I May Be a Virtual Youtuber, but I Still Go to Work - Chapter 131

**Specific.**

With the social audio feature supported by Z, VTubers who often need advanced equipment for broadcasts sometimes find it hard to go live. So, they use it like a radio to provide fan service.

Imagine waking up with a groggy voice or just as you’re about to fall asleep, like ASMR content that makes you feel as if a real girlfriend is next to you. Despite being very brief, it’s the kind of content that true fans absolutely cannot miss.

“So, Princess, what are your plans from now on? Care to share them with your mother?”

In this setting, Bajubi generously showcased the voice he usually revealed once every two months on the SPAY.

Excitement was high for the joint dubbing play with Majia, and Bajubi gave his all. This ramped up the expectations for Majia even further.

It was shocking how someone you didn’t expect was so serious about role-playing.

Could today’s star, Majia, really afford to be casual?

— Majia, you must speak up now~

— Your mother is calling you; are you just going to sit there? LOL

— Princess~

— Answer her this instant!!

— Oh, Princess hehehe

Of course, most people were just hoping to see Majia being adorable with her cute voice and charming antics, ready to go off the rails.

It didn’t matter if she did well or not.

Surely, anything she did would snag some clips for later viewing, right?

There were many spectators fuming with vengeance directed at Majia.

But Majia never acted in a way that fit the typical image of a “10-year-old princess.”

She had promised Bajubi that she’d speak normally, and as the host of this stream, who could that be but Bajubi himself?

As it was with previous collabs with first-generation members, if there was a prominent VTuber beside her, she never sought to upstage herself.

Once Bajubi started with the informal “hae,” viewers were blindsided by her casually dropped line.

“Mother, I’m only ten years old, so I don’t want to bear such heavy responsibilities. To put it simply, I don’t want to be a princess. I’d rather watch the royal musicians play during that time. Please understand.”

— ?

— LOL

— No way! LOL

— Just act like a princess, for crying out loud! LOL

— She’s just acting like herself, isn’t she? LOL

— This is ruining the clips, oh noooooo!

Surprisingly, this unfiltered dubbing by Majia didn’t stray too far from the princess image in *Never Cry, Princess*.

It’s a game where a young girl ends up shouldering heavy responsibilities and growing into a splendid adult.

Ten years old? That’s the age when kids are carefree, hanging out with friends, or getting engrossed in something, losing track of time!

Even Bajubi could tell that he rather liked Majia’s seemingly half-hearted dubbing.

“She’s just like the princess I expected…! Still young, not knowing much about the world and just goofing around… I love it…!”

“Jubi, focus! You’ve got to immerse yourself!”

“Oh. Hmm. Ahem. I apologize, my dear motherly instincts carried me away with my cute daughter’s antics.”

In any case, the princess’s characterization was decided rather haphazardly.

She found delight in watching the court musicians dance and romp among themselves, a beautifully peculiar trait.

Plus, since *Never Cry, Princess* is such a free-spirited game, there were indeed similar traits that existed as starting characteristics for princess characters.

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Immediately, it was “falling for the musicians.”

Every time something happened, she’d rush to the musicians, making it hard to progress normally in the game, so people wouldn’t often pick that one. During a high-difficulty challenge, it would randomly appear as an added trait.

Bajubi personally chose that trait for the princess character and said to Majia, “Well… Since you’re still young, you can act freely for a while. Just don’t do anything to shame the royal family, alright?”

“Okay!”

— No way! LOL

— She’s watching musicians instead of studying or training! LOL

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:: Not doing what you’re supposed to (debut), falling for the musicians (VTuber) … Huh? ::

— ?

— Oh

— LOL

— Wait, isn’t she just normal Majia? LOL

That trait was pretty much a debuff.

Yet, there couldn’t have been a better fitting trait for Majia—the naughty princess concept—than this one.

Immediately jumping up and down in excitement upon hearing from a storyteller about the new musicians debuted in neighboring lands, she was precisely the ten-year-old daughter living in her own world.

“Mother! Apparently, there are musicians in the neighboring kingdom who dance so well. I want to see them, please let me go!”

— This is way longer than the original text, LOL

— Ooh

— Look at her selfishness! LOL

— She’d get abducted right away! LOL

— Come on, Majia!!

But in *Never Cry, Princess*, as the title suggests, it’s a pretty harsh game for the princess.

If you’re bored, you get kidnapped. If you’re bored, you get poisoned. If you’re bored, you get cursed.

Unless you’ve equipped ample defenses or spend a ton of money on security, stepping outside the kingdom leads straight to a bad ending.

If you nurture them well while possessing that trait, you might just complete one of the happy endings, ‘Celestial Musician’—

But the difficulty is truly among the worst of the worst.

How do you think the surrounding nobles view a princess, let alone a royal daughter, who has no interest in studying affairs and is only focused on dancing and singing?

They’d be attacking her from all sides, while in the midst of it all, the player (the queen) might even get assassinated; events that lead to bad endings come crashing in without pause.

For a bad ending to not happen, the queen must survive.

And while dealing with the nobles’ schemes, maintaining a royal dignity, the princess must become a musician without stepping down from her position—the completion of ‘Celestial Musician’ ending.

There’s just too much to care about, and with so many instances where the game can explode unexpectedly, even seasoned players have tried and never returned to replay that route.

… However, as mentioned earlier, today Bajubi’s gameplay was focused on completing “full dubbing” and role-playing.

While it seemed like Majia wasn’t really acting, well, that was just the perspective of the viewers.

Bajubi was quite satisfied with Majia instinctively picking choices as little ‘golden’ moments unfolded.

“Can you give me just a month, dear mother? To get to the neighboring land feels dangerous, and I need a bit of preparation.”

“Awh, no, no! I want to see them right now! I want to see, see, see, see, see!”

— It’s for Jia!!! It’s for Jia!!!!!!

— It’s for Jambi’s tooooooo!!

— I can’t take it anymore! LOL

— You crazy little one!

But now the viewers were simply waiting for Majia to break down.

It had to be impossible for them to believe that she had just been caught again, right?

“Full dubbing,” they said.

Yet, she was merely whining in her usual ‘golden’ tone when Bajubi, who was impeccably acting out as the queen, was right beside her.

Of course, since her regular voice was quite childish, it wasn’t too jarring. Yet the viewers wanted something entirely different, and that was frustrating.

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:: You’ve cleared the game, so just do the princess voice properly! ::

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:: I came here expecting a princess, but what I’m seeing isn’t a princess at all!! ::

These folks were prepared for a ban, having been on the receiving end of Majia numerous times, and those who had immersed themselves in the parallel universe had already resigned themselves and were busy snagging Majia clips.

Though she was quite different from the cute princess they expected, her relentless whines of wanting to “see” were endearingly charming.

One might feel a strong urge to knock some sense into the little ones in real life. Still, they could also be embarrassed by it later when they showed it to Majia, calling it an ‘embarrassing mistake.’

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:: Stop telling her to act like a princess and just snag one more clip! LOL If not, this is going to become a ‘memory that never existed’! ::

Despite the audience’s concerns, for Bajubi, today’s broadcast could very well turn into a cherished memory—not that Majia would let that be forgotten.

— Huh?

— If it’s Majia, anything is possible.

— Majia’s magic, watch out!

— Just truly rotten and ugly, Majia!!

— Poor Bajubi’s precious memories! 😭

One donation spread a sense of dread, naturally causing talk of the princess not living up to princess standards to fade away.

And as Majia continued to ignore the viewers’ requests, behaving like a naughty little one, people’s gazes began to fixate on Bajubi.

“Alright then. Go, and I’ll prepare for you right away.”

“Mother is the best!!”

Every time Majia railed about wanting to go visit the neighboring land, Bajubi turned that into action in the game schedule, yet with each turn, the difficulty swelled exponentially.

Still, the bad ending never emerged, and somehow the game continued, leaving the viewers bewildered.

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:: Why isn’t a bad ending happening? ::

Was it because they got lucky, and a harsh event didn’t occur? That wasn’t it either.

Even talented players had to resort to the last measure of save loading due to numerous crises.

Bajubi was skillfully advancing through the game without needing any rewinds.

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:: Can’t you see? You’re dodging d*ath flags like a pro! LOL ::

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:: Under that ‘falling for the musicians’ trait, you’re holding up pretty well! LOL ::

Yet that didn’t mean the dubbing was sloppy.

When minor royalty barged into the office demanding that Princess Majia should be stripped of her royal title, her reaction was impassioned enough for people to recall it for a long time to come.

Even if she was merely reciting lines that had already been written, it would surely qualify as method acting.

“Everyone. If you’re going to debate responsibility with a mere fourteen-year-old, then perhaps you should just cast me out of the throne.”

“Is it not reasonable to hold me accountable for raising a flawed daughter?”

“Ah, would that lead to civil war? Are you afraid? Establish proof, and you would have justification… Oh, but shouldn’t I interfere? Too bad for you.”

Furthermore, she diligently responded to game-related inputs during donations and chat without a single slip-up.

She made no mistakes that are often seen when streamers’ focus drifts to their friends during collabs.

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:: Your majesty, it must be so hard raising such a little troublemaker… ::

“Not at all. As a mother, it’s what I’m supposed to do, so don’t praise me.”

— 😭😭😭

— How caring!

— *sniffle* 😭

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:: Wait, has this person done many Neckpro streams before? ::

— Heh.

— She did them when bored.

— Honestly, being a housewife is kind of boring.

— How much did she do? LOL

— About a week a month with those Neckpro streams, right…?

— When DLC came out, she played it all month… 😅

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:: I don’t avoid people when playing games; I ignore them when talking to people, but when I’m gaming, I don’t care! ::

Naturally, as people got curious about what games Bajubi likes to play, friendly fans began earnestly explaining who Bajubi was.

In that process, the immersion levels rose for those who found it to be their taste.

So, roughly two hours later, when Bajubi finally reached the ‘Celestial Musician’ ending after navigating all of Majia’s antics, most people could only be in awe.

**[ Celestial Musician ]**

: The world scoffed at you and your daughter, Majia. Yet, you succeeded in fulfilling your daughter’s one and only dream. From here on, regardless of what happens, your daughter will trust you completely and will do anything for you.

*~Happy End~*

— Wowwwwwwwwww

— They actually pulled this off! LOL

— All Majia did was be a nuisance; how did that happen? LOL

— A standing ovation for Bajubi!

— Awww, Mother! 😭😭😭

— This was so fitting for Children’s Day!

As the chat had mentioned, on Children’s Day, they had perfectly cleared the online equivalent of a child’s dream—albeit it being Majia—but it felt like a victory.

Everyone came in intending to craft a history of embarrassment for Majia, yet they seemed to walk away satisfied with a touching conclusion fitting for the occasion.

Had it just been a dubbing play, it’s doubtful they would’ve felt such emotions.

Because Majia had been obstinate and obstructive the entire time, everyone found themselves hoping for Bajubi’s victory in clearing the game.

While Majia had clearly been acting along, she nonetheless provoked the audience till the very end.

“Mother, did I really just obstruct your work? Was I a bad daughter?”

— Aww, this little stinker!

— You made it so much harder! LOL

— Sigh, you didn’t add any princess charm at all…

— Guess it’s just Majia being Majia.

Bajubi responded to that, and suddenly the chat was a sea of tears.

“No, I love you just the way you are, so it’s all okay.”

— 😭😭😭😭😭😭

— Oh, Mother!!

— Ahhh, we really didn’t think this through…

If the broadcast had ended right there, everyone would’ve left feeling surprisingly satisfied, even though it wasn’t the intended conclusion at all.

This was because people thought Majia would just be putting on a show of stunts alone the whole time.

When they peeked behind the curtain, they suddenly found that Bajubi had awakened and was conducting a magnificent show with two amazing streamers!

So, it wouldn’t have been an issue if they finished on that gentle note.

But Bajubi’s excitement surged without signs of stopping.

She was still a queen raising her princess right.

“Does my princess… love her mother a lot too?”

The line was obviously aimed at bringing the moment directly to the viewers, and by the time the ending rolled around, the daughter had already fallen head over heels for her mom.

The princess had certain things to say to the queen who had graciously listened to her obstinacies.

— Is she really going to say it?

— Will she?

— Please!

— No way, Majia will do it! LOL

— After all that, you still expect her to?

In the response to the chat, it was exactly the kind of statement she would typically avoid.

But wasn’t Majia here today because she wanted to apologize to Bajubi and connect with her?

If she wanted her to hear that, on this particular day, she might just muster the courage to say it.

… Well, only if it was for Bajubi, who she felt sorry for.

Soon, Majia spoke up.

“Yeah, I love you, Mom!”

Since the mic volume was muted, what reached the viewers after a three-second broadcast delay was only Majia’s sincere smile and a lot of mumbling.

The viewers, unsure of what she had said and not hearing her voice, felt a wave of despair wash over them.

A representative of the shocked audience vented their exasperation through donations.

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:: Why Bajubi only, why just you, why me, why, why, why? I’m going to spiral into darkness! I’m going to become black! I’m going to grow horns! I won’t forgive you, won’t forgive you, won’t forgive you! I want to hear you say you love me too! Hehehheh!! ::