Checking the Statement.

She checked the statement.

Looking it over, she found the total transfer amount written in larger type.

That total: 320,000 yen.

"…!?"

In terms of Karona's living expenses, that was about half a year's worth. She could splurge a little, or put it toward equipment.

If she wanted, she could even buy another AI Secretary. An apprentice-butler shota type, perhaps. Or an apprentice-maid loli type, perhaps perhaps.

My, my! A pet! A pet would be wonderful too! Stroking a cat upon one's lap… why, that has the most splendid air of nobility about it!

Ah, but if she said that out loud, Kokuyou would probably come pressing in with her cat ears twitching, saying, "You may pet me, you know? I'm a cat too, after all."

"Ojou-sama?"

"Hah! … Eh, ah, Kokuyou. About this amount…!?"

"Yes. Recent ad revenue, income from clip videos, and so on. The details are as written on the statement."

"… Ooh. Oooh～ for real!?"

First, the dungeon-clear prize money and SuperChat amounts from Karona's own streams. After subtracting the compensation for damage sustained during clears, it came to roughly 50,000 yen.

Next, and more than she'd expected, the ad revenue from stream archives and videos came to roughly 70,000 yen.

This was just Kokuyou's speculation, but it seemed that ever since Karona had joined Hoshizora Production, Hoshizora's fans had all gone and watched the past clip videos Kokuyou had created and uploaded.

And then the salary transfer for Karona's debut stream on the corporate channel came to about 180,000 yen.

That was Karona's share, SuperChats included.

"… My, is this amount truly correct～? It's more than double the dungeon-clear prize money. Corporate channels are not to be trifled with, are they～?"

"Since it was a debut, celebratory SuperChats were flying, after all. In fact, it seems they allocated a little more than the contract specified this time around."

"Whoa～!"

So the subscriber count of a corporate channel really wasn't just for show.

And Karona's own subscriber count was steadily climbing, feeding off those scraps.

"No, the truly incredible ones are Akari-senpai and the others, who built Hoshi-Pro up to this point."

"Indeed. Let us ride their coattails to our heart's content!"

"Kokuyou, that's a poor way of putting it."

"An improvement in Ojou-sama's real-life eating habits is also on the horizon."

Apparently she had no intention of retracting that.

"Still, the clips add up to quite a sum too. Kokuyou, you're earning back your own cost all by yourself, you know?"

"I am Ojou-sama's maid. Please continue to favor me."

"You'd think that as fellow AI Secretaries you two would be equal, but your clip-editing sense is better than Sebas's."

"Love. It's love."

Kokuyou looked quite proud of herself.

"Sebas picks excellent dungeons, which is why I can put on good streams. The reason I've made it this far is thanks to the two of you."

"Fufu, what a delight it is to serve a Ojou-sama worth serving."

"By the way, where's Sebas?"

"He'll come if called, but since you've only just stepped out of the bath, Ojou-sama, he's holding back."

"I see. What a gentleman!"

Respecting that spirit, Karona decided to save her praise for Sebas for another day.

Incidentally, even though it was the middle of the night, she ate cake to celebrate. In VR, whether it's cake or karaage at midnight, whatever you eat is zero calories. Not guilty, as they say.

 

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