Only Weapon Master

Even after pressing the broadcast end button.

I still couldn’t leave the capsule.

“Umm..”

Though I understood intellectually that I should turn off MOL and sleep since I had to go to school tomorrow..

‘Woo…Ara, are you abandoning us…? After neglecting us for 3 months….’

MOL, which I hadn’t seen for a long time, disguised as my virtual self, whispered to my heart in a dark voice.

‘Urgh. No…! I never abandoned you…’

I tried to make excuses to shake off that whisper.

‘Lies!!!’

She didn’t believe me.

‘No… it’s not… not a lie. Why would I lie? You’re part of the joy in my life… how… how can I make you understand my sincerity…?’

‘If it’s not a lie… play one more game.’

‘Kuk. But I have school tomorrow…’

Haah… I really shouldn’t…

‘Hmph. See? It was all lies. Anyone can talk. As I thought, Ara doesn’t love me that much.’

‘Sigh… alright. One game should be… yes… that much… will you understand my sincerity?’

In the end, Ara decided to play MOL.

‘Hihi. Good choice.’

‘…..Sigh.’

After behaving in a way that would get her treated as mentally ill if people saw her on the street, she sighed as if it couldn’t be helped and boldly launched the game.

♦♦♦

After Ara’s broadcast ended, the VTuber fans who had watched her broadcast headed to their homeland, the Huber Gallery.

■ Huber Gal ■

[Is it really okay to end like this?]

What kind of psychology is behind throwing a game clearly and then ending the broadcast with satisfaction?

— What psychology? Lucy psychology, of course?

— At least it’s certain she’s not normal.

— Her mental fortitude seems really good.

└ She really had no reaction to thousands of people cursing her ㄹㅇ

[She definitely has one talent]

Confident behavior despite being late.

The confidence to free-ride without content.

The fabrication of treating us as idiots when we try to correct her wrong knowledge.

A face without any guilt after throwing the game

She definitely has talent for irritating people ㅇㅇ

— Good suggestion. But I only know Lucy.

└ Wow. There’s someone with a broken head even after being treated like that lol

— Did she really do all three of these on her individual debut day?

└(Post author): ㅇㅇ

— So are you not going to watch her?

└(Post author): Are you crazy? lol It’s so damn entertaining that I’ll probably watch

[I think Lucy is a bit disappointing]

I prefer Mika more?

Though they’re in the same group, I think I’ll only watch Mika.

— Okay, I get it. But why are you writing this kind of post to stir up trouble?

└ For real lol

— Don’t spread your personal thoughts here, idiot. It’s a waste of data

└ Are you poor? Why is data precious?

└ 2poor

— I also think Lucy is a bit… too strong-willed… not good

└ That’s because you weren’t bullied by female school bullies during school.

└ (Comment author): Shouldn’t I avoid her more if I was bullied?

└ Idiot. That’s the good part. Tsk, you don’t deserve to watch Lucy.

└ (Comment author): Fu… ck, I’m the idiot for expecting anything from a moron.

[Let me make this clear.]

If you feel like offering all the money your mom, dad, sister, brother, and siblings have after hearing a warm, bright, seductive voice with broth undertones, watch Mika’s broadcast.

If you’ve had a stressful day and need an emotional trash can, watch Lucy’s broadcast.

It’s a matter of preference, so choose for yourself.

— How is this a matter of preference? And writing like this makes one seem like an emotional dump and the other like a gold-digging snake that will ruin your family, you bastard. Take down the post!

— Damn lol There’s not a single wrong thing here, it’s scary.

└ What’s not wrong? There is one thing wrong.

└(Comment author): What? What’s wrong?

└ Watching Lucy’s broadcast actually adds more stress. Is that right? I nearly died of anger watching her broadcast behavior.

└(Comment author): So where did you release that stress?

└ In Lucy’s broadcast chat… Ah!

— What kind of talent did VT recruit?

— Mika didn’t seem like she was trying to extract broth, that’s what makes her special

└ What about Lucy?

└(Comment author): That girl… sigh- I have a lot to say but I won’t because it’ll just make my fingers hurt.

[Hello. I am the former MOL gallery administrator and current Lucy gallery administrator.]

This is my first time visiting the Huber gallery. Indeed, the dampness of the air here seems to be on a different dimension from other galleries.

The reason I came here is …… (omitted) …… and since I’ve been supporting her since she was YongYongLion, I created the Lucy gallery.

Those who support Lucy can come to the Lucy gallery. That’s all

— I understand well. But isn’t the first greeting a bit shitty? Is it just me?

└ 22

└ Damn he really is a GS fan

— Ah, so that’s why it seemed like Lucy recognized something in the chat.

└ For real, I was really curious what they were talking about, but that makes being a fan worth it ㅇㅇ

— After reading this post, I was so moved that I decided to become a Lucy fan too.

└ Which part exactly?

└(Comment author): I really like how she disciplined that Chinese person

└ You don’t like China?

└ (Comment author): ㅇㅇ I really don’t. When I was studying abroad in America, a Chinese friend said he’d treat me to food in Chinatown, so I went, and kimchi came out at the restaurant. So I was like, “Oh, kimchi,” and.

└ And?

└ (Comment author): Kimchi no no. Pao cai yes yes, he said, and after seeing that, I immediately cut ties with China and that friend.

└ Fuck lololol insane

[I don’t care about anything else.]

When will Lucy turn on her next broadcast…

Saying vaguely “this week,” how long are we supposed to wait, you fucking bitch!!

— It’s like you’re searching desperately and then shouting at the end.

— But there is a difference in enthusiasm between Mika and Lucy. You can see Mika is trying hard, but Lucy broadcasts like an old person who’s lived their whole life, with a “Hmm. Don’t be upset” attitude that’s obvious.

└ So you won’t watch?

└(Comment author): Why would I? Where else can you find a tank like her among VTubers? lol

└ Agreed~

The (former) MOL gallery administrator came directly to the Huber gallery and released all the chronicles of what Lucy had done as YongYongLion in posts.

As posts about Twins Tail’s Mika and Lucy were being written, all gallery users were trying to peacefully end the day with only a few hours left.

[That bitch. Playing MOL after ending her stream]

(Record site YongYongLion search.jpg)

She’s already played 2 matches. That fucking bitch.

Why end the broadcast if she’s going to do this?

— ?????

— What the fuck.

— This is a complete bitch move?

— She’s probably duo ranking with her boyfriend~

└ The boyfriend jokes aren’t funny, idiot… And duo isn’t possible above Master, don’t you know? Didn’t your mom teach you that either?

└ This guy’s mom must have fallen for a Master ADC dad and got cyber pregnant lol

If only Lucy’s gloomy fan hadn’t searched for YongYongLion on the record site.

♦♦♦

Sweet 19-year-old beauty Kang Ara, unaware that her fan(?) base was upset.

Unlike her determination to play just one game.

Only after winning 15 consecutive games from around Master 300 points

[Grand Master 720]

She was able to restore her score from 3 months ago in 8 hours and 12 minutes, wearing a satisfied expression.

“Huh… I’ll end it now. MOL… I haven’t abandoned you..”

Creating a fantasy where the virtual character now looked at her with a satisfied face, Ara left the capsule.

Whether it was a fantasy or something Ara sincerely wanted to do.

As they say, where there’s a gain, there’s also a loss.

[07:42]

“Fuck…”

The price for playing games all night was that she had to go to school without sleep.

She came out of her room and tried to take a shower to wake up… Zzz… Ah, cold!!

“…Haah… It’s the first time I’ve dozed off while showering…”

Somehow she washed herself and went downstairs to eat breakfast.

“Good morning…huaaaam─”

“Yes, good morning~ But Ara, didn’t you sleep?”

“… Well. After the debut broadcast, maybe it was the relief from tension, haah yawn… I couldn’t sleep well. Hueng..”

If she told her mom she stayed up all night playing games, she might get a capsule ban… so, yeah..

“Oh dear… Ara, if it’s too hard, you can quit…”

Urk… the pangs of conscience… Ah, in that case

“Then can I quit school……”

-Slap!

“Don’t talk nonsense, you need to graduate high school at least, you girl!”

But mom just said if it’s too hard, I can quit… and going to school right now is really hard for me…

With her mom’s statement where ‘this’ and ‘that’ were different, she finished breakfast while dozing off and left the house.

‘Hmm… Instead of waiting for Reina, should I go straight to school and sleep…’

Even though she knew Reina would be very upset if she heard Ara’s inner thoughts from a distance, she was just too sleepy.

‘Yeah.. I’ll send her a KaTalk. Tired… hmm…? Now that I think about it…’

Come to think of it, this is the first time I’ve checked my phone since coming out of the capsule.

[Reina]-[Ara, I’m too tired so I’ll go to sleep first… see you tomorrow..]

Fortunately, Reina’s last message was about going to sleep, probably because she was mentally exhausted from the broadcast…

[CEO]-[Ara, can you come to the company after school^^?]

The unexpectedly creepy last message from the CEO gave her a chill.

The smiley face emoticon at the end of the CEO’s sentence was, to use a metaphor, colder than the 9th rank ice magic she saw in the otherworld…?

I looked up at the sun, faintly obscured by clouds.

That sun appears to be shining brightly.

Why does my future look so dark….

“Sigh… I don’t know. I’ll just go to school and sleep.”

Knowing that the right action is to not think about impending calamities, Ara gave up and headed to school.

♦♦♦

Currently, Ara, who had slept enough at school and regained her energy.

“Ha. Ara… what exactly did you do… no, what have you been doing..?”

As soon as she came to the company, she was called to the CEO’s office and was being interrogated by Yeji.

“No. Ha what. YongYongLion is almost like a past life… You didn’t know this..? Why didn’t you tell me?”

“But. I don’t use galleries or communities…?”

I just found out that I’m quite famous in MOL because Yeji just told me.

“What about streamer Ret? You wouldn’t say you don’t know him, right?”

Who’s that?

“…You really don’t know. Ha… hahah…listen. Ret is a person from BB-bic….(omitted)…. and, he’s one of the victims who suffered because of you.”

When I genuinely tilted my head saying I didn’t know who that was, Yeji explained about Ret.

But, her last statement really bothered me.

Victim? One of them? What is she talking about?

“… I’ve never harmed anyone while playing games… besides, even if there were victims, saying ‘one of them’ is too much of a ‘fabrication’, isn’t it…? I can see you’re trying to excessively bring me down……”

Thinking Yeji might have misunderstood after seeing defamatory posts about Ara in galleries? or such places, she emphasized ‘fabrication’ while explaining.

“….Are you serious?”

“Seriously (nods)”

Hmm… Did the CEO get hit with a mind control spell? Um-mm. I don’t see any traces of that…

“Okay… okay, let’s move past this one, the late broadcast due to oversleeping, lack of content, ……(omitted)…….ha… why did you cause so many problems?”

Though the part of her statement about “moving past” didn’t sit well with me. Tsk. About being late…

“I think I handled the lateness well.”

“Is this serious too…? Haー Ara, if that’s what you think. Yes… let’s go with that… okay…”

.

.

.

“Now, for the very last issue. What was your final statement before ending the broadcast…?”

Hmm… the last… last statement was… statement… Ah, I remember.

“…Since unforeseen circumstances might arise, I couldn’t promise to see everyone tomorrow.”

Isn’t that right?

Suddenly, a meteor could hit Earth tomorrow, or a bald person could grow a strand of hair.

Nothing in the future is certain.

That’s why I extended the timeframe generously by saying ‘this week’…

“…Ara. Am I the normal one? Are you the normal one? The more we talk, the dizzier I feel, is it just me?”

“If you’re dizzy, I think you should take a nap and rest. And aren’t we both normal?”

Yeji said yes, you’re all~ right, and that she should take a nap and rest, then showed me out of her office.

♦♦♦

Yeji, left alone in the CEO’s office after Ara departed.

From watching Lucy’s broadcast until now, the moment she talked with Ara, her head was genuinely splitting with pain.

Yeji, recalling Ara’s broadcast.

The lateness, well, Ara handled it well, so that’s fine.

Even the content…. she’s still a rookie, so that’s fine too.

Yes, those two things were fine. Those two things, yeah…

The biggest impact was elsewhere.

The fact that Lucy’s identity was YongYongLion had such a massive impact that it accounted for the majority of her headache-inducing concerns.

YongYongLion, who appeared this year and became famous as a malicious gamer.

Would Yeji not know about YongYongLion? No? She knew very well. She knew so well that even she spit out the beer she was drinking while watching Ara’s broadcast.

It was a name that occasionally appeared in the streamer gallery she frequented. (And only in negative contexts.)

Knowing that, why didn’t she stop Ara from accessing MOL?

Yeji didn’t know either. That Ara was YongYongLion.

Of course, Yeji had her chance.

Ara always said with her own mouth that swordsmanship and gaming were her specialties.

Yeji also knew how exceptional Ara’s swordsmanship was, and that she had won the kendo tournament.

But, she was so curious about why gaming was mentioned alongside swordsmanship as a specialty that she once asked how good Ara was.

To her question, Ara responded:

‘Hmph…it’s not that amazing..heheh..well..”

Ara tried to maintain a blank expression, but she kept snickering in between her words as she dragged out her answer.

Well. People can boast in their lives, but Ara’s boasting was so annoying that Yeji had clenched her fist and told Ara she didn’t need to explain, refusing to hear more.

“…Haah..shi… If I had known it would come to this, I should have endured and asked for details…!!”

Of course, what’s past can’t be undone.

It was something that happened because she hadn’t paid enough attention… tsk.

“Sigh…”

She sighed and accessed the streamer gallery to check the current public opinion.

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[The company is too small to contain Lucy.][3]

[Wait, did the company not know she was YongYongLion?][6]

[Trying to have both the underground and mainstream?][3]

[Lucy=YongYongLion Streamers’ Reactions][22]

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Most posts were about Lucy(YongYongLion), with the rest mainly questioning whether VT was properly managing the company.

The former was a calamity that had already occurred and she couldn’t do anything about.

But the latter posts were ones she needed to read entirely.

The reality was that her overflowing money couldn’t compensate for her lack of experience, so she needed to read such things to gain knowledge.

“…Hmm..”

Reading each post slowly.

She thought about where her company was lacking and where she should invest in human resources.

While YongYongLion was a disaster, she also generated a lot of buzz.

Although there would be a hit to their image, it was also a significant opportunity for growth.

If they couldn’t turn this opportunity into a benefit, it was obvious that VT company would never grow.

“…Hoo… let’s do this.”

First, since she wasn’t sure if Ara would stream or not,

Thinking that if Ara didn’t stream, users looking for YongYongLion or trolls pretending to be Lucy’s fans would likely cause trouble in Reina’s broadcast.

—”Yes, CEO!”

“Team Leader Seok. Please pay close attention to Reina’s broadcast chat management today. From your department, about three people from the bottom… yes, I think they’ll be needed.”

—”Yes, ma’am.”

Despite the current shortage of manpower.

Feeling that this too was the growing pain of the company’s development.

She prayed for a bright future ahead.