I, Who Was Ridiculed as a “Video Game Otaku and Creepy” and Dumped by My Childhood Friend, Was Actua

Chapter 2

Live Broadcast

Translated by NotBlueYet
Edited by Kingavent

“Is Dad going to come home late again today?”

“He said he can’t come home today.”

My father is a superintendent in the Metropolitan Police Department.

My mother passed away when Yuzuki and I were still young.

It was an accident.

She was hit by a drunk driver.

After my mother’s death, my father became like a corpse for a while.

But I am still grateful to my father for raising us all this way with his own hands.

He even bought us this apartment with good security because he was always away from home.

“He must be busy.”

“Sounds like it.”

Whenever there is an incident, my father rarely comes home.

He still comes home once in a while, but his life is spent going right back to the investigation headquarters again.

While everyone else is working hard on the investigation, he can’t take a break by himself.

That is the mission of those who stand on top, my father used to say.

“Are you going to stream again today?”

“Yeah, I was going to, but I don’t know what I’m going to do. ……”

I do Game Streaming as part of my hobby.

I have a certain amount of viewers, so I get incentives, but I’m not too attached to it.

I don’t feel like talking on the stream today.

Yuzuki has cheered me up, but I’m still a guy who just got dumped.

“No, Onii, you can’t do that. You’ve already announced it, right? You have to take responsibility for your actions.”

“I agree. Thank you.”

I had announced on SNS that I was going to stream this evening.

After finishing my meal with Yuzuki, I lie down on my bed in my room.

I surf the net on my phone until it’s time for the broadcast.

“A beautiful pro-gamer girl, huh?”

As I was browsing social networking sites, an article about a too-beautiful pro-gamer came across.

I was curious, so I tapped the link to the article.

“Oh, she sure is pretty.”

She is 17 years old.

“She’s the same age as me.”

She is a senior in high school like me and a professional gamer.

She seems to be very good.

She had a picture of her face and a video of her playing a game pasted on the article.

“She’s really good”

I read the article carefully and found that she had won a tournament in Japan.

“Rio Natsume, I’ll keep that in mind.”

I might have some contact with Rio in the future.

“Oh, it’s about time.”

I looked at my watch and saw that it was 21:00.

I sat down in my gaming chair and started up my computer.

I prepare for the live-streaming and start up the game.

The game I am playing is an FPS game called ProHople(PuroHopuru).

FPS stands for First Person Shooter.

It is a shooting game in which you move around the field from the viewpoint of the character you are controlling and fight with guns and other weapons.

When I started the streaming, viewers immediately began to gather.

The number of viewers who tuned in exceeded 10,000 at once.

“I’ve been waiting for this!”

“I love Takamori’s voice.”

“I’m looking forward to your divine play.”

The comments flowed in one after another.

“Thank you, everyone. I think I’ll play solo for about an hour today.”

I start playing the game, and the excitement builds even more.

“I found him.”

I say, and I hold up my sniper.

“Yes, it’s over.”

I make a brilliant headshot and take him out with one hit.

“Aim God!”

“Wait, the sniper shot just now is too good”

In the stream of comments, there was one word that kept coming up over and over again.

“After all, you are the best in the world”

Yes, I was the youngest player ever to win this game, the ProHople world championship.