【My Hometown】Thread 03 Discussing the Cursed Sword–Wielding “Worksite Bro” and the Dragon-Slaying Swordswoman【Might Be Like That Too】

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Anthem’s thread and SNS are both total festivals right now, lol.

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XX Prefecture, S City might be the local city drawing the most attention in all of Japan right now.

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No doubt about it.
Even influencer types who act like public commentators are already reacting.
The names of the mayor, city council members, prefectural assembly members, and Dungeon Agency staff have all been doxxed.

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The only one whose stock went up was that Sadoyama guy who snapped and tried to beat up a prefectural assembly member on the spot.

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Turns out he was a former A-rank explorer.
Apparently he explored in the same clan as Anthem’s manager.
After retiring, he supported local explorers as a Dungeon Affairs Department employee—only to find the people above him completely rotten.
I feel for the guy.

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Someone said it, but that might’ve been a microcosm of present-day Japan.
Honestly, it had this unpleasant persuasiveness—like, “Yeah, my hometown might be like that too.”

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Mood.
There were probably a lot of people who thought the same thing watching that.

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That probably helped the flames spread crazy fast.
I mean, Anthem’s manager was definitely aiming for this, right?
It looked like the workplace bro only got after-the-fact consent, and no matter how you look at it, the main point was to go after the people in S City.
For workplace bro and Tia it felt more like, “We’ll decide how to handle you later.”

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He must’ve been fed up with their irresponsibility.
They shoved Anthem’s first-string team into a mutated dungeon and almost got them wiped.
That itself was genuinely an accident, so if they’d just prostrated themselves and apologized from the start, it would’ve been over.
They probably never admitted fault and apologized—sure, you can be modest as a social nicety when you’re not at fault, but actually owning your mistake and saying sorry? They never did that.

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That scene—“You worker ants should just crawl into those incomprehensible dungeons and bring back magic cores!”—there are a ton of trash-tier collages being mass-produced.

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Truly the internet’s toy.
We won’t be forgetting the name Sasamori Takeshi for a while.

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At this rate, it’s more famous than workplace bro’s real name.

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But man, workplace bro is something else.
To be there, look bored the whole time, and then just leave midway?
I could never do that.
I’d be too curious about how things would turn out.

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It really felt like he just came because he was called.
And maybe, while he was at it, he wanted to ask about how the magic cores and the dragon’s rare drop would be handled.

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The mayor made a bad move there too.
Just because the logic checks out doesn’t mean it’s reasonable.
Especially when they were the ones ignoring reason and ethics in the first place.

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Anthem’s manager was pretty unhinged too, honestly.

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She was already pissed from the start, so that’s probably why she went as far as doing a live broadcast, even dragging a civilian like workplace bro into it.
I mean, Anthem’s a national project—having it officially go down as “we accepted a legitimate request and failed” would be a problem too, right?
So she probably wanted to make it widely known that S City commissioned Anthem while hiding an irregularity.
I want to believe she didn’t expect it to blow up that far.
No joke, this is going to dominate the conversation all over Japan for a while.

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Like people said above, it really hit close to home.
It wouldn’t be strange at all if the heads and assembly members of our own local governments were just like that.
That’s what that scene made me feel.

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No wonder Section Chief Sadoyama snapped.
Especially since he used to be an explorer.

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And then there’s Tia-chan, who sent that former A-rank explorer flying with a single punch.

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That was cool as hell.
Honestly, if Takeshi had been killed there, I’m confident I would’ve sided with Section Chief Sadoyama.
But Tia-chan wasn’t like that, you know.

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A kind and cute girl who teaches that violence is wrong with violence.
She’s a spirit possessing the Holy Sword Lightbringer, right?
Some people are saying that footage was composited or some kind of trick, though.

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If you start doubting that, then you’d have to doubt everything from the Kamioka Dungeon mutating to Anthem’s members nearly dying in the boss room.
At that point the whole foundation of the story falls apart.

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Workplace bro didn’t feel like he was lying either.
Sure, it lacks realism, but still.
Also, he probably noticed he was being streamed in a half-ambush kind of way, right?
He even waved at the camera.
I was surprised he didn’t seem that angry, though.
More like he was fed up the whole time.

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I think I might’ve found workplace bro’s channel.
(URL omitted…)

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WTF!?

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He actually had a channel!?

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I’m gonna go check it out.

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I went through it pretty thoroughly, at least at a glance.
First off, it’s almost certainly workplace bro.
All of the stream archives were records of cleanup work (hunting trash mobs) in a D-rank dungeon in S City—the Sugai Dungeon, which would be workplace bro’s workplace.
The idea is that if a dungeon is left unattended, it’s said a Dungeon Stampede can occur, so for dungeons that aren’t popular with explorers, local governments sometimes put out contracts and outsource trash-mob hunting.
You might think, “Then why not just destroy the dungeon core at the deepest level and get rid of it?” but there’s a theory that doing that causes a dungeon to appear somewhere else.
In fact, whenever a dungeon has been destroyed, the aftermath has always fallen into one of two patterns: either “a new dungeon is discovered elsewhere,” or “a nearby dungeon goes berserk.” That’s supposed to be consistent, though the reasoning is unclear.
Anyway, long story short, Bro was one of those cleanup workers.
To begin with, the channel name was something utterly unmotivated like Cleaning Records, so it didn’t look like he wanted to do dungeon exploration streams at all.
Also, Bro didn’t even have an explorer’s license.
In one of the early streams, he himself said that the purpose was “to leave real-time stream archives as records.”
For reference, the oldest archive dated back about two years.
Which meant he started streaming roughly a year after he began working as a cleaner.
Apparently, the reason he needed real-time records was that when he submitted the magic cores he collected during monster extermination (cleanup work) to the Sugai Dungeon branch office, someone started suspecting fraud, and it looked like he might not be able to keep doing the job.

203 Anonymous Trapped in the Dungeon

Thanks for the work.
What do you mean by “suspected of fraud”?

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If you watch it, you’ll get it right away—those weren’t the movements of an ordinary civilian below D-rank explorer level.
He just kept walking around at a steady pace, and even if they were only trash mobs from a D-rank dungeon, he took everything down in one or two hits.
Probably because it was meant as evidence footage, the streams were extremely surreal—Bro muttering nonstop things like “Furball three, demi-gob four.”
Of course, the view counts were almost always like two or three.

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Damn.
So workplace bro actually had talent?

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Nah, the “talent” people usually talk about for explorers is affinity with mana.
It’s thought that explorers gain absurd physical abilities and special powers by absorbing mana from dungeon monsters they defeat.
The reason middle schools have dungeon exploration practicums in their curriculum from the 2010s onward is because it’s in the public interest to identify people with high mana affinity early.
Anthem’s members should all be people whose mana affinity exceeded the threshold during those practicums.
It’s easy to forget when watching streams, but that group is a national project.
Workplace bro probably had low mana affinity and couldn’t obtain an explorer’s license.

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Then how the hell was workplace bro doing dungeon-cleaning speedrun-tier stuff?

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I’m not a specialist, so this is just speculation, but—
Probably because he seriously, honestly did his job as a cleaner.

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Elaborate.

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Found the old guy.

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Even if his mana affinity was low, that doesn’t mean it was zero.
Even if they’re just trash mobs from the upper layers of a D-rank dungeon, if you keep killing dozens of them every day, you’re probably getting some experience points.
It’s like grinding forever near the starting village in an RPG.

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I see.
That’s why he started streaming about a year after getting the job.
He spent a year steadily leveling up, and his cleanup work became more efficient.
As a result, the number of trash mobs he could kill increased, and so did the number of magic cores he obtained.
On paper, it ended up looking like he was killing monsters at a rate high enough to make the branch office clerks suspect fraud.

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If he worked twenty days a month and killed a hundred monsters a day, that’d be two thousand trash mobs a month.
No matter how low your talent is, you’d still level up a bit from that.

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And in workplace bro’s case, he was doing it solo.
I checked the recruitment listings for “cleanup crews” from various municipalities just in case, but most of them are contract work outsourced to companies.
Those companies are usually construction firms or temp agencies that employ former explorers—
but for some reason, S City’s Sugai Dungeon outsourced it directly to workplace bro as an individual.

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Sloppy, sloppy government.

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LOL, talk about an oversized subject.
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Workplace bro’s latest stream archive is seriously nuts.
The archive goes as far as him actually entering a hidden room by slipping into the wall.
It probably lost magic comms there, but that’s where the stream cuts off.

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Bro’s credibility just keeps going up.

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There’ll probably be more developments starting tomorrow.
No idea whether workplace bro himself will move, but Anthem and S City definitely will.
Honestly, the Dungeon Agency and the ruling party backing them might already be moving.
Takeshi was apparently affiliated with the ruling party.

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Past tense?

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Well, yeah—cutting loose politicians who are no longer worth supporting is only natural.

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We still don’t know anything for sure yet, though.

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But if workplace bro’s testimony is becoming more credible,
then it’s basically confirmed that something abnormal was happening in S City’s dungeon.
And the Kamioka Dungeon really did mutate, right?
That place was a B-rank dungeon, and originally there was no boss room in the mid-layers.
But a boss room appeared there anyway—and even though Anthem wasn’t at full strength, they still got wrecked.
If workplace bro and Tia-chan hadn’t been there, they would’ve died, wouldn’t they?
Let me say that again.
In a B-rank dungeon’s mid-layer boss room, A-rank explorers couldn’t get a foothold.

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…That’s bad.
I just got chills down my spine.

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So there’s a high chance it’s mutated into an S-rank dungeon?

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More like a “dungeon mutation” that causes abnormalities in surrounding dungeons.
If things go wrong, couldn’t it trigger a Dungeon Stampede?

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The tone of the thread just shifted.
If stuff this obvious is jumping out at us, the big shots have definitely noticed too.

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That prefectural assembly member was at that level, you know.
Judging by how she acted, Anthem’s manager probably hadn’t noticed either.
Honestly, broadcasting the meeting with workplace bro’s after-the-fact consent just to get petty revenge on the people of S City over personal grudges—sorry to say it, but that’s downright childish.
They might even decide they don’t care about S City’s invitation anymore and pull out altogether.
I mean, risking your life for people like that is just stupid.
And with the current lineup, they can’t even beat the mid-layer boss, so they can’t go deeper anyway.

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I’m going to email the Dungeon Agency and S City’s Dungeon Affairs Division.
If we do nothing and a Dungeon Stampede happens, that’d leave too bad a taste in my mouth.

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This doesn’t look like a situation where starting a flame war matters anymore.
I’m going to tip off a well-known streamer.

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I like exploration streams, sure, but—
There’s that theory to begin with: dungeon exploration by explorers is what keeps Dungeon Stampedes in check.
The reason there aren’t that many people criticizing Anthem even though they’re basically idol streamers backed by the state is because dungeon exploration itself is public service, right?
Providing magic cores and other dungeon-produced materials to society is part of it too.

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Even the so-called outrage streamers—
as long as they’re diving to the lower layers and killing monsters, they’re still preventing Dungeon Stampedes, so in that sense they’re public servants too.

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I really don’t want to see it happen.
Not again.

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If it’s the Holy Sword–wielding swordswoman who overwhelmed the mid-layer boss—Tia-chan—she could probably handle it.

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And workplace bro with the cursed sword too.
But honestly—would you feel like doing public service for a municipality that tries to confiscate magic cores for free?
After grinding away as a cleaner for three straight years, their mindset is still “worker ants should just bring us magic cores for our benefit,” right?
If it were me, I’d take the money Anthem paid for the magic cores and move away.

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I mean, at the end of the day, the ones who’d get hurt are ordinary civilians, so yeah.

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I’ll at least put out a warning on SNS.
Would be nice if an influencer bites.

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Paranoid worrywarts, lol.
You’re all just dancing to some made-up hype.

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If it turns out to be needless worry, that’s fine by me.

240 Anonymous Trapped in the Dungeon

Exactly.

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We’re a bunch of people talking on a message board in this day and age.
Even for the “otherworld generation,” the effects of Chain Stampedes would absolutely be real.
Back then too, the sneerers were saying, “Dungeon Stampedes can’t chain. Paranoid idiots, lol.”
If they were still sneering while getting caught in a Dungeon Stampede and nearly dying, I’d almost be impressed.

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Thinking about that, Takeshi really made the worst possible move.
Is there anyone who still wants to support S City?

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I don’t particularly care about S City itself either.
The people who elected that assembly member were citizens too, after all.
But even so, I don’t go as far as thinking they deserve to die in a Dungeon Stampede.

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Like I said, it’s just needless worry, lol.
There’s no way some backwater dungeon would mutate into an S-rank dungeon, lol.
You dancing fools getting played by a joke, hahaha.

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>244 I’m reporting you to the mods.
Didn’t think there were still people who believe anonymous boards are actually anonymous.

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Reported, lol. Reported, lol.
Go right ahead, lol—benevolent reports from paranoid worrywarts, lol.

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In a way, I’m jealous.
Guess none of their family or friends have died.

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Or maybe they’ve already lost everything important and have nothing left.

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That’s just sad.

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Either way, coming all the way to some backwater board like this just to stir shit is sad.
Don’t they use SNS or something?
Or do they not because they have no friends?

251 Anonymous Trapped in the Dungeon

Stop it.
That one hurts someone like me, who has accounts on all kinds of SNS despite having no friends.

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Sad.

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LOL