The Villainess VTuber Tears People Apart

When Sora genuinely tried to kick Anna out, Anna clung to her leg.

“Please don’t kick me out! I just wanted to eat the food you make, Sora-chan…!”

“Let go.”

If pronounced quickly, “Noa” becomes “let go.”

But since there was no reason to look for SerenadeKR’s Elenoa here, it simply meant to release her grip.

“When I stayed at Laura-chan’s house last time, Sora-chan made food for me! It was so delicious…!”

However, Anna was relentless.

When you’ve been eating delivery food for a long time, there are times you crave homemade meals. Anna was in just that situation.

So today, she said she would come along to eat Sora’s cooking.

And that’s how things ended up like this.

“I just want to eat the kind of food moms make! Sora Mom…!”

“Who’s your mom? I’ve never given birth to a senior like you.”

“I’m serious here—how about I pay living expenses? Could you raise me…?”

“Raise you? How about we start with spaying surgery?”

Sora said, clenching her fist tightly. What on earth were these two talking about?

Watching the two of them spouting nonsense, I folded my arms slightly.

“Let’s leave it at that. It’s not a bad deal for you either. Do you have any requests for us?”

“…A request?”

“Yes. We’re not asking you to cook for free.”

I said.

***

“Ah, but, instead… Can I make one request too?”

To go back in the story a bit, Inagika had said this to me a while ago.

“I’ll cook for you…, so, could you roll the gacha for me…?”

“Gacha?”

I tilted my head.

It was an unusual request.

I wasn’t particularly lucky. In fact, on regular occasions, I leaned more toward the unlucky side.

Instead, I had intense bouts of good luck only when I was in dire situations. But my philosophy was that it was better not to be cornered in the first place.

“You’ve done a gacha for Genshin before, haven’t you? With Chel….”

“I did.”

“You probably know, but Genshin’s gacha system is a bit unique…. There’s something called a ‘soft pity system’….”

To put it simply, at about 80 pulls, the chance for a featured unit and an off-rate pull is 50% each.

If an off-rate pull happens at 80 pulls, then at around 160 pulls, there’s a 100% chance for the featured unit.

So the first pity is called soft pity, and the second is hard pity.

“If I hit an off-rate pull at soft pity, I thought you could roll the rest for me….”

“Oh?”

That’s a clever idea.

Genshin’s “soft pity gacha system” could be summed up as a “system where getting off-rated at soft pity forces you to spend twice as much money.”

So, if you hit an off-rate pull at soft pity, you’d have no choice but to pay more and aim for hard pity.

Inagika seemed to have reversed the situation in her favor, thinking, “If I’m going to spend more money anyway, why not ask Laura to pull a few more five-star characters so I won’t lose as much….”

“That kind of request isn’t difficult at all.”

And on that day, thanks to me, Inagika managed to pull one off-rate character and two featured characters additionally.

According to viewers, she saved about 300,000 to 500,000 won.

While some viewers mocked her, saying things like “Wasn’t this gacha rigged?” or “Did you threaten Genshin’s developers?”

Others reacted by saying, “She saved a ton of money, so she should at least cook for her lol.”

***

In any case, just asking for free cooking while only providing ingredients didn’t look good.

A Great Ducal Noblewoman receiving charity?

In some sense, it was close to humiliation.

So, the fact that Inagika made that request was actually a golden opportunity for me.

It even turned into a situation where Inagika owed me a favor.

Therefore, when asking others to cook for me, I decided to take a policy of granting one of their requests in return.

Just yesterday, in exchange for eating Ainatsu’s cooking, I had to be her daytime drinking buddy.

I ended up being stuck at Ainatsu’s house for four hours. (During that time, Anna, who stayed home, had nothing to eat.)

“So, Sora, if there’s something you’d like to ask us, feel free to say it.”

“A request? What on earth would I ask this person for?”

Sora said, looking down at Anna.

“Anna senior, what are you even good at?”

“Should I sing for you?”

“Other than singing?”

“I know all the Pokémon names!”

“Wow, you’re utterly useless.”

Sora let out a sigh.

But as if something came to mind, she soon muttered nonchalantly.

“Then let me use QU-IOO just once.”

After eating the lunch Sora prepared and spending about two hours doing a light chat stream.

Anna and I returned home.

Along with Sora.

“…We’re walking back? What about the bus or a taxi?”

“Don’t you think we should save on transportation costs?”

“I’ll even make you dinner, so just take a taxi….”

So the three of us headed to Anna’s house.

As soon as we arrived, Anna showed us the QU-IOO.

“This is it.”

A peculiar microphone shaped like a human head.

At a glance, it looked like the head part of a mannequin had been hollowed out.

“Somehow, it reminds me of Mero.”

“Huh?”

“Nothing. Are all binaural microphones shaped like this?”

“Not all of them. Some only leave the ear part intact.”

Saying so, Anna showed us other microphones.

Binaural.

It refers to technology that creates the illusion of being present at the scene using sound.

Using this, various sound-related content is called ASMR.

At EYEAI, Anna is the only one who uses ASMR as her main content.

“That microphone costs about 15 million won.”

Sora whispered, pointing to the QU-IOO.

“Quite expensive.”

“Yeah. These days, it feels like everyone doing ASMR uses QU-IOO. Some even own multiple QU-IOOs.”

Apparently, that’s the case.

ASMR, as it turns out, is quite an expensive type of content.

“Come to think of it, I don’t know much about ASMR.”

“Huh? You’ve never listened to ASMR before?”

“I understand the concept, but I’ve never properly listened to it.”

In the past, I had listened for about ten seconds, just enough to grasp the concept of ASMR.

Music is something you can lightly play in the background while gaming, but ASMR isn’t that type of content.

You’d need to set aside time and focus solely on it, which was quite a barrier to entry for me.

“Then how about you try it this time? Sora-chan also needs to practice anyway.”

Anna handed me a pair of earphones.

So I took the earphones from Anna and distanced myself from the two of them.

It was better not to watch what Anna and Sora were doing. I even closed my eyes.

[Sora-chan, how much ASMR have you listened to?]

[Sometimes, when there are no songs I want to hear, I listen to ASMR.]

[But I don’t go out of my way to search for it. I just listen if it pops up in the algorithm.]

[When doing ASMR, you need to pay attention to your voice.]

[If you speak normally, viewers…or should I say listeners? Anyway, their ears might hurt.]

Oh. This is fascinating.

It felt like Sora and Anna were having a conversation right beside me. Even though I was sitting quite far from them.

[What should I explain next? It’s my first time teaching someone ASMR….]

[For now, I’ll just do what I usually do.]

Anna said through the earphones.

Hoo.

And then came the sound of wind.

Anna blew into my ear.

No, to be precise, she must have blown into the microphone’s ear part.

It was merely a deception caused by binaural technology.

The breath, which had no temperature, stimulated the innermost part of my ear.

[Customer, you’ve got a lot of earwax piled up~.]

[I’ll clean it for you.]

Her voice was sweeter than usual, filled with an intentional cuteness.

She spoke as if whispering, mixing her breath, directly into my ear.

[Sscrape, scrrch~.]

[Scrrch, scrrch.]

[Does it feel good, customer?]

A sound like grains of sand continued to echo in my ear. It truly felt like earwax was being removed.

Even as Anna cleaned my ears, she did not stop talking.

The sound of cleaning mixed continuously with Anna’s voice.

Unconsciously, I relaxed my shoulders.

There are body parts even so-called muscleheads cannot train.

For example, the eyeballs or tongue. No matter how much you exercise, your eyeballs won’t get tougher.

The inner ear is the same.

As one of the most private parts of the body, it cannot be trained, making it a sensitive area.

Since my hearing is more acute than others, the stimulation felt even stronger.

It was more pleasant than I expected.

Stimulating the inner ear is inherently linked to pleasure. Isn’t that why so many people clean their ears for enjoyment?

And although ASMR doesn’t entirely replicate real ear-cleaning, it was still a remarkably similar experience.

[Ear cleaning varies slightly from person to person. Some only use ear picks, while others fill the ear canal with something entirely.]

[Next, I’ll do an oil massage.]

Hoo.

Anna removed the ear pick from the microphone, then blew into it once again.

Even that alone oddly made me feel refreshed. The sense of liberation was unexpectedly intense.

The sound of a lid opening and closing followed.

The sound of an oil dropper.

The sound of oil being rubbed into her hands.

Then came the sound of something encompassing the entire ear.

[Tickle, tickle~.]

[Tickle, tickle~~.]

She continued to whisper.

“What are you doing from earlier? Are you trying to seduce me?”

[…No, this is just how ASMR works.]

[Some people prefer ASMR without voice insertion, but if you’re not going to use voice, there’s no reason to listen to a VTuber’s ASMR.]

That’s true.

Since VTubers emphasize their visuals, their voices are just as critical. Exaggerating a bit, one could say their voice makes up about half of their character appeal.

Anyway, Anna’s ASMR skills were far better than I had expected, proving that her claim of ASMR being her main content wasn’t false.

Beyond ear-cleaning and oil massages, she wrapped the ear in a towel, played the sound of sparkling water, and mimicked eating sounds.

She demonstrated a much broader range of expressions than I had anticipated. It was clear Anna had put considerable effort into ASMR.

[This should be enough for now. People who are truly devoted to ASMR even change the material of their ear picks, but I’m not quite that dedicated….]

After saying that, Anna washed her hands and wiped the ASMR microphone.

[Sora-chan, just try doing whatever you feel like.]

[But this thing is super expensive, right…?]

[I’m worried I might break it if I handle it wrong….]

[It’s a sensitive device, but it doesn’t break that easily. And I have a spare, anyway.]

Does she own another one of that expensive device? …Incredible.

[Then I’ll give it a try.]

This time, Sora began handling the microphone.

Swish.

The sound of her fingers lightly brushing against the ear.

Her caution, given the high cost of the equipment, came through clearly.

Still, Sora eventually composed herself and began probing the ear with her fingers.

Perhaps because I had just listened to Anna’s ASMR.

It was evident that Sora was lagging behind.

Huuuup.

When Sora blew into the ear, the sound slightly cracked.

Even exhaling required a certain knack, which also implied her lack of familiarity with the microphone.

‘It can’t be helped.’

This was Sora’s first time using an ASMR microphone.

Though clumsy, Sora tried her best in her own way.

She attempted ear cleaning, tickled the ear, covered it with a towel, and even licked it.

…Licked?

[Churup….]

The sound of saliva echoed near my ear.

Not just once. It was constant.

The sound of a tongue delving into the ear canal.

Even I, who had been closing my eyes this whole time, had to open them at this point.

“Wa-wait…! What are you doing!”

Anna pulled Sora away, who had been licking the ASMR microphone.

“Huh? Was licking not allowed?”

“It’s not that it’s forbidden…! But why on earth are you licking it!”

“Don’t all ASMR streams go like this?”

Sora tilted her head in genuine puzzlement.

“All the ASMR streams I’ve watched involved licking ears.”