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What would you expect in a CEO's personal office? Specifically, a CEO who is the head of one of the most successful entertainment companies in japan. Perhaps some fancy rugs? Custom-made table from extremely expensive rare wood? Maybe a grandiose wine collection?

All those expectations went down the drain once Amelia Watson entered the office of the fabled CEO of Cover Corporation, Motoaki Tanigo, or more endearingly known by the Hololive production community as YAGOO.

The room in question is filled from floor to ceiling with merchandise of his so-called "idols". All the walls are lined with display cabinets filled with trinkets of merchandise prototypes, final products, and even some fan-gifted pieces. The plushies filled whatever little space was left within this already crowded room. If she didn't know who this room belongs to, she would have made the mistake of thinking it was the room of some overly obsessive fanboy. But honestly, she is not too surprised, YAGOO is widely known in the company to be quite eccentric after all.

Ame squeezed herself onto the couch filled with plushies making herself comfortable and readying herself to satisfy her curiosity about this bizarre company.

"So Yagoo-san. Thank you for agreeing to have an interview with me today." Ame begins to engage

"Oh no problem at all. Ame-chan" YAGOO respond with a warm smile "feel free to ask anything, I'll try to answer it to the best of my abilities"

As expected of Yagoo, Ame thought to herself before starting the interrogation. "I am going to start with a simple question first. Are you a mage?"

"Hai, I am indeed a mage." Yagoo responded calmly while pouring the freshly brewed tea for both of them.

"Then why did you decide to start a normal company?" Ame questions as she picks up the tea for a sip.

"I'm not particularly a big fan of the mage culture. So as soon as I could, I distanced myself from it as much as possible." Yagoo said dismissively as he also begins to take a sip of the freshly prepared tea.

"Then why a virtual reality entertainment company of all things?"

"Well you probably already did a background check on me." Yagoo sets down his teacup as he finishes the sentence. "There's nothing too special honestly." he lets out a nostalgic sigh before continuing. "I tried out multiple things to see what piqued my interest, eventually landing on the concept of virtual reality technology."

"I originally wanted to use this new medium to create a game. The whole shift into the Vtube market came entirely from Sora-chan and A-chan." Yagoo affirmed with a satisfied look on his face.

Satisfied with the answer so far it's time for Amelia to address the elephant in the room. The whole point of the interview. Enough of beating around the bush. She lowered her head into the palm of both of her hands and asked the most important question of all. "Well then, how did we end up here?"

"What do you mean Ame—!?"

Without getting the chance to finish the sentence, Yagoo's words were cut off by the sound of an explosion that just occurred from a room nearby. This explosive noise is accompanied by, the usual, loud complaints from Hololive's project director A-chan "Come on guys. ONE WEEK is it that hard to not blow up the office for ONE FREAKING WEEK." The yelling contains a cocktail of emotions ranging from tiredness, annoyance, anger, and beyond.

With a big sigh Ame continues questioning "That......How did a tech company run by someone who wants to distance himself away from magecraft end up with a company that is basically filled with extremely destructive mythical beings?!"

"..." The silence in response to the question is deafening even as a time manipulator herself that few seconds feel like years before Yagoo gives out a defeated response.

"The normal excuse would be to say it is a natural progression that slowly escalates to this point but in all honesty, considering our second talent ever is Roboco-chan, I don't think that excuse is valid."

While Ame was trying to process the information she just received, Yagoo simply doubled down. "Look Ame-chan, I honestly just don't know what to tell you it sort of just happens."

Losing her morale, Ame decides she wouldn't be able to get anything more out of this topic. As such she decides to go for another question, and with a defeated sigh she continues. "Let me ask you this then Yagoo. Do you regret it? Getting involved with the likes of us. You left the practice of magecraft to pursue a normal life. But in the end... you ended up—"

"HA HA HA" Her question gets cut off by the hearty laugh of the CEO. "Sou Desu Ne, so that's what this whole investigation is about." Yagoo was finally able to regain control over his laughter before going on to answer her question.

"Not one-bit Ame-chan. In fact, I would say it's one of the best decisions I made in my life." With full confidence and a bright smile, Yagoo answer the question. " All of you have truly become something that is a treasure to me. Like Sora-chan, I have come to view all of you as my family. I am truly happy with what we have now."

As an esteemed detective and investigator herself, Ame is very good at reading people's intentions with just a mere glance and this time is no different. There is no hint of resentment or ill intent within his voice at all. Ame can tell that whatever Yagoo is saying is genuine and for now, she decides not to push this questioning further.

At the very least she knows that the man behind Cover Corp could be trusted and isn't taking advantage of his power for some shady business. For now, this revelation is good enough for her to keep on working with them.

"I see...Thank you Yagoo. That's all for my questions." She said standing up from the sofa.

"No problem Ame-chan anytime." Yagoo himself also stands up offering a handshake to the young detective.

Before a proper handshake could be exchanged another explosion could be heard from just outside the office door. Accompanied by the expected outburst of rage from the overworked director "WHO SET OFF ANOTHER EXPLOSION, WHOEVER DID THAT THE REPAIR FEES ARE COMING OUT OF YOUR PAYCHECK."

"heh yeah, pretty sure that second one was Pekora-senpai's fault." Ame said before the both of them burst out laughing that the absurd situation going on in this bizarre company.

-End Investigation-

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Amelia currently sits in the corridor of the Hololive’s recording studio. She is here to do a small favor for someone. This someone is, none other than, Mori Calliope, more commonly referred to as Calli, and resident workaholic grim reaper rapper.

Despite being all cool and badass, this poor reaper has a severe case of gap moe. As in this particular case, this workaholic thought it was a good idea to go on a 3 all-nighter songwriting binge, and then schedule a recording the very next day. This caused the poor soul to wake up late and need to rush to the recording studio in order to not inconvenience the staff. As such, Amelia is here to deliver the essentials, Coffee, to keep the scattered brain reaper operating long enough to not crash in the middle of 10 other things she has also scheduled for today.

As her train of thought finishes, the door to the recording studio opens up, and walking out is a voluptuous lady with long pink hair. Normally the detective would describe her gen-mate as incredibly beautiful, in this case, however, The reaper looks like a corpse shambling out of some ancient tomb.

“Here you go bone head, how many times do I have to tell you to get some rest until it actually gets it into that thick skull of yours” Amelia casually raises the cup of coffee she brought and handed it to the clearly tired reaper.

Calli takes the cup from Ame’s hand, chugging it down and letting out her ever so iconic gulping noise “Guh” before continuing “ Thanks for that Watson you’re a lifesaver.”

“Seriously Calli, you need to worry about your health more,” Amelia said with a hint of concern.

“Yeah, you're right, I am still getting used to the fact I have a human body now, ya know. Old habits die hard, And I have been a reaper without a body for a longgggggg while.” Calli retorted tiredly.

“Speaking of reapers, I can’t believe I never actually brought this up till now, how does that profession work exactly?” Amelia changed the subject.

“oh?”

Wait, is she even allowed to answer this sort of stuff, is there underwordian NDA? Welp too late to back down now. Amelia thought as she doubled down for her next question. “Well…. as a mortal, I would say it’s a pretty common curiosity. I am gonna die one day. Don’t wanna be a pain to whoever picking me up, ya know”

“Don’t go planning on doing anything reckless now. I don’t want to end my hiatus early” The mood of the conversation quickly shifts, as within a fraction of a second, Calli towers over her and the entire corridor turns cold. Amelia can clearly tell the reaper is threatening her to stop whatever terrible plan she may have. It’s honestly kinda weird that a reaper is telling her not to die, But no matter.

“Chill…. Calli, I wasn’t planning anything,..... at least not yet.” Amelia tries to avoid direct eye contact with the reaper.

Calli doesn't seem to be happy with that response. Let's change the subject. Amelia tries to shift the conversation to alleviate the building tension. “Speaking of hiatus….How exactly does that work…”

“how do…. reapers, you know…., decide who reaps who and when, stuff like that…” Amelia lets out a nervous chuckle.

With a defeated look on Calli’s face, the atmosphere begins to return to normal, “An apprentice reaper like myself gets a list of names provided to us by Death sensei.” This is not the first time she has warned the reckless detective, honestly, at this point even she herself knows it’s a lost cause to try to change the detective's mind once she decided on something.

If regular threats don’t work, perhaps putting things in perspective will at least make the detective think twice about her action, Calli thinks as she continues to explain her occupation. “We simply need to wait until the name turns red which signals the individual is dead and you go pick a soul up and deliver it to sensei so it could be processed and sent off to the afterworld. Pretty simple work really.”

“Wait if it's so simple what's up with your overly excessive combat abilities? Do souls fight back, even if they do I don’t think you need to go that far you guys already have superhuman-level strength, speed, and durability, no?” Amelia continues to ask out of genuine confusion.

“Nah it's nothing like that," Calli states before elaborating.

"There is a lot of dead time between each soul collection, which means reapers often spend quite a while just hanging out in the underworld. And as you can probably guess, the underworld isn't a very peaceful place, petty fights and even all-out wars over mundane stuff happen all the time." 

"We reapers, whenever we are not collecting souls also serve a second purpose as peacekeepers and guards to ensure relative stability within the underworld order. Which in most cases involves us beating up everyone involved into a pulp. Thankfully, over the past few millennia, things have calmed down a lot so we don't really have to do that anymore. ”

"Even if there is no infighting between the ruling parties, we still need to be on top of our fighting game, since there are still jobs like rerouting hell beasts away from demon and devil settlements or dragging demons and devils without proper passports back to the underworld, which does often involve the use of force."

"So it became a tradition that all reapers receive adequate combat training, and it's my job, as one of the oldest reapers around to show these new recruits the rope." Calli ended the explanation with a simple shrug.

“Damn, that’s quite something. Wait so you being on hiatus does that refer to your job as a teacher or your reaping” The detective nervously comments, before beginning to question again.

“Both Actually. I am on hiatus from my teaching job because fewer people are dying now, so there are fewer reapers being created. As such, Sensei decided I should go on hiatus since I have been doing the job for the longest. He wants me to go get a change of pace.” Calli said the last sentence with a slight bit of annoyance.

“Basically he is giving you a long overdue forced vacation, deserved honestly.” Amelia gave the nod as she realized even back then the reaper is a workaholic, before realizing the gravity of the other piece of information.

"Wait a minute, reapers are being created, WHAT," The detective quickly cut back to the bombshell that was dropped.

"Yeah, it is what it is. Most reapers just kind of rise out of the river Styx one day and we just follow the teachings of Death sensei and other older reapers. I don't really want to talk about reaper reproduction systems. These kinds of things are complicated and awkward to talk about. So let's just leave it be alright." Calli says as she shifts the subject of the conversation and Amelia decides to drop the topic for now.

“Back to the topic of hiatuses, most of my reaping list right now is pretty much in the clear. No one seems to be close to death as long as they don’t do anything stupid or some freak accidents happen.” Even though the reaper is looking away and waving her hand dismissively. With her tone, the detective can tell this is another warning directed toward her.

“Since Sensei refused to update my list with more names, I am legally not allowed to reap people that are not on my list. I am effectively on hiatus on that front as well. If no one is dying there is no one to reap.” Calli turns back, giving the detective a wink.

With the comments earlier about leaving the hiatus early. Most certainly NOT ominous at all. “Does this mean I am on her list to be reaped?”, “If I die, she is going to be responsible for taking me?”, “How would she feel if she were to actually reap me?” Amelia thinks to herself but decides not to voice these questions out loud.

“Not like I'm not enjoying my hiatus anyways.” Calli puts her hand up to her chin and begins to nod. “Making music and hanging with you folks turns out to be a lot more fun than I could imagine.” The reaper decides to guilt-trip the detective some more for safety measures.

“I…..see” Amelia hesitantly answered after learning the implication of the last few pieces of information that the reaper had given to her. Before being completely consumed in her train of thought a loud yell can be heard from the other end of the hallway.

“AMELIA WATSON I RECOMMEND YOU DUCK”

Without the proper head space to think, Amelia obliged to the command. While ducking down she could see a motorcycle helmet flying through the air at great speed toward the reaper. Calli nonchalantly grabs the helmet mid-flight, stopping it in its tracks, before slowly putting the helmet on.

“Sorry to interrupt you two.” A loud voice can be heard as the culprit of the flying helmet walks into view. “Calli, you have a meeting about the merchandise coming up. We should get going before we’re late.”

“Got it J-chad.” As Calli finishes putting on the helmet she begins to walk toward her manager. “Sorry Ame, gotta go, let's chat later, ok?” The reaper left the scene after giving the detective a hard pat on the back, leaving the detective alone with her own thoughts.

“yeah of course……”

-End investigation-

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“Idols” by definition is a job known for talented people singing and dancing on stage entertaining the masses with their charming looks and personality. All that makes sense to the investigator, but that begs the question of why was she chosen to be a part of this group, to begin with. The looks part didn't matter since they are virtual, but even still, she can neither sing nor dance, and she is an absolute nervous wreck when in a crowd of people. She doesn’t fit in whatsoever, what exactly makes the hirer think it was a good idea to pick her out of all the other candidates?

She was interested in the company due to its usual approach to handling mythical beings. Being a mage herself she knows that these beings are meant to be hidden from the public eye at all costs, This company, however, is unique, they decided to make these beings their main attraction. Fooling the public into thinking these magical beings are actors role-playing some anime characters with lore and character tropes to play into. It’s something so ballsy that no one has ever thought of doing it before now, hiding the mystical in plain sight, and somehow it worked out. This sense of bewilderment and the need to know and understand what makes this organization tick compelled Amelia to fill in an application form for the company. Her expectations of getting in were low, after all, she doesn’t seem to fit the criteria they were looking for in the application, so she just handed the application in as a joke.

Alas in a twist of fate, she manages to make it in. She never actually thought she’d get this far. So what now?

Well, she is an investigator, and it is time to do what an investigator does best, ask questions. The question now becomes, who does she ask? The answer to this question isn’t that complicated, as there is only one real answer. This answer is one of the founders of the Hololive brand itself A-chan.

A-chan holds the title of talent director of the company. While Yagoo handles the business end of the operations as the CEO, all things talent related are managed by A-chan. She is an extremely diligent and hard-working staff member, always on the lookout for both the talents and other staff's best interests. She works so hard in fact according to some rumors is capable of pulling 5 all-nighters in a row and still be perfectly functioning the next day. She is greatly respected as the pinnacle of what staff should strive to be, however, it’s not advised to follow in her footsteps, since honestly, her lifestyle is extremely unhealthy. Fortunately for A-chan despite her high rank and experience, she is on the younger side of the company age-wise, as such, her body is still capable of pulling off such feats without too many repercussions. Although as time goes on, she has been getting more warnings to curb her workaholic tendencies a bit, to which she would begrudgingly oblige.

Amelia arrived in front of Office room A, a place where A-chan agreed to meet for an interview. Since It’s currently off office hours, most of the other staff have already gone home, and the office room is completely dark.

Amelia gave the office door a knock and waited for a response, after getting non in return, Amelia reached for the doorknob and opened the door. The door is not locked but opening the door Amelia is only greeted with a completely dark room.

“A-chan hello are you in here? do you mind having a little chat?” Amelia shouted into the room as she takes a few steps into it.

“A-chan?” She called out again, looking around the dark room. “Why the hell is the room so dark? Where the heck is the light switch?” Amelia muttered to herself as she walked further into the room pulling out her phone and using it as a flashlight.

She continued walking deeper into the eerie office searching for the light switch panels. However, her search was cut short when her foot caught on to something leading her to tumble down to the floor.

“Ow, what the heck was that?” The detective exclaimed, as she shines her light to see what caused her to trip, she saw what caused her to trip was not some misplaced box or a chair leg but an unconscious A-chan lying on the floor.

“Jesus, A-chan are you ok?” Amelia said as she shakes A-chan to try to wake her up.

A-chan slowly woke up and composes herself standing up and grabbing her glasses from a nearby table and putting them on before readjusting them and greeting her visitor. “Oh, ah, hi Amelia-chan now can I help you”

“Oh thank god you are fine. why are you on the floor?” Amelia asked in a worried panic.

“I was sleeping,” A-chan said matter-of-factly.

Amelia clearly unhappy with the answer annoyedly commented.“ What is up with the pettans and sleeping on the floor, first Ina, and now you”

“ How rude, what do you want to ask me anyways?” A-chan said as she begins to walk off to turn on the lights.

“ Quite a bit actually” Amelia retorted

“ Oh really, I thought Yagoo might have covered most of those already since you already chatted with him a while back.” A-chan said as the lights turned back on around them “Do you want some coffee by the way” A-chan asked a question of her own.

“ I’ll pass, it’s already quite late, I want to have some good sleep tonight. That goes for you to A-chan. You know you should rest as well right? As far as I am concerned, in a company full of mythical beings, you’re only human stop pushing yourself so much.” Amelia answered the question dryly.

“I suppose that’s true, Yagoo and Sora have been bugging me non-stop about it too. I guess I’ll just have a can of Soda then.” A-chan said ending with a sigh as she press the vending machine for a can of orange soda and walked back.

“What is the motive behind Hololive?” Amelia decided to bluntly jump into the topic at hand.

“ If you were expecting some sort of grand master plan, I am sorry to disappoint” A-chan chuckled a little before elaborating. “ Hololive is exactly what it is on the tin. We are an entertainment agency and that’s about the end of it.” A-chan takes a sip of her Soda before crossing her arms “It just so happens, due to some circumstances, we decided it was a good idea to use mythical beings as idols, things just sort of worked themselves out somehow.”

“ What is this “due to some circumstances” both you and Yagoo keep talking about?” Amelia said with an annoyed expression.

A-chan placed her hand on her chin and closed her eyes and began to ponder for a moment before continuing “ Want me to give examples? ”

“ Please do” Amelia tiredly request

“ I’ll use the recruitment process of the Gen 1 members as an example, you’ll understand what we mean by it just happens”

“ Out of the 5 original gen 1 girls, 3 of them were recruited via online advertisement, 3 of these recruits being Matsuri, Aki, and Haato. We did an online interview with them and once they passed, we asked them to come to the office for the official hiring and contract signing.”

“ Imagine our surprise when in actual space elf actually turns up at our office identifying as the person we are hiring.” A-chan laugh nostalgically

“ Like seriously, normally an anomalous being would never reveal themself like that, But she did. Apparently, because of the high magic concentration in the office, she just assumed all of us would also be mythical beings and won’t freak out at the sight of a literal space elf walking in the door.”

“ That's quite a leap of judgment Aki-senpai made. So did you freak out?” Amelia questions

“ Of course we did, are you kidding me? The staff at this point were just me and Yagoo himself so that’s fine. What isn’t fine is she revealed herself in front of the other 2 recruits who were also there in the office, Matsuri, and Hachama, who were both human with no prior occult contact, which rightfully freak the hell out with the revelation” A-chan face palms as she explains

“ Hold on, Hachama was human…” Amelia surprised at this revelation

“ She was when we originally recruited her. Something happened when she went to study in Australia. What happened? I don’t know…, maybe something you want to look into, or not…, honestly I don’t recommend it. Don’t try to question Hachama, it’s bad for your health” A-chan warned before continuing her story.

“ We did tell her off for being reckless but we did hire her, she does fit what we needed after all. After that, we did a lot of explaining to Hachama and Matsuri. Who surprisingly agreed to keep things a secret.”

“ The two of them passed the audition anyways so we are hiring them regardless, but with them now knowing all this, it is just more incentive to hire them, so we can keep an eye on them,” A-chan said as she sinks into her office chair.

“ Rough start huh?” the detective comments

“ Very” A-chan retorted

“ What about Fubuki and Mel senpai?”

“ Those are a lot less messy to explain,” A-chan said before elaborating “We found Mel seemingly injured near the office so we decided to help her out, and in return, she decide she wants to work for us to repay the favor. As for Fubuki, Yagoo recruited her after finding her on one of his trips to find a natural onsen in the mountains.”

“ That simple? ”

“ You gave us too much credit Ame-chan ”

“ After gen 1, both Yagoo and I basically accept our fate, that we have passed the point of no return, and just decide to ride it out and see where fate takes us.” A-chan nonchalantly shrugs and elaborated like she has explained this convoluted story a million times over.

“ So you’re telling me this entire operation was just fate taking its course,” Amelia asked with just sheer disbelief.

To which A-chan responded “ In a sense, yes, But that doesn’t mean we are just going with the flow, over the years we did get our act together and improve, The early years were rough and we did learn a lot. Even if this entire thing started off as a byproduct of my goal of wanting to help Sora become an idol. It most certainly has grown beyond that.” A-chan commented nostalgically.

“Then why hire me”

“ Pardon?” A-chan was surprised at the sudden abrupt question.

“ Then why hire me, what can I offer that others can’t, why me over the other candidates ” Amelia questioned the decisions, the question that has been bugging her ever since she joined.
A-chan simply looks at the detective before taking a large sip of her soda and asking the detective.

“ Do you know how to operate technology?” A-chan asked

“ Yes, I can but there are other–”

A-chan did not wait for the detective to finish her answer before asking another one.

“ Are you capable and willing to work as equals with mythical creatures” 

“ Yes, but-”

A-chan once again skips to another question before the detective can finish.

“ Are you willing to learn and improve yourself while you are working with us”

“ Yes,” The detective answers, confused at the barrage of questions that were just thrown at her.

“ Then that is all that matters, you make the cut,” A-chan said as she set the now empty can down on a desk and smiled.

“ You’d be surprised how hard it is for people to answer yes to those questions.” A-chan nonchalantly elaborated to a still-confused detective.

“ The first question is important because a large majority of your work will be streaming with an avatar we made for you. If you can’t do this you literally can’t work for us. You’re probably thinking ' But A-chan, anyone can do that' WRONG. You would be surprised how tech-illiterate mages can be and how much damage they can cause. So this is extremely important.”

“ Secondly, by this point hiring a non-mage is hard since it would require us to explain everything about the occult all over again, and frankly that is going to be a hassle. Therefore with that requirement, you would be surprised again at how hard it is for mages to have actual decency and treat other mages and mythical beings nicely and not judge or have prejudice. This is also extremely crucial in working with us, since not only are the talents mythical creatures but also some of our staff as well. In order to have an effective team you need to be capable of effectively and fairly communicating with everyone without malicious intent or prejudices towards your colleagues.”

“ Lastly, we don’t expect you to be good at everything from the very start. No one starts off perfect, trust me, I know that better than anyone. But what is more important than being good is to have the desire to improve. Starting off with talent is nice, but not a requirement, you can always pick those up later we have people who are willing to help.”

A-chan stopped and looked at the detective before taking a deep breath and reassuring her “ You might not understand it now, but trust me we didn’t make a mistake in choosing you Ame-chan. Don’t let the imposter syndrome get to you. We pick you because we know you would be a great addition here. Just be natural and have fun everything will fall into place, don’t worry about it, believe me. that approach worked for our company and hasn't failed us yet after all” A-chan laughed at her own comment before continuing.

“ You have a good heart Amelia-chan don’t let the doubt falter you. Here at Hololive, we hire talents to see them grow and achieve greater heights. There is nothing that would satisfy this director more than seeing a talent they picked get to achieving their dream." A-chan warmly smiles as she finishes.

" But, A-chan, I..." The detective steamers to get out her words. 

To which A-chan simply signs and puts this topic to rest "I know you have said you send the application to get to learn more about the talents," A-chan commented to catch the detective's attention.  

" But I also know that you know, you could simply apply as a staff and still accomplish that."

"Yet you didn't."

" Deep down you secretly wanted this. You hoped to get the chance like this. So just follow your heart Ame-chan, we are all here to support you” The director gave the detective a pat on the shoulder as she reassures the detective one last time.

“....Thanks for the pep talk A-chan” The detective weakly smiled back as she told the director.

“ No problem at all Amelia-chan” The director ended the statement with a satisfied nod.

-End Investigation-

Chapter Text

In a company filled to the brim with magical beings, some being capable of leveling cities if they really wanted to, collateral damage is basically expected. The HoloOffice is well known by now to not be the safest work environment since it has the propensity to explode every couple of days.

The HoloOffice is a facility built specifically to house mythical beings separate from the HoloHQ, it is heavily fortified and has a magical barrier around it to prevent all the weird stuff happening inside from being observed by regular people outside. The only people that regularly visit the HoloOffice are the talents and the staff that works with the talents directly like managers and directors, asides from those this place is relatively secluded.

The reason for the constant destruction of the building could be attributed to a variety of reasons such as Pekora senpai deciding to play a prank, Kanata senpai unintentionally punching a wall out of anger, or Hachama senpai being Hachama, etc. Easy to say, when an individual is a lot tougher than a regular human their sense of danger could be slightly skewed on what is safe and what is not.

Thankfully, with the help of magic, fixing up all the destruction caused by the chaos within the buildings is not too difficult. It’s a benefit of having so many magical beings and mages working for the company. At this point, some veteran mages in the company know how to magically forge glass windows by heart, it just goes to show how many times repairs are required.

Speaking of fixing up things, this transitions to the predicament that the esteemed detective of Hololive found herself in.

“Ughhhh” the detective groans as she wakes up. Opening her eyes she found herself on a hospital bed in what looked like a dimly lit infirmary with a translucent curtain surrounding the bed. She attempts to push herself upright from the bed but seems to lack the energy to do so. Out of options, she decides to just remain laying down.

Not long after her decision to remain on the bed, she hears a sound of a wheeled office chair moving closer to her bed. Behind the curtains, the detective can see a silhouette of a voluminous lady figure with horns, bat-like wings, and a tail that has a heart shape tip at the end of it.

Opening the curtain and greeting the detective is non-other than Choco sensei. “ I am glad you have regained your senses Amelia sama, are you perhaps feeling strong enough to move”

“ ughhhhhh, not really Choco sensei. I feel drained. What exactly happened to me? I can’t remember anything.” The detective groaned and respond to the demonic nurse.

Choco sensei is the dedicated health specialist of Hololive. She takes care of almost all of the talents and staff’s medical needs, providing medicine and treating injuries. She is uniquely qualified due to her vast array of medical knowledge that can be applied to both humans and mythical creatures alike. With her around, for better or for worse, there is no need to be concerned about any injury being fatal. Then again, Rushia senpai is a necromancer so there really isn’t a need to be scared of death either. Maybe that’s why all the talents are allowed to be as destructive as they are.

“ Well Amelia sama, you drank from the wrong cup, instead of drinking your coffee, you accidentally drank one of Shion sama’s experimental draining potions. Its effects are as you are experiencing right now. If my treatments prove effective you should be able to recover in about 5 hours or so.” Choco sensei explained as she jot some notes down on her notepad.

“ Thanks, sensei…. I was careless….” The detective said as she slumps onto the bed.

“ No problem at all Amelia sama, mistakes happen to the best of us, I am simply doing my job.” The nurse responds as she sets her note on a nearby desk.

“ Do you wish for me to turn off the lights so you can get some rest”

“ I don’t actually feel sleepy right now Choco sensei.” Amelia tiredly response

“ How about we have a little chat then? You can ask me anything.” Choco sensei said as begins to sit down on the desk and pulled out a pile of work documents she needs to work on.

“ No no, it’s fine Choco sensei, it’s past your work hours after all. I shouldn’t be bothering you like that.” The detective said empathetically.

“ Oh, don’t worry at all Amelia sama. I am well capable of doing a little multitasking, talking while working comes as second nature when you do streaming as a job. As a matter of fact, you would be keeping me company, and making the work slightly less tedious.” The nurse reassures the detective as she starts her work signing some documents.

Amelia ponders for a moment on what would be a good question to ask. But in all honestly due to how tired she feels, the detective is definitely not thinking straight. Without filtering her thoughts, she blurts out a topic she was wondering about for a while, ever since she had a chat with Calli.

“ If you insist so. Thank you sensei. Then if you don’t mind, can I ask some questions?” The detective starts.

“ Please go on ahead Amelia sama, it would be my pleasure” The nurse responds to the detective's request.

“I have recently talked with Calli about the underworld and figured you could give me some more insight.” 

The request caused Choco sensei to pause her writing for a moment before turning around to face the detective.

“ Oh my, quite the nosey one aren’t you? It’s quite common for the people in this company to simply not question things. Yet here you are. Fu fu.” The demon can be seen chuckling in amusement at Amelia as she responds.

“ Uhhhhh, if you don’t want to answer that is fine too, we can talk about other things.” Amelia, in fear that she might have struck the demon’s nerves, tries to pivot the conversation away from the subject. The detective is practically helpless right now, being completely drained of energy and not having any weapons nearby to defend herself. Although she is relatively confident Choco sensei would probably not hurt her, you can never be too sure when dealing with a mythical being.

“ No no not at all, Amelia sama, you misunderstood. I am delighted you want to learn more. I just find it amusing that over the course of the past 2 years working here, you are the first person who brought the topic up” 

“ In a company that works with literal demons and devils, you would expect the topic of the underworld would be brought it up at some point, but it never did. I am surprised it took this long honestly.” Choco sensei said as she walks off and dragged over a whiteboard.

“ Well then Amelia sama, as a teacher, my duty is to impart my knowledge to my students. So without further ado, please ask away I shall explain to you everything I know.” Choco sensei said with great enthusiasm which calms the detective’s nerves a little.

And so Amelia begins “ From my Conversation with Calli it seems like the inhabitants of the underworld seem to be split into 3 categories, Demons, Devils, and Reapers, what exactly is the difference between these groups? Is it like a job title thing or are they all different races?”

“ Ah, perfect start!” Choco sensei comments on the question Amelia proposes before giving an answer.

“ Your second hypothesis is the correct one Amelia sama. Those 3 categories you mentioned are indeed 3 different races entirely coexisting within the underworld.” 

“ Let’s start with basic Taxonomy then. Prepare yourself it’s going to be a lot of information” Choco sensei said as she begins to draw a diagram on the board.

“ To avoid confusion, I’ll be explaining from the perspective of a human mage who would be studying these sorts of things for the sake of simplicity.”

“In terms of humanoid sentient creatures, if we are ignoring the gods and their respective avatars, could be divided into 4 categories: Humans, Demys, Fiends, and Psychopomps.” Choco sensei begins to draw a diagram with some markers on the whiteboard.

“ Firstly, The Human category consists of normal people like A-chan and mages like Yagoo san. Nothing too much to elaborate on here really. Besides, you probably know more about your kind than I do.”

Amelia simply nods, and so Choco sensei continues the explanation.

“ Up next are the Demys, they are probably the most extensive category variety-wise. Earth mages refer to them as Demi-humans, which could be separated into 3 main sub-categories Aliens, Beast folks, and Pseudo humans.” 

“All Demys are either born on what I refer to as the material planes, which includes Earth, other planets, and other dimensions. This distinction of planes will become relevant when we begin to discuss Fiends, and Psychopomps”

The detective takes a mental note before nodding again.

“ Beast folk are, as the name suggests, are folks with animal traits like ears, tails, feathers, etc. Fubuki sama, and Gura sama are good example land base and aquatic base animals respectively.”

“ Meanwhile, the Pseudo human, are not humans but they don’t really have any animal traits either. Elves and Dwarfs fall into this category. As far as Hololive examples, we got Flare sama and Lamy sama who are both half-elves.”

The last category of Aliens just refers to people that are from different planets, so folks like Aki sama and Iofi sama fall into this category.”

“ As a completely side note, the debate of the Alien category is a heavily debated topic. Some mage taxonomists argue they could simply just be part of the other 2 aforementioned groups instead of their own category while some other disagrees. Either way for the sake of the current facts I am presenting, those are the 3 categories” 

The demon nurse finishes the first 2 sections of the diagram, turning back to glance at the detective to confirm her student’s status. Seeing that Ame is seemingly still conscious and attentive to her lesson she continues.

“ Here comes the really complicated stuff.” Choco sensei sighs as she pulls out a different colored marker.

“The universe as we know it can be separated into 3 sections, which researchers refer to as planes. Those planes are The Material Plane, The Astral Plane, and The Void.” 

“ The Material Plane refers to the living world so to speak, it contains multiple different dimensions and currently we exist simply exist in one of them. Dimensions are a bit hard to explain but maybe a dimension traveler like Kiara sama would be better at explaining how exactly how it works better than I do.” Choco sensei comments as she drew a massive oval on the whiteboard and labels it The Material Plane.

Drawing 2 more ovals above and below the first oval. she labels the one above Heaven and the one below The Underworld. While going on to state. “ Up next we have The Astral Plane which is split into 2 parts Heaven and the Underworld. Which serves the purpose of processing souls. I won’t go into details on that, since it’s not entirely relevant to the topic of taxonomy we are trying to understand here.” 

“ Lastly, is the Void, which also isn’t relevant to the taxonomy topic either so I’ll keep it brief. It's the outer layer of everything, no one knows what exactly goes on there, and it's practically almost impossible to study, so as far as we know, it exists. But nothing beyond that, aside from theories and unconfirmed rumors.” Choco sensei finished up the universe diagram by simply drawing a massive circle around the 3 dimensions and labeling it The Void.

The detective follows along with the lesson as best she can with the accumulated exhaustion due to the potion. Seeing the state of the detective Choco sensei puts down the marker for a moment before checking up on the detective. 

“ Amelia sama, if you are tired, we can continue with this conversation next time.” The nurse suggests to the tired detective. 

“ No sensei, I can still keep going” The detective insists, to which Choco sensei complied, as she picks up her marker and continued with the diagram.

“ The reason why I went on a tangent explaining the realms, is because that information is vital in understanding the last two categories of races.” The teacher prefaces before she starts 

“Beginning with Fiends, which consist of Demons and Devils. The key feature of this category is that they are from the Underworld. The key difference between Demons and Devils is their general proficiencies. Most Demons are naturally born with greater physical strength meanwhile Devils are born with stronger magic.” 

“Even though we are born with certain proficiencies, we can still train to become very adept in the other aspect as well. In fact, despite being a demon myself, I have honed my skills to be very proficient in recovery magic for my nursing work.”

“Towa sama is also an example of defying expectations, since despite being a devil herself, she prefers hand-to-hand and weapons combat with the use of her magic weapon Bibi over standard spell casting. Although she is still very much capable of unleashing some pretty nasty curse spells if pressed.”

“Despite being hard to tell apart at times, these two are considered separate species since any offspring born from a Demon and a Devil will be infertile. These offspring are called Succubi or Incubi depending on the gender. When they are born, they inherit the best part of both parents, having both superior physical strength and magical abilities. But due to aforementioned infertility, they have gained… quite a reputation… for reckless sexual activities…..” There was a moment of awkward pause before the demon continues to move the conversation.

“Putting that aside, despite being from The Astral Plane, we Fiends possess a physical form and can travel and live in the Material Plane. This possession of a physical form is the key distinction that separates us from the last category, The Psychopomps” 

“ Psychopomps are also born in the Astral Plane much like the Fiends. Then again using the word born, might not be the most accurate. The best way to describe how a psychopomp came to be is by the word spawn, they sort of just pop out into existence.”

“ They are exactly 2 locations where a psychopomp can spawn, and where they spawned will determine what type of psychopomp they would be categorized as. The first is the Garden of Eden located in Heaven, if a psychopomp is spawned there, it would be considered an Angel. Meanwhile, the second is the river Styx located in the Underworld, and any psychopomp that spawned from there would be considered a reaper. These two types have a distinct appearance from one another, but they very much operate the same way. ” 

“ As the name suggests Psychopomp has a unique relationship with souls. They are the designated caretakers and keepers of souls, which makes sure the soul doesn’t linger on in the material plane and is delivered to the correct position to keep the cycle of life going.” 

“While most of us other sentient beings are very much free to do whatever we want, the Psychopomps are spawned with hard codes within their beings that make them tick so to speak. In layman's terms, all Psychopomps are manifested with crippling OCD to complete any task relating to the codes. Not only that, they seem to be born with a special sense to detect when these codes are being violated, and due to the aforementioned obsessiveness to the code, whatever is wrong will be promptly corrected.” 

“ The details of the codes are unclear since all psychopomps seem to have a universal rule to not talk about it. But some assumptions can be made, such as their inability to kill anything that is not designated to them, which can allow us to infer that is probably one of the codes” The teacher elaborated further.

“ And a large degree of their physiology helps them accomplish such tasks very effectively. As mentioned prior, Psychopomps normally lack a physical body, this, in turn, means, they cannot be harmed by normal attacks and are only affected by magic, and even then they still have a high resistance to it, making going up against one extremely difficult. Their lack of a physical form also comes with the advantage of not needing food or sleep, meaning a psychopomp is capable of relentlessly pursuing a task without stopping until seeing it through to the end.”

“ But it is this lack of physical form that holds them back, they can’t stay in the material plane for long periods of time. As it seems like one of the codes is something related to removing things without physical forms from the material plane. The code makes sense since it confirms their roles as soul collectors, but why it also applies to themselves as well is still a mystery to researchers.”

“The reason why individuals like Kanata sama and Calli sama are capable of living here on earth is due to the fact they were given a physical form one way or another, to bypass that one specific code.”

“ And that is the comprehensive answer to your question Amelia sama” 

The nurse finished up her diagram and lecture before turning back around to check on the detective. Which as she expects was already fast asleep. She then tucked the slumbering detective properly into the blankets. 

“ Rest well Amelia sama” 

The demon then returns to her desk and continues to work the night away.

-End Investigation-

Chapter Text

Hololive doesn’t seem to have a strict policy about what we do in our personal lives, unlike the typical idol contract. There are 2 simple rules that A-chan warned us about. First, as long it doesn’t interfere with the idol work and schedules anything is fair game, and second, don’t use your idol activity to promote your personal work or projects or the other way around.

Simple enough honestly.

We technically don't even need to tell our company what we do in our spare time, however, to be completely honest, generally telling them, or at least your manager would solve a lot of headaches down the line. The managers here are essentially war veterans when it comes to dealing with talents doing weird stuff, they won’t judge you for it, like seriously, they manage to have a mafia boss and a yakuza boss coexisting as talents, nothing can even faze them anymore. Generally, the more your managers know about your background activities the better. They can help accommodate you in terms of scheduling so non of the work clash with each other so you can keep on doing both as efficiently and efficiently as possible, honestly a very handy service.

Putting that aside a lot of the job the talents claims to have is actually true. For example, Roberu-senpai owns a bar and Botan-senpai really does have a ramen shop. Why is this relevant all of a sudden, well…. the detective is really hungry, like really hungry, and what she craves the most right now is some spicy chicken wings. With that goal in mind, there is only one place that can satisfy her evergrowing hunger, A local fast-food restaurant called the Fire Princess, a shop specialized in making top-of-the-line fried chicken.

Fire Princess is relatively small, being run by at most around 5 to 10 employees including the boss herself Takanashi Kiara. This place is basically the template for the KFP Kiara always mentions on her streams, with the difference being the employees are humans and they aren’t really big enough to open up franchises just yet. That didn’t really matter to Amelia right now though, the detective is here for some good chicken and she will get it.

“ I’ll take set 4, with all 2 buckets of chicken being spicy, and also for my drinks I’ll take a sprite,” The detective said as she struts up to the counter

“ yes ma’am, that will be 750 yen” The detective happily paid and take a seat.

After taking a seat, Ame didn’t need to wait for long till the food is ready. Best of all, the big boss herself came to serve the food.

“You should have told me you were coming over, I would have dressed up nice and pretty you know” The phoenix in her human form playfully pouts at the detective.

“Yeah sorry about that, I just had a sudden craving come right over. I couldn’t resist, after all, the chicken here is just divine, exquisite”

“Awwww Ame, don’t need to butter me up like that you’re making me blush” Kiara flusteredly respond to the detective as she served the food and took a seat herself.

Ame begins to dig into the chicken, starting off by taking a large bite of the chicken drumstick. “Man these are great, too bad I still can’t figure out the recipe, what exactly do you put in these?”

“Nope, the taste is a trade secret, gotta keep you coming back for more right.” The restaurant owner gave the detective a cheeky wink.

“oh well I am an investigator, I’ll figure out your secrets eventually. Just wait.” The detective playfully quips back.

“oh? you’re welcome to try miss beauty detective.” Kiara confidently challenges.

The two of them share a hearty laugh before Ame continued to devour the amazing meal. Halfway through the first bucket, the detective begins to wonder how much time did it take for her gen mate to actually perfect such an amazing meal. What better time to bring up such a topic than to ask than now the detective figures?

“Say? Kiara how long did it take for you to come up with the recipe.”

“Hmmm, let's see….” The Orange haired girl ponders for a moment before answering. “I would say, in this world, it took me about 10 years or so to tweak the core recipe to something I like. The ingredients of each dimension are fundamentally different from one another, and getting the taste just right is actually quite complicated. Since you are basically starting from scratch each time." Kiara states matter of factly.

“Somehow, I keep on forgetting you are a dimension traveler.” The detective said plainly.

Amelia then continues her questioning “How long does it take for you to adjust to a new world anyways”

The boss casually shrugs and responds to the question. “Depends on how different each one is and how long I spent living in the old one. For example, if I lived in a medieval world for let's say 50 years, a transition to a modern world like this one will take some time.”

“ Normally, I would be doing it all by myself. This would be tough considering accommodating to a new environment, currency, food, culture, and all the other stuff all in one go, it’s exhausting as hell. ” Her gen mate elaborated in a mix of tired and annoyed tone.

“ Luckily this time, Calli is around, and things went a lot smoother.” The phoenix elatedly told the detective.

“ So Calli went on hiatus before you revive here? ”

Gleefully the phoenix responds “ That’s right since she was here before me, once I was reborn she taught me everything and showed me the ropes on how to deal with this world. isn't she the best? ”

“You two are close huh?” The detective playfully teased.

To which, missing the detective’s implication completely, Kiara innocently replied “Yup, she is the most reliable friend I know. No matter what happens I know she will have my back even if I were to die. Well duh, she is a reaper it’s kind of her job.” finishing the line with a wide smile.

The detective rolled her eyes before continuing “ How exactly does your revival thing work anyways? I would assume Calli is somehow involved, but last I check Calli was only in charge of only reaping humans. So what’s the connection here?” Amelia questions. 

The boss puts her hand to her chin and ponders for a moment before answering “ It’s complicated so I’ll try to break it down. Firstly, this whole revive thing is a curse. Are you familiar with the greek god Prometheus? ”

“ Yeah, the one known for giving fire to mankind and getting punished for it. Why? ” The detective is intrigued that her friend just casually names drop an actual greek god like some sort of family member. Then again, this wouldn’t be the first time since Gura also has relations with Poseidon. She is dealing with supernatural creatures here, having actual mythological gods exist shouldn’t be that surprising at this point.

“ Yeah, that one. He is real, and I am one of his descendants. The details about why he got punished aren’t exactly as you know about it. But the one thing the greeks got right is the punishment bit. But there is actually more to that punishment that was never talked about. Due to his crime, his blood is tainted and non of his kin are to be permitted to pass to the afterworld like all other souls.”

Well, that certainly was quite a bombshell revelation, the detective thought to herself as what she learned about all her life was just causally dismissed as being false. Amelia would like to question the topic further, but considering this is Kiara, bringing it up would probably lead her to stray off the main revival topic and go on a long never ending tangent. So for the sake of learning about the revival process, the detective decides to leave the question about the gods for later.

The phoenix paused for a second to glance at the detective to confirm if she was capable of taking all this information in at once. The detective simply gives a nob confirming that she can, and so the phoenix continues with her story.

“ So since I can’t pass on, my soul would technically linger in the underworld indefinitely. But there's a problem. Since I am, by technicality, of divine blood. It puts a massive target on my back because the underworld lords would have tried to exploit my power for their own gain. Therefore to sidestep all the power struggle nonsense that would have happened because of my soul, the underworld ruler, Death sensei, decides throwing me back into the mortal realm as soon as possible whenever I show up, would be the best course of action.”

“And since I need to have a physical body to appropriately stay in the mortal realm. I get revived in the process. Then again, I can’t be alive forever, so he set up a ritual to be able to send me back to the mortal realm as fast as possible whenever I died and appointed Calli as my dedicated celebrant to care for me and perform the ritual when I am in the underworld.”

“According to Calli, this duty of hers still remains even during her hiatus. Since the type of “appointment” that he gave to Calli is essential a soul bind spell, making our souls eternally linked with each other so she can find me no matter where I am, for her to pick up and deliver my soul.”

To Amelia, the last part just sounds like the two of them are in an arranged marriage. But the two of them don’t seem to mind it so much so that’s good for them.

“ Honestly being soul bind like this is very handy. Calli knows exactly where I am and can come to pick me up. Especially since after I die, there is a chance of me losing a chunk of memory. And it can be very scary just suddenly not knowing anyone or anything, all confused and alone.” The Phoenix’s voice begins to shake as she keeps on explaining

“ The memory lost is mostly temporary, but there are occasions where I lose a memory completely. Calli is usually there to help tell me about the things I forget, So that’s a relief. But even then, there are some rare occasions that I forget even her.”

“ Thanks to the soul bind though, even if I can’t remember her, I at least know she is there to help” Kiara tries to regain her composure and give the detective a smile to reassure the detective that everything is fine. 

Amelia of course couldn’t be fooled that easily. The phoenix is definitely shaken up from sharing her vulnerabilities. She can’t just leave Kiara like this though, she needs to cheer her up or at least make distract her from the somber mood. 

As such the detective constructed a plan, and it’s known as tangents. 

“ Say, Kiara, you said you have been to different dimensions right? Have you seen any alternate versions of me running around?” The detective throws up a new conversation starter. 

Which, unsurprisingly, the phoenix took the bait, shifting her attitude immediately back to her usual chipper chatty self.

“ hmmm, alternate Ame’s huh? I think I might know a couple”

With that, the two girls keep talking late into the night. 

-End investigation-

Chapter Text

One has to wonder how much you can trust A-chan’s claim of this place only simply being an idol agency. Why would an idol agency ever need a firing rage built into it? Putting that aside, for now, the fact that the firing range exists at all is quite convenient. Amelia recently did some modifications to her concoction gun and is looking forward to recalibrating it to make sure it works properly, and to be completely transparent, testing it in a range would probably be easier than doing it in her office….also she wouldn’t need to worry about clean up afterward.

Arriving at the range Amelia found it to be occupied by a few staff members, but the notable person that is here is Botan. Her senpai from Hololive generation 5 is famous for her godly fps skills. Should she be surprised to see an fps gamer at an actual firing range? No matter though she is here to test out her new weapon.

Amelia got on to one of the stations and begin unpacking her device. She first checks her ammunition, these are custom-made darts meant to store the concoctions, the dart itself has an injection mechanism built into it to insure the maximum dosage of the drug is applied if the contraption does land. In this case, she just filled the darts up with water as a stand-in for the concoction, She is only testing after all, not fighting real bad guys. Once she thoroughly checked the darts she loaded them into a cartridge. Up next is the gun itself, appearance wise it looks like a regular handgun, but since it needs to be able to shoot something so delicate as a dart storing liquid, obviously the internals is going to be different. After all the checking is complete she loaded the cartridge onto the gun itself and gets ready to shoot.

3..2..1..BANG

The first shot goes off without an issue, landing on target.

Amelia realigned the gun once again before taking another shot, still landing on target.

“This thing works perfectly” Amelia gleefully cheered at her successful creation.

“You could still work on your aim a little more you know.” a familiar voice commented, It’s Botan.

“Quite the neat little device you got there” she commended as she approached the detective

“Uhhhhh, thanks senpai” Amelia awkwardly reply

“May I have a look at it?” Botan asked. To which the detective answered with a simple nod.

Taking the gun from the detective's hand, she commented “This is a bit lighter than a typical gun” she then fires some of the bullets before pausing to make a comment “ I can see now why you were having a bit of trouble, the recoil on this little thing is insane.” The lioness said as she handed the device back to the detective. “Fix that and you’ll have a pretty effective weapon”

Amelia takes the gun back acknowledging the feedback with an awkward nod

“The worse thing you need to fix isn’t the gun itself though, It’s your posture” The lioness disapprovingly comment “here come, I’ll spot for you,” she said as she lead the detective to the target.

Amelia follows and assumes a firing position. “good, lean forward a little more, Also put one foot in front of another.” The senior instructed and Amelia followed “perfect, up next is your elbows, roll your elbow inwards, this will give you a bit more pressure on the gun and will help you be stiller” Amelia once again followed her instructions before taking her shot

“Bulls-eye, Nice job!” The white lion satisfyingly commented.

“Thank you Botan Senpai” Amelia retorted

“Hey, don’t sweat it all you need now is just practice.” The senior said as she lets out a hearty laugh, before continuing. “Say Ame-chan, do you wanna come over for some ramen, my treat.”

“Sure, let's go senpai” Amelia was a little surprised about the invitation at first, but since she doesn’t have any plans for the day anyways decided to accept the invitation.

Amelia and Botan left the firing range and made their way to her go-to ramen shop. As they entered, the delicious aroma of ramen filled the air, making Amelia's stomach growl in anticipation. They took a seat at the counter, and Botan called out to the chef, placing their orders.

As they waited for their ramen to arrive, Botan struck up a conversation with Amelia. "So, Ame-chan, how's everything going for you in Hololive? Adjusting well?"

'Ame-chan' Ame stops in her tracks when she realized she was called by that name, but she quickly refocused in the topic.

Amelia nodded. "Yeah, it's been quite an experience so far. Getting used to the idol lifestyle and managing my detective work can be challenging at times, but I'm enjoying it. And it's great to have genmates like you" pointing at Botan. "-who are always supportive."

Botan smiled. "That's good to hear. We're all here for each other, so if you ever need any help or advice, don't hesitate to ask."

Amelia appreciated Botan's words of encouragement. "Thanks, senpai. I'll keep that in mind. By the way, senpai, any tips for managing my time effectively? Balancing idol work and detective work can sometimes be overwhelming."

Botan thought for a moment before responding. "Time management is definitely important. I would suggest creating a schedule and sticking to it as much as possible. Prioritize your commitments and allocate specific time slots for each task. And don't forget to schedule some downtime for yourself too. Taking breaks and recharging is essential."

They finished talking with one another and basked themselves with the silence, Amelia was finally done eating her ramen.

"Senpai, this ramen was absolutely delicious. Thank you for treating me."

Botan waved it off. "No problem at all, Ame-chan. It was my pleasure. Anytime you're craving ramen, feel free to drop by."

-End of Investigation-

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Hololive has a fair share of questionable hires, not in the entertainment aspect, everyone is a fantastic content creator, but in the risk department. Sure, hiring anomalies that are harmless and put on payroll is nothing new in mage-owned companies. But you can’t with a straight face just go, "Let’s hire an Oni warrior, who has on record slain entire armies by herself, to stream funny games and giggle for the audience." How is this remotely considered safe?!

What's even more concerning, is that Ayame-senpai isn’t even close to being the most dangerous thing in the company that is just causally walking around.

Any sane person would think. Maybe they have a way to force these powerful beings to work for them. A powerful contract? A mystical artifact? Perhaps some sort of blackmail?

...Then you come to the grim realization, There is nothing stopping them. All the company has as a way to govern its talent behavior, is just the regular business contract. Because Yagoo didn’t want to follow the trends set by other mage companies. In some aspects, Amelia respects this decision, but STILL.

Just the thought of the apprentice of death itself having the same contract as a normal human girl would seem insane to any sane person who cares even the slightest bit about their sense of safety.

Alright, maybe insinuating that they don’t care about safety is a bit harsh. Most of the talents despite their monstrous track record, still have a mental capacity and way of thinking similar enough to humans that it is feasibly possible for things to not go off the rails with some assistance from their respective managers.

But one must think, how much is deemed too much? When do they consider something being too dangerous to work with? Perhaps something that is planning to take over the world and rip reality itself apart?..... Apparently, Not!

May Amelia present, her dear adorable gen mate, Ninomae Ina’nis, An extremely talented illustrator and pun enthusiast. Being part of the Myth crew, she is obviously not normal. So what was her quirk? What makes her so special to be considered a Myth member you may ask? How about, Being a priestess of an Ancient Ones?

The Ancient Ones are beings notorious for ending multiple timelines and dimensions, the same beings that are so beyond mortal comprehension that even learning their true name can turn your brain to mush, the beings that are so powerful that there is no force in the universe that can stop it. Yeah, her being a servant to one is mildly concerning.

Perhaps Cover Corp knows more about the Ancient Ones than they let on and they are not as bad as Amelia assumed. Well, one way to find out.

After Trekking up a mountain for 2 hours of dense vegetation, Amelia found herself in front of a secluded and oriental-style house. This is the humble abode of the Priestess in question. Few people actually know about the location of this place as there is a magic barrier that prevents it from being seen from the outside. Luckily Amelia has a way to track Ina’s location.

The detective rang the bell and knock on the door to the estate and waited for a response, which did not take long. Soon enough the door opens and Amelia is greeted by Enma, Ina’s right hand, bodyguard, and now manager.

“ Greetings, Amelia, are you here to meet Ina? ” The manager spoke dryly.

“ Yeah, is Ina available at the moment? I want to talk to her about something.” Amelia answered.

The manager closes her eyes for a moment before responding. “ She is currently in the middle of finishing up some late work. However, it should be finished soon. If you wish, you can wait in the common room while I go prepare some tea for the both of you.”

“ That…That would be great… Thank you, Enma” the detective hesitantly responds before being led into the house.

Enma is quite enigmatic even more so than some talents in the agency. She is notorious for being the most anti-social of all managers designated to Myth. She only really interacts with Ina and the higher-ups and not much else. However, from what is known, Enma acts as an overprotective parental figure to Ina, prioritizing Ina’s physical and mental well-being over everything else. She is extremely cautious of anyone who tries to come into contact with Ina, remaining in close proximity to her at what seems to be at all times. All the while going out of her way of spoiling the priestess with gifts and granting her weird request like modeling for her. Overall Enma is not a bad person, just simply a bit uptight, doesn’t really make her any less intimidating though.

The interior of the house is well kept, and the common room itself is nice and warm with a kotatsu in the middle of the room, which Amelia makes herself comfortable in while she waits for Ina to finish with her duties.

“ Sorry for the wait Ame. I was doing some last-minute art submissions, I completely forgot the deadline was today.” A petite figure exclaimed while walking into the common room accompanied by a strange floating book, long beautiful and squishy hair, an orange halo behind her head, tiny wings coming out of her lower back, also a bunch of tentacles…like alot of tentacles sprouting from a portal floating behind her back.

“ No problem at all Ina. Sorry to bother you at a time like this,” Amelia simply respond with an apology.

“ It’s no big deal at all, you did tell me you were coming in advance after all. In fact, I should be the one being sorry for finishing late.” Ina explains as she takes her own seat at the kotatsu.

“ You don’t need to be sorry Ina, and of course, I would tell you in advance. Last time I turned up unannounced, Enma almost cut me in half with her sword.” The detective scoffed back. 

“ Well, you can never be too sure. You could have been an intruder intending to kidnap her and take advantage of her powers. ” Enma, responded to the detective's complaint while serving the newly prepared tea.

“ Fair point, but don’t you think your first option being murder is a bit extreme.” The detective simply barks back.

“ To be fair with Enma here Ame. When you have to deal with groups of mages coming over and trying to kidnap what you are protecting every other week. You default to ‘Maim first ask question later’. Trying to reason with any of them just never really works and just ended up being a waste of time.”

“Luckily that has all but stopped since we join Hololive. But you can never be too sure whether they actually stopped entirely or not. They could just be planning for a bigger attack once we let our guard down. So better be safe than sorry.” The priestess justifies her bodyguard’s actions.

To which Enma just gives an agreeable nod.

“Seriously you two? Also, Enma don’t you know what I look like, why did you still try to kill me?” Amelia frustratingly retorted.

This, in turn, prompted the two to turn to the detective and respond in unison “Appearance can easily be faked.”

These two are hopeless. The detective thought to herself as she decides to change the subject to what she actually came here for.

“Let me just cut to the chase then, Ina. I don’t really know if this is appropriate or not, but." Amelia braces herself to ask the question.

"As a servant of an Ancient Ones, are you planning to take over the world? ” The detective questioned the priestess.

“Humu” Ina simply nods and ponders for a moment before responding.

“ No not really. AO-chan doesn’t really seem interested. Thanks, AO-chan ” Ina nonchalantly responds and begins to giggle jokingly, while The cursed book can be seen gleefully spinning mid-air as it received the priestess’ gratitude.

Continuing the Priestess goes on to state “ Since AO-chan doesn’t have any plans, and I also got no real plans for world domination. You all got nothing you need to worry about." Ina spoke with a satisfied smile and continues her cheery mood.

The detective herself is having quite a hard time wrapping her head around the conversation. Perhaps this is what they mean by sanity checks. What is the actual motive behind the book? Why Ina of all people? And how is it doing all of this in the first place? But in order to ask all of this she needs to be careful about how she delivers these questions without causing any distress to Ina or the Ancient Ones.

But in all honestly, it’s easier said than done, everything is a shot in the dark. Despite how good of friends they are Ina is still a very private individual and doesn’t share too many details about herself, nor does she gives a strong reaction to many topics remaining mostly calm and collected. So knowing with topics would upset her and how to bring such topics up for questioning is practically impossible. So that leaves Amelia with no other options. She’ll just need to go for it and leave it up to fate. 

“ You and AO-chan seem to be on good terms” Amelia brought up her observation to test the waters. 

“ Yeah, we get along pretty well. AO-chan isn’t very needy and just enjoys observing what I do.” Ina joyfully recounts 

Ok, the detective has set up the topic, and now she can organically ask the question. “ How exactly did you two first meet.” 

Ina ponders for a moment before responding, “ Well, I met AO-chan quite a while back so the details are a bit fuzzy. But from what I remember, AO-chan was mistakenly sent as a package to my address, thinking it was an art book I was waiting to be delivered, and since I was extremely overworked and sleep deprived at the time being a working artist, I didn’t realize the package didn’t belong to me and opened it.” Ina looked at the detective for a reaction, after seeing that Amelia still looks pretty confused, she continues her story.

“ After looking inside the book, a pack with AO-chan was formed and I became a priestess, transforming me into what you see now. I did freak out at first but quickly got used to it. The changes in looks didn’t really matter since I barely go outside for anything in the first place and the occasional tentacles are nice in helping me do small chores in the background while I work on my art.” Ina casually elaborated. 

Amelia is awfully concerned at how unbothered Ina is by all of this, so decides to ask Ina to clarify some things. “ Uh, Ina, are you sure that’s everything? I am sure there is more to it right? You are dealing with an extra-dimensional being that is possessing your body to do its bidding here.”

“ Oh, right, I guess AO-chan did ask for a favor not to use the power they gave me to cause absolute chaos, mayhem, and destruction to all of humankind on this planet as we know it. But yeah, you know me, I was already not going to do that regardless so it’s barely even a request.” Ina relieves the detective’s concern. 

“ So it’s not evil? ” Ame simply just asked straight to the point. 

“ So that’s what you are wondering about.” The artist begins to laugh at the detective’s line of questioning. 

“ Look, The Ancient Ones doesn’t necessarily have the most flattering reputation, it’s a completely valid question alright.” The detective tries to defend herself.

“ Like how all humans are not evil, all Ancient Ones are not evil either. AO-chan as Ina calls it isn’t evil. Its identity is known as The Eyes Between Worlds, or more commonly The Watcher, it doesn’t have any plans of doing anything, simply observing. ” Enma calmly confirms Ina’s statement, to which both the book and Ina nod in agreeance.

“ So what does being a priestess entails exactly” The detective relaxes and asked.

“ Well for starters my soul is now bound to AO-chan, in exchange, AO-chan gives me magic powers and talks to me. That also means my transformed appearance is permanent, which is a bit of a shame, but not that big of a deal for a shut-in artist like me” Ina chipperly explained the situation.

“ As long as The Ancient Ones and the host gets along and compromise with each other. There are no real concerns about harm caused to the host both mentally and physically. Contrary to popular belief the Ancient Ones can’t just take over and control the host, and what people often mean by The Ancient Ones corrupting the mind of the host, is just The Ancient Ones relentlessly begging and nagging the host to satisfy their request until the host eventually caves in out of sheer annoyance.” Enma chimes in to explain further.

“ And since AO-chan has always been good there is nothing to worry about.” Ina once again reassures the detective, with Enma simply nodding in agreeance in the background.

“ I guess, I worried too much after all.” Amelia leads forward resting her head on the kotatsu and letting out a sigh of relief. 

Amelia isn’t exactly completely certain about all of this. But considering that she is dealing with something beyond mortal comprehension. This is the best answer she can possibly hope for. 

“ For what it’s worth, your worried is not unfounded.” Enma once again plainly reassures the detective.

“Humu” Ina simply nods as moves to a different topic and starts discussing possible future projects in the future. 

-End Investigation-

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Amelia has debuted for a couple of months at this point, she has settled into her responsibility, streaming 3 times a week roughly 2 hours each, it’s not a tall order. In fact, she is probably streaming a lot more than what is required, she grew to like the occupation quite a bit, and playing games and interacting with fans is fun.

No matter how fun it is though. There is a human limit and Amelia is pushing it. The hard part isn’t the streaming per se, but the background work associated with it, permissions, plans, projects, proposals, commissions, scheduling, and promotions, just to name a few, take a lot of time and effort to micro-manage even with the managerial support Hololive provides. This really has pushed the detective to the brink, especially when her group seems to be a lot more successful than originally anticipated, putting a lot of pressure on everyone to live up to the fans' expectations. Although the job is extremely rewarding, she still feels like she needs a little break from all the work and has decided to take a rest for today.

The detective scrolled through her phone before sending a quick message informing her manager, Jenma, and promptly shut the device off and headed to her bedroom. She sees Bubba is already waiting for her, the cute puppy lays at the foot of the bed. She walks over to the window, and closes her curtains, before getting onto the bed and slowly drifting off to sleep.

“ Found you. Time traveler.” an unfamiliar female voice shocked Amelia awake, instinctively the detective reached for the metal bat that she has at her bedside. However her weapon isn’t present, nor is the rest of the room.

Amelia woke up in a completely unknown location, everything is pitch black she couldn’t see anything. Trying to move around she couldn’t really feel anything either. Out of options, the detective resorts to trying to get a response from the mysterious voice she heard before all this happens.

“ Who are you and what do you want with me? ” Amelia yelled out.

Following her declaration, the detective feels a strong gust of wind forcing her to close her eyes. Opening her eyes once again the black void she was in earlier was replaced with the scenery of an expansive desert littered with giant destroyed watch faces and hourglasses. Turning around and looking behind her Amelia can see a person staring directly at her.

The figure is a lady with blue hair and blue eyes wearing a strange form-fitting costume that accentuates her extremely impressive proportions as if she was showing those off. Amongst the decimated and desolate horizon, the lady sat on a lone bench next to a bus sign.

The detective cautiously approaches the figure, not that she really has any other options anyways.

“ I am Amelia Watson, a detective, and mage, my thaumaturgical specialization is in time manipulation. What do you want from me?” Amelia introduced herself to the figure and repeated the question.

In-kind, the mysterious lady also introduces herself “ I am Ouro Kronii, warden of time, my job is to manage all time-related abnormalities. I decided to appear to you here today to issue a warning, from here on out do not use your abilities to manipulate time any further or there would be consequences.” The lady spoke threateningly.

“ First of all rude. Second of all can you even prove to me that you’re who you are claiming to be?” The detective still on guard tries to gather more information about this mysterious person she is facing to formulate a plan of action.

“ Your powers originate from your watch, a family heirloom given to you by your grandfather, Dr. John H. Watson. I am well aware of the emotional significate of such objects to humans such as yourself, so I have made an executive decision to give you a warning instead of outright confiscating the device from you.” Not breaking eye contact, the lady simply stands as she explained, her tall stature towering over the detective.

“ The decision is yours, if you want to follow my warning or not, just know that your actions will have dire consequences” The lady’s words exuded an otherworldly aura, something similar to the pressure Ina exude but more powerful, prompting the detective to take a few steps back away from the supposed keeper of time.

“ Why show up now? If my grandpa know about you, he would have told me about it or even not given me the watch entirely. This means that you never showed up to meet him. What changed?” Amelia puts on a brave face and asked a warranted question. If this lady is as big of a deal as she makes herself out to be, something is definitely going on.

“ The disruptions you people cause normally are easy enough to deal with, but due to new threats that are arising, my hands are going to be more full and I can’t keep cleaning up after your mess. So I trust that humans like you possess the mental capacity to cooperate with my agreement.” The supposed timekeeper elaborated.

Amelia expected a bit more information, but it seems the time warden insisted on keeping things as vague as possible. She wants to push for more information, but that is too risky right now, she is unarmed and trapped in an unknown location, with the only way out being to trust in this person that is threatening her, to say she is in a bit of a sticky situation is an understatement. The detective is left with no choice.

“ Alright I accept your terms” The detective begrudgingly agreed

“ Thank you for your cooperation Amelia” Kronii simply thank the detective.

“ Close your eyes and return to your rest Amelia, and hopefully if things go right, you will have a long life ahead of you,” The warden said bitterly as she walked past the detective. If Amelia were to extrapolate all the information she has gathered so far, things are definitely not going great, perhaps even dire. It’s now or never.

There is still a lot of missing information, but one thing Amelia can tell is that, at least from the looks of it, Kronii doesn’t seem evil or at least is willing to negotiate. The supposed time deity could have killed the detective and that would have solved her problem issue, yet still chose to make a deal instead. There is still some humanity within this person. Kronii could be reasoned with.

Whatever is going on is giving the warden trouble. She doesn’t really comprehend the magnitude of the situation, but one thing is for sure, she wants to help.

“ Wait, maybe I can help” The detective earnestly said as she spun around to face the warden again.

The response to the detective’s declaration was met with, at first, a stunned silence which then quickly devolve into the previously aloof and uptight warden giggling and laughing heavily, even to the point of clutching her own belly and falling on her knees. It was a sight to behold.

“ What’s so funny? ” The detective looks downwards warden who is currently rolling on the ground hysterically laughing.

“ HAHAHAHAHA, man I haven’t heard such a joke in a while. Maybe Mumei was right, you humans are entertaining. HAHAHAHAHA” Kronii continues her manic laughing while writhing on the ground.

The detective doesn’t really know whether or not she should feel insulted or be glad that her asking a genuine question managed to somehow change the atmosphere between the two of them.

After some time, the high and mighty time warden managed to regain control over her laughter, Amelia extends out her hand as a gesture to help Kronii up to her feet, a gesture that the warden accepts taking the detective’s hand and pulling herself up before speaking.

“ I apologize for my sudden outburst, I wasn’t expecting that sort of response.” Kronii apologized taking a deep inhale to stop her laughter once and for all.

“ Why are you so surprised? You said it yourself, humans are smart enough to cooperate and follow agreements, I am sure that means we should also be smart enough to know that something is wrong and we should do anything to help fix it” Amelia responded, trying to disguise the fact that she wants to learn more about whatever this threat Kronii is dealing with is. The mood of the conversation has shifted, with the warden being slightly more relaxed, she might actually be able to get some useful information.

“ No, it’s just, I find it quite ironic. Normally it’s you, humans, requesting aid from higher powers to help you on your quest, and then here you are, just a regular human being concerned over and trying to help out what is basically equivalent to a god, without even knowing what the problem really is” Kronii explains the logic behind her previous outburst.

“ I am a detective and if my deduction is correct, if this problem isn’t fixed all of us humans would also be affected by this threat you are working on as well. Why wouldn’t we want to try to stop that.” Amelia explained her perspective on the matter.

“ Well, when you put it that way, how do I explain this in a way you will understand ” Kronii paused for a moment to think about what to say next.

“ As much as I appreciate your gesture to help, I am afraid there isn’t alot you can do. We are talking about universal levels of threats here, humans the likes of you stand no chance of even imagining to put a dent at it.” The warden flatly told the detective.

“ Maybe I can’t help, but I definitely know some people that can, I am working for Hololive, and within our ranks, we have some powerful people that can potentially do something against this threat you are talking about. Within our ranks, we have Angels, Demons, mythological creatures, Goddesses, and even the Ancient Ones, I think that is quite a bit of power that can help back you up, don’t you think?.” Amelia tries to argue, coaxing the warden to reveal more information, which, surprisingly, actually works.

“ Wait what, why hasn’t Mumei reported any of this to the Council? No single place should be holding that much power under their control, especially having control over an Ancient One and Goddesses is an absurd statement. What is your company doing?” The warden grabbed both of the detective’s shoulders and practically shouted her question in a panic.

“ Hololive is an entertainment company, so both of them are working together to entertain an online audience from around the world” Amelia explained in the most serious tone she can muster.

“ You can’t possibly expect me to believe that everything you said is true. Now, what do they actually do?” Kronii returned to her intimidating tone and dryly question the detective.

Without even the slightest bit of hesitation, Amelia simply responds “ Yeah, Surprised me at first as well, and before you ask, Yes, they are who they exactly what they claim to be with evidence to back it up as well. I still haven’t figured out how exactly the company managed to make it happen.” The detective responded with the same attitude A-chan gave her when trying to explain the insanity of the situation.

“ Don’t joke around Amelia, this is Serio-” Before the warden could finish her sentence, she was cut off by another loud voice directed at her coming from the sky.

“ Oi Kronii, hurry up to the meeting room, Sana got some intel from the Ancient Ones’ whispers, and things ain’t looking hot, Manipulator ain’t pulling any punches, so get your lazy bum over here, the universe’s gonna blow if we don’t decide on something. The voice annoyedly yelled.

“ Alright, fine, I got some big news on my end as well,” Kronii yelled back up at the sky before redirecting her attention back to the detective.

“ I will have to get more information out of you later, but for now I need to go. Sorry I have to cut things short. ” The warden simply said as she summons a pair of blades slicing the air in a cross-motion and opening up a portal.

“ Step through here and you’ll be brought back to your own dimension, sorry for the sudden inconvenience.” Kronii makes way for the detective and simply nudges her through the portal before she could let out any protest.

A strong gust of wind once again forced her to shut her eyes, and upon opening her eyes once more, the detective found herself back on her own bed. 

Wasting no time, Amelia rushes out of the comforts of her bed, rushed out of the room, grabbed her phone, and called her manager.

“ Jenma, set up a meeting with Yagoo for me as soon as possible, I have some graves matter to discuss”

-End Investigation-

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“ And that’s all the information I have about the situation” Amelia wrapped up her presentation on her recent encounter with Kronii the supposed warden of time to the meeting conference.

For such a catastrophic deal as this could turn out to be, many members were requested to attend this particular meeting to collaborate on all known information and potentially come up with a plan of action. Not all members are present to receive this info simply to avoid mass panic, but the essential members and representatives of each inhabited realm most certainly are.

The room went silent as predicted, as the members who are called for the meeting take some time to take in the information. Sora senpai, A-chan, and Shinove san seem confused and worried, not unsurprising, they are just humans hearing about the end of the universe after all. Yagoo, Suisei senpai, Fubuki senpai, Botan senpai, and Moona senpai are concerned about the situation as well but chose to put on a stern poker face to preserve a sense of order in the room. Kanata senpai, Towa senpai, Iofi senpai, Choco sensei, Oga senpai, and Calli are all on edge after receiving the information but nothing further of note. Meanwhile, AZKi senpai, Rikka senpai, and Roboco senpai begin to get busy right away, frantically combing through as much information as technologically possible on all public and private sources of information to see if any of them match the information Amelia just mentioned. The only interesting reaction comes from Ina of all people, who was initially excited at the mention of the council but quickly was bummed out and worried like the rest when the fate of the universe was mentioned.

“ Ahem, alright, thank you Amelia chan for bringing this topic to our attention, does anyone else have anything to add” Yagoo cleared his throat and broke the silence.

“ If it’s the Council is handling it, then there shouldn’t be anything to worry about.” Ina sheepishly raises her hand and responds.

“ Please feel free to elaborate further on the matter Ina chan, what exactly is the council and what do you know about them.” Yagoo begins his questioning.

“ Well, to put it simply the council are the people in charge of running the universe. They are like a more hands-on court system, they make the laws and also enforce them, making sure things don’t go haywire. There are currently 5 members of the Council, The Speaker of Space Sana, The Keeper of Nature Fauna, The Guardian of Civilization Mumei, and lastly their leader Chaos Baelz. I can assure you they are good people, whatever it is going on we are in good hands .” Ina explains what she knows to the rest of the group.

“ How can you be so sure Ina chan, are you somehow acquainted with them,” Suisei spoke up and questioned the priestess’ confidence.

“I am acquainted with Sana, she is an apostle of an Ancient One. So we kinda work in the same industry, in more ways than one actually, since she picked up drawing as a hobby so we have more things to share whenever we meet up and now also works as a professional artist. We’re good friends, I would go so far as to call her my lifelong friend. She is a sweetheart, I can vouch for her, and since Sana trusts them, I am willing to give the rest of Council the benefit of the doubt as well.” Ina reaffirms her stance on the matter.

“ Alright, at least for now, let us assume Council to be on the good side. Time for the important question, what about the opposing force? What exactly is this “Manipulator” they are talking about, and does anyone here know anything about it?” Yagoo once again questions the entire meeting room.

The silence in the room is deafening, everyone awkwardly looks at each other waiting for someone to say something. Everyone seems to be in the same boat, no one knows what is going on, and the scale of whatever is going on is simply too big for us to be dealing with. As it seems even the technologically advanced trio of AZKi senpai, Rikka senpai, and Roboco senpai could not come up with any further information to add. 

Yagoo turned back to Ina one last time for a suggestion. “ Ina chan can you possibly contact your Sana san on the matter?” 

“ I’ll try Yagoo san, but since she is off in space and as this meeting has already suggested that there is an issue going on. There is a pretty good chance I won’t get a response anytime soon.” Ina solemnly commented.

Yagoo simply nods before continuing. “ Well, Unfortunately, if no one has any further contributions let us end the meeting here. It seems we are simply lacking too much information to do anything right at this moment. Therefore, for now, I want all of you to return to your regular activities, all the while being on the lookout for possible anomalies that could be related to this event and reporting them to us immediately.” Yagoo sighed as he spoke, despite how big of a deal it was. The only real option the company has is to just throw this issue on the back burner for now.

“Also keep the spreading of this information to a minimum. This is eluded to an end-of-the-world scenario and if word got out and people start panicking things may get out of hand and disrupt work within the company. ”

“I especially do not want this information to leak outside the company. Under any circumstance. I don’t want other mages to use this as a way to frame our company that we have the intention of ending the world and using that as a justification to attack us. Since would put our mages and the mythical beings that rely on our company at risk of getting hurt.”

“ Not only that, if Ina chan is correct, the Council can handle it. We don’t want to cause mayhem over a non-issue. So it’s better to simply go at this slow and safe route for now.” The CEO once again emphasizes.

“Yessir,” The room responds in unison.“ Good, then that concludes today's meeting. Let us get back to work everyone, there are still a lot of things left to do. Let’s all keep doing our best.” Yagoo finishes.

With the closing remarks over, people went about their separate ways. It’s not a satisfying conclusion, but for now, that’s how it has to be, the detective thought to herself as she shelf this entire ordeal to the back of her mind for now.

-End Investigation-

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Amelia has requested some time off for herself. A break every once in a while is always good for your mental and physical health. Especially when you consider the fact that being a streamer isn’t exactly the most healthy lifestyle. As per the agreement, Ame has already finished all her contractual obligations and given her managers a heads-up about the break.

As for what she decided to spend her break on? Her plans were to spend this precious time buying some equipment for a new terrarium, she was meaning to make. Maybe also buy some carving tools to make some tiny rock sculptures to put in the aforementioned terrarium. With the goal set, she leaned back on her office chair and begin to browse some shopping sites.

Shopping is always fun once you have enough funds for it, back when being a detective was her only job, budgeting was tight since, as good as Ame is at her career, cases that require a detective of her caliber were few and far between. She could have gotten a different job, maybe a stable office job, which would have been a good idea if it weren’t for the fact that she distinctively hates being told what to do by other people. Especially ones who refuse to take her seriously on account of her being below them on the corporate ladder.

The only reason she even considered working for Hololive at all, aside from the fact she is interested in their anomalies, is because their terms are relatively reasonable, and as seen in the prior meeting discussing the council, they are willing to take what she says seriously and not just ignore her treating her as some crazy lunatic. Honestly, an amazing change of pace compared to the last time she ever worked for an actual company.

That aside though, Amelia navigates through the site's goods page adding the items of interest to her cart one by one until she got everything she needs. As she was about to submit the payment for the items, something unexpected happens.

The light on her screen begins to flicker erratically for a few seconds before stopping. Appearing within her screen afterward is an anime girl lounging on the window of her browser, precisely one with black hair that contains pink seemingly glowing highlights, the girl also possesses light purple eyes and an odd pink highlight mark under her eyes, all the while wearing some sort of futuristic design clothing with a gigantic coat and a seethrough pink vest that is covering her black tops and shorts and exposed midriff underneath.

Of course, Amelia knows exactly who this is. The girl she is looking at is the one and only virtual singer of the company AZKi senpai. One of the members of Gen 0, she is a greatly respected member of the company. As far as Amelia is concerned, she is relatively disconnected from the main Hololive group, being the sole member left of another project known as Inonaka Music a separate music label. Her epithet is the Virtual Diva, and she certainly lives up to it, being a completely virtual being. 

There are many theories as to what exactly she is; a rogue artificial intelligence?, a ghost that somehow inhabits the internet? or some genius hacker role-playing?, no one really knows, and AZKi senpai sure isn’t gonna tell anyone the truth.

In terms of the origin story, she gave within Hololive’s information archives. She claims she isn’t sure about her origins, simply appearing one day in the virtual world drifting without a goal before eventually discovering music and falling in love with the craft, deciding to mold herself to become a singer as a result. As for why Cover Corp specifically?, AZKi-senpai mentioned feels some sort of “connection” to Sora-senpai that she can’t explain which draws her into Hololive in particular. What this “feeling of connection” she describes, to this day, is unclear. Popular speculation is that this feeling of connection is actually “Love”, and that AZKi senpai has a crush on Sora-senpai, but that is merely speculation, speculation with some basis, but still speculation all the same.

In any case, AZKi senpai, similar to Sora senpai, is quite reserved and mostly keeps to herself, so for her to appear to see Amelia herself is quite odd.

“ Hello there, AZKi senpai. How are you doing? You surprised me.” Amelia politely greeted her virtual senior.

“ Sorry Amelia chan, I noticed you were on a device so I figured appearing here instead of making a separate call would be more efficient. I completely forgot that you are supposed to be on break, I should have left a text instead, I am really sorry to bother you.” The diva profusely apologizes, as the detective can see her senpai’s avatar bowing repeatedly on her device.

“ It’s fine AZKi senpai, I wasn’t doing anything important anyways. How can I help you?” Amelia accepts her apology and moves the conversation.

“ Oh right, Yagoo san told me that he just finish interviewing the newest batch of talents and wanted to ask you to come and check them out,” AZKi explains

“ I see, Thank you for the heads up senpai. Let me just pay for these items real quick. I should be able to reach the office in an hour if there isn’t traffic” Amelia simply replied

“ I’ll inform Tanigo san you are heading in then. Also, don’t worry about the payment, I’ll handle it.” The virtual being delightedly responded.

“ It’s fine senpai, I can pay myself. Wait-” The detective tried to stop her senior to no avail.

“ Payment complete. Think of it as compensation for working overtime. It’s coming out of Yagoo’s san card. So no need to feel bad about it.” Her senpai said cheekily as her avatar begins to wave its hands signaling the screen to flicker once more before she completely disappears.

“ How am I supposed to feel about this, I just made my CEO pay for some terrarium equipment when I was the one that asked him if I can view the interviewing process of supernatural talents in the first place.” Amelia thinks to herself in a panic sweat sliding down her forehead as she decides to resolve it in the most straightforward way possible.

“Let's just get to the office and apologize.”

With that Amelia puts on her uniform, grabs her keys, and left her apartment, heading straight for the office as fast as she can.

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Once again, the detective needs to come to terms with the fact that A-chan and Yagoo were completely serious about just simply hiring potentially dangerous anomalies to be idols.

Just to emphasize the point further, A-chan also isn’t lying about Yagoo’s tendency to pick up weird people into the talent pool.

There are 3 people who are being recruited, 2 from online auditions, and one that Yagoo just happens to find on a whim. The 2 recruits that made it through the online audition process are Pavolia Reine and Kureiji Ollie, Both having equally unique circumstances.

Reine is a very capable singer and content creator who decided to apply to Hololive seeking companionship and content creation support from the company. A pretty standard motivation for wanting to join the company. Everything seems normal until you check her mind-boggling origins of being a dimension traveler who was transported here due to a magical accident. She then got adopted into a high-ranking mage family in this dimension and has no interest in returning to her home dimension. Very wild, but by Hololive standards at this point, it could have been weirder.

Meanwhile, Ollie….Where does Amelia even begin with this one? She is a very literal crazy zombie girl, who is a MASSIVE SIMP. Apparently, this wasn’t her first audition here, and she has spent all the time in between the audition rounds building up a significant portfolio for the occasion. Her motives for joining are excruciatingly clear, she is a fan and wants to be a part of the operations. You know what? At this point. Why not. She has proven herself to be very talented, and all the while, having the drive and energy to back it up. Amelia can see why Yagoo sees potential in the girl.

Lastly, is Anya Melfissa, who is the token spontaneous recruit of the group, Yagoo apparently found her left outside of the office and decided she had potential and ask for her to join. That wouldn’t be so weird if Anya was a human or even a demi-human, it’s weird because instead of being either, she is a sentient magical Keris dagger who possesses a human form. Her reason for joining is similar to Mel senpai, she needs a place to stay and Yagoo was willing to provide that for her. Pretty weird all things considered, but at this point, it seems like Yagoo knows what he is doing when it comes to recruiting talents, so Amelia guessed Yagoo sees some potential in the girl as well.

These 3 will be Debuting as a new generation together under the group name of Holoro. How that’s going to turn out is anyone's guess, but Amelia herself has a hunch that her new soon-to-be kohais will do just fine.

Seriously though, it’s been months now since she started and she still can’t believe what goes on in the company half the time. Alas, by the time she left the building, it was already late at night.

Amelia contemplated returning home and sleeping, but considering it was her holiday she decides to do something different. Maybe a few drinks are in order, she thought to herself as she quickly pulled up the Hololive database’s affiliate business section and begin to browse her options, eventually setting her sights on a simple bar known as “Robert’s Brew”, belonging to one of her senpais in a different branch, Yukoku Roberu.

The affiliated business database is an interesting system to implement. It essentially is a list of talent-owned businesses, mostly shops, that is only given to other talents and high-ranking staff members. As mentioned before, although not required, some talents choose to reveal their side jobs to the company, which is how the name of these businesses ended up on this list. All things considered, it’s pretty convenient, these locations are essentially safe areas that the company can use as pseudo-meeting spaces to share private information without needing to go to the actual office building or fear of information leaking. However, that’s merely an excuse. Its main purpose, to almost everyone, is it tells everyone who has access to the list which place can be used to hold some fun parties.

It’s a pretty obvious conclusion, renting out a place for your party is good and all. But what’s even better is partying over at a friend's place. That way, you can truly let loose without a care in the world, which goes 2 fold when considering most of the talents are mythical beings and hiding that fact while out in public.

In any case, it’s time for Amelia to get some drinks.

“ Hello there Roberu senpai, are you accepting customers.” The detective called out as she walks into the small cozy bar.

The bar itself was empty aside from her and the bartender. One would say it is the perfect mood for the detective to relax and wind down with some nice drinks and someone she can have a nice chat with.

Roberu senpai is a member of Holostars, the male counterpart of the Hololive branch. The two branches are managed separately due to the naturally differing amount of needs and requirements since Holostars is built to tackle a smaller niche audience compared to Hololive. As such, despite being part of the same production, the two branch and their members don’t interact much on stream aside from a few exceptions. Not because there is a rule enforcing it or anything, it’s just both sides prefer to keep to their respective branches and grow the two brands independently from each other. Which is not a bad plan.

Despite this separation, however, Roberu senpai is still very well respected by many talents and staff. He is known to be very kind, considerate and extremely witty, and fun to talk to. Not only that, the best part of all is, according to some reliable sources, Roberu senpai can make some of the best-mixed drinks in all of HoloPro.

“ Amelia chan, I didn’t expect to see you of all people come to a place like this. Come on in” The orange-haired, well-dressed, bartender greeted her from behind the counter.

“ Thank you, senpai” Amelia quickly retorts as she takes her seat at the counter.

“ No need for the formalities Amelia chan. Get comfortable. How can I help you?” The bartender responds with a welcoming smile.

“ I am on my holiday today, so I thought, I should get a nice drink to celebrate the occasion before I head home,” Amelia explains her situation.

“ Ah, that makes sense. It’s always good to treat yourself every once in a while.” Roberu replied back understandingly, as he wiped down the drink shaker and glass with a piece of cloth.

“ Yup, things are only going to get busier from here on out.” The detective stretches as those words escape her lips.

“ Sure is. It’s all part of the fun though, being in such a chaotic company like this one. Anyways do you have any drinks you prefer?” The bartender lets out a hearty laugh before asking her the important question.

“ I would like something sweet, but also non-alcoholic, as much as I want to get wasted on a holiday, I need to be able to drive back home safely. ” Amelia answered the question decisively.

“ Mocktails coming right up then,” The bartender gleefully responds as he begins to get to work on his customer’s request.

As the bartender gets to work mixing up drinks, Amelia decides to help herself with a bag of mixed nuts she found on the counter.

“ Say, Roberu senpai, how exactly did you end up joining the company, aside from the heterochromia, you are a completely normal human.” the detective asked as she is snacking on the appetizer.

“ Oh? It’s quite embarrassing actually.” The bartender responded while continuing to make the drink.

“ You see, I am a big fan of Sora senpai.” Even while turning his back towards the detective, she can tell that her senior is blushing a little bit as he made his confession.

“ I often play her music whenever I am alone in the bar.” He continued to elaborate, as he shook the drink shaker more loudly, clearly trying to hide his embarrassment.

“ And one day I got caught listening to her by one of my regulars. Man, I couldn’t tell you how embarrassed I was back then. I never told anyone about it.” After saying this, he turns around and presents Amelia with a drink.

It’s a small cuboidal glass with a yellow mixture and some ice cubes in it and orange slices and mint leaves added to the top. The glass looks pretty simple but at the same time still aesthetically pleasing. Without even taking The detective can tell that this drink is going to be very nice.

“ I called it the Orange Splash. The main ingredients are orange juice and lime juice. The drink is a blend of sweet and sour, which should help you feel more refreshed on your drive back. I hope you like it.” The bartender describe the drink as he handed it to her with a wide smile.

As Amelia took a sip. The drink was as her senpai advertised. The sweetness from the orange complements very with well the sourness that the lime juice brings. Not only that the hint of mint along with the coldness of the drink helps enhance the 2 prominent flavors. To say Amelia was very happy with how it turned out would be an understatement.

“ This great senpai! ” The detective simply responds.

Prompting a reply of “ I’m glad you like it.” from the bartender before continuing his story.

“Well, unbeknownst to me at the time, that regular is non-other than Yagoo himself. I already got along with him, so when he realized I was a fan, he gave me an offer. I agreed, and the rest is history. ” Her senior finished off his story with a simple shrug.

Welp, that story went just about how Amelia expected honestly. At this point, she has given up trying to make sense of it all, it’s better to just go with the flow and see where it takes her.

There were a couple more drinks after that, and a whole lot of small talk. Overall it was an enjoyable night before Amelia return back home.

-End Investigation-

Chapter Text

The date is the 28th of December 2019. Amelia rests herself atop a tall building waiting for the moment, a heavily modified rifle developed to shoot her concoction is at her side.

The detective looked into the dark night sky and waited for her target’s destined appearance as she aimed her shot right above the Hololive office building, she only had one shot, and she knew she would land it. All this had already happened after all.

When the Kronii approached her warning there would be consequences for traveling back in time. That all but confirms it. The warden knew this was going to happen. After all, Kronii is in charge of time itself why wouldn’t she know something like this was going to happen,...or well…already has happened…

The concept of the flow of time is complicated even to Amelia herself. But she knew this was something she must do. She is the only one who can do it. She needs to set the record straight.

Checking her watch, the time increasingly grows closer. The detective peer through her scope and begin to take aim, loading her trademark concoction into the firing chamber.

Observing the night sky, the detective watches attentively for her signal. Once the stars in the sky being to be blocked by a large shadow, that’s the sign to take her shot.

3…The detective takes in a deep breath and stabilizes herself.

2…Amelia lines up her shot, aiming the crosshairs of her scope at her target.

1…She pulls the trigger, sending her concoction cartridge flying through the night sky.

*Bang* The sound of her device rang out as it sent her target falling down to the Hololive Office below.

“ Best of luck in whatever you choose to do in the future Coco senpai.” Amelia said as she begins to pack up her things.

“ Thanks for not interrupting, and sorry to keep you waiting.” Amelia finishes her clean up and turns around to face the person she expected to see.

“ Even after I warned you. You still went ahead with it.” The time warden responds, unamazed by the detective’s actions.

“ Come on now, you practically set up this meeting.” The detective sat down and look up at the warden.

“ … ” The warden did not respond to the detective.

Seeing the warden not responding the detective pushed further.

“ Coco senpai, said she developed the Asacoco in an attempt to recreate the drug she was hit by on the day she fell into the Hololive office. To this day no one knows who shot her down and what was the motive. It must not be a hunter or an assassin since they didn’t follow up on the kill and tried another attempt. Coupled with the fact that she was shot by a gun, mages not being well-versed in technology, and the fact that normal non-magic items would be able to even make a scratch on her. That significantly narrows down the list of candidates.

“ The final nail in the coffin is when she showed me the Asacoco formula. Taking one look at it, my suspicion is correct. It is the exact same formula as my concoction. Which means.”

The detective finally laid out her deduction. “ In conclusion, I must have traveled back in time to shoot down Coco senpai and make all this happen.”

The warden simply scoffed at Ame. “ Well good on you detective, now what. Are you willing to still cooperate with the rules?” Kronii took out her clock hand blades for an intimidating display.

Amelia stands up with confidence and states another deduction. “ You’re not here to capture me. You are here to make a deal. From Ina’s description, you are too prideful to ask for help. That’s why you didn’t detain me back then, and why you set up that deal knowing I will break it. Breaking the law would put me in the wrong, so you can have leverage over me. So you can be in control of the situation.”

“ tsk” Kronii frustratedly hisses as she looks at the detective “ You’re a lot smarter than I give you credit for human.

“ Since I know you don’t plan on hurting me anyways, I’ll take the bait. What sort of deal do you have in mind Kronii? ” The detective asserted.

Seeing this display Kronii puts away her weapon and begins speaking “ Things are looking bad. Nothing we tried to do is working. The Manipulator is simply too powerful. We’re simply out of ideas. And since the Council has tried everything we can by ourselves, we’re hoping for a hail mary to save your universe.”

“ We the council are going to make plans to descend down to earth. You said you might know some people that may be able to help. We’re going to take you up on that offer.” The warden finishes before looking at the detective.

“ I am sure our boss wouldn’t object. When would you be coming?” Amelia simply replied.

“ Due to the volatility of the current situation, I can’t confirm straight away.” Kronii blandly commented before elaborating.

“However, if you would allow it, I would like to establish a mental link so I would be able to get in contact with you more efficiently than how I am doing now. But if you’re not ok with it. It’s understandable, I’ll ask Sana to contact you all through your friend Ina instead considering that those two are friends.” The warden proposed a suggestion.
“ Hmmm, I think having multiple points of contact would be nice. Sure I’ll allow you to make a mental link.

Kronii simply nods in agreeance before giving the detective some instructions. “ Close your eyes for a moment, I’ll handle the rest.”

The detective did as instructed. She felt the warden’s hand on her forehead before sensing a strange flow of energy flowing from the hand and going into her. The entire process took less than a minute as the warden removes her hand. Amelia can hear the warden’s voice in her head.

“ Can you hear me?” the voice of Kronii from within her head asked.

“ Yes.” Amelia mentally answered back.

“ Good, looks like the mental link has been properly established. I’ll be contacting you through this method from now on. Also, feel free to contact back to me if you have any note-worthy news going on. Let’s keep in touch.” Kronii responds extending out her hand to the detective.

“ Pleasure working with you Kronii.” Amelia extends out her hand in response.

“ Alright then, I need to return back to the Council. You return back to the present. I’ll contact you once we have everything sorted out” Kronii spoke up as she once again summons out her blades and cuts open a portal.

In kind, Amelia also pulls out her pocket watch placing her finger on the crown of the watch “ Well then, I’ll see you around.”

The two bid their farewell and return to their respective time and location

-End Investigation-

Chapter Text

When insanity is the norm, it’s nice to have a relatively normal day in the office for once. No magic spells are being hurled around, no guns or high explosives, and no crazy super rush work hours. Amelia only has one small meeting she needs to do today, and honestly, she really appreciates these slow days within the office. A rare moment of peace Ame thought to be impossible within the company.

However, as soon as Amelia walked into the common of the office, her question on how such a peaceful environment has been achieved is promptly answered.

Sora senpai is taking a nap on the couch.

No wonder everyone seems to be on their best behavior.

Sora senpai is the most respected member of the company, which is funny considering that this is after including the CEO of the company Yagoo himself. This respect isn’t unfounded, she is the first member of Hololive, and if it weren’t for her dream of becoming an idol, this company might not have existed as it is today.

But it’s not just the status of being the first that people respect her for. It’s also for how she conducts herself. Sora senpai, even after all the fame, status, and respect she has gathered over the course of her long career, is still the nice, down-to-earth, and humble girl that everyone knows and loves.

She is often very busy acting as a representative and brand ambassador for the company. As such, she doesn’t have that much time to hang out with the rest of us in the office, often being cooped up at the HoloHQ with Yagoo and A-chan with meetings. Even then, she still makes an effort to come to visit and keep an eye on everyone to make sure all of us feel welcome.

If there is such a thing as a perfectly good person, the role model idol, the embodiment of Seiso, Sora senpai would be the perfect fit for all those titles.

Well, we shouldn’t praise her too much, not for the fact she doesn’t deserve the praise, but more so the fact Sora senpai herself doesn’t like it. All the worship and being put up on a pedestal as some sort of Goddess makes her uncomfortable.

To be fair to her, it makes sense. Imagine being a normal human doing something as a hobby and then all of a sudden your coworkers, who are literal mythical beings and gods, start worshiping you like some sort of higher power. If Ame were in Sora senpai’s shoes she would freak out or find it weird as well.

Sora senpai is probably here to record something and is taking a well-deserved break. Knowing that Amelia decides to not disturb her senior's precious relaxation time and tries to covertly finish her task of finding Jenma.

However unfortunately for the detective, her attempt at a stealthy exit, quickly fell through as she accidentally bumped into something while making her getaway.

That something is Ankimo, Sora senpai’s oddly sentient teddy bear, which in response to the meeting the detective lets out a loud audible yell “ VAH” 100% tipping off the detective’s presence.

“ What is it Ankino? Is it an enemy?” Sora senpai seemed to drowsily respond standing up from the couch and walking over to the source of the noise.

For some odd reason, Amelia felt a terrifying chill run down her spine, something much scarier than even when Calli was threatening her. An unnerving feeling of something completely otherworldly like AO-chan and Kronii, yet somehow different, somehow even worse. The feeling is hard to describe, but one thing is for sure. It is terrifying.

But there was nothing that should be causing her to be this scared.

It’s just Sora senpai.

Where did all this pressure come from?

Why do I want to run away?

Why can’t I move?

The detective’s thoughts race through her mind as her senior slowly approached. Amelia herself is incapable of moving, paralyzed by an indescribable feeling of unrivaled terror.

“ H-hello, Sora senpai. S-sorry, I woke you up.” The detective attempts to properly greet her senior through her panicked state, quivering and shaking as she speaks.

The senior blinks a few times before snapping out of her stupor and returning the greeting. “ Amelia chan, how are you? It's been a while. Sorry that Ankimo gave you a scare.” Sora senpai said grabbing her teddy bear off the ground.

“ I-I am doing fine Sora senpai. D-don’t worry Ankimo didn’t scare me too bad. Ha ha ha,” The detective tries to hide her nervousness and lets out a dry laugh as sweat runs down her face.

“ Are you sure?” The senior tilts her head and stares deep into the detective’s blue eyes, seemingly unconvinced at Ame’s terrible attempt at a lie.

“ N-no no, I am really fine Senpai…. I just felt really bad that I accidentally woke you up, that’s all.” Amelia tried to clarify the situation still stuttering and stammering.

“Hmmm? I don’t think there isn’t anything you need to feel bad about. I was just taking a small nap after all. You didn’t do anything bad.” Sora senpai simply gave the detective a warm bright smile as she reassures the detective.

For whatever reason, that simple smile instantly calms the detective down. That feeling of dread she was feeling just moments prior has completely disappeared. It's a complete whiplash of emotions, from 100 back down from 0 in such a short period of time. Amelia can’t really explain how such a thing is even possible. For now, she’ll worry about that later.

“ Sorry for overreacting senpai.” The detective regather her bearings and simply replied back.

“ Nun Nun.” The senior nods in approval of the detective’s words, before continuing. “ By the way Amelia chan. Don’t you have something you need to be doing?”

The detective thought for a moment before snapping back to realization. “ Oh right, I have a meeting with Jenma.”

Checking her phone again, she realized it was way past the meeting time “Sorry Sora senpai, I really need to go. I’ll talk to you later.” The detective quickly pocketed her phone and gave her senior a polite bow before running off to the scheduled meeting.

“ Take care. Do your best.” The senpai simply cheered her kohais on as they separate from one another.

Amelia rushed to the meeting room, feeling a mix of relief and lingering curiosity from her encounter with Sora senpai. As she entered the room, she found Jenma waiting patiently, flipping through a notebook.

"Amelia-chan, you made it!" Jenma exclaimed, a smile brightening her face. "I was starting to worry you got lost in the office labyrinth or something."

Amelia chuckled, a sense of ease returning to her. "No, just a minor hiccup on the way, but I'm here now. Sorry for the delay."

They both took their seats, ready to delve into the agenda for the meeting. As they discussed their ongoing investigations and shared information, Amelia couldn't help but think about the strange encounter with Sora senpai. She wondered if it was just her imagination, or if there was something more to it.

After the meeting, Amelia found herself lost in thought as she walked back to her desk. She decided to take a moment to gather her thoughts and reflect on the day's events. Something about that encounter with Sora senpai felt significant, as if there was a hidden message or lesson to be learned.

Amelia pulled out her notebook, flipping to a blank page. She started jotting down her thoughts, trying to make sense of the indescribable feeling she had experienced. She wrote about the fear and the subsequent calm, about the unexplained pressure and the sudden relief.

Lost in her writing, Amelia didn't notice Ina approaching her desk until the fellow detective cleared her throat.

"HIC! O-oh it's you Ina."

"Hey, Amelia. What's got you so absorbed in your thoughts?" Ina asked, peering over Amelia's shoulder at the notebook.

Amelia looked up, momentarily startled before composing herself. "Oh, Ina. I... I had a strange encounter with Sora senpai earlier. It's hard to explain, but it left me with so many questions."

Ina raised an eyebrow, curiosity evident in her eyes. "Tell me more. What happened?"

Amelia proceeded to recount the events, describing the paralyzing fear she felt, Sora senpai's calming presence, and the subsequent disappearance of the dread. Ina listened intently, her expression thoughtful.

"Hmm, that does sound unusual," Ina mused. "Perhaps there's more to Sora senpai than meets the eye. We've encountered plenty of mysteries and supernatural phenomena in our line of work. Maybe she holds some hidden power or ability."

Amelia nodded, considering the possibility. "It's certainly a possibility. I think I'll try to find out more about Sora senpai and see if there's any connection to the supernatural realm. There might be a deeper reason behind her revered status."

-End Investigation-

Chapter Text

“OK, seriously, something is definitely up in this company. There is definitely something going on. There are way too many accounts for this to just be a coincidence.”

The detective mutters to herself within the confines of her office, pacing back and forth and looking at her notes on her corkboard that at this point has been littered with thumbtacks and strings.

Is this what it feels like to try to make sense of insanity? Over the course of the passing months, there is growing evidence that something is definitely going on. But what is it exactly? More specifically how does this happen? Why does everyone seem to just ignore such a big thing?

The questions race on as Amelia tries to make sense of the situation, getting more and more frustrated as she tries harder and harder to focus and fit the pieces of this enigma puzzle together to no avail.

She has hit a wall in her discovery. She could probably ask the higher-ups like Yagoo and A-chan and get a straight answer. But where is the fun in that?

To be completely honest, This is fun. As infuriating as it is, this is the most fun the detective has had in a while. Solving mysteries is her thing, and Amelia knows that once she is able to solve this question of hers, the satisfaction afterward would be immeasurable. So she wants to go in blind and figure out on her own as much of the mystery as possible.

As the detective continues with her investigations, she is interrupted by the knocking on her door accompanied by a familiar voice.

“ Hey, Ame are ya done? I’ve been waiting for ages, when are we having dinner?”

That is 100% Gura, there is no mistaking it. The detective thought to herself as she check her watch. As it turns out, It’s Ame’s turn to be the cook for this week, she definitely lost track of time with her detective work again.

The two of them have been sharing a living space together for a while now. When originally joining the company, the two of them were the only ones that don’t have a place of their own, nor the money to rent out a place. So Cover Corp graciously provided them with a cheap and decent place that both of them can share as they start out. But after a while, it would just be a hassle to find a new place. So both of them just unanimously agreed to stick with it.

“ Coming, just go wait at the table.” The detective shouted as she opens the door.

“ You need to be more responsible Bozo.” The tiny shark girl smugly comments looking up at the detective.

“ Just you wait till it’s your turn fishy.” Amelia simply quips back before heading into the kitchen area.

“ I want some good Fish and Chips for dinner ya hear?” Gura ordered before heading to the table to wait for her meal.

“ I swear,” Amelia mutters to herself as she begins to prepare the food.

“ What got you so cooped up again.” Gura lazily lay on the kitchen table as she strike up a conversation.

“ Well, I just think Hololive may be hiding something. Also, get off the table and sit like a normal person sharky, have some manners.” Amelia replied back.

“ What are you thinking about this time?” Gura questions as she removes herself from the table and sits down on the chair.

“ I just find things weird,” Amelia answered

“ Well, you gotta be more specific than that. We’re working with a company with a bunch of mages and magic folks running around, a lot of stuff can be considered weird.” Gura gave a non-committal response back.

“ It’s about the company….How do I phrase it?… It feels sheltered, protected.” Amelia replied, continuing to work on the meal.

“ I mean isn’t that a good thing?” The more petite girl tilts her head in confusion.

“ No doubt it’s a good thing for us, being part of the company and all that. My question is more about how did they manage to pull it off.” The detective states matter of factly.

“ I mean it’s pretty obvious, it’s because Cover got some strong folks working for them right? I don’t need to be a detective to figure that out” Gura simply scoffs

“ It’s not that simple Gura” Amelia responded as she finished cooking.

“ Hololive may be strong now, but it wasn’t always like this. Back in the early days Yagoo clearly doesn’t have enough resources to provide protection yet they somehow still managed without noticeable casualties.” Amelia finally walks over to join Gura at the table with the food she just finished preparing.

Gura still a bit confused at what Ame is implying, simply stares and waits for the detective to lay it all out.

“ Yagoo must have something that absolutely terrifies the other mages from acting against him. This isn’t a baseless assumption as well considering people like Ina are hunted down by mages relentlessly for years, yet the instant she joins Hololive those attacks instantly stops.”

“ The aversion to Hololive from other mages isn’t a new development either. Since we know some talents would have been considered prime targets for mages to hunt down like Ayame senpai, Moona senpai, and Coco senpai and they were also not touched at all once they joined back then before the bulking up of strong magical personnel.”

“ This makes me think that Cover has more to it and is just hiring more powerful people into a company to cover for what they have up their sleeves. But the question is what? What does Yagoo have that allows him to leverage his position and set up such a position.”

After finishing her claim the detective took a glance at Gura to gauge the reaction. However what she was that the shark girl was clearly not listening, simply digging into the freshly made home-cooked meal with her hands and teeth like a wild animal.

“ Were you even listening to me stinky? Also, use the fork and spoons for god’s sake. ” The detective annoyedly yelled at her ill-mannered friend.

“ I think you’re overthinking it Ms. Detective,” The small girl said as she set the fried fish back down on her plate.

“ It could just be Yagoo have some connections, or whatever humans call it. Like a runaway royal or something, I don’t know.” Gura simply shrugs and dismisses the detective’s concern.

“ Point is, it’s keeping us all safe, and we know Yagoo is a pretty decent bloke that wouldn’t hurt a fly if he can help it. Whatever super-powerful MacGuffin he might have to make it happen is probably in good hands.” Gura states as she digs back into her meal and finishes it with one big bite.

“ I guess so,” The detective dejectedly sign, she really didn’t expect any other response from the shark to be completely honest. Gura is well known to be pretty airheaded and not one that enjoys matters that requiring to think hard about something, the response just makes sense for the type of person she is.

Well, Amelia will just continue to investigate on her own time.

For now, the both of them finished their own meals and help each other clean up. They spend a couple more hours together for more small talk while playing games before heading back to their respective room for bed.

-End Investigation-

Chapter Text

Cover Corp is in a very odd position, as Yagoo himself has stated it is not a mage company, a fact he is very adamant about. To say Yagoo has a distaste for anything mage society-related might be an understatement.

But then again, Amelia can definitely see where Yagoo is coming from. Mages especially high-ranking ones don’t have the most flattering reputations if you view them from a normal human lens. Mages are often arrogant elitists that view themselves as higher beings mistreating and abusing those they deem beneath them….which to a mage, encompasses literally everything but themself.

It does not take her being a detective to know how someone as kind-hearted as Yagoo would not want himself, or any of his work, to be associated in any way shape, or form with such a horrid label and practice.

But if you really think about it….As much as Yagoo doesn’t want to admit it….the company practically is one. Aside from the fact that almost all the talents are magical beings, more than half of the current staff of Cover Corp itself are also either a mage or magical being themselves.

This honestly makes it more surprising that they haven’t been singled out and eliminated yet, considering that Yagoo is very much not working with nor is he bowing down and letting himself be exploited by them. Giving credence to the detective’s prior suspicion of there being more to Hololive than it is being let on.

But the idea that Gura brought up may have some credibility as well. Perhaps there are some connections involved. In fact, Amelia can think of one notable connection that can give Hololive some leverage.

Murasaki Shion, the heiress of the fabled Murasaki clan.

The Murasaki’s are one of the oldest and most powerful mage families in Japan, well renowned for their practice of offensive spell casting that possesses the ability to level a small town with a simple snap of a finger. Since they are so old and powerful, they also have connections to many other smaller mage families forming the now massive Murasaki clan. These smaller mage families joined them in hopes of both protection from other clans and in hopes of eventually inheriting the fortune once the head needs to step down. As a whole, the clan is extremely impressive.

Also side note, how did Yagoo even allow someone like her to join the company in the first place? It’s understandable if the mage joining Cover Corp is someone with no reputation, so Cover can still convincingly pass off as a non-mage organization.

But getting someone like Shion senpai involved…..yeah with a family name like that. It’s a lot harder to lay low and not be labeled a mage organization.

As such comes to the point of today's investigation. The oh-so standard, “How did this happen?”, type of investigation. Without further ado, the detective has gotten some questions for the renowned Mage of Violet.

“ Shion senpai, I have arrived. ” Amelia called out at the witch’s workshop.
A few minutes went by after she called out, however, Ame didn’t get a response back.

That’s odd, Amelia thought to herself, checking her phone to make sure the time is correct. After confirming that she didn’t get the time wrong, Amelia decided to send a quick text.

“ Shion senpai, I am already at the workshop.” Ame 11:30 AM

“Where are you?” Ame 11:30 AM

Not long after the text, Amelia did get a response in return.

“ AHHHHHHHH, Amelia chan.” Shion 11:35 AM

“ I am so sorry!!!!!!” Shion 11:35 AM

“ You can go and wait in my workshop, the keys are under the potted plant.” Shion 11:36 AM

“ I am sorry, I overslept” Shion 11:36 AM

Well….This is Hololive after all, she should have expected a bit of PON.

Taking the keys and entering the workshop, as expected of a mage of her status, the room is filled to the brim with all sorts of magical trinkets; cauldrons, wands, potions, magic grimoires, levitating light orbs, and much much more. It’s quite cluttered honestly, well as long as Shion senpai is fine with it, Ame has no right to judge. The detective decided to take a seat on one of the empty chairs in the room and stay put for her senior to arrive.

The wait itself took a few hours before the witch comes barging into her own workshop.

“ Oh my god, I am so sorry again Ame chan, I really messed up.” Shion profusely apologizes while breathing heavily.

“ Oh no, it’s fine senpai, I didn’t have any other appointments today anyways,” Amelia reassures.

“ Alright, I heard you got some questions, I’ll answer them. God knows I already wasted a bunch of your time already.” Her senior quickly cut to the chase.

“ Ahem, very well then, how did you manage to join Hololive?” Amelia starts her interrogation.

“ I followed Choco Sensei here.” the witch simply replied.

“ Wait what.” Amelia is stunned by the bluntness of that answer.

“ Yeah, I was a student of Choco sensei.” The witch simply repeats herself.

“ Wait the Murasaki’s send their heiress to the underworld to study,” Amelia replied in shock.

“ Well, I am convinced they were trying to get rid of me when they did that. My magic is ten folds stronger than anyone in my grandfather’s council, as such favoring me to inherit my grandfather’s family fortune. They really didn’t like that.” The violet witch smugly commented.

That line of logic makes sense mages value especially the Murasaki clan put a lot of value on the strength of their members.

“ In any case, the plan to get me killed by sending me to hell failed. I ended up arriving safely at Mikai Academy and studied with Choco sensei and some others there. I mean technically I am still studying, I haven’t graduated yet.” Shion chuckle slightly as she explained

“ When I heard Choco sensei is getting a part-time job back on the material plane, I volunteered to accompany her as a guide since Choco sensei had never been to Earth before. I mainly did that because I was homesick, since by that point, I haven’t returned to Earth for a couple of years in fear of another assassination attempt by other clan members if they found out I am still alive.” The senior nostalgically commented.

“ Choco sensei must have known that fact and mentioned it to Yagoo, leading him to give me a proposal that if I work for him, he can guarantee my safety.”

“ And As you can see, here I am now, still working with Hololive. So yeah Yagoo really did keep his word.” the small witch laughs as she finished the explanation.

“ I see” was the only words the detective could muster up.

This practically confirmed that Yagoo possesses something that can be used as a deterrent to other mages and has had this thing for a while now. All the while also confirming that it is definitely something extremely powerful to the point of being able to discourage even the Murasaki clan mages from taking action even back then. Just what exactly is this thing?

But before wondering any further, she should make sure of something “ Shion senpai, how is the relationship with your clan now? I understand it’s a difficult topic to discuss so if you don’t want to talk about it that’s fine too.” Amelia questioned.

“ Hmmmm, well last I check all the people who conspire to get rid of me are gone. I think grandfather got rid of them. Then again I am not too sure. I didn’t really care that much. No hard feelings they were trying to step up to the great Witch of Violet Murasaki Shion after all of course they fail and suffered the consequences.” The small bratty senior smugly declared.

Welp, it looks like Shion senpai took being betrayed by her own clan pretty well. Then again this happened quite a while ago so maybe she has already gotten over it. Besides nothing really changed for her, she is still an heiress after all, all that change is all the bad people are gone. That must feel pretty nice Amelia recond.

At least this trip and investigations help Amelia confirm one of her suspicions.

“ That’s all I wanted to ask today. Thank you Shion senpai for explaining everything” Amelia politely ended her interrogation.

“ Ah no problem at all, feel free to contact me and ask me anything any time” The witch once again confidently declared.

-End Investigation-

Chapter Text

“ Detective I got some good news and bad news, which one do you want first.” A familiar voice rang in Amelia’s mind shocking her awake.

“ Wow, it’s Kronii, maybe a warning would be nice.” Amelia commented annoyedly “ I’ll take the bad news first, a silver lining is always better than a bitter aftertaste. The detective got up from her bed and moved to her workstation so she can note down the information the time warden is about to give.

“ We’re running out of time fast if Sana’s calculations are correct we have only a few months left before the manipulator strikes. Worse of all judging from the trajectory, it is heading straight for Earth as its destination. It is moving a lot faster than anticipated, at this point it would probably reach Earth before us Council can properly descend down to help.” Kronii grimly commented on the dire predicament that they found themself in.

“ Alright, the good news better be very good to offset this.” Amelia lets out a nervous chuckle after hearing all this.

Kronii went silent for a few moments before continuing “ Well, The good news is that there is still hope, and I mean that in the most literal way possible.”

The detective remained silent in anticipation, what does Kronii mean, from the description so far Earth is 100% doomed. We are dealing with a universe-destroying being here, what hope is Kronii referring to?

“ The sixth member of Council has awoken she should be making her way to Earth in the coming days be on the lookout and treat her well. Winning her favor would be the key to our current predicament.” Kronii cryptically explains.

“ Kronii, can you please just say what it is straightforwardly for once? What or who do I need to keep track of to save this entire universe?” Amelia is getting slightly ticked off from the panic that is slowly setting in.

“ Her name is Irys, she is a Nephilim and Hope incarnate. The fact that she is awake and is descending down to Earth is a good sign. Her presence alone is an omen that there is still a chance of fighting against the inevitable.”

“ The fact that Earth is her destination also means that whatever the solution is to the current issues we’re having is also located on your Earth. Maybe the manipulator isn’t blindly destroying different dimensions and destabilizing the universe, maybe it’s looking for something that is currently on Earth.”

“ Irys is an apostle of one of the Manipulators so if there is a way to stop this disaster she might be our only shot at an answer.”

“ Wait wait wait, pause. I think you’re skipping a couple of steps here. I need some more information and context to work with here.” Amelia interjects

“ Fair, what do you need to know? I’ll try to answer, but I can’t guarantee I can answer everything.” Kronii gave the detective an opening for an interrogation.

“ Alright first and most important question. What exactly is the Manipulator? All I know so far is it is a being that destroys dimension and not much else. I need to know exactly what it is so I can come up with a deduction to what it possibly wants.” Amelia explained to the warden her perspective.

Kronii ponders for a moment before responding “ The Manipulators are a class of 4 divine beings created by the True God tasked with the creation of the universe. Once the task was completed they were the ones who gave us Council members a physical form and the will to be able to operate and manage the universe before they retire themselves and went into a slumber. Only to seemingly appear again now.”

“ The Manipulators are as you would imagine, extremely powerful. Even us Council and Irys at full strength would stand no chance in a heads-on confrontation against even just one of them.”

“ Luckily for us, it seems the current problem we are having is caused by one singular manipulator that seemingly has gone rogue. That being is known as Omega Alpha.”

“ However, unluckily for us, out of the 4 manipulators, Omega is by far the most brutal and cold out of the bunch, as its job is to exterminate dimensions and everything living within it. Its emotionlessness makes it very effective at conducting that task”

“ Under normal circumstances, as brutal as it sounds, some dimensions need to be destroyed. Think of the universe as a tree and the different dimensions as branches. Destroying a couple of dimensions is like pruning a plant to ensure the entire tree can continue to grow up properly. So Omega destroying a couple of dimensions is actually a good thing.”

“ The issue only arises because….well…. Omega is currently aiming its sights at something we refer to as the center of the universe, or in layman's terms the Main Dimension. The Main Dimension, if we want to keep using the tree analogy, is like the trunk of the tree….if it is destroyed….well the entire universe as we know it will come tumbling down.”

“ And due to the aforementioned unempathetic nature of Omega Alpha….well….. convincing it to back down is probably nigh impossible.” The warden finally finishes her explanation, with an extremely concerned expression.

“ So what do we do now….” Amelia silently muttered at the realization of how bad the situation actually is.

Kronii simply lets out a sigh along with a defeated response, “ Our best, detective. We will give it our best shot.”

-End Investigation-

Chapter Text

Amelia relayed the information she has received from Kronii to Yagoo, but like before, Cover itself is still limited in what it can do. All the company can do at the moment is to increase surveillance and ensure when Irys does descend down to Earth, we would be the first to grab her and not risk her being picked up by some other mage company and complicating the process. It’s simply a waiting game now.

The situation is honestly pretty hopeless, hearing all this talk about Gods, Universes, Manipulators and the likes only puts into perspective how small and insignificant a human like her is in the grander scheme of things.

Amelia decided to drop the case for today; Thinking about it anymore would probably lead her to a mental breakdown or an existential crisis. And that would not be a productive way to spend the minimal time she would theoretically have left if hypothetically the universe is ending once Omega makes its appearance.

Amelia pondered about streaming but ultimately decided against it, after all, she isn’t exactly in the best head space at the moment. She finally settled on the best way to be productive is to finish up the personal 3D studio she has been working on. The Holostudio is nice and all, but it’s getting a bit crowded. As expected even with 2 studios, when the company has 50 talents all with their own 3Ds that they want to use….scheduling to use the studio becomes an absolute nightmare. In fact, sometimes the studio needs to be booked several months in advance due to how packed the internal schedule is with everyone wanting to use it for recordings of 3D lives and birthday celebrations, not to mention maintenance that also needed to be taken into account.

Yagoo and the other higher-ups are already working on getting a bigger studio made to accommodate the talents and ease up the tight scheduling issues, but as any adult would know, these things take time to get rolling. Rumor has it, the new studio will be so large that the talents would never need to worry about such issues ever again. But with a project that ambitious….yeah…it’s gonna be quite a while before it comes to fruition.

While she waits though, by making her own personal studio, Ame would also help take a load off the company since she won’t need to rely on them for her 3Ds. She can even lend the studio to others if they wanted to do something with it when the Cover studio is fully booked, overall it’s a win-win for everyone.

Ame plans on working on the calibration of the software and hardware she bought together. She is relatively familiar with Cover’s tech by this point in her carrier, by today, she hoped to recreate it within her own limited setup, well....to the best of her abilities at least.

However, it seems like fate has other plans, as a surprise phone call from Yagoo interrupts Amelia from her work.

“ Amelia chan, are you perhaps available right now?” Yagoo questions as soon as Amelia picks up the phone.

“ What is happening Yagoo san?” Amelia answered back, preparing to leave her own office. She knows someone as considerate as Yagoo wouldn’t call her for no good reason.

“ We are getting a strange magical reading being sent out from Tokyo tower. According to an analysis, we believe there is a chance of some sort of portal forming. We would like you to go there and investigate” Yagoo matter-of-factly stated.

“ Are there any others in that area? I might take a while to get there.” If Yagoo contacted her he must have a suspicion that this might be something related to the case of the Manipulator that Amelia brought up. This is important, someone needs to keep an eye on it or it might be bad.

“ We have a couple of Rikka kun’s drones and Shion chan’s familiars around the area to monitor the situations. But in terms of actual people, only Sora chan and A-chan are present in the area. They went there to do some shopping together around that general area, I have already requested them to leave since they are both just humans, they would only be putting themselves at risk if they stayed.” Yagoo explained the situation to the detective.

“ I see. Do we have any access to any teleportation routes?” Amelia asked

“ Unfortunately no. We are not legally allowed to set those up. You can still teleport to the nearest Holo-affiliated location, which in this case would be Oga kun’s game development studio, I’ll request for him to lend you a motorcycle and you can go on from there. AZKi chan will be telling you the optimal route to take.” Yagoo lays out the plan of action for Amelia.

“ Understood, I’ll leave right away.” Amelia finishes preparations and left her office as instructed using a magical teleportation device.

-End Investigation-

Chapter Text

“ Please take a right, I have already made reservations in the parking lot for you. After that, you could go up the tower using the elevator, I have already made a reservation for that as well, simply show the building accountant the Holophone. Once you reach the top floor using the elevator, you will need to use a cloaking device to hide your presence and climb up the rest of the way on your own.” The virtual being instructed the detective as she travels to her destination.

Under normal circumstances, Amelia is very much against the idea of calling while driving, especially when it involves someone else's motorcycle. But in this case, exceptions have to be made. If what Yagoo said is true and a portal is forming, things are about to get hectic really fast.

When a portal is forming an immense amount of magical energy is dispersed alerting just about every single mage in the area, and mages are attracted to portals like a moth to a flame, portals are sought out since they can open up to just about any dimension or planes making it a gold mine for rare materials that mage would want to get their hands on. Therefore to make sure things go smoothly, Amelia needs to get to the portal sight before anyone else.

Good thing for Ame, thanks to AZKi senpai everything has already been set up for her, and following the instructions isn’t hard….Aside from climbing the building part…that was quite tough…but in the end, it didn’t take long for the detective to reach her destination.

Standing atop the skyscraper Amelia braces herself, clearly feeling the greater magical energy emission distinctive of the portal formation phenomenon. The detective brought out her watch and readies herself for spell casting, if whatever comes out is an enemy, she would be ready for a fight. Amelia thought to herself as she witness a crack in space is formed right in front of her very eye.

“ Darkness will fade away~, light will guide your way~. Hope has descended and you are not alone~” An angelic voice sang out from the now-formed portal, accompanied by an unimaginable amount of magical energy.

Stepping out of the portal is a beautiful girl with long intertwining maroon-colored hair. She has 2 pair of horns on her head along with a halo made up of black and white stars. She seemed to be wearing some sort of black-and-white ballerina-like outfit and behind her floats 6 crystal shards, 3 black and 3 white on either side resembling small wings.

Recalling what Kronii told her, Amelia is relatively confident this figure she is witnessing is IRyS, The Harbinger of Hope that Kronii describes.

Confirming her suspicion the half angle half demon introduces herself. “ Hirys, it’s Irys, The Harbinger of Hope, nice to meet you.”

There is no time to waste, the magic permeating the air has definitely been noticed by the other mages. Amelia needs to get IRyS away from here NOW.

“ Good to see you Irys, Kronii told me about you. I’m Amelia Watson. The portal you made is going to be getting a lot of attention. I suggest both of us get out of here.” Amelia cuts to the chase and gave a cloak for Irys to wear.

“ Oh? You know Kronii? Ok then let’s get out of here.” Irys simply replied as she put the cloak on.

That was easy, the detective thought to herself. Then again, if Irys is close to Kronii in terms of power …yeah Amelia won't be able to stand much of a chance...makes sense she isn't viewed as a threat.

“ Follow me this way,” Amelia said as she begins to climb down.

“…” The Nephilim simply stares at the detective.

“What’s wrong?” The detective asked out of concern…what could a being like her stop for, she was so eager to follow just a moment prior.

“....I am afraid of heights….” The Harbinger of Hope said shakingly.

“...Excuse me?” Amelia couldn’t believe her ears, as she stared in shock at Irys.

The Nephilim once again reiterate, now shaking even more as she looked at the floors below. “Ms. Detective…I am scared of heights…is there perhaps another way down…I don’t want to fall.”

The very literal embodiment of Hope itself is afraid of heights….you know what? Amelia isn’t even going to question it at this point.

-End Investigation-

Chapter Text

Wasting no time a meeting with Irys has been set up to discuss the situation in regards to the manipulator within the Hololive HQ. The Air in the room is once again tense as everyone waits in anticipation of what Irys, the so-called Harbinger of Hope, has to say about a situation as hopeless as the universe ending at the hands of what seems to be an unstoppable force. 

The Nephalim takes a deep breath before beginning. “ I know everyone is anxious and worried about the current predicament. But please allow me to lay down the groundwork for the situation.” 

“ The issue we are dealing with is Omega, one of the Manipulators, heading towards Earth presumably to end it. But as an apostle of them, I can assure you although the situation is quite grim, it is not unsalvageable.” 

“ As Kronii has told through Amelia, The Manipulators are a class of divine entities created by the True God to help in creating the universe. ” 

“ How am I going to explain this properly? It’s been so long since I last woke up. Maybe I should use an analogy.” Irys stopped and muttered to herself a bit before proceeding with the explanation. 

“ Think of the True God as the contractor, they got the Manipulators to do a job for them. The Manipulators in this case are the architect, tasked by the True God to do a job, which in this case is to create the universe.” 

“ Each of the 4 manipulators performs a specific job within the universe during its development stages. As Kronii has already told, Omega’s job is to destroy things and restore balance to the universe. So the fact that it is Omega that is awake can at least give us an idea of what is about to go down.” 

“ As a whole, the universe will probably be fine. Even though Omega is by far, the most brutal of the 4 manipulators, It is also the most lawful and cares the most about the universe’s well-being.” 

“ The issue is….well…although it cares for the universe as a whole…it doesn’t necessarily care much about the things living within it.” Irys grimaces as she explained the situation. 

“ So to put it simply Omega is about to perform something akin to chemotherapy upon the universe. It plans to save the universe but it doesn’t care how much damage it is going to cause to achieve that goal, and for some reason, it is starting with this dimension’s Earth.” Yagoo made a comparison based on the information Irys has provided so far. 

“ If that’s the case why is Omega attacking in the first place? What is causing Earth to become so much of a threat to the universe to the point that it warrants one of the creators to wake up and bring retribution?” A-chan brought up the question everyone was wondering.

“ I think that is specifically why I was woken up. This isn’t exactly normal Omega behavior if we were to use a pattern on what types of target Omega often goes for before its last slumber, it only mainly targets 2 types of dimensions.”

“ The first is known as a stagnant dimension. To put it simply, it’s dimensions that have stopped advancing and growing. The most common reason for these types of stagnant dimensions is sentient races dying out, but they are other possible reasons as well. But none of that is the case with the Earth of this dimension so….” Irys paused for a second pondering how she should phrase her next point before proceeding 

“ The second type is known as an invaded dimension. This type is pretty self-explanatory, it describes a dimension that is invaded by something that doesn’t belong in this universe, something like an Outer God or Ancient One.” Irys shakenly states.

The silence in the room, once Irys finished her last sentence, is deafening. With the mention of the Ancient Ones, everyone is on the same page. The attention of the room is directed to one person, Ninomae Inanis.

The young priestess can only look on in horror at the implication that Irys is giving. The room burst into murmurs and discussions. It’s a cacophony of noises, Amelia herself couldn’t really make out what everyone is trying to say. However, whatever the discussion was, no matter who was speaking at the time. All of it came to a screeching halt when one voice spoke up.

“ Irys chan, are you suggesting we hurt Ina chan?” Sora senpai, who had been entirely silent for the meeting so far commented; a polite smile on her face accompanied by a soft tone of voice. 

However, one thing is quite apparent. 

Sora senpai is extremely angry.

It isn’t her acting that gave it away. In fact, Amelia would go as far as to say that Sora senpai’s acting is practically flawless; the tone of voice, the facial expression, and the body language all of which are perfectly express someone who is calmly assessing the situation and is non-judgemental towards the proposed idea….The issue is her presence….

Once again, the detective felt a strange feeling coursing through her entire body and mind, a feeling similar to the time she accidentally woke up Sora senpai from her nap in the office. However, this time, instead of the fear and pressure making Amelia want to run away…This time, the feeling is so intense, it makes her wish for her heart and breathing to just stops then and there. 

And it seemed the detective wasn’t alone. Everyone seems to be on the same page as panic can be seen in everyone's eyes, some seemingly more scared by the rage Sora senpai is giving off than even the prospect of the universe ending. All the sounds within the meeting came to a screeching halt as no one so much as to dare about thinking to even move a muscle during the line of questioning brought up by the supreme senior.

“Y-your getting the wrong idea. I-I wasn’t saying Ms.Ina is the issue, it could be a myriad of other things” Irys stammeringly answered as she seemed to instinctively slowly back away from where she was originally standing. 

“ Sora. Stop it. Calm yourself.” A firm yell from A-chan echoed throughout the tense, terror-filled room before being backed up by another voice.

“ A-chan is right Sora chan, calm down. Trust me, no one will be sacrificing anyone under my watch.” Yagoo spoke up in support of the director.

The half angel half demon backed herself into the wall as she tries to reassure the idol all the while stuttering and stammering in fear. “ P-please calm down Sora san. Ms.Ina’s Ancient Ones is the Watcher, I-It’s not a harmful entity. O-Omega wouldn’t be coming here targeting her. It’s 100% looking for something else, we just need to figure it out. ” 

With those instructions and Irys’s clarification, after a while, the pressure eventually died down. “ I’m sorry everyone.” Sora senpai apologizes “ I lost my temper, I should have been better than that.” The entire room collectively lets out a sigh of relief at the apology. 

“ No no, Sora chan, it’s understandable you were a bit ticked off,” Suisei reassures attempting to make light of the situation a bead of sweat dripping from her forehead.

“ Yagoo, I think we should take a bit of a break. Let’s let everyone cool off.” Polka spoke up, probably the most serious the detective has ever seen the fox circus clown ever act ever since she joined the company. 

“ The office bar should have some materials stocked up. I can whip everyone up a quick drink.” Roberu puts on a brave face and suggested, wanting to allow everyone to leave the room a reset themselves from everything they just went through. 

Yagoo lets out a sigh before giving his verdict of the situation “ Sorry Irys chan, I believe it is best for us to have a little break. Is that fine with you?” That last question is rhetorical. 

“ Y-yes….that’s fine.” The Nephilim shakenly responded gathering herself back up from the fright prior. 

“ Come on Nee-chan, let's get to the bar first so we won’t need to wait in the queue for Roberu kun’s drinks. Let’s get him to make you some nice drinks with peach in it.” Iofi tugs Sora by the arm and rushes out of the meeting room before the senior could give a response. Something gives the detective an impression that no matter what the queuing situation would be, Sora senpai will be getting her drink first. 

If Amelia wasn’t suspicious about Sora senpai before. Now she is 100% going to be giving the Daisenpai of Hololive full attention.

-End Investigation- 

Chapter Text

“ Are you alright Irys chan? ” Yagoo asked as he helped Irys get up off the floor of the meeting room.

“ I-I am fine Yagoo san. Thank you” Irys shakenly replied accepting Yagoo’s hand and standing back up.

Yagoo clears his throat and looks at the rest of the members remaining in the office before giving them an official signal. “ Everyone please proceed to the office’s bar and take your break. I would like to have a private meeting with Irys chan regarding a couple of things. I’ll tell AZKi chan to inform you all when we will be continuing the meeting.”

“ Yes sir.” Everyone answered in unison before slowly shuffling out of the room.

Amelia wonders what exactly Yagoo could be privately discussing with Irys but she has her suspicions it might be something to do with Sora senpai. If her train of thought is correct, the answer for all of her investigations on the company could simply be linked back to Sora senpai.

A-chan said that Aki senpai revealed her elf form to them mistaking the office to be full of mythical beings like her due to the high magical concentration. Yagoo’s confidence in being capable of protecting Shion senpai from her own extremely powerful mage clan as soon as generation 2. The fact that this company managed to keep all these powerful beings in line. If Sora senpai turns out to be something more than human, something so powerful that she is capable of making a Nephilim apostel of one of the creators of the universe falls to her knees just with sheer pressure alone. Yeah, everything that doesn’t seem to make sense about how a company, like how it was capable of operating for this long without that many major disruptions, would make sense.

Then again….Irys is afraid of heights so….she might just be jumping to conclusions and grasping at straws here….At some point the detective just has to wonder what exactly makes sense in the universe…and the more she thinks…the less sense it makes sometimes.

In any case, even though the meeting was put on hold for the time being. The discussions continues as some members continued to discuss amongst themselves about what had just occurred as they all walk towards the bar.

“ I haven’t seen Sora chan that upset in a while” Fubuki senpai worriedly commented.

“ That just goes to show how much she cares for us.” Subaru senpai chimed in. The energetic girl tried to lighten up the mood.

Catching the memo, Matsuri senpai decided to shift the subject of the conversation. “ A-chan you should take her out on a date, that will definitely get her in a good mood. Maybe some late-night alone time together as well while you’re at it.” The girl boisterously joked at the director.

“ W-What are you guys talking about? S-She is like a sister to me” A-chan quickly attempted to defend herself. The previously stoic and collected director suddenly burst into a flustered red blushing mess at the sudden attack.

“ Sure thing A-chan, you’re not fooling anyone.” Roboco senpai scoffed as she monotony commented on how obvious the director is. Outside of Sora and Yagoo himself, Roboco senpai has known A-chan for the longest so it’s even more obvious for her in particular.

“ Oh Oh, I just found a new cat cafe with some pretty nice reviews recently. AZKi chan can you make a reservation for the two of them.” Polka senpai excitedly suggested an idea, deliberately provoking the director to be even more embarrassed.

The virtual diva sensing an opportunity to cause some mischief also jumped at the opportunity, “ Ohhhh, the Mo-chan cafe right? I am sure Sora chan would love to go there with you A-chan. I’ll set that up.” Azki senpai spoke through the building speakers system alerting just about everyone in this entire building about this setup date.

“ Guys please, both of us are busy with work alright.” A-chan protested hands covering her face out of sheer embarrassment.

“ Awwwwww, I’m sure Sora chan heard that announcement just now. You wouldn’t want to cancel it and disappoint her right? You know how happy she would be if you took her there.” Suisei senpai also chimed in backing the director into a corner.

“ You guys are the worst.” The now, beet red A-chan defeatedly answered to all the bullying she just endured at the hands of her talents.

Wow, they sure just threw A-chan under the bus for that one. Maybe the company is more brutal than what the detective gave it credit for, Amelia silently thought to herself as she observed the conversation.

One thing of note is Fubuki senpai’s mention of it being a while since the last time Sora senpai was this upset. This might indicate that Sora senpai releasing, what Amelia would dub “The Death Aura”, has happened before. That’s why everyone, although surprised and scared, isn’t too held up about it as much as Amelia expects. She will need to investigate further, just not right now. The detective has a feeling no one wants to talk about the upset Daisenpai considering how fast Fubuki senpai’s comment was shot down.

As the detective continues to formulate her plan of action in regard to her future investigation, she suddenly felt a sudden yank of her arm that snapped out of her train of thought. The sudden jolt pulled the detective away from accidentally walking straight into one of the office support pillars.

“ Amelia chan, are you alright? You almost walked face-first into a pillar? Is something on your mind? ” The badger mafia boss worriedly asked as he lets go of the detective’s arm.

“ A-ah, I’m fine Shien senpai. I was just lost in thought about today’s meeting. Thank you for looking out for me.” Amelia quickly reassures her senior, she really needs to be more aware of her surrounding while deep in thought.

“ Don’t mention it,” Shein replied back with a smile.

“ Speaking of the meeting, I am also worried about all of this happening.” Mio senpai added to Amelia's comment.

“ I am worried as well. What could Irys chan possibly be referring to? Something someone who created the universe would want to get rid of.” Temma senpai shared his sentiment about the situation.

“ Moona you’re a goddess right, maybe it’s you.” Risu senpai half-jokingly poked fun at her own genmate.

“ No way, I am a minor god at best, a strong one, but no way am I that much of a nuisance. If Omega is really after me, that is way too overkill. It would be like trying to hunt rabbits using a nuclear warhead.” Moona senpai simply defensively yelled back in response.

“ Maybe it is some lurking force hidden beneath the waves of the ocean's depths, some evil world-ending big Kraken monster, imagine the tentacles.” Marine senpai…oddly excitedly…proclaimed her theory.

“ First of all weird peko. Second of all, if there is something like that you would know about it right Gura chan peko ?. You are an Atlantean after all peko.” Pekora senpai efficiently shuts down the pirate’s ideas before it starts getting too weird.

“ Well, I haven’t heard of any world-ending tentacle monster back when I was in Atlantis. But then again, I was never a very good student….so… I might just have missed it. I can try to send a message back to the city and ask.” The small shark girl casually suggested.

“ oh oh oh, what about Aliens?” The excited zombie girl cuts in and brought up her idea.

“ What about aliens Ollie? In Holopro alone we already got 5. Aliens are not that special.” Astel senpai, the alien, yells as he shushs out the zombies.

“ It could be looking for some powerful magical artifacts perhaps?” Anya, the sentient weapon commented on another possibility.

“If something like that exists it must be something no one has discovered yet. Coming from a mage clan myself, I can guarantee it. If any other clans have something that powerful they would have been bragging about it or used it to take over the world by now. ” Shion senpai confidently declared her opinion based on her personal experiences.

“ Sorry to interject but, shouldn't we be saving these kinds of conversations for the second part of the meeting.” A-chan who has finally regathered her footing joins in the conversation.

“ Wonder how long the lines gonna be. Naaa” Luna senpai the baby candy princess also suddenly pops into the conversation seemingly ignoring the entire conversation that was happening moments prior.

“ Well, Roberu kun did mention drinks for everyone….” Miyabi senpai simply replied back to Luna senpai after giving an acknowledging nod to A-chan's comments.

“ Yeahhhh, I think the second half of this meeting is gonna be postponed for later.” Mel senpai added to Miyabi senpai's comments about the queuing situation.  

“ Wanna bet on that?” Botan senpai laughs as she asked the rhetorical question.

“ We all know the answer. What’s the point of even betting?” A-chan could only facepalm as she replied to the lioness.

-End Investigation-

Chapter Text

“Here’s your drink Amelia chan, sorry for the wait,” Roberu spoke as he hands the detective a drink.

“ Thanks, senpai, good luck with the rest of the drinks. ” The detective simply retorts after receiving her drink.

“ Thank you Amelia chan.” The bartender reciprocates in return before going back to making drinks.

The bar area is a bit crowded, unsurprising considering almost every talent is squished into this room to get their drinks. After receiving their drinks the talents all separate into smaller groups occupying the different corners of this room to chat within their own comfortable circles. The room is filled with life as the conversation floats through the air with everyone loosening up a little from the previously tense environment due to the nice drinks.

The detective honestly feels kind of awkward just randomly standing alone with no one to talk to so with that in mind the peer pressure forced Amelia to walk around the room to look for a group she can have a conversation. Eventually deciding to join up with the duo of Calli and Ina near the bar’s serving area.

It’s quite an odd combination, usually Calli would be flank with Kiara and Ina would be off on her own or with Enma, so to see just the two of them together is surprising, to say the least.

“ Hey there you two, where are the rest of the group,” Amelia approached and joins in the conversation.

“ Gura is with Shion senpai. Meanwhile, Kiara is with Pekora senpai. I'm sure you understand the fans want to hang out with their idols.” Calli calmly explained the situation.

“I see, That makes sense,” the detective commented before moving the conversation along, “ What were you two talking about by the way?”

“ We’re still a bit hold up about the meeting, specifically Sora senpai,” Ina simply told Amelia about the prior conversation.

“She definitely has a soul of a human, I can see that with my own eyes. But that scare she gave everyone, there is nothing human about that.” Calli logically commented to the detective.

“ Glad to confirm I am not the only one who found that there is something odd with Sora senpai,” Amelia added to Calli’s comment, taking a sip from her own drink.

“ The fact that she also got even AO-chan all spooked is quite something,” Ina added on her own observation to the discussion.

“ I mean even Irys was scared so I guess I shouldn’t be so surprised,” The detective matter-of-factly states.

“ Wild stuff,” Calli dryly commented. “ Ok, maybe we should put this stuff on the back burner, it's just devolving into baseless gossip at this point. We’re still new blood, there is obviously still a lot of stuff we are just not privy to. We should just wait and see, I’m sure they will inform us about everything in due time. All these speculations are only going to make us run in circles, it’s unproductive. ” The reaper calmly and logically concluded conversion.

“ Humu, Calli’s right. Especially when everyone else already seems to be in on it, I’m sure they will tell us in due time.” Ina added, “ Especially when she is right there….” The priestess sneakily pointed at another group of talents across the counter.

“ It's fine Nee-chan. Please stop apologizing already we all understand.” The alien’s voice can clearly be heard by the detective and her group trying to cheer up the guilt-ridden senior.

“ Iofi chan is right Sora, we know it’s a lot to take in. We don’t blame you for it.” A-chan added in support of the alien’s comments.

“ Still, I did lose my composure. I put all of you in danger and even worse, I might have scared off Irys chan and made her not want to work with us anymore. I just made everyone’s job that much harder just because I wasn’t capable of keeping myself together.” The senior rationalized why she felt the need to once again apologize for her actions even though no one partially blames her for the ordeal.

“ You won’t need to worry about that Sora chan. I’m sure Yagoo will handle that, he and Irys can come up with something, the situation isn’t hopeless Nye.” Miko senpai confidently backed up both Iofi senpai and A-chan.

“ Yeah, I’m sure we’ll be able to handle it and kick that Omega’s ass,” Suisei senpai confidently declared summoning her magic halberd for dramatic effect.

“ I don’t want that.” The senior overwhelmed with emotion snapped, standing up from her seat and letting out a declarative yell. The sudden surprise turned the once-bustling room silent, giving the Sora senpai their full undivided attention.

“…. I don’t want you guys to get hurt.” Sora senpai shakingly voiced “….I just…I’m scared, I don’t want to lose any of you.”

Tears began to roll down her cheeks as she continued. “ I-I just want things to go back to normal…all this is too much….I don’t like this feeling…I don’t like it one bit….” her words stuttered in between sobs, her image of a girl with an indomitable spirit slowly crumples as she became more vulnerable with every word. “ I just want it to stop…I want everyone to be able to go back and have fun and not worry about all this…”

The words she wants to let out now start to refuse to manifest themselves, at this point, she has completely broken down. From the previous sobbing, she is now crying, letting out all her emotions that she has kept to herself up until now.

“ It’s ok to cry Sora. Everything will be fine I promise. Just let it all out.” A-chan stepped in pulling sora senpai into a warm loving embrace, as the senior rest her head upon the director’s shoulder.

Turning to the rest of the group A-chan calmly and softly spoke. “ Fubuki chan, I’ll be leaving you in charge. Tell Yagoo san that both Sora and I are taking the rest of the day off. I think she spent for today.”

“ A-ah y-yes,” The white fox accept the sudden order.

With the order being acknowledged, A-chan slowly helped Sora walk out of the room as everyone was left stunned by the whole ordeal.

-End Investigation-

Chapter Text

As A-chan has predicted previously the meeting was postponed for later. Everyone went on their separate ways to see to their personal commitments. Some went back to streaming, some used the opportunity to hang out more with their coworkers, and some, unfortunately, needed to catch up on overdue work, simply put everyone got stuff they needed to do.

Amelia decided to take the rest of the day off, have some time to herself, and let her mind wander. The detective wanted some alone time, but by this point, she has already spent far too much time cooped up in her office, she really just needed to get out and touch some grass. So ultimately, she settled on visiting a nearby park, where she knows there won't be many people, especially this late at night.

After walking around for a while the detective took a rest and sat down on one of the empty benches, the park is quiet only the sound of tiny bugs and small animals permeates the air as the cold night winds blow over the scenic atmosphere.

It was calm, Amelia thought to herself as she looked up at the night sky. She sometimes wished life would always be like this, peaceful. Many times people just get caught up with all the craziness going on, it’s essential to take a step back and recalibrate. Unfortunately for the detective, she doesn’t seem to have that luxury, as her reflection is suddenly interrupted by a feeling of blood lust running down her spine.

“ So you’re the girl Kronii has been spending time with,” The mysterious voice hauntingly hums.

“ I’m jealous you know? She has been so busy with all this Omega debacle we barely got time to spend with each other,” The voice continues to speak, “Yet she is spending time to talk with you….I wonder why?” The sound seems to come from all directions, the detective is having a hard time pinpointing where it is coming from.

“Whatever you are, Show yourself.” The detective called out, pulling out her modified pistol to defend herself.

“ Oh hi,” a brown-haired girl appears in view standing under a nearby tree. “ I’m Nanashi Mumei, Guardian of Civilization, nice to meet you.” The girl slowly approaches the detective extending out her hand.

Slowly backing away the detective questioned, “ Stay right where you are. What are you doing here? Kronii didn’t tell me about the Council coming down to Earth this early.” Amelia kept her eyes on Mumei, positioning her gun on the target.

“ Hmm, I wonder…. I forgot.” The guardian paused her approach for a moment to think. “ Why did I come to Earth again? Last I remembered I don’t need to record anything on this planet anymore.” She curiously hummed before reaching into her cloak and pulling out a small notebook.

Reading from the book, the guardian said, “ Deliver a package to Amelia Watson.” Mumei then closed the book before exclaiming “ Oh right, I remember now.”

“ Here, The Council tasked me to do a quick delivery of this to you,” The girl once again reached into her cloak and pulled out a brown envelope.

Amelia suspiciously takes the envelope from Mumei, still keeping the gun on target. “ What exactly is this,” she cautiously asked.

“ Well….. Omega caught Bae snooping and decided to raid the Council’s base.” Mumei causally states before being interrupted by the detective

“ Oh God, are you guys alright,” Amelia concernly asked worried for Kronii and the rest of Council’s safety.

“ Oh I wouldn’t worry about that,” Mumei simply shrugs, “ If it wanted us dead I wouldn’t have made it this far.”

“ In any case, since I have finished my task I should head back,” The guardian stretches before transforming into an owl. “ Apparently Omega wanted to give that package to you for some reason. I guess you would know what to do with it. Good luck.” Without elaborating any further or giving the detective any time to ask any further questions, the now-transformed owl girl flew away and disappeared into the night in a blink of an eye.

The only thing the detective can do is stare off in stunned silence trying to process the information she just received.

So apparently the Council got caught peeping at Omega. Resulting in Omega raiding their home base. This then result in Omega handing the document to Mumei, who was then instructed to deliver this document to me…. for whatever reason…..

“ OK, WHAT EXACTLY IS GOING ON HERE,” Amelia yelled out in frustration at the absurdity of this entire situation.

Alright fine, it couldn’t get any worse, maybe Omega has a change of heart and instead of coming over and destroying the problem itself it decides to leave it up to humans to figure out and fix an issue. This document probably contains Omega’s motive for coming to Earth and what it aims to destroy.

This is the first solid information she has gotten about the case in a long while. The detective thought as she returned to her office as quickly as possible.

Reaching home base Amelia wasted no time, with bated breath the detective opens up the mysterious brown envelope.

“ Oh my god….No…no…this must be some kind of sick joke….” The detective stammer her own words as she could not believe her eyes and what is located within the envelope. “ Of all things, how is this possible, what is going on.”

The amount of commotion the detective was causing within the confines of the office eventually attracted the attention of Gura who came in to check on her. “ Yo Watson you good?” The shark girl comments as she enters the room.

The girl was greeted by the scene of the detective chugging down an entire bottle of alcohol, Something uncharacteristic of the normally suave detective she knows.

“ Watson stop, what is going on.” Gura ran over and snatch the bottle out of the detective’s hand.

Amelia laughing in a drunken hysteria spoke, “ HA HA HA, This makes absolutely no sense. None of this makes sense. Why do I even try to understand it anymore.” The detective continues to maniacally laugh at her discovery.

“ Ayo Watson, calm down, what the heck is going on?” The shark girl worriedly comments as she helps the detective into the office chair.

“ No way this is real, I must be dreaming. There is just no way HA HA HA,” Amelia continues to laugh.

The shark girl turns her attention towards a certain brown envelope, one she hasn’t seen in this office before now. It must be whatever Amelia found out from that envelope that is causing her to act strange. The shark girl takes a deep breath and peers into the mysterious brown envelope.

Due to her being from Atlantis even now, she isn’t the best with human vocabulary. However, the documents located within the envelope are easy enough to understand.

“ Staff Job application form”

“ Full name: Omega Alpha”

“ Applied role: Music project Producer”

-End Investigation-

Chapter Text

Everyone is just as confused and weirded out by the turn of events as the detective. For now, the company decides to just go with the flow, and the job interview with the god of destruction, Omega Alpha, would be occurring in around a week's time.

It seems to be safe to assume, that for now that the Earth is in no threat of being destroyed by the manipulator…So it’s a victory Amelia supposes…a very confusing victory…but at this point… just go with it.

“ Test test, Kronii, can you hear me?” Amelia initiates the mental link and communicates.

“ Loud and clear detective, how are things going on on your end?” The warden responded back in a relatively casual yet still serious tone.

“ I send the details to the company. They say they would be ready to set up the job interview in a few weeks.” The detective relayed the information, still trying to wrap her head around what is happening.

“ Don’t worry, I am just as confused as you are,” The warden reassures the detective, “ in all the millennia I have known of Omega has never acted like this before.”

“ Once Omega draws its sword, most of the time the fate of whatever its target is sealed. I never once in my life expected Omega of all beings to sheath its blade, pick up a pen and paper, and wrote up a job application form.” Kronii recounted, just as bewildered by the strangeness of the situation as the detective.

“ By the way Kronii, are you alright? From what I heard from Mumei Omega did raid the Council’s home base. You didn’t get hurt did you?” The detective concernedly asked.

“ I’m fine, you don’t need to worry about it,” The warden reassures, “ It didn’t try to fight us or anything.”

“ Omega’s raid could be simply summarised as Omega walking through the front door as we try to throw everything we got at it, only for none of it to actually work as Omega simply ignored all of us and broke into Mumei’s library for some paper and ink and made the job application form Mumei gave you.” Kronii still with confusion in her voice recounts her bizarre experience, “ Like Mumei said, if it really wanted us dead, I wouldn’t be able to talk to you right now.” The warden finishes.

“ I see, that’s good,” the detective lets out a sigh of relief.

“ Ummm Kronii where exactly is Omega right now?” Amelia asked out of curiosity.

The Kronii ponders a moment before responding. “ It is currently in the Galaxy Room with Sana probably just observing the Earth or something. I got no clue what goes on in that thing’s head.”

“ I see,” Amelia simply retorts, “ Also, are you guys still coming down to Earth? Considering that everything seems to be over at this point.” the detective asked the obvious question.

“ Yeah, we will. We feel there is definitely something that is influencing Omega’s strange behavior. So as a Council, we all collectively agreed to go to Earth and investigate the situation further.” Kronii elaborated calmly to the detective, “Besides, we don’t exactly trust Omega. Due to how destructive it is, something is bound to go wrong at some point, having us on standby on Earth to quickly patch up issues before it gets too big seems like a good idea.”

“ That makes sense, do you want me to ask the company to make preparations for you? It would be best if Omega does end up working with us for you guys to also be working with us as well.” Amelia declared, “ You guys get a closer eye on Omega, and we get a closer and more efficient line of communication.” the detective logically laid out the situation.

“ I will have to discuss this with the rest of the Council before giving you a confirmation. Although, I don’t think anyone would be opposed to the idea.” Kronii illustrates the situation to Amelia, “ I’ll just say, if you can, that would be greatly appreciated.” the warden simply gives her thanks in advance.

“ Don’t mention it, I’m just doing what I think a friend should do.” Amelia gleefully responds.

“ You’re just excited to learn more about us aren’t you,” Kronii jokingly comments, reading the detective’s mind.

“ No comment.” The detective smugly retorts before stopping the mental communication.

-End Investigation-

Chapter Text

It is finally the day of Omega’s job interview. Due to how dangerous Omega is in general, a decision was made for Cover Corp to go Omega instead. 5 people are involved in this operation. First, the Holo Trinity of Yagoo A-chan and Sora senpai, the participation of this group is obvious, they are the founders and higher-ups of the company after all. Second is the newly hired Vsinger Irys, she is coming along because is part of the Council and will be the key component of how the group will be able to enter the Council’s domain to perform the operation. Lastly is Amelia, who was the one that got everyone involved in the first place by deciding to offer to help Kronii using her connections with the company.

There is technically a rule about not getting the company involved with stuff that relates to you personally like a time warden personally approaching you and telling you to stop using your time powers. But in this case, since the issue turns out to be about the end of the world, it was a big enough deal that the company was willing to give her a slap on the wrist and not punish her for breaking the rule. She will need to keep that in mind and be more careful with contracts in the future, she likes this job after all, and she wouldn’t want to lose this great opportunity by being careless.

“ Alright everyone please step into the circle. We should be able to reach our destination within 10 minutes. While we travel I would like to ask that everyone remain as still as possible until I tell you we reached our destination and remain within the boundary of the circle. We would be doing something called Void Hopping, which involves traversing through The Void if you were to leave the circle accidentally…I can’t guarantee you would be able to survive and even if you do somehow….I can’t guarantee, I, or any Council member for that matter, would able to find and save you.” Irys gave a quick briefing on the process and instructions for their travel. “ If there are any questions please ask away.”

“ First of all, Irys chan, don’t you think this circle is a bit small for 5 people,” Yagoo pointed out the size of the magic circle Irys has drawn onto the floor. “ Second of all, isn’t traveling through a magic circle extremely unreliable, is there perhaps a better and safer way of travel?” The CEO questions.

“ Since the Council headquarters is basically a pocket universe, it isn’t connected to this universe like all the other dimensions and therefore can’t be reached by dimensional gates. So, unfortunately, this is the only way,” Irys elaborated “ I can make the circle bigger though” The Nephilim gave a quick confirmation before beginning to work on a new circle.

“ Here Sora you’ll need this,” Amelia heard A-chan speak while handing some tablets to Sora senpai along with a glass of water.

“ Thanks, A-chan,” the senior took the tablets before turning over to look at the detective and ask. “ Do you need some as well Ame chan?”

The detective who was caught staring approached the duo, “ What is it Sora senpai?” The detective asked curiously.

“ It’s motion sickness pills.” The director clarified “ Sora couldn’t even handle most car rides and FPS games, you can imagine how much worse she would handle magic travel, let alone traveling through a summoning circle.”
“ I see, I’ll be fine no need to worry about me Sora senpai, A-chan” the detective clarified.

“ That’s good to hear,” the director simply replied before asking the detective “ Are you free right now Ame chan?”

Surprised by the sudden question, Amelia hesitantly replied, “ I mean, we’re all waiting for Irys to redraw the circle right? So I guess I am free.”

“ That’s good, I need some help moving some stuff in the fridge from the floor above down here.” A-chan simply states “ Would you mind giving me a hand?”

“ Oh right the gifts I bought for the Council. I’ll help.” Sora senpai perked up and offered.

“ Just me and Ame chan is enough Sora, you watch over Irys chan and Yagoo.” A-chan simply suggested.

The senior gave a compliant nod before walking over to join up with Irys and Yagoo. Meanwhile, the director signals the detective to follow her up the stairs.

As the two proceeded up the staircase together Amelia decided to strike up a conversation, “ What did Sora senpai prepared for the Council?”

A-chan took a moment before giving the detective a response, “ Cake in a can…”

“ What….?” The detective questions.

“ Yes, Amelia, we are going to be gifting what basically is the keeper of the balance of the universe canned cake,” A-chan said dryly as she makes her way to the fridge.

“ But….why… canned cake….” The gears in Amelia’s head are trying to turn but she can’t really make sense of the logic.

“ Well, They are sweet and won’t be ruined by transportation I guess,” A-chan simply shrugs as she begins to grab several cans from the fridge and put them into a small box.

The detective walked over and helped the director put the assortment of cans into the box. “ A-chan do you want to talk?” Amelia asked a rhetorical question, the detective could tell, the director purposely separated herself and Amelia from the rest of the group for a reason.

“ Well,” A-chan gave a deep inhale before responding “ I just want to ask what you think about the current situation?”

“ Well, there’s a lot actually, where do I begin.” Amelia scratched her head.

“ Let’s focus on our decision to go meet Omega at the council base,” The director brought up and questioned the detective “What do you think?”

“ We know that even if the application form isn’t legit, Omega isn’t looking for a fight.”Amelia opens her thought process, “ Omega has proven itself that it is more than capable of brute forcing its way through obstacles as tough as the Council without much effort. So I highly doubt it is scared of anything.” Amelia analyzed

“ However, even with its immense power, It could still be reasoned with, as it did agree for us to go meet at the Council’s domain instead of it coming to Earth as it originally planned.”

“ It isn’t ideal, since our fate does rely on the fact Omega remains cooperative. But with an entity as powerful as Omega….There aren’t really any other options, as if we don’t follow its demands, it might be compelled to return on the offensive and our fate would be sealed.” Amelia finishes her thoughts on the complicated situation they are in.

“ I see, I just wanted to make sure.” The director simply stated as she hands the detective the box full of cake. The look on her face is one the detective has never seen before.

“ A-chan you’re…” The detective was about to state her observation before the director cuts her off.

“ Scared, no, more appropriately I would say I am terrified,” A-chan vulnerably spoke. “ I feel cornered by this whole thing. Normally we would be able to find a way to maneuver around it …but this time….it’s like you said…” The director shakenly spoke.

“ A-chan are you…” Amelia concernedly spoke up as A-chan is beginning to walk downstairs.

“ I am fine Amelia chan, I need to be.” The director defeatedly spoke, “ Everyone is relying on me. If I start to waiver everyone would also start to worry. ” A-chan beings to be consumed by her own thoughts as she stares off into the distance “ Especially Sora, she has faith that I have everything under control. I can’t fail her”

“Please forget about what I just said. We should head back down, Sora will start to worry if we take too long.” A-chan took a deep breath and regain her composure. “ Irys should be finished with the teleportation circle by now.”

Finishing her statement the director continues her walk downstairs and signals the detective to follow. Amelia compiled, carrying the box downstairs in silence.

-End Investigation-

Chapter Text

Amelia couldn’t see anything, couldn’t hear anything, couldn’t touch anything. Is this what it’s like to travel through the void? This sensory deprivation makes the detective feels excruciatingly uncomfortable, despite not feeling anything….she is feeling…something…a weird pressure…it feels like something is watching her….not one…but many…uncountable amounts of many…It’s unbearable… Amelia wants to get away from it and run but her body doesn’t follow her command, she can’t even see herself, she can’t feel herself moving…she is trapped… and there is nothing she can do about it.

Luckily for her, it seems her wishes have come though. After a while, the strange uncomfortable feeling did subside, being replaced by a soothing and warm sensation. Although the reason for this change is unknown to the detective, she enjoys it immensely. This feeling of comfort is like no other, it encapsulates Amelia and makes her wish this feeling would never end, making her feel that nothing else matters, that she could just let herself go and lose herself in this eternal bliss.

“ Thank you for the tea Fauna chan, it really helps,” a voice clearly belonging to Yagoo spoke up.

Hearing the CEO’s voice the detective snapped awake at the realization that she has something to do. She couldn’t be dilly-dallying like this, the fate of the universe is at stake. With that conviction in mind, the detective opens up her eyes.

As her eyes open she is greeted by…a very lovely, round…voluptuous pair of chests… Amelia also quickly realized that the warmth she felt earlier was from the equally voluptuous thighs that her head is resting on.

“ It is no problem at all, I am simply being a good host. A void hop is significantly more taxing to a mage than more natural folks,” The voice belonging to the lady she was laying on spoke up, her voice has a soft and welcoming tone, like that of a mother talking to her children.

“ Speaking of which, I’m glad you’re awake dear,” The beautiful green hair lady looked down and gave a warm smile to the detective.

“ Uhhhh…thank you for helping me” Amelia quickly jolted off the lady’s extremely comfortable lap, her enter face beet red from embarrassment.

The now conscious detective surveyed her surroundings. Everyone seems to be currently located in some sort of common room, if Amelia were to make a comparison, the room looks like one of those living rooms that would be found in a luxury suite of a 5-star hotel, it looks surprisingly pretty normal…well it’s still extremely luxurious and beautiful…she just expected that for gods such as them…it would look more grand or otherworldly.

“ How long was I out for? ” The detective regains composure from her embarrassed state and sits back down on the sofa, positioning herself near Yagoo for extra security.

“ You were out for 20 minutes or so” A-chan simply clarifies as she takes a sip from a cup of tea in her hand.

“ I see,” the detective acknowledges before bringing up more questions. “ Where is Irys?”

The green hair lady lets out an amused chuckle before responding “ Irys got dragged away by Bae to have a quick chat, she’ll be back soon enough.”

“ Oh, right, I should introduce myself. I am Ceres Fauna, Keeper of Nature,” the green-haired beauty introduced herself.

“ A-ah yes, I’m Amelia Watson nice to meet you,” the detective also gave her introductions in kind.

“ The pleasure is all mine,” Fauna courteously replied. “ You will be allowed to interview Omega once all of the Council members are available. In the meantime, please feel free to ask any questions.”

“ Fauna chan, what exactly happened to Yagoo san and Amelia chan,” Sora senpai worryingly questions, “ Why did they suddenly lose consciousness once we reached here? Is there something wrong?”

“ Oh, there is nothing to worry about on that end. The reason for them passing out was because they were mages. A sudden large shift in magical concentration, like traveling through the void and entering the council’s domain in that small time span, caused their body temporarily shuts down as they try to adapt to the new environment.” The keeper of nature calmly explains as she poured the now conscious detective a cup of special healing tea.

“ I can assure you it isn’t anything lethal, or something that will leave long-lasting damage if that’s what you are concerned Sora senpai.” Fauna gave a warm smile back to the senior.

Sora senpai seems a bit more relaxed hearing the reassurance that Fauna provided. She must have felt a weight lifted off her to know that we are all safe…wait a minute…senpai…?

“ Did you just call Sora senpai, Sora senpai?” the detective shouted at the sudden development.

“ Oh right, The Council members are all hired. They will be joining us on our way back to Earth and will be debuting once they acclimated.” Yagoo simply clarified as he continues to drink his tea.

“ Huh?” Amelia is honestly just in shock at this point. “ You know what… at this point… sure…”

“ Have you given up detective? ” A-chan dryly snickers as she asked.

Amelia simply sighs as she sips her tea in response. At this point she just wants all this to be over and get back to her normal work schedules, this world is too complicated to make sense.

“ For the last time Bae I said I am sorry. I’ll make it up to you I swear.” Irys could be heard apologizing to a shorter girl with red hair and rat-like features as they both walked into the room.

“ I ain’t taking that half-ass apology mate” The rat girl blows the Nephalim off, “Let’s settle this Omega business so you can get the heck outta here.”

“ Come onnnnn Bae” The Nephalim whines in response to the harsh tone lunging at the girl for a hug.

“ Oi get off me,” The girl referred to as Bae yelled in response before turning her attention to the rest of the group.

“ You must be the boss,” The small girl teleported out of Nephalim’s grasp and appeared in front of Yagoo, politely extending out her hand. “ I’m Hakos Baelz, the embodiment of Chaos and the theoretical leader of the Council. It’s a pleasure to be working under you from now on.”

“ The pleasure’s all mine Bae chan, welcome to Hololive.” Yagoo politely replied accepting Bae’s hand for a handshake.

“ By the way where are Kronii and Mumei?” Irys simply questions as she walks over to join the rest of the group.

“ They should be here any minute-,” Bae says before quicking cutting her own words off “Speak of the devil.”

“ Sorry, we’re late, weird anomalies are happening all over, it took quite a while to resolve.” Kronii apologized as she teleported into the room along with the brown-haired Nanashi Mumei at her side, who is just snacking on some berries.

“ Looks like the gang’s all here.” Bae boisterously declared “ Alright, let’s go meet up with Sana and that weirdo and get this interrogation started.” As if it was telegraphed beforehand, as soon as Bae finishes her sentence a portal rips open in the middle of the common room.

As everyone slowly walked through the portal, the detective takes a deep breath preparing for the biggest and most important job in her life.

-End Investigation-

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Passing through the portal Amelia is led into the cosmic room, The Speaker of Space, Tsukumo Sana’s domain. The room reminds Amelia of a planetarium, as the ceilings, walls, and even the floor project the same scenery of the vastness of space and the celestial bodies that inhabit it. 2 figures seemed to be within the room having some sort of conversation that Amelia could barely make out.

“ No Omega, Fairy types are immune to dragon types you need to switch out,” The woman with long cream-colored twin-tailed hair and tan-colored skin who seems to be wearing a simple yet royal-looking leotard annoyedly complained. “ Are you even trying to win?”

This complaint is directed at the other figure in the room, a menacing-looking humanoid dressed in an all-white coat that drapes down and covers most of its features. The being has long white silver hair that extends and separates and ties to strange floating triangle ornaments at the ends and a strange triangle halo above its head that seems to let out a glowing myriad of colors that seems to reflect and refract off both the hair and coat it wears making the figure as a whole glow an iridescent rainbow color.

That being is…strange…just looking at it gives the detective a headache, it’s like Amelia is looking at something she isn’t supposed to be perceiving.

“I have no interest, nor the need to invest effort into such activities.” The figure dryly and mechanically responds to the complaint “ This act you request me to partake in is nothing but a waste of time, Speaker of Space. However, even while recognizing so, I still entertained your request. Is that still not enough to satisfy you? ”

“ This is why no one likes you,” The speaker of space jabs. “ You’re too pragmatic, boring, a killjoy even.”

“ Alright, Sana don’t poke the bee hive so much,” Bae states approaching the tan girl, “ don’t wanna be picking fights we can’t win ya know.”

“ Oh, Bae you’re here,” Sana’s voice perked up as she looks down and picked up Bae, placing the smaller girl on her shoulder. “ Everyone else is here as well. Hi everyone, I’m Tsukumo Sana, the Speaker of Space, let’s get along.” She introduces herself.

“In any case,” Bae states as she slowly climbs down from Sana’s shoulders, “ I think we really should get this meeting started.”

“ I agree with that assessment,” Omega spoke up, extending its arm from its coat and snapping its finger, summoning a long table and a set of chairs for everyone to sit on. “Let us proceed.”

Everyone reluctantly takes their seat at the table and Amelia took a deep breath as she starts off the interview.

“ Please start by introducing yourself,” Amelia suggests.

The being nod before proceeding as instructed “ I am Omega Alpha, one of 4 Manipulators of this Universe. My job is to destroy dimensions and preserve the ongoing universe at any cost necessary.”

“ I see,” Amelia responded, that was information she already know from her talks with Council, it’s time to ask the real question. “What makes you interested in our company?”

“ I have observed some irregularities within your company, namely the large gathering of magical beings and some powerful ones at that. Yet your company managed to wrangle them all together and keep conflict and chaos to a minimum. If it were handled by other groups a gathering this large and powerful could have caused disastrous consequences to the world you inhabit, and considering you inhabit the Main Dimension that could have gone terribly.” Omega simply replied, still monotone and mechanical like last time, the detective couldn’t really get a good read on what it is thinking.

The best course of action is to ask head-on, the detective thought to herself and questions her interviewee “ So did you just apply to our company because you are curious about how we worked?”

“ Not particularly,” Omega still dryly responds, “ The job application was simply a gesture of courtesy.”

That’s undoubtedly ominous Amelia thought, “ Could you elaborate on that?”

“ Understood,” Omega begins, “Due to my reputation, my approach to Earth is perceived as a threat, as such, to minimize conflict, I went ahead to the Council to show I am not a threat and then sent in the job application form to you as a sign to show that I come in peace.” The iridescent being spoke before getting cut off.

“ Hold the heck up, you expect us to believe that,” Bae shouted, “you literally barged into our base and wrecked the place. You call that trying to be peaceful.”

Omega seems unimpressed but responds “ As a Manipulator we build this universe and everything within it. I did not break in, you wouldn’t call a homeowner entering their own home a trespasser would you?” The being for the first time seems to show some sort of emotion…and Amelia isn’t sure if that’s a good thing since Omega just seems either sassy or just plain rude. “ Besides, I wasn’t the one who destroyed the place, it was you attacking me with your attacks that dealt the most of the collateral damage, I didn’t even use a single attack during my entrance.”

“ Why you” Bae’s anger seems to flare up as an energy ball spawned in her hand ready to chuck it at Omega.

“ Bae, please calm down, I am still conducting the interview.” Amelia simply states as the other council members hearing this calm the rat girl down and pull her back down to her seat.

“ Omega you claim you have an interest in coming to Earth, why is that?” Amelia got back to questioning.

“ I have come to conduct an investigation on Earth.” Omega stated plainly “ As Council is already aware, quite a lot of anomalies are occurring over there. Some of these are quite concerning like the manifestation of a Great Old One that occurred roughly 2 weeks ago. In fact, that was originally the reason for my reawakening and subsequent rush to Earth” Omega matter of factly replied to the detective’s line of questioning

“ Wait what?” The room erupted in unison.

Omega actually jolted slightly from the sudden outburst before returning to its stone face facade and continue explaining. “ You don’t need to worry about it anymore However. Although the Great Old One is an entity very much capable of wiping out the universe, they are essentially the more deadly and powerful versions of the Ancient Ones, the issue has already been handled and that Great Old One has been banished back into the void. So theoretically speaking, your dimension and the universe as a whole is safe and is not in any sort of imminent danger.”

After reassuring everyone in the room, Omega then continues to answer the detective’s questions. “ If the threat is gone then why are you still here? Is likely what you are wondering”

“ It’s because there seems to be something strange going on on this planet. Manifesting a Great Old One is not something that is impossible, with enough time, resources, and a whole lot of stupidity, I am not too surprised your civilization eventually manages to pull such a task off.” The mechanical being seems to say that as both a compliment and an insult.

“ However, the ability to banish such a being back into the void, that’s an entirely different story…that’s a feat…a feat which even I couldn’t confidently say I would be able to handle on my own.” Omega dematerializes its cloak and reveals its complete form, an androgynous figure wearing a skin-tight body white body suit that covers the shoulders down to toe which seems to also be fused with its spike-like pointed shoe….but the way the god dress isn’t the important part, the most interesting detail of the reveal is that Omega is actually crippled.

“ I have fought with them before, ” The deity declared as it clutches its mechanical prosthetic left arm. “ I am well aware of their capabilities.” There is a slight quiver and tremble in its voice as it spoke, it was so faint that someone who wasn’t paying attention would have missed it.

The detective couldn’t get a good read on what Omega is actually feeling, Rage? Vulnerability? Fear? Embarrassment? It’s hard exactly guessed the cause of this behavior even for someone as experienced as Amelia, but one thing is for sure, the deity is clearly uncomfortable in bringing this topic up and is putting up a poker face to make it look like nothing is wrong.

Seeing this reaction, Amelia decided it is best not to elevate the pressure off Omega. An uncomfortable being of pure destruction is not a good sign. It is best to keep being on Omega’s good side since if it decides we are not worth working with anymore, there isn’t anything we can do to force it to be cooperative with us again….and worse… if it decides it doesn’t like us…. things can get really ugly.

Amelia looked over to Kronii and pivots the conversation “ Kronii is that true? You guys seemed just as surprised as the rest of us when Omega mentioned the manifestation of a Great Old One.”

“The reason we’re surprised is more to do with the fact that we know it was something big and bad that is occurring…. But since we detected Omega’s awakening and its approach to Earth….Since it has the reputation of being the dimension-destroying being…. We just chalk it up to Omega being the cause of the problem.”

“ It was only until Irys descended and confirms that Omega wasn’t the one causing the anomalies that we realize something else is amidst. We were all wondering what exactly went down and all of us have our own ideas, but we 100% didn’t expect the answer to be a literal universe-busting being manifesting under our noses about to destroy everything,”

“ So what Omega said does make sense, an event that big shouldn’t just be able to resolve by itself randomly, with practically no collateral damage no less. It’s something worth looking into” Kronii summarises the Council’s perspective of the situation.

With the Council’s perspective out of the way, Amelia looked over at Yagoo for his verdict on the situation. The older man turns to A-chan and Sora senpai, and the two girls simply nod in response.

Standing up from his chair, the CEO began to speak, “ We accept you to work for us Omega Alpha, your work begins effective immediately once you agree to our terms.”

“ What might your terms be? ” The deity also stood up from its seat and questioned curiously.

“ The standard company policy and work contract, “ A-chan also stood up and spoke in a calm manner, “ We have a policy of treating all beings equally, no matter who or what they are and how powerful they may be.”

“ And what if I decide to not follow through with it? ” Omega snaps its finger summoning its gigantic sword into its metallic hand. “None of you have the power to actually stop me.”

“ Perhaps,” Sora senpai stands up from her chair, “ but there is no need for us to fight, you are only here for an investigation after all, so let's just resolve this peacefully like you originally wanted.” The idol requested with a calm diplomatic tone. “Please”

Omega locked its gaze on Sora senpai before dematerializing its sword. “ I see,” the deity intriguingly hums under its breath.

Amelia decided to jump in “ Sora senpai is right, there isn’t a need for fighting, we have a common goal in investigating the situation after all. Besides, in exchange for working with us, we can help you get what you need easier. We already have preestablished connections we can get information from, it would be must faster than you working alone with no leads.” The detective sweetened up the deal.

“ I accept this agreement, “ Omega simply states as it hovers over to Sora senpai extending out its non-mechanical hand. “ I’ll be in your care,”

Sora senpai seems confused by the gesture…she isn’t the CEO after all…Yagoo is actually the boss here. Non the less she accepts Omega’s hand.

“ Very well, I’m glad that’s resolved.” A-chan exasperatedly sighs in relief.

Yagoo simply pats A-chan on the head before looking at the rest of the group. “ Alright everyone, let’s head back to Earth and get you all settled in.”

-End Investigation-

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The Council girls seem to acclimate into the Hololive environment pretty well. Irys arriving first has already gotten pretty used to living on Earth, especially with the help of Calli. Those two hit it off pretty well due to their shared interest in music, the reaper taking the nephilim under her wing and showing the newbie the ropes. Irys has taken residence somewhere in the underworld, so if anything happens Calli would be there to help. As much of a goof as Calli can be, she is pretty reliable, so there is nothing to worry about there.

Mumei being the Guardian of Civilization, her quick adaptation to modern-day technology isn’t all too surprising. She is still relatively shy around people, since according to her, she prefers to observe civilization from afar rather than be part of it…Aside from that aversion to human interaction…there seems to be some…psychotic tendency in her…but at this point…it’s nothing weird to the company…

Sana also adapted pretty easily, due to her preexisting relationship with Ina, she has already visited Earth multiple times and already knows her way around things. There was nothing to worry about in her integration…well besides her limiter getting loose which could lead to her blowing up the Earth….

Although Fauna doesn’t seem to be the biggest fan of modern society…which is fair…Mother Nature not liking something that is destroying nature, is completely logical. She has taken up residence in the company’s greenhouse, very fitting for her title.

Kronii is an odd one…She says everything is under control…but it really doesn’t take a detective to know that…she doesn’t have it under control and is just too prideful to accept that…Cover has stationed a couple of managers and staff to babysit her until she fully acclimates…hopefully, it all goes well.

As for Bae, the epitome of Chaos is surprisingly cooperative… she actually has been very helpful in helping the other Council members adjust, regularly checking up on them and reporting to Cover about what they need to help acclimate…perhaps that’s why she was given the title of Leader amongst them.

On the other hand…Omega has gotten into a bit of an issue… The company tried to get Omega to integrate better by giving it a Twitter account, in hopes of it getting a better understanding of human culture … Which ended up backfiring, as just within the hour of Omega using the cursed social media app… The being proclaimed “The universe would be better off if they started again from scratch”, all the while pulling out its signature weapon, readying to bring upon Armageddon as we know it. Luckily for everyone, Sora senpai was still around in the office at the time and was capable of defusing the situation. Needless to say, Omega got its internet access revoked until further notice after that whole debacle.

So safe to say that the company is as hectic as ever with these new faces. Speaking of new faces, with more new talents joining the roster, more managers and general staff need to be added to accommodate.

“ Thank you for helping me move my things to my new office Ame-chan” Jenma, the angle manager groaned as she put down a heavy box full of equipment she was carrying.

“ I’m happy to help Jenma,” The detective simply replied, “ Also once again, congratulations on your promotion to becoming head manager.”

“ Thank you Ame chan,” The angel replied with a bright happy smile. “I’ll be doing my best to support you all.”

“ Although It’s a shame you won’t be managing me anymore.” Amelia somberly laments. The two have gotten quite close over the months they have been working with each other, and to say goodbye is a bit… The detective isn’t exactly surprised at the development, Enma only cares about Ina, meanwhile, J-chad is far too violent and eccentric for the position, leaving Jenma no choice but to take up the role.

“ Awww, don’t say it like that,” The manager gave Amelia a big hug “ I’ll still be around if you ever need consultation or help with anything.”

“ Thanks, Jenma,” Amelia mellowly responded. “ I’ll be fine.”

-End Investigation-

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The days of the apocalyptical event are behind us…well there is still the mystery of what exactly went down…but let's just worry about that crucial detail later. It’s time to get back into the normal routine and start living a normal life…well, as normal as you can get in a company like Hololive anyways…

Amelia finished preparations for her streaming activities and submitted the request for permissions to the management, suffice to say, that all her company-based responsibilities have been taken care of. The detective leans back on her chair and stretches, it’s been quite some time since the last time she had a slow day where she can just relax.

She debated making a new aquarium set up for her fish however decided against it since properly maintaining a healthy tank takes a lot of work and she feels she isn’t ready for that just yet. She could make a smaller ecosphere instead…but at this point, her office is running out of shelf space for them.

In the end, the detective decided to simply go out and take a walk at a nearby park, going out to touch some grass is good for both mental and physical health….also a good excuse to look for some moss…

Speaking of moss…seems like the detective is in luck, at the corner of her eye near a stone bridge within the park she spots a nice-looking clump of Racomitrium japonicum moss. This would look perfect in a terrarium if she decided to make a new one, and without a second thought, the blond took out her tools and ready herself for the collection process.

“ Even after all these years, you are still doing this huh?” a familiar voice called Amelia from behind.

Bening caught off guard red-handed the detective turned back to confront the figure, “ Mr. Sherlock?” Amelia exclaimed.

“ Been a while kiddo,” The older man courteously greets her “ What do you say we catch up over some ice cream? My treat.”

After settling down the two get to have a chat.

“ Ah, so that’s the case you are working on.” The old man hums in amusement, “Unfortunately, unlike you and the rest of the Watsons I’m not a mage so I wouldn’t be much help. However, if I do find out anything I’ll let you know.” Sherlock reassures the younger detective.

“ Thank you, Mr. Sherlock.” The detective gleefully thanked her mentor while enjoying her ice cream. “ By the way, what brought you all the way here anyways.”

“ Ah right, I haven’t told you yet.” The older detective mused “ I’m here to drop off Ophelia, she’s here to do a job interview for a company in the area. I’m pretty confident she will pass so she’ll be staying here for a while.”

“ So she decided to leave London as well huh?” The blond detective mutters to herself.
The older man lets out a tired sigh “ It’s not surprising, cases have gotten really repetitive and boring these days, I understand she wants a change of pace. ”

“ Are you also moving here with her?” Amelia curiously asked.

“ Unfortunately no, no matter how monotonous they are I still have work left to do in London.” Sherlock stands up from the bench the two were sitting on before stretching. “ No matter how boring it is solving crimes and bringing justice is a necessary job.”

“ Don’t worry though, you youngins go have fun.” The older detective smiled at his protege “This old man is more than enough to handle the crimes back at home.”

Amelia pondered her mentor's words for a moment but before she could think to give a proper response she was interrupted by a text message notification. It’s a message from Jenma requesting her to come to the office.

Amelia solemnly sighs “ I’m really sorry Mr. Sherlock, I really wish to talk more but looks like my manager needs me for something.”

“ Ha ha ha, don’t be. Besides you can just call me, phones exist too you know. ” The older detective joked. “ But really, I should really get going as well, I don’t want to miss my flight.”

The mentor and mentee stared at each other for a moment before finally speaking.

“ Till we meet again my little gremlin apprentice.” Sherlock jokingly declared

“ You too old man, don’t want you kicking the bucket too early. I want to earn the title of the world’s best detective fair and square.” Amelia in kind boisterously declared back.

After exchanging their parting words the two went their separate ways.

-End Investigation-

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Arriving at Jenma’s new office the detective could see her ex-manager having a serious look on her face. “ Please take a seat, Amelia. We got some serious matters on our hands.” 

The detective obliges and takes a seat, the tension rises as Amelia tries to anticipate what this meeting could possibly be about. 

Jenma begins to rummage through the folders on her desk while asking the detective one simple question. “ Do you want the big news first, or the smaller one? ” The angel lets out a sigh. 

“ I’ll take the smaller.” The detective hesitantly answered, not sure where all of this was going. 

In response to the answer, Jenma pulls out a small sheet of paper from the folder and hands it to the detective. “ His code name is Henma, he’ll serve as your and Mumei’s manager from now on. He was picked for his proficiency with 3D equipment and organization work to compliment your project-heavy content style. You can read more about him on that piece of paper I just gave you.”  The blond staff calmly laid out. 

“ Alright then,” The detective sighs as she puts that information in the back of her mind. Cover typically does a pretty decent job when it comes to screening staff so this new manager shouldn’t be too much of an issue. What’s pressing is whatever this big news is.

“What’s the elephant in the room?” The detective nervously asked as sweat dropped from her face. 

“ Well, the good news is Omega managed to locate the point where the Outer God summoning ritual happened.” Jenma plainly states 

“ And the bad news is?” Amelia nervously pushed.

“ Well…bad news is, after cross-referencing the location with the map AZKi chan provides…well….investigating it would be difficult.” The blonde manager hands over a folder to the detective before continuing. “ Someone already beat us to the punch.” 

“ The Mage Association,” Amelia stated her conclusion as she glanced at the folder.

“ Precisely, and because we labeled ourselves as a non-mage company, we can’t exactly go back on our own words and get involved with their business.” Jenma dryly spoke. 

“ So, is that it? Are we just going to not do anything?” Amelia questions Jenma. 

“ Well, we do have a couple of options.” the angel manager elaborated, “ You know our company’s policy of not interfering with your personal lives right?”  

“ Are you suggesting I take care of this thing on my own?” The detective practically shouted the idea out loud at Jenma’s face. “ That’s ridiculous, no way I’ll be able to do that. I got nowhere near enough connections for that kind of thing.” 

Jenma sighed before continuing “ We don’t exactly have a lot of options here. I did reach out to Shion chan to see if her connections can help, unfortunately, she told me it’s a dead end on her side.” 

Jenma handed a small piece of note with Shion senpai’s handwriting on it to Amelia before she continued to elaborate. “ According to her this area is controlled by a new branch of the Mage Association research unit so her family connections are unable to help her in this situation.” 

“ Well? If even Shion senpai wasn’t capable of getting in. How do you expect me to do it?” The detective frustratedly slumps into her chair. 

“ Take a look at the forth page of the folder I just gave you.” Jenma composedly instructed.

The detective is a little confused but does as instructed and what she saw….she couldn’t believe her eyes.

“ It seems like luck is on your side,” Jenma comments “ The new acting branch manager of that operation just so happens to be a lady by the name of Ophelia Holmes, and from what I know, both of your families are pretty much tied together. If anyone has a shot to do this it would be you Ame.” the Angel affirms. 

Taking a deep breath the detective now understands why Jenma called her into the office as quickly as she did. Just as Amelia thought things were just settling down into a nice and comfortable pace it’s going back to being crazy again. On the one hand, she does enjoy the quiet life, but on the other hand, being thrown into a situation such as this…somehow it just feels…exciting…

Amelia gave out her answer to the issue the company is having. “ I’ll try to reach out to her as fast as I can.” the rush of adrenaline can be felt as she lets out her declaration. 

“ Thank you, Amelia,” Jenma lets out a massive sigh of relief. 

Snapping back from her case excitement high for a second Amelia asked Jenma one more question “So uhhh, say if I can’t get in touch with her do we have a plan B?”

“Omega did offer to go there by itse-” Jenma begins to tiredly explain but before she can even finish she gets cut off.

“ There is no plan B” Amelia cuts her off with a small nervous sweat running down her face. Anything to do with Omega is straight-up a bad idea, especially after knowing how it approached Council.

“ Yup.” the angel manager lets out a dry laugh “Good luck with the case Amelia, we're all gonna need it .” 

-End Investigation-

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Amelia returned to her home office back at the apartment after her meeting with Jenma. The blonde detective takes a moment to take a deep breath, closing her eyes and leaning back on her chair, pondering her next move before sighing “ What a day huh?” 

It has been quite some time already since she last talked to Ophelia. The two consider each other as rivals as they would often challenge each other to solve difficult cases back in the day to see who is the better detective. Amelia looked back at those memories fondly and hearing that her old friend was so close now made her feel really happy. 

The question remains though, how should she reach out and reconnect with her friend? Should she send a text and set up an appointment, or should she make a call and start some small talk? At this point the thought of the mission wasn’t even on her mind, she was just excited to plan a hang-out. 

However, as Amelia begins to reminisce and think of how she will reach out she hears strange knocking at her window stopping her thoughts in its tracks. She lives on the second floor so someone must have climbed up to her balcony, but why would an intruder bother knocking…Well, whatever it is Amelia pulls out her trusty modified pistol and cautiously approaches the window. 

“Whoever it is put your hands up where I can see them,” Amelia yelled as she slowly approached the window to remove the blinds and see who was out there.

She does get a response from the mysterious knocker “Just open the damn windows already, it’s damn cold out here.” the very familiar voice angrily yelled at her. 

The detective practically ripped the blinds off and yelled at the mysterious figure she saw looking out the window. “Ophelia what the hell are you doing here.” 

“To meet you, dumbass,” her old friend annoyedly replied, “ Now open the windows before I bust myself in.” 

“Wait hold on,” the detective fixed her stance and once again pointed her gun at the figure. “ How can I know it's actually you? Tell me something that only I would know.” 

Opelia in response to the detective's demands annoyedly face palms, “ You have a secret peephole behind a mirror in front of the bathtub that you made to watch my mom while she bathes back when we all used to live together. But after a week Dad caught you and you got punished by being tied to a chair and forced to watch shitty detective flicks that the deduction of how they solve each case makes absolutely no sense for 8 hours straight.” 

Her friend simply crossed her arms once she finished “ There, was that good enough.” 

After hearing that…yep…that’s her alright, everything was right down to the exact details…Amelia thought as she defeatedly put her gun away and opened the window, and as soon as Ophelia got one foot into the office she wasted no time and gave Amelia a devastating gut punch that sent the detective reeling and collapsing onto the floor.

“W-why…..?” Amelia collapsed on the floor can simply looked up as she clutched her stomach from the pain. 

“That’s for ghosting me for an entire year.” The other girl annoyedly states as she closes the window behind her. “Do you know how worried I was when you just suddenly disappeared without saying a word?” Opelia berates the blond detective. 

“Sorry…”Amelia slowly pulls herself back up to stand by grabbing onto her desk and using it as support. “I know, I’m in the wrong on that…but you know I am not the best with words.” 

Hearing the detective making excuses Ophelia reeled her fist back ready for another punch.

“Wait wait wait,” the detective flails her arms in front of her. “ I don’t know how to properly say goodbye to you all, so I choose to run away instead of trying to confront everyone about my decision to leave. And for that I am sorry.” Amelia states as she looks at her old friend dead in the eye. 

Ophelia could simply sigh at the detective’s response. “ You're always like this. Whatever, apology accepted.” as she finished she tossed over a small box which Amelia barely managed to catch due to her previous injury. “Take this.”

Looking at the box the detective knew immediately what this was “ It’s my favorite brand of tea.”  

“Go make some ice tea,” Ophelia, a little more relaxed than before, simply commanded, “ We have a lot of catching up to do.”

-End Investigation- 

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Amelia returned to the room with 2 glasses of iced tea in hand. It would seem that while the detective went out to brew the drinks Ophelia had made herself comfortable sitting down sitting down on the detective’s office floor.

The detective closed the door behind her as she joined her friend on the floor. “ Here’s the drink, 2 slices of lemon and a dash of brown sugar,” Amelia explained as she handed over the drink.

“ So you still remember huh?” Ophelia smiled as she received the drink and took a sip.

Taking a sip of her own the detective starts the conversation. “Congratulations on the job interview by the way.”

“ Ah yeah, that.” Ophelia dismissively waves her hand. “ It’s no big deal,”

It looks like Ophelia isn’t going to just spill the information she wants the detective to pry further. “ What job did you manage to get by the way.” To be fair Amelia already knows since Jenma already told her, but this is just a way to invite the conversation naturally.

Her old friend simply scoffs knowing what the detective is trying to do but decides to play along regardless, “ Well, I got a well playing job at this nice place, that I get to do fun stuff when I am free.”

Amelia simply gave a deadpan stare, “Come on, just freaking tell me why don’t you?”

“ Oh? Not going to try to trick me into saying it detective?” Ophelia lets out a laugh at her friend.

“ Dancing around the topic is fun and all, but honestly, both you and I know we’re way too busy to be playing cat and mouse.” Ame dismissively waves her hand as she takes another sip.

“ Looks like you already know what I am up to then,” Ophelia concludes “ figured as much from my rival detective.”

“ Yeah,” Amelia sighs “ the more important question is more on how you manage to do that.”

Swirling the cup in her hand, Ophelia begins her story “ Well, when you left I got bored. Without you around I got no real competition for my detective work so I decided to take a break and try out something else.”

“ Then as you do, I moved up the ranks and eventually got promoted to the position of site director and got asked to be in charge of the area.” The girl took a sip of tea as she finished.

“Alright, I think you skipped a few steps there.” The detective commented, “ There’s more to it than that. You can’t just get a position as big as site director so causally. Even for someone as good as you.”

“ Aww I’m flattered.” Ophelia puts her glass down before looking the detective in the eye, “ What about you tell me what you do know? Tell me your deductions great detective, let’s see how close you actually got to the truth.” The girl challenges her rival.

Amelia begins her deductions “ Let’s start with the common knowledge first. You being a site director makes sense, since with your detective background, if you are going to be partaking in an organization like that, obviously, you are going to be a researcher.”

“ Field researcher to be specific,” Opelia elaborated, “ mainly exploring anomalous areas and tracking rogue anomalies.”

“ Yeah that lines up with your personality,” the detective comments before continuing her deduction. “ Within the organization you work for, a site director is the highest position one can logically climb up to, as the rest of the top positions require you to have mage political power and or connections, which is something we both don’t have.”

“ On the other hand, the job of site director isn’t exactly easy to get. The organization controls a limited amount of area so there can only be so many site directors. So for a new site director to be chosen, that must mean the position has been freed up.”

“ At the same time, normally, a new site director is usually a member of that site that gets a promotion, instead of a newly transferred member like you. In this case, it must mean there was a restructuring that happened within the site you are now currently in control over.”

“ So based on my assessment, The previous director must have done something that involved him and this entire staff to get fired leading to you and your team getting moved in to replace them.” Amelia ponders if she should bring up the information the file Jenma gave or the fact that she is doing an investigation in regard to Omega and the “End of the Universe Incident ” but ultimately decides against it, she should play her cards closer to her chest.

“ Bingo, yeah you got all of that right.” Ophelia simply laughs at the detective, “ You really need to work on your holding back though. You’re just as much of an open book as it was back then.”

“ What gave it away?” Amelia questioned her friend,

“ Your tone of voice was slightly different. I have known you for a long enough time to recognize the small shift.” Ophelia shrugs “ It’s easy to tell, you have a habit of getting frustrated while withholding information.”

“ On record, it said that the site director and his staff were fired due to them selling information to third-party mage companies.” the site director explained.

“ You’re not convinced are you,” Amelia answered with a rhetorical question.

“ Not one bit,” Her friend replied, “ I know something is up…but I can’t get the information I want from within the company because they are actively covering it up.”

“ However, you seemed to know the truth of what happened.” Ophelia looked over “ So how about we make a deal? ”

“ You tell me what is going on, and in exchange, I’ll owe you a favor.” The site director gives a proposal.

“ Can you give me some time to think…I trust you and all but things are a bit complicated with the nature of this type of information and how I got them.” Amelia requested her friend.

“ That’s good enough for me.” Ophelia answered “ If I were to make a guess it’s something to do with the weird ass company you managed to put yourself in. NDA stuff I understand.”

“ Yeah…” how is she supposed to know what exactly she can share with the whole Omega situation…better discuss with Yagoo and the team before proceeding. Ophelia is good, Amelia knows that…the company she works for though…not so much…better play it safe than sorry.

-End Investigation-

Chapter Text

“ Sou desu ne…” Yagoo uttered his iconic phrase as Amelia explained the ongoing situation with Ophelia.

“ So what do you think we should do?” Amelia questioned the CEO.

“ Please just stay put for now, I’ll discuss this with the others and get back to you when I can,” Yagoo instructed.

“ Understood Yagoo san,” Amelia responded before she ended the phone call.

She thought this would all be over once the Council had come down to earth, but it seemed things could only get more complicated. Now not only is Cover Corp getting involved but also Ophelia’s organization has something to do with it.

To be completely fair as a detective of course Amelia likes her mystery to be well…mysterious and hard to solve. But all this corporate red tape for the sake of safety is really not her style…she understands why it is there…it’s just not ideal. If she goes in guns blazing without a care in the world, she really could get the entire company in trouble with the information she holds.

With frustration building inside her Amelia lies blankly on her bed staring up at her ceiling…pretty much unsure of what to do in the face of this situation she finds herself in. However, before she goes through her usual spiral of thoughts she suddenly receives a notification on Discord.

“ Towa senpai?” The detective murmurs to herself seeing who texted.

“ Ame chan are you free right now?” Towa 8:00 PM

Not thinking much of it and the fact that she needs to clear her head anyway, the detective sends back a response.

“ Yes I am Senpai, How can I help you?” Ame 8:00 PM

It didn’t take long at all before the devil senpai read the text and replied.

“ Me and Astel are playing some Apex wanna join? ” Towa 8:01 PM

“ I heard you like FPS.” Towa 8:01 PM

Seeing that she has nothing better to do anyway Amelia decided to just go along with it.

“ Sure thing senpai.” Ame 8:01 PM

“ Okay, join VC let’s play!” Towa 8:02 PM

The devil senior sent the kohai an invitation code to join the game and the three of them began playing. 

“ Hey, Amelia do you have any batteries? my shield is dying.” The blue alien asked over the voice channel.

“ uhh, Sorry Astel senpai, I’m out of them.” Amelia hesitantly answered.

“ I got some come to me.” Towa quickly response

“ Got it,” Astel replied in turn as he headed over to Towa’s hiding spot.

Although playing the game is getting her mind off things like she intended. The detective still couldn’t fully let go of the thought she had prior to the game and as such isn’t playing at her best, something which her two teammates easily picked up on.

“ Something Bothering you Amelia?” The alien asked over the voice call.

Amelia slightly caught off guard tried to simply brush it off. “ Oh, it’s nothing senpai, just work stuff.”

“ We can stop playing if you are not feeling well.” The devil suggested.

“ No, it’s really nothing.” The detective replied, “ There are just alot of things going on and I’m having a bit of trouble wrapping my head around everything.”

“Ah…..” both of them acknowledged the situation before responding in unison, “ Fair.” 

“ Say…senpai, I can’t really tell you exactly what is going on, NDA and all that, but I would like some advice.” Amelia begins to open up and request.

Her two senpais hearing this, quiet down in the voice chat giving way for Amelia to begin explaining her predicament.

“ Right now I am just feeling overwhelmed with a lot of things, work, responsibility, duty. It’s all…suffocating, I don’t really know how to properly explain it.” Amelia lets out a long sigh before continuing “ I wanted to take a break to clear my head. But this isn't the type of problem that taking a break would fix and unfortunately, I can’t really just drop the problem either... It’s a very important issue… But dealing with it has been making me feel burnt out.”

“ What should I do senpai?” Amelia sincerely asked her senior.

“ Have you talked to your friends about it?” Astel plainly asked.

“ I can’t talk about it to them due to NDA reasons senpai.” The detective defeatedly replied.

“ I don’t think that’s what Astel means Ame-chan. I think he meant, have you told your friends about how you feel?.” Towa clarified.

“…well..” Amelia hesitated before responding “...no…not really…they are all very busy I don’t want to bother them...”

“ That’s where you’re wrong Amelia chan. You should 100% bother them.” The alien confidently states.

“Huh?” The detective could only let out a confused stutter in response.

“ If you are as close with your friends as I am with the Holostars. Let me tell you they already know that you are not feeling well. They just don’t want to bring it up because they are trying to be considerate towards you.” Astel clarified, " They are probably worried about you and thinking of a way to help you cheer up." 

“ Astel kun is right.” Towa chimed in “ No matter how well you try to hide things those closest to you will always know that something is wrong.”

“ …well, that may be true.” Amelia admits “But like I said, I can’t just tell them what is going on.” The detective declared her defensive stance

“ Well, you don’t need to tell them.” Astel once again plainly answered.

“ Yup,” The devil agreed “ They won’t get mad at you if you can’t tell them. In fact, they would probably be glad you are telling them how you feel.”

“ What are you trying to suggest here senpai? ” Amelia confusedly questions her seniors.

“ What we’re trying to say is you shouldn’t be alone. Don’t try to isolate yourself. Just having people around you does wonders for your mental.” Astel further explains.

Towa picked up where Astel left off and finished the explanation “ There are times when all of us feel overwhelmed by the circumstances we find ourselves in. We feel alone and lost. So it’s good to remind yourself you are not alone, and that your friends are here for you. There is no greater solace than that, and that alone will give you the strength to keep pushing on.” the devil seemingly speaking from experience.

“ I’ll keep that in mind senpai…” Amelia somberly replied.

The game night continued for a few more hours before they all eventually felt tired enough and headed to bed.

-End Investigation-

Chapter Text

“So you are telling me the universe…or well more appropriately this dimension…is a donut…?” Amelia perplexly questions the space deity. 

“ Yup~” Sana who is currently lazily relaxing on the floor playing leaning on a giant Tako beanbag responded gleefully as she played on her Nintendo Switch. 

The two of them are currently sitting around in the living room of Ina’s temple waiting for Ina to finish her stream. This is one of the very rare occasions that Sana is actually on Earth, 9 times out of 10 she is floating out there in space somewhere. 

Sana being, space-personified, is impossibly large….1,697,840 kilometers tall to be specific, and weighing as much as a supermassive black hole. Logically speaking she shouldn’t exist anywhere near Earth since that would straight up break a whole bunch of scientific laws. But in this case, magic is a thing. She was able to shrink down to human size and be able to exist amongst us with the help of a magical artifact called a limiter. 

But unfortunately…the limiter isn’t exactly…secure…and there is a small chance of it falling off which would lead to Sana rapidly returning to her normal size…which would then subsequently lead to the end of the world. Luckily for us, both Kronii and Fauna are around to fix the issue if it does occur.

“ That’s not the exact answer I am looking for right now Sana.” The detective faced palms as she clarified. 

“ I mean you asked me about the truth about this dimension right?” Sana simply shrugs as she continues to play on her game console. “ Yup, it’s a donut. Isn’t that funny?” 

“ I mean it IS interesting. I can’t deny that.”  Amelia exhaustedly sighs. “ I am looking for more information about The Ancient Ones.” 

“ Oh?” Sana paused for a few seconds before finally setting her console down “ You do know that learning too much could, quite literally, cause your head to pop right?” 

“ Yeah Ame, you really need to be careful about stuff like this,” Ina commented as she walked into the room before casually taking a seat on Sana’s lap. “ The sanity checks are a real thing and if you’re not careful you can get yourself hurt you know,” Ina commented with concern for her friend. 

“ I mean I understand, why you two are reluctant to tell me,” Amelia acknowledges their concern for her well-being before explaining her position “ But I really need to know about them if I want even a chance to solve this mystery.” 

“ I assume this has to do with the matters of the Outer God invasion and disappearance and how it may connect with the Mage Association isn’t it?” Enma commented as she entered the room to serve everyone drinks for the occasion. 

“ Yes,”  Amelia confirmed as she picked up her drink from Enma. “ I need to at least know the basics about the ancient ones and outer gods before I can start any of my investigations.” 

“ And so you came to us because if there is anyone who would know about how ancient ones work it would be us,” Sana explained what was Amelia’s train of thought, as she grabbed the cups for both Ina and herself off from Enma and set it at her side on the floor.

“ Basically, yeah” the detective agreed before continuing to explain her reasoning, “ You two are my most reliable sources about the subject. I’m not asking for much, just the basics will do.” 

“ What do you think Ina~” Sana jokingly pokes Ina’s cheek to get a reaction. “ Should we tell her~”

“ Fine…” Ina doesn’t look too pleased with the current situation, with an annoyed scowl plastered over her face. “ but I am only doing this because you would probably hurt yourself if I leave you to do it on your own.

“ Ugh…” Amelia is pained by what Ina said but couldn’t exactly deny the priestess’s assessment. 

“ Welp I guess that settles that~ what do ya wanna know~” Sana cheerfully asked the detective. 

“ Let’s start with the groundwork. What are The Ancient Ones?” Amelia begins. 

“ They are beings that are not native to this universe, that’s why most can’t comprehend them and get driven into madness. They vary in strength and abilities but one thing is common, they don’t belong here and their existence alone is a threat to the stability of the universe.” Sana plainly explained. 

“ Yet Ina is a priestess to one. And you Sana, you are part of the council, one of the governing forces of this universe yet you are somehow an apostle for them.” The detective fired back “ How does that work?” 

“ We’ll start with Ina being a priestess.” Sana pats her friend's head as she begins her explanation. “ There are a few factors that go into it, remember when I said their existence itself is a danger to the universe? Well, there is a fix to that.”

“ It’s a process known as “Ordination” or what I call grounding. In layman’s terms, it is to bind the incomprehensible nature of the Ancient Ones with something comprehensible in the universe.”  the space deity elaborated “ In this case AO-chan was weak enough to be bound to a book minimizing the damage it can cause to the universe.” 

“...Ina turning into a priestess was…not something that was supposed to happe- ” Sana further elaborated in an apologetic tone before being cut off by Ina. 

“ How many times have I told you to stop feeling guilty over it.” The priestess scolds her friend “ It wasn't your fault so stop blaming yourself over it, me being a priestess isn’t even that bad so please stop beating yourself up over it.” 

“...I’ll try…” Sana somberly comments as she rests her chin on Ina’s head. 

The priestess took over the explanation “ Sana is in charge of controlling universal border control as such she is the one in charge of the ordination and making sure the universe doesn’t break. Normally the ordinated ancient ones are stored in a secure place, but due to some sort of mistake I got a hold of AO-chan instead.” Ina finished the explanation. 

“...I see…so I would assume the great old ones are ancient ones that are too strong for the ordination ritual. 

“ Yep…that’s basically it.” the still-moping Sana clarified. “ The reason why it managed to make it in must be because it has some sort of ability to mask its presence.” 

“ One of the potential explanations for the low amount of collateral damage could potentially be attributed to lag, such being would be so much of a shock to the universes’s systems that it might have taken time to load and register the damages.” Sana hypothesizes about the situation.  

“ Then there are 2 big questions that need to be answered, First what caused the manifestation of the great old one, and Second what exactly took it down before anything happened.” Amelia summarised the situation. 

“ Well, the first question is pretty easy to answer,” Enma who was quiet this entire time finally spoke up. “ It’s the mage association.” 

“ Based on the location Omega pointed out and what we know of the workings of the mage association, that seems to be the case.” Amelia agreed with Enma’s deduction. 

“ That still leaves the second question…” Amelia commented while looking up at Ina and Sana for an answer. 

Both of them simply shake their heads. Even the ones closest to the ancient ones don’t know…

-End Investigation-

Chapter Text

“ Ah, Amelia chan what brings you here?” The orange hair bar tender greeted from behind the counter.

Amelia somberly made her way into the bar, not saying anything she walked over and took a seat resting her head on the counter.

“ The news must have hit hard huh?” her senior commented before placing a glass of water next to her, “ everyone was blindsided by it, you’re not alone. ”

The detective didn’t respond so the barkeeper kept on talking.

“ Were you close with her? ” Reberu questions his Kouhai.

“...no…but still…I wished I spent more time to get to know her…” Amelia finally spoke up, still face down on the counter.

The barkeeper sighed before he commented, “ Regretting isn’t going to fix anything Amelia chan…what’s done is unfortunately done…”

“ I know…” Amelia defeatedly replied.

“ Would you like a drink? For today the first drink is on the house.” Roberu suggests in an attempt to cheer her up.

Amelia made an order “ I’ll take the usual,”

The senior let out a sigh before confirming the order “The usual it is then,”

The bar fell silent as the bartender prepared the drinks.

“ …Say Roberu senpai…what’s happens now…” Amelia questions her senior.

Roberu took a deep breath before responding, “ Things are probably going to be pretty hectic for a while…but eventually it will settle down…I’ll put my faith in Yagoo and his decisions…”

“ Is that all we can do…” The detective somberly commented as she finally lifted her head to face her senior.

“ It’s a job after all…” The bartender turns around to face his junior with the drinks “ Things like these happen sometimes…but you already know that.”

“ …yeah…” the detective somberly commented before taking the drinks from the senior’s hands.

“ Will Rushia senpai be fine…” The detective commented taking a sip from her drink.

Roberu opens a can of beer for himself and takes a sip before answering “ Hard to say… I frankly don’t know her well enough to comment…”

“ I see…” The detective trailed off and fell silent again.

Roberu took another sip before questioning the detective again “ How are the others taking it?”

“ Everyone is just shocked but Calli and Ollie are taking it a bit hard…those two were pretty acquainted with her…” Amelia explained

“ Then you should be there for those two, ” The senior commented “Be the shoulder they can lean on. That’s what you can still do in this moment.” The bartender reached out and patted the detective on the head.

“ …right,” Amelia confirms before finishing the rest of her drink, “ Thank you Roberu senpai, I’ll get going now.”

“ Sure,” The bartender gave his Kouhai a warm smile, “ Be sure to visit again. ”

And with that, Amelia left, and the bar once again fell silent.

-End Investigation-

Chapter Text

“ Ughhh~” The detective faceplants herself onto her bed out of exhaustion.

The last month was rough…there was work at literally every corner namely nonstop meetings, scheduling, traveling, practice, and more that we are not allowed to mention. All this was because of the grand event which was Hololive's third FES and the first-ever Hololive Super Expo that was attached to it.

On top of that, we got some new debuts to add to the mix, namely the introduction of 7 new talents, 3 girls and 4 boys.

The 3 girls are in a group known as HoloHeros, their members include, Kobo Kanaeru a young rain shaman with the ability to… well…control the weather…Kaela Kovalskia a blacksmith from a far-off land in search of a legendary material…which is apparently located within this company…she will need to investigate that later… Last but not least, special agent Vestia Zeta, who apparently joined the company to conduct some sort of investigation on Hololive…so maybe she could be a potential asset to Amelia’s investigation in the future.

As for the boys, they will be in a group known as Uproar, they were recruited personally by Holostar’s general manager Daidou Shinove…and as expected of this company…they are just as weird…we got a raccoon yokai who take odd jobs Yatogami Fuma, a manga artist Hizaki Gamma…a cafe owner and…phantom thief…Utsugi Uyu and lastly a literal ghost…Minase Rio…at this point she isn’t even surprised.

Well all in all…at this point, for the sake of her sanity she is just going to assume that the company knows what they’re doing. Even as a detective Ame isn’t sure herself how Cover Corp keeps on finding these oddballs to add on to the roster…

Safe to say things are just as hectic as ever…like always…

Although all in all that whole event was fun for all of the talents and the fans, it doesn’t take away from the fact that all the work that led up to it is very tiring, the talents and staffs from all different departments worked themselves to the bone to make it all come together.

Overall, Amelia would like to think they all did a pretty good job of putting up an amazing show that will be remembered and look back fondly for the years to come.

The detective groaned tiredly while she glanced at the unfinished documents she had on her nightstand. With things being chaotic as is, Amelia hasn’t gotten confirmation from Yagoo if it’s ok to share information with Ophelia regarding the investigation… the investigation about what happened with the whole Outer God situation will have to be put on hold…at least until things have calmed down a bit.

The exhausted blond rolled over and blankly looked up at her ceiling before commenting “ Yeah…Opehila is definitely pissed I’m leaving her hanging…Welp, nothing I can do about that~” She mutters to herself before slowly closing her eyes and readying herself to go to sleep.

However, before she can drift off and have some much-needed proper sleep, she gets interrupted by a strange knocking from her window.

The detective's eyes snapped awake, she grabbed the nearest weapon in her room, a metal bat on her bedside, and slowly approached the window. “ Who is it?” Amelia called out to the mysterious knocker.

“ Oh you’re awake, good, open the damn windows!” Once again a familiar yelling can be heard…

Just like last time, the detective ripped off the blinds and shouted at the mysterious figure. “ Can’t you be normal and use the door, Ophelia,” Amelia berated.

“ Well, I’m already up here so can you open the damn windows already! ” Ophelia retorted back.

The detective simply facepalmed before begrudgingly opening the windows.

“ Finally,” the site director annoyedly commented as she entered the room.

“ Why are you here?” Ame tiredly questioned her old rival as she closed her windows.

“ Well, I’m bored. ” Ophelia matter-of-factly commented, “ So I figured I drop by~” she cheekily added on before taking a seat on the detective’s bed.

“ YOU,” Amelia annoyedly yells before letting out a defeated sigh.

“ You look like a walking corpse huh~” Ophelia commented as she got a good look at the state of her friend, “ being an idol sure is tough~ ”

The detective annoyedly balled up her fist, “ Well thanks for interrupting my night and also insulting me on top of that.”

“ Nice performance by the way~” Ophelia chipperly commented at the tired detective.

Amelia snapped back at her friend “ YOU WERE WATCHING?! ”

“ Of course, I was~ Why wouldn’t I be~” The site director teasingly commented.

“ God I’m so embarrassed” Ame covered her face trying to hide how awkward she was feeling right now.

“ fu fu~, you’re fun to tease~” The site director commented before tossing Amelia something.

The detective quickly regained her composure and barely managed to catch the thrown object in her hands.

“ A phone?” Amelia commented as she looked at the thing she caught.

“ It’s already unlocked, give me your personal number so I can contact you.” Her old rival ordered, “ Oh, and don’t bother trying to give me a fake number. I’ll find you and make you pay if you think that’s ever going to work.”

“ Alright fine, geez~, Were you always this bossy.” Amelia obliges to the request before tossing the phone back to the owner. “ There.”

Ophelia looked at the number for a moment before dialing it. As expected Ame’s phone that was sitting on her work desk began to vibrate in response to the call.

“ Alright, just needed to make sure.” the site director commented before dismissing the call and putting her phone away.

“ What are you doing here by the way? “ Amelia once again questions.

Ophelia stretches before responding “ Like I said, I was bored so I decided to stop by~”

“ If you’re planning on taking me out on a late-night date, I’m sorry to disappoint but I’ll have to turn you down, I’m too exhausted right now and rather get some rest.” Amelia tiredly explained.

“ Well~ that suck~ I was about to offer you a good look at my facility~” Ophelia smugly commented, knowing full well this will pique the detective’s interest.

“ What…are you talking about…? ” Amelia questions the site director, due to how absurd that sounds the detective thinks she must have misheard what her friend just offered.

“ Well~ the facility is closed right now~ but since I’m the site director~ I’m willing to give you a private tour~” Ophelia further entices the detective to her offer.

“ What’s the catch? ” Amelia, more suspicious than ever, questions.

“ You’ll have to give me a tour of your facilities later~” Ophelia shrugs “ Sounds like a good deal to me~”

“ I’m not a site director like you Ophelia, I can’t just promise you something like that.” The detective explained.

“ Oh well~ that’s a shame~” her old rival smugly commented before walking over to the windows. “ Well, I guess that’s it for me tonight.” Her rival opened the windows before turning back around to look at the detective.

Ophelia already knew Amelia was in no position to take that deal, she was mainly doing it just to mess with the detective and get under her skin. She knows Amelia hates being taunted with no ability to retort. With that taunt established she knows her rival won’t be able to stand by and procrastinate on the case.

“ Get stuff sorted out on your end and contact me, I’ll be waiting~” And with that last comment Ophelia jumped out the window and disappeared into the night.

...Leaving the detective alone with her own thoughts...

-End Investigation-

Chapter Text

“ Please take a seat Amelia-chan,” Yagoo spoke to the detective in a serious tone…more serious than any other time Amelia has ever seen Yagoo before up until now.

This meeting was done on very short notice, something pretty uncommon as the CEO is usually pretty hands-off and usually doesn’t order a meeting…especially a one-on-one meeting… Amelia could tell that whatever was going on and what Yagoo was about to tell her was some serious business.

Amelia did as instructed taking a seat on the chair in front of Yagoo’s desk. The detective takes a deep breath to gather composure before starting the conversation properly.

“ I assume this is regarding my dealings with Ophelia…” Amelia opened the conversation.

“ Not quite,” Yagoo states, not giving an outright answer before he raises a question of his own to the detective. “ You originally joined our company to investigate all the strange happenings that we have correct?”

“ Uhm…yes?...” Amelia was slightly taken aback by the sudden question.

“ Well…what do you think?” Yagoo continues to question.

Amelia is a bit hesitant to answer the question but there isn’t any way she would be able to wiggle out of this one. “ Most of the things seem normal…well as normal as it can be using Hololive’s standard…but I have noticed some things that don’t really add up.”

Yagoo stayed silent but Amelia could tell he already knew what she would be bringing up. The CEO is just giving her a chance to explain her deduction before he gives her the answer. The detective does appreciate the gesture of him not spoiling her fun.

“ Firstly, all the chaos…not even taking into account the very literal embodiment of chaos we recruited recently, this company is weird… for starters, the office buildings blow up at least once a week, not only that portals and stuff rip open in the studio from time to time, and we even get visits from aliens.”

“ In fact, I know, You know all the stuff going on is crazy when a veil needed to be put over the building just to hide all the stuff that is going on from the public eye, something most mage companies don’t even do due to how inefficient of a mana use that is.”

“ Secondly, speaking of insane mana use, we have too much mana, maintaining the veil is already a big giveaway, but outside of that, the magical atmosphere in the company is insanely high. Sure, parts of it could be credited to the fact that so many magical beings and mages spend most of their time working in these buildings. However, according to Aki senpai, the offices of Hololive have always had high mana density even when the company was just starting out before things went hectic.”

“ It’s certainly hard to deny when you lay it all out.” Yagoo simply states flatly.

“ Outside of the mana strange mana situation, we also have all the chaos issues expected when you cram so many magical beings under one roof…Which then leads to my third point. The sheer quantity of magical beings that are working within this company is insane.”

“ Not just the talents but also a lot of the staff are also magical in their own way either being mages or being magical creatures themselves. The quantity was so large and abnormal in fact, that even Omega took notice and pointed it out when it first met it. Although you did claim it wasn’t the original intention to hire so many magical beings and mages, that doesn’t lessen the fact that this is true.”

“ Which makes it extremely suspicious that we can operate relatively peacefully without intervention from other mage organizations.” Yagoo calmly took the words out of the detective’s mouth.

“ Yes,” Amelia confirms before continuing to elaborate on her point. “ From my observation other mage companies

As such I find it extremely hard to believe that the other mages organization would be willing to leave us alone like this.

“ This leads me to believe you have something that makes other mage companies hesitant to make a full-on attack against us. A prime example of this would be Shion senpai and Ina who originally were pursued by mages trying to kill them, but those attacks completely stopped once they joined the company.

“ Actually the fact that the attacks on Shion’s senpai’s life stopped once she joined is interesting. Since with Ina, you could have made an argument that the company is big enough that it has gained a reputation for being strong deterring other mage organizations from attacking in fear of retaliation. But with Shion senpai, she joined the company when it was just starting.”

“ This has only solidified the idea that Cover Corp possesses something, maybe an artifact of some sort that was capable of deterring threats, something overwhelmingly powerful…well not something…but someone.” Amelia briefly pauses and takes a deep breath finally ready to give her deductions.

The detective looked the CEO in the eyes and declared a determined answer. “ It’s Sora senpai, isn’t it… She is the reason all of this is happening.”

Yagoo simply breathed a tired sigh, noticeably more relaxed like a weight had been lifted off his shoulders. “ Yes, Amelia chan, your deductions are correct.”

“ I had my suspicions…but after the first meeting we had when Irys first showed us to warn about Omega…that practically solidified my deductions,” Amelia states nervously.

“ When everyone says, ‘We wouldn’t be here without Sora’, it isn’t just because she is the first,” Yagoo stated with a gladful smile.

Amelia feels a wave of satisfaction overcome her for finally solving the mystery she came here for…after two long years, she finally did it, she solved the case. The detective wanted to just jump out of her seat and cheer out loud. However, something is bothering her…

As lovely as Yagoo is, he is still a busy CEO, he wouldn’t have called a meeting just for her to reveal a truth he already knew…There is something more to this meeting…

And that realization caused her hair to stand on its ends…Sora senpai must have done something…that’s why Yagoo asked for this meeting.

With a bead of sweat rolling down her face, Amelia finally decides to get on topic “ This meeting…Something happened didn’t it Yagoo san…”

Seeing that Amelia has realized the situation Yagoo goes back to being serious once again to deliver the news, the purpose of this meeting.

“ Omega Alpha is dead.”

-End Investigation-

Chapter Text

“…W-what…” The detective stammered as she tried to comprehend the news Yagoo just broke to her. 

There is tension in the air, it feels like time itself has slowed down to a crawl. 

“ Yes, Amelia, Omega Alpha, one of the 4 manipulators of the universe has been slain,” Yagoo said grimly “ I know it’s a lot to take in so please try not to freak out.” The CEO tried his best to remain composed while passing along the information. 

Rightfully so, Amelia is far from calm, “ W-what happened…HOW ” the detective tried her best not to raise her voice and yell but she is clearly panicking. 

The CEO took a deep breath and looked directly into the detective’s eyes, “During a meeting I had with Sora and A-chan Omega barged in and began to attack Sora. Being taken off guard Sora wasn’t able to nullify all the damage…this leads to possibly the worst that that can happen…” 

“ That attack Omega threw, causes collateral damage that ends up injuring A-chan in the process…Leading to Sora going completely berserk and killing Omega…” Yagoo sighs frustratedly as he facepalms, “Things have really gone off the rails this time…” 

“...” In shock, Amelia couldn’t come up with a response to that story. Yagoo has no reason to lie either so the detective doesn’t doubt that the things that Yagoo claimed have transpired were true.  

Seeing the detective’s silence Yagoo continues to elaborate on the situation “ A-chan is fine now, her injuries are not too severe, and she’ll be under Choco sensei’s care until she makes a full recovery.” 

“ Naturally Sora is staying with A-chan. However, with Omega acting out Sora is more paranoid than ever which isn’t ideal.” Yagoo once again sighs before looking back at the detective. 

“ Amelia I’m going to be asking you for a favor, at least for the time being put all investigation regarding the Outer Gods and interaction with outside parties like Ophelia to a minimum. ” Yagoo said in a serious tone, this time it felt like the request was less of a suggestion and more of a command. 

“...” The detective still hasn’t fully processed everything that Yagoo is telling her, things are developing way too quickly she couldn’t keep up, calling it shell shock would be an understatement. 

“ I’m sure you’re quite busy with your other duties, so I won’t take any more of your time. That’s it for this meeting you’re dismissed.” Yagoo exhaustedly concluded the conversation. 

“ W-wait hold on Yagoo san,” The detective manages to finally pull herself together and snap out of the stunned state she was previously in. 

“ Yes Amelia san,” Yagoo questions, clearly tired of this whole ordeal…especially because he will have to deal with the majority of the paperwork and politics that will undoubtedly come out of this whole ordeal. 

“ What…what exactly is Sora senpai…” Amelia hesitantly questions, a bead of sweat travels down her forehead. 

The CEO considers for a moment before deciding to answer the detective, “ Truthfully, we also don’t know.” 

“ huh…” Amelia still in shock blurted out. 

“ I suppose I can tell you, it wasn’t supposed to be a secret in the first place.”  Yagoo lets out a sigh as he begins to recount a distant memory. “ Back when Sora originally approached me alongside A-chan, she seemed like a normal girl at first. However, over time, I begin to observe something strange. For some unknown reason, her magical energy concentration suddenly begins to increase rapidly.” 

“ At the time, the two of them had never been in contact with the magical world outside of myself, who back then was also trying to hide the fact that I was a mage. So I have no clue what is going on and what could have transpired to cause Sora to undergo this change.” The CEO explained frustratedly at the events that transpired, “ Over the period of just a couple of months, things only got more out of control and Sora’s magical energy has increased to the point where it begins to leak out and permeate her surroundings.” 

“ With the strange phenomenon occurring to Sora, this puts a target on her back, since you know how obsessed mages are in acquiring rare storage specimens. At the time Sora wasn’t even aware of her powers or the fact that this change that was occurring without her knowing was going to put her in danger. She was enjoying her life…living like a normal girl…” 

Yagoo looks down dejectedly as he glances over at a small framed photo on his desk, a group photo of him, A-chan, and Sora smiling together in the recording studio of Cover Corp’s first office. If Amelia were to take a guess, that photo would likely be from a commemorative photo they took together after their first-ever stream. 

“ And I…I didn’t want to lose that. So in order to allow her to continue to live a normal life, I kept everything a secret and masked her magical output using a magical artifact that absorbs and redirects her magical energy.” 

Amelia is still trying to process the information dump that Yagoo just presented to her all in one go. Her mind is going wild and making all sorts of connections, a lot of things are falling into place and she is slowly getting a grasp of what is exactly happening. 

“ But that only delayed the inevitable,” Amelia concluded, “ You didn’t manage to figure out what caused her magical energy levels to rise, and eventually it became too much to handle and you got exposed.” 

“ Yes, Sora was eventually discovered,” Yagoo stated dejectedly before switching up to question the detective. “ Say Amelia san, have you ever heard of the mage faction called The Antiquary?” 

“ Isn’t that the organization that used to be one of the front runners of the mage world research facility, before it mysteriously got shut down one night…” The detective immediately realized the implication of what Yagoo was suggesting. 

“ A group of their mage, attack us while we were setting up for our regularly scheduled stream.” The CEO frustratedly recounted the words he spoke, it is like he can remember the events like it was yesterday, and just recalling it brings him pain. “ I couldn’t stop them…there were just too many…” 

“ And because of that…Sora…” Yagoo solemnly looks down, “ she was forced to awaken to her powers.” 

“ That night, Sora made a desperate wish…she wished for all the bad guys to disappear…and so they did…all of the intruders blip out and disappear from our office in the blink of an eye halting the attack and saving me and A-chan.” The CEO explained reflecting on the situation and how powerless he was to help. 

 “ But as it turns out…Sora's wish did more than just stop the attack…that night…the entire organization…all of it…everyone connected to it… all disappeared…” The CEO explained grimly, “ Most people believe that The Antiquary was destroyed due to a conspiracy by other big mage companies…but yeah…there is no way to deny it…It was Sora who did all that…” 

“ The other big mage organization obviously did figure this out too… but in fear of facing the same fate as The Antiquary they have decided to keep their distance and left us alone.” Yagoo finally wraps up his story. “ As for Sora, we did tell her what she is capable of…and we’re all figuring out how to keep things under control…that’s the best we can do…” 

“ The Great Old One…” Amelia shudders. 

“ W-what was that Amelia chan,” Yagoo questions at the detective’s sudden statement. 

“ Being the Manipulator Omega is one of the strongest beings we know of… but according to the information it gave us, there are two things that could have taken it down…first is its own creator, God, by the logic that if you can create something, you probably have a plan to be able to neutralize it…but there wouldn’t be a reason for Omega to attack it’s own creator…So that only leaves…” the detective deducted, piecing all the information she has gathered, there is only one answer she can think of…

“ The Great Old One…It’s already establish that Omega fought against one and lost in the past…and it would also explain Sora senpai’s massive quantity of mana and the ability to warp reality…” Amelia trembles as she solves the mystery…instead of satisfaction she is filled with a sense of dread… “ Yagoo san…Sora senpai is a Great Old One…”

-End Investigation-

Chapter Text

Amelia heads straight back to her apartment after her meeting with Yagoo, the CEO, who didn’t say anything more about her deduction, so it’s safe to assume that he doesn’t really have anything else to add to her conclusion.

…But now what…

…Is the world in danger…

…Is Sora senpai a threat…

…What is Sora senpai’s goal…

…Is she even aware of what she is…

The thoughts rush through her head as Amelia slumps down on her work desk…she feels…tired…her eyes blurred…her limbs heavy… Whatever strength she thought she had quickly left her as the detective fell into a deep slumber.

“ Is that the knowledge you seek~”

Amelia burst open to the familiar voice, she finds herself in a completely white room sitting at what seems to be an interrogation table…opposite her sat her senior Sora…however, her appearance…it’s different…Instead of the normal brown hair, her hair is now grey…instead of the usual blue, white, and pink idol outfit, she donned one that was grey, red, and black…lastly, her eyes…It’s not the warm brown of Sora senpai’s natural eye colour, nor the elegant blue contacts that she wears…her eyes now are a piercing gold…sharp as it were ready to cut into the detective’s soul if she isn’t careful.

A bead of sweat trailed down from her forehead as she looked on at her supposed senior. The lady in front of her wore an odd expression…something that feels warm and welcoming, but at the same time cold and calculated…nothing is making sense…these emotions they’re contradicting…

“ You’re a curious one~” the grey-haired girl giving a warm yet unnerving smile, “ you were so eager to get to the bottom of things, but now you’re terrified~”

Amelia couldn’t deny that what the lady spoke of was true. She is outright in fight-or-flight mode right now. The problem is that she knew that neither was an option…

“ Well~ well~” the figure sighs disappointedly, “ looks like I’ll be the one leading the conversation~”

“ Y-You’re not Sora senpai…are you…” Amelia stuttered, barely putting her words together.

“ Oh~” the grey-haired girl smiled amused that the detective managed to even look her way, “ What makes you say that~”

The detective couldn’t speak, as the sheer pressure and fear she was feeling right now had formed a lump in her throat.

“ I guess you’re still not ready to speak yet,” the lady lets out a slightly disappointed sigh before answering the question. “ I am hers, but she isn’t me.”

“ We’re now separate beings, but we are of the same mind~” the grey-haired girl spoke calmly before chuckling to herself, “ it’s odd~ isn’t it~”

“ W-who…are you…” Amelia hesitantly questioned, feeling like she had been driven into a corner.

The lady smiled, delighted by the question, “ Just like your senpai, I go by many names~”

“ The Black Pharaoh,”

“ The Stalker among the Stars,”

“ God of a Thousand Forms,”

“ The Crawling Chaos,”

“...Nyarlathotep…” Amelia blurted out at the realization.

“ That fellow Lovecraft, called me by that name, yes~” the woman pleasedly confirmed, “ Although I wouldn’t use his works as the reference to what I am~”

“…” Amelia was left in stunned silence after the revelation.

Crap…she’s in big trouble…According to Lovecraft’s text, Nyarlathotep is the Son, servant, and messenger of the most dangerous Outer God of all Azathoth…The Nuclear Chaos, The Lord of All Things, God of a Thousand Forms, The Oldest Dream…The Origin of the Universe, it was said that Azathoth’s dreams itself IS the universe…and when it wakes up…

…All will return to nothingness…

But putting Azathoth aside, Nyarlathotep is widely regarded as one of the most dangerous Outer God to encounter…as it is known to be not only extremely powerful, but it is also extremely intelligent, and manipulative, Why is an Outer God of that caliber approaching her…taking Sora senpai’s form no less…

Her luck is the worst…why is it that when things go wrong, she is always left to deal with it alone…Amelia would kill to have Ina with her right about now…

“ Don’t you feel flattered~” the outer god chuckled and gave off a sinister smile, “ a mortal being approached by a god~ isn’t that quite the honor~”

“ I’ve had quite a few encounters with incomprehensible beings at this point,” Amelia nervously answered, still thinking of a way to buy some time and come up with some sort of plan to worm her way out of the pickle she finds herself in.

“ I suppose so~” The mysterious lady chuckled once more at the mortal’s squirm before commenting, “You seemed terrified~ are you scared~”

Amelia could feel the glee from the comment, the god is clearly toying with her, enjoying the hopeless mortal struggling at her presence.

And the god is right…she is terrified to her core…she has been driven into a corner with no way of fighting back…She needs to do something…something drastic…

Mustering all the courage, or perhaps idiocy…the detective lunges forward, jumping over the interrogation table and grabbing the Outer God by the throat and pushing the figure down to the floor.

“ WHY DO YOU LOOK LIKE HER!!” The detective screamed out her question, adrenaline coursing through her veins from the sheer amount of stress and panic she was currently feeling.

“ Hahahhahaha~ isn’t it obvious?” The figure laughs, seemingly unaffected at all by the detective squeezing down on her throat. “ I think you already know the answer~ you already figured out my identity, didn’t you~”

“ You did this…You’re the reason she is like this…” Amelia looked down at the smug god, who was giving her a taunting smile. “You cursed her, giving her unimaginable power that she can’t control…You’re planning to use her to open the gate and wake up Azathoth…”

“ HAHAHAHAHA~ Oh~ Humans~ So endlessly entertaining with their ideas~” The being laughs mockingly at the detective.

“ ANSWER ME!!” The detective demanded, the adrenaline shutting off her fears and her rationality.

“ Genesis 1:27~” The outer god amusedly answered, excitement dripping from the grin, waiting for the detective’s reaction.

“God created humans in his own image…” The detective quoted the verse, confused about what the Eldritch being is insinuating, referencing a bible verse of all things. “ You made her…”

Nyarlathotep simply laughs at the detectives' deduction, but that’s all the information Amelia needs to get her answer…

“...no…” Amelia muttered under her breath, stepping off and backing away from the outer god…

“ Looks like you finally caught on~” Nyarlathotep gives a satisfied grin as she looks on at the terrified detective.

“ It can’t be…” Amelia stammered as the realization came crashing down on her, “ You’re lying.”

“ Bargaining won’t change the truth, detective~” The outer god’s smile grew wider as she approached the detective, indulging in Amelia’s terror.

“ Thank you for being so kind to my mother~” Nyarlathotep gently places its hands on Amelia’s shoulder before whispering into the detective’s ears.

A chill ran down the detective’s spine at the confirmation…This whole time…Sora senpai…

“ H-how…” Amelia’s face turns pale as she looks upon the outer god who resembles her senpai.

“ Hm~ I guess I have the answer to my question then~” The outer got gives a satisfied smile before walking back to the interrogation table and taking a seat. “ Come now~ don’t keep me waiting~”

Without any other choice left, Amelia slowly walked back and returned to her seat.

“ How about I entertain you with a story~” The being smiled as the scenery of the pale white room shifted into a dark void. “ At the beginning, there was nothing, an endless void, that void itself is her, Azathoth.”

“ She was all alone, so…with nothing she could do, she fell asleep and began dreaming.” As Nyarlathotep monologued, a light burst forth from the center of the interrogation table, forming the galaxies around it. “Her imagination gave birth to the universe…but in the end she was still all alone…”

“ So…she made her first mistake…she dreamt of companions…” The outer god snarled, clearly displaying disdain, while the image of 4 cloaked figures manifested around the central light. “ And so the so-called Manipulaters are born.”

“ Our mother blessed them with the same gifts she has, the power of creation.” The pressure in the room continues to build as Amelia can feel the rage of the outer god spill out.

“ In this universe, they are her equal… but deep down they know, the power they have isn’t real…since they themself aren’t real, the universe, including them, is a mere figment of our mother’s imagination. ” Nyarlathotep calmly explained, anger dripping from every word she uttered.

“ And to cling on to that power, no matter the cost, they betrayed their own creator.” The visuals began to morph once more, showing the 4 cloaked figures performing some sort of ritual and trapping the ball of light in a cube. “ They robbed her of her powers and imprisoned her in her own dream, making sure that she won’t be able to wake up.”
“ Sora senpai…” Amelia muttered to herself at the implication.

“ Now you’re getting it~” Nyarlathotep gave a satisfied smirk at the detective’s reaction. “ Everything, Time, Space, History, Concepts, Dimensions, and even life itself, all of it was intricately designed to fool her and keep her imprisoned by the manipulators.”

Amelia was left in stunned silence at the revelation, not really sure how to comprehend it all…what can she even say to all this…

“ They did succeed in pulling off their little scheme, but it wasn’t meant to last~ As they say in your world~ power corrupts~.” The image cuts out, returning to the pale white room from prior. “ In the end, once Azathoth was trapped, those fools fought amongst themselves to claim the right to rule the universe.”

“ Ultimately, Omega won, having killed all the other manipulators, but that greed is what spells the end for its own rule.” Nyarlathotep continues, mood clearly lightened, chipper even, “It's avarice blinded it to the fact that it alone was far too weak to keep Azathoth pacified, so our mother regained some of her strength, and gave birth to us~”

“ Us outer gods~ we are her children~ and we are here to enact her will~ to break the cage and free her~” Nyarlathotep grins as she observes the detective get more and more uncomfortable. “ And that means getting rid of Omega~”

“ Omega stalled as long as it could~” The outer god smiled, patiently waiting for the detective to finish its sentence. “ but~”

“ But in the end, Omega fell…” Amelia finished the sentence…but her thoughts are somewhere else right now.

If Nyarlathotep is telling the truth…with Omega gone…the only thing stopping Azathoth from waking up is Sora senpai herself…

“ …Is Sora senpai…” Amelia muttered under her breath, the fear creeping up on her as she looked deep into the eyes of the outer god.

“ Lovecraft referred to Azathoth as the Blind Idiot God~ but I can assure you~ she’s aware of what she is, and has been aware of it for a while now~” Nyarlathotep smiled with glee as it seemed like it had been waiting to say that for a very long time.

“ And since she killed Omega… that means…the universe will…” All hope left Amelia’s body as she defeatedly slumped down onto her chair.

“ HAHAHHAHAHHA” Nyarlathotep maniacally cackled as she saw the detective's despair.

Maybe the reason why she was having this conversation right now is because the universe was already over…If Sora senpai’s goal all along was to wake up, then it’s only logical that she would erase the world as soon as she finished luring Omega out to kill it.

“ …what do you want…” Amelia defeatedly questioned.

“ Hm~” the outer god hummed amusely, looking at the detective.

“ You obviously approached me for a reason.” The detective is at her wits' end, but if everything is truly doomed, she might as well go off the deep end.

“ The reason why Omega and the other manipulators trapped Azathoth was because they knew, being a figment of Azathoth’s imagination, they too would disappear as soon as she woke up.” Amelia began her last act as a detective…her final deduction at the end of the world.

“ You, being one of her creations as well, would suffer the same fate when she wakes up. So, being the most intelligent of the Outer Gods, you came up with a plan to remake a new cage to keep her asleep.” Amelia began connecting the dots of deductions. “ The last thing Omega did before dying was attacking Sora senpai, so it can be assumed that if you kill her, she’ll remain asleep at least for a bit longer.”

“ But you can’t kill her yourself since Sora senpai would have seen it coming.” Amelia looked up and stared deep into the golden eyes of the outer god once more. “You want me to do it, to kill Sora senpai and stop the ending of the universe…”

Amelia’s hands run cold at the thought…she’ll have to betray her senpai’s trust…to save the universe…

“ HAHAHHAHAHAH,” Nyarlathotep once again laughed right at the detective’s face, “ Oh wow~ Are all humans this dramatic~”

“ HOW COULD I NOT BE? YOU’RE ASKING ME TO TAKE A LIFE.” The detective shouted, grabbing the outer god by the collar, the fear of the god drowned out by the panic and anger.

“ I didn’t ask you to do anything~ who said she’ll be waking up~” The outer god smugly commented.

“ Huh?” Amelia was surprised by what Nyarlathotep just told her.

“ Like I said~ she won’t be waking up~” The outer god confidently repeated herself with a smug smile.

“ Then what are you…” The detective is even more confused than before.

“ What am I here for~ hmmm~ just to mess with you honestly~.” Nyarlathotep chuckled as she gave the dumbfounded detective a pat on the head. “ And just so you know, unlike the manipulators, we outer gods don’t have the hubris in us to think we have a chance in trying to stop her from waking up~”

“ Then what’s going on…Omega is dead…and Azathoth wanted to wake up, that’s why the outer god existed…” Amelia tried to reconcile all the facts she knew about the situation. “ What’s stopping her from waking up…is that why you came to me…is that what you wanted to know…”

“ hahaha~ no~ no~ of course not~ I don’t need help figuring out something so simple~” Nyarlathotep laughs once more, but this time not mockingly…her expression seems softer…more reminiscent of Sora senpai herself. “ We outer gods enact her very will, and respond to her unconscious thoughts.”

“ And do you know what her wish was~” The outer god genuinely smiled for what seemed like the first time in their entire conversation. “ She wanted to perform a solo concert in Yokohama~”

“ With now the full power of the universe at her beck and call…” Nyarlathotep wore a satisfied yet somber expression of someone who had finally completed a long mission. “ That was what she wished for…”

“ Are you upset…” Amelia is still confused about the whole ordeal…she isn’t sure if she understands more, or if she is making less sense of the situation.

“ After the countless waiting and fighting…with her newfound freedom…” Nyarlathotep wore a satisfied yet somber expression of someone who had finally completed a long mission. “She wished for something she could simply do with a snap of a finger~ no~ even with just a thought~”

“ You asked me if I am upset? Not particularly, no~, her will has never been clearer~ She simply wished to sleep and dream a little longer… just time time all according to her free will.” The outer god explained contentedly, “For you, nothing will change~ the universe will probably go on as usual~ she isn’t in a particular rush to conclude her dream, and we will continue to enact her will and manage the universe’s stability~”

“ If you’re asking why I chose to appear before you~ I guess it’s to warn you~ as they say in your world, ‘A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.’ ” As Nyarlathotep continued, the white room slowly began to fade. “ Don’t go pestering her with your questions or demands, one day everything will come to an end. So until that day comes.”

“ Go live your life and enjoy it while you can.”

“ So the day it is all over, you can all disappear without regrets.”

Before the detective could respond to the outer god’s comments, everything faded away. Her vision blurred until she completely blacked out and jolted awake from her trance. The detective was slumped on the same work desk… checking on the watch, it looks like no time has passed at all during her whole conversation with Nyarlathotep…guess that wasn’t too surprising considering beings that operate outside of the concept of time…

Amelia picked herself up from the desk. That’s it…mystery solved…it’s a bit anticlimactic to have the answers handed to her like this…but that’s the nature of the job sometimes…she can’t exactly say she was satisfied with the outcome…

“ AMEEEEEEE” A voice called out from outside her room before the door promptly flung open. “ It’s your turn to make lunch. Stop making me wait for you. I’m HUNGRYYYYYY.” The tiny shark girl angrily yelled in annoyance.

The detective tiredly looked at the calendar on her desk, before declaring, “ I ain’t cooking today, stinky.”

“ HOW DARE YOU WE HAD A DEAL,” Gura rushed into the room, jumping at the detective and giving a not serious bite which the detective blocked with her arm.

“ Did you even check the calendar to know what day it is today?” Amelia protested, looking at the shark girl.

“ Yeah, it’s Wednesday, so it’s your turn!” Gura once again insisted while letting go of her bite, before she tried dragging the detective out of the investigation room. “ Now get to it.”

“ Stop that!” the detective declared before grabbing the calendar and bonking the shark on the head with it. “ Check the dates again, silly.”

“ What else is there to chec-” Gura snatched the calendar out of Amelia’s hands and looked at the dates. Today they have an appointment to meet up with Calli and the rest of Myth for some Yakiniku. “ oh…”

“ What’s the point of cooking if we’re going out to eat anyways Bozo.” Amelia chastised her friend, who had clearly forgotten the date.

“ Uhhhhh…ummmmm…” Gura stutters as she tries to come up with some sort of excuse to cover up her embarrassment, “ Well, UHHHHH, then we really should get going, we don’t want to keep them waiting.” The shark girl stated before dashing out of the room.

“ huhhhh this girl…” Amelia sighed as she followed, leaving her investigation room.

Although the ending wasn’t what she wanted…at least the journey and the friend she made while doing this investigation weren’t half bad…

…no…

They were the best…

-Investigation Complete-