'Slime Falls' Results

The collab (and the flower-picking) finished, Karona returned to her personal home.

The payout split with Dungeon Braver had been mostly worked out ahead of time, and since the drop item was a conveniently divisible "Cracked Red Huge Slime Core," settling the distribution went smoothly.

Incidentally, the reward for clearing a real dungeon is handled separately from streaming revenue.

"And so… the results screen, desuwa～!"

This was money everyone had earned together. Just how much was inside—

Keeping one eye firmly shut, Karona gingerly pulled up the results screen.

The reward-amount page opened, and she peeked fearfully at it through slitted eyes.

"this is giving me flashbacks to her first multi dungeon run lol"

"you're doing the exact same thing ojou lol"

"i bet a side-by-side clip would match perfectly lol"

"Y-you're being noisy, desuwayo! Honestly, the lot of you, stop teasing me already desu… wa—!?!?"

And then Karona laid eyes on the number on the payout page.

—263,502 yen. That was the total for this clear's reward.

"Eh?"

Karona found herself doing a double-take.

There, sure enough, it read: 260,000 yen.

"Ehhh?"

Plain as day: 260,000 yen. By the way, this reaction of hers was an exact match for the one she'd had at her very first multi dungeon clear.

"Wa-waaaaaaaaaah!? 260,000 yen!? Wasn't it supposed to be more like 130,000!?"

"ohhhh! amazing, so it wasn't just a case of a beginner-tier dungeon Awakening?"

"possible that 'slime falls' was actually an intermediate dungeon wearing a beginner's skin"

"well, the boss was casting spells. which yamato was batting back"

And on top of that, streaming revenue was still to come. Per her contract with Dungeon Braver, 90% of the collab earnings from their stream would be coming her way too.

Streams caught up in a dungeon Awakening tended to see their view counts spike, since the footage doubled as dungeon-reference material.

The future earnings were nothing short of exciting.

"Oh, oh, ohhhh. Real dungeons are seriously no joke, desuwa. Actually, is the country okay tossing out this kind of money so casually??"

"as expected of Brand Hinomaru, rich as ever"

"that's just how scary Dungeon Disasters are. if they went unchecked in reality the damages wouldn't be anywhere near this cheap"

"apparently half of it is covered by BCD's own revenue"

"oh right, since it's a state-run game there's barely any subcontracting, so the overhead fees are minimized"

"countermeasure budget with no middlemen skimming… you're saying!? that's busted op"

"for real. once you get into third- and fourth-tier subcontractors the skim becomes no laughing matter…"

"experience from that ancient pandemic-era app development finally paid off. that one was a disaster"

"Ahhh, right, when a dungeon appears, buildings get all mangled up too. Forget renovations. Yeah, skimping on this would really come back to bite everyone, desuwa."

"yeah, countries that don't have dungeon countermeasures in place, or were slow to adopt them, saw corporate activity freeze up and their economies basically died. cutting corners here = game over"

"right, and more active economies produce more 'Debris' too, so it's a feedback loop"

"I see… well, BCD seems to earn a fair amount on its own, so that's a strong point too!"

State-run, with no service-end date as long as dungeons keep spawning. Even setting dungeons aside, the streaming toolkit alone was absurdly well-built. What an outrageous game this was, Karona muttered.

"the stronger your economy, the more essential dungeon countermeasures become. BCD has overseas servers too, and takes licensing fees from the host countries"

"Come to think of it, there are overseas-niki too, yes. I don't see them in my streams, though."

"ah, i'm in america actually. i'm japanese, but"

"for real, ojou's stream has gone global"

"overseas-niki! (japanese)"

"Seriously!? … H-hello!? howa yu? I faaain senkyuu, fakkyuu?"

"he said he's japanese! lolll"

"he's literally chatting in japanese to begin with, lolll"

"well, even if real overseas-niki snuck in, the translation's so good they might not even notice"

"[300 JPY] going from 'I am healthy' straight to 'f** you' is peak comedy lollll"*

"the utter defeat of compulsory education lollll"

"is this a broadcast accident? lol"

After that, she read through the thank-you SuperChats and ended the stream.

With the Dungeon Awakening factored in, the SuperChat volume was the biggest since her unlock stream, and a Karona already worn out from the collab and the actual dungeon run was reportedly quite overwhelmed by it all.