Author Notes on the bottom, disclaimer written, and the story finally continued its course!

What to expect?

Fubuki.

So anyway,

Enjoy~

Disclaimer: any and all events that are on this story is a fanmade, its fiction, completely unrelated to any kind of real life events,etc. it surely as heck does not belong to me. Every character that were included in the story belongs to their respective owner.


Sagami ichiei woke up on the couch in the morning, much more earlier than he had ever did.

Seems like Kuro's beating make him much more awake than usual.

Who would have guessed that a huge amount of physical pain could keep you awake?

His body felt stiff and rigid as he got up and stretched them, popping a few ached bones here and there. He then started to get up so he could start his daily routine of cooking breakfast for him and Fubuki. And Kuro, he can't forget about her.

Ichiei decided to make a big meal.

A single thin blanket with a lion faced motif fell off from on top of him.

'That's weird, I don't remember having any blanket like this.'

He looked again on his position on top of the couch.

'I also didn't remember getting up.'

He finally recognized the motif on the blanket, which belong to his childhood friend neighbour.

'Guess I need to thanks Matsuri later'

He smiled.

'I wonder what kind of food she would like?'

Ichiei prepares the breakfast much more bigger than usual. Even after counting Kuro's big appetite.

Four plates were grabbed from the cupboard, as well as their utensils.

'I'll send her a message, hope she read it.'

He typed a few keys on his phone, before placing it face up on the counter. He then started to prepare the breakfast once more.

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A few minutes later, a drowsily looking Fubuki showed up from behind the wall that leads to her room upstair, followed by a much more casual looking Kuro who decided to wore a white yukata with a fox head symbol on the back of it.

They both waited on their respective seats as Ichiei served their portions.

His door bell ringed, which he quickly answered as he let Matsuri inside to join them for breakfast.

Matsuri took a seat at his left, as he scooped some rice into her bowl.

All four of them says their prayers before digging in.

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Ichiei was laying inside his room as he opened his message box to check on his 'special' rewards. A white box wrapped with a strand of red ribbon was shown as an icon, with the text next to it,

[FATE Quest Completion Rewards - unclaimed]

He then pressed the claimall button and a loud ding appeared as an item plopped onto his bed, right beside his head. He turned slightly to face the item.

A small glass like container with a rounder bottom and a long circular tube as the mouth, it was sealed with somekind of wooden plug. The liquid inside the container was light pink in color, it also emitted a little bit of light when he sway it around gently with his hand. A small white plastic card with something written on it dangled to the side, it seems like it was hooked to the card with a small dark blue string into the hole which was located on edge of the wooden plug.

Ichiei pinched the small card with both of his fingers and brought it closer to his face.

'Instant Health Potion I', he read in his mind, 'Recovers your health by a small amount.'

"Wow, what kind of joke is this? A real-life health potion? So stupid." He said to no one before he let go of the card to check his other rewards.

'If I remember wasn't there two more rewards?', He checked his Notification once again.

Added 100 Essence Point(s)

Added 250 ExP(s)

You have acquired a random low grade artifact by the name of 'Instant Health Potion I' !

100 EP Points, huh?

That reminds him, he still need to check the store for something to help with Fubuki's condition. Hopefully there was something similiar or atleast close to what he was looking for. It would be great to let Fubuki out after being cooped up inside the house since she was under his care.

The next one was ExP points, or as the system told him, was named as Experience of Production, It was basically points to level up his 'character' self. The point added was 250 which made his own lvl jumped by 2 and almost filled a third of the bar for the next level. He was now on lvl 8 already.

But for some reason he didn't get any EP. He at first thought that EP was basically the same as the bonus SP that you'd get everytime you leveled up in-game, but apparently his theory was proven wrong. He wondered where could one get some anyway?

Ichiei then checked his current EP which displayed a three digits number of 105.

So minus the reward he had gotten by finishing the quest, he had only acquired 2 points in the last few days. There goes his idea of it truly being an extra SP from his level up reward.

Other than that he couldn't notice any difference after his level have increased.

'I suppose I'll find them out later, maybe it's not my power level but like some kind of milestones?'

Ichiei checked the next item on his list, there was supposed to be a low grade items he had yet to acquire.

Ichiei stopped his movement as soon as he tried to check it.

He rubbed his eyes and checked again.

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Wait.

The potion was the artifact?

He grabbed the potion once again and inspected it in much more detail, a single blue panel popped up in his vision which described the detail which he had missed before,

Can be used every 1 week time.

Upgrade Lvl: 1

Time until next refill : 0

'It even has a refill function? Neat.'

A loud ping sounded as another blue panel appeared with a small text written on it, 'Would you like to place it in the Storage and active the auto-use function?'

"Yeah sure."

The artifact vanished from his hand, he assumed it was now in his inventory.

Now,

Time to check on the [EP Exchange] store function.

He extended his hand to press the menu icon and selected his desired option.

Another panel window, white in color this time, appeared infront of him.

There were some items being highlighted with the 'HOT' stamps, To the right side was the 'Most Searched' as well as 'Recommended' section. A search function with those usual little magnifying glass icon was placed on the top right of the screen, although a bit lower. The items were divided by each section, like Furnitures, Foods, and Stationary for example. But that does not end there, although might look like a normal e-commerce website, there actually was another special function.

Ichiei pressed the 'shuffle' looking dark red icon on the corner to the left of the search function.

The panel's background colors shifted into a black with neon green stripes plastered as the outline of the panel window. This is the 'true' function for the usage of his EP(s).

Firearms.

Magic Tomes.

Forbidden Grimoires.

Drugs.

Human Organs.

You name it. They've got almost everything.

So Ichiei was absolutely sure there must be something like 'Illusion Magic'.

He filled in the search function with the word 'Illusion' and 'Skill'.

The search function did its work and a list of selections were displayed for him.

The first item was a 'Magic book' with an instant learning function, which cost 1200 EP.

'Wow...that's a lot...'

The second item displayed was a special one time only bottle of red and white pills. This one cost a bit lower but still outside his budget. The cost of one bottle was 800, and there were 30 pills inside.

The third one was much more cheaper, it was only 650 EP. It was a small green colored diamond shaped necklace made by someone named 'M'.

Ichiei scrolled downwards to find more cheaper items to fit his current budget.

The item which he could bought was a special custom tailored dark blue beanie with a white cat pin attached on it. The item cost was 95 EP, almost an entire part of his points. It seems like the beanie, when worn will emit a small amount of tier 1 illusion magic which will then envelop the user so any other normal humans will notice the user as a part of the Normal Side of the world.

'Buy'

A group of diamond shaped white particles suddenly started to appear as the beanie materialized out of it.

The beanie flopped onto his face.

Unperturbed, Ichiei only uttered a single line of words.

"Fubuki's Present, Get."

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Motoaki Tanigo went back to the Sagami Household two days after the deal was struck. With him was the contract papers as well as some special pins which will let them be known as members of Hololive Idol Agency.

A small button sized dark blue pin with a sideway light blue triangle on top of it.

They would also need to get their ID Card made later, but this will do for now.

He went past the gate and rang the bell next to the door. A loud thump could be heard inside before a rushed footsteps along with a voice that said, 'Coming!' came from inside the house.

A pair of white fox ears came into his vision as soon as the door had opened.

"Oh? Mister! Are you looking for Ichi kun? He is still fixing my broken PC upstairs, but he said he would be done in a few more minutes!"

"In the mean time, why don't I serve you some green tea that I made myself? I may not be as good of a cook as Ichi kun, but I pride myself in my green tea brewing skill!"

"uh, sure."

Unknown to the impending doom that awaits him, Tanigo accepted Fubuki's offer.

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When Ichiei went downstairs after making Fubuki's PC setup as good as new, His eyes stumbled upon the fallen form of the unknown guest which he remembered was the one who invited Fubuki to join the idol organization yesterday.

As well as a panicked Fubuki and a laughing Kuro.

"Uhh... so what happened here? Do I dare ask?"

"Our dear guest decided to drink the 'special' green tea made by Fubuki! That's what!" Kuro answered him between her laugh, as she fell off the couch from laughing too hard.

Ichiei's gaze leered to the curled form of a scared looking Fubuki as she stared at him with those teary puppy eyes of hers.

But Ichiei already immune to such things, especially for this moment.

"Explain."

Fubuki Whimpered.

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Shirakami Fubuki was having the time of her life.

Squeezed in between Kuro and Ichiei as the three of them was escorted by Tanigo to the Hololive Idol Agency Office building.

For Kuro and Ichiei, this might seem like a business trip, but Fubuki?

She just felt like her birthday had came early.

Actually she did felt today was like her birthday, Ichiei gave her this special hat afterall. It hides both her fox ears and tail, so now she could go out at anytime!

She just need to make sure it didn't accidentally slipped off though.

Fubuki gazed the world around her.

Tall skyscraper which seemed to pierce the sky, something she had dreamed to see after she watched those vlog videos on WhyTube. A sea of people which she was in, the widely made asphalt roads, an enormous monitor which displayed somekind of promotional video was placed on the side of some buildings. The world around her seemed so huge, massive even, as she saw many people going about and through with their life.

Ichiei tugged her arms, Kuro grabbed the other as both of went forward with Fubuki in tow to not lose sight of their new employer.

Fubuki only smiled.

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When they had arrived at the office, Ichiei couldn't believe his eyes.

He expected it to be some sort of shady looking organization, what with his based opinion of FATE wanting to screw him over. But suprisingly it looked just like any other offices. An array of white desks and office chairs. Some brown boxes stacked on the corner, a small living room with a big monitor, 2 large red couches and a brown coffee table with a cactus on a pot placed on top of it. The was a little bit of partitions placed to divide the rooms. A large bookshelf as well as some offfices cabinets which he assumed held all the paperworks and agency's important data files.

A single figure could be seen typing away on the keyboard at one of the office desk. Ichiei could she some part of her features, like her big blue ribbon which tied her short hairs, as well as her black rimmed thick eyeglasses that adorned her face. She wore a navy blue t-shirt and Ichiei could saw part of her blue jeans sticking out from under the desk.

The figure turned her head slightly to face them, there was bags under both of her eyes, like she haven't slept in days. Something which he could relate to as he had been on such spot before.

Minus the 'for work' part though, he usually had it when he pulled an all nighter for entertainment purposes.

Her dull blue eyes looked at them as she greeted them, "Oh, you guys are the new recruits, right? Welcome to Hololive Idol Agency-"

Her hands still typed on the keyboard.

"Nice to meet you, my name is Shinki Aisha"

She tried to turn her frown upside down into a weak smile.

"You can call me, A-chan"


[AN] : anddd...cut! That's a wrap for today's chapter!

It takes a little longer than usual, not because its long (sorry bout that), but more like I had to rewrite half of it.

Well, let's just say I went too far ahead with what I had in mind, but after re reading it, I noticed there was too much problems in one go!

I couldn't really burden the character's mentality with too many 'heavy' stuffs, Especially Kuro.

Poor Kuro.

Ichiei could go screw himself(jk).

Well I think that's it?

Oh, and Fubuki finally can go out!! Horay~

Alright-

Well, thats that.

So anyway,

Thank you for reading!!

See you next chapter-

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Hope to improve~

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P.S. I still saved my 'lost chapter' for later use if I feels like the situation called for it.

Hope it won't come to that, though.