"No... We’re still here," Sarah sighed.
Kira chuckled. "Calypso might honestly be game for that. She’s surprisingly easy to get along with, especially for being an infernal demonic monster who should be tearing humans apart on sight."
"See?" Leia spread her hands. "Dreams do come true. When I see her, I’ll get on all fours and beg for an hour straight."
"...I’ll tell Kaiden," Emilia threatened with narrowed eyes.
"He can come too, of course! There’s enough sexy demonic thighs for the both of us. And if he doesn’t want to share, I’ll be happy even to rest my head in the sand..."
"Sorry, Leia is really messed up," Sarah apologized.
"Hey. I can hear you."
"...We’ve been part of the fandom for a bit now, she’s not that bad~" Kira and Rika giggled together.
The twins let the laughter settle, then tilted their heads in scary perfect sync.
"Okay. Fun stuff aside for a second. Can we talk work?"
"...Please," Sarah said after getting over how creepy twins moving together could look.
"So here’s the thing," Kira started. "You three already know the numbers. Kai’s streams have been averaging over a million live viewers in recent days, peaking at five million. Those are insane numbers for any content creator on the planet."
"And they’re about to go up," Rika added.
Emilia blinked. "Is there even an up from here?"
The twins looked at each other. Then back at the camera.
"Miss Internet Wifey," Kira said gently. "This is the Awakened Media Platform. Magical translation. No language barriers. No regional locks. The potential viewership isn’t millions."
"It’s billions." Rika let that land. "Technically, every person on the planet."
The call went still.
"We’ve talked about it a lot overnight," Kira went on, and the playfulness in her voice was gone. "We got hired around midnight and had been going over their internal analytics since. We arrived at a decision."
She leaned forward. Rika leaned forward at the exact same angle.
"Our goal is to have Kaiden reach one billion simultaneous live viewers."
A different silence from the Leia fantasy. That one was bewildered. This one was still.
"One billion," Sarah repeated.
"One billion." Kira nodded. "An actual operational target. Not a vision board number meant to wow witless investors. This is the number we intend to hit."
"Nobody in history has done that," Leia said. The goofiness was gone. "No one’s even gotten anywhere close."
"Nobody in history has been the group of eccentric anomalies that we, the five of us, are working for," Rika responded.
Another pause. Shorter this time.
"While it’s lovely to get to know you three, our colleagues... We didn’t call just to say hi." Kira’s grin was gone now. "We called because getting to our goal requires a machine, and you three are already part of it."
"Part of it how?" Emilia asked. Her back had straightened against the cushion. She wasn’t curled up anymore.
"The human mind is fickle." Rika leaned back, arms crossed loosely. "Fandoms even more so. A single well-placed comment can start a hype train or a hate mob. The difference between the two is often just who speaks first and how they frame it."



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