Nikori Iku, an orphan retrieved from a heap of garbage by the landlady, dwells perpetually in the confines of a basement, tethered to an old, battered computer. Forced into the digital limelight as a Vtuber, she streams her existence into the virtual ether. Should her earnings falter, the specter of abandonment by her landlady looms ever near—a constant reminder of her precarious foothold in this fleeting, digital world.