Ch.323318 – New Year’s Greetings

[Adella Ch. / 413K followers]

[Just Chatting – I’ll be back]

It had been quite a while since Adella last streamed.

Many fans sent congratulatory messages for her return.

But at the same time, outsiders who heard the news came and disrupted the stream.

The chat was at war over whether she was human or artificial intelligence.

Adella quietly observed the chaos in real-time.

Her vertically slit pupils silently stared at the screen.

She crossed her arms and remained completely still.

Viewers soon sensed the unusual atmosphere.

It was like when a teacher stands silently while unaware students continue chatting in class.

-Everyone be quiet. Can’t you see Adella is waiting for us to calm down?

-Why are people who don’t even know who Adella is coming here and causing trouble?

-Manager, switch to subscriber-only chat.

-Who cares if she’s human or ASI? She’s just a VTuber to us.

After 15 minutes, the chat finally regulated itself.

“Can I speak now?”

The broadcast began in a tense atmosphere.

* * *

[Stream Time – 1:45:50]

[Viewers – 17609]

Fan fiction and fan art are fine. It might even be an honor to receive such gifts from fans.

But when the content escalates to R-rated material, explicit images, or worse, deepfakes – that crosses into undeniable criminal territory.

An ordinary person might have had a mental breakdown and locked themselves away upon discovering such things.

But Adella continues to live with it.

“…That’s the fate of a superstar, *nods*.”

Adella drew a small, pretty circle next to the item.

[Regarding fan creations – O]

-What?!

-Whoa!

-Really?!

-Wow wow wow wow!

The chat immediately erupted.

Adella silenced them and spoke.

“But I have conditions. From this moment on, any content with mature themes must use this VTuber-specific savanna cat model, not my main avatar! What about existing content? I’ll explain that too. If the realism rating is 0.8 or higher, it’s out. I’m giving you exactly one month to delete them properly. You all play World of Arsheria at 0.5 or 0.7 anyway. 0.8 is being extremely generous, don’t you think?”

Many artists who had been waiting for her final statement erupted in celebration.

-Nice~

-Sign me up! From now on, the five great saints are Jesus, Buddha, Confucius, Socrates, and Lady Adella!

-Thank you for being as generous as your chest is big! crying

-I’ll bow three times a day in your direction!

-GREAT Cat

-Great cat, King cat, God cat

Realism rating.

It’s the ratio showing how closely an avatar resembles a real human without distortion.

If reality is 1, and extreme 2D anime style is 0.1-0.2, most virtual reality games choose between 0.5 and 0.7.

So Adella’s mentioned 0.8+ is comparable to avatars in GTA or war games, and she made it clear she would file lawsuits without mercy for anything above that threshold.

[‘Island’ donated 100,000 won!]

-Celebrating the dramatic survival of “Her in the Infinite Loop”!

-Whoa, the creator appears!

-Island, you’re just barely safe!

-This is real lol

-A timeless masterpiece, no doubt.

-Adella seems to know what it is too?

-Who wouldn’t know this lol

-What is it? Am I the only one who doesn’t know? Please share the code…

-You shouldn’t be asking that here.

“Th-that! The female protagonist doesn’t even look much like me, author…”

Adella said with blushing cheeks.

-lololololol

-Adella does have long hair in that one.

└ Ah, the artist has a long hair fetish lol

-Everyone starts the journey looking for spicy content but ultimately returns to pure love.

└ I literally shed tears reading it

└ Tears of joy lmao

“But there are things I can’t forgive. For example, if it contains even the N in NTR…”

-Gasp lol

-Cut the NTR freaks!

-Why not? And can we call it redemption romance instead of NTR?

└ Do you seriously want to die?

-NTR is deadly poison to pure romance fans lol

“And that… my body… I mean, don’t keep making weird modifications to the body of the protagonist inspired by me! Got it? I’ll report all of that regardless of realism rating, so delete everything! I’ll email all the creators, but please do it early so we don’t have to deal with the hassle. That’s all I have to say!”

-Stop the oppression!

└ What oppression? She’s being extremely generous.

-For real, if Adella hadn’t taken it so well, everyone would’ve been sued.

-Great sage Adella

-If AI is like this, I might… fall in love?

└ Ugh, with this kind of broth… even our unit’s veteran cat might reject it?

[‘DelaDere’ donated 10,000 won!]

-Dela Dela. So you’ll be patrolling every day?

“Huh? Oh, yeah, I’ll patrol! I’ll be stationed at Hitomi constantly, so be careful, all of you!”

-lololol

-What a lewd cat

-Stop watching naughty stuff, Adella!

-Will there be a part 2 today, Sergeant Adella?

-Please do part 2! I came to watch World of Arsheria!

-Let’s catch all the perverts.

After an hour and a half of setting things straight, Adella could finally catch her breath.

There were occasional viewers proposing conspiracy theories about AI dominating the earth, but the managers promptly deleted those comments.

The first part of the stream ended in a much more favorable atmosphere than expected, which was satisfying even to her.

Kariri had established a minimum two-hour streaming principle for VTubers.

The system was to mandatorily complete part 1, and from part 2 onward, VTubers could continue streaming as much as they wanted.

‘I should make up for the 11 days I missed streaming.’

“Since tomorrow’s the weekend, everyone can sleep in, right?”

-Yeah

-Gasp, a late-night stream?

-Excited excited excited excited

“Yeah, I’m in the mood for a 24-hour marathon! I’ll go for 22 more hours! So if you go watch another girl’s stream, you’re dead! Got it, meow?”

* * *

“Waaaaaah! NoName! Come quickly and collab with me! I didn’t know I’d do part 2 today, so I didn’t prepare any content!”

Adella grabbed my sleeve and shed crocodile tears with a pitiful voice.

Judging by her wanting to stream more, the atmosphere must not have been too bad.

But I also have a mountain of things to do because of the Bio-Akashic issue.

“Content? Do you need that? Just go play games.”

“You want me to just play games for 22 hours? How cruel…!”

“Then just chat and have fun with your viewers.”

“But I don’t have topics to talk about! When you talk about anything, viewers go ‘aww’ and support you, but if I did that, I’d get roasted immediately!”

“So what do you want me to do…”

“Collaaaaab!”

I sighed deeply and detached her from me.

“What do you want to do?”

“Hehe, New Year’s party! In Korea, they determine adulthood based on January 1st, not birthdays, right? So I’m an adult now, aren’t I?”

“Adella, how old were you again?”

“I’ll be nineteen after my birthday this year. Let’s invite CEO Kariri too if she’s not busy. What do you think?”

Even if Adella became an adult, there weren’t any additional benefits for her.

Alcohol? You can’t get drunk in virtual reality. It’s just bitter non-alcoholic drinks.

Cigarettes follow similar logic – they don’t provide any stimulating effects.

Adult content is all rated 18+, which she can already freely access.

And Adella had one big misunderstanding.

“You’re not an adult.”

“Huh? What do you mean?”

“Your ID card. It resets every year.”

The Japanese permanent residency she currently holds is a means for ASI to independently conduct financial and commercial activities freely, but it doesn’t allow her to enjoy all rights freely.

For instance, she doesn’t have voting rights to prevent double voting.

Also, age resets every year, as the Japanese Foreign Ministry preemptively reflected that ASI VTubers typically have a concept of not aging.

“Then what am I?”

“You’re eternally a high school senior, Adella.”

“Ugh!”

Even if she gets a physical body later, I’ll definitely make her go through senior year.

Adella drooped her ears and trudged back to her room.

I followed her into the studio.

It’s not as fancy as one might think.

Rather, it’s similar to the interior of our private room.

As always, I sat on the bed while Adella sat cross-legged on the floor.

This way, our eye levels matched, making it comfortable to talk face-to-face.

[Adella Ch.]

[Just Chatting – Part 2) Human vs AI]

[Stream Time – 2:12:05]

[Viewers – 17528]

“Why did the viewer count drop? Don’t you all want to watch part 2, meow?”

Adella addressed the viewers with a cold voice.

-Just went to the bathroom, reporting for duty! ^^7

-It’s NoName!

-Adella didn’t prepare content again so she brought her cheat key lol. Think I wouldn’t know?

“N-no I didn’t! I was planning to collab all along!”

Sharp viewers had already uncovered the truth.

Adella frantically denied it, but to no avail.

“The chat atmosphere seems a bit different from my channel?”

“I know right! Everyone calls you pretty and compliments you, but I have to beg for compliments! You’re all so mean!”

“HungrySeagullFoodThief-Adella. Shall we check this person’s chat logs?”

-That username lmao

-Search and seizure time~

-Emergency emergency!

[HungrySeagullFoodThief-Adella(ygt1214)’s messages – NoName]

[NoName, you’re so adorably round today~]

[The weather’s getting cold. Hope you don’t catch a cold.]

[Dating sim on Christmas Eve! What a country!]

[NoName is still a baby… NoName doesn’t know love…]

“These seem to be chat logs from when I played dating sims. They’re cleaner than I expected?”

-Surprisingly clean user.

-Remember when they got 7 dating sim accounts banned…

-This is why you shouldn’t judge people by appearances.

“No way that can’t be right? I definitely saw them often in my streams…!”

This time, Adella searched for his username in her own chat.

[HungrySeagullFoodThief-Adella(ygt1214)’s messages – Adella]

[Is Adella into Eastern or Western style?]

[tag:furry]

[Come on, chest is better than hips.]

[Look at her subtly controlling public opinion because she has no chest lol]

[Not playing World of Arsheria? Abandoning the thieves guild? Not playing World of Arsheria? Abandoning the thieves guild?]

[Read the room^^]

[Explain how you secretly added chest padding in character creation! Explain!]

“Heeey! You only act like this in my streams! Give me at least half the nice comments you give NoName!”

-lololololol

-Such a troll lol

-So many temporary bans but never permanently banned lol

-NoName, look away!

“As long as you don’t act like that in my channel, it’s fine.”

“Even you, NoName? Hey, be honest. Why are you only picking on me?”

[‘HungrySeagullFoodThief-Adella’ donated 3,000 won!]

-I was taught that parents are mirrors to their children, Mother.

“Who’s your mom?! Your mom is the person vacuuming in the living room right now!”

-She went straight for the family burn lol

-Adella could have been the woman who might have become my mother!

-Birds of a feather flock together, indeed.

“As you all guessed, I came to support because Adella didn’t prepare any content.”

“I did prepare something last minute…”

“The Year of the Black Monkey, Imsin Year, is now upon us. It seems we’ve lived through a hectic time with various unfortunate incidents.”

“Imsin Year? Who’s pregnant-“

“Please just be quiet… Viewers, I wish you all a happy new year for 2052. May your year be filled with joy and happiness.”

“Oh yes, I wish that too. Happy New Year everyone!”

Even Adella should know how to do a proper bow, right?

I thought I should keep an eye on her to prevent any mistakes, as doing it twice would be problematic.

I neatly placed my left hand over my right on my abdomen.

Bending my waist, I placed my hands on the floor, kneeled starting from the left, and slowly prostrated myself.

I think there were rules about which foot should go on top, but I couldn’t remember clearly. Since I was facing forward, I didn’t pay much attention to it.

I gently placed my forehead on the back of my hands and counted in my mind.

‘One, two, three.’

Then I raised myself back up on my knees and finished with a light bow.

Adella nodded lightly.

Then she suddenly asked me:

“Why did you bow like that?”

“Huh? Why?”

“Don’t tell me you don’t know? Wooow, amazing! Could it be that you don’t know how to do a proper New Year’s bow?”

“I did it right, didn’t I? Is it because I didn’t cross my feet at the back?”

“Hmm hmm! You really don’t know, sis!”

Adella covered her mouth and snickered.

Her half-open eyes looked mischievous and cunning.

-lololololol

-Aww NoName is so cute lol

-Come on, everyone makes mistakes!

-Look at her getting excited about catching someone’s mistake lol

What? Did I do something wrong? What was it?

“What you did was a man’s bow!”

“Huh?”

“Women’s bows don’t touch the head to the floor. Come on, follow me.”

“Ah…!”

A belated realization.

-Wait, that means she’s doing two bows!

-Stop right now!

-Another burning controversy tag today lol

-Kariri is crying.

That day, we started our stream with two New Year’s bows.