Chapter 6
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Translator: MadScientist
Chapter: 6
Chapter Title: Purging the Scum
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The day after her day off... which is today, Lulu's weekly broadcast schedule went up.
Looking at Lulu's schedule for the week, she's playing the currently trending mobile game Margo Company on Friday night, and on Saturday, she'll be doing her occasional Battle of Legends.
On Sunday, it's a solo-play game, Monday is another day off, and Tuesday through Wednesday, she'll be collabing with one of the other Sweet Nightmare streamers.
It didn't specify who that streamer is, but that's not the important part.
The key thing is that Lulu's playing Margo Company.
Margo Company is a subculture mobile game made by a Korean game company, but what's special is that it has a completely different direction from other subculture mobile games.
Typically, subculture mobile games revolve around gacha as their main business model.
You have to pump around 100,000 won—straight cash—into pulling a single character, and that's the core of it. But this game is a bit different.
This one still has gacha as its main business model, and you can spend cash to pull characters.
However, if you buy the battle pass and then grind hard in-game, you can snag those characters for free.
It's not totally free since you paid for the pass, but if you think of it as shelling out about 10,000 won every half-year or so, isn't that insanely cheap?
And a game with such an affordable model boasts story quality that's top-tier among all subculture games.
Thanks to that, word spread through whispers, and before long, it became one of the go-to subculture mobile games for streamers.
I'd figured Lulu would get around to Margo Company eventually, and now it's actually happening.
The problem is...
"I wonder if Lulu will be okay...?"
New streamers who start Margo Company always go through hell.
Not hell in terms of the game itself, but hell on stream.
What kind of hell?
Margo Company is rated for adults only, but honestly, in this day and age, how many teens can't bypass that rating if they really want to?
If they're determined, that adult verification wall is nothing.
But Margo Company is structured—world-building, story, business model, everything—in a way that minors can't help but go nuts over.
That's why it's overrun with so-called "Margo creeps," the kind of fans everyone hates.
These creeps have a few common traits: they'll watch videos or fan content totally unrelated to Margo Company and scream, "Whoa! That's from Margo Company!" Or they'll hop into a new streamer's broadcast, pretend to speculate while dropping spoilers, throw tantrums, or just clique up among themselves.
Basically, they pick the absolute worst behaviors that ruin streams.
I know Mei, who played it first, suffered through those creeps all the way to the story vanguard while grinding her teeth.
Aris saw that, played it separately, and brought it to her own stream to catch up as a vanguard too.
The creeps will definitely show up in Lulu's stream too. She's a solid mid-tier VTuber pulling 400-500 viewers per broadcast—why wouldn't they crash it and stir up trouble?
How will Lulu handle them?
My guess is she'll just ignore the creeps. I remember her leaving viewer chats up on screen and saying, "This is part of the stream too~"
Plus, Lulu's the type with a super forgiving mindset—she lets almost anything slide unless it's really bad. She even spared all those viewers who recognized and chatted me up when I was donating before.
The girl's concept is succubus demon, but her actions? Pure soft-hearted angel. You can see her holding back even with her playful jabs. That gap moe just makes her cuter.
Anyway, that's why I'm even more worried. That they'll ruin tonight's stream.
But I had no idea. How resolute Lulu really is. How much she cares about her streams.
Today's broadcast started off with a heavier vibe than usual.
And her opening line today?
"Lulu Squad, today I'm going zero tolerance."
"If you spoil the game, throw tantrums, post speculative comments, clique up, or do anything that harms the stream, I'll ban you—no mercy. Even if you're regulars. And I'll be turning off dono voices today too."
"Some of it's unavoidable with the game—please understand. I'm really sorry, and thank you."
I hadn't expected her to come out this strong, but damn, it's a good thing.
Go ahead, try stirring shit—you'll see Lulu's banhammer drop.
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Lulu's Margo Company stream began.
As she hit the tutorial after the opening story, sure enough, our troll creeps piled in.
Whoa! You're doing Margo Company!
Right out the gate with a super cliché line, but no ban yet. She's still giving some leeway.
Huh, what's that ring thing?
And right after, someone drops a speculative comment. Judging by the username, it's a first-timer—but has to be a creep.
Only creeps post that kind of babyish speculation.
Naturally, that viewer got banned from the stream instantly. True zero tolerance—Lulu had turned into a genuine tyrant.
Since it wasn't her who'd been banned, and she clearly knew that chat was a stream-ruining creep, she just kept streaming without a hitch.
"Hmm~ The combat system's definitely unique. Let's keep going."
Even seeing someone get banned, she presses on—that's a pro streamer for you.
Not sparing those trolls a single glance. That's the pro way.
Lulu kept streaming casually, oblivious to their comrade's fate as the creeps ignored the warning message and kept dropping speculation or outright spoilers.
One even went, "Huh? Isn't that ㅇㅇ?" trying to clique up naturally.
And of course, they all died. No one survived Lulu's stream today.
Today's Lulu wasn't the sweet, kind neighborhood airhead succubus we knew. She was the executioner Lulu, purging anything that caught her eye—no matter who.
And honestly? It felt good. Might sound weird, but it's an adults-only game, and hey, I'm playing it too.
That's why I hate the creeps even more. If underage kids are gonna play an adults-only game, just do it quietly. Quietly, without ruining streams—chat elsewhere decent, and other viewers would appreciate it.
Why broadcast their lack of manners and personality?
So yeah, it makes me root harder for Lulu and her manager.
Slice 'em up more. Wipe 'em out.
Side note: nothing worth clipping from today's stream.
For Lulu's image, clipping her mass-banning viewers wouldn't help, and the parts she's playing aren't that exciting anyway.
There’s no way she’d tear up over some emotional moment or anything.
"...No good clips today. Maybe one at best."
Yeah, one at best.
And what was it?
About two hours later, Lulu finally reached the part with that one clip-worthy moment I'd been thinking of.
"...Huh? No, wait...?"
The ally who'd been helping her nonstop in the game just died. Right in front of Lulu's eyes.
Her dazed, dopey voice in that scene? That was the one salvageable bit today.
After that, Lulu finished the first story arc of Margo Company, and I heard her end-stream spiel.
"Phew... Thanks so much for watching today, everyone. I wasn't as upbeat as usual—it gets a bit dark? You all know... right? Haha... But I tried my best to make it fun, so please watch kindly."
"That's it for Lulu~ Lulu-bye-bye! See you in your dreams tonight~ My sacrifices~"
Her slightly longer-than-usual farewell carried it: Lulu wasn't satisfied with today's stream.
And that rubbed me the wrong way. The heavy vibe wasn't her fault at all.
So for that deflated Lulu, I decided to put in extra effort today.
Edit her stream as best I can, squeeze out whatever fun clips I could.
Lucky it's the weekend tomorrow, so I can grind on editing.
Pull an all-nighter tonight. For Lulu.
By the by, Lulu's creep-purging stream got mentioned on the forums—as the "Succubus Crushing the Margo Creeps."
Thanks to that, I even made a legit purge clip. See? Public sentiment matters. Even zero-tolerance bans turn into satisfaction when it's righteous.