Just as Iono shook her head and prepared to go back to dutifully playing on easy difficulty, she noticed Lance suddenly stand up across the table and head out of the Internet Café with Dragonite.
Iono froze for a moment.
Didn't we come here together to use the computers? Why was he leaving after only half an hour? Did something urgent come up?
But seeing Lance's serious expression, she didn't dare ask.
Turning back, she noticed many usernames she had never seen before appearing on her screen.
[Just got here. Is this Iono's stream? Came over from Lance's.]
[Whoa, this streamer's doing a pretty good impression too...]
[Feels more professional than that colleague who just went out.]
[Streamer, streamer, do you play Ultimate Emerald too?]
As comments flooded the screen, Iono caught on. Were these all viewers from that older guy's stream?
She couldn't help shrinking back.
She had accidentally seen the comments from the viewers in that older guy's stream before, and they had seemed rather unfriendly...
Still, she steeled herself and greeted them.
"Hello... everyone! Welcome!"
"I'm playing Ultimate Emerald too, but on the lowest difficulty. I hope you don't mind."
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What greeted her, however, was the enthusiasm of the newcomers to her stream.
[It's fine, take your time playing.]
[How's that the same? He's a Champion, and you're just a Gym Leader. Makes sense, makes sense.]
[Hahaha, so cute.]
Looking at the newcomers' responses, Iono couldn't help pausing.
Why did these people seem like completely different people after coming into her stream?
They didn't seem that fierce after all...
While Iono pondered, Luo Chen breathed a sigh of relief behind the counter in the Internet Café and took the two cans of drinks he had made yesterday out of the nearby Berry drink cabinet.
He had