Volume 2 Chapter 11: The Demi-Human Girl Trio!
Hmm…
After watching the third-party clip on the phone for a while, Gao Ye turned her head with doubt and said suspiciously,
“Th-this… is that really you?”
From the phone’s speaker, the lazy voice of the little vampire girl continued to play. Lin Lin nodded.
“Then who else would it be?”
“Th-this… this voice…”
Gao Ye really suspected that Lin Lin had just found some small VTuber to fool her. This kind of trick felt…
Way too low-level.
Seeing that Gao Ye didn’t believe her, Lin Lin was speechless. Even when she told the truth, no one believed her. So she complained using the little vampire girl’s voice.
“This is my voice. What’s there to doubt? I didn’t do anything bad…”
“Whoaa…”
The moment Gao Ye heard that cute yet slightly charming voice, she froze. After a long pause, she finally said,
“A-Amazing… it’s really true?!”
“You make it sound so rare. You also don’t stream with your real voice.”
Lin Lin turned her head away, annoyed. Gao Ye shook her head seriously.
“It’s different. My voice is very forced. Sister Lin Lin, yours is much more natural. D-Did you study voice acting or something?”
“No… I’m self-taught.”
Well, that wasn’t really a lie. It just came from a system starter gift.
After learning the truth, Gao Ye behaved much better. She nodded while looking at the phone and quietly followed Ari-chan.
While Gao Ye was calm for a moment, Lin Lin spoke up.
“Um, by the way… Xiao Ye, you’re also a virtual streamer. When did you start? Does your brother know?”
“Oh, that. I started at the beginning of the year. It’s just for fun. I don’t really have time, so I never got very popular.”
Then she suddenly changed the topic, looked at Lin Lin, and smiled.
“As for whether my brother knows… Sister Lin Lin, aren’t you his girlfriend? Didn’t he tell you?”
“Uh…”
Lin Lin was caught off guard. She scratched her head awkwardly and pretended to remember.
“I think he mentioned it? I don’t really remember…”
“Pfft, I never told him!”
Gao Ye suddenly turned the tables. Lin Lin froze, then hurriedly stammered, “O-Oh? Is that so? I might have remembered wrong, um…”
“Sister Lin Lin~”
Gao Ye looked at her with a mischievous smile and finally said,
“Are you… really dating my brother? Last time, I already felt something was off~”
Ah…
Feeling like she had been exposed, Lin Lin lowered her head shyly and didn’t know what to do. After thinking about it, it seemed best to just admit it.
The tutoring thing was already over anyway. She didn’t want to keep acting as a fake girlfriend. It was impossible to keep up the act.
“Come on, tell me the truth!”
Gao Ye rubbed her hands excitedly.
“Was it a fake girlfriend? Or did you already break up? Hurry, hurry~”
“We… we didn’t break up.”
Lin Lin blushed, went all in, and confessed directly.
“Because we were never really dating. That day, we just happened to meet, and Gao Liang thought you were too noisy, so he forced me to pretend to be his girlfriend…”
“What? He thought I was noisy?”
Gao Ye’s mouth twitched.
“Who does he think he is? Damn it!”
She grabbed her phone, ready to fight him online. Lin Lin quickly reached out to stop her.
“Calm down, calm down! If you confront him now, won’t that expose that we met? If he asks later, I won’t know how to explain it!”
“Tch…”
Gao Ye calmed down after a moment, then turned back and kept pestering Lin Lin with gossip.
“So what exactly is your relationship? Something unclear? Mutual feelings?”
“Just normal friends—no, that’s wrong. Enemies!”
Lin Lin said this seriously, but Gao Ye didn’t believe it at all.
What kind of enemies would pretend to be someone’s girlfriend?
If it reached that point, there had to be at least some liking involved~
Besides, Gao Ye could tell that her brother definitely liked Sister Lin Lin.
Still, for now, she nodded obediently.
“I see~ Then it’s fine. Since you’re not his girlfriend, it has nothing to do with my brother~”
Hearing this, Lin Lin felt a little relieved, but she was still worried and reminded her.
“Please don’t tell that guy, okay? I really don’t want everyone to know about this.”
“Well, it’s not that embarrassing, really.”
Gao Ye smiled, resting her chin on her hand, then promised, “But I’ll definitely help you keep it secret, Sister Lin Lin. Don’t worry~ After all, we’ll be friends who stream together in the future~”
“Streaming together…”
Lin Lin nodded. Thinking about it carefully, the situation felt pretty strange.
Such a coincidence.
Gao Ye was also a virtual streamer, and they were both pulled by Sister Wenmei into this small group.
She could leave anytime if she wanted, but streaming together with Gao Ye…
Hmm…
It might actually be fun.
The two of them lay there for a bit. After a while, Du Wenmei walked out of the room with empty eyes, sat down on the sofa, and stared at Lin Lin with resentment.
“Sister Wenmei… the stream… is it over?”
Only then did Lin Lin remember the collab stream. She asked guiltily.
Du Wenmei nodded sadly.
“The viewers kept asking me. They said we promised a collab stream, but the guest ran away after twenty minutes. What was that about?”
“Ahem…”
Lin Lin coughed awkwardly.
Then Du Wenmei continued, “They also kept asking me if I already pushed Ari-chan under the table.”
“Wow, that’s creepy.”
Gao Ye laughed and teased Lin Lin, as if Lin Lin had really done something bad.
“So then,” Du Wenmei went on, “I told them that actually, Ari-chan and Xiao Ye ran to the living room to kiss.”
“Huh?”
This time, Gao Ye was the one who froze. Lin Lin beside her covered her mouth and laughed secretly.
“Ah~ I’m so tired. My viewers are so hard to deal with. They’re all haters—”
Sister Wenmei collapsed and lay on the sofa, looking completely exhausted and lost in thought.
Lin Lin scratched her head apologetically.
“Sorry… I didn’t expect to run into Xiao Ye. Um… how about we make it up to you?”
“Okay. Treat me to dinner!”
Du Wenmei jumped up, pointed at Lin Lin, Gao Ye, and Chao Mian, and shouted.
“You, you, perfect timing! I announce, the Demi-Human Girl Trio’s first group dinner starts tonight! Let’s go!”
Eh?
The… Demi-Human Girl Trio?
“That’s us three,” Gao Ye leaned close to Lin Lin’s ear and explained quietly. “Sister Lin Lin is a vampire girl, I’m a cat girl, and Sister Wenmei’s avatar is a personified hydrogen bomb, so that makes a Demi-Human Girl Trio… probably. Just my guess.”
Lin Lin froze after hearing that.
Hydrogen…
A hydrogen bomb personified?!
So that’s what that avatar is?!
Huh?!