[TS] Starting the Broadcast - Chapter 127

While I was downloading the game and checking basic information and rules, Mia urged me saying people were waiting.

I received the code and connected simultaneously to Among Us' private room and Discord chat room.

A total of 8 people including me.

Among them, Keul-mu-mu, Mia, Waka, and 19-year-old Girl are already acquaintances.

The other three people I'm seeing for the first time.

Actually, it's the first time seeing them as a BJ, but I knew two of them as BJs.

They were BJs whose broadcasts I had watched a few times when I was a man.

"Hello, I'm BJ Sangsu."

He was a pro gamer turned BJ from the game 'Starcraft', which was even called a Korean folk game.

He was so good at handling the alien race among the three races of human, monster, and alien that he even got the nickname 'Space Commander' during his pro days.

"It's our first time, right? I'm BJ One Punch."

BJ One Punch was a BJ specializing in League of Legends, and while his highest tier was Diamond 1 so he couldn't be evaluated as very good, he was famous for developing all sorts of novel builds.

There were quite a few builds he developed and popularized, like AP Alistar, Observer Caitlyn, Support Miss Fortune, etc.

Thanks to that, he was quite popular compared to his tier and had almost the same number of fan club members as Mia and Lark.

Lastly, the female BJ I uniquely didn't know.

"Hello, I'm BJ Lena."

From what I heard from Mia, she's been broadcasting for about a year, but boasts an enormous broadcast time... She's even nicknamed a broadcasting machine.

Her average daily broadcast time is almost 11-12 hours?

It's a really shocking broadcast time.

Even broadcasting 6-7 hours a day is tight for me.

"Ah, I'm BJ Hani. Nice to meet you, those I'm meeting for the first time."

"Wooow! Universal superstar Hani!"

"......"

Ignoring Mia who was embarrassing me with strange modifiers, I focused on Keul-mu-mu's explanation.

As expected, Keul-mu-mu is diligently taking on the role of host here too!

"Since Hani said it's her first time playing Among Us, I'll explain lightly. You know what impostors and crewmates are, right?"

"I checked that much in advance."

"Okay. Then I'll explain quickly."

Among Us is a game depicting the confrontation between crewmates and impostors.

Crewmates can win by finding and expelling all impostors or completing missions, while impostors need to reduce crewmates to the same number as themselves before missions are completed.

The method for crewmates to find impostors was simple.

If they witness an impostor killing a fellow crewmate or there's such circumstantial evidence, they can call an emergency meeting with the button in the center of the map or find a body to identify the impostor.

But if they're deceived by the impostor's acting or mistakenly vote for a fellow crewmate as the impostor, the situation becomes even worse, so choices must always be made carefully.

Besides that, among the missions were so-called visual tasks that could prove one's crewmate status, and it was also possible to monitor specific areas of the map through CCTV etc.

"Impostors have means too. Just like crewmates have buttons for missions, impostors have sabotage buttons. They can use these to forcibly issue emergency missions, close doors, or turn off lights. They create chaotic situations and assassinate in that gap."

Moreover, there were vents in various places on the map that impostors could use.

Like teleporting, they could move here and there on the map through vents, which could be used to hide the impostor's own movement for a perfect crime, but conversely was a double-edged sword that could reveal suspicious movement and expose them as the impostor.

"I think that's enough."

"Yeah? Alright. Then we'll have 2 impostors. The map is the spaceship. Is everyone ready?"

"Ready!"

"Let's start quickly."

"Impostor, impostor, impostor!"

The game starts.

I got crewmate this round with a red basic character.

-If it's the first game, you should die clumsily lol

-For real, I'm excited. How will the master's political skills be?

-God be careful of Keul-mu-mu. His thinking is no joke.

-Did you turn off Discord? It's the rule to turn it off when the game starts.

"Ah, thank you. I forgot."

It's the rule to turn off Discord when the game starts and turn it on again during meeting time.

After doing that manipulation, I was about to move when a black character was standing blankly next to me.

"Hm? Ah, this was Sangsu-nim, right? But why are you standing next to me without moving?"

-He's waiting to kill you now. Hurry and run!

-He'll kill you as soon as the kill cooldown is over lol

-The newbie initiation is harsh;;

"Really?"

No, I can't die from the start.

I started fleeing blindly to the right.

Looking at the map, I see 'Weapons' written next to the cafeteria.

This is Weapons... There wasn't much.

There was one chair in the center of the narrow space with a square hologram window floating in front, and a vent hole was visible at the top.

And BJ Sangsu still trailing behind me.

"Ah, why do you keep following!"

-Lol are you scared?

-As expected, bullying newbies is the sweetest.

I don't know if he's trying to tease me or if he's really the impostor, but I know it's dangerous to be with just two people.

An exclamation mark appeared saying there was a mission in Weapons, but I'm not in a position to take care of that now, so I cleanly gave up and moved downwards.

A path splitting in two.

The left was O2 and the right was Navigation.

Let's keep going down.

Going down a bit more, I saw Shields and a green character standing in front of it.

The nickname Keul-mu-mu written above his head.

Feeling relieved thinking I'm saved, I enter Shields at 5 o'clock.

"Um... Was this the visual task?"

-Yeah;; If you clear that mission, the light on the right outside turns on. If other people see that, your alibi is proven.

-Oh! Good memory. After hearing the explanation just once.

-Let's do the mission quickly.

As I start the Shields mission, Keul-mu-mu and Sangsu who were nearby come to watch.

The Shields mission had low difficulty so it was cleared in an instant and the external light turned on.

With this, I confirmed my alibi to the two people.

"Good! It's going smoothly. It's my first game, is this talent?"

-Lol ah, suddenly I want to see a big play. I hope Keul-mu-mu and Sangsu are the two impostors.

-For real lol just wait.

Looking at the map, Communications was right next to Shields at 5 o'clock if you turn left, and there was a large Storage at 6 o'clock.

There was no mission in Communications so I was thinking of moving straight to Storage, when suddenly a meeting was called.

I quickly turned on Discord.

"I found it. The body was cruelly butchered and fallen in a corner near Reactor. The culprit must be a psychopath!"

The dead person was BJ Lena and the one who found and reported the body was BJ One Punch.

"Was the body's underwear removed?"

"Oh please!"

"Hey!"

"Ah, without realizing... Sorry sorry."

19-year-old Girl's 19+ joke activates unfailingly today too.

The atmosphere becomes chaotic in an instant.

"Hani, try saying that line."

"Pardon?"

"You know. The line that's perfect for this situation."

"Ah......"

I was wondering at Keul-mu-mu's sudden urging, but I'm not called Ms. Sharp for nothing.

After clearing my throat with a fake cough, I shout:

"The culprit is among us!"

"Ooh!"

"N-No, not me. I'm innocent!"

I rode the atmosphere.

Keul-mu-mu stepped forward and started checking people's alibis one by one.

The groups that scattered to the right and left centered on the cafeteria at 12 o'clock when we started.

Those who moved right were me, Keul-mu-mu, and Sangsu, and the other five went left.

Among them, Lena died, so the suspects are narrowed down to the other four.

"No, someone among you three could have taken a vent."

"Um... May I speak?"

At Waka's objection, I request permission to speak.

When everyone accepts, I tell what happened from the beginning in order.

"I passed the visual task and Keul-mu-mu-nim and Sangsu-nim confirmed it. And Sangsu-nim has been moving together with me since the cafeteria, so he has nothing to do with this murder. I met Keul-mu-mu-nim in front of Shields,

but I wonder if there was enough time to kill Lena-nim, take a vent, and move back here."

-Ooh! Is this a newbie? Is this a newbie? Is this a newbie?

-Look at her speaking calmly lol Game genius Lee Hani!

My opinion was accepted as quite credible, so both Keul-mu-mu and Sangsu were excluded from suspicion.

Of course, I was excluded for passing the visual task.

In the end, Mia, Waka, and 19-year-old Girl were suspected, but since nothing was clearly revealed, everyone decided to skip this meeting.

The game resumed, all characters gathered in the cafeteria.

I turn off the sound and start moving quickly.

I was planning to go the opposite way because Sangsu's movement was quite suspicious, chasing me continuously from the start even though he wasn't involved in this crime.

"Oh! It's Mia. If it's Mia, I can trust her."

I saw a yellow character moving towards Upper Engine at 10 o'clock.

Even if Mia was the impostor, she wouldn't kill me, a newbie, so harshly from the beginning.

With that belief, I followed behind her.

-Lol really?

-Is something big coming? Is something big coming? Is something big coming?

Mia, me, 19-year-old Girl, and One Punch moved left, while Keul-mu-mu, Sangsu, and Waka moved right.

Movement is an important clue that can identify the culprit, so I make sure to remember it.

19-year-old Girl and One Punch passed right through Upper Engine, probably having finished their missions there, and it seemed Mia would go straight too.

"Mia, go with unnie!"

I'm scared to be alone.

I call out anxiously even though she can't hear because Discord is turned off.

The mission given to me is fueling the engine.

I was performing the mission to finish quickly and follow, when suddenly a yellow character approaches the center of the screen and an animation of stabbing me repeatedly with a knife plays.

"......"

-Lolololololololololololololol!

-For real lol just wait.

-This is it. Thank you for the lesson, Mia-nim^^

-The host pretended to be talented but got caught right away? You got hit hard from behind, right?

"Revenge!"

How could Mia stab me in the back.

I understand how Julius Caesar felt when he cried "Et tu, Brute?"

Mia, just wait until next round!

I moved my ghost character and sharpened the knife of revenge.