NOVEL NEXT Chapter 92
With White Day’s end, all events at school have concluded.
Now, there’s only one thing left.
The spring break before becoming a second-year student.
It felt strange to realize that it has already been a year since starting high school.
It seemed like the fastest year of my school life so far.
The reason is undoubtedly because I joined Star’s Flow and started my activities as a VTuber.
Thinking back, up until just before I properly started my VTuber activities, my life was just the same as before.
But after I started broadcasting and chatting with the members and Izutomo, I slowly began to change.
If I had to put it into words, I could say I’ve grown.
In other words, even if I meet new relationships after spring break and entering second year, I’m not afraid anymore.
Who am I?
The owner VTuber with 182,000 subscribers who cleared everything with the Tachi of Arcana Shooter Purgatory and ST, Kayanoh Mina.
Come, new classmates of second year!
I, who have grown, am not afraid of you…!
“I want to say, ‘See you all in two weeks!’”
But our high school continues the same class from the first year to the third year, so just because the grade changes doesn’t mean the class changes.
I’m really glad I won’t have to deal with new human relationships….
What? Wouldn’t it be better to change classes and make friends?
What kind of foolish talk is that?
It’s not like everyone would be new people just because the class changes.
In the end, a few will be in the same class, and the rest will be filled with new classmates.
That’s actually the worst for me.
It means I would have to awkwardly start rebuilding my standing in a new class.
I’m not close enough to rely on the classmates from my previous class, and I wouldn’t know who the new classmates are, so I wouldn’t be able to do anything.
Then, I, who have no friends, would naturally be isolated from the class’s human relationships.
If I were isolated from the beginning, I could just live like normal, but if the situation progresses gradually like this, it would only be painful for me.
In a new class, the top of the school caste would say, “Let’s gather for unity!” and I would naturally be unable to participate in that unity, leading to isolation….
I don’t want to experience those rotten events again from first year.
How do I know? Couldn’t it be different?
It can’t be. It was like that throughout middle school.
Do you think I challenge my high school debut for no reason?
But if I don’t change classes, there’s no need to experience those useless events again, and I can just continue living alone like usual.
How nice that is.
Our school is the best!
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[【Membership Exclusive】Looking for someone to talk to #KainohIzumi#Star’sFlow]
“So, um, I’ve got something I’m curious about…”
I’ve never actually thought about this before.
But after realizing it’s spring break and I’m going to be in second year, I couldn’t help but wonder.
“What happens to my RP when I graduate…?”
-Graduate?
-What do you mean by that?
“Uh, not graduate, but… about my high school graduation story.”
I made that clarification, but the Chatroom had already erupted into chaos.
I should’ve explained it properly from the start.
I forgot that “graduation” is a word that should never be thrown around carelessly in the VTuber industry.
-I don’t want graduation
Seeing Izutomo so glued to me like this feels kind of nice…
But that makes it hard to progress the conversation, so I had to calm everyone down first.
“E-everyone…! It’s not the graduation story…! It’s about my high school…?!”
-High school graduation?
“Yeah. I’m in second year now… and unless I get held back, there’s graduation in two years…”
Honestly, this is a topic I didn’t really need to bring up.
It’s something that directly affects my RP, so there could be people who find it uncomfortable to hear.
Well, that’s precisely why I started this as a membership-only stream.
-Doesn’t really matter though?
-That’s what a virtual is for
“True, I guess.”
And as they said, it’s not a big deal at all.
In the VTuber world, it’s common for age to be frozen, right?
For example, there are idol VTubers who have been 18 for over four years, and it’s not unusual for ages to have decimals.
Moreover, many VTubers have maintained the high school student concept like me, but it’s an unwritten rule not to point out this detail.
But from the time I was a viewer, I had always been curious about this aspect, so I couldn’t hold back.
“So… I’ll set my RP to be that I keep getting held back starting from third year…”
Thus, I decided to grant myself an officially acceptable setting.
-That’s a pretty extreme choice, huh? lol
“…Y-yeah, that’s true.”
Honestly, I’m pretty smart.
It’s completely feasible for me to apply to a prestigious high school with high deviation scores, and I scored quite well in the third semester tests.
So it’s weird to set myself up as someone who just keeps getting held back starting from third year.
When I think about it, it’s odd.
Above all, my setting is that the Water Avatar is just passing the time at high school, so graduating later wouldn’t be a problem at all.
Once that thought crossed my mind, I felt like it didn’t matter what happened.
“Hmm… I’ll think about this later… maybe I’ll just read some macarons?”
Since I’ve been focusing on ST lately, I hadn’t read macarons in a while.
It’d be nice to chat while reading macarons after a long time.
“Uh, I’ll turn it back on in a bit, so see you then. Everyone, bye-bye…”
-Bye Izumi!
-Bye Izumi!
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[【Chatting】I’ll read macarons like crazy! #KainohIzumi#Star’sFlow]
I wonder since when the pressure of doing chatting streams disappeared.
Of course, it’s still easy to get tired and worn out in no time while chatting, but it’s not to the point where I’m so scared that I want to avoid it like before.
That’s clearly a proud sign that I’ve grown.
In other words.
[Hi Izumi!]
[Hmmm. It’s been almost 8 months since we met, isn’t it about time to sign the marriage registration?]
It means I can easily brush off something as simple as this type of macaron.
“Marriage registration? I’m still a current JK, so if you, an otaku uncle, say that, it would be a crime… so give up.”
-Calling it a crime is too much lol
-Age doesn’t matter in love
“No, no. It’s definitely a problem…! Age is more important than you think…”
Honestly, the very thought of me marrying a guy is ridiculous.
It would happen much quicker for the Earth to explode than for that to occur.
No, even if the Earth were to explode, it would still be impossible.
“So, um, on to the next topic…”
[Hi Izumi!]
[Are you ever going to play ‘Dawn’ again? This time we can even measure heartbeats]
“I-I wouldn’t!”
-Direct response lol
-I want to see Mei cry again too after a long time
“I absolutely won’t.”
If you ask me to name the worst game of my life, including my previous life, I can say ‘Dawn Doesn’t Break’ without hesitation.
That’s not a game. It’s a tool for torture.
“If I get 500 billion subscribers, I’ll think about it…”
-I’m determined to not do it (￣∇￣)
-You’re not even saying you’ll do it, just considering it is malicious
-Not even everyone in the world could manage that lol
“To make me play that game, you need to have that level of determination….”
Of course, it’s important to meet the needs of Izutomo, but I also have the right to choose.
And the chances of me choosing that game myself would never arise.
However, the Chatroom was still bombarded with messages asking if I could at least do it once again.
For the many abuser Izutomos, ‘Dawn’ is a tool to make me cry that they would never let go of.
In times like this, ignoring and moving on can be a good tactic, but then I’d be leaving the possibility of it coming back alive one day.
Now that I’m more proficient in broadcasting, I know a much better way.
I can throw out a new topic using ‘Dawn’ as an excuse.
And it should be a topic that Izutomos love so much they could die for.
“Oh, right. Speaking of games, I remembered that I did an off-collab with Suzuha Koga back then, right? Because of that, she learned our home address. But recently on White Day, when she came to my house, she was waiting for me outside.”
-Did Mei-chan give you something on Valentine’s Day?
-Whoa
Success.
With that thought, my mouth couldn’t help but curl up as I tried to hold back a smile.
“I mean, on Valentine’s Day, we didn’t give each other anything. But I mentioned that I received ‘friendship chocolates’ at school, right? Because of that, I made macarons myself, and she came to our house to receive the macarons.”
Actually, I originally intended to bring this story up during the pure white sea collab this weekend, but here I am.
“And, um, I received handmade brownies from Koga too…”
–Suzui’s Tehe
-How was it?
-I want to eat the macarons Mei-chan made too
“It was definitely delicious. Her girl power is quite high… My macarons, on the other hand, were a complete mess. Hehe…”
However, thanks to that, my plan was perfectly successful.
The chatter about Dawn completely vanished from the Chatroom.
“Even so, I didn’t expect her to come all the way to my house. Koga, don’t you like me too much…?”
Those who watch VTubers generally love yuri themes, so there’s that.
Of course, they know it’s not sincere but business, yet when such episodes come up, they dive right in.
Especially since it’s a story about each of us making and gifting handmade cookies.
That mix of girl power stories would only make it better for them, right?
Because I felt the same way.
How easy it is, otakus!