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Chapter 11 (Bulletin Board Chapter)
[Miracle] Thread for Discussing A-Rank Explorer Clan "Anthem" (Quarantine) 75 [Natural Disaster or Man-Made?]
331 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
Anyway, I'm just glad. That was seriously terrifying.
332 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
Really, thank god.
When Meg-tan screamed and then her exchange with Chii-chan... I seriously cried.
At times like that, you really think "someone, please save them," you know?
333 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
>332 Same
334 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
COULDN'T AGREE MORE
335 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
"Couldn't agree more" in the Reiwa era lmao
So old dudes watch Anthem too, lol
336 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
Sparkling, radiant young girls like that are straight-up nourishment for the soul.
TV idols, you can see right through their greed.
The Anthem girls are genuinely working hard.
So I'm really, really glad they made it through this time.
337 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
And with that, on to the main topic.
338 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
Yeah.
339 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
The whole reason this is a quarantine thread. Discussion about non-Anthem members is allowed here.
340 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
As long as it's about people connected to the members, sure.
341 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
・A request to explore Kamioka Dungeon (B-rank) in S City, XX Prefecture, goes to Anthem.
・Anthem accepts and heads to S City.
・The day before the exploration, there's a stream from a hotel in the city.
・Exploration members: Leader Meg-tan, Samurai Girl Chizuru, Saintess Airi, and the usual camera operator Sanagi-chan. Everyone except C-rank Sanagi-chan is an A-rank explorer.
・Exploration up to the middle floors goes smoothly, the Anthem members bantering is so precious.
・Past the middle floors, discrepancies start appearing between the map and the actual labyrinth structure (Airi speculates it might be a "Labyrinth Mutation").
・Floor 14. What should have been a continuing maze is instead a great hall, and in the back — a dragon (later revealed that a black-armored monster was hiding behind the dragon).
・The battle, initially at a stalemate, collapses when camera operator Sanagi-chan is knocked unconscious. The streaming camera is thrown to the floor, and viewers are forced to follow things by audio only for a while. The worst stretch of time.
・A Black Knight appears on the front lines and takes Airi hostage (speculation).
・Meg-tan and Chizuru are cornered by the dragon and Black Knight working together (speculation).
・Given the situation, they should have abandoned Sanagi-chan and Airi and fled to the lower floors, but leader Meg-tan couldn't make that choice. Meg-tan and Chizuru steel themselves. I, at this point, broke down sobbing. I prayed for someone to save them. I seriously prayed.
・That's when something strange happened.
・A mysterious blonde swordswoman suddenly appears and blows the dragon away (the camera was still discarded, so this is also speculation).
・A guy in work-site clothes who also appeared out of nowhere picks up the camera. He seemed surprised, going, "This is a crazy expensive one." I was confused. Who the hell is this guy.
・Worksite-bro, handling the streaming camera carelessly, approaches Meg-tan and Chizuru and, with somewhat socially-awkward behavior, hands the camera to Chizuru. I was confused too, but Meg-tan and Chizuru seemed pretty damn confused as well.
・From here, Chizuru alternates between pointing the camera at Worksite-bro and at the swordswoman's battle with the dragon for a while. As expected, a dedicated camera operator really is a necessity.
・Meg-tan remembers Airi, still held captive by the Black Knight. For some reason, she asks Worksite-bro for help. Can't blame her — I was also thinking "please save them."
・The Black Knight tosses Airi to the floor and approaches Worksite-bro.
・Worksite-bro drags a sinister blade out of his palm.
・Worksite-bro swings the blade from a distance that absolutely shouldn't have reached, bisecting the Black Knight (at this moment, I did NOT miss Chizuru letting out a distinctly girly "Ahh♥").
・Boss defeated. Worksite-bro pushes the responsibility of explaining the situation onto us viewers and picks up the Black Knight's magic core and the dragon's boss drop. The conversation between the swordswoman and Worksite-bro couldn't be heard even at max volume, but from their attitude and demeanor, the two seem to know each other.
・It wasn't caught on camera (Chizuru was only filming Worksite-bro from partway through), but the swordswoman apparently used recovery magic on Airi. Everyone's safety confirmed.
・Meg-tan bursts into tears, and Chizuru is staring blankly at Worksite-bro, so Airi checks the stream and ends up getting the story from the viewers.
・After that, including Meg-tan and Chizuru, they chat a bit with us viewers and end the stream.
・Presumably, Labyrinth Department staff from S City headed out to rescue them.
・That's when my tension finally snapped — I realized my throat hurt from crying too much and I'd been holding it in, so I went to the bathroom.
・Above is my recap of yesterday's Kamioka Dungeon exploration stream, with as much subjectivity removed as possible.
・Sorry for the long post.
342 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
(Subjectivity removed...?)
343 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
He did add the disclaimer "as much as possible," so, well...
But I kinda get where he's coming from.
Though as a Chii-chan fan, that one point is irreconcilable.
344 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
>343 Remove the subjectivity as much as possible.
345 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
Says you.
346 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
Seriously, that swordswoman and Worksite-bro — who the hell are they?
The swordswoman barely had any close-up screen time, but she was overwhelming the dragon all by herself. The same dragon Meg-tan and the others could only stalemate.
347 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
And that Worksite-bro too.
What the hell was that sword?
I genuinely thought I got cursed just through the stream screen.
How the hell do you drag something like that out of your palm?
348 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
Don't you get the feeling that, like... maybe we just witnessed something incredible?
349 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
I get the feeling, but we didn't actually witness anything firsthand.
350 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
We're eyewitnesses.
Looks like clip videos are spreading like wildfire on social media too.
Trending words: "Anthem," "Labyrinth Mutation," "Dragon Slayer."
351 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
What about "Worksite-bro"?
352 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
Probably because that sword was too damn creepy — not many clip-makers touched it, seems like.
Which conversely means the views are concentrated on a single video.
Trending word: "Cursed Blade Kagetsu."
353 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
Well, Worksite-bro did say the name himself.
Seriously grateful he saved them, but that sword is a hard pass.
Way too creepy.
And it dissolved into dust once he was done using it.
I'd bet on it — that thing is bad news.
354 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
(Meanwhile, Chizuru appears to have gone full girly mode.)
355 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
As a fellow sword user, maybe she felt something?
I mean, she was clearly making those girly sounds from the moment Worksite-bro pulled out that cursed blade.
For Chii-chan fans, that guy might be "bad news" too.
356 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
>354, 355
You two, stand at attention. Right now.
357 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
Anyway, figuring everything out is gonna be tomorrow at the earliest.
No matter how you look at it, Anthem should be resting right now.
No idea what S City's Labyrinth Department will do about Worksite-bro and the swordswoman though.
But Anthem as a clan will probably give Worksite-bro and the others some kind of thanks or reward.
Maybe they'll explain something on Anthem's stream.
358 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
I mean, those two aren't famous explorers, right?
She was overwhelming a dragon that two A-ranks couldn't beat. There's no way she's not well-known. And yet — me, an explorer otaku — has zero clue who she is. I've been searching this whole time.
Maybe an overseas explorer who just happened to be diving in Kamioka Dungeon?
359 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
Then what about Worksite-bro?!
That guy didn't give off overseas explorer vibes at all, right?
360 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
That guy seemed a little socially awkward, so I like him.
If he were a normie, he'd definitely be gently comforting Meg-tan and snapping up flags like crazy.
If he hadn't been a shut-in type, I couldn't have handled it.
361 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
Snapping (profound implications).
362 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
Are those really flags you're talking about there?
363 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
But seriously... thank god they're okay.
364 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
>363 Same
365 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
COULDN'T AGREE MORE
366 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
Don't repeat it lmao
But seriously, I'm gonna head to bed soon.
You guys sleep when you reach a good stopping point too.
367 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
Regarding: I just woke up and missed the entire damn festival.
368 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
Go lurk for thirty minutes and come back.
369 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
Only thirty minutes? lmao.
370 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
I mean, half a year IS a long time.