She began her full-fledged activities as a VTuber during her first year of high school.
Before that, she was known only to a small group as a gaming YouTuber, but when the new culture of VTubers began to gain montum in the industry, her ship started sailing smoothly forward as if propelled by a favorable wind.
In so ways, you could say she was blessed with extraordinary luck.
In an industry where anything profitable quickly becos oversaturated, she was able to enjoy the benefits of being an early entrant in a ti when the term “Virtual YouTuber” was still unfamiliar.
Thanks to this, she now ranks among the top ten most recognized VTubers out of hundreds.
At first, she didn’t expect to beco so popular, which left her sowhat bewildered, but Ayase eventually grew accustod to having hundreds of thousands of subscribers.
She still vividly rembers the day she first received paynt for her work as a VTuber.
It was the first ti in her life she had ever handled such a large sum of money.
However, the more popular she beca, the more she started to feel a certain disillusionnt.
On the surface, she played the glamorous character of Minazuki Luna, but behind that facade was just an ordinary high school girl, Ayase Satsuki.
The thought that the popularity she was enjoying wasn’t really hers, but rather that of the character Minazuki Luna, created an unavoidable sense of disconnect.
How long will this popularity last? How long can I keep playing this character?
It was only natural that such thoughts would co to her mind.
Especially since, unlike her usually reserved personality, Minazuki Luna, who was portrayed as a rabbit from the moon, had a lively and energetic character.
The longer she spent performing as soone other than herself, the more it beca a significant source of stress for her.
While Ayase was leading this double life, going back and forth between ho and school under two different nas,
“Class President, is this you by any chance?”
The guy who seed farthest from being an otaku in their class suddenly spoke to her.
Kim Yu-seong.
She knew his na and face.
It was because the top freshman of the year, the Korean standing right in front of her, was him.
She considered herself a good student, but she paled in comparison to Kim Yu-seong.
Excellent grades and neat appearance.
In the first sester, he subtly attracted the attention of many female students, but starting in the second sester, he suddenly began excessively building muscle, which led people to avoid him.
The bad rumors circulating about him in the school probably played a big role in that too.
Anyway, although they were in the sa class, she saw him as soone she had no real reason to talk to.
To her, Kim Yu-seong was just that kind of person.
…Or so she thought.
“Class President, is this you by any chance?”
A sudden, direct question.
On the screen of his smartphone was Minazuki Luna, played by Ayase Satsuki, screaming in anger at a viewer who had called her a “cutting board.”
Since it was a stream from just two days ago, she almost lost control of her expression but managed to respond as calmly as possible.
“H-huh? What’s this?”
But the suspicion didn’t leave Kim Yu-seong’s eyes.
“I think this person’s voice sounds a lot like yours.”
No one in their right mind would answer that question honestly.
“I don’t know what you’re talking about, so could you leave now?”
The identity of a VTuber is a closely guarded secret.
If people found out that the person behind Minazuki Luna was just an ordinary high school girl like Ayase Satsuki, she couldn’t even begin to imagine what might happen. ṟ𝘼ℕỒ𝐁Êꞩ
Even now, so people were bold enough to dig up footage from when she stread without a webcam and directly ask her if it was really her.
When she denied it, fortunately, Kim Yu-seong returned to his seat without saying anything.
She thought she had successfully fooled him, but that wasn’t the case.
She found out later that Kim Yu-seong had been almost certain and had let it slide because he understood her situation.
And it was this incident that led to Ayase Satsuki, who had been acting like an ordinary model student at school, rapidly becoming close to the macho and revered Kim Yu-seong.
Click!
After Kim Yu-seong closed the door and left, Ayase Satsuki slowly opened her eyes in the darkened room.
‘Idiot.’
There’s a reason why a girl shows her bare skin.
No matter how close they were, who asks a friend of the opposite sex to wipe the sweat off their back?
She had tried to make a bold appeal in her own way, but it seed Kim Yu-seong didn’t pick up on her attempt.
In fact, Ayase had started to develop feelings for Kim Yu-seong in their first year.
To be precise, it wasn’t romantic feelings, just a thought that he wasn’t bad as a person of the opposite sex.
At that ti, she wasn’t in a situation where she could have a boyfriend anyway.
Kim Yu-seong’s muscular build and intimidating expression made her think that no one except soone with a peculiar taste would like him.
So she let her guard down.
Then, when they beca second-year students, a formidable rival appeared.
Kishimoto Rika.
A blonde gal from Shizuoka.
Radiant in a way that Ayase couldn’t even compare to, she quickly took the seat next to Kim Yu-seong.
If she had had a chance to get between them, she wouldn’t have given up.
But as one attractive girl after another appeared around Kim Yu-seong, she found herself, who had once been closest to him, gradually becoming an outsider.
At that point, Ayase decided to give up her feelings for Kim Yu-seong.
It was no wonder, as all the girls around Kim Yu-seong were beautiful, even in her eyes.
Rather than awkwardly trying and ending up consud by feelings of inferiority, it was better not to try at all.
Thinking this way, Ayase cleanly gave up on him.
…Or so she thought.
But today, she realized.
She had been ignoring her own feelings all this ti.
The first person to co looking for her when no one else did was the sa Kim Yu-seong she had once given up on.
No matter how bluntly she spoke or how much she tried to push him away, he approached her with warmth.
‘It’s foolish. He’s not going to like just because of this.’
Kim Yu-seong probably didn’t know, but as she ate the porridge, she kept stealing glances at his face.
Completely oblivious to her burning feelings, he sat there calmly.
Although so might find his stoic face intimidating, Ayase was the first to notice the kindness within.
‘It doesn’t seem like he’s dating anyone yet.’
She had given up prematurely, thinking that he would soon be dating soone.
But even as ti passed, there were no rumors of Kim Yu-seong dating anyone, and this remained true even after the school trip.
‘Does that an I still have a chance?’
Until now, she had stepped back, not wanting to get into a ssy fight, but maybe it was no longer the ti to be so cautious.
If Kim Yu-seong still belonged to no one, she would make him hers.
With this resolve, Ayase closed her heavy eyes, weighed down by a slight fever.
First, she needed to get over this illness.
After finishing the piled-up dishes, I checked the ti on my phone. It was already 7 PM.
“Well, I’ll be going now. Make sure to lock the door.”
“Okay!”
Ayase’s younger brother nodded vigorously in response.
“You have to co again next ti, okay?”
“Of course.”
When his younger sister tugged at my pants, I crouched down and patted her head before saying I was really leaving this ti, and I opened the front door.
“Oh?”
And there stood Ayase’s mother with a surprised expression.
“Aren’t you Kim?”
“Hello.”
As I bowed and greeted her, Ayase’s mother spoke with a slightly bewildered expression.
“You’re still as big as I rember. Did you co to check on my daughter?”
“Yes, I was just about to leave.”
“If I’d known, I would have co earlier. I could have made you sothing delicious.”
Ayase’s mother said this as she showed the plastic bag she was holding in her right hand.
She had often cooked sothing delicious when I visited Ayase in our first year, so it probably wasn’t an empty promise.
“I’ll co again when I have ti. Please make it for then.”
“Please do. I’ll be looking forward to it.”
“Yes.”
I said this and bowed again before heading towards the subway station to go ho, but I suddenly rembered sothing and asked,
“By the way, is Ayase still exercising regularly these days?”
“She’s been doing it for 30 minutes every day, just as you suggested. So don’t worry too much. She won’t suddenly collapse like last ti.”
“That’s a relief. Sitting too much isn’t good for her health, so please remind her to stretch occasionally.”
I said this with a warm smile and then headed ho.
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