Chapter 417
Chapter 417. [The Day We’ll Meet Again]
Before me stood a legendary VTuber. Tears overflowed and wouldn’t stop.....
"——Bwaaahhh~hn!? I just saw my legendary oshi’s face in person, aaahhh~~~~!?"
"Ehh—!? I thought you’d cry from happiness, but you’re crying for the opposite reason, aren’t you—!?"
Right now, I must be the unluckiest fan in the world......
Of course, I know it’s a luxury problem.
But still...... in just one day, my principles have been utterly shattered!
Ahh, that one, and that one, and this one too...... How am I supposed to watch their streams with a straight face from now on—!?
"Hey, staff—!? Anego—!? This isn’t what we talked about, is it—!?""Ah, it’s fine, it’s fine~. Iroha-chan will bounce back and be happy no matter what."
"Ehh—? Are you suuure~?"
Ah— I can hear Ah-nee’s conversation.
Hey, hold on, aren’t you treating me a bit too carelessly???
"Ehh—, well then, let’s start over...... um, Iroha-chan...... You good?"
"Hyahhh—! Ohhh, my oshi! My oshi is talking to meee—!"
"Ah, seems like she’s fine."
"Ah-nee~? Told you~!"
Pushing Ah-nee out of my sight and mind, I faced her again.
But seriously, I was shocked......
"Um, why are you here today? Weren’t you supposed to be on hiatus?"
"Oh my~? Iroha-chan, you call yourself my biggest fan, but you didn’t know~? Sneaky, sneaky~"
"Sorry, I really had no idea. All updates stopped for the past few months."
"Ahh, I see, I see~. Well, can’t be helped then~. And here I laid all those hints too~"
"Hints...?"
"Actually, my appearance here was stealth-marketed! Eheh!"
"Wha—, seriously!?"
Whoa—, what!? I so would’ve wanted to see that!?
I mean, if I’d been living normally, I definitely would’ve noticed.
"By the way, what was it about?"
"Iroha-chan, you know that social game, ‘Let’s Make an Ideal Box!’, right~?"
"Of course I do!"
"Right, right~ Oh yeah, you did promo streams and red superchat streams for it too~"
"It was gacha streams, not red superchat streams!?"
I never planned to receive that many red superchats.
That was the most terrifying stream ever, before or since......
"You know about the ‘International Event’ pickup collab gacha that happened recently, right? The one you were added to, Iroha-chan."
"Yes. Though by the time the gacha launched, I was... in no state to play."
"I see~. Ahh, what a waste~. Such a shame~"
"Grrrr..............."
Just remembering it makes me frustrated.
Angu and the others were playing it together right next to me while I recorded.
Even my mom installed it and started pulling the gacha.
I swore I’d roll the gacha after this live ended...... Wait, huh?
"Now that I think about it... during the promo stream, there was talk about a secret being added to the collab gacha, right? During the test play, it wasn’t available yet, but...... No way!?"
"Yep! Actually............ I was the secret in that gacha~!"
"WHAAAT—!?"
No way, I’d want that so bad!?
Wait, so that’s it!?
"‘Appearing as a secret in the VTuber International Event’...... Isn’t this exactly what’s happening now!?"
"Bingo~!"
Now the audience’s murmurs when Oyabin appeared made sense.
They must’ve meant, "It was real after all!"
She’d been on indefinite hiatus, but she’d always kept participating in events like this.
Not long ago, the anime based on her work aired its second season on TV.
So was this just another event appearance, or... something more?
The audience must’ve been on edge!
"I told you, didn’t I? Back then—that we’d meet again."
"~~~~~!"
"Oops, almost time. Well then, once more—let’s do our best, okay?"
With that, Oyabin took her position.
The song ended, the stage went dark...... then a spotlight lit her up at the center.
"Everyone, I’m back. Right now, the world is changing drastically around VTubers. And at the very center of it all... is the little girl standing next to me."
"...Huu..."
Oyabin gestured toward me.
Then, she said the words I’d waited years to hear—the words I’d always wanted to hear.
"Starting now, I’m resuming my activities. And if I can help carry VTubers’ voices even a little further... if I can enjoy all kinds of things with everyone again, that’d make me so happy!"
"Uuuu~~~~hn! Oyabiiin~~~~!"
≫WOOOAHHH!! WELCOME BACK!!!!
≫Thank you for coming back!! (U.S.)
≫She’s eternal! Let’s have so much fun together again! (Korean)
And with that, they left the stage, waving.
Watching their backs, it finally hit me.
I’d thought life was just meetings and partings.
But sometimes... there are reunions, too.
After this live ends, there are so many people I want to see again—no, have to see again......
Faces and expressions of so many people flashed through my mind at once.
"Now then, everyone... as much as it pains me to say it...... the time to part is near."
≫No! (Ukrainian)
≫Don’t let it end! (Russian)
≫Let it go on forever! (U.K.)
"Where there’s a beginning, there must someday be an end—this will be our final song."
The VTuber International Live was finally reaching its climax.
And for me... the real challenge was just beginning.
This is the live of a lifetime.
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