STORY & ILLUSTRATIONS No.08
The Frustrations of the Live☆Twins & Evil★Twins
Streamers: Fantastic and unparalleled entertainers who bring smiles and dreams to the masses. However, the “Streamer Rankings” are entering turbulent times as the trends keep changing by the second!

What future awaits the 2 of them, as both their main job and side-gig enter a crisis…!?

The Streamer Duo
“Live☆Twin”
Live☆Twin Home

“The duo of angel-like little demons that came from the underworld in order to master the concept of ‘kawaii'”. With that sales pitch, they were the praised darlings for numerous seasons. But with the blazingly fast rise of other genres, their status began crumbling.
Live☆Twin Lil-la Sweet

Lil-la shuddered:
There’s the M-Warriors: “Muscles solve everything”, and the veterans of body language.
There’s Zombina & Zombino: “The only ones in the industry that are already dead”, and the leading stars of the melancholic horror world.
And there’s Sunny-sama with Magicaluna: “Even the assistant is amazing by now”, with controversy after controversy.
With so many rivals gaining popularity, our position as the strongest, eternally super-cute duo is in danger.
Very well, for the next event, we’ll go hard with the ultimate outfit and the ultimate pose.
However, being desperate is not cute at all.
It needs to be something like…this…unemotional…or cold…

SECRET IMAGE
Live☆Twin Lil-la Sweet

The Phantom Thief Duo
“Evil★Twin”
Evil★Twin GG EZ

The World Agent Ranking of the criminal world: A skilled duo specialized in theft rushihng through it like a comet…is what they used to be. Despite ascending all the way to #2 for a brief moment, nowadays they float around the #200 range. What can be done to remedy this situation!?
Evil★Twin Ki-sikil Deal

Ki-sikil shuddered:
We’re not getting any gigs…!
Until recently, the very name of “The Phantom Thief Duo Evil★Twin” used to be equivalent to the rulers of the criminal world, and even the “Secret Password” to access them was used as a bargaining chip…
Very well, we’ll have to go all out with the next gig.
Fortunately, we got a request from a courier I used to know.
It’s a request on an even shadier aspect of the criminal world.
This whole thing stinks to high heaven…
But in this line of work, the more dangerous things get, the sweeter the rewards.
Which one is their main job!? Their wavering goals!
Ki-sikil is easily influenced by Lil-la, who wants to give it all as a streamer.
She keeps bringing up how they keep having less and less work as Agents day by day.
Evil★Twin Lil-la

Evil★Twin Ki-sikil

End of chapter

Thanks to 过户费喜加一 at Bilibili for the scans

TL note: The text in the reference art is way too small to read.