Vol 1 Chapter 55 – Later-Broadcast Segment【Vol 1 – Turning Point】

Now that NatsuMake is over, the next item on the schedule is the autumn collection shoot.

But that’s for another day—tonight is stream night. Since I joined ManKe as Akiba Rin, I have to say the proper things like “thank you” and “great job” to everyone who helped.

On top of that, at ManKe I was practically on the organizer side, with Mitsu-san backing me up. So, for the first time ever, I’ve invited Mitsu-san onto my channel.

“Good eve-ning! Everyone, great job today! Stars all around!”

“Big brothers, big sisters! You worked suuuper hard again today! Amazing, amazing!”

As always, greetings come from Mitsu-san—Micchi-Mama—first. We’re the Akiba family, after all; Mama outranks us all.

Gin: Wait, you’re streaming with your mom in Rin-kun’s slot!?

Rina＠Gal: Rin-kun & Mama—love you both!

Dedede: Good work at NatsuMake!

Roze: I’m sooo jealous of people who live in Japan!

Osio: Hey, some of us live in Japan and still couldn’t make it to ManKe… like me!

Betoben: Osio, you’re crying salt again…

HatsuBread: Still, there was one super-cute Rin-chan out there, right?

Pine: You lot… jealousy firing squad for you.

Elsa: I’m definitely going next year!

Alen: Who knows, maybe they’ll bring it to America? Simon’s calling for it.

Mike: If Rin-chan appears on that show, I’m absolutely watching!

Chat’s lively as ever—business as usual.

“Yep! There was an ab-so-lute-ly adorable me out there! I nabbed a two-shot! My only gripe is that the cute me is taller!”

See, I’m 138 cm; that person was about ten centimeters taller.

Gin: …You mean me?

And with that, he drops a bombshell.

“It was you, Gin-san!?”

“Huh? Gin-chan’s a girl?”

Because, by all appearances, he looked like a petite girl.

Gin: Nah, I’m albino. I look like a girl, so I leverage it—been doing kid modeling. Also, to all you shota-loving ladies out there—I’m legal! Currently single and looking!

So Gin-san is a fellow adult kid-model, just like me.

All right, decision made—I’m teaming up with Gin-san.

“Gin-san, can I show the two-shot?”

Gin-san and I posed twin-style. Mitsu-san took the photo.

Gin: Go right ahead!

With his OK, I throw the pic up on screen.

“Ta-da—me and Gin-san! Hehe, my loot!”

This is prime loot: a two-shot with a viewer, and the photo turned out gorgeous. You don’t get twin-style every day.

Rina＠Gal:

[KYAAAAA!]

[CUTE! CUTE! CUTE!]

Dedede: They’re TWINS aaaahhhh!

Osio: An angel… has come to take me home…

Pine: Japan really is God’s country—because angels live there.

Elsa: I want to take them home…

Alen: Japanese cute is terrifying—because it can kill!

Mike: That’s why Japan doesn’t need nukes—they’ve got weapons of mass adorable destruction!

HatsuBread: My heart’s going to stop at this rate!

Betoben: This is cuteness assault!

WaaGwaa!?:

[WAAAA!]

[GWAAAA!]

Chai ga sukii!: WaaGwaa is dead!?

Dan-Gan: You monster!

Looks like the viewers have been KO’d by Gin-san’s cuteness.

Gin: I’ll ask if we can do a full collab shoot next time!

Apparently he plans to broadcast the slaughter across all of Japan.

“Still, I’m shocked—an adult doing kid modeling just like me.”

I gloss over the phrase old guy. Everyone thinks of me as the perpetual little brother, and bringing it up might ruin Gin-san’s image too.

Gin: Heh, comrade!

“Gin-Onii-chan!”

“Uh, if you two flirt any harder, the viewers will actually die, you know?”

Come to think of it, chat had frozen.

Rina＠Gal:

[Cute… so cute…]

Dedede: I can’t help imagining things! The twin pic in the background makes it impossible not to!

WaaGwaa!?:

[ting—]

Chai ga sukii!: We… we wanted to start a band… (final words)

Betoben: Calm down… you already have a band… (final words)

Pine: Lord… I’m coming to You now…

Elsa: Japanese cute is outright violence!

Alen: Flirt more.

Mike: Please do!

HatsuBread: In my head Gin-shi now has a loli voice, by the way.

Oh, right—Gin-san’s voice…

“It’s that ‘a girl doing a boy voice’ vibe—kind of cool-tsundere!”

“He really was adorable…”

Yes—Gin-san was perfect, voice and all.

Rina＠Gal: Gin-chan! Marry me!

Gin: Depends—are your boobs big enough?

Seems Gin-san is a boob man.

Dedede: Why can’t two guys get married in Japan anyway…?

Gin: Beats me! Also, guys are a hard no for me!

Alen: Come to America.

Roze: Come to the Netherlands.

Turns out a lot of countries allow same-sex marriage. Japan’s lagging behind there. Not that I care…

“Ah, Mama’s on the larger side, right?”

Saying that, I pull up my two-shot with Mama.

She’d already okayed its use on stream—in fact, we took it fully intending to show it off.

Gin: Mama’s pretty much ideal… I want someone like her too…

Dedede: Agreed!

And the stream rolled on like that.