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Once I left Mei’s house, I went back to the office and made an appointment to meet with a streamer.
“Here it is……”
Perhaps because I had been to Ayana’s, Touko san’s, and Mei’s houses, I had an image of streamers living in apartments or houses with good security and soundproofing measures.
However, when I was given the address, I found a house that had probably been lived in by a family for many years.
When I looked at the nameplate, I saw the names of the four members of the family written clearly on it.
When I rang the intercom, I heard a loud thumping sound that I could tell from the outside that someone had come down from the second floor.
[…..Yes.]
“This is Tachibana Kei from GG Corporation.”
When I said this, a few moments later, the door was unlocked and opened with a clang of the lock.
“Hi, are you Marmoro san?”
“….Yes, I am…..Marmoro.”
The man who peeked out of the open door was about the same age as me.
However, unlike the photo of his face that I had checked beforehand, the Marmoro san in front of me looks quite pale.
“Are you sleeping properly,……?”
“…..Probably, yes.”
“I see. May I go up? As I told you on the phone, I’m here alone.”
“……Please come in.”
When I enter the front door, I can tell.
This was not the house he had lived in until a short time before, but his parents’ house.
There was a portrait of his parents that he must have drawn when he was a child, and a certificate from a tennis tournament that belonged to his sister.
We then headed upstairs to his room, which was probably his room.
When I entered the room, the curtains were closed and it was pitch black, even though it was daytime.
“May I open the curtains?”
“…..I’m sorry, it’s so dark. I will turn on the light.”
With a click, the light was turned on.
It was quite strange that the room was so bright in the daytime.
I was led to a sofa and sat down.
I handed him the ice cream I had bought on the way here.
“Would you like to try some? Kato told me that Marmoro san likes this ice cream.”
“Kato san, huh……”
When I told Marmoro san, he had tears in his eyes.
“Thank you very much…….”
–Marmoro san.
When I first came to GG Corporation, Kato san, who also worked as his manager, had called me and told me about the [sex act with a minor in a hotel] incident and he was the streamer who used to belong to our company and was publicly executed by Jinguuji.
Until a few days ago, he was just another talent that someone else had been working with. But I wanted to talk to him about the case with Jinguuji, so Sagara san and Kato san arranged for me to meet with him.
“Could you tell me more about the case?”
“…..Yes. But the explanation is exactly as I gave it to Kato san.”
“Yes, Kato told me about it. If possible, could you tell me in detail how you met the girl…..with whom you said you entered the hotel together and how you entered the hotel?”
When I told him this, his expression became pained and he turned his head down, as if I had reminded him of something unpleasant.
I don’t know if he was remembering the face of the girl who had deceived him and sold the information to a different man, or if he was frustrated with himself for having been deceived, but it would be cruel to remind him.
But the reason I came here was to hear more about this matter.
“I’m sorry, but I really need to hear it.”
I asked again, feeling sorry for reminding him.
“I understand. We met through a mutual acquaintance……”
Marmoro san spoke slowly.
–The two met through a mutual acquaintance, a certain streamer.
That streamer introduced her as being 21 years old.
She was introduced as a college student with a slightly flashy appearance.
He went on several dates with her, and they became aware of each other as members of the opposite sex.
Then, on the third date, Marmoro san confessed his feelings to her.
She happily said [yes.] A happy couple was born, but—.
“She invited me to a hotel…..and told me she didn’t want to go home that day.”
They went out and crossed the line.
“That’s when she told you how old she really was? ”
“……Yes. She told me he was 17 years old. I thought it was a bad idea. But she said it herself, [It’s love at first sight and I really wanted to go out with you.] I’ve never been with a woman before……”
Marmoro san looked down sadly.
“If she told me that much, age wouldn’t matter…..as long as we both agreed, it would be okay. I thought I could hide it…”
“You’ve been exposed.”
“……Yes. Then I realized. I realized that I had been deceived,……and that I was the only one who was serious,……then it all happened very quickly.”
Marmoro san stood up and brought me a stack of papers from the study desk he must have used when he was a student.
“They identified the apartment I lived in, too, and every day I received these……”
A stack of papers of different sizes and colors.
The number of sheets probably exceeded a hundred.
The contents were–very childish slander.
Apologize to her. Enemy of women. Apologize until death. Burn his house down. Do you really care what happens to your family? Don’t you feel sorry for your parents?
Die, die, die, die, die, die, die, die, die, die, die, die, die, die, die, die, die, die, die, die, die, die, die, die, die, die, die.
Such childish words were used, cut and arranged from newspaper or supermarket receipt so that the handwriting would not be recognized.
Perhaps they borrowed knowledge from the news or dramas.
“Did you tell the police about this……?”
“I didn’t tell them. If I told them, they would now do damage not only to me but also to my family….. So I contacted that guy and asked him not to flame me anymore…….”
“You mean?”
Marmoro san gave a small nod.
“I figured the people who were putting this paper in my mailbox were his viewers. So I thought if he told me in his stream to stop, it would stop.”
“However, the conversation that took place when you made that request was secretly filmed and released as a video.”
“…It was painful, so I simply accepted his words with a grain of salt. The main part of that video was about 10 minutes, but we actually talked for about two hours.”
“Two hours?”
Mei said he had cut it out, but it was much longer than I had imagined.
“It’s strange if you think about it calmly. It’s easy to see that I’ve been waiting a long time for him to say something weird…… I was relieved when that guy said he’d make sure I wouldn’t get flamed any more. Then I felt like he was my only ally…….”
It is likely that because he had been holding it all alone for so long, he was put off by the smallest kind word or friendly attitude.
I would have to put myself in his shoes to understand all this, but I understood what he was trying to say.
“After that, I couldn’t remember what I had said. I felt lightened up and that I was finally free from suffering…… Then I watched the video and learned that I had spoken this stuff to myself. I left some words so that anyone could see that I wasn’t sorry.”
“……”
“Shortly after the video came out, the intercom at the apartment I lived in started ringing repeatedly.”
“Did you talk to the management office or the police?”
“I did consult with the management office. But they said it was a prank by a neighbor’s child……. I asked them about it several times, but they were too lazy to help me. I thought I couldn’t stay in the apartment anymore because I didn’t know when they would break into my house…… But I had nowhere to go, no friends, no one I could trust…….”
“So you went home?”
“No, I thought that if I went back home, I would involve my family, so until a little while ago I was living in an Internet cafe or a capsule hotel.”
Marmoro san continued.
“……My sister told me to come home. She’s been bragging about me at school for a while now. She said, [My brother is great.]….but then her friends made fun of her because of this incident, and she got into a fight with them. They also talk behind my parents back at work. And yet they didn’t talk to me about any of that, and they were worried about me…….”
While crying, Marmoro san told me the story.
What he did would be bad to someone who doesn’t know anything about it. But after hearing the whole story, hearing what happened, and knowing his personality, even after just a short conversation, I couldn’t blame him.
“So, I won’t consult a lawyer. I won’t do any more streaming activities, either……. I don’t want to cause any more trouble for my family who protects me…….”
If he asked his lawyer, he would take some action.
The “self-proclaimed ally of justice” who put the slanderous paper in the apartment where he lives will do the same thing again.
And I don’t think Jinguuji would remain silent either.
If he uploads a video saying [Marmoro kun is going to sue me] who knows what will happen…….
I don’t think there is anything more frightening than an ignorant third party who doesn’t know what he has to lose.
If he were to commit a criminal act with abandon, not only Marmoro san would suffer, but his family as well.
“Thank you for sharing your story. I just wonder if you could wait a little longer before you quit streaming?”
“Eh…..?”
I can’t let him continue to cry himself to sleep.
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