Chapter 1
Chapter 1
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Translator: penny
Chapter: 1
Chapter Title: Tower-Climbing Fox God VTuber
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2014.
Gigantic towers appeared all across Earth.
The glowing tower visible beyond the window looked like a bastion heralding the world's demise.
Humanity awakened simultaneously, instantly grasping the towers' significance.
And what would happen if the towers collapsed.
They even realized how humanity could avoid extinction.
The world—no, some unknown entities beyond their knowledge—designated the awakened as 【Climbers】.
No better name existed for those ascending the towers.
Those chosen by the world to climb could gain honor and wealth, along with the duties and responsibilities that came with it.
Of course, with towers suddenly appearing and superhumans sprouting up like mushrooms, governments focused less on the towers and more on quelling public anxiety and controlling the potentially problematic climbers.
As members of society, they initially voiced complaints but complied. Once it became clear that resources from the towers could revolutionize civilization, some places improved climbers' rights and treatment. But elsewhere, they were brutally overworked, fed distorted information through media to the non-awakened masses, and suppressed.
They were even barred from overseas travel, and some were imprisoned despite being from other countries.
──And so, two years after the towers emerged.
Not having chosen to become climbers themselves, treated miserably, unable to endure the backlash from mistakes, many fled. Treated like soldiers, some deserted like AWOL troops; others abandoned families to escape to foreign contacts promising better treatment.
The result was Seoul's collapse.
Without regular clears and updates, a tower's collapse rate rose until it crumbled, unleashing its contents to shatter humanity's centuries of civilization—cities—in an instant. It was a catastrophe beyond natural disasters, an apocalypse.
Seoul's importance in Korea was immense; its fall equated to the nation's destruction in that era. All remaining climbers in Korea were ordered to maintain it, even at the cost of their lives. From emergency martial law to forced confinement and threats, the climbers' pent-up rage finally exploded.
Public resentment turned not to the climbers, but to the higher-ups who refused to improve their treatment. With no time to contain it, Seoul's collapse erased much alongside it. Climbers safe in the provinces, supported by a politician advocating for their welfare and tax exemptions, established the Tower Response Association.
Incheon became the second capital, countless cities worldwide collapsed, and eight years passed since humanity's golden age dawned in a different sense from tower resources.
In 2024, the towers still stood. No one knew who selected them, but a select few among humanity continued awakening, tackling the towers and the disasters from collapsed ones to survive.
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"This is my sex! This is sex! You crazy bastards!"
-Roomie, calm down.
-Why does this psycho only watch stock charts when she goes live?
-Newton didn't know shit about stocks, but this chick nails it.
-Thanks to her, I made bank, roomie!
-Tell the retail suckers to fuck off!!
In one corner of the stream, a beauty with black hair, fox ears, closed eyes, and prominent shark teeth stood out. Her face didn't match her crude speech or cute voice as she excitedly yelled at the skyrocketing stock chart.
"I don't need Viagra, see? Look how rock-hard it is! Now you get why I don't take your chump change? Watch and learn!! No flat-headed believers who didn't buy the dip?!"
-LOL;; Thought it was tanking this time.
-Of course we bought the dip. We're not idiots.
-No one else streams without taking donations.
-Dopamine-for-brains bitch.....
She launched into a rant about Bitcoin being dead, swearing her picks would lead the bull run. Claiming divine inspiration, she went all-in, chased tops with full margin, bought Dogecoin, screamed "To Mars!!"—and wildly shook her head side to side mid-stream, the "Clipper."
"Big win today too. Make clips?"
-No, fuck, with that energy, time for ranked climbs—not more clips?
-Why clip with that insane talent instead of streaming?
-What noob did you find this time.....
-Roomie seriously eats and only watches VTubers? Every time you update the list, it's more unknowns.
"The era is the great VTuber age!! Ridiculous to think I'm holed up clipping streams? This is my passion! My life!"
-Next-level otaku;
-We can't defend this.
-2K videos on your channel, zero of your own—pure madness.
-Wanna know every VTuber? Sub to this dude.
The 2D character on screen had a schedule crammed with stream dates and events... but the tiny text—needing magnification—listed other VTubers' schedules and viewer participation events they called "si-cham."
Fitting for a clipper whose job was editing and uploading clips from streams (with permission), but his was extreme. In Korea, he was infamous as a VTuber-obsessed lunatic wasting his life.
A hyena hunting minor leaguers debuting as god-tier VTubers, dumping stock and crypto gains into donations... that was him.
His love for VTubers was excessive.
Born male, unable to become his ideal VTuber, he clipped their streams like a life's work.
Click clack.
Firing up editing software for his oshi's 8-hour video, notepad open with checked timestamps—viewers tongue-tied at the madness but stuck around, chatting among themselves.
Streaming for five years, but irregularly. His VTuber character was just a slapped-together concept for joining VTuber content.
A fox god freed from ancient seals to VTubing in modern times—short lore.
【Wakamo Inarizushi】, a clipper more famous than the VTuber with ~200 peak viewers and 70K subs, algorithm darling.
Calling viewers "believers" fitting his god gimmick, infamous as a "vermifem" (male using female avatar)—truly unpopular in one sense, meme-famous in communities as "is that guy her?" in another.
"Seriously, this is talent. How would I live without my oshi VTubing?"
-You're here for her zombie/ghost freakouts while scared shitless yourself—that's the talent.
-Roomie jumps at creepy BGM, yet subbed a 7-hour horror collab for 12 people—that's talent.
-LMAO fr
-Screams like a girl when ghosts pop, but giggles through oshi's horror—psycho shit.
"Anyway, believers, good work. My new VTuber find's in a duel tourney—see ya there."
-Fuck, psycho, there's like a million duel tourneys.
-Tell us the newbie before you go, you maniac.
-List added 40 VTubers; 27 doing duels.
"Huh? Obviously hitting all 27?"
-LMAOOOO deadㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-Are you insane? Actually lost it?
-Ranked climb now or stuck in Bronze!!!
-Fuck, streaming 27 at once to clip? Gonna lose my mind!!!
Amid believers' desperate screams, the on-screen character raised a wine glass, flashing a lecherous smile, cackling "Kyahaha~" before saying she's off to streams and ending broadcast. Fan cafe exploded with rampaging believers, but her my-way style ignored donations, streaming only when she felt like it.
She saw herself as a clipper; the character just a participation gimmick.
Not disparaging other VTubers' concepts, of course.
To him, VTubing was as grueling as a bloodless asura path!!
Controlling masses of viewers, churning daily content, solo-chatting at screens!! Unimaginably tough. Streamers struggled, but VTubers faced even harsher conditions.
Thus, as a clipper, he promoted hidden talents, advertised them. Clipping was practically his job, funding his romantic otaku life with real money from stocks/crypto.
He queued a sleeping VTuber ASMR, hit the bed, alarms set for surprise/unarchived streams, checked his no-monetization channel with 2K+ videos, and closed his eyes.
The clipper awoke in bed.
Realizing he had become his created VTuber.
"Whoa~ fucked. Or is this the good kind of fucked...?"
Height 243cm, weight 211kg.
The fox god turning 1,000 this year.
He'd heard the urban legend of famous clippers becoming VTubers, but not like this.