DURARARA!! NICONICO SPECIAL EDITION PART 1: NICOCOCO!!
A story about twisted comments.
“We’re aiming for #1 in the daily rankings!” Yumasaki Walker and Karisawa Erika
For these two, such speech and actions probably weren’t too unusual but——
Celty Sturluson, who had just returned home and had no idea what was going on,
To be more accurate, what she tilted was not, in fact, her head, but the helmet resting
Because, for her——
♂♀
Commonly called a “Dullahan”, she’s a type of faerie from Scotland and Ireland——it
warning them of their impending death.
wagon drawn by a headless horse called a cóiste-bodhar, visiting the houses of
bucket full of blood tossed in their face——as a messenger of ill-omens, their stories
But that is an old story.
living urban legend and as a woman.
It was on this peaceful day that these two suddenly barged in.
“Nooo~ Nowadays, if you’re talking about videos it’s for Niconico, a nico-video!” As
if to match Erika’s words, Walker gave a huge smile as she talked.
Niconico literally means “smile”
“Ah, no…I know what Niconico is but…wait, what? Since the original version?
“OK, OK! Let’s save that annoying topic for some time in the future!” Clapping her
“So, Cel-chan, what kind of video do you want to make? Do you want to make some
“No, uh, live reaction…There’s no way I could do that.”
down to it, I can also make a really nice silent video too. Just as long as the contents are
“Wait, wait, first of all, why do you suddenly want to make a video? And why
head sadly.
“I didn’t really notice anything…”
At Erika’s hesitation, Walker turned to explain to Celty.
“Rival?”
“Wait, stop that Yamacchi! It’s too embarrassing for me to watch!”
router, before opening up the Niconico homepage. There, in a video titled “Singing Opera
mask and in some sort of anime character cosplay, began to sing opera.
hold in an effort to make him stop, Celty could hear Erika’s singing voice echoing out of
Although she does not have ears, Celty is clad in a ‘shadow,’ more sensitive than
her smartphone screen around to face Erika.
“Right~ Isn’t it amazing~. Among our fellow anime friends, Karisawa-san is a legend
“Aaaaagh no, it’s not like that. Ah I’m so embarrassed…” Erika’s face was bright red
“Nevertheless…This ‘Eternal de Charmant’, is that your stage name…?”
struck a chord of fear into Celty’s heart as she typed out her response.
thoughts about Erika, Walker decided to continue his story from before.
also very good at singing, and she cosplays too, so one way or another they’re going to
“So?”
really good friends with the famous Let’s Play gamer ●●-san. You don’t have any
super amazing friends!” and then…”
to continue.
movie to Niconico, and have a contest to see which one gets the most mylist bookmarks
“I see. Well. That was an extremely stupid story compared to the earlier one
Then, a second later, Celty furiously punched something into her smartphone in large,
“ARE YOU AN IDIOT!”
faces.
some sort of mah-jongg video game NPC? Isn’t that the equivalent of “Oh if that’s
rampaging around so recklessly!? Are you going to become one of those people
we were just giving it publicity so we’re innocent” or something like that!?” Her
“Anyway, you’ve already decided that your followers will pose as her
there will be a firestorm of comments on your video, which it will unfairly drive up
people who see this will upload their own videos and it will start all over again!
smile!”
“If you were proper adults you wouldn’t torture people in the back of your
“Now, now, let’s put that aside for a moment…I just thought I could make a cool
don’t want to cause any trouble.” Karisawa easily dismissed the troubling points Celty
composure.
worst case, they’ll be able to identify where I live by the background or something
networks would be 【Headless Rider Uploads Her Own Video and Gets
“Well the motorcycle police looking for you is just a case of you reaping what you
“That’s right. You have done some illegal things, Celcchi—”
they found her weakness, Celty wondered nervously what she should do but then——
The door opened wide, and there stood the owner of the apartment, a back alley doctor
“Guess there’s no choice. In order to prove that Celty is a great friend of Karisawa-kun,
“Shinra. Can you even make a movie?”
Alley Doctor’s Medical Treatment”.
“I’ll just release a small part of the videos I’ve sneakily taken and saved of Celty over
can’t keep them all…And with Celty’s charm, you’ll easily be able to break one million
Several minutes later—
wrote another message out for Erika and Walker.
everything Shinra just said.”
Several hours later
After Erika and Walker had gone home, Celty booted up her own laptop.
She opened up the Niconico homepage and signed in under the username “Setton.”
was called “【This is pretty】12 Selections of Great Scenery from a Rooftop!【Rooftop
She had shot a video of the scenery from her favorite rooftop and edited it.
username since I used at title like that.
Filled with anxiety, she carefully opened up the video page and——
——Oh…Oooooooooh…
in shock. Looking over her shoulder, Shinra peered at the video screen.
to promote it on Niconico.”
Shinra’s eyes shone as he looked at the screen.
scrolling from right to left across the screen, saying things like “Extremely pretty” “What
spoke, while Celty trembled slightly.
“But hey, Celty. All these people who commented, why are they all in black letters?”
“Also, these black lettered comments, they seem a little different from the ones I’m
“I think it’s just your imagination.” If she were human, Celty would have been covered
slowly.
screen and make me think you had a lot of comments, I’d still love your video anyway.”
“Because I think that strangely timid part of you is actually very cute.”
out to Shinra.
And thus, Celty got caught up in Erika’s video rivalry. The Dollars have vanished, and
color. This is the ordinary story of the Headless Rider leaving her mark on the world
To be continued in Nicococo!!x2