A Basement-Dwelling Loser, the Inquisitor – Chapter 119

【Rene Galleryⓜ】

【Title: What Should We Do for the Evening Broadcast?】

【Author: Rene🔸】

I left a message earlier, but I’m planning to do another broadcast this evening.

Unless there are other suggestions, I was thinking of doing some New Dimension, but do you all have a specific type of broadcast in mind for today?

【Recommended: 51 / Not Recommended: 2】

This place is great without any ㅇㅅㅇ: Alcohol

ㅇㅇ🔹: Something casual, please.

Nore Rene No Life🔹: If you ask like this and then do something different, I’m going to cry…

└Rene🔸: As long as it’s not too absurd, I’ll definitely do it.

└Nore Rene No Life🔹: Then just doing a broadcast is fine as well…

Aqua Color: Let’s have an alcohol broadcast, gogo!

Kankobo: How about picking a song?

└Rene🔸: I’m sorry.

ㅇㅇ: Let’s go for a drinking broadcast!

ㅇㅇ2: Can we do a late-night broadcast?

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[Rene]

[Resting Tomorrow]

[Talk | 5419 Viewers Currently | 00:02:15]

─ I prefer the second round of action.

─ Can’t we just not rest tomorrow?

─ Since we’re resting anyway, let’s just do about 10 hours of broadcast, yeah?

Kindness makes you think it’s a right.

Isn’t that the most suitable topic for my broadcast chat right now?

If I were an ordinary office worker, I’d usually take a break from today until Monday, but because I turned on the broadcast earlier, my fans are asking for more.

Isn’t that a bit too much?

But thanks to my fans, I can live like this, so, well…

“Hello, everyone…”

─ So, what are we doing for today’s broadcast?

─ I think I’ll just ramble on without a plan.

─ Anything is fine, just broadcast until I fall asleep…

“I was originally planning to just do a New Dimension broadcast, but it seems there are quite a few fans who want to see me drinking…”

─ Huh?

─ Are you really going to do a drinking broadcast?????

─ I was just drinking alone at home, so be my drinking buddy…

─ I left a comment just in case, but you really are doing it, haha.

─ This girl is probably going to turn into a total drunk.

“However, I don’t have any alcohol at home… To buy alcohol, I have to go outside, right? It’s one thing if it’s essential goods, but going outside just for alcohol feels a bit much…”

─ You brat!

─ Alcohol is an essential good for me, Tenryun!

─ I’m the foolish one for expecting a drinking broadcast.

─ Goddamn, you’re such a straight-laced girl.

“So I ordered delivery…”

─ ???????

─ I trusted you, Rene!

─ Get the hell out, all you guys defaming the Great Demon Rene!!!!

─ Is it fun to mess with people, you brat? <<< That’s a bit too much...



─ There aren’t any chats like that, right?



“Anyway, if I’m going to drink, I need snacks, don’t I? So I ordered food to eat with my drinks…”



─ But isn’t delivery alcohol really pricey?



─ When I checked the delivery app before, the prices were three times those at the local store, dammit;



“I also considered the price before ordering, but even though it is expensive, thinking about paying that to avoid going outside makes it somewhat reasonable, right? I don’t have to talk to the store staff, I don’t have to go outside, I just sit here and comfortably wait at home…”



─ Why does that sound so reasonable?



─ Can’t argue with that; money is meant to be spent like that.



─ You’ve really got that hardcore hikikomori mindset…



“I am a hikikomori, you know…”



Why is that so surprising now?



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[Rene]

[Resting Tomorrow]

[Talk | 6319 Viewers Currently | 00:21:26]

The snacks I ordered are stir-fried pork.

I actually considered ordering chicken, but I thought that wouldn’t go well with soju, so I gave up on that.

─ So, can you drink well?

─ What’s your tolerance?

─ Just once, show us your cuteness while drinking!

“Actually… I’ve never had alcohol before. This will be my first time drinking on a broadcast…”

─ ?

─ Really?

─ Rene’s alcohol virginity, whoaa! 〔Deleted message〕

It’s not a lie.

If we’re limiting the discussion to Selene, that is.

In my previous life, I usually went straight home to rest after work, but sometimes there were drinks I absolutely couldn’t miss.

Of course, I mostly returned home after just drinking quietly without saying much.

In other words, when adding up my life, that means I have some drinking experience, but…

However, since I started living as Selene in that world, I’ve never drunk at all…

Before returning to Earth, I was underage.

After returning, I never even thought about wanting to drink.

Seeing how things led to this makes me feel that life is indeed a strange law.

─ Your first time, and you’re having stir-fried pork with soju???

─ It’s even red lol.

─ You’re a born drinking champ, haha!

“It’s not just soju, though. There’s beer… and fruit soju and… fruit beer too.”

I’d like to primarily drink soju, but just in case, I bought everything.

It would be troublesome if I got drunk and something went wrong, right?

Let’s just try one bottle of soju first, and if it doesn’t work out, I’ll switch to another drink.

“Well then… here we go…”

First, I unwrap the stir-fried pork, pop the cap off the soju bottle, and pour it into a glass.

Then I turn on my phone’s camera, snap a quick pic, and display it on the top right of the broadcast screen.

“Doesn’t it look delicious?”

─ Oh!

─ I’d love to eat the stir-fried pork made by Rene myself…

─ Can’t you do a peace sign with your hand while taking a pic?

“Ah, um… that’s a bit…”

Honestly, it was a reasonable request I could fulfill, but I felt too shy to agree.

In any case, thus began the drinking broadcast.

I first carefully placed a piece of stir-fried pork on some lettuce, made a small wrap, and put it in my mouth.

The spicy smoky flavor tickling my nostrils. Not too tough, not too soft, the texture was just right.

No need for further explanation; it was delicious.

“Delicious… um…”

I thought it was quite expensive, but there was definitely a reason for all the rave reviews.

As I swallowed the stir-fried pork, it was time for some soju now.

“Everyone. Cheers…”

─ Cheers!

─ A drinking party with Rene… a memory that will last forever… I love you forever, Rene…

─ Damn, don’t go all overboard!

─ Where the heck did you learn stuff like that?

─ It’s too sweet; I feel like I’m going to throw up, damn it, haha!

“Everyone, don’t fight… um…”

I calmed down the chat, which was igniting with odd comments, and sent the soju down my throat.

Honestly, I’ve never been a fan of alcohol, even in my previous life…

“…It’s not bad?”

Why is it okay?

─ Is it really not that bad?

─ A girl who loves industrial alcohol, whoa!

─ Isn’t that the kind of alcohol only the true oldies enjoy?

─ Fact: The host comes from a bear country.

─ Whoa haha!

─ In a country where if you can’t drink alcohol below 50 proof, you’re not treated like a person…

For some reason, my origin is labeled as the bear country… well, does it matter?

Whether it’s the bear country or that world, it’s all still foreign in Korean terms.

In any case, since it pairs nicely with the stir-fried pork, I thought, why not pour another glass of soju?

“Second glass now. Cheers…”

─ Drink slowly.

─ You might get knocked out.

─ Why are you worrying about a bear country person for no reason?

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[Rene]

[Resting Tomorrow]

[Talk | 6519 Viewers Currently | 00:59:45]

─ How many bottles is this now?

─ 5 bottles…

─ Wait, are you seriously okay with this?

─ 5 bottles in 40 minutes, damn it!

“Delicious…”

─ Maybe it’s time to stop drinking, Rene…

─ I smell alcohol all the way over here…

─ Are you drinking just soju without any snacks right now?

─ Yeah.

─ Surprisingly, yes…

─ I think your voice already got messed up.

“I’m feeling fine… I’m not drunk at all.”

I feel a bit dizzy, and my words aren’t coming out right, but I’m definitely not drunk.

Because I’m not drunk!

─ A classic sign of a drunk person: insists they’re not drunk.

─ If saying you’re not drunk when you are counts, how can you not be drunk?

─ I think even the old bar owner wouldn’t know.

“Everyone… I’m an orphan… I don’t have a mom or dad…”

─ ??????

─ That escalated quickly!

─ You just said you weren’t drunk less than a minute ago, you crazy girl!

“Hey… am I supposed to be ashamed of being an orphan…?”

─ That’s not what we mean, teacher.

─ Haha!

─ You’re so cute while whining, haha!

“I… it’s okay if you are orphans…!”

─ My parents are both perfectly fine, you crazy girl.

─ A streamer openly roasting her fans, whoa!

“Ugh… I wasn’t embarrassed about not having parents…! I grew up just fine…! Hehe… honestly, knowing Pythagoras’ theorem doesn’t mean death…! Not knowing it doesn’t make you a fool, right…?”

─ Just fine…?

─ At least, I don’t think you’re fine right now…

─ I have no idea why you’re acting like this, haha!

─ The fact is, not knowing Pythagoras means you might be a fool…

─ Are you saying Rene’s a dumb, empty-headed fool???

“I’m the fool who says the one saying ‘fool’ is the fool…”

─ Damn it, I can’t keep up with the broadcast vibe, haha!

─ Rene, what do you think about just turning off the broadcast for now?

─ Tomorrow’s rewatch is going to be awkward as hell…

“…Sniff.”

─ ?

─ What’s that?

─ Why the heck is she crying when she’s the one who roasted us???

“Sniff… sniff… You don’t know a thing about me…”

─ Are you really crying?

─ Seriously?

─ Seeing you cry is hilarious! Is this normal??? 〔Deleted message〕

“I really don’t know anything… Every time we do a broadcast, you call me stupid…”

─ Just from seeing you act like this, I think I get the reason, Rene.

─ Guys, the editors who got selected today, make sure to record this as a video! If not, I’ll seriously kill you!

─ So cute, really, haha!

─ Just right behind you, dammit.

“Seriously, I’m not a fool… I want to eat chicken skewers… Ugh…”

─ No matter how I look at it, you seem like a fool to me???

─ With cuteness that borders on disaster…

─ If this kind of drunken behavior continues, I’ll always welcome it…

“…Ah, by the way, everyone. Do you really want me to turn on the camera…?”

─ ?

─ “But, I can’t… You all will stop watching if I turn on the camera… I can’t live without you all… Really…”

─ Crazy girl!

─ Are you seriously trying to tempt me???

─ Rene said she can’t live without us… Rene said she can’t live without us… Rene said she can’t live without us…

─ No way, hell no; just watching the help footage wouldn’t make me run off, haha!

“Sniff… If you guys say that, I appreciate it, but still, it won’t change the fact that I can’t… Everyone, since you’ve all run off when you only see me…”

So, the camera is absolutely not allowed.