WuxiaWorldEU

Chapter 1

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Masaki Arima is a Vtuber.

Vtuber is an occupation in which one streams with a 2D model drawn by an illustrator. Simply put, it’s a job where one live streams without showing their face.

However, if one was to ask what’s different from someone who merely streams without showing their face, it’d be the「roleplaying as someone else」aspect.

Well, it’s not wrong to say it’s the same even with that.

And so, Masaki Arima is a Vtuber. More specifically, it’s a living human being named Shiodome Masaki working as a Vtuber……but there’s no need to care about the small details.

Masaki Arima is a Vtuber (3rd time). But his income as a Vtuber is less than 50,000 yen a month, so he does Vtuber as a side job while working at a company as Shiodome Masaki.

「Good morning」

Masaki comes to work at seven in the morning. He recognizes that his work performance is lackluster, so he thinks the only way to make up the difference between him and others is by increasing the amount of time he works.

「Ah, Shiodome-senpai!! Good morning!」

「It’s good that Nagara is lively as usual. Morning」

「No, I’m energetic now after seeing senpai’s face!」

The one who called out to Masaki with a cheerful voice in the morning is Nagara Hana, a 23 year old woman with round eyes.

She has short hair, a bright atmosphere, and a great amount of trust for Masaki, who is two years older than her.

「Senpai works early in the morning~」

「Because the work won’t end. Since I’m terrible at my work, it takes a long time」

「It’s because the section chief always assigns so much work only to Masaki-san!! He does something that unreasonable and then comes to work late himself, he’s scum!」

「Nagara, don’t talk bad about others. It may make you feel better but it won’t help with your mental growth」

「I’m getting angry because senpai is suffering!」

After Nagara got mad for some reason at Masaki, who she was comforting earlier, she returned to her desk and started working.

「She’s as busy of a person as ever」

Even so, Masaki is thankful that there is a kouhai who would get mad for his sake. He then plugs in his earplugs and focuses on his work.

「Fuu……I’m tired as well today」

Masaki arrived home a bit after eight in the evening.

And this is when he starts his side job.

He first checks his mail. He checks whether or not any mail has arrived from his company and then confirms his schedule.

「Today’s stream starts at 10 o’clock」

After he confirms his stream schedule, he creates the thumbnail and checks his stream’s settings.

「Nn?」

While checking his stream settings, he noticed a large change compared to yesterday.

「My subscriber count increased by 5,000……?」

Masaki has 10,000 subscribers. This is actually more or less within the bottom half of the Vtuber industry.

Although it’s called Vtuber, there’s actually all sorts of Vtubers. There’s individual Vtubers with less than a thousand subscribers but there’s also ones that come from big companies such as 『StuVir』and『V Room』. For these major companies, even a newcomer can easily pass 100,000 subscribers in a month.

To Masaki who has 10,000 subscribers, which is a small number for a Vtuber, an increase of 5,000 subscribers is something that normally wouldn’t happen.

「Did something happen……?」

It may be from new clips of him but leaving that aside, the stream preparations come first.

While eating his dinner, he sets up his game. He then starts his stream on schedule.

「Good evening everyone. I’m Masaki Arima from Trimming V. Today, I will be casually playing this game called 〇〇 from where I left off 」

Masaki’s stream is about a calming game with a focus on chatting with viewers.

They actively talk about what has happened recently and their worries; he treasures the bonds he has with his few viewers.

His appearance is of a nice young man with short hair. His pointy upper canines are visible and he gives off an image of playfulness. He wears a uniform composed of a necktie and a navy blue shirt, giving off a seamless atmosphere. The design is made to fit Masaki’s personality which, when coupled with his voice, exemplifies the feeling of 「younger men I want to protect」.

「Ah, come to think of it, today's subscriber count increased by 5,000……it seems like there’s a lot of first time viewers as well. Do any of you know the reason?」

The viewers responded in the comment section to what Masaki said.

「『StuVir’s Yuugure Tsukihi and WonLand’s Ringo Mikan introduced you』……you’re kidding? Seriously, people on that high of a level know about me?」

『Seriously』

Masaki understood……it was thanks to these girls that his subscribers increased. Vtuber viewers surprisingly watch a lot of different people’s streams often.

To begin with, the viewers were curious people who were interested in this new content called Vtubers. They watch various streams and increase their oshis that way.

Within the 5,000, there are probably people who are particularly interested in Vtuber content.

「Why did they introduce me? I’m surprised that people that popular even knew about me」

『Yuugure knew about Masaki』

『Masaki, Yuugure is aiming for you so watch out』

「Aiming for me? Eh, did I do something wrong……『No, it’s gachikoi<sup>1</sup> 』no no, there’s no way」

Yuugure often brings up the name of male Livers. With that connection, Masaki understood why his name was mentioned.

「But for my name to be mentioned, it’s hard to believe. I mean, it really happened but I wouldn’t be able to think of this even in my dreams」

『What about a collab?』

「A collab? If we had a collab, it would be everything I could ask for. But still, they should collab with people with more subscribers. I don’t want to hurt their reputation. Things like that are unexpectedly important」

『Masaki is as serious as usual. But Ringo-shi already said that she will invite you for a collab so you better prepare yourself 』

「Haha, well if something like that happens, I’ll probably be so nervous that I won’t be able to talk……I’m not particularly good at talking to girls」

While having a relaxing conversation with the comment section, he progressed the game at a slow pace. The increase in subscribers didn’t change Masaki’s pace or attitude.

However, a certain individual appeared in the comment section and changed the course of the stream.

『Ringo-chan!?』『Ringo-san is watching』『Isn’t it the real deal？』

「Eh, what’s wrong. Eh, Ringo-san is watching? C’mon, there’s no way……『I want to do a collab so please tell at what time you are available!』, it’s the real deal‼ Seriously……that’s unbelievable, I want to thank you for even just mentioning me. I think I have enough availability to have a collab that matches with your schedule……oh no, I shouldn’t talk about these details in public」

Masaki is unusually flustered. That’s how big the difference in subscribers are to Masaki and in the rules of the Vtuber world.

「Arranging a collab in the comments, will I really be alright……」

Masaki quickly read and thanked the superchats and ended the stream afterwards .

He then got a message from Ringo and decided to have a collab two days later.