Waiting

[Wayo's Big Server -The End-]

(Wayo going out of business)

This time, it really blew up.

-For realㅋㅋㅋㅋ

-That was simply the peak of the streamㅇㅇ

-Who carried the collab? WayoTubeㅋㅋ

[Did someone call Wayo a cardsharp?]

(Wayo composited with a famous lawyer from the underworld)

Apologize to Attorney Wayo, you bastards.

-For real, Attorney Wayo was fucking incredible

-How many jobs does Wayo even have?

Wayo was good at lawyering.

ㄴ They've got Turnabout Trial experienceㅇㅇ

[But was what Wayo did actually lawyering?]

Wasn't it just stubbornly arguing? Hmm…

-Isn't lawyering just stubbornly arguing in the first place?

ㄴ For real

ㄴ Arguing well is lawyeringㅋㅋㅋ

-The law's one thing here and another there, so the key is arguing from precedent.

ㄴ There is no precedent.

ㄴ That's why they can be even more recklessㅋㅋ What they're arguing now becomes precedent.

[But Wayo does have a way with words]

Weren't they just a top-lane maniac? They beat down the police so coherently.

-Top-lane maniac is just a conceptㅇㅇ

ㄴ That means the concept is accurate..

-Do you think an elite who logs into Silicon Valley Online for work looks like a nobody?

ㄴ For real, a cardsharp's brain works differently.

ㄴ Wasn't Wayo an executive's parachute hire??

ㄴ How many fucking jobs does this bastard haveㅋㅋ

[Feeling the popularity of Wayo's office at its peak]

(An office packed with VTubers)

What happened when they left their desk for one dayㅇㅇ

They really were insanely popular.

-They're simply perfect for situational WWE.

ㄴ For real, the way they put on moves makes no sense.

-You can just commit a crime and go to Wayo, and boom, one YouTube videoㅇㅇ

ㄴ That's exactly rightㅋㅋㅋ

[Is Wayo really going to break out this time??]

The hype on the server right now is insane.

-Honestly, they haven't taken off as much as their abilities deserve. Their ability is definitely top-company level.

ㄴ Top company? Hmm.. Are they really at that level?

ㄴ Do you think the queen of indie VTubers looks like a nobody??

ㄴ Queen (only because the house was empty)

-It depends on Wayoㅇㅇ

ㄴ For real, if they take another break, they'll tankㅋㅋ

[Wouldn't Wayo crush everyone if they really streamed full-time?]

Wayo without taking breaks? No stopping them.

-For real, 24/7/365 Wayo really would be unstoppable, wouldn't they?

ㄴㅋㅋㅋ Does 24/7 mean you want Wayo to die??

ㄴ If you're going to stream full-time, that's the minimumㅇㅇ

-Fact) Wayo cares about work-life balance now.

ㄴ Ah…

ㄴ K-

ㄴ This is what Wayo is all aboutㅋㅋ

[Why would Wayo stream full-timeㅋㅋ]

(Photo of Wayo's watch)

(Wayo's cooking stream, marble dining table)

For them, streaming is just something to do for fun and a hobby when they're not workingㅇㅇ

Even when their stream made next to nothing, they used to stream until they cleared games.

-For real

-But seriously, what is their actual job?

ㄴ They're a lawyerㅇㅇ

ㄴ For real??

ㄴㅋㅋㅋㅋ

ㄴ Now they're even a fucking lawyerㅋㅋ

[Did Wayo post a break announcement??]

(Upvote this so others can see it)

Of course notㅋㅋ

-Ah fucking hellㅋㅋㅋ

-I thought they were taking another breakㅋㅋㅋ

-Do we have a stream tomorrow??

ㄴ Yeahㅋㅋ

ㄴ Kya, what's gotten into them??

[Wayo's finally come to their senses]

Turn on the stream and let's start with the Chang-pop Ideal Type World Cupㅇㅇ

-When was Chang-pop again?

ㄴ For real;;

-Info) Turnabout Trial 5 starts tomorrow.

ㄴㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

ㄴ That's the Wayo spiritㅇㅇ

[Tomorrow, they're doing one of Last Exit, La Ex, or Turnabout Trial, so]

Go watch the stream if any of those are your thing.

-It's just a buffetㅋㅋ

ㄴ ?

-It already reeks of shit..

-How long are they going to keep doing Turnabout Trial, for fuck's sake?

ㄴ For real

ㄴ That shit is so boring, haㅋㅋ

[You shouldn't give Wayo story games]

They just click through them, so they end up playing all night.

-For real, they never get tiredㅋㅋㅋ

-They're just scrolling through it nonstop like a kid watching kids' YouTube, so no one can stop them.

ㄴ That's exactly right

ㄴ This bastard's comparison is spot-onㅋㅋ

-You idiotsㅋㅋ Do you actually watch Wayo's stream?

ㄴ A master;;

ㄴㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

ㄴ For real, you're actually watching thatㅋㅋ

**

Wayo Lawyer's Legal Counseling Office.

Although it was only open for five days, it generated an incredible amount of hype for me.

For one thing, hadn't I been involved in all sorts of incidents at the center of the server?

Well, Wayo Lawyer was a cold lawyer who only cared about cases, so I hadn't really grown close to my clients after their cases ended.

Even so, I'd definitely made a name for myself on the big server.

As proof.

[Hello, Attorney Wayo! I wanted to ask about something….]

[Thank you so much for last time, Attorney! The thing is….]

[Goddess! I'm the hero, but….]

My inbox was packed with collab emails just one day after the server ended.

Did they like how diligently I defended them?

Well… even I had to admit it was a highlight-reel show.

How many people had I gotten released, and how many sentences had I cut in half?

Really, it was no exaggeration to say I was at the center of the server.

Well, in that sense, maybe I should have kept playing on the server….

‘I burned down a field….’

‘I accidentally pushed someone into the ocean….’

…How was I supposed to defend these Satanic demons?

I could only mourn those who had once been lambs.

-But what are you doing now??

-What are you doing today?

Anyway.

I'd wrapped up the big server with its own -The End-.

Now it was time to play the next game with all the new viewers who'd come flooding in….

“Since we have lots of new viewers and the wanderers have returned, shall we do something classic?”

Along with the newbies, the viewers who'd wandered off had returned too.

It seemed fine to play something classic for the first time in a while.

-??

-What is it??

-If it's Turnabout Trial, I'm really leaving.

“No. I'm done with Turnabout Trial now….”

After playing lawyer throughout the big server, I was sick of trials,

and with the runaway viewers returning after so long, I planned to play a familiar game today.

“Ta-da~ Guess what game is back~”

Last Exit, of course!

The roguelike FPS masterpiece loved by young and old alike….

-?

-??

-Didn't you quit this game??

“Erm, I may have neglected it for a little while….”

Huh? I'd gotten busy with various things and lost interest after the tanker clear stream, but.

Apparently, a brand-new season had opened this time.

Still, I had to do an opening-day run for the season, right?

“And it looks like they added a lot of new stuff too?”

Maybe the game company had really gone all out this time, because they'd added all kinds of things.

The most unusual of them was the trait system,

where choosing negative traits gave you points,

which you could use to choose positive traits.

-Upvote if you don't careㅋㅋ

-Isn't that basically Zomboid?

-But is the seasonal server open?

“As luck would have it! I heard it opens at 8 p.m. today.”

And most importantly, the server was opening today.

In just one hour, no less.

How could I pass that up?

-Holy shitㅋㅋ

-No wonder they wrapped up the big server.

Now, now, what are you talking about?

It wasn't that I ended it to coincide with the Last Exit season; what else could I do with all those Satanic demons around?

“All right, shall we pick our traits first?”

Anyway.

Since I'd decided to do an opening-day run,

I first picked the traits I would select upon logging into the server.

“It'd be better to take the Bleeding trait, right? I can just use a healing item anyway.”

-Go go go

-?? ㄴNo, Excessive Bleeding is insane.

-Maybe don't take any?

“I'm a VTuber too, so I have to take something.”

At a glance, going in without taking anything seemed viable too, but….

I'm a VTuber, aren't I? So I picked traits while consulting the viewers.

-How much would you pay to remove a trait?

-But can't you remove them here?

“There is no such thing.”

-?

-You've completely lost your touch~~

-Open the missions already;;

Well, there was almost some funny business in the middle, but I cut that off immediately.

You want me to play with only negative traits? Do you want me to die of frustration or something?

“Oh, and apparently these are the patch notes.”

After picking the traits, I went through the patch notes with the viewers,

and the contents were very interesting.

-(Potato emote)(Potato emote)

-Wake me up when they're done reading it~~

-If you're going to read all that, go take the CSAT, you idiotㅉㅉ

“No.”

…Well, our viewers didn't seem to find them interesting.

Then again, were they the ones playing the game? I was.

“Now! The White! Reaper! Comes! Out! Every! Night!”

Everyone seemed sleepy, so I read the notes very loudly and clearly.

-No fucking wayㅋㅋ

-What the hell was that noise?

-I'm wide awake now;;

“Everybody wake up!! Rise and shine!!”

-Hey, you bastard

-My fucking earsㅋㅋ

-What was that surprise scream??

-Is this normally what this stream is like??

“This! Will! Be! On! The! Test!!”

Shouting that, I underlined the part where it said the White Reaper appears.

Better not go to the nighttime maps.

After experiencing them on the tanker, I learned those things weren't human.

Well, since they're AI, I suppose that's obvious?

Anyway….

Bzzzt!

[Aseong: What? What happened?]

Other than Aseong contacting me because I'd shouted unusually loudly, reading the patch notes went smoothly.

[Me: Coffee run pls]

Since Aseong had contacted me anyway, I also had them fetch coffee.

We were doing the opening-day run today, after all. Their night's sleep was as good as ruined.

-Kyaㅋㅋㅋ Pulling an all-nighter, kyaㅋㅋㅋ

-Didn't you say you weren't going to send them on coffee runs anymore?ㅋㅋ

“That cooldown has reset.”

When did I say I'd never ask again? I just gave them a brief break.

Besides, Aseong would feel restless if I stopped sending them on coffee runs too.

And the lady café owner probably missed Aseong too, so it's a win-win.

Anyway.

“That's the end.”

-Finally, it's over, fuck

-Can we turn the volume back up now?

-When does the server open?

Now we'd finished reading the patch notes,

and picked which traits to take, so all we needed was for the server to open….

“It's laaate….”

I shot the clock a sidelong glance.

[20 : 12]

Didn't they say it would open at eight?

Even though it was time to open, it still just said it was patching.

-ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

-You trust game companies??

-It'd be easier to play tomorrow morningㅇㅇ

“Well… it might be a little late.”

Last Exit's servers often opened later than the scheduled patch time, after all.

It would be easier if I assumed this was one of those times.

Still, it should open around ten or eleven, right?

Even that would be two hours past the announced time.

-Then what do we do in the meantime??

-Are we just wasting our time?

Of course, that's a fatal amount of time for a streamer.

Good grief—waiting for a patch means just sitting around for two or three hours?

It would be better to turn off the stream and come back than get flamed for that.

“Hmm… Shall we play another game?”

What game could we play for a bit?

Shall I open a vote for some fun roulette?

-Zomboid??

-Let's play the Zomboid that came up earlierㅇㅇ

-Isn't Zomboid just zombie Last Exit??

As I agonized over it,

the Zomboid fans began spamming the chat.

What was this?

Looking at the usernames, most of them were unfamiliar.

Ah, they must be people who'd joined recently.

“What do you mean, Zomboid?”

No wonder.

I'd been wondering why the Zomboid fans I'd purged before were here.

Zomboid.

Naturally, it was a famous game.

Wasn't it one of those cute games where you smack zombies around?

But… its graphics didn't look all that good, and the game didn't seem difficult either.

Even so, it was popular, and after the Zomboid fans kept whining, I'd purged them back then.

-?

-??

-No, it's really different when you play it;;

Well, that was all in the distant past now.

Yeah… the Zomboid fans' grave had finally been forgotten.

Did big-name VTuber Wayo need to keep up with them too?

“Erm, should I play it until the server opens?”

I couldn't keep driving viewers away forever.

Sometimes you have to play an industrial-grade game.

-Go go go go

-For real??

-Wait, you're playing Zomboid??

-Kyaㅋㅋㅋㅋ

And most importantly.

My internet friends wanted it so badly, so I could at least give it a try.

-But it's fucking hardㅋㅋㅋ

-Please don't abandon it right away

“If it's fun, I'll keep playing it for you.”

Well, I couldn't imagine it being all that fun, though.