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Chapter 29 : Petty Reason & Karmic Dream
It was currently midnight.
Ikuryu Honda was waiting for Jetblack to call her. She can't sleep due to the excitement of acquiring 250 trillion yen.
She doesn't have a stream tomorrow so she thinks she can take a sleep later after acquiring the money that she will get.
Which is never going to happen as suddenly, someone appears besides her. Of course she still didn't manage to notice this because the person that suddenly appeared besides her was pretty good at concealing her presence.
"What a surprise."
When the person spoke, that's when she finally notices her. She flinches in surprise as she took a sitting position immediately and looks around her bed. Besides the bed, slightly behind her, is a girl who might be on her twelve or thirteen years of life, with a height of 144 cm. She is wearing a hoodie and was staring at her way it what she thinks might be a cold gaze.
"What!?" Honda uttered in surprise.
The person, Hoshimachi Ayumi, is the one who appeared besides her bed. She uses a portal to get here.
As to how she knows where is Honda located?
She reads it at one of Jetblack's notes, in his list of contacts. Even the address of where she is currently staying, the house of her family, and even her secret villa somewhere on Aoyama was written on his notes. It seems like Jetblack have taken quite a liking to Honda that he even put all of those in his notes.
Anyway, Ayumi uses this knowledge to get to this place. She can easily learn the coordinates of this place using her Psychokinesis and Analysis. She have a range that encompasses all and beyond Japan.
"The one who tried to destroy my life is someone like you." Ayumi continued with her speech.
When Ayumi saw Honda's face, it reminds her the usual two-faced girls from her school. The type of girls who will cling to those who have a lot of friends and fame so they can proudly weigh their own ego to the other people. Basically, they are those girls who usually likes to go into some others clique and say whatever praise to those popular people while sneering in disdain to those they saw as useless and less than garbage in their eyes.
Basically, a typical bitchy cronies.
Honda have the same look as the girls who bullied Ayumi in her past life when she was still Sakaguchi Kotomi. Those girls will do every bad thing to the "Pariah" of the school so they can join the people on the top.
She also exudes the same aura as those girls. This causes Ayumi's mood to become bitter.
"What are you doing? How did you get here!?" Honda asks in a panic.
It was such a surprise for her to suddenly see a girl standing besides her. She just pops up like a ghost.
"I am here to retaliate." Ayumi simply replied as she stares at her. "Aren't you the person who instigated all of these mess?" She said in a cold tone.
Honda still didn't understand. She can't connect the Kotomi that was on her imagination and Ayumi who still looks very young. She was still thinking that the true identity of Kotomi is just some middle age woman that can be commonly seen at the side of the streets.
"What are you talking about!?" So she can't help but ask that in confusion.
"Am I wrong?" Ayumi asked with a tilt of her head. "It seems like you're still confused who am I." She muttered to herself before focusing her attention to Honda again. "It's simple. I am Sakaguchi Kotomi."
Honda's mind is still slightly befuddled. She still don't know how the girl who introduced herself as Sakaguchi Kotomi gets inside her room.
"... Can't speak?" Ayumi said with a curious look.
"... I don't know what you are talking about."
Honda finally processed what the girl in front of her is saying. It took her a moment to gather her wits to herself.
She doesn't know how Ayumi got inside her room, but she thinks her life was in danger so she wants to heavily deny any involvement that she have.
"Still acting dumb?" Ayumi muttered to herself again.
"No! I really don't know anything!" Honda denied while thinking about what to do with this situation.
The situation is pretty bizarre for her. She was being confronted by a child, but she was strangely scared of that child. She also pops out of nowhere in the middle of the night. This is a part of time where children like her are suppose to be sleeping.
She managed to process that this girl might be the one behind Sakaguchi Kotomi, but she still can't wrapped up her mind about her true purpose and what is she even doing in her house.
"I see."
Ayumi became silent for awhile after saying that. Her cold gaze still focused on Honda's way.
"So... Wakai Seijin is your handle name huh..." Ayumi said once again, which makes Honda surprised.
Honda was sure that her identity won't be associated to her virtual persona. She doesn't want to be seen as related to those "Geeky Stuffs" when talking to her real life friends.
She was the kind of woman who looks down on things that she thought not part of the true society. What she saw as not part of the true society are those shut-ins and otakus which are everywhere in Japan. She saw them as garbage and she doesn't want to be seen as related to them.
So it was a surprise for her that Ayumi knew her identity. She made sure to make it a secret. She even made her act much more different than her real counterpart.
"... What do you want with me?" Honda now stared at her with her eyes narrowed.
Even when the people from the World Creation Company knows her real name and Vtuber name, they have a rule not to say it to others regardless of what happens. Which is natural because companies handling Vtuber groups will naturally make a rule that will separate their real self and their virtual self. Failure to comply to these rules will immediately cause them to be fired. And because the laws pertaining these kind of business matured so they even made a law stating that those workers offending this rule can't work to any companies that handles Vtubers.
This causes Honda to feel threatened, and her strange fear of Ayumi changes into hostility.
'She is just a child. What am I being nervous of?' Honda thought to herself in frustration.
Ayumi doesn't care what she felt about this. She just wants to do one thing.
"Didn't I tell you?" Ayumi said. "I am here to retaliate." She continued with a cold tone.
Honda, having collected her courage, sneered at her way before standing up to her bed.
"You? Retaliate? Hah! What can a kid like you do?" She spat in a mocking tone.
The fact that she got to this place without Honda noticing was forgotten to her mind. For now, her mind was rationalizing itself, making her think that Ayumi was just a child that she can easily put down with her feet.
Basically, she was denying her own fear. Forcing herself to see things in her convenient reality.
"Hmm... it doesn't matter what I will do to you." Ayumi started with a neutral tone. "The only thing that matters is that you will regret ever doing every malicious actions that you incur to me, and the many people before me." Ayumi declared with a voice filled with a righteous fury.
Ayumi reads the contracts that Jetblack have with Honda. This also includes the names of people that she let the guy do whatever just to destroy their lives.
Honda's suspicion was now proven. She thinks that she can't lie to Ayumi because she even knows about the other people that she ordered Jetblack to be gone.
"Well, does it matter?" Honda sneered on her way. "Your just a child, what can a kid like you do?" She said in a mocking tone.
"It doesn't matter what I can do." Ayumi simply replied. "I just want to know one thing before I start." Ayumi continued, not giving Honda to react to her. "Why did you do this to me? Why cause all of these when I didn't even do anything to you?" Ayumi honestly ask that in curiosity.
For a long time, since this happened to her, she was very curious just why Honda tries to destroy her life. Breaking anything she have until nothing remains. Ayumi feels that she can't have a peace of mind if she doesn't know the reason about it.
Did she do something? Did she offend Honda in some way?
Ayumi doesn't know what she did. She tried recalling everything she did and she knows that she didn't even do anything to Honda. Even if she did manage to offend anyone, those people doesn't even relate to Honda.
So she doesn't know why Honda was being so malicious to her. She even instigate a way that will essentially scar a normal girl for her whole life.
If she didn't have any powers, she might have been rape and worse.
She was curious. She wants to know what spurs Honda to do these horrible things to her. If she attacks Honda without hearing her reason first, Ayumi might even feel guilty of it because she will think she did something horrible to Honda that Ayumi just doesn't recall.
But Honda's words utterly destroy any sympathy Ayumi have with her.
"Why?" Honda started. "Because your a threat!" She spat as she looks down at her. "The first time I see you, I already know you will surpass me. I can't let someone surpass me like that!" Honda continued with her expression turning into anger. "You shit for brains losers are nothing but garbages! Can I let a garbage get ahead of me? Of course not! That's not how it works!" She yelled in indignation.
Honda doesn't know why she is saying it but her lips is certainly getting loose.
This is happening because Ayumi's Charisma was working to her. Because Ayumi wanted to know something, the other person will answer her, and also openly reveal their feelings with it.
Honda just rationalized it as her talking to a child. She thinks no one would take a child seriously even if they revealed what she just said.
"... I see..." Ayumi felt disappointed at Honda's answer. She also felt more angry at her. 'Just because of that!?' Ayumi thought in disgust.
She can't understand it. How a person can take such horrible actions just so they can still be on the top.
"What... do you feel disillusioned?" Honda somehow understood Ayumi's disappointment. "This is how society works! If you can take it, you take it! That's how you can stay at the top!" Honda said while feeling smug about it.
'That's how society works...' Ayumi recalled those words when she heard it at Honda's mouth.
This is also what those people from her school always say to her.
This is reality. This is real life. This is how society works. Life is unfair. Just suck it up. That's how you deal with life.
She always hear those words repeatedly. They always define what is "Normal" for the others. If other people are even a slightly different than them, they are a freak, a loser, or someone lower than a garbage. For those "Normal" people, they always go on and on like they know how life should work at the others.
Anime? It's trash! Games? Are you a kid! Figurines? That's disgusting!
Even their constitution and disabilities will be seen in scorn by those "Normal" people. They saw someone who always stutters on his words, he was already a creep. They saw a fat guy, he was already disgusting. They saw someone who just moves differently than them, they are already a whacko.
Some people are understanding of course. But that's only the minority. The world was filled with people who defines what is right from the other people. Because for them, that is life. Going against it is just idiocy. You just deal with it.
'This woman... was just like them!' Ayumi thought as her hostility increases in intensity.
She was always the butt of the joke in her past life. The sacrificial lamb so the "Normal" people can enjoy their youth. And what the people always tell her is just to deal with it.
Honda was like that. A person who will put down another just to stay on their position. They are a kind of people who will hurt others while they stand on the high pedestal.
Ayumi hates them to the core. People of their kind are the reason Ayumi even became a shut-in on her past life. She can't even take off her fear of interacting with people because of her ingrained trauma.
She was recovering thanks to her streaming with the wider audience, but it wasn't enough to make her confidently interact with a stranger.
She won't wear a hoodie when coming here if she have any confidence to herself after all. Even when she was angry, she doesn't want the other party to look at her appearance. That's how much trauma she have because of her bullying.
'I have suffered a lot, and even Fubuki-chan was involved in this mess, just because this woman doesn't want me to be popular!?' Ayumi seethed in rage.
She have decided. she will just make Honda suffer.
"... You know what, I am just planning to slap you on the face or something. Maybe tell the public all of your bad deeds along with the evidence. I am sure it will cause your career to drop down." Ayumi said with her tone becoming more colder. "But now, I just want you to suffer." She said as she steps forward.
Along with her stepping forward is her not holding back her presence anymore. This causes the atmosphere inside the room to become very heavy.
It also causes Honda's fear to resurfaced in her heart. Not because she can feel the overwhelming atmosphere that Ayumi was releasing but because her soul was screaming at her to run away.
She was gripped with the base instinct to survive. She was very scared.
"W-wait!? What are you doing!?" Of course Honda was confused why she is being gripped with fear.
Awhile ago, she was just confidently standing up and looking down on Ayumi. This doesn't make sense to her at all.
"I am going to make you suffer. The consequences doesn't matter." Ayumi coldly told her as she raises her hand.
"... Ahaha... why are you raising your hand?" Honda can only take a step back as she try to laugh off her fear against Ayumi. 'What is happening to me!?' Honda thought in a panic.
The most common thing to do here is to incapacitate the child that was looks much weaker than her. Then she can gloat all she wants and make the child cry.
But she can't even take a step forward. Her legs are refusing to go forward. Anytime she tried to do that, it instead move backwards like it was natural.
Her survival instinct basically overrode every control of her body. While she was still trying to rationalize what is happening to her, her body refused to even get close to Ayumi and was forcing itself to run away now.
"... Something that I didn't do all my life!" Ayumi answered her question as she uses her ability.
"What is... ugh..." Honda tried to ask more but she suddenly lost consciousness.
"... I am not going to say sorry. This is necessary." Ayumi muttered as she turned her back on Honda. "I will wait for you to confess everything." She muttered next before opening a portal.
Then she entered that portal before it vanishes. Leaving Honda's prone body on the floor.
'What is... happening...' Honda thought as she found herself in her studio.
She was just standing there. Like she was always there to begin with.
'Right... I think I just dozed off while I am standing?' Honda thought to herself in confusion. 'Oh well, it's time to do this troublesome job.' She thought before going to her station.
Only to be stopped by a hand.
She glared on that way only to see her Senpai, Tokina Sora, there who was scowling in her way.
"Eh? What is it Senpai?" Honda asks in confusion, not knowing why Sora was looking at her like that.
"Don't call me your Senpai!" Sora exclaimed in indignation.
She then pulled her out of the way, causing her to land on her back.
"Oof! What's wrong!?" Honda asks in shock.
"Your asking what is wrong?" Sora asks while looking at her in hostility.
After Sora said that, many silhouettes of people slowly revealed themselves on Sora's back. Honda recognized some of those people.
"W-what!?" She was surprised as she looks at them.
They are the people whom she put down just so she can stay on her position. It was from her classmates when she was on elementary school, to the people that she recently causes to suffer.
"It is your fault!"
"You should be the one on our position!"
"Do you have any conscience?"
"Your disgusting!"
"You fucking wench!"
"How does it feel, being ganged up by the people you scorn?"
"DIE!"
"You are a monster!"
"Less than garbage!"
"Just die already!"
"You ugly fucking bitch!"
"It's your fault that I am like this!"
"Do you still sleep peacefully?"
"I hope you burn in hell!"
All of them are cursing her on her way while some are mocking her.
"... What are you doing!? How did you get inside my studio!?" She asks fearfully as she tried to stand up.
When she turned around, she saw the people from her management. With all the members of Yubelverse being there too.
"What studio? This is not yours to begin with!" He heard the CEO himself shouted on her way.
"What!?" Honda shrieked in surprise before she looks around.
She was shocked when she saw herself in the middle of the streets next. The whole crowd was staring at her in disgust.
"Isn't that the culprit?"
"How disgusting!"
"Who is that anyway?"
"You shouldn't look, she'll corrupt you surely!"
"She should just die in a garbage somewhere!"
"Your just a bitch!"
"Get out of our sight!"
"What is happening here!?" Honda asks in a shrill as she looks around her surroundings.
When she tried to ask that, she felt a hard object hits her head.
"Ow!" She cried in pain as she holds the back of her head that was hit.
Looking on that direction, she saw that every crowd on her surroundings are now carrying many rocks and even paint buckets with them. They are looking at her in a fury as they prepare to throw all of it in her way.
"Wait!" She tried to stop them with her hand raised in a stopping motion.
But they still throw anything they have on her way while they are throwing curses and insults on her way. Most of them are even disgusted at her.
"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!"
She screamed in fear as she felt every thrown object on her flesh.
Then she found herself in a bed, still curled up due to being rained of rocks and paint buckets.
As she looks to the side, she saw Jetblack with his back turned to her.
"... Hey..." Honda can only say that as she tries to cling to the hope that this guy might help her get out of this insane situation.
But when he turned around, he gave her a stare that shows his hatred in her way.
"... Yo'bitch!" He slapped her face.
"Ow!" She felt a stinging pain on her cheeks and felt shocked at what is happening to her.
"It's ya fault! Now I have nothin. Ya ruined evr'thing!" He yelled as he pull a quick punch on her other cheek.
"Aaaahhh!" Honda can't help but just cry in pain as she fell to the bed sideways.
Then Jetblack moves to the desk where his computer was located. From there, he picks up a gun and pointed it at her way.
Honda was still trying to recover her senses when she heard Jetblack made a monologue with a lot of curses at her.
"... W-wait... what did I do!?" Honda asks in fear, becoming confused of everything.
"Whaddya do?" He said before coming his gun. "Ya messed up, that all!" He answered her before pulling the trigger.
This hits her on her forehead, and she can only stare at his way in shock as she fell on the bed.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"
With a start, Honda woke up in her prone position. From there, she found a note lying besides her.
The memory of her weird dream was still vivid. She can still feel all the abuse that she got on that dream.
She tried to regulate her breath while trying to recall what happened before she lost consciousness.
'I think... someone visited me?' Honda thought to herself before looking at the note on the floor that was besides her.
She then took it and tried to read it.
To, Wakai Seijin
Hello, I will leave this note here to tell you how you can ease your punishment. You see, I made it so that every single day you will be having a nightmare. Those nightmare varies but it basically causes you to have a nightmare depending to all of the bad things that you did. Your nightmare will occur frequently if you try to ever defy me or do something bad to others. That's the kind of punishment that I gave you.
If you want to ease that up, then I suggest confessing everything you did on the internet. All the people that have their lives destroyed because of you, all of the nasty deeds that you did to get to your current position, and also every people that was colluding with you. Say it publicly on stream. It doesn't matter if you are using your Vtuber avatar or your real self. You just need to do that so these dreams only occur once a week.
Of course if you try to go against me, you will have a nightmare everytime you sleep. If you try to go back to your bad habits, you will have a nightmare everytime you sleep. Basically, don't do anything strange so you can have some peaceful days to sleep.
From, Sakaguchi Kotomi
P.S. No one will ever believe you even if you let them see this. It will also increase the frequency of your nightmares. I hope you understand the situation that you are in.
After she finishes reading that, she rips the paper into shreds before standing up in anger.
"You dare mess with me!? You don't know who you are messing with!" She said with her teeth gritted before looking at the time. "It is still too early. I think I should sleep a bit more." Honda said before throwing the shred paper on the trash bin.
She doesn't want to believe Ayumi's threat so she goes back to her sleeping.
And one hour later...
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"
She woke up with a start, her eyes wide open in fear. She looks around her room and saw that the sun is still not rising yet.
'No! This is not real!' She thought to herself before trying to sleep once again.
Thirty minutes later...
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"
She screamed once again as she woke up with a start. Her body standing up in quick manner as her eyes look around her room in fear.
Her dream was getting worse everytime she tries to go back to sleep. It now involves the people that the lives she destroyed torturing her as people on her stream celebrated the day that she became a trash with the sole purpose of being whipped to death by the mass.
The worse of it is that she vividly felt those nightmares like it was real.
As to how Ayumi did this, she just uses her Mental Control God. It is the ability to control anyone's mind.
For Ayumi's intellect, she can easily play with the minds of the human and give it new functions. One of it is specifying the conditions of her target's dreams. She just specified that Honda dreams of everything that she have done and Ayumi also increases her sense of guilt. It is easily done because even guilt is just a mental reaction of a person. She turned guilt into a dream where Honda will always see her sins and let those people have their payback.
Basically, Honda was torturing herself. It was this sense of guilt that Ayumi intensified so Honda was hurting herself in her dream.
Dreams are just a figment of imagination. Something the human brain made based on the stored memories and knowledge inside it. This is what Ayumi manipulated so her dreams will always be a nightmare.
If she tries to turn for the better, her sense of guilt will also lessen. She will still have the nightmare, but it would only be nightmares with people insulting her or causing her grief, unlike the recent ones which is essentially killing her repeatedly.
Yes, Ayumi gave her a punishment that was brutal even for her standards. It was a punishment that Honda will carry for a lifetime.
Of course Honda doesn't know this. She thinks this is just some sort of condition that was forced into her due to drugs.
So she tried to sleep some more. She slept two more times to these days and woke up with worst nightmares before she just stop sleeping at all. The interval in which she wakes up after sleeping is becoming shorter, with the current one being only five minutes.
Honda gave up sleeping and just started her day as it is.
First day of punishment...
Honda still doesn't believe that she will have a nightmare everytime she sleeps. Though she was pretty exhausted because she doesn't have enough sleep yet. So she dozed off on her computer while she was interacting with her fans on her Chirper.
Theis only causes her to wake up screaming in less than two minutes after she dozed off.
"What is happening to me!?" She screamed in frustration as she scratches her head repeatedly.
Then she decided to ask for a check up on a doctor due to this. Only for them to tell her that she was fine.
It causes her to become frustrated and exhausted when she came back home. Then she tried to sleep on her bed, only to wake up thirty seconds later.
"Stop!"
Second day of the punishment...
She only slept for a bit and screamed repeatedly, before giving up sleeping at all on the midnight.
She decided to just pass the time on her computer talking to her real life friends. Though she can't focus too much after just an hour.
She finally decided to buy some sleeping pills when another hour passed.
After using it, she manages to sleep for just an hour. Though when she wakes up, she was screaming and crying at the same time. Her eyes are bloodshot and she was looking around her room erratically as if someone was going attack her anytime.
In the end, she tried to stay awake for the whole day. With her attention going anywhere due to remembering her assailants on her nightmares.
Third day of the punishment...
"I am sorry, I am feeling unwell today." That's what Honda said to the management before dropping the call.
Today, she felt very lethargic. She can't even move properly due to the lack of proper sleep. She can't even eat properly now because she can remember some of her dreams involving gross things. She even remembers the tastes of those things, which always makes her lose her appetite.
Going to the bathroom was impossible for her anymore. She still recall her dream that causes her to be bathed in acid when she just opened the shower room.
Her sense of guilt was slowly becoming dangerous. Because she doesn't want to destroy her image at her fans so she doesn't want to confess to everything.
"Please make this stop!" Honda shouted in distress as she holds her head again.
She has been lying on her bed and trying to take some rest. But because she was becoming scared of sleeping so she also tried to stay awake. It was a never-ending cycle of desiring a sleep and avoiding her nightmares.
She wanted to endure more. She wanted to but she was slowly losing faith on herself. She can't even think straight and get back to her old habits because her mind was focused on her nightmares.
"... I think I will be fine..." That's what she always says to herself so she can still move on.
But she will soon collapse when a week pass...
The seventh day of her punishment...
Tokino Sora was visiting the hospital where Ikuryu Honda was admitted. It seems like she was going crazy and the management tried to talk to her and fail.
For Sora, she just wants to see the state of her friend. She considers all the members of Yubelverse as her friends so for her, it was natural to visit a friend.
Along with her is her personal manager, who goes by the nickname of A-chan. Her real name is Yuujin Asuka but the people around her sticks to her nickname due to it being easy to remember. Also, Sora was the one who started calling her that so it just stuck to the whole company.
When she got near the room where Honda was currently located though, she heard her screaming a lot on the other side of the door.
When Sora got there, she was horrified at the person that was once the beautiful Ikuryu Honda.
She was currently skinny and her eyes are wide open. She looks like a banshee due to her hair being everywhere and her feral look that was cautious of her surroundings.
"PLEASE MAKE IT STOP, PLEASE MAKE IT STOP! HAHAHAHAHA! I AM AWAKE! I AM ASLEEP!? HUAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"
She was also going crazy. She was screaming fear, then laughing, then speaking nonsense, before crying.
Sora was planning to see into her and hopefully help her somehow but her state honestly shocks her. It was beyond her.
"... Sora, we should just leave her alone." A-chan said as she holds her arm and put her out of the room.
Even her was surprised at the current situation of Honda. They think she was just a bit stressed out on her work. But it seems like she has gone catatonic. No, she was just crazy.
"... How sad... how did that happen to her?" Sora asks while pitying the current state of Honda.
A-chan can only become silent. She doesn't know what also happened to Honda other than her condition became worst.
Even the management can't say anything because they also don't know what happened to her. Though they are currently panicking because Honda have a high chance of not coming back to them.
The 13th gen of Yubelverse, the Yubel Academia, have only three members left. At the start of it's creation, they originally have six. They didn't know this but due to Honda, AQUKIN and two more members of the Yubel Academia have graduated, making Honda the most popular one on that generation.
If Honda was also gone, only two members will be left on that group. And it won't be called a group if only two people are left in there. They can only disband the gen or put them on another group. It will have the same result of taking out the 13th gen.
Which is bad because they also have the 14th gen and the 15th gen. Taking out 13th gen will ruin the ordering of their numbers. They might even need to rebrand those gens into another group name, which is another headache for the management.
They are hoping for Honda to come back to their company once again. To make her fans stay with her fandom, the management made an announcement that she will just undergo a one month hiatus due to her health problems. They are betting on the fact that Honda will recover some sort of coherence so she can at least update her fans with her Chirper.
All of their hopes were dashed as Honda's will broke. She finally gave up on her career forever.
August 8, 2035. Sunday.
Ayumi, even when she said she didn't regret what she did, she was moping around in her own room.
She basically cause untold amount of suffering on Honda's way. And while she thinks she might do it again if she was forced to, she still felt bad doing this to another person.
She have a high score on her Wisdom and Creativity so it was easy for her to imagine a life where sleeping is the equivalent of nightmare. You wouldn't want to sleep if you are going to be a wrecked mess later on after all.
Because she manages to imagine it, she can't help but feel somewhat guilty.
"... But I think this is fine... with this, she won't be able to cause any trouble to us." Ayumi was persuading herself like that.
But she still felt depressed because she did something horrible to another person.
"... Ah, for now, I'll just go to my streaming room and see what I can do." She said to herself as she stood up.
Then she goes to her streaming room and booted up her computer.
When she was doing that...
[Expelling The Star Student Complete]
100 Shop Waivers (100,000 VP)
10 Shop Waivers (1,000,000 VP)
5 Success Ticket
5 All Status Cake
5 Random Weapon Ticket
5 Random Computer Ticket
5 Random Structure Ticket
1 Random Legendary Ticket
Along with those prompts, the rewards appeared on the free space on her streaming room.
"... I think I know why that happened." Ayumi said to no one as she quickly operated her computer.
She goes to the browsers and search for Wakai Seijin. She have a prediction that Honda will use her virtual persona to confess everything.
When she got to her Chirper account, she saw a long post of Honda stating every deeds that she did behind the scene. It seems like she also did a virtual stream of herself by just using her laptop and her webcam while she was still on the hospital. The stream was basically her pleading for the Yubelverse itself to let her quit it. She was also raining apologies on the people that she causes to suffer, including Sakaguchi Kotomi, Ayumi's virtual persona.
After that is an uproar on Seijin's Chirper where her fans are asking what is happening and some who are outright denying what Honda confessed.
After looking at it for awhile, she was surprised when that video was suddenly blocked. With just a quick thought, she manages to get to the conclusion that the management of Yubelverse was the one who blocked Seijin's stream.
It seems like the management of Yubelverse was alarmed when Seijin just suddenly did an unauthorized stream that compromises not just her name, but also the whole image of Yubelverse along with it's talents.
This is a big hit to them. Even if their talents are very popular and have a solid foundation, this kind of stain will stay on their name for a long time. They will need to do a lot of PR just to overwhelm the many negative connotations that this controversy will cause.
Having a talent that basically cause the many suffering of many people, with some of them being Vtubers and some of them being their own members themselves will cause a lot of things to just crash down. Their good reputation will be gone.
Their loyal fans will surely support the remaining talents, but it would be hard for Yubelverse to expand once more because of this issue.
Ayumi honestly expected this to happen. She predicted that it would cause this much chaos after what she did to Honda.
"... I just need to remember that I am the cause of this." Ayumi said that to herself.
It seems like Honda succumbed to her punishment. She wants to lessen the effect of the nightmares in her sleep. She wants to have a proper sleep for even a minute. So she forced herself to do that stream and also put that post on her Chirper account.
She was also a moderator on the Yubelverse section on the site called Bluedit (the equivalent of Reddit on this world) so she even spread her misdeeds on that site just so the management can't shut it down.
She even put her video on her Balibali account (the equivalent of Bilibili in this world) and even some of her accounts from other social medias. She might be hoping to lessen her punishment for just a bit more.
Ayumi decided to carry this truth to her heart. The burden of causing Wakai Seijin to crash down. The one who caused a woman, who even with her pettiness and maliciousness, to descend into an empty husk of her former self.
She might have regretted doing this to another person, but she will take the burden of destroying the life of a person. The very first person that she causes a harm that can't be recovered for a lifetime.
"That's weird..." Jetblack said as he tried to typed in more codes to his computer.
He can't access his files that he left on his base. He thinks it was impossible to be cracked without taking several days of examining it. He doesn't even know that Ayumi's Security AI already disassembled it to pieces before deleting all those files when it felt that the computer those files are located is being forcefully shutdown.
Jetblack was in his old cabin somewhere on Tanegashima.
Ayumi forgot about him due to her mind focusing on Honda. She still can't get over the fact that she just causes untold suffering onto another person that Jetblack's existence was put into the back burner of her mind.
"But what'a shame. Tha'chick just flipped out lik'a loose screw eh..." Jetblack said with a disappointed tone.
While he was idling like that and still trying to recover his files, the lights on his room suddenly turned off on itself. With only his computers being the one opened.
"Wha'da fuck!?" He was startled as he saw these bizarre events suddenly happening to him.
Then his computer suddenly turned into a blue screen. In that blue screen, white pixelated words were slowly appearing on his computer like it was being typed by a keyboard.
So you think you can run away?
That was the words that was written on the computer. Then it was deleted before showing another set of words.
I am sorry to disappoint you, but this is where it ends.
This is once again deleted before another sentence was put on the screen.
It would be unfair if there is a loose end to this incident right?
"Wha'da fuck is happenin' here!?" Jetblack asks in a panic as he tried to stand up.
Only to be stopped by an invisible force on his shoulders. His body felt very heavy, making it hard to stand up at all. It's like he was stuck at his chair like a glue.
Na ah ah, no running away!
He felt that somehow, the person who was doing this was mocking him in some way.
You know, you shouldn't have touch Sakaguchi Kotomi. You should have ignored Ikuryu Honda's request. If you did so, you might have been able to make a breakthrough to your AR & VR hacking tool. But what a shame, you just have to poke a sleeping dragon.
"Oy! Who da fuck are ye!?" He roared on his computer in anger.
Me? I am just a normal fan, nothing special really!~~
Now then, Mr. Jetblack. It is time for you to finish your role on this narrative.
~ Phantasmic
"Ey!? What is da mean'in of that!?"
He tried to ask before suddenly finding himself on a prison cell.
He just pops up into this prison cell in an instant. It's like his scenery just change from one thing to another. It causes him to become confused at the sudden change of his scenery.
It was very unrealistic. It was so unbelievable that his mind just froze there, making him unresponsive.
"... Ah, that guy was staring out of nowhere again." He heard one of the guard on-duty said that to his fellow guard besides him.
Hearing that, Jetblack was confused about what they are talking about.
"Oy! Don'ya think it is weird that I'm here?" He tried to asks that in confusion.
"Huh? This guy is truly crazy." The guard said with a snicker before telling him. "What are you talking about Sir Jetblack? You've been in this place for two decades now!" The guard say with a mocking tone.
"WHAT!?"
He was surprised at the guard's answer. That doesn't make sense at all.
"Just ignore that creep. Focus on your job George!" The other guard says with a slight scowl on his face.
"Okay okay. Your the boss here!" George says with a shrug of his shoulders.
"Oy!" Jetblack wanted to take their attention.
The other guard scowled at his way before raising his baton on his way.
"Shut up prisoner! One more noise and you'll be meeting this little thing with your face!" He threatened him as he shows Jetblack his baton.
"..." Jetblack can only stop talking with that threat.
He doesn't even have anything on his hands. Somehow, he was on a prisoner's garb, the typical one that was colored orange. He even have a number designation to him.
'How ta fuck did I got here!?' He thought to himself in confusion.
**End of Chapter 29**
[Status]
Hoshimachi Ayumi/Sakaguchi Kotomi (Hololive Founder)
Physique : 7,890
Fitness : 8,230
Wisdom : 7,345
Creativity : 7,775
Talent : 11,020
Charisma : 7,100
Essence : 6,500
VP : 489,126
[Abilities]
Game : FPS God
Game : Horror God
Game : Puzzle God
Game : Survival God
2D Modeling God
3D Modeling God
Analysis God
Animation God
Baggage God
Cooking God
Cover God
Disguise God
Mental Control God
Engineering God
Evasion God
House Chores God
Multitasking God
Portal God
Prediction God
Programming God
Psychokinesis God
Tracking God
Technician God
Voice Acting God
FP : 430,980
A/N
This marks the end of Arc 4 : Deep Envy.
Finally, this arc was done! The next arc should be amazing because I manage to make some amazing openings to some of my plot points!
Aqua and Matsuri might appear on the next arc. I don't know xD
But I have a sad news. I might not be able to update for awhile now. Which would be sad... so I'll put an inactive status on my profile again.
I'll change it back into Active when I got my internet back. (I am just renting an internet today)
I hope you have a lot of fun with this story!~~
Review if you like, helpful comments are welcome and thanks for reading this!~~