Chapter 2: [Debut Stream] Yuki here! Hello everyone, it’s V-Tuber Yuki! Huh? This outfit… probably not safe for work! (1)

[Yuki has started a live stream!]

[【Debut Stream】 Yukigenyo! The Monster VTuber Who Appeared Like a Comet! A Lady from the Moon, Amano Yuki! 【Yuki/Lunaverse】]

Finally, the debut stream had begun.

Beside the screen that read ‘Preparing for Broadcast,’ chat messages were flying by too fast for the eye to follow.

-KITTA!!!!
-Ohhh
-Is the big one finally here?
-Wakuwaku!
-So hyped…
-Not sure what to expect
-90k?
-Is that viewer count real?
-This is what big corporations can do…
-Hurry up
-Faster!!!
-Let’s go debut!!!!
-GZO~
-Honestly, out of all the KR 2nd gen, I’m most hyped for Yuki
-Fr lol
-How can anyone resist a silver-haired red-eyed lady
-100k?
-Wow
-Already hit 100k
-Holy…
-Mega rookie ㄷㄷ
-Come onnnnn
-Hurry upppp

[102,000 viewers watching]

What the heck?

Why are there so many viewers?

Even for a debut stream, over a hundred thousand…?

This defies everything I knew about streaming!

Just how powerful is Lunaverse’s influence to pull this many people…?

For someone like me who was always a bottom-tier streamer, this was something I could only ever dream about—and now, it was happening.

“Ah—right, I can’t be like this! If I’m gonna RP, I have to get into character…”

RP (Role Playing).

It’s the term VTubers use when performing as a character.

I had a character provided by Lunaverse, and I had to stick to that role during the stream.

My character, ‘Amano Yuki,’ was supposed to be a noble lady.

Since Lunaverse was a Japanese-based company, the name and speech patterns were heavily flavored with Japanese sensibilities.

“So… my catchphrase was ‘Yukigenyo’… right?”

A combo of ‘gokigenyo’ (meaning “how do you do?”) and my stream name, Yuki.

Manager had asked me to say it in a soft, elegant voice, since I was supposed to be a refined lady.

“Okay. Got it perfectly.”

All systems go!

Character background, fully memorized. Now all that was left was to start the stream.

I switched from the waiting screen to the broadcast screen.

And after turning on the mic, I said with an overly cheerful voice—

“Yukigenyo!! Hello, everyone? I’m the rookie VTuber, Amano Yuki!”

Ah, crap.

That was way too cheerful.

(Yabe: Basically means “uh oh” or “I’m screwed”)

-?
-?
-What?
-?
-The voice is cute tho
-Nervous? Where?
-This is… supposed to be a noble lady?
-Why so bubbly lol
-Cute…

Immediately, the chat filled with question marks as viewers showed their confusion.

Then—notification sound.

A DM came in from Manager.

[Manager: Ah]

[Manager: F*ck]

Just two messages.

But they conveyed Manager’s absolute frustration perfectly.

“Huh? Did I mess up?”

I was trying to stick to the concept, wasn’t I?

I even made sure to say ‘Yukigenyo’ properly and enthusiastically.

So what exactly did I do wrong?

-Wait what? I thought the character was supposed to be a noble lady?
-LMAO
-Where’s the RP lol
-Seriously
-Did she forget?
-Our bubbly little lady~
-As long as she’s cute, right?
-RP: absolutely demolished!
-Manager: (sobbing)

The chat made it clear what the problem was.

Ah, maybe I should’ve sounded calmer?

But I was already toning it down a lot more than usual…

“Hmm… does it matter? RP always breaks during streams anyway.”

At least I said ‘Yukigenyo’ at the start, so that’s technically a save.

Manager might be super pissed… but if I throw myself at their feet after the stream, maybe I’ll be forgiven!

-lolol
-I don’t think it’s “fine”…
-The CEO’s tears fall once more
-At least the character has strong presence
-???: She’s a good kid though…
-Lol no one forced her to RP with a knife lol
-2nd Gen (Despair Arc)
-She went full comedy act from the start
-For real lol

The chat had gotten chaotic.

To calm things down, I winked at the viewers and spoke in a cute voice.

“Please take care of me, okay? I’m just a baby who’s debuting today.”

Not that winking was going to help at this point, but…

Well, being cute is everything!

Because cute equals justice.

-Baby
-Baby…?
-This is supposed to be… a baby?
-Babyyyy
-Feels like she’s a veteran…
-This one’s totally around thirty wwwww
-What’s ‘arasa’?
-Around thirty
-Basically means she’s in her 30s
-So she’s an ajumma
-Eugh… smells like the coop

What the hell are these guys saying?

Thirty?!

I’m still a fresh 20-something, okay?

Barely, but the first digit is still a 2!

And this body is even younger!

“Chicken coop smell? I’m a fresh, little loli girl, okay? It’s natural for me to smell sweet!”

-Did she just say loli? lololol
-I’m gonna lose it
-Sweet smell?
-Disqualified
-What kind of monster did Lunaverse create…
-Disqualified… seriously disqualified…
-There’s no one left to root for

“Calling a girl this cute chicken coop smell? You know, that kinda hurts…”

I hit the hotkey for a sad expression.

My character’s eyes welled up with tears, eyebrows twisting into a pitiful 八 shape.

She looked so tragically adorable, anyone would want to protect her.

-Is she crying?
-Wait, is she crying?
-Y’all are too harsh lol
-Now she’s a punching bag
-Still cute though
-The crying face is adorable
-Cute
-Cute?
-Why is it cute?
-Real talk, cuteness solves everything
-For real lol
-Cute
-Cute
-Cute
-Kawaii
-Cute

Sniffling seemed to work, and the chat quickly filled with ‘cute’ spam.

At this rate, I might’ve successfully recovered from the earlier blunder.

Once I confirmed that the mood was improving, I immediately changed the screen.

I couldn’t spend the whole debut stream just chatting.

There was actual content I needed to go through.

[Profile]
Name: Amano Yuki (天乃 ゆき)
Age: About 4.5 billion years!
Occupation: Noble Lady
Birthday: October 14
Height: 142cm

The new screen displayed my profile.

The handwritten text looked childlike and scribbly, presenting a brief summary of who Amano Yuki was.

-Oh?
-What’s this?
-Profile?
-Finally, the profile screen!!
-Occupation is ‘noble lady’?
-lololol
-142cm, noted…
-Not spoiled
-Still fresh…
-No weight or bust size?

“Asking a girl about her weight? That’s super rude, you know?”

I didn’t tell them, but I weigh 33kg.

I’d lost a bit recently from not eating well.

But I’ll eat more from now on!

If I put on some weight, maybe my boobs will grow too?

A… or maybe I could even aim for B!

-???: Now, look at the camera and tell us your name, age, and measurements~

A fleeting message passed through the chat.

I saw it—and something inside me snapped.

“M-My name is…”

It hit one of my trigger phrases.

“My name is Amano Yuki… I’m 4.5 billion years old… m-my three sizes are… starting from the top, 90…”

I made a bashful face as I spoke, turning my head away from the camera just slightly.

-?
-?
-Is this for real?
-90 lololol
-Disqualified lol
-With that flat chest? 90, seriously? lol
-Flat
-Cutting board?
-Ramen bowl lid, obviously
-Ramen lid omg lololol
-Burning hot right out the gate
-Passive flame aura ㄷㄷ

Starting with a habitual dirty joke, the chat turned into a wildfire.

An uncontrollable blaze, metaphorically speaking.

-lololol
-On fire from day one
-Major CONTROVERSY
-The CEO is crying again ㅠㅠㅠㅠ
-Lunaverse has no future!
-lololol
-FLAMES
-Yuki/Controversy/AV joke
-Archived on day one

They kept calling it ‘flames,’ slang for being controversial.

The viewers were labeling my joke as flame-worthy.

…Why?

“Huh? Flames? What about that was controversial? It wasn’t a fetish thing, just a regular AV joke.”

-No lololol
-The moment you mentioned AV, you lost
-She’s completely unaware wwwww
-Is this supposed to be innocence?
-Unconscious dirty jokes
-Scary…

Why is that flame-worthy?

Isn’t that just a regular kind of joke?

Am I the weird one?

“Okay okay, let’s not overreact. I’ll just finish the self-intro.”

I chose to play it off like nothing happened.

No point in holding onto something controversial.

Best thing to do was pivot topics quickly.

“I’m 4.5 billion years old! I’m from the moon, so it’s all legal, right?”

-Legal loli?
-4.5 billion?
-I had no idea wwwww
-Wait, this is beyond legal
-Smells like a henhouse
-Fr lol
-Granny, it’s cold—please go back inside and warm up

“H-Hey, I’m not a grandma! I’m a proper silver-haired loli beauty!!”

-lololol
-She called herself a loli lmaoo
-This one’s gone bad
-Gone bad
-Totally spoiled
-Henhouse smell
-Grandma, take a bath
-Grandma? HAL?
-Huh?
-Don’t do this

“I said I’m not a grandma! I’m a super kawaii silver-haired blue-eyed girl!!”

They kept teabagging me in chat.

I couldn’t take it anymore and banned everyone who called me ‘grandma.’

-Eh?
-What just happened…
-Everyone’s disappearing!!
-Tiananmen
-They’ve all vanished into mystery…
-This is terrifying…
-I’m scared… we’re all gonna die…!!
-Moving moving
-((((((
-))
-))
-((

“Hey! Why do you keep chatting?! It’s hard to ban you like this!!”

-That’s the point lol
-Moving
-((
-)
-Moving~
-(
-)
-((

“……”

Seriously, viewers are the same everywhere.

Can’t trust a single one of them.

For a moment, I actually thought they were nice.

“…Let’s move on.”

I ignored the chat and moved on to the next part.

A flood of text began appearing on the screen.

It was my character’s backstory.

[Amano Yuki — 天乃 ゆき]
A noble lady reincarnated into the modern era. Has a speech habit like ‘iyawayo’ fitting her noble image. Currently living in a shabby rental and paying monthly rent. Though she looks like she only eats cake and macarons at tea parties, she actually loves pork rice soup. Her signature two-side up hairstyle has been with her since her past life, and she can’t afford salon buns due to budget issues. She’s naturally formal in speech and gesture and always wears a gentle smile.

“Ugh… why is this so long?”

The screen was packed with text.

No paragraph breaks either—just a dizzying wall.

“It’s too much…”

Can I even read all this?

Especially as a full-blooded Korean?

I didn’t take long to decide.

“I’m just gonna skip this.”

-?
-You’re not reading it?
-?
-?
-Wait, what?
-She skipped it??
-The CEO is crying again

“Come on, what else can I do? I’m Korean, okay?”

-lolol
-Understandable
-She speaks facts
-Forgot she was Korean because she’s a VTuber
-Hard agree
-Nation of kimchi and skipping

You can’t hide the kimchi running in your blood.

My hair might be white, but I’m full Korean.

There’s no way I could read more than three lines.

[Manager: …]

Also, why does Manager keep DMing me?

It’s distracting.

Can they not read the room?