“A new and popular way to earn profits?” Chisato put an arm around her stomach, resting her other hand’s elbow on it, a thumb under her chin. “Whatchu mean?”
“Ah, something like this. Look.” Kurumi turned the screen of her small device towards Chisato.
It showed a small screen layout of a person, with the larger portion of the screen being the game. It was being streamed online on a platform called Y-tube.
“Ooh. So you mean, you’re suggesting Takina and I become online streamers?” Chisato put a closed fist on an open palm, as if waking up to a genius idea.
“That’s right. I already consulted this with Mika. He said that since both you and Takina are technically no longer active lycoris agents since you’re both over 20, it’d be a good promotion for the cafe, too.” Kurumi nodded. “I can help you get set up, I think you two are going to be popular.”
“I’m not sure if I’ll be of any help with these things like games…” Takina blinked and turned to Chisato who was only smiling. “I’ll do my best to be able to support Chisato in this endeavor, at least.”
And thus, Chisato and Takina, with the help of Kurumi, has. created a y-tube channel for streaming.
At first, Chisato and Takina hesitated to use the gaming computer that Kurumi got for them. They already knew what to do, and only had to choose a game to stream.
After realizing how fun gaming could be, Takina had decided, that Chisato shall be the face of the streaming channel, and that she’d only be around as an occasional second player. Mainly someone to remind Chisato not to get too lazy, or she’ll become rusty that they won’t be able to do the DA’s occasional requests to them.
However, the “Chisato-san Gaming~!” channel didn’t have a lot of viewers and subscribers, maybe only a bit short of about 250-ish subs and a regular of 50 viewers. Until that one time.
Chisato clicked the words “LIVE” on her account’s dashboard panel. The moment her stream loaded, her chat was flooded by comments.
“Good morning!”
“Morning stream!”
“Morning~”
“It’s like 7pm here.”
“Good eve on the other side~”
Chisato waved on cam as the main menu of this monster hunting jrpg remained still on her screen. “How are you guys doing? I’ll be busy in a few days so here’s a morning stream for a while!”
“Wow, Chisato actually doing work.”
“www gon’miss the daily streams for a while.”
Suddenly, on the left of Chisato’s small screen, the door opened and a jet black haired beauty appeared with a cup of coffee in one hand.
“Chisato, here.”
Chisato grinned at the woman as she approached and left the mug of coffee on her desk. “Thank~”
Then the door closed.
“Whoa, wtf!? Beauty!”
“Chisato, who was that!?”
“WTF”
“POG bishoujo”
“oh damn I think I’m in love.”
Chisato blinked at her chat and realized what just happened, until one red 10,000yen super chat appeared on her screen.
[Please tell us her name.]
and another in orange.
[Name plz.]
Chisato looked into the camera as she pointed an index finger directly at it. “She’s my wife. You can’t get her name.”
“Boo~”
“Why not? Chisato, such a tease!”
Chisato laughed at the chat and sipped some of her perfectly brewed coffee. “She probably forgot I was streaming…”
Then a red chat suddenly came.
[Please kiss her on cam.]
Chisato raised an eyebrow as she read the chat out loud. She turned to the closed door, then to the cup of coffee, then towards the camera. “No way, she’ll kill me. She’s scary.” She snickered as the chat was suddenly filled with “wwww” as Chisato started her game stream.
It seemed that since that stream with Takina’s accidental cameo, through the help of ‘clip-out channels’ their account’s subscriber count has increased steadily up to over a thousand subs.
~*
“Why don’t you join Chisato for a game?” Kurumi looked at Takina as they finished up closing the cafe for the day.
“Me? I would like to apologize for accidentally showing my face that time but…” Takina turned to Chisato who was already shaking her head. “What is it?”
“Don’t you know? It was because of your nice charms, and pretty face that made the channel popular. Maybe if you joined, even without being on camera, we might get more people?” Chisato smiled as her eyes sparkled.
“If I watched that archive, I won’t find anything bad said about me, would I?” Takina leered at Chisato whose smile suddenly turned into a confused expression, as if trying to think of what happened for the rest of that stream. “Chisato?”
“To think that Inoue Takina is afraid of haters–“
“I did not mean that, I meant you.” Takina raised the sponge she was holding after she had just wiped it on a table and Chisato reflexively started defending herself, despite actually being able to dodge it.
“Maaaybe? I told them we’re dating?” Chisato blinked as Takina immediately blushed, and Kurumi looked like something came into her mind.
“Wha–“
“Ah.” Kurumi was the first one to recover, as Takina’s hold onto that sponge became tighter. “Those stuff are really popular. People shipping personalities and such, that’s probably what happened.”
“Shipping?” Takina turned to Kurumi.
“You know, when there are two people, and then they look like they’re dating. The boat (or ship) sails, or something easily known as ‘they’re in a relationship’, hence the word ship became a verb.” Kurumi explained nonchalantly. “That’s you, and Chisato, now. A ship. I think it’s a good thing.”
“See? Takina! It was a great mov-rghhhbrwrh!” Chisato caught a combination of a sponge (she dodged), and a balled up wet towel that came with it that separated mid-way and hit her on the face. “Oi! You! That towel was dirty!”
“So was your mouth!” Takina stomped at Chisato picking up the sponge, and snatching the towel from Chisato’s hand before glaring at her. “Don’t say such things without telling me first.”
“Ah, you’re angry about that…” Chisato turned pensive and bowed her head. “I’m sorry, Takina-sama.”
“Anyway. If we’re playing a game, I’d like something Chisato has not played before to even the playground.” Takina turned to Kurumi who pulled up a list of games.
“You change gears so fast…!” Chisato followed Takina as they checked Kurumi’s game list at the back of the cafe.
“What are you children doing?” Mizuki came from the kitchen and immediately found the young ones huddled in the back.
“Finding a game for Chisato and Takina to stream.” Kurumi raised a hand, and Mizuki walked towards them.
“How about a fighting game? Y’know, the ones even kids are playing nowadays.” Mizuki looked at the list and pointed. “That. SmashBr*s.”
“Ahh… That could be a good choice, yeah.” Kurumi nodded, she turned to Chisato, who shrugged, and Takina who nodded.
“Let’s schedule that for tonight then?” Chisato turned to Takina who immediately turned away and walked towards the changing room.
“Let’s play tomorrow.” Takina turned to look at Chisato first, then entered the dressing room.
It was usually a sign that Takina wanted to tell her something, and the dressing room was often their small space of privacy in the cafe.
Chisato blinked and headed in after the door had closed.
“Takina?” Chisato closed the door behind her. “Is something wrong?”
“No, it’s just that, I wanted to prepare myself… my heart first before joining you in a stream, even though I’m not appearing on camera.” Takina slowly undressed her yukata as she spoke without turning to Chisato.
“Ah… I understand. You need any help?” Chisato smiled at her before opening her own locker and changing clothes as well.
“I thought for sure you’d tease me.”
“Not this one. I’m sure you’re not used to having yourself seen in photos, videos, and such. I understand.”
“Thank you, Chisato.”
“Are you still angry?”
“About what?”
“I told the chat people we’re dating.”
Takina closed her locker, now in her lycoris uniform. She smiled at Chisato. “I wasn’t angry. If any, I was happy. You told them the truth, and that I wasn’t introduced as a friend.”
Chisato closed her locker, now dressed in her lycoris uniform as well and grinned. “Of course. There’s nothing else I’d introduce you as, but my wife.”
Takina laughed. “Thank you.”
~*
And so, the day of the first Chisato and Takina SmashBr*s Competition has began.
“Hello, chat.” Came in Takina’s smooth and quiet voice and the chat immediately got wild.
“Whoa! Smooth voice!”
“Wtf niiice”
“asmr asmr”
“wkwk frfr”
A red chat suddenly popped on screen.
[What do we call her?]
and another.
[It’s time to tell us her name!]
Chisato read the chat loudly, and turned to someone next to her that was outside the camera’s field. She then leaned in to the camera. “Call her ChisaWifey.”
“I heard that.” Came in Takina’s stern voice and the char erupted in wwwws
“T-chan.” Chisato grinned at the person outside of the camera.
“Hi, T-chan!”
“T-chanwwww”
“Does that stand for Tenshi-chan?”
Chisato pfft’d as she read the last comment. “More like the Tevil–” She swiftly dodged a flying pillow as she snickered. “See? A Tevil!”
“I won’t play with you anymore.” Came the cool voice from T-chan.
“Get rekt Chisatowww”
“Rip”
“gg”
“Chisato whipped”
“Ahh~ I’m sorry.” Chisato picked up the pillow she dodged and gently handed it over to her. “Let’s play?”
“All right.” Came in Takina’s voice.
The game began, and it started into a stalemate until Chisato started getting the hang of it whilst Takina was still making lefts and rights on the proper controls. In a score of a baffling 10-2 the chat grew wild as Chisato chased after the 15-score goal.
“Go Chisato!”
“5 more smashes~”
“Do you win anything if you win against her?”
“It’s so frustrating to watch this, but it’s fun wwww”
Chisato laughed as she looked at the chat. “Guys, don’t cheer me on. I don’t want to sleep on the couch.”
“wwww Go Chisato! Wing it!”
“Chisato! Chisato!”
“Win it, win it.”
“wwww whipped”
Thankfully, even though Chisato did win the Smash game, Takina didn’t get angry at her or… was she planning on something else?
Takina’s occasional game cameos continued off-screen, as the channel’s following increased to at most 20k subscribers, all anticipating the couple’s interactions off-screen.
With the channel’s popularity, those who came to the cafe also increased. The silent admirers to Chisato, and those who wanted to know a little bit more about the mysterious “T-chan” that won’t show herself to the cameras.
That was until this one stream that turned Chisato’s simple channel into a hundred thousand subscriber channel with a silver plaque.
~*
“Chisato. Are you streaming tonight?” Takina turned to Chisato who was cleaning up the cafe. She wore her lycoris uniform while she held the cafe’s door open.
“Hmm, yeah. I should be done by the time you’re back. There’s an info gathering function today, right?” Chisato walked towards Takina who nodded at her. “Be careful today, okay?”
“I will. Although I don’t think there’s going be any gun fight.” Takina nodded before smiling softly. “I’ll be home soon.”
“Come on, part now lovebirds, shoo! Shoo!” Mizuki waved her hand in the air as if dusting off something in the air.
“Go away, drunkard.” Chisato took a few steps backward as Mizuki walked in between them. “Don’t crash the car!”
“Ah~ I’m gonna get wasted!” Mizuki shouted towards Chisato’s way as Chisato and Takina laughed.
“I’ll be going now.” Takina waved at Chisato.
“Mmyeah~ Take care.”
~*
Today’s stream was an extreme challenge of a certain popular death simulator game that stars a samurai with a prosthetic arm. The challenge was to go through the game until 50 deaths, or the stream ends, and Chisato will try again on a different day.
“No T-san today?”
“Oh yeah, I just realized T-san’s not around?”
“Might be best if you go around this enemy first.”
“Large enemies becomes more dangerous if you don’t stealth the smaller ones ww”
Chisato turned to look at the chat in between stealth missions. “Ah, yeah. The wifey’s going to be back a bit later, she had to do some OT~”
“While her hubby is playing games www”
“Otsukare T-san!”
“It’s amaze how Chisato actually hasn’t died yet, insane reactions
She laughed at the comments. “Hey now, it just happened that I didn’t have to do some overtime today.” Her eyes darted to her phone sitting on her table, it was from Mizuki.
It was true she was waiting for a call, likely, one from Takina, in case something happened to her. However, since Mizuki isn’t Takina, she decided to ignore it, completely forgetting that the two of them were together.
~*
“Why is the damn brat not answering her phone?” Mizuki stared at her phone as she stared at Chisato’s number. She turned to the silent but red faced black haired woman sitting on the passenger seat. “You think you’ll make it to your door?”
Takina lazily nodded as her head dropped sidewards. She clumsily searched for the door handle of the car and opened it, magically not stumbling out.
Mizuki felt somewhat responsible, but it was entirely beyond her control when the Takina suddenly started drinking one shot of tequila after another. She got out of the driver’s seat and wrapped Takina’s arm around her shoulders as she fumbled her bad for the keys.
“Chisatoooooo… You stupid……. Idiot!” Takina smacked her hand onto the door as she dropped her keys to the floor.
Mizuki let Takina’s body rest on the door as she picked it up and opened the door to their home. She helped Takina down the stairs of the safe house, and finally got the unnaturally drunk woman into her home.
She watched Takina wobble walk towards a room as Mizuki sighed and decided to look up behind them. She got back to the car and noticed that Takina still wore her black dress for bar infiltration, and left her lycoris uniform in the car.
“Oh well.” Mizuki shrugged and headed back to the cafe.
~*
Chisato was in the middle of a boss fight when she heard the door close, and maybe a little bit of Mizuki’s voice.
“I think the wifey is home early, everyone.” She grinned at the camera as the chat went wild.
“Ohh! T-chan, welcome back!”
“wb”
To Chisato’s surprise, the door to her room suddenly opened and a black dress clad sexy Takina with a flushed red face stared at her with those angry(?) looking purple eyes.
“Eh? W- Wait, wait, wait.” Chisato nervously stared at the boss that was probably only one or two more slashes until it was defeated, and so was her character.
“Chisatooooo…” Came in the deep and sultry voice as she gave Chisato a small smile with her eyes closed. She continued walking towards her.
Chisato dropped her controller as Takina suddenly straddled her hips, the gaming chair creeking as it carried the weight of two adults.
“Wait, Takin–mmphh…!?” Chisato suddenly found her lips sealed in a tight, long, adult kiss as Takina wrapped her arms around her neck. “Takina–mmm…!”
“Chisatooo… You idiot… You always always just… play games, and never pay attention to me…” Takina pouted at her before taking her mouth for a deep kiss, an exploring tongue infiltrating Chisato’s mouth.
Chisato wrapped her arms around Takina’s waist as the game over screen flashed on her PC. She removed her headset as she widened her eyes at the stream camera pointing at the black haired girl on her lap.
She got up her chair, lifting Takina with her hands under her thighs as she disappeared off screen, followed by a door being shut and a flood of comments on the chat.
“Whoa damn…”
“Did someone clip that?”
“Okay, that was hot, you sure this isn’t onlyf*ns?”
“How long do you think it’d take until she’s back?”
“Whew… Thanks for the dinner.”
“Oh damn, guys, what’d I miss?”
“Upping the cut later in a private acct!”
“Juicy…”
~*
Takina clutched the sheets over her slightly cold naked body. She opened her eyes and immediately felt a sudden headache.
“You okay?” Chisato laid down next to her with a smile. “I have some water here, some medicine for your headache, and a cup of warm coffee. Which do you want?”
“…All of them, please…” Takina sat up and accepted the water and the headache medicine, drinking it swiftly before taking the warm cup of coffee. “…What happened?”
“…That’s my question but Mizuki already mostly explained it to me.” Chisato gently patted Takina’s head. “And to clarify things, I perfectly kept my hands to myself because I would never take advantage of you, drunk. Well, you kind of fell asleep halfway anyway…”
Takina blushed as she took a sip of the coffee. “…I apologize.”
“You probably took your clothes off while sleeping and… I have not slept a wink because we don’t have another bed and the couch was cold.” Chisato accepted the now empty cup of coffee and settled it to the bed side table. “Now, it’s time to talk about… Me, not paying attention to you.”
“Th- That’s…” Takina turned away as she clutched the warm blanket on her chest. “…I never consciously thought about it that way but… deep down inside maybe I truly felt that way.”
Chisato smiled at her. “Mm… I’m sorry.” She leaned in on the bed and kissed Takina’s forehead. “Since I couldn’t sleep all night–“
“I’m sorry…” Takina covered her mouth with a hand as she looked away.
“It’s okay.” Chisato gave her a heartwarming grin. “Anyway, I was thinking about, I’ll still stream everyday, but always keep it between an hour or two, only. Then, after that, we’ll spend our time together.”
Takina nodded as she smiled at her. “That does seem the most rational.”
“Heh heh~ Right? Ah. Here, new clothes.” Chisato placed a change of clothes on Takina’s lap. “We need to go to the cafe soon, so~”
“Thank you. I may have forgotten my lycoris uniform in the car…” Takina looked at the change of clothes that were mostly casual clothing. “I need to apologize to Mizuki-san too…”
“Eh~ That drunkard? Just give her a bottle of sake and she’d be fine.” Chisato grinned. “I’ll apologize with you.”
“Um… Chisato.” Takina tugged at the hem of Chisato’s long sleeved shirt. “…Thank you.”
Chisato grinned “Any time! Now, now. Get changed so we can get to the cafe and face other problems!”
“Eh?”
~*
“Eh?” Takina stared at the number of subscribers their channel has, bewildered. “…How did this happen?”
“You, it’s because of you.” Chisato pointed at her with finger guns as they both stood behind Kurumi’s chair looking at the screen. “I was streaming when you got home, and suddenly–“
Kurumi pressed space bar on a video footage, and Takina immediately turned red as she pressed the space bar to pause it… and covered her hand over the screen to hide it.
“…I deeply apologize for the trouble I’ve caused……..” Takina bowed as Chisato wrapped an arm around her shoulders and patted it gently.
“It’s fine. I’ve deleted the videos all over the internet, and if someone tries to upload it somewhere, it’ll automatically get deleted.” Kurumi gave them a thumbs up. “I asked Chisato if she wanted me to infect the uploader’s PC with a virus to delete the actual file in their system, but she said it’s be too intrusive.”
“Actually, what I said is that, that’s illegal.” Chisato sighed as Kurumi just shrugged. “Well.. now that my chat knows your real name… What do we do?”
“Act like nothing happened?” Kurumi raised an eyebrow. “Well, it did make you reach over 100k subs because the stream was up for a few hours.”
“I’m sorry, my hands were tied…” Chisato sighed as Takina blushed harder, if that was possible.
“Chisato. Let’s stream a chat only stream tonight.” Takina turned to Chisato. “Let’s… talk about this issue and I’ll apologize…”
“No, really. They were ecstatic.” Chisato smiled as Takina glared at her. “Yes, Ma’am. An apology stream it is.”
~*
Takina nervously stood next to Chisato as Chisato clicked “LIVE” on her dashboard page.
“Hey! Welcome back! Grats on 100k!”
“Celebratory kiss for 100k”
“Woot woot”
“Otsu 100k subs!”
“Haha… Thanks everyone.” Chisato waved at everyone. “As announced, today’s going to be a one hour chat only stream and with that I’m also going to introduce the Tevil of my life–“
“Stop that.” Takina chided as Chisato laughed.
“Takina, the wifey.” Chisato moved her chair away a little as Takina pulled on a chair and slid into view next to her.
“Takina-san!”
“Ohh! Wifey name reveal!”
“Takina-san~”
“Hello, everyone. I’m Takina.” Takina waved at the camera, and bowed her head.
“Whoa damn pretty”
“She’s cute wtf”
“How does Chisato land such a pretty girl?”
“Hello Takina-san!”
“You guys, she’s mine okay? Keep the praises going tho.” Chisato wrapped an arm around Takina’s shoulders.
“Um… I’d like to apologize for my display of… err… something… yesterday evening. Please forget about it.” Takina bowed her head.
“Don’t think we can forget tho”
“It was hot, 20 dollar onlyf*ns level content 12/10 would pay”
“too bad archive and clips were deleted…”
“damn I missed it, I brb’d at the wrong time…”
Takina read the comments, then turned to Chisato. “Chisato, what’s an onlyf*ns?”
“You don’t have to know about it, really.” Chisato smiled at her wryly before glaring at her camera. “Guys, we’re not here to talk about yesterday. We’re here to chat, remember?”
Takina only tilted her head to one side and continued reading the comments. Until a red super chat popped in.
[How about answering the couple’s 100 questions?]
“Ohh! That’s great!” Chisato smiled. “You up for it?”
“If the questions aren’t too difficult then… I suppose…” Takina only looked at Chisato confused.
“All right~ Let me go find one~”
And thus, the one hour chat stream became a two hour chat stream, whose archived couldn’t be kept because of the 100 questions’s content, and the pledge of ‘what happened here shall never go out’ to over 80k viewers, shall be a story for another time.
(Cafe LycoReco Online/END)
“Does this channel actually make money?” Takina asked as Kurumi looked at the channel’s analytics and earnings.
“Yeah. Just the last stream, it surpassed the amount of money the cafe earns in one month.” Kurumi clicked a few more screens and showed Takina the channel’s revenue.
“Eh? How?” Takina swallowed as she ventured into a quest to find out.
“Judging from the archives, the stream was live for about three more hours, with some people sending super chat occasionally checking in on, if Chisato’s ‘getting some’ or if ‘the archive is going to stay’.” Kurumi scrolled through the submitted chats. “Or things like, ‘do we get a super kiss content’ and so on.”
Takina regretted asking the question as she felt her cheeks heat up before turning to glare at Chisato who was just standing not far away from her.
“It’s not my fault!? You were the one who–“
“Ahhhh! Please stop.” Takina reached to cover Chisato’s mouth with both hands.
Kurumi only watched them amusingly as she pressed enter and played ‘their popular clip’.
“Not you, too!”
(END)
