Chapter 8: The Unforeseen Rise of the Cyber Loli

However, the unfolding of events deviated somewhat from Chahuayuan’s expectations.

Chahuayuan had primarily miscalculated three crucial things:

First, she underestimated her older sister’s gaming prowess.

Second, she underestimated the revered audience’s eagerness to join the commotion.

Third, she underestimated her older sister’s gaming talent and “fighting spirit.”

In League of Legends, Chajingyuan faced off against the chat gods in mid-lane duels, achieving a decisive 3:0 victory.

She selected three different chat gods, each time securing a flawless 3:0 triumph.

Her methods of victory varied wildly: sometimes a solo kill within three minutes, other times a last-hit score of 100:30, or even a nail-biting 100:99, and sometimes she would simply push a tower relentlessly until the opponent’s base crumbled.

Having consecutively defeated three opponents, Chajingyuan became utterly smug, and Chahuayuan seized the opportunity to egg her on through their headphones.

“Alright, alright, my sister, let’s just consider this a detour, enough to establish your persona as a genius Gamer. Let’s get back to the main topic; it’s time to sing, you have to sing what you’re supposed to, right?”

But to Chahuayuan’s surprise, Chajingyuan haughtily ‘hmph’ed, completely ignoring her younger sister.

She was now in a state of having a screw loose, or perhaps… a battle-cock’s unbridled fighting spirit, as if in an uncontested arena. She had already decided to disregard the streaming guidelines and go all out.

“Hmph, hmph, the chat gods really are just small fry.”

“You small fry always love to bully newcomers. Who would’ve thought that in the cyber world, there’d be experts like us, true masters of masters, huh? You’ve met your match, haven’t you~?”

“Now you know I’m not just some ordinary factory girl… ah, pfft, pfft. You know I’m not a factory girl now, don’t you, hmph?”

At that moment, a glaring red super chat message caught Chajingyuan’s eye:

[SC-¥200.00: “LoL players are all like this, so you’re just a regular internet-addicted girl, not some cyber genius, right?”]

This was precisely the turning point that caused things to spiral irrevocably out of control.

When the solo matches first began, just as Chahuayuan had feared, the concurrent viewer count in the livestream plummeted.

Disappointed by the lack of singing, viewers left in a blink, pushing the concurrent count down to less than 300.

The first round of victories only further exacerbated the stream’s data, with concurrent viewers even dipping as low as 200 at one point.

No one wanted to watch boring grudge matches; even the esports section avoided such stale content, let alone the virtual streamer section.

At this point, Chahuayuan was already mentally rehearsing how she would perform a dramatic split in apology to Makino Shibahime.

But as Chajingyuan won all nine battles across three opponents, using her soft, cutesy voice, coupled with a highly provocative tone as she gloated, and provoked that large red super chat message, things began to develop in an increasingly bizarre direction.

Chajingyuan declared that today, this streamer would indulge their wishes. The chat gods could pick any game they liked; she was determined to make every single one of the small fry present bow down in submission.

First, since that two-hundred-yuan super chat had dared to call her a “LoL dog,” she naturally had to defeat him at the very apex of the pecking order.

Or rather, the entire chat had, by unspoken agreement, provided the standard answer for the next challenge:

The mandatory rite of passage for all MOBA masters’ ‘father-son matches’: a Dota 2 Shadow Fiend solo mid.

What followed was another complete massacre.

The first blood rule also resulted in a crushing defeat for her opponents; the three-kills-one-tower rule also ended in a crushing defeat; allowing rune control also led to a crushing defeat; disabling rune refresh also led to a crushing defeat; allowing mango consumption for mana regeneration also led to a crushing defeat; even forbidding mangoes still led to a crushing defeat…

What’s more, except for the very last game, where a slightly more skilled viewer appeared and made Chajingyuan take things a little more seriously, in the preceding games, she not only put a point into her passive at level one but also maxed it out, relentlessly denying and last-hitting her opponent into oblivion, one strike at a time.

The nature of the situation had fundamentally changed.

It transformed from “an ignorant little rookie streamer feuding with their audience”…

…into “a deranged, white-haired loli setting up an arena to challenge the entire internet.”

From this point on, the livestream’s status took a dramatic turn.

From its most dismal low of nearly 200 concurrent viewers, it slowly began to climb again: 300, 400, 800… When it returned to the 1000 mark, the nature of the growth also shifted, suddenly skyrocketing exponentially.

Chahuayuan’s jaw dropped open in disbelief as she watched. It wasn’t because of her older sister’s gaming skill; while she was surprised by it, she had at least been mentally prepared.

What Chahuayuan truly couldn’t comprehend was—’This is actually happening?!’

In Chahuayuan’s QQ, the groups that usually chatted about anime and virtual streamers almost invariably began forwarding this image: “a white-haired polar bear loli, piloting Shadow Fiend, dancing under the enemy’s tier-one tower, wearing a provocative (▔ω▔☆) smirk, and cackling wildly.” The group members’ sharp comments grew more exaggerated with each passing moment.

–[Holy crap, a new VTuber challenging viewers to solos?]

–[Challenging viewers? She’s challenging all of Bilibili!]

–[Bilibili? She’s challenging the entire V-tuber community!]

–[<SHOCKING! New Virtual Streamer Declares War on the Entire Internet, Claiming They’ve Tolerated You All for Too Long — All V-Bar Netizens Tremble in Fear!>]

–[…]

Netizens from all corners were drawn to Chajingyuan’s livestream.

The chat’s composition became increasingly diverse, with people scrambling to challenge Chajingyuan. Challenges for all sorts of games poured in, mixed with various inappropriate and troublemaking comments.

For instance, some challenged her to solo “Tram Car OOO,” solo “Rock Simulator,” solo a speedrun of “Witch’s OOO Feast,” solo beating up grandmas in a nursing home, solo jerking off, solo speedrunning the Central Military Command Headquarters, solo speedrunning Pearl Harbor… speedrunning Pelosi, speedrunning Putin, speedrunning Trump, and a revival match against Shinzo Abe, speedrunning an innocent gaze…

From the deluge of challenges, Chajingyuan precisely picked out the most obnoxious-sounding chat messages, one by one, and mercilessly beat them down.

“Who are you calling a loser, huh?! Who could be more of a loser than you lot? Come on, come on, send your IDs over. I’ll give you social failures a little taste of true skill.”

“‘Manic with no friends’? What are you saying, what are you saying~~?

Who could have fewer friends than you? Chat big brothers, late at night, no girlfriends, just staring at a lewd, white-haired anime girl streamer, getting beaten by her while tearfully jerking off, and you can’t even win~~

Come on, pick a game, send your ID!”

“What’s this about ‘the streamer’s taunts having the beauty of a bratty girl’? Don’t just parrot some stale meme without understanding its definition.

It’s not you lecturing me; it’s Miss Chizaki lecturing you! You’re the bratty girls, and not just bratty girls, but chat small fry!”

“What persona? What ‘breaking persona’? My persona has always been consistently adorable, and I’ve always upheld, hmph, the noble tradition of mathematicians and intellectuals who reason things out, using unyielding logic—(physical)—to beat you ignorant little brats into submission~~”

“…………”

Game after game, they switched.

She won in Warcraft 3, achieved an easy victory in Age of Empires 2, and utterly crushed opponents in Red Alert 2…

The most dramatic part was that Chajingyuan downloaded the Red Alert 2 installer live on stream, yet she immediately started with four Rhinos, two Attack Dogs, and one Flak Track to rush the heavy factory.

The actual game time was even shorter than the time it took to install and adjust compatibility settings.

(TN: I’m unfamiliar with all of the games above except league so feel free to correct me)