Tokitoki Channel ch9: We Tried an Idle Chat About Exotic Materials (1)

Holy shit.
Blood...
They're not dead, are they?
Doubt they're gonna recover from this.
Maybe we should call the cops
It's cos she went and did something stupid...
Didn't see this coming
Did I do something wrong!?

Just as the comments say,

we appear to be dead.

Hey there~ This is Tokitoki Channel's~
Totoki Sakura!
Hiya
Here comes the Tokitoki!!!
Good afternoon
What'll it be today?

And~

And~?
...

...Tatara Miki.
Okay, thank you very much.
Today, it's the two of us from the get-go.

FOR YOU SEE!
Not so loud.

Last time, we crossed 100 subscribers!
Subscribers: 115

Ah, I see.
Don't "ah, i see" me.
Be happier about it.
Did you achieve your goal?

My goal is to reach 1000 subscribers so I can get monetized!
Meaning we're a 10th of the way there.
It's one giant leap for mankind!

It's all thanks to you guys.
Just 900 left to go.
Well, that's still a long way off.

Not as long as you'd think.
With exponential increases like this,
the time it takes to go from 100 to 1000 should be shorter than it took to go from 0 to 100.

You sure? You're gonna get my hopes up.
As long as it doesn't slow down from you slacking off.

Then I'll be counting on you not to slack off either, Tatara-san.
Huh? Uh, I guess that makes sense...

I'm happy to see you're becoming more motivated as a streamer.
What a sour expression lol

Erm, to commemorate 100 subscribers,
I thought I'd do an idle chat stream.

Wait, isn't that actually pretty bog standard
by comparison?

...The doorbell's ringing.
Did you order something, Tatara-san?
Not me.

Did you get doxxed?
Surely not... But then again, there was that one listener last time who was awfully specific...

I'll go answer it, so you take over, Tatara-san.
Huh!? What do you... Hey!

Take over, she says... What should I even do...?
Kya~ Tatara-san~

I guess I should just read the comments?
Cute face
It's cute how she's fidgeting
Just how are you expecting me to react?

Did you bathe yesterday?
...I did.
You don't need to ponder about questions like that.

When are you two getting married?
Huh? Do you actually want that?

I guess you do, huh.
Tatara-san.

There's a package here~...
If it's heavy, you should've called me sooner.
No, I don't actually know if this box is heavy.

Oh!?

What is this? The load is going in a weird angle.
Right?

It says it's... nuraimanore? What's that?
Never heard of it.

It says it's for you, Sakura.
Isn't this your handwriting, Tatara-san?
Wait, the sender is the same.

Did I send something to my own house?
Sorry it's such a mess, everyone.

It's time
for an unboxing stream~

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If not even Tatari-san knows what this package is...
then what could be inside!?

It certainly looks like your writing, Tatari-san.
That so?

It's tupperware.

Tupperware? So it's food?
It doesn't look very edible to me.

Could they be craft supplies?
Some of it looks alive.

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This must be what made it so weird to lift up.

Ah, this is it.
Woah, what it this?

Um, it doesn't have the weight normal stuff does.
And it's at a weird direction too.
It's neither sinking or floating.

I don't get it at all.
Figured as much. Sorry.
Man, I really wanna explain this.

Exotic materials.

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Category: Assortment of six circumstantial exotic materials
Contents: Negative mass dust, Wormhole catalyst, Energy absorption fluid, Quantum entanglement sponge, Paradoxical crystal, Ultra lightspeed jelly

Exotic?

Like snacks from another country?
They appear to be materials with unique properties and characteristics compared to normal things...

Particles that weren't satisfied with the existing laws of physics, or things that haven't been discovered but are theorised to exist.
So basically really rare stuff?
Pretty much.

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You ordered this through "Internet 3", right?
Huh?

To think something like that would get delivered here.
Ah.
"Internet 3" is this network of high-dimensional particles that Tatara-san's able to access.
Their pet Ban-chan

I've never even considered mail ordering through that.
It'd be amazing if I could, though.

So exotic materials are called "nurarimanore"?
Ah, I've figured it out.

It's "materiaru".
As in "materials".

[TN: Sakura mistook the katakana マテリアル as ヌラリマノレ]

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The handwriting was so messy you read it as nurarimanore, hh?
Ah, so that's what that was!?

Please write your sales slips
properly next time.
Like I said, it wasn't me.

So, which is which?
We can probably guess from the names.

This green gelatinous stuff if probably the ultra lightspeed jelly.

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So it can slide at the speed of light?

It's not just speed. It's lightspeed.
The photons in the jelly are surpassing the speed of light, right?

Ooh, this is making my voice and mouth slip.
How funny~

[TS note: The off-center lettering is part of the joke.]

This black substance
might be the energy absorption liquid?

In which case, it's not that it's colored black
but rather that we can't see it because it's absorbed the light.

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It appears to be liquid, but it doesn't move at all.

I guess it absorbs gravity and inertia too?
Wait, but that would mean it'd be unaffected by Earth's inertia,

meaning it'd be flying around at 1500kmh, the same as the Earth's rotation.

Don't send that over mail order
Yeah~
It's weird that I'm even holding this right now.
Is it because it's "circumstantial"?

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This gold sand is the negative mass dust, right?
The stuff with the weird weight.

I wonder if there's a way to convey how interesting this is to the listeners.
You wanna enjoy this too, right, listeners?
Good girl
Nice streamer attitude

This is probably the quantum entanglement sponge.
Take a close look.

Hm!? It's the same pattern over and over?
It's like a Menger sponge.

It's a fractal solid.
Ah, like that vegetable, right? Romanesco.

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What's that?

What's with that reaction?
You don't know about romanesco!?

I've even served it up for dinner!
Ah, she's done it now.
Not remembering her home-cooking is bad news

That's when you taught me about fractals.
I remember it well.

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So you remembered that, huh?

Good girl...

Don't think you can deceive me with that husky voice of yours!
That so?
Cut it out!

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Tatara-san's something else
That's her best voice so far
This woman can let out a real nice voice is she feels like it...

which she uses to deceive me.
Ah, you mean that broccoli-like thing.
It's easy to understand fractals with that.

It's that thing with patterns that repeats eternally, right?
"Endlessly", yes.

Hm? Don't you mean eternally?
So that's how kids these days say it.

Aren't they basically the same thing?
It makes me feel itchy.
I feel ya
Me too

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Fractals continue the same patter forever, right?
So isn't "eternally" better than "endlessly"?
Technically yes, but I find it lacking in taste, so I don't use it.

Negotiations failed. I'm not buying romanesco anymore.
Fine by me. It wasn't that tasty anyway.

What did you say about my home cooking!?
Didn't you yourself say "it has a nice shape, but I prefer broccoli"?

...I may have said that.

Feel free to make something again. You can even rechallenge the romanesco if you want.
Alright.

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Huh? What were we talking about again?
About how this sponge is a fractal solid.
That's right.
If this is a quantum entanglement sponge, then...
Taking it slow today, huh
Sure feels like an idle chat stream

Should I explain what quantum entanglement is?
I guess so.
Ah, wait a minute.

I should bring out the whiteboard for the explanation part.

I guess so.

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