I May Be a Virtual Youtuber, but I Still Go to Work-Chapter 190
Actually, when PIN0 first offered the one million won mission to help Magia graduate kindergarten early, everyone just kind of went, “Ah, there he goes again.”
This guy was probably going into more debt, tightening his own neck, as usual.
But when Movgun added another million to it—that hit completely different.
See, up until just before winter last year, Movgun was basically a normie.
Sure, he’d binged VTubers and subculture content non-stop for a year,
But his streams still followed the standard cam streamer format.
He was originally a pro gamer. His content was based around that fanbase.
So even though he was on friendly terms with Momo, the CEO of Parallel,
Most of the Pazijik viewers agreed: there’s no way this guy was a real VTuber fan.
But today, that belief was proven totally wrong, live and in front of everyone.
Wanggu asked him:
[Hey. That rumor about people seeing you at Mafe—was that real?]
— 🗡movgun: That one’s actually true
— 🗡movgun: I was there buying something for Ronze, I swear
[Funny, because I asked Ronze afterward and he said he’s not even a fan of Gia.]
Magia didn’t react.
Her visit to Mafe, dressed up in cosplay with Momo, was still supposed to be a secret.
If she pushed Movgun here, it might drag that story into the light.
And since there were already a fair number of pictures floating around despite her trying to avoid them,
Reacting now might just cause the whole gallery to get flooded with “red pill Momo” memes again.
More than anything, Magia personally still hadn’t fully accepted the idea that Movgun might be one of her fans.
So she kept quiet.
In a way, she was giving him a chance to cover his tracks.
But the funny thing was, Movgun panicked and dove straight into the pit himself.
— 🗡movgun: I just pretended not to be because I was embarrassed
— 🗡movgun: Look, you dig deep enough, everything about me’s gonna come out
[Sounds like you’re the one who needs investigating...]
— 🗡movgun: Shut up and teach already
— 🗡movgun: I came to see how well Magia plays, that’s all
[?]
— ?
— ??
— So you really did come here just to see Magia?
:: An anonymous donor has given 1,000 Clouds! ::
:: You don’t even watch this stream usually, but dropped 100 just to see Magia? ::
— This guy’s just a regular Slug
— He really is
— lololol
— Welcome, Gunmu
— Are you the new guy who just joined?
That comment was basically a confession, and the mood shifted instantly.
And his excuse? Even more pathetic.
— 🗡movgun: I just think Magia’s funny, okay? That’s why I watch
— 🗡movgun: I’m not some weirdo, I swear
It was the exact look of someone who’d been quietly watching Magia’s streams and got caught red-handed.
— Ah, yes;
— Ah haha
— Got it, got it lol
— mmm
— yyy
***
... ─ — Parallel (VTuber) Gallery ─ ─ —
[Should we start an official investigation into this bastard Movgun?]
I swear, every move he makes screams Slug lol
[Comments]
— Parallel093: I’m not the only one who thought that, right?
— Parallel151: That accidental name reveal was fucking hilarious
— Parallel884: Honestly, even if he’d stayed anonymous, Wanggu would’ve recognized him instantly since they’re friends
ㄴ Parallel525: So you’re saying he threw that 100 on purpose?
ㄴ Parallel216: That’s even more insane lol
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... ─ — Pazijik Gallery ─ ─ —
[Today’s stream hit 4 million won in mission money in under 10 minutes 😱]
That stream... was Wanggu’s.
—————————————————
:: Missions ::
:: Win your first casual match – 465,000 won ::
:: Win using all four Alice forms – 382,000 won ::
:: Win a round using only shotgun barrage – 252,000 won ::
:: Graduate kindergarten today – 3,093,000 won ::
—————————————————
Funniest part?
The last mission was posted by none other than PIN0, infamous for being one of Magia’s most deranged fans—and the one who did her cracked Live2D rigging.
Then Movgun added 1 million on top of that mission lol
= Movgun is also part of the deranged Magia fan club.
[Comments]
— Pazijik005: Movgun you lolicon farmhand gay bastard...
— Pazijik851: I’ve known since the moment he started habitually mentioning Magia on his stream lol
ㄴ Pazijik299: Was it really that obvious? lol
ㄴ Pazijik566: Probably news to people who don’t watch him live
ㄴ Pazijik566: Gunmu’s always complaining about content being boring, internal tournaments being trash, etc... and like clockwork, twice a month, he says “if only Magia showed up, things would be fun again” lol
ㄴ Pazijik885: Gunmu you lolipedofarmhandclickclackgayfreak......
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Whether it was stupidity, panic, or intentional boosting,
One thing was clear: Movgun’s misstep had drawn a massive spotlight to the stream.
It was a Wednesday afternoon.
Most students and working adults were busy with lectures or jobs.
But gallery and community lurkers always kept one eye open—and now, the buzz was building.
Unemployed folks were already seated, naturally.
And workers? They were plugging in wireless earbuds in their hidden ear and quietly tuning in like stealth salary thieves.
[(🔴Live) Wanggu Kindergarten Returns – Student: Parallel’s Assistant Manager Magia] 👪18,699
2:30 PM on a weekday. A time when viewership should be dead.
And yet they were nearing 20k.
But as always—
Once you gather a huge crowd, you only have 30 minutes to an hour before they start leaving.
Especially at this time of day.
Most people just swing by to see if anything fun is happening while on a break.
If it’s not interesting? No reason to stick around.
But as if on cue, Magia started doing exactly the kind of unexpected stuff that would keep all those floating viewers glued.
[Now if you can remember everything I just showed you, we can hop into casual matches right away. It’s a lot, but that’s really all you need to know.]
“Yessir.”
One of the most hellish barriers to entry with Alice was her four transformation forms.
Then, one signature skill per form, and eight basic attacks total.
Sixteen inputs in all.
Wanggu went through each one—
And Magia? She memorized them all on the spot, only messing up one input. Perfect.
“Oh wait, not that one. Was it this?”
[...Whoa. Yeah. That’s right. I mean—damn.]
— She memorized all that?!
— Her memory is insane
— Did she seriously memorize it all while just watching??
:: An anonymous donor has given 1,000 Clouds! ::
:: Big brain = big memory, apparently 😱 ::
— Youuu
— Hey hey
— Big head, big brain confirmed 😱
Sounds like praise, but really, this was just the equivalent of clapping for a baby who just took their first step.
The real game hadn’t even started yet.
This was just a little side event caused by how weird the character Alice was.
Meanwhile, Wanggu had hooked up his arcade stick and said:
[I actually expected it’d take 30 minutes to memorize all that. But if you’re already done, we can jump right into a practice match.]
“Oh, already?”
[Yep. This is a game you learn by getting hit. I’ll go easy on you, and if you’re ever like, ‘Wait, how do I counter that?’ just ask right away. I’ll tell you the answer as we go.]
“Okay. Sounds good.”
[Then I’ll use a top-tier character and focus on the patterns most people abuse. These are the ones you’ll see the most in tournaments or against other players.]
Wanggu picked the current most-picked character.
It was Smith—
Who had been bouncing between top and high-tier since Soul Arena: Beast and was holding strong as top-tier in Crash.
— He’s here
— The bastard returns
— Newbie destroyer mf
— (Chatbot has flagged inappropriate content)
[As you can tell from the chat, Smith is busted. He’s a lunatic who can win entire matches with one move: Gekkwon.]
“What’s Gekkwon?”
[You’ll know it when you see it. It’s loud as hell. Let’s start.]
Custom game, local match, 2P mode begins.
Magia picks Alice.
Wanggu picks Smith.
To give Magia the advantage, Wanggu plays on the 2P side—since input directions flip depending on your character’s facing, and for beginners, 1P vs 2P side matters a lot.
[I’ll only use two moves: Gekkwon and Falling Palm.]
“You can win with just those?”
[You’re a newbie. You won’t even know what move to use when.
Honestly, I could win with just Gekkwon,
But if you get used to that first and then I add Falling Palm, you’ll have to relearn everything.
So we’ll just use both from the start.]
“Ohh, it’s a mid-low mixup tool, right?”
— ?
— What
— She studied
— She totally studied
— This student already graduated??
Wanggu glanced at the chat and said:
[Come to think of it, you were watching during first-gen training, weren’t you?]
She had watched the first-gen lessons.
And even though she’d never said it out loud, she used to play Soul Crash casually to blow off steam—especially when stressed out as Orca.
Magia replied confidently.
“Yeah. I’m not totally new to the game.”
[If you remember that much, mind if I go a bit harder? You clearly understand mixup concepts.]
“Please do. If you’re gonna give me problems to solve, I’d rather skip the basics entirely and go full hard mode.”
[If it feels like I skipped too much, I’ll explain it again. Let’s do it.]
“Got it. Looking forward to it, Teacher.”
[Here we go!]
Get ready for the next battle!
With a click, the characters’ faces appeared.
The scene shifted: human weapon Alice vs the beastly brute Smith.
Fight!
As the match began, Wanggu immediately threw out a Gekkwon.
Gekkwon had average startup frames—
But ridiculous reach and power.
Alice, on the other hand, had below-average speed on most of her key moves.
So even if her reach was similar,
If both characters threw out attacks at the same time, Gekkwon usually won.
Thwack!
Wanggu’s Smith stepped forward and launched a fierce straight punch.
[Whoa.]
Alice, however, slid sideways—sidestepping the Gekkwon clean.
Gekkwon was infamous as a newbie-killer move,
But it was also extremely linear—making it weak against sidesteps.
It didn’t take a genius to exploit that weakness.
What mattered was that Magia correctly read Wanggu’s aggressive opener and countered it with precision.
— ??
— Uh
— What
— ?
Smith «N.o.v.e.l.i.g.h.t» charged straight ahead in a linear line.
With Magia having slipped around to his side, she had the advantage now.
This is why fighting games are often called “turn-based” at their core.
Every attack has its follow-up state—some leave you at an advantage, others at a disadvantage.
The flow of the game shifts back and forth, depending on whether you choose to attack, defend, or dodge during your turn.
Wanggu reflexively raised his guard.
When your opponent has the advantage, the smartest play is often to block and let that turn pass.
After all, all the techniques Wanggu had just taught Magia were meant for beating newbies who recklessly attack without guarding first.
Throwing out a move here would basically be asking to die.
So: pull the lever back, raise guard, wait to see what Magia does.
‘She’ll probably go with the basic stomp, right...?’
Newbies love low attacks.
Sure, they’re a bit slow, but they beat standing guard and can net easy damage.
Of course, if they do get blocked, it leaves you wide open and the opponent can punish you hard—
But how many people at low tier even block lows?
Use a low attack three times in a row, and you’ll still hit three times. That’s low rank for you.
Magia had started strong with that sidestep, sure, but she was still a newbie.
Wanggu figured she’d instinctively go for a low now that she had the momentum, so he shifted his lever from back to down-back for a crouching guard.
But—
Just as he lowered his guard, what came flying at him was Alice’s signature mid, the shotgun barrage.
Clack.
BRRRT-BANG!
— Oh
— What the
— Ohhhh
This translation is the intellectual property of Novelight.
Shotgun barrage lasts twice as long when used mid-air, sure,
But even on the ground, it landed cleanly on Smith.
‘Wait... Did she know I’d switch to low guard and intentionally use a mid?’
Wanggu was dumbfounded.
He was the one who should be reading her mind—but somehow she had just outplayed him.
‘No way. Must’ve been luck... right?’
Eventually, Magia’s attack string ended, and Wanggu regained his turn.
Time to use Smith’s basic mixup: mid Gekkwon and low Falling Palm.
As mentioned earlier, beginners usually panic against rapid low chains like Falling Palm.
They instinctively start crouching more often than not.
And when they do? They eat Gekkwon straight to the face.
That’s Smith’s whole stupid gameplan.
Spam lows, then suddenly throw out a mid—it’s how he ends matches.
There’s a reason people call him the “newbie slayer.”
‘If she’s here to learn properly, it probably means she wants to rank up...’
So Wanggu decided to teach her the “fundamentals”—starting with the low, Falling Palm.
Because showing a newbie how they usually think is the first step to helping them improve and climb the ranks.
Smith swept his leg hard at Alice’s ankles—
But missed.
Not only did Alice avoid it, but she parried the low, making Smith whiff completely,
Then punished instantly with another shotgun barrage.
Magia had predicted Wanggu would go low.
He had only explained that “low parry” was a thing—yet here she was using it already in an actual match.
‘Again...?!’
Low parry causes a brief juggle state, so she even got two shotgun barrages in:
BRRRT-BANG! BRRRT-BANG!
Smith’s health bar was already blinking red.
Magia’s health wasn’t exactly full either, but every time Wanggu tried a mixup, she was guessing right.
‘Okay. I can’t keep treating her like a newbie.’
Up until now, this strategy had worked on nearly every streamer new to Soul Crash.
The pattern was always the same:
They’d get destroyed by Wanggu’s “beginner lesson,”
Feel frustrated at how easy it was to lose,
Then swear to get better.
But Magia was different.
None of the beginner-level psychology was working.
Still, as a teacher, Wanggu had to do his duty.
Even if he failed, he had to try every pattern he knew.
And since Smith was already in red health—Crash state—
This was the perfect moment to teach her about super move counterplay.
Supers in this game ignore almost everything and can lead to massive comebacks—
Especially useful for beginners to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat.
The setup? Bait the opponent into punishing Gekkwon—then crush their counterattack with a super.
Only thing was...
Wanggu had forgotten something.
Because Magia was doing so well with mind games,
He’d neglected to explain the basic idea that blocking Gekkwon leaves Smith at a disadvantage.
Normally, Magia would’ve eaten a few Gekkwons by now, learned the hard way, and they’d go over it.
But since the flow of the match got jumbled, that never happened.
THWACK!
Smith threw a Gekkwon. Wanggu immediately buffered the super.
In theory, this is where Magia should’ve tried to punish—and eaten the super for her trouble.
[Wait, what.]
Magia just stood there.
KABOOM!
Smith’s super ran right into her guard and was completely blocked.
Supers are great, but if blocked, they leave you more open than anything else.
Meaning? Free punish.
BRRRT-BANG! Magia’s shotgun barrage came flying out—Smith’s HP dropped to zero.
{{ Alice ◇◇◆ vs ◇◇◇ Smith }}
Just like that, Magia won the round, clean and brutal.
And then she said—
“This counts as one mission cleared, right?”
— Ah
— Wow
— She really only used shotgun barrage? lol
— Insane lol
— Holy crap lol
— Kyaaaa
— HOW DID YOU DO THAT YOU CRAZY BITCH LOL
:: Mission Cleared! ::
:: Win a round using only shotgun barrage – 385,000 won ::
— This isn’t a kindergarten student...
— She’s cooked...
— She’s fully grown already lol
— Bro has she played Soul Crash before?? No way this is day one
:: An anonymous donor has given 1,000 Clouds! ::
:: BRO YOU SAID SHE WAS A SAFE ASSET!!!!! ::
:: An anonymous donor has given 1,000 Clouds! ::
:: I was gonna invest in her like she was a goddamn blue-chip stock! ::
Even Wanggu couldn’t help but ask.
He’d been going easy on her for lesson purposes—
But still, she was absolutely wrecking him in the mind games department.
[Have you ever played something similar to this before?]
“Nope. Soul Crash is my first fighting game.”
[Seriously...? For that, your reads are unreal. I guess your game sense is sharp from playing other stuff. Honestly, if you grind out a few more matches, I could see you ranking up fast.]
“Aren’t you praising me a bit too much? You’ve been going easy on me.”
For the record—
Like most fighting game veterans, Wanggu suffered from a specific illness.
When they spot a promising newbie, they cannot hold back.
And that urge is even worse in niche titles like Soul Crash, where good new players are rare and precious.
[No, really. With proper training, forget Gold—you could hit Platinum or Diamond.]
“Really?”
— Oh come on Wanggu lol
— Wanggu’s newbie-flirting technique, first form lol
— He says that to everyone!
— Screw it, here’s your Diamond badge
[Okay. How about this—next match, I’ll go all out. You tell me how it feels. That last round wasn’t too hard, right?]
“Nope. You only used two moves, so it was pretty manageable.”
[Right? Let’s keep going then.]
Naturally, Movgun couldn’t stay quiet watching this unfold.
Now that his identity as a Slug was blown, he went all-in with a donation.
:: movgun has donated 10,000 Clouds! ::
:: Don’t you dare pull her from the Battle Call internal match, I swear to god ::
— LOLLL
— This man’s unhinged
— LMAO
— Holy hell lol
[Sheesh. Why so petty, man? Gia’s just playing whatever she wants—Battle Call, Soul Crash, let her have fun.]
— 🗡movgun: She can’t do everything
— 🗡movgun: Magia’s got a packed schedule, damn it
— 🗡movgun: I’ve been inviting her to Battle Call forever and she keeps ghosting me
— ?
— Maybe that’s because she hates you bro freewebnøvel.coɱ
— Maybe she just doesn’t like you lol
— lmaooo
[Even the chat says she’s avoiding you cause you’re annoying.]
— 🗡movgun: Oh that’s how it is, huh?
— 🗡movgun: You wanna go??
Movgun snapped and pulled his blade once more:
:: Graduate kindergarten today – 3,382,000 won ::
- 618,000 won | movgun
— LMAOOOOO
— bruhh
— You emptied your wallet huh
— He rounded it to 4 million lol
— That’s such a petty number lol
— Damn lmaoo
He probably dumped all his saved-up donation funds.
It was a janky number, but... 4 million won had history.
That’s the amount that once brought Magia onto Rain’s stream out of nowhere.
In other words:
He was telling her, through mission money—
“You’re good enough. You can graduate today.
Let’s end Soul Crash here.”
Magia caught the message and glanced at the clock.
2:30 PM.
They’d been streaming for an hour and a half.
The other Parallel members wouldn’t go live for at least three more hours.
She had planned to kill time until then anyway.
Plus, if the donations kept stacking, she could return the favor to Wanggu for today’s help.
And if it made Movgun tap out too? Even better.
“Teacher, just ignore that idiot. Let’s move on to the next lesson. I’ve still got a lot I want to learn.”
[Shall we?]
— 🗡movgun: Don’t ignore meeeeeeeeeeee
— He really is an idiot
— Just a rich, dumb old man...
— Movgun’s a legend today lol
— lmaooo
