7 First day at work

"Mhhm?" Slowly opening her eyes, Anemachi with a stiff body slowly regains her consciousness when the sunlight from her window begins to shine upon her skin again. Still in her clothes from yesterday, she can feel the strain and pain coming from the awkward position that she sleeps with till now.

"Ah, I've done it again huh?" Lifting herself up from the floor, Anemachi struggled to think with a clear mind. Remembering how she ended up on the floor, she sighs. "Urgh I still have work today, I need to get myself prepared."

This isn't the first time that has happened when she fainted on the floor, and it ain't going to be the last either. It has already been a common occurrence ever since that day, and Anemachi's life truly is affected by it.

Quickly washing herself up with a quick shower and a brief makeup, Anemachi leaves the house again with her tired body in a hurry. Rushing to not be late for her official first day at work.

Grabbing a sandwich at a nearby convenience store, she eventually reaches the office on time. With a pair of heavy eyelids and tired muscle, it will be a hard day for her.

"Oh Anemachi-san, you're here already huh." Realizing the presence of Anemachi, A-chan who has already long been here greeted her. "Good morning, you look tired it seems."

"Just didn't get enough sleep yesterday." Shaking her head, Anemachi dismisses her worry. "Anyway, hope that you can take care of me today, senpai."

Anemachi bowing her head, shows her courtesy for A-chan who will be showing how things will work around here. She will be needing A-chan help a lot today.

"Well technically I did do some unreasonable things to you on the first day, so no need for the formality I guess." Scratching her purplish hair, A-chan however still accepted Anemachi's bow. "Just follow me around then, I will show you the way for things to be done."

Signalling Anemachi to follow her with a hand gesture, A-chan becomes the guide for Anemachi today.

"Though your position is the manager, but you will still deal with paperwork here and there especially when we lack the manpower. Your main job is to communicate with our talents to be the bridge between them and us, Cover Corp. Discuss with them regarding their schedule and make the necessary arrangement whenever needed, planning for their future expansion, you will have to know the talents well and be on good terms with them." Proceeds to sit on the desk, A-chan hand over a file that she has prepared last night. "This contains some information about our talent. Since you're still new, you will only be handling one of the talent's affairs for now, to be exact Sakura Miko. However expect more talents in the future to be assigned under your care, of course we will let you know if that's that case."

"Sakura Miko huh..." Flipping through the papers, Anemachi tries to digest the information that she hears and read through the profile of her. Having done some research before, she only knows that Hololive currently has three members as a whole, though she did hear rumors of a recruitment going on. "So should I go contact her now? To introduce myself and such."

"Well, leave that to later. For now, your main job is to help cope with the mess that is happening now." Remembering the work that hasn't been done, A-chan has a bitter smile on her face. "For starters, help me to key in all these physical copies and make it into a soft copy. Let me know when you finish it."

And thus, Anemachi's first day in the office starts off with a rather average job, typing in numbers and words.

Compiling list of contact numbers with the client and their respective information with different agenda, replying to the messy email that somehow no one cares about for weeks, calling important numbers that has been ignored and getting a scolding, it is only till now that Anemachi know how big of a mess this is.

"Why is it so messy here A-chan? With this amount of people working here I thought this kind of thing will never happen." And after another scolding from a sponsor which was too ignored, Anemachi can't help but inquire about it. "It was as if no one is managing the entire company, it doesn't look like it's only a matter of expansion..."

Remembering A-chan's previous words, Anemachi doubts any expansion will be this chaotic, it is more like the entire management team has gone on a vacation and left the office empty.

"Ha, it's complicated." A-chan sighing continues to work while replying to Anemachi. "Some trouble coming from the investor of Cover which ended up affecting us, manpower was moved for a while leaving only me and another person in charge, and now we have a pile of unfinished work. We are weeks behind what we are supposed to be doing."

"I see, that's why you are overworking too huh?" Ticking off the name as the issue has been taken care of, Anemachi begins to call another person. "Ah yes, this is from Cover corp. Sorry sorry, it isn't intentional..."

And Anemachi knows that she won't be leaving this hell easily.

With time flying by as document after document is being reviewed and compiled, Anemachi feels like the work is unending. She suddenly can understand A-chan desperation for help, first day at work and already a mountain high file that is beside her desk, this isn't looking good.

But looking over to A-chan on her desk who is working silently against her desktop, Anemachi sighs and continues to focus on her work, ignoring the already dark sky outside the window.

Texting Suisei and letting her know that she will be late for home, the busy office continues to be so as the day passes by.

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"Sorry for letting you work overtime on your first day, there is just too much to be done." And when Anemachi is recording the financial income coming from merchandise and sponsorship, a cup of starbuck suddenly appears on her desk. "You can go back home after finishing this, thanks for your effort. I will take on the others so don't worry."

"Oh thanks..." Hesitating slightly, Anemachi proceeds to accept A-chan's treat, taking a sip from the caramel flavor coffee. "But would you be alright? You haven't got any sleep for a while already right?"

"Caffeine is all I need." Waving off Anemachi's worry, A-chan however has a small request. "But since you are going back, would you mind visiting someone on your way? To be exact, Sakura Miko."

"See this as an opportunity to know her more too."

And before she realized, Anemachi was already in front of a small apartment.

"Sakura Miko huh..." Standing before the door, Anemachi rings the bell with the button on the wall.

She is quite nervous not gonna lie, this is the first time she is dealing with celebrity like persons. Her Imouto is still new so it doesn't count. Hand slightly sweating, she wondered how she should talk with her. With formality? Or a casual kind of approach

It seems like her stream that was supposed to be scheduled on night is canceled without a notice, and she isn't picking up the phone too. So A-chan wants Anemachi to check up on her if she is still awake.

But it remains silent for minutes after the bell rings.

"Ha, guess she is asleep already." Just when Anemachi is thinking of coming back another day, she realizes something is off about the door and proceeds to extend her hand.

Pushing the door gently, it opened without any resistance.

"She didn't lock the door...?" Hesitating, Anemachi decides to step inside, "Sorry for intruding. My name is Anemachi, and I'm the new manager from Hololive, are you here Sakura Miko?"

The small living room dark, devoid of people. Except of one that is, with dim light coming off from the crack of the door.

Biting her lips, Anemachi proceeds to open the door which she assumes leads to Sakura Miko's room, hoping that this won't offend her. But as the door slowly cracks open, Anemachi begins to widen her eyes as the scene inside of the room unfolds before her.

A pink haired girl sleeping peacefully on her desk, slightly chubby yet cute. Her small room tidied up nicely, decorated cutely just like any normal girl with a pink wall surrounding it. On the table is an accessory like a webcam and accessories that she used to control her avatar.

Yet on her wrist which is lying on the table has a deep wound that is caused by shrapnel. Following it is her blood which is pouring out from the artery, colouring the brown table red. The blood light red in colour indicating that it happened not long ago. Watching the amount of blood, Anemachi has an urge to vomit and run away from the scene, but knowing that an innocent life is passing away every second she manages to stand her ground.

And that is what happened on Anemachi's first day at work.