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“I just want to chill and do nothing for the rest of my life.”
Nagi Seishiro was a simple guy and like everyone, he just wanted an easy life. He doesn’t want to work hard, and he hates anything that’s a hassle; so a working, stable job was.. a difficult find, to say the least.
Nagi once worked as a cashier, but was fired on the spot for slacking off while he had a line of waiting customers. He had also worked as a barista at his local café, but decided to just never show up again after his first day.. Making drinks was too complicated— a hassle.
That’s when he discovered social media. How being a content creator could be a source of income, easy money in Nagi’s eyes— if it works out, of course. He had considered BlueTube, but editing long videos seemed like it was too much work. He looked into influencers as well, but everything sounded too fake and active for his liking; so he settled for being a streamer. It was the perfect job for him— he could sit at home and just play games all day. There was no need for editing or acting, he had complete freedom.
In only a month, nagishir0 had gained around 15k followers on switch.tv. He was compensated comfortably, around ¥600,000 monthly with no extra effort. All he needed to do was play some games— which he was going to do anyway— and he’ll earn money. He was good at gaming and people enjoyed watching that for some reason, but who was he to complain?
nagishir0
horror game :x
1.2k viewers — gaming
Nagi stares at his screen, “You guys said to play a Chilla’s Art game but there are so many…”
chokifan01: play the convenience store!!
mimikochanxx: Do the convenience store
shiroarmy: you should do yuki onna
xx_sunset_xx: parasocial is pretty good
myseicred: they remade “the bathhouse”
nagiwagi: the convenience store is the most popular, i think
m00nlight_99: poll?
“Ah.. okay.”
choose
convenience store —-------- 29%
parasocial —----------- 31%
yuki onna —- 13%
the bathhouse —--- 20%
… — 7%
“Okay. We’ll do ‘parasocial’ today.”
xx_sunset_xx: yayy that’s my fav xx
honeybearzz: It’s about a streamer too
mrblu3: closing shift better but wtv
firemega_5: why is your webcam in 240p…
Nagi’s eyes flick over to chat, “It’s not 240p, it’s 360p.”
myseicred: sigh.. its been like that since the beginning
kuromi_xo: you’re literally white pixel blob pls fix this pookie
nagiwagi: ^
“I need money to do that.”
purplechameleon donated ¥200,000
Here, buy a better webcam
Nagi blinks, “Oh— thank you for the donation, but it’s probably too much of a hassle to set it up.”
seishirosgirl: Our hassleman..
blu3flame69: the donation????
kuromi_xo: nagishir0 you’re literally pixels.. please
purplechameleon donated ¥50,000
You can connect it to the computer, just plug it in where the current webcam is.
“I don’t use a webcam.”
…
“Thank you for the donation again.”
technerd02: MONITOR CAM??
shiroarmy: no wonder
chokifan: i need choki 4k
seishirosgirl: I need Nagi 4k.
The stream ends after Nagi finishes the game, playing through it a few times to get all of the endings. He feels a bit tired, even though he had woken up only an hour before he started streaming. He grabs a bottle of water to take a sip, then pours a tiny bit into Choki’s pot.
“Now Choki is hydrated too.”
Nagi goes to shut his computer off when he gets a private message notification. It’s common, but he recognizes the username from earlier in the stream.
purplechameleon
Did you buy one?
purplechameleon
A webcam, I mean.
nagishir0
no :xx hassl
nagishir0
i can send ur money bac
purplechameleon
No, no!! Keep it!
purplechameleon
I can set the webcam up for you if it’s a hassle?
nagishir0
wa
purplechameleon
I can set your webcam up for you! Where do you live?
nagishir0
r u gonna stalk me
purplechameleon
Huh?
…
purplechameleon
OMG. No no!! Not at all
nagishir0
js played parasocial n u sound suspicius
purplechameleon
OMG NO
purplechameleon
I promise I’m not a bad person!! I just want to help.
nagishir0
ok
nagishir0
in kanagawa - ***************
purplechameleon
I’ll be there tomorrow afternoon! Is that okay?
nagishir0
ye
dont kill me :x
purplechameleon
Of course not!!
purplechameleon
Order the “xxxx” webcam now! It should hopefully arrive tomorrow before I arrive.
nagishir0
k
Now, Mikage Reo has absolutely no clue why he had offered all this to a streamer he had just found today. His father had mentioned in a work meeting about buying switch.tv, and Reo decided that he’d look into it himself. Reo scrolled through the site, looking at all the obnoxious streams and events on the page..
Somewhere during his research, he ended up in a sleepy horror game stream with the most atrocious facecam he’s ever seen. It’s not as if Nagi is ugly— Reo can’t even see the guy— but the quality contrast between the webcam and game screen was so awful that he just couldn’t bear it.
The interaction went well, Reo thinks— even though he totally came off as a creep. He hadn’t even noticed how it sounded, but Nagi didn’t seem to mind that much. He was a strange guy, interesting too, Reo wondered if he was as lazy as he seemed on screen. Reo will find out tomorrow.