At two in the afternoon, in a Poké TV livestream room that had yet to go live.
"Today, we'll be streaming an in-person battle! Iono's going to challenge the Sunshine Gym, which has been making quite a splash in Paldea lately~"
Thanks to this sudden stream announcement, plenty of fans of the Iono Zone had arrived early to wait.
Even with the screen still black, the viewer count had already surpassed the usual numbers.
Of course, quite a few had heard the news and come over from another streamer's channel.
[Come on in, come on in!]
[I heard Miss Iono's going to challenge the Sunshine Gym? Does that mean we finally get to see what Teacher Yu looks like?]
[A dream collab! My favorite eye-candy streamer and my favorite skilled streamer on the same screen?]
[Ahem, I've had it with that Qing guy for ages. I'm backing Miss Iono's righteous gym challenge!]
[Didn't I say that playing dirty would get him confronted IRL sooner or later?]
Holding his Rotom Phone, Qingyu silently lurked in Iono's livestream room with a complicated expression.
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What's going on?
Seems like all my fans are traitors...
"By the way, junior, are you really okay with showing your face?"
As she switched her portable camera Rotom to livestream mode, Iono soon gave him a curious look.
From what she remembered, Qingyu had always seemed to deliberately avoid showing his face on stream.
Still, that was fairly normal in the streaming industry. Plenty of streamers had become huge online precisely because concealing their identities gave them a sense of virtual mystique.
So she'd always assumed that was her junior's streaming strategy.
"No, it's really not a big deal..."
Qingyu shook his head.
The reason he never turned on his camera