Beautiful Barking Tsundere

Chapter 19

Original Author: ひのはら (Hinohara)
Date Submitted to Kakuyomu: 2021/09/24

In between classes, Aira researched "Usami Koneko" on her smartphone.

She is a popular streamer who belongs to a major VTuber company called Voice.
Active for nearly five years, she has become one of the most well-known and popular VTubers in the industry.

According to a website's description, Usami Koneko is a veteran known by anyone who is familiar with the VTubing scene.

"...Eeh."

It seems that VTubers, to put it simply, are 2D characters who create videos in the virtual world.

All this is new to Aira, so her curiosity led her to look deeper.

Usami Koneko has many female fans in addition to her male fans. She has activities outside of her streams, such as collaborating with brands and releasing CDs.

"She's really an amazing person..."

Aira has been rude and disrespectful to that amazing person, but considering Ema's personality, she probably didn't worry about that much.

Ema isn't the kind of person who goes around saying, "Do you understand how amazing I am? Show some respect."

"Why didn't she tell me?"

Even though this isn't a job to be ashamed of at all, she didn't tell Aira when she first asked.

Is it because Aira didn't know much about anime and manga? Or perhaps Ema feared Usami Koneko's true identity being exposed.

"...Even though I wouldn't do such a thing."

Another thought that comes to mind is that perhaps she and Ema are the same.

Perhaps Ema wants to be seen as who she is without any preconceived notions.
Not as the popular VTuber Usami Koneko, but as Ichijou Ema.

That might be similar to Aira, who has always wanted to be seen for more than her appearance.

Perhaps she's overthinking things.
In the end, that's nothing more than Aira's guess, but she has a strange hunch that might be the case.

Aira stands still in front of the living room door.
She has been standing in the corridor for the past five minutes but hasn't taken a single step forward.

The voices she hears from the living room are causing her brain to become hot up to the point of almost overheating.

"Aaah, aah, no... not there..."
"Why not? It feels good."

These are clearly the voices of two aroused females.
They are engaging in obscene lovemaking during the daytime.

Even though Ema said she wouldn't call any of her sex friends, she's been doing this while Aira has been away at school.

"Liar..."

Just when she finally started to trust Ema, she gets cruelly betrayed.

Her grip on the doorknob tightens.

Aira can't believe Ema is doing something like this in the middle of the day.

"Mai-chan, nnnn...nnnn...I'm going to..."
"Are you coming? Looks like you're especially sensitive here, Akari."

The tears that had been building up immediately retreat.

"Mai-chan...? Akari...?"

Since Ema, the most important name, hasn't come up, Aira becomes confused and slightly uneasy.