[I’m so scared, just stop it! I’m so scared, just stop it!]
[Hey, who are you talking to right now…? There’s nobody on the screen.]
[It’s just dark, ah haha, it’s just dark, ah haha, it’s just dark, ah haha.]
[The taker came to get me, so stop creating a horror atmosphere, okay?]
[Please look at the chat window, ㅠㅠ The chat window has been restored!]
[Seems like they don’t even realize the broadcast is back on, just shaking it around in their hand.]
[I feel like I’m going to puke because it keeps shaking;;]
“It seemed like my broadcast got weird, but the monitoring seems to have worked well. You really came right after I called.”
Hearing this, Kayak spoke in a reassuring tone as she looked at the taker who had arrived.
Her expression was far less anxious than earlier; it was understandable.
Because in a place so dark, especially at night, if someone came, they’d feel like a strong ally.
“Taker, do you know the way? Where do we need to go to get outside? You wouldn’t not know since you’re the host, right?”
Kayak teased a little, continuing her words somewhat playfully. This was her way of overcoming her own fear.
“Over here.”
The taker didn’t react much to her teasing, just blinking in response, then gestured for Kayak to follow along.
“How did you even find a place like this? It seriously feels like a ghost will come out.”
The old, creaky wooden floorboards creaked as the taker walked silently.
“Hey, walk with me. Why are you walking so fast?”
“….”
The taker didn’t respond well and didn’t react much at all. Kayak hurriedly chased after him, not wanting to lose sight of him.
*
“Taker, Kayak is missing! Come this way quickly!”
Nicang’s voice echoed through the broadcast. Hearing words like wanting to give up, the taker quickly dashed toward the experience area.
Meanwhile, he checked the real-time increase in viewer numbers with a sidelong glance.
Nicang, who hastily started the broadcast, had 18,000 viewers. Kayak, who had been broadcasting all along, had 30,000 viewers.
The rise and fall of content’s popularity is often unpredictable, but judging by the current viewer count, it could be deemed a success.
Originally, the taker was acknowledged for having a successful V-Tube channel, but his live broadcast viewer numbers were often lacking.
He couldn’t help but acknowledge this himself. He was called the monarch of V-Tube, a corporate giant, yet exceeding 10,000 live viewers was a rare occurrence for him.
Most of the time, it hovered around 7,000 to 9,000. In terms of live viewers alone, he was the weakest among the top four Twitch streamers.
In reality, since V-Tube was doing well, he could focus solely on it, but it still nagged at him how his live broadcast viewer numbers weren’t as high as before.
He was secretly worried about the fact that the number of live broadcast viewers wasn’t as high as it used to be.
This outing content, when you think about it, was also started because of that.
He thought about what kind of content could attract viewers for live broadcasts and also get decent responses on VTube, which led to this content being created.
The result was successful. He hadn’t uploaded it to VTube yet, but it looked good just based on the live broadcast.
Calculating it out, it turned out that there were about 15,000 more viewers combined in the viewer pie of Kayak and the viewer pie of Taker.
What that means is that he secured an audience of 15,000 picky viewers.
“At this rate, VTube will probably be okay too.”
Just looking at the members he assembled, it was clear.
Recently rising rapidly as a goddess, Hae-Ming; the solid fixture, Nicang; the high-skilled player of cooking broadcasts, and the monster of monsters that dominates both live broadcasts and VTube, Kayak.
With such results, Taker couldn’t help but feel good.
Even while heading to the set to find the abandoned Kayak, he couldn’t control the smirk spreading across his face.
“Am I going to hear the phrase ‘content god’ again?”
Taker was a veteran streamer with nearly ten years of broadcasting experience.
That being said, someone might ask if he was tired of the praises from the viewers and the accolades that come when the content wraps up successfully.
But Taker absolutely wasn’t. He could confidently say that praise was always new to him, no matter how often he heard it.
He just needed to find Kayak and ask her how the horror experience was. That too was essentially the highlight of the content.
From what Taker heard, Kayak was vulnerable to such horror experiences.
A slightly mischievous thought crossed his mind—he kind of hoped that when he found Kayak, she’d be crying as she came out. After all, that would make for a prettier picture.
“Where could she be?”
Thus, upon arriving at the horror experience venue, Taker eagerly began searching for Kayak.
The dark and convoluted experience place felt just like his own bedroom to Taker.
He had been here nearly every night for the past week to familiarize himself with the layout in preparation for situations like this.
So, starting from the entrance, he methodically explored each floor from the bottom to the top. After a thorough search, he finally spotted Kayak.
“I found her…?”
As Taker discovered Kayak, he rushed toward her but suddenly wore a puzzling expression.
This was because Kayak looked very different from what he had imagined.
The horror experience place was definitely not a place to be taken lightly. It had a gloomy and grotesque atmosphere that warranted the term “horror.”
The atmosphere was eerie and bizarre enough to attach words to it.
The Taker didn’t gather a group of three for no reason.
There were six people in total. Although they could have formed three groups with just two people each, they felt that three was safer than two in case of any accidents.
It was a place heavily infused with negative energy. Given that this place was intentionally decorated to be more terrifying, anyone without strong mental fortitude would inevitably tremble if left alone here.
To exaggerate a bit, it wouldn’t be surprising if one wet themselves and fainted.
That’s why the Taker hurried to search for Kayak. Given Kayak’s vulnerability to such terror, she’d surely be trembling in fear if left behind.
However, the scene of Kayak discovered from a distance far exceeded Taker’s expectations.
Instead of crying with tears and snot or looking around in a disheveled state, she was approaching with a subtly smiling face, chatting away.
Could it be that she was communicating with the viewers even in such a situation? What a true pro streamer! That thought briefly crossed the mind, but it seemed not to be the case.
Kayak’s phone, which was likely broadcasting, was in her hand, swaying nonchalantly.
“Uh… #$%^ is really scary #$%^.”
Kayak continued speaking as if having a conversation with someone.
She alternated her gaze between the front and the side, mainly talking to the side as if someone was walking alongside her.
‘What’s going on…?’
But even after the Taker blinked, there was no one next to Kayak. She was currently alone, talking to the air.
It was a bewildering and bizarre scene.
Thus, when Kayak walked close enough for Taker to see her face, Taker finally opened her mouth slowly.
“…I’m really glad to see you. But isn’t this too much? No matter how much of a surprise it is, you should at least give us a heads-up beforehand—”
“Kayak!”
“…? …Taker?”
Kayak, called by Taker, slowly replied with a puzzled expression. It was as if she realized something but still found it strange, as if everything was mixed up.
“…Huh? Why are you over there, Taker? I was just—”
“…Who were you talking to? I searched for you and just got here….”
“….”
At those words, Kayak fell silent for quite some time.
She simply looked to her side, then at Taker in front of her, then back at the empty side, and again at Taker.
She turned her head to look to the side.
I turned my head to the side.
Then looked straight ahead.
To the side.
Straight ahead.
To the side.
Straight ahead.
And then—
Thud—
“Uh, uh! Kayak! Kayak! Pull yourself together!”
Her face turned pale, and she fainted right there.
The flustered Taker soon regained composure, picked her up, and immediately left the scene.
*
That day’s broadcast was neither archived nor clipped. Only those who watched the live stream remembered it.
With Kayak collapsing and everyone gathered for the outing disbanding, there was no way to continue the event after someone had fainted.
[What the heck happened????]
[Did Kayak faint or something?]
[They say she was possessed by a ghost and needed an exorcism. Is that real?]
Those who missed Taker’s broadcast couldn’t hide their curiosity when they heard the news late.
Rumor had it that Kayak actually saw a ghost and fainted during the scare experience. Some said the ghost was pretending to be Taker.
All they had were hearsay and speculation. With no reruns or clips available, confirming the truth of the story was impossible.
As stories passed from mouth to mouth, they inevitably transformed.
Eventually, the last version portrayed Taker as a ghost dressed up to scare Kayak, resulting in her experiencing acute cardiac arrest.
Taker’s V-Tube only contained footage up to the moment before the horror experience.
Due to the buzz around Kayak’s fainting and the supposed ghost sighting, the video views skyrocketed.
Both the live broadcast and V-Tube went viral, achieving the original goal in style.
-ㅠㅠ Is Kayak okay?
-Taker, as a regular subscriber who enjoys your videos, I’d like to say something. It was a bit unfair not to inform the cast beforehand about the horror experience…
-I could tell you put a lot of effort into this one. It’s a shame… I hope Kayak recovers well.
Of course, most comments on the video were unrelated, like half-digested ramblings.
Thus, Taker’s outing content became the first in his broadcast history.
Incredibly successful yet void of replays, it ended up being uniquely canceled.
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