Turning back ti a little.
It was the day the voice drama of Laura and Chel was released.
Sowhere in this world, there is a person nad Sora, who is staring blankly at the released voice drama. However, for now, they have not been observed by Son Nalim.
Barubara, feeling a bit excited, bought the voice, and Rui also bought it thinking it might be useful for planning the Aurora competition broadcast, but just like Sora, Son Nalim could not know about it.
What they were thinking, what was going on in their minds, is purely a matter of imagination.
No, actually, it's not even in the realm of imagination.
Other people's reactions or impressions didn’t matter much to Son Nalim; for now, she just plugged in the earphones.
"A massage chair... no, a massage chair is surprisingly noisy."
So, she chose a recliner.
Lying on a bed could have worked, but Son Nalim knew that the bed was far more comfortable for the human body than a recliner.
Thus, listening to the voice while lying on a bed wasn’t really recomnded. It had a fatal flaw—if she wasn't careful, she might end up falling asleep while listening.
So, Son Nalim adjusted the back of the recliner and leaned her body against it.
She placed her hands politely below her belly button, closed her eyes, and entrusted her body to the recliner.
It felt as though she had erased herself from this world.
Like the wind or the grass. It was as if she had beco one with nature.
In this dreamy state where even her sense of self seed to lt into the air, only the voice echoed.
[Lady Chel, you are the treasure of the great Duke's family.] [Serving you is my joy, and the re fact that you exist is the honor of our house.] [Furthermore, you will surely be the hope that opens the future of the Empire.] [I understand that your marriage to the Crown Prince is imminent.] [As for you, Lady Chel, I am sure you will care for the Duke's vassals and the Empire's people.]
At first, she just listened without any particular thoughts.
She cleared her mind of any useless thoughts. Reverie, after all, can sotis be a distraction.
She just wanted to listen to the voice purely.
For example, when Son Nalim was in middle school, she watched quite a bit of gas and animation. But when she entered high school, she had to focus on her studies, so she distanced herself a little from subcultures.
After graduating from high school, she revisited so of the ani she had watched in middle school, but to her surprise, they weren’t as enjoyable as she rembered.
Like how the first bite of a deli bun is the most delicious when you’re on the subway.
It’s like that—first experiences are the most intense, and if you repeat similar experiences, your standard for stimulation and enjoynt rises.
So, valuing this first playthrough, Son Nalim listened to the first episode of the voice drama until the end.
"Phew. As expected, Laura-san is good at voice acting."
Then, she reached out to grab a notebook and pen.
"I don’t know who wrote the script, but they were clever. The the of social mobility makes it feel different from what I’ve heard before."
Of course, Son Nalim didn’t buy Aurora's voice drama to enjoy it, absolutely not.
It was definitely not for enjoynt.
It was purely for analysis.
Wasn’t the fifth match between Leviathan and Griffin?
Of course, before that, they would clash with Behemoth first, but anyway.
Especially in the recent Behemoth vs. Leviathan match, Aurora had participated with notable consistency.
That ans, in the match against Griffin, it seed quite likely that Aurora would participate in the Leviathan team. Analyzing the opposing ace was never a waste.
"Should I listen again?"
Son Nalim replayed the voice drama.
The first ti she listened, she relaxed her whole body, but this ti, she listened intently, equipped with a notebook and pen.
While the previous voice of Aurora was like this, this ti’s voice felt less refined and more raw. Although she wasn’t sure since she hadn’t been on the scene, it felt like there were many improvised lines.
After all, VTuber voices aren’t subject to strict standards. So, even acting or pronunciation that just passes can be accepted.
Because of these loose standards, there was a certain satisfaction in analyzing it.
If it were a professional voice actor’s character voice drama, you wouldn't be able to spot the actor's face through it.
But compared to that, this voice drama was filled with a lot of ad-libs.
And ad-libs reflect a certain extent of the actor’s personality or interpretation of the character.
There were also monts where she could hear breathing sounds in the recording. Son Nalim made note of exactly when she heard them. Of course, it was hard to tell right away if the breathing was from Laura or Chel. After listening more tis, she thought she'd be able to distinguish it, so even though she didn’t know now, she figured she would recognize it later.
Son Nalim repeatedly played the voice drama while analyzing it.
Anyway, she analyzed it.
Virtual I-Tuber Gallery
[General] Aurora's voice is great
(Voice Drama illustration) [Only Aurora Con] [Only Aurora Con] [Only Aurora Con]
The voice sounds good, I think.
[General] Aurora's voice is so annoying, don’t listen to it
(Voice purchase confirmation screenshot)
I bought the last Aurora voice and listened to it more than 100 tis, you know?
I liked the yandere vibe, but it’s pretty similar to Aurora’s usual character, and it gets boring after listening to it.
But this ti’s voice drama is Aurora in a different concept, so it feels fresher than last ti?
Last ti's voice got boring, so if you’re only going to buy one voice, get this voice drama. Yup.
[Only Aurora Con]
[Comnts]
Of course, it gets boring if you listen to it 100 tis, damn lol
After seeing this post, I decided to listen to this voice only 99 tis
[Crazy Young Man Con]
You're Chel, right? ㄴ [Chel Easy Con] ㄴ Why is this kind of con even here ㄴ [Chel Haha Con] ㄴ [Really Chel-makes--laugh Con]
So ti passed, and Son Nalim, who had logged into the gallery, wrote a post.
She had actually intended to write only one post.
She definitely didn’t write it to share her impressions of the voice drama; she wrote it purely to analyze the audience’s reactions.
It happens, doesn’t it? After finishing a ga or animation, when you go to a community site, there are often viewers who present new interpretations.
For example, "This part is based on this inspiration," "There was a clue here," "This is actually a hidden Easter egg from here."
When you hear that kind of trivia, you don’t just enjoy it… no, you dig deeper into it, don’t you?
So Son Nalim wrote a post to provoke the viewers’ reactions, but there were no comnts on the first post.
Thinking it might be too mundane, she wrote a second post.
This ti, it garnered more responses than the first, but the kind of impressions or trivia Son Nalim wanted were still hard to find.
"Hmm."
Son Nalim felt slightly dissatisfied, but there was nothing she could do about it. The gallery basically only had posts about broadcasting VTuber streams.
Of course, VTuber-related discussions, fan art, and sotis shocking content related to viewers' sexual desires ca flying in, but there wasn’t much discussion about the voice dramas released by VTubers in the gallery.
Since it had only been a short ti since the release, it might have been hard to expect much response. Many people probably hadn’t listened to the voice drama yet.
Still, she thought she’d try searching for 'Aurora', 'Yuri voice', 'LauraChel', '#Aurora_Salon' on SNS.
She searched for Aurora’s Japanese na 'オロラ', and also tried searching with abbreviations like 'ㅇㄹㄹ', 'arr', and 'orr'.
She even searched for Aurora and Chel’s nas in the Doujin Voice Gallery...
[Analysis] Fun Fantasy League Team Analysis Part 1: The Undisputed Champion, Cerberus
[Analysis] Fun Fantasy League Team Analysis Part 2: Still Strong, Behemoth
[Analysis] Fun Fantasy League Team Analysis Part 3: Dark Horse Leviathan
[Analysis] Fun Fantasy League Team Analysis Part 4: Weakest Griffin, the Popular One-Tool
"..."
It felt like a bucket of cold water had been poured over her.
The excitent she had just felt cooled down.
And now, it felt like she was facing an uncomfortable reality. It was as if soone were asking, "You’re in last place with 1pt, what are you doing?"
Phew.
After letting out a breath, Son Nalim shrugged her shoulders.
"Should I play a ga?"
She shut down the PC.
Then, she turned on the VR equipnt.
She ran the Aurora and Chel voice drama in the background.
[That’s not possible.]
[How could soone like love a lady like you?]
Listening to Aurora's voice while launching the ga brought back the enjoyable mood.
There’s probably no strear who hasn’t been cursed at. Even the ones who seem flawless, right?
So people curse, saying it's boring; others complain if they’re streaming alone, saying they should socialize; and when they collaborate, people ask why they're partnering with that type.
It’s the sa for other professions, not just VTubers.
No matter how entertaining the broadcast is, if your ntal state breaks, everything’s over.
So, for VTubers, what’s most important might not be the entertainnt or popularity of the broadcast, but their ntal strength to carry on.
In that sense, Son Nalim was confident about her ntal strength.
No matter how much she was cursed or received cold criticism, she had the composure to listen and brush it off.
However...
‘Aside from my ntal strength, I’ve never thought of myself as an attractive VTuber.’
Aside from her ntal strength, Son Nalim felt she didn’t have any remarkable advantages.
That’s why, for her, VTubing was just about enduring… an endless process of hanging on.
If she kept at it, sothing would eventually co of it.
It would, for sure.
Dungeon Seeker’s World
After so contemplation, Son Nalim started Dungeon Seeker.
She had thought about playing Labyrinthos, but for so reason, she felt like playing Dungeon Seeker instead.
Labyrinthos was important, but earning gold from Dungeon Seeker was just as important.
[Your marriage to the Crown Prince is imminent.]
[Lady Chel, I’m sure you’ll care for the Duke’s vassals and the Empire’s people.]
Of course, the voice drama kept replaying in the background.
Because of that, Son Nalim couldn’t start the stream.
Since the voice drama was a paid content on EYEAI, if it got incorporated into the stream, she would get hit with the copyright hamr.
And logically, it was also awkward to invite the other mbers.
Son Nalim
[Looking for soone to play gas with today!]
She typed this in the Griffin Discord server and imdiately deleted the chat.
Only Son Nalim was online among the Griffin mbers, and it was still too early for dinner ti.
She figured it was unlikely to get any replies. If she were to send a ssage, it’d probably be better around dinner ti.
Everyone else probably had their own situations.
And playing the ga while listening to the voice drama was definitely better for solo play.
After thinking this through, Son Nalim was walking alone in the streets.
To play solo, a few preparations were necessary.
First, she needed to buy exploration items.
A flashlight to light the darkness, ropes for various uses, and fire steel to start a fire. She needed the minimum gear.
Next, she needed potions.
Healing potions for wounds, redies to drive away monsters, and various other items, which she bought from the alchemist’s shop.
Finally, she needed food.
"Bread, jerky, and so drinking water should be enough."
She had to bring food to manage her hunger gauge.
The jerky was light in weight and volu. Its downside was that it was terribly salty, but at least it was better than eating bugs or rats.
Water was easy to find. There were a few points like rivers and wells where she could get it.
Lastly, the bread.
The bread was a bit bulky, but it wasn’t too heavy. It was quite filling for the hunger gauge, so it was sothing she had to carry.
She could buy bread at the bakery.
"Ah, were you logged in?"
When she arrived at the bakery, there was soone elegantly drinking tea on the balcony.
There was no need to say who she was.
"...What is this?"
Was it fate?
Son Nalim couldn’t help but think that to herself.
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