[Louis, your kid is amazing, huh?]
The voice ca through the headphones.
Louis, though a leader in Leviathan with a vast network of connections, was essentially more of an introvert at heart.
People often mistook him for an extrovert, but he always felt drained from socializing. It was difficult for him to approach others, and even harder to maintain relationships.
He wasn't very good at becoming close with people on a personal level either.
For that reason, Louis didn’t often do voice chats outside of streams. If he talked to soone, it was usually about work. He kept private conversations to a very limited circle.
Asahina Hikari was one of those precious few.
"Kid? If you say it like that, it sounds like I gave birth to her, Hikari."
[Isn’t that pretty much the case? You’ve been taking care of her like she’s your child.]
"Well, it benefits too."
Louis shrugged.
"After all, Laura's popular, isn’t she? I have to ride on that popularity if I want to survive in this industry, right, Hikari?"
[You’re giving her so much attention though~. Making maps was pretty tough, right? You put a lot of Easter eggs in there, and then, of course, the ending is the teor ending.]
"Yeah, it’s because I feel guilty about it. So, what was it again…? You said we’ll do it first, right?"
[I actually prefer going first! I’d rather get it over with and watch others afterward!]
"Going first is disadvantageous though."
[But even if we do this, how many more subscribers can we really get? Let’s just enjoy it.]
"That’s true."
Louis nodded and jotted down a note in his mo pad: 'Sora-hosted Song Relay Planning: First perforr is Hikari.'
[By the way, Louis, you went to the Badario concert recently. Do you think you can put together a setlist?]
"For the song relay, there’s plenty of ti, so I’m sure I’ll manage."
[Ah, it’s not until the end of February, so there’s really plenty of ti. But don’t you have another plan going on too, Louis?]
"The Aurora battle royale?"
[Yeah, that one. I helped out with it, but when are we actually doing it?]
"I think we’ll do it after the Cerberus match."
[We’ll do it after the match? Is it not confird yet?]
"Yeah."
Louis confird.
Sora, Anna, Shina, and Chel were all confird, and he had received solid answers from them.
He had also recomnded it to Rion, but Rion had refused, saying that he was no longer active as a VTuber.
As for Elenoa...
‘I don’t think Noa really has any connection with Laura.’
So Noa was excluded.
It was fine to go ahead with just those four, but Louis was still considering one more person.
[Anyway, it sounds like you’ve got a lot of work ahead of you. Do your best, Louis!]
"Yeah, we should grab a al together later."
[Sure! Let’s eat at, at!]
With a giggle, Hikari ended the voice chat.
She had said that, but Louis knew they probably wouldn’t actually go out to eat together.
It was just a formality, and Louis understood that, but by the ti he realized, Hikari had already left the voice channel.
The holidays began.
"...Sis, are you sure you’ll be okay?"
Rion, who had finished preparing to go back ho, was looking at with a worried expression.
"It’s the sa thing as always."
"But this holiday is really long."
"That’s true."
This holiday was unusually long, and it even felt like it hadn’t been this long in Korea before. When I looked it up, I found out that the substitute holiday system was implented in 2021.
Since the holiday was so long, Rion would be away from ho for quite a while.
"Housework is definitely going to pile up."
"Not okay at all…"
Rion sighed.
"Sis, have you thought about doing the housework yourself?"
"Co on, have you ever seen a Duchess put her hands in the dirt?"
"I knew you’d say that... Sigh, I don't know, so just do whatever you want."
And with that, Rion left for ho.
For office workers, a long holiday was nothing short of heaven, but it didn’t apply to .
I still didn’t really want to et with family. Even after becoming Aurora, I still felt awkward every ti I t people I had known before.
The feeling was so different from how I rembered my family, and it wasn’t exactly pleasant. But I couldn’t avoid them forever, so I planned to at least call them during the holiday.
That aside...
"Hmm… I think it’s finally ti to hire a housekeeper."
Once again, I was left alone at ho.
Normally, even when Rion was away for about three days, things were manageable, but this ti, she’d be gone for over a week.
Usually, when that happened, Sora or Chel would help with the housework.
'But this ti, neither of them are here.'
Last Chuseok, Inagika had gone to Busan, and Chel had gone to Gangneung.
Even Sora, who wasn’t particularly bothered by holidays, had to go to her parents’ house for this New Year’s holiday. She said she’d be gone for about three to five days.
So, this week, Leviathan’s practice would continue, but Sora wouldn’t be able to attend much.
The sa went for Choi Gaho. As a married man, he had to prioritize his family during the New Year holidays, so he said he wouldn’t be able to attend practice much.
"Anna seems to be staying ho, but calling her would be useless."
Having lived with Anna for about a week, I knew calling her over would only make things worse.
"I really want to hire a housekeeper right now, but I can’t imagine being able to do that during the New Year holidays."
And for , hiring a housekeeper was sothing I had to be very careful about. After all, I’m a VTuber.
If I hired the wrong person, it could lead to big problems, especially with the red dicine issue, and they would need to be available to work on holidays like New Year’s, Chuseok, or Christmas.
With no 6th-generation classmates around to help, no way to find a housekeeper, and Anna being useless...
There was no one to do the housework.
I ca to a conclusion.
"I’ll cut out snacks."
No more chips. No more ice cream. No more cup ran. No more hot dogs.
I wouldn’t make any reason to visit the convenience store.
Everything sold at convenience stores is packaged.
That ans buying sothing equals creating trash.
So by cutting out snacks, I would eliminate the source of trash.
"And I’ll cut out tea."
I loved tea and coffee.
I’ll cut out all kinds of tea, along with the scones, roll cakes, cookies, and tarts that go with them.
Tea sets are hard to wash with a dishwasher, so they have to be washed by hand.
By cutting out tea, I would eliminate the source of dishes.
"I’ll cut out delivery food."
Every ti food gets delivered, plastic and vinyl waste pile up.
By cutting out delivery food, I would eliminate the source of waste and the need for separation.
Thus, the problem of trash and dishes would be significantly resolved.
So, I’d only eat out.
I wouldn’t drink water at ho either. If I get thirsty, I’ll go out and stop by a café.
Now, all that was left was floor cleaning.
-Whiiinnng.
A small, disc-shaped object passed by .
The robot vacuum cleaner.
From today on, it would be my new maid, replacing Rion.
I bought it for a fairly high price.
"Hmm, I guess I’ll call you Barley from now on."
I nad the robot vacuum Barley.
It was short for "Budget Rion."
Thus, my elegant life began.
4 AM sleep. 8 AM wake up.
After waking up, I’d imdiately go out.
The destination was a coffee shop.
There are few restaurants open in the morning, but coffee shops tend to open early.
I’d leisurely drink my coffee.
Pairing it with snacks like bagels or castella.
Though I said I would cut out tea and snacks, that only applied to ho.
Everything I did outside the house didn’t generate trash. Outside, I was completely free.
So I spent ti until 11 AM.
Reading a book, listening to music, or watching other VTubers’ streams.
From 11 AM, I would have my breakfast and lunch combined.
Sotis it’s soup, sotis pasta, sotis seafood stew.
The food varied depending on my mood that day, but during the holiday, finding open restaurants was a bit difficult. So, I would sotis walk a bit further to find sothing.
After lunch, I’d have tea ti again. Drinking black tea.
While in the morning I’d enjoy coffee with classic snacks, in the afternoon I’d try more experintal things, like black waffles or ice cream hotteok.
'And maybe I’ll skip dinner.'
I thought that.
It couldn’t be helped. I had to do a stream in the evening.
I couldn’t just leave my viewers waiting for an hour while I went to a restaurant.
They would definitely hate , and it would also ruin the flow of the stream.
'If it’s only for an hour, I guess it’s fine.'
It was unclear whether there would be any restaurants open near my house during the New Year holiday. I might have to take a taxi just to get dinner.
In fact, ordering delivery food would solve everything, but that would generate trash.
So, I decided to skip dinner cleanly.
Though, I was confident I could handle skipping a al. After all, I had survived by eating bugs and rats in dungeons before.
It may seem strange for a Duchess to be confident about fasting, but with the right packaging, it seed reasonable.
'The strongest Duchess in the world is soone with a strong will who never gives up, even in adversity (= fasting).'
Anyway, when I got ho...
"Where have you been?"
Soone was in my house, where I lived alone.
It wasn’t a thief.
They knew the password to my house.
It was Sora.
Sora was petting the robot vacuum—my new maid, Barley.
"Weren’t you supposed to go to your parents’ house? Why are you here?"
"...I’ll be leaving again soon."
Sora sighed.
At that mont, the bathroom door opened, and...
"Laura! Are you here?!"
It seed like she had been using the bathroom. Son Na-rim ca running toward .
Seeing this, Sora sighed.
"Take her away..."
Sora said in a tired voice.
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