Chapter 218

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[Today, the professor is on a business trip to Korea University, so class is canceled, kimo ring haha]

Adella rescue episode, let’s binge-watch it!

[Comments]

– Before that, search for ‘Bark’ on Vtube and make sure to check out the latest video. Namenamen is featured in real life.

└ Why do we have to see our No Name on a different Vtube channel? Editor, post some videos already!

– Oh, our professor is also on a business trip to Korea University, what a coincidence haha

– What was with Kariri’s special appearance at the end haha

Recently, Bark’s channel, which had been stagnant, regained its vitality.

An 8-year-old child performing ‘Caprice No. 24’ on a 700 million won violin—something that even professionals find difficult—improvisationally at Korea University, was truly an irresistible video thumbnail.

[Bark (Babo Crescendo) – 1.53 million views]

[We met the rumored genius child, ‘Noname’! But performing Caprice No. 24 with a 700 million won violin?]

[View Count: 180,000 · 2 days ago]

Even those who had completely disregarded subjects like math or magic were curious enough to take a peek.

The stereotype that an elementary student can’t possibly be that exceptional vanished instantly.

This is how intuitive music is.

This online issue could also be seen in the juicy comments.

[Best Comment]

– I heard Mozart composed symphonies at 8 years old, is this a rebirth or what? Amazing. [Likes: 1.4k]

└ Life 2.0 ㄷㄷ

└ I don’t think I could do that even in my second life… Isn’t it more like my 200th life?

– How could I listen to such a wonderful performance for free, so I turned on data to watch! [Likes: 2.2k]

└ Haha no wayㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

└ Datetㅋㅋㅋㅋ

└ The world has really changed; I can listen to an 8-year-old playing violin from my room.

– I watched it lying down, so I knelt to see it! [Likes: 1.9k]

└ What are you talking aboutㅋㅋㅋㅋ

└ Why are you kneelingㅋㅋㅋㅋ

– (12:41) Isn’t that Kariri’s voice in the preview? How come the Japanese is…? [Likes: 1.1k]

└ Isn’t that Kariri’s cover song?

└ The whole world is Kariri…

└ This was definitely chosen by Noname. That little brat!

The black history of Kariri, which appears when least expected.

This news finally reached Yoonseul’s ears.

In a dark room with no sunlight, only the computer screen blinked.

Sitting at the desk, Yoonseul clenched her fist tightly. Her fingertips trembled.

“You can’t even imagine where I am right now, can you, Namen?”

She hurriedly pulled out her phone from her pocket and sent a text message.

Her glittery nail glittered from time to time.

[Yoonseul: Namen, I moved! Would you like to come over for my housewarming today?]

As she pressed the send button, a crazed smile blossomed at the corner of Kariri’s mouth.

* * *

“Min Woo, do you know who your noona is?”

“Slurp. No? I don’t know.”

“Hey, you should at least know who buys you food.”

Yoonseul’s question made Baek Min Woo blink in surprise while eating jajangmyeon.

His expression seemed to say why she would ask such a thing all of a sudden.

Meanwhile, Arin, with her mouth full of sweet and sour pork, raised her hand.

“I know! Isn’t she the older sister from the miraculous wings advertisement on TV? She sang there, ‘Fly up, Zhuo!’ like this.”

“That’s not me…?”

“Oh, now that I think about it, you do look a bit alike. Baek Arin, you have good observation skills.”

“No way! How do we look alike?!”

Yoonseul, Baek Min Woo, and Baek Arin.

While the three were fooling around, I looked out the window.

On the 40th floor of the apartment, the height allowed for a clear view of the Seoul skyline.

“Namen, don’t you want any more sweet and sour pork?”

Yoonseul dragged herself over next to me, offering a fork.

I shook my head slightly. I had been eating a lot lately from various places, so I was full.

Yoonseul’s eyes turned mischievous, and suddenly she performed a fork acrobatic dance.

“Wheehehee! Are you really not going to eat?”

The sweet and sour pork approached right in front of my lips.

“Nope, I’m not eating.”

“Well, it can’t be helped then.”

She tossed the fork with the sweet and sour pork back onto the plate.

Then she began to fight with Min Woo and Arin over the last piece of meat.

I was momentarily pleased, but then I looked around the living room and snapped at Yoonseul.

“What is this mess?”

“Why?”

“You know exactly what I’m talking about.”

“I don’t understand what you’re saying at all, Kariri?”

By now, the girl, who had returned to Kariri’s character, whistled nonchalantly.

Receiving the text message that Kariri had moved was just a few hours ago, and I had been pondering what gift to give for a housewarming.

When she said she didn’t need a gift because we lived so close, I thought that was strange.

“Why did you move to the floor above us of all places?”

“Hehe.”

Yoonseul made a natural expression and made a peace sign with her fingers.

Right now, we are at Apartment 102, Unit 4003.

It’s only 3 meters away in a straight line from where Professor Cheon lives, 21 steps by the stairs.

I felt quite pressured by the sudden shift from being acquaintances to neighbors.

“Hey, don’t feel too pressured.”

“Are you telling me not to feel pressured after saying that earlier?”

“Why? Just come over now and then for dinner, give me a morning call, and let’s go to the VR amusement park, the VR zoo, and the VR aquarium—how nice that would be.”

“Why is everything in virtual reality? Those things could be done with anyone, not just neighbors.”

“If you don’t want to, there’s nothing I can do! But now that I can charge in directly!”

She must have kept in mind the black history of Kariri from my last visit to Korea University.

Look, she didn’t completely deny it.

“It’s too unfair if I’m the only one suffering. I want to siphon off from Namen too.”

“…But we can’t do crossovers too often. I’ve been busy again lately.”

“You’re saying that when you’re going to allow it like this? Okay, so we’ve reached an agreement? In that case, do you want an older sister’s lap pillow?”

“Why again?”

While the starving kids were inhaling their jajangmyeon, the television broadcast news.

I lay my legs on Yoonseul’s lap, and now I kept wanting to close my eyes from drowsiness. Especially since that was quite comforting.

[Next news. It has been belatedly revealed that Mr. A, who was charged with breaking and entering into an apartment in Dogok-dong last month, was sentenced to 25 years in prison for attempted murder and arson in the first trial. Upon further investigation, it was confirmed that the representative of the apartment resident association had deliberately concealed the incident to prevent a decline in property values. Reporter Lee Hyunguk covered this exclusively.]

Dogok-dong apartment?

The blurred screen was definitely Kariri’s previous home.

I straightened my head and stared up at Yoonseul, who gave an awkward smile.

“Did you move because of that?”

“Haha… Anyway, it’s the people who have more that act worse! They kept shoving some secret contract in my face, and it annoyed me so I just moved out. I know better than anyone that if you sign something carelessly, you could really get hurt.”

“Those bad people.”

“Oh, Noname, what a beautiful phrase!”

“I’m only slightly curtailing it?”

Yoonseul also had her own hardships.

Although she looks this way, she has a mature side, being an adult earning her own money.

I sometimes forgot that she was still a minor.

As an expression of pride, I patted her head.

“Namen, are you not streaming these days? It seems like Mooloa is consistently doing it.”

“If I stream, I get targeted by snipers, so I’m working on my rank with Adella in a duo. But the chance of Mephisto is so low that I’m starting to wonder if this is the right way. I still haven’t seen him once.”

“Mephistopheles? Oh, you’re going for the title?”

“It’s somewhat similar.”

Catching Mephisto, who appears only as a neutral object in the GOTIER ranked game, was inevitably postponed as a long-term plan.

Yoonseul bit her lower lip slightly and seemed to think deeply before whispering in my ear.

“If you feel burdened about streaming your real face, how about trying to be a VTuber?”

“I don’t want to.”

“Don’t you think that’s a bit too determined?”

“Who would do something like a VTuber? Oh, right, an older sister does it.”

“You… are you doing this on purpose? If you keep this up, Kariri will get hurt…?”

“Why the sudden interest?”

“Hehe. Curious? You’re really curious, huh? If you’re that curious, I guess I’ll have to let you know.”

At that moment, I shouldn’t have asked that question.

I had already been stuck listening to her explain for nearly three hours until I wanted to bleed from my ears.

“I’m planning to start a VTuber company! Named ‘Safari Dream’!”

Safari what?

* * *

There was a 14-year-old girl whose life had fallen apart.

Chewing on tear-soaked bread, she could only see a dark future and jumped into a red ocean without hesitation.

In a world with 8 billion people, there is no such thing as a blue ocean.

Even if the blue ocean market were developed, if it’s profitable, a large corporation will pounce on it and turn it into a sea of blood within a month.

The VTuber market was also an ecosystem where the law of survival of the fittest applied perfectly, and the ultimate victor could achieve immense wealth and fame.

“A VTuber isn’t quite about honor, is it?”

“Shhh! Keep listening!”

For the past four years, Kariri had been streaming without interruption and had long since fallen into burnout.

The longing for streaming was still there, but she was suffering from excessive mental fatigue.

Even when I occasionally advised her to take a break on tough days, her interest was solely in the fans.

Was it due to her excessive immersion in role-playing, or was that her original personality?

Whichever it was, since the day Yoonseul started living at my house, she had gained a new goal.

It was still dark, but she found a path she wanted to illuminate.

“I’ve gone through many hardships alone. I’ve been scammed a lot, received a lot of abuse, and made too many mistakes during streams, not knowing how to do it well. There are still streamers who probably don’t like me.”

“What did you do that made them dislike you?”

“Twish was suspended for two weeks because of me.”

“Oh… I see.”

New games and enjoyable content keep being released, but there’s only one body.

This was where Kariri got her idea.

How wonderful it would be to have VTubers to join her!

“I would teach them the know-how, and VTubers could enjoy collabs with each other…! We could create our own pool!”

Then there would be no need to struggle to schedule collabs with others.

I responded rather apathetically to Kariri’s grand plan.

“Then can’t you just recruit some people? You have name value, after all.”

“From the second generation onward, that’s fine… but the first generation is a no-go!”

“Why?”

“The first generation has to be successful no matter what.”

This was already a highly risky business area.

The results of her analysis over the last month indicated that the rise and fall of the VTuber company rested on its first generation.

“I have to pick a perfect pearl that will succeed, whether it’s me or someone else in this position. That’s why I think you’re perfect, Namen…!”

“I’ll decline.”

“Wouldn’t you be so cute if you streamed wearing a lion headgear…?”

“I said I’ll decline.”

“Then are you not going to help me?”

“I don’t have that many people I’ve collaborated with, and my streaming experience is short. I really don’t know.”

“Oh, really…”

Yoonseul’s momentum was taken down a notch.

I found myself idly watching various Vtube videos on my phone when I discovered a new upload from ‘Bark.’

“Oh, it just got uploaded?”

“Looks like it. They said they would upload two videos, so it must be a sequel.”

“Namen, you picked the Love Circulation, right? Do you know how much the viewers have teased me about that?”

“Ah, what should I do…”

“Why…?”

I flipped through the early parts of the video.

It showed the end of Professor Pisujeong’s performance and my turn coming up.

“I didn’t just play the Love Circulation.”

“What!”

[Bark (Babo Crescendo) – 1.53 million views]

[The No Name who descended upon ‘Maestro’! Japanese song medley echoing in Korea University?!]

[View Count: 2,400 · 30 minutes ago]

[Best Comment]

– The honey badger class that turns Korea University into Keijo Imperial University! [Likes: 258]

– Kariri medley compilation for honeybees (10:41) (11:42) (12:32) (13:04) (13:29) [Likes: 315]

└ The songs like ‘Love Circulation, Fragile Nature, Melt, User Guide, and Yumeokakeru are great, but why are they all Kariri coversㅋㅋㅋㅋ

└ No Name, who bravely played that nerdy song, is legendaryㅋㅋㅋㅋ

– The future of the Korea University music department looks bright ^^

“N-no… you…!”

Yoonseul raised her voice.

“Why, it’s fun.”

“First generation must be saved by you, Namen! If not, I’ll sulk for life!”