A Basement-Dwelling Loser, the Inquisitor – Chapter 33

[Rene]

[Major announcement]

[Talk | 19 viewers online | 0:35:21]

Thankfully, the uprising of unpaid slaves… I mean, Paddak was resolved quickly.

After all, it was something that had to be done, and considering the scale of the gal, there wasn’t much to manage.

Well, I didn’t really say much more, but they seemed to have come to their own little victory.

“Anyway, I don’t intend to make any regulations. Just make sure to respect the boundaries…”

─ㅇㅇ

─Leave it to the Rebongi, lol

“Usually, it’s those who say things like that who stir up trouble… But I shouldn’t say that, right?”

─Tenren

─Factually true

Anyway, I’m glad it seems to have wrapped up without any issues.

“So now…”

─If you ask what we’re doing now, I’m really dead, ㅇㅇ

“I wasn’t going to say ‘What should we do…’ Actually, I have something prepared…”

It’s not a lie.

This is something I’ve been preparing since the moment I thought I should create a fan club.

The name is…!

“Q&A… Ask Rene anything…! Waaah…”

Claps erupted around.

─What if no one has any questions?

─Are you really telling us everything?

─Your voice sounds super annoying, lol

“Hmm…”

The response was less enthusiastic than I expected.

I thought everyone would enjoy it…

“…Should I just not do it?”

─No, it’s better than that stupid shit, lol

─I’m not doing it!

─I had a lot of questions, let’s go!

The atmosphere in the chatroom changed in an instant at my words.

It would be a lie to say I didn’t feel worried about what to believe… but I decided to let’s proceed since I had various answers prepared.

I opened the memo pad and typed ‘Question 1’, then waited for the chatroom’s reaction.

─What levels of questions are allowed?

The first question was about the levels of inquiries allowed.

“As long as you don’t cross the line, I’ll do my best to answer.”

This ‘line’ is indeed a vague concept, but I believe our viewers… if they call themselves Rebongi, will respect it well.

─How old are you?

─Age

─Real name

─How did you start broadcasting?

And with that, the chatroom started to speed up faster than usual.

Let’s start with the basics, shall we?

“My real name is Selene. So, people around me called me Rene.”

─Damn, starting off with some nonsense

─So, you’re Sel? Hahaha

─Is this brat a foreigner? Is that really your name?

Just saying my name sparked a heated response in the chatroom.

Is my age and name that surprising?

It’s not odd for a foreigner to be on an online broadcast.

“Anyway, I am a foreigner… but my nationality is Korean now. And it’s my real name…”

I think of myself as a true Korean, but it doesn’t change the fact that I’m from that other world.

I wonder if it’s okay to call someone from another world a foreigner… but I can’t say everything honestly.

“My last name… Recently, a girl from upstairs asked if my last name was Sel, and I just said let’s go with that, hehe…”

Actually, I don’t have a last name because my parents are gone… but there’s no need to bring that up unnecessarily.

If we get picky, it’s not like I don’t have a last name.

The cult gave surnames to orphans too, after all.

But it’s not significant, so I don’t really care about it in my case.

“And my age… um. I’m 20 years old. I’ll be 21 soon since my birthday is coming up.”

─If you’re 20, are you a college student?

─Are you here as an exchange student?

“I’m not a college student. I only went to school until middle school…”

─Gasp

─So you graduated middle school;

Actually, I’m 16… but what can I do?

The country calls me 20…

Why does everyone feel the need to add years to someone else’s age?

Well, there are a lot of things you can only do as an adult, but I still feel like I lost four years, which makes me feel really bad.

This is all because of Iya, that girl.

What a horrible girl.

As I was talking, a sudden curiosity arose.

“By the way, everyone. Doesn’t Korea use the counting age system originally?”

Surely before my past life died, Korea used to count ages like that.

The moment you’re born, you’re 1 year old, and by the next January 1st, you turn a year older—that’s what we call ‘Korean age.’

So when I first returned to Earth, I saw my ID and thought my age was 20 years old, about to be 19 years old.

But apparently not.

From 2023? There’s a growing trend to move away from counting age.

I don’t know the reason because I didn’t look it up properly, but it seems to be the case.

Thanks to that, the moment I learned that, I wondered, ‘Is this place possibly not Earth?’

Of course, over there, they naturally used the actual age.

The concept of dates was a little different, but there were concepts of years and birthdays.

So when I first mentioned the concept of ‘counting age,’ the priests around me, including that Iya girl, laughed and said, ‘So you could turn two years old in one day?’

What a bunch of bastards.

I’m just a clueless little girl saying things, no need to laugh like that.

─No way, when did this happen?

─Didn’t this brat just say she was 20 years old?

─Rene is really a total old hag, lol

─Looks like they’re still famous for counting ages in foreign countries, lol

─I only heard about it for the first time in school = LOL

─But aren’t all these bastards also old hags who know that?

─You can learn about it in the old hag community, what’s that about, lol

─It is dizzying watching old hags say their age twice.

─I’m an old hag, but I don’t use counting age, ㅇㅇ

As I pondered over this, the chatroom ignited.

In this era, we get called old hags just for knowing counting age.

South Korea. Is it really okay like this?

I don’t think it is…

“So, it means that counting age is not used anymore…?”

─ㅇㅇ If you see someone using that around you, think of them as an old hag.

─Who taught this brat that stuff, lol

Has my past self become an old hag now? It hurts my heart…

“Shall we wrap up this topic and see if there are any other questions…?”

─Why do we have this concept in New Dimension?

─What does Inquisition Officer mean?

─Is this brat really a woman?

For now, I ignored the questions about my gender.

I already said I would casually skip gender-related questions last time.

I don’t want to complicate things unnecessarily, and for my grand plan, this should work.

…By the way, it seems they have a lot of questions about my New Dimension play.

Why do they think it’s a concept?

I was a real Inquisition Officer back in that other world.

So the Elun Cult, which I deemed a heretic in New Dimension, is indeed heretical.

“I am an Inquisition Officer… um, no, I’m a real priest. I know New Dimension is a game, but it’s a bit annoying because I am a real priest…”

─Can a 20-year-old be a priest?

─I thought you could only start at 24 years old.

─Is this brat a cultist? LOL

“If a person says this much, don’t you think something is up…? There must be a reason I can’t say it… Nah, to be honest, I became a priest at a really young age because of special circumstances. Usually, they’re older than I am…”

In the other world, it wasn’t just 24, but you could be appointed as a priest from 15 years old.

Of course, that was just in theory; in practice, you needed to be over 20.

The closest priest in the place I lived was 25 or something.

So, at least a 10 year gap.

Well, if you count experience, I was way more experienced.

“And I’m not a cultist. If I were a cultist, I’d be trying to recruit you all… which I’m not, okay? I don’t want to force my beliefs on anyone.”

If I were a cultist, then Christianity would be a cult too.

Wait… well, from my perspective, it might be right to call it a cult.

But I don’t really care since Earth has its own religious views.

What I truly hate are the cults that stray even further from that path… real heretics.

Like the Elun Cult in New Dimension.

─I don’t want to force my beliefs (while smashing heads)

─Does it make sense that a priest or paladin is smashing heads?

─Inquistion Officer (real) also gets smashed, lol

─What are the New Dimension Inquisition Officer bastards up to? They’re real heretics, haha

“No, they are really heretics, okay? By the way, you all, do you really believe in that Elun god? You don’t, right? It’s a game system, so you’re just pretending to be a priest, paladin, or Inquisition Officer, right? I’m not trying to impose my beliefs on anyone, but that doesn’t mean it’s okay to be heretical. Got it…?”

─Somehow it feels oddly logical, which makes me even angrier, lol

─Wow, just now I almost got convinced, whoa!

─I believe in Elun! I pray every day sincerely!

“…Is that so? Then ‘BabyBabyGiveMeMilk’… I’m going to ban you for 3 minutes. Repent and come back… Your nickname looks like it needs repentance too.”

─Lol at how vulgar the nickname is, haha

─Just because the nickname is vulgar doesn’t mean there’s a reason to die…

─I just saw someone die in front of me, whoa!

─The cost of a passionate opinion, T_T

─I won’t forget, martyr…

─I just wanted to play as a priest…

But why is the chat trying to defend those heretics so much?

There shouldn’t have been a single heretic in my broadcast…

Hmm. I’ll have to check again later whether there are any heretics or not.

Amongst the things heretics do best is to burrow into the cult and wage a war of public opinion.