Accompanying Ichika

Walking out of the family restaurant, Akira looked at the time on his cell phone.

At 3:11 p.m.

"There's still time before dusk, let's go play to the game center."

Deciding on his next plan, he walked down the sidewalk.

It's school time so pedestrians are dominated by students.

Akira may be handsome, but still within normal limits. Unlike Tenjou Yuuya who would be noticed by every girl who saw him and they would lust after him like female animals in mating season.

Passing by a vending machine, Akira saw his favorite soda drink.

"This drink is a bit hard to find, my luck isn't bad."

Inserting a coin into the vending machine, he pressed the button and his drink of choice fell out.

When Akira bent down to pick up the minimum, a familiar voice sounded from behind.

"Akira-chan?"

Without needing to look, he knew who the girl was calling him. Among the quintuplets of this parallel world, only Ichika called him that.

As soon as he turned around, Akira saw Ichika in the car with the window half open and waved at him.

"Nee-san where are you going?"

Akira deliberately didn't mention Ichika's name. After all, the girl was a famous actress, it would be troublesome if they were surrounded by people asking for group photos and autographs.

"Um. I'm going to the shooting location. By the way, Akira-chan is there free time?"

"Well, I plan to go to the game center to kill time."

"Instead of playing alone, let's join Onee-san."

"Hmmm... Alright."

Seeing Akira agree, Ichika smiled with satisfaction, opened the door and told him to get into the car.

"Wait a moment."

Akira turned around and bought another drink at the vending machine. After that, he got into the car quickly.

Then the car drove on the highway.

In the car, Akira gave the drink he had just bought to Ichika.

"Frappuccino! Akira-chan remembered my favorite drink. Onee-san is happy~"

Ichika reached out her hand and stroked her little brother's black hair.

"My hair is messy." Akira complained but didn't refuse.

"Akira-chan doesn't blush, it's really boring." Ichika was disappointed she didn't manage to see his embarrassed reaction.

In response to that, Akira shrugged his shoulders.

In the driver's seat, a middle-aged man with a mustache watched the interaction between the two through the rearview mirror. Finally, he couldn't hold back his doubts and asked.

"Isn't Ichika-chan a quintuplet sister? I didn't know you had a little brother."

He was Ichika's manager for over two years, he knew her family background. He was very surprised to hear the conversation between the two of them.

Did Nakano's father secretly have a son with another woman?

That's his guess.

"Oda-san, he is my proud little brother, Nakano Akira. Akira-chan, this uncle is my manager, just call him Oda-san."

Ichika introduces the two of them to each other

"Nice to meet you, Oda-san." Greet Akira politely.

"Nice to meet you." Oda nodded in reply.

Seeing his complicated expression, Ichika guessed his doubts, so she took the initiative to explain.

"Maybe Oda-san already guessed it. That's right, Akira-chan is the father's son who was hidden for 13 years. We only learned of its existence two weeks ago."

Ichika's acting skills are perfect, her expression convinces Oda.

"So that's how it is…" Oda nodded, and stopped asking.

As an outsider, he has no right to interfere in other people's household affairs. Moreover, he and Maruo are both single fathers. It's just that his wife left him and went with the man she was having an affair with, while Maruo's wife died of illness.

Oda is not surprised if Maruo has a mistress. He knew how difficult it was to live without women.

"Oda-san must have thought Akira-chan's mother was another woman. In fact, our mothers are the same." Ichika whispered in Akira's ear.

"That's normal. No normal person would think I came from a parallel world." Akira rolled his eyes at her.

"Fufu... That's true." Ichika giggled.

Akira didn't know why she looked in a good mood.

On the way, the two of them talked about many things. 20 minutes later, the car stopped near a lake.

Getting out of the car, Akira saw that there were many production teams at that place.

This was his first time on set, he looked around curiously.

"What's the movie about this time?" Akira asked.

"The theme of this movie is the forbidden love story of a samurai and the Shogun's daughter. However, their love was not approved by the Shogun, and in the end the two decided to run away as friends. And Onee-san will play the heroine." Ichika said while puffing out her chest proudly.

"Oh."

"Akira-chan's reaction was too bland."

"Amazing! Ichika-Nee is amazing!"

"Your reaction was too far-fetched."

The banter between the two of them stopped when the make-up staff came and asked Ichika to immediately put on make-up.

"Akira-chan watch from the side, Onee-san will show her big star abilities."

"Okay. I also want to see how the movie production process works."

Then Ichika followed the staff to the tent.

Left alone, Akira saw everyone was very busy.

The film cast memorizes the script, the film crew arranges the props such as lighting, sound, camera, and so on.

Seeing all this, Akira remembered the famous idol who was killed by fans.

"Ichika should be fine, right? Moreover, at the end of the movie on Yotsuba and Fuutarou's wedding day, Ichika comes back from overseas after fliming or something."

The unfounded worries disappeared, Akira was sure that no incident would happen to the five people, considering that this was a peaceful world. Despite that, he didn't know why there was such a magical item as the Jewel of Four Souls.

Because the lake is a public space, many people watched from the perimeter set up by the film crew.

If it weren't for the identity token that Oda gave him, Akira wouldn't be here.

He could hear people's conversations talking about how handsome the lead actor was and so on.

Considering he wasn't from this world, Akira didn't know any actors or actresses other than Ichika. So, no matter how famous they were, he seemed indifferent.

Finally, after 15 minutes of waiting, the film taker was ready to start.

Seeing Ichika looking like a different person in front of the camera, Akira admires her acting talent. Even the director praised Ichika after the scene was finished.

Wearing a kimono, Ichika approached Akira.

"Good job, Ichika-Nee."

"Thank you, Akira-chan. The weather is a bit hot today."

Accepting the mineral water he gave her, Ichika took a large gulp of water.

"What about my acting?"

"From a score of 1-10, I give a rating of 9."

"Eh, why not full marks?"

Ichika poked Akira's cheek while puffing out her cheeks.

"Because no one is perfect." Akira answered seriously.

"Puft~ Akira-chan is very pretentious. Very funny."

"Nakano-san, prepare to take the next scene." A female staff reminded her.

"Then I'll continue working."

"Um."

With a happy smile on she face, Ichika returned to the lakeside.

"She doesn't seem like a broken-hearted woman." Akira muttered.