"Wooow~! Is that me…?"
Needless to say, I enthusiastically wanted Rina as my first Virtual Idol. Inoue-san didn't seem too surprised by Rina's performance, though. When I glanced at her when Rina sang, she just looked at her daughter with so much pride, it nearly made me feel proud for some reason.
"I wanted to make you stand out, considering your timid nature, so… Ah, you can also change her clothes around if you want to. Also, her name is Aiko. A basic name, I know, but…"
"I like it…"
The projection of Rina's avatar worked like a perfect mirror. Every movement Rina made was followed by the individual wisps of her eyelashes.
"Hello, Aiko~. Let's do our best together!"
I rubbed my eyes to make sure I was seeing things correctly. For some inexplicable reason, I thought I saw Aiko look like she smiled in agreement, a different smile from the one Rina gave her…
It might've just been my imagination.
"Today is just practice, and getting used to just seeing your avatar projected in front of you. Also, since this will be a livestream, you're gonna see the chat on screen as well."
I type some chat examples on my keyboard and it pops up on a little floating window next to Aiko.
[Chatter: Hello, Aiko~!]
[Chatter2: Aiko is the Best!]
[LEETchatter69: I swear, this is the best singing my ears have ever been blessed by.]
[Chatter1: Kyah~ I love you, Aiko!]
Various, autogenerated positive comments scrolled through the floating window and I caught Rina blushing in embarrassment.
"Wahahah~~?!" Rina looked a bit overwhelmed at the positive comments I generated, which caused me to chuckle.
"Hey, just calm down~ These are just auto-generated chatters. You'll probably get a lot more negative, or just neutral comments at the start though, but don't let it bring you down. This is a new thing for both you and for potential viewers."
"R-Right. I understand, Vasco-san."
I turn off the chatter window and Aiko waved goodbye; a preprogrammed action she performs when I turn off the projection. Rina panicked for a moment and quickly waved back before the projection turned off.
"Alright, now you know what to expect. For your first assignment, you have to practice singing some more and write your first song. This is gonna be your first single, so it could be about anything you want it to be."
"A-anything?"
I nodded and rolled over some luggage containing amateur studio recording equipment and a brand new gaming PC with the best specs.
"As a V-Idol, you also work as a streamer. You can play some games, as well. That is, if you want to. By contract, you only have to stream a minimum of one hour of gaming a month."
Rina nodded her head in excitement. "I love playing games! They really helped me a lot whenever I get panic attacks."
Oof… That just makes me hate the people who hurt her even more. Inoue-san silently brought Rina into a casual hug in response, patting her daughter's head gently.
"*Ahem…* That's good. For now, this is the gaming PC and some audio equipment to help you record some sample tracks. Make sure to mentally prepare yourself for Opening Night. I'll give you one week~"
Rina just nodded to my given deadline. I intended it as a joke, but she took it seriously. I'm pretty sure just one week is a very short amount of time to give a rookie Idol to make a song herself, right?
"One week? That's a long time." Rina muttered.
"Um… Rina, that was just a joke… You have as long as you need, within reason… You can take a month or more, if you want."
Just how tight was her schedule when she had multiple jobs? The fact that she thinks one week is a long time for something as big as writing a song… The amount of pressure and stress she must've endured…
"Eh? Really?! I can take my time?"
"Yes, of course. This is your first song. It should be crafted with care."
Inoue-san giggled at Rina's reaction, but I could sense some regret since Rina had suffered for so long without her mother.
"Oh, you silly daughter of mine. Aren't you lucky to have a Ma like Vasco-san around~?"
"Mom! Don't start insinuating anything!"
"Fufufu~"
All of us decided to hang out in the penthouse, playing some party games and finishing the evening with a family movie. Once it became dark out, Inoue-san called it a night, and Rina wanted to start working on her debut song. The pair took the train here, but I wasn't gonna allow them to go back by themselves this late.
I hadn't bought a car, yet, but I was looking around for one I liked online, so I immediately paid for and summoned one from a nearby Car Dealership and registered it under my name. I left it in the parking lot behind the building and soon, we all boarded the 'Honoka Civila' Type R. Obviously, it was this world's version of a Civic Type R…
With Inoue-san giving me directions, we quickly arrived at their humble little home in the residential neighborhood. It was a pretty little home, nothing too grand or too cramped. A normal, full family home you'd see in a Slice-of-Life anime.
"The drive was pretty long. Would you like to stay the night? We've got a spare room next to Rina's~"
"M-M-Mother!! He-he doesn't need to stay here!" Rina's face burst into a full-faced blush, and I just laughed it off. Inoue-san was clearly joking and teasing Rina.
"Thanks for the offer, but I have to go back and get things ready. Maybe next time."
With a final goodnight, I drive back to my office, thinking of the songs I'd like Rina to sing. Mostly just Ado songs since I missed them, but… I'll wait until she writes more original songs.
"Or… When I get more Idols, I can have all of them sing 'Show'? Halloween is in 8 months… maybe I'll have more V-Idols by then."
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Back inside the office, I worked through the night on a special announcement video and countdown to announce Aiko's debut.
After about 7 hours, I was satisfied with the finished video and leaned back. Basically, in the video, it shows a dark silhouette of a girl sitting on the ground, her hands around her knees. The area around her was dark and dreary, but slowly, as the countdown to the debut, a ball of pink light descends and she looks up after noticing and reaches toward it. On the second her hand touches it, the screen cracks, and Aiko is revealed in all her 'bubbly' themed appearance. Then, Rina's timid ears would create a gap moe and hook the viewers who become interested.
"Now, to make a live announcement."
Of course, I'll be announcing it as my Virtual self, as Vash the Stampede. Though, I should probably come up with a more original name? Nah… too lazy for that. I'll just call myself V, it'll go as a nice pair with the name of my company, 'Arasaka', and it's the first letter of Vash and my last name.
I look at the clock; it's 10am. The best time to announce Arasaka Entertainment and their first Idol.
Needless to say, I called the Inoue Household and informed them of the live announcement on YouTube Live. Funnily enough, YouTube still exists here… no Twitch, though.
I wasn't gonna only do the announcement on YouTube. Since I seem to always forget to do things beforehand, I used my magic to buy all the video advertising on the monitors all over Tokyo's city center.
I turn on the Avatar Projection and take a mic in my hand. The video feed showed me V copying all the movements I made in real life with no issues.
"Ready in 3… 2… 1. Action."
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In Tokyo city center, all the advertisements that the denizens of Tokyo usually see suddenly turned off, or at least, that's what they thought once they noticed.
"Did the displays suddenly lose power?"
"What happened to the ads? I was just jotting down the number to a product I was interested in…"
"Did someone hack them all at once?"
Just when some started thinking the screens were actually damaged, the screen flicked like an old VHS before the static smoothed over and the image became clearer. In the video, a handsome, anime-like man with grey hair and yellow glasses stood with his face close to the screen.
[Hello? Can you hear me? Is this thing on?]
He tapped the microphone in his hand and the sound of the thumps reverberated throughout the city center.
"Whoa! That was loud, what the hell?"
"Is this weird ad trying to make my ears bleed?"
[Ah, audio is reading perfectly. Sorry, that must've been loud~!]
Clearing his throat, the man wearing a red trench coat stepped back and his figure came into full view. He wore a holster on his hip and his right arm was replaced with a red cybernetic limb.
[Anyway, I wasn't allowed to buy that much time for any long introductions. My name is V, and right now, I'm having a little trouble. You see…]
The man who introduced himself as 'V' snapped his cybernetic fingers and the images of various popular video games, anime, movies, and singers appeared across the screen.
[All these images… Games, anime, the music… to me, it's all so boring… I came into this world hoping to finally get some quality entertainment, but what do I find? Bad games, worse anime, and mediocre music.]
As the man mentioned different types of media entertainment, the most popular of the subjects popped up on screen, making some of the fans of those pieces of entertainment angry at V's claims.
"What is he talking about? Maki-chan makes masterpieces!"
"Devil's Souls is a great game! Sure, it's almost impossible, but…!"
"Hey, High School PxP has impeccable fan service!"
"Yeah, that fan service is a little too much, though…"
[This made me so annoyed, I decided to just create my own Anime, my own Video Games… and especially, my own Idols. I'm confident my Company's IPs will flip the entertainment industry on its brain-dead head.]
With an overconfident smile, V stepped back and coolly removed his sunglasses with one hand and unholstered his silver revolver with his cybernetic arm.
[Make sure to save some money. You're gonna want to buy all my products. Thanks in advance for making me super-rich.]
V pointed the revolver at the screen and shot it. The screen's display fluctuated and another image of a silhouetted girl, sitting down with her hands around her knees appeared. Under her figure, a link to a YouTube Channel appeared, along with a countdown of two weeks.
The majority of the advertisement monitors returned to normal, but one screen, the biggest one, remained unchanged. The countdown continued; 06:23:57:07.
Six days, twenty-three hours, 56 minutes, and counting down.
With that taunt and declaration, most people became curious and interested in V, and the YouTube channel.
They followed the link and saw that they ran a company called 'Arasaka Entertainment'. Comments already flowed in the chat of the livestream.
[user16396: What is this bullshit?]
[WeabooH8ter: anime is fucking trash but that dude insulted my precious Maki-chan! fuck that bastard!]
[sundayrider: idk that ad was kinda cool ngl it was well animated]
Most comments were negative, mostly because V insulted their favorite pieces of entertainment. Though, some varied from neutral to curious. Overall, V looked at the incoming comments and smiled in satisfaction.
The initial number of viewers right now is around 2.7 million individual viewers. It wasn't only Tokyo's city center that he had his ads presented in. New York City, San Francisco, Austin, and Brazil for the Americas; Berlin, London, Barcelona, Rome, and Warsaw for Europe. All properly translated in V's own voice, all at the same time, with perfect lip sync in all languages.
People will connect those dots, find out that the advertisements were shown all at the same time, in the country's own language. V hopes for that fact to circulate around and get people even more curious about how that was possible.
"I'd say it's a pretty decent ad. Could definitely have been better, but I wanted it to feel more impromptu and rushed."
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I sat down and turned off my PC, wanting to take a nap before I went over to Inoue-san's house for some food.
I wasn't too sure about giving Rina a week, but she insisted on it, saying she already had most of the lyrics down. I haven't even heard it or read the lyrics, but even if it isn't amazing, her voice will most definitely carry the performance. That call is also when Inoue-san insisted on my visiting for lunch.
"Alright… I guess I should sleep for three hours, then shower… Huh…?"
I hadn't noticed it before, but the magic bag I always had in my back pocket has been twitching all of last night. It's never once done that before.
"Did it run out of mana, or something? This is odd…"
My magic pouch just had all of the magic items and grimoires I collected over the course of my time in the Other World. There shouldn't be anything in there that could cause the pouch itself to twitch, right?
I open the pouch and a swirling substance shoots out of the opening.
"What the fuck?!"
The shape stabilized and stood up, becoming a feminine figure, the two triangular shapes atop its head twitched towards my direction. It turned around, its golden eyes and slit pupils staring directly into my eyes.
"Master~!!"
She pounced on me and rubbed her face on my chest, her throat vibrating with a deep purr as she held me tightly.
"Naomi?! What— How the hell are you here?!"
This girl is a Catgirl maid I had created in my early days in the Other World. There were no cat girls in that place, only humans and demons, so I was highly disappointed. So sad, in fact, that when I became powerful enough, I made a homonculus to fill in the void in my heart.
The woman currently sniffing me is that same catgirl. Her hair was long, wavy, and pink, her two cat ears twitching constantly. Her face was incredibly beautiful, with plump pink lips and a cute little nose. Her big golden eyes made her look naïve and cute, but she was far from innocent. Her body was molded by my preference; large G-cup breasts, a narrow waist, and a flat belly with visible abs. Her hips were wide and her thighs thick, all completed with a big, firm yet soft heart-shaped ass.
I don't know if I made a mistake when I made her or maybe my excitement slightly changed my magic when I first brought her to life, but…
She gets in heat at least a few times a week. She becomes irritable and weak if I don't calm her down. I didn't mean to make her this way, but she was my first homonculus, so there were bound to be errors during the creation process.
"It's been so long, Master~!!! Haah~Haah~~!"
Naomi took long and deep inhales as she pressed her nose against my neck. Her hot breath caused me to sweat a little, but Naomi slid her warm and rough tongue on the side of my neck.
"I miss your taste, Master~~"
"N-Naomi, wait…! H-How are you here…?"
Naomi hugged me tighter. I made her incredibly strong since I was a Mage and I needed a good tank, but as my created homonculus, she is unable to hurt me.
"I knew after you saved that World, you wanted to go back home… I know you didn't want any of us to come with you, but… I couldn't stay separate from you, Master~! As I am not technically a living being, I hid in your magic pouch!"
True, a living thing can't be stored inside the magic pouch, so Naomi can definitely go inside there, but… she's been there for four weeks now. I'm surprised she's only hugging me right now and not ripping off my clothes…
"Naomi, you…?"
I could tell Naomi's life force was low. For some reason… she's dying?! Quickly, I attempted to inject my mana into her body to stabilize her, but that didn't seem to work.
"Ah… Master~… That won't work… I need your…"
… I think I understand it now. I never thought about it for even a second as to why Naomi needed me to mate with her at a minimum every week… I must've made a mistake when I read the instructions on the homonculus-making grimoires I collected. The homonculous needs an injection of mana from its creator at fixed intervals, but I messed up, clearly.
Naomi is dying and the mana from my seed will save her. It all makes sense, now…
"Jesus H. Christ…"
Using my Space/Time magic, I freeze time except for myself and Naomi. I didn't want to be late for lunch with Inoue-san and Rina, so I have to do this right now.
"Master~…?"
I snapped my fingers and both of us were teleported to my bedroom completely naked. Naomi immediately lay on her back and opened her legs, both of her hands going around her buttocks, her fingers spreading her soaked pussy open. She needs no foreplay. Never did.
"Sorry for not noticing all this time, Naomi. I'll get you back up to 100% in no time."
I thrust my cock into her, making her arch her back, her pink tail straightening out like a toothpick in shock. Her cute little toes curled as she came immediately, her soaking pussy shooting a spray of liquid against my groin. Still, I kept thrusting, and each time I did, Naomi sang her moans and repeatedly came until I filled her artificial womb to the brim.
"Nyaaaaah~ Master, Master, Maaaaassutaaaahhh~~~!!!"
I was also pent up, too busy with my work on V-Tubing to bust a nut, and Naomi couldn't absorb all of my mana-filled seed, so the white stuff just shot out from any opening it could escape from, dirtying the bed.
"Phew…! I must've let out at least two gallons of that stuff…"
As I glanced at my batter, Naomi wrapped her arms around my neck and brought my head to hers, catching me off guard for a moment before pressing her lips against mine and locking her legs around my hips to prevent me from separating.
I couldn't physically break out of her embrace, but that doesn't mean I'm weaker than Naomi, so I let her do what she wanted since I unknowingly almost killed her…
About 5 hours passed with us just screwing like rabbits, but since time was stopped, no time actually passed.
"Are you feeling better now, Naomi?"
Naomi, who lay on my chest, covered in sweat and with my hard cock still inside her, purred and licked my collarbone happily.
"Hehe~ Master's sweat tastes so good, nyah~. I feel sooo much better~!"
Naomi swayed her butt slightly side to side, her walls tightening around my cock like a vice grip. I slapped her ass in annoyance. We've been in this position for thirty minutes.
"Nyah~~!!!"
Naomi moaned at my sudden strike on her butt and came again, her grip on me relaxing. I took that chance to get her off and I snapped my fingers to clean and clothe myself and Naomi.
"Awwww… I wanted to stay connected with Master for a little longer, nyah~."
"No. I need to go have lunch with a couple of friends."
Naomi's eyes opened wide and she dashed closer to me and sniffed my chest. Her eyes narrowed in annoyance as she looked up at me.
"Master… Did you finally get another wife? Even though the kind Princess is in the Other World waiting for you…"
The 'Kind' Princess? More like Yandere… she's only kind to Naomi because of that one time she saved my life, and because this silly, horny Catgirl Maid needs my mana-seed to stay alive.
"Y-Yeah… she can wait a little longer." I awkwardly chuckled at the thought of that crazy woman and quickly changed the subject.
"Anyway, I need to go."
"I will go with Master, nyah!"
I sighed and glanced at her. I wasn't going to convince her otherwise, and even if I detain her with magic, she'd just break out eventually and rush to my location as fast as possible. I might as well take her with me.
Ah shit… It's gonna be a little awkward, but hopefully they won't mind.
"Fine, I'll bring you along, but this world is normal. No one has magic and everyone here is weak. Do not cause any damage or trouble for me. Is that understood?"
Naomi got off the bed and took a step back, bowing her head elegantly, lifting the skirt hem of her maid uniform slightly. "Of course, Master. I will follow your orders with joy~."
I sighed and snapped my fingers, casting magic on her clothes, changing her maid uniform to a casual outfit; a white sleeveless blouse, a black suit jacket, and black skinny suit pants with heeled black leather ankle boots. Her cat ears were
Now, instead of a maid, she looked like my sexy secretary. I cast another magic to alter her appearance, replacing her cat ears with human ones and removing her tail. Those parts weren't actually removed, just visually changed.
"Nyah? My ears and tail…"
"It's just when we're going out and interacting with humans. There are no other races besides humans here, so it would trouble me greatly if you're seen with those ears and tail."
Naomi nodded her head. "Understood, Master."
"Also, just call me Vasco here. You calling me 'Master' would make me seem like a freak."
"Then, Vasco-sama."
That's probably as good as I'm gonna get from her. She's the type to give me the utmost respect and absolute loyalty, not settling for anything less…
"Good enough… Let's go."