Chapter 45 : Fan Name, Broadcast Rules

After playing about 10 matches, we decided to wrap things up.

Nanmi spoke first.

“Today was really fun.”

“Yeah! Me too!”

“I had a lot of fun too.”

“Eh? Sona-senpai, are you really okay?”

“You’re not actually sick and forcing yourself to play, right?”

“Huh? Sona-nim, are you perhaps sick somewhere?”

At that, Sona flusteredly said—

“No! No! I’m definitely not sick, I also had a lot of fun today, Nanmi-nim!”

“Ah, that’s a relief.”

“Actually, today was a huge honor for me too.”

“I never imagined I’d get to play a game with Sona-nim.”

“No, no.”

“The honor was all mine.”

“Thank you so much for inviting me to play, Nanmi-nim.”

“Eh? Seriously, who is this?” 

“This isn’t the Sona-senpai I know·····.”

“Wh-What are you talking about!”

“This is just how I normally am!”

Letting out a small chuckle, Nanmi said.

“Nana-chan, Sona-nim.”

“Yeah?”

“Yes?”

“Let’s play together again next time.”

“I’d love to!”

And Sona replied shyly.

“I-I’d like that too·····.”

“? Seriously, what is this?”

“Well, it’s getting late, so see you next time.”

“Bye-bye~”

After leaving the channel and parting ways like that, Sona thought.

‘Wh-What’s wrong with me?’

This wasn’t how she intended it to be.

The original plan was to chat cheerfully with Nanmi with her usual high energy and become really close friends!

But·····, somehow, the moment she saw Nanmi-nim, she got really nervous, and though there were so many things she wanted to say, the

words wouldn’t come out·····.

Something·····, it’s something.

It felt like she wasn’t the self she knew.

‘Th-This isn’t right?’

‘Why am I like this?’

Sona’s gaze turned towards Nanmi.

Specifically, towards Nanmi in her profile picture.

Looking at Nanmi’s face, her voice kept echoing in her mind.

-Let’s play together again next time.

A soft, yet cute and adorable voice.

Every time she looked at that avatar, that voice kept swirling in her head.

“Ah.”

Only then did she understand why she was acting this way.

The first Vtuber, perhaps the one with the longest streaming career among Vtubers, for the first time—

“My oshi·····.” (TL Note: Oshi is Japanese slang for one’s favorite idol/Vtuber/character.)

She had found her oshi.

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The next day, Nanmi posted a notice on the cafe.

Title: [It’s Nanmi]

I’ll be streaming early and short today.

[Comments]

-Okay Nanmi~

-OKNM (TL Note: Abbreviation for Okay Nanmi in Korean)

Thus, she turned on the stream at lunchtime!

The stream title was briefly ‘Review Stream’.

“Mimi-ha~”

“Hello everyone.”

“Today, I’m going to briefly talk about yesterday’s stream review.”

“While I’m at it, I’ll play a few rounds of Time Click.”

[oo donated ₩1,000!]

[What’s the standard for ‘short’?]

“Hmm······, 2 hours?”

“Yes.”

“I’ll just stream for 2 hours and end it.”

“Honestly, I want to stream for longer too, but I think I’ll be quite busy starting tomorrow.”

“Of course, I’ll try to stream whenever I have time, but I probably won’t be able to stream for long.”

[oo donated ₩1,000!]

[Nanmi already busy?]

[oo donated ₩1,000!]

[You wench! Are you already full?!]

[oo donated ₩1,000!]

[Naminami-ya, you know now is the time you should be working the hardest, right?]

[oo donated ₩1,000!]

[Getting lazy already?]

[oo donated ₩1,000!]

[Nanmi-ya, you don’t know when your popularity might fade. You need to stream diligently now]

[-Just let her do her thing]

[-She said she’s busy]

[-Why are there so many backseat gamers in this chat?]

[-Too many viewers, it’s getting hard to manage]

Hmm·····, it is surprising that there are over 50,000 viewers despite it being lunchtime.

It’s probably thanks to Time Click, but should I say the chat management isn’t going well because of it?

Well, of course, having many viewers is also an issue, but another reason is likely that I haven’t properly set the rules for our stream.

I pondered for a moment before speaking.

“Um·····, first off, it’s because a lot of things have come up.”

“The results of that work will be out soon.”

“And looking at the donations, I thought about it, and it seems like we need to set some rules for our stream before doing the review

broadcast.”

[oo donated ₩1,000!]

[lol I was wondering why you were only setting them now]

[-FR lol Usually rules are set on the first broadcast]

[oo donated ₩1,000!]

[While we’re at it, can’t you give us a name too?]

“A name?”

“Ah, right, our stream doesn’t have a fan name.”

‘I originally encouraged a naturally formed fan name, but since they want one like that, should I just think of one right now?’

Thus, I decided to determine the fan name first.

The viewers offered their opinions.

[oo donated ₩1,000!]

[Since it’s a gathering of obsessive weebs, how about ‘Piglets’?]

[-What did you say?]

[-You get out]

[-lololol]

“Thank you for the 1,000 Won donation.”

“And please don’t use profanity.”

After responding and banning the user, I fell into thought for a moment.

‘What kind of fan name would be good?’

[oo donated ₩1,000!]

[How about ‘Mimis’?]

[-Mimi-ha~!]

“Hmm······, Mimi.”

“Not bad.”

“Let’s think about others first before deciding.”

[oo donated ₩1,000!]

[Carrotmie. Can’t you just give us that? With the feeling of ‘Carry me’.] (TL Note: The fan name suggested is  (Kaeritmi), likely a pun.

The donation explains it as a mix of ‘Carry me’ and ‘Nanmi’. Translating as ‘Carrymes’ to reflect this.)

“My last name?” (TL Note: Nanmi’s player name/character name might be Carrot.)

[-Yeah]

[-Because you’re called Nanmi more often than Carrotmie.]

[-Please carry us, Nanmi-ya……]

“Oh! That’s not bad either?”

“Still, just in case.”

“Should we pick via poll?”

“Just a moment.”

“How do I do this again?”

“Ah.”

“Done.”

Thus, the poll went up.

Carrymes 79%

Mimis 21%

“That ended faster than expected.”

So, the fan name was decided as Carrymes!

Next up were the broadcast rules.

First off·····.

“First broadcast rule.”

“If your score is lower than mine, no backseat gaming.”

[-lolol]

[-lolol Basically saying don’t backseat game]

“What should the second one be?”

[oo donated ₩1,000!]

[You should ban spoilers too, Nanmi-ya]

“Ah, right.”

“If your score is lower than mine, spoilers are also forbidden.”

“Well, I guess we can set the broadcast rules briefly like this for now.”

“Now that we’ve set the rules, things should quiet down a bit, right?”

[oo donated ₩1,000!]

[Sorry to burst your bubble, but I don’t think anything will actually change, Nanmi-ya]

[-With this many viewers, there’s bound to be trolls]

[-Looks like you’ll suffer for a while]

“Um·····, actually, I just said that, and I think so too.”

“Well, what can I do.”

“I’ll have to manage it well myself.”

“Still, if I could ask one favor of the kind Carrymes, please don’t feed the trolls.”

‘Though I’m not sure if that will be followed.’

“Alright, anyway, I’ll start the Nana-nim review stream.”

“Well, it’s called a review, but there isn’t much to talk about.”

[oo donated ₩1,000!]

[What do you mean there’s nothing! Explain about the Knights of the Round Table!]

[-How does she keep having more things revealed the more we peel back?]

[-Is she really an onion? Nanmi-ya?]

“Ah, the Knights of the Round Table?”

“Actually, I only found out about it yesterday too·····.”

“Did you all know about it?”

[oo donated ₩1,000!]

[The Round Table Knights is the most famous anecdote from Sona’s broadcasts. Basically, not knowing means you haven’t watched her

streams at all. So….are you cheating? Nanmi-chan?]

“Ahem-“

“You can’t know everything about someone you like.”

“Still, I still like Sona-nim.”

“Ah, speaking of Sona-nim, I remembered.”

“I played games with Sona-nim yesterday.”

“Hehe, jealous, right?”

[oo donated ₩1,000!]

[What’s this again? Why would Sona suddenly play games with you?]

“We greeted each other after the broadcast ended yesterday.”

“Somehow, we ended up playing together, hehe.”

[oo donated ₩1,000!]

[Why! Didn’t you stream!! Why didn’t you stream it!!]

[-FR T_T]

[-Is that all we mean to you?]

[-Me too·····I wanted to see Nanmi playing with Sona too!!]

“Hey, everyone.”

“Yesterday was Sona-nim’s day off.”

“Turning on the stream on Sona-nim’s day off is a bit·····Sona-nim needs to rest comfortably too.”

‘Plus, I also wanted to play comfortably.’

“Ah, right.”

“Speaking of which, I haven’t shown you all this yet.”

With those words, Nanmi turned on Time Click.

Turning on Time Click like that, she showed off the rainbow-colored title!

It was the dazzling [The One] title.

“Ah, this is really precious.”

“Unfortunately, since it’s an Easter egg, many people don’t know about it.”

“What this is, is a title given only to the user who first achieved 5000 points!”

“The only title of its kind in the world, never to be repeated, is this very [The One] title, you know?”

“Huh? Everyone, why are you laughing?”

[Nanmi-ya, your energy gets high when you boast about that title, huh?]

[oo donated ₩1,000!]

[Ogu ogu, is that so?] (TL Note: Ogu ogu is like baby talk, similar to ‘Aww, there there’.)

[oo donated ₩1,000!]

[Wow! Amazing!]

[-We know too, Nanmi-ya]

[-You mentioned it before anyway·····]

[-My ears are going to fall off·····]

“Uh·····, did I tell the Carrymes about this too?”

[oo donated ₩1,000!]

[Yes]

[oo donated ₩1,000!]

[But is that really that amazing?]

[oo donated ₩1,000!]

[Just a bragging title]

At those words, Nanmi’s lips jutted out in a pout-

‘It’s true that it’s useless besides bragging, but don’t they know that someone’s fact can hurt others?’

Nanmi said in a pouting voice.

“Third broadcast rule: No facts allowed.”

“Alright, then.”

“Let’s play some games after a long time~”

[oo donated ₩1,000!]

[Long time? Didn’t you play yesterday?]

“Ahem, I said no facts.”