Everyone knew Teacher Yu had a huge number of fans.
As a world-class streamer, Qingyu had barely started streaming before his viewer count shot past seven digits, and it continued climbing at a staggering rate.
Among those fans were plenty of Ace Trainers, including experts on par with Gym Leaders, the Elite Four, and even Champions from various regions.
Aside from learning the new strategies Qingyu developed on stream, they had long since reached an unspoken consensus-
Battling Teacher Yu was worth it, win or lose!
They rarely had opportunities to battle Qingyu in person, since traveling across regions to challenge someone was a little awkward. But sparring with him in the game when he streamed was an excellent experience too.
So more and more familiar faces began appearing across from Qingyu, deliberately trying to queue into him.
Qingyu understood perfectly well. Battling experts was clearly more interesting than facing ordinary players. It was hardly a bad thing for him; if anything, it helped him focus.
However...
Perhaps because Qingyu had started this stream so suddenly, none of the Gym Leaders or Elite Four members who usually showed up were in the audience.
Thus, after a two- or three-minute wait, the opponent he matched with and their Trainer avatar looked unfamiliar to quite a few viewers.
A boy with a supremely confident air and wild, spiky hair appeared, with the Trainer ID "GREEN" displayed above him.
"..."
When Qingyu saw Blue's all-too-familiar face, he instinctively raised an eyebrow.
Oh?
Knowing I just finished a fairly high-level Type Masters Tournament, did the game arrange a weaker opponent to give me a change of pace?
If this were the future Blue, who had already become a Champion... no, the Viridian Gym Leader, Qingyu would have found facing him a real headache. Even