately sparkled upon seeing a brand new hope in the horizon.

“A-Are you sure…? I… I’m going to beat this guy up for real, you know…? I’m going to turn him into smithereens?”

“Yes. That is fine by me… Not like that will ever happen anyway.”

Shiori said the last part in a low, hushed voice. Onizuka was completely fired up now. Things had become more troublesome for me…

Just what is she planning…?

I leaned in close to Shiori and whispered. 

(Oi, what are you thinking…?!”

I made sure to whisper in a low enough voice so Onizuka wouldn’t hear us. I inched even closer to Shiori and whispered into her ear. 

(You know I’m not going to participate in that troublesome duel or whatever it is, right?? So why…?)

(I’m sorry. Seeing Onizuka’s dumb face made me want to intervene. I will give you something nice later as an apology. Please forgive me just this once?)

(Something nice…?)

To be honest, I just wanted to get the hell out of here, but Onizuka was already so fired up. 

“Alright! It’s decided then! As soon as my injuries are healed, we will have a duel—Ah!”

With a soft thud, Onizuka, who was trying to make a bold exclamation, suddenly lost consciousness and collapsed face down on the ground. It seemed his body had accumulated too much damage, to the point he couldn’t keep his consciousness anymore. 

“Haaa… Good grief.”

Sighing, I turned around and shouted loudly.”

“Oi! You’re going to take these guys away, right? Miyano.”

“…Huh?”

The owner of that dumbfounded voice was Yuji Miyano, a classmate of mine. Though he was one of Onizuka’s henchmen, but he wasn’t particularly close to Onizuka. If I were to use the school caste analogy, he was more like a backup player. Although he wasn’t bullied like me, but he was Onizuka’s errand boy. He basically had to do everything Onizuka told him to. That was what my classmate, Yuji Miyanno, was like. 

“Di-Did you already know I’m here, Oomomo?”

Hearing that question from Miyano, who had been hiding behind a wall, I snorted. 

“Of course. I also know you’ve been recording the whole thing in secret with your phone.”

“Huh…?”

“What are you going to do with the recording? You’re only going to cause a bigger backlash on Onizuka even if you were to post it online. There must be another reason why you’re doing this, right?”

“We-Well… Tha-That’s…”

“If you don’t want to answer my question, then that’s fine. But let me tell you one thing. Depending on what you’re going to do with it, you might end up facing the same fate as these guys.”

“I-I know. I understand, so please don’t be so angry at me.”

Seemingly resigned to his fate, Miyano stepped out of the wall. He raised both arms in a surrender pose, showing no desire to cause further conflict, unlike the other four guys. 

“…Anway, I don’t know the details, but I can say one thing for sure. It’s just like what Oomomo…-san said. He wasn’t trying to upload it to the internet.”

“How can you be so sure of that?”

“Because that’s what he said. I don’t know anything beyond that. He refused to tell me, so I…”

“…Is that true?”

“Ye-Yes! That’s the truth! Please believe me, I’m begging you!”

“…”

“I-I-I-If you can’t trust me, then… Then I will become your underling! I-I will become your underling! So please, forgive me…!”

Miyano was begging earnestly with his hands clasped together. Despite his desperation, I just kept on staring at him sharply. After all, although he hadn’t bullied me directly, but he had been teasing and stirring up trouble when Onizuka was beating me. It was only fair for me to act in this way to him. 

“Ren-kun, I don’t think this boy is lying.”

Amidst the tense silence between me and Miyano, Shiori softly whispered that to me. Although she was a very famous streamer, but she had completely taken my side.

“Humph.”

I snorted and checked Miyano’s smartphone just to be sure. After confirming there were no videos of the assault, probably because the fight had turned into a direction that was completely beyond Miyano’s expectation, I tossed the phone back to him and said. 

“You better clean these up. Take these guys to their home, got it?”

“Ye-Yes! I understand.”

Nodding at his quick reply, I turned on my heel to leave the scene. 

“U-Umm… Before you go… Can I please ask you one more question?”

“What is it?”

“You’re so strong, so why have you been letting them do as they pleased with you until now? If you really wanted to, you could’ve easily fought back…”

“….”

I remained silent for a few seconds before I continued to walk away from him. 

“It’s simple. Keeping an ‘ordinary daily life’ is far more important to me than anything else.”

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