Chapter 174
"Boss."
9 a.m.
While heading to the Ilsan International Exhibition Hall where the Mane Festival was being held, Magia, sitting in the passenger seat, absentmindedly fiddled with her phone and muttered,
"We might run into Pino at the festival."
"Huh?"
Pino’s social media account had become famous in a niche way—as an unusual Live2D rigger.
Usually, to create a moving illustration, you'd need a highly detailed piece with an absurd number of separated layers.
But Pino worked from publicly available illustrations. In other words, he took single-layer images and retouched the necessary parts himself to create vivid, dynamic Live2D models. His skill was bizarrely good.
His work was so impressive that he ended up swamped in contracts from Mimax, the top game company in Korea, handling their Live2D outsourcing.
But at the same time, he had the worst luck with investments—lost all his money, ended up in debt, and had to look for new gigs. That’s how he wound up in the VTuber rigging scene.
So in the doujin and especially the VTuber community, hardly anyone didn’t know the name Pino... but—
He was also a bigger shut-in than Magia, a man who truly lived by the motto, "Outside is dangerous."