Isekai Livestream: Goddess's Vessel
Chapter 43: The Goddess’s Scam
"Damn it..."
The moment his awareness returned and he realized he was back in that strange realm of white and darkness, only one conclusion came to Lu-el.
"I died, didn’t I..." he mumbled softly, surprised that the realization didn’t fill him with as much sadness and regret as he expected—or perhaps it simply hadn’t hit him yet.
But before tears could form in his eyes, as he clenched his fists and bit his lips trying to endure the crushing pressure building in his chest, a familiar voice called out to him.
"Not exactly."
Glancing toward the source of the voice, spoken in an obviously sarcastic tone like a woman pretending to stay calm while holding back delight over how successful her prank had been, Lu-el once again came face to face with the scammer goddess.
She appeared as a white silhouette of a mature woman, her hair cascading all the way to her feet and her alluring figure sharply outlined against the shadows. Hovering midair, her feet barely brushed the ground, which was as dark as the abyss itself.
Though the darkness beneath his feet made Lu-el uneasy enough to hold back his complaints, the clear white sky above calmed him just enough to recall what had happened—he had been poisoned to death while fighting a creepy assassin.
Yet somehow, the scammer goddess claimed otherwise.
"What do you mean, not exactly?" Lu-el asked, hiding his worry and panic behind his usual laid-back demeanor—especially the fear of being sent back to his original world as a corpse after dying.
"To be clear, you actually did die just now."
Hearing the goddess’s blunt remark, even Lu-el’s laid-back demeanor began to crumble as anxiety spread across his face. 𝗳𝚛𝚎𝚎𝘄𝕖𝕓𝕟𝕠𝚟𝚎𝕝.𝗰𝕠𝐦
Annoyance soon followed rather than desperation, simply because he could somehow sense how delighted the goddess was by his reaction.
Even though her figure had no face or expression, Lu-el somehow just knew.
"Calm down for a bit, would you?" said the goddess, still using her sarcastic, mocking tone.
"Don’t be so stiff like your erection."
Only after hearing that remark did Lu-el realize he was standing completely naked—and aroused.
Despite his growing irritation toward the goddess, he instinctively covered his massive erection with both hands.
"Pfft—Hahaha!"
"Can you explain things already?!" Lu-el grumbled, growing more embarrassed than annoyed as the goddess laughed cheerfully.
"Pfft—you are dead..." The goddess paused, trying to hold back her laughter before continuing. "...but someone is still trying to revive you and bring you back."
A spark of hope ignited within Lu-el upon hearing that he still had a chance to survive—and that someone still hadn’t given up trying to save him.
"Was it those young hunters?" Lu-el asked excitedly, remembering that one hunter had remained behind to treat Weed and the others.
"Do you actually prefer boys over girls?—Pfft!" the goddess replied, unable to hold back her laughter.
"Of course not!"
If it wasn’t the young hunters, then Lu-el could only think of one other person.
"Was it Kaori? Did she manage to find me after I lost consciousness?"
"Wrong! That’s strike two," the goddess replied, acting like the hostess of a game show.
"One more wrong guess and you’ll automatically die."
"Don’t toy with my life like it’s some kind of game!"
Despite his complaint, Lu-el somehow felt that the goddess was serious about killing him if he made another wrong guess—or perhaps he was simply afraid of death.
Lu-el gave it serious thought.
"10... 9... 8..."
Ignoring the goddess’s playful and annoying countdown, he listed everyone he knew since being isekai’d into the world of Goddess’s Vessel who might save him.
If it wasn’t Kaori or the young hunters, then the only ones left were Daichi, Mikoto, Manami.
Then suddenly, one person came to mind—someone who would go just as far as Kaori to save him—or rather, claim him.
"Was it Sera..." Lu-el mumbled softly, surprised by his own realization.
"Exactly! So you do prefer girls over boys."
"Obviously!"
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Since time in the goddess’s realm flowed slower than in the world of Goddess’s Vessel, it gave Lu-el and the goddess plenty of time to talk within the few seconds Sera spent trying to revive his body.
"SHEESH—Your collections and views are really low compared to the others."
"Sorry for being a lazy, lousy, poor Livestreamer!" Lu-el grumbled sarcastically.
Delighted by his reaction, the goddess continued taunting him, mentioning how the other Livestreamers were doing.
"Just so you know, the one livestreaming with his yandere lover already has over 5,000 collections and more than 700K views."
"UGH—!"
"The one solo livestreaming because he doesn’t have any friends is doing much better than you as well."
"ARGH—!"
"The one farming his lovers—I mean farming with his lovers—has already planted his seed."
"You mean in the soil or in his lovers?"
"Both—Hahaha!"
"Also, the one doing territorial defense by making all the women in his territory his lovers got killed after all the men started a coup d’état and dethroned him."
"Of course that would happened."
After a while, with Lu-el no longer bothering to hide his massive erection, the conversation shifted to a more serious topic—or at least, serious for Lu-el.
"So why exactly do you keep scamming Livestreamers into your world?" Lu-el asked, assuming there had to be some deeper reason behind him and the others being isekai’d.
"I was bored," the goddess answered bluntly.
"Oi—!"
"PFFT—HAHAHA!"
Satisfied with breaking Lu-el’s laid-back demeanor and enjoying his annoyed reaction, the goddess finally gave him a more proper explanation—or at least one enough to satisfy him.
"Skipping the boring info dump, the Life Force energy of your viewers is being converted into Mana to empower the Heroines of Goddess’s Vessel so they can fight against the growing threat of Curse and monsters."
His eyes widened and his mouth hung open in shock upon realizing what the goddess was doing—and that he had unknowingly become a pawn in her scam.
"Are you telling me you’re stealing the life force of everyone watching those livestreams?!"
"PFFT—HAHAHA!"
"You scammer goddess—UGH!"
Lu-el wanted to complain further and question the morality of the goddess’s scam.
But before he could say anything else, he suddenly felt a powerful beat from his heart resonate throughout his entire body.
What followed was the same excruciating pain he had experienced while fighting through poison and fatal injuries.
His consciousness began to fade as he dropped to his knees.
Then his mind slowly went blank, his vision turning white as he stared at the scammer goddess.
"Your yandere villainess did a wonderful job bringing you back," said the goddess as she hovered closer and held his face, forcing him to look directly at her blank visage.
"So do your best and entertain me once more, my dear Livestreamer."