Chapter 25: Super Elf-san
"Rain, gonna stop?"
Top Chat: This elf finally started treating us like a weather forecast.
Top Chat: Wait, what’s this stream even supposed to be...?
Top Chat: I don’t know... Streaming was too advanced for me after all...
Top Chat: Earth... the universe... so that’s what this world really is...
Top Chat: With just one line, Elf-san awakens her viewers to philosophy.
Outside the window, the rain kept drizzling down. If I didn’t have bags with me, I’d run for it, but alas.
Top Chat: Actually, where even are you right now?
"Super."
I lift up my basket to show them. The plastic basket you can find at any supermarket in the country.
Top Chat: Supermarket stream...?
Top Chat: She really went and started another kind of stream I’ve never heard of.
Top Chat: So uh, what do you even do at a supermarket?
"You shop for groceries, right?"
Top Chat: Correct.
Top Chat: Can’t argue with that.
Top Chat: True, there’s literally nothing else.
Top Chat: Don’t tell me you actually started streaming just to ask about the weather?
"Yep."
Top Chat: No, Elf-san, come on...
Top Chat: Even if these losers have no plans and nothing better to do on a weekend...
Top Chat: Casually excluding yourself like that isn’t cool.
"You guys seem to have fun no matter what I do!"
Top Chat: Oh no, turns out we were the impure ones.
Top Chat: My chest hurts! What is this pain!
Top Chat: We just crushed the pure kindness of a little kid.
Top Chat: Yeah, that’s it.
Top Chat: I’ll accept this as if you offered me the most perfectly made mud dumpling.
Top Chat: So then, Elf-san, what’d you come to buy?
"Eggs."
Top Chat: Peak domestic vibes.
Top Chat: She just dropped one word and instantly made herself sound married, amazing.
Top Chat: That’s my proud wife.
Top Chat: My proud little sister.
Top Chat: My proud daughter.
Top Chat: My proud mother, babuu~
Top Chat: Your family trees are a mess, guys.
"And shiitake, king oyster, enoki, shimeji, maitake, some meat, leafy greens, and curry powder."
Top Chat: The threat level of that mushroom ratio is off the charts.
Top Chat: I knew it, you totally awakened to the deliciousness of mushrooms that time, didn’t you, Elf lol
"It’s the continuation of an experiment. I wanna test the flavors of other mushrooms."
Top Chat: Ah, makes sense.
Top Chat: If that’s the reason...
Top Chat: But what if you buy all that and it turns out kinda meh?
"That’s when the curry powder comes in."
Top Chat: All things return to curry.
Top Chat: Powerful.
Top Chat: That kind of manliness is something I could learn from lol
Top Chat: Her cuteness is overshadowed. Truly, curry reigns supreme.
Top Chat: Did you cut the tags off your clothes today?
"Tags are—"
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"—cut."
Top Chat: She cut ‘em lol
Top Chat: You literally just cut them right now lol
Top Chat: Where did you even pull those scissors from?!
Today I was dressed in a light-colored blouse and a beige skirt. Cool and simple, I really like how plain it feels. Honestly, I could wear this every day.
Top Chat: Ohh, cute—wait. Feet!
Top Chat: Her footwear lmao
Top Chat: What even are you wearing?
Top Chat: Geta lol
Top Chat: Wait, you’re actually wearing geta?
Top Chat: What even is this elf lol
Top Chat: Grass
Top Chat: Zōri.
Top Chat: No, those are definitely geta.
Top Chat: And they’re bigger than Elf-san’s feet, too.
"They’re men’s."
Top Chat: Why men’s though?
"They’re my old geta. Normal shoes slip off."
Top Chat: Ahh, makes sense.
Top Chat: What’d you do yesterday then?
"Yesterday too, I wore geta going out. When I bought clothes, the clerk sprinted off to fetch someone from the shoe store. Begged me not to leave until they came back."
Top Chat: Guess they couldn’t stand the feeling of wasted materials.
Top Chat: You can tell how desperate that clerk was lol
Top Chat: So why’d you go back to geta again?
"It’s just the supermarket."
Top Chat: Fair enough.
Top Chat: I head to the convenience store in sandals too.
Top Chat: Elf-san really is just... Elf-san.
Top Chat: I don’t know what you’re saying, but I get what you mean.
"So, rain—gonna stop?"
Top Chat: Oh right, that’s what this was about.
Top Chat: But we don’t even know what region Elf-san’s in.
"Should I just say it?"
Top Chat: Nope, don’t do that.
Top Chat: Location leaks are dangerous.
Top Chat: Want me to read out the forecast for every prefecture?
Top Chat: Actually, aren’t you streaming from a smartphone or a laptop? You could just check it there.
"You can do that?"
Top Chat: Oof... you don’t get that kind of culture gap in modern Japan very often.
Top Chat: No, maybe it’s the dark side of the education system.
Top Chat: Yeah, that too.
Top Chat: Anyway, I’ll just post the weather for all regions, you can check from there.
"’Kay."
Top Chat: A chat full of prefecture names and weather symbols—new viewers are gonna be so confused.
Top Chat: Honestly, even veterans would tilt their heads at that lol
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