Nirvana Top Laner, Reborn Tokyo Girl

Chapter 144, page 141: Breaking the 10,000 Captain mark? The most glorious moment for a Vtuber!
The entertainment value of a fully fed Camille in a match is self-evident.

Whether it's team fights or split pushing on the sidelines, it's like there's no one there for Shimamura Yuna.

For all the backline players on the opposing team, if Shimamura Yuna catches them and revives them with a series of A-shots, they're basically doomed.

However, the damage they could inflict on Shimamura Yuna was very limited. Often, even after focusing all their fire on her, they still couldn't kill her instantly.

Instead, Galio launched a counterattack as soon as he landed, resulting in either a small team wipe or at least Shimamura Yuna surviving and gaining some advantage.

Actually, towards the end of the game, it was already typical garbage time.

It's a classic match where the player dies in 10 minutes and isn't buried for over 20 minutes.

The snowball effect of these successive waves has given the CFO an extremely high margin for error.

For HLE to win a team fight, it's not enough for them to play well themselves; their CFO also needs to make a series of huge mistakes.

And one mistake wasn't enough.

You have to make consecutive mistakes and lose several rounds in a row to succeed.

In this situation, teams like HLE don't like to linger.

Some teams may know they are slowly dying, but they just don't want to lose immediately. They want to give up dragons and resources instead of team fights, and then watch the economic gap and the gap in neutral resources widen. Then, when they have no choice but to engage in team fights, they come out and get kicked to death.

HLE is different.

This team just loves to speed up.

Can't they win this wave?
Even if we can't win, we have to fight. What else can we do? Otherwise, aren't we just waiting to die?

The result was that they had a 30% chance of winning the first team fight, but they gave away the win.

Then their win rate dropped to 25%, and they started feeding again.

Then the win rate dropped to 20%.
Basically, the win rate keeps getting lower and lower as you keep dying, but you just can't lose anytime soon.

In the latter half of the game, HLE's team had no idea they could win; they were just messing around, engaging in fights whenever they saw an enemy and joining any team fight that came their way.

As the saying goes, fight while you're alive, let it be when you're dead.

I just want to speed things up for the next game.

As a result, this mindset led to watching highlights of Shimamura Yuna.

The sheer number of amazing plays by Shimamura in that one game was enough to create a highlight reel that would last for several minutes.

All I can say is that the HLE guys are playing too impulsively; none of them seem to care much about KD.

And so, after less than 30 minutes of torture, the game finally ended.

Ultimately, Shimamura Yuna achieved an astonishing 11-0-4 KD, making her a true points champion.

"Holy crap, Shimamura's shield! Holy crap, Shimamura's sweeping kick! Holy crap, Shimamura's counterattack!"

"Holy crap, this is amazing, is this for real???"

"Oh my, Shimamura-nee's honey, your movements are so smooth!"

Seeing Shimamura Yuna frantically roaming through the crowd, indiscriminately killing everything in her path, the Dragon God felt a little dizzy.

Even the most ardent fans of Yuna Shimamura probably never imagined that Zeus would be brutally beaten by her before the match.

They probably all thought that Shimamura Yuna could perform similarly to Zeus, or that she could just play it safe.

But nobody expected that this kind of highlight reel would be shown here.

Even the Dragon God hadn't expected this.

After watching the entire game, he couldn't help but complain, "Wait, if her Honey is that good, why didn't she choose her before?"

"I don't see any problem with her skill level. She has all the basic operations, and she's very proficient at things like E-Flash, isn't she?"

"Then why didn't you play it before? Is it really the ultimate weapon?"

After a moment of silence, the Dragon God continued, "You really shouldn't disbelieve me, this Honey is really something else, she's really quite amazing."

After much deliberation, the Dragon God finally came to a conclusion.

That is, the whole world.
Not only herself, but also other viewers, other commentators, and other players all underestimated the talent of Yuna Shimamura.

Faced with this situation, Longshen could only repeatedly express his disbelief during the live stream.

"Holy crap, this is really outrageous!"

Unlike Ryujin, Kujo Akari was basically clueless about everything during the live stream.

She couldn't understand the difference between Shimamura Yuna's current technique and the ones she had played before.

She also couldn't understand why the viewers in the live stream were so surprised by Shimamura Yuna's choice of this hero.

Her view was very simple.

The first point is
'This hero is so cool!'

Yes, that was her most direct feeling.

She had watched Shimamura Yuna play League of Legends before. She was one of Shimamura Yuna's first viewers long before Shimamura Yuna started streaming.

She was the only audience member at the time.

At the time, her biggest question was why Shimamura Yuna insisted on playing the vampire hero.
This hero looks ugly and weak, and the skills are boring. Why does Shimamura Yuna insist on playing this hero?
She occasionally came across videos of other skilled players online and discovered that many of these players played heroes with impressive skill and technique.

However, the heroes that Shimamura Yuna plays are neither visually appealing nor have interesting skills.

She's like the kind of kid who's curious about why her dad became a scientist instead of a singer, thinking that singers are cooler than scientists.

She didn't understand the essence of the vampire hero, nor did she understand how to play the game.

But she wanted Shimamura Yuna to play roles that she was more interested in and that seemed more interesting.

Of course, she wouldn't tell Shimamura Yuna these things, because she knew that playing professionally and doing live streaming weren't child's play, and that you couldn't just do whatever you wanted.

But the Camille that Shimamura Yuna accidentally created today perfectly suited her wishes.

He was as handsome as she had imagined.

Just as carefree as she had imagined.

That's right. As the protagonist in my mind, Shimamura should be the kind of character who goes in and out of the enemy lines seven times, isn't that more reasonable?

With that in mind, throughout the match she kept saying "So cool!" "So cool, Yuna!" "Yuna is so cool!"

It made the viewers in the live stream very happy.

The old man is starting to get a feel for things.

[Shimamura-san is having a party tonight]

The old man's support was genuine; it couldn't be faked.

[Shimamura-san, can you please not disappoint the old man? Can you let this torture continue for a couple more rounds?]

And so, she finished the game while praising Shimamura Yuna's coolness.

At that moment, Akari Kujo felt truly triumphant.

"I told you Yuna could do it! I told you so! I told you so!" "Who else doubts Yuna? Who else is inferior to Zeus? Although you all say Zeus is very strong, from what I've seen, Yuna is just as good as him!"

The more he spoke, the more excited Jiu Tiaoming became.

You could even say she was more excited than everyone else on the field combined.

[Old man, we were wrong. We will never question Shimamura-san again.]

[Shimamura is awesome, and so is the old man]

What makes Shimamura so amazing?

[Shimamura-san is awesome in every way]

[Shimamura-san, take us for another run!]

With the victory in this game, gifts, red SCs, captains, and governors poured into the live stream room as if they were free.

Akari Kujo doesn't stream on Bilibili much, nor does she watch Bilibili much, so she doesn't understand the gift system.

Therefore, she couldn't understand what it meant to suddenly have 5000 captains, including 5 governors.

Previously, due to the long hiatus from broadcasting, Shimamura Yuna had lost almost all of her viewership.

There are only a couple hundred crystals left, and captains are still constantly renewing their subscriptions, and there are even two admirals who are renewing their subscriptions.

However, since the show started airing today, it can be said that they have truly taken back everything they had lost.

In order to persuade Shimamura Yuna to let her start live streaming, Kujo Akari used a sales pitch that said, "Your live streams are so popular, and many people are making a fortune by rebroadcasting your matches. Why don't we make that money ourselves?"

She wasn't really being serious when she said that.

Or rather, it's all just nonsense.

She simply wanted to find a legitimate reason for herself to start a live stream, and a seemingly reasonable excuse to show off her relationship with Yuna Shimamura to the world.

However, what she didn't realize was that her actions had turned out to be a lucky accident.

Just think about it.
Some streamers on Bilibili can occasionally generate thousands or even tens of thousands of views, but the actual number of people watching their streams at the same time is often only a few thousand or tens of thousands.

In contrast, esports events are live streams with a large number of viewers, sometimes reaching millions across all platforms, but almost no one sends virtual gifts.

On the one hand, the audience for watching the games is quite different from those who are willing to watch live streams. A large proportion of these people are not willing to spend money on things like sending virtual gifts during live streams.

On the other hand, even if some people are willing to spend money, the problem is that they don't know who to spend it on.

Should I send this to the Bilibili live stream of the event?
Are you sending the gift to Douyu's official live stream room?
This is clearly unreasonable.

Ultimately, live sports broadcasts are a form of mass entertainment, while gift-giving is a product of niche fan culture.

These two things are somewhat mutually exclusive.

Niche fandom cultures can thrive on popcorn, but their audience base is small.

Mass entertainment has a large audience, but viewers have a low willingness to consume.

And once these two factors are combined to form a large esports fan base, almost all of them will make a fortune.

And Shimamura Yuna now appears to be one of them without a doubt.

On the one hand, she is indeed a streamer, and before becoming a professional streamer, she was one of the streamers with high popularity and a strong willingness among her fans to spend money, so she already had the foundation and atmosphere for success.

On the other hand, she is now playing in competitions and is indeed considered a professional player among the general public, and one that is as general as it gets.

To exaggerate a bit.

That means the whole world is watching.

Being a female professional player can bring her a huge amount of attention.

On the other hand, her status as a beautiful girl can also make people more willing to spend money on her, pay for her services, and become her die-hard fans.

With the combined popularity of mainstream professional players and the refined taste of niche Vtuber, Yuna Shimamura's earning power is unprecedented.

Now, there is only one problem.

That is, people who want to send her money don't know where to do it.

If a real-time, customized donation channel were opened on the game interface for League of Legends matches, the donation capacity of some players' fans would probably be beyond expectations.

It's just that this thing doesn't exist, so fans have nowhere to spend their money on impulsive purchases.

But if Akari Kujo helps Yuna Shimamura start her broadcast, then the payment issue is perfectly resolved.

This fan watched Shimamura Yuna have a great time killing people, and suddenly his desire to send money arose.

For a VTuber, what is the most glorious moment?
Is it a birthday celebration to harvest crystallized rice?
Is it possible to gain millions of views on Bilibili and then have a surge in followers by learning Chinese?
For Yuna Shimamura, none of these were her greatest achievements.

She has never held a birthday celebration, nor has she ever livestreamed herself learning Chinese.

Perhaps in her view, this content was, to a large extent, even somewhat boring.

For Yuna Shimamura, her greatest glory was on the competition field.

It was at this very moment that Zeus was utterly annihilated and Camille's highlight reel was completed.

For virtual streamers, this is naturally a hundred times more dazzling than celebrating a birthday or learning Chinese!
From the moment Shimamura Yuna killed Zeus for the first time, the number of captains has been increasing rapidly.

Later, when Shimamura Yuna's battle record began to explode, the number of captains was so high that it could be counted in seconds.

It's true that a new captain is added every minute or less.

Sometimes, a captain will appear every ten seconds or so.

By the very last moment of the match, the number of captains had increased from a couple hundred to 5800.

And this number is still increasing!!!
The rate of increase is accelerating!
At this rate, Shimamura Yuna's captain count will surpass 10,000 today.

Akari Kujo didn't quite understand this, so she didn't react much.

However, the translator in the live stream understood.

She was almost dumbfounded when she saw the captain's speed increase.

So I timidly asked Kujo Akari, "Um... Kujo-nee, aren't you going to thank me for the gifts? It seems like there are a bit too many gifts now. Look, the captain is almost at 6000 now."

Akari Kujo finally realized what was happening.

She asked hesitantly, "Um... how much does this captain cost again?"

Actually, she had already asked Shimamura Yuna before.

When Shimamura Yuna was doing a live stream on Bilibili before, she had already learned about this money.

It was only now, belatedly, that she realized how much money Shimamura Yuna's live stream had just received.

Finally, the translator herself told her how much it was worth.

"6000 captains. Even at the low price of 138 RMB, that would amount to several hundred thousand RMB."

Although this amount of money wasn't a huge sum for her family.

But for her personally, it's a considerable sum of money compared to her allowance and daily expenses.

(End of this chapter)