The Sad Fate of the Ojou-sama Who Narrowly Lost.

"Aaaaaaaaah!!! I was this close!!!"

"Fufu, that was a close one, Ojou-sama."

Kokuyou was in such a good mood you could practically hear a cheery little jingle trailing behind her. Her face was the face of someone busy considering exactly what kind of reward to extract from Karona, who had lost at Bomber-Man when one more win would have clinched the match.

"s-savage"

"too good at kicking bombs. nailed the timing perfectly with the explosion, hey"

"the way she uses the animals is crazy too. she was courtesy-self-destructing, but if you let her use pink i bet she dodges the blast clean"

Ride a pink animal, and you can sacrifice it to gain 1 extra life, plus you can jump to escape a bomb's blast. With the right timing, you can even leap clean over a blast coming head-on, unscathed.

(Separately, green animals let you dash, blue animals let you kick bombs away, and so on, each color with its own ability.)

"… O-One more time! Next round I'll win for sure!!"

"Oh my, Ojou-sama. If I won against Ojou-sama, the reward was 'anything I want,' was it not?"

"D-Did I say something like that?"

"You did. Karonite-samas?"

"yep! she said it!"

"you said it ojou"

"sore loser"

"wait, she really did say that lol"

"whoa kokuyou-san way too strong"

Karona tried to wriggle free by playing dumb, but the Karonites in the comments were the enemy. Or rather, perhaps it was precisely because they were her allies that they couldn't let such foul play slide.

"I know, I know～! Ugh. What is it you want me to do? If it's too risqué and I'd get BAN'd, or anything money-related, please spare me, would you?"

"Risqué-and-BAN'd would be off-stream, then. In that case… Ojou-sama, here you are."

With that, Kokuyou handed something to Karona. — It was a cat-ear headband.

"… Kokuyou, where did you get hold of such a thing?"

"Handmade!"

"O-Oh."

"AI maids can sew too huh"

"where'd the materials come from? drop items?"

"huh? item crafting… so, blacksmith skill?"

"Ah, there aren't any special effects or anything, it's purely decorative! A cat-ear headband and tail I made from Ojou-sama's shed hair!"

"Wait? Did you just say my shed hair?"

"I didn't have any other means of obtaining materials…"

"[1000 JPY] please, use this to buy supplies…"

"also, do avatars even shed hair?"

"avatar shed hair… umm, isn't that just Debris?"

"putting that aside, the fact that kokuyou-san has been collecting ojou's shed hair…"

"And there's a tail too."

"A matching set, a matching set."

"Well, I suppose this much is acceptable… How does it look?"

Without so much as a hesitation, Karona set the cat-ear headband on her head.

The tail was the type that clipped snugly at the waist, worn over the dress. That sort of thing was an accessory unique to VR avatars.

"nyanko!"

"ojou, it suits you!"

"new equipment! Yoshi!"

"It suits you, Ojou-sama…!"

"Kokuyou, your nose is bleeding."

"Ojou-sama putting on an accessory I made myself, doesn't that basically mean, um, ah, I'll refrain from going further, I might get stream-BAN'd."

"Wait!? What exactly were you about to say… actually, don't say it!?"

"kokuyoue…"

"yeah, uh-huh. (general gist: understood)"

"se… no, I'll stop. my own arbitrary imagination is [comment deleted]"

"Furthermore, I'd like to complete the set by having you strike a pose…"

"H-Hold on a moment, Kokuyou! If you want me to strike a pose… I'll strike one pose per match won! And if I win, you'll have to grant a request of mine in return, Kokuyou!!"

"That's nothing but reward on my end. Understood, I accept the challenge."

And so Karona and Kokuyou fired up the versus mode of Bomber-Man 3 once more.

"i can already see the all-losses future…"

"she'll throw at least one to get the 'ojou's request' reward though, won't she?"

"either way, it's all in kokuyou-neesan's palm…!"

"That's not true at all, everyone! Look, one win for me right off the bat! I'll ride this momentum and take the match～!"

"Splendid, Ojou-sama. I shan't lose either… you see?"

Kokuyou held her controller with a damp, oily grin spreading across her face.

It was, of course, a win she'd engineered on purpose to let Karona get cocky.

"Yes, yes, lean in a little more! Arms closer together! Yes, wonderful, magnificent, I love you, Ojou-sama-!!"

"Ho-ho-ho, Ojou-sama and Kokuyou both seem to be having a fine time."

"D-Don't look, Sebas…!"

And so Karona suffered fifteen straight losses, and Kokuyou took screenshot after screenshot to her heart's content.

The thumbnail was later swapped out for one of the shots taken during this stretch, so the archive of this game stream quietly racked up a decent view count, apparently.