A Long-Awaited Reunion
Park Bong-sik's first broadcast in Rena World.
This was truly, truly, truly important.
Important enough that even five full stars wouldn't do it justice.
Huh? Big-name streamers had moved in before, so why the overreaction?
There was always a reason for an evaluation like that.
As I'd mentioned before, Kim Hak-do and Park Bong-sik took completely different paths in the future.
Kim Hak-do treated Minecraft like a side season.
But Park Bong-sik, along with Wang-ko, planted deep roots in Rena World.
His playtime was long, and he approached it seriously, which planted real immersion in his fans—and that immersion spilled over as a waterfall of support onto the virtual streamers who played with him.
Huh? Making a fuss over mere spillover?
Once you saw the actual numbers, no one would dare say that again.
In Park Bong-sik's Mu-yang Group (Company), Ami-chan—who received the most spillover—pulled in over 2.4 million Candies across half a year of Rena World.
Add in the Candies from duel missions that the Candy calculator sites didn't even track, and it approached three million.
Do the math yourself.
Apply the Best Streamer exchange rate of 70 percent.
You'd still have to factor in comprehensive income tax separately, but just looking at the face value, it was over two hundred million won.
Two hundred million in half a year.
You could write it off as Ami-chan's special case, but if you averaged it across all twelve virtuals in the Mu-yang Group, the figure came out to three hundred thousand Candies per month.
Roughly twenty million won a month for the whole roster.
When you realized that most of them had been bottom-tier virtual streamers scraping by on two million won a month, the shock only got bigger.
Insane spillover beyond imagination.
No one who saw those numbers would ever say "just that?"
And the really important part is that Park Bong-sik kept playing a ton of Minecraft servers all the way through 2025.
After Rena World, Minecraft on Pangea TV became treated as practically one and the same with virtual streaming.
That meant Park Bong-sik wasn't just a big-name streamer who stopped at Rena World—he was a corporate-level streamer who kept exerting massive influence on the virtual scene long after.
Completely different scale of influence from Kim Hak-do, who stuck around the LoL scene afterward. Lethal Company never really got that much spillover for a company with a big-name streamer in it.
It couldn't compare to the runaway Potato Company whose boss had bailed, but given Kim Hak-do's weight class, Lethal Company's underperformance was real.
Having three Decrescendo members probably made it feel like they carried it on individual skill.
The virtual crowd flocked hard in that direction, after all.
And even setting money aside, the influence was enormous. Thirty thousand viewers was baseline, and on special content days he easily hit forty or fifty thousand.
It meant continuous exposure to that many viewers over a long stretch of half a year.
That was why the Mu-yang Group virtuals gained such massive name recognition through Rena World!
And the practical effects were huge too.
As people kept encountering virtuals, more and more fans peeled off from human streamers and switched over to virtual ones.
The boom of the Pangea TV virtual scene.
There were reasons people said Rena World had saved the virtual scene.
Honestly, even setting all that aside, just looking at his weight class was insane.
While other big-name streamers usually hovered between ten and twenty thousand viewers, Park Bong-sik's baseline was thirty thousand, and his peaks depending on content were even higher.
Except for relay broadcasts where massive floating viewers poured in, it was rare for Park Bong-sik to ever get "gotcha'd" in viewer count.
There was a reason he was called the King of Pangea TV.
"Nanyang, what's the key to move this thing?"
"Oh. I'll teach you one by one. Hold on."
It wasn't an official move-in—today was more of a tour—so Park Bong-sik was controlling Dananyang's Minecraft character.
Viewers had already hit forty thousand.
Dananyang's character sat inside the conference hall of Gyeonghoeru.
The interior design evoked the Joseon era.
Seated on a throne three tiers higher than the other seats, he looked every bit the majestic sovereign.
On the two rows of floor cushions stretching out below the high seat, the virtuals of Partner Company—tipped off in advance by Dananyang—had already taken their places.
She'd schemed to make sure her subordinates got some of that spillover.
The virtuals whispered among themselves about whether Park Bong-sik had logged in yet.
Taking in the interior, the seat he was sitting on, and the character itself, Park Bong-sik suddenly seemed to clock the broadcast angle and bellowed.
"How dare you! In whose presence do you raise such a clamor? Will you all not be silent?!"
Truly a big-name streamer.
In an instant the historical-drama concept locked in, and the quicker streamers dropped flat and spat out lines in period tone like "We are most humbly sorry, Your Majesty!"
The descent of the Mu-yang Grand Prince.
Dananyang had set the board perfectly.
She promoted Park Bong-sik's visit over world chat and called for any interested streamers to come find Gyeonghoeru in Hanok Village.
It was a thoroughly calculated move.
She flaunted just how close she was with Park Bong-sik while simultaneously summoning every influential streamer on the server to Gyeonghoeru, headquarters of Partner Company.
What a beautiful picture was that?
Meanwhile, the employees of Partner Company—who could be called Dananyang's direct subordinates—began their first face-to-face with Park Bong-sik.
"Pleased to meet you-is so, pleased to meet you-is so. I am Ami-chan-is so."
"…… This friend seems to need treatment. Summon the royal physician at once!"
"Calm down, Bong-sik oppa. This is what we call RP."
With Dananyang mediating, Park Bong-sik's first meeting with the Partner Company virtuals went smoothly.
Dananyang had even made her subordinates prepare talent shows for this day—full-hearted support.
Viewers reacted well, and naturally Park Bong-sik got into the spirit too.
"Wow. You virtual folks have a lot of talent. Until now I only really knew Freeca, Seo-a, and Ori-koong. Ah! And that V-topia that Seona noona's running."
"Aigoo, Bong-sik hyungnim! I've arrived."
"Huh?"
At that moment a voice suddenly burst into Gyeonghoeru, calling out with shameless cheer.
It was Oh-ha, one of the few bootlicker streamers in Rena World.
"If I may speak of how much I revere Bong-sik hyungnim……"
"The bootlicking's a bit much. Just fall back over there for now."
"Yes sir!"
As always, the streaming world was endlessly harsh on bootlickers.
Soon the chat flooded with things like "Bootlicking's a bit much." and "Yeah, bootlicking fits."
Whew! Should I be grateful that I vanished thanks to Ju-ttak-nim?
"Wait, who is this! Isn't this Apple-mong? Wow~ it's been so long."
"Captain, have you been well!"
He smoothly exchanged greetings with the connection king Apple-mong as well.
"Who's this Pikachu character? Doesn't this get hit with copyright?"
"Bong-sik oppa, that's not it. Rim-ani. She moved in on Christmas."
Rim-ani, Park Bong-sik's right hand, also asserted her presence.
Behind them, a swarm of bottom-tier virtuals lined up.
There were so many that Gyeonghoeru's conference hall was packed to the brim.
The people missing from this gathering? A handful of strays like Oh Yeong-jun, Muyo, and Park Na-na.
And the members of our V-Live Company, I suppose?
Huh? How do I know the situation this clearly when I'm not even there?
Obviously I was spying with the broadcast open on my phone.
This level of sense was basic streamer literacy.
"Then shall we take a look around the village from here? In Minecraft, half the fun is touring the buildings."
"That so? Fine. Go ahead and guide me."
Once the greetings with the crowd that had poured into Gyeonghoeru were done, Dananyang led Park Bong-sik outside.
The bottom-tier virtuals clearly wanted to swarm after them, but forced themselves to scatter so it wouldn't look too blatant.
Only Apple-mong and Rim-ani followed behind.
Dananyang was offline with him anyway, so she was out of the equation from the start.
"Bong-sik oppa, just in case—if you're actually interested in Rena World, tell me. I'll get the coronation ready in advance."
"Hm? What's that supposed to mean."
"You should be company chairman. Then I'll be the president. All our Partner Company employees are capable talent, you know? You won't find assets like these anywhere else. For real."
"No, Nanyang unnie. That's a foul. Our Tofu Company kids are sharp too, you know?"
"My goodness! No. What if they actually snap? It's a company that hasn't even been around two days."
"Stoooop!"
Park Bong-sik shouted like he was thoroughly sick of girl-talk sparring.
During the days he ran Star University, this kind of thing had been constant, so he was nearly at the level of pure aversion.
"Keep talking like that and even if I come into Rena World, I might not do it with you guys. Hm?"
"Noooo~ we were just doing a little banter for the broadcast angle. Nanyang and I are so close. Don't get the wrong idea."
"Right. Nanyang unnie and I are practically sisters."
"Tsk! Apple-mong, you guide me."
"Yes! Understood, Captain."
On this front, Apple-mong—who was less greedy for spillover—was clearly easier to talk to.
Park Bong-sik's Rena World tour began under Apple-mong's guidance.
Viewers were already climbing toward fifty thousand.
Is it my turn now?
The protagonist always appears last, after all.
It was a reunion after a long time—since the MCK.