VTuber Legend: How I Went Viral after Forgetting to Turn Off My Stream Volume 8 (eBook)

Nana Nanato (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
250 Seiten
J-Novel Club (Verlag)
9781718387126 (ISBN)

Infos

It's Valentine's Day! Hareru invites a few choice members of Live-On's now five generations to a teensy bit of chocolate-making tomfoolery. Of course, almost nothing goes as planned, resulting in a very depressed Dagger. Awayuki, wanting to cheer up her newly acquired apprentice, presents Dagger with the cause of and solution to all of life's problems-alcohol!* The dangerous combination of adorableness and strong, cheap booze that evolves from there might not be what Awayuki, or anyone, expected! Meanwhile there are AI streamers, more werewolf games, and...Hamburg steaks?! Truly something for everyone.

*Disclaimer: No underage characters were given alcohol in the making of this book.

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“Nekomaaa! What do you think you’re doing?!” Hareru-senpai cried out.

“Nya ha ha ha! Making you try my favorite food, of course!”

“I’ve never seen you eat cat food in my life! And I’m human, not a cat!”

“But you promised. You lied?”

“I promised, yes, but this is an extenuating circumstance!”

“Lying to animals is animal abuse. First gen committing animal abuse sets a bad example for all of us.”

“I’m being extorted?! Extorted in the strangest of ways, no less?!”

Nekoma-senpai watched in delight as Hareru-senpai scrambled to stop her. Finally, Hareru-senpai seemed to catch on and glared daggers at Nekoma-senpai. “Nekomaaa! I knew something was wrong when you played up the cat angle! You tricked me!”

“Nya ha ha ha! Too slow, Miss Genius, too slow! You think I know how to make sweets? If I’m going to be exposed as a walking kitchen disaster, I’m taking you down with me!”

Hareru-senpai grunted in frustration. “Nekomaaa! How could you bare your fangs at me? I trusted you!”

“This, my dear Hareru-senpai, is sweet, sweet revenge.”

“R-Revenge? But why? I haven’t unwittingly wronged you, have I? But if I have, then—”

“Slam Dunk.”

“Slam what now?”

“The new Slam Dunk movie. By all accounts, it was supposed to be shit, the kind of flick I enjoy, so I went to watch it, but it turned out to be super entertaining, so I’m taking it out on you!!!”

“I couldn’t be more unrelated to this scenario even if I tried!!!”

Nekoma-senpai began to breathe heavily, tears welling up in her eyes. “The worst part was, I knew! A small part of me knew that a brilliant mangaka like him couldn’t direct a bad movie even if he tried, but I went to see it anyway! Oh my God. It was a freaking masterpiece! Do you know how it feels? Do you know how it feels to be the only frustrated cat in the audience while everyone around you is moved to tears? Do you?! Huh?!”

“No, I don’t know how it feels! I enjoy a bad movie myself from time to time, but you can count me among those fans of the original work that were moved to tears!”

“This is all because of that ‘Nekoma has strong innocent-bystander energy’ BS! Well, I’m passing it on to you, Hareru-senpai! Suffer as I have suffered!”

“This can’t be real life.”

: and there it is

: movie did have its fair share of critics before release

: you had to be caught up on the original work to get it but it was good

: I mean yeah, how long have fans been waiting for that game to be adapted?

: well at least Sei-sama isn't here to show off her uniquely phallic version of the choco banana ￥500

Sei Utsuki: cocklate banana

: speak of the devil

: they let you out early

Sei Utsuki: who's to say they even caught me yet?

: so you admit to having warrants out for your arrest

: now all we just need is Shion-mama to come rub chocolate on her nipples and offer us a hit

: Um, yes please?

I was utterly uninvested in the conversation unfolding, but a curious detail did pique my interest. “But, Hareru-senpai,” I said, “you ate crickets without hesitation. What’s a little cat food?”

“What?” she said. “Those crickets were at least intended for human consumption, right? Cat food is for cats!”

“I don’t get it,” I said. “So it’s not a matter of taste for you?”

“Well, eating food for cats? Isn’t that just weird? If there was people cat food, then maybe?”

“Huh? Okay, then, what about Dagger-chan’s cocoa beans?”

“That’s fine. It might not taste good, but at least people eat that.”

Hm, couldn’t say I understood. Was this some genius-level sensibility I was too Shuwa to understand? At any rate, it seemed she preferred crickets and cocoa beans to cat food.

“Actually, it kinda just sounds like you shouldn’t have volunteered to be a judge in the first place,” I said.

“And exclude myself and by extension all of gen one from the fun? No way!” Hareru-senpai said.

“Oh, okay,” I replied.

“All this fuss over nothing,” Nekoma-senpai said. “Even if it is cat food, it’s going to be coated with so much chocolate you won’t notice a thing.”

“Mmm... I don’t know about that,” Hareru-senpai said.

“But if that won’t convince you, perhaps this will...” Nekoma-senpai replied.

“What?”

“This cat food is made entirely from ingredients safe for human consumption! It’s human grade!”

“Human grade does not mean what you think it means!” With that final remark, Hareru-senpai let out a sigh and resumed her photo-taking. “You know what, you’re the one who’s doing us a favor by participating, so I’m just gonna let it go. But along with the cocktail from earlier, that’s another product we can’t commercialize. How did we get to the point where cocoa beans are starting to look like a viable option...?”

“Oh no!” Nekoma-senpai said. “Dagger-chan heard you and now she’s smiling, swinging around that frying pan like a maniac!”

“Hey!” I yelled. “Stop that! It’s raining beans in here!”

Is it just me or is the actual cooking progressing veeery slowly?

“Okay! All that’s left is to chill it, cut it, and give it a sugar dusting for that extra ‘light snow’ Awayuki touch,” I said.

“Good job! That looks amazing!” Hareru-senpai said, giving me a modest round of applause.

Despite the best efforts of everyone involved, my nama chocolate neared completion. Dagger-chan had just finished toasting her beans, and Nekoma-senpai had struggled a bit with her kibble clumping in the chocolate but was now also at the chilling stage, just like me. That left only one of us:

“Phew! Finally finished cutting out the cookie dough! I am beat~.”

Ehrai-chan. She paused for a brief break, sweat beading on her brow—a testament to the hard work she’d been putting in. Though she’d been quiet, her hands had been far from idle, busy crafting the most intricate treat of us all: chocolate cookies. Apparently, she’d decided to make them after realizing we had ovens at our disposal.

When I’d first heard about her plans, I’d thought, Damn, that’s a good idea; I wish I’d come up with that. But seeing her work convinced me I’d made the right choice by keeping things simple. Baking was tough work. Ehrai-chan might have been the slowest among us, but if it weren’t for her physical strength, rolling out the dough would’ve taken her even longer.

“All that’s left is to pipe on some animal faces and pop them into the oven~!”

So that was why she’d made her dough without chocolate—so she could lend her own flair to her cookies! And just because the rest of us were early, that by no means meant she was late. She still had plenty of time to finish up everything she’d set out to do.

“Time to draw!” Ehrai-chan said. “I got this... I got this!”

Hm? Was it just me or did she sound oddly unconfident?

“There we— No! Oh, phew. We’re good.”

Despite the occasional cry for help, Ehrai-chan beavered away decorating her cookies. At a glance, they seemed—well, let’s just say the zookeeper in question was giving it the best she had. Her animals were rather...chibi-fied, if that made sense. I’d always had the impression she was rather dexterous, but I guess not.

“That’s so cute!” Dagger-chan said.

“Really? Well, that’s a relief~.”

Oh? It seemed Ehrai-chan had a fan. Dagger-chan, for all her bluster about trying to be cool and whatnot, seemed to have a soft spot for all things cute. The chibi mascot-like drawings were right up her alley.

“Phew,” Ehrai-chan sighed. “Just one more cookie to go!”

“When you’re done, show chat a picture! I’m sure they’d like to see!” Dagger-chan said.

“Roger that~! You know what? Why don’t you choose the last animal for me, Dagger-chan?”

“Can I?!”

“My way of showing appreciation for your kind words earlier. Go ahead~.”

“Then a gorilla! For you, Ehrai-senpai!”

“No problem~!” A few seconds later, she tilted her head. “A gorilla?”

I would also be stumped if someone suddenly asked me to draw a gorilla. They’re quite a step up in difficulty from the usual animal suspects. No way of chibifying them immediately came to mind. Ehrai-chan stared down Dagger-chan for a little while, but caved instantly to her expectant face. “I could probably get away with something gorilla-adjacent...”

Ehrai-chan first traced out a little sketch, and once she was satisfied, picked up the decorating pen again. She was silent, focused to the point of near anxiety, as she moved the pen slowly across her doughy canvas. Then suddenly: “Done!” It’d taken longer than any other...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.2.2025
• Reihe/Serie: VTuber Legend: How I Went Viral after Forgetting to Turn Off My Stream
• Illustrationen: Siokazunoko
• Übersetzer: Dawson Chen
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Comic / Humor / Manga
• Schlagworte: business • cute girls • female protagonist • Light Novel • Slice of Life • zero to hero
• ISBN-13: 9781718387126 / 9781718387126