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Chapter 12: Collab Stream Start - Viewpoint: Negomin

"Hey Negomin everyone, Kon-Nego~! It's Negomin!"

Kon-Nego~

Kon-Nego~

Doing a stream the day after yesterday?

Where's that uncle?

What's Kon-Nego?

Came to see the uncle

Alright, alright, quite a crowd gathered right from the start. And not just my regulars either—feels like viewers from all kinds of circles are gathering. Yesterday's momentum still hasn't died down.

"Today we're having fun dungeon exploring! Once again we're here at Shinjuku Dungeon! I'd love to just jump right into exploring but... today! We actually have a guest with us!"

Guest?

Like Negomin has any friends who'd appear on her stream!

Hurry up and bring out the uncle

Gross tryhard

Cute

Is that uncle coming~?

We're done with Negomin

Uncle not here yet?

Who's this girl

Oh my, the chat is getting rowdy, so rowdy. Because I went viral yesterday, the comment section's quality is way worse than usual. But rest assured, you chaotic viewers—just you wait! I've got him right here!

Honestly, the moment I found him, my heart soared. It was lucky to the point I wondered if I'd used up all my luck in this life. To think, to actually think I'd meet him...

And on top of that, to think he'd even appear on my stream...! I'm so happy, so happy I might explode.

"And so, here's our guest!"

I cheerfully pointed the handheld camera at him—Shibasaki Ichiro-san.

"Ah... hello, nice to meet you. I'm Shibasaki Ichiro of Shibasaki Cleaning. Thank you for having me today."

Stiff

What's with this uncle

The uncle actually came out

Who

Lame

Boyfriend?

Maybe yesterday's guy?

Seems kinda different doesn't he?

Different person lol nice one Negomin

...Huh? The comment reactions are lukewarm. Do they think he's a fake? Well, I guess his clothes are a different color from yesterday...

"Um, this is the person who saved me yesterday. I think everyone knows about him since he's become such a huge topic right now. And so, I happened to run into him on the first floor earlier! When I couldn't help but talk to him, he agreed to let me observe his work today! Yay!"

Good for you

Real?

So his name is Shibasaki

'Happened to run into' huh

Who

Just brought some random plant probably

All uncles look the same

But the build seems similar

Shibasaki Cleaning actually seems to exist for real

I'm disappointed in you Negomin...

Enough already

Is this seriously the real deal?

Even after explaining, there are still a lot of skeptical viewers. Is he really that different from yesterday...? True, he doesn't have that murderous atmosphere from during combat yesterday, but I feel like the characteristic flow of magical power from Shibasaki-san is pretty distinctive.

But once they see Shibasaki-san at work, I'm sure everyone will do a complete 180.

Negomin's desperate to get famous lol

Bring out the real uncle

Stop with the stupid comments. It's Negomin's stream so stop going on about uncle uncle

Who's even gonna watch this stream

Everyone calm down a bit

Stop being a mod wannabe

Yo! ✋😎

Just watch quietly

Chaotic comments, comments trying to manage them, comments telling people not to react to those comments, and completely unrelated comments all mixed together into total chaos.

Ugh, whatever, I'll just ignore all the comments for now.

Anyway, I have to keep things moving. Just standing here won't prove anything, and I won't gain any new fans either.

I glance sideways at Shibasaki-san, but he doesn't seem bothered by this chaos at all. He should be able to see the comments too, but he's completely unreactive. Is he used to this kind of thing?

"So, um, we've come up a bit to the upper middle layer, floor 11."

Oh wow really

Already?

Fast

Shinjuku Dungeon was insanely crowded today

Watching while waiting in the entrance line

Shinjuku Dungeon today was absolutely packed with people. For one reason—to find Shibasaki-san who appeared on my stream. Why they're searching varies from rubberneckers to party recruitment, but streaming with Shibasaki-san under these circumstances is risky.

If I streamed in a careless location, a huge crowd would rush in with rubberneckers and recruitment offers, and it wouldn't even be a proper stream.

So I chose the cave section of floor 11, in the upper middle layer.

Only C-rank and above can enter the upper middle layer. The numerous E-rank and D-rank explorers can't come here, and stronger people would probably go search in the lower middle layer from floor 21 onward, or the deep layers from floor 31 onward, so I figured this would be a hidden gem. Sure enough, there's no sign of people around floor 11. Plus, it's fairly maze-like so we won't be easily found.

Good call on my part, if I do say so myself.

I really need to thank Shibasaki-san for readily agreeing to my request to film somewhere quiet.

...I have a lot to be grateful for. Even if some trouble does happen, I think it'll stay within the range of being good content for the stream. But I absolutely have to prevent anything that would cause problems for Shibasaki-san.

Also, there was a post on social media saying Sandai-ren is mobilizing for the search—I wonder if that's true. I do have a tiny bit of desire to see Sandai-sama with my own eyes.

"So with that said, honestly, I don't know anything about what dungeon cleaning companies actually do. What kind of work do you normally do?"

True, don't really know about that

Is that even a job?

Probably just picking up trash or something

"That's right. When I say cleaning business, most of it is processing monsters after explorers have defeated them and stripped them of materials."

Huh

Went to the trouble of getting a fake just to get attention?

Does that even count as work?

Seems like even I could do it

"Corpse processing, huh. Do you use any special equipment for that?"

"Yeah, I always use this."

There it is

lol

They even prepared a deck brush

Identity confirmed

C L E A N I N G C O M P L E T E

This is actually the main one

Shibasaki-san holds out the deck brush he was carrying. He was carrying it so naturally that I didn't even notice.

He does corpse processing with a deck brush too? He said he was a cleaner so I was curious and looked up dungeon cleaning a bit before coming, but they wore more... how should I say it... professional-looking equipment.

I'm not doubting him or anything, but is Shibasaki-san really a dungeon cleaner?

"So, um, how do you work with that deck brush? I can't really imagine..."

"Well... there's a monster corpse nearby that's been reported to the Management Bureau, so let me demonstrate once."

Saying that, Shibasaki-san strides deeper into the cave. Then, up ahead, a monster corpse lay on the ground. With no meat or skin, only bones remaining, I can't tell what type it is.

"What monster is this?"

"If it's appearing around here, probably a Lance Tiger. It's been stripped quite carefully so there's almost nothing left, which makes it hard to tell."

It's actually there

Whoa so this is what a corpse looks like

Monsters really do have different structure from normal creatures

Everyone's so focused lol. Even though he's a fake

So it's a Lance Tiger. I thought it was an Assault Jaguar

Lance Tiger—that's a tiger-type monster with a huge horn on its head. Its heavy charging attack with a running start is a trauma-level blow for C-rank explorers who just ranked up. I remember being troubled by them quite a bit in the past too.

"I just got a comment asking 'how did you know it's a Lance Tiger and not an Assault Jaguar?'—Shibasaki-san, what did you use to make that judgment?"

I understand the commenter's point. On this 11th floor, there's another monster with a similar build. That would be the Assault Jaguar.

It hides in shadows with quick movements and launches consecutive attacks—its attack style is the complete opposite of the Lance Tiger. Their colors and appearance are quite different too, with Lance Tigers being yellow and Assault Jaguars being black. However, both are four-legged beast-type monsters, so their skeletons are very similar.

If it were me, I couldn't tell them apart at all in bone form. Actually, this skeleton doesn't even seem to have anything like a horn—so isn't it actually an Assault Jaguar?

"Well... look here, at the part that would be the skull."

"...It's slightly dented?"

"Exactly. Lance Tiger horns come off surprisingly easily, like deer antlers. And this part here is the mark where it was removed. This is a feature Assault Jaguars don't have."

"I see! I didn't know that..."

Huh

Learned something

Is that so

So he is a professional

"Lance Tiger horns sell for a relatively high price. The hide is also prized as material for its cut resistance, so they probably skinned it. The meat... there are still traces of fire use nearby, so they likely processed it for food. And so, only the bones with few uses and hard to sell remained here... that's about it, I suppose."

"Wow, you can tell all that from a single corpse."

"Though honestly, that's unnecessary knowledge just for processing."

Why can he talk so smoothly like that

This uncle's explanation is super interesting

Negomin's totally overwhelmed lol

Well I mean it's just an 11th floor monster. No need to know about it

But you were totally listening intently

Where did Negomin even find this gem

Ooh, the flow of comments seems to be going in a good direction after listening to Shibasaki-san's talk. As expected of an expert—he really is a professional cleaner.

"That was a bit of a tangent. Well then, let's do it."

With that, Shibasaki-san positions his deck brush toward the bones lying on the ground.

...Oh no. I just realized something major. In my excitement, I rushed into this on impulse, but this stream really was way too unplanned. Shibasaki-san's combat yesterday was intense, but I don't know if his work scenes are equally intense.

What if it's incredibly boring? I don't mind if I get more haters, but if some viewer gets angry over something weird and causes trouble for Shibasaki-san...

"Please watch."

At this tense moment, Shibasaki-san gently lowers the brush part of his deck brush onto the bones.

SWOOSH! Saaah...

A mysterious sound rang out, and something like dust rose from where the bones had been.

"......?"

???

Huh

Just sand

Ummm?

It turned to dust in an instant

Where'd the bones go

Crushed it with a deck brush?

lol

This person is the real deal