Zonchu Uncovers the Doppelganger’s Target in Urban Myth Dissolution Center Episode 5

INDEPENDENT — Zonchu, the zombie high schooler streamer, worked through the fifth episode of the mystery adventure Urban Myth Dissolution Center on Monday and reached the point where the case’s central question, what the doppelganger was after, got an answer: a server holding police protection information for VIPs. The stream began at 5:30 p.m., half an hour ahead of the usual start, because a separate stream was planned for 8 p.m.

The episode followed the request of Kurosawa, the young CEO of an IT company, who said something had been stolen from his office. His secretary insisted she had spent an hour with him the day before and saw him take a red, card-like item from a desk drawer before vanishing, while Kurosawa said he never came back to the room. Security footage showed a figure that looked exactly like him. Around the 36-minute mark the player character put a name to it, a doppelganger, and Zonchu walked through the lore as it came up: the legend that meeting your double means death, and the theories that it is a hallucination or a glitch.

“Phew, that was scary... It was the scariest one.” — Zonchu, after the doppelganger’s appearance at the CEO’s house

The double then turned up at Kurosawa’s home, where his housekeeper described a second Kurosawa appearing right after the first and disappearing, and a hard drive was missing from his computer. Zonchu questioned Kurosawa’s girlfriend, who had received strange direct messages from his hijacked account asking about that drive, and pieced together how the double had moved from the office to the house. Zonchu called the scene at the house the scariest of the series so far. A sudden dream sequence around the 87-minute mark was a jump scare, and the story picked up again at the company’s server room, where the double had appeared a week earlier.

There, the investigators pressed Kurosawa about what the server held. He first declined to say, then admitted it stored information on protecting VIPs and police stations’ systems, the kind of material a group could use to plan an attack. Zonchu and the character spent the final stretch weighing whether the double was a supernatural being or someone disguised, and the stream closed with a lead on Kurosawa’s father, Masaharu, which Zonchu said would be followed up next time. The chief of the Center, who had stopped answering calls partway through, remained out of contact.

Chat reacted to the scares with cries of surprise and finished the evening with applause. Zonchu said the story would continue in the next stream and left to prepare for the 8 p.m. broadcast.