A Comment From Isolation

Marine sighed and rolled back her head. 'Whatever; I'm just overreacting, no way am I that lonely, otherwise I would go see a therapist' she thought, regaining her original posture.

Marine reached for the backspace key but her worries sprung up again temporarily distracting her from where the backspace key was.

To her horror, she could see her comment of I'm so lonely popped up on the chat. It would seem with how much the chat flies by, her comment would go unnoticed. However, it would only take 10 seconds before people pointed out that Marine commented.

Huh, Marine's here. Ahoy! I wonder what she's doing here? Why is she so lonely? Does she have no one to spend Valentine's Day with? That's one of the most relatable things Sencho Marine has ever said!

Marine exited out of the stream. She has done it now! Had she secretly intended to send the comment as a cry of help? Now that she realized her mistake, she wish she could had said it through private instead of commenting on a public stream.

Marine braced for the inevitable. She clicked on Discord and then she heard a voice chat call. She noticed it was from Fubuki-senpai. That was fast! Did she just happen to see Marine's comment as she was watching the stream?!

Marine accepted the call, it would be worse for her if she tried to run away from the conversation. Not to mention it would make things awkward between the two of them.

"Hello" Fubuki said, her voice rang loud and clear through Marine's desktop.

"Hey, I assume you were watching the Valentine's Day tournament stream?" Marine asked, her voice was uncertain.

"I was, but I went to buy something from a nearby store then I noticed that Watame texted me about you just as I walked into my house" Fubuki said.

"What perfect timing" Marine commented.

"I only just know what Watame texted me. Why did you typed that you felt lonely? Was it just a joke?" Fubuki asked.

Marine paused. She could back out and say it was a joke and she didn't think much about the implications or that she was confused about how it was used in English. But she couldn't bring herself to lie to Fubuki-senpai on a serious topic like this one.

Before Marine could answer Fubuki's question, a call on Discord popped up. It was Rushia, her friend from Hololive Fantasy Gen 3.

"Are you fine with Rushia popping in?" Fubuki asked.

"Thanks for being concerned, but it's best if Rushia knows that I'm ok" Marine said.

Marine clicked to let Rushia in on the Discord call. "Marine-san, are you ok?! Please don't think about anything drastic!" Russia's panicked voice peaked. Marine was used to her voice, although it took Fubuki some time to adjust her sensitive eardrums.

"Rushia-chan, I'm ok. My previous jobs didn't do me in, and Hololive was nothing compared to those" Marine said, her tone became steadfast to reassure Rushia that she was ok.

"Oh, that's a relief. I didn't want anything bad to happen to you" Rushia said, her voice settle into her usual voice range.

"That goes for me and everyone else in Hololive. Marine-chan, is there something going on in your personal life?" Fubuki asked.

"If you mean with family and friend troubles, I haven't had any issues with them for months. It's to do with purely myself" Marine said.

"I see" Fubuki and Rushia said.

"I, I was feeling lonely, and I felt like typing it to bring me relief but I didn't mean to enter it into the stream" Marine said.

"Do you go through this every Valentines Day?" Rushia asked, her voice dripping with concern.