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Nico slammed the controller down, triumphant.
“Hell yeah! Okay, that was it gamers, join me on my next stream of Nico ‘Nnihilates Newbs. If you have suggestions for collabs, let me know!”
A stream of suggestions, mostly “more Parad” and “your brother that comes into frame”, but one caught her attention.
“Mii-tan?”
YES WHAT A GREAT IDEA
OH MY GOD HOW’D I NEVER THINK OF THAT
GIRL POWER GIRL POWER GIRL POWER
“Wait, who’s Mii-tan?”
YOU NEVER HEARD OF HER???
COLLAB COLLAB COLLAB
GUYS DOES MII-TAN EVEN GAME??
WHO CARES COLLAB OF THE CENTURY NO MATTER WHAT
“You guys aren’t helpful!”
[link to a channel] HERE NICO
“Someone is helpful, thank you! Okay, bye, you’ll know if the collab is with her or not by tuning in next time! Byyyyyyyyyyyyyyyye!”
Nico ended the stream, spinning in her chair and blowing air out of puffed cheeks.
“Mii-tan, they said? Oh nice, she’s streaming, let’s take a look.” She clicked on the currently streaming thumbnail.
“And with a little bit of eyeliner, he is transformed! But not as a hero, because that’s not his day job.”
Mii-tan was putting makeup on a guy a little younger than Taiga and a little older than Emu, if Nico had to guess. One eye was done in red, the other blue, kind of like Parad.
“Misora, what do I get out of this?” The guy sounded perplexed, but preened in front of a mirror.
“Banjou falling down because you’re hot?”
“That musclehead falls over anyway. I want free coffee from the cafe.”
“Why are you bringing this up now , Sento?”
“So that I have witnesses. I am a genius, after all.”
“Fine, fine, you get one free coffee and a free pastry. Now shut up, let me put on the lipstick.”
The guy smiled and did as asked.
“Aaaaaaaaaand that’s it! Everyone thank Sento for appearing today!”
The chat dutifully did, with a lot of fire emojis and bunnies, for some reason. Nico assumed it was an inside joke on the channel, like a tiger was Taiga.
“Okay everyone, remember that you’re supposed to come up with someone for me to collab with for a future collab!”
“Not Kazu--” Sento’s teasing voice shut up quickly when Mii-tan suddenly shoved a…make-up thing in front of Sento’s nose.
Nico decided she liked this Mii-tan and sent a message of “me?” into the chat.
WAIT NICO IS HERE??
NICO OF NNIHALATES NEWBS??
LEARN TO SPELL
SHUT UP THIS IS THE BEST THING I’VE HEARD IF THEY COLLAB
“Nico?”
GAMER GIRL
NICO HI I WOULD HAVE WATCHED YOU TODAY BUT MII-TAN WAS ALSO STREAMING SORRY ;-; PLS COLLAB
“Looks like we share some fans, Nico! I’m okay with this, since the fans seem to want it. Send me a message! I’ll see you all next time!”
Mii-tan ended the stream, Sento waving in the background. Nico sat for a second, then sent Mii-tan a message.
hey what kind of collab would you want to do? Cause i think we do different things like i’m a gamer so if there’s any games you’d want to do we could do that
Oh, that could work for your channel. But for mine, you’d probably need to come over, so if you want to meet up somewhere before we collab, we could work something out?
Nico considered it before shrugging. Mii-tan was her age if she had to guess and if worst came to worst, she could call Taiga.
Sure, where?
They made a plan to meet up a few days later at a mall that seemed to be fairly close to both of them, which was convenient, before they both logged out.
“Well, let’s see more of Mii-tan’s stuff, shall we?”
Three hours later, Taiga was dragging her out of her gamer chair to eat some pizza he had brought for dinner.
Nico arrived at the mall, sitting on a bench near the store they had agreed to meet in front of, looking around for Mii-tan.
“Nico, is that you?” A voice asked. Nico turned around and found Mii-tan, her outfit quite different than what she wore on her channel and her voice a little more shy than Nico expected.
“Yeah, that’s me, Genius Gamer N,” Nico said, doing her signature hand sign.
“I’m Misora, please don’t call me Mii-tan out here.”
“Sure, no problem. So, any ideas for our collabs? Cause I wasn’t sure what kind of games you’d want to do.”
“I don’t really game a lot, so anything that isn’t too hard.”
“Got it. But what about your channel?”
Misora frowned. “I’m not sure. I do a lot of upbeat things because that’s what I’m used to doing. We could give each other makeovers, or teach them how to cook something? I’ve done a few of those with cafe recipes.”
Nico considered it, then snorted. “I can cook, but most of my recipes involve instant ramen. Also, cafe?”
“My dad runs Cafe Nascita.”
“Wait, Nascita?? Emu goes there.”
“Emu…as in Ex-Aid??”
“Yeah! Wait…are you a Kamen Rider??”
Misora shook her head. “It’s a long story. But Sento, the one you saw on stream, he’s Build.”
“Ohhhhhhhh okay.”
The two of them were quiet for a bit, considering the other.
“Insane, huh?” Nico offered. “Must be something in the water.”
Misora nodded. “So, cooking, then? My dad won’t mind us using the cafe kitchen. Unless you can think of something else.”
“I think that’ll work for a collab, yeah. When do you want to do it?”
“Mmm…in three days? Would that work for you?”
“It should, I’ll contact you if it doesn’t. We should exchange a more convenient SNS though.”
They did that before grabbing lunch, talking about various adventures they had both before and after they met their respective Kamen Riders. Nico found Misora to be surprisingly funny and looked forward to their collabs.
“So you just add the egg and make sure it cooks all the way through,” Nico said, stirring the concoction of egg, crushed ramen, and rice in the frying pan.
“Do you add anything to it?” Misora asked from behind the camera.
“I usually add hot sauce, while Taiga adds soy sauce. You could add meat or anything, I’m just lazy,” Nico explained.
“I should introduce this to Banjou, he loves ramen, but he’d add protein.”
Nico made a face as she plated it. “I guess. Also if you wished, you could plate this nicely, but since I’m a gamer, I don’t. Here, give me the camera, I’ll film Mii-tan here trying it.”
Misora handed her the camera, holding up the food to the camera. “It smells good! Itadakimasu!”
She tried a bite, grinning. “It’s good! Simple and good!”
Nico let out a sigh of relief.
“Okay gamers--wait. Okay, everyone , in a few days Mii-tan will be on my channel, we’ll be playing…drum roll please!”
Misora obliged by doing a drum roll with her chopsticks, making Nico laugh. “Mario Party! Look forward to it! Bye!”
The two of them waved before Misora switched the camera off. “This is really good, by the way,” she said, covering her mouth as she talked around a bite of it.
Nico shrugged. “I’m just glad I didn’t mess up your stream. Usually I’m just gaming, so this was kinda stressful.”
“ This was more stressful than gaming?”
“Hey, gaming and being a personality are two different things!”
“You girls done in my kitchen?” Misora’s dad asked, although he was smiling. Nico liked him, especially when he tossed the two of them muffins and told them he had coffees waiting for them in the main part of the cafe.
“This was fun, though,” Nico said at the table where their coffees were waiting. “Ready to game?”
Misora smiled, making Nico freeze for a second. Having a Misora smile at her was…surprisingly a lot. “I think so!”
“Well, remember, I’m Genius Gamer N,” Nico teased. “I won’t go easy on you just cause you don’t game!”
Misora laughed. “I wouldn’t expect you to!”
“I got a star! I got a star!” Misora shrieked.
QUEEN
NICO YOU NEED TO START CATCHING UP
THE CHANCE GAMES ARE KICKING NICO’S BUTT SORRY NICO MII-TAN MII-TAN MII-TAN
Nico just grinned. “Hey, it’s only round 4 of 15, anything can happen! Plus, you know this map is unpredictable!”
Nico did end up losing, since it seemed to be way skewed for chance games, but it was a very fun game, and it was nice to play something much lower stakes.
“If you guys want us to collab more, let us know!” Nico said, hoping she wasn’t being out of place.
They ended up collabing more, and hanging out in general. Taiga made knowing noises at her, which meant he ended up on Misora’s channel to get a makeover. It didn’t help with the teasing, really, but it did mean she got to see Hiiro’s expression when they got back to the clinic. That had been worth it, even though she was falling for Misora.
One stream involved them going over Tokyo and acting like tourists, which had been a lot of fun. Misora brought a Polaroid camera and signed it for Nico as a little joke, except Nico didn’t want it to be a joke. But she wasn’t sure how to bring it up.
“If you don’t ask her out I will kick you out I swear to god.”
“Like you had any courage when it came to Hiiro! You have no room to talk whatsoever!”
Taiga scowled. “Still! You’re being annoying!”
“You think I don’t know that? But she’s so…aghhhhhhhh”
“Then ask her out!”
“Fine! Help me with this then, since it’s your idea!”
Taiga looked like he was contemplating running out of the room, but Nico shoved the Polaroid camera she had bought to match Misora in his hands.
“Take some good pictures of me and I’ll give it to her, okay?”
“Wow, the gamer is being old-fashioned,” he said as he looked through the viewfinder.
“Shut up!”
Three pictures later, Nico had enough to make Misora a little scrapbook page. She ordered Taiga out, making him roll his eyes, but he did as asked.
“Here,” Nico said, giving Misora the page that had probably too many stickers on it.
“Is this…a confession?” Misora asked, looking slightly confused at the paper.
“Yeah…but if you don’t like me, nothing has to change! I just wanted to let you know.”
“No, no, I like you too, streaming is so much fun with you!”
“Oh…really?”
“Really!”
“Oh, phew,” Nico said, sighing and making Misora giggle.
“Well…shall we get started on our next stream, then?”
“Yeah!”