Chapter 13
Chapter 13
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Translator: MadScientist
Chapter: 13
Chapter Title: Members Over-Immerse in RP
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Panties.
It's just underwear, isn't it?
Even back when I was a guy, I never really got why some dudes got so worked up over them.
I didn't particularly want to see them, and even if I did, it wasn't a big deal.
Like, what am I supposed to do with that anyway?
Evangelion got the iron-fisted boot from the president and banned from my stream chat, but by the end of rehearsal, I lifted the ban myself.
— Evangelion Best girl Uta-chan uwaaaaaaaa If you split the members by personality, Byeol and I were the quiet types, while Evangelion and Rang were super energetic.
Among them, Rang was the physically active outdoor type, and Evangelion was the motor-mouthed chatterbox.
It even showed in the chats, which was hilarious.
Can we really make it big?
I hope we do.
It'd be amazing if we could all just have fun together.
Lost in those thoughts, I pushed open the studio door and slipped into the cramped side room.
Obviously, we'd been practicing our streams in the office studio, while the rest of the members huddled together in the side room, glued to their phones, watching the broadcast and spamming the chat.
"Uta-chan, Uta-chan, come here."
Evangelion, half-reclined and not bothering to get up, beckoning me over to her side.
"Why?"
"Sit here. Back to me."
Why's she specifying how I sit?
I sat down without questioning it, and right away, she yanked and snapped the bra strap between my shoulders over my shirt.
"That's sexual harassment."
She said it was annoying to fix if it got messed up.
"I'll lecture you on why guys are curious about panty colors and why it feels good to see them."
"Don't teach me weird stuff like that!"
The president had yelled at Evangelion for it, but she didn't seem fazed at all.
Come to think of it, I'd never seen her down or deflated.
Her positivity might be top-tier.
Evangelion sometimes referred to herself in first person as "this old man."
Like one of those classic ojisan-type beautiful girl characters in otaku circles.
Maybe it was a highly calculated concept.
Yeah, Byeol's stream rehearsal was shocking.
Evangelion's "old man" talk must be part of her concept too.
A cute girl exterior with an old man personality inside—those are popular.
But why's her character concept a nun?
Isn't that weird?
"Panties are something you almost never show unless you're family or a lover. It's forbidden, taboo, so that's where the thrill of depravity comes in and gets you excited."
"Is that so?"
Thrill of depravity, huh.
I don't really like doing bad things.
Breaking taboos isn't my thing either.
There's probably a reason they're off-limits in the first place.
That's how I generally see it.
"For reference, mine today are super sexy red."
"What?"
"Wanna see?"
"No! I'm good!"
Forget what I said about the old man thing!
This girl's definitely a nine-tailed fox demon.
"Why're you so red?"
"Because you keep telling me stuff I don't wanna know!"
"Heh heh heh. So cute, Uta-chan."
Evangelion hugged me from behind.
Her chest was so huge that the soft sensation spread wide across my back.
"Nngh."
This is what sucks about girls.
They just glomp each other all the time.
If guys did that, they'd get called gay.
...Not that it felt bad—quite the opposite, it was amazing.
Hugs feel this good?
They hog it all among themselves—it's so unfair.
"Be my old man's bride! I love you, Uta-chan!"
Evangelion said that while petting my head.
My long straight hair bounced back easily, so unlike the others, I didn't get mad about styling getting ruined.
Am I a kid or something?
'It's her stream concept, right?'
Compared to the weird girl claiming to be 12,000 years old or the incomprehensible one insisting she's 0 years old...
This "heh heh heh old man" thing was pretty tame.
But Akari on stream with Byeol felt like a totally different person from real life.
Primary concept in reality, secondary on stream?
The vtuber world is too deep and complicated.
"If you're gonna pet her, count me in!"
With that shout, Wang Rang leaped into my arms.
Rang in my arms, which were already in Evangelion's arms.
Isn't this too heavy for Evangelion?
"The weight of two beautiful girls! Bliss!"
Heh heh heh, the old man was thrilled.
And then Byeol plopped right on top of Rang.
'This is like a hamburger stack.'
Byeol's super light, and Rang isn't that big, but two people made it a bit much.
And with me—pretty heavy for a girl—piled on, Evangelion was bearing three people's weight?
"Heh heh heh, drown in beautiful girls."
She was grinning and muttering weird nonsense.
As long as she's happy, I guess.
'People are so warm.'
Realistically, not every orphanage worker can treat kids like their own.
If you weren't abused, that's lucky enough.
Society still uses "your mom's dead" or "you're an orphan" as the worst insults.
I just didn't have a mom—was that my fault?
"Why are you crying? Am I too heavy? Does it hurt?"
I started tearing up, and Rang jolted in surprise, standing up with Byeol still in her arms.
She's strong. Such a bundle of energy.
"No, it's just..."
This was a really hard scene to explain.
It'd been two months since we met, but I still hadn't told the members I was an orphan.
No opportunity came up.
Nobody ever talked about parents, so it never came up naturally.
Can't just go, "Hey everyone, major announcement!"
And even now, I couldn't say I was crying from craving human warmth and overwhelming emotion.
Too embarrassing.
"Maybe the beautiful girl concentration is so high it's causing a happiness overload explosion?"
Evangelion said that and squeezed her arms around me tighter.
If I'd had a mom, wouldn't she have comforted a whiny kid like this? The tears I'd been holding back poured out even more.
Heh heh old man with mom vibes too—nun, otherworlder, overkill on concepts.
"That's nice, yeah."
Suddenly, I became the weirdo who cried from happiness surrounded by beautiful girls.
But that's less embarrassing than admitting it was the warmth.
We'll go with that.
◇◇◇◆◇◇◇ Evangelion's rehearsal turn.
I worried she'd drag us into another endless pervy talk or weird fetish debate, but she brought a proper, by-the-book game.
A third-person action RPG adventuring in a fantasy world totally unlike Earth.
The exact kind of game that pops into your head when you hear "game."
And soon, her stream banter kicked off.
💬 Comments "Seeing this troll takes me back to the first time I fought one in the other world."
— Viewer ? — Viewer Aren't you a nun tho Evangelion's concept was a nun from another world, but why's a nun hunting trolls all of a sudden?
"Nuns aren't required to just pray, right? You can prove your faith with a mace too. As you all know, trolls regenerate—even if their flesh gets gouged out, fresh meat sprouts right back up. It's fascinating, but so damn annoying."
Her words flowed smoothly as she bulldozed through the game.
She didn't seem like a nun at all—more like a hero.
Of course, clutching a gamepad made her look like a shut-in hero.
"But with my brilliant brain, I figured it out. If troll regen is infinite, why aren't they ruling the world? It can't be truly infinite. Just keep hitting, hitting, hitting, and eventually it'll die, right? So, hit it till it drops!"
Evangelion cleared monsters so easily I wondered if the game was always this simple.
But when I binged other vtubers' videos for "research," they struggled hard with it.
Different difficulty setting maybe?
— ByeolAlt1 Bri?lliant — ByeolAlt2 Nun sis pump those INT stats — ByeolAlt3 How's this a nun? Straight warrior lol — ByeolAlt4 If she heals it'll just drain to 0 HP right? For the record, all four of those chats were from Byeol.
Each on a different ID.
When did she make those throwaways?
This girl's a little scary.
"I heal great, don't slander me. Anyway, after I beat the troll to death! That's when the mage tower finally sends backup! Troll blood's regen can be stopped with troll poison, which evolved so trolls could fight each other without endless stalemates. But to get troll poison, you gotta kill a troll first? Total contradiction. So the mage tower was researching cloning their rare troll poison stock, barely succeeded in mass-producing it, and by the time they arrived, I'd already smashed all the trolls. Mage tower guys are useless, totally useless!"
What was that? All that unnecessary detail.
Does she daydream a lot?
Aspiring novelist maybe?
Copied from some game lore?
But going that hard on a troll, just a common RPG mob?
Evangelion's still a mystery in so many ways.
'She's good at streaming.'
Anyway, her broadcast was a treat.
Skill at blasting through the game, endless chatter without a pause.
Perfect for radio listeners or full visual watchers alike.
If she can keep yapping like that daily, she might be a streaming genius.
"Oh, this NPC's panties are showing. Texture glitch. Heh heh heh..."
Ugh, old man.