Tokitoki Channel ch3: I Tried Keeping Time as a Pet (1)

Ah! I think it's coming out!
What kinda critter is it~?

Eh... What?
What is this?
Time.

A crystallization...
of time itself.

Let's see, today we have...
5 viewers!

That's odd.
It's way smaller than my first time.

It's cos you announced it right before starting.
Ah, I'm sorry!
I guess ten minutes was too short notice.

Well, as for why I was in such a rush to start steaming...
Ah.

Did you hear that just now?
Hear what?
Well...

I've been hearing some pitter-pattering from Tatara-san's room.
They seem to be the footsteps of a small animal...

When I asked "you have any animals in here?", she just said...
It's not an animal.

There's gotta be a hidden meaning somewhere,
so using this stream as a pretext, I'm gonna enter her room

and find the truth of this case!

15 viewers!
Thank goodness. They're increasing.
I'm about to go raid Tatara-san.

Tatara-san? Who's that?
Oh, a first time viewer!? Well~ Tatara-san

is a genius scientist who I'm sharing a room with!

Or maybe she's just freeloading. She doesn't pay rent, after all.
Well, never mind.

I, typical average Totoki Sakura, am here
to showcase Tatara-san's research and inventions live on stream~

Okay, that should serve as a good channel intro.
Let's do this, shall we?

Hm?
I guess I should point the camera downwards to be safe?
Sakura-chan~
Should you really be bursting in?
Won't it be bad if she's in the middle of changing?

Okay, once again,

let's commmence the search!

Detroit Police! [tn: Referencing a line from the Detroit: Become Human game which became a meme due to its delivery in the JP dub]

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Eh, what is it?

Thank goodness! You're wearing clothes!
Seriously, what is it?

Ah, another internet?
Could you stop calling my streams internets?
You sound like a granny.

Well then, this gangly and unkempt girl in the glasses here
is my roommate and genius scientist Tatara-san.

Kya~ Tatara-san~
Here. Say hello to the listeners.
Ah~

I'm this short, bleached-haired middle schooler's roommate.
Now you've said it.

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So, what are you searching for?
Don't play dumb! You know what I'm talking about!

?

You're hiding something, aren't you, Tatara-san?

See!?
I haven't even said anything yet.

Look at this, everyone!
This is the expression Tatara-san makes when she tries to deceive me... nay!

It's her "it's a pain to explain since you probably wouldn't get it anyway" expression!
You're pretty sharp sometimes, Sakura.

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I heard that pitter-patter again just now!
There really is an animal in here!
I told you it's no animal.

Be careful.

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Thank you...
It's fine.

You can let go now.
Right.
What's wrong? You've gone all quiet.
It's nothing...

?

That's just the way you are.
What is?

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I think that sound came from under the table.

Woah, it's a mess under here!
It may not look it, but I do have a system.

Geez~

Huh... Was this room always like this?

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Now that you mention it, it does seem kinda different?
I should check the VOD to compare.
Yeah~ The stuff's been rearranged, but it's not just that.

This is a fluid room.
Wait.

Something's rustling back there.

Ah! I think it's coming out.
What kinda critter is it~?

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What?
What is that?

Time.

A crystallization... of time itself.

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I see. First space, not time.
So that's what time looks like.

Hey, why are you listeners adapting to it so easily?
I'm not making any sense of this.

Erm.

It has something resembling legs
and is using them to move back and forth...

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I wonder what that movement's all about?
You don't know either, Tatari-san?

And what about the parts that aren't legs?
Which one is its head.

Like I've been saying, it's no animal.
True... It certainly doesn't look like any animal I know of...

It's more like... one of those guns you make out of chopsticks?

Where did it come from?
Indeed.
Ah, is it that thing?

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"Internet 3".
Yep.
Figured you'd say that.

What's 3 mean?
Didn't she say she wasn't interested in the internet last time?
Erm,
it appears to be different from the internet we're looking at.

It's an ultra-dimensional particle space network
used to communicate with trascendental intelligence.

You heard her, everyone.

Huh?
Trascental intelligence? Like God or something?

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Who can say? Are gods aliens
or are they just natural phenomena that look that way to us humans?

Well, I've just taking a peek without asking,
but if I had to say, it's like getting information from net circuts by...
Ah.

It's coming over here.

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It won't bite, will it?
You'll probably be fine.

I touched it.

Ah, I thought it looked glass-like at first,
but it's kinda like... crunchy amber sweets?
Those snacks made from agar-agar.

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Does it like you?
Maybe? Hard to tell since it doesn't have a face.

So,
what do you mean when you say this thing is time?

And enough with the obviously annoyed expression.
You want me to explain this in practical terms?

I mean, time is a product of fiction, after all.

Say what?

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I'm talking about if time even exists in the first place.
Of course it exists.
It's passing second by second even now.

Let's say,
you were counting the minutes until classes were finished

or were waiting three days for a package to arrive.

It comes naturally to humans,
but would a dog understand how long three days are?

Hmm...
Hah hah
Do flies think about how many seconds until they reach their destination?

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So what you're saying
is that humans are the only being who can understand time?

Not just that. It's because humans can sense the passing of time
that time itself exists.

Eeh~...

Think Time-chan can talk?
That's what you're naming it?

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Maybe animals with high intellect besides humans would understand?
True! Like dolphins!

It's got nothing to do with intellect.
It's about whether that lifeform can perceive time.

Well, if it's the dolphins at the aquairum,
they might be aware of when it's feeding time.

Even so, that doesn't mean they're aware of units like seconds or years that humans decided upon.
It's meaningless for dolphins to be conscious of such time.

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So you're saying it's because there was a unit for measuring time
that humans have time?

Correct.
That's backwards, isn't it?

When did you understand how long "one second" was?
Erm, I wonder? When I was five, maybe?

Until then, the time known as "one second" did not exist in your world.

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That simply means I didn't have anything to measure the time with.
The world itself still had time flowing, right?

That's the distinction.
Time itself only exists because we can sense it.

Looks like you don't approve.
Well, whatever.

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Sorry. I went off topic.
I'll start explaining this thing.

Eh!? So that explanation just now had nothing to do with it!?
Oh shut up.
I tried really hard to listen to it!

Oh?

Ooh...

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What's this?
It's looking like a school all of a sudden
A lecture?
This X is your time, Sakura.
Hold on a sec...

Gotta get a snapshot! How do I do it with the camera while I'm still streaming!?

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Listen to me.

Current subscribers: 23

Revealing the true nature of Time-chan (temp name).

Warning