I Can See a VTuber’s Red Pills - Chapter 16
I read through the list Jungyeon brought.
Not only were there names, but the artist’s style and art were also attached as examples.
I listened to Jungyeon’s explanation as I roughly went through the list.
“I’ve organized it for now, but……”
“……?”
“Honestly, I’m worried if we can entrust them with the work.”
“Why?”
“Well… as much as I’ve narrowed it down, it means those artists are popular. So, there’s a 99% chance their schedules are already full.”
“Indeed.”
Her words made sense.
However, there’s one thing I’ve realized lately.
That is, money can solve anything.
“Contact them and say we’ll pay triple.”
“……Pardon?”
And.
“If they still say no, offer five times.”
“………”
If it’s impossible, one should consider if it’s due to a lack of money.
“As long as the quality is guaranteed, money doesn’t matter. So, let’s start by contacting them. Who knows? Maybe they’ll all rush to say they’ll do it.”
“……Yes, yes!”
Jungyeon, who looked like she was dying just moments ago, hurriedly got up from her seat.
And I stopped her as she was about to go back down to her own place.
“Ah, I didn’t mean you have to do it right now. You don’t seem to have rested, so take it easy. Working only during work hours is enough. People need to sleep. We do this all to make a living.”
“……I love you!”
“No, that’s still too much…… She’s gone.”
I received a confession once a day for the past three days.
Is this what they call love at first sight?
But I still find our relationship awkward.
“This is quite troublesome.”
A house in Japan.
A woman named ‘Fujii Haruna’ was drawing, her pen gliding across the tablet screen.
In the midst of it, an email arrived.
—Tiring.
“Hmm?”
While working on another commission that had come her way today, the alarm for her designated business email rang.
Haruna, glancing at the time, decided to take a short break, put down her pen, leaned back in her chair, and opened her email.
The first paragraph, naturally, was a request for avatar work for a virtual streamer, as it was an email to her business account.
She was about to politely decline as usual, due to her backlog of work, after reading only that far, but the subsequent content increasingly drew her in.
“……? ……! ……?! Eeeeh?!”
The content was as follows:
Sender: Rinne0911
Recipient: haruナ
Hello, Haruna-nim.
I heard that you are currently not accepting commissions due to a heavy workload, but I am sending this email despite the inconvenience.
It is an urgent matter.
I will pay three times the amount you usually receive from other clients.
If the work is satisfactory, I am willing to continue requesting work at this price in the future.
If you are interested, please reply.
There were two crucial points.
One was the offer to pay triple the usual rate.
The other was the willingness to continue commissioning at this price if the work was satisfactory.
Haruna, after reading the short but impactful email, thought deeply.
However, her deliberation didn’t last long.
“This… wouldn’t I be a fool not to do it?”
Such situations were occurring in various places in Japan and Korea.
Today is Ajung’s day off from streaming.
As such, it meant I also had free time today.
Normally, I would be busy on days like this, looking into various things, but not anymore.
I now have Jungyeon, someone who can be busy in my stead.
In that sense.
“Hmm. Is this one a B……?”
It had been a while, so I was browsing through various streams, once again picking out raw gems.
I’ve been pondering ever since I heard Jungyeon’s words.
Jungyeon’s question about whether I wanted to start a corporate-backed VTuber agency.
It keeps lingering in my mind.
With Jungyeon’s help in summarizing what a corporate-backed agency is, I now fully understand it.
So, do I really want to create one?
I don’t know.
I did want to get a job related to VTubers, but it wasn’t urgent.
Besides, honestly, all I needed was a business card for show, so starting a corporate agency felt like things were getting too big.
I was reluctant to be in a situation where I had to take responsibility for many people.
“Oh? Ah, what. She has a boyfriend.”
While lost in various thoughts and idly searching for new VTubers, I found an A-rank one.
But the sight of a man’s figure subtly appearing next to her completely turned me off.
It always happens like this.
When I search for a second Ajung, I find a few pretty people, though not as much as Ajung.
But strangely, a flaw is always discovered.
If I watch them over time, a man’s figure passes by occasionally, or when I rush over after hearing news of discovering a VTuber with a good voice in the gallery, I see the older sister I saw at an internet cafe back in the day, shooting guns.
“In the end, another bust today… Hmm?”
Scroll, scroll. As I was scrolling the mouse wheel up and down, a familiar stream caught my eye.
[Someone please kill me..]
[Rinne]
She did greet me saying she was coming to work earlier, but it seems she started streaming in the meantime.
Still, she seemed to be getting enough sleep since then, so I wondered why her stream title was like that.
[“Uwaaah… I’m so tired……”]
—Hey Rin, wake up
—But isn’t it a good thing?
—For real hahahahaha
—It’s actually a good thing, she’s so spoiled
—It’s a spoiled person’s悩み (nayami – worry/trouble) now
Next to Rinne’s… or rather, Jungyeon’s character, her real self is visible.
Jungyeon, flopped over her desk, sighing heavily.
[“It’s good… it’s good, but… how am I supposed to categorize all this… is what I mean… Honestly, they’re all so good that I’m having trouble choosing right now. I need to decide quickly to get the okay sign from our boss……”]
It seems there’s something she hasn’t told me yet.
[Zelnaga has sponsored 1,000,000 Butter!]
[What is it? What’s troubling you so much that you’re tired like this?]
—Gasp
—Gasp
—Gasp
—Busted..
—Our Rinne is not at fault ㅠㅠ
—Protect Rinne at all costs ㅕㅕㅕㅕㅕ
—Goodbye hahaha
—Not going far hahaha
I donated without much thought, and the chat went wild.
What should I say? It felt like the person being talked about behind their back suddenly showed up.
Surely Jungyeon wouldn’t badmouth me on stream.
And indeed.
[“Hey! Saying it like that makes me sound like I did something bad! It’s not like that! It’s just… I contacted the artists on the list I mentioned back then… and they all said yes, so now it’s our turn to choose……”]
It turned out that due to my mindless large-sum investment, all the artists had rushed to say they would do it.
As a result, Jungyeon’s position had changed from begging, ‘Please make just one avatar for me!’ to receiving requests, ‘Please let me make an avatar!’
Each of the people she contacted was well-known in the industry, and if she had her way, she’d want to commission work from all of them, but it wasn’t necessary to that extent.
“I get it.”
I understand why Jungyeon was grumbling so listlessly.
She herself would be agonizing over who to entrust the work to.
However, Jungyeon’s worries were, by my standards, truly a waste of time.
The solution was simple.
[Zelnaga has sponsored 1,000,000 Butter!]
[Just ask all of them to make one, and then pick the ones you like. Half for Ajung-nim, half for Rinne-nim.]
If they all said they’d do it, then just accept them all.
Rather, it was better that I could give Ajung options.
It’s more convenient to send several and let her choose the one she likes.
Jungyeon, who had her head down, sighing, slowly lifted her head at my words and looked at the screen with a dumbfounded expression.
[“………Huh?”]
—Hahahahahaha
—Hahahahahahahahahahaha
—He’s truly a crazy dude
—No, if you have that much money, give me some burgers ㅡㅡ
—Zelnaga-bro, why aren’t you giving out burgers these days?
—Are you already abandoning us now that you’ve sucked everything you can from the gallery?????
[“No, no, no, no, wait! Wait there!”]
—??
—No, what are you doing
—Abandoned again hahaha
—Running straight to her master as soon as he appears, fck
—What do you mean master, fcker, it’s her boss
—If he gives money, he’s the master
—For real hahahaha
As Jungyeon shot up from her seat, her avatar froze.
And a moment later.
“Boss!”
Jungyeon burst open the door and rushed into my room.
“What do you mean by that!? Just do all of them?”
“……? It’s exactly as I said. You said you were having trouble deciding, right?”
“No, that’s just an expression! How much would all of that cost!”
“I told you, didn’t I? Don’t worry about money for anything. Even the time spent worrying like that is a waste. In that time, you should be asking the artists to make avatars.”
“………Wow.”
—Clap clap clap.
Jungyeon, who had rushed in and poured out a torrent of words, now stood blankly and clapped her hands.
If she had commissioned the artists during the time she spent worrying, they would have already started making the avatars.
And I felt that even such time was a waste.
“……Boss.”
“Yes?”
“Perhaps… I know this is a very rude question, but……”
“……What is it?”
Jungyeon’s expression became very serious.
I’m a bit scared about what kind of question she’s about to ask.
However, contrary to my expectations, the question was, how should I put it, a bit deflating.
“……Exactly how much money do you have?”
Money, huh… Actually, I don’t know the exact amount either.
But roughly.
“Hmm. Enough to buy a few European football clubs and make them play civil wars against each other?”
I think that much should be comfortably possible.
However, it seemed my analogy didn’t quite resonate with Jungyeon.
“………So how much is that.”
The woman didn’t know much about football.