Streaming Life After Paying Off Debt - Chapter 89
It was a difficult journey.
Starting with a monster that approached us pretending to be a person,
a spirit craving human bl**d in the darkness,
a door that continuously opened no matter how many times we opened it,
and various monsters like a statue that moved quickly when no one was watching us blocked our way.
“It was never easy.”
It was a continuous perilous battle, like walking on thin ice every time.
Although they lost to us, they were foes we could never underestimate.
However, the hardships seemed to finally be coming to an end.
Stopping my reminiscing, I slowly lifted my head.
Suddenly, a large door filled my view.
“This is the last one…”
The door, adorned with all kinds of metaphysical patterns, boasted a size unimaginable in everyday life.
Moreover, upon closer inspection of the door, I noticed that the monsters we had just encountered were engraved on it.
Taking all this into account, this door was undoubtedly the entrance to the final boss.
As I stood before the impending final battle, I quietly expressed the emotions I was feeling.
“Huh… it was really tough, wasn’t it?”
I spoke to my comrade who had weathered numerous adversities with me, but all I received in return were replies from completely unrelated people.
– “Shut up hahaha”
– “You didn’t find it tough at all hahaha”
– “Where did you sell your conscience hahaha”
“No, guys, please don’t interrupt the mood. This is the part where you should be crying in a movie, right?”
– “Shouldn’t the tears be shed by the older sister carrying someone as useless as you?”
– “For real hahaha When I saw the crying angel statue, I thought you were human when you ran away by yourself hahaha”
– “Finding the exit and then saying there’s none is really absurd hahaha”
“Hey, people can struggle sometimes! You shouldn’t undervalue someone else’s abilities!”
– “It’s about personality, you fool hahaha”
I kept turning away from the factions that were defaming me.
Then I slowly approached my comrade standing beside me.
“But Luna, you don’t think so, right? I believe in you.”
No sooner had I finished my question than Luna’s response came back.
“I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sorry… Please don’t leave me behind.”
Her voice, split and tremulous from how much she had screamed, sounded so pitiful as she desperately searched for me.
‘Was I a bit too harsh…?’
Her greatly deteriorated appearance became a trigger for me to reflect on the past.
‘Was it a bit much to pretend to be dead after escaping first and asking her to find my corpse? Or was it wrong to say let’s go together and send her off alone?’
But no matter how much I thought back, all I could recall was a past that had no flaws, and I couldn’t find the cause for her devastation.
Feeling regretful that I could not soothe her pain, I silently apologized for what I was about to do.
‘What I’m going to do this time seems a bit harsh… I’m sorry.’
With my heart lightened by the apology, I approached the door.
As I pushed it open, a forest appeared.
“… Huh?”
As I opened the door from the building, a forest came into view.
It was an absurd situation, but it was undeniably a reality unfolding right before my eyes.
‘Ah, is this not reality?’
In any case.
The forest, exuding an overtly ominous aura, was too conspicuous to enter, but
we had come too far to stop now.
“Well then, shall we go?!”
– “Let’s go let’s go~”
– “Caster, please follow our sister closely~”
– “Watch out for the microphone setup.”
With the support of numerous people, Luna and I joined hands and stepped forward vigorously.
“Let’s go~!”
“Sniff… I don’t want to go…”
“Isn’t this just something special for the last time?”
That was the first emotion I felt upon entering the forest.
Contrary to the atmosphere that suggested ghosts might appear, there was only the presence of trees.
In the silence where not a single sound could be heard except for Luna’s groans beside me, the emotion I felt was none other than disappointment.
“What the hell, is that all there is?”
This wasn’t even overhyped; after creating all sorts of atmospheres, the contents were merely a few trees standing!
I was excited to enjoy a thrilling adventure with Luna, but I couldn’t hide my disappointed voice.
However, at that moment, the rapidly rising chat room caught my attention.
– “Huh? Is this place…”
– “Shh shh shh shh”
– “Please be quiet!!!”
“Guys, what’s going on?”
I lowered my voice, suddenly alerted by the panicking viewers.
Before the viewers could answer, an event occurred that explained my confusion.
– “Chirp chirp chirp”
Suddenly, the sound of a bird chirping appeared.
I turned my head toward the sound, and there was a bird chirping on the tree in front of me.
– “Chirp chirp chirp”
The sound of the bird echoed in the silent space devoid of wind, bringing life to the forest.
Unintentionally, as I listened to its cheerful chirping, I heard a strange sound that I could not identify.
– “Chirp chirp chirp”
– “Ssss”
The sound that came between the bird chirps was thin and secretive, resembling a snake moving.
With a faint sound that felt like it might disappear at any moment, I closed my eyes and sharpened my senses, realizing that this sound was heading toward the tree in front of me.
I opened my eyes again and looked at the tree standing before me.
In that moment, the tree vanished.
– “Chirp… Bang!!!”
In that instant, a loud sound echoed, and the forest fell silent once more.
Once again, the forest was a place where even the sound of wind could not be heard.
The bl**d splattered on my face reminded me that just moments ago, a bird had been chirping.
– “Is this a quiet place? That’s the concept.”
– “If you make a sound above a certain decibel, monsters will attack.”
– “If you make a loud noise here, your body will explode.”
– “This is a chapter where you just need to keep your mouth shut.”
The viewers, who belatedly explained the nature of this forest.
I wanted to share the information I had learned with Luna, but my attempt seemed a bit late.
At the sight of the bird that had just burst before my eyes, Luna let out a scream she had been holding back.
“Ahhh!!!”
The sound of a woman’s piercing scream filled the silent forest.
At the same time, a familiar sound reached my ears.
– “Ssss”
“Ah.”
– “Hahaha”
– “Goodbye”
– “M- bye”
“This is bad.”
That was my last word in this life.
– “Bang!!”
We revived at the door, just as we had appeared at the time of our d*ath.
– “M- hahaha”
– “Ugh… my head…”
– “I feel like I’ve just been in someone’s stomach for a moment.”
“Hey everyone, what are you talking about? We just arrived, right?”
– “Haha, that’s right”
– “Whoa! What’s this door? I’m scared.”
– “Seems to lead to the boss ㄷㄷㄷ”
“Is it that when you open the door, a forest suddenly appears and inside there are cannibal monsters that eat humans?”
– “No way~”
– “How can a forest appear inside a building?”
– “How long are you going to keep this cr*p up?”
As I bantered with the viewers, a dissatisfied viewer suddenly appeared in the chat.
To his question, I responded in a friendly voice.
“Until that person calms down.”
There was a reason I wasn’t immediately progressing in the game after reviving; I was chatting with the viewers.
“Uwaaa… Mom, I don’t want to do this…”
Her pathetic crying from the next seat was proof that needed no further painful explanation.
At first, I offered words of comfort to assuage her sadness, raised the mission amount, and made various efforts along with the viewers.
However, after several repetitions, we realized that leaving her alone was the most efficient approach.
“Just wait a little bit. It’s almost over.”
– “For real hahaha Just pretend you lost your memory here hahaha”
– “Ughhhh… Ttyddy!”
– “Did it take five minutes for her to calm down?”
– “Then it’s about time, right?”
“Shh… Hah…!”
Luna calmed her sobs just as I began to speak.
The way she moved exactly to a set time sent shivers down my spine.
‘Could it be… none of this is an act?’
A thought crossed my mind that maybe we were all being deceived by her.
However, I could set aside such suspicions when she spoke to me.
“I’m sorry… Ugh! I’m just so scared…”
‘Ah, that can’t be it.’
– “Hahaha”
– “My stomach hurts hahaha”
– “Did that person really get attacked?”
‘If that is an act, she wouldn’t be here, she’d be acting instead.’
I struggled to suppress the laughter that was trying to escape at the sight of her continuously sniffing.
And then I shared the information I had learned with her.
“… So that’s how it is.”
“So, that means… Ugh! We shouldn’t make any noise, right?”
“Yeah, that’s right. There might be other conditions, but we need to find out when we go inside.”
“Got it… Huh!”
Suddenly pausing her words and swallowing hard, she drew my suspicion.
“What’s wrong? Did a bug appear?”
“…”
However, even to my question, she maintained her silence.
As I matched her silence, a stillness settled over us just like earlier in the forest.
“…”
“…”
This silence was broken about 30 seconds later.
“Phew! I kept holding my breath to stop my sobs…!”
Suddenly breaking the silence with an absurd remark, she stood up.
As if that wasn’t enough, she walked towards the door and began to urge me.
“Alright! Miju, let’s go!”
With a tone as if she had never cried at all, and a gesture suggesting she would protect me, my patience crumbled.
“Ahhh…! Hahaha!”
– “Hahaha”
– “My abs, my abs are hurting hahaha”
– “So funny hahaha”
“Eh? Why suddenly?”
She looked at me as if questioning why I burst into laughter.
She seemed oblivious to the fact that her expression only provoked me further.
“Ughuhuh…”
My chuckling caused another delay in our departure.