Chapter 88: (Side Story) [Yuki’s Confession Room] Sister Yuki, Sister Rei. We’re here to listen to your worries. [Yuki/Rei/Lunaverse] (2)

“It seems too risky to read more submissions, so I’ll move straight to the counseling part.”

“Why? It was just starting to get fun…”

“……”

-LOL

-So much to say, but I won’t. 

-Ah LOL, that was fun.

-Her rotten expression visible behind the screen.

-Discipline… needs to be established, right?

-Teach the junior a lesson, go?

-No no, Yuki will be the one taught a lesson.

-Seriously LOL.

I had a lot to say, but I didn’t bother.

Even if I scolded her a hundred times here, this junior would just nonchalantly spout more outrageous things.

“First, let’s call Akari-senpai.”

“To handle this tension, I think we need to call her at least.”

“Akari-senpai… she’s the great senior from the 1st generation, right?”

“The one who suddenly ‘fell into unemployment’.”

-Oooh, Boss.

-Fallen into unemployment?

-Boss LOL.

-The Boss is indeed unemployed.

-Boss!!!

-LOL.

-Boss!! You’ve finally come to save us!!

-???: No, I was dragged here too.

“Even so, ‘fallen into unemployment,’ isn’t that too harsh?”

“No… it’s true, isn’t it?”

“It is true, but… what should I say?”

“I feel sorry for someone who was already treated like air.”

“Ah. Definitely…”

-?

-Hehe.

-You’re worse.

-Seriously LOL.

-Air?

-So, who’s coming?

-Is there a problem with the audio? Why can’t I hear anything?

-Rabbits, sh*t LOL. 

While I was excitedly badmouthing with the viewers, a call suddenly came in.

I was reluctant to answer because I thought I saw pink in the profile picture, but the call tone had already played on stream, so I had no choice but to pick up.

“Calling me air, calling me Boss since earlier… Are you guys dying to get yourselves killed?”

As soon as I answered the call, a hoarse voice came from the speaker.

While I hurriedly put Akari-senpai’s illustration on the broadcast screen, Rei spoke to her first.

“You’re here, Unemployed-senpai?”

“Who are you calling unemployed!!”

“No, with that shabby t-shirt and hoarse voice… you’re the epitome of unemployed, aren’t you?”

“I’m not!!”

-Don’t deny it.

-LOL.

-“The junior’s audacity.”

-You are unemployed LOL.

-But it’s true?

-Hey, stop it!! That one has already inherited the Seolhwangkwon!!

(TL Note: Seolhwangkwon is a made-up term, likely implying a skill in sharp/sarcastic retorts or roasting.)

-LOL.

-This is seriously too f*cking much.

In an instant, the viewers swarmed like vultures and started roasting Akari-senpai.

However, unlike before when she couldn’t really respond, the current Akari-senpai started shouting at the top of her lungs.

“These brats, I’ve been going easy on them lately, and now they’re trying to crawl back up?”

“Haven’t they learned their lesson yet?”

“C-Calm down, Senpai!!”

“See you on my next stream.”

“I’ll torture you with a full 5-hour typing practice broadcast.”

-Kkuaaaaaaaah!!!

-Shiver shiver…

-Stop iiiit!!!!

-As long as it’s not meeee.

-Typing practice LOL.

-Rabbits, GG.

(TL Note: ‘GG’ – Good Game, often used to mean ‘it’s over for you’.)

-Stop the typing practice!!

Recently, Akari-senpai’s main content on stream was typing practice.

She’d endlessly type out texts like the ‘National Anthem,’ ‘When Buckwheat Flowers Bloom,’ and ‘Camellia Blossoms,’ so from the Rabbits’ perspective, it must be driving them crazy.

-Yep~ I just won’t watch~

-I just won’t watch.

-Seriously.

There were some Rabbits who said they just wouldn’t watch, but…

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-Fact) Those Rabbits say that, but when they enter the typing practice stream, they’re crying and begging for mercy.

Not long after, they were hit by a Super Chat’s factual assault and completely disappeared.

-Eok LOL.

-That’s right.

-Ah LOL.

-So what can you do?

-LOL.

-LOL.

-Besides crying and begging for the typing practice to stop, what can you do? LOL.

-Poor Rabbits.

“Now, now, Senpai.”

“Let’s establish viewer discipline around here and start the confessions, shall we?”

“That’s right.”

“With such a cute nun here, you’re not going to confess?”

She says, forcing her voice into an extremely high tone.

And at that forced-sounding loli voice, Akari-senpai spoke in a contemptuous tone.

“Cute, my ass.”

“Yuki, you and I are no different from being shut-in losers in real life, are we?”

“…That’s not true.”

“Then when was the last time you went out recently?”

“The day before yesterday, for recording at the company headquarters…”

“No, not for the company.”

“For other errands.”

“……”

There isn’t any.

How could there be?

Food or shopping, I can just get it delivered, and if there was anything else to go out for, I’d send Rin.

(Though Rin only went out three or four times a month herself).

Therefore, the current me was the epitome of a hikikomori NEET who had nowhere to go but the company headquarters.

-LOL.

-None, huh. LOL.

-LOL.

-Yep, NEET confirmed~

-This one, a netoge (online game) addict, www.

-PriConne Hime? (TL Note: Princess Connect Princess – a dedicated female player or character in the game Princess Connect.)

-If you’re this much of a loser, you have to admit you’re unemployed.

-Seriously LOL.

-Breaking news) Yuki also known to be unemployed…

Suddenly, I was also being lumped in as unemployed and getting flamed.

I couldn’t let myself be framed as a hikikomori NEET like this.

With a few veins popping on my forehead, I clenched my teeth and said.

“If you’re calling Yuki-chan unemployed, there are other unemployed people around too, you know?”

-?

-Who?

-Who’s unemployed?

“For example, Junior-chan…is also unemployed, isn’t she?”

“Yes? Why am I unemployed?”

“Well, seeing you always looking shabby, you look exactly like an unemployed person.”

“What on earth are you talking about!”

“I now have a respectable job as a ‘Vtuber’!”

“Eh. So you didn’t have one before…”

“No!!!”

-LOL.

-Rei-chan was unemployed?

-LOL.

-But watching her usual streams, it kinda seems like it.

-Seriously LOL.

Rei quickly denied it, but the chats had already heard it long ago.

And I added one more word to fan the flames in the chat.

“Besides, Junior-chan, please wash up a bit usually.”

“This senpai keeps unfairly criticizing me, huh?”

“I do wash properly!”

“Be honest.”

“How many times a week do you shower?”

“Once… twice or thrice?”

“…That’s pretty bad.”

“Yeah, that’s worse than Yuki-chan.”

“W-Wait!”

“Why is everyone looking at me like that?”

“I-Isn’t showering twice a week still a lot?”

-Twice??

-Eh.

-This one, making a huge misunderstanding LOL.

-?????

-Eeh.

-Twice is a lot?

-(Grubby-grubby con)

(TL Note: An emoticon representing being dirty or unkempt.)

-Take a bath!!

-You’re dirty.

-Please wash!!!!

“Ugh, it’s slander!!”

“I’m not dirty!!”

“Now, let’s end this story here.”

“Senpai? Won’t you confess your sins to this Sister Yuki?”

“Don’t just end the story as you please, hey!!”

-LOL.

-Confessing right away.

-LOL.

-Take a baaath~~~

-Grubby Rei.

I ignored Rei, who was shouting moderately, and started the confession content with Akari-senpai.

She too seemed to think it was about time to do the confession content, stopped teasing Rei, and began to speak in a rather serious voice.

“Actually, I do have one sin.”

“A worry?”

“The sin of streaming the least among Lunaverse members.”

-Ah.

-Definitely.

-Her streams have decreased a bit lately.

-Are you sick somewhere?

-6 months… Ugh… my head…

-Don’t go ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ

-Tokkidan immediately wailing LOL.

-Is something really wrong?

“Ah. Come to think of it, Akari-senpai, you only do guerrilla streams about once every 2-3 days, right?”

“Eeh… Was that so?”

“…Senpai, please pay some attention to other members’ streams.”

“Sorry, sorry.”

“I only ever watch archives, so I didn’t notice.”

Well, isn’t that obvious?

When other members are streaming, Rin and I are usually just waking up and having breakfast.

And I stream during the evening.

The only stream I somewhat watch is probably Rin’s, who’s a night owl.

It’s a dawn stream, so it’s perfect to watch before sleeping.

It was also fun to tease Rin when she came out of the booth after finishing her stream.

-? LOL.

-This is the kizuna (bond) of the 2nd generation…

-Too much.

-Seriously.

-No, why is the nun confessing?

-The nun’s sin is greater than the believer’s LOL.

-Shameless nun.

-My honest opinion~ Yuki messed up here, so I think they need to open a Hyeopte.

(TL Note: Hyeopte likely refers to a community ‘trial’ or public shaming session for perceived wrongdoings.)

“Hyeopte, my ass.”

“Anyway, please continue, Senpai.”

“If it were up to me, I’d want to stream every day, but… I’m preparing a lot of things lately, so it’s a bit tough.”

“Tough… with what?”

“Actually, my original song is coming out soon.”

“Oh, an original song, Senpai…?”

“…Eh? Was this a secret ad?”

-Secret ad, crazy LOL.

-No LOL.

-Did you come here to advertise your original song? LOL.

-An original song is king-acknowledgment. 

-Shameless promotion ON.

-LOL.

-That’s our Boss LOL.

“Anyway, on July 4th, Sakura Akari’s 2nd original song, ‘8bit Cherry♡Love,’ will be released, so please give it lots of attention!!!”

“Then I’m off!!!”

Tiring.

Akari-senpai, who disappeared like a storm after saying only what she wanted to say.

I never thought the confession content would be used for promotion like this…

Still, it’s a relief that she seems much better than when she was gloomy after her 6-month break.

It seems she’s gotten the hang of streaming a lot more now too.

This… if I get too complacent, I might get overtaken, huh?

“Anyway. Junior-chan.”

“We’ve done one out of five people now.”

“Eeh… That’s all?”

“It feels like an hour has already passed…”

-Seriously, why is time passing so slowly?

-Longer is better.

-We’re doing a 5-hour stream today, right?

-Let’s go for 5 hours~~

-Time does seem to be passing a bit slowly.

Definitely.

With so many things happening all of a sudden, it did feel like a lot of time had passed.

In reality, all we did was read submissions and do Akari-senpai’s confession.

“Still, it won’t take up to 5 hours, right?”

“Let’s push on a little more.”

“Yes.”

“The next person to come… is Miho-senpai, right?”

“Ah, Miho!”

“Miho should be collabing with Miya.”

“Ah…”

-Miya?

-If it’s Miya… Nong LOL.

(TL Note: ‘Nong’ – slang for loli, often with lewd connotations.)

-Wakyapyaheoknongjjukteun LOL

(TL Note: Onomatopoeic internet slang expressing extreme, often lewd, excitement towards loli characters.)

-W-What is this…

-Jjuuuuk~!! Noooong~!!

-The Kkoridan (Miya’s fans) have unleashed pedos in the chat!

-I’m getting dizzy.

Come to think of it, this collab was also arranged by Lunaverse, wasn’t it?

With two collabs happening at the same time, things like this overlap.

“Still, shall we try calling her once?”

“She’ll probably pick up.”

“Um… Shouldn’t we get permission from Manager-ssi first?”

“It’s fine!”

“If it’s Manager-unni, she’ll definitely give permission!”

-Ah ah… Rest in peace… (for the manager)

-Manager wailing again today.

-LOL.

-Manager-ssi! What kind of life are you living!!

-LOL.

Well, it’s not like we’re making lewd jokes, so Manager-ssi will probably understand this much.

Besides, the only time the four of us collabed was when Akari-senpai returned, so I was somewhat looking forward to it.

[Miho] [Miya]

[Connecting call…]

I immediately called Miho, and the call connected shortly after.

And right away, a desperate scream echoed through the speaker.

“H-Help me!!”

“Miho-maman is trying to eat me up!!!!”

It was Miya’s distress signal.