Chapter 177

Foeniculum and her viewers witnessed everything… Indeed…Shiro had no intention of leaving the Space That Only Couples Can Leave with anyone but her own brother. The viewers watched as Shiro and Sora—the pair who realized they were more than a couple—left the Spratul first. They were followed by Jibril and Emir-Eins, locked hand in hand as they bickered all the way through the gate. A teary-eyed Steph eventually showed up alone, a dreary smile on her face—although not having to pick a partner came as a huge relief when she found Shiro’s smartphone with the key ready for purchase. That was the end of the stream. “All righty then…I’m pretty sure y’all know what that means—” The ka-chings kept on coming; Foeniculum turned to the camera and addressed her viewers. “This concludes the Space That Only Couples Can Leave private stream, brought to you by yours truly, only on Channel Foeniculum.” The tips were still pouring in, but the program had long since reached five billion points… The viewers knew exactly what this meant; they’d been told what the goal was beforehand. It was part of the terms of service required for subscribing to Foeniculum’s private channel. “Okay, lemme check with y’all one more time…” Therefore, what Foeniculum said next wasn’t an explanation, but a confirmation—a speech. “Most Fairies serve the Elves just to get a taste of their love lives. I’ve always been against this personally. And that’s because I think love between members of the same race is boring as heck!!” There are sixteen races in this world. So why does everyone stick to their own kind? Why be satisfied with such basic love? “You folks called me crazy when I said this. Y’all wrote me off as nuts…” Yep. Everyone used to laugh at Foeniculum, the bottom-of-the-barrel streamer. “Now I need to ask… You think I was the crazy one?!” That same Foeniculum was speaking to her over 1,800,000 subscribers—every single Fairy who wasn’t an Elven Gard slave. “Whoever wants to see the next episode of this love story—follow me!!” That’s right: This wasn’t the end. It was the just the prologue!! “Us Fairies are gonna work together with those kids to create a new world!!” The world they were trying to make would be full of the love Foeniculum had showed her viewers over the past ten days. “Just imagine!! Immanities in love with Flügels or Ex Machinas. Hell, even Flügels and Ex Machinas are on the table. An Immanity and an Elf, maybe even an Old Deus and a Werebeast—plus, the Immanity-on-Immanity love we saw was pretty incredible, too. All this passion I’m talkin’ about—our new world is gonna be chock-full of the stuff!!” That’s right… She wasn’t talking about a dream of hers or her hopes for the future. The love she spoke of already existed—she’d shown it to her viewers. “If any of you folks ain’t interested, now’s your chance to familiarize yourself with the UNSUBSCRIBE button. But hear me out!!” If you aren’t going to take the step that needs to be made…!! “We’re all Fairies here, children of the god of love, Alram!! We’ll go so far as to sell ourselves into slavery to get our fix of other people’s romantic endeavors!! It’s a Fairy’s duty to fill the world with love—so if any of you pathetic Fairies ain’t about that life, you ain’t welcome!!!!” Within seconds—her screen was buried in a wall of comments, all saying… “““YES, YES, YES!!!””” Foeniculum grinned as her viewers flooded the chat. Excellent. Now then… She raised both arms and proclaimed to her people: “As your agent plenipotentiary—I, Foeniculum, think it’s high time for a rebellion.” The next instant, an immense amount of soul power began spiraling around the Fairy representative’s wrist. It was none other than the five billion souls she’d gathered from her Fairy viewers, as planned. More raw power than what had been used to engulf Elkia in a Spratul— “We’re gonna see the love of a lifetime unfold—something that’ll change the world!! No more will we live in those shitty dark ages where we scraped by on Elf drama!! That ends today!!” She was going to use the indescribable soul power at her disposal to steal Elkia back. Those souls converged and transformed before Foeniculum’s voice rang out once more: “We’re gonna take on Elven Gard together with Sora and the gang!! We’ll hit the Elves wiiiiitha Sprite Shade!!!!” The spatial phase boundary rumbled from this declaration of war……