Volume 3 Chapter 23: The Daily Trash Talk Between Two Virtual Streamers

After Gao Ye finished singing a song, her face was a little red.

Of course, her avatar model wasn’t as advanced as Lin Lin’s, so this small change didn’t show on screen.

She didn’t bother to adjust it. Instead, she looked at the chat, hoping to see some praise from her fans.

Then, all of a sudden—

Gao Ye noticed a message sent by a “spy” from Lin Lin’s stream.

【A Vampire is checking the stream!】

“Huh? Lin… Ari-chan is checking my stream?”

Gao Ye was shocked. Wow, Sister Lin Lin actually had time to stream today?

“Damn it! There’s a traitor here!” Lin Lin angrily slapped the table twice. “You exposed me!”

Gao Ye opened Lin Lin’s stream. When she heard the little vampire girl complaining unhappily, she burst out laughing.

“Pfft—caught you, Ari-chan~ Wow, you’re actually streaming tonight too?”

“Hey, you’re streaming as well.”

Lin Lin sounded a bit helpless. Then she started thinking about the timing.

Wait, that’s not right.

If she calculated it, Gao Ye should have just gotten home around now.

So this means…

“Your time management is crazy. You… you just got home and already started streaming?”

Hearing Lin Lin’s reasoning, the cat girl smiled dismissively.

Hah, she just got home, drank some water, and went back to her room.

She was bored anyway. Streaming for a bit was fine. She was staying at her grandparents’ place, and there was nothing fun to do.

“Isn’t that totally normal~? But you, Ari-chan, how’s being a priestess going? How’s your healing magic training?”

What kind of question is that?

Lin Lin was confused by Gao Ye’s RPG-style fantasy talk. But after thinking about it, she realized Gao Ye was probably just asking how taking care of Lin Yu was going.

“Sigh, sadly I have to tell you, since I’m a vampire, part of the demon race, I can’t be a priest.”

“Oh? But isn’t it popular these days for the saint and the witch to be the same person? You know, that contrast?”

Gao Ye giggled softly, hinting at something. But Lin Lin didn’t notice at all. She just raised the corner of her mouth and said,

“Tch, if that’s the case, then the priest job should be left to a real little devil like you!”

“Pfft—” Gao Ye covered her mouth and laughed for a bit, then said slowly, “That’s… not impossible to consider~”

“Tch…”

Lin Lin turned her head away. Forget it. She didn’t need this girl anyway. Her mom and she were enough. Lin Yu wasn’t completely unable to walk.

“Anyway, Ari-chan, what are you streaming tonight? You didn’t come just to check on me, right?”

Back to the point, Gao Ye still wanted to sing a few more songs. Lin Lin, on the other hand, sounded annoyed.

“I’m just in a bad mood and don’t know what to do. Sigh~ Oh, I’ve got an idea to vent.”

The little vampire on screen suddenly showed a mischievous smile. Then she opened her streaming tools and typed a line of text, placing it above Xiao Ye’s head.

【The Dumbest Cat Girl Ever!】

Aha~

“Hey, hey, hey! I’m watching your stream too! You’re attacking me right in front of me? Believe it or not, I’ll dox you right now!”

“Hah? Who’s afraid of who? It’s not like I don’t know who you are. Dox threats work both ways, you know?!”

Facing Gao Ye’s provocation, Lin Lin didn’t panic at all. Instead, she tilted her head confidently and smirked.

“Besides, how is this even an attack? This is just normal elementary-school trash talk~”

【True, the streamer’s attack power is kind of weak.】

【Feels worse than Ari-chan… pig nose.】

【Cat girl, hurry up and give Ari-chan a title — “The Only Superhuman of the Rounded-Corner World.”】

“Huh, that name sounds good. Approved!”

So, right in front of Lin Lin, Gao Ye added a title to her—

【】

“Hey, hey, hey—no, no, no! Don’t do that!” Lin Lin slammed the table and protested loudly. “Don’t ruin my reputation! I’m not some ‘rounded-corner girl’! Don’t spread rumors! They’ll turn this into a meme!”

【Is the streamer slandering Little Sweet Pears? We’re not making memes, we already finished making them!】

【Honestly, the more I look at it, the more I feel someone as great as Little Sweet Pears is already too good for Ari-chan.】

【Little Sweet Pears have mastered self-control. Next step might be delivering packages to Ari-chan’s house.】

“Damn it!”

“Wow, I didn’t expect you to react so strongly, Ari-chan. Pfft. Alright then… I’ll just tell the truth~”

So Gao Ye immediately added another text label to Lin Lin—

【A shy and cute little girl, and also a tsundere ↓】

…………

【Huh? Didn’t Ari-chan say she’s a popular, outgoing person?】

【What about the promised 170 cm long legs? Like a model?】

【Ari-chan is actually a little girl type?】

【No wonder she’s so good at dealing with tsundere girls, reverse analysis huh?】

“Hey, hey, hey! This is pure rumor too!”

Lin Lin quickly slapped the table again. Then she saw the cat girl on the other side laughing so hard she was almost falling over.

Lin Lin’s face turned bright red as she shouted,

“Nonsense! Lies! I clearly… I clearly am a popular and pretty girl!”

Then she hurried to explain to the chat.

“Well, um… don’t believe her, okay? Ahem. She… she’s totally a bad woman. I actually get along well with people! Ahem! Look, otherwise, how could I even know her, right? Haha~ My social circle is just too wide, that’s how it is~ Bad choice of friends, bad choice of friends~”

“What a ‘bad choice of friends,’ huh.”

Gao Ye turned her head away unhappily. After a moment, she seemed to think of something, then turned back and said seriously on purpose.

“Ari-chan, want to play a game together?”

“Huh?” Lin Lin became alert. “Play a game? Why are you suddenly suggesting that?”

“Well, look, you’re clearly not very happy tonight, and you don’t know how to vent your feelings. Instead of us arguing here, why don’t we find an exciting game and let it all out together?”

Ah…

Honestly, Lin Lin had been holding things in all night. When she heard this suggestion, she immediately felt interested.

That really sounds tempting.

An exciting game~

Hehehe…

How exciting could it be?

Maybe a scary horror game, enjoying sudden jump scares, watching how the little vampire punches the screen?

Or a fast racing game, watching the little vampire speed over boost pads, cross thousands of kilometers, and rush to the finish line?

Or maybe an intense FPS game, fully immersed in the battlefield?

Or…

A real FPS game, like with anime girls—cough cough…

That actually does sound pretty exciting.