The magnificent crystal chandelier cast a soft glow, but its warmth did little to illuminate everyone's faces.
A faint shadow fell across the face of the girl sitting farthest from Zhou Yuang.
Beside her, the livestream recording had reached the end of A1, when Zhou Yuang began announcing that he would grant the Uma Musume's wishes.
Onscreen, the raccoon-like trainer drew a wish from someone longing for romance and promptly refused it. At the time, Zhou Yuang had thought it was absurd. He couldn't just hand a stranger a relationship.
But the girl who had written that wish knew they weren't strangers.
She didn't curse him out, but she did post an indignant comment that sounded almost like a kitten hissing.
The displeased comment from [Mount Yotei Spring] swept across Bright's face, lending a little color to her gloom-shrouded features.
Only for an instant. A scrolling comment couldn't light her face; like a shooting star, it could only leave a fleeting glimmer in her eyes.
Bright still held the pendant Zhou Yuang had given her, her face wearing the same unruffled smile.
"Seriously?"
Wait, sister?
You've got to be kidding me.
Bright, you're my fan, the second-biggest donor and a moderator, and now you've been spying on my daily life?
"You're getting pretty gachi about this."
She wasn't a hater, but she was definitely such a die-hard fan that she'd gone dark.
Zhou Yuang remembered that streamers tended to have fans who imagined themselves as their boyfriends or girlfriends.
Vtuber fans could get especially wild. Some of them would even do things like dox people.
They spent their days acting unhinged, interacting with streamers as obsessive fans or antis.
What Bright had done was common enough in the world of bizarre fanfics. Plenty of Uma Musume would do it. But