Pressure Comes Crashing Down on Day Two of Streaming.

I had reached it.

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[Climber : Wakamo Inarizushi]

[Class : VTuber]

[Age : 1,000 years old]

[Stats]

Mana : 348,569

340,000 mana, 340,000 subscribers!

An overwhelming number of subscribers—enough to let me proudly say I had entered the upper ranks of Korean VTubers. Subscribers had flocked in so quickly on my first day of streaming that it almost made all the time I had spent building myself up as a clipper feel meaningless.

"But put another way, that's only 340,000!!"

The language of Tower Climbers could be understood by everyone. Even if I spoke Korean, Japanese and Americans could understand me. Wasn't that why so many people had abandoned Korea and left?

The tremendous advantage of being able to communicate with the entire world without having to learn its languages!!

And as if that weren't enough, I had the one-of-a-kind content of broadcasting myself climbing the Tower and showing its interior!

In the battlefield of VTubers, where they bled and fought fiercely in the wilderness over a single slice of the pie, relying on talent and effort, I was a VTuber who had merely gained an advantage from what had been given to me at birth, with no telling whether I even had the qualifications to be one!

"I lack everything—a VTuber's attitude, bearing, and resolve!! How can anyone call someone like this a VTuber!!"

I drove viewers away by being snappish with them, and countless VTuber haters came running after hearing the news, eager to tear me apart—but domestic laws protected a Climber's identity, so no one had genuinely crossed the line. And if that Climber was talented enough to possess a 『Platinum-Clear Floor』, it was impossible not to know what the government expected of me. Anyone who wasn't a complete idiot could figure that out!!

Yes, what was this if not the ultimate pampering... the most extreme head-patting imaginable....

I was a hothouse flower who had no idea of my own place in the world!!

"Please let me be reborn as a beautiful girl filled with dreams!!!"

I tried hanging myself from a rope, but the tree's trunk snapped with a crack. It wasn't a branch—the whole tree broke.

"Sigh...."

For a man to succeed as a VTuber in this field, he needed every kind of talent.

There were ways to join a corporate agency, but those required blood-soaked effort and passion for one's dreams as well.

VTubing was a job where it was difficult to meet viewers in person! You had to imagine that unseen viewers were right in front of you and converse with a screen all by yourself.

But look at me! I had a woman's body now!

I didn't feel even the slightest bit of lust. I hadn't been interested in it to begin with. I might enjoy a VTuber's erotic jokes, but I didn't watch erotic videos made using a VTuber model. Of course, if the VTuber herself had released one, I would happily say, Thank you! and kneel down to devour it!!

Whether I had a man's body or a woman's body made no difference when it came to watching VTuber streams!!

But being a woman made it a little easier to score points as a VTuber.

Yes.... Although I had taken every possible advantage and gained 300,000 subscribers from my first broadcast, my heart was filled with emptiness, hollowness... and sorrow. I was afraid—I wasn't emotionally prepared to love viewers the way VTubers did!!

Was I really qualified to be a VTuber when I had insulted every VTuber who worked hard to buy equipment, spent huge sums preparing a Live2D model, prepared content every day, and pursued their dreams and ideals while poor, communicating with viewers and persevering?

But I had no choice.... The Tower had pushed me into it, so I had no choice.

I had already set foot on the path of asura.

How would running away the day after my first broadcast, as though fleeing, be any different from mocking everyone who had worked so hard!!

"Across the sea, in the VTuber powerhouse, I heard there's a Loli God who rivals corporate VTubers all on her own... They say her Requiem cuts through the charts and beats lolicons to death...."

I couldn't let my heart break on only my second day of streaming! If that was going to happen, I should just open donations. I could use those donations to support hardworking VTubers, so they wouldn't be at the mercy of money... But what if I went too far? How was I supposed to balance love and affection...?

I suddenly thought it was fortunate that I had become a woman.

Otherwise, I might have become the biggest piece of trash alive, a sweet-talking, money-flashing simp hitting on a woman streamer!!

"I want to donate, but wouldn't giving too much be a problem in its own way?!"

I began hyperventilating, gasping harshly as I trembled.

No, viewers going wild didn't bother me. I had seen all kinds of lunatics on community sites, so it didn't bother me at all.

So what are you going to do if you don't like it? Don't watch my stream and go watch someone else's.

But what if other VTubers were harmed because of the clips I uploaded to my channel...?

What if, because I didn't start streaming, people went to other VTubers and begged them to turn on their streams?

"Aaaaargh!! God, please!!"

I might beat up Charon, the ferryman of the underworld, and perform a desperate resurrection so I could start streaming.

"I need to establish rules for my stream as a VTuber... And what else do I need to do...? There are too many things...."

I had seen countless rules while watching VTubers, so I had plenty of information in my head, but my body refused to follow along. Was I like a worthless bug with an absurd amount of internal cultivation who had only read martial arts manuals instead of ever using martial arts with my body? I was like a novice who had done nothing but run my mouth and had no practical experience whatsoever.

Still, when I thought about it, I would be a virgin for the rest of my life, so at least I could reassure the more extreme viewers on that front!

Unicorns were frightening people... though they were lenient toward married female VTubers....

"I don't have any holidays to distinguish anyway. I won't have to give them cold chicken on Christmas...."

Slowly! One thing at a time! I had to assess my own score as a VTuber and consider things from various perspectives to see whether I could objectively reach an average rating! I had once been a man, so I understood men's hearts well. I had watched countless VTubers and knew the communities' memes, so I could talk while playing various games.

Of course, I felt closer to a male streamer than a conventional VTuber... but I didn't even have the resolve to do it passionately like a bald martial god.

"If I'm serious about being a VTuber, I have to study. The theory I learned as a clipper isn't enough!!!"

The stories of countless VTubers passed before my eyes. From poignant stories to tales born of admiration, and second chances seized after giving up and suffering setbacks... even brilliant, touching stories of idols debuting as new idols... But I had nothing like that.

"....Even with the overwhelming content of Tower climbing, this is all I have.... What a sad talent... Yes. Anything that looks easy is that much harder. Like reading a Novelpia story and thinking, Huh? I feel like I could write too, then writing one and receiving 5,700 characters' worth of bitter advice that leaves you unable to stand up ever again... A VTuber who communicates with people in real time must be even more demanding..!"

The Tower offered sights and fantastical landscapes that could never be seen in reality. Of course, people would be fascinated by them, but I hadn't had enough appeal to make them seek me out by subscribing to my stream. On top of that, the main material I could show while climbing the Tower was 【violence】.... In the past, it would have been perfect for getting me restricted.

Climbers hunting monsters outside the Tower no longer violated YouTube's moderation rules, so I could assume my channel wouldn't be suspended... but it still wasn't enough.

Viewers would enjoy watching overwhelming violence and one-sided victories that gave them cathartic thrills, but if I became even slightly boring, complaints would pour in. And if I tried other games or VTuber collaborations instead of Tower climbing, people might scold me and ask why I was doing something like that.

I wanted to do what I wanted, but I didn't want other VTubers to suffer because of it.

Then I had no choice but to make a Climber's battles against countless monsters the main focus of my content.

The realism that couldn't be found in movies, combined with people's admiration for Climbers, might earn me a reasonably solid base of regular viewers. And if that happened, my concept and theme wouldn't overlap with those of other VTubers, so I wouldn't be stealing their viewers either.

Thinking about it that way actually made me feel relieved.

I had been worried about taking even one bite out of Korea's already tiny VTuber pie!!

[The Incheon Tower's Floor 4 has fulfilled its Platinum conditions and is opening to all humanity!!]

[Rewards have increased due to the Tower's Platinum clear]

──And there were several reasons I was only thinking about content now.

[Choose 1 reward]

[Idol's Flame]

-Consumes stored mana to create a flame.

[Idol's Thunderstrike]

-Consumes stored mana to fire a lightning spear.

[Worshiped God]

-Mana recovery speed increases in proportion to the number of believers.

[VTuber Asset]

-Has the same functions as 『Virtual Chat』.

-The number of assets owned increases according to the number of floors conquered by the [Climber].

-[Registerable Assets 0/1]

Reaching Floor 4 without a single attack skill was by no means a good thing.

Even if the difficulty up to Floor 10 was supposed to be manageable and easy, Tower climbing was still a life-or-death battle. I had to choose an attack skill now. Starting from Floor 5, [Monsters] would begin appearing in the truest sense of the word!

"But what if the floor count starts from the moment I choose it...?"

The fact that I had a 『Legendary Class』 had tripped me up! If the floors were counted from the moment I acquired it.... With skills of that type, choosing them early was an advantage!!

[You have acquired the skill [VTuber Asset]!]

I had gone and chosen it. But... it was practically indispensable for a VTuber who set up a 2D model and streamed.

A microphone, separate arms, a headband, sunglasses... Assets were part of a VTuber's body, or you could even call them another form of property.... If I could use even one of them, it would certainly be an advantage, and they might inject new life into a stream that could otherwise become boring through repetitive patterns.

"Can I add the assets I already own...?"

The lightsabers from 『Beat Saber』, which I occasionally played for exercise, and even a gun asset I had added as a joke to threaten the chat with... I wondered whether even those would work, but everything was possible. I had gained limitless possibilities for VTuber content, but....

I wasn't confident...! I wasn't confident I could do well as a VTuber...!

Click, click.

[Author : ㅇㅇ]

[Title : But when you think about it, isn't the Fox God streamer really risking his life to broadcast?]

Our admin has opened the doors to an insanely realistic virtual-reality 3D metaverse new era (lol).

Since the streamer is an actual Climber, we might get sued, so our fellow believers should be careful.

If you write something like tits are fucking huge, mofu, you never know when you'll die.

Anyway, yeah. The fact that Tower-climbing streams are possible is amazing, but.

In a sense, isn't the streamer really risking their life to do this?

Even if the floors are low for now, won't it get dangerous once the streamer climbs higher? Is everything really going to be okay?

I found one post while ego-searching to clear my mind of distracting thoughts.

"I don't care at all!!!"

Rather! It had provoked the raw nerve of the Fox God, Wakamo Inarizushi!

Streamers sometimes suffer from stalkers. Even VTubers who conceal their identities do!

And it's even more devastating when their real-life selves—the red pill—are exposed. There are countless malicious people who deliberately dig into their pasts. They invest money to pursue it in earnest without even knowing whether they'll ever recoup the cost. They do it with dreams and passion, display their wit and talents, work alongside their companions rather than alone, satisfy their viewers, and endure each day.

In other words! It was an endless struggle against invisible beings! A cruel struggle with oneself that would continue forever unless one gave up!!

By contrast!!

The murderous intent of monsters that actually existed and could be beaten to death posed not even a threat!! Compared to other VTubers, it was an absurdly easy one-trick stream where all I had to do was physical labor!!

Which was more burdensome: a battle against an opponent that disappeared once you killed it, or a struggle against myself, who would never disappear?!

Wakamo, thoroughly provoked, kicked open the door to Floor 5.

I would treasure my content, use it as sparingly as possible, and continue my VTuber stream.

"Tyu-ta, tyu-ta-ta!! I'll become a wonderful VTuber!!"

I would stake my life on becoming a wonderful VTuber in my own right!

Because I had entered this blood-soaked wasteland with the resolve to walk the path of asura from the very beginning!!