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Chapter 31 : Updated Objective & Fubuki's New Friends
[UPDATED QUEST]
[Complete The Roster Of Hololive]
Recruit all 44 girls of the group "Hololive".
Rewards :
900,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Yen
500,000,000,000 FP
1,000,000 All Status Nectar
1,000,000 Shop Waiver (999,999,999,999 VP)
500,000 Crystal Chest
400,000 Diamond Chest
300,000 Legendary Chest
200,000 Mythical Chest
100,000 Divine Chest
50,000 Universal Chest
10,000 Multiversal Chest
5,000 Origin Chest
1,000 Creation Chest
500 Unknown Chest
100 Phantasmal Chest
When she booted up her computer on the next morning, she was surprised to see that prompt in her vision.
"Huh!?" She exclaimed in surprise.
She doesn't know why her objective has suddenly add three more to her searches. She doesn't even know who are those.
"But... hmm, maybe it's the graduated members?" She muttered to herself while trying to guess what's with the added roster.
But she also thinks that this doesn't make sense. She have a glance on all of the Hololive Members once in her past life. If her objective really includes the graduated ones, then it doesn't add up.
She only recalls up to the October 20. She died in her sleep after that day.
So she doesn't know if there are any new members beyond that.
"Well, I'll think about this later on. My title states that it will give me a high chance of encountering them so I'll just have faith on this title." Ayumi muttered to herself before turning her attention back on her computer.
She started recording her gameplay. It was like streaming but it's just recording what she was doing on her monitor. The next step after this is to edit the video a bit and then upload this on YouTube.
She have a streaming suspension and she was demonetized. But even with that, she wants to upload videos just to show the people who views her videos that she wasn't what they were thinking.
"Well then, here I go." She said to herself as she picks PUBF to play.
While Ayumi was busy recording her gameplay. Fubuki was busy on her own stream.
Ayumi wasn't coordinating with her stream today. This is because Fubuki told her that she wants to try doing her own stream and see if she can do it.
Fubuki says that because these past two weeks, Ayumi was solely teaching Fubuki the tricks to using the streaming tools efficiently with an easy-to-understand explanation. This makes Fubuki confident that she can pull it off with her lonesome.
And she is doing that without being pressured at all. Her 2D model was setup just right. The waiting banner for her stream was also put by herself. She also took care of all the captions and other effects that she will be using later on so she can liven up her stream a bit more.
Anyway, as for what she is currently playing...
"So... this is my first time playing this game." That's what Fubuki said as she looks at the zombie shooter game that she was playing on the screen.
This game is called Z Clock. A sci fi zombie FPS game. It's simple lore is that an alien virus landed on Earth and it's up to the players to survive and kill the infected on a single stage. Their sole objective is to find an escape route as they shoot through the myriad types of infected.
There are a lot of enemy types in this game. With the simple Walker that was like the classical zombie tropes, into the Mechanized Overlord which is a giant biomechanical humanoid flesh that can shoot missiles, lasers, acid breaths, and complex melee attacks.
Up to 8 players can play in a single room. And the host can pick the map where they will move through. There is also a room where up to 16 players can play together, though it was a team battle mode where eight players are the humans who will need to escape while shooting through the infected while the other half will be the special type infected that will block the players and prevent them from escaping.
Due to this being a sci-fi, so there are many weapons that are outright ridiculous like the Automated Railgun Cannon, which is a giant two handed weapon with a form that can be likened to that of a minigun. It shoots freaking electromagnetic explosives, which is insane because it shouldn't be possible on reality. But this is a game so anything is fine.
There are many more which can be taken on a map. Or the players can also have a strong weapon at the start by buying it on the shop and equipping it before joining the game.
Because Fubuki was just trying the game for the first time so she won't buy any weapons at the shop first, or even any skins. She only uses her money for games with a gacha function.
"I hope there are good players here." Fubuki mutters to herself as she looks at the room selection on this game.
This game only have a single server. This is a fairly new game which was made just last year.
After thinking for awhile, she just picks the Auto Join button. Which will enable her to join a random open room.
It loads for a moment before she quickly finds her name in one of the lists of players in there. There are only four other players who were also inside this room.
The host of this game is called AQUA. It seems like AQUA is a pro player of this game, as seen from the badge that was besides her name.
The badges in this game can be separated into ten types. From weakest up to the strongest are Newbie, Trainee, Experienced, Veteran, Professional, Master, Hero, Savior, God, and Ultimate. It was further separated from I up to V.
Fubuki was a Newbie I while AQUA was a Hero IV.
Along with them are the three who are called Will-o-Wisp, Shion, and Boing.
FBK (Newbie I) : Ohakon!
Fubuki started typing that to greet the four players.
AQUA (Hero IV) : Hello!
Will-o-Wisp (Trainee II) : Hello there!
Only the two of them greeted her back.
While that is happening, Fubuki's chatroom was also talking how they want to join her.
Geronimo : wait for me I'll join!
Guugure : I'll quickly join!
Lubrador Lopez : This might be good.
Mark Silver :
(2 $)
I still can't believe that Fubuki-chan will play something like this. I thought I would see another stream of throwing money on a gacha! (Shiver) (Shiver)
Hover : Great!
Cover : Best!
Bata : Tell them to start the game!
Quicker_Subs : I hope we have another good day to us!
U Turn : Let me join!
Essenjam : I still don't know what's with the FBK. Tell me what it means!
Dazedazeyare : Our house cat, going to delve on zombie alien massacre?
F Fighter : Let's go!
G Force : Yahoo!
Ilsa Mer : let's do this!
Dazedazeyare : I'm in!
Of course Fubuki ignored most of the comments there. It's not like she was being malicious to them, she was slightly miffed that some of her viewers only came to her just to spit on Kotomi.
After Kotomi's account was hacked and her impersonator destroyed every goodwill the people have of Kotomi, these former Kotomi fans were coming to Fubuki's stream and saying whatever to snipe Kotomi. They are even discouraging the others to watch Kotomi's video just because they are angry at her.
They think they are helping the newbie viewers by taking their attention off to a "Fake Vtuber Normie" as they say. They said they want those newbie viewers to have a good impression of the Vtubers and Kotomi is not one of them.
It got to the point that anything they are talking about are their hate on Kotomi, with some even putting all their hate on their own accounts just to spread it to the others.
So Fubuki made some rules on her chatroom to stop those who are not even looking at her stream and are just using her to spite her friend.
Her chat rules are like this...
1. No excess chit chat with the other viewers before stream.
2. Don't bring up the other streamers unless I mention them first.
3. Also, don't bother the other streamers with talking about the other streamers like me.
4. Please get along with each other! If anyone tries to start something, don't respond. Just block, report, or ignore.
5. Keep comments related to the stream! Don't bring up unrelated topics or have personal conversations.
This is a risky part on her. She essentially made a restriction on her viewers when she didn't even have any foundation on her career. But she doesn't care, she only became a Vtuber because Ayumi invited her to do so.
Ayumi was even concerned at her because of what she did but Fubuki just told her it was fine. She doesn't want fame or anything after all.
She doesn't want to talk to people who are being harsh to her innocent friend. And she is also much older than Ayumi so she was feeling somewhat responsible for her well-being.
It would be pretty bad if only Ayumi took care of her, a person much younger than her.
Anyway, as she tries to chat more on the players there, three more players joined the room. These are Guugure, Geronimo, and sakuramiko35.
sakuramiko35 (Experienced III) : Nyahallo!~
Guugure (Veteran I) : Hell yeah, I managed to join!
Geronimo (Veteran II) : I'll help you Fubuki-chan!~~
AQUA (Hero IV) : Hello!
Will-o-Wisp (Trainee II) : Wow, there are many people here!
Guugure : I'll take care of FBK!
AQUA : START!
Fubuki tried to read all of the comments but the host (AQUA) quickly started the game after she said her welcome to them.
Then it made a countdown before it loads to the map that AQUA picks.
"Okay, now it's done." Ayumi said to herself as she logs out on her Gears account.
Then she quickly go to her video editor app to arrange her video and make it more livelier by adding some effects.
After thirty minutes, she was done with everything else. She just needed to upload this on her YouTube account and then she can relax and do whatever.
"I wonder what is Fubuki-chan doing?" Ayumi muttered to herself.
Then she looks into Fubuki's stream on the other monitor. Of course she connected it to Fubuki's PC first.
"Hmm... isn't this a zombie shooter game?" Ayumi muttered to herself as she saw grotesque monsters being massacred by Fubuki's gun.
Then she hears the players that was together with Fubuki. It seems like they enabled their voice chat.
"Fubuki-chan, I'll save you!" That was some guy named Geronimo.
"Damn, I'll get there!" That was Guugure, which is familiar to Ayumi.
"Ahahaha, this is fun!~" And she heard a voice of a girl who seems to be familiar.
"DIE! YOU STRANGELY ATTRACTIVE MONSTER LADY WHATEVER!" An enrage voice of a girl which seems to be also familiar with Ayumi.
"Zombie-san, I am sorry." Then she heard a female voice that was somehow soothing to hear.
"AQUAAAAAAA! YOU JERK! WHY DID YOU LEAVE ME ALONE!" And a voice of a girl who seems to be also familiar to Ayumi.
"Eh!? But I am surrounded! What should I do!?" And another familiar voice.
'Wait a minute!? How did that happen!?' Ayumi thought in confusion.
She just heard a lot of familiar voices there, most of them being girls. But she didn't have any recollection of encountering any girls on real life or in her virtual persona other than Fubuki. There is also Ikuryu Honda and that one female acquaintance of that guy who works on that certain homeowner agency where she bought this house. But they didn't sound like the people that she just heard awhile ago.
'Then maybe...?' She pondered for a minute before looking at the internet names of the players that Fubuki was playing with.
sakuramiko35, AQUA, Shion, Will-o-Wisp, Boing. Those five are the familiar voices that she can hear on the other side.
"... Wait, Sakura Miko!?" Ayumi suddenly exclaimed as her gaze was pointed to that name. 'And wait, I think I recall something like her was also commenting on my HC when I am collaborating with Fubuki-chan.' Ayumi thought as she recall some of the comments there that Miko left when she was playing Keep Silent with Fubuki.
Then she thinks about the names written there once more.
"AQUA... Is that Minato Aqua. Then Shion would be that Murasaki Shion right!?" Ayumi said to herself as she focuses her mind on each of their names. "But I don't know who is Boing or Will-o-Wisp..." She muttered to herself.
Then she thinks about it once more. As she tries to recall the two of them, Fubuki was just finishing the map along with the other players.
AQUA is the MVP. She easily killed every zombie that came on her way even though she was always surrounded by them due to bad timing or horrible missteps that she seems to be prone to.
"Ahaha, that was fun!~" Ayumi heard Fubuki saying that on the screen.
"FBK, you seem to be good." She heard the voice of AQUA saying that with, what she imagined, a somewhat proud expression. "Why don't you play with us a bit more!" She said with, what Ayumi imagined, her saying that proudly.
"... Uwaaah... Who are you!?" And she heard the voice of Shion who was somehow surprised at AQUA's invitation.
"Hey! What do you mean by that!"
"You are pretty shy when we first met you. How can you casually invite someone like it was nothing!?" She heard Shion says on Fubuki's stream.
"A-a-aaah!? D-don't say it!" She heard AQUA panicking.
"Okay sure, I don't mind." She heard Fubuki accepts their invitation in a casual way.
"Ah, I want to join too." Then she heard Miko saying that on the voice chat.
"It's okay. Aqua wouldn't mind after all eh." She heard Will-o-Wisp replies on Miko.
"O-of course not!" She heard AQUA saying that with a stuttering tone. "Ugh... Why does Shion have to say that. Now I am embarrassed." AQUA muttered, which was still heard at her mic.
"Ah, I think it's nice that many people are playing with us. I think?" That was Boing who said that.
Boing was surprisingly soft-spoken. It was pretty different on when she heard her screaming hatred on a strangely attractive alien zombie. Which Ayumi didn't see because she can only see Fubuki's POV.
The other two guys (outsiders) was just trying to say whatever as they try to interact with Fubuki. Fubuki simply says "Un Un" to them like she was just being forced to notice them.
'Their voice... a soothing voice for a girl and she was somehow more wholesome than what her appearance suggests. And a soft spoken girl who can easily be aggressive when things don't go her way...' Ayumi thought to herself before she made a realization. 'Wait, then those two are...!?'
Ayumi quickly looks at Fubuki's stream and she saw that all of them are playing again in a different map.
'I can't believe it. After Natsuiro-san, it was Minato-san, Murasaki-san, Nakiri-san, and Uruha-san!?' Ayumi thought in surprise as she stares at the stream that was still ongoing.
It seems like her title was displaying it's effect.
Tokyo, somewhere on Chiyoda Ward.
This is where the main base of JSIB is located. It was decided to be located here just to make it more hidden from the eyes of the other factions. It would be pretty predictable if they put it on the same place as the important landmarks of Tokyo like the Ogasawara Island, Izu Island, Mt. Fuji, National Diet Building, etc.
They still want it inside of Tokyo because it would be more convenient if their intel is much more closer to them instead of being farther.
The structure of JSIB is pretty minimalist for a skyscraper. The designs are a bit spartan and a bit symmetrical. Still, it was easier to go through the places where they want to go.
And Haseno Nishida was currently walking on the halls of this building, at the top floor.
As he got in front of the room, he can hear some people are having a conversation inside it. He still knocks on the door before opening it with an "Excuse me" as a follow up.
The two people that was talking at each other there stops as their attention turned to him for a moment.
"Oh Nishida, is it your periodic report today?" The middle ages balding guy on the chair asks in a welcoming tone.
"Good morning Yokohama Section Leader Nishida." A bespectacled woman with a sharp look and was wearing an office lady suit greeted him with a serious tone.
"Sorry for intruding on your conversation, Head of Chief Iwayada-san, Minato Section Leader Shirone."
As stated, these two are also important people like Nishida. Hidamari Shirone is the Section Leader of JSIB branch on the Minato Ward on Tokyo. Iwayada Taneguchi is the one who was essentially the top person in the position on this organization. He was the one where the Section Leaders will answer to whenever something serious happens on the other parts of Japan.
"Your not really interrupting us. In fact, this involves your section." That was what Taneguchi said as he gestured for Nishida to sit on a free chair opposite to Shirone.
Nishida nodded before sitting on the free chair.
"If that is so, then please let me join." Nishida stated respectfully.
"Of course." Taneguchi said before turning his attention back on Shirone. "So, where were we?"
"Right. As stated, the Aqua Faction is slowly growing in strength on these recent months. She manages to somehow become friends with people from the Demonic Realm. We still don't know how she does that other than her mysterious attraction to the supernatural." Shirone summarized. "And it seems like just today, she manage to have a contact to Subject Shirakami Fubuki, the one being sheltered by Subject Hoshimachi Ayumi." Shirone finishes her report on that.
"I see... then Nishida-kun. Can you tell me anything about this mysterious cosmic being?" Taneguchi turned his attention on Nishida and asks him that.
"Yes. Based on recent observations to her activities, Hoshimachi Ayumi seems to be assimilating in our society. She even makes sure that no normals can see her usage of power. Though we need to do this using our normal telescopes and visual drones so we can't be sure what she does inside her house. Glimpses on the window where she usually streams are just her using her computer." Nishida reported.
As to why Nishida was forced to use technologies. It was because Ayumi can quickly sense their scrying techniques and divination techniques. Even the Paper Shikigamis that their Onmyous are using are quickly intercepted by her.
Though they didn't know that Ayumi sees this as weird. She doesn't know why she felt like she was being probed or she saw the Paper Shikigamis as just trashes that somehow she misses so she cleans it all up using her Psychokinesis.
They are afraid of provoking her too much so they only did a single attempt before quickly changing tactics to observe her. They only want to observe her and not do anything because they don't have enough firepower to try and fight her, they think.
"I see... and based on your reports, she might be a new type of Cosmic Being right?" Taneguchi said before looking at some of the papers on his table. "Hmm, she really is terrifying if she can easily do this without the world rejecting her." The balding chief said as he looks at a certain section of the document.
Specifically, these are the documents containing Hoshimachi Ayumi's history since birth. They can't see anything weird about her. A normal girl who was taken into her uncle's custody after her parents died on a traffic accident. She lives as a normal and unassuming girl since she was a child until her parents left her alone on this world. Her uncle took her deeds and inheritances, along with the life insurances from her parents. She became a shut-in after not being able to see anything to sustain herself. Her uncle refuses to even take care of her and kicks her out of the house so she can only rent on a small apartment somewhere on Osaka. She can't even take her independence because she doesn't have a stable income and her uncle always stonewalled every attempts she does to get out of his custody in fear of him being caught because he was unjustly keeping the money that she should rightfully own.
It only became weird when she suddenly started her Vtuber career and she suddenly became talented all of a sudden. She doesn't exhibit any of these when her parents are still alive.
So they only got to a single conclusion. Ayumi warped the history itself so her identity is already established as being natural. They think she just came to this world when she started her career as a Vtuber and Hoshimachi Ayumi doesn't really exist at all on this world before that time.
They don't know why she was interested in becoming a Vtuber, but they won't try to question it. Most Cosmic Beings are whimsical, and it would turn people insane if they ever try to understand the minds of something like those entities.
They can only make conjectures, which will become a theorized fact that they can use as a reference to define a threat. It was what they always do on any supernatural threats.
They didn't know anything about Ayumi's Vtuber System. For them, it was impossible for a person who doesn't have any supernatural potential to suddenly acquire a power like that.
Every living things in this world have already a predetermined potential since birth. Those who have a supernatural potential can choose their path in their young age before focusing on that path.
Basically, whatever they choose will set them on that path for a lifetime. The supernatural potential of a person is basically something like an empty slate. If they become exposed to mana then mana is the only thing that they could use. If it's chi, then chi is the only thing that they could use.
As for Psionic, if a child with a supernatural potential have a higher imagination than a normal child, they might have a chance to awaken their psychic capabilities. Turning their supernatural potential onto whatever they think they can do at that time.
So supernatural potential is a blank slate. And most prominent supernatural families always pour whatever they have on their descendants so they will turn just like them in the future, propagating their traditions for the future that will come.
Now, people who doesn't have a supernatural potential can't acquire any power at all. In fact, it will have a negative effect if they are ever exposed to any of the powers that people from the Other Side uses. Even if they are exposed to mana, they won't have magic. Chi won't cause them to become strong. Even Psionic, spiritual powers, divine powers, or even curses won't give them the power that they want. It won't have any effect other than slowly causes them to be in pain or lethargic.
Supernatural powers can easily affect them. Hypnosis is very effective to them. A simple usage of chi to release a killing intent will immediately cause every people on the vicinity to fear that person.
So based on Ayumi's history as a child, she was supposed to be a normal person. There are many things in this world that can easily exposed her to Mana or Chi, but she didn't even get anything so it was safe to say that she was a normal.
And she suddenly got a power.
So the only conclusion left is that the Ayumi recorded on the Japanese Citizen Registry is a false one that Ayumi created so she can live in this world legally.
And that's why Taneguchi says what he says.
They are misunderstanding Ayumi a lot due to the preconceived notions that they have as a veteran on the Other Side.
"Well, I now know why you are worried Shirone." Taneguchi says as he looks at her.
The Aqua Faction. It was a faction that suddenly appears, with the center of that faction being a certain former Vtuber, Minato Aqua.
After being kicked out by the Yubelverse due to becoming a scapegoat, Minato Aqua's life changes.
It started with her beating up five fat guys who were in fact a part of the Other Side. And this is also the first time that she shows her surprising competency in combat.
Even when she was just a normal human who was somehow prone to being hurt due to her clumsiness and general stupidity, she was somehow good at technical stuffs like combat.
After she beats up the five fat guys, they somehow become enamored with her and since that day, they stayed with her to support her in her life while she was moping alone on her apartment room due to being kicked out on the only work that she got.
Then fast forwarding to the present time, she suddenly became a well-known faction. In fact, the Aqua Faction is the seventh strongest faction on Japan. Without the knowledge of Aqua of course.
They already got a psych evaluation of Minato Aqua and based on her statement, she thought that she was surrounded by a lot of Chuunibyos and convincing cosplayers. She somehow have a talent to attract any supernatural occurrences on her way. This makes Shirone have a headache on her job whenever she heard Aqua's name on her subordinates.
Any person related to the supernatural will somehow become friends with her. And she wasn't even trying.
So this is really worrisome for them. Because if she made contact with the one that Ayumi is sheltering, the one who they thought as a Cosmic Being might also join her faction. Which is a scary thought because Aqua was scarily good at befriending others unintentionally.
And they still don't know how she did it. She wasn't even trying to interact with the others. It's the other side who was interacting with her.
"Well... let's be prepared for whatever may come. We can't really touch the two of them." Taneguchi says to the two of them.
"... We won't derail Hoshimachi Ayumi's attention to her?" That's what Nishida asks on him.
"Of course. We can only watch what will happen and prepare for the ripple that it will cause." Taneguchi answered with a shrug.
Yes, they don't have any choice. They can't really ask Aqua to ignore Ayumi and they are wary of Ayumi's suspected capability to warp history so they also don't want to provoke her.
So they only need to make some protocols to make sure that they can minimize whatever mayhem that may happen if the two meets.
"... I hope this doesn't become much more troublesome." Shirone muttered to herself, with a bit of a whining tone at the end of her muttering.
**End of Chapter 31**
[Status]
Hoshimachi Ayumi/Sakaguchi Kotomi (Hololive Founder)
Physique : 7,890
Fitness : 8,230
Wisdom : 7,345
Creativity : 7,775
Talent : 11,020
Charisma : 7,100
Essence : 6,500
VP : 490,540
[Abilities]
Game : FPS God
Game : Horror God
Game : Puzzle God
Game : Survival God
2D Modeling God
3D Modeling God
Analysis God
Animation God
Baggage God
Cooking God
Cover God
Disguise God
Mental Control God
Engineering God
Evasion God
House Chores God
Multitasking God
Portal God
Prediction God
Programming God
Psychokinesis God
Tracking God
Technician God
Voice Acting God
FP : 430,980
A/N
So yes... the introduction of the seventh strongest faction.
That was my plan on Minato Aqua. She was in fact a protagonist herself!
I have watch some of Aqua's stream and while most of it are funny (mostly because Aqua is being Baqua), she was surprisingly good at games like Apex Legends.
I was even amazed on one of her clips where she fought the Ender Dragon on Minecraft. She somehow have the time to think of changing her sword into an Ender Pearl just before she took a single hit fall damage that will kill her. She somehow survives it by just doing that kind of quick action and I was like "Holy crap, that's so cool!~"
Was it normal on Minecraft? I don't play much (I am just a casual player who doesn't even know how to get to The End on Survival Mode).
So this is why Aqua's characterization here is that she was a clumsy girl who will easily make mistakes on the general side. But if it was the technical side, she was somehow much more skilled than anyone else.
I hope this makes you happy!~~
Review if you like, helpful comments are welcome and thanks for reading this!~~
P.S. Yes, I just watched Ollie's debut. Still didn't get to the other two but for me, Anya is the cutest one! (Her concept art is just my thing!)