41: This is where Erea’s explosive gacha disater stream happens!
“Are you really going to do this……”
Night. The shop is already closed, and only Erea and I are left in the card shop “Duelist.”
Mecha-Shi has also left for the day.
As for where we are now—it’s the living room on the second floor.
There, you’ll find streaming equipment, Erea and me, and… a towering mountain of booster boxes.
“Good evening, I’m Erea, an employee of the card shop ‘Duelist.’ Tonight, I’ll be doing a pack-opening stream… and probably die doing it!—”
Did she just say “die doing it”? Is she okay? Ahem, anyway.
What are we doing? Simply put, I’ve been dragged into participating in Erea’s livestream.
[Evening, Erea~]
[The manager’s there! Show the manager more!]
[Manager x Erea is so precious]
As expected, it’s quite lively—she is a popular streamer who’s earned a silver play button, after all.
That said, there are an awful lot of comments about me.
Well, I suppose it’s natural for people’s attention to be drawn to someone whose face isn’t being shown on stream.
In any case.
“The time has finally come, Manager-san.”
“O-oh. That’s right.”
“Get more into it! Look at this!”
Saying that, Erea holds up one of the stacked boxes to the camera.
“The [Michiru] pack has been reprinted! Let’s celebrate more!”
“No, I don’t particularly need that pack though……”
“Y-you traitor! Manager-san, you’re a Fighter too, so please love [Michiru]-chan!”
What does “love” mean in this context? While I’m thinking that, a certain comment catches my eye.
[This is where Erea’s explosive gacha disater happens!]
They’re straight-up expecting a disaster… Well, Erea does seem to have disastrous luck on stream quite often. Maybe it’s because she’s so good at raising flags?
“Grr, this is unforgivable. Today I will achieve victory and clear my name as a Flag Architect. That’s why I summoned the Manager-san.”
“Amazing, nothing you just said connects at all.”
“Oh right, listen everyone, this traitor… I mean Manager-san, pulled [Michiru]-chan from just one box, you know?”
[Huh?]
[Huh?]
[Huh?]
Whoa, so many cries of resentment.
It can’t be helped—Erea pressured me so hard to buy it, and then it came out.
“Anyway, by buying an additional carton with the reprint, I now have two [Michiru]-chan cards. Unfortunately, I couldn’t purchase another carton, so these boxes, like last time, are ones I gathered by running around to various places.”
“Because it’s a reprint, we got fewer in stock than last time.”
Plus, all of our shop’s regulars completely failed to pull [Michiru].
Only Detective-san managed to pull her.
But Detective-san wasn’t aiming for [Michiru] specifically, so I can’t help but sense the existence of the desire sensor at work.
By the way, even though it wasn’t his goal, it’s still a card he’s happy to have pulled, so Detective-san had no intention of letting go of [Michiru].
So anyway, one of the restocked cartons went to Erea.
The rest went to other regular customers.
Me? I bought mine online, so I didn’t touch the shop’s cartons.
I wonder who will get [Michiru] this time.
I’ve gotten quite off-topic. This time, it’s an opening stream with me as a “catalyst.”
Whether I’ll actually function as a catalyst, I have no idea.
“Now then, box number one!”
“If I recall correctly, there’s one secret slot per box, and in one box per carton, that secret slot becomes [Michiru], right?”
“That’s right, meaning if a secret appears, that box is a dud…!”
Just like in my previous life, packs sometimes contain cards with special treatments in addition to normal rarities.
That’s what’s called a Secret Rare.
In this world, “rare cards” refers to high-value cards worth hundreds of thousands, so the secret slot isn’t called “Secret Rare.”
It’s purely just called “Secret” most of the time.
And these Secrets—for cards other than [Michiru], they’re simply secret versions of cards that are already included at different rarities.
However, [Michiru] only comes from this secret slot.
Even in reality, there are occasionally cards limited to one per carton, but usually they’re just secret versions of cards at different rarities.
What a devilish pull rate.
……Well, in this world, such things are common, but even in my previous life, such things happened occasionally, which I think is not good!
I’m getting off-topic again.
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While I’m thinking about random things, Erea continues opening packs.
When opening packs, use scissors carefully to avoid damaging the cards!
“Mm, this is… Here it comes! Secret treatment!”
“If I remember right, [Michiru] already has secret treatment by default. And this card frame is… the same as [Michiru]’s.”
“Yes! This is a win.”
Ah, she raised a flag.
By the way, “card frame” refers to the decorative border of the card.
In Yu-Gi-Oh terms, it’s like how monsters are brown… is that right? And spells are green, traps are red, that sort of thing.
In Ignition Fight too, Monster cards and Counter Effect cards have different types. And among monsters, there are cards with different frame colors.
Like Synchro and Xyz.
So this time, since it’s the same frame as [Michiru], Erea was confident of victory, but—
“Nyaaaaa! It’s [Chemist-Misha]-chan!”
“Too bad……”
As expected, it wasn’t [Michiru].
[Chemist-Misha] is a beautiful girl alchemist monster card.
Feels like something that would appear in an Atelier game or something.
“But… this is cute in its own way! Plus, I didn’t have a secret [Misha]-chan, so it’s not a fatal wound yet.”
“……Even though you’ve bought at least five cartons by now, there was still a secret you didn’t have?”
“Guh……!”
[Erea died!]
[You monster!]
I think it was self-inflicted……!
After collapsing, Erea somehow manages to get back up, and the opening continues. However……
“Ahhh! The frame is already different!”
Every single one,
“It’s [Misha]-chan again!”
Miss, miss, another miss.
The boxes that made up one carton are being opened rapidly.
The viewers who were excited about the disaster at first start giving off an “oh no oh no oh no” vibe. Erea has completely lost control.
Her expression is twisted into a somewhat crazed smile—
“Calm down, Erea! You can’t go any further! Erea won’t last!”
“Let go of me, Manager-san! There’s still, still one more box left. [Michiru]-chan might be in there!”
[Manager x Erea is so precious]
[Manager x Erea is so precious]
[Manager x Erea is so precious]
You guys turn even this into Manager x Erea?!
While shuddering at the overly-trained viewers, I make a certain proposal.
“……Erea, I’ll open the last box.”
“Ah…… that’s it!”
As if wondering why she hadn’t thought of it, Erea claps her hands and points at me.
From my perspective, I thought the main character of this stream was Erea, so I’d kept quiet until now.
Also, I had the thought that since the boxes were already purchased, the contents would be the same regardless of who opened them, so it wouldn’t matter.
However, now that Erea has gone this far off the rails, a bit of jinx-breaking might be necessary.
Thus, the last box was entrusted to me.
Swallowing nervously, I open the packs while Erea and the viewers watch.
The moment of tension.
“……! It’s a secret slot.”
“……gulp“
I notice that a secret slot is in the pack.
The card frame is… the same as [Michiru]’s. The minimum condition is cleared.
All that’s left is to reveal this card.
Without words, Erea and I exchange glances and nod to each other.
The comment section fills with [Manager x Erea is so precious], the room falls silent.
And then, what appears is—
“……It’s [Michiru].”
The card we’ve been desperately seeking, [Michiru], is there.
However.
“………………It’s [Supreme Primordial Holy Angel Nova Crystal-Michiru] though.”
It’s a [Michiru] from my “Primordial Holy Angel Ancient” doppelganger series.
Most likely, like that [Eclreaire] from before, it entered the pack from nothing.
So what came out is [Michiru], but not the [Michiru] we were after.
But [Supreme Primordial Holy Angel Ancient Nova] though.
That’s the title my strongest “Primordial Holy Angel Ancient” monster bears.
What is this [Michiru]? It’s scary.
“Th……”
For a while, Erea stops, staring at the card I pulled,
“Is something like that even allowed——”
And vigorously collapses on the spot.
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