Chapter 38

Name：I, Who Was Ridiculed as a “Video Game Otaku and Creepy” and Dumped by My Childhood Friend, Was Actually the Winner of a World E-sports Tournament. Author：Tsugaya
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Meeting Rinka Sakurada

Translated by NotBlueYet

Edited by Kingavent

“Come in!”

When Shirase-san knocked, a reply came back.

The voice sounded familiar.

“Excuse me.”

We followed her into the conference room.

“I’m sorry to keep you waiting.”

“No, no, it’s no problem at all.”

There was a girl sitting there who could best be described as cute.

She had beautiful blonde hair that reached about the level of her chest and was wavy.　

She looked as if she could be described as a princess from some other country.

“It’s nice to meet you in person for the first time, isn’t it? My name is Rinka Sakurada.”

Rinka bowed her head.

“Nice to meet you, I am Takamori.”

“My name is Rio Natsume.”

We shook hands with Rinka.

Rinka is a popular Vtuber.

She usually streams through two-dimensional characters.

Rinka is what we call a “person in the middle” now.

“Thank you for the collaborative stream the other day.”

“I’m glad to hear that. Thanks to you, Rinka’s channel has been getting a lot of traffic.”

Rinka has more than three times as many subscribers to her channel as I do.

“I was the one who got all the buzz!　Takamori-san’s clippings are amazing.”

“Did you see it?”

“Of course I did.”

Naturally, a video of the clipping of the live stream in collaboration with Rinka was also made.

I think the number of views exceeded one million.

The video is one of the most viewed of all my clippings.

“By the way, are you two dating?”

Rinka suddenly interrupted.

“Heh.”

“We’re not, you know, in a relationship or anything. ……”

Rio has an innocent expression.

It’s simply adorable.

A serious expression when playing a game is good, but such an expression is also attractive.

I guess it’s called “gap moe”.

Unintentionally, I fell in love with Rio.

“I wondered if it would be okay for me to make a move on Takamori-san.”

With a devilish expression on her face, Rinka twines her arms around me.

“Absolutely not!　Please get away from him!!!”

Saying that, Rio pulls Rinka away.

“Ryo is going to the world championship with me!”

Rio utters, her face flushed red.

“Haha, it looks like there’s no room for me in this…”

Rinka looks like a child whose prank has succeeded and smiles happily.

“I was selfish to meet you today. Thank you.”

“No, I wanted to meet you too.”

“Let’s do another stream together again!”

“Of course.”

The stream between me and Rinka became such a hot topic that it trended on social networking sites.

“Well, we’ll leave you to it.”

“Excuse me.”

I said, and left the conference room.

“Somehow, she was an amazing person.”

“Ryo seemed happy to have her arms around you, though!”

“No, don’t be so mad at me.”

“I’m not mad!”

No, you’re cute, huh?

Rio walked away briskly.