The number-one streamer on Hyperdimensional Channel ended his broadcast after filling his hangar through a "free shopping spree."
In other words, the stream was over.
Ruri Gokou was already looking forward to his next broadcast.
The next one would probably be a livestream of the T'au Empire fleet fighting whoever had come to this star system.
That battle would absolutely be even more intense than the battle between the ZAFT fleet and the Earth Alliance fleet after Bloody Valentine, which Lacus had shown her.
The ZAFT military and the Earth Alliance were ultimately fighting a war between Earth and the Moon. But Big Brother Kain's side was truly about to wage war across an entire star system.
The livestream's perspective was centered on the broadcaster, so the camera could not be pulled too far away.
Because of that, when Big Brother Kain activated the mechanical planet before and destroyed the Orks' Attack Moon like an iron maiden execution device, they had not been able to see the full, complete picture properly.
They could only see part of the scene through some of the surveillance feeds inside the control room he had been operating from.
Next, Ruri was looking forward to Dr. Kouzuki's livestream. On her side, they would be conducting a large-scale multinational joint operation against the alien monsters known as BETA.
The time had already been set on her side, and it happened to fall on a Sunday here, so Ruri would not need to watch a recording. She could watch the livestream in real time.
"Kuroneko-shi, tomorrow is the offline meetup for Otaku Girls Unite! Do not oversleep. That means you must go to bed early tonight."
Saori's voice made Kuroneko open her eyes.
"I know. How many times have you said that already?"
"This one will personally come to Kuroneko-shi's house tomorrow to seize you."
Saori Makishima still sounded uneasy as she said this. The Kuroneko-shi before her had definitely become a little strange.
Sure enough, if she did not personally go and drag Kuroneko-shi out, this girl would probably shut herself away again.
Ever since the livestream function was enabled, Kuroneko, who had not interacted with others much to begin with, had become even more of a shut-in.
That could not continue. Having no social life at all made it easy for problems to develop, so Saori had organized tomorrow's offline meetup for the online community Otaku Girls Unite!
In the blink of an eye, a car stopped outside Kuroneko's home.
"Kuroneko, no staying up late. Understood?"
"Yes, Kaori."
Toward Kaori, who had driven her home, Kuroneko's attitude was quite serious.
After stepping into her house, she knew that at this hour, her two younger sisters definitely had not gone to sleep yet.
When she reached the living room, sure enough, they were watching television.
"Hinata, Tamaki, look what good things your big sister brought back for you today."
Ruri was about to feed her two adorable younger sisters.
However, the two of them did not look happy just because she had brought back more treats. Instead, both younger sisters looked at her with rather worried eyes.
"Ruri, you really weren't off filming some kind of..."
Thunk!
Before her second sister Hinata could finish, Ruri gave her an iron fist of love.
"How many times do I have to explain it? Didn't Saori come over and tell you too? Very well, Hinata. None of the snacks are yours. I'll give them all to Tamaki."
After those words, the younger sister who often gave Ruri headaches instantly dropped into a dogeza.
"I was wrong, Ruri!"
In the blink of an eye, the two younger sisters were watching the livestream video she had downloaded today together with her.
Their parents worked quite hard for the sake of the three sisters, so they usually came home rather late, after the girls had already gone to sleep.
Of course, it was not as though the two younger sisters were only eating now.
They had already eaten dinner. Kuroneko had come home, cooked for them, and then gone out to work on Saori's side.
To avoid being too far from home, Kaori had also rented an office nearby.
"All right, it's very late. You two go wash up and get ready for bed."
Since tomorrow was the weekend, the sisters were generally allowed to sleep a little later on holidays.
"Okay."
"Okay, Ruri."
Both younger sisters were very obedient and did not make a fuss.
Then, in the blink of an eye-
So noisy.
Her phone alarm kept ringing, forcing Kuroneko to open her eyes and pick it up.
It was an alarm she had set herself. She turned it off and prepared to go back to sleep for a bit.
The offline meetup was at nine, and there were still about two hours left. She could sleep a little longer.
However, once she woke up, she found that she could not fall asleep again.
Was this the effect of the Earth Elixir?
She had also received some of it from Miss Saeko Busujima.
She wondered whether it could make her taller. She did not need to be as exaggerated as Saori. As for her chest, she did not need to reach Saori's level either. Just a little below that would be fine.
But over the past few days, Ruri had measured her height and bust every day, only to discover sadly that nothing had changed.
Bored, she logged on to take a look.
Mm. The only one livestreaming at the moment was Asuna. She had just joined the Knights of the Blood Oath and become their vice commander.
As for the commander, his name was Heathcliff, though he was actually Akihiko Kayaba, the creator of SAO.
Hm?
Lacus from the SEED world wanted to chat privately with her, so she created a private chat channel inside the livestream room. Three other people also entered.
When Lacus explained why she had contacted her, Ruri froze completely.
Had she misread what the other side had said?
She checked again.
No. She had not misread it.
Four people intended to come to her world.
That left her completely at a loss.
This was a café named Pretty Garden, so the building also had a courtyard-style design.
At present, the members of Otaku Girls Unite! had all gathered except for one person.
"Kaori, is something wrong?"
Saori was calling her older sister.
To prevent Kuroneko-shi from skipping the gathering, Saori really had gone to find her.
But when she arrived at Kuroneko's house, her younger sisters told her that she was one step too late. Kuroneko had already gone out.
When Saori called Kuroneko, Kuroneko also said she would go and would give her a surprise.
But where was the surprise?
After Kiririn-shi arrived, only Kuroneko-shi was still absent.
"She didn't go home."
Kaori's answer made Saori's head hurt. It seemed Kuroneko-shi really did not intend to attend. To avoid being caught, she had not even gone home.
In that case, Saori could only announce that Kuroneko-shi had something to do and could not attend, then begin the first offline gathering with everyone present.
"Then, the first offline meetup of Otaku Girls Unite! shall-"
Saori stopped mid-sentence because a commotion suddenly broke out in the maid café.
What was going on?
Because of where she was seated, she could not directly see the entrance, so she did not know what had happened there.
All she knew was that every customer who could see the door had been drawn toward it. Even the maids were looking over with sparkling eyes, as if some handsome guy had walked in.
No, that was not right. If it were only a handsome guy, they would not look as though they had been startled out of their wits.
"Saori, where are you?"
"Kuroneko-shi? Over here, over here!"
What? So she had come after all.
But had Kuroneko-shi caused this commotion?
Saori stood up and was just about to walk over when Kuroneko-shi had already come into view.
There was nothing special about her. She was still wearing her Gothic Lolita outfit. In Akihabara, that kind of clothing was not unusual.
The next second, Saori froze.
Because four people followed behind Kuroneko and entered her field of vision.
Were these four cosplayers too?
No. No.
Absolutely not.
Was this the surprise Kuroneko-shi had mentioned?
It truly had surprised her so much that she did not know what to do.
Hm?
There was a text message on her phone. Kuroneko-shi had sent it.
Mm-hm. So that was how it was.
She wanted Saori to say that these four were special guests Saori had invited to surprise everyone.
Kuroneko had gone to pick them up and bring them here.
(End of Chapter)
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