Maybe because she'd settled a big thing yesterday, Kagura felt much calmer inside, and her sleep quality last night was unusually good.
[Wudi]: Kagura-meimei~! If you see my message tomorrow morning, remember to reply! Don't forget we're streaming today!
Picking up her phone, the first thing Kagura saw was a message Wudi-san had sent at a little past three in the morning. Only then did it hit her—she'd been so busy these past two days with Nishiki-san that she'd completely forgotten she'd promised Wudi-san a stream.
She shot upright out of bed in a panic.
I'm dead! I totally haven't thought about what I'm streaming today!!
Of course she hadn't been thinking about it—if anything, that question had been haunting her for a while. She honestly didn't know what a food content creator was even supposed to stream.
——Cook, obviously. Your most reliable, most stable program.
While thinking about what to do today, Kagura washed up. Eclipse's prompt surfaced on the mirror in front of her.
But… streaming cooking—isn't that a bit…
——Trust me. It's your first stream—don't try to pull some huge stunt. The viewers just want to chat with you, shoot the breeze. Whether you're cooking or doing homework is just an extra! The most important part is you interacting with them, got it?
As the words appeared, Kagura felt her face being gently held and rubbed a few times.
After washing up and returning to the room, Kagura pulled out the streaming gear she'd prepared in advance and packed it into her small bag. Ardan still hadn't woken up yet, and Kagura didn't dare make too much noise, so she carefully slipped out of the dorm with her equipment.
[Inari Kagura]:Morning~ Wudi-san. Why were you messaging me at three in the morning?
Kagura had assumed she wouldn't get a reply for a while. I mean—Wudi-san wasn't asleep at three; at six-thirty she definitely wouldn't be awake, right? So Kagura turned off the screen, about to put her phone away—
Before she could even tuck it back into her pocket, the phone buzzed with an incoming message.
[Wudi]:Ooh! Morning! Kagura-meimei! I was worried you'd forget about today's stream! Everyone on Bilibili has been looking forward to it forever!
[Inari Kagura]:Ah, you… you're awake!? You didn't sleep at three!!
With network delay included, that was basically an instant reply. Kagura was honestly stunned. Three-to-six with a student? That was kind of unreal.
[Wudi]:Three hours is enough! Kagura-meimei is underestimating China's students~ Our endurance will definitely surprise you!
[Inari Kagura]:…I'm a little worried your body won't hold up.
Kagura really was. She'd treated plenty of overworked kids before. As someone who'd also lived through school, she knew Chinese students were built tough—but you still couldn't keep tossing your body around like that.
[Wudi]: It's fine! After I help Kagura-meimei with today's stream, I'll go catch up on sleep! By the way—have you decided what you're streaming?
[Inari Kagura]:If you don't mind… how about I stream my usual cooking routine at Tracen?
The scheduled start time was getting closer and closer. There wasn't enough time to come up with some brand-new program now. Looks like she could only do what Eclipse-san said.
...
"Whoa! Little Kagura, why're you carrying a whole pile of stuff into the Cafeteria again? Recording another video?"
The aunties and uncles in the Cafeteria had already seen Kagura record here a few times, so they weren't surprised at all by her walking in with a bunch of electronic gear.
"Today I'm streaming, not recording."
"Streaming… ah—then we'll be careful and try not to walk over by you!"
"Thanks, everyone~"
Hearing Kagura was going to stream in the student kitchen, the Cafeteria staff all consciously avoided that area.
Because it was still early, even though the Cafeteria was already serving food, only a few students were around. At least, Kagura couldn't really see anyone near her. In the student-only kitchen, she adjusted her setup.
"Hello… hello, Wudi-san, can you hear me?"
She clipped the mic to her collar and tested her voice with Wudi-san, who was already on a voice call with her.
"I can hear you! Super clear! Wow—Kagura-meimei, are you already in the kitchen?"
This time Kagura was streaming on her phone, so the camera was the phone propped up nearby.
Through Kagura's lens, Wudi could see the scene on Kagura's end. It looked like Kagura was preparing breakfast—there was pale pink fish, uncut scallions and ginger, and rice she'd just set to soak.
"Oh, Kagura-meimei,—are you making congee for breakfast?"
"Yep. For today's title… how about: 'Kagura-sensei's Morning Cafeteria'?"
"I think that's fine… but Kagura-meimei, you really are streaming cooking?"
"Yeah. Everyone just wants to chat with me anyway, right? So while I'm talking, doing something else on the side is fine."
"Well… that's not wrong…"
Kagura was right—the viewers mostly wanted a chance to be "face-to-face" with her. What she streamed wasn't that important, as long as it was something they could talk about. Still… streaming cooking was kind of ahead of the curve. At least, Wudi had never seen a food creator stream this sort of thing.
Since this was basically a test stream, Wudi and Kagura also picked a morning timeslot when there'd be fewer people. The main goal was to see how Kagura's stream actually looked. If it went well, they could just leave the "spreading impact" part to the clip-editing guys.
Right now, there were a little over five minutes until the start time Wudi-san had announced. She'd already opened the stream—just playing music in the room while waiting for Kagura to finish setting up the video connection. Even though the stream hadn't officially started, there were already plenty of people inside.
[Osman Roma Sultan]:Open up!! Let me in already! I wanna see Kagura-sensei!
[Curren]:Ifinally made it! Kagura-sensei's stream time is so early!
[Ponytail.DrinkBro]:HURRY HURRY HURRY!! I wanna really really pet Kagura-sensei and Wudi-meimei's tails!!
...
As the host on this side, Wudi was surprised that so many people had shown up in the morning—but she still spoke up to respond to the chat.
"Ahaha~ I saw everyone's messages, okay? Kagura-sensei still needs a little time to finish the connection setup—don't rush, alright~"
...
"Oh my—Akikawa, why are you up so early in the office staring at your phone? Rare to see you wake up early just to look at your phone~?"
"Curious! I heard from the Cafeteria staff that little Kagura is streaming in the Cafeteria today! Seems like it's on some app called B…? Tazuna, do you know how to register?"
"That's the Chinese video site… I do have an account over there, but it's not very convenient to register from here. If Akikawa wants to watch Kagura-san's stream, why don't I lend you my account for now?"
"Thank you! Huge help! I'm pretty curious what young people are playing around with normally—today's finally a chance to see!"
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