January 7, Tuesday.
Seven days had passed since Xia Chi abruptly stopped streaming, and the buzz surrounding him, Cynthia, and the Spear Pillar Ruins had finally died down a little.
At seven that evening, after days away, Shuiye, the king of cursed tactics, finally returned to his faithful streaming channel.
"Hello, hello? Moshi moshi? Aloha? Can you hear me?"
As his opening greeting rang out, as eternal and unchanging as a Carbink, viewers immediately swarmed into the channel like Magikarp catching the scent of bait.
[Who are you?]
[Understandable. Things have been crazy these past few days, and the chat's full of rabid Cynthia fans. It's perfectly reasonable for Teacher Shuiye to use [Protect].]
[Protect? More like Run Away!]
[We were ready to fight the haters to the death, and the streamer just dropped to his knees and surrendered! Shameful!]
[I was stunned when I saw the news that day. A Pokémon gaming streamer on the surface, a prophet underneath? You little rascal, Haki Shui.]
[The Arceus video series is amazing! When's the next episode?]
[I thought Lao Shui had used so many cursed tactics that Senior Hundred-Ton King had actually dragged him off to the underworld. What a shame.]
[Wrong! We know Lao Shui vanished these past few days, and Cynthia also disappeared after discovering the Spear Pillar Ruins. Therefore, they've been meeting up offline!]
[.]
Holy shit, someone in chat actually guessed right.
You're the real prophet!
Xia Chi skimmed the chat at a glance and replied, "I have indeed been taking some time to regroup these past few days. Thanks for all your support. If you've just joined the stream, feel free to hit follow."
Barely two minutes into the stream, the live viewer count had already soared past 100,000.
Besides his existing fans, there were undoubtedly