A Basement-Dwelling Loser, the Inquisitor – Chapter 25

[Rene]

[I’m really sorry up until now. I apologize.]

[Talk | 13 viewers online | 0:01:55]

“I truly regret that fact, and from now on, I will boldly broadcast with my voice.”

Of course, it’s not my real voice… but at least as the streamer ‘Rene,’ can’t we consider this my real voice?

I’m sure the viewers want that too…

─Turn on the voice changer right now, lol

─Shut the hell up and turn on the voice changer!!!

…What’s going on?

This reaction is completely different from what I imagined…?

I naturally thought there would be responses like, ‘Finally, she turned off that awful voice changer.’

But the chat window was somehow flooded with requests to turn the voice changer back on.

If it were just one or two people, I could think to myself, ‘Well, to each their own.’ But just glancing at it, at least 10 people were asking.

Out of the now 12 to 13 viewers, 10 were typing to use the voice changer again.

It must have been a perfect plan, so why is it going like this…?

“U-Um… didn’t you guys say you didn’t like the voice changer?”

─I don’t really care

─If I wasn’t going to watch because of that, I would’ve left the moment I heard the voice changer!

“…Ah.”

I see.

I did announce from the start that I was using a voice changer, so if they’ve stayed until now, it means they don’t care about that.

─Honestly, hearing your real voice reminds me of school, and I like it even less, lol

─Ah

─For real, lol

─If I had to fetch bread and milk every break, I’d be super annoyed, lol

─My PTSD is kicking in! Turn on the voice changer quickly!!!

This is a big deal.

I never imagined such a development could happen….

If I had to argue, continuing this broadcast wouldn’t have any immediate problems.

After all, all my viewers want it.

But if I follow their words and don’t use the voice changer, eventually, new viewers won’t come in.

If I switch to a male voice with the voice changer on, my current viewers will be angry.

Is this what they call being in a bind?

“Umm…”

Is there no other way?

I can’t afford to lose my current viewers, and there’s no guarantee I’ll succeed broadcasting like this with my real voice.

For now, I have no choice but to keep the current situation and gauge the reactions.

“Um, can you hear me okay…?”

After turning off the voice changer program, I started talking while observing the chat window.

─Finally feel a bit more comfortable

─Don’t say you’re turning off the voice changer in the future

─But why did you suddenly turn off the voice changer?

The chat was flowing with pleasant responses, as if it was a given.

This is awkward, really…

“Why I suddenly decided to turn off the voice changer…?”

But is it okay to say this?

It doesn’t seem like a story to be controversial, but somehow I feel like it might upset these people if they hear it.

…But they do have the right to know my reason.

“Well… it was because of attracting new viewers. A lot of people look down on it when a guy uses a voice changer to make a female voice…”

─Then you shouldn’t have used the voice changer in the first place!

─For real, nobody threatened you to use it, you idiot, lol!

─Are you abandoning us? Are you abandoning us? Are you abandoning us?

“Please don’t call me ‘noona’…”

Currently, I’m 16 years old.

My ID somehow says I’m 20, but my real age is 16.

There’s no way anyone in the chat is younger than me.

…Right?

You guys know I’m a guy, so why are you calling me noona?

─But if you’re worried about viewer inflow, can’t you just not say you’re a guy?

“Well, that’s lying…”

Of course, I’m already lying.

Claiming to be a girl while using a voice changer to produce a female voice as a guy is a lie.

But this is something I have to do to fulfill my grand plan.

No one can hold me accountable for that…

Probably.

─Honestly, there’s no need to mention you’re using a voice changer in the first place.

─For real, lol.

There are quite a few viewers who agree with that opinion.

Aren’t my regular viewers supposed to hate this kind of deception?

I’m not so sure anymore.

“Umm…”

…But it’s not entirely wrong either.

There’s really no need for me to take the initiative to say I’m using a voice changer.

“…Well then, since everyone is saying that, I’ll try not to talk about the voice changer from now on…”

─That’s how it should be!

─It’s ridiculous that you worried about this, lol!

=‘ㅇㅇ’ donated 1000 won.

Hey, are you the type to worry about unimportant things usually?

“It’s not unimportant! It’s about the direction of the broadcast, so I was being serious. And please don’t call me noona…”

Why do these people keep calling me noona?

You all know I’m a guy.

“…So what shall we do now?”

─Huh?

─Why are you asking that here?

─The host seems lazy; there’s a lack of content.

─Isn’t this only the third time on air, and already out of material?

…Huh?

Am I being called lazy?

“No, I was originally going to apologize for misleading everyone until now and talk about what the future of the broadcast would be, and what my goals are. But since that all ended in less than 5 minutes, I’m kind of flustered right now… Think about it, if your carefully made plans suddenly collapse in one moment, your thoughts stop, right? So this is unavoidable… And today is not my third broadcast; it’s my fourth. Although I know no one came to watch the first broadcast, I still put effort into it, you know…”

─Did you suddenly hit the panic button, lol?

─Does it make you feel good when you talk like you’re whispering in someone’s ear?

─Your voice is really nice, lol.

─So there’s a guy using a voice changer behind that voice, huh?

─Who pressed the panic button?

─How did this guy hold back the voice chat in New Dimension, lol?

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[Rene]

[I’m really sorry up until now. I apologize.]

[Talk | 13 viewers online | 0:48:55]

“So in conclusion, it’s not that I’m lazy; it’s just that sometimes things happen beyond a person’s control. And this is my fourth broadcast. Got it?”

─No, how scratched up is this guy?

─Do you really hate being called lazy that much?

─But how boring was the first broadcast for no one to watch?

─Oh dear.

─Why is this idiot talking about nonsense for over 30 minutes?

─Okay, everything you said is right, Rene… So let’s please just stop…

Fortunately, the viewers seemed to understand my grievances.

Well, they should understand, of course.

How much I pondered before starting this broadcast today.

After all, ‘lazy’ is one of the least fitting words to describe me.

In my past life, and even in the other world, when there was work to be done, I always strived without rest.

Sure, I lived as a hikikomori for a while after returning to Earth… but I must consider that a necessary break.

Anyway, this story ends here.

Now, let’s return to the main topic.

“So, what should I do now…?”

─?

─Wasn’t that topic already finished?

─What? I feel like I heard this story 30 minutes ago.

─No way, Rene, seriously!!!

“Umm…”

Unfortunately, it seems my viewers also didn’t have any good ideas.

Well, they came to enjoy my broadcast, not to think of what to do.

“Then, should we just play New Dimension…?”

Is that really the only conclusion?

Well, I did plan to be a New Dimension specialist streamer, after all.

─Are we doing PVP again today?

“Umm, if you don’t have anything in particular you want to see, PVP seems the most straightforward, doesn’t it…?”

─If we didn’t do Tagirion today, how about Tagirion?

“Ah… that wouldn’t be bad either.”

Now that I think about it, today is the reset for the Tagirion Raid entry limit.

I almost forgot about that.

─I’m curious about how she’ll handle it.

─Doing the raid without a priest and a paladin, whoa!

The responses in the chat weren’t bad. In fact, they were pretty positive.

“Okay, then I’ll log in to New Dimension first, so I’ll turn on the broadcast again in 10 minutes…”

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“Umm…”

In my case, I don’t use the voice chat feature in New Dimension.

So, if someone needs to talk, I solve it all through chat.

There’s no particular reason for that.

Since I’ve been alone at home every day, my concept of talking to someone has faded, and by participating in community activities, I got used to writing instead of speaking.

But now that I’ve started broadcasting, it means my voice will become known throughout the vast ocean that is the internet.

Of course, people think I’m using a voice changer.

[Unauthorized external program detected.]

[Please terminate the external program before using the game.]

“…Umm.”

I had it running just in case…

…Well, it shouldn’t cause any problems, right?

Since I have no intention of using the voice chat feature in New Dimension.