"I don't seem to understand," the voice on the other end of the phone said.
"Well, there's too much as in I don't think we can fit it all inside my apartment," I told him. Eclair seemed to be explaining the same thing to the people who had brought all the stuff.
"Oh, well, I may have kind of gone a tad bit overboard..." Melty's father said. It seemed that he was a bit exasperated. "But a few more things you should remember." He then went on to a list of things that I should remember about Melty, which honestly I forgot around half of them once he had finished. He mentioned things such as the fact that Melty was allergic to peppermints, that she preferred sandwiches without the crust, that she liked it better when her cereal was made with milk added first and then cereal later.
And while he was on rambling on about this stuff, Melty, approached me close enough that she could overhear what he was saying and immediately turned as red as a tomato. She then tried to yank the phone from my hand. "D-ad! Stop saying all those things, half of those haven't been true since I was eight!"
"Uh, yeah, I think she wants to talk to you if that's not an issue," I told him and handed the phone to Melty.
She was on the phone with her father for about 10 minutes. And quite frankly, I had no idea what they were speaking about for so long, but whatever it was it seemed to have annoyed Melty quite a bit with her repeating "I'm not a little kid anymore!" at least fifteen times during this conversation, or some variant thereof.
In the end, around eighty percent of the stuff that had been brought was taken back, and the rest was placed in my apartment with the help of Melty's other staff.
"My gosh, that took forever," I said with a long sigh.
"I sincerely apologize," Eclair said, "I didn't know that this would be such an issue- and we've caused you quite a bit of inconvenience, haven't we?'
Melty also seemed to be quite frustrated. "Um yeah, sorry about that. My father can be a bit... overprotective sometimes."
"Yeah, I can see that," I told her. "Whatever, let me go get stuff ready. I should get started on dinner soon, but before that..."
I turned to Filo and Raphtalia. "Hey Filo, do you remember what we wanted you to do?"
Filo perked. "Huh?"
It took me about 10 minutes but I managed to get the streaming rig setup back up again after Filo had dismantled it.
Melty was watching this with interest.
"So you stream stuff on the internet Mr. Naofumi?"
"Well, I used to," I told her. "I don't anymore. Now, it's something that Raphtalia does."
I then turned to Eclair and Melty after I was done setting up. "Uh, we wouldn't want any noise in the background so I don't know if you two want to go for a walk outside or..." It was a not-so-subtle hint I was making that I wanted them out of the house.
"It's okay, we'll be quiet," Melty said. "I can use this time to catch up on my reading."
Whatever, I suppose this worked too.
The camera turned on and Raphtalia, start speaking to the into the camera. "Um, hello everyone. We weren't planning on streaming initially today, but we have a special guest here and so I thought we may as well introduce her." She then took Filo and had her sit on her lap. "This is Filo. Some of you may know her as the star of Magical Girl Kiiroi! Say hello Filo!"
"Hello!" Filo said, and stared intently at the camera. She seemed to be intrigued by the whole setup, I mean, she'd been on television before but she probably had not been using a video streaming site like this.
"Um, Filo please move away from the camera if you would please," Raphtalia said.
Filo was basically peering right into the camera, and as such, she covered the entire screen.
"Okay!"
"Um, so for today's stream, because Filo is here, we'll be doing something different that our regular stuff," Raphtalia said. "Let's let Filo decide things!"
"First, let's start off with a song!" Filo began, as that was what she usually did whenever she was on camera. I motioned towards Raphtalia, running my finger across my neck, instructing her to stop. If Filo started singing, we definitely were getting copyright struck.
"No Filo, there's no need for that," Raphtalia said. "Which character should we start off with?" Filo looked at the character screen and picked a character named Angelica- who looked, well, like an angel- kind of like what her character from the show would look like if aged up. Raphtalia had never played this character before who was more focused on healing- but that was okay, she didn't need to be competitive for now and could just play casually while she learend how the character worked.
The stream went out fine for the first 20 minutes, but the thing is, after that, Filo started fidgeting and getting bored. I couldn't blame her for that- it must have been very boring just watching someone else play a video game when you had no idea what was going on.
And quite honestly, we weren't doing much better than we would usually did. It didn't look like Filo's presence was drawing more attention to the stream- at least that's what I thought until a message popped up that nearly made Raphtalia jump out of her seat.
Someone had made a fifty thousand yen donation- the username was 'lanserboi.' There was a custom message attached to the message: 'I love you Magical Girl Kiiroi! I can't believe you're really on screen right now- I love you Filo-tan!'
I have to say I was quite surprised not just from the amount but from the message itself, I didn't think there'd be many people who would overlap with things like this. Who would watch Filo's show and also be interested in Eryuentiu Online? Well, 'lanserboi' apparently.
"Hey, look, Filo, we got a donation. Do you want to read out the message for them?"
Filo didn't seem to be too interested but she complied for a while. Then, Raphtalia whispered into her ear, "Remember, if you're good, Mr. Naofumi's going to make something you really like for dinner!"
"Okay!"
Filo stayed still for a while longer- as in, for about an hour more.
"Oh well, it looks like Filo-chan's tired now," Raphtalia said. They hadn't really played much.
Aside from that large donation, we didn't actually end up getting anything significant in terms of views, subs, or money from that. So I guess I would just call it a dud. Oh well, it was worth a try and like I had promised, I started cooking for everyone.