My Answer Is...
Blueby coming out this bold from the very start had to be connected to the last conversation we'd had.
Those exchanges where I'd probed as if I already knew her past.
"Judging by how you asked if I knew the old 'you,' it seems you were already streaming before you debuted under the Blueby nickname."
"How cute. Are you trying to lead me with loaded questions right now?"
"If you think about it, aren't you doing the same thing?"
"You don't give an inch, do you?"
"You keep saying what I want to say first."
"……."
A fierce war of nerves played out as each of us tried to dig out whatever information the other was holding.
And from that short exchange just now, I could finally be certain.
Blueby was a streamer who had operated under a different nickname in the past.
"…… Fine. Alright. I won't ask about that part. Doesn't seem like I'll get a proper answer anyway. What's more important is why you're hostile toward me. Did we have some history together?"
I couldn't exactly say that I was a regressor, and that before the regression my favorite streamer had been in the same crew as her, gotten used, and then quit broadcasting.
So I deflected a little and brought up something more fundamental.
"I'm not that old, but I've had plenty of social experience. People have often told me I have a good eye for reading others."
"……."
"It was way too obvious. Your nasty intention to use people. So of course I have to be hostile. Lucy unnie is a precious talent who can take over the virtual scene on Pangea TV with me. To peel off a certain someone who keeps clinging—"
She'd know better than anyone that "a certain someone" meant her.
After all, she'd already used her connection with Lucy as an excuse to cut a deal with me and pocket the benefits.
"Lucy, a talent who can take over the virtual scene? Ahaha, what a joke. You're not seriously saying that, are you? I didn't know you had such a great sense of humor."
"……."
Ha? That actually stung a bit.
After regressing, a lot of the rose-tinted glasses had come off.
We weren't streamer and fan anymore — we were colleagues working side by side.
But even so, I could never tolerate other people putting Lucy down.
It was similar to how I felt about Korean soccer.
I can trash-talk all I want — but I can't stand foreigners doing it.
"So, did our great and mighty Blueby-nim have a fun time on the Poko Server? A twenty-four-hour war must have been quite the thrill."
"……."
I couldn't just keep taking hits one-sidedly.
I must have hit a sore spot, because silence stretched for a moment.
"It's been so long since I've had an experience like that... I'd really love to recommend it to Seo-a next time. Sincerely."
"Aww! I'm a pacifist, so war servers aren't really my thing?"
"Just because you're a pacifist, does that mean war will spare you? War has a way of dragging you in even when you don't want it. So be careful. You never know when that kind of danger might come for you."
"Ahh, I'm fine. Thanks for the concern, but I've got pretty good instincts."
"Is that so? I'm jealous. Of those instincts of yours. Speaking of which — think I could benefit from those instincts a little too?"
"Didn't I already say no earlier? Your memory must be weak."
"Hmm... I'm the persistent type."
"Then we're really oil and water."
Was that the end of the opening skirmish?
Blueby let out a deep sigh and threw out another fundamental question.
"So in the end, the problem is that it feels like I'm holding Lucy hostage to use you? You said you've done a lot of social living. In this business world, human relationships are all give and take. I'd be far more useful than Lucy, wouldn't I? And personally, I rate you very highly."
"……."
"From your debut stream — the way you used the community for aggro. And your broadcast hosting skills, handling thousands of floating viewers so smoothly — that stood out too. Ah! I watched your content as well. Good ideas. You've got strengths on the creative side too. Heh — practically a jack of all trades."
I could feel the greed she couldn't hide in her voice.
Along with the confidence she was projecting straight at me.
"You're capable, and you clearly have utility value. Ah, you didn't like that phrasing, did you? But direct words are easier to understand, right? Anyway — so you use me too. Let's help each other where we can."
"Why should I? I can do just fine on my own."
"Can you really? You don't know Pangea TV. How exclusionary this place is toward no-cam streamers. Don't tell me you seriously think virtual streamers have established themselves here?"
"……."
Blueby's words hit the mark dead-on.
I was actually a bit surprised.
I could make that judgment because I knew the future up through 2025 — but what was Blueby basing this certainty on?
Was she originally from Pangea TV? I thought she'd come over from Rabbit TV.
My head grew complicated.
Even so, Blueby's monologue kept going.
"You can carve out a corner spot like you have now, sure. But it's still the outskirts. Can a no-cam streamer ever take the mainstream on Pangea TV?"
Blueby's analysis was quite accurate.
Even in the future, virtual streamers on Pangea TV mostly stayed in supporting roles rather than the main stage.
Especially on large servers where multiple streamers gathered, that tendency was pronounced.
Virtual streamers getting dragged around by whatever the human streamers led.
"In the end, 'weight class' is everything. Build up your weight class and even a no-cam streamer can get recognized and join the mainstream. Fail to do that, and you end up as an accessory."
"……."
Blueby's statement precisely cut through the streaming environment of Pangea TV.
Ultimately, a streamer's "weight class" was the universal key that solved every problem.
But for a no-cam streamer to build weight class on Pangea TV was an incredibly difficult task.
History proved it.
In fact, before I regressed — until Rabbit TV Korea shut down its service and the weight-class monster virtuals flooded in — not a single streamer on Pangea TV's virtual scene had achieved four-digit average viewers.
"You clearly have talent. But Pangea TV is a graveyard for no-cam streamers. You think the Dullahan streamers mass-migrated to Rabbit TV for no reason? Every phenomenon has its cause. Of course, virtual streamer transfers have been increasing lately. But will that trend flip overnight?"
Pangea TV's long history and tradition of rejecting no-cam streamers.
Even by 2025, that residue wouldn't be fully erased.
That was how deeply it had taken root — the reality of it.
"So the existence of a capable 'collaborator' is essential. I've explained this much — unless you're an idiot, you should understand. Well?"
Blueby extended her hand once more.
And without hiding anything, she laid out her honest intentions.
Let's use each other and cooperate.
"It's true you're capable, but I've built things up over time too. You won't lose out by cooperating."
"……."
"And one more thing. If Lucy bothers you that much, I'll promise not to use her going forward. If that's hard to believe, we can draw up a contract. Of course that kind of thing has no legal force, but at least you could post it to the community and use it to blackmail me."
"Why go that far?"
The proposal just now clearly carried risk for Blueby as well.
Why was she being so desperate, taking this kind of gamble?
"I'm sick of it. Rolling around at the bottom."
That statement told me — already suspicious of Blueby's past — quite a lot.
Rolling around at the bottom, huh.
Moreover, Blueby seemed to know a great deal about the circumstances of no-cam streamers on Pangea TV.
"Anyway, it's your turn to decide. I've explained enough, and I think I've made a decent offer. Think carefully. In the end, for a streamer, 'weight class' is everything."
What Blueby wanted to say was simple.
Set aside personal feelings and secure practical benefits first.
Above all, use each other, cooperate, and focus on building "weight class."
Honestly, it was a tempting offer.
I'd often thought that I needed to somehow build "weight class" before the monster-tier virtual streamers from Rabbit TV came flooding in.
I'd made optimistic projections that it would be possible using future knowledge, but honestly, it wasn't something I could be a hundred percent sure about.
But if I cooperated with Blueby, that probability would go up. Her ability is that solid.
Among the virtual streamers on Pangea TV in 2025, Blueby had ranked in the top ten.
So there was no need to doubt her capability.
The problem is her character, though. Who knows when she might stab me in the back.
Various thoughts chained one after another in my head.
Times like this, I resented being a T-type.
If I went by accumulated feelings alone, the right move was to refuse without looking back.
And a moment later.
After a hard-fought deliberation, I made up my mind.
"So, my answer is..."