[Verification] The Sword of Dawn Raid Stream, What Went Wrong? [Status Ailment]
1: Anonymous Viewer Did anyone watch yesterday’s Sword of Dawn raid stream?
2: Anonymous Viewer I did. Kurose was strong. But as a stream, it was hell.
3: Anonymous Viewer Saying it is the fastest breakthrough and then having to interrupt is tough.
4: Anonymous Viewer They did defeat the ash-blade lizard though. Their combat power is the real deal after all.
5: Anonymous Viewer Isn’t nobody denying that part? The problem is that everyone got status ailments after defeating it.
6: Anonymous Viewer It felt like a loss even though they won.
7: Anonymous Viewer I am a Kurose fan, but watching yesterday was scary. I wish they had stopped the moment Reina-san said to take a break.
8: Anonymous Viewer The vibe was bad right from the part where they were nibbling on portable rations. Are they really going to B-class mid-layers with that?
9: Anonymous Viewer They are supposed to be high-grade portable rations.
10: Anonymous Viewer Even if they are high-grade, doesn’t it mean nothing if they won’t go down your throat?
11: Anonymous Viewer It is bad that the comparison target is the rural monster diner. That side was making rice balls.
12: Anonymous Viewer The fang-boar seasoned-meat rice ball is a crime.
13: Anonymous Viewer The frozen trout miso shiso rice ball is also crazy. I cooked rice starting in the morning.
14: Anonymous Viewer It is hilarious how this is a Sword of Dawn raid stream thread, yet it becomes talk about food.
15: Anonymous Viewer But this time, food talk is directly tied to raid talk.
16: Anonymous Former Explorer Cutting in. B-class and above, food and water directly link to raid times. Strong or weak aside, if you cannot maintain a state where you can move your body, it is over.
17: Anonymous Viewer An expert arrived again.
18: Anonymous Former Explorer Not enough to be called an expert. A former C-class. But I have experience with the ash-blade lizard’s blood mist. What matters for that is processing right after subjugation.
19: Anonymous Viewer What is the correct thing to do?
20: Anonymous Former Explorer Create an escape route for the blood before cutting off the head. If it is a dusty zone, dampen a cloth to cover the nose and mouth. After combat, not just detoxification, but putting warm things in to sweat it out.
21: Anonymous Viewer Warm things.
22: Anonymous Viewer It is Kamishiro again.
23: Anonymous Former Explorer Right. The soup served to the survey team in Kamishiro’s stream yesterday makes sense. Raising body temperature with miso and ginger, putting in calories with fang-boar fat, and getting the stomach moving with wild vegetables. That is food, but at the same time, status management.
24: Anonymous Viewer What on earth was an odd-job guy?
25: Anonymous Viewer A life support specialist under the name of an odd-job guy.
26: Anonymous Viewer Sword of Dawn suddenly having increased failures after banishing Kamishiro means that is why?
27: Anonymous Viewer Jumping to conclusions is not good. But looking at yesterday’s stream, too many flaws were exposed.
28: Anonymous Viewer Kurose is strong. Strong, but it felt like he could not see that the people around him were exhausted.
29: Anonymous Viewer Shiratori Reina tried to stop him, but he pushed right through.
30: Anonymous Viewer Didn’t Reina-san’s expression change somehow?
31: Anonymous Viewer She looks like she has something she wants to say to Kurose.
32: Anonymous Viewer Is it true that the audit department is moving?
33: Anonymous Viewer A screenshot of the official audit notice from the Dungeon Agency came out. It seems to be about the old abandoned mine case and checking Kamishiro’s registration info.
34: Anonymous Viewer Kamishiro treated as an unregistered high-ranking returnee?
35: Anonymous Viewer Seeing that movement, of course he is. The ore-fang wolf one-hit kill is crazy.
36: Anonymous Viewer Mikoto-sama is about to be treated as an unregistered divine beast too.
37: Anonymous Viewer Mikoto-sama was supervising rice balls in this morning’s stream. He said, “I am the supervisor,” right in front of the auditor.
38: Anonymous Viewer Did he speak?
39: Anonymous Viewer He just meowed. It gets across to Kamishiro.
40: Anonymous Viewer A convenient excuse lol.
41: Anonymous Viewer Still, watching Kamishiro’s morning stream after seeing yesterday’s Sword of Dawn has an amazing drop. That side is rushing and getting status ailments. This side has the survey team carrying rice balls and soup, and even making safety tags.
42: Anonymous Viewer It was great when the village grandmothers checked, “We don’t touch the red tags.”
43: Anonymous Viewer That is normally excellent as site management.
44: Anonymous Viewer Kamishiro himself underestimates himself way too much.
45: Anonymous Viewer When he said, “Because it was chores,” Auditor Saeki replying, “Inaccurate,” gave me chills.
46: Anonymous Viewer I thought Saeki-san was a cold person, but she is the type to properly look into things.
47: Anonymous Viewer A taste test under the name of specimen confirmation.
48: Anonymous Viewer I laughed at how her chopsticks did not stop after eating the miso stew.
49: Anonymous Viewer I feel relieved seeing more decent people around Kamishiro.
50: Anonymous Viewer What is Kurose going to do?
51: Anonymous Viewer Won’t he release another video?
52: Anonymous Viewer His impression is pretty bad at the point he refused to submit the originals.
53: Anonymous Viewer There is a rumor that Shiratori Reina holds the supplementary records.
54: Anonymous Viewer If that is for real, the tide turns.
55: Anonymous Viewer The tide has already turned.
56: Anonymous Viewer Kurose reportedly said off-stream that he is going to the village.
57: Anonymous Viewer Huh?
58: Anonymous Viewer Stop it.
59: Anonymous Viewer Seriously, stop it.
60: Anonymous Viewer You will make Mikoto-sama angry.
61: Anonymous Viewer Does the divine cat barrier work on humans too?
62: Anonymous Viewer Seems like it would.
63: Anonymous Former Explorer Jokes aside, barging into the village is a bad move. Kamishiro is not alone right now. The village, the people watching the stream, and the audit department are all watching.
64: Anonymous Viewer Really this.
65: Anonymous Viewer But Kurose seems panicked.
66: Anonymous Viewer A panicked person is the most unpredictable.
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I did not see that message board either.
To be precise, because Riko-san tells me only the main points while saying, “You do not need to look,” I know the general vibe.
“A thread titled ‘What on earth was an odd-job guy’ is growing.”
“Chores are chores.”
“If you throw that reply out on the internet now, people will get mad.”
“Why?”
“Because Yuma-san understands the least.”
In the morning shed kitchen, the survey team members were present.
Four people dispatched from the Dungeon Agency. They are not as exaggerated as hazmat suits, but they carry magic measuring instruments and stakes for sealing. Because they crossed the mountain path, thin sweat beaded everyone’s foreheads.
I opened the lid of the large pot.
The aroma of miso and ginger spread together with the steam.
The contents of the pot are thinly sliced fang-boar and wild vegetable soup.
Since I had heard about the blood mist of the ash-blade lizard, I made it so that it warms the body and induces a slight sweat. The survey team is not going into combat, but if they are touching the magic around the abandoned mine, it is better than putting nothing in.
“Please eat before you go.”
A young man on the survey team raised his hand hesitantly.
“We are on duty though.”
Saeki said from the side.
“I permit it as physical condition management before field activities.”
“Thank you very much.”
Everyone received their bowls all at once.
Those who initially wore work faces noticeably relaxed their expressions after a single sip.
“Delicious.”
“The ginger works.”
“This helps after the mountain path.”
“Are rice balls fine too?”
“Go ahead.”
The fang-boar seasoned-meat rice balls disappeared immediately.
The sound of biting into warm rice. The aroma of nori. The sound of placing down miso soup bowls.
Each of those things slowly unraveled the village atmosphere that had been tense since yesterday.
The village mayor looked at that and narrowed his eyes happily.
“People coming, eating food, and entering the mountain. It used to be normal, though.”
“Did people work in the abandoned mine back in the old days too?”
“Yeah. When the mine was active, the men would enter the mountain starting in the morning carrying rice balls. The women would make miso soup in large pots, you see. Before dangerous work, make sure your stomach is full at least.”
I listened to that story while stirring the pot.
Perhaps this village has always done things this way.
Send off people going to dangerous places with food. Welcome back people who return with food.
What I am doing right now might not be a special heroic act, but rather an extension of the activities that have existed in this village since ancient times.
Mikoto walked around the feet of the survey team, sniffing their shoes.
“Meow.”
“Mikoto-sama, is this an inspection?”
When Riko asked, Mikoto meowed with a serious face.
“Meow-ah.”
“It seems you passed.”
“Can you tell?”
“Probably.”
One of the survey team members bowed to Mikoto with a tense face.
Mikoto puffed out his chest as a matter of course.
Saeki recorded that state into her terminal.
“Saeki-san, are you recording that too?”
“It is the companion entity’s reaction toward the villagers and external investigators.”
“That is just a cat checking shoes.”
“At this point in time, I classify it as such.”
She was serious.
After the survey team headed toward the abandoned mine, the village calmed down a bit.
I moved the remaining soup to a small pot and readjusted the flavor for lunch. Because it boiled down, I added a little water and put in chopped scallions. The aroma becomes fresh.
Riko was checking her smartphone, but suddenly hardened her expression.
“Yuma-san.”
“Yes.”
“Ren Kurose might be heading this way.”
The sound of the kitchen knife stopped.
“Himself?”
“Yes. Eyewitness reports of him leaving Tokyo and photos that look like they were inside a car have come out. He has not explicitly stated his destination, but some people are trying to pinpoint the village through comments.”
I let out a breath.
The location has not been completely revealed.
Still, the abandoned mine, the village, the mountain path, fragments of the stream.
If the person searching gets serious, the possibility of arriving is there.
“I will tell the village mayor. Also, tell the villagers not to make a fuss outside.”
“I will contact the police too.”
“Please do.”
Mikoto jumped up onto the workbench.
His white tail stood straight up.
“If he comes, he is welcome.”
“We are not fighting.”
“I am not fighting. I am merely showing the boundary.”
Mikoto’s golden eyes turned not toward the mountain, but toward the village entrance.
I turned off the fire on the small pot.
Kurose is coming.
I do not know if anything changes because of that.
However, it is no longer like it was in the conference room.
I am not standing alone.