Chapter 1: The Great Young Detective

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It was a quiet night of October 31, 2019

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It was a quiet night of October 31, 2019. . . when Youtube recommendations showed me another mind-boggling video, something I don't know I'm supposed to discover.

I just finished my task, and yet I was so tired even tho I didn't have to leave to go to the place I was supposed to stay for a few days or so. As soon as I finished, I quickly prepared myself for bed, checked a few notifications on my phone, before jumping to Youtube to watch my favorite Vtubers.

That's when I noticed something strange happening.
The videos on home page are broken, with missing thumbails and jumbled characters as the title.

"Is this some kind of bug?" . . . I wondered, And then it stopped.

Finally I was able to scroll down, still, the other video's thumbnail seemed to have failed loading, and the titles weren't showing up, it was like I was struck by a sudden loss of internet connection. I tried refreshing it several times, but it didn't work, until one video loads up.

*Live*

It was a random live stream, probably from one of the vtubers I know, but I sooner came to realize... It wasn't. Still with a title made out of random jumbled letters and numbers. There were no viewers nor subscribers.

"Hmmmm... That's strange, really really strange... Another bug I guess?"

Out of curiosity, I clicked on the livestream, hoping it would load somehow. But after a few minutes. . .  Still nothing.

"What's wrong with this website today?" I was getting frustrated, so I tried refreshing but it won't go away. And now I'm stuck with this broken stream.

"Maybe restarting the app will work?. . . Ah... My phone is frozen. . . ahhhh" I let out a frustrated sigh and pressed my on to my pillow.

A few seconds later, my phone vibrates, and so I took a look and thats when I saw the title of the livestream change. One by one the letters spelled.

"Can you hear me?"

I thought it's another online mystery, like the recent Cicada games on Twitter, maybe I stumbled upon round 4? The name of the Live-streamer was "Tako". I said to myself, "Cicada won't name themselves with a proper name.... it looks like a freshly made account, probably just a few hours ago."

After giving it a few secs of thinking, whether I'm right or wrong. . . whether I would fall into another mystery of the internet I can't get out or a troll. I decided to take the risk. . . .

There were distant sounds coming from the other end, so I typed.

"I can hear you"

Instead of going to sleep watching livestreams, I sat on the edge of my bed.

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