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[Miro Bang-on LOL]

But damn, it’s another Romance of the Three Kingdoms, haha!

– Ah dammit

– Why another Romance of the Three Kingdoms?

[Miro Damn, stop paddling already]

Water’s pouring in like crazy, and she’s not even paddling by herself

While the other Celestial Realm kids are happily revving up, damn haha!

– For real, why isn’t she paddling?

– Yeah, but Miro’s growth rate is number one.

She’s not doing anything to grow, though!

– Isn’t Miro just trying to tickle some ants?

– Why would she do that?

– Because there’s a ton of trolls, that’s why.

[Miro is forgiven for playing Romance of the Three Kingdoms right now]

(Miro drinking party photo)

Just thinking about her face makes me smile, hahaha!

– For real!

– I’m super curious about how she looks normally, not just when she’s drunk.

– For real.

– Every time I see her, I’m amazed, haha!

[What the hell, if she’s going to do it, do it right]

I’m so frustrated, why is she with Kong Songchan?

– I don’t even know what’s what, to be honest.

– You could see it if you knew just a little.

– For real, there’s just no answer, haha!

– If she did better, it’d be fine, but it seems like this girl hasn’t played the Romance of the Three Kingdoms game much.

– For real, she seems to know a bit about the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, but not much about the game.

[But why has she been playing Romance of the Three Kingdoms for days?]

I knew she didn’t paddle during playtime, but she’s gone full throttle on the ant-tickling.

– Seems intentional, probably to catch the trolls.

– For real? Didn’t she just do it for fun?

– Yup, Miro regularly does the ant-tickling.

– She’s surprisingly smart about it.

– Miro’s always been like that.

[Miro’s launching LOL]

Out to catch Kong or whatever, hahaha!

– Kong is a dumbass too.

– Isn’t Kong Songchan a character of Miro? Why does the name overlap?

– It overlaps by nature.

– Why though?

– I don’t know.

[Miro about to be doomed LOL]

She’s about to crash hard, haha!

– Fact: She lasted longer than yesterday.

– For real?

– Yesterday, she just got hit from the start and went down.

– Lower the difficulty, maybe.

– Zhao Yun is super OP, so if you use him right, it’s doable.

[So late for the new song behind the scenes LMFAO]

She just throws it out.

How about the idiots who skipped it because it’s Romance of the Three Kingdoms? LOL!

– What’s that about spoiler?

– Yup, she’ll spill after Romance of the Three Kingdoms ends.

– Guess I should go right away.

– That was way too sudden, damn!

– Totally intentional.

[Miro: I don’t know Slim Gold]

Miro: Slim Gold is a fan of Miro’s streams.

This girl, hahahaha!

– She’s 1-tier in the shameless department, huh? LOL!

– If Miro says she doesn’t know, guess that’s that, haha!

[Wow, is this on broadcast?]

(Miro broadcast capture)

During the broadcast, she shows off her red pills while hilarious on a variety show, LOL!

– That’s wild, hahaha!

– Just straight up charging in, huh?

– Amidst all that, she calls herself pretty, LOL!

– With Miro, that’s acknowledged.

[Miro: That isn’t me]

Miro: So don’t spread rumors.

She just nailed it down, LOL!

– She really said this on a live broadcast, not an announcement.

– Wait, is that not Miro?

– This dude’s crazy, haha!

[Hey idiots, it’s not that Miro isn’t Miro]

She’s just a VTuber who asked not to mention the red pills, just setting a boundary.

Originally, there’s no need to mention it at all.

– Damn girl, mentioning her like that means she has to look good, right?

– For real, either less pretty or she wouldn’t mention it!

– If I were as pretty as Anna, I wouldn’t mention it either, haha!

– For real.

– Anna’s pretty too, you idiots.

– Prettier than Miro?

– Psh.

[Yeah, I’m gonna mention it LOL]

(Miro company dinner photo)

(Miro variety show capture)

Deny it all you want~ Just turn it around, haha!

– For real, what’s she going to do about it?

– If you’re jealous, just try being ugly, haha!

[But Miro just goes all in without hesitation]

Her guts to play her red pills variety show in her own broadcast, oh wow!

Is she really 21? That’s wild!

– Guess she’s confident in her looks.

– Yup, for real, haha!

– Just a daring kind of confidence!

– You could tell from when she was raiding civilizations or whatever.

While the community was burning with speculation about Miro,

a new log was thrown into the community.

It was, of course, the notice for the 2nd generation posted in the Celestial Realm café.

[What the heck is this?]

(Celestial Realm notice)

Official notice for the 2nd generation dropped, no?

– For real?

– Yup, for real!

– What now?

– It was said before that it was coming, but it’s actually here, haha!

[So, does the 2nd generation combined beat her?]

(Miro company dinner photo)

If they all combine, they beat Miro. – Downvote!

No way, don’t even joke about that. – Upvote!

– Damn, they’re using cheat codes for the Clan!

– Miro would have to combine with the Celestial Realm to win, lol!

– Is Miro really that strong?

– Just looking at her face says they won’t match her.

[What about the 2nd generation?]

(Harbin profile photo)

She flopped as a 1st gen and came to the 2nd generation, haha!

– Who is this?

– She was a strong candidate during the 1st gen audition but got eliminated.

– Haha, her stomach must hurt like hell!

– Ain’t that true!

– She disappeared suddenly but was preparing for the 2nd generation, huh?

[But can they handle the 2nd generation?]

Right now, this is the peak of the 1st generation live, wouldn’t they just get buried?

– Rather, the peak means they should take advantage of it!

– For real, coming out now seems better.

– But if they have the skills, they’ll stand out.

– Just one Miro-level talent would be enough to shine.

– That’s only natural!

***

Finally, the 2nd generation is debuting.

With the 2nd generation coming out when interest is peaking due to the end-of-year live and Miro’s original song, expectations and worries are mixed together.

Well, it seems the members of the Celestial Realm are mainly leaning towards excitement, though.

And it makes sense…

“Hey, look at this.”

Right now, everyone gathered in the café is really buzzing about the 2nd generation.

The dance lessons ended after the end-of-year live, and with schedules that were regularly meeting now gone, it seems Anna wanted to gather the members because she felt nostalgic.

So they gathered to talk about… the 2nd generation.

“Check the concept of these guys, it’s solid, right?”

“Totally. We’re all over the place, aren’t we?”

On Anna’s phone screen was the concept plan of the 2nd generation that had been revealed beforehand.

Honestly, unlike our 1st generation selected through open auditions where everyone had different concepts, the 2nd generation clearly fit the Celestial Realm concept, appearing much more angelic.

They have rings on their heads and wings of various styles behind them. Their outfits are not much different from modern clothing.

It looks like they’re concepted as having come from the Celestial Realm to the modern world, and each member has a distinct job.

For example, the Harbin from last time is a rapper.

The concept is that she has become a rapper after coming down from the Celestial Realm.

Hmm… not bad at all.

At least it’s a hundred times better than Miro who claims to be a little devil with horns on her head out of nowhere or Anna, who looks like an obvious peasant girl from some European countryside.

And aside from the two I saw last time, there are other members as well.

In total, there are six.

It seems they matched the number with the first generation to keep it balanced.

Having the same number of generations is convenient in many ways.

Also, the concepts seem to have a bit of synergy going on…

Isn’t it feeling like a proper generation unity?

There’s probably more to it than what the 1st generation brings, huh?

Or we can just go along with it.

“This is exciting, we could do collaborative streams together, right?”

Our loner Anna is clearly excited to have new juniors joining.

However, I feel my position is a bit awkward.

They’re my juniors, but… aren’t they all older except for the one who’s twenty?

I’m not sure how to strike up a conversation.

In the Celestial Realm, I was the youngest and everything felt easy when just using honorifics since we’re the same generation, but now if I use honorifics with the 2nd generation, it could mess up our hierarchy.

So I guess I’ll just have to drop the honorifics?

All for the sake of preserving the Celestial Realm’s genealogy.

“Are there any members you’re looking forward to? Choose one.”

While I was seriously contemplating the Celestial Realm’s genealogy, Anna was excitedly asking about the 2nd generation.

Well…

“I’m looking at this one. They seem bright and fun.”

“I like this cute one over here.”

“I’ve seen Harbin before on broadcast, and she did well.”

Others don’t seem all that different from Anna in terms of excitement.

“Right, Soo-hyun, didn’t you have an interview with the 2nd generation last time? Who did you see back then?”

The spotlight turned to me.

Interview? Well, I did have one…

“I saw Harbin and Seo Eun-ha.”

“Oh… how was it? You never shared any stories from that time.”

Of course, I didn’t tell the members about the interview back then. I intended to take that to my grave.

But if I’m just sharing my impressions…

“Hmm… Seo Eun-ha seems scary.”

That’s the impression I got.

“Scary? She looks cute though?”

“Not sure… I guess it’s a style we don’t have among us.”

Sure, we have people like Loa, who are cute but have an odd inside, but there’s no one like Seo Eun-ha who has that kind of mania.

“Wow, if Miro says she’s scary, how scary is she really?”

“Right? She must have something that’s scary.”

“Whoa.”

These people are making my own image weird for no good reason.

“But she’s not a bad person.”

Well, she is scary, but she’s not bad.

In fact, she’s probably more on the nice side. The passive and receding side I saw back then seems to imply she’s quite sensitive to others’ opinions.

Maybe not online.

“Hmm, I guess we’ll have to see.”

“Thank goodness she’s not a bad person.”

“Well, she probably won’t be scary towards the older girls.”

Just looking at them, they seem like true Miro fans, so they might find her cute instead?

I shrugged off the members’ gazes that seemed to be asking what I meant and took a sip of my drink.

By the way, the 2nd generation debut is actually coming soon.

Time sure flies by.

Come to think of it, even though the end-of-year live is over, there are still some big events lined up.

Starting with Hyeon-su’s album release, I heard Kang Woo-hyeon the composer is also releasing a new song this quarter… I need to find a time to chat with him.

By the way, isn’t promotion absolutely necessary? If the composer needs me, I can do my best for him.

Honestly, I think I can be fierce when competing against Hyeon-su’s album.

Hoping the composer will manage somehow, right?

And who was it… I also heard the ballad singer Lee Kang-jun is releasing a song, so there are events happening too.

There’s work starting tomorrow right away.

While my mind is bustling, the other Celestial Realm members seem to be so at ease.

I feel a bit envious.

“By the way, when was the debut for those kids?”

“Not much longer now, I think? It’s supposed to be one at a time.”

“Yeah, I think that’s better, keeps the viewers from splitting.”

“Right? And won’t we also collab with them?”

“Oh, really?”

“Since we’re the seniors, we should help!”

Since we had to deal with nothing back in our time, we ended up collaborating with big company YouTubers.

And they were guys too.

But things are quite different now.

I guess the juniors will lean on us instead.

I’m actually okay with them leaning on me.

If the Celestial Realm’s 2nd generation grows well, the viewers they bring in as 2nd generation members could turn into viewers for the 1st generation.

That’s how they set the stage.

1st generation influx, 2nd generation influx, 3rd generation influx, just like that, the membership grows and eventually, the subsequent generations will get to benefit too.

The more it piles up, the scarier it gets. One day, it could lead to thousands of viewers just based on the reason they’re new to the Celestial Realm Project.

Whether such a future comes true or not, who knows?

Still, the 1st generation was a success, right?

If the 2nd generation can just succeed, then from there, it should be much easier.

That day, after talking about the 2nd generation all day in the café, I went back home.

*

Ding-.

When I got home and lay down on my bed, a message came in at the perfect timing.

[Soo-hyun! We’re leaving tomorrow morning, right?]

It was a message from Tenshi.

I casually replied and glanced at the suitcase in the corner of my room.

Tomorrow.

I’m going to Japan again.

This time, I’m going to help Tenshi.

Well, and do some sightseeing too.

 

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