Chapter 4
Chapter 4
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Translator: MadScientist
Chapter: 4
Chapter Title: Suspiciously High-Quality Rigging
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Ahh, O Almighty Reflecting Myriad Stars.
The billions of stars twinkling in the sky above could never hope to compare to Your dazzling brilliance.
How could a mere mortal like me ever comprehend the mercy of a transcendent being such as You.
Blah blah blah.
All that long stuff.
After slamming my head into the desk three or more times...
I had no choice but to class-change into a zealot forced to recite prayers.
No matter how staunch an atheist you are, if you bash your head until a lump forms on your forehead, anyone would end up class-changing into a zealot like me.
Having paid dearly for my blasphemy, I was quieter than ever before.
It was the result of having manners forcibly drilled into me.
You son of a...
No subject.
Someday, this humiliation...
...No.
Y-Yeah, let's stop here. I don't want more manners drilled in.
From now on, when I curse in my head, I gotta make sure there's no subject.
⚙ SYSTEM NOTIFICATION ⚙ [Time until debut broadcast: 03:17:52] The cam would arrive exactly two hours later.
Since I had no idea what price I'd pay for blasphemy if I botched the debut broadcast, I shelved any thoughts of half-assing it.
Your head has to hurt just the right amount for rebellion to be an option—when it feels like you're about to die for real, though...
Look at this.
The desk is cracked.
Sure, it was a desk I scavenged from the recycling bin out front, but it was still useful...
Gonna have to scrounge up another one.
Right before diving into serious broadcast prep...
I decided to check the computer's info with my ability, just in case.
📄 Lee Jia's PC 📄 1. Overview The PC computer used by Lee Jia. 2. Details Due to Lee Jia's preference for watching streams over playing games herself, it features notably low performance specs. As a Fervent Devotee of Reflecting Myriad Stars and Archivist of the Omnia Archive, Lee Jia has permission to use the [Omnia Streaming Program]. 3. Trivia - Rumor has it there's a folder called 'Ark' in program files > show hidden folders > secret, containing some risqué videos.[1][2] [1] This is Lee Jia's second Ark. The first one supposedly got wiped out entirely by a virus (...) [2] After the first Ark blew up, a despairing Lee Jia developed a habit of backing it up to online cloud storage. "Wh-what the hell is this trivia, and who wrote it?!"
This was my secret that I hadn't told a soul, so how could they just plaster it in the trivia section like that?
Of course, I don't think anyone else can read this wiki...
But seeing it written out like this still makes me feel embarrassed for no reason.
Anyway, as expected, there was info on the [Omnia Streaming Program] too.
This streaming program was definitely abnormal.
Okay, fine, blocking screen captures? Whatever.
But...
Even when I took photos with my phone camera, they came out automatically blurred.
And the most shocking part?
Despite it being a program I'd never seen before in my life...
I could operate it with freakishly natural ease.
...After one unrealistic situation after another, I'm starting to just roll with it now.
Whether I end up in hell or Seoul, as long as I get there.
Let's just nail this debut broadcast.
Luckily or not, I'd been a die-hard VTuber viewer who'd switched mains countless times, so I had a rough idea of how to run a debut stream.
Your first debut broadcast is more important than any other.
What's their look like?
What's their personality?
What does their voice sound like?
What RP are they doing?
What's their unique strength?
It's no exaggeration to say the debut broadcast defines that VTuber's entire identity.
If you fail to hook viewers on your debut—especially as an indie VTuber without corporate IP power—bouncing back is brutally tough. That's the harsh reality.
So...
What's my hook gonna be?
For indie VTuber [Ayase Mitsuko], her ditzy charm is the selling point.
She sings like crap.
Games like crap.
Hell, she clams up during collabs with other streamers.
You could argue she has zero talent as a streamer, but...
Once it crosses the uncanny valley into full-on delight mountain, it works.
I didn't make Ayase my latest main for nothing after years of watching every VTuber under the sun.
Ayase is undeniably charming.
Compared to a heavenly VTuber like her...
I'm someone who doesn't know the first thing about charm.
Might sound too self-deprecating, but... isn't it just reality?
I never planned to debut as a VTuber in the first place.
And I wasn't even a girl.
I'm only doing this debut out of fear of blasphemy's price.
The more I think about it, the madder I get.
If there's anyone in the world as wronged as me, step up.
If there's anyone who turned into a girl after meeting some anomalous phenomenon or item—whatever that black smoke was—in their room, step up.
And I didn't even do anything wrong.
"..."
Whatever.
Lamenting my fate won't change a damn thing.
Right now, I need to focus on how to pull off this debut broadcast.
I slowly reread my entry—Lee Jia (VTuber)—from top to bottom once more.
For starters...
Purely on RP alone, it's pretty uniq—
"Urghhh."
My head got heavy again.
Not RP—setting!
No, not setting—fact!
On the 'facts' alone, yeah, it's definitely unique.
An Archivist dispatched from a massive archive called the 'Omnia Archive' to pursue knowledge.
Sounds kinda cool, right?
And the race isn't your standard demon or angel—it's 'Fervent Devotee of Reflecting Myriad Stars.'
However...
Unique doesn't always mean positive.
They call it over-the-top RP.
VTuber fans are generally forgiving of RP, but even they have their limits.
If the RP is too extreme for even them to swallow, you'll get ignored.
Hell, plenty of VTubers have vanished without a trace after setting overly intense RP.
Why am I thinking this?
Because the RP—no, facts—in Lee Jia (VTuber)'s entry...
Trend a bit too extreme for viewers to accept.
The race name alone is comedy gold.
How's your race called 'Fervent Devotee'?
Bottom line: I'll have to cover for the excess with other charms.
Sadly...
I don't have any standout charms.
Can't sing.
Not sociable.
Average at games.
If I go like this, I'm bound to flop hard from the debut onward.
I'm anxious.
Botch the debut, and I'll pay blasphemy's price again—terrifying.
It treats my mere imaginings as sacrilege; imagine actually flopping the stream.
Few viewers? That'd tarnish Reflecting Myriad Stars' name and bring divine punishment.
According to the wiki, there wasn't a viewer threshold condition or anything...
But I can't overlook the last line of [Archivist's Duty].
'The Archivist's Duty updates in real time.'
Meaning duties can change anytime.
Who knows...
'Debut 100-day anniversary: Achieve 2000+ viewers while praising Reflecting Myriad Stars.'
I might get hit with something like that later.
Like it or not, from now on, I'll live a life where I have to stream at least once a day forever.
First button needs to be sewn on perfect.
As I pondered how to steer the debut broadcast...
The cam I ordered arrived.
I set up the cam, linked the tracking, and tested moving the prepped Live2D avatar.
"Whoa."
And just like that, words failed me.
No way...
Is this really the Latude I knew?
The disconnect was so natural it felt off.
Never mind the rigging quality that blows corporate VTubers out of the water...
The frame... it moves like it's alive.
How detailed was the avatar? Every single strand of hair was rigged.
Moving my Latude avatar on screen was weirdly addictive, so...
For the next half hour or so, I spent it shaking my head and messing around solo.
No, come on.
I'm not some narcissistic perv.
Honestly, my Latude avatar? Stunningly beautiful by any measure.
Her charm practically explodes off the screen.
A smile crept onto my lips naturally.
Yeah, okay.
I'm not grinning like a creep at my reflection in the mirror.
I'm smiling at the VTuber named 'Lee Jia.'
After fooling around with the avatar for a good while...
I snapped to with an hour till debut.
This...
With rigging this good... I might not even need to try hard...?
As someone who'd watched countless VTuber streams, I knew instantly how insane this rigging was.
No, insane doesn't cut it—it's realistically impossible.
What kind of psycho pervert rigs every single hair strand?
Thud!
Thud!
Thud!
"Kyahhhh..."
My head got heavy again.
Reflecting Myriad Stars rigged it personally, huh.
Take back the psycho pervert bit.
Sorry.
My bad.
Thank you.
I didn't know.
...I really didn't.