The Grand Cultural Festival

To summarize, there's a cultural festival being held by a bunch of rich people. In short, It's their own cultural festival. I stretched my arm towards Hana and encouraged her to continue speaking.

"Well, then, allow me to continue. There's a meeting that took place to talk about the said Cultural Festival, and their decision was... a performance. In addition, It's going to be held in one of the largest stadiums in Japan. Tokyo Dome."

Tokyo Dome?! Are you talking about that Tokyo Dome!? The dome that can actually hold at least 55,000 people inside!? What the hell!? Those guys are too goddamn rich to be able to rent that dome.

I was frozen to her mentioning of Tokyo Dome. But I immediately got my composure and noticed this whole conversation's finish line.

"I see, so you're going to run our group as a candidate for performing at that Cultural Festival, huh?"

She just gave me a smile while sipping at her coffee. If you can, please go to the point, I hate nonsensical talks. After sipping on her coffee, she finally continued speaking.

"Well, you're half right and half wrong. Well, continue to the topic. Due to Itsuro Arimoto's proposal and influence, they've decided that the performers would be... Idol groups."

Idol groups? More importantly, Itsuro Arimoto? Is he...?

"Well, you're probably thinking about Itsuro Arimoto. Your hunch is correct, he is Yumeko Arimoto's father."

I'm right! Now, it actually makes sense! Now that you think about it, there's no way some rich guy would decide watching performers actually meant for younger people.

Maybe because he wants to see his daughter perform or whatever. But one thing is sure... It's possible that he's on our side! It's also possible that he's not, but him being with our side has a much higher possibility!

"Well, you might ask these 2 questions, who's going to perform at the Tokyo Dome? What kind of system will be used? I'm going to answer that question now. Two Idol groups would be performing at the Tokyo Dome and the winner will be decided by a fair judge. The match would be held for 3 days. In short, you need to perform 3 times."

I see, so It's a maximum of 3 matches, huh? In short, if you win both the 1st and 2nd Day, the 3rd Day won't be needed anymore. The 3rd is just a tiebreaker or something.

"Moving on to the next question. Who's going to perform at the Tokyo Dome?"

Well, It's actually obvious no matter how you twist it. The first that comes to my mind, is that they'll hire a professional Idol to perform for them. But since this girl called me out here, I figured that's not the case.

So I think, a try-outs or preliminary round would be held, and the two winners would compete at the Tokyo Dome. But It takes too much time to prepare and the time until the Cultural Festival is only limited.

"Well, don't think too hard about it. To decide who's going to perform at the Tokyo Dome, they decided to... hold a gamble between the representatives of each group that has scouts."

Huh? Gamble?

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Gambling? Do you mean gambling? A game where you bet some money and the winner takes it all? Isn't that Poker, Mahjong, or Dice? Are they actually out of their goddamn minds?! Deciding by gambling!?

"Well, I know what you're thinking. Believe it or not, rich people in this district like high stakes gambling. So even though the topic is not actually gambling, they're going to attach gambling to it."

Wow, those rich people sure have a few screw loose when It comes to gambling. I just released a sigh and accepted that they're actually gambling addicts. I stretched my arm again, as an indication that I want her to continue.

"Well, that's why I scouted you. Believe it or not, I'm not a rich girl. I was just picked as a scout because my father is a scout. But deep inside, I want the person I picked to win."

She wants the person she scouted to win? Does that mean... normal scouts don't really care whether the person they picked won or not? Well, don't jump to conclusions yet!

"Well, I don't want to elaborate my life and the system of being a scout to you. The point is... I scouted you because of your natural gambling instincts."

Gambling Instincts? Wait, do I even have those? What's with that?

"Maybe you don't notice but... you have great talent... when It comes to gambling. You're gambling instincts... is a treasure in these kinds of situations."

I don't know what the hell she's saying. But if what she's saying is true and I actually have those gambling instincts... then... an opportunity opens up to me!!!

END OF CHAPTER 38