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Not long after I visited Rain’s house, I met with her again.

“Please come in, it’s a bit shabby, but…”

“No, no. It’s nice!”

We decided to meet at my house. After all, I had no intention of ever going to Rain’s house again…

From the beginning, I had spoken up to her father with no plans to meet again. Well, since he’s a politician, there’s a chance he might find out later, but that’s Rain’s concern to handle.

Honestly, it’s Rain’s fault for hiding the fact that she’s broadcasting.

While I pondered these thoughts, I guided Rain to the living room.

“Hey, is that Bok-sil?”

“Ah, that’s right.”

“Wow… she’s so cute.”

It seemed Rain had seen Bok-sil on my broadcast, as she squealed at the sight of the pet lounging in the living room.

“Do you like dogs?”

“I love them!”

“Bok-sil likes people, so go say hi.”

As soon as I gave her permission, Rain hesitated for a moment before slowly approaching Bok-sil.

Bok-sil, curious about the stranger approaching her, got up cautiously.

…Is Bok-sil getting old? She used to jump all over the place, but these days, she’s quite well-behaved.

“Can I pet her?”

“Go ahead.”

“Wow, wow…”

Seeing her gently petting Bok-sil, it was clear how much she truly loved dogs.

“Is she that great?”

“I’ve dreamed of having a dog since I was little. But my mom is allergic.”

“Ah…”

I guess that makes sense, then.

It seemed Bok-sil was also enjoying the presence of a stranger petting her after such a long time.

Should I play with her more often? Maybe it’s just that she’s sulking since I’ve been too busy to bother with her lately.

“Oh, right. Speaking of which…”

At that moment, as Rain was petting Bok-sil, she suddenly brought up a topic.

“Did you really graduate from S University?”

It seems she was curious since we vaguely danced around the subject last time.

“Of course, that was a lie.”

“Ah…”

The brief silence that followed stung a bit.

It’s frustrating that even when I’m not lying, the reality prohibits me from saying it outright.

Kim Soo-hyun is still related by blood to me, after all.

If only she studied a bit harder to get into S University.

Should I retake the entrance exam or practice tests as content?

It might be pushing it at this point to go to college, but I would like to prove my skills on a broadcast someday.

“So, how did you chat with your dad?”

After a moment of silence, Rain seemed to recall how naturally she had talked with her father, who is from S University, and asked that.

Well… if you’re curious, I can tell you something.

“Actually, I attended S University in my past life. I reincarnated and lost that education.”

“…Huh?”

When I mixed about 80% truth into my words, Rain’s expression became a bit strange.

“Oh, is that so?”

The way she casually brushed it off made me chuckle.

She seems to have a kind nature, a reason why the manager likes her.

“Shall we head to my room?”

“Oh right.”

The reason I invited Rain today was to talk about tracks.

Having officially joined Miro Family, we need to start cranking out some tracks, right?

Since I skipped the interview and was rapidly inserted into the group, I plan to start work just as quickly.

With that thought, I guided Rain into my room.

“Your room is quite tidy.”

“My mom helps clean it.”

My room is periodically cleaned by Mrs. Jang, so it’s always reasonably neat.

Well, I don’t make too much of a mess, to begin with.

“Ah, I do that too.”

“How about your workshop?”

“…I handle that myself.”

Well, that’s to be expected.

My room definitely feels entirely decorated to my tastes, so it’s likely untouched by my mother’s touch.

“By the way, it would have been better to discuss tracks in my workshop…”

As Rain glanced around the room, she mentioned a fact that momentarily left me speechless.

It’s true; talking about the track should have been done in her workshop with all the audio equipment. But oh well.

I had already made a deep commitment not to go to Rain’s house again.

“…Today, I only intend to brainstorm concepts, so it’s okay.”

And, huh? I’ve worked on a ton of tracks over the past two years.

I can roughly sketch a concept with just a notebook and pen.

“Alright, let’s decide on one.”

Thus we began the formal meeting about the track.

**

A few hours later, after kicking off the meeting with Rain.

After a time longer than expected, we finally managed to form a rough outline.

“Shall we call it a day for today?”

“Oh yes, sounds good.”

After chatting together for quite a while in the same position, I felt a bit stiff.

To relieve my body, I stretched lightly and reached my arms out, feeling Rain staring at me.

“Why are you looking at me like that?”

“Not that… Have you done many of these meetings?”

“Meetings?”

“Ah yes, you seem very skilled at it.”

“Hehe.”

Being praised like that feels good.

It’s nice to hear compliments from a college student about my song work.

“I’ve done a few.”

“Oh…”

“Of course, I ended up riding the bus for far more work.”

I’ll admit, a lot of tracks were made while riding the bus.

Most notably, I worked closely with composers Kang Woo-hyeon and Hyeon-su.

“By the way, would you like to have dinner?”

“Oh yes, I’ll eat.”

“Um… but it still feels quite early.”

“True, it’s still afternoon.”

We met around lunchtime and worked on the track for several hours, yet it’s still too early for dinner.

However, since she’s here already, it feels a bit disappointing to send her away early…

“How about we broadcast instead?”

“Huh? Right now?”

Since it was quite a trip to her house, why not do a collaboration stream?

“What do you think? It’s the first collaboration stream of Miro’s third batch.”

“Um… that sounds good…”

Rain hesitated for a moment but didn’t outright refuse.

Oh? Even if I seem like this, I’m known as a deity in the Celestial Realm.

For our junior, doing a stream with me could pave her path.

“Then I’ll set it up right away.”

With Rain’s acceptance, I quickly prepared the broadcast setup and started the stream.

[Surprise Junior Invitation]

-???

-What is this??

-Who called us?

Since this was a guerilla stream without prior notice, the chat was already in a frenzy from the start.

“Um, um, can you all hear me well?”

-Yes, yes

-Who’s here today??

-They started the stream early.

-Are you going to stream again for dinner later?

“No. We started now, so there won’t be a stream at dinner.”

-??

-LOL

-You should continue on with the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

“Anyway, let me introduce our guest.”

With that, I immediately passed the microphone to Rain.

“Um… should I just start?”

“Be comfortable.”

“Um, um… this is Rain from the Celestial Realm, third batch!”

-???

-Third batch?

-Oh LOL, that’s her.

-This is totally unexpected LOL

Honestly, this collaboration might seem quite sudden from the viewers’ perspective.

They probably didn’t even know I visited Rain’s house a few days prior.

However, perhaps because Rain made a ground-shaking impression on her debut broadcast, most of the viewers seemed to recognize her.

[Thank you OO for the donation of 1,000 won!]

Why are they suddenly collaborating?

“Well, we met today for work and decided to stream.”

-Is there something big coming?

-You mean you’re not paying attention to the third batch? LOL

“…Well, that just happened.”

Thinking about it, since we’re both in the Celestial Realm, it’s normal to not be able to avoid hanging out just because she’s two batches below me.

This could be seen as a natural flow.

“Alright, our junior will take the lead in the broadcast, so please kindly drop some nice comments in the chat.”

“Huh? Me?”

After I chatted with the viewers enough, I handed over the broadcast reins to Rain.

In fact, the only time I ever saw Rain broadcasting was during her debut stream.

Since then, she had streamed many times, so I was curious to see how she does it now.

“Um… the weather is nice, right?”

-I don’t know, I’m not going out.

-It was freezing cold for me!

“Ah, I see…”

Rain looked a bit flustered as she checked the chat.

Hmm, that chat could be pretty unfriendly for a newcomer.

Still, she has to tough it out.

One day, she too might be faced with such comments, so getting accustomed early on could help.

“Um… where am I? I’m at Miro’s senior house.”

While I relaxed into a comfortable position, I watched from the bed as Rain skillfully captured the rapid-fire chat questions.

Actually, speaking of a collaboration, we didn’t have a solid content plan.

I thought I might run the auto-hunting for a moment while I figured out what to focus on for our joint stream.

As I lounged back comfortably, observing Rain’s backside as she streamed, I mulled over ideas for our collaboration content.

“What’s Miro-senpai up to right now? Um… uh?”

Rain looked around and noticed I was missing, turning her head back to me.

“…What are you lying down for?”

“Oops.”

Hmm… she caught on quicker than I expected.

I got up naturally and walked over to her side.

-What the hell LOL

-What were you lying down for? LOL

-This guy won’t do, huh?

“Today was a long day, so I was just taking a little break.”

-Didn’t the junior participate too??

-But just resting? Tsk, tsk.

“Ah, but Rain junior did well too.”

I realized when we were discussing the tracks that she understood everything immediately as she spoke, perhaps due to her university background.

It isn’t quite fair to compare, but working with Loa and Harbin feels like a whole different level of stability.

[Thank you OO for the donation of 1,000 won!]

By the way, what was Rain’s first impression of Miro?

“Um… what was my first impression? Extremely… pretty?”

-Really??

-Wow, is that true?

-Miro-senpai, that’s unexpected!

“Oh, don’t say that.”

“Uh-oh, did I just slip up?”

“Um, it’s not that.”

…I intended to tease her a bit, but when I saw her eyes flutter, I immediately backed off.

It seems that her inexperience with broadcasting makes her unsure of what is permissible to say.

“Our junior is also quite graceful in person, everyone.”

Well, there’s nothing wrong with giving compliments about appearance since people watching as VTubers tend to care about such things, even if they pretend not to.

-Oh my!

-Why is the junior talking about red pills?

-Are you saying there’s a person inside the character?

“Oh dear…”

These people…

I went out of my way to compliment them.

“But speaking of today, we need to do some content.”

“Content?”

-Did you prepare something?

-Cool LOL

-Da Mi Ro.

“I thought of something while lying down just now.”

Originally, there was no content planned, but just at that moment, something struck me.

“After all, I am the senpai.”

-Yes, yes.

-Legendary senior.

“Ah, anyhow, we’ll have a session to teach our juniors about the traditions of the Celestial Realm.”

-Oh LOL

-Interesting, LOL

-That exists? LOL

“Celestial Realm traditions?”

Rain looked at me as if she had never heard of such a thing, raising her eyes in surprise.

Given her expression, it was completely expected.

“This is a tradition that’s super useful for you, our junior.”

With that, I stood behind Rain and, like a kind tutor, placed one hand on her shoulder while I grabbed the mouse with the other.

“What… what are you doing?”

“Don’t worry; it’s something a few senior members do.”

Click.

Reassuring her, I clicked on the familiar logo with the mouse.

“Alright, let’s give this a try.”

-??

-?

-???

Traditionally popular among the first and second batch of Celestial Realm members.

[From the first birth of life beneath the surface…]

This game, representing the Celestial Realm just like Romance of the Three Kingdoms, is Civilization.

Can we gather four players soon?

We can probably do multi on a small map next time.

 

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