Ch 6 - The First Day Pt. 3

"...Okay. Time to set up the microphone and shit."

I did so, and got everything. My launchpad, my mic, the wires, the pop filter, and a couple other stuff that should be on my desk.

I already put the launchpad, the microphone, and everything that isn't about the wires to their respective places. Had to do the essentials first.

Once that was done, I finally got the wires. I connected the PC to an outlet, connected the monitor to the PC, made sure everything was plugged, and even my launchpad. Then came the final part...

"Well, since I don't actually use Ethernet cables, I use a dongle…"

'...I'm unsure, actually. Let's ask Kira if they still use Ethernet cables.'

I went in front of Kira's room, and said "Kira? You free?". He opened the door and I saw him panting a bit while sweating.

"Woah. You setting up everything in your room?"

"Yup! Why'd you come here though...?"

"I-I was wondering if...you know...do you use Ethernet cables here? Or do you use dongles like this?" I asked as I held out my wireless USB WiFi adapter.

"Oh, we use dongles like that. Don't worry though, in case you think the internet might be poop. It's actually very fast."

'I suspected as much. There's no way they all had to manually connect to one wifi router. And if he claims that it's fast, then...the wifi really is that fast. Don't know if they used WiFi repeaters, but eh. I ain't complaining, seeing that Kira is a senpai and has worked here longer than I have.'

"Um...by the way. Need help? You look like you just came back from a 1 hour HIIT exercise."

"Ah, no! Don't mind me! Just carry on with your setup. Really. I may have a weak constitution, but this is nothing unusual for me. Bye, and take care, Shiro!" Kira said before closing the door.

"Ah-...okay...?" I blinked twice.

'Well, if he says so...I hope he'll be fine though.' I thought.

I went back into my room, and I plugged the wireless WiFi adapter to the back of my PC.

"Alright...everything is set up. My MIDI Keyboard is nearby, my launchpad near my keyboard…"

Finally, we all know that a computer is useless if you can't even comfortably use it. It's time to assemble my chair!

I got the box that contained my Secretlab gaming chair, and I put the pieces together. Just as I recalled when I searched how to assemble and disassemble a chair.

When I finally set up everything, and I mean EVERYTHING, including the acoustic panels, clothes, food, and all my equipment, I sat down on my chair and sighed.

"Finally, everything is done…"

A good 30+ minutes spent on setting everything up. It does feel rewarding.

"Now comes the big part…"

I pressed the power button with my middle finger, and a blue light can be seen emitting from the PC.

I saw the monitor light up and it slowly turned on.

"Phew...that's good…"

Money well spent on a 400,000+ yen PC.

Continuing on, I checked everything in the desktop. My background is just pure black. I would put my Hololive waifus in here, but...I prefer not to, because I like it plain and simple.

"Oh crap. I forgot to put my glasses on."

I have good vision, but I meant my anti-rad glasses. Despite how much I physically trained back then, one of the skills I had to learn was hacking, and it would take me a lot of hours in front of the computer. I had to get anti-rad glasses later on since I noticed my eyes would strain a lot. Of course, I could try to stay 2 feet away from the screen, but I have a habit sometimes where I get close to the screen without realizing it.

I checked the games, then my notepads for songs, and especially my uh...EHEM...."yabai" videos that totally doesn't consist of big asses, big boobs, and recently, Hololive stuff....

I turned the PC off, and breathed out from my mouth as I took my glasses off and put it on my desk.

"...Haha! Everything is gucci!"

Time to take a shower, and uh...well, I could go and start making the instrumentals and BGMs, but I did recall that Shinove wanted me to meet him later, so I guess I'll do that first, and then I can start working on the music.

I took my shirt off, and just before I really took it off my arms, I realized something.

"Oh yeah...my laundry."

I looked at the thing near my door to the right where it had a metal plate curving downwards and into the wall with some sort of handle on top. Thinking back to the metal plate outside, maybe this is where the laundry is located?

I went and checked it as I walked across the room shirtless, and I opened it.

"...Ah, it really is the place where I put my laundry."

When I opened the plate, it really said "Laundry" on it. I put my sweaty mask, shirt, and other clothes that needed washing inside it. I didn't put my uniform inside it though cause I wondered if I still needed to wash the uniform. I'll ask Shinove later if I need to do it. That, or my fellow Holostar members.

I went inside the shower, and I saw there was already prepared soap, shampoo, and other stuff that you need when taking a shower.

"Man, this is hella prepared." I chuckled.

I turned the shower on, and the warm water touched my body.

"Aah....that's refreshing." I said.

I rubbed the soap all over my body, thinking about Calli's song, and also just freestyled a couple lyrics. This version of freestyling though wasn't the "keep the flow going" freestyle. Just random things I thought in my head and just blurted it out.

"Hmm...Don't mean nada to the king of sayonara. Scythe, and other knives gon' stab you in the night. Hold tight, my blade will send you right to the hell of flames....everyday, these fuckers say they innocent. Well, you're maimed!...nah. I think that scythe line might be good though…"

Whatever, I'll put that on hold. For now...what would my BGM be?

"Hmm hm hm hm hm hm hm...hmhmhm hm hmhm…" I hummed Rushia's BGM.

"...OH! I got an idea!"

The guitar of Rushia's BGM "2:23 AM" sounds similar to the chord progression of those "God's Plan" covers in Youtube. I could sample Kid Travis's cover of "God's Plan" and use that in my BGM.

'Welp, I got that down...what shall be my loading BGM then?'

Risu's BGM is a constant clapping BGM with cute Risu noises, Moona's was similar and had her saying something like "Moona, Moona". Pekora's opening BGM is something like "Ninjin!" repeating over and over again...

"Dun...dun...dun...dun. Dun. Dun…" I blurted as I thought of the following scenery:

Soldiers running forward, shouting "HEY! THE GENERAL, ISHIJIN SHIRO, IS COMING!" as I march towards a whole army by myself, no soldiers to back me up, with just a pistol in each hand as I cross my arms in an X and looked at the opposing force. It was 1 vs 200 men.

"...Hmm, that idea is nice. I'll think about it more after I'm done talking business with Shinove. For now…"

I smiled.

"Talking like you on my level. Yeah, motherfuckin' right! Every view is worth a nickel. I be set for fucking life. Fuck your motherfucking budget, all I need's an Iphone 5. Rhyme for 20,000 people everytime that I go live!" I rapped Harry Mack's "Next Gear" song.

I wanted to take a step back and relax as I just put all my ideas at the back of my head until I get another spark of motivation.

I kept rapping the song as I finished showering, and even after I wiped my hair and whole body with my towel, I still rapped the whole song. However, I did start mumbling as I went and got a dri-fit boxer short. Before I knew it, I stopped rapping the song and put on blue pants.

"Alright...!"

I put on a red shirt, and I combed my hair.

"And there we go...!" I said as I put the comb back into a drawer and got a fresh black mask. And yes, I have a lot of black masks. Why not something else, you ask? Well, 'cause I like it.

I grabbed my phone, and finally went out of my room.

"Jesus Christ, it's hotter than Mel's tits right now." I said to myself as I faced at my door when I closed it.

'Good thing Mel wasn't around when I said that, otherwise I would be in huge trouble.' I sweat dropped.

"Welp, time to go to Shinove." I said to myself as I got out of the building and squinted my eyes from the sunlight.

"Jesus. Fuck Mel's tits, the sun's hotter than her vagina. Jeez…" I mumbled.

I, nonetheless, walked towards the Hololive building. Making sure to use the buildings and some trees around as shade when I walked. I noticed that there were quite a lot of students around. I didn't question it though, since I was quite focused on doing what I needed to do for my work. However, despite me trying to not let it get to my head, a lot of eyes stared through my soul...dammit.

I finally got inside the Hololive building, and when the AC of the 1st floor hit me like a tidal wave, I sighed big relief.

"Ah...this is the shit." I said as the doors behind me closed while I was facing upwards with my eyes closed.

After a few seconds of staying in the same spot, I went towards the elevator and pressed the down button. I waited for the elevator, and when it finally opened, I saw Nene, Rushia, Miyabi, and Miko.

"Oh?"

"Ah, hey, Shiro-kun! (Shiro-kun...!) (H-Hey…)" Miyabi, Nene, and Rushia said, respectively. Miko just looked away and blinked twice. I can see why. She's scratching her own hand a bit too eccentric-like.

"Ey." I said bluntly.

"Are you here to talk with Shinove-san?" Miyabi asked as he went out of the elevator, along with the other girls.

"Yup. Gotta talk about some stuff about my debut." I said as I put my hands in my pocket.

The girls went past us, but especially Miko who walked just a bit too fast. I glanced at them for a split-second.

"Matte, Miko-senpai!" Nene said as she walked a bit faster to match Miko's pace. Rushia also hastened her pace to match theirs. I quickly looked back at Miyabi.

"What did you come here for? Birthday?" I asked him.

"Yup! It's my birthday the day after tomorrow."

"Sweet! Have a nice birthday soon, man!" I said as I put my fist out, waiting if he's in for a fist bump.

"Yup!" He said, putting his fist out too and fist-bumping my fist.

"See you later!" Miyabi said as he put his hand out.

I nodded, and looked back at the elevator as me and Miyabi finally parted ways.

I went inside the elevator and pressed the button to go up to the floor where Shinove's office was located at.

When I finally got in front of Shinove's office, I said "Shinove-san? It's Ishijin Shiro. Can I come in?"

"...Please come in, Shiro-san." I heard through the door.

I opened the door, and I was hit with more quietness, and an AC running in his office. I closed the door behind me, and I heard more silence. Shinove was currently on his laptop, doing what he's doing, and I went to the chair in front of his desk. When I finally sat down, he stopped typing a few seconds after, and put his laptop aside.

"So...continuing on. We left off at your 1st week's stream schedule."

"Ah, yeah. 5 days, starting from my debut."

"That'd be 6 days in total. Are you sure you wanna do 6 days of non-stop streaming?"

"Yup. The 7th day can then just be a break, and on the 8th day, I could do some gaming or something. Depends if I happen to reach a milestone."

"Hmm...sou ka...well then. Let's arrange your streams, shall we?" He said as he got his moveable standing whiteboard and got a blue marker.

I nodded.

I told him how I want my streams to be. This is how we arranged it:

03/07 - Freestyle Rap Practice (Setup, Punchline in ENG) 4 PM PST / 8 AM JST

- Freestyle Rap Practice (Setup, Punchline in JAP) 12 AM PST / 4 PM JST

03/08 - Freestyle Rap Practice (Rhyming Exercises in ENG) 5 PM PST / 9 AM JST

- Freestyle Rap Practice (Rhyming Exercises in JAP) 1 AM PST / 5 PM JST

03/09 - Freestyle Rap Practice (Flows in ENG/JAP) 9 PM PST / 1 PM JST

03/10 - Freestyle Rap Practice (Word Association in ENG/JAP) 4 AM PST / 8 PM JST

03/11 - Freestyle Rap Practice (Recovery Techniques in ENG/JAP) 7 AM PST / 11 PM JST

03/12 - Break

"Hmm...perfect." I said.

"Well, seems fine to me too, so...how about we talk about your likes and all that? Let's prepare all the slides you shall have for your debut." Shinove asked.

"Hai."

Me and him started discussing likes, dislikes, my goals, what streams and videos I might do, and some other additional stuff.

"Well, now that your streams are done, and your debut planning is done...all we really need now is to promote yourself and...you can start activities. Only social media activities though. Let's just be clear. You still have to debut on Saturday before you can finally start streaming activities." Shinove explained.

"Yeah, yeah...so...do I get my Twitter account now?"

"Well...in a bit. We still gotta upload your promotion video. Once that's done, THEN you can finally go on twitter and do your business."

"I see, I see... will I also become a moderator in Reddit?"

"Hmm? Well...I gotta talk with Yagoo for that. I think we'd have to file permission for that or have a meeting with Yagoo for that, but I'll keep your suggestion in mind. Don't worry, I'll try my best to make that happen, if you wish." He said, grabbing a notepad from his table, and jotting down something.

"Well, I wish you good luck when that finally happens." I giggled.

"Well then. Do you wanna check the promotion video now? I have it in my laptop right now. Wanna watch it together and see the whole video from start to end?"

I nodded.

"Please do." I said.

"Well then…" He said as he grabbed his mouse, did a few clicks, and turned the laptop around as he put the wire of the mouse up and over it. He got another chair, and put it near me.

"This is what the final product looks like…" He said as he hit the spacebar, and the video started playing.

~A/N: For those of you who are between conversationally fluent and very fluent in Japanese, you'll be surprised as to what kanjis I used for Shiro's last name, so forgive me if you think it's kuso japanese. Basically, the kanjis are "stone" and "person"~

…

The background was all dark, and there was some smoke. The following texts that would appear would be colored in white.

"Surprise, surprise! Holostars has a new member!"

"...But he's not a 4th gen though." There was a funny noise that came out, similar to a ding.

The background suddenly lit up to all white as the smoke was pure black and music started playing. Really epic music, like something you'd expect out of a game that had an epic orchestra.

"Introducing…"

"'Virtual-Rapping At Peak Performance'..."

The camera first landed around my right shin, then transitioned to my hands that're inside my hoodie's pocket, then finally, the right half of my face showed my white hair, right eye, and half of my black mask.

Then finally...it showed my whole body, but only a black silhouette. The music during the transitions, even currently, were on-point...then the camera zoomed in slowly like those effects that give a good "BANG" transition. The music even did a reverse "swoosh" sound to add up for the suspense.

The screen was all black again, then some text popped up, saying: "Holostars' Vrapper."

The music then hit like a damn tsunami when it finally showed my face. I was put to the left side of the screen, showing me from my hair up to about my shoulders. Then came the text on the right side of the screen.

Starting with the text on the bottom-right. It read:

"Ishijin Shiro. Height: 177 cm. Birthday: December 22. Age: 20. Occupation: Retired."

Then came the text on the top-right. It read:

"An ex-general who was enlisted in the army at a young age, finally retired at the age of 20, and is now living life as one with society. He saw the streams of Hololive, and it inspired him to join, hoping that he's able to move people's hearts with his music."

After that, the screen showed my whole body for one second. It showed my whole body in its default pose, the one where I stood with my hands inside my hoodie's pocket. Then the screen turned black for a split-second, before going back to me, but my pose changed. Not only that, but there was a cocking sound before the screen flashed back to me.

It was me, crossing my arms into an X as I held two guns, which I was glad to catch for a split-second that it was 2 Five-sevens.

The screen froze as the screen caught two shots that were shot consecutively. Then multiple shots were fired at the screen until the whole screen broke like shards of glass, then a black background can be seen with white text.

"V-R.A.P.P."

...

"Oh...my...fucking....God...." I blinked twice while my jaw dropped.

"From 1-10, how would you-"

"A straight hundred."

Shinove chuckled from my response, and I laughed.

"It's hella amazing!"

"I'm glad you liked it."

"It even had the title of my group that I requested would be the name of it at the ending segment of the video. V-R.A.P.P.!"

"Well? Are you ready to upload this on Youtube?"

"Hell yeah, I'm ready!"

"Alright....let's please switch seats, and I shall start uploading...oh, and don't go yet. I still gotta fill you in on your Youtube and Twitter account."

"Yuppo."

Shinove went to Youtube, did a little something-something on the official Holostars channel and then the PV started uploading.

"Oh, man..I can't wait!" I clapped my hands together and rubbed it.

"That'll upload on its own. Right now, let's go to your Youtube account now, shall we?" He asked.

I nodded.

"So...I have an open tab here, and I just need to click this button, and we're good to go!" He said as he clicked the button.

I widened my eyes a bit.

"Finally...my account is available on Youtube...!" I smiled widely.

"And last but not least...your Twitter account." He said as he went to another tab and went on Twitter.

"Oh? It was already made?" I asked.

"Yes. I just made it private. I just need to go to the settings...privacy...and boom! It's public now!"

I clapped my hands.

"Yo, is there more? Or can I finally get straight into activities?"

"Nope. I'm sure everything is now laid out on the table, and you can start using your Twitter and Youtube account now."

"Yes! Mind if I get the email address and password for each account though?"

"Of course. I shall send it through Discord. You can go back to the Holohouse now." He chuckled.

'YES!' I thought as I clapped my hands.

"Thank you so much, Shinove-san!" I said as I bowed a bit.

"No problem."

I stood up.

"Make sure to send it through Discord, okay? I got a lot of ideas, man!" I said as I ran towards the door.

"Don't run in the hallways, okay?" Shinove said.

"Yeah yeah-oh wait, by the way, about my uniform, can I put it in the laundry now?"

"Yes, you may. It's just for disguising purposes anyway, so feel free to put it in your laundry."

"Okay!" I said as I closed the door and finally went out of his office, and inhaled through my teeth and stretched my arms.

"Damn...! What shall be my first tweet when I get my hands on that account...?"

'....Oh hell yeah.' I thought to myself as I finally got the idea.

"Welp, Yagoo. Forgive me, but uh...yeah. You can't stop me. I HAS POWER!" I said the last line in a weird accent.

I jogged towards the elevator, even though Shinove told me not to run in the hallways, and went to the 1st floor. When I did, I jogged out of the 1st floor, then walked when I got near the automatic sliding door, and when I finally got outside, I ran like Usain Bolt towards the Holohouse.

And just like when I went from the Holohouse to here, there were a lot of students around, and a lot of eyes looked at me....which felt funny. I can just imagine what they're thinking in their minds when they see me.

I finally got inside the Holohouse, and I saw a couple girls near the dining table and on the couches. Only one couch and a couple of seats were occupied by the Holostars.

"Oh? Hey, Shiro-kun!" Roberu said.

"Ey!" I said as I jumped a bit out of excitement.

"What's up? You look rather excited?" Kira asked.

"Yo, you checked the official Holostars channel?" I asked the Holostars.

"Hmm? What happened?" I heard Subaru to my left.

"My PV just got announced, and my accounts have been made!"

"Eh?! Wait, lemme check my phone…-OH MY GOD! IT REALLY IS MADE!" Subaru said.

"E-Eh? Shi-Shiro, your account is made now?" I heard Kiara to my right.

"Yup!"

"Chotto, Let's go watch it together, guys! On the TV!" Roberu said as he got the remote.

The TV went to the Youtube app, and he searched for the Holostars official channel.

"...OH! There it is!" He said as he played the video, and put the remote down as he sat back down on the couch.

"Oi! Shiro-kun! Sit here!" I heard Astel say as he scooched a bit to his right.

"Quick! Let's all watch it together!" Kira said.

"Yuppo!" I said as I ran towards Astel and sat at his left on the couch.

Everybody, including the girls, saw the PV. Subaru literally stood behind me, so I did feel a bit uncomfortable, but nonetheless a bit better than if it was somebody else...imagine if it was somebody like Noel standing behind me.

When the PV finally ended, everybody made a lot of noise. I couldn't tell if it was screams or shouting, but they did cause a big ruckus.

"WHOOOO!! LET'S GOOOO!!" Roberu shouted.

"Ey! That was cool!" Kira said.

"Damn, they really put a lot of effort into the PV, didn't they...?" Miyabi said.

"Shiro-kun! Your PV is amazing! I can't wait until you debut!" Subaru said as she grabbed onto my hand, making me jump slightly, but not as much to make her notice something weird.

"Y-Yeah…" I said.

"Damn, I wonder how you're gonna do in your debut, actually. Shiro." Calli said.

"Don't disappoint us with shit Soundcloud raps, Shiro!" Kiara laughed.

'Ironically, I did rap in Soundcloud before, but it's 100x better than the rap nowadays, Kiara.' I snickered internally.

"Hmm...V-R.A.P.P., huh...?" I heard Civia behind me.

"I wonder if it's actually 'peak performance' and it's not just for show?" Risu giggled.

"Well, seeing that Shiro-kun does know how to really rap, I wonder what he's gonna do when he finally debuts...!" I heard Matsuri say.

"Ey, you still got stuff to do?" Astel asked.

"Well, I do want to tweet right now. I haven't logged in yet, but Shinove-san said that he would give the details through Discord. That, and I do have some music projects in mind that I need to do right now."

"Eh?! Do it now, man!" He said.

"Ey, good luck, Shiro-kun!" I heard Roberu say.

"Yeah, good luck, Shiro-kun! I hope your debut will go well when it finally happens!" Subaru said.

"Yup!" I said to everybody.

I looked back at everybody before going into my room and waved my hands.

'Watch me, guys. I'll try my best to make it memorable when I finally start streaming.' I grinned internally.

They all waved back at me, and talked with each other again. This time, I heard them talk about me. I haven't caught their hearts yet though. I had to do more, 'cause if I can win their hearts over, then surely, everything else will come into place.

I went inside my room, turned my computer on, and rubbed my hands.

"Alright...! Shinove-san, you better have sent that, 'cause I can't wait!"

I finally checked Discord when my desktop showed up, and I checked our DMs.

"...Oh, here it is...!" I said to myself.

I copied the details, logged out of my current Youtube and Twitter account, and I logged in with the new accounts.

"Yes...!" I said.

Time to make my first tweet!

"And...done!" I said as I pressed the "Tweet" button.

What was the tweet, you wonder? Well, first off, it's in pure English. Second:

"Holostars management: You can now use your Twitter and Youtube account!

Shiro: Finally! Time to destroy Yagoo's dream right off the fvcking bat, motherfvckers!"

And what do you know? Just a couple seconds later after I tried following every single Hololive member, and a couple more accounts like my mama and papa, I got a few notifications.

'Ah...man, I can't believe that I really am in Holostars now, and I shall start being a streamer/Vtuber from now on…I shall not disappoint them now! LET'S GET THE HYPE TRAIN GOING!'

I checked the notifications.

"Right of the fucking bat, it is. This guy is Coco's offspring lol."

"Ah...of course." I said to myself and giggled.

Then I got a couple more notifications. It was good at the start.

"WHAT?! A SURPRISE ATTACK FROM THE HOLOSTARS?! DAMN, CAN'T WAIT TO SEE WHO HE REALLY IS! (gif of rainbow Yagoo with his head spinning)"

"Yo, we got a new Holostar member? ALRIGHT! EVERYBODY, SET YOUR CALENDARS, AND GET YOUR MONSTER ENERGY DRINKS!"

"This guy is a rapper, I'm assuming, seeing that his account name consists of R.A.P.P. at the end. Nonetheless, let's hear his raps when he finally debuts!"

"LEEET'S GOOOO (gif of Dababy)"

"Jokes aside, I wonder if he's a Calli 2.0? His first tweet is in pure English, so maybe this guy raps in Japanglish? But who cares? OUR BOIS GOT A NEW PAL!!!!!

...Then came some hate comments, as suspected of being a Holostar member and also a new guy that tweeted with censored swear words like he doesn't give a shit about others' opinions.

"This guy is prolly full of himself just cause he's a Holostar lol."

"Bro, you better not be a Lil' Pump when you rap. There's no way you rap better than Calli wwwwww"

"Overused joke lmao."

"New target acquired."

"You prolly rap garbage, seeing as nobody could really get past Calli in terms of Vrapping, in my opinion LMAO"

'...Oh yes...c'mon, people. All fame is good fame. Love me, hate me, Shiro arrives all the same!'

Man, I gotta take advantage of this.

I made another tweet:

"What do you call a talking flower in Japanese?

Hanasu

Wwwwwwww"

The Japanese of "talk" is "Hanasu", while the Japanese of "flower" is "Hana". Put the two together, you get the kuso japanese pun. wwwww.

I opened FL Studio after that, and not long after, I saw Coco. Just what I wanted.

"Oh...you and I are gonna be the BESTEST of friends, DEAR KOUHAI."

I grinned and giggled sinisterly.

"Lemme fuck your ass more, Coco-chyan~~" I said as I replied to her tweet with this:

"Yaba. Coco-senpai ga tatsu no wa kowai yo. Kusa. (Oh shit. Coco-senpai is real scary when she stands up. lol.)

In this joke, there are two words in Japanese that have the same reading (tatsu). Standing up, and Dragon. In this tweet, I used the stand up kanji instead of the dragon kanji.

"...SHUT UUUUPPPPPP!!!" She tweeted back not long after.

~~Coco's POV~~

"Yo, guys. Are you seeing this?!" I showed my genmates Shiro's "Hanasu" joke.

"Hmm? Eh-" Kanata instantly held her mouth with her hands.

"For real? What the hell is wrong with him, oi?!" Towa laughed.

"What? He made a pun in Japanese?" Luna giggled.

"Seriously?" Watame laughed.

"Oh…'You and me...are gonna..be the bestest of...friends...dear...kouhai…'...done!" I tweeted.

'...You know, I have a bad feeling about this.' I sweat dropped.

"...Oh? Hey guys! Guys! There's a new notification…Oh, for fuck's sake-"

"...MAJI KAYO?!" Kanata laughed real hard while holding her mouth and stomach.

"FOR REAL?! IS HE A MENHERA?! WHAT THE?!" Towa laughed.

Watame and Luna laughed like there's no tomorrow. Seriously, they're rolling on the floor, laughing.

"Oi...fuzakenna!-Shiro-kun?! What's this kuso japanese?!" I heard Subaru say in the kitchen.

"Did Shiro just...really do that...?" Botan laughed as she wheezed and set her phone down and slapped her leg in front of me.

'This guy...is this his attempt in becoming popular? Or is he just trolling?'

~~Shiro's POV~~

"Gomennasorry, Kaichairman. wwwwww" I tweeted to Coco's reply.

'You know, I think I can procrastinate just a bit more. Let's see what's up with my senpais…Coco will reply sooner or later...oh? Ina?'

It was a retweet of my "Hanasu" joke.

"I'm liking our new kouhai already lol."

I liked it and giggled.

"Oh, yes...the Shiro virus shall spread until everybody gets infected!" I snickered.

I went and typed another tweet.

"b".

Cause why not? Gura's meme is "a". Let's bite off of that and see if this gets a lot of tweets. I made one more, cause I really need to work on my music now.

"Aight, that's enough tweets for today. Time to stop procrastinating and be productive now! Bye-bye~ [In Japanese]

(proceeds to make more shitposts instead of actually being productive LMAO) [In English]"

I sighed and giggled.

"Okay. Just a bit more, I just wanna like every retweet they made right now and see if Reddit made any memes about me, then I can start working in FL Studio."

I liked the other retweets and tweets my senpais made. One of them was Astel's "I better get out of here before Coco-senpai starts going wild wwwww."

Then there's this one retweet Coco made in Japanese, referring to my "Hanasu" joke.

"Yagoo, I'll start being seiso if you can fire this guy immediately."

I laughed from the retweet, but nonetheless liked it. I finally went on reddit, and uh...well, I never knew it was THAT fast.

"Right from the start, this guy is already destroying Yagoo's dream. Not only that, he's even going against Coco with his shitty japanese. What a chad LMAO"

Then there were several screenshots of my tweets right now. I had to tweet this. I saved the image, then I went to Twitter, and typed.

"Hewwo, fwiends!!! UwU" I typed in English as I posted the pictures.

"Alright...! I guess that is, for real this time, the last thing I shall do for procrastinating! It's now time to come up with some stuff in FL Studio!"

I recalled what I thought this noon when I was showering. Kid Travis's 'God's Plan' cover, a.k.a my streaming BGM.

"Alright...! Shiro, it's time to go back to your old days when you used to be a popular beatmaker…!"

I hope my senpais are doing okay though. I am aware that they have fucked up schedules, and they usually push themselves a bit too hard....not only that, but even have personal problems they need to solve.

~~Noel's POV~~

I looked at myself, dressed up in my usual gray top as I got my slingbag, letting its strap wrap around my body and going through the middle of my chest, and I looked at my face.

"Sigh...okay, I'm ready." I said.

I looked back at Flare.

"Are you ready, Flare?" I asked her.

"Yup...give me a moment, I need to put on just a bit of lip balm on…" She said as she opened her mouth and moved her lips a bit backwards to apply the lip balm on each lip.

"....hai." She said as she put the lip balm back into her drawer, and looked at me.

"Do I look pretty?" She asked.

"Of course you do! Do I look pretty?" I asked, adding emphasis on 'I'.

"You don't even need to ask." Flare giggled.

I changed my smile from a happy smile to a somewhat bittersweet smile.

"Well...I guess it's time to go out, huh?" I asked.

"Yup..." She said as she grabbed my hand.

"Let's go, Noel." Flare said.

~~Choco's POV~~

"...Kuso. It's smaller than I expected." I said as I pulled out my card from the ATM and sighed.

"C-Choco-sensei? H-H-How's your balance...?" Pekora asked me.

"...It's fine, I guess." I stepped to the side, and it was Pekora's turn to check her bank balance in the ATM.

"Hmm...let's see mine...."

After a couple button presses, Pekora frowned.

"It only increased a little bit."

I sighed.

"Taxes, of course…well, that, and also our cuts, investment, and equipment..." I said.

"W-Well...! Maybe it'll get better in the long run...!"

"You, Watame-sama?" I asked.

"...Well, it's not totally bad." She said while looking at us.

'Well....guess we gotta grind more.'

"Well, later this evening, how about we go out for some dinner?" I asked them.

They nodded.

"Yeah, that sounds nice." Watame said.

"Y-Yeah...! I think that'd be nice." Pekora said.

~~Yagoo's POV~~

"Sigh...Christ almighty. Just one more stack of paperwork and I can finally go back home…" I said as I leaned back on my chair and looked at my laptop

'Emails, meetings, paperwork, management, equipment, and the Hololivers...another day in the life of a CEO.' I looked up at the ceiling and sighed.

"...Heh. At least Shiro is starting off with a blast."

I just hope he's able to keep it up...I really wish I could do more for Holostars, but it's not that simple, really...the best I can really do is just support them from the sidelines and see what I can do for them. Other than that, more promotion isn't gonna help, nor more connections, collabs, or anything...I can just leave it to luck and fate, and hope a miracle happens...how pathetic of me.

"I guess such is life...hard work pays off, but in this case, the solutions we thought of aren't working currently....Well, at least Holostars has been rising in popularity nowadays. Not like before where they barely reached 20 viewers…"

I turned to my back as I kept sitting in the chair, looking at the sun that's still high up in the sky, but isn't high noon anymore.

"Kurome...I wonder if Shiro is gonna do well in Holostars? He was always ambitious, and he never gave up no matter how hard the challenges seemed. I just hope he will be able to face the everyday challenges that my talents have experienced ever since they joined…"

I clenched my fists, recalling what happened to Sora and the other 0th gen members when they debuted, and also the time when Miyabi and the other 1st gen Holostar members debuted.

"Please don't do anything stupid, Shiro…"

~~Kurome's POV~~

"Hey...Suzuki, Ryo, Sakura, Hide, Saburo, Hikaru, Yoshito, Ryuu, Kichi."

"Oh? General Kurome." Suzuki said as he stood up.

"It's now time to go back to Russia and go on reconnaissance to find some information on Adrik again?" Sakura asked as she kept inspecting her knife.

I nodded.

"You know...I do miss Shiro's aura here. Not only is he the youngest, but he's one of our best and also one of the most down-to-earth guys I've ever met. We're just 2-3 ranks away from getting the General position." Ryo said.

"Yeah…me too." I said as I looked down a bit and clenched my fists.

"Hey, don't beat yourself to it. You did what you had to do." Hikaru said.

"You loved Shiro so much that you didn't want him to get involved, right? Isn't that why you only told a handful of people about your plan of making Shiro retire early?" Ryuu asked.

"...Yeah." I grabbed my left arm.

'As much as I hated it, I had to lie and manipulate Shiro, even if it meant cutting ties and making him wish I burned in hell…'

...

...

It was nighttime. I couldn't remember what time exactly, but I was in a deep sleep. All of a sudden, I heard a ring and felt a vibration coming from underneath my pillow.

"E-Eurgh...huh..?"

I checked it quickly, and it was from a fellow General of this base. General Dan.

"Dan…"

I accepted the call, and sighed.

"This better be important." I said through the phone with a tick on my head.

"Sorry, Kurome, but...we have some news you might not like to hear, but you need to hear it."

"Hmm? Hit me." I said.

"It's better if we meet face to face. Come meet me in Dr. Akina's house."

I sighed once more.

"Okay. I'll see you there." I said as I hung the phone up, and stood up.

I took a deep breath in, and then breathed out.

"...Time to go."

I put on some socks and shoes, and I went towards Akina's house. I made sure not to make a lot of noise since Shiro is in his room, sleeping. When I finally arrived, I knocked on the door 3 times.

The door opened in a few seconds, and I saw Akina opening the door for me.

"Kurome, you're finally here."

"Yeah…"

I looked at Dan, and I went inside the house.

"So? You said this was very important. C'mon and hit me with the news...!" I said while stretching and closing my eyes

'I mean, I always receive bad news, but I've gotten used to it that any news I receive, I can handle it-' I thought to myself before General Dan said 3 words that I would never forget.

"Adrik is back."

I gasped and opened my eyes as I looked at Dan's face with my full attention.

"He's what?!"

I ran towards him, and when I got close, I grabbed his collar and raised him up so that our faces were close.

"H-Hey, Kurome!" Akina said.

"I thought me and Shiro already killed him! EXPLAIN!" I said.

"Don't worry...Dr. Akina…?" He said as he looked at Akina before looking back at me.

Dr. Akina nodded at Dan.

"Let me explain…" He said.

I sighed and let go of his collar as I stood up straight and took a few steps back.

"Remember the last place you went to in Kazakhstan?" He asked.

"Yeah...I remember it."

"Well, in one of the bodies there when we inspected it, we saw this…" He said as he took out his phone and showed a picture of...a symbol on a certain rifle.

The symbol was a circle with 2 big lines crossing through the circle horizontally and vertically. The lines were as big as the line used in the small "F" Russian letter.

"T-That's…"

"Yes...Adrik's trademark of his guns."

"I-If he's dead, then his guns would've stopped producing…"

"And not only that, I was able to get one of their phones. And it showed this." He said as he did a few taps on the keypad phone and showed the phone's screen towards me.

"...The last contact called was Adrik…" I said.

"It seems the last time you and Shiro fought against Adrik in Russia didn't kill him completely. I don't know why he's still alive, but he is, and you know what that means."

"...He's gonna build an army again and go fucking wild...!"

"Yup. We still don't know his whereabouts, but we do know he is still alive."

"Y-You sure that's not a name that happened to have the same name? Surely that's just another guy-"

"Volkov. Adrik. That's what was said in the contacts. I thought you already saw that." Dan said, slightly squinting at me.

I clenched my fists and bit my bottom lip. The memory of our fight against Adrik just came back...and it was too vivid.

The place where we fought was near a cliff of some sort. Buildings were built there, and the whole base was made for the purpose of launching a missile heading for 3 countries. America, Japan, and China. We only had 1 hour to do so when the base sounded the alarm when we infiltrated the premise as the speakers throughout the base said so.

One time, me and Shiro were chasing after Adrik as our men, who died for us, fought against Adrik's men to cause a distraction. Me and Shiro were going from cover to cover as we fought inside the underground basement fighting against Adrik. Shiro tried to fire at Adrik, but Shiro almost got headshot by one of Adrik's men. It was good that I noticed the reinforcements coming in, otherwise...I would've lost my one and only son.

When we finally went to the surface, I remember Shiro chasing after Adrik, who had no more ammo nor a gun, on the rooftops as they parkoured from building to building. I could've chased after them, but I had a different plan. My plan was to intersect them at a certain point and hold Adrik in place as we cut off all exits, nowhere for him to go when we finally catch him.

Of course, Shiro would've shot him before Adrik could escape, but Adrik was a considerable distance away from Shiro, and considering they're jumping from building to building, Shiro can't get a clear shot yet, despite his aiming abilities.

I saw Shiro and Adrik parkour while I was on the ground and I chased them, seeing where they were going. I knew that at one point, they would have to turn to the left since we were near a cliff. I dropped my rifle and held my handgun as I sprinted towards a certain building, going up the stairs of it, and then when I finally got to the rooftop, I kicked the door open and pointed my handgun forward.

"IT'S OVER, ADRIK!" I shouted in English.

He finally stopped, and Shiro slowed down, pointing his M4A1 at Adrik's back.

"You're fucking dead, Adrik!" Shiro said in English.

Adrik just giggled and he stood near the edge of the roof as he faced towards us with his feet just one step away from falling.

"So this is how it ends for me, huh...?" Adrik said as he put his hands up.

He looked at me and then at Shiro.

"If you want to shoot me...then shoot me now. I'm a dead man anyway-"

"Gladly." Me and Shiro said as Shiro cocked the M4A1 back and started shooting Adrik. I also started shooting with my USP, and his body was just filled with a lot of bullets. I doubted that he would still be alive after all that.

Once Adrik finally fell off the rooftop, me and Shiro looked down from the building, seeing Adrik's body fall down to only God knows what's down there. We only knew it was a tall height from here to the ground, because it was snowing a lot at this time. It was semi-foggy.

"...prashai, uvlyudak (Farewell, motherfucker)…" Shiro said.

"...He's gone…"

"...Well, we got no time, mom. We have to stop those missiles from launching before millions of innocent lives will die...!"

"Un. Follow me." I said as me and Shiro went to the building that controlled the launch of the missile.

....

....

"...That's enough thinking of the past." I said as I wiped my eyes from the little tears that formed, and I breathed in as I closed my eyes, and breathed out. Let the pain of my heart go away temporarily.

"Are you all ready to go?" I asked.

"Yes, General Kurome." They said as they all stood up, loading their rifles and putting their weapons in their respective places and pockets.

"...Well then, let's go." I said as I put my rifle to my back and walked towards the chopper that we're gonna be riding in.

'Shiro...I hope you're doing well, living life to the fullest now that you can live normally....No matter how much you hate me, I hope you know that deep inside my heart…

I love you.'