Over the past few days, Anna had grown.
-"Try eting various people with Inagikabo."
That had been Laura's advice.
So, until today, Anna had been eting with senior VTubers from EYEAI, who she wasn't very close to, along with Inagikabo.
It's not easy to strike up a conversation with soone, but once you try, it isn't as hard as it seems.
Besides, Inagikabo was probably the most junior of the 6th generation mbers.
Laura was the most charismatic person at EYEAI, Sora had been in a recent rivalry with her, and Chel was hard to figure out.
So, at least in front of Inagikabo, Anna wanted to show a senior-like side of herself.
‘Today’s broadcast… Inagikabo will probably be watching too.’
She wanted to show Inagikabo a good side of herself. More than that, though, she didn’t want to disappoint her ultimate favorite, Rui.
But after eting and talking to people for the past few days, Anna had gained a fair amount of confidence.
Hanabane Rui?
As of today, Hanabane Rui is no longer her favorite.
She was going to beco 'my girl.'
《Laura: Go straight for it.》
"Uh? What’s this?"
Suddenly, a ssage popped up, startling Anna.
She was standing in the middle of the street.
This was VR MyRoom, but the quality was so good it seed unreal. Was it so city transported here?
It didn’t seem like a free preset; it looked like it had been outsourced, given its enormous scale.
‘Now that I think about it, so of Rui's acquaintances were pretty good at this kind of thing... Did Hikari make this?’
Asahina Hikari. Tier 1 Behemoth.
And once, the VTuber who was the closest to Hanabane Rui.
She was very famous for her ASMR, but also well-known among VTubers for her architectural skills.
Her main content included Minecraft, and she was especially great at working with Bluestone circuits. She had won VTuber architecture competitions in the past, if she rembered correctly.
Besides Minecraft, Hikari was also famous for making impressive MyRooms. It was possible that Rui had asked Hikari for help.
‘It’s been a while since Hikari left Ink Palette.’
It was strange that Rui asked her ‘forr colleague’ for help, and it was equally strange that Hikari agreed to assist her.
But, co to think of it, when VTubers leave a company, they usually leave because they dislike the company, not because they dislike the VTuber themselves.
Even after leaving the company, maybe they still stayed in touch.
Anna thought this and moved forward.
Then, in the distance, she saw Rui.
《Sora: You should tumble and greet!》
"...What are you doing?"
Anna was dumbfounded.
She knew Laura was watching the broadcast at the sa ti. After all, Laura was the one who had suggested the punishnt.
And it seed like Sora was also watching the broadcast with Laura. It was obvious that Sora had co to laugh at Anna, the outsider. Ayano Kouji Sora, that arrogant girl, was the ultimate insider!
But ssages kept popping up, had Rui added a new function?
‘Tumbling? This is ridiculous.’
Inagikabo was also a junior from the 6th generation.
But, seriously, there's no cute factor in that.
"Alright, let's see."
Thanks to the training from the past few days, I’ve completely changed.
Laugh if you can!
With that, Anna shrugged her shoulders confidently and walked toward Rui.
"Hello, Rui-chan! I look forward to today!"
Anna bowed her head and greeted her.
When she raised her head again… Rui was no longer in sight.
"...Huh?"
Blinking, Anna looked around.
In the distance, she saw Rui again.
《Sora: You should tumble and greet!》
The sa ssage appeared in front of Anna again.
It felt like ti had reversed.
"You're going with the dating-sim concept? That sounds fun, but do you think it's realistically possible?"
This was yesterday.
Sora had been asking Rui that.
"It’s just MyRoom. I don’t think there’s a way to control soone else's avatar."
In VR, the MyRoom system was like a basic program on your PC, such as a notepad or Excel.
When you buy a VR device, it's installed by default (or set up afterward).
And this type of program is easy to use, but, as expected, it has its limitations.
"As Sora said, it’s impossible to control soone else’s avatar, but there is a function to reset its position."
Rui said.
MyRoom was a system that allowed you to freely decorate VR spaces.
But sotis avatars can get stuck between objects.
The way to deal with this is the "rewind" function, which works like pressing "Ctrl Z" on a PC.
"Sending ssages is also not difficult. We’ll use this."
The plan was as follows:
Laura and Sora would observe Anna as audience mbers. If they wanted to issue a command, they would type it out and send it to Anna.
There was a high chance that Anna wouldn’t follow the command, but that didn’t matter.
They could simply use the rewind function.
"We’ll rewind until Anna follows the command."
"It sounds fun, but giving commands won’t be as easy."
Unlike a real-ti dating sim, sending commands to Anna required typing them out and sending them.
Thus, issuing imdiate commands wasn’t easy, and creating funny situations wasn’t as simple as Sora thought.
But Rui wasn’t soone who would miss that.
"I see, you’re going to use the ti acceleration system?"
I realized too.
Ti acceleration system.
In VR, one second in the real world could be accelerated up to five seconds.
"Got it."
Laura nodded and held up a button.
"If you press this button, the ti flow here will be five tis faster."
The area where Anna and Laura’s date would take place had a ti flow rate of 1x.
In other words, by pressing the button, their date would appear to slow down to 5x speed.
By speeding up our ti, the commands would feel nearly instantaneous to Anna.
If Anna followed the command, that was good.
If not, Rui could use the administrator rights received from Rui to rewind ti by a few seconds.
It was like having divine powers in their hands.
[Hey! Ayano Kouji Sora! Are you really going to do this!?]
On the monitor, Anna huffed.
[What’s with the tumbling? How do I even do that!?] 《Sora: I’d fall in love as soon as I saw soone tumble!》
[Stop lying! I’m not doing that!!]
Anna yelled, and then walked back toward Rui.
Of course, every ti she moved, Sora kept rewinding ti.
Anna would never reach Rui.
[U-um, Sora... I an, Sora-sama... do I really have to tumble...?]
It had only taken about three minutes for Anna, who had been speaking loudly earlier, to take a submissive stance.
[I’ve never tumbled before… Anyway, greeting while tumbling is weird…]
《Sora: Tumbling.》
[Can you at least change it to sothing else…]
《Sora: Tumbling.》
[No, the broadcast hasn’t even started properly yet... Let’s not do this from the very beginning…]
《Sora: Tumbling.》
[...….]
《Sora: Tumbling.》
So decisive hahaha
At this point, just tumble already haha
Why does she like tumbling so much haha
With a stone-like attitude that didn’t budge, Anna had no choice but to give in.
After all, Sora and I had gained this power.
There was no way Anna, the dating-sim protagonist, could have control.
[Ugh, fine...!]
Anna ran toward Rui, extended her arm, and with a bend, her palm touched the ground.
Then, Anna lost her balance.
Crash.
Anna fell.
She was now face-down on the floor.
She didn’t want to see anything.
The chat from the viewers, who were surely laughing at her, Sora's ssages that would be mocking her, and Rui’s gaze, which probably saw her as a strange person.
‘I just want to disappear…’
That was the thought running through her head.
Falling while tumbling wasn’t that big of a deal. She had been humiliated countless tis before.
But this ti…
Being a laughingstock in front of her favorite was ntally exhausting.
She couldn’t bring herself to lift her head.
"Are you alright?"
Suddenly, a voice ca.
She lifted her head slightly, and unexpectedly, Rui was smiling gently while offering her a hand.
"Can you get up?"
She said.
Ah, she’s an angel.
As soon as Anna saw Rui’s face, that word popped into her mind.
"Ah... Ahhh..."
Words wouldn’t co out.
She was only making sounds. Since she couldn’t think of words, she couldn’t form any coherent sentences.
She was far from graceful.
VTubers, of course, strive to make their avatars look beautiful because beauty itself is attractive.
In that sense, the beauty standards for VTuber appearances are quite high, but Hanabane Rui’s avatar was actually quite simple.
A more glamorous appearance would be difficult to create in Live2D, and there would be difficulties when later implenting it in 3D.
In the end, VTubers usually create an avatar that matches their personality. If the avatar deviates too much from their real personality, it can cause a sense of dissonance.
So calling Hanabane Rui beautiful would be inaccurate.
That word could only be used for Aurora.
Although she wasn’t beautiful...
The feeling she had briefly forgotten ca back.
Emotions, after all, are volatile, and as ti passes, they get diluted.
However, they never completely disappear.
Like an old person looking at old photos and reminiscing about their youth, or a manga artist recalling their original passion by looking at an old work.
The initial emotion was engraved in the soul, and all it needed was a trigger.
"I respect you."
Anna said.
Why did she start watching Hanabane Rui’s broadcast?
Why did she decide to keep watching it?
Why did she choose Hanabane Rui as her ultimate favorite?
The long-neglected passion was rekindled.
"I know."
Rui smiled faintly.
That alone made Anna feel a little better, and the sha she had been feeling just monts ago was instantly wiped away.
That’s what it ans to have a favorite.
-Ding
《Laura: Confess honestly that you’ve switched from Rui to Aurora as your favorite.》
"…Huh?"
Cold water was poured over her.
Now that she thought about it, this was a punishnt ga.
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