Chapter-10 · EP-160

Episode 160: The Viewer's Perspective

I couldn't take my eyes off my phone screen.

On it was Benji, covered in blood.

"What's going on?! Why is it always me!"

The strange goblins with bright red faces were attacking Benji one after another.

To protect Benji, Zero swung his spiked metal club.

The goblin hit by the club flew back and fell, but… it didn't die. Bleeding from the blow, it slowly got back up.

"Why are these guys so tough?"

Crow shouted, swinging his double-edged sword.

He had been attacking goblins as well, but he couldn't seem to defeat them.

Benji, bleeding from scratches from the goblins' claws, swung his dagger while running away.

He was in a panic.

I couldn't understand what was happening on the screen.

Then one comment caught my eye.

'Angry Goblin.'

The goblins with bright red faces certainly looked angry.

'Isn't that a dungeon hazard?'

A dungeon hazard. Yes, this was a disaster. A disaster in the form of a massive outbreak of red-faced goblins.

The word 'Angry Goblin' stuck in my head, and I couldn't help but search for it.

I found out that they were enhanced goblins that appeared when goblins were tormented without being killed.

And that those who caused Angry Goblins to appear invariably ended up dead.

"Huh… Isn't that bad?"

The words slipped out.

According to online information, Angry Goblins had the strength of a floor two levels higher. That meant these guys appearing on the third floor were as strong as monsters on the fifth floor. And about a hundred of them were said to appear.

On screen, there only seemed to be six or seven, but Quadra Stream's four were already struggling badly. If another 90 or more were going to appear after this, Benji and the others probably wouldn't survive.

Then, on the stream, Benji was finally caught by a goblin.

Goblins clung to his arms and legs, and he couldn't shake them off.

"Stop! Let go of me!"

Then one goblin got on top of him, straddling him.

"Gyaaaaaa!"

Benji's scream came from the phone.

Even in this situation, Hood kept filming.

On the screen, Benji was bleeding from his ear.

The goblin straddling him grinned, holding Benji's bitten-off ear in its mouth.

'Isn't this just giving them a taste of their own medicine?'

A speculative comment appeared.

'Revenge? Then next… his guts?'

Benji had started his stream by cutting off a goblin's ear.

If the Angry Goblins had bitten off his ear in revenge…

Benji had eventually cut open a goblin's stomach and pulled out its guts.

Imagining him having that done to him in return made me feel nauseous with horror, yet I couldn't look away.

Probably the same was true for other viewers; the concurrent viewer count was increasing rapidly, already over 6,000.

"Benji!"

Zero, the strongman who had come to rescue Benji, swung his club, dragging the goblins clinging to his legs.

The goblin straddling Benji took a blow to the head from behind and was sent flying.

Just as it seemed the rescue had succeeded, new goblins attacked Zero.

Zero, who had been exploring the dungeon in a tank top, had his arms torn open by goblin claws, covered in blood.

Beside him, Crow lay unconscious, his prized sunglasses broken.

Hood was too engrossed in filming to seem interested in helping.

Then goblins swarmed Benji again.

"Stop! Please stop!"

Benji, crying with snot running down his face, desperately begged for his life, but the goblins didn't care.

A goblin dug its claws into Benji's leather jacket.

Benji's abdomen was torn open through the jacket, and blood sprayed out.

It really was revenge.

These goblins were trying to pull out Benji's guts.

A chill of terror ran down my spine.

――Just then.

"Get away from him!"

A figure came running.

With a shout, a blow landed on a goblin.

Then he attacked the goblins clinging to Benji's limbs.

Benji, his limbs freed, screamed and shook off the goblins.

We recognized the figure holding a wooden sword, protecting him.

'Justice Man!!!' 'Justice Man!' 'Justice Man really was a hero!'

The one who came to rescue Benji was the young explorer we had been mocking in the comments as 'Justice Man.'