8 - Empathy Deficiency
[JSS Company begins development of new game . . . . . .]
[What will be the major game release of the first half of the year. Let’s find out…..]
[Famous streamer Mr. K related to sexual assault ……]
[Beep Beep VS The Continent, intensifying competition …..]
Sshup… Nothing particularly interesting…
There’s about 6 months left until the VTuber debut. How to shape my and Reina’s self RP. Before that, what kind of vibe to go for with the avatar.. how successful VTubers broadcast and how to broadcast with something different from them..
Ah. My head hurts..
I wonder if fighting the Demon King and Heavenly Demon again would be better for my head. My body would suffer, but at least my head wouldn’t..
I’m not completely thick-headed, but I’m not at the level of national intelligence either, so it’s confusing.
Huh?
[MT Entertainment’s 3rd generation VTuber group Isekai-Dol 3rd Gen makes surprise debut]
Oh… While browsing my smartphone with my brain turned off, I came across interesting news.
The VTuber group Isekai-Dol, also called Sekai for short.
News that the group’s 3rd generation would be debuting.
I touched the article title and checked the content..
MT Entertainment has been around since before VR virtual reality… I’ll skip this
Too annoying to read everything, so to find the core content, I quickly moved my thumb up and down to scroll the screen while skimming rapidly and
….. said, fans of Isekai-Dol 1st and 2nd generations have expressed expectations for Isekai-Dol 3rd generation and are waiting for their debut day. They are a group of 4 members in total …… (omitted)…… and it was reported that they will debut exactly 5 months after the publication date of this article, on November 11 and 12, 2035, with two members per day over a total of two days. Group debut ……
I was able to find information on when our competitors would debut.
‘Their debut is 1 month earlier than ours…’
The situation is becoming difficult.
Why difficult, you ask?
Because.
-♪ ♫ ♪ ♫ [Yunji Unnie]
Both I and the person calling me would know.
“Hello.”
-Ah. A-A-Ara-nim!! D-did. Did you see that!!?
“See what?”
-Se. Se-Sekai 3rd Gen news!!
“Ah. Yes, I just saw it.”
-Wh-wh-what sh-should we do about th-that..?
Hmm..? What’s this?
Isn’t this the kind of thing where we should be nervous, and the company should care for us by telling us not to worry..?
Sshup… My trust in the company is a bit…
“It’ll work out somehow.”
-…aren’t you worried..
“There’s nothing to gain for us by doing that.”
-.. Ara-nim has no empathy.
“…? What are you talk-“
-I feel stupid for worrying… since Ara-nim is fine.. I’m going to call Reina-nim..
“Yunji-nim. Yunji unnie. Nim!”
-Click.
Silence flowing in the room as the call is unilaterally ended.
“…..”
I have no empathy?
Me, who was called a hero and dragon slayer in the otherworld?
Haah!?
I can’t accept… no, I can’t accept it! No, I absolutely! cannot! accept!
After dropping my favorability towards Yunji in my heart for spewing such trashy nonsense, I KakaoTalked my mom to ask.
I asked directly if I lacked empathy, and mom’s answer was.
[Mom]: Our daughter. As long as you’re pretty, kind, and healthy, mom is satisfied.
She disappointed me with a feeling different from my expectation.
Dad will be different… Dad will…
[Dad]: Who would say such a thing to our Ara!
I knew it! Mom was just joking~
[Me]: Right!? I’m empathetic, aren’t I?
[Dad]: Who on earth said such a thing! To our pretty and cute Ara. If this dad sees them in front of his eyes-
[Me]: No, I mean, I have abundant empathy, right?
[Dad]: Just a moment, Ara, dad got a call from a friend, so let’s talk about that topic later. Love you, my daughter~
[Me]: ? Dad. Dad!!
…. Is this right?
While Ara’s acquaintances were sweating as she used various contact methods such as KakaoTalk and calls to get the answer she wanted, denying that she had zero empathy ability,
VT PR team leader, management team leader, and CEO Kim Yeji, just these three people, were racking their brains in a private setting.
“Still… it seems like there’s no other way than to debut faster than the debut of the VTuber group coming from MT, which is debuting 1 month earlier.”
After the three of them had been racking their brains together, words came from the CEO.
MT’s flagship product, Sekai 3rd Gen, which has consistently shown results and represents K-VTubers, versus the first VTuber duo group from the new VTuber entertainment company VT created by the nouveau riche’s youngest daughter.
When comparing the two, it’s obvious without even looking that most people would side with the former.
If the debut ends up being later than Sekai 3rd Gen, the attention on ‘Twins Tail’ would inevitably be low, which was a certainty.
“Let’s schedule the debut tightly for now. It’s a sorry thing to tell the kids. Of course, I’ll get their permission myself.”
Therefore, there was no other way than to improve their performance within a time shorter than originally planned.
That would mean accumulated physical burden and mental fatigue for Reina and Ara, but..
‘There’s no other way now.’
Yeji believed in Reina and Ara’s ‘star quality’ too much to make a cowardly choice like pushing back the debut date completely.
Therefore, if people’s attention reaches our children before Sekai-dol, then they’d be comparable to Sekai 3rd Gen, and we would have a chance of winning.
She believed without a doubt.
♦♦♦
In the end, not getting the answer she wanted, Ara entered the capsule to resolve her uncomfortable state of mind by logging into MOL.
Her current score is Master 450.
Recently, many annoying things had happened to her, so she couldn’t play much, and her score hadn’t increased, but her win rate was still boasting over 90%, and as she encountered more users from the celestial tier, she spent more time reviewing games.
The Master ~ Diamond range consisted of those with good mechanics but lacking brain skills, so-called headbutting dinosaurs, and those with good brain skills but mediocre mechanics, people with ambiguous talents.
Her tier was Master, but the rating range she got matched in was from upper Grandmaster ~ lower Challenger range.
By reviewing games, she gained insights about game management, and with her physical abilities that couldn’t even be compared to the highest ranks of the celestial realm, she was someone who shattered games by putting her combat power first.
Plus, today with her uncomfortable mood. She mercilessly crushed every opponent she met
You have been promoted to Grandmaster.
After instantly achieving promotion to Grandmaster, she won 5 consecutive games and matched her score to 680.
Determined to cleanly match it to 700, she queued for the last game and accessed the pick screen.
The chat visible while she was contemplating which hero—sword champion—to use in this game
StupidTurtle (Support): (Roughly asking for top in Chinese)
Since she had experienced the martial arts world firsthand, she could speak Chinese at a basic level easily, but to his chat asking for the top lane
YongYongLion(Top): Sorry
She refused.
The user who continued to rant at her in Chinese picked Nunu and Willump with Smite and Teleport.
The game started just like that.
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《For the victory of the Eastern!!》
The Chinese person’s voice mixed with the sound that always came when the in-game started.
He turned on his voice with an excited tone, speaking loudly, and.
What the?
Isn’t he sticking right next to me and not leaving?
Although this was the first time she experienced such a situation, she just ignored him and continued the game.
It was annoying that he kept stealing my CS with Nunu’s Q skill… but she recovered the funds lost from stolen CS by killing the enemy top laner.
Her hero was [Mass Sauder]
Although it’s a hero equivalent to a brother of Science Knight, it has a separate nickname.
Made famous by a streamer’s statement
[One kill from Mass Sauder is equal to or greater than the value of two kills]
Meaning it has high potential.
“Whew…”
After easily getting a kill, pushing the lane, and returning home, a sound was heard.
?
The Chinese Nunu had turned into a corpse under the enemy tower.
Hahah
That Chinese user must sincerely wish for my defeat.
Because I didn’t give him top? Well, his voice did sound a bit childish.
I became curious and for the first time, turned on my voice and asked in Chinese.
“Why are you doing this?”
But no answer came back.
“I’m asking why you’re doing this to me. Huh?”
I thought he was unilaterally ignoring me, but.
“Ahem. So it was a female sibling.”
Ah. Is it because a woman got matched in the upper ranks? But what does that have to do with anything. As I was thinking that and about to ask again, the Chinese person’s answer came.
“Because you stole my top lane, I am taking this action to protect my top. If you go down there, I will play the game properly.”
To summarize his answer, it ultimately meant. ‘Get out of the top lane.’
Ah. Hahah
To me, who was called a hero when defeating the Demon King, and a heavenly lord and dragon slayer when defeating the Heavenly Demon
‘Get out?’
Normally, I would have ignored it and played the game, but as a result of being plagued by the false accusation of having an empathy deficiency, I was in a bad mood.
“Hey, you fcking motherless bastard. Stop showing your Chinese level… Huh!? You get out, you disabled maggot. Even without seeing you, I know you’re fat like Beijing duck, you fcking orphaned maggot, how dare you act up on the Korean server. Claiming to be a great country but can’t even stand up to America, you maggot citizen of a small country, where do you @?%@#?”
I had no choice but to summon the hero Kang Ara, who was called ‘the Maw of Darkness’ during my otherworld days.