New Year

 

Ara decided to adapt to reality.

It wasn’t that she disliked going on a trip; she just found it too bothersome to leave the house.

She felt that enjoying a trip alone with Reina wouldn’t be bad.

However, both of them were utterly hopeless when it came to Japanese.

While she was contemplating alone about how they could freely move around Japan,

‘…Ah.’

She recalled a person saved in her phone.

[Gojo Sayaka]

A connection she first made during the Korea-Japan kendo competition.

As soon as she thought about asking her to be a guide, she took action and…

[Sayaka] ─ [Please have one match with me! Then I’ll guide you diligently!]

The condition that she would guide her if Ara had a match with her was causing significant annoyance.

“Hah, these days translation apps work well, so do we need a guide?”

Actually, it would be nice to have one, but not having one would just be a bit unfortunate, so Sayaka wasn’t particularly necessary.

However, having a local person would help a lot in enjoying the trip, which is why she asked her, but…

“Would it hurt to just do it for free?”

Setting a condition to have a match with her… tsk.

One might say, it’s just a match. Just do it and gain a pretty local guide, wouldn’t that be a win? But there was a reason why Ara felt strong annoyance at Sayaka’s match proposal.

These days, Kang Ara was being treated like a legendary Poke■ at the kendo dojo she frequented.

The system of always dropping by the dojo after finishing school had broken after the closing ceremony.

Since she didn’t have to go to school, there was no obligation to go outside, and consequently, she wasn’t going to the kendo dojo either.

Should it be called a slump? Now that her interest in kendo had completely cooled off,

Sayaka’s match proposal wasn’t sparking her interest.

What should I do… while I was contemplating alone, I decided to consult with Reina, who would be going on the trip with me, and.

[Reina] ─ [Wouldn’t it be convenient and nice to have a local person of the same age while traveling?]

Reina sent me an answer suggesting that I should have one match with Sayaka.

“Ha-I thought Reina would say we don’t need her… It’s so fucking annoying… shit…”

Due to the sudden match being set, Ara was burying her face in her pillow and throwing a tantrum with her whole body saying she didn’t want to do it, when.

─ Click.

“Ugh… the smell. Daughter! Live cleaner…! How can a girl’s room smell like a widower’s?!!”

Out of nowhere, her mom invaded her room. And then she wailed about there being a foul smell.

“Eh… what smell…”

Since I had been in my room all day, I couldn’t smell the foul odor coming from my room, and I couldn’t greatly empathize with my mom’s words.

“Oh my… what does Reina like that she wants to live with a kid like this…”

“Right~ I don’t know either.”

However, I could strongly empathize with that statement.

Why would she ‘love’ me?

That day, because Reina had confessed her feelings incoherently, I still didn’t know the specific reason why she liked me.

‘Well, I’ll ask her when I have time later.’

Since I didn’t dislike Reina either, I was thinking to myself that we should get to know each other slowly, when.

My mom paused for a moment near the bed I was lying on.

She sniffed around, then furrowed her brow and

“What’s this smell now? Why is there a fishy smell coming from the bed?”

She asked me why only the bed had a fishy smell.

─ Gulp…

Probably, there was a high possibility that the fishy smell was my ‘holy water’, but… since it was too embarrassing to tell that fact to my mom, I wracked my brain about what to say.

However…

‘What should I say?’

I couldn’t think of an excuse to explain the cause of the fishy smell coming ‘only’ from the bed.

“Forget it, come out, you dirty rascal. I need to wash all the bedding.”

“Uh, okay. I’ll bring down the bedding.”

Fortunately, thanks to my mom not questioning me further, I could stop thinking about an excuse.

And so I brought the fishy-smelling bedding to the washing machine, and finished setting up my bed with new bedding.

“Whew-ventilate a bit too. And take a bath at least once every two days. Don’t you get that your body will start to smell too?”

“Yes!!”

“…At least your answers are good. Heh”

♦♦♦

When Ara was lying on her bed set up with fluffy new bedding.

“Daughter, you look happy? Did you get a boyfriend?”

“Wha, what! Is what Sayaka’s mom said true!? Which bastard─”

“Eh, no no. What boyfriend? Just~ because next month Ara-san is coming to Japan~ I’m looking forward to having a match with her after a long time.”

Sayaka was expressing joy with her whole body, flicking rice grains while sitting at the table with her family.

“Phew… I’m glad it’s not a boyfriend.”

“Hoho. Sayaka is an adult too, she could have a boyfriend.”

“No! Absolutely not!!!”

Satoro let out a sigh of relief after realizing that the reason for Sayaka’s good mood wasn’t because she had gotten a boyfriend.

However, when Yumiko, Satoro’s wife, said that their adult daughter could have a boyfriend, Satoro reacted with horror and showed a rejection response.

“Oh dear. Our daughter… marriage seems unlikely.”

Yumiko shook her head at Satoro’s reaction and worried about Sayaka’s future.

However, for the current Sayaka, swinging her bamboo sword came first, and she had absolutely no interest in the opposite sex.

“Ha, ha. It’s okay! I’m married to kendo!”

“That’s right. Our Sayaka, let’s just do kendo with dad for the rest of our lives. Hahaha!”

And at Sayaka’s sincere answer, Satoro was extremely satisfied and normalized, and peace returned to the dining table.

As they were quietly eating at the table,

“…Daughter! This time, let’s try to score even one point! This dad will always support you. Fighting!”

Satoro raised his fist to cheer for Sayaka while watching her reaction.

However, his cheer implied that scoring even one point would be a miracle, suggesting that there was no possibility of winning, which made her feel divided as a daughter, but.

“Yeah! I’ll do my best. Hehe”

Because Sayaka also knew that winning against Kang Ara would be impossible, she responded to her dad’s cheer with a lively and fresh smile.

“I’ll definitely do my best!”

Sayaka spoke quietly as if making a vow to herself, clenching her fist.

Her backside was too cute.

♦♦♦

Reina and I began to make concrete travel plans.

First was the broadcast.

There was also the method of staying at a hotel equipped with capsules and broadcasting from there, but.

Reina and I immediately discarded that idea.

Because the desire to play comfortably without worrying about broadcasting while traveling in a foreign land was strong.

So we discussed with Yeji separately about broadcasting, and as a result.

‘5 days. Our company will also match that schedule to rest. More than 5 days is too much.’

Yeji gave us the groundbreaking answer that the company would close when we took a break to welcome the new year.

Of course.

‘When you’re on a break, people call our company too much… it’s better to just close… also, it’s good for everyone to rest and refresh together to boost condition… yeah.’

She added this with a depressed voice.

Reina and I, at Yeji’s voice…

‘So we can only rest for 5 days?’

‘Ara…! How can you say that…!’

We didn’t care at all.

After discussing with Yeji and resolving the broadcasting issue, the remaining plans went smoothly.

Where to play, what to see, etc. during the 5-day period.

Reina worked hard to concretize the plan.

What did I do? Well… since Reina said she would take care of it herself, I didn’t pay any attention to the plan.

‘Why go on a package tour? Reina plans it, and here’s an unpaid guide. Haha’

As we prepared for the trip with such free-loading…

[2035. 12. 31]

Soon, the last day of this year approached.

Was it because the last day of this year was approaching? I recalled the experiences I had gone through this year.

Taking a VTuber interview with Reina at a new company and both of us getting accepted.

Winning the Korea-Japan kendo competition, and at the same time, forming connections with a Japanese friend and a talkative sister.

Finally meeting and playing with the hero party members who defeated the demon king together after a long time.

‘Ah. There was also the MOL tournament win…’

Really… thinking about how there were quite a few events during the year, did I feel proud that I hadn’t wasted this year?

As a reward to myself for living so diligently, I posted a stream break notice on the fan cafe.

 

[No Stream Today]

(Lucy)

Going to spend time with family to commemorate the end of the year.

You guys should spend time with your families too.

Oh, and I’ll say this in advance.

Happy New Year~

※ Comments

— This fucking bitch;;

— Arggghhhh!!

— Stop fucking around stop fucking around stop fucking around stop fucking around

— What? Spend time with family? What a terrible thing to say…!

└ For real lol

└ When are you going to get a job! All year you’ve been just cooped up in your room. What? You’re going to work hard next year? Hey, you bastard. Tomorrow is next year, you idiot!!!

└ I’m sorry I’m sorry I’m sorry I’m sorry

└ Lucy’s special wide-area death beam~☆

— This fucking bitch even has a unique approach to break notices

— Sigh… I’ll just watch Mika’s stream.

Well… it’s not like there isn’t resistance, but even if there is, do I have to understand them?

Anyway.

Since I would have less time to face my parents once I started living with Reina, and I thought it was right to spend such meaningful and significant days with family.

‘Hmm… let’s invite Reina too.’

I thought about inviting Reina to our house as I was thinking like that, and.

“Hey. Reina. Bring a cake when you come. Let’s all eat together. Yeah, come safely.”

The time for deliberation wasn’t long. Since Reina’s aunt and uncle were going to be busy today as well… I decided to invite her because I felt sorry for her being alone at home.

 

[I’m Sorry…]

(Mika)

I’ll be taking a break from streaming too!

The reason is…! I’m going to finish the last year with Lucy. Hehe

I hope all of you, like me, meaningfully end the last year with family, lovers, or friends!!

Happy New Year~

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— The two bitches are really going at it lol

— Fa… mily? Lo… ver? Fri… end?

└ Mika seems more like a fucking bitch than Lucy lol

— (LucyIsADevilCon)

└ (MikaKnowsNothingCon)

Users who were greatly hurt by the fact that all of TwinsTail was taking a break, and by the content of the notices they posted.

However, there was still a trial left for them…

They were fans who still didn’t know that Ara and Reina would take another break a week later due to their trip to Japan, and that the break would last for 5 days.