There Are a Few Misunderstandings, Though.

[Author : Fox Lover]

[Title : Want to Take a Look at My Small-Time VTuber on Day Three of Streaming?]

(A GIF of the Fox God's ears flapping)

She's different starting with the motion alone. You can't see her eyes because they're closed, but.

Can you see the corners of her mouth twitching when she smiles, revealing shark teeth?

Her tail fur is fucking huge. Look closely.

(A GIF of her tail swishing wildly).

This is VTubing, this is culture, and this is horniness.

There is a world the normies don't know about.

-Wow, you're such a fucking pervert that it gives me chills, you bastard.

-Isn't this the guy who used to post nothing but furry pics in the forum?

-You said anyone who isn't a pure furry is a heretic, you bastard.

ㄴIf it exists in reality, doesn't that make it the definition?

ㄴHoly shitㅋㅋㅋ I have nothing to sayㅋㅋㅋ

ㄴIt does exist in reality.... (A frog GIF staring into the distance).

[Author : ㅇㅇ]

[Title : Let's Take a Look at Our Streamer's Growth]

She holed up in a fox den, clipping videos and watching VTuber streams.

As for the donations, just assume they came from what she saved over a thousand years.

(A photo of the real imperial seal, the streamer's treasured possession that flustered the grandee)

She was wasting her life in fine fashion when the Tower suddenly went, You're accepted!

It dragged her off, saying, I'll let you go watch VTubers, then neutered her and threw her into the Tower.

(A GIF of her cursing, half-assing things, and getting annoyed during her first stream).

Honestly, I'd curse tooㅋㅋㅋ If the streamer really is a thousand years old, how many wars has she lived through? Holy shit.

-"My liege! If word gets out that I possess this, the Republic of China will invade!" (Fact.)

-The imperial seal Liu Bei and Cao Cao wanted so badly is in the Korean Empire.

-She'd been holed up because a Tower disaster like the one ten years ago was just something that happened from time to time.

ㄴDidn't she come out when the seal was broken back then?

ㄴ...? Huh, you're right?

-The Tower only lets Climbers go up, so even if the streamer is a fox god, she couldn't get inside.

-Being a Climber isn't necessarily a good thing, you know, streamerㅋㅋㅋㅋ

[Author : Frozen Primitive]

[Title : Come to Think of It, Isn't She Pretty Damn Admirable?]

She suddenly dropped into the modern world, yet somehow adapted and lived quietly in hiding.

When people asked if she'd eaten humans, it was hilarious how she said she'd get hit with bamboo spears and matchlock guns if she did.

When you see a fox that survived into this era, think of her as a survivor of the times~

Isn't it amazing that she can actually communicate with people of our generation?

She diligently learned about computers while hunt-and-peck typing in front of one.

She'd watched the Queen diligently since her small-time days, and now she was kindly talking to viewers as she set out to become a VTuber, just as she'd learned.

No, I was surprised at first when she started tearing into things and eating them.

But if the streamer is a fox rather than a person, isn't that only natural?

What's controversial about eating hunted prey raw? I'm genuinely curious.

-For realㅋㅋ It's so cute how she gets all tense and purses her lips now that she has so many viewers.

-Her voice sounds like a general's, but she speaks so gently that it causes some serious brain confusion.

-The Queen cherishes her viewers, so I should cherish them too. Isn't this basically teaching monkeys?

-Begone!! It is the Queen's cultural evangelism!!

ㄴThen is the inch system coming too?

ㄴThat might be a bit much.....

ㄴWouldn't she use the standard measure? Considering her age.

ㄴShe uses meters, though?

ㄴHer cultural adaptation is fucking fast.

ㄴIs this the adaptability of a fox that survived for a thousand years???

[Author : Recognition Association, Unicorn Fan]

[Title : Believers Can Rest Easy. Looks Like We Won't Need to Detach Our Horns]

I had always wandered in search of a wholesome mommy, and I felt a maternal warmth.

For starters, our streamer knows that a country falls when the hen crows.

And she's a virgin, too. When asked if she'd ever seduced a man, she responded by asking whether she wanted to get skewered by a Confucian scholar.

It sounds like a metaphor, but this absolutely isn't a metaphor, for real.

Seeing how scared she is of ghosts and zombies, she probably hasn't even dug a grave.

She's one of our own kind, living holed up in a den with us.

(Our streamer's five-year viewing history).

Look at our streamer watching 19 VTuber streams simultaneously, even on Christmas.

This is the VTuber we've loved and searched for all this time.

-(A GIF of a man in sunglasses running)

-(A GIF of a man getting punched and collapsing)

-Why don't you get it! Wakamo was a woman who might have become my mother!

-Everyone who came late after seeing her breasts, get the fuck outㅋㅋㅋ

-I miss the streamer who used to curse crudely while telling us about stocks and Bitcoin...

ㄴFor real, she was telling us how to make money, but we didn't realize the bigger picture.

ㄴShe was cursing us for not investing when she was giving us answers with divine powers.

ㄴSo we can't hear the verbal abuse she used to dish out anymore?

-All the perverted freaks with bizarre sexual tastes who are crazy about this scene really did gather in our forum. I'm losing my mind.

-More importantly, what the fuck was that livestream of watching 19 streams on Christmas? Can you even see anything?

-The streamer has insane concentration, yeah. She's even streamed for 72 hours before.

ㄴWhat the fuck kind of insane thing is that?

ㄴThree 24-hour VTuber streams overlapping, yeah.

ㄴOne of those groups at least had six members taking turns, damn it.

ㄴThey say the streamer is a fox god, so she doesn't even go to the bathroom?

ㄴI heard she doesn't breathe eitherㅋㅋㅋㅋ

ㄴYeah, apparently she really doesn't.

ㄴWhy the fuck is this true?

[Author : Because I'm Going to Mars]

[Title : I Hate the World]

Our streamer's stock tips and crypto tips.

I used them to pay off my debts and buy a house, but the Tower took it all away.

Why..? Where did the streamer who used to roast us every day while playing LoL go...?

Why did you take away our streamer who had huge tits even behind her avatar and told us what stocks to buy?

Even my mom took my New Year's money and never gave it back, and now the streamer is taking things away too.

A life where something is taken from me every single day....

Our streamer used to belong to us believers...

I just hate it... It feels like a close friend suddenly became an idol.

We were the only ones who knew her....

I loved her, damn it...

-This guy seems genuinely dangerous, doesn't he?

-Who didn't buy stocks after listening to the streamer!!

-We're basically orphans abandoned by heaven and earth.

-But isn't someone who recommends coins the enemy of your parents? She said that on the pork broadcast, didn't she?

ㄴHumans hunt foxes and turn them into coats.

ㄴAhㅋㅋㅋ So she is the enemy of our parents, holy shit.

ㄴAre you slandering a mother's heart that wants to love and give money even to such an enemy?

ㄴI shall love even a loser like you..!!

ㄴ(A crying GIF captioned, A hero of the age..!)

-So why the fuck is this guy suddenly hitting the accelerator and acting up?

ㄴThe coin the streamer recommended turned into a worthless scrap of paper.

ㄴThe streamer warned him to cut his losses yesterday.

ㄴThen isn't this just an intelligence problem?

ㄴWhat can we do when the streamer's breasts are so big they've lowered her intelligence?;

ㄴAh;; This is definitely the streamer's fault. She needs to turn on her stream.

The Fox God Wakamo was setting online communities ablaze without pause. The question of whether she was really a fox god no longer mattered. As people wrote posts saying, “I see her breasts wherever I go...,” the loli faction died, while others ran wild declaring, “From now on, our furry faction is taking over this forum!”

There was even an overflow of wandering dead clutching a golden fox image from DiXmon and muttering that if the streamer knew transformation magic, she would show them her fox form─alongside bizarre ramblings about whether a fox god had to be a nine-tailed fox and how the authentic nine-tailed fox was, naturally, Korean.

On posts titled, “I brought the streamer's red pill,” Wakamo replied to nonsense like, “My guess is that the streamer's true identity is Daji,” with rebuttals like, “Then she'd be over 4,000 years old?” It was strangely heartwarming how everyone filled things in appropriately on their own to match the setting, even when she said nothing.

After watching other VTubers' streams and talking about their stories, it felt incredibly strange when the moment came for me to talk about my own story.

Even as I thought that, I uploaded 15 VTuber clip videos in a row, making the believers scream and wail, but those were only newcomers. The longtime believers were praying with faith and hope that I would turn on my stream.

Naturally, I intended to stream today as well.

I thought the previous chatting stream had been a huge success in many ways.

The viewers had accepted me gently, and I had even switched to the expensive 2D Live model I'd bought and shown it off a little during the stream. It had been popular.

Of course, the viewers didn't seem able to tell whether I'd changed models or not.

It really did look so much like the real thing that there was barely any difference..... Money wasn't an issue, either; my VTuber model had cost a considerable fortune.

At least ten million won.

I couldn't reveal the exact cost, but a good model costs that much.

Supply couldn't keep up with demand, so prices continued to rise, and even major companies only made models for their affiliated VTubers after those VTubers fulfilled certain conditions. That showed just how small the VTuber market was.

It was a field that needed the help of countless experts. The group called Otherworld Idol, which had managed to gather that much talent in Korea, stood in a position that could rightly be called the pinnacle of the Nine Sects and One Alliance. But hadn't they reached that point entirely because their president worked so hard?

Talent, effort, and luck aren't enough for a VTuber; they also need countless things to support them.

"Queen... I told you, 40 pieces of merch is way too few... WakBa... There aren't any canceled concert tickets.... President Tanigo!! We need more collaborations! Ah, the Million-Point Lady went live."

While watching VTuber streams to focus(?), I put my mind in order. As I calmly settled my body and mind, I looked back on myself.

I climb the Tower because I don't want to die. Even as I question why I'm a VTuber, I climb.

Knowing that I couldn't become the ideal VTuber because I needed believers in order to live, I started streaming.

A VTuber must never show themselves complaining, being weak, or crying.

Tears of emotion might be one thing─but a VTuber must never give viewers a part of themselves they can tear into. Of course, there was the shrine maiden across the sea whose weakness had instead become her strength, with everyone teasing her for it. That shrine maiden was the very raw ore of VTuber talent, so comparing myself to her was pointless.

If we were talking wuxia, that shrine maiden would have a Heavenly Martial Physique.

I was just an ignorant nobody who had luckily gobbled up a mountain of lucky breaks before getting started.

No two VTubers start from the same line. Didn't the kid VTuber Pekoyama tell people who wanted to become VTubers to join a major company?

"In that sense, you could say I rival corporate VTubers all on my own."

That was why I needed to look back on myself all the more.

Even when a VTuber verbally abuses viewers or acts prickly, they don't cross the line.

A VTuber is ultimately the same kind of being as a streamer. They cannot exist without viewers who love them, come to see them, and are their fans. That was why, at first, I'd simply thrown out that viewers could do whatever they wanted, whether they watched or not.

That was not the attitude of a VTuber.

There might be fans who watched because they liked such sharpness─but to VTubers who didn't even have those few fans, wouldn't my behavior look selfish and arrogant?

That was why, on my third day, I researched what I'd seen from various VTubers and continued chatting as kindly and politely as possible─while maintaining the same attitude I used in my normal speech.

I was happy that the viewers had accepted my concept and RP as Wakamo Inarizushi, the Fox God, and that our back-and-forth worked so well. Since I was a VTuber, everyone naturally assumed that there couldn't really be a fox god inside, though.

It was an extension of their respect for VTuber culture, so everyone called me a fox god.

Having offered such consideration myself and then receiving it in return made my heart feel warm...

There are countless VTubers in the world. And with them come their efforts and their own individual directions.

Some VTubers love rockets and get invited to NASA, while others display images on crystal balls under the concept that they are gods. There is the Million-Point Lady, who captivates fans with the firm concept that she was born a noble. There are VTubers from the Joseon era who crossed from the past into the future. And there are groups united under the concept that they are all kinds of mythological beings.

Many people become VTubers by putting forward an owner character, loosely maintaining their concept, and newly shaping the character they themselves are, but that is also VTubing.

There are even AI VTubers with no red pill at all, as well as VTubers like Jegal Nuri who wear a self-made mascot suit and diligently broadcast from all kinds of places.

Many VTubers establish and uphold their own standards, and Wakamo, a concept-based VTuber with her own RP setting, belonged to one of the hardest categories among VTubers: those who put on a mask and perform a persona.

Of course, none of that would be a problem if you had the talent for it, but in my case, I had suddenly become a fox-god VTuber. I would need to work even harder to avoid making verbal slips.

I had gone from watching VTuber streams to suddenly becoming a VTuber, and I had treated viewers as I imagined an ideal VTuber would, while insisting that I wasn't qualified. But on the third day, I, Wakamo, came to understand that if I was going to walk the path of a VTuber, I had to always think of those who came to see me, study various kinds of content, and approach it seriously.

And that even though they were my fans, I had to set boundaries and regulate the distance between us.

It would be nice if understanding and consideration led to mutual respect, but not everyone was like that, so I had to be careful at all times.

I had frequently seen the many hardships idol VTubers faced while working as a clipper.

"Then, instead of climbing the Tower today, should I try something like a [Helldivers 2] viewer collab...? [Legendary League] is too extreme for me to play..."

While watching other VTubers' streams and considering what might be fun─since things would get boring if they went on too long, just as VTubers' streams did─I thought I could play an instrument even though I couldn't sing. I also needed to tell viewers when and how I planned to climb Floor 9, so I made a schedule while thinking through all kinds of things.

I also made sure to watch my own stream again to check whether I'd made any verbal slips while trying to be a VTuber who maintained the Fox God setting.

Yes, VTubers were like martial artists who had entered the martial world. Each could be said to train by fighting themselves every day, making a name for themselves in the world with the martial arts they had honed and polished, and striving to rise to the first-rate level. Without caring for the common people, how could anyone become a chivalrous hero or join the orthodox path..?

One step at last onto the starting line of VTubing!

The opening of Wakamo Inarizushi's VTuber Path!!

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"We can be almost certain that the Fox God isn't human, can't we, department head?"

"Yes. Just look at how she's risen to prominence by judging how money will flow through stock charts. This is only my guess, but I suspect the ability she calls divine powers is related to precognition."

"I see. If she can see the future, she'd know the methods for clearing it too."

There were current-affairs experts among VTubers, as well as overseas VTubers who talked about stocks and crypto. Wakamo had watched them to figure out how not to fail, and since she practically lived in front of her computer, her luck had also played a part in her stocks rising. Still.... Wakamo's incredible luck was just about perfect for being misunderstood.

Wakamo happily and firmly believed that all the viewers were respecting her Fox God concept!

Most of the viewers were promising to watch from beyond the screen without needlessly provoking her and being turned into Daji, because they thought she really seemed to be a fox god.

"And it's the genuine imperial seal! If China found out, there'd be an uproar over returning a cultural property. But this is privately owned, right? If someone has possessed it for a thousand years, can't they essentially claim ownership?"

"If we look at it legally... even if the country perished, if there were records showing that the holder had been a citizen of that country... We wouldn't be able to find them, but we'd have no choice but to say that the person possessing it was the owner."

"Cutting through a bullet was extraordinary. Could a low-floor Climber really do something like that? Considering how many wars this country had gone through, she must be quite skilled."

"I've heard there's also a theory that she awoke from her seal when the Tower caused the collapse, Association President."

"Even so, that's good. She didn't drop into the modern world and rampage like a monster. Isn't she an entity that adapted to civilization, realized there was nothing to gain from harming humans, and lived in hiding? There's no need to cross the line for no reason..... So, department head? Is the plan progressing well?"

"Yes. The most important part of the operation is not getting caught. I will be the buyer myself, without drawing attention."

"We must not fail under any circumstances."

They had no idea how many 『Complete-Clear Floors』 they would be able to acquire.

A fox god who liked humans. Wasn't that the sort of story that only appeared in fairy tales?

They had no intention of repeating the foolishness of the humans in those stories. They could hardly afford to drive away a fox god who liked humans by treating her as some unknown monster, only for her to go to another country. That alone would be a sufficient loss.

Her divine power that let her see the future─they had no way of knowing how far it extended, but even after losing all of it, her personal martial prowess rivaled that of a high-level Climber. The president had worried that her attitude might change if she regained her strength, but shouldn't they account for every such risk?

"She truly is an unprecedented idol."

In an era when faith had nearly vanished with the Tower's appearance, the return of a god who had existed during the age of idol worship.

The association president knew that the idols of this era were akin to pop idols. So, thinking about what she liked...

"You mean the Tower's chosen favorite among VTubers? Hahaha!!"

Would Wakamo, happily believing that her own concept was being upheld, ever realize?

Perhaps a hilariously entertaining hidden-camera show was being filmed.

Still, if both sides were happy, that was all that mattered!