A Basement-Dwelling Loser, the Inquisitor – Chapter 233

Recently, there have been many Rebongi and believers in the chat window who pick a power struggle with me over anything.

To be honest, it feels a bit unfair.

I’m always just trying to help the Rebongi and believers have a fun and enjoyable broadcast, so what is this power struggle they think I’m starting?

No.
What even is this so-called power struggle?

Just the other day when I collaborated with Eri, I heard that I was supposedly engaging in a power struggle.

Of course, it was due to some misunderstandings in our conversation, but did that really warrant the chat comments claiming I was in a power struggle?

Is it that if I say fewer words on the broadcast, it’s deemed a power struggle?

There’s no way that can be true.

Even when I’m just casually chatting alone, I still see lots of comments about power struggles.

In other words, the Rebongi and believers are sending such comments just to tease me or to make things more difficult.

Well, I don’t want to care too much as long as the Rebongi find that entertaining… but lately, it does feel a bit excessive, doesn’t it?

At this rate, they’ll say I’m in a power struggle just for breathing.

So this is unavoidable.

I really didn’t want to do this, but for the future and peace of the broadcast, there’s no other choice.

★

Rene

[I have something important to discuss today]

[Talk | 7943 viewers online | 00:01:58]

─Time begins to move… time begins to move… time begins to move…

─What kind of power struggle will we have today…

─What is this important story? Is it that you’ve finally decided to become my wife?

─Ever since our gallery master became a big corporation, the power struggles have gotten way too intense ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ

─So, what’s this important story about?

─For real, these days it’s just so harsh that it’s hard to watch ㅠㅠㅠㅠ

See this?

Even before the broadcast starts, they’re talking about power struggles and harshness, and saying things like that.

Before I even turned on the broadcast today, I was worried that maybe I really did do something wrong… but seeing this makes me really confident.

These guys definitely find it entertaining to make unreasonable claims about me lately.

“Hmm… Hello, everyone…”

─Camera, start!

─Cam where? Cam where? Cam where? Cam where? Cam where? Cam where? Cam where? Cam where?

─Time has stopped again… time has stopped again… time has stopped again… time has stopped again…

─I’m holding my breath? Hurry up and start!

─So what’s this important story? Part two!

─If it’s a casual chat broadcast, just turn on the cam on your own, okay???

Even this, look at that.

They do every kind of unreasonable critique, and yet they have so many things they strictly expect from me.

Of course, that doesn’t mean I’m not going to turn on the camera.

I promised the Rebongi, and it’s already been over a month since I started turning it on for casual chat broadcasts.

I’m somewhat used to it now, and that feeling of embarrassment has mostly faded away.

Maybe it’s because, after all, I rarely go out, even when the camera’s on?

Of course, it’s still a bit embarrassing to see my pictures compiled and posted in Remagal… but the resistance to simply turning on the camera has almost completely disappeared.

However, due to all this unreasonable criticism, I started feeling like I didn’t want to give the Rebongi what they want.

There are probably not many streamers who listen to the viewers as well as I do, so for me to have such thoughts is something that clearly shows how intense the Rebongi’s unreasonable claims have become.

“Today, unfortunately, I am planning not to turn on the camera… There’s a difficult reason for it…”

─The moment Tenryon arrives, the power struggle starts, haha;

─Your voice doesn’t sound disappointed at all, is that normal?

─Aren’t you supposed to keep your promises? Aren’t you supposed to keep your promises? Aren’t you supposed to keep your promises?

─So what’s this important story about? Part three!

─Am I really holding my breath? Am I really holding my breath? Am I really holding my breath? Am I really holding my breath?

“Just kidding, I’ll turn it on now…”

I’m just trying to mess with them a little, but is it really necessary to flood the chat like this?

In fact, doing this just makes me want to avoid turning on the camera even more…

I had that fleeting thought, but I adjusted the camera settings to calm the mood in the chat window.

“Hello, everyone…”

─Reha!

─Thanks to the host, I’m alive today, ooh.

─The Rebongi can finally breathe…

─So what’s this important story about? Part four!

Fortunately, the mood in the chat immediately settled down, and now it’s time to talk about why I turned on today’s broadcast.

Otherwise, I’d feel sorry for the Rebongi who keeps typing the same comment for the fourth time in the chat.

Without unreasonable criticism, it’s a pure chat that shows interest in my broadcast right now.

“Right… Today, just like I mentioned beforehand in Remagal, I’ll be discussing something important on the broadcast…? I even wrote it in the broadcast title…”

─A month break << If you say stuff like this, I won’t hold back!



─Kraaaaaaaaaaaah!



─It seems I’ll need to take a ten-month break to have my child, everyone…〔Deleted Message〕



─Shut it!



“I should clarify in advance, it’s not a break… It’s about something recent regarding the broadcast…”



─? What happened in the recent broadcasts? (For real, I don’t know)



─It was just the usual Rene broadcast, wasn’t it?



─They’re just trying to stir things up for attention, ooh.



“Everyone… Since our broadcast’s viewers have increased a lot, and its scale has grown, I think it’s about time we properly established the rules for the chat window…”



─Huh?



─What? There were no chat rules in this room?



That’s right.



There are no rules in my broadcast chat.



Actually, to be precise, there aren’t completely none.



When a person joins the broadcast, a message like this pops up:



【Chat Rules Notice】

【Crossing the line will result in an immediate permanent ban.】

The problem is that’s all there is to it.

So when someone would ask, what exactly is the standard of this crossing the line rule? it sometimes creates confusion since there’s no clear basis for it.

Well, unless someone is downright malicious, it’s nearly impossible for someone to get banned in my broadcast, to be fair.

I generally don’t worry too much about it.

In fact, Tunie mentioned once that the number of people banned in my broadcast is exceptionally low considering the scale of the broadcast.

But now, it seems it’s finally time to set some proper lines.

“The current rule is just ‘Crossing the line results in a permanent ban’… and I believe everyone knows that, in this broadcast, we’ll just delete most statements that could warrant a ban… When I asked Tunie or Eri, they said that there are comments that would usually get banned in other broadcasts but we just delete them and move on, and they expressed their surprise at that…”

Especially in Eri’s case, she was genuinely shocked.

I don’t know much, but apparently she said something like, ‘In our room, comments like this would result in at least a three-day ban!’

─Honestly, I agree.

─For a corporation, the chat rules were pretty lenient, right? Haha.

─But that’s what makes the gallery master’s broadcast fun…

─Honestly, if you say something like “let’s grab her” at this level, it would get cut in most broadcasts, haha.

Well, technically, although I mentioned I’d be formally setting the rules, I had no intention of being extremely strict about it.

I, too, actually like the current mood of the broadcast chat.

The atmosphere of watching each other’s moves and the repression of not being able to say what you want?

That’s what I didn’t want.

I always thought that the raw atmosphere was the more entertaining one.

“Some of you might be worried that the overall mood of the broadcast will change too much… But I assure you that there won’t be any major changes in the rules…”

─If that’s the case, it might be okay.

─Just please let the “let’s grab her” part stay intact…

“Honestly, I’m only thinking of adding just one line to the rules…”

─? You said you’d properly establish them.

─‘Prohibition of sexual harassment’

─Kraaaaaaaaaah!

─Just let this one go…

─Information: Sexual harassment is a crime, you idiots.

─Oh wow, lolololol.

─What, really…?

─Was saying “let’s grab her” to the host not allowed this whole time???

─So what have the Rebongi been doing all this time?

I monitored the reactions in the chat while opening my notepad and quietly wrote down the rules I had in mind.

[Rule 1. All crossing the line comments result in a permanent ban. (maintain)]

[Rule 2. Prohibition of power struggle comments (add)]

─?????

─Ah, it was a power struggle build-up!

─I got played, damn!

─This is the first time I’ve seen someone pull a power struggle like this, lol!

─Is there perhaps a school that teaches how to do power struggles professionally???

“No, everyone… I just set the rules…”

─You’re establishing them, but you haven’t done it yet!

─Firmly opposed, you damn fool!

─Are you trying to establish rules on your own like a dictator?

─Fact: If this girl had been born in the Middle Ages with power, she would have definitely been a dictator, haha!

─You can see her doing whatever she wants despite initiating a power struggle, can’t you!?

─But I think I’d enjoy it if a ruler like the gallery master would just rule over us…

─For real, haha.

─Isn’t it a reward if the gallery master looks down on us with that dictator expression from above?

─Oh…

─But still, it doesn’t mean a prohibition on power struggles, damn!

─Are we getting ruled by a cute president? If that’s the case, I’d be super happy!

No, seriously.

The unreasonable claims are starting again.

It feels unfair.

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In the end, the addition of the power struggle prohibition to the chat rules failed, and naturally, it turned into a casual chat broadcast like usual.

“Today, I feel like having pasta…”

─But doesn’t that make the host gain weight?

“…What?”