Chapter 27: Reason For The Short Stream

༺ Reason For The Short Stream ༻Monday at 8pm.

I sat in front of my computer with a cup of ramen close to my hand, bracing myself to welcome the idol next door.

Of course, I usually enjoyed watching the regular stream, but there was something I looked forward to seeing even more today.

[for fun stream, duo bot w/ clover unnie~]

Such a notice was posted this afternoon.

Since this was the first time they did a collab after the group stream, the Pink Army was really excited.

Even before their debut was announced, Luka and Clover were known to be close to each other.

A flood of greetings filled the chat shortly after the notification that the stream had started.

「Ah, ah. Can you hear me?」

The voice that came out was livelier than Doah’s usual voice.

「Whoa. Look at the number of viewers! You guys want to watch our collab that badly?」

Ever since her debut in Closer, Luka had been streaming more often, but today she was more fired up than usual.

Maybe if she did well, she’d reach 10,000 viewers today?

After the waiting screen faded out, Luka’s avatar was revealed.

Her hair bobbed lightly, maybe because Doah was shaking her head.

「When will Clover unnie come…? We promised each other to play at 8…」

-Tiriring

After the Voicecord notification sound echoed, Clover’s voice could be heard.

「Luka-chan~ Hiii~」

「Unnie. You just gave me a flashback to my childhood birthday party…」

「Huh? Birthday party?」

Laughing emojis were all over the chat, but Clover didn’t seem to get the joke.

Maybe because Luka’s chat was the only one who would make this kind of joke?

I had never seen Clover’s streams before, so I couldn’t tell what the atmosphere was like over there.

「You know, I invited you, but you didn’t come… so I thought I’d be all alone like during my birthday party…」

「Ack! Nonono! I was late because the update took more time than I expected!」

With her nice personality, Clover gave out a flustered response rather than retorting at Luka’s joke.

「Alright, Unnie, let’s start our intro!」

「Intro?」

「Since this stream will be uploaded on our channels later, let’s say our catchphrase!」

Ever since I got closer to Doah in real life, it was surprising to see her act like this.

At school, all she did was sit there and nod.

I swear, having a different persona really could give people more confidence.

「Eh…? Ah… Okay. Then I’ll try….?」

It seemed that her unexpected wit had caught Clover off guard and reversed their roles, turning Luka into the Unnie instead.

「Hello~ I’m your idol next door, Closer’s Clover!」

「I’m Luka~ Uwaa~~」

Their words made the viewers break into cheers in the chat.

「Luka-chan, what game are we going to play today?」

「Ahh. Let’s just get to the point~ They can read the title anyway!」

She wasn’t wrong.

In fact, they didn’t need to read the title. By hearing the SFX that played as soon as they logged in, everyone should know what game they were playing.

「Closer’s first League of Legends duo! Luka and I will do our best!」

「Alright! Please invite me~ Unnie!」

Luka’s ID was [flamingafterwinning]

Was I going to be one of the users on her friends list now…?

I could only bite my lips while looking at Doah’s friends list because I had to play more games before getting in touch with her.

「Unnie.」

「Yeah?」

「Did you enter the wrong username?」

「Why?」

「It’s not Lucky Clover, but Lucked Clover?」

Because I wasn’t paying attention, I didn’t realize that Clover’s username was [LuckedClover].

「Oh. Yeah, someone took it already.」

「So I had to make do with LuckedClover.」

I could tell that she appealed to a different group of people than Luka from the way she explained things calmly.

「Lucked…clo…ver」

Luka went to op.gg to type her user and did a thorough check immediately.

「Ah… Unnie… I don’t think the Prince’s rank will be safe today.」1T/N: In Korea they sometimes use Prince as ADC and Princess as Support.

「Ehh~ What are you talking about, Princess? Don’t you trust me?」

Even I, who was just a viewer, found Clover’s op.gg page quite terrifying.

Her match history was a red carpet.

How on earth did you manage to have 1 kill and 15 deaths?

「Unnie, isn’t this a little too much…? Were you trolling in your last match…?」

「Ah, the jungle is a cat. You gotta let this slide.」

Oh, that was true.

I didn’t notice it before, but when I saw that her team’s jungle had the cat icon, I immediately understood what was going on.

Yeah, she wasn’t at fault here!

「Ah, true. Jeez, I hope we won’t get matched with people like that today.」

「Luka, we got a match!」

「Unnie, what champion are you playing?」

「Me…? Um… Miss Fortune?」

「Miss Fortune sounds good!」

Miss Fortune was an ADC that most beginners used.

Considering their ranks, she would be a good pick.

「What about you?」

「I’ll play the Princess.」2T/N: In Korea they call her ‘Princess Lulu’ sometimes.

As for Luka, she picked Lulu without a second thought.

After they were finished with the draft pick, when the game loading screen appeared…

[Marksman kill steal – 20,000 won per kill]

Luka’s eyes shook after hearing the cheerful sounding donation alert. S~ᴇaʀᴄh the N0vᴇlFire(.)nᴇt website on Gøøglᴇ to access chapters of nøvels early and in the highest quality.

「Unnie.」

「Huh?」

「Will you get mad if you don’t get any kills?」

Oh, here we go.

[LOOOL]

[LMAOO SHE’S COOKING SOMETHING UP RIGHT AWAY.]

[I mean, she doesn’t even hesitate.]

The clueless Clover obediently gave Luka the exact answer she wanted to hear.

「Well… If there’s no other choice, I’ll just have to suck it up. I’m good at controlling my anger.」

「Ah-haa~ Okay! I was just wondering if Unnie tilts easily.」

Look at her, acting like a brat.

What she was cooking made me burst out laughing.

「Come on, me? Tilt? I won’t tilt even if you ks everything…」

-flamingafterwinning has slain the enemy.

-flamingafterwinning has slain the enemy.

-flamingafterwinning has slain the enemy for a double kill!

-flamingafterwinning is on a killing spree!

“Hoo…”

I exclaimed as I slurped the cooled down ramen soup. 

The chat had the same reaction. 

[Luka-tan, you’ll make Clover cry LOLOLOL]

[LMAOO just how much do you want to earn?]

[it’ll legendary if they lose the game this way.]

[Loansharkqueen you’re the best! LMFAOO]

「No! Luka!」

When Clover was about to kill the enemy with an AA, Luka immediately cast Ignite on him.

Now, that was actually evil.

「Ah, Unnie… I thought you wouldn’t secure the kill…」

「No! I was about to kill him…!」

「I thought you were looking somewhere else on the map, lagged, or ordering a takeout, so I did that!」

「None of that happened! Just stop stealing my kills already!」

At this point, Luka already had five kills.

Of course, there were times when she had to secure those kills, but at least three of those kills were completely intentional.

「Unnie… I thought you said you wouldn’t get mad at me…」

Clover didn’t respond for a while.

I was curious about what was going on with her, so I opened up her stream to check.

「Aaaaaaaah! Lukaaaa!」

An angry scream blasted through the speaker.

「Noo… How many times has it been now?! I swear I really never tilt! I swear!」

Damn, I could feel her suffering through the monitor.

Clover’s avatar burst into tears.

Soon, she turned on her microphone again and muttered quietly to Luka.

「Luka-tan, you’re not doing this because of a donation or something, right?」

The camera detected Luka’s facial expression. 

The pink-haired avatar had one corner of her mouth curled up. 

「No way~ Unnie~ Why would I do something so mean?」

What a shameless person.

How could someone be this shameless?

「Right? Aha… Can I trust our Luka?」

「Clover unnie. You should trust me. Who else can you trust?」

Fortunately, the game ended with their victory. 

「Tadaa~ It was actually a dono~」

As Luka giggled and made fun of Clover, Clover momentarily turned off her avatar because she couldn’t control her expression.

「Ahh! I knew it!」

「I love you, Unnie~」

「If you truly love me, give me half?!」

「Sorry. I didn’t think I’d get that many kills either~」

This was indeed a for fun stream.

After that, the two continued to play for about three hours, and Luka managed to clear the challenges that came with her donations and earned more bucks from them.

I’d say that she was good at clearing those challenges rather than being good at the game.

Guess she followed the Streamer 101 closely, hm?

「Ah~ what’s our total win rate looking like today?」

「3 wins and 2 loses. It’s decent. We could have won one more match if you didn’t take all my kills!」

「Unnie, this is about the journey, not the destination. The end result doesn’t really matter.」

It really felt like dealing with that one person who always talked back to you.

「Alright. Did you guys enjoy watching today’s stream with Clover unnie? Unfortunately, I think I’ll have to end the stream here today.」

「You’ve worked hard today, Luka.」

「No you did, Unnie. Anyways, Pink Army, she’ll be taking over as host now.」

「Thank you, thank you. Good night~ Luka-chan~」

「Yepp~ let’s do it again!」

The Pink Army wept and clung to Luka as she smiled and prepared to cut off the stream.

[why aren’t you going for the second round?! clover is going for the second round!]

[Don’t go! Don’t go! Don’t go! Don’t go! Don’t go! Don’t go! Don’t go! Don’t go! Don’t go! Don’t go! Don’t go! Don’t go!]

[Ah… It’s too cruel not having a solo stream…]

I finally sent a chat for the first time in a while because I was upset.

「Ah… I would stream a little longer, but…」

Luka’s eyes were fixed on the chat.

「I have something really important to do right now, instead, I’ll stream till dawn on Wednesday. Deal?」

Still, it seemed to bother her that the viewers were clinging to her, so she offered a deal about the stream time.

「Okay. So let’s do it from 8pm to 3am on Wednesday. Well then, Lubyee everyone~」

[The stream has ended.]

Haa… that was satisfying.

It was fun to watch her solo streams, but it was also fun to watch her collabing with other members.

I picked up my phone, thinking how nice it would be if she could also play games with Leah and Fumurin…

[oppa, can you tell me your username?]

The message that popped up as soon as the stream ended made my mouth dry.

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1

T/N: In Korea they sometimes use Prince as ADC and Princess as Support.

2

T/N: In Korea they call her ‘Princess Lulu’ sometimes.

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