Chapter 1127 - ハルソラ配信中：Part.1
────I have lived my life without being very familiar with the culture of 'video streaming.'
I know the basics. Since it's a kind of hobby that any young person living in modern times would naturally touch at least once, I watched a few times back in middle school when I was close with my PC.
So honestly, my setting for the general atmosphere—or rather, the "standard"—is vague.
Is this much talk okay? Are the listeners actually what you'd call hyped? If they are hyped, to what extent?
Starting from the first one, the [Spiral Crimson Tower] conquest video (lol) commentary stream, I've gained experience with several live broadcasts, but in truth, I'm still a complete novice.
I don't show it on the outside, but my anxieties are endless.
My choice of words, the content of my statements, the rightness or wrongness of the mood, reading the room... total, is it a 'yes' or a 'no'?
To be blunt, my technique is zero. Even without gripping a sword or a blunt weapon, even without flying through the sky, it's impossible for me to be so conceited as to think I'm a natural-born entertainer who can amuse others.
The topicality and popularity I have now as [Hoshikake (Clown)] are the result of what I accumulated as a [Trickster].
If you call that 'ability,' I suppose it is, but in the end, my performance toward fans and the public eye relies on that. I don't have the confidence to sell myself with my own natural behavior (specs).
That's why, yes────to confess, I'm breaking out in a cold sweat every time.
Is the current me bombing? Am I being cringey... well, I can swallow being given a straight face by some people, but if it's only that, it would be unbearable.
It's not a matter of low self-evaluation or lack of self-awareness.
I'm being forced to take on the world. Of course I am, don't underestimate it—that's how it feels.
And so, with one thing and another, I've been working hard until now... but.
Today, I was reminded once again.
"────............Yeah. So, that's how it is."
If you're wondering what I'm talking about, it's the extremely simple logic of this world────
"That was the first run of the opening appetizer part, the forced-scroll limit horror tag."
Glance.
"っ, ah, i-it was...!"
'So cuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuute' 'The best' 'Sora-kawa—!' 'Shy-kawa...!' 'Are you nervous!?????????????????????' 'It's okay, it's not scary!!!' 'Precious death' 'Already impossible in the first few minutes' 'Everything is just cute now' 'Voice is cute, I love it' 'Resonates in my brain' 'Sora-chan, relax—!' 'This is definitely a beautiful girl, for sure' 'The voice is forming a 3D object' 'The breaths contain lethal components, so please be careful with the mic distance' 'Mic distance is important. Since the sound quality is explosively good, it's okay even if you're a bit away, don't give bait to the perverts' 'Protect the angel' 'The bug where I can't throw money' 'Let me pay for Sora-chan' 'Is it true that this girl turns into a demon king in battle???' 'Even if I were cut into pieces, it wouldn't seem to hurt' 'It's a talent to be able to make people happy just with a shy voice, aren't you proud? ' 'A purification case every second' 'Hey, the standing picture is always making a troubled face, it's too cute, impossible' 'The feeling of her doing her best is irresistibly lovely' 'I can't help but stan her unconditionally, help' 'I can see why they were squeezing the supply, the world would be destroyed' 'Sora-kawa—!!!' 'For some reason, tears are coming out' 'Why isn't a heroine implemented in my Arcadia (rage)' 'There's three more hours of this?????' 'I'm melting' 'My heart can't take it in many senses' '♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡' 'I'm getting dizzy' 'I love you' 'I lost' 'Suko-suko [Rainbow-Brush-Wielding Escaping Scorpion (Skolfont Turbula)]' 'If you can't stan this, you're not human' 'The destination for the collection of human love' 'Cuter than a grandchild begging for New Year's money' '──────' '──────────' '────────' '────' '────────────' '────' ──────......
Yes.
In short, it's exactly this────the extremely simple and clear story that "cute" is an invincible cheat common to all humanity.
The time was evening, the place was the Shijo mansion.
In order to face our first attempt at a pair stream, we were inside a newly prepared dedicated booth in the mansion. To put it bluntly, it was inside a 'connected streaming BOX designed to prevent the fact that we were streaming from real-life adjacent positions from being leaked.'
It was a small, box-type streaming room equipped with super-directional microphones and limited-space sound-canceling equipment that crushed any possibility of a leak due to various factors like the reflection or entry of each other's voices.
If you lined up two of them, they were neighbors separated by a small window. In reality, even if we talked freely at a distance of dozens of centimeters, it was designed to maintain the appearance of online communication────or so 'the professional people said,' according to Kaede and Miki.
I don't understand it at all, but if the pros say so, it must be so. Leaving the matters of a world I'm not familiar with to the people who are... what I should focus my consciousness on is,
"By the way, I'm the only one seeing your comments, so keep that in mind."
Only my neighbor.
Then, while 'No way!!!' or 'Is that not heartless???' or 'Are you saying our cries of love won't reach Sora-chan, I see' and so on.
While I was, I'm sorry to say, letting the stupidly large number of comments—which, as declared, would not flow onto the monitor in Sora's booth—pass by the edge of my vision...
"Sora-san."
"っha, hahyu, yes!"
"It's okay. It's getting hyped in a good way, so you can relax."
"I, u............────I-in a good way (that), and, um, hyped (that)... um, that, is... um, that...! W-wait, just a moment...!!!"
Through the two walls of the adjacent booths where a window for sound was provided.
As I instinctively let a smile spread at my partner, who was beyond adorable as she seemed about to run to the other side of the peak of panic behind the sound-insulating panel that looked like glass────
'Yes, he's grinning' 'I'm glad you're happy' 'Explosion Castle' 'What is this' 'This is why couple streamers are, you know???' 'Do this forever' 'That's strange. My grinning face doesn't look like this' 'Are you going to go with this the whole time?????' 'Seriously, someone help me' ────and so on, and so forth.
On the monitor... in the lower corner of the stream screen, which was currently providing the opening jab of the infinite-scroll tag-team part. The standing picture (mini-character), which boasted outstanding quality, perfectly traced my expression in real-time, and my gushing was exposed in a second, leading to me being teased by the world like crazy.
Presented by Hiyorin-sama.
The avatars of 'Me' and 'Sora,' who were sitting as if side-by-side on a large sofa, were of course cute for my beautiful partner, but even for me, they were nothing but cute.
Furthermore, due to the insane amount of variations she added to the reward I had already presented—and the expression-tracing automatic switching equipment, which I was surprised by but apparently wasn't a big deal technically—they took the form of real-time 2D models, albeit simple ones.
For example, there were about ten variations for just a 'smile.' They were drawings, but at this point, they were practically clones. The tracking was direct to me, so it was a bit of a shameful matter...
But well,
"What is it? Do you have some complaint?"
"Heh, e, wait, Haru────?"
"It's only natural for me to grin, she's my partner. She's cute, after all."
'That's true' 'Yes, yes' 'Then you're innocent' 'I'm glad you're happy' 'Sora-kawa—!!! (desperation)' 'I feel like I could crush my molars right now' 'I'll aim for the Four Pillars Selection just to punch you' ──────and so on, and so forth.
If it's this kind of teasing that bleeds with affection, I have some familiarity with it from accumulation.
"────Hae!? What, what, what... talk!"
In addition to that,
"Ah, it's okay, it's okay."
"What's okay...! I, I can't see the comments...!"
"Yeah. That's why, the comments (that)."
"That?"
"For a while, basically no matter what you say, only 'Sora-san is cute' will come back."
"............────!!?"
Next to me was my angel (partner), who supplied me with healing and preciousness every second without fail. If I am to rouse myself to protect and lead her, it's not a grand statement, but just this much (that)────
"Well, setting that aside, viewers."
"Setting that aside...!?"
"Highlight number one is coming up soon. Don't just look at my partner, look at the video."
It's as easy as flying through the sky, I tell you.
The System-chan's censorship protection/absolute stream peace mechanism. Today as always, it's realizing a healthy peace while being lively.