Oh! I’m so pretty ❛˓◞˂̵✧

So chaotic; it seemed she still had a lot to learn.

After receiving Sound Director Arashima’s advice, Kazakami Ritsu looked listless with a drooping face.

Her state made Teraoin Hane beside her turn her head occasionally to cast worried glances.

“Kazakami-san… are you troubled?”

The sudden inquiry made Kazakami Ritsu’s complexion look slightly better.

Recently, she had indeed been a bit obsessive; it seemed that trying to achieve everything in one step wasn’t so easy.

“Sorry, is it obvious? Recently, I also feel like I’ve been overthinking things a bit. Sorry for affecting you.”

Kazakami Ritsu exhaled a breath and apologized to Teraoin Hane very embarrassedly.

Teraoin Hane shook her head, avoiding Kazakami Ritsu’s gaze.

“It doesn’t matter, Kazakami-san. Actually, I once fell into the same situation as you.”

“As long as you find the correct method, you definitely can…”

She reached out and grasped the corner of her clothes, remembering the kindness Kazakami Ritsu had expressed to her during the audition.

Even though Kazakami-san was already so amazing, she was still working so hard… then she couldn’t lose either!

And she wanted to become friends with Kazakami-san! But what if she was politely rejected again?

Kazakami Ritsu, lost in thought because of Teraoin Hane’s words, didn’t notice the many changes in her eyes.

At this moment, a preliminary prototype for performance had already formed in Kazakami Ritsu’s heart.

Correct method… Did she need a feasible set of methods?

Kazakami Ritsu’s eyes lit up, integrating all the advice she had received recently.

For ordinary passerby characters, she only needed to invest partial emotion, allowing her performance to blend in smoothly.

For important characters, she needed to invest a large amount of emotion, adjusting her breathing and lines to the optimal state, but not overshadowing the main characters’ performance.

As for highlight moments… she needed to immerse herself in the character’s perspective in advance, brew the corresponding emotions, and bring all elements to the extreme.

After sorting out a feasible plan, Kazakami Ritsu’s mood instantly turned from cloudy to sunny.

She looked at Teraoin Hane in front of her, deciding to find an opportunity to repay this partner who had brought her enlightenment.

“Teraoin-san, thank you. Your suggestions are really useful to me.”

Just as Kazakami Ritsu spoke, she saw Teraoin Hane’s body seem to tremble, and even her pace began to gradually accelerate.

Before long, she vanished from her line of sight as if running away.

‘Hmm? Did I say something wrong?’

Kazakami Ritsu, not knowing what she did wrong, just wanted to continue saying something when the phone in her pocket began to vibrate.

Taking out the phone set to silent mode, she glanced at it and found it was a call from her manager, Koconoe Tooru.

“Hello? Big Sister Tooru, what do you need me for?”

After picking up the phone, Kazakami Ritsu heard her manager’s excited voice.

“The first episode of Tales of the Ten Thousand Blades has aired! Sound Director Haneda asked me to ask if you have time to participate in the first radio drama?”

‘Oh, unexpectedly good news.’

Kazakami Ritsu pondered for a moment and accepted the job for the first radio drama.

Now that she had a hypothetical method, she needed to participate in more works to test the results.

“Big Sister Tooru, I seem to have found a method that suits me. You can accept new jobs for me now.”

“So, why did you all come to my house?”

Kazakami Ritsu opened the door, looking at the two people standing outside, and fell into deep thought.

First was Sano Nana, carrying shopping bags in her hands. From the exposed parts, the contents seemed to be ingredients.

The other was the manager, carrying drinks in her hands as if cosplaying a mover.

Kazakami Ritsu narrowed her eyes and stepped aside to let the two in.

After entering, Koconoe Tooru put down the big and small bags in her hands and carefully examined the one-bedroom apartment Kazakami Ritsu lived in.

Finally, while changing shoes at the entrance, she shook her head with a face full of emotion.

“I came over to celebrate with you since the work you participated in premiered, and then I coincidentally met Sano-san.”

“Ritsu-chan, this living environment of yours isn’t great. Do you need me to find a rental for you?”

Sano Nana, taking the guest slippers from Kazakami Ritsu’s hands, raised her head excitedly upon hearing her words.

“Rental? The house I’m renting has an empty room, and the environment is much better than here. How about letting her live with me?”

Sano Nana’s words made Kazakami Ritsu’s eyes widen involuntarily.

‘Wait! That’s not good, is it? Two lone girls living in one room or something…’

She just wanted to refuse, but unexpectedly, Koconoe Tooru beside her took the lead in finalizing it for her.

“Hmm, sounds good. I’ll help you contact a reliable moving company tomorrow.”

“Hey! I haven’t agreed yet!”

“What is there to disagree with? It’s not like I’m charging you rent. Where is the kitchen? I’m going to put away the ingredients.”

The three of them chatted back and forth, making noise in the room for a while before gathering around the low table in the center of the room.

On the small laptop screen on the table, the first episode of Tales of the Ten Thousand Blades had already begun playing.

Kazakami Ritsu, who wasn’t very interested in this, was sandwiched between two guardians on her left and right, her mood quite complex.

When seeing the male lead with a handsome face coming to the basement because he heard strange noises…

Sano Nana hugged Kazakami Ritsu’s arm tightly, leaning almost her entire body on her.

‘Oi, oi, this isn’t a horror movie…’

Kazakami Ritsu retorted in her heart, but then saw a broken blade covered in cracks on the screen.

Seeing the broken blade, the male lead issued a puzzled inquiry and reached out to grasp the hilt of the broken blade.

A clear, ethereal voice suddenly rang out in the footage.

It was a performance that satisfied everyone at the time, yet in Kazakami Ritsu’s eyes now, it appeared incredibly mediocre.

However, when the spirit of Meihime, with black hair and wearing a kimono, appeared on the screen, Kazakami Ritsu’s attitude instantly changed.

‘Oh! Look who this is! Isn’t this me?’

‘So beautiful, so elegant, just like a pure and flawless flower on a high peak…’

Just as Kazakami Ritsu was praising her image in her mind, the praises of Sano Nana and Koconoe Tooru rang in her ears.

“Wow… unexpectedly so cute.”

“Not bad, looking even better than in the original manga.”

The corners of Kazakami Ritsu’s mouth curled up slightly. Just as she wanted to chime in, she saw the segment where she entrusted the orphan on her deathbed.

After Meihime finished speaking those lines that sounded like a last testament, Meihime’s figure emitted a dazzling light.

Accompanying the cut-in of the theme song, Destiny, significantly shorter and in loli form, appeared before everyone’s eyes.

‘Ah… I’m gone just like that?’

Watching Destiny interacting with the male lead, Kazakami Ritsu felt a bit empty in her heart.

However, Sano Nana’s voice rang out at the right moment.

“So nice… having a character who can speak so many lines.”

“Hmm? Didn’t you successfully get the lines for the Goddess Priestess?”

“You mean that? That won’t do… it’s just screams of being killed by monsters…”

“Hah?!”