Chapter 163: But how

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Title: Found this post on the Novera Minor Gallery, what is this?

Content: (Link: LM employee saw a crazy person in front of the meeting room

• Novera Kailus Minor Gallery)

It says it’s a Vtuber collaboration for game promotion, this has to be Leah, right?

If so, Blue Pill is confirmed.

Comments:

• It’s more than just Blue Pill?

• It doesn’t make sense. Checked if she was human. Unrealistic presence << If that’s true, to what extent are we talking?

Even if she was ridiculously pretty, they didn’t say her looks were crazy, they just called her a crazy person lol
└ Looks like they lost their mind after seeing her in real life lol

• The description is so exaggerated, it’s hard to believe.
  └ Seriously… If they just said she was moderately good-looking, I would’ve believed it immediately.
  └ It doesn’t make sense. If that’s true, why is she a Vtuber?
  └ Nowadays, Vtubers usually surpass female streamers in viewership.
  └ It’s an era where even female streamers are switching to Vtubers.
  └ Even so, as the post says, wouldn’t it definitely be more profitable to show her face?
  └ From the start, if a woman’s face is otherworldly beautiful, she doesn’t need to be a Vtuber or a female streamer…

• You idiots, you’re falling for this. It’s obviously fabricated.
  └ Look at the date of the post, how can it be fabricated?
  └ I mean, the post could be edited lol
  └ Are you saying the comment dates are also fabricated?
  └ Hey, looking at the comment reactions on the original post date, it seems real?
  └ They were treating it as nonsense back then lol

• I don’t care about Vtubers’ real appearance at all, but this level actually makes me curious.

• Leah, I believed in you lol

• Thank you… For allowing me to genuinely like you… I’ll seriously add you to my girlfriend candidates list.
  └ How disheartening it must be for Leah to know that this kind of guy likes her…

• Everything else aside, what is this nonsense about her not being Korean? Was Leah mixed-race?
  └ Isn’t he talking about her chest? Like, she’s on a whole other level compared to the average A-cup, a screwed-up genetic trait?
  └ Look at the original post again. It wasn’t about her chest.

• If she’s mixed-race, what’s her nationality? She feels like she’s from Europe.
  └ To have perfect proportions, she does have that Northern European model vibe lol
  └ I really hope this is true lol. A Western girl Vtuber debuting in Korea would make dopamine explode lol.

• She might not be mixed, she could be a foreigner.
  └ That would be shocking, then? She speaks Korean so well?
  └ Looking at her native pronunciation and vocabulary, she’s definitely been in Korea for a long time.

• Leah, why didn’t this b*tch even mention this golden opportunity of being a foreign worker?
  └ Maybe because she’s doing well even without that?

Title: Written for the low-intelligence people being swayed by virality.

Content: It’s all just viral marketing run by the company.

What the
, is she so beautiful she’s not human? Is she mixed-race or a foreigner? Don’t you think the setting is a bit exaggerated?

It’s just a way to subtly hint that her real-life appearance is amazing to strengthen the loyalty of the neckbeards,

and to attract attention and create buzz.

It’s not like a super beautiful woman who makes you lose your mind the moment you see her actually exists in reality lol.

Comments:

• Isn’t Leah’s status not low enough to need viral marketing?
  └ (Poster) Pakallar: Who said Blooming is doing it? It’s obviously LM doing it.
  └ Ah, since the post was originally on the Novera minor gallery, that could be true.

• A post that had zero views until it was dug up today, and you call that viral?
  └ It feels like they planted it using a promotional employee and then dug it up themselves?
  └ Seeing it go to the trending posts as soon as the sponsored stream ended makes it plausible.
  └ Viral marketing is getting smarter these days.

• Don’t bullshit me, that’s a real eyewitness account. It has to be.
  └ That’s exactly the kind of guy they do viral marketing for.
  └ But doesn’t that mean the objective failed? It was for game promotion buzz, but the attention is more on Leah’s appearance.
  └ (Poster) Pakallar: It’s two birds with one stone. Do you think they can do this without the advertising model’s consent? It’s also beneficial to her. It’s an opportunity to spread the word that she’s a total Blue Pill without revealing her face.

In the editors’ group chat today, congratulatory messages for me were pouring in.

• Yuno: Congratulations on Leah Channel’s first long-form video reaching 5 million views!

• Sora: Congratulations, CEO!!🥳🎉🎉 I knew this would happen from the beginningㅠㅠ CEO, your skills are insane😭

• Suho: CEO. I think this kind of super hit video is like a symbol of a 1 million MuseTuber, your desired 1 million subscribers will definitely be possible!!

• Io: (Sparrow emoji saying congratulations)

5 million had been reached earlier with a short video. It was the Bok video of “Killing Darkman with an Arrow,” which the editors had been so confident about.

And the video that reached 5 million in long-form this time was the Aria of the Queen of the Night cover video.

• Leah: Thank you, everyone. I’d like to give you a small bonus.

• Suho: Your thoughtfulness is more than enough. Honestly, this video was all about your skills, the editing wasn’t a big part, and you gave us a lot for the short video last time too… You don’t have to give us anything.

• Sora: Wooooow!! Thank you, CEOㅜㅜㅜㅜ I’ll work harder from now on!!

• Yuno: Thank you! Let’s go for 10 million views with this!

• Io: (Turtle emoji saying thank you)

• Leah: Then, I only need to give it to everyone except Suho?

• Sora: Yup!!!

• Yuno: lol

• Io: Yes.

• Suho: Where is your conscience, guys?

• Leah: I was joking. I’ll give Suho some too.

• Sora:

• Suho: ????

I left the group chat with a light smile.

As editor Suho said, perhaps it wasn’t a reason to celebrate their contributions this time. But it was also a result created as a team. I expressed my gratitude hoping they would be motivated and achieve even higher views later.

Now I wanted to check the reactions to that video myself.

【[Full Ver.] Aria of the Queen of the Night – Mozart / Cover by Esumi Ria】
【Views: 5,170,482】

• ₩100,000 Thank you so much to Leah for giving us such a wonderful cover song for the Pias❤️ I look forward to more great performances in the future!!

• ₩50,000 I got goosebumps the moment I heard the first note on the live stream, and listening again, the emotion is still just as strong! Our proud Leah, fighting, I’ll support you!

• ₩20,000 Leah sings all genres well, but this one feels like she was possessed by something… Great Leah!!!

Comments left along with MuseTube Super Chats. The atmosphere was completely different from the chat during the live stream. They expressed their softer emotions honestly, as if they were entirely different people.

Of course, the viewers weren’t completely separate, so there were definitely Pias who overlapped. If I mentioned these comments on the live stream, they would probably deny it.
‘That’s the MuseTube kids, not us lol’ ‘If you indulge Leah too much, she’ll get spoiled, those MuseTube guys need to get a grip!’ and so on.

Knowing full well they would react that way, the thought of it made me laugh. It was kind of cute.

A famous MuseTuber in the US had reacted to it, so there were occasional overseas comments.

• Okay. But why is this better than most of the opera singers on MuseTube?

• Bro. This isn’t just a cover, it’s a recital performance by a soprano in disguise😭

• With a voice like this, she could fill theaters, but instead, she has to hide behind an animated avatar? Is this how you have to survive as a singer in Asia?

Comments written in English.

• To think such a virtual talent would come out of Korea… She’s so amazing it’s almost irritating.

• First time seeing her, and I’m completely captivated. Subscribed right away~! (๑>◡<๑)

• Her vocal expression is truly excellent. Tears came to my eyes even though it was just on screen (；ω；)

• I knew the Vtuber competition was hell in its birthplace, Japan… But Korea is just as fierce.
  To have someone like this appear, I can feel how serious the overall quality increase in the industry is.

And there were also Japanese comments.

• She sings this well too?! I just came in after seeing the illustration, but I’m staying because of her skill…
  , this is love 💘

• Her voice is like crystal. Clear, powerful, captivating.

And comments from other countries that I couldn’t understand without translation… wait?

At that moment, I paused, feeling an unknown sense of unease.

They were clearly messages difficult to read without a translation function.

But I had just read a few of them, completely naturally, without even thinking.

I quickly scrolled up the screen to check what language the comment I had just read unconsciously was actually written in.

Голос — как кристалл. Чистый, мощный, завораживающий.

It was Russian.

…Russian?

This was a language I had never learned or encountered.

But how,

could I read and understand this sentence?

I scrolled down a bit further, slowly scanning the comments. I mainly looked at those in other languages.

I could read English and Japanese because I had learned them.

Spanish? Chinese?

I had no clue. Not even the meaning, I couldn’t even recall the pronunciation.

The only language I understood was Russian.

‘There might have been… a similar situation.’

It was when I was learning Japanese and English before my Vtuber debut. Japanese had been a struggle, but… English was different. It felt like recalling something I already knew, and it was easy to pick up. I made quick progress.

I had never been particularly good at English before, so that had also been quite strange, but… it was within the process of learning.

It was different from understanding an unfamiliar language like this.

Ultimately, it was clear that something within me had changed.

Exactly what kind of change, what it meant—

Perhaps I needed to seriously confront and figure that out now.