Chapter 41
[Author: Irigal]
[Title: Let's Learn About the Newcomer Who Debuted Three Times Today]
(Goes berserk without alcohol)
(Brought a Korean ocean game since she's in the navy)
(Look at my dance and song)
A VTuber from mainland Japan whom the manager brought over.
Is this the Japanese navy....?
Did they bring over the wrong pirate?
Every single word she says is truly a gem.
-She declared her ambition to conquer Wakamo and make her hers.
-What on earth do you have to do to bring over a lunatic like thisㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-And the host is clipping her because they love this, fuckㅋㅋㅋ
-Does your liver become invincible if you become a Climber???
ㄴAs ifㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-"When I'm talking to you lot, I can just use a translator."
ㄴWhere on earth did you bring her from!!!
-No, why does she keep gnawing on her finger?
-Is this person really a [Wizard]? They said you need high Intelligence for that.
ㄴAn [Alchemist] and a [Wizard]. It's like flipping a coin.
ㄴSo that's why Ichigo is so smart.
ㄴSeems like Ichigo ate all the brainpower.
[Author: Jun0102]
[Title: Announcement of the Next Stream]
A zombie survival game continuing with the new member.
Basically, zombies show up and you survive to stay alive.
You can even call a helicopter to escape for the ending.
It's a god-tier game with running zombies and even vaccines occasionally appearing.
And three Climbers are going in.
If they went in with their actual stats, the zombies would have to run away.
But we get to watch the survival experts show off their abilities.
-A Chinese person who can't read and a Japanese person who has no intention of learning Hangul.
-A Korean person who's simply scared of zombies.
-It's already fun even though it hasn't startedㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-No, I haven't even watched the anime. Can the captain even play games?
-She says she only studied?
-Studied what? Pachinko?
-"I learned about life."
-She seems like someone who was lucky to become a VTuber....
The flashy debut stream of the new member entertained the viewers, and many people were also looking forward to the VTuber collab stream for [Project Apocalypse].
Some wondered whether they might as well invite even more VTubers, but an announcement said that the company-affiliated VTubers planned to continue streaming together, so there would rarely be any more external collaborations.
All three were Climbers and also VTubers connected to the government, so they might feel pressured or have to watch their step during a stream. It was probably better to avoid unnecessary, uncomfortable collaborations.
Of course, some people said that this was because Wakamo would throw her life away to save the other VTubers during a collab and ruin everything.
There was even a video on Wakamo's clip channel of her fighting desperately in a one-woman massacre to save a VTuber because she was afraid of the zombies during a viewer-participation stream.
With someone like that, it was obvious she would break through even a field of zombies to save a VTuber.
The viewers waited for the stream to begin, brimming with all sorts of expectations.
Perhaps they had each finished the game's tutorial and returned, because the VTuber characters appeared in one corner of the screen.
For some reason, Pirate was gnawing on her finger again, Ichigo was making muffled munching noises with a spiteful, poison-filled gaze, and Wakamo's ears hung low as she whimpered.
The viewers thought they might have a chatting stream while their numbers climbed, but, astonishingly unlike Wakamo, she started the game right away.
Words appeared over a black loading screen.
[This is a story about your death.]
The game began with that terrifying sentence, and the characters standing blankly inside some unknown house appeared on each of their screens.
Among the three, naturally, Mare Pirate had the most viewers after Wakamo, who was screaming.
-Wait, Captain? Why is it in Japanese?
-My head hurts like hell just looking at all these kanji.
-Could you please change the settings to Hangul?
"Huh? Why would I change the settings to Hangul? I can't read Hangul."
-We're in Korea, for fuck's sake.
-You think speaking Korean solves everything?! Does it?!
-Look at this overseas mercenary's nerveㅋㅋㅋ
-This is discrimination against the crew!!!
"It's okay!! You can see 'illiterate' in the traits, right? I can't read!! Got it?"
-Isn't the captain the one who can't read?
-I don't even know where to start pointing out what's wrong.
-We need to be able to read!! It's the opposite!!!
-And she has alcoholism as a traitㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-Captain! You'll die if you don't drink!!
"You want me to drink? Okay!!"
Psssh─click!
Glug, glug.
"Aah─ice-cold beer really is the best!!"
-You mean you're the one drinking it?
-It's your character who's dying, not you!!!!
-Ahㅋㅋㅋ I think I'm losing my mindㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-Stop chewing on your finger!!!!
-Can you fight zombies when you're drunk?
"It's okay! I know karate! Ah, there's no close-range attack here? I should do some training...."
-Is this person really a [Wizard]?
-No VTuber, no karate, I tell you?
-Unless you're planning to break the monitor, pick up a weapon first, will you?
-It's the zombie apocalypse!!
-Why are you rummaging through the refrigerator!!!!
"There isn't a single drink in this house. It's the end times. Ah! So that's why it collapsed!"
Pirate did not know that much about games, but after completing the tutorial and skimming the wiki, she quickly learned the basics. It seemed that she really was a [Wizard], a class supposedly chosen only by people with high Intelligence, because she had more or less figured out the game in that brief time.
It was truly unfortunate that she could not throw a punch, but if that was how the game worked, what choice did she have but to accept it?
"Got my bag. Got food. I need something to drink."
-Why are you going to the bathroom when you said you were going to get something to drink...?
"The toilet water is clean!"
-Where on earth did this person come from?
"Oh, there's something to drink beside the washing machine."
-?
-?
-Uh, stop.
Without a moment to stop her, Pirate drank the liquid beside the washing machine straight from the container.
After downing an entire bottle of bleach, her character staggered for a short while before collapsing face-first and dying.
"What? Why did I die?"
-Because you drank an entire bottle of bleach?
"Why is there bleach beside the washing machine? We keep vinegar there at home. I thought it was vinegar!!"
-You could have actually read the label.
-We can only see the picture right now, thoughㅎ....
-Didn't you see that it said bleach and drink it anyway?
"The vinegar in our house is bleach."
-How is she even still alive?
-I have so much to say, but I'm really holding it in.
-What did the washing machine ever do to deserve this!!!
-Please don't consume bleach.....
"Okay! Then let's focus and try again!!"
Crumple─whoosh.
Thud.
Saying that she just had to live a second life, Pirate shouted, "Fighting!" and tossed something away.
Judging by the crumpling sound and how lightly it flew, it sounded like an empty can no matter how many times they listened. The viewers spent a long time wondering whether it was really okay to ask, then cautiously questioned her.
-Um, did you just throw away trash?
-Is it okay to throw an empty can into the corner of the room like that?
"Trash isn't trash if you don't call it trash."
-She calmly says the most insane things with a perfectly normal expression.
-Excuse me, but may I ask whether you graduated elementary school?
-Every piece of common sense I've built up is collapsing spectacularly. Is this really okay?
-What do you expect from someone who washes clothes with vinegar?
"It's fine if you don't do laundry! I still haven't changed the clothes I wore when I came here!"
-??????
-Why??? Seriously, why???
-You don't wash yourself???
-Are people in the navy allowed to be like this? Seriously, is this okay?"
"Eh─because I'm lazy...? I can't smell myself anyway."
-That's not the problem, fuckㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-Uh, don't start drinking whiskey in the middle of this.
-Find a weapon first!! A weapon!!!!
-Forget weapons, she's just looting all the alcohol.
"After the stream ends, I should go have some whiskey."
-Wash yourself!!!
"I hate water. I can't swim either."
-Can someone explain why this lunatic is in the navy?
-Because a captain dies with her ship, yeah.
-Ah! So that's why she never learned to swim!!
-You have to hate water to drive properly.
"That's right! I have a driver's license! *hic*"
-For fuck's sake, if it wouldn't be too rude, please leave Korea.
-A driver's license for an alcoholic gambling addict. Isn't this terrifying?
-This is a healing game where you sit on the floor and drink.
"Ah─if I knew magic, I wouldn't have to bother swinging weapons...."
-Come to think of it, Captain, what type of magic do you use?
"Enhance my body and beat them physically. I'm a karate master."
-Why does it feel like we're not communicating even though we're having a conversation?
-So this is what Mad Enhancement EX feels like~
Vroooom──
-Oh, a car.
-Here comes the Chinese person who came to pick up the Japanese personㅋㅋㅋ
-Ichigo! You came to save her!!!
Pirate sat in the garden, grumbling that the game had far too few kinds of alcohol, and beat zombies to death with a pipe she had luckily found whenever they approached.
As soon as she heard the sound of a car, she went out onto the road waving, hoping to get acquainted with the companion she would be working with, even though they had only exchanged greetings on Discord so far.
"Hey, wait for me! Wait! Hey, wait!"
-Abandoned without a moment's hesitationㅋㅋ
-Her value was determined during her debut stream.
-Abandoning an incompetent companion to survive.
-A fast decision worthy of an apocalypse professional.
The approaching car passed right by her, making her think it was really going to abandon her, but she felt relieved when it stopped and approached.
"I thought you'd left me behind."
"Wha—sorry, were you waiting for me?"
Rat-a-tat─
And then Ichigo unleashed a merciless barrage of gunfire on Pirate.
"Aieeeeeek!!!"
The game allowed friendly fire, and Ichigo killed Pirate the instant they met before rummaging through her bag.
Then Ichigo got into the car, backed over the corpse once, and went on her way!
"Guys, where's the captain?"
As soon as she got out, Ichigo opened the map and, with help from her friends, headed straight to the police station.
She skillfully dealt with the zombies using the weapons she had picked up, took a vaccine, armed herself with firearms, and hijacked a police car.
She could not read the writing, but she could recognize numbers and the shapes of guns. Whenever there was anything else she did not understand, she diligently asked her friends and communicated with them.
And as soon as Pirate, who had only joined yesterday, approached her, she got out and shot her.
-Survival strategy: reduce the number of mouths to feed.
-Ehehe~ We don't need someone who only drinks~
-The boss's love isn't being shared.
-Our girl isn't this violent. How did this happen....
To put the cherry on top, she even backed the car over Pirate and ran her down!!
-Revenge for the Sino-Japanese War....
-The thirst for vengeance runs in her blood.
-I'm an [Alchemist], so why are you a [Wizard]?
-A VTuber Wakamo likes and calls talented? I'm getting jealous~
-I can't stand having the boss's attention stolen from me...!!
-There are more than enough reasons to hate herㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-So what is the host doing right now?
-Building a base.
Naturally, Wakamo was terrified, cowering at the gloomy atmosphere and background music peculiar to zombie horror games.
"Eek, eek, whimper, whimper, whimper-whimper-whimper!"
-It hasn't even been thirty minutes since we started....
-Why do you tremble every time you hear a zombie?
-I laughed my ass off, but this is getting hard to watch.
-She's sobbing. Is this really okay? Isn't this just abuse?
-What are you doing!!! Mom's crying, and you aren't coming to get her!!!
-Ichigo is coming at full speed right now.
-She switched from a police car to a military truck, stocked up, armed herself with guns, and is on her way.
-No, how did it come to thatㅋㅋㅋㅋ
Even while trembling, she diligently chopped down trees with an axe, built fences at the workbench, and repaired the windows.
Whenever she encountered zombies, Wakamo fought a desperate battle, shedding tears and screaming.
The invincible superhuman she had shown herself to be while climbing the Tower was nowhere to be seen. Even the viewers who worshiped her were bewildered as she cried miserably, making the frightened sounds of a puppy calling for its parents.
If she was going to be this frightened and miserable, she should not have done it in the first place...!!
"Don't come near me!!!!"
-I'm not joking—she's even more desperate than when she climbs the Tower.
-So this is how a fox cries. My knowledge has increased.
-She's fighting zombies desperately, and I can feel her hands trembling through the screenㅋㅋㅋ
-But Wakamo whimpering is kind of hot.
-Excuse me?
-But an eight-foot-tall, huge-breasted fox mama is whimpering like a baby fox!
-Is this that gap moe thing or whatever?
Wakamo fought desperately to protect the house, waving her weapon around. As her character even developed depression and gradually lost her energy, Wakamo's cries became more mournful.
"I'm sad too! If the world ends, there won't be any VTubers!! I have to climb the Tower and wipe them all out!!!"
-Why did she suddenly go from depressed to insane?
-The Tower is trying to kill my VTubers. Why would I let it live?
-Kill everything that hates and opposes VTubers.
-So that's why China fell~
-Ah, so that's why?ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-Please don't suddenly get 'dark'....
While she worked hard to build the base, fought zombies, and wandered around collecting supplies, Wakamo's ears suddenly perked up.
"Where are you..? Come to me, Pirate!!"
-? She can hear that?
-The host is just scared, that's all.
"Somewhere... I can hear your voice, ah, please...!"
It really was a companion she had met only thirty minutes after the stream began. Wakamo's ears began fluttering, already excited about what she would chat about with the talented newcomer who had shown such an incredible debut stream the day before.
"A VTuber stream doesn't need a scenario!! It doesn't matter if it's a horror game! Once a gambler steps onto the starting line, they have to accept any conditions!!"
-Ah, so that's why it's a random start.
-You just threw them into it without even doing the usual chatting stream....
-A person who lives life recklessly....
-If you've lived for a thousand years, isn't that the right way to do it?
-Live like Wakamo! That's how I'll live too!
-Then enlist in the military first.
-Ah, fuckㅋㅋㅋㅋ
"Captain!! I'm here!!!"
Pirate approached from the distance, waving her hand.
And Ichigo ran her over with a car and killed her.
"?"
-?
-?
-?
"She was bitten. I saw it."
"But I didn't say anything?"
"Uung, Ichigo doesn't know what you're saying. Uddadya."
Ichigo played completely innocent. She got out of the military truck and lined up the guns she had brought.
"Boss, there are lotsa zombies in the city! Catch 'em all with these! Ichigo'll take care of everything and come back!"
-Are you afraid...?
-Just give the boss an order...!
-Huh? There are a lot of zombies in the city? Then can't we just kill them all?
-That's the kind of idea only a Climber would haveㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-A mere hundred or so isn't even a war.
"They say killing one person makes you a murderer, but killing a hundred makes you a hero."
Beside the fired-up Ichigo, Pirate picked up the guns she had set down and naturally joined in, saying that she was a companion too and would help.
Ichigo stared at her with an expression that seemed to ask how she was alive after being run over by a truck.
"Wha, why'd you come here?"
"I got a random spawn, and this is where I ended up."
-She broke through countless unfair obstacles and just showed upㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-Why does Ichigo's face look so murderousㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-If only you weren't here, I could be on a date with the boss...!!
-You can vividly feel the jealousy of someone who won't give up her momㅋㅋㅋ
-The polar bear sheds tears again today....
"Boss! Boss! Ichigo's better at streaming than Pirate, right!!"
Ichigo looked at Wakamo with sparkling eyes as she asked.
"Of course a senior has to be better than me, right? It'd be weird if you weren't."
"Shut up."
-Why did it suddenly get so coldㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-Noㅋㅋㅋ Come onㅋㅋㅋ Say it more kindlyㅋㅋㅋ
-The killing intent is insane when she says it while holding a gunㅋㅋㅋ
"Let's eat sushi? I like sushi! Warm agari (アガリ) is nice too~ What kind of tea do you like?"
"??"
-Why isn't any of this doing damage?
-She shot her, desecrated her corpse, ran her over with a truck, and told her to shut up, but none of it affected her....
-She just wants to eat sushi and drink sake....
"Uweeeeeek."
Pirate vomited onto Ichigo's character, which was standing there stupidly.
Ichigo's character, having stood still and gotten covered in vomit, trembled.
"Pirate, why did you throw up?"
"Yeah, Pirate... why'd you do it again...?"
"There was raw meat and raw fish in the refrigerator, so I ate them. They said you're not supposed to eat them like that. Don't people eat yukhoe and sushi raw too?"
Smack─!
Ichigo slapped her forehead.
"Why the hell did you eat that!!!"
"Because it was in the refrigerator?"
"You lunatic!!"
"Dry martini! Home cocktails are great! I know how to make alcohol~"
"Alcohol! You don't need it for survival!!!"
"You're lining up? You're a minor, so you shouldn't drink it."
"Get out!!"
"Tebanaka? Chicken wings and draft beer are incredible.... Right, Captain? Let's drink after this!"
"Were you talking about VTuber Dora, not a dry martini?"
"Die!!"
"She says she wants living space."
"I already built one! Let's hold out against the wave at the base!"
-I thought Climbers were supposed to understand each other?
-Yeah, even if they speak Chinese or Japanese, it sounds like Korean.
-It doesn't seem like they're communicating.
-One is a beast and the other is a brute, soㅎ....
-Our Ichigo is the only sane one, right?
-Their names are really the problem....
The three of them were talking to one another, yet their conversation made absolutely no sense. There should not have been any language barrier, which made the scene utterly incomprehensible, but
the friends simply watched with amusement because Ichigo's face had turned red and she was so cute when she huffed in anger.
"Boss! Between me and Pirate, who's more talented?!"
Ichigo looked up and asked in a coaxing voice filled with expectation.
She was clearly trying to appeal for the boss's love and attention, but
her opponent was simply too terrible.
"There's a famous saying in judo: gentleness overcomes strength... And that saying exists in the VTuber world too!! Stop comparing talents so carelessly!! If you lose your VTuber, you won't be able to keep streaming as a VTuber!! Don't let the people around you sway you—be the VTuber that is you! Do your own stream, Ichigo!!!"
"......Yes, I'll work hard...."
"Still, I think Ichigo has the edge when it comes to effort."
"Ehehe."
-She's so cute I could die.
-She looks like a daughter desperate to be held in her mother's arms.
-Let's work hard on learning Hangul too, Ichigo.
-Her level of effort is on a completely different level from the drunken captain.
"The wave is coming soon tonight, so let's all get a good night's sleep for now. There's one private room, but one person has to sleep with me, you know?"
"Yeah~ Mare Pirate is already lying in the captain's bed. I've conquered this land!!"
-Attacking without warning and invading. Just like Japan.
-The Japanese navy is clawing at the heart of an independence fighter....
-Japan always strikes first.
-She died the most and didn't get anything useful, but she took it anyway, right?
-Look at Ichigo's faceㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
"Oh, but Pirate, what did you bring with you?"
"Gold and treasure."
When they opened her bag, it was truly packed with jewels, gold, and banknotes.
"Life is money!"
-You're really in the navy?
-Not anymore....
-She's playing the game incredibly realistically.
-Our stream is all about pursuing realismㅋㅋ
-Ahㅋㅋㅋ Rightㅋㅋㅋ
-Ahㅋㅋㅋ That's rightㅋㅋㅋ
"That's my spot, get out!!!"
Ichigo shouted when she saw that.
Even so, she held it in because Wakamo was right there and tried to think rationally somehow.
But after seeing Pirate bring only items that were useless for surviving in a survival game, Ichigo snapped, pulled out a gun, and started firing. Pirate nimbly dodged the shots, got up from the bed, and counterattacked with an axe that had seemingly come from nowhere.
"The captain's bed is mine!!"
"I'm taking the spot beside the boss!!!"
"Jehahaha─!! The right-hand position is the mark of the strong, brat!!"
"Are you laughing? You're laughing? You're laughing????"
"Throw away the gun and come at me, Ichigo. Surely you're not afraid of me?"
"Guns aren't needed! Bullets are precious! I'll stab you to death!!"
Ichigo threw away her gun, pulled out a knife, and charged with gritted teeth.
Before long, she began brawling fiercely with Pirate.
Wasn't Pirate twenty years old...? With her thoughts becoming complicated in all sorts of ways, Wakamo silently entered the private room and lay down on the bed.
-The host is being squeezed by a territorial dispute between China and Japanㅠㅠ
-If the host misses Yu Gwan-sun more than usual today, hit the upvote....
-It's sad to see Korea's independence fighter so powerless again today....
-Being kicked out and sleeping like that makes her look like a big dog from my house....
-The sorrow of a fox caught between two cats....
Wakamo diligently built the base and stocked up on food..... Unfortunately, her preparations for the wave, made with thorough effort, ended in failure.
Because Pirate smashed Ichigo's head with an axe.
While Ichigo was on her way back after dying, a horde of zombies burned the base to the ground.
"Nooooooooooooooooo!!!"
After throwing Pirate's cold, dead body into the lake and burying Wakamo's corpse, Ichigo sat in front of the grave and sobbed. That was where it ended.
The subscriber list rolled upward like a staff roll.