## The Burial Priest Old Man — Waiting Room for the Stream, Part 5
34: (Anonymous)
When are they bringing the stream back?
35:
I’m suffering from old-man deficiency over here.
36:
I watched some other dungeon streams to kill time, but they’re boring as hell.
Bring him back already.
37:
Get your shit together, stream operators.
38:
Seriously, why did the stream stop?
Server crash?
39:
It was just suddenly cut out, right?
40:
That stream had been overcoming every conceivable obstacle in the dungeon.
Something seriously unavoidable must have happened.
41:
Did they get hacked?
42:
Guild Headquarters, maybe?
43:
There were 20 million concurrent viewers. How the hell does nobody know what happened?
44:
>>@43
Check the other threads and social media.
The prevailing theory is that Guild Headquarters forcibly shut it down.
45:
Well, I guess that’s what happens when something gets that viral.
46:
But seriously, did the old man and the others even do anything wrong?
They were just clearing a dungeon.
47:
Not exactly what I’d call “just” clearing a dungeon.
48:
The Dungeon Master is involved, after all.
The Guild is probably taking this seriously.
49:
What the hell was that Hero supposed to be, anyway?
Pretty sure he was an agent sent by the Guild, though.
50:
All he did was get in their way.
That guy was seriously annoying.
51:
Come to think of it, an AI Hero doesn’t even make sense.
What is this, a fucking sci-fi movie?
52:
His objective was never really clear.
It felt like a bunch of things were mixed together—personal grudges, whatever the Guild was planning, and so on.
53:
The original guy seemed like some ordinary corporate slave, though.
Does anyone know who that guy was?
54:
>>@53
Information about him is actually going around on social media right now.
No idea if it’s legit, though.
55:
Mikami Kira, 25.
56:
A University of Tokyo graduate?
Damn, he was smart.
57:
Apparently he worked in the systems development division at Guild Headquarters.
58:
Huh?
So he was one of those elite bastards who managed to squeeze through that insanely competitive, 1-in-1,000 hiring process.
59:
Guild Headquarters is crazy popular. Hard as hell to get hired there.
And they barely hire anyone.
So Kira was the guy who created the AI Hero?
60:
Who knows.
He might’ve just been managing it.
61:
Apparently, what Mikami really wanted to become was an explorer.
He gave up because he didn’t have the aptitude.
That’s just stuff I’ve seen on social media, though, so who knows if it’s true.
62:
Being smart doesn’t mean you can become an explorer.
63:
Sounds like his personal feelings probably played into all this, too.
64:
When you look at it that way, I kinda feel sorry for him.
65:
That Hell Gate was way too fucking much lol
66:
Nah, the dude was such an asshole that he brought it on himself.
Besides, being smart and getting a massive advantage from your parents is already winning the genetic lottery.
Meanwhile, the rest of us…
67:
>>@66
Dude, that’s depressing. Stop lol.
68:
So what does the Guild actually want?
Get rid of the old man? Destroy the Dungeon Master?
69:
I still wanna know what that big revelation the Dungeon Master supposedly told the old man was.
He said he was going to explain it, then never did shit lol.
70:
I don’t even really understand what the Dungeon Master and the Guild’s respective positions are.
Wait, is the Dungeon Master a god or something?
71:
Once the stream comes back, we should ask Daishi again.
I want him to enable Super Chats, though.
I’ll pay whatever.
72:
>>@71
Exactly.
I think that old man genuinely has no idea how to set that stuff up lol.
73:
Satsuki or Mina should teach him already.
74:
>>@68
The most popular theory is that the old man is going to become the Dungeon Master’s successor and try to wipe out humanity, so the Guild is desperately pulling all kinds of strings to stop him.
75:
The old man is the Dungeon Master’s successor?
76:
Well, there might actually be something to that.
That guy is way beyond the level of an ordinary explorer lol.
77:
Forget “monster.”
He’s basically a god.
78:
There’s no way the old man is actually thinking about humanity and all that.
79:
So… an unwitting mastermind type?
80:
So, he was just out there exploring normally, and somehow humanity ended up going extinct?
81:
A massive-scale version of “Did I accidentally do something awesome?”
82:
What an unbelievably troublesome guy lol
83:
It’s just speculation.
We have no idea what the truth actually is.
84:
Still, it sounds pretty plausible lol
85:
Can they hurry up and bring the stream back?
I wanna see what happens next so badly I can’t sleep.
86:
What happened to Satsuki-chan’s panties?!
87:
>>@86
Who gives a shit about that? lol
88:
I still have no idea what position the old man, the Underworld King, is supposed to be in.
89:
>>@88
At this point, we don’t even know if he’s an enemy or an ally.
90:
He doesn’t seem like a bad guy, though.
91:
That old man definitely seems to have a lot of baggage.
92:
Think he’ll join the party once they clear the Nether Class dungeon?
93:
Otin briefly joined them, too.
94:
Otin…
95:
We lost a good man.
96:
They can just use 【Return】 if they wanna see him again.
97:
【Return】 is so fucking broken that at this point I don’t even feel sad when someone dies lol
98:
Edo Tensei.
99:
>>@98
They haven’t actually summoned a dead person yet, have they?
There’s still a tiny chance we might get zombies out of it.
100:
They absolutely need to try that next time. I’d love to see the results.
101:
When’s the stream coming back?!
102:
Oh, new info.
Apparently the old man and the others were taken to Guild Headquarters by the guys in black.
103:
Huh?
Wait, did they get arrested?!
104:
Their destination was Grand Hills Tokyo.
105:
What?
That’s the ultra-luxurious five-star hotel directly operated by Guild Headquarters!
106:
Wait, who the hell got that information? lol
Could be fake news.
107:
A few videos have already been uploaded.
From what I’ve seen, it looks legit.
108:
Could someone really film them that easily?
The security around Guild Headquarters is insane.
Gotta be bullshit.
109:
Maybe they’re deliberately letting people film it?
110:
The old man’s gotten way too famous.
Maybe they’re deliberately showing that they’re handling everything properly so they don’t cause another scandal.
111:
But why a hotel?
112:
Negotiations? A meeting?
113:
Are they trying to win them over with money and some serious hospitality?
114:
>>@113
That’s diabolical.
They’ll probably succumb to it.
115:
Someone please film the inside of the hotel too!
116:
Streaming is prohibited inside Guild-related facilities.
117:
Wish someone would secretly do it anyway…
118:
Guess I should just go to sleep for today.
119:
I’ve been following this in real time the whole time, so I’m exhausted.
I’m logging off for now.
120:
Please let the stream come back soon!
This is translated by Yume Neiji. Kindly read at yumeneijiworks.com
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