Please Return to the Organization Already

Countless broadcasting platforms exist across the internet.

Each platform that supports streaming carries its own distinct atmosphere.

You could call it that platform's signature style. No one quite remembers when it started, but by now the associations have half-solidified. This platform feels like this; that one feels like that.

So streamers tend to seek out whichever platform suits them best and settle in to broadcast there.

Twish, where Kayak streams, has a peculiar culture of its own as well.

Video donations — the feature that lets viewers attach a video clip to their donation. Commonly known as vid-dons.

Vid-dons also served as another channel of communication between viewers and streamers.

Unlike a plain donation, a video could explain something the viewer knew or deliver information the streamer needed.

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Viewers got to share something with the whole room by playing the clip they wanted across the broadcast, and streamers got to react to it on air — and make money in the process. Everybody won.

Of course, it wasn't all upside.

Turning on a vid-don pulled the audience's attention away from the streamer and onto the clip itself. And every so often, some viewer would send something so repulsive that the entire room got terrorized.

Just like right now.

Grand BGM rolled out as Lenok's illustration filled the screen.

The hero of Abyss appeared plastered in every kind of childish superlative, complete with the video's signature unreadable subtitles, and the chat erupted in fierce protest.

This was streamer Hangang's broadcast. He was currently playing a popular card game that worked well with vid-dons running in the background, and he'd been so absorbed in the match that he only noticed the clip — and the chat's collective horror — after the fact.

As luck would have it, that was the exact moment Camilla appeared.

Hangang took one look, pieced the situation together, and cracked a sly grin.

"What? It's funny. Everything's great except maybe put some spaces in next time? Hmm… yeah, they probably did it on purpose to piss people off. More importantly — Camilla's fifth? Damn, Camilla's that strong?"

"Ah, yeah… I see. Thanks for the good info. Classic AbyssExpert, classic Ab-teach intel…"

Former pro boxer and boxing champion Im Jeonghwan was more than a little surprised.

Hard not to be, given the bizarre spectacle unfolding right in front of him.

Didn't she say she'd never done any kind of exercise?

He was sure that was what he'd been told. And yet the body mechanics Kayak had just displayed were on a considerable level.

The kind of movement you only saw from people who trained consistently — the crude way of putting it was that she had the aura of someone who actually knew how to throw hands.

Is she just a natural athlete?

Im Jeonghwan was a professional. He'd spent well over twenty years living with gloves on his hands, and because of that, he could tell from sound alone.

That dull, heavy thud. That explosive crack. It wasn't a sound beginners made easily.

Even less so for someone who'd never boxed a day in their life. You only produced that sound by applying a certain threshold of force through proper form.

For a beginner — a woman, no less — even making a heavy bag sway was no small feat. People strained too hard and wrecked their wrists constantly. Lost their balance and fell over just as often.

There was a reason Jeonghwan had given her the safety talk beforehand. She was an Abyss-specialist streamer who'd never once shown herself working out on stream, so he hadn't expected much.

And then this. Jeonghwan couldn't hide how pleased he was. He could already see the rise and fall of this Vtube video playing out in his head.

"You said this was your first time boxing? That last one was about the level of kids who've been training at our gym for a few months."

Kayak answered with a vaguely awkward look on her face.

"Uh… I actually did go for about a month."

A month! She was saying she'd completed punches like that in a mere month. Was it her own talent, or had the coach been exceptional?

Maybe it was someone he knew. Jeonghwan was about to ask which gym she'd trained at when—

"I just did jump rope for a month and quit."

"…Excuse me?"

"They said my base fitness wasn't there yet, that it wasn't time for gloves. I did some jump rope and running, got bored, and dropped it…"

Jeonghwan studied her face carefully, half-wondering if Kayak was messing with him.

You know how MZ kids were these days. Last time, another Vtuber and their staff team had pranked him with a hidden-camera setup. He'd fallen for it completely, gotten angry, then realized too late it was a joke and been left standing there looking sheepish.

Kayak wouldn't be any different. From what he'd heard she was twenty? Twenty-one? Around there. Which put her right at the peak of the current MZ generation.

But there wasn't so much as a speck of deception on Kayak's face. Even when he met her eyes, those blue irises just kept blinking back at him. No other reaction came.

Doesn't seem like she's lying…

If that was the truth, then Kayak genuinely had a gift for boxing. A month of experience was basically the same as none at all.

Someone who'd never been taught by anyone, putting on gloves for the first time, producing results like this.

Jeonghwan marveled all over again.

And Kayak didn't stop there.

"Mind if I hit it a few more times?"

"Huh? Oh — yes! Feel free. Left side, right side, and if you ever want to try hitting a person, I'll spar with you."

"That's a bit…"

Kayak gave an awkward laugh and settled back in front of the heavy bag.

WHAM—!

A lightning-fast strike followed.

The hanging bag lurched, and the sound — louder than before — made Yu Sia flinch hard. Jeonghwan, on the other hand, broke into a bright smile.

After that, Kayak hammered the bag several more times. She wasn't just repeating the stance Jeonghwan had shown her — she shifted positions without rest, throwing punches as if an imaginary opponent stood right in front of her.

A sight you simply could not call a beginner's.

The whole premise of the content — bringing in a novice and teaching them boxing — had already gone off the rails at the foundation, but it didn't matter. The video was going to blow up either way. He'd been a Vtuber for years now; he could see that much without even looking.

What actually interested Jeonghwan was something else.

Looking at her face… is she mixed? Is that why she's this strong?

It was about Kayak's background. Her baseline physical specs already looked exceptional, so he couldn't help wondering where that came from.

But Jeonghwan never got to satisfy his curiosity. Because the person in question was already beating the absolute hell out of the heavy bag with the most delighted expression on her face.

The video uploaded to Jeonghwan's Vtube channel hit Trending Videos within three hours of going live, chosen by the algorithm.

It was unprecedented. This wasn't the first time Jeonghwan's series Come With Me to the Gym had made Trending — but it was the first time it had climbed this ‍‍‌‌⁠​​⁠‌​​‍​​‍​‌​⁠‍‌‍⁠⁠‌⁠‌‍‌‍‌‌‌‍⁠​‌​‌​‌‍‌‌‌⁠‍​​‌‍⁠‌‌⁠⁠fast.

The thumbnail alone was half the reason. A silver-haired, blue-eyed woman driving a fist into a heavy bag with a deadly serious expression stood out hard among the endless sea of videos.

Countless people got curious about Kayak, watched the video, and came away impressed.

And Kayak's fans, catching the news late and rushing over, began occupying the comment section one by one.

The positive reactions from Jeonghwan's regular viewers, the support from ordinary people discovering the video for the first time, and Kayak's fans flooding into the channel to smash likes and drop comments left and right.

Those three elements combined, and Come With Me to the Gym ep.7 (with. Streamer Kayak) hit one million views in a single day.