Eris Catastrophe (Live)

“Uh… uh? Uhhhhhh…”

Eris, a member of the corporate VTuber group Harmony.

Red hair, adorable cat ears, signature fangs, and just the right amount of volume visible above her maid outfit.

Her avatar currently had her eyes wide open, unable to hide her panic.

How… how did it end up like this?

It all started with her decision to enter the Legend Fighter rookie tournament happening in a few days. Since several streamers she was close with were also competing, Eris wanted to win at all costs to protect her pride.

But her gaming skills were universally acknowledged as trash. Her level was so bad she lost to bots, never mind online matches. Viewers were constantly screaming at her to find a teacher first.

Then today, this post went up in the Harmony fan cafe.

Oh…

Eris's eyes sparkled after reading the cafe post.

A reclusive expert who was famous in the community right now. A rare female fighting game streamer in the internet broadcast scene (gender unknown). And on top of that, a former manager of Eris's Log Gallery.

Is this streaming material…?

It looked fun no matter how you sliced it. Both as broadcast content and as potential NewTube material.

She also wanted to meet her at least once, even if only online. A fan who had quietly carried the log for her since her small days. Now that fan was suddenly streaming? It made her even more curious.

After seeing the post, Eris immediately went to Myeong's stream the next day. Her goal was obviously to ask for Lepa coaching.

But…

“……”

Her breath caught in her throat. The moment she entered, what greeted Eris was what viewers commonly called a bad site.

She already knew this person was the manager of that site, but she never dreamed they would have it displayed so openly on stream.

Of course, Myeong seemed completely unbothered as she kept the site up and was busy joking around with her viewers.

“Uuuuuuuu…”

Checking the chat, it was indeed flooded with whoas. Eris herself seemed at a loss for words and couldn't open her mouth easily.

“Hyat!”

The moment the cuckoo donation saying Eris was raiding her stream flew in, Eris finally snapped back to her senses.

What… what am I doing…

Just silently watching without saying anything would be bad manners. Her presence was already drawing aggro, and Myeong's viewer count kept climbing because of it.

Eris forced a bright smile and tried to salvage the situation.

“A-ahahaha! This person is the manager of that site, right? It looks like they're working really hard on it right now… Yep! I'll ask through donation if they'll be your coach!”

“……”

A proposal had come her way. Since a proposal had arrived, she should look at it and answer, but the words wouldn't come out easily.

Of course they wouldn't. This was dizzying. Extremely, extremely dizzying!

Wait, was this for real?

Why had Eris come to her stream?

And what was this about Lepa coaching!?

O-okay, calm down first. There was no such thing as an impossible situation in this world.

The reason Eris had suddenly visited her room. Yeah, let's slowly reason that out first.

If the topic of Lepa coaching had come up, she had probably heard the rumors about the arcade incident and come looking.

That seemed the most likely. It wasn't something to brag about, but that incident had become quite the hot topic and spread all over the communities. It definitely would have reached Eris's ears.

Heh, reasoning complete. To think she could calmly figure out the reason even in this dizzying situation.

Was she a genius?

Huhuhuhuhuhu…

…As if.

Why did she have to come in right when I was looking at the gallery…?

And she even had the gallery proudly displayed on her broadcast screen right now!

This was embarrassing. It was way too embarrassing to show her former favorite this side of her!

Her first meeting with the oshi she had once devoted her entire life to was the absolute worst.

-END-

“Agh, shut up! I'm already dizzy enough!”

“N-no, I wasn't saying it to Eris-nim… ugh!”

Agh agh agh agh!

These guys were just pouring oil on a burning house. It was fun to watch from the sidelines, right? This was seriously, seriously pissing her off.

Still, she had to respond to the donation. She couldn't just keep ignoring it.

“Hello, Eris-nim. Thank you so, so much for the ten thousand won. But… coaching? Me?”

Me?

Why me?

She asked back in that sort of tone.

To be honest, she was curious. No matter how good she was at Lepa, she was still a small streamer. So why come to her instead of the much bigger streamers? That was the question.

Eris answered her question that way. She could have just typed in chat, but she deliberately used a donation. And ten thousand won twice, at that.

Was this prepayment so she couldn't refuse?

This girl. She seemed to have become quite the high-level player in the short time they hadn't seen each other.

Anyway.

“…Fan cafe? I don't remember running a fan cafe… hmm.”

“Ah.”

Only after seeing the chat did she understand. So that's what she had been talking about. She was referring to Eris's Log Gallery.

In other words, the old Hamu Gallery. It had originally been created to support Eris back when she was a small streamer, but now it had changed into a gallery that lifted logs for other small VTubers besides Eris.

So she had found out that she used to be the manager of Eris's Log Gallery.

If this had been the old days, she probably would have been incredibly happy. After all, her oshi VTuber had come to her directly to express gratitude. As a fan, there was no greater honor.

Of course, it wasn't to that extent now… but still.

“Ah~ I see. It really is fate! I really liked and watched Eris-nim's streams a lot too… haha. If I'm going to help, what time should I come by?”

Any time was fine. It was truly a response only Eris could give.

As far as she knew, Eris was one of the most diligent VTubers on Jijijik.

She streamed every single day except when sick, and her average broadcast time exceeded twelve hours. That effort was exactly why she had become a fan.

“Eris-nim, thank you again for the ten thousand won. It's delicious but you really don't have to keep sending them… hehe. Anyway, I'll help. I don't know if I'll actually be useful though.”

She decided to accept the proposal. She had received quite a lot of money, and refusing now would be the most ungrateful thing she could do.

Putting that aside, Eris was the VTuber she had loved the most. Considering all the affection from back then, she thought it was right to help at least once.

“Yep, yep. Understood. Ah, you really don't have to keep sending ten thousand won~ puhehehe.”

“What's with the Bugi joke? You buy it. Hehehehe.”

Her mouth corners kept rising at Eris's donations.

She had no idea how much she was going to earn today. It was probably going to be really sweet when she checked the settlement after the stream… hehe.

While she was making that happy smile—

“……”

A very sharp donation had arrived.

Hey, hey.

This kind of possessiveness is troubling…

-----(Illustration below!)-----

Eris's avatar. Something like this image, ahem ahem.