THE RECORD: From Behind The Camera, He Keeps Watching
CHAPTER 9: The Beginning (Part 2)

But apparently, I was curious.

Maybe Steav was right. Maybe I can save my canal by switching there. Without waiting any longer, I instantly found out about B.I on the internet as Steav suggested.

There are various articles that appear. One of them is an article about him whose name skyrocketed due to the content of his horror podcast on Youtube and then came to the news about the discovery of his corpse–

Wait.

B.I is dead?

I let go of laughter. I don't know why the thing that just got me interested.

I've been searching the internet looking for B.I's name and there's one that's caught my eye the most. Not an article, but a fanpage. A pop up message appeared asking me to sign up. I clucked in protest but still did it with fake emails.

Once I was already inside the homepage, a video appeared with the title “Extended version”. I don't understand the context with what an extended video means. That's why without babibu and I immediately hit the play button.

The video begins with the sound of someone's breath hunting and the quality of the video as if recorded with a cellphone camera from ancient times. The quality of the video is very poor to the size of a rich live steamer.

Someone was talking slowly behind the camera. The cameraman, or call him the streamer.

“This is it. Senior class on the fourth floor near the stairs.” B.I chuckled as he opened the door of the nearly charred classroom. Shows a blackened room due to fire.

Instantly my hair goosebumps watching it. The class was seen .. deadly.

Dirty, quiet, pitch black and looks stuffy.

I don't know how to describe it, but damn, something really scary must have happened here at the time.

B.I pulled out a drawer and the young man yelled happily when he found a crumpled piece of old paper. Wait it's not paper. It was papyrus¹. It says something called Vesta Hestia.

“Vesta Hestia,” says B.I read it. I turned one corner of my lips when I heard that silly name. But I kept my face close to the screen to hear it more clearly. The sound of the video was very small even though I had already raised the volume by a hundred percent.

“In the embrace of the Goddess Vesta Hestia ..” said B.I.

“I found myself mema–”

The video ends.

“The f*ck?” I was unconscious.

I was silent for a moment to process. What kind of silly video is this?!

With a careless laugh I shook my head inexplicably. But my finger again scrolls the cursor down. There is a long paragraph below the video.

A conspiracy. I read it quickly. It says that the streamer went missing for a year after the video I just watched became his last. He was found dead a year later inside the former school building where he was live streaming.

But the police finally gave the results of the investigation by mentioning that his death was caused by an attempted suicide. The other two bodies were identified as crew members. Based on the results of a nearby family interview, B.I had several times to go to a psychiatrist due to depression he suffered.

The police suspect that B.I was the one who killed the crew before setting himself on fire. This is based on the evidence at the scene. One lighters and a trace of violence on the crew's body are second to none. Police said no other fingerprints other than B.I's were on the evidence. The case ended with B.I being made a suspect.

This is where the conspiracy is told.

First, the two bodies were not the crew. B.I always goes alone when he goes for live streaming. Their identity remains a mystery.

Second, I know of an account called @.xxbixx. Di was one of the loyal B.I spectators who watched the live until the end. After this news was broadcast everywhere, the account disappeared without a trace. Whoever deleted the account, I'm sure one of the members of that platform did it to keep the platform from being shut down. I don't know who's behind it.

Before his account was lost, he wrote that B.I had to live again about twenty minutes after the first live began. But the duration is very short, only 10 seconds. He confessed that seeing B.I ask for help to get him out of there because something was chasing him. Before the account owner could record, the video was over.

I'm sure that something B.I was after him was the owner of the vesta hestia. Devil.

The clock's needle skipped a beat while I was silent about what I was reading.

I paused for a moment before breaking out hard to hold my stomach. See how seriously these pretentious detective humans associate crime with strange mystical things. But I was amused and decided to read further.

If this was just a casual accident, why was Woodstuck Highschool omitted from the map? That's because B.I is live streaming on H**O. You know a lot of people in power there. It's easy for them to close the case.

The writing stopped there.

My laughter stopped slowly. I was thinking.

Knock on my desk with fingers while I'm racking my thinking brain. **O. I'm pretty sure the censored letters are E and O. Can't Steav not brag about the platform?

Forget about B.I or whatever. There's probably no harm in me trying. Maybe I can develop my canal bigger and live independently without Couper's intervention.

Therefore, the next fifty minutes I spent to find out about HEWO and what I found during it made me grin broadly.

In the end, my cursor is pointed over the link that Steav provided. I pressed the mouse until a click filled my room.

Googly page turns red. I managed to get into the courtyard.

...The Welcome to HEWO....

...Show your world with us....

Sign Up I'm pressing.

There are some strange questions I answered with origin.

...Submit your answer?²...

I sniffed my shoulders and pressed YES.

...Loading …...

I bite my lips, waiting.

And all of a sudden.

...Sorry, your answers are sucks. TRY AGAIN?³...

...YES OR NO...

F*ck, NO!

I threw the mouse in annoyance. Maybe I don't know anything about this. I have to ask for help from others who understand better. All right, this one can be done later.

Now I have to devise a plan for the executives to be interested in me. I have to develop my channel there from zero. Of course it's gonna take a long time.

I move both my legs. Trying to think who would be suitable to be a booster for my channel to increase rapidly.

Suddenly I thought of someone.

With this I came to a decision.

Was …

...***...

Making Izzy Crawford a shortcut for me.

“While glamping, we will do live streaming there and read Vesta Hestia. Thirty percent of his income is for you. How?”

The loser little girl whose name was being talked about everywhere seemed to be losing her way. I waited patiently even though it wasn't my forte. Moreover, her curtain-like hair pissed me off half to death. He looks stupid and catapulty. Argha! Quick answer, loser!

“Fifty,” he said suddenly talking, surprising me who was not ready.

“What?”

“I want fifty percent.” The pair of brown eyes that were staring at me from the curtain were glittering boldly.

I let go of laughter. Maybe I underestimated him too much who was acting too loser. Just look at the shiny eyes behind his hair. I saw him almost cry before.

I stood up straight to take off the hair I was holding. Okay, I need to think and ease my emotions a little.

“What a loser this is. What can you do between–”

“Woodstock is not on the map. How do you think you're going to get there?”

I could hear how bold his tone was. Is he really Izzy the mute and the loser?

“How dare you speak so to Rose!” Delilah behind me was struck with emotion and was about to approach Izzy but she stopped for a moment as I raised my hand to stop her.

I thought for a moment. Bringing Izzy in live streaming will certainly benefit me because his name is in the spotlight. Moreover, this is the silly letter Vesta Hestia who became the attractor of the HEWO audience to give a lot of gifts like they gave to B.I.

Fifty percent is a lot. Half of what he'll get. Will everything be comparable?

“Why? You need money?” ask me to the point.

Izzy seemed to think for a moment, his pale face was too much trouble, I guess.

“At least if I die there, I can leave a lot of money for my mother.”

My breathless expression faded hearing the word die. Now I wonder what Izzy knew about Vesta Hestia's ridiculous letter to the point that he seemed surprised.

“You believe? About the curse? Oh come on, no ghost can kill human–”

“Ghost can't kill ..” Izzy cut my words and hung up the sentence. His eyes glittered at something I didn't know what.

Then without me planning, his last words managed to make me pensive.

“... but their revenge, can.⁴”

...***...

Paper made from papyrus. People used to write using this paper.

Trans: Collect your answers.

Trans: Sorry. Your answer is not very. Try again?

Trans: ... but their grudges, can be.

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