I Was Trying to Stream a Slow Life, but It Seems My Golem Partner Started Warming Up. - Chapter 6
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- Chapter 6 - The "If You're a Merchant, Do a Collab Stream?! That's How It Is, Nyaa" Stream
“A collab stream…?”
I couldn’t help but repeat the words back at the cat merchant Scottish’s proposal. “It seems you’re unfamiliar, so I shall explain from the beginning, nyaa,” she replied.
“Our Dorast Merchant Company is a wealthy firm, the only one in the Shunkatou Republic permitted to use dragons for commerce, nyaa. We are also purveyors to the Leader and his council, nyaa. In exchange for obtaining the dragon-rearing permit and the status of official purveyors, our company operates under the condition that ‘If the Leader requests something, we must procure it above all else,’ nyaa. And this time, the Leader has ordered the six items mentioned earlier, nyaa.”
Hearing that much, I grasped the situation.
Dragons were magical beasts sometimes called the kings of the sky, flying freely wherever they pleased. At the same time, I’d heard they were intelligent creatures that could even grow attached to humans and obey them if managed correctly. Being the only company allowed to use such dragons for business in the mercantile nation of Shunkatou Republic would certainly be a significant advantage. Furthermore, being official purveyors to the Leader undoubtedly meant they held a very high position within the Republic.
Supporting them was the existence of the Leader himself. It was only because the Leader permitted it that they could wield such privileges.
“So, the Leader specifically requested my products?”
“The fact that I, nyaa-self, am here is proof of that, nyaa.”
No way… Seriously? Could it really be true that the top dog of the Shunkatou Republic wanted the Magical Stove I made, and my magic stones…?
“No, no, that can’t be right! Right, Beta-chan?”
“Master’s creations are the best in the world. Therefore, this is inevitable.”
Beta-chan affirmed it as if it were the most obvious thing in the world, looking quite smug (Hmph).
“This girl was hopeless. She wasn’t just a doting parent, she had a serious Master-complex.”
Why would anyone commission work from someone like me, just an ordinary person living a slow life in the countryside, doing alchemy as a hobby?
…Where were the hidden cameras for this stream? This had got to be some kind of prank show making fun of the countryside alchemist, right? Definitely.
“I’m just a simple alchemist living in the countryside. I’m really not anyone important.”
“Excessive humility is not good, nyaa. Act like that, and customers will look down on you, nyaa know?”
Even if she told me that, this was just something reincarnation couldn’t fix, I guessed…
“—-Well, fine, nyaa. Anyway, about the collaboration stream, nyaa. Streaming is an ancient super-technology that allows real-time video sharing not just within our Shunkatou Republic, but worldwide, nyaa. Therefore, once something is streamed, it cannot be altered or edited, making it the ultimate business assistance tool, nyaa.”
According to Scottish, merchants in the Shunkatou Republic almost always finalized major business deals through collaboration streams. The purpose was apparently to clearly show ‘who contracted with whom under what conditions’ during the stream, thereby exposing any lies from other merchants claiming ‘I made the deal first.’
…Well, I certainly never could have imagined using collab streams like that in my previous life. Confirming contract details during a stream? Absolutely unthinkable. But I guessed this was just another difference between worlds?
“This time, the plan is for our Dorast Merchant Company to purchase all of streamer ‘Alkemy’s’ products at a 30% markup for the initial transaction, nyaa. In exchange, we will state during the stream that you agree to an exclusive contract with us for the next year, prohibiting individual contracts with other merchant companies… nyaa.”
“What exactly did an ‘individual contract’ entail…?”
“Well, simply put, it means prohibiting negotiations without the Dorast Merchant Company present, nyaa? If you absolutely must interact with another party, we intend to discuss it again within another collaboration stream involving our company… nyaa.”
Wow, they’d really thought this through… even though it was just a collab stream. Why a collab stream had to turn into a full-blown business meeting was beyond me, though.
“—-Ah, and one more thing. We have another condition, nyaa.”
“There’s more?”
Seriously? There were so many details, I was going to forget the basic plan.
“Regarding the magic stones, we wish to record the creation process as well, nyaa. Of course, this will be a members-only stream, viewable only by people from the Shunkatou Republic, nyaa. We have no intention of letting it leak externally, so please don’t worry and just do it casually, nyaa.”
“Well, just filming the creation process itself was fine, I guess…”
I mean, once you knew the trick, anyone could do that, right? I used knowledge from my past life, but I fully expected someone watching the recording could figure out how to replicate it.
“Excellent! Then, without further ado! Before the collab stream, we’d like to record the members-only stream—the magic stone creation, nyaa.”
“Um, I don’t mind that at all, but…”
Yeah, making them was easy, so it was fine, but still.
“…What was with the forced ‘nyaa’ character thing?”
The way she kept tacking it on, almost like she remembered she forgot and quickly added it… it was starting to get distracting…
“Ah, the ‘nyaa’? I’m doing this because it’s supposedly better received. If it bothers you, shall I stop?”
“Whoa, she spoke so smoothly?!”
Wait, you could talk that clearly?! What happened to the cat-girl persona you were pushing so hard with the sentence enders just now…?
“For now, please keep the suffix for the stream, but speak normally when we’re not streaming.”
“Understood. Then, let us begin the stream immediately.”
Slightly bewildered by how coolly and articulately she began speaking once the ‘nyaa’ was gone, I proceeded to finish recording both the members-only stream and the collaboration stream.