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Chapter 31 - Live Chat Comments

"Hello. It's time for the Hayate-Style Four-Sword Style Promotion Office."

Hayate started a stream on the booth he had been running personally.





Many viewers immediately started posting comments.

"Uhm. It seems another booth was created for me automatically, and it blew up, so a lot of people have subscribed to this one too. Thank you very much. I'm extremely happy, but with so many people, I can't read out everyone's names like I used to. I'm seriously sorry. It's physically impossible."

The number of subscribers to 'Hayate's Booth', automatically generated by the system Sadaharu built and the Goddess implemented in this world, currently stood at eighty million. The subscriber count was growing at a pace that would soon break one hundred million.

In tandem with this, the subscriber count for this 'Hayate-Style Four-Sword Style Promotion Office' booth had also increased to about five million.

Concurrent viewers exceeded one hundred thousand. The number of comments being posted was also immense. While Hayate, having mastered ninja techniques, could visually scan and confirm the names, reading out every single one was impossible.

However, even in such a situation, there was a way to get Hayate's attention.

Piroon!

A cheerful sound rang out from the stream screen.

"Ah. Thanks for the Super Tip! And it's Red Text!!"

It was possible to send money to streamers to show support or gratitude, a system known as Super Tips. The upper limit for a tip was 50,000 yen. If you sent a tip exceeding 10,000 yen, your username and comment would remain on the screen for a while, and your subsequent comments would be displayed in red. In other words, you became more noticeable to the streamer.

Furthermore, Hayate's settings were configured to read out any comments written in red text.



There was a viewer who didn't hesitate to spend 10,000 yen just to let Hayate know they were here, just to be recognized by him.

"Um, the person who sent this is—"

Hayate's movements froze as he glanced at the comment section.

"L-Lena-san. Uhm… Thank you as always."

Hayate's reaction was a little strange. For some reason, he didn't seem unconditionally happy.

The viewers immediately understood the situation.







Viewers thought that Lena, who had been a fan of Hayate for a long time, had lost to Rena.

But that wasn't why Hayate was making a troubled face.

Piroon!

The cheerful sound rang out again.



Rena's tolerance for being provoked was not very high.

She couldn't help but retort in red text. At the same time, she magnificently revealed her own identity.








None of the viewers would accept that Lena was Shinonome Rena. And it was no wonder. The long-time fans knew that Lena had always been a passionate fan of Hayate. There was no way they could believe she was the same person as the daughter of one of Japan's four great zaibatsu.

They just couldn't accept that she had been following Hayate's stream since way back when he had only about 300,000 subscribers.

However, Hayate's next words would completely change the viewers' minds.

"Eh? Are you sure it's okay to say that?"

<…Huh?>






Piroon!



"Rena, that's enough. Everyone will understand. I'll explain it too. So stop chain-sending Super Tips."

Piroon!



"…………Come on. Stop it."

Piroon!



"I'm telling you!"

Piroon!



Not all of the money from red text went to the streamer. About thirty percent was collected by the video streaming site as a commission fee. When Rena sent Super Tips to Hayate, the one profiting was the management of the streaming site. However, this exchange proved effective.





















"Uhm. I think everyone probably gets it by now, but this Lena-san who sent the red text is, without a doubt, the Shinonome Rena-san I rescued from the Spring Dungeon the other day."






"And… it seems I got some covering fire from all of you. You said you'd sell off your Shinonome Group stocks if they didn't let me date Rena. Thanks to that move—"





"I'm now dating Shinonome Rena-san!!"




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A flood of celebratory comments poured in.











Hayate had started the stream with a different purpose, but it unexpectedly turned into the venue for announcing his relationship with Rena.

And this event became the trigger for a flood of buy orders for Shinonome Group stock from all over the world. Its stock price would reach an unprecedented high.