1000-Subscriber Milestone Apology Stream

"oh, she's starting"

"ojou, congrats on breaking 1000 subs!"

Unlike her usual luxury-hotel-style room, this was the default room: a simple white background with linoleum-like white flooring. Karona sat in the middle of it on her knees, looking apologetic.

"it's ojou's seiza pose!"

"the reverse-tofu room, ktkr. stage for an apology is set!"

"… Um, today… due to my carelessness, I mirrored Mikado-onee-sama's stream without permission… I'm so, so sorryyyyyyy!!!"

Right off the bat, Karona dropped into a full dogeza toward the camera.

"first time viewer. as a mika-raider, i forgive her"

[@tam323]: "[500 JPY] nice dogeza"

[@tam323]: "[500 JPY] oh, so superchats actually work now!"

"I caused Onee-sama such terrible trouble…! My first SuperChat!? Wait, getting my first SuperChat mid-dogeza… um, ah, th-thank you so very much…!?"

"she's flustered lol"

[@tam323]: "[1000 JPY] her fault for having superchats enabled on an apology stream lol"

"she just never changed it from the default setting huh lol"

"And also! My archive was supposed to be private, but it got clipped anyway! What am I supposed to do about this!? It seems to have gone viral! It has like 10,000 views! And how do I turn off SuperChats for this stream!? Thank you for the SuperChat!! Tama-san!? You're an OG Karonite, aren't you!?"

"ahh. you mean that hidden archive"

"this is uncharted territory for ojou"

[Zen-RA-Man]: "[500 JPY] how to turn off superchats: first, take off your clothes"

"the hell are you saying in a superchat lol"

"Eh? I just take my clothes off?"

"why'd you pick up THAT comment lol. i guess superchats stand out huh lol"

"yeah yeah! strip!"

"wait ojou! DO NOT strip! this isn't a joke setup!!"

"it's true that getting flagged sensitive on an all-ages stream would freeze your superchats lol"

It seemed she'd picked up a troll comment. Apparently stripping was a no-go. Karona quietly pulled back her hand, which had been moving to untie her ribbon.

Sensitive equals lewd. That was not ojou-sama-like, so absolutely not allowed!

"A-anyway! This is an apology stream today!! I appreciate the SuperChats, but please stop!!"

[DD-Kurou]: "[100 JPY] got it!!"

[Joa-bou]: "[10000 JPY] OK!!"

[Mikadoudou-Rei]: "[500 JPY] do not underestimate the mika-raiders!"

"Wait wait wait!!! Hold on just a moment!!? The instant I said stop, a flood came in!? And I just saw t-t-ten thousand yen!? Is a comment of 'OK!!' really okay!?"

[Zen-RA-Man]: "[300 JPY] there's a nutrient you can only get from superchats thrown at a superchat-unlocking stream"

[Zen-RA-Man]: "[100 JPY] think of it as a celebration tip. it's a happy occasion"

"Awawawawawa!! I-I can't keep up!? Also, this is the first time my stream has ever gotten comments like this! Hie!? Now I just noticed the viewer count is over 200!? What is going on!?"

She was a streamer who had just broken 1000 subscribers. And those subscribers were the hot crowd that had come straight from her recent archive.

It was only natural for viewers to cluster in the triple digits. Karona's comment-processing bandwidth couldn't keep up with the scrolling flood.

"A-at this rate, I'm going to need an 'I can't keep up with comments' apology stream too…"

"ojou, apparently if you buy an AI secretary it'll sort all that stuff out for you. including superchat permissions and privacy settings"

"that's already several days of ojou's food budget right there lol"

[Kusashige Renga]: "[100 JPY] heard there was an apology, came running!"

"Hogebaaaaa… m-my head, my head is spinniiiing!?"

Incidentally, on traditional streaming sites, the streamer's cut from SuperChats was said to be roughly 50%. Half of it went to the platform.

However. On BCD—the streamer's return rate was a staggering 90%-plus!

Since BCD was primarily a national dungeon-countermeasure system, it already had a "Dungeon Disaster Countermeasures" budget on the national books. In other words, it was operated with tax money, so there wasn't much need to turn a profit on SuperChats. (And BCD SuperChats could even be filed as "donations" like furusato nouzei, functioning as a tax write-off.)

… Also, since the platform made its money on the Player-Dungeon-Master exchange side, the SuperChat return rate could be kept sky-high.

Therefore. The amounts displayed as SuperChats right now became, almost in their entirety, Karona's—the person inside her, Saya's—income!!

For Karona, who was usually wailing about being broke with things like "A single bag of bean sprouts is one meal～!", this scene of SuperChats pouring in was nothing less than a golden rain of money showering down from the sky.

No wonder her emotions glitched out and she started making weird noises.

Amid all that, while frantically apologizing and thanking everyone, Karona managed to spot one particular comment.

[@tam323]: "[100 JPY] ojou. so, about the sushi?"

"Sushi? Oh sushi… Ha! That's right!!"

For a while now, Karona had been saying things on stream like, "When SuperChats get unlocked, I'm celebrating by buying sushi! … The half-off-sticker kind!"

"The timing is perfect, too. This is exactly when the half-off stickers start going on… I'll close the stream for a moment, dash to the store, and buy some sushiiiii!!"

[@tam323]: "[100 JPY] sushi fund"

[@tam323]: "[300 JPY] sushi fund"

[@tam323]: "[500 JPY] sushi fund"

[@tam323]: "[1000 JPY] sushi fund"

[@tam323]: "[5000 JPY] sushi fund"

[@tam323]: "[10000 JPY] sushi fund"

"A rainbow sushi-fund SuperChaaaaat!!!??? Th-thank youuuuu so very muuuuuuch!!!"

Still thanking her viewers, Karona closed the stream, jumped on her bicycle, and took off toward the supermarket in pursuit of half-off sushi.