Okayu and Subaru Buy Off a Raid on Their Cherry Blossom Village in Sengoku Dynasty

HOLOLIVE — Hololive’s Nekomata Okayu and Oozora Subaru spent nearly three hours building a village in Sengoku Dynasty, a survival game set in Japan’s Sengoku, or Warring States, period, and ended up buying off a bandit raid with coin instead of fighting it. The two streamed the collab from their own channels under the #スバおか tag, talking in mock-samurai speech throughout.

The game opened with a long run of tutorial text, a shipwreck and a hunt for fellow survivors. After crafting axes, hammers and a first campfire, they settled on a spot among cherry trees near a shrine maiden and declared it the Subaoka Cherry Blossom Village. They built houses and beds, and the first bed turned out to be a one-person model, which ended any plan to sleep side by side. Grass, the material for nearly everything, ran short again and again. As refugees wandered in and needed beds, the game kept showing Subaru as the one without a home.

“Capitalism really is strong.” — Nekomata Okayu and Oozora Subaru, after paying off a raid

With a map quest pointing at a bandit chief, the pair armed themselves with wooden spears and went raiding. They took out enemy camps, the chief’s among them, and carried off food, medicine and gear. Chat joked about which side were the real bandits, and the pair themselves said they had started to look like them. A warning that a raid would hit the village in two days sent them back to crafting, until a tribute payment made the threat disappear. They laughed at how easily money solved it.

Trouble came from the other direction when they crossed a river into the territory of an uprising army they had assumed was friendly. The soldiers attacked at once, and the pair were quickly beaten back. Later they hunted deer by herding them into obstacles, fought off a bear from a spot it could not reach, and mined 19 pieces of ore in a cave. A late assault on a fortified camp turned up long-reach weapons, and two enemies at once nearly overwhelmed them.

Back at the village, they agreed it was the best place to be. They counted down together to a joint sign-off, and chat answered with a stream of “otsu Subaoka” messages.