Return

The viewers forgot about me.

“We had it good. How could you do this?”

-Who are you?ㅋㅋㅋ

-Get out of my follows right now, you monster

We had it good for a year, so how could you forget me?

Well... I did abandon the stream for nearly half a century.

It was summer, after all—the peak season for a model.

Of course, autumn isn't exactly off-season either….

Still, everyone had left.

I stared at the viewer count with hollow eyes.

[221]

“Duuuh….”

-Duuuh..

-What's with this person spacing out..?

-What's it to you?

This year, thanks to participating in the big server and various other things,

my average viewership had gone over 500 and reached 600.

But in an instant, it had gone back to the beginning of the year.

Is this one of those regression stories? I really did go back.

And above all….

“Try to remember, everyone. We have so many memories together, don't we?”

Even the viewers who had come back right away seemed thoroughly sulky. How was I supposed to smooth this over?

-?

-What memories?

-Tell usㅇㅇ

Hmm….

What memories could there be?

Like watching donation videos together while playing LaEx… or playing a viewer-participation game in Jeungbaram….

Ah, right.

“Why don't we start with something familiar?”

If I play LaEx, maybe their memories will come back?

As I said that, I moved the mouse cursor over the LaEx icon.

-Okay, I'm going for a walk

-Suddenly this is fucking awfulㅋㅋ

-You fucking bastard

“Oh, uh.”

At last, their memories were beginning to return.

Seeing those familiar curses was actually nice.

“How about it? Do you remember me?”

-Streamer Wayo. This isn't right.

-LaEx as soon as you come back? Let's really die here;

What a miracle doctor I am.

I'm curing Alzheimer's, the world's fifth-worst disease.

Ha~ Should I have become a doctor?

-Fuuuuck~~

-Hearing your bullshit again after so long is fucking awfulㅋㅋ

-Alzheimer's, fifth-worst disease in the world.. Alzheimer's, fifth-worst disease in the world..

“You're all coming to your senses, right?”

This is the future. You all woke up twenty years in the future.

I'm a doctor. Now, pay your treatment fees.

-It's only been two months, you asshole

-Treatment fees, my assㅋㅋ

-But what the hell did this guy go off to do??

“What did I do? Hmm….”

I want to brag about what I accomplished, but….

I can't exactly say I was a model.

Should I explain it in simpler terms?

Hmm. But modeling sounds weird when you put it into words.

Just look at me.

I went abroad to flaunt myself in front of foreigners while wearing a semi-sheer dress.

What do you even call that?

I'm not even supposed to say I went to Paris.

“I just did some business. Met people and worked.”

So, as usual, I put it under embargo.

Whatever. I just won't say anything.

-People??

-What the hell is his actual job;;

-Is he a fucking wage slave??

“No, no. It's not what you're thinking.”

Since I'd kept it secret like that,

suspicion from the viewers was inevitable.

It was a somewhat unfair suspicion.

I was glued to Roselia the whole trip.

Other than her, was it just Selina?

Good grief, what an upstanding VTuber I am.

-What do you mean, “what we're thinking”??

-So you went to work, but where's the burger?;

No, why would I get burgers for working? Oh, right.

Looking at the chat, I remembered a plan I'd forgotten.

“Come to think of it, I was going to do an event.”

-??

-What is it?

-Are you handing out burgers?

“I practically abandoned the stream this month and last month, didn't I?”

-You know itㅋㅋㅋ

-Yeahㅇㅇ

-You just threw it away

“So anyone who paid for a subscription during that time can verify it, and I'll give them a small gift.”

Wouldn't it be unfair if subscription fees were deducted despite me not turning on the stream?

So I wanted to give those people a separate gift.

-Damnㅋㅋㅋㅋ

-For real??

-There must be quite a fewㅋㅋㅋ

“I'll give you plenty of time, so feel free to verify it. In the fan café.”

So, come to the fan café and leave a verification post.

Whether it's a burger or chicken, I'll make it more substantial than what you paid in subscription fees.

-...?

-?

-What??

“Why? What.”

-No, the fan café, seriouslyㅋㅋ

-There's a stream board, you knowㅇㅇ

-Wouldn't the stream board be better for verifying?

“Why are you acting like joining the fan café is so difficult?”

Our café didn't have any special procedure.

You just had to finish a few Q&As, and you could post and comment that same day—it had about as much security as an automatic door.

Why wouldn't you join such a lax café?

-Hmm.. Do I really have to join?

-More importantly, who are you?

-Who are you to force us to join a fan café…?

“Oh dear, the Alzheimer's is back.”

Was it because I was pushing the fan café on them?

When the viewers started complaining of dementia symptoms again, I hurried to prepare their medicine.

They must've built up a tolerance to the LaEx I'd prescribed earlier.

The timeless indie game where ten random people each choose one of 173 champions and fight on a battlefield….

-Oh, fuuuck

-Don't even turn on Rell

-This guy still hasn't come to his sensesㅋㅋ

-Ah! That asshole from back then!

“You all remember who I am a little better now, right?”

-This is fucking ridiculous

-Did this asshole know we hated it when he played Rell??

“Huh? No, I mean….”

I know how they react, at least.

But even if you hate something, sometimes you have to eat it.

How am I supposed to prepare a variety game every time?

Sometimes you need to have the same old comfort food, too.

-You did it knowing that…?

-I'll just go for a quick walk, I swear

“Hey, hey, where are you going?”

You already came back, so where are you going?

And actually, the 200 people in my stream right now were the sort who wouldn't go for a walk no matter what they said.

After all, they were the ones who came as soon as I turned on the stream despite the long Ice Age.

You could call them a truly hardened layer of concrete.

What do they call it these days?

Hopeless simps? I heard people shorten it to “hop-simps.”

-Hop-simps, my ass

-You're really making me want to go for a walkㅋㅋㅋㅋ

-Want me to show you what a simp is?

“You won't patch up your already-broken heads just by saying that.”

What am I supposed to do about this?

I guess I have to take responsibility for these 200 people to the very end?

-Gasp

-How are you going to take responsibility?

-Are you giving us burgers?

“Not burgers. I'll give you a fun variety game.”

Rell, LaEx, and so on.

I'd only shown them to force them to remember me at knifepoint, but I couldn't play games like that on a comeback stream, could I?

So I had a few games prepared.

“It looks like all I did was rest, doesn't it?”

Saying that, I showed them the list of games I'd already added to my library.

With nothing to do in Paris, I'd found some variety games.

Looking for them while lounging around in bed, I'd ended up with quite a lot.

-Damnㅋㅋㅋㅋ

-No, what is all this?

-You actually came prepared for once

“Yes, there are lots of fun games here.”

Saying that, I entered one category in the game list.

Story games.

Starting with the famous Turnabout Trial, When the Geese Cry, The Melancholy of Hirui, and so on.

Long-form masterpieces we could enjoy at leisure all night with viewers….

-??

-What the fuck

-You brought those to play?

“Huh? Right?”

I even bought them already. What's the problem?

-(Potato emote)(Potato emote)

-Zzzzz~~

-Your taste is totally dead~~

-Just play them, fuckㅋㅋㅋ

-Are we supposed to watch that and fall asleep??

…Oops, do they hate this that much?

Can't everyone just think of it like watching a movie?

They watch streamers' watch-alongs just fine.

Well, I admit the games are pretty long, so they might get boring.

“Oh, and we have to call back the people who left, too, right?”

Anyway, enjoying variety games is all well and good.

But wouldn't it be nice if the people who left came back and watched too?

-??

-?

-Apparently they went off to run a marathon..

“What meaning is there in a marathon if you leave the course?”

Huh? If they don't come back, that's a jailbreak, not a marathon.

From this moment on, we're going after the runaway ninjas.

-But how do we catch them?ㅋㅋㅋ

-They ran away because you didn't turn on your fucking stream

“Hmm.”

Well, based on my experience so far,

if I streamed steadily, they'd gradually come back,

but it's not like I have enough free time to stream steadily again.

“Isn't there a big server somewhere~?”

-?

-??

-ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

-Streamer Wayo.

-This guy's gotten hooked on freeloading

…Isn't anyone running a big server?

It'd be nice to promote my comeback while participating in a big server and show the viewers something new.

Turns out people liked big servers and collabs more than I thought.

Well, I knew they liked collabs ever since the old Dowon Gyeolui days,

but since they seemed to like them even more, I planned to do them occasionally, even if not often.

“No, it's not about freeloading.”

In that sense.

Isn't it about time for another big server?

It's been a while since the last one.

I'll have to poke around and see what's available~.

**

And so, the day after I decided to look for a big server.

[Hello, Wayo. This is Jijijik's official content team.]

Maybe because I'd left my computer sitting unused for quite a while, I was sorting through my backlog of stream-related emails

when I spotted one that had arrived just yesterday.

Jijijik's official content team?

I hadn't received many direct emails from Jijijik, so I opened it suspiciously, and—

Alongside a huge banner, some eye-catching words jumped out at me.

[All of Jijijik's VTubers have gathered!]

[The Life Server! Show off your unique RP!]

[(Inc.) Jijijik Production Support]

“Huh?”

The Life Server?

I combed through the instructions attached to the email as thoroughly as if they were a contract,

and soon understood exactly what was going on.

“Lucky me.”

I'd been planning to look for one myself.

But by sheer coincidence, a big server had practically been served up on my dinner table.