Lulu Appears on the Streamer Server
Lulu collabed with other streamers a fair amount. The catch was that the overwhelming majority of those other streamers belonged to Fantasy Live.
Actually, if you set Fantasy Live aside, she barely collabed with anyone else at all.
As for why… I could only guess that some company-side circumstances were mixed in.
That had been the situation. That had been Lulu.
And then Lulu finally started collabing with streamers outside of Fantasy Live as well.
Not just any collab, either—she got invited to a massive streamer server.
It all started thanks to Mei, who, despite being under Fantasy Live, freely collabed with streamers outside the agency.
"Girls~ I got invited to a streamer server~ I'll send you invites, so let's do it together~"
The truth was, before her VTuber debut, Mei had already been streaming under a different nickname—she was a veteran streamer. Anyone who knew the red pill knew who she was.
And because that career was by no means short, her network was quietly extensive, and that network was how she'd scored an invite to the streamer server this time.
That was the kind of person Mei was, so of course she decided to hand out those streamer server invites to her Fantasy Live colleagues.
"Waaah…! For real?"
"Unnie, you're the best!"
"Hehe~ This unnie put in quite a bit of work~"
"Mei unnie best best!"
"Daeeei~ Meeei~!"
Basking in Aris and Lulu's extravagant praise, Mei wore a thoroughly pleased smile.
Just as Lulu was incredibly good at changing her VTuber model's expressions, Mei and Aris had, at some point, also started switching up their models' faces. I figured they were probably benchmarking Lulu's streaming style.
Anyway, that was how Mei used her invite to bring Lulu and Aris into the streamer server…
"Hello~ I'm Aris~"
"Hello! I'm Lulu!"
"Welcome, welcome~"
…and they joined a Dig Craft streamer server built by a twelve-year veteran streamer.
This streamer server—the one made by Repu—was, at its core, a place where you just did whatever you wanted.
RPG elements were the main focus, but you didn't have to stick to RPG content. You could mine ore and become a miner, or farm crops and work as a farmer.
You could even live on a gambling floor and go completely gambling-mad, or become an explorer and carve into uncharted territory.
It was a server that offered extreme freedom, and once Aris and Lulu entered it, the two of them chose completely different playstyles.
"I'm going to go change jobs right away!"
Aris, who loved combat with a passion, declared she was classing into a combat job on the spot and headed for the training grounds.
Clearing various tutorials and quests at the training grounds let you change jobs, and Aris was probably aiming to class up fast and then level through training.
Lulu, on the other hand, immediately sank into deliberation.
"Uuuuuum… What should I do…?"
Lulu glanced sideways at the viewer chat, and the chat started tossing out all kinds of opinions.
Lulu kept reading the chat and kept thinking.
Then, all of a sudden, she opened the shop window.
"Hang on a second, everyone?"
With that, Lulu started muttering something while doing calculations.
I knew it was math because numbers kept coming out of her mouth.
"So… this is… a thousand won… and it costs about this much… net profit is…"
Hearing that, the viewers became convinced Lulu was going for a production or merchant route. So did I.
Still deliberating, Lulu scrolled through the list of participating streamers once, then asked the chat another question.
"Everyone, has anyone taken the merchant route yet? Among the other streamers, I mean."
Another streamer's name came up, but Lulu had already asked, so it didn't matter.
Lulu nodded, then immediately opened the chat window and pinged Casty.
Confirming that Lulu had called for her in chat, Casty answered right away, and Lulu headed to the central plaza to meet her.
The moment Casty spotted Lulu, she came running.
"Wow, you're that super hot streamer everyone's talking about these days, aren't you?"
"Ehehe… Hello! I'm Lulu~"
"Wow wow… I'm a fan, Lulu-nim!"
"Really? I'm a fan of Casty-nim too!"
"Kyaaaaah!"
Casty herself was one of the old guard, with more than ten years of streaming under her belt.
She used to be a so-called Dullahan streamer—just an illustration on screen—but had recently switched over to being a VTuber.
Maybe that was why. As someone who didn't have many pure-blooded VTuber connections from the start, Casty seemed wildly excited to meet Lulu, who was currently riding a sky-high stock price among VTubers.
"Lulu-nim, so why did you call for me?"
"Ah, well… I was wondering if there might be a farmer already."
"A farmer?"
"Yes, is there a farmer streamer?"
"A farmer streamer… I don't think there is one yet."
"Really? Thank you."
Lulu nodded right away as she answered, and Casty asked her a question in return.
"Um, Lulu-nim. Are you by any chance…"
"Ah, yes. I'm going to be a farmer."
"A farmer… are you sure you'll be okay?"
At Casty's question, Lulu asked back.
"Why?"
"Well, farmers… uuum… you know. It's hard to get involved with other streamers somehow."
In practice, farmers had to stay on their own fields and just farm, so there was a real sense that it was hard to get tangled up with other streamers.
That was why, even now on day two, not a single one of the nearly one hundred streamers had chosen farmer.
Lulu listened, then answered with a small smile.
"It's fine. I'm confident I can do it well."
"Is that so? Then~"
Casty let her words trail off, then suddenly dropped an item for her.
That item was none other than a sickle. Not a weapon sickle—a farming sickle.
"This is a gift! A wooden sickle would be slow at the start, so farm with this!"
"Is it really okay for me to take this?"
"Of course~! And if you sell me your crops later, I'd appreciate it."
"Thank you!"
Lulu answered with bright energy, and the moment she selected the farmer class, the admin—Repu—appeared.
"Haha~ Hello, Lulu-nim~"
"Repu-nim, hello!"
It was their first meeting, but they still managed a perfectly smooth greeting and welcomed each other.
After that, Repu cut straight to the point.
"Then, Lulu-nim, shall we go see your farmland and house?"
"Yeees~"
Under the name of a settlement package, Repu provided various items along with a plot of farmland and a house built for Lulu, who had chosen farmer.
Lulu accepted the little cabin and the fields and immediately expressed her thanks, and Repu left her with a kind word.
"It being your first streamer server might be pretty rough, but you'll get along fine with the other streamers. Everyone's nice, and they're all interested in you."
"I'm interested in the other streamers too…! I'd be grateful if people talk to me a lot…!"
"Later on they'll talk to you so much it'll get annoying~"
"I hope so. Then, good work!"
"Yep~ Hope you have a fun time on the server~"
As if proving exactly why that likable image of his had formed, Repu wrapped up his business at impressive speed and moved on to wherever he was needed…
And Lulu switched her VTuber model's face into a thoroughly sly smile.
The moment they saw that expression, the viewers knew. Lulu had clearly picked up on something weird.
Lulu was terrible at games and had abysmal luck, but the truth was she was extremely smart.
She was the kind of player who could sit across from viewers and play gomoku for hours without losing a single game—how could anyone claim she wasn't clever?
And the viewers who knew that about Lulu looked at that face of hers and thought…
It was, quite literally, a crafty and wicked expression—like she was about to wreck the balance of the entire game.
Lulu scattered the seeds she'd been given across the field as she spoke.
"Everyone, shall we do a farming talk stream today? Looks like I'll be farming all day, after all!"
With that, Lulu hummed a little tune as she farmed.
Along the way she stopped humming and broke into an actual song.
"Lulu is~ bounce bounce! Today too! Bounce bounce! Farming~ so~ haaard! Bounce! Bounce!"
It was a cute song. Bright and bubbly—and somewhere in there, a little blood-chilling.
Cute was cute, but… Lulu, when exactly are you going to drop that expression?
I'm starting to get a little scared over here…?