Chapter 37: I ended up making a time machine

In the middle of a temporary studio map in VRChat.

Spring’s fresh avatar was seated in front of the piano model Jina had prepared.

Spring opened and closed her two hands, which were wearing white gloves.

She’s not used to the new hands attached to the avatar yet.

Right now, the real Spring is also wearing gloves with a lot of controllers attached to control the avatar.

It was natural, if it was natural, to feel a slight discomfort.

Spring, who usually acted as the practical leader of Seasons and showed a mature appearance, seems a little nervous today.

“Jina Mama, will this really… work properly?”

“Hmm? Spring, do you not trust me?”

“Oh, no! That’s not what I meant…”

When Jina asked back with a playful voice, Spring flinched and said in a hurry.

“It’s just… amazing. I didn’t really think it would work… I wonder if this was really possible…”

Jina laughs at that.

“It will feel different when you press it. Shall we start the test then?”

When Jina turned on the local test switch, the piano model lit up softly.

Spring’s personal colors, a mixture of verdant grass and pastel pink cherry blossoms, were present.

Jina is an emotional worker who pays close attention to even these small details.

“Feel free to press it as if you were playing the piano. Start with an easy scale for now.”

Spring’s avatar slowly places her hands on the keyboard.

“Wow…!”

Spring unknowingly gasped in admiration, as the movement of the avatar’s hands was just like the movement of real hands.

Spring raised her index finger and carefully pressed the key corresponding to ‘C’.

“!!”

The sound that rang with a ‘tok-‘ sound was clear and clean, unlike an electronic sound.

Then she moved her fingers and pressed ‘D’, ‘E’, and ‘F’ – the scale in order.

Like a curious girl who came to a piano academy for the first time.

She played the first two or three notes well, but suddenly the angle of her fingers was slightly off, and the black and white keys were pressed at the same time.

Woong- a bizarre double tone came out, and Spring unknowingly flinched.

“Oh, oh… Did I press something wrong…?”

Seeing Spring like that, Jina let out a small laugh.

“It seems like you’re still awkward moving the avatar’s hands. Where, shall we take a look?”

Jina took Spring’s hands and modified the settings on the spot.

She feels a sensation around her hands and wrists.

It felt as if Jina was holding her hands and encouraging her to do it.

“Okay, shall we try again?”

Spring pressed the scales in order again.

The keys go down slightly and then up, just like a real piano.

Deuriring-

With the movement of sweeping the white keys, the piano sound resonated.

The hard yet smooth texture of the keyboard remains as a clear afterglow on the fingertips.

“Th, this is really amazing! It’s like playing a real piano!!”

The little leader of Seasons, who is usually more mature than anyone else.

Right now, she is excited like when she first went to a piano academy as a child.

The little Spring of the past.

Rode a time machine named piano, and came to the future.

“Mama, this also works for chords?! It’s really, really… so amazing!”

Spring jumped up and down in place and kept tapping the piano.

Familiar children’s songs are ringing out.

The plane takes off, and the little star twinkles.

Spring sat on the chair object that Jina brought out and began to hum a short melody.

“Twinkle twinkle little star~”

Do-do-sol-sol-la-la-sol- fa-fa-mi-mi-re-re-do- becomes a Little Star Fantasia at some point.

Fingers bounced quickly, and the lyrical melody piled up chords.

“Hmm-hmm~”

A bright laugh that seems to have the whole world.

Resonated in the virtual studio that transcends reality.

Jina watched Spring playing with a happy father’s smile, no, a mother’s smile.

Yes. This is what she wanted to see.

She stayed up all night for the past ten days to see this.

“You finally look a little like a ‘maknae’ (youngest), Spring?”

When the song ended and Spring’s fingers rested for a moment, Jina said, clapping slowly.

“…Huh? Ah! So, sorry, Jina! I got too excited, didn’t I…?”

Only then did Spring come out of the lingering feeling of music and memories, and blushed in embarrassment.

“No. I was rather glad.”

“Uwaaa… Em, embarrassing…!”

Jina burst into laughter, saying that it was refreshing to see this after always seeing her mature side.

Still, she’s the youngest.

Jina added that it’s okay to act a little more spoiled because she’s the youngest, and Spring waved her hands and then muttered hesitantly.

“Th, then… Can I be a little more demanding?”

“Of course. Feel free to say anything.”

“Mama gave permission…? You can’t think I’m annoying…?”

After saying that, Spring laid out a lot of ideas.

Jina opened a notepad and quickly typed what Spring said.

She certainly knows a lot about pianos, so the feedback is substantial.

It is a great help to Jina, who has no musical knowledge.

The biggest gain from today’s test is.

She was able to see Spring’s pure, youngest-like side.

She saw a side of Spring that is hard to see even on broadcasts.

If the viewers knew about this, they might be quite jealous.

Today, more people than usual flocked to Spring’s personal broadcast channel.

-Let’s go to the concert~

-Singing and piano… This is really precious.

Since Spring posted an early concert announcement, it has been a hot topic in the community for a week.

Right now, on Spring’s broadcast waiting screen, chat was going up quickly.

It’s a chat speed where you can see the anticipation for the concert.

-Didn’t the person who made all of the 3rd gen avatars also make Han Ari?

-Winter’s debut concert was also amazing, will we get another amazing production this time?

-The costumes and stage changing in real time was f*cking crazy;;

-This time, trees will grow and flowers will bloom LOL

The fact that Jina made Spring’s avatar also contributed to the high expectations for this concert.

Of course, people don’t know who Jina is.

But they know very well that Han Ari and Seasons’ avatars, born from Jina’s fingertips, boast overwhelming quality compared to other VTubers.

Especially, Han Ari and Winter are still very popular with their reality-transcending VTuber broadcasts, which are more like real female streamers than real female streamers.

It was natural that expectations were focused on the concert prepared by Spring.

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-Spring-ha!

-Seedlings are seated

-Spring-ha Spring-ha!!

Soon, the screen brightened and the silhouette of a demurely seated avatar appeared.

In front of the avatar was a stylish piano.

The camera was zoomed in quite a bit on Spring and the piano.

Because of that, the white and fine fingers of Spring’s avatar, and the sparkling black and white keys of the piano were very visible.

“Um… Mic test. One, two.”

Spring’s calm voice resonated on the stage.

At the same time, as if to match the tone to her voice, she tapped the keyboard a few times.

Then, the chat window of the Pasta platform instantly exploded.

-Is this piano model real??

-LOL A VTuber playing the piano LOL???

-Is this a VTuber broadcast??

-VTuber

Spring glanced at the chat window to check the reaction, and then spoke in a voice full of excitement.

“Today, I’m going to show our seedlings a very special stage! Here, as you can see, if you press the keys directly with your fingers…”

When Spring pressed the keys, a clear sound corresponding to them rang out ‘tok-‘ ‘tok-‘.

At the same time, the camera zoomed in slightly, and the keys went down and up like a real piano.

-???????

-LOL They even made a musical instrument now LOL

-Wasn’t it the rule in virtual reality that the piano just makes a rough sound when you hit it hard?

-What’s with the fingers moving so naturally???

-I thought it would just change clothes or the stage, but I didn’t expect this;;

Spring burst into laughter inwardly at the expected reaction.

That’s understandable.

Spring herself doesn’t know how surprised she was when she first saw it.

Spring cleared her throat cutely and raised both hands slightly in the air to the half position.

“Honestly, I’m not used to playing yet, so at first, I’ll just play the piano without singing to warm up my hands~”

It’s a big, fat lie.

As much as playing the piano in reality.

No, it has become more comfortable to play the piano in the virtual space.

She practiced that much.

After receiving the completed model from Jina and posting the notice, she played the virtual piano every night.

She wanted to repay Jina for making such a good model.

But more than that, she enjoyed playing the piano for the first time in a long time.

It was like going back to the days when she was a little kid, turning the pages of the Bayer textbook at the piano academy.

-Isn’t this the song from the piano battle movie?

-Spring is good at playing the piano?

-Paradise.

-I liked classical music…

Of course, now.

Compared to that time, she has become much better at playing the piano, and much more mature.

…Let’s not say bad things like that compared to that time, her height has only grown a little, and her chest is almost the same.

“Since I’ve warmed up my hands! Before we start the concert in earnest… there’s something I really want to say.”

Spring caught her breath, playing a long arrangement of the prelude to the next song.

“Actually, the reason I was able to show this stage to our seedlings today is… thanks to ‘that person’ who made this piano and made my fingers move.”

Instantly, the chat window was filled with the word ‘who?’.

Seeing the viewers’ reactions, Spring shouted with a brighter smile than ever before.

“Who else could it be~ You all know, right? Our Seasons sisters’ Mama!”