LIGHTNOVELSTORY Chapter 0
Prologue
Virtual Talent, Aurora.
She was an AI VTuber affiliated with the agency ‘EYEAI’, operating under the persona of a villainous noblewoman exiled from a ducal family.
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[Virtual VTuber Gallery]
[General] How does this even look like a noble lady?
(Highlight Video)
1. First thing in the morning, she starts the day with a heavy pork soup.
2. During a tea time stream, she ran out of tea at home, so she substituted it with instant coffee mix.
3. Went to the bakery to buy scones and macarons to pair with her tea, but they were all sold out, so she replaced them with leftover potato chips.
4. Her internet search history includes adult fiction.
5. She likes and shares adult art on social media.
6. She even likes and shares art of her colleagues.
7. Occasionally, she refers to male VTubers as “bro.”
8. She suspiciously knows a lot about military stories.
9. During a 3D stream, she lifted a heavy bag like it was nothing.
[Comments]
– Just… ^fake lady^.
– Isn’t this person actually a guy?
– Number 6 is pure madness.
ㄴ She got scolded by the agency for number 5 and 6, but she kept liking those posts anyway.
– A noble lady who served in the military… This is actually kind of good…
– The fake lady is secretly crazy.
ㄴ Secretly?
ㄴ She’s blatantly insane, if you ask me.
ㄴ It wouldn’t be surprising if there’s a meltdown tomorrow…
– I don’t really get it, why is she called “fake lady”?
ㄴ (Author) Fake lady -> Fake noble lady -> Fake lady.
ㄴ Oh, I see.
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How people define a VTuber varies from person to person.
The history of the YouTuber profession is not long, and it’s unclear whether YouTubers can be considered a mainstream form of content. Naturally, opinions on the matter differ.
However, there are at least a couple of generally accepted characteristics.
The use of a modeled avatar in broadcasts and having a unique character setting.
At the very least, these two conditions should be met to qualify as a VTuber.
In the end, a VTuber is a person who shares a mutually agreed-upon fiction with their viewers.
In this world, there are VTubers with personas like an 8000-year-old demon, a descendant of dragons, or even one who claims to have lived in humanity’s dreams.
Of course, no viewer actually believes these personas are real.
They’re just concepts to make the broadcast more entertaining.
They’re simply a tool for viewers to immerse themselves in the stream.
Most VTubers, to begin with, don’t engage in hardcore role-playing.
Actually, it might be more accurate to say that the structure doesn’t allow them to sustain role-playing.
Could a VTuber, who is not an actor, really act and lie in every single broadcast? If they had such acting skills, they would’ve become actors instead of VTubers.
Role-playing with a strong concept is exhausting work. If a VTuber had the energy to invest in such role-playing, wouldn’t it be more efficient to prepare content for the next stream instead?
Moreover, as VTubers continue to broadcast, they often want to share their genuine stories with viewers.
The viewers also desire to see the authentic side of the VTubers.
In the end, it’s a strange structure where both the VTuber and the viewers seek the truth within the agreed-upon fiction of the “persona.”
Thus, no one truly believed that Aurora was the villainous noblewoman exiled from a ducal family.
Everyone assumed it was just a concept created for the broadcast.
After all, who would think that a woman who guzzled down pork soup first thing in the morning with an exaggerated “Gahyeeeeeh!” was a noble lady?
Sometimes she seemed to give off the vibe of a rich girl, but when you saw her mixing canned tuna with plain rice and shoveling it into her mouth, it seemed like just an illusion.
“But I really am a noble lady from a ducal family.”
Aurora shrugged her shoulders.
Jet-black hair reminiscent of the night sky.
Doll-like, sharp features with slightly eerie, crimson eyes.
Dressed in a gown inside her house, she certainly exuded the grace of a noblewoman, and she looked remarkably similar to the VTuber model she used.
“Well, it doesn’t matter if no one believes it.”
Aurora muttered to herself.
There probably wasn’t anyone in this world who had never told a lie. Aurora, too, lived her life with a few lies here and there.
However, the Virtual Talent Aurora was likely the most honest VTuber in this world, and the one who told the fewest lies.
Because she truly was a noble lady from a ducal family.
“Ah, but I wasn’t exiled.”
Now that she thought about it, she had never actually been exiled.
But that was just a minor detail.
Aurora.
It had been three years since she, who had possessed the body of a villainous noblewoman in another world, returned to Earth.