Chapter 134: Promotion Model Meeting

Official promotional model.

It was a phrase that felt quite weighty.

If it were before, I would have been flustered, but now I felt like I could grasp the meaning.

When I recorded the humming song “Echo of Everlight” for the mobile game “Novera Kailus,” I thought it was just part of a small project.

But since then, my channel and recognition had grown almost explosively.

Views were steadily increasing, I was always a hot topic in related communities, and there were even articles, though not in major media.

According to Sera, LM Studio, under Paxmill, which developed the game, must have noticed this.

“They didn’t directly state the reason, but considering your current influence, Leah, they seemed to want to elevate you beyond just a voice actor.”

Hearing those words, I truly realized that something had changed.

So this time, it wasn’t just Sera attending the meeting alone.

“A meeting has been scheduled.”

“Do… I have to go too?”

Even if I’m a promotional model, I’ll be working with my avatar.

“They want to see what kind of atmosphere you have, Leah. What kind of tone you use, how you communicate with viewers. They want to see those things directly.”

Sera’s characteristically careful explanation continued.

“If they’re going to use you as a promotional model, they need to understand things like the tone and emotions you use in messages and advertising content.”

Certainly, the approach for a faceless model would be different.

“And you’re receiving quite a bit of attention in the industry these days, Leah. So, the staff also want to see what kind of person ‘you’ are.”

“Alright.”

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Monday morning, after the weekend, the day of the meeting.

At the appointed time, a black car parked on the side of the road caught my eye. The driver’s side window rolled down, and Sera waved slightly.

I adjusted my sunglasses and opened the passenger door.

“Good morning. Are you nervous?”

“Not at all.”

Sera laughed briefly.

“I knew you’d say that, Leah.”

The car stopped in the underground parking lot of the building where LM Studio was located.

We took the elevator up. The meeting room we were guided to was at the end of the hallway.

Sera opened the door first.

“Hello!”

Inside, under the evenly distributed LED lighting, several people were sitting around a conference table.

Their gazes all turned towards us at once.

I bowed my head slightly and took off my sunglasses.

A long silence stretched out.

The first to speak was a composed-looking woman who seemed to be leading the meeting. Her expression was polite, but her eyebrows twitched slightly.

“…Almost… perfectly identical to your avatar.”

Her voice trembled slightly.

A man sitting a little distance away unknowingly held his breath, and another person slowly lowered the tablet he was holding.

In one corner, a young woman sat quietly. With her long hair tied back and a laptop open, she didn’t say anything, but she didn’t avert her gaze either. It was a rather intense look.

The silence continued for a bit longer.

The meeting leader, as if finally regaining her composure, stood up.

“I apologize, Leah-nim. I think we were all a bit surprised. Seeing only your avatar, we thought your concept was strong… but you seem to embody it perfectly. Or is it the other way around…”

She paused for a moment to choose her words, then added with a small smile,

“That makes us want to discuss this collaboration even more seriously.”

She introduced herself as the head of marketing, Team Leader Go Harin.

She hesitated slightly before continuing. Then, with a hint of determination, she pressed on.

“At this level, we’d like to explore the possibility of you participating in promotional content not just with your avatar, but also in person. Of course, we can discuss additional modeling fees and related conditions to the fullest extent.”

Instead of answering, I looked at Sera sitting next to me. Sera nodded slightly and spoke.

“That part… is difficult. Currently, Leah has no plans to reveal her real-life image publicly, aside from activities based on her avatar. The company also intends to maintain that direction.”

Team Leader Go Harin nodded slightly and smiled.

“Yes, I understand. I think we made a slightly excessive proposal.”

She paused for a beat, then picked up the meeting materials again.

“Then, I’ll officially explain the collaboration plan for this campaign.”

The meeting took longer than expected.

At first, it took some time to settle the atmosphere, and after that, the discussion continued in more detail than I anticipated.

To get straight to the point, the proposal was quite diverse.

Apart from the pre-release trailer, a separate promotional video featuring me as the main model would be produced.

It also included exposure as an official model in advertising banners and on the website.

The humming song I recorded, “Echo of Everlight,” would also be actively used as a key component of the campaign. Marketing centered around music, it was honestly a bit unexpected.

They also mentioned that it would be good to feature the videos on my streams as they were released.

There was also a condition that I play the game for a certain amount of time after its release.

And finally…

Though not yet finalized,

They cautiously mentioned that they were discussing the possibility of adding a character based on me to the game.

If that really happened…
It might feel a bit strange.

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It was when we had reached the door of the meeting room.

As Sera was about to step forward, someone called out from behind.

“Excuse me, Leah-nim.”

I turned around to see the lore writer, who had been quiet throughout the meeting, standing there cautiously.

She was holding her laptop to her chest, her face slightly flushed.

“Just a moment. If it’s not too much trouble… really, just a moment.”

I stopped.

She looked at me, took a small breath, and spoke directly.

“I’m… a fan.”

She didn’t avert her gaze.

“I watch your streams often. I really respect you, from the perspective of a lore writer. I felt your knowledge of medieval culture was quite solid, and I’m often impressed by the detail in your settings.”

Her voice was calm, but her words gradually gained fervor.

“It’s fantasy, but it’s not completely unrealistic. It’s often hard to tell where the truth ends and the performance begins… so I was really curious how you came up with such RP.”

I tilted my head slightly.

She blinked a few times, then burst out laughing.

“Even this is why I like you even more. You know you’re being incredibly shameless, right?”

I just smiled slightly.

She carefully took out a pen and paper.

“Before you go… could I perhaps ask for your autograph?”

Come to think of it, this was my first time giving an autograph. I hadn’t had the opportunity to meet a fan offline like this before.

I took the pen and leaned the paper against the door.

My fingertips moved skillfully. Smoothly, stroke by stroke.

Estellica Periandryl Casoliana Ybarendelis

“I wrote it in Elven.”

I said so and handed her the paper.

She took the paper and her eyes widened. I could see her eyes tracing the letters on the paper.

“Wow…”

Taking a deep breath, she held the paper with both arms outstretched, as if handling an ancient artifact she was seeing for the first time.

“I don’t know what it means, but… there’s something about it. It feels dignified, I should say… elegant, composed… it has a very ‘unique weight’ to it.”

And then, she suddenly looked up from the paper.

“…Is the rumor that you created the language yourself also true?”

“I just said, if you’re a Pia…”

She giggled again.

“Yes, I asked a strange question. It’s the language you used in the other world, right?”

As she carefully held the paper and stepped back, I was about to put my sunglasses back on when

Someone across the hall briefly stopped. It was a male employee, holding a carrier with four cups.

The moment I turned my head, he looked at me.

Our eyes met for barely a second, but

His steps slowed slightly, and I could feel his expression harden.

Without saying anything, I adjusted my sunglasses and left the hallway with Sera.

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[Novera Kailus Minor Gallery]

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Title: I’m an LM employee, and I saw a crazy person in front of the meeting room

I went to check the meeting room reservation status around lunchtime
and ran into a group coming out of an external meeting in the hallway.

But it was seriously
unreal.
The woman in front… wow
I first checked if she was even human.

It wasn’t just a matter of being pretty,
her presence was too unreal. Skin tone, eyes, hair color, it was like someone took a CG and brought it to life… maybe it’s because she didn’t look Korean at all?

So I subtly asked the team who she was, and they said it was a Vtuber collaboration for game promotion.

?????????
I thought I misheard.
Can a Vtuber look like that…?
I really wanted to ask, why are you a Vtuber???

I was so shocked, I just had to post this ㅇㅇ

Comments:

• What’s the Vtuber’s name lol

• Are there foreign Vtubers???

• If you’re really an employee, leak some game info

• The gallery’s dead, with useless posts like this
  └ The game hasn’t even been released yet, how can the gallery be dead lol