Pizza Party!

Tokoyami Towa sat in the dingy break room of her part time job. Her streaming career had got off to a rocky start, and she had to have a safety net in case her super chats dried up. Unfortunately she had quit her previous job a mere week before her incident, so the only job she could now get was as a waitress at Nishinari Pizza.

Although Towa had told all her friends to come visit her during work, only one person ever showed up: Minato Aqua. Aqua was a regular customer, but not because she enjoyed the pizza, she visited solely for Towa. Or at least, solely to torment Towa. Aqua would routinely visit the restaurant with the purpose of making Towa's life hell. She would purposely make messes and force her to clean them up, chew her food very loudly while shouting about how awful it was, and wipe her hands on Towa whenever she passed by the table. She even one time made Towa act as a stool for her while she played a round of Metal Slug at the arcade cabinet, an act so humiliating and painful Towa almost said no. Almost. But she couldn't refuse her senpai. She had to grin and bear it, even when Aqua frequently complained to the manager about Towa. Towa had hoped she could enjoy this job but it took Aqua less than a week to turn the manager against her and make her public enemy number 1.

Towa only got two 10 minute breaks during her shift, and she was on the first of these after four straight hours of moving pizzas and cleaning tables. For Towa, these 20 minutes of solitude were her only escape, which was odd consider how extroverted she used to be. Regardless, she passed the time browsing Twitter, looking for any mentions of herself by her fellow Hololive members. She found none. She decided to open up YouTube instead. She saw several of her senpais streaming. She clicked on one, and ended up on a stream of Roboco playing APEX with Matsuri. She sighed as she watched. "Wow, it looks like they're having so much fun. I wish I could join them..." she thought to herself. She decided to send a message in the chat. Her message was drowned in a sea of "kusa" with neither girl noticing, or possibly, caring.

Suddenly, a loud noise made her drop the phone, as her manager threw open the door to the break room. "Hey streamer girl, we've got customers, so get off your ass! Break time's over!" shouted Towa's manager. Towa fumbled to grab her cracked phone and looked at the time, it had only been 7 minutes. "But I still have-" she began to protest, only for her manager to snap back at her. "I DON'T CARE, WE'VE GOT CUSTOMERS, NOW GET YOUR ASS OUT HERE, AND STOP WEARING THAT STUPID FUCKING HAT." she screamed as she slammed the door to the break room shut. Holding back her tears, Towa put her phone away and stood up.

Towa slapped her face twice and talked to herself as she opened the door into the restaurant. "Ok, remember, big smile." She said under her breath. The usual "PIZZA PASTA PIZZA PASTA" song blared over the restaurant's speakers, constantly setting a happy mood for the usual customers. She used to love the song when she first started but now it just sickened her. Towa spotted a table of 4 at the back of the restaurant, clearly the customers she was being called on to serve. As she headed for the table the first thing she noticed was a familiar set of horns, alongside another familiar set of horns. Across from them sat a certain baby princess and pure angel. Towa realized it was her fellow fourth gen members, Coco, Watame, Luna and Kanata. For a moment, she was incredibly happy to see them, and almost ran over to the table.

"Oh my god, you guys came!" Towa shouted as she arrived at the table. "I'm so happy!" her happiness would be short lived as the four looked at her in silence for a moment. Finally, Coco broke the silence. "Who invited the menhera bitch?" She asked, laughing but also clearly annoyed. Watame and Luna shook their heads, and all three looked to Kanata. Before she could say anything, Towa chimed in. "Uh...I work here...I thought you guys knew? Isn't that why you're here?" The group looked at her for a moment, before they started laughing. "You work here? That's pathetic! I should put this into my next Asacoco!" Coco shouted, hardly able to breath. "We only came here because it was the cheapest place in town." Watame added, slamming the table and wiping her eyes. "NAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA" Luna responded. Even Kanata couldn't help herself among the uproarious laughter and began to giggle a bit before attempting to stifle it. Towa's smile had long since faded, and she now bit her lip as the girls slowly began to stop laughing. Almost monotone, she gave them the usual "Welcome to Nishnari Pizza, what can I get for you." Coco asked for one large deluxe pizza, 4 colas, and for Towa "To not screw this up like everything you do." Towa simply nodded and walked to the kitchen.

While Towa was supposed to have a co-worker, she seemed to always be missing. Towa thought about how her manager doesn't seem to care about it and only hounds her, but she decided to ignore such thoughts and focus on getting the pizza ready. Ten minutes later, she pulled the pizza out of the oven and brought it to the table. As Towa brought out the large pizza, she could hear the girls laughing about their latest collab stream, while planning their next one. "Left 4 Dead sounds great! It's a good thing we don't have to deal with Towa, she'd probably be too scared like a big dumb baby." Coco said, laughing, then looking over to Towa. "Oh, speak of the "Devil"" she continued, making finger quotes. "It looks like our pizza has finally arrived. Took you long enough." Towa tried to think of a reply but clammed up, when Watame spoke up, asking where their sodas were. Towa simply said "Sorry." and walked back to get a tray of sodas while the four began scarfing down their pizza.

As Towa returned to the kitchen, she began to fill up the drinks. She filled up 3 regular colas and one diet cola. She remembered talking to Kanata about cola in the past, and learned that she drank diet cola. Even though Kanata didn't think about her anymore, she still cared about her and wanted to do something for her. She brought the tray of drinks out to the girls who were in the middle of eating their pizzas. They didn't seem to notice her arriving at the table. She placed down two of the colas, but before she could place the third Luna snatched a glass from her tray happily. Towa looked in horror as she realized it was the diet cola. Luna took one sip of the soda, and then spat it right out in Towa's face. She began to cry as Watame leaned over and wiped her face and tried to comfort her. Coco took a sip of Luna's drink, then angrily shouted at Towa "You fucking bitch, is this diet! We asked for regular!" and then proceeded to pick up each drink and throw it at Towa. Towa looked to Kanata for comfort, but Kanata quickly looked away from her, avoiding eye contact. Towa silently bent down and began wiping up the cola. Thankfully Towa's face was wet from the cola, so no one could see her tears. "I'm sorry, I'll bring you another one." she said, but Luna began to cry louder. The four got up from their table, chairs clattering. "Forget it! Let's go somewhere else girls, this place is horrible!" Coco said, storming out. The other three followed. Luna turned back as she headed out the door, still making fake crying noises. She gave Towa the finger while grinning, then went back to putting on a performance for the girls.

Towa silently grabbed a broom and began sweeping up the broken glass. She wondered where everything had gone wrong with her and the other 4th gen members. Suddenly she realized that they had left without paying, and their pizza was probably going to come out of her paycheck. She considered eating it herself since she had basically paid for it anyway, but after one bite she felt like she was going to throw up. She instead went back to the break room, deciding to take her second break even though it had only been 30 minutes. She popped open her phone and went to Twitter. She had considered venting as usual, but hesitated. She knew if she said anything she would be called out for being a menhera and she really did not want to deal with that right now. She instead decided to look for a cute cat video to post to her timeline. After a minute she had gotten 5 comments, all in English. Although she couldn't read them, she convinced herself each one said that they loved her and that everything would be ok.

"Rookie, what are you doing?" Towa's manager exclaimed as she threw the door to the break room open again. "We've got another customer, it's that short little girl that looks like an onion and-" She stopped, looking at Towa's head. Glaring daggers into her, she pointed at her hat. "WHAT DID I TELL YOU ABOUT THAT FUCKING HAT?" Her manager shouted, lunging at her. She grabbed Towa's hat and yanked it off her head, then threw it into the nearby trashcan. "VIVI!" Towa screamed as she tried to run over to the trashcan. Before she could take take a step her manager grabbed her and shoved her into the wall. "YOU NEED TO TAKE THIS JOB MORE SERIOUSLY. YOU KNOW I'M DOING YOU A FAVOR, LETTING YOU WORK HERE, THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF MORE QUAILIFED PEOPLE I COULD HIRE. YOU'RE ON THIN ICE, AND WE BOTH KNOW YOU CAN'T AFFORD TO LOSE THIS JOB. SO STOP WITH YOUR STUPID PRETEND INTERNET DEVIL BULLSHIT AND START BRINGING OUT PIZZAS!" She let go of Towa, who collapsed to the floor. Screaming angrily, her manager stormed out of the break room, throwing the door closed.

Towa crawled over to the trashcan and dug out her hat, now covered in bits of tomato sauce and ranch dip. She looked at the smiling face on the hat and completely lost it. Sobbing uncontrollably, she held the hat close to her and began to wail. While crying, she imagined her hat coming to life in the form of a big strong muscular devil who could protect her. "Why can't you be real, Vivi?" she stammered to herself, the tears beginning to flow. But Vivi wouldn't respond, because this is reality. This is her life. This is Towa's Hollow Life.