Chapter 136: For the sake of my brother or For my own sake ※Celica’s POV (1/2)
TLN: Two chapters today! Make sure you didn’t miss the previous one!
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The way of living of Brother in the dungeon city was so painful to the point I couldn’t watch it.
It was so fleeting that I felt as if he would be swallowed by the darkness of the dungeon and disappear suddenly.
I was assailed by a feeling of impatience as I maintained the video site, and put extra care in creating the videos of Brother. With that, the viewers began watching the edited videos instead of the real time broadcast, and the viewers decreased on the surface.
I endeavoured to act cheerful, and continued acting like the slightly mean little sister, but my heart was actually on the verge of bursting.
Brother might die.
But there’s almost nothing I can do.
If he at least opened the messages, I could back him up, but I can’t even do that.
The only Chosen close to him are Alex-san and Jeanne-san.
Within those, I asked Alex-san countless times through the messages, but he is a Chosen that gets a lot of horrible messages himself. Even if I ask him to take care of our brother, he probably doesn’t have the leeway to do so.
I found the time to, went to the home of Alex-san, and met with his family, but honestly…it didn’t look like that good of a family environment.
This isekai transfer not only brings change to the Chosen, but also the lifestyle of their families.
They are losing a family member, so that’s natural.
Not all people can see them off with a smile and say ‘Do your best in the far isekai’.
Within all of that, Brother met Rifreya-san.
No amount of gratitude would be enough to express how indebted I feel to her.
If he hadn’t met the slightly…no, pretty pushy Rifreya-san, Brother would have been hidden in the darkness the whole time, and he would have eventually died.
And the Resurrection Gem.
When I heard that announcement, I cursed God from the bottom of my heart.
Just when I thought a change might happen to the heart of Brother in a good direction from deepening his relationship with Rifreya-san, this happened.
That’s why, whether I should help Brother aim for 1st place in the Viewer Count Race…I hesitated about helping him for a second.
But I am on my brother’s side. Didn’t I already decide on that?
Even if it becomes a painful choice, I will support Brother.
Karen and I left the video editing for later, and moved the viewers into real time watchalongs. Thanks to that, the viewership of Brother increased explosively, but the route to 1st place felt far.
I took out another card.
Keeping Ozawa locked up proved useful.
I spread a campaign around the world that Brother is the culprit of killing Nee-san.
Maybe Karen and I were also complicit in this? It might have been a crime performed by the whole family? It could have been an incident brought from love troubles? I brought out possibilities that are no way actually possible, fanned the flames, and controlled the flow towards the channel of our brother.
Even so, being able to get to 1st place in 2 weeks was really because of the effort of our brother.
He is my number one Onii-chan in the world after all.
He is the kind of person that can face even fearsome monsters like those.
But he was a bit too fastidious, and he ended up having a bit of trouble with Rifreya-san, which resulted in the 1st place escaping from his hands.
However, I understand her feelings.
Brother will leave by himself. He would by no means say let’s die together.
That’s the kindness of Brother and also his cruelty…
Even so, they somehow defeated the Demon Lord, and Brother returned alive.
Karen and I had reduced our sleep time to the minimum because of the Viewer Count Race, so we were tired to the extreme just like Brother, and we finally managed to get a good sleep after a while.
Well, even when we woke up, Brother was still deep asleep. He did worry us though.
And then, the farewell with Rifreya-san.
We ourselves had endless things to do like releasing Ozawa, asking Jeanne-san to give the Resurrection Gem, and many other things.
Anyways, things are proceeding in a good direction.
If things continue going like this, there should be no problems…or at least it is supposed to.
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The request of Jeanne was something unexpected.
It was to reduce the amount of messages.
She always reads the messages she receives. It looked like she was acting according to the contents written there.
In the first place, the reason why she is heading to Meltia is because someone told him that the Chosen called Hikaru had killed his childhood friend and had escaped to the isekai without being judged. They wanted her to ‘bring down the hammer of justice’. Normally, it is the kind of message you would ignore.
I personally didn’t think she was actually heading there to kill my brother, but I sent her ‘See the truth with your own eyes’ just in case.
Whatever the reason it may be, if she is going to be meeting Brother, what’s important is whether she helps out…no, whether she becomes a plus or a minus.
I have already investigated all of the Chosen beforehand.
Within those, Jeanne Cronet had especially high popularity with her eccentric speech and conduct, and her beauty.
White porcelain skin that had northern european blood in it, and strawberry blonde hair.
Big blue eyes with strong will in them, long limbs, slender build.
And yet, her hobbies are computer games, doesn’t properly go to school, and would do nothing but part-time jobs and gaming; a delinquent girl. The grand piercings on both of her ears are her trademark. It was to the point that getting piercings had trended in the whole world.
A natural-born star must refer to people like her.
That kind of person is meeting Brother.
I was a bit worried at first, but seeing her adventures in the isekai, my worries perished in an instant.
That’s because Jeanne Collet is a good natured idiot.
I may say idiot, but it is not in the bad sense of the word.
She has a personality that doesn’t think of the gains and losses, and doesn’t refuse requests. In my eyes, she was suffering quite a lot of losses.
At the time when she subjugated the monsters in the abandoned castle, aside from lodging and food, she didn’t take any cash reward at all.
Thinking about it normally, it was a matter that would require you to ask a knight to do an extermination. The plain action of sending a single girl there shows the wickedness of the villager that asked her of this.
Moreover, the reward for accomplishing that was literally just lowering their heads! Normally, you should make them pay the fitting amount even if it takes force. That girl didn’t do that. An idiot.
It was the same at the time when she was asked from a different village to subjugate bandits.
Just how much conflict was there in that matter. Even if you get cheats from God and have strong powers, there’s no way you would have no hesitation in killing people.
Even the little money and goods she got from the bandit hideout, she presented it to the villagers, and she really just took the one night one meal, and excused herself from the village.
But the people in the whole world loved a girl like that.
You can understand if you watch her.
It is to the point that even I grew to like her.
“Celican~, what do we do? Even if she asks us to decrease her messages, just how many messages is she receiving right now?” (Karen)
“Jeanne-san is getting around 100 a day, I guess. In that case, she is most likely getting 100,000 sent everyday. Then, it shouldn’t be that difficult.” (Celica)
“I have investigated the message system on a large scale before, but are we using that data?” (Karen)
“Right. Also, we are using a bit of money too.” (Celica)
“No problem-nii~. That’s what we got the money for!” (Karen)
Having gotten the ‘homework’ from Jeanne, I immediately began the campaign.
Putting it bluntly, the request of Jeanne entered the category of easy, and I am honestly glad it was. The Resurrection Gem is a one of a kind item. I thought she would ask for a more complicated thing.
She…really is a good person.
“Anyways, let’s do this.” (Celica)
“Okey Dokey~.” (Karen)