I Wanted to Try It

The day after the AI Secretaries went on sale.

"Kon-Karona～! The aspiring-Ojou-sama B-Caster, Karona Ryutanji, desuwa～!"

Stream kicked off as usual. And unlike every time before, a butler and a cat-eared maid were now standing politely at her back.

"Today I'm planning to do some dungeon exploration～. Sebas. Today's recommended dungeons, if you would."

"Yes, Ojou-sama. May I suggest one of these?"

The AI butler, Sebastian, presented two dungeons calculated from Karona's past clear history.

One of them was a dungeon Karona should be able to clear without much difficulty. The other was one with slightly challenging difficulty.

Karona thought about it for roughly five seconds before settling on the easier one.

"Well then, since today's just a trial run, let's go with this easier one. Kokuyou."

"Yes. Here you are."

Called by name, Kokuyou's tail twitched as she presented Karona with her main weapon, the Mithril parasol. Karona took it in hand, then strode gracefully toward the dungeon…

"… is the kind of dungeon run!! I've always wanted to do～!!!"

The instant she crossed the dungeon's threshold, Karona could no longer hold it in and started squirming in pure delight.

"ah, there's our ojou lol"

"she was so elegant up until now! give her back! give our Ojou-sama back! lol"

"well done for holding out this long! moved to tears!! lolol"

"Haa, haa… so, so elegant… the best…"

Smothering her excitement, she whacked a slime with her parasol. Since this was one of Sebas's recommended low-difficulty dungeons, it looked like she could clear it even with one hand clamped over her grin.

"today i've seen a bunch of other streamers squealing over their maids the same way. a night's sleep later and it's hitting all over again"

"i want to be waited on by a maid too… maybe i should start BCD"

"i have zero confidence in my ability to not make a move on a hot butler, what do i do…"

"Ah, by the way, sexual harassment of your AI Secretary is strictly forbidden. If you treat them inappropriately, BCD management will repossess your Secretary. If the content is bad enough, you won't even be allowed to buy another one."

"i saw some people lamenting on SNS about their lewd-maid reports getting them yanked already"

"sounds like you should treat them the same as a normal employee"

"wait, really? is Kokuyou-san gonna be okay?"

"As for Kokuyou… let's just say she's a thrilling one, in various senses of the word～!"

Apparently "Love me!" had slipped through the voice input at some point, so Kokuyou had shipped with the "in love with Karona" setting baked in. As long as that love stayed in affection-and-friendship territory they'd be fine, but if it escalated to romance or physical love, that was probably going to be a problem.

"that reminds me, ojou, did you actually log out properly yesterday? apparently some people got so into it they forgot about reality and collapsed"

"like, making out with their maid to the point of wetting themselves"

"did you take a bath?"

"Reality? … Whatever could you be referring to?"

"this is the 'pees herself in the bathroom' type right here"

"ojou, if you don't drink water you die!?"

"I-I kid, I kid～! I logged out properly afterwards yesterday! I came back on later, sure, but before this stream I had a little bit of sliced bread and used the bathroom too～!?"

"phew. that's a relief… so what about sleep and the bath?"

"oh…? i'm starting to pick up a fragrant aroma from ojou…"

"well, they say in medieval europe people didn't bathe and just covered it up with perfume"

"I took a shower～! And afterward, Kokuyou dried my hair with a hair dryer, and…"

"nope, doubt"

"ojou, it's sad to say, but drying your hair in VR doesn't actually dry your real hair"

[Kokuyou]: "Ojou-sama, chatting is lovely, but please focus on clearing the dungeon. A slime is approaching."

"Oh dear! Kokuyou, thank you～! Dossei～!!"

[@tam323]: "[100 JPY] saturn to the rescue"

"saturn to the rescue"

"saturn to the rescue"

With Kokuyou's advice in the comments, she noticed the slime closing in and batted its core away with her parasol.

"Hya! Tama-nii-san, thank you as always for the SuperChat Potion～! I'll tuck it away in my stockpile～!… By the way, you've been sending SuperChats so often. Do you actually read my replies back?"

She thanked the longtime regular for the Saturn SuperChat along the way, then got back to clearing the dungeon.

She cleared it safely, walking away with a net profit of +1,500 yen.