A Comment From Isolation

Valentines Day is an important holiday in Japan. Why, you might ask, because that's when couples are able to show off how much they love each other. Of course, the day is the bane for any lonely person or anyone who couldn't get into a relationship.

Houshou Marine was by herself in her home. She had finished a stream a while ago and was winding down. The stream was how she took her mind of the romantic holiday for most of the day. But she couldn't stream forever unless she wanted to exhaust her voice.

Thoughts of how she hasn't had a partner to spend the day with yet started to creep into her mind, she resorted to use BL manga to distract her. But as any sexual fulfilling pleasure, it could only last her for a short time then the thoughts start creeping in again.

Marine turned on her computer and looked to see if there was anything in her subscriptions that would take her mind off from her issues. She saw that Watame was hosting a Valentine's Day Smash Ultimate tournament stream with the Hololive couples competing.

Oh right, Marine was informed about this. Since Cover Corp gave permission for their talent to start dating each other, the Hololive v-tuber talent didn't need to hide their relationships from the public eye anymore.

Marine clicked onto the stream and saw that the stream was playing a match between the team of Shion and Aqua against Miko and Pekora.

Marine smiled for the briefest moment.There were so many fun memories she had experienced with them. However, it seems like they prefer to spend time with each other rather then her recently.

"Looks like they are not doing too well" Watame's voice snapped Marine into focusing on what was going on in the stream.

"Yep, it's going to take a miracle for Pekora and Miko to bounce back" Botan added on.

Watame and Botan appear to be the commentators for the tournament.

Marine laughed at how much trouble Pekora was having. Pekora wasn't able to sync up her Ness with Miko's Cloud unlike Shion and Aqua for while Shion isn't that much of a good Smash player, Aqua was doing the heavy lifting to compensate.

"ORE!!" Pekora yelled as her character, Snake, knocked Shion's Robin offstage.

"Oi!!" Shion yelled as she pushed her character to jump back up to the ledge.

Pekora moved Snake to interfere however Aqua's Fox was there to intercede and knock Pekora's character back across the stage.

Marine watched the action unfold. The Hololive streamers looked like they were having so much fun. Although Pekora and Miko were on the losing end, she could tell they were having the time of their lives playing together.

"Pekora, I got this! " Sakura Miko charged Cloud forward to do a dash attack against Aqua, but that put her in the prime spot for Aqua's Fox's waiting up-smash knocking her character far up into the sky and her remaining stock vanished.

"Noooo!" Pekora and Miko wailed. Now Pekora will have to deal with a handicap.

"Huhuhuhu" Aqua and Shion laughed menacingly.

"Now it's down to only just Pekora. I don't think she'll have much chance to beat both of them at once" Botan observed.

"Hmmm, I would describe Pekora as an entertaining player, not a competitive player" Watame said.

Adminst the hype in the chat, there was a sudden urge for Marine to type something, anything. How do they say this in English? Her fingers landed on the keyboard as if her desire launched forward from her subconscious.

I'm so lonely.

Loneliness, huh. Marine doubted what she typed out. Why would she be so lonely? She's in a virtual idol group, probably the biggest in the world. And she's able to interact with so many people weekly, not to mention she's able to entertain thousands all the time.