Chapter 124
Chapter 124
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Translator: penny
Chapter: 124
Chapter Title: Spilling the Tea on Meeting Verdi-chan!
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After getting home and texting the members and Rine-chan that I'd arrived safely.
I did a quick cleanup around the house and waited for my stream time to roll around.
The thought of telling the Cherries all about what happened with the Prism Company members had me buzzing with excitement already.
"Hey everyone! Long time no see, Cherries."
I flipped on the stream and greeted the Cherries with my usual energy.
They welcomed me back even more enthusiastically than normal, hitting me with full blast.
It'd only been a day, but maybe the Cherries missed me that much.
Hehe, great minds think alike.
Truth be told, I'd missed them too.
"Hehe, sorry about that. You must've been super bored, right? But I've got tons of fun stories today, so forgive me just this once?"
Yeah, the Cherries are always so sweet, no matter what.
They always understand my situation.
"So anyway, as you all know, I went to meet up with Verdi-chan this time! We ate yummy food together, hit up a café, and had a blast!"
No way, what are you guys blowing this one outing out of proportion for!
Sure, I'm mostly a homebody!
And yeah, I was super nervous before meeting Verdi-chan!
But I don't think it warranted this much worry...!
"Verdi-chan? Well... she totally gave off mischievous prankster vibes!"
Totally, she's exactly like that.
If the Cherries or Verdi-chan's fans had seen it, they would've been shocked.
She was just like the Verdi-chan from her streams.
If anything, she seemed even more prankish in person.
"So I was standing by the roadside waiting for her, right? Then out of nowhere, someone goes, 'Ruru, right?'"
"Right?! I was so shocked! My mind went totally blank."
I can't even describe how I felt when I first heard those words.
It was that shocking.
My brain just froze, and my only instinct was to shake my head no.
"So I instinctively blurted out, 'I don't know any VTuber like that? Never met her.' But then I realized how dumb that sounded. You can't just say that...!"
I knew that! I don't need you pointing it out!
I felt so stupid after saying it...!
"Then I realized I'd been busted, my heart pounding like crazy... and the other person just starts laughing. So I turn around like 'What?' and there's this girl striking a big surprise pose! Turns out it was Verdi-chan."
Yeah, in my eyes, Verdi-chan's favorite thing is exactly that.
Like an elementary school boy's mindset.
The more she likes you, the more she wants to tease— that's her core vibe.
You can tell just from how many pranks she pulled on me in one day.
Ugh...
Even the Cherries don't tease me that relentlessly.
Thinking back, Verdi-chan might be a little hateable.
"So we linked up with Verdi-chan and headed to the restaurant Luke-unnie recommended for some food first. Here's a pic of the meal..."
I'd gotten the President's approval beforehand just in case, so I prepared a few safe pics to show.
When I shared one, the Cherries let out little gasps of admiration.
Hey, why the tears!
That's not why I showed the food!
I've been eating way more variety for a while now!
"This is Verdi-chan's pork cutlet rice set, and mine had seasoned meat over a bed of bean sprouts. It was sooo good!"
Oh, someone gets my tastes spot on.
"Right? Even when I eat meat, I always pair it with veggies. When we all go to a BBQ place with the members, I hog almost all the lettuce!"
That last sudden shot at Chae-yoon-unnie made me pause just as I was about to defend her.
Ugh, yeah.
Chae-yoon-unnie's meat obsession is a bit extreme.
We sometimes share meal pics in group chat.
Once she ate nothing but meat for three straight days.
Well, not purely meat—more meat-heavy.
Grilled pork belly at home for breakfast.
Gopchang for lunch out.
Took out beef for dinner.
The President even joked later, "She's probably eaten more meat than rice in her life."
"B-but if I make wraps for her, Lilith-unnie eats them right up. She doesn't hate veggies."
No way. That's not it.
Our Chae-yoon-unnie eats veggies now too!
Don't slander her!
"A-anyway! After that, Verdi-chan and I went to the Prism Company collab café. First time at a place like that—super cool. The whole world was Prism Company."
What are you all talking about!
Not like that!
We just stopped by since Verdi-chan was visiting Korea for once!
"Not like that at all! It was her first time at a Korean collab café too, so we checked it out together! No defecting talk allowed!"
Nyaargh!
Done nailed the final blow, and I let out a cat-like hiss without thinking.
Too much!
Trying to ship me off just for visiting a collab café together!
This is slander! Tyranny!
Amid the endless slander, I got mad and slid my avatar down low, peeking out just my head.
The Cherries gasped and choked on air seeing it.
"Hmph. I'm not telling you guys any more. Stream's over today."
Hmph, don't know. I don't.
Daring to ship me to Prism Company.
Not letting this slide today.
What do you take my Blue LUV loyalty for!
Hmph, now you say that?
Trying to execute me over a café visit, and now pretending to recognize my Blue LUV loyalty?
Still mad, but seeing the Cherries desperately trying to cheer me up...
Feels petty to stay sulky as an adult.
"Fine, as long as you get it."
Yeah, yeah. Gotta continue.
No matter how much they slander me, it won't shake my rock-solid heart.
Here, I'll play it cool and mature like nothing happened.
"Ahem, so anyway, we ordered cake and drinks there too. This is Verdi-chan's collab menu, the Black Magic Cake, and this is Anis-chan's Parfait. Cute, right?"
The parfait was pretty high-quality, just like Verdi-chan said.
The cake was your standard factory-made thing, nothing special.
But the parfait had chewy fruit bits inside and tons of toppings—delicious.
I'm picky about parfaits, but I approve of this one.
"Then we had a yummy dinner, took sticker pics at the claw machine spot, swapped plushies we won. This is A-chan No. 2 that Verdi-chan won for me—cute, right?"
The Cherries think it looks like me too, huh.
I thought so.
That's why I got extra attached.
"That's why when I got home earlier, I plopped A-chan No. 2 on my head for a bit. Felt just like the real A-chan."
Hehe, secret from the Cherries, but A-chan No. 2 is on my head right now.
That's why I'm using earbuds instead of headphones today.
Tried it on a whim at first.
But the stability A-chan gives is surprisingly huge.
What is it... in this moment, I feel like Ruru, not Da-jeong.
"Oh, and for dinner, I went to Verdi-chan's hotel and met the Prism Company members! Bea-chan was asleep when I got there, so we met the next morning, and we hit it off great."
Oh, stop hyping it up!
I'm not Korea's VTuber #1!
Blue LUV maknae fits better!
Bea-chan would snort at that!
"Heh, anyway, that's how I hung out with Verdi-chan and had fun before heading home. That's the story. Fun, right?"
Yeah, I hope so.
Not just VTubers—I want to meet more people, see more of the world.
Now I'm the one sharing stories with others.
For them too, even more so.
"Thanks for the 10k donation! Oh, where'd I sleep? Just shared a room with Verdi-chan...?"
Eh? W-why are you all like that?
Sharing a room with another girl isn't a big deal.
"No way. It was Verdi-chan's single room. But the bed was king-size, plenty big for two."
C-corrupted?! What are you saying!
Don't bully innocent Verdi-chan!
We just slept normally side by side!
"I-it's not what you Cherries are thinking, okay?! W-well, Verdi-chan's body wash smelled so good that I hugged her tight to sleep, but...!"
Eh? W-wait a sec.
The members were watching my stream?
And incoming? What does that mean...?!
*Ding* *Ding*
"Huh?"
As I sat there confused, a familiar alert rang in my earbuds.
It was the Discord one-on-one call notification.
Wondering what was up, I checked Discord and...
...For some reason, calls were pouring in from all the members at once.
Yeah, I don't know what went wrong, but something definitely did.