Chapter 51 : Pockmarked Game

[Ruffian is now live!]

[Broadcast title: Pockmark Game Let’s-Play]

Today was the day to play the horror game I had sold in exchange for a Zero Two dance session.

Although it was called a Let’s-Play, I planned to finish it in about 8 hours and go to sleep at a reasonable time.

-Economics101: RuffiRuffi.

─insamanham :HNHN.

ArithmeticProdigy: Ruffi!

“Hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi. Nice to see you. Hello~.”

After greeting, I turned on the camera again.

But today, it’s not a half-cam.

It’s a full-cam showing my whole face.

[IWantToKillAllFckingGlasses donated a whopping 5000 won!]

-Please tell me where you sell those sunglasses so I can pour oil on them and set them on fire.

Sunglasses with dark tinting that you can’t see through, and a mask.

The one I used during the bikini broadcast was a waterproof mask, but this time it’s just a regular mask.

[SympatheticDragon donated a whopping 5000 won!]

-Who wouldn’t recognize a silver-haired, busty girl? Why are you so determined to hide your face? I’m confident I could recognize you in 0.1 seconds if we met, seriously.

“Ahem, forcing a Vtuber to reveal their face is a bannable offense. I’ll let it slide just this once, but be careful.”

That was a valid point.

If I went out with this body and this hair and viewers couldn’t recognize me, they must have been watching the broadcast in vain.

But if you ask why I still don’t show my face… it’s…

‘Because it’s fun…’

Because it’s funny to see the viewers get angry…

Because it’s enjoyable to control emotions…

[RuffianWhoStoleChickenDuringDelivery donated a whopping 5000 won!]

-Shadow Corridor is a dark game, will you be okay with sunglasses? It’s hard to see even with the naked eye.

“I have the monitor brightness set to maximum, so it’s okay.”

I gave a thumbs up and ignored the chats and donations trying to coax me in various ways, turning on the horror game ‘Shadow Corridor’.

In the intro, the protagonist feels a sense of adventure at the maze-like appearance of a back alley they happen to pass by and enters it.

As I navigated the narrow alleys, trespassing into people’s houses to find my way, it reminded me of my childhood when I actually did such things.

“Wow, this really feels nostalgic. When I was a kid, I lived in a complex of detached houses tangled like a maze just like this, you know? I’d jump from the second floor of one house and end up on the third floor of another, and when I went out to the first floor from there, there was another house’s rooftop right in front of me, it was so fascinating, you know? The houses were built on a hillside, so to get to school quickly, I’d jump over people’s walls, and even walk along those narrow walls like a ninja, you know?”

The forgotten memories resurfaced, and I got a little excited and rambled on.

“When I came home from elementary school, there was no one there, so I went out to play and explore, and when I wandered around places I’d never been before, it really felt like an adventure, you know? Then I’d get scolded by the aunties for going in and out of people’s houses. Nowadays, they’ve demolished everything and built apartments, so you probably don’t know that feeling, right?”

[IWIllArrestYou donated a whopping 5000 won!]

-You’re proudly bragging about trespassing, teacher.

Your way of thinking is truly different from ours.

“Elementary school students are juvenile delinquents immune to all laws! That’s the limitation of the Korean judicial system! Try to arrest me if you can!”

[RoyalThiefRuffian donated a whopping 5000 won!]

-What are you here to steal today, teacher?

“What’s there to steal in such a poor neighborhood? If you want to steal, you should go to a wealthy uptown area.”

-stecok: Robin Hood Ruffian LMAO.

ᅳTryingToChatWhileGaming: Raise your pitchforks! Burn the rich!

ᅳTheOneWithTheSoulOfLightAndDarkness: But if we raise pitchforks, shouldn’t we stab her first? She earns 30 million a month, too.

[dkdkdkdk33 donated a whopping 5000 won!]

-They say a tree that will grow well is different from the start, and even as a child, you couldn’t find a single trace of femininity, truly.

“Well, it can happen, right? A boy can play with dolls, and a girl can play and explore, right?”

Of course, I was a boy when I was young, but if I say that, they’ll just curse at me for talking nonsense again.

[Bitalim donated a whopping 30,000 won!]

-Every story you tell is so full of hardship, from living in a hillside shantytown since childhoodᅲᅲ.

“Hey, people live there, too. Why are you suddenly bringing down the mood? But thanks for the 30,000 won. Thinking about it after receiving this, I guess I am pitiful. So give me more, baby.”

[BirdThatCriesWhenItSeesAMoneyHungryPerson donated a whopping 5000 won!]

-Money-hungry, money-hungry, money-hungry, money-hungry, money-hungry, money-hungry, money-hungry.

“That person is really incredibly consistent, right? Maybe it’s not actually one person? Maybe it’s a group formed by a coalition of 10 or more people. I am not singular!”

After chatting with the viewers and passing through the alley, a strange tunnel appeared in front of me.

Even though it’s not a game with a high story focus, isn’t this a bit much?

“I mean, if you’ve explored this much, shouldn’t you just go back? How ambitious do you have to be to enter such a suspicious tunnel?”

Fortunately, nothing popped out from the first tunnel.

Not that I would have been surprised if something did pop out, you know?

I mean, I’m a guy who doesn’t know the feeling of fear at all, right?

Instead, a strange bell sound was heard in the dark tunnel, and it felt like being sucked into another world.

“Oh… Isekai… Are there any busty elf girls or blue-haired, ice-type, cool beauty girls?”

-nadang: Your otaku level is quite high.

-Vandark: Why are you looking for pretty girls LOL, shouldn’t you be looking for pretty boys?

“Don’t you know that girls like pretty girls too? Pretty is invincible and the truth, you know.”

I’m not a complete woman, but anyway, I heard that girls like pretty things too.

As I progressed, what greeted me was not an elf girl but the corpse of a cat, and when I approached the cat, the screen suddenly reversed, and a strange flashback scene began.

-nanilove: Take my cat .

-UnlicensedBike: You killed it!!!

-totoru: Cat killer!

“Hey, I didn’t kill it! Don’t blame me for something strange. And what’s this strange flashback scene? I don’t really understand it.”

Since I hadn’t looked up any information beforehand, I couldn’t understand the flashback scene, but it seemed like something was exploding.

I’ll probably understand as I play.

When the flashback scene ended, the cat’s corpse disappeared.

And as I moved forward, I came to a water-filled cave.

“Okay, I understood passing through the alley and the tunnel, but going through a water-filled cave is really too much, isn’t it? Is this protagonist crazy? What if he steps into a place like that without any fear and it’s suddenly 10 meters deep and he dies?”

ᅳYujuha: He does seem like a madman LOL.

-gggee: Just go with it and move on LOL.

-Panting2: Anyway, the protagonist is adventurous LOL.

Beyond the water-filled cave, there was a place full of ominous red spider lilies.

Like a Japanese-style game, there was a somewhat gloomy shrine, and it seemed like the game wouldn’t progress unless I entered it.

“Going through a dark tunnel, then a water-filled cave, and entering an ominous shrine? Why not just light some coal, seal the windows, and die cleanly? Why is he committing suicide so creatively?”

[PockmarkedGameLover donated a whopping 5000 won!]

-Teacher, why is your tongue getting so long? Are you perhaps scared?

“Me, scared? I’m a total horror game genius, you know? The person who grabbed a horror game package instead of a brush at their first birthday party?”

How could a man be scared by such poor graphics and calm background music?

Since the game wouldn’t progress unless I entered the shrine building, I moved inside.

And when I opened the closed door and touched the mirror, the screen changed once more, and it felt like the game was starting in earnest.

“I mean, how can he trespass so boldly? He just goes in without even saying ‘Is anyone there?’”

[LetsDoWell123 donated a whopping 5000 won!]

-Teacher, you also trespassed in the past.

“Hey, I was a juvenile delinquent back then, okay? This protagonist seems like an adult, shouldn’t he get permission from the building owner if he has any common sense? That’s why he’s possessed by a ghost. Tsk.”

In the dark hallway, relying on the small light of a lighter, my back stiffened with tension.

-Mariring: Why is he scared when nothing has even happened yet?

[hunsudum donated a whopping 5000 won!]

-Teacher, please press the left shift key. That’s how you run, okay?

“Hey, how can you run around in someone else’s house without any manners? Didn’t your teachers tell you not to run in the hallways when you were in school?”

-MilkPudding: -Boomer.

ᅳKindergartenWatcherKimJeongYeol: The funny part is that the person who seems to follow rules the least is explaining the rules.

“You guys seem to have a lot of misunderstandings about me. I’m a law-abiding citizen who follows the law very well, okay?”

I found a wall with two keys hanging on it and tried to grab them, but one fell through a grate-like thing on the floor.

“What the! Why did it fall!”

Anyway, I have to progress, so I picked up the remaining one, left the room, and as I walked down the hallway, I started to hear a bell ringing from somewhere.

A bell sound with a rhythm that makes my heart beat unpleasantly.

Isn’t this a signal of danger?

Should I go back?

I’m really Concerned, you know?

[FrustratedSoIllTellYou donated a whopping 5000 won!]

-Teacher, you have to press the W key to go forward, okay? What are you doing not moving for over a minute???

“Well, the bell is ringing over there.”

ᅳBackSpinKick: It’s a talent to stop at every single part like this.

-healing774: LMAO.

Economics 101: I predict a clear time of 100 hours.

-ApgujeongBackAlley: Can you even clear it?

I mean, I just took 30 seconds to compose myself before opening the door and stopped for a minute after hearing the bell, so why are you slandering me?

Isn’t this a refreshing pace?

Anyway, if I stop here, the game won’t progress, so I went forward, and suddenly another cutscene appeared.

“Ah!”

-gilgilgil: Why are you surprised when it’s just showing the hallway LOL.

ᅳEomDaeEomDaeEom: Like if you were surprised by the scream LOL.

―PrettyNani, you were actually a scaredy-cat, huh? Cute LOL.

As he chat said, the cutscene just showed the hallway and the bell ringing, nothing like a ghost popped out.

Still, the tension is no joke… this game doesn’t seem easy, huh?

It’s not because I’m a scaredy-cat, it’s just that horror games are supposed to be scary, right?

Right?