Episode 12: Message Board Thread, Part 2

【Identity Unknown】 Discussion Thread for the Passerby Black Robe #5 【Summoner】

147：Generic Anonymous Honestly, this thread was moving so fast it was a joke.

148：Generic Anonymous We’d already burned through five threads on this guy alone, and the count was still climbing.

149：Generic Anonymous The Summoner community in particular was losing its collective mind.

150：Generic Anonymous By the way, what happened to that moron?

151：Generic Anonymous He whined the whole time, but he used the [Warp Gate] exactly where the Black Robe said it would be to get out. Then, the moment he tried to make a run for it, government Adventurers and some S-Rank guys they probably called in for backup nabbed him. Stream over. The end.

152：Generic Anonymous Serves him right.

153：Generic Anonymous Wait, did the Black Robe not get caught?

154：Generic Anonymous That topic came up a while ago, but based on the audio caught on the stream, he apparently vanished. He suddenly disappeared in the final frames, so people were guessing he had some kind of teleportation ability.

155：Generic Anonymous That was way beyond the scope of what a Summoner should be able to employ. If he was at least S-Rank equivalent, he was legitimately insane.

156：Generic Anonymous By the way, why were Summoners considered such an "unfortunate" job? Judging by the way he used his Summoned Beasts and that Hyakuma thing, they seemed plenty strong to me...

157：Generic Anonymous Summoners, man... they really did have it rough.

158：Generic Anonymous There were a lot of reasons. First, the stat bonuses you got when you awakened were garbage compared to other jobs. More importantly, the only way to get a Summoned Beast was to dive into a Dungeon.

159：Generic Anonymous That was why newbie Summoners usually ended up as glorified pack mules. And since every Summoner was desperate for a [Summoning Stone], they almost always got put up for auction. Most people couldn't afford to get them for themselves.

160：Generic Anonymous Wait, how did the Adventurer system work again? I learned it in elementary school, but my memory was hazy.

161：Generic Anonymous Well, it was a complicated mess.

162：Generic Anonymous It was off-topic, but I figured I’d explain it for the tourists who came here looking for info. In exchange, this was the only time I was doing it.

163：Generic Anonymous Seriously, my bad. Thanks.

164：Generic Anonymous Basically, you took a [Job Aptitude Test] in the fourth grade. If you had an aptitude for a job, you could become an Adventurer. The kids with high specs got scouted by elite middle schools, so their future was basically set.

165：Generic Anonymous Whoa, thanks for the info.

166：Generic Anonymous The reason Summoners were unfortunate was, like I said, you couldn't get beasts. Plus, your first Summoned Beast changed based on your life experiences up to that point, but nobody actually understood the logic behind it.

167：Generic Anonymous Didn't that make it a total garbage job?

168：Generic Anonymous Yeah, that’s exactly why they were considered unfortunate.

169：Generic Anonymous Then what on earth was that Black Robe? Even through a screen, that Summoned Beast was terrifying, wasn't it?

170：Generic Anonymous He froze that idiot Ryuga, and he was a [Magic Swordsman] with magic resistance. Not to mention, he managed to land fire damage on a [Dragonkin]. That was just broken.

171：Generic Anonymous The guy was a monster.

172：Generic Anonymous I just realized we were all calling him "Black Robe" now.

173：Generic Anonymous Well... that was what he called himself.

174：Generic Anonymous And there weren't any other identifying features to go on...

175：Generic Anonymous Judging only by his statements in the clips, we didn't know for sure, but he seemed weirdly ignorant about Dungeons.

176：Generic Anonymous I laughed when he seemed more panicked about being on the stream than the Dungeon collapsing.

177：Generic Anonymous I got it. It wasn't actually something to laugh at, but his priorities were so skewed it was hilarious.

178：Generic Anonymous Was he still trending at number one? It became a topic at 8:30 PM and it was already morning.

179：Generic Anonymous The impact was just that massive.

180：Generic Anonymous Violence was the answer after all.

181：Generic Anonymous He was so strong it was almost comical. And that wolf was stunning.

182：Generic Anonymous Strongly agree. Out of all the wolf-types I’d seen, it had the most elegance and badassery.

183：Generic Anonymous The concurrent viewer count was stupid, too.

184：Generic Anonymous Didn't it eventually top 300,000?

185：Generic Anonymous That was a number even the biggest streamers couldn't touch.

186：Generic Anonymous The trending speed was crazy, but conquering Ryuzuka was the real headline.

187：Generic Anonymous Was Ryuzuka really that dangerous?

188：Generic Anonymous Dangerous enough that the government banned entry.

189：Generic Anonymous The Black Robe was going to be the only thing people talked about for days.

190：Generic Anonymous The current trends looked like this: 1. Passerby Black Robe 2. Summoned Beast 3. Summoner 4. Ryuga Arrested 5. Sea of the Internet

191：Generic Anonymous Lol.

192：Generic Anonymous The fact that they were all related to the Black Robe was gold.

193：Generic Anonymous Bad news? Breaking news? The clip of the [Reflection Magic] just hit a million views.

194：Generic Anonymous "D-did I... die?" Watching that part on loop was the best thing ever.

195：Generic Anonymous Just how much was that idiot hated?

196：Generic Anonymous It was a magnificent pathetic move. He got exactly what was coming to him.

197：Generic Anonymous I didn't feel sorry for him—it was karma—but looking at it objectively, wasn't it terrifying?

198：Generic Anonymous It was so crazy you'd think it was a fake.

199：Generic Anonymous In addition to the Summoned Beast's power, there was the speed of the support and the deployment speed of the [Magic Circle]. And that mysterious [Reflection Magic].

200：Generic Anonymous None of it made sense, even if you broke the clips down frame by frame.

201：Generic Anonymous Apparently, it was discovered thanks to the clips, but that Black Robe was doing something else, too.

202：Generic Anonymous What did you mean by "something"?

203：Generic Anonymous ...Apparently, it was a technique that was impossible to analyze. You see how the wolf's movements changed halfway through and it started kicking the air? Apparently, that was some kind of nonsensical technique.

204：Generic Anonymous So, basically, we confirmed that we didn't know anything.

205：Generic Anonymous Works for me!

206：Generic Anonymous His voice sounded young. I wondered who he was.

207：Generic Anonymous It was scary to think a Summoner of that caliber was just flying under the radar in Japan.

208：Generic Anonymous He was a complete enigma.

209：Generic Anonymous A literal supernova.

210：Generic Anonymous I wondered if he'd start streaming.

211：Generic Anonymous It was possible, right?

212：Generic Anonymous With this much hype, he had to know he'd be an instant hit. He'd probably start a channel.

213：Generic Anonymous Part of me wanted him to stay a mystery, but the other part wanted to see a stream... I was torn.

214：Generic Anonymous Did he really not have a channel?

215：Generic Anonymous Nowhere. I searched like crazy, but I couldn't find a single thing.

216：Generic Anonymous I was too curious to sleep.

217：Generic Anonymous It was already morning, though.

218：Generic Anonymous Whatever. For a while, I was just going to enjoy the clips until his identity leaked.

219：Generic Anonymous You used the wrong character for "enjoy."

220：Generic Anonymous But watching that moron's pathetic face was funny...

221：Generic Anonymous Fair point.

222：Generic Anonymous Anyway, well... let's just see how this plays out.

223：Generic Anonymous If he was an Adventurer, he'd show up in a Dungeon again eventually.

224：Generic Anonymous I guess so.

225：Generic Anonymous Aaaah—I don't want to go to work—