"Um, abnormal happiness~"
Clapping her hands with the script, Ichika squirmed for a long time, then sighed deeply.
"It's kind of hard... The definition is not clear at all. How can anyone do it well?"
Complaining, she sat in front of the vanity table and made several expressions, but she wasn't too satisfied.
Ichika tossed script and landed it on top of the messy pile of clothes, lying down, swinging her legs in the air, and lazily screamed with her face on the table.
"Ahah the acting is so boring, I really want to go fishing~~"
Because it was her own room, Ichika could completely set aside the dignity of being an older sister and vent her true emotions.
It could be said that she had been under a lot of pressure lately. Besides her classes, she always kept an eye on their work to prevent the school festival booth from turning into a fan recruitment meeting. In terms of work, the auditions after Christmas were crucial. A film produced by a famous director attracted many new and old actors to compete for opportunities, which meant the pressure of competition was rapidly increasing.
Ichika was self-aware. She wasn't aiming for the heroine role but the supporting actress who matched her own acting style and played a significant role in the film. Even so, there were many talented seniors and newcomers vying for the same role. Not only did her agent have high hopes for her, but she herself didn't want to miss this big opportunity to advance her acting career.
She spent too much time and energy studying the script and figuring out her character. She didn't even have a chance to flirt with the man she loved and talk about sex every night. This greatly increased her psychological pressure, and her mentality gradually became negative. Recently, she felt her skin worsening and her menstrual period becoming irregular.
"It's so hard for me..."
With one last sigh, Ichika straightened up, stood up from the vanity table, picked up the discarded script, and leaped onto the soft bed.
She picked up phone next to the pillow, turned on the screen, and their date photo with Shinichi began to appear. Since that day, Ichika had set this beautiful memory as wallpaper and hoped to replace it with a nice photo.
Perhaps a photo of them lying naked on the bed?
Ichika smiled a little shyly.
With a sweet smile, she tapped her face with her finger and whispered:
"You are my driving force to move forward, you know?"
No matter how much pressure there was, as long as the person she liked was still there, Ichika could quickly become happy.
She wasn't strong, so she relied on him.
Ichika was happy with this.
Taking script, Ichika regained her fighting spirit, turned off lazy mode, and her eyes became serious.
But before that, she wanted to go to the bathroom.
After leaving the room and washing her face with cold water after being refreshed, Ichika, who had fully regained her strength, was about to return to her room when she saw Nino entering Miku's room.
Feeling a bit odd unconsciously, she walked lightly, approached Miku's door, and pressed her ear against it.
"You did it right..."
A faint voice came from inside, and Ichika heard it very clearly.
Gradually, she understood the content of their conversation as if they were debating and competing against each other.
At first, her expression was slightly surprised, even a little overwhelmed, as if the world had changed in an instant.
But the more she listened, the higher the corner of Ichika's mouth, her cheeks blushed, her eyes sparkled with joy, and she smiled cunningly.
"Uh-huh-huh, I hear something interesting..."
"In this case, likewise, sister~"
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Shuchi'in Academy, after school.
To assist Shirogane Miyuki and Ishigami Yu's plan for the school festival, Shinichi came to the empty classroom in the old teaching building.
Of course, it was only him.
"These two are really... I'm the current president! There are so many things waiting for me to handle, and they really use teamwork as a bargaining tool to hand over troublesome tasks like this to me..."
While complaining, Shinichi threw the heart-shaped balloon into the large bag and began filling the next balloon.
"This is very impolite. Let's all commit seppuku. You little worms dare to order the sea snake. Do you know that only the big ones have the right to speak..."
Because there was no one around, Shinichi fully released his emotions. While expressing his dissatisfaction, his body also followed the instructions of the two before him.
As for the actual reason, it was very simple.
To successfully hold the Heart Hunting Festival, Shinichi secretly sought help from the former president, Shirogane Miyuki, and Ishigami Yu, who were very skilled in computers and whose family owned a toy company.
In return, he also had to assist the two who were causing trouble at the school festival. In this way, the three parties formed a temporary alliance for mutual benefit.
What Shirogane wanted him to do was to blow up these heart-shaped balloons and put them in the bag, more than a hundred of them, which was simple but exhausting.
The task given to him by Ishigami was to decorate the classroom, which was relatively easy.
The man would bring a basket of flowers that day, and before that, he would arrange the classroom to look like the design on the rock and make some decorations.
It wasn't urgent, although it was done the night before, it was more than enough, so Shinichi was mainly busy with Shirogane's balloons, which were so boring that he would sing.
"It won't work if we keep going like this!"
Suddenly slapping the balloon on the table, Shinichi took out his phone and prepared to have some fun after work.
And of course, his enjoyment couldn't be separated from the beautiful girls.
Shinichi made a call, and after about ten seconds, the busy signal appeared.
"Hello? Excuse me..."
A graceful voice came out of the phone, and Shinichi looked serious.
"Kashima? It's me, Asada Shinichi."
"I know it's you..." Kashima sighed, feeling helpless, "I'm still busy here, I hope you just accidentally dialed my number."
"Do you think that's possible?"
"So I just hope...." Kashima's tone was full of weakness, she didn't want to talk to him.
"So, what's up with you? Please end this matter quickly, I'm afraid Princess Fumino will find out."
Shinichi immediately felt underestimated.
"Don't use that term. I'm not cheating on you."
"I don't want to either–" Kashima suddenly raised her voice, then lowered her voice and said angrily, "Asada-kun! If you just called to joke around, I'll hang up!"
"Okay, okay, let's get back to business..." The stress accumulated from the boring work was relieved by this playful voice, Shinichi showed a comfortable smile and threw the newly inflated balloon in his hand into the bag.
As he spoke, he did it.
"The preparations for the masked wedding should be fine, right? Have Fumino and the others already known about it..."
"Don't worry, everything is going according to your plan..."
His business was shorter than teasing Kashima, and Shinichi immediately hung up the phone.
After stretching, he looked out the window at the sky, intending to fill a few more balloons to end the day's round.
There were footsteps in the corridor