Chapter 33: The Legendary Childhood Sweetheart

The next day.

Qing Yu blinked his sleepy eyes, let out a comfortable yawn while stretching, and walked into the washroom.

"This is the one good thing about being a streamer; work hours are completely up to me. I don't have to worry about being late no matter how long I sleep."

While grooming his handsome face, Qing Yu thought silently to himself.

"In my past life, as a small-time streamer, I might have worried about not being able to afford a meal one day. There was always a bit of pressure."

"But now..."

"Aside from courting death myself, I can't imagine any possibility of starving to death in a utopian society like this Pokémon world."

Thinking of this, Qing Yu recalled some other games he had played in his past life and felt that none of them seemed like places where one could survive...

It really is great to have come to such a friendly Pokémon world!

After washing up, Qing Yu was in a great mood and sat on the sofa, preparing to play on his phone for a while longer.

After unlocking the screen, before clicking on PokéTV, Qing Yu suddenly noticed a red notification on another app.

"Navigator."

Qing Yu slowly formed a question mark.

If PokéTV was a collection of video platforms like Bilibili, TikTok, and YouTube from his past life, then the Navigator was a collection of all social media and other mobile functions.

In fact, the Navigator had already appeared as early as the Hoenn generation of the games.

And its developer was the Devon Corporation of Hoenn, founded by Steven's father, President Stone.

Beyond its main business of refining ores and developing energy, the Navigator was also a top priority for Devon Corporation's operations.

It was perfectly normal for such a world-class social app to be on Qing Yu's phone.

The only problem was that he didn't use this thing now; he didn't even have many friends on it. Who would be contacting him for no reason?

Although he was still a bit dazed, Qing Yu clicked into it quickly.

After clicking in, it was actually a friend request.

It was quite magical that someone would suddenly add him on a social app that had been dead for half a year.

If he didn't know that there were absolutely no "tea merchants" in this world, Qing Yu would have rejected it without a second thought.

Qing Yu looked closely.

【User: Who is Iono? It's me, Iono!

Verification message: I already know you are Azure Feather! Hurry up and accept Iono-sama's friend request!

Accept/Reject】

"Oh my god, doxxed!"

Qing Yu was stunned and blurted out.

He suddenly felt that the people in the Pokémon world might not be that friendly after all.

Even if he didn't know where she got his Navigator ID, why would Iono add him...

You could figure that out with your butt, right?

His only contact with her was that one battle.

Was it because he used the recording of that match as material without her permission?

Or was she unwilling to accept the loss and planning to battle again?

Regardless, he had to add her as a friend to determine her purpose.

Qing Yu finally pressed accept.

Anyway, they were both Paldean Gym Leaders; they would have to interact eventually, so building a relationship early wasn't a bad thing.

【Qing Yu: Hello. /Smile】

After proactively sending an emoji, he waited for a while but didn't see Iono reply.

Hmm...

Full-time streamers usually had pretty underworld schedules; someone like him who went to bed early and woke up early seemed to be the exception.

Qing Yu expressed his understanding of this and decisively swiped away to open PokéTV.

Two tutorial videos updated in two days—truly worthy of me, the most diligent battle streamer on the entire platform!

Also after one night, the view count for this new video was about the same as the last one, just over 500,000.

It was even possible that the audience was the same group of people.

This time, Qing Yu clicked directly into the comment section and, as expected, saw our old acquaintance in the top comment spot.

Fossil maniac Steven was still outputting!

Having had the previous experience, Qing Yu wasn't as shocked by Steven's reappearance. ===== CHAPTER 35 =====