Chapter 76
Chapter 76
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Translator: MadScientist
Chapter: 76
Chapter Title: Legend's Director (1)
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"Then, bye-bye everyone!"
The broadcast ended, and a pleasant thrill ran up her back.
Broadcasting really is the best.
Mika, having wrapped up her late-night stream, dove straight into bed.
"Ah, today was a blast too."
Mika loved this time of night.
Turning on the stream to goof around wildly with viewers, nailing a well-prepped segment to rave reviews, then lounging in bed scrolling through community reactions.
She figured the communities would be overflowing with praise for her today too—as usual—and hopped in.
"...What?"
Surprisingly, there was nothing about Mika.
Well, there was some, but it was like beans sprouting in a drought—few and far between.
Most posts were about 'RayShojo'.
"What the hell happened that they're ignoring my absolute killer segment and dominating the communities?"
Mika slowly started reading the top posts, sorted by views and upvotes.
Her brain, top-tier among VTubers, quickly pieced together the situation.
"...Something felt off about that company's contract terms from the start."
The gist: every RayShojo VTuber had suddenly unfollowed the company, severed direct Nutube links, and scrubbed all RayShojo mentions from their profiles.
'There were hints flying around since afternoon, but ugh, I must've missed 'em prepping the stream.'
After reading it all, Mika tossed her phone aside.
RayShojo.
The number-one powerhouse in the English-speaking scene, home to her self-proclaimed rival, Sarah Iris.
They weren't particularly collaborative, but they'd monopolized the blue ocean of Western subculture—one so vast it truly deserved the name.
'People are still saying RayShojo won't collapse over this.'
As Japan's pinnacle VTuber girl, Mika was 1000% certain.
Oh, RayShojo's done for.
I mean, it was obviously a ridiculous company on sight.
RayShojo had once bragged by leaking parts of their contracts.
Ridiculously VTuber-favorable terms that defied belief.
Dream Live's execs had even debated it back then.
'Can a company like that even survive?'
The obvious answer: no.
Sure, quietly peddling merch on the cheap and scraping by would've worked, but aggressive expansion? Impossible.
"Some said maybe a bigwig like Melon Mask was backing them—how else could they avoid exploiting VTubers—but who knew it was the exploitation angle."
The world's vast, full of crazies.
Of course, she didn't think the VTubers who signed those insane terms were blameless...
"That company had to have skimmed those massive donations."
Corolon, and Corolon Plus.
The love-hate bane of every VTuber.
Thanks to it, growth stretched years longer—that much was true—but its societal fallout made blind gratitude impossible.
RayShojo VTubers had grinded three straight months raising funds for that world-shaking pandemic, only for it to be because the company was cash-strapped.
'They probably planned to pay it back someday.'
As if the world worked that way.
If it did, it'd be free lunch forever.
"Poor Sarah's image too. She hustled hardest for those donations—gonna catch the worst backlash."
Sarah Iris was a victim.
Undeniably, purely. No one could argue otherwise.
But the internet was colder, dumber, and more swayable than imaginable.
Sarah's rep would tank hard.
Malicious rumors, whispers she was in on it—she'd suffer.
"Bittersweet."
Competing with Sarah was fun; she'd never wanted to win like this.
Mika smiled wryly, waiting for Sarah's stream.
Countdown ended; Sarah's thick curses greeted her as always.
"Hello! MotherFuc**rs!"
"Still as crude as ever."
Seeing her in person had been shocking.
Expecting a tall, busty American type, but a tiny fairy showed up instead.
For that girl to spew this? World was wild.
"Everything as expected."
The stream unfolded exactly as predicted.
Not a single deviation.
This would've stalled RayShojo—and Sarah too, maybe even doomed her—for a while.
"The world's greatest collab."
Sarah's bullets pierced the masses.
Mika wasn't wrong. Sarah would've faltered, or worse, without one person.
"...What?"
Sarah and QWER's collab reveal hit; in one second flat, public opinion flipped.
Flames lost form, twisted into fireworks.
Felt familiar.
"Haa..."
Oh man, my head.
You again, QWER.
Mika clutched her head, face-planting into the pillow.
'From Myth unnie to Sarah now...?'
QWER.
The undisputed top modeler alive, inhumanly fast, a walking mid-sized firm in value—Myth unnie's boyfriend.
Dream Live's all-in mega-projects? He cranks 'em in a week on fanboy love.
The ultimate cheat code.
A living legend, miraculous in itself.
Ugh. Mika gnashed her teeth, punching the pillow.
"Unfair!!!! This is cheating! A total cheat!!!!!!"
Her roar echoed in the plush room.
"So that's the vibe."
I turned off my phone.
Even at dawn, VTuber fandoms were wide awake—summary posts were already up, lightning-fast.
How'd they compile this before the stream even ended? Incredible.
But viewers, why call me 'Legend bro' instead of QWER or Legend-nim?
Odd feeling.
"Okay! See you all next week, same time, live!"
Sarah chatted a bit more with viewers before finally ending.
"Helllllll- Ya! Haha, what a fun stream."
"Glad you had fun."
"Had to expose those bastards' sins to the world. Before this, propping up that shit company was hell."
Stream afterglow lingering? Sarah's mouth was rougher than usual.
English curses felt tame; imagining her saying it hit different—massive gap moe.
"Honestly, I was worried. Figured I'd catch some hate anyway, but chat was surprisingly chill."
"Really? Looked fiery to me."
"That's tame compared to what I expected. You know, unnie."
"True. If you'd announced the collab, it would've been inferno?"
Myth ruffled my hair.
This exposé stream? I thought simple reveal-and-done event, but riskier than I figured?
Not a pro streamer, can't read trends like these frontline pros—so I just nodded.
Now left was...
"Cut!"
I raised the megaphone and yelled.
Amid cutting-edge gear, Myth and Sarah struck poses as I shouted.
"That's not it!"
How'd it come to this?
Back to the night of Sarah's exposé stream.