Bonus Episode – April Fools’ Stream
"The king’s ears are… "
Top Chat: Sounds like we’re about to eat them
Top Chat: Let’s fry them with sugar
Top Chat: Don’t make it delicious lol
Top Chat: So, Elf-san, what’s with that opening?
"It’s April Fools."
Top Chat: Ah, so that was a lie
Top Chat: I don’t think that really counts as a lie though lol
"Really? It doesn’t?"
Top Chat: We know it doesn’t, but we don’t know what it is
Top Chat: Sometimes Elf-san’s words really make us think
"I’m ending the stream."
Top Chat: That would be a problem—
Top Chat: Nooo, don’t stop—
Top Chat: Don’t ennnnd it—
"Muu. You’re not falling for it."
Top Chat: Yeah, that one was way too sloppy lol
Top Chat: You’ve got to put more thought into it
Top Chat: If you want a good lie, it needs to be clever
"How do you make a clever lie?"
Top Chat: Ah, there she goes asking something difficult again
Top Chat: A quick lie gets exposed easily
Top Chat: You’ve got to lull people into lowering their guard, and then strike
"I won’t end the stream."
Top Chat: Right
Top Chat: Got it
Top Chat: Saw that punchline coming lol
"I’m ending the stream."
Top Chat: That would be a problem—
Top Chat: Nooo, don’t stop—
Top Chat: Don’t ennnnd it—
"Why not?"
Top Chat: Because the way you try to catch us off guard is way too clumsy lol
Top Chat: You need to drag it out longer
"…So it’s about time, huh."
Top Chat: You’ve got to let the setup sink in before flipping it around.
Top Chat: Time solves everything.
Top Chat: Time is money.
Top Chat: If you don’t have enough time, just work unpaid overtime.
Top Chat: …What is this, some kind of corporate-drone Marie Antoinette?
"That’s not a proverb I’ve ever heard before."
Top Chat: There’s no such thing as Corporate-Drone Antoinette lol
Top Chat: If she’d actually been that devoted to work, the French Revolution probably wouldn’t have happened.
Top Chat: Speaking of which, why did the French Revolution happen, anyway?
"It was triggered when, despite financial collapse and famine, reforms were pushed through that forced the burden onto commoners. When the king tried to use the army to apply pressure, the commoners, in response, armed themselves and stormed the Bastille. After that, fear of preemptive repression by the nobility caused uprisings to spread everywhere, which became the Revolution."
Top Chat: Haaah, I see.
Top Chat: So even if she was hardworking, that wouldn’t have solved it.
Top Chat: I mean, making the commoners shoulder the burden was the job.
Top Chat: Was there no way to prevent the Revolution?
"The commoners actually spent a long time negotiating in parliament. If they’d managed reforms that limited the privileges of the nobility and the high clergy, maybe the Revolution could have been avoided."
Top Chat: Makes sense.
Top Chat: So if the king had just listened to the people, there was a chance?
"That was impossible."
Top Chat: Eh?
Top Chat: Why?
"Because the king’s ears… were full of cake."
Top Chat: Don’t stick cake in his ears just because there’s no bread lol
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