“It’s bad, but can’t we clean it?”

After school, Shinosaki-san met up with the main idol of Iroha performing arts production then left quickly because of the idol’s request.

Shinosaki-san met the other party’s manager in another room, and I was in another room waiting while drinking juice with a straw. A sullen beauty-san entered. A tall and slender body with beautiful, strait, and long black hair that extended down to her back, and out of the corner of her small eyes she sent me a rough yet impressive glance.

Today, I’ll be teaching Shirasawa Kotori-san and a unit member of the same group, Reizei Isumi-san.

“Can you listen for a bit? I don’t want you to turn back now.”

“Yes, Shinosaki told be not to return.”

Suddenly, I ate bread, and Isumi-san glared at me domineeringly. A long time ago, in the time when I was a corporate slave, I became accustomed to high-pressure negotiations from suppliers, and I could smile and act well to the situation.

“Right now… moga!?”

“Yes, stop. Isumin, it’s rude since we’re the guests.”

From the reception office’s door, yet another beautiful girl came in. After that, Isumi-san was put into a headlock, and Reizei-san’s mouth was closed, but the person who came in smiled and said, “Sorry~. Just now, there was a lot of blabbering, I hope that Isumin didn’t hurt another person’s feelings.”

“No, I’m fine, but…”

There was a pekopeko sound when the headlock lowered. This is Tachiki Momiji-san, who’s also a unit member of the same group. She’s 155cm and looks like a middle schooler even though she’s an adult already. Her hair is in twin tails, so I could see that she tries to look young.

Her official profile from many years ago had her age stopped at 17.

“Ah, greetings~. I’m Tachiki Momiji. The unit leader of the same group that Shirasawa Kotori is in, ‘Bure[insert star here]Puri.’ Looking forwards to working with you~.”

“I’m Hanasaki Nana. Today is from producer Tanuki; he asked me to provide acting guidance… Any questions?”

Then, Poochi gave me a business card and said, “Kotorin was depressed that she couldn’t act in the second movie of “My Name” well, and she said, ‘Since I can’t act, I should quit being an idol too,’ and cried~.”

(TN note: ポーチ, probably Momiji’s nickname… Pochi is also a common dog name in Japan.)

Tahaha~, asking for help like that, Momiji-san laughed. The headlock went lower and tightened, and Isumi-san went, “NNNNNN!” so Momiji-san took her arms off her.

“It’s all your fault! It’s your fault that Kotori will!! …Kotori will… Kotori will…”

And then, she started crying. Tears fell down Isumi-san’s face.

What do I do, I want to go home.

“I want to teach this private lesson by talking with my hands and feet. But, if I talk like that, it’ll be troublesome later on.” Why did I agree to teach in the scene of battle before? I want to go home.

Even so, the second movie will look disappointing if I don’t do anything. In the second movie, Kotori-san and I are connected, and it’s my fault that Kotori-san’s acting will look especially bad on her turn.

Though, I don’t know why it’s my fault.

“Umm, can I do anything?”

“…Your fault because your acting is too good… Possibly?”

“Ehhhh…”

This is the first time that someone’s been angry over how good my acting skills are.

“Sorry~ for the outburst of anger just now. Isumin wasn’t feeling well.”

“Haah…”

Because of Isumi-san’s sulkiness, Momiji-san apologized, and Isumi-san calmed down.

“But, at this rate, Kotori will…”

“I hope Nana-chan won’t mind those words. Nana-chan took great pains to come here only to hear that, sorry~.”

Ummm, my acting skills are so good that Kotori-san is depressed? Yep, I don’t get the connection. Shinosaki-san hasn’t returned yet, so I guess that I’ll listen to what they’re saying for now.

“Excuse me, could you please explain in detail?”

Momiji-san explained that, in the first movie, people said that she was an atomic bomb victim, and the reviews and critiques all criticized her acting, so she got depressed.

It seems that she wanted to work hard in taking acting lessons to raise her skill and then do well enough to get the second movie’s part from P Tanuki, but, after seeing my acting, she lost confidence in herself, so it’s my fault that she thinks that in the third movie she’s going to be an even bigger atomic bomb victim.

And now, she’s given up on everything and wanted to go back to get hometown. That’s all.

Somehow, I thought that wasn’t the end…

Momiji continued, “I think that Kotorin is cute and doesn’t need singing and dancing lessons, but we had to do a live concert and there was a massive failure, so she was too embarrassed to perform skillfully. What do you think?”

“That is… That…”

“You still don’t get it, right? You still don’t get what part you’ve hit, right?”

The explanation to me ended, yet I still didn’t understand what Momiji-san was telling me. On the other hand, Isumi-san kept on preaching to me.

The preaching reached a pausing point, and Isumi-san hung her head. Momiji-san watched with mixed feelings.

“Umm, when are we going to start the acting lessons?”

“Nn, isn’t that so? If we act without preperation, critics will say, ‘More smoothly,’ and, ‘More feeling.’ You can’t rehearse too much, right?”

Well, if she can do that, she’ll have no troubles, won’t she?

I said, “For now, how about leaving Kotori-san with me? Perhaps I can raise her acting skills, maybe.”

“Yeah, I’ll have to ask you to do that. Please guide her well.”