VTuber Legend: How I Went Viral after Forgetting to Turn Off My Stream Volume 6 (eBook)

Nana Nanato (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
250 Seiten
J-Novel Club (Verlag)
978-1-7183-8708-9 (ISBN)

Infos

With a career reaching back to the very birth of the industry, Mana Hoshino is a truly legendary VTuber-and her graduation announcement has shaken Awayuki to her core! But before she can even finish mourning the retirement of her idol and the ensuing end of an era, her manager calls with word of a seemingly preposterous proposal! In the meantime, Awayuki delves into the deep darkness of Live-On's WorCra server, offers her highly unqualified counseling to assuage the woes of her peers, and shows how her company earned its reputation in Live-On's inaugural Common Sense Quiz.

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It was about time to put the petting zoo behind me, so Nekoma-senpai guided me to the next area.

[Nekoma Hirune]: The next area is our main attraction! Other streamers come here all the time.

[Awayuki Kokorone]: Is it, now? How exciting!

“Huh? It’s this way?”

We seemed to be heading deeper into the park, toward a place hidden from prying eyes. I’d figured that a popular attraction would have stood out a bit more, but...

[Nekoma Hirune]: Here we are! This is our super-popular you-know-what that I told you about earlier!

“...............”

I was speechless.

Before me was a cramped cage containing a few beds spread around. Also inside...were people. Crammed in like sardines with absolutely zero consideration paid to their freedom or privacy.

[Awayuki Kokorone]: Nekoma-senpai... What in the world...

[Nekoma Hirune]: Why, it's just what it looks like! They're villagers! And we've got a primo villager in this cage on the other side! If you ever need to cut a deal, feel free to drop by!

“This is just a breeding ground for villager farmiiiiiiiiiiiing!!!!!”

Even I knew about this stuff! You poached villagers from some village, bred them for the best stats, and then bartered the good ones off for profit! No wonder so many hard-core players were frequenting a zoo; I’d doubted the cover story from the start, but if this was the truth behind it, then I wished I’d never known!

[Nekoma Hirune]: C'mon! This "dealer" or whatever's our number one fan favorite! Everyone calls him "Waluigi" out of love!

“Just because they both won some popularity pol—aw, forget it! Okay, I get that they look similar! And don’t call him a ‘dealer,’ that just makes him sound even shadier!”

: here it is, the dark side of the Ehrai Zoo (number one)

: d-does it go past one?

: No, but we've got other number ones, like Gatekeeper here!

: Greetings, chat! Nothing to report!

: They're not getting love out of him, they're getting emeralds

[Awayuki Kokorone]: Nekoma-senpai! I've become filled with righteous anger!

[Nekoma Hirune]: Awayuki-chan, I can't say I don't understand where you're coming from. But you mustn't say what you're about to say out loud.

[Awayuki Kokorone]: ...Whatever do you mean?

[Nekoma Hirune]: To deny this place is to deny the zookeeper. And if you were to do that right here... Well, you might find yourself joining the dealers.

“Eeeeeeeeeek?!?!”

I spun around the moment that message popped up and let out a shameless shriek as I made a mad dash for any other area but here.

“Is this...an aquarium?”

After fleeing the seedy underground of the zoo, I found myself inside a large building that I hadn’t visited yet. The building had a bunch of water tanks installed around its interior, each with plenty of fish swimming to and fro inside, and they meshed with the dim, blue palette of the interior’s furnishings to create an almost otherworldly atmosphere. It sure looked like I had escaped into an aquarium.

“Ah, how soothing... Especially after witnessing such a horrific sight...”

Wait, she even had fish here, huh? Maybe Ehrai-chan really did want her park to cover every living creature under the sun.

“My, how wide this aquarium is. I wonder how far it continues... Hm? What might this spot be? It appears to be unusually cramped compared to the rest of the building.”

As I progressed inside the aquarium, I caught sight of a corner with a number of water tanks that looked far more shoddily assembled than the others, along with a bizarrely large number of item chests stacked up around them. It was clearly out of place among its slick, clean surroundings.

“Ah, the tanks do have creatures inside them. These are...axolotls? And quite a lot of them, I must say!”

[Nekoma Hirune]: Finally found ya, Awayuki-chan!

“Eeek!”

I was startled to find that Nekoma-senpai had caught up and was standing right behind me, but after seeing that she didn’t have a weapon drawn and wasn’t preparing to attack, I figured I was safe for the time being.

Come to think of it, Nekoma-senpai was supposed to be my guide, so maybe she’d have the answer as to what this place was.

[Awayuki Kokorone]: What might this place be?

[Nekoma Hirune]: Ah, this is an unfinished area. We're still in the breeding stages now, but we plan to have a colorful tank of axolotls in the near future.

“I see, it’s still unfinished. I’m sure it will look magnificent once it’s complete!”

[Nekoma Hirune]: This is also my workplace!

[Awayuki Kokorone]: Workplace? So, you work here?

[Nekoma Hirune]: Gotta have that blue axolotl, yeah. That's what this breeding facility is for.

[Awayuki Kokorone]: Well, now. Come to think of it, I don't see any blue ones in here. Are they rare?

[Nekoma Hirune]: Haven't had much luck getting one, given that the odds are 1/1200 and all.

“What.”

[Awayuki Kokorone]: Did you, uh, add too many zeroes?

[Nekoma Hirune]: Nope, it's one in twelve hundred, that's for sure!

“For real? I’m surprised they made something that rare...”

[Nekoma Hirune]: I've been at it all day and I still haven't gotten one, same as yesterday, and the day before yesterday, and the day before that, and the day before that, and the day before that, and the day before that, and the day before that, and the day before that, and the day before that, and the day before that, and the day before that, and the day before that, and the day before that, and the day before that, and the day before that, and the day before that, just working, working, working, working, and working the whole time. You know how it is.

“...............”

A chill ran down my spine. This sensation, it was just like before—

: here it is, the dark side of the Ehrai Zoo (number two)

: this zoo's putting up cursed contraptions like it's trying to fill up a bingo card

: Cursed Bingo, where if you get five in a row, you get to join the animal keepers!

: Joining the (codename) animal keepers, an offer you can't refuse!

: The animal keepers aren't regular clan members, that's code for the head honchos

: Love the Ehrai Clan, where all the viewers imagine the backstory themselves without Ehrai-chan herself saying a word

: Awa-chan, how about you open one of those chests?

“The...chests?”

I followed my viewer’s suggestion and opened a nearby chest. Chests were crammed into every open space, so I didn’t need to walk so much as a step.

“Eeek?!”

When I finally processed what was inside the chest, my body reflexively slammed it shut not a moment after I’d opened it. The contents were visible for only an instant, but I could vividly recall the sight of them. No, that would imply I had any choice; to be precise, I didn’t want to recall that sight, but the image was burned into my brain.

Inside that chest, I saw every single storage slot filled out by axolotls in every color but blue.

Were... Were these perhaps the baby axolotls that had been born by this process? Wait... Huh? For real? Did that mean that all of the chests set up around here contained...the same...

Yet another chill gripped my ice-cold spine as I shivered more with each passing second.

[Awayuki Kokorone]: Why are you doing something that would drive anyone else insane? Is this one of the Zookeeper's orders?

[Nekoma Hirune]: Nope, it's an independent choice!

[Awayuki Kokorone]: Wh-Why? Ah, you said this was your workplace, of course! There's sure to be some reward for this, no?

[Nekoma Hirune]: Ah, how perceptive you are! That's right, there's an amazing reward! The ultimate reward of knowing you made the Zookeeper happy!

[Awayuki Kokorone]: Th...That's it? No diamonds or anything?

[Nekoma Hirune]:...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.10.2023
• Reihe/Serie: VTuber Legend: How I Went Viral after Forgetting to Turn Off My Stream
• Reihe/Serie: VTuber Legend: How I Went Viral after Forgetting to Turn Off My Stream
• Illustrationen: Siokazunoko
• Übersetzer: airco
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Comic / Humor / Manga
• Schlagworte: business • cute girls • ecchi • female protagonist • Light Novel • Slice of Life • zero to hero
• ISBN-10: 1-7183-8708-3 / 1718387083
• ISBN-13: 978-1-7183-8708-9 / 9781718387089