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
* On Niconico, you can pay to support/promote your favorite video
Kawagoe-kaido Road - A Certain Apartment
“We’re making a video, and we’re aiming for the daily rankings!”
she was being forced to undertake the task of making a video. Celty still had some time
failure with only 12 views and 0 comments, she was currently trying to figure out how to
——Hmm…I guess I should look at the ones that are popular.
opened up her laptop and started to check those that were in Niconico’s ranking lists.
——Actually, those two mentioned doing a Let’s Play video too…but there’s no way I
——In the first place, there’s the problem with copyright restrictions…I also don’t
——Also, recently, game makers have started adding conditions to their games about
——Aaah just thinking about this is annoying.
failings, and Celty again realized how rash she had been to agree to this.
——This one is popular in the horror genre… “Blue Kappa.” OK, I’ll try this one.
downloaded the trial version.
——Hahaha, the kappa’s really cute.
it up quickly and not be too frightened, so she started the game with a little bit of
♂♀
“Celty, Celty~~. Your favorite television program is starting~?” Kishitani Shinra, who
However, the one he was looking for was nowhere to be found.
room——Then rushed over to the closet and flung open the door.
first approximately 1 meter in diameter made of black shadow flew out and swatted
“Aaauuugh!”
closet, where inside, Celty was crouched down shaking violently, like a phone on vibrate.
look at him. She timidly emerged from the closet, checking to make sure there were no
“I, I’m sorry Shinra! Are you ok!?”
“I’m used to living with Celty so no matter what unreasonable force you use on me,
you, I would still support you! I wouldn’t hand you over to anyone, I’d even become a
“I got it already, I really am sorry so please calm down.” Pacified, Shinra threw
restlessly.
“I-it’s because of that game.”
in the middle of play on the PC screen.
“A-ah. It’s a game called Blue Kappa. I thought it obviously was a game where
Cowering behind Shinra, Celty continued her explanation.
day, the people of the town one by one, little by little, are turned into aliens…!
walls, the floors, everything one by one ends up with the face of a Blue Kappa
“…Is it an adventure game? Or a sound novel
“No, it’s a farm management simulator.”
really scary, Shinra still shut down the game Celty had become so frightened by.
“R-really?”
attempted to embrace Celty but——Celty saw what he was going to do and easily dodged,
“Ah ow ow ow...ah well, I guess you really hate aliens, huh, Celty.”
“Well it is space right? In the grand cosmos, if all the planets in the solar system
right!?”
happen.”
Shinra’s shoulder.
guess.”
about the Niconico video, he broke out in a new smile as he spoke to Celty.
really difficult game? How does that sound?”
have traps as soon as you start the stage, or with a lot of Kaizo’s Traps
“Yup, that kind of thing. Although, now, really famous games don’t have a lot of
“No one knows about it…is there such a game?” As Celty tilted her helmet in
“There is. And it was made by Orihara-kun. I guarantee it’s really hard.”
Raira Era
Orihara Izaya, who had a laptop open in front of him.
“Game?” Donning on a smile that was blacker than the black gakuran he was wearing,
“Here, I’ll give you a copy.”
“A game to test the patience of humans. Well, it’s not very good so I don’t plan on
♂♀
Present Time – Shinra’s Apartment
“Oooh, it’s working even on the newest OS.” Compared to Shinra’s cheerful words,
“Are you sure it’s OK? I mean, a game made by that guy is…”
stuff.”
bright grin and nodded in assent.
“What on earth. I don’t know what kind of awful game this is, but I’m sure I’ll last
【Super Hard! Izaya Castle! AKA Izaya’s Challenge!】
Celty responded to Shinra by pulling up a text file and punching in those words.
angry it makes you. And he can make sure no one but people who know him get these.”
“It’s a small mercy that Shizuo-kun doesn’t own a computer. He’d probably destroy
Recalling her violent, bartender-outfit-wearing friend, Celty felt a shudder go down
After clicking the start button, a male character, apparently the protagonist, appeared
space bar made the character jump.
“You would think so, right?”
people.”
——Anyhow, it doesn’t matter if turns into a difficult quiz game or a racing game or a
the end it’s all just a roundabout way of pissing people off right?
Thinking nothing of it, Celty began to move the character but––
On screen, a hole opened up on the bottom and the character fell through. However,
character continued falling in the middle of the screen forever.
the earth?
――………
After 30 seconds had passed, the screen finally changed. Next to the falling character,
【The character you controlled continues to fall into the darkness. He will continue
endlessly falling into the dark. That fear changes to uneasiness before long. Will it ever
Then, uneasiness changes to loss. Both fear and uneasiness fade away, and he is
already thinking this? From the time he first fell in the hole, his life was over. Above
reason for being? If that’s so, then what kind of person is he. But as he continues to
wondering if this was all he was born to do――. As he continues to think about those
he only has one emotion left, it would be hatred for you, the player. Why did you
were you under the illusion that the floor you stepped onto would be a normal floor?
be a program that simply falls for all eternity. I’ll never forgive you, I’ll never forgive
forgive you , I’ll never forgive you , I’ll never forgive you ……surely that is what he is
way, aren’t you. Yes, by just a mere afterimage effect continuing to do nothing but fall,
How much time have you wasted on this game already? On this game with no
time? Then, are you simply wasting your spare time? After all, if only penance piles up
first place, this cannot relieve the agony of boredom, then in that case, the character
The sentences were endless, truly endless, and each line took about 5 seconds to
read each sentence at the beginning, but finally fed up with it, she asked Shinra a question.
“I think so. I gave up playing after falling for 10 seconds.”
go on?”
to take my hat off to Izaya’s determination.” Upon hearing those words, Celty moved her
【Oh my, are you giving up already? Escape doesn’t really solve anything though,
the task manager and force close the program. But, you realize that if you do that,
After reading the pop-up that appeared when the program didn’t close, Celty
“Uwaah!! What the hell is that!”
“I didn’t want something difficult like this!”
Celty, who was quickly growing violent, Shinra mused on his memories.
think he sent Izaya his thoughts on it…Izaya also thought it was weird. He didn’t know
“What on earth. How scary…don’t tell me he was an alien…” A chill went down
“In the first place, how am I supposed to make a good Let’s Play off of this?”
explode while watching the screen, I got it all on video tape!” Shinra gave an ecstatic
“If we upload this to Niconico, Celty’s charm will make everyone smile!”
A few minutes later, after leaving Shinra tied up in the corner of the room, Celty again
――Hmmm. As I thought, I really can’t do any live reaction Let’s Play videos…
As Celty stared at her computer screen, she suddenly thought of something.
――I still have 2800 points left, so there’s no way I can use them up in time…
she decided to use her Niconico points to watch a movie.
――Ooh, the movie Dark Skies has its own Niconico channel now.
――It seems like it’s made by the same people who made Paranormal Activity…
――I can’t discount Dreamcatcher either. It looks like a horror film too.
――OK then, which one should I watch…
After finishing the movie, Celty was once again cowering in the closet shaking like a
What on earth did she watch in the movie?
“…Celty. Hey, can you untie me from your shadows soon? Celty? Ceeelty?”