**** · Ren Kurose: Phew, I can finally talk.
For all this time, Ren Kurose had been forced to watch everyone else chatting and fooling around in the Chat Group without being able to join in himself.
He had been holding back for far too long.
Two newcomers had even joined during that period.
So now that he could finally speak again, Ren Kurose immediately began sending messages without hesitation.
However…
The moment Ren Kurose spoke, the previously lively Chat Group fell completely silent.
Rem, one of the two newcomers, was confused.
Mitsuri Kanroji had just been discussing food with her a moment ago.
Why had everyone suddenly stopped talking?
Rem: Huh?
What’s wrong?
Why did everyone stop talking?
Is this person also a group member?
I’ve never seen them speak before.
Are they a newcomer?
Conan Edogawa: Huh?
There’s another newcomer?
I’ve never seen this person either!
Conan and Takashi Natsume had both been offline when Ren Kurose caused the earlier panic.
As a result, neither of them knew anything about what had happened back then.
Naturally, they were just as confused.
**** · Ren Kurose: Uh, I’m not a newcomer anymore.
I joined quite a while ago.
I was already here before Rem and Hitori Gotoh joined.
Conan Edogawa: Huh?
Is that so?
Then why have I never seen you say anything?
**** · Ren Kurose: Uh…
I was muted.
Conan Edogawa: Oh, I see!
Getting muted almost immediately after joining the group…
Conan couldn’t help thinking that this guy was quite the character.
After Ren Kurose began speaking, Mitsuri Kanroji and Bai Yuekui, who had previously been chatting, remained somewhat hesitant.
After all, this terrifying unknown existence had already sent several messages this time. The source of this chapter is novelping.com.
Yet nothing horrifying had happened like before.
Did that mean they wouldn’t be affected anymore?
Bai Yuekui had survived in a wasteland for a long time, so she was naturally somewhat bolder than the others.
She directly asked.
Bai Yuekui: Sir…
this time you aren’t going to make us…
pass out again, are you?
**** · Ren Kurose: Pass out?
Ren Kurose immediately realized that the consequences of the previous incident had apparently been worse than he had imagined.
Bai Yuekui and the others had actually lost consciousness.
Ren Kurose felt somewhat apologetic about that.
**** · Ren Kurose: Sorry about that.
Last time, I couldn’t control my power properly.
It won’t happen again.
You could say I had to log in with an alt account before I was allowed to speak in the group.
After seeing Ren Kurose’s explanation, Bai Yuekui finally breathed a sigh of relief.
However, she was both wary of and curious about Ren Kurose.
What had happened before really had been terrifying.
He had managed to harm them directly from another world.
For someone like Bai Yuekui, who lived in a wasteland, an existence that powerful was naturally extremely intriguing.
Especially since she herself was also a researcher.
She couldn’t help wanting to study him a little.
Of course, that thought would remain nothing more than a thought.
Actually trying it was absolutely out of the question.
Conan Edogawa: Pass out?
What happened?
Truthfully, Conan had never taken this Chat Group entirely seriously.
He had mostly treated it as something amusing, so he didn’t come online very often.
But as a detective, he was extremely sensitive to information.
From this brief exchange alone, he immediately realized that something must have happened inside the Chat Group before.
Naturally, he became curious and asked directly.
The two newcomers who had joined after Ren Kurose were equally curious.
Neither of them said anything, but both were quietly lurking and watching the conversation.
Mitsuri Kanroji: It happened when he first joined the group.
He only sent one message, but everyone who was online at the time suffered a mental shock.
We got dizzy and became a little irritable.
Bai Yuekui was probably affected the worst—she even got into a car accident. New chapters come out on g.com first.
Seeing Ren Kurose chatting normally, Mitsuri finally gathered enough courage to speak as well.
It seemed like everything was fine now.
She quickly explained what had happened to the others.
Conan, however, was still skeptical.
Conan Edogawa: You’ve got to be kidding.
Someone can affect me all the way over here through my phone?
I don’t believe that!
The Chat Group terminal appeared differently in each world.
In Conan’s world, it was apparently integrated into his phone.
If someone wanted him to believe that another person could reach through the internet and attack him, then unless he personally experienced it, there was no way he would accept such a ridiculous claim.
Takashi Natsume, on the other hand, found it much easier to believe.
After all, he already knew that yokai existed.
Compared to that, something like this wasn’t completely impossible to accept.
Hitori Gotoh was equally skeptical.
As an extremely socially withdrawn girl, she simply regarded this place as a pretty good way to relax.
She was socially withdrawn, while some of the others seemed to suffer from chuunibyo.
There wasn’t that much difference, right?
Especially Rikka Takanashi.
Hitori felt like her chuunibyo had already reached the terminal stage.
Mitsuri Kanroji: It’s true!
I’m not lying!
Seeing that Conan didn’t believe her, Mitsuri immediately emphasized it again.
Although some people remained skeptical, Bai Yuekui didn’t bother dwelling on that.
Bai Yuekui: Um…
how should we address you?
This was clearly a powerful existence.
She couldn’t afford to be careless.
**** · Ren Kurose: Uh, just call me Ren Kurose.
You should be able to see those two characters, right?
From Bai Yuekui’s earlier comments, Ren Kurose had already realized that his full name wasn’t being displayed.
Presumably, the four characters corresponding to Yomagn’tho were something the others couldn’t perceive or speak.
In that case, having everyone simply call him Ren Kurose was perfectly fine.
In fact, Ren Kurose himself was far more accustomed to that name.