I May Be a Virtual Youtuber, but I Still Go to Work-Chapter 108

Momo wasn’t deeply involved in today’s content.

After all, whether it was sniping or counter-sniping, this was ultimately Magia’s area of expertise. She didn’t want to interfere and risk dulling Magia’s sharp wit and playful energy.

In a way, it was similar to why Magia didn’t meddle too much in the other members’ or Momo’s streams.

Battle Colosseum, sniping—

When it came to these things, Cheon Do-hee was just a step behind Magia. So, she decided to respect Magia’s judgment as much as possible.

That’s why, just like during the illegal duet event, the plan was primarily drafted by Magia and supported by Team Leader Ra Seung-hyun.

When Momo saw the final version, she couldn’t help but laugh at the absurd promotional strategy that had been added.

Covering the screen with character outfit illustrations to prevent stream sniping?

Even though the primary goal was to show through the karaoke stream that Magia and Contestant F were different people, it also meant that she wasn’t willing to lose so easily.

Even if she had to lose, she’d put up a fight.

If you want to see me lose, then you’d better be prepared to pay the price—something like that?

‘No wonder she accepted the suggestion so smoothly.’

Normally, when members submitted a content plan, there’d be multiple revisions after discussions with Team Leader Ra Seung-hyun. But it seemed like that wasn’t really the case with Magia.

The planning team’s role was to carefully review and filter out any elements that could potentially cause controversy. They were usually meticulous about it.

[Planning Team Leader: I did make a few tweaks, but the initial draft was already solid, so it didn’t take long.]

[Planning Team Leader: Of course, there’s always a chance it turns into a UFC match, so please make sure to steer it toward WWE, CEO.]

[Planning Team Leader: There might be some talk about the donation-based password unlock system.]

[Me: I was already thinking about that.]

[Me: Thanks for the cross-check.]

Magia’s streaming style had always been a constant tightrope walk, even back in her troll days.

She needed someone watching over her.

As Ra Seung-hyun pointed out, things could spiral out of control at any moment, or even spark a massive wildfire.

Attracting attention was important in streaming, but managing to wrap things up with minimal controversy was even more crucial.

This time, Momo would be covering for Magia, but that wasn’t a sustainable solution.

At some point, Magia needed to learn the full A-to-Z of streaming.

Originally, Momo had planned to teach her after she debuted.

But at this rate, it looked like Magia would continue streaming indefinitely without an official debut.

There was no harm in teaching her in advance.

‘The second-gen recruitment will wrap up this week...’

Once that was done, Momo could invite Magia to the upcoming training sessions, particularly the ones focused on stream hosting.

As for the "Handling Trolls 101" lesson that Momo personally valued—

She could probably skip that part.

Because...

"Hey, what are you typing so much on TalkCord while playing? Do you really have the time for that mid-game?"

"I'm stirring up chaos in the voice chat of the stream snipers who came to hunt me down. That’s why I covered the screen and set up a password."

"...What? How did you even get in there?"

"That’s an industry secret, so I can’t really tell you."

Had she set up some kind of trap?

She’d created a situation that lured stream snipers in, only to toy with them from above.

What was the point of teaching her how to handle trolls?

If anything, Magia should be the one teaching that class, not Momo.

Momo hadn’t suggested it before since Magia seemed to be avoiding the other members, but...

Maybe it was worth proposing that she be a guest lecturer for the second-gen training.

***

But no matter how well Magia played with trolls, she still couldn’t completely overcome sheer numbers.

The first and second rounds played out in a similar pattern.

Thanks to the ban on grenades and molotovs, the balance was fairly well-maintained.

However, once viewers started breaking the password through donation bombardments, Magia’s location would be exposed.

From that point on, it turned into a defense match—she’d hold out as long as possible, but ultimately, she’d get cornered by players camping outside the safe zone and end up roasted along with them.

Even though Magia knew stream snipers better than anyone, the moment they started focusing entirely on her instead of Momo, countering them became a lot harder.

As they prepared for the third round, Momo turned on her mic and spoke loudly enough for the audience to hear.

"With grenades banned except for smoke, I thought you’d have the upper hand, but I guess it’s not that easy, huh?"

— "Uhuhuhu, come here!"

— "Come at me!"

— "Karaoke stream is too good~"

— "Lmao, gotta lose, right?"

— "Even Signal Rounds aren’t enough to snipe Magia easily, huh?"

— "So, Magia, how does it feel to be on the receiving end of stream sniping?"

Momo was laying the groundwork, pretending as if they had genuinely planned this event to win.

"We put together this content because we wanted to win for real, but... Our viewers’ coordination and firepower are ❀ Nоvеlігht ❀ (Don’t copy, read here) just too strong. It’s tough,"—that kind of whining.

Fortunately, Magia immediately caught on to Momo’s intent and fired back.

"Maybe it’s because the CEO isn’t cheering for me."

“...Me?”

"Come on, give me a buff. I don’t want to work overtime."

At the mention of "overtime," chat exploded.

They were calling her out for pretending to complain when she’d be stuck at the office all night anyway.

— "Oh, so we’re just bugs who won’t let her leave work, huh?"

— "Hey, hey, hey!"

— "Lmao, as if you don’t run the operations room late into the night anyway!"

— "Wait, that’s true."

— "So tragicㅠㅠㅠ can’t even go homeㅠㅠㅠ"

— "DON’T FALL FOR IT!!"

— "There she goes again, lying through her teeth!"

Most of them were just worried she’d find a way to weasel out of her punishment again.

She’d gotten away with it too many times, to the point where Magia had practically become the boy who cried wolf.

"So, what kind of buff?"

"I’ll buy you a Ddeodeu Burger."

"Ah. No. Not doing it."

"Ugh... I can’t do the karaoke stream... I don’t have the energy...."

— "? "

— "Momo?"

— "Momo, are you betraying us right now?"

— "???"

This translation is the intellectual property of Novelight.

Even while trolling, she made sure to shift the chat’s complaints onto Momo.

This was peak Magia—pulling every trick in the book to force Momo into doing aegyo.

"Dde... Dde... Ddeodeu...."

"Everyone, even if I lose today, I will not be doing the karaoke stream."

— "YAAAAAHHHHH!!"

— "MOMO, WHAT ARE YOU DOING??"

— "HURRY UP!!"

— "Kraaaah!!"

— "If this is a lie again, I’m really hitting that donation button!"

— "A mysterious truck appears in front of Parallel’s HQ..."

Honestly, Magia’s requests weren’t even that outrageous.

After years of bickering with chat, Momo’s instinct was to push back and joke about monetization first.

But even while messing with her, Magia did so much for Momo and Parallel.

So, for someone as notoriously mischievous as Magia, aegyo was a small price to pay.

"Nya, Dde... Ddeodeu Burger me want, Gia! Buy me Ddeodeu Burger...!"

— "LMAO"

— "LOOOOL"

— "Perfection"

— "She’s been doing aegyo more often lately."

— "Her blood circulation’s been fixed ever since the Wicker server incident."

— "Dae. Ji. A."

— "This too is Magia’s divine blessing..."

*

However, Cheon Do-hee never imagined that her aegyo would become Chapter 2 of Magia’s Stream Sniper Slaughter.

Clips of Momo’s aegyo, instantly created by fans, started playing in the TalkCord channel where the stream snipers were gathered.

And they weren’t just playing normally.

Someone was deliberately toggling the mic on and off, timing the aegyo clips to play precisely when someone was about to speak.

[Magia’s heading dow—]

[Buy me a Ddeodeu Burger...!]

[Location is—]

This chapter is updat𝙚d by freeweɓnovel.cøm.

[I want to eat a Ddeodeu Burger, Gia!]

[Damn it, who keeps—]

[Ddeodeu Burger!!]

With this, proper communication became impossible.

And since the voice activation indicator kept flickering on and off, identifying the culprit wasn’t easy.

Some stream snipers were still stuck in briefing and monitoring mode, so they tried adjusting the individual sound volumes to track down the saboteur, but...

[Magia005: Magia835 is causing chaos, please kick him out.]

[Magia369: Copy that.]

As soon as they kicked one out, another Ddeodeu Burger ghost appeared.

[Magia’s moving—]

[Ddeodeu Burger!!]

[Oh, for f***’s sake, again—]

[I want to eat a Ddeodeu Burger, Gia!]

[This is driving me cra—]

[Buy me a Ddeodeu Burger!]

Kim, who had gathered these people to make sure Magia got her punishment, was now visibly flustered.

[👑Magia404: How many have we banned so far?]

[Magia369: Thirteen.]

[Magia369: Actually, now that I think about it...]

[Magia369: Isn’t this all Magia’s doing?]

[👑Magia404: You’ve got to be kidding me.]

Kick one, another appears.

Kick another, and yet another pops up.

They started with 63 people.

After kicking out five false briefers and eight aegyo clip spammers, only 50 remained.

And with the custom game player slots slowly filling up, the constant disruptions were exhausting the stream snipers.

Meanwhile, Magia inched closer and closer to victory.

11th place in the first round.

10th in the second.

But starting from the third round, when the Ddeodeu Burger aegyo barrage flooded the TalkCord, her ranking skyrocketed.

By the sixth round, she finished in 5th place.

At this rate, she was only four matches away from winning and dodging the karaoke punishment entirely.

[👑Magia404: 369, keep dealing with the saboteurs.]

[👑Magia404: We’ll figure something out.]

[Magia369: Got it.]

[Magia369: We have to make Magia sing.]

[Magia369: Let’s do this.]

But what could they do?

Even though they were successfully tracking down and kicking the saboteurs, the impact of stream sniping was undeniable.

No matter how well Magia fought using smoke cover, if they simply kept their distance and pressured her from all sides without engaging in close combat, even she couldn’t escape.

If she had been surrounded by regular viewers, she could have broken through at a single weak point and fled.

But she knew exactly what kind of skill level the snipers had.

And at this moment, Chapter 3 of Magia’s Stream Sniper Slaughter began.

Right in the middle of the encirclement.

Hidden within the smoke, Magia started speaking.

[Everyone, listen closely. I’m about to reveal a secret about our CEO.]

A secret that only she knew.

— ?

— Huh?

— What?

— Wait, what??

Cheon Do-hee’s eyes widened in shock.

[What?! What the hell are you about to say?!]

[Our CEO is actually...]

Since nearly half of the snipers were former Momo Cultists, everyone immediately went silent, focusing on her words.

And then—

[I want to eat a Ddeodeu Burger!! I want to eat a Ddeodeu Burger!! I want to eat a Ddeodeu Burger!!]

Suddenly, a deafeningly loud loop of Momo’s aegyo started blasting through the voice channel.

The people who wanted to concentrate on the juicy gossip instinctively muted the TalkCord audio—

And at that very moment, a smoke grenade landed.

Not in the sniper group’s position, but in the middle of the regular viewers.

Kim, startled, tried to give a situation report, but half the team had already muted their voice chat because of the ear-piercing spam.

Giving a briefing was pointless.

[👑Magia404: Everyone, get back in the voice channel.]

[👑Magia404: Quickly.]

Luckily, 369 had kicked the spammer out.

But TalkCord remained eerily silent.

The snipers weren’t checking the chat—

They were all too busy running toward the newly deployed smoke.

Kim, about to yell at them to regroup, suddenly froze.

“...Huh?”

Magia hadn’t run away after throwing the smoke.

She had caused the confusion but stayed perfectly still inside the smoke cloud.

And the moment people, who had muted voice chat, rushed toward the smoke...

They unknowingly ran straight through the smoke where Magia was still waiting.

BANG, BANG!

{{Human Signal Flare Kim Fireworks >> (Headshot) (Knocked) iiIIIIliIili}}

With the thunderous blast of a double-barrel shotgun, the battlefield erupted into chaos.

Like a single gunshot setting off an all-out war, the area instantly turned into a disaster zone.

{{iiIiIIIIIIIII >> (Knocked) I Love You}}

{{What Are You Doing >> (Knocked) ShortLegsPaddapadak}}

It wasn’t just Magia taking out enemies—

The horrible visibility caused by the smoke led players to shoot anything that moved.

If it’s near me, just shoot first—

If it’s wearing a Santa hat, well... tough luck.

Thanks to Magia’s gleeful overuse of smoke grenades, the entire battlefield was blanketed in fog.

The gunfire was so loud that pinpointing her location became nearly impossible.

Kim desperately tried shouting through the in-game mic.

"EVERYONE! CALM DOWN! STOP SHOOTING! IF YOU KEEP THIS UP, MAGIA’S JUST GONNA GO WILD!!"

But no matter how much he yelled—

The chaos wouldn’t stop.

"AH! FOR GOD’S SAKE, STOP SHOOTING!!"

Through the smoke, a figure suddenly appeared in front of Kim.

It was Magia—

riding the speed boost panel straight toward him.

BANG! BANG!!

{{Human Signal Flare Kim Fireworks >> (Kill) Sing Already}}