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Chapter 94 (Bulletin Board Chapter)
[Serious] Toru-Tia Thread 25 [Supply Shortage]
609 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
Our Toru-bro and Tia-tan reserves are running dry over here
610 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
Your sense of time is bugging out
It hasn't been that long since the day 'Anthem' ran into trouble in Kamioka Dungeon and Toru-bro and co. came to the rescue
611 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
I mean, it was pretty densely packed, to be fair
Saves Anthem, walks out of the meeting, explores a labyrinth with Anthem,
has a verbal brawl with Ilseria, and suddenly Chizuru's head over heels,
then a labyrinth vanishes and a Dungeon Rampage kicks off,
and to top it off he pretty much solo-kills two Dungeon Rampage bigshots
Is that guy even human?
Next thing you know, he's getting chummy with the heiress!
Says she took him under her wing 'cause the bro didn't look like he was having fun!
And after all that — radio silence for ages!
Would somebody please tell me what the heck happened?!
612 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
I'm done
613 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
lmao
614 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
Then again, for your average explorer, going quiet for a stretch like this is totally normal
The guys who are good at social media do post tidbits mid-exploration, though
615 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
Come to think of it, Isaac of 'Slayer' did put out a post about meeting Toru-bro
616 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
Aaagh, the suspense is killing me!
Next stream, we should really ask him to share a bit more info
This is bad for our health
617 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
Not to be Chii-chan, but we're getting our brains roasted too, huh
618 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
Some folks heat up in the wrong direction and never come back, though
The anti-Toru-bro, Kawai-Sakiho-condemning faction is out there spreading curses on social media around the clock
619 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
Just ignore them
If they were only barking, fine — but push one step too far and Kujo's specialists will come out, plain and simple. How they manage to keep flinging curses around, I'll never know
620 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
Specialists, you say? Would that be the legal scholars, good sir?
621 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
How frightful
Then again, it's got nothing to do with you if you just behave, so I'm not scared
622 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
Think about it calmly — Kawai Sakiho going out of her way to work near Toru-bro, she really must have steeled herself
Any way you slice it, bowing her head and saying "we won't cross paths again" would've been the peaceful route
And in that case, I can't imagine Toru-bro going out of his way to expose her
623 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
Can we drop that subject already
The Sugai Dungeon RTA had insane hype too, but there's been zero follow-up
Wish he'd do a retrospective stream or something
624 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
It was so over-the-top someone even put together a compilation of famous explorers' reactions
I love the foreign explorer chanting "it's fake!! OMG!!"
625 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
If I didn't already know Toru-bro and Tia-tan, I'd have taken that for a fake video too
They really are just off the charts
626 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
Honest question — aren't they stronger than 'Slayer's White Knight and the dragon-person?
627 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
Hard to say
How strong the Sugai Dungeon black dragon actually was needs verification by other explorers, and the possibility that it was a surprisingly mediocre monster can't be ruled out
628 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
Or maybe that string of estimated S-ranks along the way was actually nothing special?
629 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
As a possibility, sure
But as a matter of fact, Toru-bro did fell in a single stroke a bigshot that Ilseria's bow couldn't finish off
630 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
Also, that demon-type in the Sugai Dungeon mid-layer boss room that gave the Kujo heiress and Toru-bro a bit of trouble? Tia flicked it aside like a speck on her sleeve
631 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
His social followers and streaming-site subscriber count keep shooting up, but the thing is, Toru-bro isn't looking to be a popular guy
He ignored I-chan's reply too
632 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
That was gold lmao
634 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
The thread's gone all calm, huh
635 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
Hell, us gabbing on a message board in this day and age makes us the heretics
Post opinions as an Anonymous, hear other guys' opinions, and that's all there is
Lately the trend is playing influencer, making shit-tier definitive statements, and going viral
636 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
This old-timer can't make heads or tails of it
637 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
Most of the influencer-pretenders are middle-aged dudes, though
638 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
So thou'rt not of our kind after all
639 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
The legit influencers have gotten pretty careful about how they handle Toru-bro, though
Kujo Reiko's behind him, and at the rate he goes, it wouldn't be strange if he blew up into a scandal somewhere
Insult him and someone gets angry; root for him and there might be payback waiting
640 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
Even we can't promise Toru-bro will never blow up
Him suddenly doing or saying something off and drawing the public's ire is a completely plausible pattern
641 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
Mmm, love that vote of confidence
642 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
[Breaking] S City, the Japanese government, and the Labyrinth Agency announce their official position on the series of labyrinth-related disturbances.
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699 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
Summary.
S City: "Dunno the details ourselves, but one of them 'labyrinths' disappeared and a 'Dungeon Rampage' happened. Investigating this and that. The mutated Noumi Dungeon and Sugai Dungeon are scheduled to open up to general explorers in stages, depending on investigation progress. That is all."
Do these guys even wanna try
700 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
Tia-tan said Assemblyman Sasamori sealed Kamioka Dungeon, remember?
For that matter, there'd be no reason for Sasamori to be at that spot at that timing, so no matter how you think about it, he's gotta be mixed up in it somehow
701 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
A textbook 'bureaucratic' announcement
That said, I can't see them disclosing the 'Labyrinth Disappearance' to the general public, background included, so my impression is: well, this is about what you'd get
702 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
Even supposing there were a method to erase a 'labyrinth,' laying out the process in detail would just breed copycats
There's a certain contingent of lunatics out there who, even after making it through that 'Chain Dungeon Rampage' era, are all "labyrinths still shouldn't be touched," after all
703 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
C'mon, there's gotta be a better way to word it
Are they mocking us?
704 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
Well, I do think they're mocking us to an infinite degree
Not defending them here, but the city, the government, and the Labyrinth Agency each have their own position, so when you bundle everyone's claims and mellow them out, you probably end up with something like that
705 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
The fine-grained announcements will come from each of them separately
S City can't ignore the government's and the Labyrinth Agency's intentions
The government has no option but to gather voices from the field and put out statements for the general public
The Labyrinth Agency... what's their deal?
706 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
It's that "open to general explorers in stages" thing, right?
Smells like a blend of the ordinary "we're wary of Dungeon Rampages" line and the "we want to get to the bottom of what happened behind this incident, but we won't disclose that to the general public" line
707 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
No telling what Noumi Dungeon looks like, but you can get a rough picture of Sugai Dungeon from the heiress's stream and Toru-bro's stream
Not to play the butler here, but that dungeon is a goldmine
If you're a light-on-your-feet explorer, pack your bags this second and GO for S City
708 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
Yes — let's go to S City
709 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
If I were rich, I'd snap up land and open a shop on the spot
710 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
Thing is, the genuinely loaded are probably already moving
Without even waiting for this official statement
711 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
So one regional city's gone and transformed into the hottest town in Japan
712 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
For the citizens it must've been a bolt from the blue
Then again, if Toru-bro hadn't been around, a considerable death toll was guaranteed, so luck was on their side
713 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
"Transformed," you say
You've changed on us... you've really changed
714 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
He just wanted to say it lmao
715 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
So is 'Anthem' still sticking around too, I wonder
If S-rank 'Slayer' met up with Toru-bro, safe to assume they're here investigating Noumi or Sugai Dungeon
716 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
Those guys don't stream, you see
They mostly tackle popular high-difficulty dungeons, so they do show up in the streams of clans that do labyrinth exploration streams
717 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
That lady streamer the White Knight saved — smitten out of her mind, had the viewers crying
718 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
Chizuru was head over heels for the bro too, though
719 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
And for some reason Toru-bro looked like the tougher conquest
Plus she got NTR'd by the Kujo heiress
Alas, poor Chizuru-dono
720 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
Uesugi Akito's level of handsome is just absurd, man
Not a single bad rumor either
Remember when that A-rank explorer got jealous of him and started saying whatever, true or not? Rebuttals came flying in instantly, and by the next day he was doing an apology stream
And since a good chunk of the rebutters were explorers 'Slayer' had saved, he's treated like a model explorer
721 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
And compared to that, Toru-bro-san here...
722 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
A decent person wouldn't go around calling other people trash. Even if you think it, would you bother to comment? Birds of a feather... no, that's not it. 'Trash from different holes.' Well, in that sense, I'm trash too. I'm not in a position to talk big.
723 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
Words you'd absolutely never hear out of Uesugi Akito's mouth — much obliged
724 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
Mmm, so rich with flavor
Including the part where he bothered to prepare a copypasta in advance
725 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
It's a real split-opinion thing on social media too
There's the odd girl falling head over heels, but
I like the guy, yet I can't figure what it is about Toru-bro that pierces women's hearts lol
726 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
Did you just say Toru-bro's "what" is piercing these women?
727 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
The cursed blade, I would assume
728 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
lmao
729 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
Hey guys, bad timing I know, but go look at Toru-bro's social media
Says he's doing a here's-what's-been-happening stream
730 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
IT'S HERE IT'S HERE IT'S HEEERE!
731 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
Standing by buck naked
732 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
Mine heart is good and ready to receive the bro's cursed blade, verily
733 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
I just caught a glimpse of one reason board culture is dying
734 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
Can't be helped
We're destined (read: fated) to fade away, us lot
735 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
We just don't transform (read: change), huh... the lot of us...
736 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
Well, looks like you did pick up the kindness of glossing your readings
737 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
Guess that means we've grown (read: changed), huh
738 Dungeon-bound Anonymous
Looks like the heiress will be on the stream too
Let's look forward to it