Chapter 5: I just want to see some TeeTee

Kuroneko San has six gen mates.

There aren’t a lot of members in【Arutema】yet so currently, the company uses a strategy of rushing and holding all the debuts in one go.

After one year, the debut rushes will likely calm down. The company will probably switch to debuting three people at a time in which each generation is treated as a unit. However, it’s not that time yet.

Well, basically, what I wanted to say was…if I wanted to become friends with the other members, I have to do it myself.

「Kuroneko-san, let’s collab next time」

「Eh, ah, co, collab……?」

「Yes, collab!」

It all started with a one-sided chat message.

Natsunami Yui, my gen mate, said 「Let’s get into a call」, throwing a bomb filled with communication power at me.

My relationship with Natsunami Yui is so shallow, the most interaction I’ve had was when we got into a voice call with the second generation members before debut.

It’s to the point that the only words we said were 「I look forward to working with you」.

We aren’t in a relationship where she can suddenly raise the hurdle 2.3 levels higher and ask for a collab.

「I saw Kuroneko-san’s first stream and thought that I wanted friends since I’m also a komyushou. So I want to do a collab together and get along with each other!」

Lies.

A real komyushou wouldn’t be able to suddenly send a chat message saying 「Let’s get into a call」.

It may be possible if it’s anonymous but if you had to keep associating with the person, a komyushou would be cautious.

Even when sending greetings, you feel the need to look over and revise it five times, leave it there for an hour, and then revise it again.

I’m a woman who took an entire week just to greet all my senpais.

In the first place, there’s too many otakus in the world who say 「Let’s call each other–」 while declaring themselves a komyushou!

A real komyushou’s biggest enemy is a call where you can’t see the other person’s face.

You can’t see the other’s expression and can only judge based on their tone. Isn’t that scary and obviously impossible!?

However, company affiliated Vtubers can’t make any excuses in this situation.

If I was an individual Vtuber, in the worst case scenario, I can use the trump card 「Ah, I was sleeping」, and leave everything vague and unfinished. But, me and the other person are doing Vtuber as a job.

Then there’s no way to avoid this call! I decided to confront it and that’s how we got here.

When I hear the word collab now, I deeply regret it and thought 「Ah, I should’ve pretended to be asleep」.

My mind is weaker than tofu.

「Won’t you, collab with me……?」

「Uu!」

Even if I can’t see her face, I can tell what expression she’s making.

Moist upturned eyes. I can picture the so-called persuasion by tears from the other side of the screen.

A woman who can easily invoke that kind of image is a komyushou? ……the joke’s gone too far.

「Wh, what will, we do, for the collab……?」

「I was thinking of taking questions from marshmallows and doing a chatting stream!」

「Ch, chatting stream……」

Of all things, a chatting stream?

Isn’t a chatting stream that thing where you talk for one to two hours?

I’ve done chatting streams a few times before but that was only because my conversation partner was chat, which can’t actually talk.

Talking with a physical living human being for up to an hour……just thinking about it makes me uneasy and nauseous.

「Wh, why don’t we do a gaming stream?」

If it’s a gaming stream, then even in the worst case scenario that I don’t talk, it’ll still count as a collab (it won’t).

If I say 「I got too into it☆」 then the viewers will for sure laugh it off and forgive me.

Luckily, the equipment for streams arrived yesterday so game collabs are a big welcome.

However.

「Chatting stream! Won’t you do it with me?」

「Uguu……please let me think about it」

What’s with this woman!

Is that the behavior of someone who knows I’m a komyushou!

I’m guessing she is that kind. She’s not the type of komyushou that can’t talk, but the type of komyushou that keeps on talking forever without being able to read the mood!?

And without yielding to my groans the entire time, Natsunami Yui got a promise (against my will) to have a collab three days later and left the call.

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【Twitter】

【Kuroneko San＠arutema2ndgen/＠kuroneko_altm】　

I will be having a collab with my strong communicator gen mate Natsunami Yui three days later.

It will be a chatting stream. All the komyushous out there! Send me your communication power！

#kuroneko-santime　#help

【Sanchama–/＠xxxxxx】

＠kuroneko_altm

Good luck on first collab!

【Markzet/＠xxxxxx】

＠kuroneko_altm

Don’t get flamed and cause trouble

【Natsunami Yui＠arutema2ndgen/＠natunami_yuiyui】

As such! I will be collabing with Kuroneko-san!

We will be having fun chatting and answering questions from marshmallows, so keep the marshmallows coming!

We will be streaming it on my channel so please check it out!

#yuilive

【Tasotasooru＠xxxxxx】

＠natunami_yuiyui

Collab on paid day off tskr¹

【Ritsuka＠xxxxxx】

＠natunami_yuiyui

Good luck on managing Kuroneko-san

1. tskr is tasukaru and used when you feel thankful or blessed for something someone does in this context